Word: stroup
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...test their system on long-distance, wide-bodied flights. By the end of the year, a number of carriers, including United and Delta, are planning to offer in-flight phoning. More than business will be done at 30,000 ft. Says American's public relations manager, Joe Stroup: "We now see the passenger calling Aunt Bessie to tell her what time he'll arrive and to make some of that great meat loaf. The American public just doesn't want to be divorced from its telephone...
...probe with High in America is that it has the depth and style of a magazine article and is, in a sense, a feature piece on Stroup. Anderson portrays Stroup as the classical tragic hero, and some of the biographical information could have been deleted in favor of more relevant facts. Instead, we know more than we care to about Stroup, his desperado rep in dull old Washington, the deluge of drugs pushed on him by grateful constituents, the beautiful people of the counter-culture that he hung with, and his gigantic ego that would lead to his downfall. Anderson...
...congressional staffs. At this party, Dr. Peter Bourne, Carter's adviser on health and drug issues, was seen doing cocaine. Six months later, angered by what he felt was a betrayal by Bourne on the paraquat issue (the U.S.-financed poisonous spraying of Mexican marijuana later shipped to America), Stroup leaked an account of the cocaine incident to Jack Anderson. Bourne was then under investigation for writing a phony Quaalude prescription, and the Stroup leak was all that was needed to give Bourne the heave-ho. Stroup had succeeded in one stroke in destroying NORML's influence with the Carter...
...last two years, NORML has been a crippled lobby. While Stroup has formed a law firm specializing in defending drug smugglers, NORML has been fighting a losing battle against the resurgence of the Reefer Madness mentality, the belief that marijuana makes you pick up an axe and kill your parents. We are hurtling backwards through a period about which we should be ashamed. Anderson concludes his narrative by observing...
...that only at the very end of what had been a 321-page neutral magazine article filled with cold description, does Anderson finally take a position and comment on the justified rage we should feel over the marijuana story. Even without commentary we can glean from the accounts of Stroup's exploits that a major miscarriage of justice is being kicked around like any other political football. In fact, High in America will probably appeal to the straight-as-an-arrow gov major who is interested in the story of a political entrepeneur like Keith Stroup...