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Wednesday, August 23, 2000 NATION Page 9 THE BATTALION McCain’s melanoma under control PHOENIX (AP) — Tests on lymph nodes and tissue removed during Sen. John McCain’s skin cancer surgery confirmed that his skin cancer did not spread, his office announced Monday as Mc Cain went home from the hospital. The former GOP presidential candidate under went more than five hours of surgery on Saturday to remove melanoma, the most dangerous form of skin cancer, from his temple and upper arm. Pathologists completed the final review of the tissues around the cancers and found no sign the melanoma had spread, said Todd Harris, a Mc Cain spokesperson. If the cancer had reached one or more of the lymph nodes, treatment would have been more complicated and less likely to cure the cancer, experts had said. McCain, 63, was released from the Mayo Clinic Hospital and was resting comfortably at his Phoenix home, a statement released by his Senate office said. Doctors found the melanomas after McCain left the Republican National Convention to have biopsies performed at Bethesda Naval Hospital near Washington on Aug. 4. He also had a melanoma removed from his shoulder in 1993. Melanoma is usually caused by exposure to the sun. People with fair skin have a higher risk of skin cancer. McCain spent hours in the harsh Arizona sun campaigning for Congress in 1982 and subsequent years. McCain’s friends have said he is religious about wearing SPF 45 sunblock when outdoors and about seeing his doctor three or four times a year to check for new lesions. McCain canceled about a dozen campaign events with GOP congressional candidates since learning of the skin cancer diagnosis. Spokesper son Nancy Ives said McCain hopes to return to campaigning by Labor Day. News in Brief MP3.com, Sony reach settlement LOS ANGELES (AP) — The on line music storage company MP3.com reached a settlement with Sony Music Entertainment, the fourth such settlement with plaintiffs in a lawsuit claiming its business violates copyright law. Under terms announced late Monday, San Diego-based MP3.com will pay an undisclosed amount to Sony for past violations and enter into a non-exclusive North American license for use of Sony's songs in the company’s MyMP3.com listening service. MP3.com previously reached settlements with Warner Music Group, BMG and EMI. It is still negotiating with Universal Mu sic Group. The settlement comes one week before both sides in the lawsuit are due back in court. A federal judge has ruled that a tri al is stilt necessary to decide whether MP3.com willfully in fringed on copyrights of major record companies by letting peo ple store copied songs on its computers. The case is set to re sume Aug. 28. Activists claim Kohl’s contracts with Nicaraguan sweatshops MILWAUKEE (AP) — Rosa Es- terlina Ocampo Gonzalez said she used to endure daily indignities simply to make cheap outfits for Americans. The Nicaraguan woman recently worked for a sweatshop in her homeland that she says mistreated her and her fellow workers. After she tried to help form a union, she alleges, she was fired. Gonzalez was one of two workers invited Monday to recount condi tions at two Nicaraguan factories that human rights, religious and labor groups claim supply Kohl’s Depart ment Stores with cheap garments. “They mistreated us physically and verbally,” said Gonzalez, 22, who worked at the American-owned Mil Colores plant. The second plant was identified as Tawainese-owned Chentex. (Kohl’s spokesperson Su san Henderson said the company sent independent auditors to Mil Colores this spring, and they did not find sweatshop conditions. K-Mart spokesperson Michele Ja- sukaitis said that chain also does busi ness with Chentex and sent inspectors to the factory on a “very regular ba sis.” The company will look into the new allegations, she said. Patty Morris, spokesperson for Target Stores, says the company does business with Mil Colores and has done four audits on the factory in the last year, with the most recent in April. “We found no evidence of abu sive working con ditions or over time issues” — Patty Morris Target spokesperson “We found no evidence of abusive working conditions or overtime is sues,” Momis said. Charles Kernaghan of the Nation al Labor Committee of New York, a nonprofit group that focuses on workers’ rights worldwide, said workers at the sweatshops have been ' v - ■ Here’s your chance to join the university surfing team. All you need is a knack for surfing the network and DSL- the always-on, high-speed connection to the university LAN. DSL from Verizon lets you do so much more. 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Kernaghan said he was not seek ing any boycotts and did not want production moved out of Nicaragua, but he wants Kohl’s to “have respect for human rights.” Gladys del Carmen Manzanarez, 52, said she was one of more than 600 people fired after walking out for an hour to protest Chentex’s refusal to raise the wage per garment by 8 cents. She alleges Chentex is circulating names to other factories so the work ers cannot get jobs. If workers made a mistake, they would get a “knock” in the head and be called horses or mules, Manzanarez said. Catholic Bishop Thomas Gum- bleton, from Detroit, and other reli gious leaders from Milwaukee and New York went to Nicaragua and met the two women fired from Chentex and Mil Colores. Re $ell 4 $ WELCOME BACK AGGIES Why pay for A/EWwhen slightly used will do? Best selection of Pre-Owned Furniture Electonics - Washers - Dryers - Bedding Tables - Recliners - Couches - Car Audio - CD’s and much morel The cleanest product at the BEST PRICE! 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