
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, July 18, 1990                   TAG: 9007180164
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Medium

TWO MORE TESTIFY IN BARRY CASE

Prosecutors neared the end of their monthlong drug and perjury case against Mayor Marion Barry on Tuesday after two women - a former Carter administration aide and a Barry friend testifying under court order - outlined a history of drug use with him.

They were the ninth and 10th witnesses to testify they saw Barry use illegal drugs.

Doris Crenshaw, who was a White House small-business aide, said she had snorted cocaine powder, smoked crack cocaine and used cocaine-laced cigarettes with Barry - including an episode at the 1988 Democratic National Convention. She said she began using drugs with him in 1985.

Bettye Lynn Smith, a "close personal friend" of Barry who was flown in from Tennessee under court order, testified she had used cocaine with Barry many times and supplied him with it for years, including less than a month before his Jan. 18 arrest in an FBI sting operation.

Reluctant to testify against Barry, whom she described as "a close personal friend of mine," Smith appeared in court only after being ordered by a U.S. magistrate to return to the nation's capital to testify. She had been undergoing treatment for stress at a psychiatric hospital in Chattanooga.

Crenshaw said she and the mayor used cocaine at the Democratic convention in Atlanta, where Barry was heading the District of Columbia's delegation.

Prosecutors expected to conclude their case today, with testimony on Barry telephone records. The defense will then open its case, which could include testimony from 10 to 15 witnesses, said Barry attorney R. Kenneth Mundy.

Since testimony in the case began June 19, 10 witnesses have said they saw Barry use drugs at a total of 14 hotels, 20 private residences, two businesses and on four boats in a period ranging from 1984 to the mayor's Jan. 18 arrest.

Attending Tuesday's court proceedings was Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who was allowed access to the trial last week after U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson reversed himself. Jackson had previously barred the Muslim leader, ruling that his presence might intimidate witnesses and jurors in the case.

At a lunch recess, Farrakhan termed the case "an assault on black people in general."

by CNB