2The Daily Tar Heel Thursday, March 30, 1989
World and Nation
US. agents
From Associated Press reports
WASHINGTON Federal
authorities have smashed a billion
dollar international operation laun
dering drug money and forced
Colombia's Medellin cartel to alter
the way it handles drug profits, the
Justice Department said Wednesday.
Attorney General Dick Thorn
burgh, FBI Director William Ses
sions and other top law enforcement
officials said their "Operation Polar
Cap" has ended with charges against
127 people and two Latin American
banks.
Thornburgh called the investiga
tion "the largest money-laundering
crackdown ever carried out by the
federal government."
Agents seized a half ton of cocaine
and $45 million in cash, jewels and
real estate and filed civil actions in
an effort to seize as much as $412
million more in assets of the banks,
Banco de Occidente of Panama and
Banco de Occidente of Colombia,
Czechoslovak teenagers hijack airplane
From Associated Press reports
FRANKFURT, West Germany
Two Czechoslovak teenagers shot
their way onto a jetliner Wednesday
in Prague and ordered it to the United
States, but the crew convinced them
it couldn't fly that far and they gave
up in Frankfurt.
They surrendered when American
military would not let them enter the
U.S. Air Force base adjacent to
Frankfurt's commercial airport.
Police said no one was hurt and
the incident ended peacefully less
than three hours after its violent start
Lewis
said when he admitted his favorite
movie was "Casablanca."
Lewis has been in three Lab
Theater shows and two shows for
UNC's Department of Dramatic
Arts. Although he enjoys acting,
Lewis said he's never considered it
for a career. "I never had that (driving
ambition) in my belly."
Lewis' musical tastes range from
classical to Bruce Springsteen. His
favorite artists now are Frank Sinatra
and Roy Orbison, whom he saw in
concert last summer. At times, Lewis
prefers opera, though. "Opera is the
best music to study to because I don't
know the words, so I don't sing
along."
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The operation, reaching across the
United States into South America
and to England, had direct ties to the
Medellin drug cartel of Colombia and
laundered $1.2 billion over two years,
Justice Department officials said.
The cartel is responsible for as
much as 80 percent of the cocaine
flowing into the United States,
according to federal drug officials.
"There is no more effective way to
deal with the business of drug
trafficking than to take the profit out
of it. That's what has happened with
Operation Polar Cap," Thornburgh
said at a news conference.
"I think it's fair to describe this
operation as a very hostile takeover
of a major money-laundering oper
ation," he said.
Some of the defendants were still
being sought Wednesday, including
a Colombian holed up in a bank in
in the Czechoslovak capital, where
nearly all passengers were freed.
Witnesses at Ruzyne Airport in
Prague said the teenagers took a
woman hostage, crashed through a
glass wall of the VIP lounge, fired
several shots and threatened a
stewardess.
About 100 people were reported to
be on Tupolev-154 of the Hungarian
airline Malev when the hijackers,
aged 15 and 16, seized it at about
10 a.m.
Oswald Neumann, a Frankfurt
police spokesman, said passengers
One of his former roommates,
Steve Greenwood, said Lewis knew
the words to everything and that he
does sing along.
They kept a Mickey Mouse bas
ketball hoop in their room to use for
study breaks, Greenwood said. Every
time a person hit a shot Mickey's eyes
moved and a bell would ring, he said.
"Brien is a terrible shooter."
Even though they played every day,
Lewis game never improved, he said.
Living with Lewis taught Green
wood to keep an open mind about
things, he said. "People are attracted
to Brien because he is so accessible.
They are attracted by his enthusiasm
and sincerity. It's a feeling you get
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Defense Forces seeking to arrest him
for U.S. authorities.
U.S. officials said the laundering
operation played a significant role in
the handling of the cartel's illegal drug
proceeds and was known within the
drug world as "La Mina," or "The
Mine."
Agents learned of the ring while
operating an undercover money
laundering operation of their own in
Atlanta as part of a joint investigation
by federal agencies, including the
Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and
Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA).
Authorities said that undercover
agents received complaints from
alleged drug-world figures that they
were moving too slowly in their
laundering, or processing the money
into seemingly legitimate accounts.
The agents were told La Mina
could get the money by wire from
Los Angeles to Panama within 48
reported that one youth fired a
"warning shot" out the door of the
plane before takeoff that "was not
aimed at anyone . . . went into the
air."
Official Hungarian and Czecho
slovak news agencies gave the ages
of the hijackers and said they initially
demanded to be flown to the United
States.
The Hungarian agency MTI said
Lajos Taba, Hungarian consul
general in Prague, boarded the
aircraft and negotiated the release of
82 passengers, including all women
from him. He is always so positive.
"I don't think you can find anyone
who doesn't have positive things to
say about him. It's not so much what
he conveys as what he brings out in
other people."
Laura Washburn, a junior educa
tion major from Burlington, said she
met Lewis through student govern
ment. Lewis is a person who makes
people wonder if he is really as nice
as he seems, she said.
During the campaign, she realized
Lewis was sincere in what he said and
did. Washburn became ill during the
latter part of the campaign. Even
though Lewis was under pressure and
extremely busy, he still found time
to come visit her and bring her flowers
and candy, she said.
