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7A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2016 WORLD IN BRIEF Associated Press Russian, Syrian planes halt Aleppo airstrikes ahead of truce MOSCOW — Russian and Syrian warplanes today halted their airstrikes on Syria’s besieged city of Aleppo in prepa- ration for a temporary truce that Moscow has announced for later in the week, the Russian defense minister said. According to Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, the halt in the strikes should help pave way for militants to leave the eastern rebel-held parts of the contested city. Both Russian and Syrian air raids on Aleppo were sus- pended at 10 a.m. today, Shoigu said. He described the suspen- sion as a precursor for the opening of humanitarian corridors. Moscow on Monday announced a “humanitarian pause” between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. Thursday to allow civilians and militants safe passage out of the city. At that time, Russian and Syrian militaries will desist from any offensive actions. Syrian rebels, including al-Qaida mili- tants, as well as the wounded and the sick will be allowed to leave to the neighboring rebel-held province of Idlib. Ban: Oregon’s death row has 34 prisoners Continued from Page 1A sea change both by legislation and, more profoundly, through court decisions. The past few years have already seen a major shift in the landscape on capi- tal punishment law, and Gov. Brown expects more changes are on the horizon.” Oregon voters approved the death penalty in 1984, and the state and U.S. Supreme Courts have upheld its legality repeatedly. Oregon’s death row has 34 prisoners. Josh Marquis, the Clatsop County district attorney and an outspoken supporter of the death penalty, said after hear- ing the news that if Brown really believes the death pen- alty is so wrong, then “she should have the guts to com- mute all those sentences.” Clatsop County is going through its irst death penalty trial in 15 years with Randy Roden accused of killing his girlfriend’s 2-year-old daughter. Last year Haugen received an execution date for late Jan- uary 2017. His attorney, Jeff Ellis, says Haugen has cho- sen to appeal the date, claim- ing the state took too long to issue the date after the expira- tion of a previous death war- rant. He was convicted of aggravated murder in a 2004 prison death. Haugen told The Orego- nian in late September he was frustrated. “They want to have the death penalty, but they don’t want to kill anybody,” he said. Governors in several states, including Washington, Colo- rado and Pennsylvania, have also instituted moratoriums. AP Photo/Reed Saxon The sequin-covered ruby slippers worn by Judy Gar- land in “The Wizard of Oz” at the offices of Profiles in History in Calabasas, Calif. Smithsonian Museum of- ficials started a Kickstarter fundraising drive Monday to repair the iconic slippers from 1939s “The Wizard of Oz” and create a new state-of-the-art display case for them at the National Museum of American History. No-brainer: $300K campaign to rescue Dorothy’s ruby slippers WASHINGTON — The ruby slippers that whisked Dor- othy back to Kansas in three clicks are looking a little down at the heels, prompting the Smithsonian to launch a $300,000 online campaign to conserve them. Museum oficials started a Kickstarter fundraising drive Monday to repair the iconic slippers from 1939’s “The Wiz- ard of Oz” and create a new state-of-the-art display case for them at the National Museum of American History. The sequined shoes were crafted almost 80 years ago by the MGM Studios prop department and have grown fragile over time. The fundraising page says the color has faded and some threads afixing sequins have snapped. The campaign, dubbed “#KeepThemRuby,” offers donor rewards ranging from T-shirts and tote bags to replica slippers and behind-the-scenes tours. This isn’t the Smithsonian’s irst Kickstarter drive. In 2015, it raised $700,000 to conserve Neil Armstrong’s spacesuit. US ignored rising-sea alerts at $1 billion radar site on atoll WELLINGTON, New Zealand — The U.S. Air Force is spending nearly $1 billion to build a radar installation that will help keep astronauts and satellites safe by tracking pieces of space junk as small as a baseball. That is, if global warming doesn’t get in the way. The Space Fence is being constructed on a tiny atoll in the Marshall Islands that scientists say could be regularly swamped by rising seas within a couple of decades as a result of climate change. The salt water could play havoc with the equipment, the scientists say. And The Associated Press found that neither the military nor its contractor, Lockheed Martin, gave serious consider- ation to that threat when designing the installation and choos- ing a site, despite warnings from the island nation’s environ- mental agency. The future “does not look good for a lot of these islands,” said Curt Storlazzi, an oceanographer with the U.S. Geolog- ical Survey who is leading a study at Kwajalein Atoll, where the Space Fence complex is being built. Dana Whalley, a civilian who is managing the Space Fence program, said that the radar installation has a projected lifes- pan