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1 The DEsMoiNKsRKcisTKRBTm'KSDAV. Mav22, 7A HE A Tlcreta lepM DES MOINES KALEIDOSCOPE Skywalk Level Vu: China is violating jtrade pact Chinese-born dissident 1 ho now is an American Citizen tells Congress that 1 hina is using prison labor produce export goods. y4 1 Downtown Dos Moines (515)243-3020 (Ey Em Avilbl) '4'm 4 METHODIST MEDICAL PLAZA 1212 Pleasant. Suite 101 i 0 r. (515) 244-2338 LEE TOWN SHOPPING CENTER 2472 E.

Euclid ItlWSIAY (515)262-7555 (Ey Eami Availabla) Washington, D.C. Chinese. Horn dissident Harry Wu. sitting CLIVE behind a display of Christmas-tree Harry Wu of the Laogai Research Foundation in Milpitas, holds a brake drum he says was made in a Chinese prison. Wu, a civil-rights advocate who was a Chinese prisoner for 19 years, testifying before the U.S.

Senate Foreign Relations committee. lights, told Congress on Wednesday INDIAN HILLS SHOPPING CENTER that China continues to export prod 9749 University ucts to the United States made by orison labor, violating U.S. law nnH (515)223-5000 (Eya Exama Availabla) digned agreements. Wu, who was held in Chinese prisons prisoners in "re-education-through-labor" camps at URBANDALE 200,000, but Wu said the number was far higher. 7025 Hickman 2 blks E.

of Ice Arena (515) 270-6060 WDM NORMANDY PLAZA 1960 Grand Avenue Suite 1 7 x- til (515) 225-8776 (Eya Exama Availabla) ror iv years ana is now a U.S. citizen, aescriDea two investigations that demonstrated that violations continue. He presented documents to the Senate Foreign Relations committee showing that Hong Kong firms licensed Jp produce clothes under the Arnold Palmer, Playboy, flnd Garfield labels got their products from a knitwear fjictory in Shantou that used a prison as a subcontractor. Backing up Wu's contention, Peter Levy, a Mount Vernon, N.Y., stationery-goods manufacturer, described his dwn Investigation in China that provided conclusive ttroof that goods sold by a competing firm were made by prison labor. Both spoke at a hearing into Chinese practices amid a chorus of criticism from a variety of groups against President Clinton's decision to extend trade preferences to China for another year.

Committee Chairman Jesse Helms, will vote against extending preferences. The rest of the committee appeared split. Committee aides said there was no sign that Congress will block Clinton's decision. The administration estimates the number of political AMES 1 Wu provided documents to the committee that revealed how the forced-labor system works. Jieyang Prison in Guangdong Province revealed that its prison population had grown to 3,900 in late 1995 from 700 in 1982, and that 80 percent of prisoners are employed in the manufacture of garments for the international market, as well as chinaware, rosary beads, watchbands, mineral water and artificial Christmas trees.

Levy, president of LabclonNoesting, a small firm that manufactures paper clips and fasteners for the office-products industry, told the committee that when a competitor began selling binder clips at very low prices, he became suspicious and began research last year. Traveling to Nanjing, he observed a truck shuttling between the Allied International Manufactures or AIMCO, factory and a facility that Wu's Laogai Research Foundation identified as a prison camp. He determined the unfinished goods were being sent to the prison camp and the finished products were returned to the main factory. 223 Welch (515)292-0061 (Eya Exama Availabla) INDIANOLA OGUB I VISION CENTERS, 105 Buxlon Accepted tiamSfiirtUi (515) 961-2515 wrth purchase o( lenses PHC BAAI Davis Vision Coast to Coast 2020 Select ECPA Norwest Financial Central States Principal Group Aetna UPS DMEC Bankers Trust Met Life US West feritain to ban 6wn land mines I I MB a. -London, England (AP) Britain will ban the manufacture of anti-personnel land mines, impose an immediate moratorium on their use, and destroy the country's stockpile by 2005, the Labor government stated Wednesday.

government also will back a Canadian bid for a swift global ban. The move, which Foreign Secretary Robin Cook called "leading by example," was a boost for Princess Kana, who has joined a campaign by the International Committee of the Red Cross to get a global ban. There was no immediate comment from Diana's office Wednesday. previous Conservative government, which lost power May 1, was officially neutral about Diana's campaign. But in December, a-London newspaper quoted an unidentified Conservative minister as calling her a "loose cannon" after she made a high-profile visit to Angola.

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