2A - The Michigan Daily - Monday, January 10, 2000 NATION/WORLD PROTEST Continued from Page IA noon, proceeding through the Diag and down Maynard Street to Fleming After the 45-minute protest conclud- ed, the protesters, representing more than 30 campuses nationwide, chalked Fleining's exterior with anti-sweatshop slogans. Since the University has some of the largest collegiate-athletic contracts in the nation, the students said Bollinger holds the future of the anti-sweatshop movement in his hands. "The University of Michigan is an instrumental university in this cam- paign, said Luke Boyette, a University of Kentucky student. "We are at a critical point in this movement ... Michigan and all of the schools that have taken a stand have the power to change things," Champagne said. "But now it is time for Michigan to sign the Worker Rights Consortium." Even though local student activists have set a Feb. 2 ultimatum for the University administration to endorse the§VRC, the administration has yet to support the student-developed policy on labor and factory standards for apparel manufacturers. "I'm very committed to this issue but I'm also very committed to the process that we've set up," Bollinger said. In May, Bollinger assembled a com- mittee to investigate the various labor and apparel contract issues. That group is studying the possible adoption of the WRC. Even though SOLE, whose members occupied Bollinger's office for 51 hours last March, has set the ultima- tum, the advisory committee and the administration aren't working against the clock. "I don't think the Feb. 2 deadline will drive us" because "our primary goal is to get this done right," said Committee Chair John Chamberlin, associate dean of the School of Public Policy. If Bollinger doesn't endorse the WRC by Feb. 2, SOLE members said they will take action against the admin- istration but will not detail what mea- sures they might take. Chamberlin said the committee is working expeditiously, now meeting weekly, but also said he wants the com- mittee to study the WRC and other policies in a very thorough manner. He said he hopes to make a recommenda- tion for the University's action before March. SOLE members said the committee has had an adequate amount of time to study the WRC and it is time for the group's members to make a decision. Although SOLE members want to deal with Bollinger directly, he said the appropriate process is via the commit- tee, adding he could not make a deci- sion for the University without consult- ing with the advisory committee. "We've agreed that the advisory committee has been set up to think this through," Bollinger said. "It would be entirely inappropriate for me to make a decision at this time ... because to do so would completely undermine the process we've agreed to." Bollinger said the outline for factory monitoring in the WRC are not clear. "How do we make sure that the stan- dards are met?" Bollinger asked. "The WRC is very vague. It just says (the WRC) will handle it, but what does that mean?" Last year, Bollinger released the University's Anti-Sweatshop and Human Rights policy. "This code is only a piece of paper. The University needs to enforce this code;" said LSA first-year student Susan Harter, a SOLE member. Frustrated and disappointed with the University? Need help making sense of your U of M experience? Check out http://universitysecrets.com How will you start the millennium? 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Washtenaw County Chief Assistant Prosecutor Joseph Burke said the prosecution has about 55 witnesses. The prosecution didn't object to the request. An Oct. 25 written order issued by Shelton required AAPD officials to perform the background checks by using the LEIN system. Larcom said city officials were unaware of the defense's request until Shelton's written order. In a Nov. 30 hearing, city officials objected to Shelton's order, but the judge did not reverse his decision. Officials using the information could be charged with a misdemeanor offense for providing any witness back- ground information to the defense, Larcom said. Elkhoja's attorney Kevin Ernst said criminal background checks have the potential of producing "evidence which tends to prove your client is not guilty." "We want information concerning whether there is impeachment evidence ... or potentially admissible character evidence," Ernst said. "They have reversed decisions when defense lawyers have not" requested witness background checks, he said. The city -has a maximum of 28 days following the appellate court ruling Dec. 29 to prepare its appeal. The defense has 21 days after the city's appeal to respond in court. "My assumption is we will go on trial" on schedule, Burke said. COM PETITION Continued from Page 1A Street store and move to a basement location by Nickels Arcade to have smaller overhead expenses. Because of the lower rent in a smaller location and fewer employ- ees, the money saved allows inde- pendent stores to sell music at a lower price than their competitors. "The problem is when you're pay- ing higher rent and a huge payroll you don't have the deep pockets to weather the storm," Bergman said. "If anyone of those chain stores had to pay their own way they would have been out of business a long time ago." But so far local record stores haven't reported an impact in their business from Harmony Ilouse. Tower Records, Schoolkids Records in Exile and Dubplate Pressure all reported that sales have remained steady. "I didn't know it had opened up." Dubplate Pressure owner Todd Osborn said. "I knew there was going to be one down there, but I hadn't noticed it. After the holidays business has been up." Harmony House assistant manag- er Paul Baughman said business started out slow after their Dec. 13 opening, because students had left for winter vacation. But he added that business had been picking up now that students had returned. "We're trying to be a more