Word: clark
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External Affairs Minister Joe Clark insisted that none of the Soviet espionage efforts succeeded in breaching Canadian security or that of the NATO alliance, of which Canada is a member. The Canadians evidently received the assistance of a Soviet citizen, Yuri Smurov, a translator at the International Civil Aviation Organization, a United Nations agency based in Montreal. Smurov requested and is expected to receive asylum in Canada...
...four-year institute will be the nation's first conservatory expressly dedicated to jazz. Named after the pianist-composer who died in 1982, it will serve 200 students chosen through competitions and interviews. Jazz Greats Dizzy Gillespie, Herbie Hancock and Wynton Marsalis have expressed interest in teaching there; Trumpeter Clark Terry will chair the academic council...
Before Tyson arranged to meet Robin Givens, 23, the television actress (Head of the Class) who took him for a husband in February, he once said, "I look in the mirror every day. I know I'm not Clark Gable. I wish I could find a girl who knew me when I was broke and thought I was a nice guy." Following the wedding ceremony, auditors and lawyers started to arrive. In Givens' estimation, "he's strong and sensitive and gentle. I feel protected, but he's so gentle that sometimes I think I have to protect him." Among...
...thumping away in the Old Executive Office Building. They provided the President with speeches that soared around the world, eloquent statements about freedom and democracy and glory of the individual. By the measure of the day, Chief Writer Tony Dolan, 39, along with Josh Gilder, 34, Peter Robinson, 31, Clark Judge, 40, and Mark Klugmann, 28, should have been out riding the bull market or selling their kiss-and-tell memoirs. Instead they were busy burnishing the original Reagan and lifting him up for a dignified finish to his presidency...
...balked at that, its funding requests have dropped from $399.9 million in fiscal year 1982 to $305.5 million last year. "My feeling is that if everyone assumes that ((legal aid)) is a federal responsibility, the opportunity to develop alternatives simply will not be encouraged," says Corporation Chairman W. Clark Durant III. When Congress refused this year to cut the corporation's budget further, to $250 million, the board actually hired lobbyists to press the lawmakers for less -- yes, less -- money...