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WORLD IN BRIEF
political talks in February in Geneva.
The new U.S. administration is not directly involved, because
of the “immediate demands of the transition,” the State Depart-
ment said on Saturday, but Washington is represented by the U.S.
ambassador to Kazakhstan, George Krol, who attended Monday’s
opening session held at the luxury Rixos President Hotel in Astana.
Osama Abo Zayd, a rebel media representative to the talks, told
The Associated Press before the start that the scope of the negotia-
tions is limited to strengthening the cease-fire.
Associated Press
Trump moves to pull US out of
Pacific-Rim trade deal
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump moved to pull
the United States out of the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership
trade pact Monday, fulfilling a campaign promise as he began his
first full week in office.
“Great thing for the American worker that we just did,” Trump
said as he signed a notice in the Oval Office.
The president also signed memorandums freezing
most federal government hiring, though he noted an excep-
tion for the military, and reinstating a ban on providing federal
money to international groups that perform abortions or provide
information on the option. The regulation, known as the “Mexico
City Policy,” has been a political volleyball, instituted by Repub-
lican administrations and rescinded by Democratic ones since
1984.
Following a tumultuous first weekend in office — consumed
by Trump’s criticism of the media’s inauguration coverage fol-
lowed by pushback against his comments — the president was
seeking to refocus on the sweeping, yet often vague, promises he
made as a candidate. He campaigned as a fierce opponent of mul-
tilateral trade agreements, particularly the 12-nation Pacific Rim
deal agreed to by President Barack Obama.
Earlier Monday, Trump huddled with business leaders and
warned that he would impose a “substantial border tax” on com-
panies that move their manufacturing out of the United States. He
also promised tax advantages to companies that produce products
domestically.
“All you have to do is stay,” he said during a meeting in the
White House’s Roosevelt Room.
Trump staff, properties face
terror risk with presidency
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Businesses around the
world bearing U.S. President Donald Trump’s name face an
increased risk now that he is in the White House, security experts
warn, especially as several are in areas previously targeted by
violence.
As Trump remains a brand overseas, criminal gangs or mil-
itants could target buildings bearing his name in gold, abduct
workers associated with his enterprises for ransom or worse, they
say.
“They may kidnap a Trump worker and not even want to
negotiate,” aiming for publicity instead, said Colin P. Clarke, a
political scientist with the RAND Corporation who studies ter-
rorism and international criminal networks.
Predicting an attack keeps police, intelligence agencies and
security experts awake at night around the world — and, by its
very nature, it remains speculative.
U.S. brands have been targeted in overseas violence
before, but they never belonged to a president. That’s the dif-
ference. Trump becoming America’s 45th president presents a
unique challenge given the range of his international business
interests.
Samsung: Batteries only
problem with fire-prone Note 7s
AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis
Hardly anything remains of the home of Jessie and Diana
Mills of the Pine Grove Community near Magee, Miss., fol-
lowing a direct hit by a possible morning tornado Thursday.
Several homes and businesses were affected by the strong
winds that blew through several central Mississippi counties.
18 die amid apparent winter
tornadoes, other storms in South
ADEL, Ga. — First there was the roar of the wind, then mere
seconds to scoop up her grandson and run: Bridgit Simmons and
her family knew the weekend storms that claimed more than a
dozen lives around the South were threatening.
They had heard storm warnings all day Sunday, but that after-
noon it all happened so fast as storms that killed at least 18 over
the weekend moved across the Deep South. She, along with her
parents, her daughter, and her grandson were in their brick home
in the southwest Georgia city of Albany when the sky got dark
and the wind began to howl.
“I was in the den and I heard that loud roar and I grabbed the
baby and I said, ‘Let’s go guys. This is it.’ We laid down and that
was it.” The wind was so loud, she added, “you could hear it beat-
ing back and forth.”
Tense minutes went by. Then the storm moved on, the sky
lightened and the winds calmed.
Their home was largely unscathed, save for a carport that
collapsed atop two cars. But trees were down all around, police
sirens wailed and authorities would add three more deaths for an
overall count of at least 18.
Syria talks focused on cease-fire
get underway in Kazakhstan
ASTANA, Kazakhstan — Syria talks brokered by Russia, Tur-
key and Iran and seeking to bolster a shaky cease-fire in place since
last month opened on Monday in Kazakhstan, marking the first
face-to-face meeting between the Damascus government and rebel
factions fighting to overthrow it.
The gathering in Astana, the Kazakh capital, is also the start of
a new effort to end six years of carnage that has killed hundreds of
thousands, displaced half of Syria’s population and sent millions of
refugees to neighboring countries and Europe.
The U.N. envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura, is participating in
the talks, which if successful, are expected to be followed by more
SEOUL, South Korea — Samsung Electronics said Monday
that tests of more than 200,000 Galaxy Note 7 smartphones found
defects in two sets of batteries from two different manufacturers
that made the devices prone to catch fire.
Samsung’s mobile division president, Koh Dong-jin, ruled out
any problems with other aspects of the Note 7, either in its hard-
ware or its software. He said Samsung would use what it learned
from its investigations to improve lithium ion battery safety for the
industry, though analysts questioned if the company had really got-
ten to the heart of the problem.
Samsung discontinued the Note 7 just two months after it was
launched on Aug. 2, in one of its worst product fiascos ever.
