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5A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2016 WORLD IN BRIEF Aleppo cease-fire collapses, threatening evacuation plans Associated Press National Guard halts events in lead-contaminated armories PORTLAND — The National Guard has stopped all public events at toxic armories across the country in a step to prevent lead exposure. The order comes a week after an investigation by The Orego- nian found that lead from indoor firing ranges had contaminated hundreds of buildings, including nine in Oregon, The Oregonian reported. The order, issued Dec. 6, was received by the Oregon Guard on Friday, an Oregon Guard spokesman told the newspaper. Nine Oregon armories were immediately closed to community events. The Astoria Armory is not affected by the order. The order sets imminent deadlines, pledges federal money for cleanup and launches an effort to collect details about contami- nated buildings nationwide. Previous cleanup efforts were sidetracked partly because the Guard required states to assume most of the cost. The national price tag of the initiative isn’t clear, but cleaning contaminated armories could cost federal taxpayers tens of mil- lions. Oregon National Guard officials estimate that taking out lead from the state’s armories and repurposing firing ranges will cost $21.6 million. Oregon spent $2 million on one armory cleaning alone. Ohio spent $3 million decontaminating armories last year. The order comes almost 20 years after the Guard was warned that its indoor firing ranges were unnecessarily exposing soldiers and others to dangerous lead dust. It is imperative for states to start cleaning their armories, Lt. Gen. Timothy J. Kadavy, director of the Army National Guard, wrote in the Dec. 6 order. Corvallis joins dozens of cities in passing sanctuary measure CORVALLIS — A small Oregon city has joined the dozens of municipalities that have passed sanctuary measures in the wake of the presidential election. The Corvallis Gazette-Times reports that the Corvallis City Council on Monday passed a sanctuary city resolution 8 to 1. The symbolic action is meant to show that the city’s residents will be treated equally regardless of citizenship status. Republican President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to deport immigrants living in the country illegally and said he will withhold federal funding from sanctuary cities. One councilor voted against Corvallis’ measure, citing con- cerns about the use of amendments to edit the resolution before the council’s vote. The council meeting attracted a standing-room-only crowd of about 100 people, 18 of whom spoke in favor of the sanctuary measure. Dawid A. Iurino via AP This illustration by Dawid A. Iurino shows a reconstruc- tion of the northern Tanzanian Laetoli site 3.66 million years ago, where 14 footprints from a human ancestor, believed to be Australopithecus afarensis, were found. Ancient human ancestor was one tall dude, his footprints say NEW YORK — He stood a majestic 5-foot-5, weighed around 100 pounds and maybe had a harem. That’s what scientists fig- ure from the footprints he left behind some 3.7 million year ago. He’s evidently the tallest known member of the prehuman species best known for the fossil skeleton nicknamed “Lucy,” reaching a stature no other member of our family tree matched for another 1.5 million years, the researchers say. The 13 footprints are impressions left in volcanic ash that later hardened into rock, excavated last year in northern Tanzania in Africa. Their comparatively large size, averaging a bit over 10 inches long (26 centimeters), suggest they were made by a male member of the species known as Australopithecus afarensis. The prints were found at a site called Laetoli, which is famous for another set of smaller footprints left by other A. afarensis indi- viduals. Those made headlines in the 1970s as the earliest clear evidence of upright walking by our ancestors. The newly discov- ered prints are only about 160 yards (150 meters) away. Researchers named the new creature S1, for the first discov- ery made at the “S” site. From the footprints, they calculated that he stood about 5-foot-5 (roughly 165 centimeters) and weighed around 100 pounds (about 45 kilograms). They figured that he loomed at least 8 inches (more than 20 centimeters) above the individuals who made the other tracks, and stood maybe 3 inches (7 centimeters) taller than a large A. afa- rensis specimen previously found in Ethiopia. “Lucy”, also from Ethiopia, was much shorter at about 3 ½ feet (107 centimeters). The findings are described in a report released today by the journal eLife. BEIRUT — A cease-fire deal between rebels and the Syrian government in the city of Aleppo effectively collapsed today, with fighter jets resuming deadly air raids over the opposition’s densely crowded enclave in the east of the city. The attacks threatened to scuttle plans to evacuate rebels and tens of thousands of civilians out of harm’s way, in what would seal the opposition’s surrender of the city. The evacuation was supposed to begin at dawn but shelling resumed in the morning hours and buses meant to be used in the pullout of rebels and civilians returned to their depots empty. Activists and fighters trapped in the opposition’s last sliver of ter- ritory in Aleppo said pro-government