Monday, April 20, 1998
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 9
Dole has retired but Kansas tour hasn't halted
The Associated Press
HALSTEAD, Kan. — The Bob Dole campaign still is chugging through Kansas.
The former Republican presidential candidate has launched a popular thank-you tour of his home state
Dole: making visits across the state.
to show his appreciation to those who supported his four-decade political career.
decade political career.
Since January, the former senator has visited 28 towns in 14 of the Kansas' 105 counties, stopping in coffee shops, schools and just walking around town, thanking all those who have stood by him.
Dole has been showered with luncheons and high school bands playing "Stand Up and Cheer" and teen-age girls gushing about how they loved him
on "Saturday Night Live."
"He's the kind that wears well," said Sam Sturm, a judge who graduated from law school with Dole. "The more you know him, the greater he becomes."
His visits are informal, and sometimes he stops in the middle of a speech to wave to an old classmate or to a campaign volunteer. Dole, who turns 75 in July, seems more casual and approachable than he appeared on the 1996 campaign trail.
At a podium with the American flag waving behind him—after warning young people to stay away from cigarettes, alcohol and drugs —Dole will joke about living next to former White House intern Monica Lewinsky at the Watergate in Washington, D.C.
"I always walk by real fast," he said. "I don't want to be subpoenaed."
Protesters to Nike: Just stop sweatshops
PORTLAND, Ore. — Protesters complaining about unfair labor practices and overpriced shoes descended on Nike stores Saturday in what organizers called an international day of solidarity with the company's workers.
The Associated Press
Here in Nike's home state, about 200 people
Here in Nike's home shoe marched and chanted outside the shoemaker's Niketown store. The protesters brought signs, bullhorns and a 20-foot-tall puppet of Nike Chairman Phil Knight.
Most of the signs read:
"Sweatshops dehumanize.
Let workers organize."
The rally was part of an international protest that organizers said was staged in more than a dozen cities — including San Francisco and Chicago — and in Europe and Australia.
"This is an unprecedented effort."
Last month, Nike announced that third-quarter profits had fallen to $73.1 million from $237.1 million the previous year, and it plans to lay off 1,600 people from its 22,000-member workforce.
The world's largest manufacturer of athletic clothing and shoes repeatedly has been criticized for harsh working conditions in Asian factories run by the company or its contractors.
In Chicago, about 75 protesters pickedet outside Niketown with signs reading; "Jobs for Justice" and "Human rights for Vietnam." They chanted: "Hey, hey, ho, ho, child labor has got to go."
Max White Head of "Justice: Do It Nike"
The company blamed the decline on the slumping Asian economy and a glutted market for athletic shoes, but protesters claim
"I think it's pretty sick that companies like Nike make billions of dollars off people who make 10 cents an hour," said protester Peter Vaughn, 21, of Chicago, who was wearing Nike sneakers. He said he bought them at a thrift store.
they are having an effect.
they are having an effect. "This is an unprecedented effort," said Max White, head of the "Justice: Do It, Nike!" coalition that sponsored the rallies. "It's hard to imagine an organization that has taken this much flack for so long."
Nike representative Lee Weinstein said the company has been unfairly targeted by protesters and was taking steps to improve factory conditions.
He cited a Dartmouth College study funded by Nike that indicated its workers in Vietnam and Indonesia make a livable wage under decent conditions.
"We feel we have made a lot of progress on these issues," Weinstein said. "We're certainly not perfect. But when we find problems and mistakes, we fix them immediately."
But White, who recently returned from Indonesia, said Nike has done little to respond to allegations that the company allowed sweatshop conditions at some of its factories, other than hire people to put the proper spin on it.
"They treat it as just another public-relations problem and don't anything to fix the real problems." White said.
Western nations anticipate trade bloc
The Associated Press
SANTIAGO, Chile — Intent on moving from words to deeds, 34 leaders from the Western Hemisphere are preparing concrete steps to make a reality of the goal they set four years ago to create a hemispheric free trade zone.
"There clearly is very, very strong consensus for proceeding with the Free Trade Area of the Americas," National Security Adviser Sandy Berger said Saturday.
The concluding session of the Summit of the Americas got under way yesterday morning.
At the first such summit in 1994, the participating nations meeting in Miami at President Clinton's invitation endorsed the idea of creating a trading bloc of more than 800 million consumers by 2005. They concluded that global trade blocs were inevitable.
"Globalization is happening, and the only decision we have to make is how we adapt to it so that we enjoy its benefits and share its burdens," Berger said Saturday.
The leaders were to leave Santiago yesterday with a declaration to begin talks as early as June, said Chilean Foreign Minister Jose Miguel Insulza.
The immediate objective was to determine the goals and composition of working commissions that will negotiate various aspects of the trade agreement.
Clinton, who came to Santiago without the fast-track trade authority he needs to finish the job of hemispheric free trade, also pledged to redouble his efforts. The fast-track authority means Congress could approve or reject a trade accord negotiated by the White House, but not amend it.
For the United States, exports to Latin America continue to grow more than twice as fast as its exports
to the rest of the world.
In 1997, U.S. merchandise exports to the hemisphere reached $286 billion, or 42 percent of its global exports. In the five years since 1992, trade within the Western Hemisphere has grown from $735 billion to $592 billion.
Summit partners reached agreements on drugs and human rights and embraced a $6.1 billion three-year international loan package for improving education. Officials said the United States committed $130 million; the bulk of the loan money would come from the World Bank and other international lending agencies.
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