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With his bushy hair and brush mustache, Richard Lowell Stratton, 37, looks the part of a writer. He has written several articles for Rolling Stone, and has been befriended by Norman Mailer. But to federal law-enforcement officials, Stratton looks more like a drug pusher than a pencil pusher. Arrested a year ago in Maine with 14 others after a raid netted $1.5 million worth of hashish and marijuana, Stratton is on trial as an active member of a drug conspiracy. A gigantic mistake, he says; he was actually no more than a spectator absorbing material for a novel...
...Stratton was truly engaged in research, no one can fault his thoroughness. Before his arrest, he says, he spent time in the company of drug dealers from Latin America to Southeast Asia. At the start of the trial he told reporters, "It took me five years to penetrate the upper echelons of the international drug-smuggling business, to gain the confidence of people who could introduce me into the elite circles." He was never involved in "planning or execution," he says, though "I may have done stuff like close hangar doors." Prosecutors claim that it was more like closing full...
Nakasone's subsequent talks on Capitol Hill went better than he had expected. Legislators gave him some blunt talk about U.S.-Japanese relations, but most seemed impressed by his desire to be accommodating. As Democratic Congressman Samuel Stratton of New York put it, "We think he is trying to do more than anybody has done before...
DIED. Monty Stratton, 70, "aw shucks" Texas farm boy who inspired The Stratton Story, a bathetic Hollywood biography starring James Stewart as the White Sox pitching ace whose career seemingly ended when his leg was amputated after a hunting accident in 1938, but who strapped on an artificial limb and returned eight years later as a winning minor-league pitcher; of lung cancer; in Greenville, Texas. When the film debuted in 1949, Stratton drawled: "It's my life, all right. I'll just hope folks will think it was worth making into a movie...
...really pleased that we made a showing at all after all the work it took to get here," team co-Captain Kathy Stratton said. "Whether we get the support from our athletic department or not, we're going to keep coming to the tournament...