2A - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, March 25, 1999 NATION/WORLD i ELECTION Continued from Page 1A 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. 1.. :1 Looking for a GREAT summer j oh? Teach for The Princeton Review! If you have top scores on the MCAT,ISAT,GRE,GMAT,SAT,orAC? give us a call! Great Pay, Flexible Hours, Fun Place to Work Frustrated and disappointed with the University? Need help making sense of your U of M experience? Check out http://universitysecrets.com 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* THE PRINCETON REVIEW CATEDAY 800/2REVIEW AROUND THE WORLD > 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. - Compiled from Daily wire reports. The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms Dy . students at the University of Michigan. Subscriptions for fal term, starting in September, via U.S. mail are $85. Winter term (January through April) is $95, yearlong (September through April) is $165. On-campus sub, scriptions for fall term are $35. Subscriptions must be prepaid. 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