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Psyches unravel. Odysseus and Chevy Chase become role models. Marriages crack. And the kids? Don't ask. It's summer-vacation time. The skies are jammed, the interstates gridlocked. Getting there demands endurance, adrenaline and maybe a good lawyer. Hardened travelers know the holidays do not really begin until they arrive at their destinations -- and the luggage is finally found...
...possessing or conspiring to possess cocaine and three felony counts of lying to a federal grand jury in 1989 about drug use. If convicted on all charges, he could be jailed for 26 years. His lawyer, R. Kenneth Mundy, calls the federal sting operation that caught Barry smoking crack with Rasheeda Moore "entrapment pure and simple." It was, says Mundy, a plot devised by a Republican Federal Government frustrated by the failure of a seven-year effort to chase a flamboyant -- and virtually unbeatable -- Democrat from office. The prosecution contends that Barry was not entrapped because his long history...
...testified that over several years, beginning in 1986, she shared cocaine with Barry at least 100 times -- in hotel rooms; at the residence of Bishop H.H. Brookins, a powerful leader of the African Methodist Episcopal Church; even at Barry's home, where the mayor cooked up a batch of crack cocaine in the kitchen. On the first such occasion, Moore said, the couple visited an apartment where Barry pulled a stash of powder cocaine from under the corner of a rug. Once, Moore said, after she and Barry got high in her mother's basement, the mayor went upstairs...
Barry, Moore testified, told her that it was "divine providence" that had brought them together. In 1987 the pair started smoking crack, which, according to Moore, made Barry "paranoid." During one meeting at the home of a friend, the mayor asked Moore to check out an empty, dark-windowed van parked outside; on another occasion, she testified, Barry thought a blinking light on the Washington horizon was a surveillance device. She described buying coke for the mayor, once delivering $40 worth of crack to him in his District Building office and another time receiving drug money hidden in a magazine...
...Crack down on such illegal, but largely tolerated, anti-competition tactics as bid rigging and price fixing. With more competition in Japan, U.S. companies will presumably have a better chance to break into Japanese markets...