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■77- Get into Special Parents Weekend Offer! WORLD Page 16 THE BATTALION For Parents Weekend only, stop by The Exchange to tour our luxurious model apartment and register for a FREE full year of rent. You’ll be so amazed at the amenities offered at The Exchange, you’ll never want to leave! Comforts &. Conveniences • Fully furnished • 1, 2, 3 and 4-bedroom apartments • Individual leases • Private bedrooms and baths • Gated entry and exits • Built-in bookshelves and desks • Resort-style swimming pool » Covered private patios and terraces « Computer lab with internet access - Copy center and fax services ■ Lighted sand volleyball and basketball courts Fitness center and over-sized gameroom Shuttle bus stop and bicycle racks Comfortable study rooms Trial begins in case of thirl Iranian Jews accused of spyi Tg>- ■ AAM // * GaaratwifcC SHIRAZ, Iran (AP) — An espionage trial of 13 Jews that threatens to cool U.S.-Iranian relations adjourned quickly af ter it began Thursday, with defense attorneys saying they need more time. A senior judicial official said later that four of the 13 had confessed. Concern over the trial brought Western diplomats, foreign journalists and a human rights activ ist to the courthouse in Shi raz, 550 miles south of the capital of Tehran. Both the United States and Israel say charges that the Jews spied for the two countries are baseless. The Revolutionary Court trial is closed to the public in cluding relatives and the media — for national security rea sons, authorities say. The judge leads the investigation and hands down the sentence and verdict. Shortly after the 90-minute court session was adjourned un til May 1, provincial judiciary chief Hossein AH Amiri told re porters that four of the defendants had confessed to espionage and that Judge Sadeq Nourani had ruled the confessions ad missible. I le did not say when the confessions, which were re portedly in the Iranian media last fall, were made. Defense lawyer Esmail Naseri said the alleged confessions were “irrelevant” and inadmissible because they had not been made in the presence of defense counsel. Nothing about the purported confessions came up in court Thursday, he said. Iran’s state-run television, meanwhile, said Thursday night that “four Jewish suspects confessed to espionage in court to day.’’ The contradiction could not be immediately explained. TURKMI Tehran © IRAN IRAQ SAUDI ARABIA Washington has warned that the way the trial is held and its verdict could slow the thaw between the United States and Iran that has been under way since President Mohammad Khatami took of fice in 1997. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright told a Senate committee Thursday that (Ik “of strong concern to me.” She said the fact that itt postponed could be a positive step. France, Germany, the United Nations and thene Amnesty International have either condemned the. culled for a fair trial. , Only four of the 10 defendants in custody ap? Thursday's court session, which lasted 90 minutes,' the judge wanted it this way,” Naseri said. 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Dubbed “Operation Millennium II,” the sweep coincided with a Washington visit by President Andres Pastrana to lob by U.S. lawmakers for approval of a S1.7 billion aid package for lighting narcotics in this turbulent Andean nation. Some 1,500 police officers took part in Wednesday’s operation, which na tional police director Gen. Rosso Jose Serrano said demonstrates Colombia’s “unbreakable will to keep fighting drug traffickers.” With the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration attache in Colombia seated at his side, Gen. Serrano pa raded most of the suspects, including four women, before reporters in this western city. The arrests show that “the mafiosos can’t hide.” said the DEA official, Leo Arreguin. Arreguin said there were no plans to seek extradition for any of the suspects, including the purported ringleader, Nico las Urquijo Gaviria, a cousin of the late cocaine lord Pablo Escobar Gaviria. “I le’s the big cheese here,” Arrequin added of the stocky and slightly balding 45-year-old Urquijo, who told reporters ffibd to be a “h he was innocent “The rest arciwworthy. Th .iiul b 'U orleu'l as far as wekr IgthatwaswF I he drug gang was capah. .eonaido I )i( u| ping 100 pounds of heroin aaelUnited State which would represent aboubifice any vestig Colombia’s annual product: ew ratings poin tons, police said. They saididered suspi ■shipped heroin to the United® fthe Amerie Spain. I lolland and Italy. hange, it is will 1 rquijo. whose motheris Mter all, they ar I sc< Tur's mother, was capture fhl media is sin the western city of Medellin 'atfigs and w'ill ci s arrested Wednesday rar. Jlar it is; ifpeop w atchmen to drug couriers h garbage will filti ists in trafficking heroin-p: : chemicals and laundering drug police said. President and Mrs. Ray M. Bowen '58 and Vice President for Student Affairs Malon Southerland '65 invite you and your family to drop by their campus homes from 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Saturday, April 15, 2000 ather than tve tout each :r, they >e to die then No, is not Ike- re’s “star- sed lovers” ii js is Crofton, I bled 15-year- e a suicide p; lered drainage real of separath sy took the .38-' tat her boyfrietn to her temple ai e| The boyfrien as not been rele; cause he is a m led to follow h ,d, he ran to g' ! 0n April 17, h |1 for reckless e possession of i [ed suicide. Tin fked wide-spr aryland law t ide went into' Jennifer’s de; ig grossly misint pt to imprison chose life ov bnds too late. Light refreshments will be served at both homes.