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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
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Kernaghan said he was not seek
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production moved out of Nicaragua,
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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-
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gious leaders from Milwaukee and
New York went to Nicaragua and met
the two women fired from Chentex
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