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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2016
WORLD IN BRIEF
Associated Press
Democrats fear their
Senate takeover
chances dimming
WASHINGTON — Democrats are sound-
ing increasingly concerned about their
chances of retaking control of the Senate,
as Republicans demonstrate a commanding
fundraising advantage and Hillary Clinton’s
lead narrows in key battleground races.
Although most Democrats still express
conidence that they will win back the Sen-
ate majority in November, they now appear
to have fewer paths to victory as wins in Ohio
and even Florida look increasingly remote.
And if they do win back control, it could
end up being with the narrowest of margins,
even a 50-50 Senate with a Vice President Tim
Kaine casting tie-breaking votes for the Dem-
ocrats, if Hillary Clinton becomes president.
A key factor is the Republican money
edge, which is particularly pronounced this
year because some major donors, most nota-
bly the billionaire Koch Brothers, have
decided to stay out of the presidential race out
of distaste for Donald Trump and are pouring
money into Senate races instead. Ohio, Flor-
ida, Nevada and other races are awash with
cash.
“It’s worrisome,” the No. 2 Senate Demo-
crat, Dick Durbin of Illinois, said Tuesday of
the GOP money advantage. Overall, Durbin
offered “mixed reviews” of the Senate map:
“Solid, quality candidates, good campaigns
but a massive infusion of Republican money
in the last few weeks, and we are working
overtime to try to keep up with it.”
Rohingya Muslims remain displaced by sectar-
ian violence and denied citizenship.
and even squeezed his hand when he asked
him to.
Sanctions relief on
agenda as Myanmar’s
Suu Kyi meets Obama
Israel’s Peres in
serious but stable
condition after stroke
Poll: Americans favor
slightly higher bills to
ight warming
WASHINGTON — Aung San Suu Kyi’s lat-
est visit to Washington signals her transforma-
tion from long-imprisoned heroine of Myan-
mar’s democracy struggle to a national leader
focused on economic growth.
President Barack Obama will meet with Suu
Kyi at the White House on Wednesday to dis-
cuss rolling back more of the sanctions that
were applied when the nation was under military
rule. Suu Kyi will also be courting the American
business community at a dinner where tables go
for as much as $25,000.
Suu Kyi’s party swept historic elections
last November, and the visit by the 71-year old
Nobel peace laureate, deeply respected in Wash-
ington, is a crowning occasion in the adminis-
tration’s support for Myanmar’s shift from
pariah state to democracy, which it views as a
major foreign policy achievement.
The U.S. has eased economic sanctions on
the country also known as Burma since polit-
ical reforms began ive years ago but it still
restricts dealings with military-owned compa-
nies and dozens of oficials and associates of the
former ruling junta. U.S. companies and banks
remain leery of involvement in one of Asia’s
last untapped markets.
Human rights groups, however, say there are
powerful reasons for retaining sanctions. Mili-
tary abuses continue in ethnic minority regions.
JERUSALEM — Former Israeli President
Shimon Peres was in “serious but stable” condi-
tion after suffering a major stroke, doctors treat-
ing him said Wednesday, as the nation rallied
in prayer and support for the 93-year-old elder
statesman and Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
Dr. Yitzhak Kreiss, director of the Sheba
Medical Center near Tel Aviv, said Peres was in a
medically induced coma to allow him to rest after
experiencing signiicant bleeding in the brain.
Peres was rushed to hospital Tuesday after
feeling ill and following a battery of tests was
diagnosed to have suffered a stroke. Kreiss said
Peres was being transferred to the neurosurgical
intensive care unit where he would continue to
be evaluated.
Israeli media reported that Peres was “ight-
ing for his life,” but Rai Walden, Peres’ son-in-
law and personal physician, said there appeared
to be no imminent threat to his life anymore.
The question was what kind of damage was
sustained and what kind of recovery he could
make, Walden said.
In a phone brieing with reporters, Walden
said Peres suffered a stroke in the right side of
the brain and was being ventilated and sedated.
However, he gave an optimistic forecast, say-
ing all Peres’ physical parameters were sta-
ble and his blood tests were good. Peres was
responsive when addressed, Walden added,
WASHINGTON — Most Americans are
willing to pay a little more each month to ight
global warming — but only a tiny bit, accord-
ing to a new poll. Still, environmental policy
experts hail that as a hopeful sign.
Seventy-one percent want the federal gov-
ernment to do something about global warm-
ing, including 6 percent who think the govern-
ment should act even though they are not sure
that climate change is happening, according
to a poll conducted by The Associated Press-
NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and
the Energy Policy Institute at the University of
Chicago.
And those polled said they’d be willing to
foot a little of that cost in higher electric bills.
If the cost of ighting climate change is only
an additional $1 a month, 57 percent of Amer-
icans said they would support that. But as that
fee goes up, support for it plummets. At $10 a
month, 39 percent were in favor and 61 percent
opposed. At $20 a month, the public is more
than 2-to-1 against it. And only 1-in-5 would
support $50 a month.
“I feel we need to make small sacriices —
and money is a small sacriice — to make life
better for future generations, “ said Sarah Grif-
in, a 63-year-old retired teacher in central Penn-
sylvania. “Surely I have enough money to spend
on something that’s worthwhile.”
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