2A - The Michigan Uaily - Monday, March 15, 1999 NATION/WORLD RALLY Continued from Page 1A this boss that no one is going anywhere," adding that "if Gamble, Bollinger and Cantor think they can walk over every union on campus, I have one thing to say - 'Over my dead body!'" LSA sophomore Peter Romer- Friedman, a SOLE leader, told the crowd that the Nike Corporation on Thursday agreed to publicly disclose information about their factories. With the concessions from Nike, Romer-Friedman announced the end of the anti-Nike movement on campus, destroying a giant paper mache shoe, the symbol of the movement, during the rally. "Now that the shoe is dead, we have another victory to attain - the living wage," Romer-Friedman said. LSA junior Dorothy Me Givney said she thought the rally was "a wonderful example of students resisting apathy and indifference we've been led to believe our generation and our peers are suppose to personify." SOLE negotiating team member Julie Fry, an LSA sophomore, said "this is the time to show your strength." Mc Givney, who is not a member of SOLE, said student activists aren't the only ones worried about sweatshop labor. "I don't think fellow students should have to feel like its too late to join in this struggle," Mc Givney said. LSA sophomore Lucine Eusani said she'd "like to see the rest of the University wake up and see how this affects us." Romer-Friedman told the crowd that for a hat costing $20 with the University logo, the University makes $1.50 in roy- alties while workers only make 8 cents. For the 1997-98 fiscal year, the University reported $5.7 million in sales from the sale of licensed merchandise. "This University makes so much money off the blood of the workers," Caruthers said. With other highly-publicized sit-ins at other schools still in the minds of the stu- dent activists, SOLE members said they have not ruled out any course of action. "We will fight until we win," Romer- Friedman said. SANCTIONS Continued from Page 1A on Sadaam Hussein's regime for basic needs because they know they will not get help anywhere else. The sanctions are merely hurting the people -- not the Hussein regime - Bennis said, and the people are not in the position to oppose the government. "It's a militarized government with an unarmed population," she said. Halliday, who formerly managed the "oil for food" program - which would permit Iraq to sell oil in return for humanitarian supplies - said even that program is ineffective because it fails to generate enough revenue to support the Iraqi population. Halliday gave three suggestions to improve conditions in Iraq that do not include imposing'sanctions - interna- tional arms control by officials who are only loyal to the UN and not their own national governments, which helps to eliminate the fear of espionage; lifting sanctions and giving Iraq financial sup- port to aid in its recovery; and encour- age the people of the Middle East to start living and working together. "We don't have yet the kind of move- ment that we need ... but there is a change afoot," Bennis said. Part of this change, she said, is the increased awareness on campuses nationwide. Earlier this semester, the Michigan Student Assembly passed a resolution to end sanctions in Iraq. Following MSA's leadership, several other student governments, including those at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, have passed similar resolutions. "Start small with your organizing, but start with a big idea," Bennis said. With this idea in mind, national coali- tions such as the Iraq Action Coalition are creating a forum for coordination and organization to increase students' activism on campuses nationwide. "There must be a national coalition of some sort," Halliday said, adding that part of the purpose of the resolutions is to educate people about the Iraqi situation. "The great majority of American people do not know vghat's happening in Iraq," Halliday said, explaining that once the country is informed, "history shows that the American people ... reach out and provide assistance." Halliday and Bennis are currently'on a national tour to inform and educate the public about the conditions in Iraq. Halliday left the UN to speak out about the conditions in Iraq - some- thing he was unable to do as a UN member. After Halliday and Bennis' lecture, many who attended signed cards to join the anti-sanctions movement. It was "good to get a first hand view of what's going on in Iraq," said Jasim Ahmed, an Engineering graduate stu- dent who said he would like to see an end to the economic sanctions. LSA senior Andrew Mathews, a member of the Student Peace Action group, said Halliday and Bennis' lec- ture gave him a "greater depth of details of the issues." Mathews said he plans to use the information he has learned to further educate the Peace Action Group so they can "speak and act constructively on the issue." RoUND THE NATION r~rv U.S. prison pop. doubles in 12 years WASHINGTON -The number of American adults imprisoned has more than doubled during the past 12 years, reaching its highest level ever last year, the Justice Department reported yesterday. The United States soon may surpass Russia as the country with the highest rate of incarceration. At mid-1998, jails and prisons held an estimated 1.8 million people, accord- ing to a Bureau of Justice Statistics report. At the end of 1985, the figure w4 744,208. Viewed another way, there were 668 inmates for every 100,000 U.S. residents as of June 1998, compared with 313 inmates per 100,000 people in 1985. In Russia, 685 people out of every 100,000 are behind bars, according to The Sentencing Project, a U.S. group critical of the general trend toward harsher sen- tencing of American criminals. A planned amnesty of 100,000 prisoners in Russia and the expectation of con- tinued increases in the U.S. inmate population means the United States probably will become the world's leading jailer "in a year or two," said Jenni Gainsborough, a Sentencing Project spokesperson. The number of people imprisoned in the United States has grown for more than a quarter century, helped by increased drug prosecutions and a general ge* Do you have a BACHELOR'S DEGREE? We need you! Measurement Incorporated is an educational testing company that hires hundreds of people each year lo hand-score tests. 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"This is a very dangerous situation involving international espionage that directly threatens the security of all Americans, said Sen. John McCain, a GOP presidential hopeful. McCain (R- Ariz.) said President Clinton should appoint a panel to investigate charges that China stole nuclear warhead technology. Another senior GOP senator, Dick Lugar of Indiana, recommended a "very serious review" of the country's China policy.;Lugar also said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that the United States should make clear to China that it will defend Taiwan from a Chinese missile attack. The administration, represented by Energy Secretary Bill Richardson and the president's national security advis- er, Sandy Berger, said the Chinese did benefit from the leak of information in the 1980s from the Los Alamos labora- tory in New Mexico. Tennessee man 4 faked his own death LAFOLLETTE, Tenn. - The body inside the burning Ford Tempo was charred beyond recognition by the time sheriff's deputies arrived. 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Yesterday's announcement was greeted with caution in the Afghan cap- ital of Kabul, where people have prayed for an end to a war that has claimed as many as a million lives and has touched virtually everyone in the country. "People in Afghanistan are thirsty for peace like a man in the desert is thirsty for water... but we don't know," said a Kabul shopkeeper, Mono Gul. The U.N.-brokered talks involved the Taliban Islamic movement; which rules about 90 percent of the country, and the northern-based alliance of opposition groups, which controls about 10 percent. Both sides met for four days in Ashgabat, the capital of Turkmenistan, which shares a. border with Afghanistan. The U.N. Special Missio6 to Afghanistan said in a statement tha the talks had taken place "in a spirit of sincerity, mutual respect and frank- ness." 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