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...been official Republican policy for ten years. Look at the G.O.P. as a "big tent," said party chairman Lee Atwater. "Forget politics. Do and support what you truly, truly believe. We are an umbrella party." Anyone who thinks Atwater is free-lancing without higher approval has been smoking crack with Marion Barry...
...Conference of Mayors opened its midwinter meeting in Washington last week, ironically with drugs as the focus of discussion. Conspicuously absent was the conference host, Washington Mayor Marion Barry, who shortly before was captured on a grainy FBI videotape apparently sipping cognac and smoking crack cocaine from a pipe. Three days after being charged with possession of cocaine, Barry retreated to the Hanley-Hazelden Center for drug and alcohol abuse in West Palm Beach, Fla., declaring that he sought healing in "body, mind and soul." Behind him, the still stunned capital wrestled with questions about the propriety of his arrest...
...Lewis, a convicted drug dealer. In December 1988 the Washington police were about to arrest Lewis, when Barry turned up in the man's hotel room. The bust was aborted, but police reportedly found traces of cocaine in the room. Last summer Lewis told federal investigators he had smoked crack with the mayor...
...cocaine use began to dog Barry after he made a 1981 visit to a topless club. He claimed he was soliciting campaign contributions. Then came the rendezvous with Lewis, who subsequently pleaded guilty to drug-conspiracy charges and was sentenced to 15 months in prison. Lewis claimed Barry smoked crack with him, which Barry denied...
Barry's best hope to beat the charges is to argue that the Government entrapped him by enticing him to use cocaine. U.S. Attorney Jay Stephens, however, claims the sting was "scrupulously fair" and there is evidence that Barry was "predisposed" to obtain the crack. At the very least, Barry's credibility has suffered a crippling blow that could be exploited by his political opponents. Four Democrats have already declared their candidacy. If Barry runs and gets past them, he faces a formidable challenge from Republican Maurice Turner, a popular former police chief...