The company said 700 hundred researchers and engineers
tested more than 200,000 devices and more than 30,000 batteries
and replicated what happened with the Note 7 phones trying to pin
down why some of the phones were overheating.
U.S. companies UL and Exponent also examined the batteries
supplied by South Korea-based Samsung SDI and China-based
Amperex Technology Ltd., or ATL. The German company TUV
Rheinland analyzed the Note 7 supply chain as part of the investi-
gation, Samsung said.
US lawmakers call for action
on Venezuela food corruption
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan officials may face U.S.
sanctions for profiting from food shortages that have exacerbated
hunger in the South American country.
The calls by members of Congress on both sides of the aisle
come in response to an Associated Press investigation that found
trafficking in hard-to-find food has become big business in Vene-
zuela, with the military at the heart of the graft. Embattled social-
ist President Nicolas Maduro has given the military increasingly
broad control over the food supply as shortages have led to wide-
spread malnutrition this year.
“When the military is profiting off of food distribution while the
Venezuelan people increasingly starve, corruption has reached a
new level of depravity that cannot go unnoticed,” said Democratic
Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland, the ranking member of the Foreign
Relations Committee.
The AP report published last month detailed a chain of dirty
dealing by the military, including kickbacks to generals for food
contracts and bribes to move food out of the port. Some of the food
is purchased in the U.S. and some of the bribes passed through the
U.S. banking system.
Gillnetters: ‘I can’t afford to get kicked off the main stem’
Continued from Page 1A
On Friday, the commercial
fishery won the day, their case
made by a parade of gritty
Astoria gillnetters who spoke
of generational ties, commu-
nity businesses and family
fortunes at risk if they were no
longer able to make a living.
The commission had previ-
ously appeared more likely to
continue phasing out gillnets
in the river’s main channel,
a move long favored by the
sports fleet, the recreational
anglers and guides who hit
the river with line and hook.
Washington state and Oregon
agreed to such a plan, set in
motion in 2012 by then Gov.
John Kitzhaber.
Instead, the commission-
ers approved an “enhanced”
rebalancing plan, one of six
options analyzed by staff.
Highlights of the plan include:
• Recreational anglers are
allowed to account for 80 per-
cent of the spring and sum-
mer Chinook, the wild fish
protected under the Endan-
gered Species Act. Commer-
cial anglers will get 20 percent
of what is called the “ESA
impact” and will be allowed
to fish the main stem with tan-
gle nets.
• The harvest of fall Chi-
nook would be split 66 per-
cent recreational, 34 percent
commercial, with main stem
gillnetting allowed in Zones 4
and 5 and coho tangle nets in
Zones 1, 2 and 3.
• Anglers can use barbed
hooks in the Willamette River.
• The Youngs Bay con-
trol zone will continue to be
closed to sports fishing.
Gillnetters had offered
their own plan that would have
given them a greater share of
salmon. Steve Fick, owner of
Fishhawk Fisheries in Astoria,
said he wasn’t disappointed in
the commission’s action.
“When everybody’s a little
unhappy, it’s probably a rea-
sonable decision,” he said.
Recreational anglers main-
tain that gillnetting takes fish
indiscriminately, with no way
to differentiate between wild
fish and hatchery fish, for
example. They argue that gill-
netting should be relegated to
the river’s side channels and
say the sports fleet has a much
bigger economic impact.
“We fill the hotels to burst-
ing in Astoria,” said Liz Ham-
ilton, executive director of
the Northwest Sportsfishing
Industry Association.
‘A deal is a deal’
During Friday’s hearing,
recreational anglers said the
commission shouldn’t vary
from the path set by Kitzhaber
and the “concurrent manage-
ment” agreement between
Oregon and Washington.
“A deal is a deal,” one man
testified.
Earlier this month, the
Washington Department of
Fish and Wildlife Commis-
sion voted to remove gillnet-
ting from the main channel in
two years and increase recre-
ational anglers’ share of fall,
spring and summer Chinook.
The Washington commis-
sion also directed the wild-
life department to “aggres-
sively pursue” a buyback
program for commercial gill
netlicenses.
Oregon chose a different
route. Fick, of Fishhawk Fish-
eries, shrugged off the split
between the states. If neces-
sary, he said, there is technol-
ogy to “draw a management
line down the river” and let
each go its own way.
He said commercial fishing
is like logging, farming and
ranching — a mainstay of eco-
nomic life in rural areas.
“It’s not a dying indus-
try,” he said. “You can’t start
chopping away at people’s
opportunities.”
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Making a living
At least a dozen commer-
cial fishermen testified along
those lines Friday. Several
said they are sole providers
for their families, and need the
main stem fishery to make a
living.
“Is this the time of our lives
to take away jobs from peo-
ple?” asked Bill Hunsinger,
a fisherman who serves on
Port of Astoria Commission.
“Commercial fishermen and
the ocean are what’s going to
feed the world.”
“I can’t afford to get kicked
off the main stem,” said one
man, adding that he is a fifth
generation gillnetter with a
wife and daughter. “I’m a
40-year-old uneducated man,”
he said. “What am I going to
do?”
Alex Hendricks, a 17-year-
old senior at Clatskanie High
School, said he is a fourth-gen-
eration gillnetter, following
his mother, grandfather and
great-grandfather.
“I ask you for the
opportunity to embrace the
heritage the generations
before me have created,” he
said.
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