Gary Webb
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"Gary Stephen Webb" was an American investigative reporter best known for his 1996 Dark Alliance series of articles (about CIA and Contras cocaine trafficking in the US/CIA involvement in cocaine trafficking into the US) written for the San Jose Mercury News and later published as a book. In the three-part series, Webb investigated Nicaraguans linked to the Central Intelligence Agency/CIA-backed Contra (guerrillas)/Contras who had smuggled cocaine into the U.S. Their smuggled cocaine was distributed as crack cocaine in Los Angeles, with the profits funneled back to the Contras. Webb also alleged that this influx of Nicaraguan-supplied cocaine sparked, and significantly fueled, the widespread Crack Epidemic/crack cocaine epidemic that swept through many U.S. cities during the 1980s. According to Webb, the CIA was aware of the cocaine transactions and the large CIA and Contras cocaine trafficking in the US/shipments of drugs into the U.S. by Contra personnel. Webb charged that the Reagan administration shielded inner-city drug dealers from prosecution in order to raise money for the Contras, especially after Congress passed the Boland Amendment, which prohibited direct Contra funding.

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It was good to get out of the gate like that.

After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.

We're looking forward to the weekend -- it should be fun. I think we're all looking forward to great competition.

Those two are going to win individual events and get points. I think it will be a dogfight and go right down to the end.

Nobody can touch St. X. But the girls' race is going to be good. It's going to be either Manual or Sacred Heart.

We commonly see problems in adults that had been present since childhood but which take a toll on the heart over time.

We're just looking for a chance to swim good again and have a shot at (the title). We're not thinking about two in a row -- what we did last year was history. We just want to win another state title.