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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, MAY 29, 2017
WORLD IN BRIEF
Associated Press
Kelly defends plan for Russia
back channel as a ‘good thing’
WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly
is defending an alleged effort by top White House adviser Jared
Kushner to create back-channel communications with Russia,
describing it as a “good thing” as the Trump administration sought
to quell mounting questions over secret ties to the Kremlin.
Speaking on Sunday’s news shows, Kelly said he didn’t know
whether the reports by The Associated Press and other news out-
lets involving Kushner, who is President Donald Trump’s son-in-
law, were true. But Kelly said such back-channel communica-
tions don’t bother him and would not be harmful to U.S. security
interests.
“It’s both normal, in my opinion, and acceptable,” Kelly said.
“Any way that you can communicate with people, particularly
organizations that are maybe not particularly friendly to us, is a
good thing.”
Congressional Democrats demanded to hear directly from
Kushner over allegations of the proposed secret back-channel,
saying his security clearance may need to be revoked. But Trump
immediately railed against administration leaks in a flurry of
tweets Sunday, calling them “fabricated lies.”
Rep. Adam Schiff of California, the top Democrat on the
House intelligence committee, said it was “obviously very con-
cerning” if a key Trump campaign figure was possibly seeking
secret communications during the transition period with a coun-
try that intelligence experts say intervened in the 2016 U.S. pres-
idential election.
Trump lashes out at leaks,
considers staff upheaval
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is assailing inter-
nal leaks as he considers an overhaul of his White House staff and
grapples with a burgeoning crisis involving alleged Russian med-
dling in the 2016 campaign.
Frustrated with what he views as his team’s inability to push
back against the drumbeat of new revelations, Trump is seek-
ing expanded teams of lawyers and experienced public relations
hands. While he has called his first trip abroad a “home run,” it
was shadowed by reports about Moscow’s interference and pos-
sible improper dealings with the Trump campaign and associates.
The latest reports hit close to the Oval Office, alleging that
Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner proposed
secret back-channel communications with Russia during the pres-
idential transition.
Trump struck back Sunday, after maintaining a limited social
media presence throughout his nine-day trip. He unleashed a flurry
of tweets, lashing out at what he called the “fake news” media. He
focused heavily on leaks — both those coming out of the White
House and an intelligence leak blamed on Americans about the
deadly bombing at a concert in Britain.
On the bombing investigation Trump wrote: “British Prime
Minister May was very angry that the info the U.K. gave to U.S.
about Manchester was leaked.”
6-day war begets 50 years
of conflict for Israel
JERUSALEM — It may well be remembered as a pyrrhic vic-
tory for Israel: in six days it stunned the world by vanquishing
several Arab armies, only to be saddled with a deeply corrosive
50-year fight with the Palestinians for the Holy Land.
For several weeks in 1967, the underdog Israelis genuinely
feared that their young Jewish state would be wiped out, even
with memories of the Nazi Holocaust in Europe still fresh. They
mobilized reserves to face Egyptian troops arrayed at the bor-
der. They appointed the eyepatch-wearing military hero Moshe
Dayan as minister of defense. They barricaded the streets with
sacks of sand.
Then it was over in a shocking flash. A pre-emptive airstrike
on June 5 destroyed the Egyptian air force on the ground, and
the Israeli army also pushed back Jordan and Syria. Israel vastly
expanded its territory, and was crowned a regional power.
“The Six Day War was one of the greatest victories in the his-
tory of Israel,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a national-
ist, recently said in marking the anniversary.
But there is another view: many in Israel are coming to the
conclusion that the “Six Day War” may have planted the seeds of
doom. That’s because Israel seized the West Bank and east Jeru-
salem from Jordan and the Gaza Strip from Egypt, ruling over
a Palestinian population roughly equal in number to that of the
Jews. It has since faced charges that its treatment of the Pales-
tinians is a form of apartheid, and has gone from being a dar-
ling of the West in the 1960s to one of the world’s most ostra-
cized nations.
AP Photo/Charlie Riedel
Julian Jefford marks the graves of family and friends at
Leavenworth National Cemetery on the eve of Memorial
Day in Leavenworth, Kan.
NKorean missile launch may be
testing rivals, not technology
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea’s latest missile test Mon-
day may have less to do with perfecting its weapons technology
than with showing U.S. and South Korean forces in the region that
it can strike them at will.
South Korean and Japanese officials said the suspected Scud-
type short-range missile flew about 280 miles on Monday morn-
ing before landing in Japan’s maritime economic zone, setting off
the usual round of condemnation from Washington and the North’s
neighbors.
It’s the latest in a string of test launches by North Korea as it
seeks to build nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles that
can reach the U.S. mainland, a drive that puts North Korea high on
the list of foreign policy worries for Japan, Washington and Seoul.
North Korea already has an arsenal of reliable short-range mis-
siles. While North Korean scientists could be tweaking them — for
instance, developing a new solid-fuel short-range missile — the
North tests these shorter-range missiles much less than it does its
less dependable, longer-range missiles.
