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Wednesday, October 2, 1996
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The explosion of crack-cocaine in Los Angeles and the CIA-backed Nicaraguan contras.
In August, the San Jose Mercury News published a series of investigations called "the Dark Alliance," which traced the explosion of crack-cocaine in Los Angeles to the CIA-backed Nicaraguan contras. Today we’ll hear from Gary Webb, the investigative journalist who wrote the San Jose Mercury News series, speaking at a recent community meeting in Los Angeles.
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Mumia Abu Jamal in Court
Attorney’s for Mumia Abu Jamal were in court yesterday trying to introduce new evidence in his case. But their witness was arrested in a move attorneys believe is meant to intimidate any one who steps forward on Abu-Jamal’s behalf.
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Campaign donations and the tobacco industry
The tobacco industry has employed a new tactic to defeat who they consider to be their most powerful enemies: trial lawyers. Philip Morris created a group called Contributions Watch that posed as a non-partisan non-profit research group o orchestrate the release of data about campaign donations by trial lawyers.
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By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan
Gen. John Allen, commander of U.S. Forces Afghanistan, spoke Wednesday at the Pentagon, four stars on each shoulder, his chest bedecked with medals. Unlike Allen, many decorated U.S. military veterans left the streets of Chicago after the NATO summit without their medals.
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