Austin tice, an American ab ducked in Syria in 2012.

Case of journalist whom Trump tactics failed to free. The Trump administration  pushed hard to free Austin tice, an American ab ducked in Syria in 2012. The  central In telligence Agency formed a special cell to gather inteligenc, a powerful  persian Gulf Ally was enlisted to help and senior officials traveled to Damascus  to plead their voices to other highly unusual personal entratise.          None of it worked.    The kidnapping of Mr.Tice ,a journalist covering the Syrian wasr  who  was abducted in a Damascus suburb and is one of the longest -held American hostagea\s  abroad, has been an enduring  frustrating for government officials. They had found glimpse of hope over the years. Mr. Tice briefly escaped captivity shortly after he was kidnapped, according to two people familir with the episode -but he was recaptured. And during the Obama administration the C.I.A obtained a tantalizing piece of information :a Syrian documents indicating that it's government  had been holding Mr. Tice. Former officials  described it as a type  of judicial from, possibly showing a Prisoner or arrest number. It is not clear whether the United States or it's proxise ever confronted  Syrian officials with the document. Now the disappearance of  Mr. Tice presents a test for Biden administration  officials, whose willingness to resolve the Cas could run up against their reluctance to wade into the sort of unorthodox  diplomacy conducted  by Trump national security officials. Former president Donald J. Trump was so focused on Mr. Tice's safe return that the Syrian government had an in  centive to cut a generous deal to free him before Mr. Trump left office.With Mr. Trump's exit from office, hopes for Mr. Tice's release have begum to fade. "If the Syrians had Tice during the Trump administration, that was the time to give him up and get a lot in return, "said Andrew Tabrer, who served as the director for Syria  on the National Security Council  and later as a senior adviser to the U. S. Special envoy for  Syria. Mr. Tabler declined  to discuss the specifics or Mr. Tices case. Biden administration officials said they were committed to finding and rescuing Mr. Tice. The state Department disclosed this month that secretary of state Antony J. Blinken had spoken with the Tice family and made clear that the department had "no higher priority "than seeking his release, a department  official said. "I think that llinois Department of public health. In Arkansas about 84,000 people have missed their second shots, reaper senting 11 percent of those eligible for those shots, said .Dr Jennifer Dilahha the state epidemiologist. Workers recently begen calling people who are due or overdue for their second shots. Collage students pose a particular challenge. Many recently because eligible to be vaccinated and are getting their first shots, but they will have left campus by the time they are due for their second doses. In Pennsylvania health officials have instructions vaccine providers to give second doses to college student's even if they did not receive their first doses from those location.same vaccine providers have put on special clinics for people who need second doses. In South Carolina, the health started a program specifically for people who had receive their first Pfizer doses more than 23 days earlier but hadn't been able to find second shots. The state health department sent the health system 2,340 doses for the effort. Demand has been story. And tideland has only a few hundred  doses left. The majority of takers have been people who "ware having difficulty navigating Al the various  scheduling systems and providers ",said Gayle reseter, the health system chief  operation officer .In many cases, vaccine providers had canceled second -dose.

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And balive and that it is our job to bring him home to his family ", said Roger D. Carstens, the state Department  hostage envoy who also  served in the post under Mr. Trump Mr. Carstens said the Biden administration  would remain focused on hostages -as well as to their families -that they.