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WEST HAWAII TODAY | SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 2015
Veteran journalist Hugh Clark dead at 75
Hugh Clark, a newspa-
per editor and reporter on
the Big Island for almost
40 years, died Thursday
of cancer at Hospice of
Hilo’s Pohai Malama
Facility. He was 75.
Clark was born in Santa
Rosa, Calif., and worked
at newspapers in Idaho,
California, Texas and
Nevada before becom-
ing the Hawaii Tribune-
Herald’s news editor in
1966.
After his dismissal fol-
lowing a dispute with
management in 1971, he
became the Big Island
bureau chief of the for-
mer Honolulu Advertiser,
retiring in 2002.
Retired
Tribune-
Herald Editor Gene
Tao, who was hired as a
reporter by Clark in 1967,
remembers him as an
old-school journalist who
“covered the news very,
very aggressively.”
“In those days, we were
an afternoon paper, and
mornings were like rush
hour, everybody pound-
ing the typewriter like
mad,” he said. “There
were no computers back
then. … Hugh typed with
two fingers, and he typed
very fast.”
Before the Internet,
people statewide turned
to Clark’s stories about
the Big Island, its govern-
ment and
people.
His cov-
erage of
organized
crime
and the
destruc-
tive path
of
lava
from Kilauea volca-
no was a must-read for
thousands.
Tao said Clark, who
helped found the Big
Island Press Club in 1967,
also fought to make gov-
ernment more account-
able to the public.
Clark’s wife of 27 years,
Anne Uma Clark, said he
was a voracious reader as
well as a writer.
“He would read a news-
paper while he was tak-
ing a shower,” she said.
“That’s what you call
commitment.”
Clark also covered
University of Hawaii at
Hilo Vulcan sports, lead-
ing to his 2004 induction
into the UH-Hilo Athletic
Hall of Fame. He also was
on the selection commit-
tee of the Nissan Hall of
Honor, a statewide high
school sports recognition
program, for 32 years.
Retired
Tribune-
Herald Sports Editor Bill
O’Rear, a former Vulcan
basketball star and fellow
UH-Hilo Hall of Famer,
said Clark “leaves behind
a proud legacy.”
“Hugh was a mentor for
many young Big Island
journalists over the years,
blessed with a keen news
sense, a sharp wit and
a determination to work
tirelessly to get the news
and sports out to his Big
Island readers,” O’Rear
wrote on Facebook.
A former smoker, Clark
was a longtime volunteer
for the local American
Lung Association and
served on its national
board of directors.
Clark, his wife, and
their daughter, Sandhya,
traveled the world, see-
ing about 30 countries
together.
“He retired a little ear-
lier than he had planned,”
Anne Clark said. “And
that was so he could
spend that precious time
with Sandhya.”
Visitation is 4 to 5
p.m. June 19 at Dodo
Mortuary chapel with
services at 5 p.m.
In addition to his wife
and daughter, Clark
survived by a brother,
Tom Clark, and sister,
Joan Sinclair, both of
California.
Email John Burnett at jburnett@
hawaiitribune-herald.com.
BY JOHN BURNETT
HAWAII TRIBUNE-HERALD
Clark
Former IMF chief Strauss-Kahn acquitted in pimping trial
LILLE,
France
—
Dominique Strauss-Kahn
had a caustic reaction as
four years of legal battles
involving sex charges on
two continents ended with-
out a single conviction: “All
that for this?”
From a sordid New
York hotel encounter to
orgies in Paris, the former
International Monetary
Fund chief has admitted
to questionable behavior
that destroyed his political
career and onetime pres-
idential ambitions. He’s
a sexual libertine, by his
own admission. But courts
have repeatedly found no
grounds to convict him as
a criminal.
Friday’s ruling in the
northern French city of
Lille closed a sometimes
surreal chapter for Strauss-
Kahn and for France, where
the unusual public airing of
his private life sent shock-
waves through society and
upended high-level poli-
tics. Some Frenchwomen
hoped the DSK scandal, as
it became known, would
make it easier to hold pow-
erful men accountable for
sexual wrongdoing — a
hope largely unfulfilled.
