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Newsmakers Cuts to spare Social Security WASHINGTON ? Participants in the Capitol Hill, deficit-reduction laiKS, ineir frustration uummig as rnuay s ucaumic approacnes, say 11 is likely Social Security will dodge the budget-cutting ax. Negotiators from the Reagan administration and Congress met for a 16th day Monday, but reported little progress in agreeing to some combination of taxes and spending reductions that would slice the deficit by $75 billion to $80 billion over the next two years. "We didn't come any closer today, except we got 24 hours closer to the guillotine," said Rep. Pat Williams, D-Mont. Gorbachev speech draws fire WASHINGTON ? Snmf lawmakers nnnnrpntlv arc nnhnnnv with a plan for Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to address Congress during next month's superpower summit and for President Reagan to appear on Soviet television. The tentative agreement was reached this past Friday during a Capitol Hill meeting between Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., and the Soviet ambassador to Washington, Yuri Dubinin, two congressional sources said Monday. Byrd had spoken earlier in the day to Howard Baker, the White House chief of staff who approved the idea, said an aide to Byrd, who like the others quoted here spoke only on condition of anonymity. But an appearance by Gorbachev before a joint session, an honor normally reserved for the leaders of democratic allies, would meet strong resistance on Capitol Hill, aides to two liberal and two conservative senators said. Gorbachev would be the first Soviet leader to address Congress. Drug kingpin heads to court JACKSONVILLE, Fla. ? Carlos Lehder Rivas set up a smuggling empire using bribes, violence, intellect and charm in a scheme to form his own island nation and become the "king of cocaine transportation," a prosecutor charged. He even dispatched his mother to smuggle cocaine into California, said U.S. Attorney Robert W. Merkle. Merkle opened the government's case Monday in Lehder's drugtrafficking trial by tracing the defendant's life from the early 1970s through his arrest this past spring in Colombia. Defense attorneys for Lehder and co-defendant Jack Carlton Reed were scheduled to give their opening statements today. Lehder, 38, is accused in a 1981 indictment with smuggling 3.3 tons of cocaine from Colombia to Normans Cay in the Bahamas and on to airports in Georgia and Florida in 1979 and 1980. Earthquake hits in Alaska ANCHORAGE, Alaska ? A severe earthquake struck off the southcentral Alaska coast, shaking Anchorage 270 miles away, authorities said Tuesday. There were no reports of injury or damage, but thousands of coastal residents awakened by sirens and police loudspeakers briefly fled their homes in low-lying coastal communities. Food comoanv recalls voonrt * *J %7 O ~ SPRINGFIELD, III. ? Dean Foods Inc. has issued an eight-state voluntary recall of cherry-vanilla yogurt after staples and razor-blade pieces were found in three containers, authorities said. The Franklin Park-based company announced the recall Monday and offered to refund the purchase price to customers, said Tom Schafer, a state Department of Health and Environmental Control spokesman. TIGFRRfJPN Tomorrow ? 7:?C I Pep rally featuring the USC Be leaders, and J.J. Jackson will I Greene Street, in front of the nouse. The parade will then proceed B&C, where the Tiger will be I Sponsored by Phi Kappa Psi, The Fraternity Council, and C-103. i Paid for, in part, by Student Activity Fees. IT #1 J r >%b ii y WaKBam FT-; - J $ 5iy ^ Armed and generous Mariam Shuler, a nursing technician, prepares Lt Tuesday in Russell House Ballroom. Gospel group By GWEN DANIELS Staff writer The place to find gospel singing is at USC's Rutledge Chapel on The Horseshoe. The Touch^of Faith gospel choir sings every first, third and fifth Sunday of each month, choir member Lisa Taylor said. "Singing on the choir allows me to meet new friends and helps me get a better understanding of Christianity," Taylor said. Member Darren Heath said the choir mostly sings contemporary gospel music. "What I like most about singing on Touch of Faith is the chance to be actively and religiously involved with an organization," Heath said. Choir director Charles White said Touch of Faith started out as a chapel choir, but has grown *87 > PM jnd, Cheerbegin on j Russell to P.E. Fields turned! 1 ^nwo j i H 11 vm m - JAMK k IB / w :: ^g|9 |jf/ ^j^^wB^BPP5^8JK|^ JjM . Gov. Nick Theodore's arm before taking blood di promotes frie to be a unifying forcc for black students on USC's campus. "The choir provides unity for blacks because blacks from all other organizations, such as NAACP, greeks, and AFRO, and all walks of life have representation here," White said. The choir presently has 97 active members. "The choir is interdenominational and no faith is thought of as better than the others," White said. White said Touch of Faith is part of the Student Christian Fellowship organization, which was organized during the 1970s for USC's blacks. At that time, blacks did not have a religions croun to affiliate with, and they needed something to represent their own culture. "SCF gives us the opportunity to carry on the tradition of black gospel music," he said. i AiuiDn LHIVIDU ALPI Presei The 1st, Tlft'DI' T, Band I featur the Cri; at CONGER 1 1 *v?o rlnir \T r X IIUI DIACLJ ? $3 Co 18 & Older THE PLAC1 i : hp^': - # mi>J. 1; i ?*** 11 i I m*j^ ^3^ J1^ H JONATHAN WILLIAMS/Tht Gamecock I wring the annual Carolina-Clemson blood drive I I :ndship, unity j SCF member Kenya Derrick said SCF is a student-run organization and is the governing body of the choir. "SCF, including the choir, is dedicated to spreading God's word to students on campus," Derrick said. SCF conducts the church services at Rutledge and consists of a planning board and the choir. Members of the choir don't have to be members of SCF, White said. All students are welcome to worship at Rutledge Chapel, Derrick said. "The Christian aspect of being on the choir is one of the most rewarding things about singing," White said. "Singing is a source of power to ease academic pressure. SCF gives blacks an alternative to the greek system as a source of unity and strength." A i \ i A CHI H its: i Annual orture Party j I ing users ,TS PLUS >vember 19 >ver A II j j 1 Aamittea m E TO BE!! ,