Background
A graduate of Dartmouth College, Cooley served with the U.S. Army in postwar Germany and Austria from 1946-7. Returning to America, he undertook his postgraduate studies at the New School University in New York, then began his journalistic career at the New York Herald Tribune. He lived in North Africa from 1953 to 1964, covering the Algerian War for UPI, NBC News and The Observer, and in 1965 became Middle East correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor in Beirut.
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