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00:00:06 #1 Good is the CBS Evening News, Dan Rather reporting from CBS News election headquarters in New York.

00:00:11 #2 Announcement today by the U.S. Ambassador to Columbia that a major cocaine factory had been shut down on his country

00:00:17 #3 contained what seemed like a record number of superlatives.

00:00:20 #4 But any record set in that area was overshadowed by the record set in the drug bust itself.

00:00:25 #5 Bob Simon in New York narrates our report.

00:00:28 #6 It was the biggest bust anywhere, anytime.

00:00:31 #7 Thirteen tons of cocaine from the jungles of Columbia

00:00:34 #8 worth $1.2 billion in the streets of the United States.

00:00:39 #9 The Drug Enforcement Agency in Washington called the operation,

00:00:42 #10 mind-boggling.

00:00:44 #11 Airborne Colombian police, accompanied by a U.S. narcotics agent,

00:00:47 #12 began the raid ten days ago.

00:00:49 #13 They encountered fierce resistance when they hit the ground.

00:00:52 #14 When it was all over, they had eleven bodies to show journalists,

00:00:56 #15 and they had arrested 40 people including an American pilot.

00:01:00 #16 They also had documents incriminating officials in the Colombian government.

00:01:04 #17 The camp was in the deepest Colombian jungle 700 miles south of Bogota

00:01:09 #18 and it was a complete community, a co-community.

00:01:14 #19 With five runways equipped for nightlandings, a power plant, sophisticated communications,

00:01:20 #20 a very impressive arsenal, even livestock.

00:01:23 #21 The U.S. Embassy says it was all under the protection of the armed wing of the Colombian Communist Party.

00:01:30 #22 13 tons represents 25% of all the cocaine consumed in the United States in one year.

00:01:36 #23 In the words of the DEA, it won't affect the street price right away,

00:01:40 #24 but it will put a definite crimp in the cocaine supply.

00:01:44 #25 Bob Simon, CBS News, New York.

00:01:47 #26 March 20th, 1984. From ABC, this is World News Tonight

00:02:00 #27 with Peter Jennings this evening reporting from Chicago.

00:02:03 #28 We learned today about the largest drug bust in history.

00:02:06 #29 Last week in Columbia, police and army units

00:02:08 #30 raided a jungle hideout.

00:02:10 #31 They found 12 and 1 1⁄2 tons of cocaine

00:02:13 #32 with a street value of more than a billion dollars.

00:02:15 #33 The army and police fought a daylong battle

00:02:17 #34 with the smugglers.

00:02:18 #35 40 of them were arrested.

00:02:28 #36 This is NBC Nightly News, reported by Tom Brokaw.

00:02:34 #37 Good evening from the United States ambassador

00:02:36 #38 to Columbia calls it the biggest drug hall in history.

00:02:39 #39 A megabust in the Colombian jungle

00:02:42 #40 that yielded nearly 14 tons of cocaine.

00:02:45 #41 Street value, $1.2 billion.

00:02:49 #42 Colombian police attacked a jungle cocaine processing plant

00:02:52 #43 that they said was guarded by communist guerrillas.

00:02:55 #44 The plant had 10 laps for processing the cocaine.

00:02:58 #45 40 people were arrested, including an American pilot.

00:03:02 #46 The complex is located in a remote area about 700 miles

00:03:05 #47 south of Bogota. Under Colombian law all evidence in a drug raid must be burned. In this case,

00:03:11 #48 cocaine, guns and seven airplanes. The drug crackdown is continuing in that part of the

00:03:18 #49 world.