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...Reagan's staunchest supporters on the importance of keeping troops in Lebanon has been Speaker O'Neill. In a private caucus of House Democrats Wednesday, Samuel Stratton of New York, generally a hawk, and Clarence Long of Maryland, generally a dove, proposed a joint resolution to cut off funding for the Marines in Lebanon. O'Neill rose at the end of the meeting to make a grandiloquent and emotional appeal. "This is not the time," he cried, "to cut and run." He urged the party to put "patriotism above partisanship" and said he supported Reagan "because...
...Marine presence in Lebanon seemed sure to arise again. Congress gave the President the necessary authority four weeks ago to keep the Marines in Lebanon?but with considerable reluctance; in the Senate the resolution passed by a vote of only 54 to 46. New York Democrat Samuel Stratton, a hawkish veteran of the House Armed Services...
During the trial, the university stated that there were some procedural deviations, but said they were some inconsequential, said Alexander Waugh, a lawyer at Smith, Stratton, Waugh, Heher and Brennan, the university's lawyers for the case...
...Stratton may decide not to tell his story directly to the jury. To bolster his side's credibility, his lawyers will call on Mailer and Doris Kearns Goodwin, a historian and Lyndon Johnson confidante. Mailer, who has known Stratton for more than 15 years and jointly owns a house in Maine with him, was in Portland last week and ready to testify. "Dick is a person of much integrity and courage," he says. No matter how many points character witnesses score for Stratton, the defense must counter the evidence that he was a participant. Explains Yale Law Professor Burke...
...nothing else, the arrest has given Stratton plenty of time to perfect his craft. Unable to come up with bail of $500,000, he has been in jail in Portland since September busily at work on his first novel, Drug War. The initial 300 pages of the manuscript have been ferried to a New York City literary agent by Mailer, who has been down this road before. Two years ago, Mailer was promoting and urging the parole of a prison author named Jack Henry Abbott (In the Belly of the Beast), who won release but later killed a Manhattan waiter...