NATION : Wife Quoted as Warning Barry

Washington Mayor Marion Barry’s wife says she warned him another woman would be his downfall.

“I told him all along: ‘You’re going to be set up with a woman,’ ” Effi Barry was quoted as saying in today’s New York Post. “My gut (feeling) was that this would be his downfall.”

The FBI used former model Rasheeda Moore on Jan. 18 to lure Barry to a Washington hotel, where he was videotaped smoking crack.

She said “one never knows” if her marriage will last, and she blamed alcoholism for her husband’s troubles.

Mrs. Barry said she had no knowledge of any cocaine use by her husband.

“The times I’ve seen him incapacitated were due to drink,” she said. “Those other alleged activities were when I wasn’t present, so at this trial I, too, may learn things.”