forces had struck their dis- trict with dozens of rockets since mid-morning. They said aircraft resumed bombing shortly after noon. Some shells fell near and around the one remaining hospital in the one- square mile enclave. It was nearly impossible for the rescuers to account for the dead because of the continued bombings, they said. “They began to strike as if there’s no such thing as a ‘cease-fire’ or ‘civilian evacuation,’” said media activist Mahmoud Raslan. With Tillerson, Trump keeps betting big on business leaders WASHINGTON — In selecting Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Til- lerson as his secretary of state, President-elect Donald Trump is making the same bet he asked voters to make on him: that a track record of business accomplishment will translate into success in government. Indeed, Trump, the first billionaire businessman to win the White House, is broadly testing that proposition across his admin- istration. He’s tapped fast food executive Andy Puzder to lead the Labor Department, billionaire investor Wilbur Ross for Com- merce, financier Steven Mnuchin as Treasury secretary and Gold- man Sachs President Gary Cohn as his top economic adviser. And early today, the billionaire businessman confirmed that he’d set- tled on former Texas Gov. Rick Perry to be the next secretary of energy. But he’s taking perhaps his biggest chance on Tillerson, pull- ing an executive from the rough-and-tumble world of oil pro- duction into the delicate arena of international diplomacy. If con- firmed by the Senate — and his deep ties to Russia make that no sure thing — Tillerson will be at the center of discussions over the Syrian civil war, the intractable pursuit of peace in the Mid- dle East, and potential conflicts with China, given Trump’s early questioning of longstanding U.S. policy toward Beijing. To Trump, the deals Tillerson has struck around the world for Exxon, and the relationships he has built doing so, are ample preparation for the challenges he would face as the nation’s top diplomat. Smoking: College has restricted smoking since at least 2003 Continued from Page 1A behind the no-smoking pol- icy was an online survey of staff and students organized by the campus’ health and wellness community. The survey included more than 400 responses, 128 of which reported using tobacco or other nicotine products. Nearly half of respondents said they would support the college banning tobacco use if smoking cessation services were offered, with more than 30 percent neutral and 20 per- cent opposed. Nearly half of respondents who reported using tobacco products indi- cated they want to quit. Asked whether second- hand smoke on campus both- ers them, nearly half of the respondents answered “not at all,” with another 21 per- cent reporting “a lot” and nearly 29 percent “a little.” Nearly 60 percent of respon- dents reported rarely or never being exposed to secondhand smoke. Nearly three-quarters of respondents reported they strongly or somewhat agreed with a college’s ability to ban tobacco use on campus. Nearly 64 percent of respon- dents strongly or somewhat agreed they would choose a smoke-free campus over one that allows smoking. Not all in support Angela Martin, a non- smoker and member of the college council representing support staff, said some peo- ple feel the two smoking shel- ters are adequate, and a ban unfair to some. 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In 2009, the college board amended the smoking policy, empha- sizing smoking cessation ser- vices and specifically restrict- ing smoking at least 25 feet from doors, windows and air intakes. Greg Hamann, the col- lege’s president at the time, said the college explored but LISTINGS THE DAILY ASTORIAN A “We have students who smoke,” she said. “It’s not illegal to smoke. And yet we’re making it more difficult for them to get an education.” She said the college has experimented with a ban before, but found smok- ers migrating to surrounding sidewalks and in front of peo- ple’s homes. “It was short- lived because of issues with neighbors.” never fully implemented a ban. He said the vote in 2009 came amid a lobbying effort led by the American Lung Association of Oregon to ban tobacco use on campus. “We had concerns about it, and other schools had had the experience of when you ban smoking, you simply push smokers out,” he said. Hamann, now president of Linn-Benton Community College, said the shelters are a common caveat of “smoke- free” campuses, including his. Evening listings WEDNESDAY D ECEMBER 14 A - Charter Astoria/ Seaside - L - Charter Long Beach 6:30 7 PM 7:30 8 PM 8:30 9 PM 9:30 10 PM 10:30 11 PM 11:30 KATU News at 6 Jeopardy! Wheel of Fortune The Goldbergs (N) Speechless (N) Modern Family (N) Black-ish (N) Designated Survivor "The Oath" (N) KATU News at 11 (:35) Jimmy Kimmel KOMO 4 News Wheel of Fortune Jeopardy! The Goldbergs (N) Speechless (N) Modern Family (N) Black-ish (N) Designated Survivor "The Oath" (N) KOMO 4 News (:35) Jimmy Kimmel NBC Nightly News KING 5 News KING 5 News Evening A Pentatonix Christmas (P) (N) Saturday Night Live Christmas Hilarious holiday-themed sketches are revisited. (N) KING 5 News (:35) Tonight Show KOIN Local 6 at 6 CBS Evening News Extra Ent. Tonight Survivor Castaways compete for the goal of 'Sole Survivor.' 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