NAMES IN THE NEWS : Glasnost Doesn’t Worry Clancy
Author Tom Clancy, master of Cold War thrillers, says he’s not worried that the warming of relations between the superpowers will put his career on ice.
Pretending to point a gun at a questioner, Clancy said: “I stand like this for 30 years, and then the 31st year I say, ‘Hey, you’re not such a bad guy after all,’ but I don’t move. Would you still be worried?”
As long as the Soviet Union remains a Communist military power, Clancy said he’ll find plenty of grist for his best-selling novels of Soviet-U.S. conflict and intrigue.
During a visit Thursday to his alma mater, Loyola High School, Clancy said his Jesuit instructors were firm in teaching him the difference between right and wrong.
“These guys don’t let you forget. They beat it into your head,” he said.
Clancy, who is the son of a Baltimore mail carrier, said he was a “crummy student” at Loyola but then started to dream of becoming a writer.
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