This sets up the possibility that North Korea hopes to use the
test to show it can hit U.S. targets near and far and emphasize its
defiance of U.S.-led pressure on its missile and nuclear programs,
which has included vague threats from President Donald Trump
and the arrival in Korean waters of powerful U.S. military hard-
ware. Scuds are capable of striking U.S. troops in South Korea, for
instance, and the two newly developed missiles tested earlier this
month have potential ranges that include Japan, Guam and even,
according to some South Korean analysts, Alaska.
Merkel: Europe must stay united
in face of ally uncertainty
BERLIN — German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday
urged European Union nations to stick together in the face of
emerging policy divisions with the U.S., Britain’s decision to leave
the bloc and other challenges.
Speaking at a campaign event held in a Bavarian beer tent,
Merkel suggested that the G-7 summit in Italy that ended Saturday
had served as something of a wakeup call. G-7 leaders were unable
to reach unanimous agreement on climate change after U.S. Presi-
dent Donald Trump said he needed more time to decide whether to
back a key climate accord.
“The times in which we can fully count on others are somewhat
over, as I have experienced in the past few days,” Merkel told the
crowd of some 2,500 that gathered to hear her and Bavarian gov-
ernor Horst Seehofer.
“And so all I can say is that we Europeans must really take our
destiny into our own hands,” she said, according to the dpa news
agency.
Merkel emphasized the need for continued friendly relations
with the U.S. and Britain and also stressed the importance of being
good neighbors “wherever that is possible, including with Russia,
but also with others.”
Putin set to visit France in
hope of mending strained ties
MOSCOW — On a trip that will likely shape Russia-France
ties for years to come, President Vladimir Putin is set to visit
France for talks on Monday with newly-elected French President
Emmanuel Macron after expressing sympathy for his rivals during
the campaign.
After Moscow lost its bets in the French vote, the visit offers
the Russian leader a chance to turn the page and try to establish ties
with Macron as the Kremlin has struggled to mend a bitter rift in
relations with the West.
The meeting comes in the wake of the Group of Seven’s sum-
mit over the weekend where relations with Russia were part of the
agenda, making Macron the first Western leader to speak to Putin
after the talks.
The Kremlin has hailed the visit as a chance for Putin and
Macron to get to know each other and better understand their views
on a range of disputed issues, including the Ukrainian crisis, the
war in Syria and Russia’s ties with the European Union.
Macron’s invitation for Putin was a surprise after his tough
stance on Russia during the presidential campaign that contrasted
with the platforms of some of his rivals, including far-right candi-
date Marine Le Pen and conservative Francois Fillon, who both
have spoken for ending Western sanctions against Moscow over
the Ukrainian crisis.
Relative ‘devastated’ after
shooting kills 8 in Mississippi
BROOKHAVEN, Miss. — Head in hands, his voice strained,
Vincent Mitchell sat outside his little yellow home and tried to
make sense of how a family dispute led to a rampage that killed
eight people, including the deputy who tried to keep them safe.
“I’m devastated. It don’t seem like it’s real,” Mitchell said
shortly after the arrest of his stepson-in-law, Willie Corey Godbolt.
“Him and my stepdaughter, they’ve been going back and forth for
a couple of years with that domestic violence.”
Godbolt showed up at Mitchell’s home in the southern Missis-
sippi town of Bogue Chitto shortly before midnight Saturday to
demand that his estranged wife give up their two children. She and
the kids had been staying with them for about three weeks, Mitch-
ell told The Associated Press.
“He’d come to get his kids. The deputy was called,” and asked
him to leave, and it seemed like Godbolt would comply at first,
Mitchell said.
“He acted like, motioned like, he was fixing to go. Then he
reached in his back pocket and grabbed a gun,” Mitchell said. “He
just started shooting everything.”
Get ready for busy travel season;
airlines could set record
DALLAS — If you’re planning a big vacation trip this summer,
move over. You’re going to have lots of company.
By air or car, traveler numbers are expected to rise over last year
thanks to a decent economy and stable gasoline prices.
U.S. airlines expect to carry 234 million passengers from June 1
through Aug. 31, up from the summer record of 225 million a year
ago, according to the trade group Airlines for America.
While fares are edging up overall, they are still relatively afford-
able by historical standards. And travelers can find deals, especially
on routes flown by discount airlines such as Spirit.
Some of the lowest fares on popular routes are coming from
United Airlines, which is trying to regain passengers lost to rivals
in recent years and to overcome the image, replayed over and over
on the news, of a passenger being brutally dragged off a United
Express plane.
VA drug thefts continue
despite new efforts
WASHINGTON — Federal authorities have launched doz-
ens of new criminal investigations into possible opioid and other
drug theft by employees at Department of Veterans Affairs hos-
pitals, a sign the problem isn’t going away despite new preven-
tion efforts.
Data obtained by The Associated Press show 36 cases opened
by the VA inspector general’s office from Oct. 1 through May 19.
It brings the total number of open criminal investigations to 108
involving missing prescriptions, theft or unauthorized drug use.
Most of those probes typically lead to criminal charges.
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