Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Then came the first crack in the floodgate. Suddenly remembering how fortunate Bill Clinton had been to have posed shaking JFK's hand thirty years ago, and combined with my general penchant for photographs, I asked Him if He wouldn't mind having a photo taken of us. He smiled and replied, "Certainly!" and that was that. In a striking display of immodesty (I would later be out-done), we posed in front of a camera and snapped the shot you see here. Bill Clinton and JFK. Me and Keanu. It was a start...
...fact, Q and his Los Angeles-headquarters second-in-command, Donald (``Doc'') Dennis, a suspected East Coast Crip, often displayed considerable long-distance ``savviness,'' according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Johnson. ``They called to question the amount of receipts coming in. They discussed how much crack was in the city. They discussed cooking agents. And they didn't keep books...
...halted only by an intense investigation coordinated by the FBI over five states, which included the arrest this month of a fugitive who had been on the run since September 1993. The so-called Eight Trey Gangster Crips network is estimated to have distributed hundreds of kilos of crack and cocaine powder worth well in excess of $10 million on the street. And Q's network, according to the FBI, is only one of perhaps a hundred more in operation. They emanate from Los Angeles' increasingly expansionist gangland. Says FBI special agent-in- charge Charley Parsons in Los Angeles...
...surveillance of Fulton Avenue. In fact, behind the low-key demeanor, Dink and Drak were suspected of being in the early stages of setting up a ``primary distributorship.'' It would involve cocaine ``muled''--or smuggled--into Birmingham in regular shipments from Los Angeles. There it would be ``cooked'' into crack and finally distributed to local dealers in 1-oz. packets, or possibly even ``eight- balls'' of 18 oz. The wholesale asking price was typically $950 an ounce, though on a number of occasions--in wire-tapped conversations recorded in court documents--Q back in Los Angeles demanded that they hike...
...China may have averted a trade war with an anti-piracy pact signed Sunday, but more battles are looming in other categories of commerce. China's agreement to crack down on piracy of U.S.-produced computer software, compact disks, videotapes and other "intellectual property" averted a U.S. threat of punitive tariffs. The agreement brought China a step closer to joining the World Trade Organization, especially if it strictly enforces the new agreement. Chinese membership in the WTO has been blocked by Europe and the Clinton Administration, which object to trade barriers restricting sales of western goods and services there. While...