In a packed courtroom
Friday, a panel of judges
acquitted all but one of the
13 defendants of accusa-
tions of involvement in a
prostitution ring. Strauss-
Kahn faced charges of
“aggravated pimping,” but
the judges said he was not
involved in hiring the pros-
titutes involved or paying
them.
That’s what Strauss-
Kahn said all along: “All
that for this?” he scoffed as
he rose to leave the court-
room with his girlfriend
and adult daughter. “What
a waste.”
The 66-year-old econ-
omist freely, even proud-
ly, admitted during the
February trial that he took
part in sex parties from
2008-2011, while he was
heading the IMF and mar-
ried — events he called
much-needed “recreation-
al sessions” at a time of
intense pressure to steer
the world through econom-
ic peril.
Two prostitutes, in sear-
ing testimony, described
sometimes
humiliat-
ing
experiences
and
“beast-like” behavior by
Strauss-Kahn.
The trial confirmed a
sense among many French
people
that
Strauss-
Kahn was no average
philandering politician,
and had crossed beyond
standard limits of decency.
Yet as presiding judge
Bernard Lemaire said at
the opening of the trial:
“The court is not the guard-
ian of moral order, but of
the law.”
The prostitutes acknowl-
edged they never told
Strauss-Kahn they were
paid, and other defendants
described their voluntary
efforts to protect their
powerful friend from
embarrassment.
At the end of the trial,
even the prosecutor asked
for Strauss-Kahn’s acquit-
tal, saying the trial did
not back up the charge of
aggravated pimping, which
requires proof that he pro-
moted or profited from
prostitution.
Strauss-Kahn was hit
with the French pros-
titution ring charges in
2012. The 13 defendants,
including hotel managers,
entrepreneurs, a lawyer
and a police chief, were
accused of participating
in or organizing the col-
lective sexual encounters
in Paris, Washington and
in the Brussels region in
2008-2011.
None of the women who
took part in the sex par-
ties was present at Friday’s
ruling, and only two of the
numerous prostitutes who
were interviewed by inves-
tigators agreed to testify at
trial.
Prostitution is currently
legal in France, but pros-
titutes are often arrested
and charged for soliciting
in public. Brothels, pimp-
ing and the sale of sex by
minors are illegal.
A movement is afoot in
France to change the way
the country looks at pros-
titution. The lower house
of parliament approved a
controversial bill Friday
that, if also approved by the
upper house, would be one
of Europe’s toughest laws
against prostitutes’ cli-
ents, punishing the buyer
instead of the seller of sex.
Friday’s 147-page verdict
was the last step in a drama
that began May 11, 2011,
when New York police
arrested
Strauss-Kahn
moments before he was to
take off from JFK Airport.
Hotel maid Nafissatou
Diallo told police he had
tried to rape her. A scruffy
Strauss-Kahn
suffered
a “perp walk” in front of
the world’s cameras, spent
time in Rikers Island jail,
and a month in high-end
house arrest.
But prosecutors dropped
criminal charges, and he
and Diallo settled out of
court in a civil case.
The maid’s accusations
prompted some French
women to go public with
accusations of harassment
or other sexual mistreat-
ment by Strauss-Kahn in
the past. Writer Tristane
Banon tried to sue him for
attempted rape.
Her case, too, was
dropped, because the
statute of limitations had
expired.
The New York allega-
tions shook France both
because it lost a leading
presidential contender and
because it splashed allega-
tions about a French pub-
lic figure’s private life onto
media worldwide. Many
French growled over the
humiliating U.S. display of
one of their icons.
BY PHILIPPE SOTTO AND
ANGELA CHARLTON
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Former Managing Director of International Monetary
Fund Dominique Strauss Kahn talking with his
companion Myriam L’Aouffir during the French Open
tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium.
FRANCOIS MORI/
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/FILE PHOTO
