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NEWS BRIEFS
UNITED NATIONS
Sudanese gov't
agrees to allow in
U.N.peacekeepers
Sudan agreed yesterday to let
3,000 U.N. peacekeepers deploy
in Darfur with attack helicopters,
opening the door to the first signifi-
cant U.N. force to help beleaguered
African Union soldiers who have
been unable to halt the region's
four-year war.
After five months of stalling, the
government in Khartoum called for
a speedy deployment and hinted it
could approve an even larger U.N.
force that has been demanded by
the U.N. Security Council, the Unit-
ed States and others.
But experts were cautious about
chances for creating that 20,000-
strong force, noting Sudan's lead- P
ers have reversed course previously A
after announcingvague agreements S
for action in Darfur. v
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BAGHDAD y
Followers of d
radical cleric quit w
Iraq's Cabinet s
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Cabinet ministers loyal to radi- e
cal cleric Muqtada al-Sadr quit
the government yesterday, sever- o
ing the powerful Shiite religious r
leader from the U.S.-backed prime U
minister and raising fears al-Sadr's t
Mahdi Army militia might again e
confront American troops. C
The U.S. military reported the a
deaths of seven more American y
service members: three soldiers
and two Marines yesterday and two b
soldiers on Saturday. w
In the northern city of Mosul, ti
a university dean, a professor, a a
policeman's son and 13 soldiers died d
in attacks bearing the signs of al- r
Qaida in Iraq. Nationwide, at least
51 people were killed or found dead, a
and the U.S. military reported two d
soldiers slain in Baghdad.
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WASHINGTON d
Bush argues with A
Democrats over t
Iraq war funding c
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President Bush, prodding Con-
gresstoextendthelraqwarwithout p
calling troops home; said yesterday m
that Democratic leaders owe it to t
veterans and their families to pass
the war-spending bill he wants. o
"Listen, I understand Republi- r
cans and Democrats in Washing- t
ton have differences over the best
course in Iraq," Bush said from d
the White House. "That's healthy. b
That's normal, and we should a]
debate those differences. But our s
troops should not be caught in the o
middle." ti
Surrounded by families of veter- c
ans,Bushsoughtto setexpectations c
for his meeting tomorrow with con-
gressional leaders of both parties. c
In particular, he aimed to pressure u
Democratic lawmakers to fund the to
war without trying to limit or wind t
down the military mission. n
"That's what we're supposed to
do - we're supposed to talk out our _
differences," Bush said. "I'm look-
ing forward to the meeting. I hope
the Democratic leadership will
drop their unreasonable demands
for a precipitous withdrawal."
CROTON-ON-HUDSON, New York
Spring storm
pummels Northeast
A menacing spring storm pun-
ished the Northeast for a second
straight day yesterday, dumping
more than 8 inches of rain on Cen-
tral Park and sending refrigerators
and pickup trucks floating down
rivers in one of the region's worst
storms in recent memory.
"This one is really ahorror show,"
Gov. Eliot Spitzer said after touring
hard-hit areas north of New York
City.
The nor'easter left a huge swath
of devastation, from the beaches of
South Carolina to the mountains
of Maine. It knocked out power to T
hundreds of thousands of people
and was blamed for atleast11 deaths
nationwide, including a New Jersey
man who drowned inside a car.
- Compiled trom
Daily wire reports
3,301
Number of American service
members who have died in the War
in Iraq, according to The Associ-
ated Press. The following were
identified by the Department of
Defense yesterday:
Marine Lance Cpl. Daniel J.
Santee, 21, of Mission Viejo, Calif.
Army Sgt. Larry R. Bowman,
29, of Granite Falls, N.C.
Army Cpl. Cody A. Putnam, 22,
of Lafayette, Ind.
Army Pfc. John G. Borbonus,
19, of Boise, Idaho
Army Spc. Ryan A. Bishop, 32,
of Euless, Texas
Commmittee
votes against
adopting DSP
Coleman to make
final decision
on Friday
By KELLY FRASER
Daily News Editor
In a 8-1 vote, University
resident Mary Sue Coleman's
dvisory Committee on Labor
tandards and Human Rights
oted against recommending the
esignated Suppliers Program
esterday.
The vote was a defeat for Stu-
ents Organizing for Labor and
quality's Sweatfree campaign,
which is advocating for the
doption of the program. SOLE
ays the program is necessary to
olice the labor practices of mak-
rs of University apparel.
The committee - composed
f faculty, students and staff - is
esponsible for reviewing the
Jniversity's system for moni-
oring licensed apparel suppli-
rs and the University's Vendor
ode of Conduct. The committee
lso voted down the program last
ear, then by a vote of 7-2.
