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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.”
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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. Walls
are unreinforced masonry of
cinderblock.
“Everywhere you look
you’ll see where the building
is basically cracking or leak-
ing,” Dougherty said. “We keep
patching them up, but they keep
reappearing.”
He pointed to walls moist
with water as a result of hori-
zontal shearing and described
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