Word: strattons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Student Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility and Community Affairs yesterday elected to the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility Sabino Rodrigues II '75 and Joanna L. Stratton '76; to the Advisory Committee on Community Affairs Davis P. Goodman '77 and Paul E. Morrison '77; and as its own officers, H. Andrew Decker '76, chairman, and Duval Patrick '78 and Peter F. Howe '76, vice chairmen...
RICHARD A. STRATTON...
...press him too hard about his opinion of the North Vietnamese, with whom he passed the time: more than six years. "Petty, vindictive, mean little people," he is likely to say, "an armed group of paranoid children." He has good reason to think so, for as Commander Richard A. Stratton, a naval aviator shot down over North Viet Nam, he became one of the most famous symbols of the American agony over the war. Photographs of Stratton, bowing deeply to his captors as he confessed to "war crimes," dramatized suspicions that the P.O.W.s were being brainwashed or drugged to assure...
Though not correct, it was precisely the impression Stratton was trying to convey in the photos. Having endured the most brutal kind of physical torture as well as 18 months in solitary, he acted doped, hoping the world would understand that his statement was coerced even if it misunderstood the method of coercion. The seemingly pitiable spectacle he made of himself was thus actually an extraordinarily effective act of resistance by a brave...
...Days, produced by Joseph M. Russin and Scott Blakey of San Francisco's KQED, is a tribute to more than one strong human spirit. Alice Stratton, trying to keep her hopes up while raising her three children, is also revealed as a woman of admirable courage. She deliberately minimizes the difficulties she faced; yet there is an extraordinary patience, sweetness and faith in her talk about the empty years carved out of the middle of her life...