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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2016
WORLD BRIEFLY
Associated Press
Republican
Donald Trump
shaking up
campaign
TETERBORO, N.J. —
Republican presidential nom-
inee Donald Trump, who has
slipped in the polls in recent
weeks, has shaken up his cam-
paign again.
The billionaire real estate
mogul is bringing in Stephen
Bannon of Breitbart News as
chief executive oficer and pro-
moting pollster Kellyanne Con-
way to campaign manager.
“I’ve known both of them
for a long time. They’re terriic
people, they’re winners, they’re
champs, and we need to win
it,” Trump told The Associated
Press in a phone interview early
Wednesday.
The move comes just 82
days before the November elec-
tion and represents yet another
overhaul of Trump’s tumultuous
quest for the White House.
In conirming the campaign
overhaul, Trump called Bannon
and Conway “big people” who
can help him defeat Democrat
Hillary Clinton in November.
Iran oicial:
No permanent
Russia base for
Syria strikes
TEHRAN, Iran — The
speaker of Iran’s parliament
stressed on Wednesday that
Russia does not have a perma-
nent military base within the
Islamic Republic, a day after
Moscow announced launching
airstrikes on Syria from Iran.
The fact that Iran allowed
Russian warplanes to take off
from its territory to bomb targets
in Syria was an unprecedented
move, underscoring the deep-
ening cooperation between two
powerhouses heavily invested in
the Syrian civil war.
In Syria, seven civilians were
killed and nine were wounded
by rocket rounds ired by armed
groups on a government-con-
trolled district of the city of
Aleppo, Syria’s state-run news
agency said. SANA reported
that the rockets struck the Sala-
heddine residential district in the
northern city, which has been
divided into a rebel-held east-
ern part and a government-con-
trolled western part since 2012.
Once Syria’s largest city and
commercial center, Aleppo is
now the focal point of the coun-
try’s ruinous civil war. On Tues-
day, nearly 20 civilians were
reported killed in airstrikes in
the eastern, rebel-held districts.
Wednesday’s comments by
the Iranian oficial, Ali Larijani,
seem geared at easing domestic
concerns over the strikes. Iran’s
constitution, ratiied after its
1979 Islamic Revolution, bars
foreign militaries from having
bases within the country.
Russia-Iran
cooperation
in Syria sends
message to US
WASHINGTON — Rus-
sia’s use of an Iranian air base
to bomb targets in Syria sends
a message to Washington as it
weighs a military partnership
with Moscow: Join us or we’ll
look to your enemies.
Tuesday’s missions were
unprecedented. Iran allowed
Russian warplanes to take off
from its territory to strike oppo-
sition targets in Syria. The
move came with little notice
to the United States, which has
watched helplessly the escalat-
ing bloodshed near Aleppo, the
country’s biggest city, and even
offered an alliance with Russia
against Islamic State and other
extremist ighters as a way to
get Syria’s government out of
the ight.
The negotiations have
dragged on for weeks. Russia
has grown impatient, with top
oficials several times suggest-
ing an imminent deal, only to
have American oficials counter
that the sides weren’t close. The
bombing runs from a base near
the Iranian city of Hamedan,
175 miles southwest of Tehran,
may have been a reminder to
the Obama administration that
Moscow could be cozying up to
Iran if Washington doesn’t come
around.
“The Russians are showing
they have options in Syria while
they have Washington over a
barrel on Aleppo,” said Andrew
Tabler, a Syria expert at the
Washington Institute for Near
East Policy. He said the opera-
tions also cement Russia’s alli-
ance with Iran in the region.
Russia and Iran have
strongly backed Syrian Pres-
ident Bashar Assad’s govern-
ment throughout the ive-and-
a-half year civil war with rebel
groups supported by the United
States and allies such as Turkey
and Saudi Arabia.
Staying ahead
of the mold,
residents salvage
what they can
GONZALES, La. — The
heartbreaking task of sorting
through waterlogged belong-
ings and ripping out carpets and
drywall is kicking into high gear
Wednesday in lood-wracked
southern Louisiana as the state
faces a long-term challenge of
how to house thousands of dis-
placed people.
