Word: stratton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Carter's objection got a quick response from House Speaker Thomas P. (Tip) O'Neill, who had reluctantly endorsed the committee compromise and then joined in opposing it. "I kind of vacillated a bit myself," he said. New York's hawkish Democrat Samuel Stratton, on the other hand, summoned the Joint Chiefs of Staff to testify before his House Armed Services Subcommittee on Investigations on Thursday morning, just before the scheduled floor vote. The chiefs usually support a President's budget recommendations publicly, whatever their private reservations. But this time they agreed -not very reluctantly-that...
...Hotel in Houston for briefings by State Department officials. They watched old TV films of life inside the embassy; as each of several hostages appeared on the screen, the film was stopped so that his face could be carefully scrutinized by his relatives. They also heard Navy Captain Richard Stratton describe his experiences as a prisoner of war in Viet Nam for six years. At the conclusion of the meeting, the families issued a statement saying they "not only support the President's decision in this attempt but feel that every effort should continue to be made to secure...
...Reed, 34, first heard of Kyle Stratton ten years ago when he went from the University of Miami to work as a technician at a glass plant in Toledo. Ron recalls that Kyle's friend Carolyn Matuszak showed him a picture of the beautiful blond and told him that she was an heiress who had been injured in a car crash. Kyle was now being kept a virtual prisoner (under an assumed name) in a local hospital, hooked up to a kidney dialysis machine and watched over by a fiercely suspicious attorney...