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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
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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.
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Gospel group
By GWEN DANIELS
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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
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"The choir provides unity for blacks because
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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
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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.
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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
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