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Blue Party and the Defend Affirmative
Action Party were also campaigning on
the Diag.
MSA Blue Party candidate Glen Roe
said "people are very receptive of what
the Blue Party stands for."
DAAP candidate Courtney Rawls
also said she received positive feedback
from students.
"A lot of people indicated that they
were interested in DAAP," Rawls said.
But the number of fliers candidates
are handing out may be causing nega-
tive effects on student voting.
LSA sophomore Paul Jenkins said,
"Those fliers that they hand out on the
Diag are really annoying. They make
me not want to vote for anybody."
Also, making its first public appear-
ance in costume, the independent slate
of the Invisible Man and A Superhero
named Tony, who are running for MSA
executive posts, announced their plat-
form on the Diag yesterday. "Our plat-
form is the lack thereof," Tony said.
"I have no super power powers and
neither do any of these guys," Tony
added about his opponents.
After hearing the duo's platform yes-
terday, LSA first-year student Dana
Lefkowitz said, "This makes a stronger
statement than any other types of cam-
paigns I've seen this year."
Lefkowitz added that she plans to
cast her vote for the dynamic duo.
CAMPAIGN
Continued from Page 1A
"We made a deliberate effort to meet
more people and spend more time talk-
ing about the issues," Students' Party
spokesperson Brian Reich said.
The Students' Party held issue forums
earlier this week, which Reich said are
more cost effective than fliering.
Students' Party candidate and current
LSA Rep. Jeff Omtvedt, who said he
spent about $200 on his campaign this
term, said the forums showed students
that "we're people not posters."
Both the Blue and Students' parties
also sought sponsorship from local
stores such as Dominos Pizza and Blue
Cab Co., who advertised premiums on
the parties' quarter-sheet fliers, but did
not actually contribute to campaign
funding for either group.
But not all candidates are breaking
the bank in an attempt to gain control of
the assembly.
"We are spending very little," Defend
Affirmative Action Party presidential
candidate Jessica Curtin said.
DAAP Campaign Manager Caroline
Wong said the party spent about $300
during this term's election.
"Our winning has been linked to the
growing student movement," Wong said.
But other DAAP candidates said they
did not put up individual fliers prior to
the election. DAAP member and MSA
candidate Amer Ardati said he relied on
the party's posters that listed its candi-
dates and platform.
Investments made by independent
candidates often do not approach the
amount of money spent by candidates
who are affiliated with one of the three
major campus parties.
Independent candidate Jim Secreto
said he invested $60 in his campaign.
Near the bottom of the scale, inde-
pendent candidate David Taub spent a,
mere $21. His strategy consists of fliers
in University buildings. Taub describes
his fliers as, "not exactly high tech;'and
compared his fliers to those candidates
who use photos on their advertisements.
"A lot of these fliers from the parties
are pretentious," Taub said.
AROUND THE NATION
GOP leaders resist Mexican certification
WASHINGTON - Leading House Republicans, citing new allegations that
senior Mexican military and political officials are involved in drug trafficking,
announced yesterday they will seek to overturn President Clinton's decision to cer-
tify Mexico as a full partner in the fight against illicit drugs.
The allegations were laid out yesterday by William Gately, a retired sere
Customs Service official, who, under oath before the House Subcommittee on
Criminal Justice, Drug Policy and Human Resources, said undercover investiga-
tions last year found evidence that the Mexican defense minister, Gen. Enrique
Cervantes, was trying to launder $150 million. Senior members of the office of the
presidency in Mexico were also trying to launder undetermined amounts, he added.
Despite a history of widespread corruption in Mexico's law enforcement agen-
cies and its military, Clinton certified on March 1 that Mexico was "fully cooper-
ating" in fighting drug trafficking.
Rep. John Mica (R-Fla.), chair of the subcommittee, and Rep. Benjamin Gilman
(R-N.Y.), chair of the International Relations Committee, co-sponsored a bill that
would decertify Mexico but allow the president to waive the economic penalt*
accompanying such a decision. Congressional staffers said the resolution
receiving broad bipartisan support in the House, but the Senate was cooler to the
idea.
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Heart attacks
smaller, less lethal
ORLANDO, Fla. -Americans' heart
attacks are becoming smaller and less
lethal, probably as a result of healthier
living habits and better medicines.
Two studies being presented today
show a remarkable decline in the severi-
ty of heart attacks in recent years. Even
though heart attacks remain an exceed-
ingly common and serious problem, the
data suggest that people's chances of sur-
viving them have increased dramatically.
Heart attack deaths have been
declining since the '60s, and the new
reports help explain why.
Experts believe that a combination
of healthier living habits, better heart
medicines and more intense treatment
immediately after heart attacks are
making them more survivable.
"This is very good and encouraging
news;' said Melissa Austin of the
University of Washington. "But we
have got to be vigilant. We can't assume
everything will continue to get better."
The latest data, being presented in
Orlando at a conference sponsored by
the American Heart Association, show
that heart attacks became less severe
between the late '80s and the early
'90s. Researchers believe this is the
continuation of a trend that proba
began after heart attack deaths peak
in the United States in 1963.
Government asks
for help with census
LOS ANGELES - Fear that mil-
lions of people won't be counted in the
2000 census is driving the federal gov-
ernment to form new partnerships with
labor unions and black, Latino/a and
American Indian advocacy groups.
The Census Bureau announced plat
yesterday to link up with organizations
including the National Urban League.
AFL-CIO and National Congress of
American Indians to help persuade
people in minority communities to
cooperate and be counted.
Plans include placing advertisements
in the ethnic press and using the advo-
cacy groups to recruit some of the tem-
porary employees the Census Burea*
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Court upholds
Pinochet arrest
LONDON - In a precedent-setting
ruling cheered by both his detractors and
his supporters, Britain's highest court yes-
terday denied Gen. Augusto Pinochet
immunity from arrest, but threw out
almost all the charges leveled against him.
The former Chilean dictator now
faces only three of 32 counts for crimes
allegedly committed during his 1973-90
regime: torture, conspiracy to torture and
conspiracy to murder.
In a 6 to 1 decision, the House of
Lords dismissed the remaining 29 counts
in a Spanish warrant seeking his extradi-
tion, saying he could not be held account-
able for acts of torture committed before
1988, when Britain signed a law making
it an international crime.
Pinochet must remain in Britain
under police guard while Spain seeks his
extradition on the remaining counts. But
the court said Home Secretary Jack
Straw should reconsider whether to allow
the extradition process to go forward in
light of the greatly reduced case.
"The basis of this case has now
changed and now there is really not much
left," said Saouise Delahunty, an extra
tion expert with the London law firnW
Peters and Peters, which is not connected
with the case.
Paraguay begins
impeachment trial
BUENOS AIRES - Paraguayan leg-
islators began impeachment proceed-
ings yesterday against President
Cubas, with a vote that expressed
anger of an increasingly unstable
democracy convulsed by the assassina-
tion of its vice president.
Trying to defuse a fast-moving cri-
sis, Cubas announced yesterday that
Oviedo had surrendered earlier in the
day to the presidential guard, capitulat-
ing after three months of defiance to a
Supreme Court order that he serve a 10-
year sentence for attempting a military
coup in 1996.
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