The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Tuesday, A pril 17, 2007 - 3 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 Dc BAGHDAD y Followers of d radical cleric quit w Iraq's Cabinet s pc 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. co WASHINGTON d Bush argues with A Democrats over t Iraq war funding c pr 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." 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