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Dealer's sentencing postponed.
More TV and radio appearances by Gary Webb.
Last updated: Sept. 16, 1996
Continuing coverage

Day One
Backers of CIA-led Nicaraguan rebels brought cocaine to poor L.A. neighborhoods in early '80s to help finance war -- and a plague was born.
Published: Aug. 18, 1996
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Day Two
How a smuggler, a bureaucrat and a driven ghetto teen-ager created the cocaine pipeline, and how crack was "born" in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1974.
Published: Aug. 19, 1996
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Day Three
The impact of the crack epidemic on the black community and why justice hasn't been for all.
Published: Aug. 20, 1996
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