Word: clark
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Triple Play--three one-act plays by John O'Brien at the inimitable (and unpronounceable) Teatro Nucleo Eccletico, 37 Clark St., the North End, Friday and Saturday...
...Clark, the trials were a culmination of his three-year assignment as TIME's Moscow bureau chief. In his 16 years with the magazine, he has covered scenes of combat in Viet Nam, the Middle East, Northern Ireland and Bangladesh. But Moscow is different. Here the struggle between the dissidents and the authorities is subtle and complex, with many diverse protesters...
Early in his Moscow stay, Clark came to know the Soviet dissidents whose names would gain world attention: Yuri Orlov, Alexander Ginzburg, Anatoli Shcharansky. It was Shcharansky who acted as Clark's interlocutor and interpreter in several talks with Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Andrei Sakharov. Recalls Clark: "Shcharansky seemed merely to be busying himself while awaiting emigration to Israel, for which he had repeatedly applied, perhaps believing that by making himself obnoxious to the authorities they would kick him out. How wrong...
Since then, the dissident issue has been only one of many stories that Clark has covered. But it is now at center stage-especially because foreign correspondents, as well as their subjects, have been harassed. One has been questioned extensively by the KGB; two have been charged in a libel suit. Some have been labeled CIA agents; others have been reported "expelled" after leaving the country on routine transfers. At last week's trial, however, Clark observed that nearly all of the 22 American journalists now at work in Moscow were outside the courtroom. Says he: "As long...
...John Clark, 22, the son of Miami City Commissioner Stephen Clark, held a $4.18-an-hour CETA job as a laborer for the parks department. Another son, Paul Clark, 18, was enrolled in a six-month diesel mechanic's training program (upon graduation, he got a $4.80-an-hour job washing buses at CETA'S expense). Also on the CETA payroll was Commissioner Clark's estranged wife, Faye, who drew $4.80 an hour as a social worker for the Dade County Association for Retarded Citizens...