Grassroots advocacy has also been a powerful counter force to rumour in countries such as Bolivia and Peru, which are as poverty-stricken and with infrastructure as poor as some in Africa.
Buckley founded National Review magazine and championed anti-communism and pro-market forces, raising the profile that conservative thought for a generation.
So close was it to winning acceptance that even the most avid partisans of internal-combustion engines would not have dared to predict its imminent demise.
The importance of Johnson's letter is not so much historical as emotional; it would become a touchstone for all who repudiated patrons and for all who embraced the laws of the marketplace.
It was unclear what targets Nato was attacking but one unconfirmed report on Al-Arabiya TV said that loyalist artillery had been shelling the towns of Zuara and Ajelat, west of the capital.
Nonetheless, "oralists" have long insisted that the best way to educate the deaf is to teach them spoken language, sometimes going so far as to suppress signing.