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digest A a # m World s largest drug raid WASHINGTON (AP) ? Airborne Colombian police, in the "largest drug raid ever in the world," raided a jungle cocaine processing plant operating under Communist pro tection and seized 12,500 kilos of cocaine, U.S. Am, bassador Lewis Tambs said. Tambs told reporters that the Colombian police, accompanied by a U.S. Embassy observer, began the raid March 10 and arrested 40 people?including an American pilot?at 10 remote processing sites. Tambs said the cocaine operation was under the protec- 1 tion of the armed wing of the Colombian Communist Par- ' ty, which U.S. officials called "the largest, oldest, bestequippe^ ^st-trained and potentially most dangerous . suoversiv ip in v^oiomma. Tambs sai*. .me site contained 44 wooden structures and five runways, some equipped with lights for night landings. Seven aircraft, including two twin-engine planes and a helicopter, also were seized, he said. "It's the largest drug raid ever in the world," Tambs said. "Never has anyone been found with that much cocaine." "It's the largest drug arrest ever by any standard?money value, product, the amount seized," Tambs said. By contrast, he said, a recent intensive crackdown on cocaine smuggling by the U.S. Customs Service produced only 250 pounds of the drug. Verdicts upset community FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) ? As members of the Portugese community vowed to protest the conviction of two immigrants in a barroom gang rape, one of four others on trial separately in the attack testified the woman "was willing to do it with me, so I did it." John Cordeiro, 24, on Monday acknowledged touching the woman and attempting oral sex with her at Big Dan's tavern in New Bedford, but claimed she instigated the sex ual contact and was "enjoying herself." "She never cried, not in my presence," Cordeiro said as attorneys for him and co-defendant Victor Raposo closed their cases. The woman has testified thai she went to the bar for cigarettes and a drink when she was dragged to the pool table, held down screaming and raped while patrons cheered. Judge William Young told jurors that he expects closing arguments today in the case against Cordeiro, Raposo and Jose and Virgilio Medeiros, who are not related. With the end of the trial nearing, and in the wake of Saturday's conviction of Daniel Silva and Joseph Vieira, a Portugese-American group has called for marches in two cities to protest the guilty verdicts. Alda Melo, a spokeswoman for the Committee For justice said the erouD Dlans to staee a candlelieht march in New Bedford tomorrow evening and hold a vigil near the Fall River courthouse on Friday - the day Young is scheduled to sentence Silva, 27, and Vieira, 28, for aggravated rape. Decision hurts news media WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Supreme Court handed the news media a double defeat yesterday by making nationally distributed publications, and the people who work for them, more tempting targets for libel lawsuits. First tV?i? inctirpc rnlfH nnanimAiiclv that aMroct CUirlou ?? %> j %?u%ivvu a uivva UIIUIIIIIIVUJIJ kllUl HVllVOi) UI111 Jones may sue a National Enquirer reporter and editor for $20 million in her home state of California. She does not have to pursue her lawsuit in Florida, where the newspaper and its employees are based, the court said. In a separate decision, the court ruled unanimously in a case involving an $80 million libel suit against Hustler magazine that people who sue a nationally distributed publication may shop for the state offering them the most favorable laws and filing deadlines. The court refused to let publications and their employees shield themselves behind the free-press rights contained in the Constitution when trying to fend off libel suits because of where they are filed. "We reject the suggestion that First Amendment con cerns enter into the jurisdictional analysis," said Justice William Rehnquist, who wrote the court's two opinions. lUSC today STUDENT SENATE - meets at 5:30 p.m. in Caicott auditorium. nor _i - ??: _ -r _ _ l n . ... .1 r? r I Pfiac9#u.&. ? UuU piays Virginia lecn m j p.m. m oarye rrye , Field. TENNIS -USC's men's team plays. Louisville at 2 p.m. \ * SPUR - The Swimming Pool Q's perform at 9 p.m. with $2.50 admission charge. HEARING - Public hearing on parking near USC to ir held at 9:30 p.m. at Columbia City Mall. - t - - - - , t TV . It | Visit to strengt PARIS fAP) ? President Francois Mitterrand begins an eight-day state visit to the United States today to strengthen an "old and solid friendship" which, despite numerous differences, has been at its warmest in recent months. France's Socialist leader has made four trips to the United States since his election three years ago and has met President Ronald Reagan six times. Rut thic u/ill hp thp first ?tatp visit hv a French president since conservative President Valery Giscard d'Estaing's trip in 