2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, March 16, 1999 NATION/WORLD BRANDON Continued from Page 1 making newspaper inserts rather than pizzas -- Brandon said he thinks his experience will help him in liis position. "t's a company and industry I understand well," Brandon said. "This is a little bit of a different indus- try,-but Valassis was involved in franchisement." -Domino's, with sales totaling more than $3.1 bil- lin in 1997 and recently boasting its 1,500th store opening, is a much bigger company than Valassis, whose revenue hit $741 million in 1998. -"Valassis had a tremendous track record of growth," Brandon said. A small company in the '70s when Brandon took over, Valassis has recent- lymhade the list of the 100 best companies to work for in the nation, he said. Brandon said his predominantly teenage family eats a lot of pizza. But Brandon said he does not forsee large changes being made to Domino's. "The company is very healthy," Brandon said, Workers at the Central Campus Domino's said they have suggestions for the new CE'1O. "I would like friendlier management," Domino's employee Brian Schneider said, adding that he'd like the company "to be more in-touch with the campus students." But Brandon's new position did not impress Schneider as much as the three-story office he will occupy. "His bathroom is worth 1 million dollars," Schneider said, remembering a tour he took of the Domino's headquarters. He added that the bath- room had "gold-plated fixtures." MSA Continued from Page 1 IElias said, in reaction to the MSA resolution passed earlier this year condemning IU.S. sanctions on Iraq. Also on the Blue Party's agenda are programs to obtain discounts for student group travel, continue voter registra- tion and education and initiate a student group outreach pro- gram. The party also plans to set up a system by which student groups can use an MSA-nun copy service "where copies are provided at cost for student groups," said Blue Party mem- ber and LSA Rep. Vikram Sarma. Adding to the party's academic intentions, the group wants to organize a peer mentorship program between grad- uate and undergraduate students, reinitiate mid-term course evaluations in LSA and initiate them in other schools. AROUNID TH EATN Researchers discover cancer enzyme WASIIINGTON - In a dramatic advance in the understanding of cancer, researchers have found an enzyme that helps build the blood vessels that feed the growth of tumors, a major step toward finding new drugs to attack the disease. Researchers at Duke University report that they have found -- on the surfacd of cells inside blood vessels - atype of enzyme, called AFP synthase. The enzyme apparently provides the energy for the growth of blood vessels, sa* Salvatore Pizzo, a member of the Duke team and co-author of a study appearing today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Without such energy, he said, tumors can never grow beyond the size of a pin head. Researchers in many labs have recently been studying the growth of blood ves- sels that supply cancer tumors with oxygen and nutrients -- searching for possi- bles to shut off that blood vessel growth. The research intensified after Judah Folkman of Children's Hospital in Boston showed that a compound he calls angiostatin could stop tumor growth in mice by blocking the formation of blood vessels. In all, a number of compounds that can block blood vessel formation have been discovered. In fact, a separate paper in Proceedings today reports on isolating su a substance from cartilage. Researchers have been able to isolate angiostatW, which also occurs naturally in the body, and synthesize it in laboratories. General's case may put military on trial FORT LEWIS, Wash. - Until he retired last year, David Hale's military career had been a long rise to glory. He was a decorated Vietnam veteran and eventually earned the rank of two- star general, serving as deputy com- mander of NATO ground forces in southeastern Europe. Now he is facing an altogether different distinction: He could soon become the second Army general to be court-martialed in nearly 50 years and the first ever summoned from retirement to face such serious charges. Starting today, in the military equiva- lent of a grand jury proceeding, Army prosecutors will lay out a damning case against IHale. It includes allegations that he carried on sexual affairs with wives of officers under his command, then lied to Pentagon officials and threatened some of the women to cover up his alleged misdeeds. Hale has adamantly denied the charges, so the courtroom showdown at this Army base 50 miles south of Seattle could be long and bitter. And there is more at stake than Hale's fate. The case also could establish a prece- dent for how the armed services deal with violations of military law, infiar- ticular sexual misconduct, in their tm ranks. New enforcement strategy used by INS WASHINGTON - In what it calls a "major shift" in strategy, the Immigration and Naturalization Service is moving away from its tradi- tional raids on job sites to round up 'ille- gal immigrants, instead emphasizi* operations against foreign criminals, alien-smuggling rings and document fraud. The new "interior enforcement strat- egy," outlined in an internal INS docu- ment, affords a measure of relief to the estimated 5.5 million illegal immi- grants living in the United States-and the thousands of businesses that employ them. ARouND THE WORLD .vmw.wtivx+ruw. xrnxrn.... r .......................... "' ' ".:1 "": .+N Xa. Ethnic Alabanians to sign agreement PARIS --Ethnic Albanians delivered a clear "yes" yesterday to an internation- al peace plan for Kosovo, leaving Yugoslavia's president with a stark choice: make peace or face NATO's wrath. After more than five weeks of intense diplomatic pressure, the Kosovo Albanian delegation told international mediators yesterday they were ready to sign the peace accord that gives them wide political autonomy but not the vote on independence they wanted. "This is not an ideal solution, but peace in Kosovo has no price;" said Hashim Thaci, the head of the ethnic Albanian delegation to Paris, where a second round of peace talks had opened only hours before. He told reporters they hoped to sign the agreement today. The French and British foreign ministers praised the decision and said it will heighten pres- sure on Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to swallow the deal, which calls for NATO troops to enforce it. 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