But even as the water receded
in some areas, it was rising in
other places downstream, send-
ing people leeing to shelters.
Oficials painted a stark pic-
ture of the crisis: at least 40,000
homes damaged and 11 peo-
ple killed in some of the worst
looding in Louisiana history.
More than 30,000 people have
been rescued since Friday.
There were scattered reports
of looting, and Louisiana Gov.
John Bel Edwards said parishes
with widespread damage were
being placed under curfew as of
Tuesday night.
The smell of muddy water
hung heavy in the air as peo-
ple donned surgical masks and
began the back-breaking job
of ripping out soggy carpet,
drywall and insulation. They
cleared out spiders and cock-
roaches that had bubbled up
through the sewer grates.
Monstrous Calif.
wildire drives
over 80,000
from homes
LOS ANGELES — It tore
through canyons and lew
over ridges in every direction
with astonishing speed, send-
ing lames 80 feet skyward and
forcing tens of thousands to lee
their homes.
The Southern California
wildire that began as a small
midmorning patch of lame next
to Interstate 15 in the Cajon Pass
had by Tuesday’s end turned
into a 28-square-mile monster
that had burned an untold num-
ber of homes.
“This moved so fast,” said
Darren Dalton, 51, who along
with his wife and son had to get
out of his house in Wrightwood,
a mountain town of 4,500 popu-
lar with skiers in winter. “It went
from ‘have you heard there’s a
ire?’ to ‘mandatory evacuation’
before you could take it all in.
This is a tight little community
up here. Always in rally mode.
Suddenly it’s a ghost town.”
Hundreds of cars packed
with residents, belongings and
animals left the town. The air
for miles around the blaze was
illed with smoke. The sound
of explosions — possibly from
ammunition stored in homes —
could be heard in the distance.
Shannon Anderson of Blue
Mountain Farms horse ranch
in Phelan had to load up and
evacuate 40 horses as the ire
approached. “It’s raining ash,”
Anderson said, breathing hard.
Grandfather:
Man killed by
police was just
trying to survive
MILWAUKEE — The man
killed in a police shooting that
sparked two nights of violence
in Milwaukee suffered from
cognitive and mental health
issues, and he carried a gun
because he had been shot more
than once in the past, his grand-
father said.
Sylville K. Smith had a
lengthy criminal past, but was
just trying to survive in the inner
city, William Brookins told The
Associated Press.
“In this city, there’s a lot of
killings going on in the street,”
said Brookins, who detailed
Smith’s problems in a letter to
a judge last year seeking mercy
for his grandson. “He was afraid
for his life. He was concerned
about his safety and surviving.”
Smith, 23, was shot and
killed Saturday after a brief
foot chase that followed a traf-
ic stop. Police say Smith was
leeing, and oficials have said
the oficer’s body camera shows
him being shot after he turned
toward the oficer with a gun in
his hand.
The oficer, who has not
been identiied, is black, as was
Smith. A few hours after the
shooting, violence erupted on
the city’s largely black north
side, with protesters hurling
rocks at police and burning six
businesses. A lighter night of
protests followed Sunday. Mon-
day was calm, though 10 people
were arrested.
AP Photo/Max Becherer
Flood victims are rescued Sunday by emergency responders from near Walker, La., after
heavy rains inundated the region.
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Are there any
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503/325-0310
1414 MARINE DRIVE,
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there any
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or festivals held
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located at 1664 Hwy. 101 S. in Ilwaco Wa.
This year’s festival falls on August 20 &21
and is themed “A Circus of Life.” There
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performers from every walk of life. This is
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If you do not have any sign
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A benefi t for Clatsop Animal
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August 28th. It will be held on the patio
on the east side of the American Legion
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show is Astoria Clowns in honor of the
50th anniversary of the Astoria-Megler
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prizes for best dressed and other honors!
Also, 4-H Classy Canines are bringing
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Northwest coast of the U.S and
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able to survive in these waters,
they were unable to reproduce
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