1976. Ironically, ties between the two nations have strengthened under the leadership of two men at different ends of the political spectrum. Monkey business |||jjff! Five-year-old Emily McCrary en- ' 5t joys the warm weather by climbing t a tree at her Columbia home. r Barnwell nuclc WASHINGTON (AP) ? The issue Af rfll/iirin/t Arrvi ar*f D n**nti?a1l v/i iwivui ? iiiv uuiiiiaiu uai nwtn nuclear reprocessing plant is too sensitive politically to settle before the upcoming presidential election, owners vii inw lauuijr oay A top official of Allied General Nuclear Services, a consortium that owns the $500 million mothballed facility, said any lobbying effort in Congress or the Reagan administration to save the plant will be delayed until after the election. Jim Rur.kham. nresirient of thf* rnn. sortium, said the issues surrounding the future of the Barnwell plant are so "politically sensitive" that the Reagan administration has expressed no immediate interest in discussing the plant's revival. Late this past year, the owners of the plant and the California-based Bechtel Corp. submitted a proposal to the i\va5ou uuiuiuuu uiiuu iiiai tuuiu navv paved the way for the sale of the facility and its eventual operation. BUT BUCKHAM said the deal poses too many political risks to tackle before the election. "Nobody formally admits it, but I ? hen friendshi| Mitterrand has nationalized mucl of French industry and has four Com munist ministers in his 43-membe cabinet. His proposal to tightei government control over Romai Catholic schools has sent more than million protestors into France' streets. All this is in contrast to Presider Reagan's crusade against governmer interference in private enterprise, hi repeated attacks on Communism an his campaign to legalize prayer i public schools. However, Mitterrand's untailin support for the deployment of U.5 cruise and Pershing 2 missiles i Western Europe has bridged th ideological differences and warme |gg !U?m? ir -' " ::ifjl|B ^">ijr~>'' "" ^ ? i ^r-^-1-' :V;S?K. ' 1 jf^ll mj'ggflg ^glg';' 'ftljiiiu sar plant sen think we can all surmise (that) frc some ways of looking at it, i politically sensitive/' Buckham said 4,I don't think anybody really wai to do anything in an election year confuse?everything," he added. pnil Keith, a spokesman for t federal Department of Energy, se Monday the AGNS proposal is "si on hold" in his agency. Keith said did not know when a decision woi be made. BECHTEL, AN internation energy consulting and constructs operation, has offered to buy t Barnwell plant in exchange for fede guarantees that would assure the fii of a market for the plant's nuclear pi ducts, according to Allied General a enerov denartmcnt nfflfialt v.. k.a.VIIV V/I 1 IV1UIO. If the administration agreed to along with the guarantees, Buckh* said the way would be cleared for I plant to begin reprocessing nucl< fuel. That would involve hu shipments of spent nuclear fuel bei francnnrtpfl infn CnutU 1 ?vm nilV UWUill V^ai Ulllld I refashioning into plutonium fuel ! shipment out of state. The total outlay by Bechtel if I p, leader savs m h relations between the White House and the Elysee Palace. r His missile stand has also overn shadowed differences about high U.S. n interest rates, the strong dollar, East1 West trade and Washington's policies s in Central America. JL iuii^v uiiuiud IU i^uiaiu 111 iuc it race for progress and in collaboration it with the United States," said pre. idenis tial spokesman Michel Vauzelle. d "France is determined to make an n old and solid friendship with Washington more effective by renewg ed cooperation and the opening of new >. perspectives" in economic, scientific n and cultural areas, he said, le No headline-making agreement is d expected to emerge from the visit. . * Bprs - BCr^^y/ifP^' 1 m 'x M SgjSng^yT^c.- J : BBlM|BM^HBFMBfl?jw^miWBitffl Photo by Bryant Smith sitive issue >m deal were approved, said Buckham, t's would be about $800 million in a purchase price and future revisions to the us piani. to The assurance that Bechtel is seeking from the administration, according to he Allied General and energy department lid officials, would involve the federal till government turning over to the Barnhe well plant spent fuel rods from nuclear ild power reactors that the government will take control of under the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982. \ o I on THE RODS, considered nuclear he waste, will fall under federal control ral for permanent burial at high-level rm nuclear waste dump. o- Under the Bechtel proposal, said nd Buckham, the rods would be delivered to the Barnwell plant for reprocessing go into plutonium fuel that [would be sold im to the government for resale to lighthe water reactor operators and for use in jar the federal breeder reactor program. ge ALTHOUGH THE plant was virng tually completed, it never opened for for reprocessing operations because of a for 1977 presidential moratorium on commercial reprocessing issued by Preside dent Carter.