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5A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2016 WORLD IN BRIEF About 14,000 tractor-trailers cross the border daily in Laredo, the nation’s busiest inland port. Local officials say roughly 1 in every 3 jobs benefits from international trade. “We are NAFTA on wheels,” Mayor Pete Saenz said. Free trade across the border, he explained, is the “backbone” of this city of 255,000 people. The Democrat endured a back- lash from his party for welcoming Trump in July 2015 after the then-candidate called immigrants from Mexico criminals and rapists. Associated Press All set for Syria rebels, civilians to start leaving Aleppo BEIRUT — The warring sides in Syria confirmed today that the evacuation of rebel fighters and thousands of civilians from the last sliver of the besieged eastern city of Aleppo is imminent, with a Syrian army official saying all is ready for them to leave “at any moment.” Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group said overnight negotia- tions had reinforced a cease-fire deal to allow the rebels and civil- ians to leave the besieged last rebel holdout in Aleppo. The evacuations were back on track after a cease-fire deal, mediated by Ankara and Moscow, unraveled amid fighting on Wednesday. Shiite Hezbollah militiamen are fighting in the Syr- ian civil war on the side of President Bashar Assad’s forces. The handover of Aleppo’s remaining opposition-run neigh- borhoods to government control would be a turning point in Syr- ia’s civil war, allowing Assad control of most of the country’s urban centers. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the fighting that scuttled Wednesday’s truce stopped in the city around 4 a.m. today. Abandoned vehicles abound after rare snow storm in Portland PORTLAND — Abandoned vehicles littered streets in the Portland area today, a day after a rare snow storm brought Ore- gon’s largest city to a halt. The National Weather Service said commuters should be pre- pared for snow-covered streets this morning and possibly some more snow, but no real accumulation. “We might get to barely above freezing but it would only be for an hour or two,” meteorologist Colby Neuman said. “The snow that we have in Portland is going to stick around for the next couple of days.” Only 1-to-3 inches of snow fell around Portland on Wednes- day, but ice and the rush-hour timing created havoc. Many commuters found themselves on streets clogged with traffic that was inching along on snow-slick streets. Cars fish- tailed, spun out and collided. Semi-trucks littered Interstate 5, some of them unable to move to the side before getting stuck. After more than three hours of waiting to travel just a few miles, some motorists abandoned their vehicles and started walk- ing. Others hoped they wouldn’t run out of gas. Kimberly Wrolstad had been stuck on I-5 heading to Tigard for about 90 minutes Wednesday afternoon. She had a quarter tank of gas left. “It’s frustrating,” she said. “I don’t know what’s going on.” Drugmakers push profitable, but unproven, opioid solution Pilloried for their role in the epidemic of prescription pain- killer abuse, drugmakers are aggressively pushing their remedy to the problem: a new generation of harder-to-manipulate opioids that have racked up billions in sales, even though there’s little proof they reduce rates of overdoses or deaths. More than prescriptions are at stake. Critics worry the drug- makers’ nationwide lobbying campaign is distracting from more productive solutions and delaying crucial efforts to steer physi- cians away from prescription opioids — addictive pain medi- cations involved in the deaths of more than 165,000 Americans since 2000. “If we’ve learned one lesson from the last 20 years on opioids it’s that these products have very, very high inherent risks,” said Dr. Caleb Alexander, co-director of Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Drug Safety and Effectiveness. “My concern is that they’ll contribute to a perception that there is a safe opioid, and there’s no such thing as a fully safe opioid.” The latest drugs — known as abuse-deterrent formulations, or ADFs — are generally harder to crush or dissolve, which the drugmakers tout as making them difficult to snort or inject. But they still are vulnerable to manipulation and potentially addictive The electoral voters speak and they’re not out for a revolt Stephanie Yao Long/The Oregonian Abandoned cars litter the side of Northwest Barnes Road near St. Vincent Medical Center in Portland today. when simply swallowed. National data from an industry-spon- sored tracking system also show drug abusers quickly drop the reformulated drugs in favor of older painkillers or heroin. In the last two years, pharmaceutical companies have made a concerted under-the-radar push for bills benefiting the anti-abuse opioids in statehouses and in Congress, where proposed legisla- tion would require the Food and Drug Administration to replace older opioids with the new drugs. Yahoo’s big breach helps usher in an age of hacker anxiety SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo has become the worst-case example of an unnerving but increasingly common phenomenon — massive hacks that steal secrets and other potentially revealing