The committee's vote is not
inding. Chair Laurence Root
ill present the recommenda-
ions to Coleman later this week,
nd Coleman will have the final
ecision of whether to accept the
ecommendations.
Last year Coleman accepted
ll the committee's recommen-
ations.
A meeting between Coleman,
ommittee members and stu-
ents to discuss the recommen-
ations is scheduled for Friday in
nderson Room D of the Michi-
an Union at 3:30 p.m. It is open
o the public.
SOLE member Aria Everts
ast the lone vote in favor of the
rogram.
Before the vote, Everts gave a
resentation rebutting the com-
nittee's previous concerns about
he program.
Since the committee lastvoted
n the program last April, it was
evised to make its implementa-
ion more feasible.
Under the revised program,
esignated factories would still
e required to pay their workers
living wage, as in the first ver-
ion of the program. But instead
f requiring union representa-
ion, factories will now be in
ompliance if workers have free
hoice of representation.
Under the revised program,
ollegiate products must make
p at least 50 percent of the fac-
ories' total business, rather than
he two-thirds under the origi-
al proposal.
Everts told the committee that
the changes were sufficient for
the University to adopt the pro-
gram on a trial basis.
RC junior Jason Bates said he
was unsure about how the com-
mittee would vote because of
changes to the DSP in the fall
that addressed some of the com-
mittee's previous concerns.
"I was disappointed in (the
committee'slack ofvision),"Bates
said in an interview after the
meeting. "I think the DSP could
be a revolutionary change."
Other SOLE members were
less optimistic about the vote.
LSA sophomore Blase Kear-
ney said he anticipated that the
committee would not reverse its
decision because some commit-
tee members have strong reser-
vations about the program.
Several committee members
expressed doubts about whether
the Workers' Rights Consortium,
a small Washington-based
group, could effectively enforce
the program.
The requirement that col-
legiate apparel make up half of
a factory's business was also a
sticking point with a committee.
Everts contended that the
University would have more
concentrated influence over
designated suppliers, while
Public Policy Prof. Katherine
Terrell and others argued that
it was better to keep the Universi-
ty's influence spread broadly over
more suppliers. Collegiate appar-
el typically makes up between 2
and 10 percent of clothing pro-
duced in factories licensed with
the University, Root said.
"If we can influence a lot of
factories, we can influence a lot
more people," Terrell said.
The committee unanimously
passed a recommendation to
change the University's licens-
ing procedures to require that
licensees document how they
monitor the Vendor Code of Con-
duct as a condition for renewal or
a new licensing agreement. The
committee added that this would
be a step toward third-party
monitoring.
What type of documentation
would be required and what type
of monitoring system would be
used would still need to be deter-
mined, Root said.
The committee also agreed to
recommend that the University
begin enforcing the Vendor Code
of Conduct through a set of ques-
tions developed by the Fair Labor
Association.
If Coleman accepts the rec-
ommendation, the University
will sign on to a summer pilot
program that would use a series
of yes or no questions to sort the
suppliers into categories and
monitor their compliance with
labor standards.
With names, remembering the Holocaust
Volunteers read
names of victims
aloud on Diag
By EMILY ANGELL
Daily StaffReporter
A hanfdful of students gathered
around a stack of red books on the
Diag last night.
The books held the names of vic-
tims of the Holocaust. Volunteers
solemnly read aloud from them for
24 hours, beginning yesterday morn-
ing, to commemorate Yom Hashoah
Holocaust Remembrance Day.
"There are just books and books PETEscHo ros sicty
of names," LSA junior Abbie Nurse Engineeringfreshman Josh Weinstein reads alud the oames at Holocaust victims
said. "Reading their names just or the 0iat yesterday atteroo.
makes it more real." In previous years, Hillel has and read from the lists of names,"
Members of Hillel, the event's held a week-long conference on the said LSA sophomore Carly Wayne,
sponsor, placed a sign in front of the Holocaust and other genocides. a co-chair of the committee. "We
tent that said in bright red ink, "You LSA freshman Elianna Starr, a obviously can't make it through all
can fill the Big House 112 times with co-chair of the committee, said that 6 million victims. We calculated
the amount of people killed in the this year the committee decided to that if we read one name per sec-
Holocaust." spread events throughout the year ond for the entire time, we would
A television inside the tent played to make people more engaged in the only make it through 600,000. But
Alain Resnai's Holocaust documen- fight against genocide. we're doing what we can."
tary "Night and Fog." A timeline of Volunteers read the names in Representatives of student
major events was displayed along shifts of 15 to 20 minutes. groups, including American Move-
with quotes from survivors and a "We've had everyone from stu- ment for Israel, College Democrats
bulletin board on which students dents to community members to and the Michigan Student Assem-
could write messages. religious leaders come out today bly participated in the event.
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