of 25 years and that he doesn’t expect sea levels to rise enough over that period to cause a problem. But if necessary, he said, the base could take steps to improve its seawalls. First Lady Michelle Obama emerges as surrogate MVP DES MOINES, Iowa — Hillary Clinton was always expected to get a late-campaign enthusiasm boost from the White House. The surprise is that it’s not coming from the president. On a star-studded team of campaign surrogates — includ- ing President Barack Obama — the most valuable player of 2016 is undoubtedly irst lady Michelle Obama. During a divisive political year, the hugely popular irst lady has wowed voters with her powerful rhetoric. And she can be the emotional center to a campaign whose candidate is not known for projecting warmth. Last week, in a searing indictment of Republican nomi- nee Donald Trump that was broadcast live by cable news net- works, Michelle Obama said his recorded boasts about mak- ing unwanted sexual advances toward women had “shaken me to my core in a way that I couldn’t have predicted.” With that, the irst lady spoke in terms that Hillary Clinton rarely does, given accusations against her own husband that he’s long denied — but Trump has raised. Reactions are mixed to police leader’s apology SAN DIEGO — For some, the apology went too far. For others, it didn’t go far enough. For many, it was just right. The president of one of the largest police organizations in the United States on Monday apologized for historical mis- treatment of minorities, calling it a “dark side of our shared history” that must be acknowledged and overcome. Terrence Cunningham, president of the International Asso- ciation of Chiefs of Police, said at the group’s annual con- ference that police have historically been a face of oppres- sion, enforcing laws that ensured legalized discrimination and denial of basic rights. He was not more speciic. Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian Doug Dougherty points out moisture leaking from the walls near the gym at Broadway Middle School on Thursday. Seaside: Schools are about equal in disrepair Continued from Page 1A At the high school, head custodian Lonnie Lear main- tains a Rube Goldberg-styled boiler system built decades ago. “Some of it I can ix, some of it is beyond me,” Lear said. “A lot of our leaks go through the walls,” Seaside School District Superinten- dent-emeritus Doug Dougherty said as he led a tour through the building, constructed in 1958. Few technicians are trained on the outdated heating compo- nents, Lear said. Nearby water pipes run through a concrete tunnel barely big enough for workers to slide in on scooter boards. Most of the tunnel is naviga- ble, although maintenance of sprinkler pipe installed in 1993 requires getting off the board and sliding under a rail. “In Broadway, you go under sand, and bang your knee under a rock,” Lear, who has been with the district 27 years, said. “That’s a lot of fun.” spalling on the roof leading to corrosion and seepage. Building inspectors mon- itor the schools for safety, he said, and could condemn the buildings if they become too dangerous. For eighth-grade progres- sion ive years ago, Dougherty said, the audience heard a “large boom” when the loor dropped down underneath choir mem- bers standing on risers. “About two songs in, they were not Without tunnel lighting, maintenance workers crawl up to 250 feet in one direction holding lashlights to locate leaks and then hammer through concrete to reach encased pipes. Sections have not been replaced since the elementary school was built in 1949. The three schools are each about equal in disrepair, Dougherty said, but Gearhart students have no way to evac- uate to high ground. FAMILY OWNED & OPERATED BIG Strategy shift Voters rejected a $128.7 million bond proposal to move schools out of the tsunami zone in 2013. The focus of that vote was emergency preparedness. This time around, Dough- erty hopes to draw attention to the condition of the three crum- bling schools in addition to tsu- nami safety for passage of a pared-down $99.7 million pro- posal. Dougherty told the Sea- side City Council this month that awareness of the risks from a seismic event are well-known now in the community. With that awareness, he has shifted his focus to the condition of the schools. The bond’s success at the polls would lead to relocation of the Seaside School District’s three tsunami at-risk buildings to a new campus on 80 donated acres east of the highway near Seaside Heights Elementary School. standing on risers anymore,” he said. “The risers stayed where they are, but the loor dropped down when beams collapsed underneath them.” Gearhart Elementary School faces leaking, cracking and spalling similar to the other schools. “You have to crawl through the tunnel to ind a leak,” Dougherty said. “You never know where the leaks are until you are on top of them.” SALE 36 & CLEARANCE State of disrepair At Broadway Middle School, loors in the hallway are uneven after four different additions to the school. Dry rot surrounds the south windows. Asbestos is stuffed inside walls, tunnels and encap- sulated around pipes. 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