information from our personal digital accounts, or from big orga- nizations that hold sensitive data on our behalf. On Wednesday, Yahoo disclosed a gargantuan breach affect- ing more than a billion user accounts, the largest such attack in history. The company said that attack happened in August 2013, although Yahoo only discovered it recently. Worse, the compa- ny’s announcement followed a similar announcement last Sep- tember of a 2014 hack — one Yahoo ascribed to an unnamed for- eign government — that affected 500 million accounts. Neither Yahoo breach has yet been linked to online fraud or any specific repercussions for Yahoo users. But their disclosure closely follows U.S. intelligence concerns about Russian hacking of Democratic emails during the presidential campaign — not to mention other recent attacks on a major health insurer, a medical lab-test company and the government office that manages mil- lions of federal employees. “The lesson is clear: no organization is immune to compro- mise,” said Jeff Hill, director of product management for cyber- security consultant Prevalent. And since most of us are dependent on big organizations that hold our digital lives in their hands, in a broad sense that effectively means no one is safe. Border cities worry that ending NAFTA would hurt economies LAREDO, Texas — Donald Trump’s only visit to the U.S.-Mexico border while running for president was a stop in Laredo that lasted less than three hours. On some days, that’s not long enough for 18-wheelers hauling foreign-made dishwashers and car batteries to lurch through the gridlocked crossing. Trump’s campaign promise to tear apart the North American Free Trade Agreement helped win over Rust Belt voters who felt left behind by globalization. But the idea is unnerving to many people in border cities such as Laredo and El Paso or Nogales in Arizona, which have boomed under the 1994 treaty. 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Though better known for its hard-line fervor as an elite force created to defend Iran’s cleric-led system, the Guard holds vast business interests both public and hidden across the Islamic Republic. In times of international sanctions, the organization won massive no-bid government contracts and expanded its influence. But comments made by one Guard general about a new ship deal worth $650 million betray the worry felt in the organization over potential competition, analysts say. It also offers a possible secondary motive for its detention of dual nationals on purported espionage charges and its confrontations with the West: keeping its share of Iran’s market of 80 million people. “They are worried about competition internally,” said Alireza Nader, an analyst at the RAND Corporation who long has stud- ied the Guard. “They want to make sure for any given deal, they get a part of it.” Last Friday, the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines Co. signed a deal with South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries for 10 container ships. It marked the first deal with a foreign ship- builder since the nuclear accord that limited Iran’s enrichment of uranium in exchange for the lifting of some international sanctions. LISTINGS THE DAILY ASTORIAN A WASHINGTON — Although pestered to a fare-thee-well to abandon Donald Trump, Republican electors appear to be in no mood for an insurrection in the presidential campaign’s last vot- ing ritual. This most untraditional of elections is on course to produce a traditional outcome Monday — an Electoral College ticket to the White House for the president-elect. Whether they like Trump or not, and some surely don’t, scores of the Republicans chosen to cast votes in the state-capi- tal meetings told AP they feel bound by history, duty, party loy- alty or the law to rubber-stamp their state’s results and make him president. Appeals numbering in the tens of thousands — drowning inboxes, ringing cell phones, stuffing home and office mailboxes with actual handwritten letters — have not swayed them. The Associated Press tried to reach all 538 electors and inter- viewed more than 330 of them, finding widespread Democratic aggravation with the electoral process but little expectation that the hustle of anti-Trump maneuvering can derail him. For that to happen, Republican-appointed electors would have to stage an unprecedented defection and Democrats would need to buck tra- dition, too, by peeling away from Hillary Clinton and swinging behind a consensus candidate in sufficient numbers. Still, people going to the typically ho-hum electoral gatherings have been drawn into the rough and tumble of campaign-season politics. Republicans are being beseeched to revolt in a torrent of lobbying, centered on the argument that Clinton won the popular vote and Trump is unsuited to the presidency. Most of it is falling on deaf ears, but it has also led to some acquaintances being made across the great political divide. “Let me give you the total as of right now: 48,324 emails about my role as an elector,” said Brian Westrate, a small-busi- ness owner and GOP district chairman in Fall Creek, Wisconsin. “I have a Twitter debate with a former porn star from California asking me to change my vote. 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