liberal store," Baughman said. "Because when people think of Harmony House they think of the corporation. But we're trying to gear ourselves more towards the students." Some students offered a different opinion about the new Harmony House. Even though Harmony House was based originally in Detroit, some students said it does- n't have the local character that Ann Arbor's independent stores can offer. "I'd hate to see Ann Arbor taken over by big business," LSA senior Brad Monash said. "I'm not against big business, but it's nice to go into a store that has a personal feel to it." Medicare's spending growth declines WASHINGTON - A tough campaign to root out fraud, with an assist from low inflation, has slowed Medicare's spending growth to its lowest level in the pro' gram's 35-year history, according to a government report to be issued today. If such savings can be maintained, Medicare's financial soundness could be guaranteed for years. That could delay drastic changes some politicians have!* warned will be necessary to keep the program solvent for the baby-boom genera- tion. Medicare spending rose a scant 2.5 percent in 1998, the government reported-in its latest study of national health spending. By contrast, private health-care spend- ing by businesses and individuals jumped 6.9 percent during the year. Medicare's low growth persisted in 1999, experts have said, and is likely to cfi- tinue again this year as the Justice Department keeps health-care cheating high on its list of anti-fraud targets. The drive against fraud "certainly will not lighten up in an election year;" said. Gail Wilensky, a former director of the Health Care Financing Administration, which runs Medicare. Tom Scully, president of the Federation of American Health Systems, which rep- resents for-profit hospitals, declared Medicare inflation to be dead. "So it's hard to argue that you have to reform Medicare to control inflation," he said. Committee examines dietary guidelines WASHINGTON - With the stakes in the billions of dollars, the process of deciding what the nation should eat - always political - is turning even more contentious. A respected committee of doctors and nutrition experts is preparing to submit next month its five-year review of the federal government's dietary guidelines. Already, industry advocates are burying the panel under reams of statistics and studies that hail the benefits of eating red meat, consuming dairy products and even drinking moderate amounts of alcohol. And a recent lawsuit by a health activist organization charges that six of the 1 l panel members accepted research grants from organizations with ties to the dairy and meat indus- tries. The suit also charges that the panel - which includes only one black and one Latino - has .been insensi- tive to the special health needs of various minority groups, promoting milk consumption, for instance, when majorities of blacks, Asia bs and American Indians and half of Latinos (compared with only 15 pers cent of whites) are shown by studies to be lactose intolerant. Gonzalez attends Three Kings parade MIAMI - Six-year-old Elian Gonzalez and his relatives watched a parade yesterday as citywide protests over plans to send him back to Cuba remained on hold. The parade celebrated Three Kittg Day, a religious holiday commemorating the three kings who were said to have, traveled to Bethlehem bearing gifts for the Christ child. The parade was a welcome celebration for the city, which earlier in the weekwas beset by protests and traffic slowdowps incited by anti-Castro groups angry ovpr a federal decision to send the 6-year-old boy back to his father in Cuba.0 ACROSS THE NATION cIk 0 AROUND THE WORLD Mexican site yields few dead bodies MEXICO CITY -- Nearly six weeks after a senior FBI official sparked a frenzy by reporting that 100 bodies were believed to be buried on ranches near the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juarez, authorities have dis- covered the remains of nine humans, two dogs and a drug-processing labora- tory. The original body count, based largely on what officials said was infor- mation from a Mexican informant for the FBI, focused international attention on the problems of Ciudad Juarez, a primary point for illegal drugs to enter the United States. But now, Mexican and U.S. officials say the FBI hyped evidence in the case, thereby exacerbat- ing political friction between the two countries and frustrating residents, human rights officials and others who have witnessed a decade of unsolved disappearances, murders and other drug-related violence. "People were expecting body after body to be unearthed - like digging up carrots,"one Mexican government official said. Instead, days of tedious digging yielded only nine corpses: The excavation has now tapered pff substantially, and the FBI is no longer participating in the digging opera- tions. Turkey waits to perform execution. ISTANBUL, Turkey - Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit said yesterday that Turkey is obliged to wait for a European court ruling on the death sen- tence handed down to Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan. The European court has.asked Turkey not to execute Ocalan until it reviews the case, which could take up to two years. "To agree with this demand is an inter- national obligation because of our bind- ing agreements," Ecevit said. - Compiled from Daily wire reports Swelling machinery oozes heaps of musical glitz and gravy o'er this sweet-n-salty twosome... The LMichigan Daily (ISSN 0745.967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter t1erms by students at the University of Michigan. Subscriptions for fall term, starting in September, via U.S. mail are $100. Winter term (January through April) is $105, yearlong (September through Aprii) is $180. On-campus subscriptions for fall term are $35. Subscriptions must be prepaid. 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