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Barnes, 51, won his notoriety when, as the most flamboyant member of a Mafia-style council of seven "blood brothers," he earned millions distributing heroin throughout Harlem. In 1977 he was finally nailed, and the sentence was stiff: life imprisonment without possibility of parole. Six years later, Mr. Untouchable turned into Mr. Tell...
...courage of potential witnesses all over the country. Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau notes that Edmonds' was one of those rare New York cases in which a witness was offered protection, only hours before his death. He turned it down because he had a $150-a-day heroin habit. Says the D.A.: "Junkies do not want to be kept away from their drugs...
...believe what you read or see? The credibility of all journalists was damaged in 1981 when Washington Post Reporter Janet Cooke was forced to return a Pulitzer Prize after admitting that she had invented the title character of "Jimmy's World," a portrait of an eight-year-old heroin addict. A month later, New York Daily News Columnist Michael Daly admitted that he had made up the name of a British soldier who, he reported, had shot a juvenile in Belfast, Northern Ireland; the story was proved to contain other factual errors. Daly acknowledged that he had changed details...
...attorney general went on to stress President Reagan's efforts to strengthen the federal criminal laws affecting organized crime, as well as the Administration's efforts to negotiate extradition treaties and other agreements with countries that are the source of illegal drugs like heroin or cocaine...
...demons by turning them into imps from the underworld. And so he gives his impression of Old Richard emerging from the utopia of inebriation to "wake up in a car drivin' 90" and then wallpaper his bathroom with last night's dinner. His enactment of a heroin addict killing himself with a fix is no joke; it is a flat-out, Oscar-time horror show. Pryor starts out showboating: "They say, 'You goin' to hell.' I say, 'I been there. Had so much fun they kicked...