I have some more nits to pick, but it may be no further information is available, and no one cares anyway. We'll see.
-- Gordon
Bradford DeLong:
> Perhaps some anger management classes are in order?
>
> Brad DeLong
>
> >Financial Times - November 27, 2002
> >
> >Arab frustration at US spills into violence
> >Roula Khalaf in London and Charles Clover in Kuwait
> >
> >...In Jordan on Sunday, a Pizza Hut outlet was set alight in Aqaba.
> >The incident followed the killing of Laurence Foley, a US aid
> >official in late October...
>
> Laurence Foley's career of helping people, which ended this week at
> the hand of a gunman in Jordan, flourished in Contra Costa County
> more than 30 years ago, working with kids on probation. "He saw it
> as another way to help people who had a poor start in life," said Ron
> Atkinson, a probation supervisor who worked for Foley in the 1970s,
> when they were both at the Contra Costa County Probation Department.
> "He devoted himself to public service."
>
> That public service, which included the past 14 years with the U.S.
> Agency for International Development, took Foley from California to
> Bolivia, Peru, Zimbabwe and, finally, to Jordan. Despite these world
> travels, Foley, 60, and his wife, Virginia, always kept their home in
> the Oakland hills, where they had raised their three children from
> the mid-1970s to late 1980s, as home base. But for many years, the
> house has been rented out. "They always felt someday they might come
> back," said former neighbor Tom Knepell. "They felt comfortable here."
>
> Atkinson remembered Foley, who worked in the probation department
> from 1969 to 1980, as a "very bright, very humorous, very sociable
> guy with real leadership abilities." "It's a tremendous loss," he
> said of Foley's slaying.
>
> "Larry strove to make the world a better place than he found it,"
> said Andrew Natsios, the USAID administrator in Washington. "No one
> in USAID embodied the spirit of compassion and brotherhood that
> underpins our efforts more than Larry Foley." Edward Gnehm, U.S.
> Ambassador to Jordan, his voice trembling, said Foley's
> accomplishments included bringing clean drinking water to more
> Jordanians, rehabilitating health care centers and running a small
> business loan service.
>
> Gnehm quoted Foley's widow as saying that he felt at home in Jordan.
> Foley told his wife, "I am where I want to be, doing what I want to
> do." A native of Massachusetts, Foley moved to the Bay Area and
> earned a master's degree in rehabilitation counseling from San
> Francisco State University in 1969. After he began working for the
> probation department, he and Virginia bought their Oakland home.
>
> The couple were "the center of neighborhood activity," hosting
> Kentucky Derby parties, checking in on elderly neighbors and
> arranging yearly caravans to cut down Christmas trees in Sonoma, said
> Knepell. But neighbors knew the couple, who had met in the Peace
> Corps in India in the mid-1960s, loved living and working abroad.
> They returned to Peace Corps service in 1980, taking their three
> children to the Philippines for five years. "That convinced them they
> wanted an international life," Knepell said.
>
> When they returned to Oakland in 1985, Foley began pursuing a job
> with USAID, he said. But while waiting for his security clearances,
> Foley spent two years as director of administrative services for
> Rehabilitation Services of Northern California, a Pleasant Hill-based
> organization that works with the disabled and Alzheimer's patients.
> Despite their years abroad, the Foleys still returned to Oakland to
> visit, as recently as this summer, friends said.
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