Milestones: Sep. 9, 1985

DIED. Marsh Clark, 56, a TIME correspondent for 22 years whose career as bureau chief in New York City and six foreign countries frequently took him to centers of combat and conflict, including Saigon (1968-70), Jerusalem (1970-72 and again during the October War of 1973), Moscow during the waning of detente (1975-78) and, since 1980, volatile South Africa; of cancer; in Johannesburg.

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