"He's one of the most selfless
people IVe ever met." Lewis is secure,
responsible, confident and mature,
Washburn said. During the cam
paign, he was the person who kept
everything in perspective.
"I was more emotionally wrapped
up in winning," Washburn said. "But
Brien thought whatever would be,
would be. He just wanted to run a
clean campaign and get issues that
needed attention in the public eye."
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released with the indictments.
Federal agents then expanded their
investigation into that operation,
using electronic intercepts, surveil
lance and pursuit of financial paper
trails. '
Thornburgh said that while it is
difficult to determine how much
impact the federal action will have
on the Medellin cartel, "common
sense tells me when you disrupt an
operation that has laundered over a
billion dollars in two years, you're
going to force some adjustment in .
their operation."
DEA administrator John Lawn
said that one indication of the effect
was seen immediately by drug agents.
When La Mina was forced out of
business, he said, "the phone was
ringing off the hook" at the under
cover money-laundering operation
that was continuing in Atlanta, with
requests for use of their services.
and children, trading himself for
them.
Taba was among the 1 1 passengers
when the plane landed in Frankfurt.
MTI said Hungarian authorities
were in touch with West German
security officials and were considering
an extradition request.
Hans Neitzel, chief spokesman for
the Frankfurt police, said he did not
know the hijackers' motives.
"They said they wanted to go to
America, but why they wanted to go,
whether tjhey have relatives there or
what, we don't know," he said.
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Washburn said she didn't think
Lewis was a typical student body
president. "He doesn't have the look."
His campaign staff was a very
diverse group, Washburn said. Lewis
represents the average student on
campus.
Because Lewis is Canadian, he
knew few people on campus, which
may have worked against him in the
election, Washburn said.
"Every person he knows here now
he formed a friendship with since he
got here (UNC). It's amazing to me
that he won the campus over that
quickly." .
Getting Brien Lewis to talk about
, himself is no easy -task, cither. "He
doesn't think of himself as successful;
he just thinks he's been very lucky
and is grateful for that," Washburn
said.
He is a very humble person, she
said. "He listens to people and makes
them feel that what they have to say
is important."
Lewis said he was unsure of his
career plans, but he would like to do
something involving public service.
"It's corny, but it's true. I really want
to make the world a better place."
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From Associated Press reports
WASHINGTON The dis
abled Exxon Valdez had complied
with all modern construction
standards for oil tankers, but it
tore open in Alaskan waters
because no design is immune to
the consequences of human error,
a Coast Guard official said
Wednesday.
A spokesman said, however,
that the Coast Guard plans no
disciplinary action against any of
the tanker's officers unless the
results of an investigation by
another federal agency of the oil
spill show it is warranted.
Investigators from the National
Transportation Safety Board
looking into the nation's worst oil
spill said they were focusing on
actions of the ship's captain,
Joseph Hazelwood. Exxon offi
cials said he had left the bridge
to his third mate when the ship
hit a charted reef Friday and
spilled 10.1 million gallons of oil
into Prince William Sound.
"It's a very new ship. I don't see
any deficiencies at all," said Joseph
Angelo, assistant chief of the
Coast Guard's Merchant Vessel
Inspection and Documentation
Division.
U.S. supports cease-fire
WASHINGTON The Uni
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comed a call by the Arab League
for a cease-fire in Lebanon and
urged all warring groups to
comply.
"We strongly support that call,
and we share the Arab League's
concern about the grave situation
in Lebanon," said a State Depart-
Coates
She also read an excerpt of a letter
from Thomas Wolfe to her husband.
"And you, Albert, who carries so
much hope home with you, will do
your best."
Other speakers gave Gladys Coates
partial credit for her husband's
accomplishments. Douglass Hunt,
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ment statement. "The shelling .
must stop and the land and sea;
blockades must end." r .
Syrian gunners and their Druse
allies have been trading artillery!.';
fire with Christian army units in.!
Beirut since March 8 in the worst"! .
sectarian fighting the country has
known in four years. . .-.-ii-!
The Christians, headed by Gen:.
Michel Aoun, have blockaded.,,
southern ports used by Moslem
militias, and the Moslems have;-:
retaliated with a counter-blockade
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SANTA CATARIN A PIN-..
ULA, Guatemala Authorities
tried to end a 4-d ay-old standoff ;
at a prison farm Wednesday byj
cutting off water and power to.
rebel inmates holed up along with :
hundreds of their friends and
relatives.
"It's the only way we can.
pressure them," said Carlos'-
Ramos Moncada, inspector
general of prisons. "If we don't,
they could stay inside for days or;
weeks."
He said the water and power
were cut off before dawn. Wit
nesses said food was also running
low in the rebel-held sections of.
the Pavon prison farm 15 miles
east of Guatemala City.
The mutineers reportedly were
bickering about how to respond
to the government's latest nego
tiating offer.
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special assistant to the chancellor,
said it was she who polished and
refined her husband's writings.
Coates was one of the brightest
men at UNC, said William Cochrane,
senior adviser for the U.S. Senate
Rules Committee. "IVe always sus
pected him of being a true genius.
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