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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
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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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Previous efforts
Smoking is currently
allowed in two spots on
the main campus — one to
the east of Towler Hall and
another in the lower parking
lot.
The college has restricted
smoking to designated areas
since at least 2003. 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
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“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.
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