Word: clarks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...truce talks had gone on for two years. During the talking at Panmunjom, tens of thousands of people were being killed. He had said, 'I will go to Korea,' in our campaign, and he was one of those new politicians who believed he had to keep a promise. Mark Clark was in command. Clark, knowing that Eisenhower did not want to get involved in an expanded ground war in Korea, understood that the only option for breaking the logjam was nuclear weapons...
...food is on the menu for the time being. The other night the Reagans watched a video reel given to them by a Hollywood veteran and friend, Ken Murray. The scenes were from his home movies collected over decades and showed the greats, like Mary Pickford, Carole Lombard and Clark Gable at play...
Washington has long regarded Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos as the guarantor of the strategically important U.S. military facilities at Clark Air Base, located about 60 miles northeast of Manila, and the U.S. naval station at Subic Bay. But last week the Philippine National Assembly began debate on a resolution sponsored by Marcos' Defense Minister, Juan Ponce Enrile, to abrogate the 1983 bases agreement between the two countries. Enrile was responding to a vote by the U.S. House of Representatives earlier this month to cut the Philippines' military aid next fiscal year from a proposed $100 million to $25 million...
Memories of the '60s will also be wafting out of NBC's The Motown Revue Starring Smokey Robinson. Along with contemporary musical numbers, each show will feature a salute to one year from Motown's heyday. Dick Clark's Rock'n Roll Summer Action, the lone summer entry from ABC, seems aimed at younger viewers (under eight, perhaps) but nods to an older crowd with guest appearances by such relics of the Top 40 as Jan and Dean and Paul Revere and the Raiders. The show makes another contribution to the nostalgia vogue: its mindless fun-on-the-beach antics...
...bleeding-heart bias of Sachs' book. No one forces people in poor countries into the irresponsible sexual behavior that leads to AIDS and neglected, even orphaned children. So what if the U.S. gives so little aid? Other nations also contribute. At any rate, money is not the answer. Cindy Clark Decatur, Georgia...