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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, JULY 13, 2017
WORLD IN BRIEF
For more than a year, Stewart Superior Corp. and its subsid-
iaries have been shipping thousands of pounds of raw materials
to Mexico, where the company has a factory that produces ink
pads and other supplies, according to customs records from Pan-
jiva Inc., which tracks American imports and exports. The fin-
ished products are then transported back to a company facility in
California, the records show.
Stewart Superior, which also has an operation in LaPorte,
Indiana, says on its website that the company’s Mexican factory
“brings economical, cost competitive manufacturing and product
development to our valued customers.”
Associated Press
Trump seeks consensus with
France despite differences
PARIS — President Donald Trump and his French counter-
part, Emmanuel Macron, are looking to set aside differences on
trade and climate change and find common ground as they meet
Thursday ahead of Bastille Day celebrations in Paris.
Trump arrived in the French capital after an overnight flight
from Washington and hours before his meeting with Macron to
tackle potential solutions to the crisis in Syria and broader coun-
terterrorism strategies.
Trump’s decision last month to withdraw the U.S. from the
Paris climate accord sparked outrage across Europe and anti-
Trump protests are planned while he is in Paris. Macron, a staunch
advocate of research to combat global warming, has beckoned “all
responsible citizens,” including American scientists and research-
ers, to bring their fight against climate change to France.
The leaders plan to hold a news conference after their talks,
and Trump may face tough questions about emails revealing that
his eldest son welcomed the prospect of receiving Russian gov-
ernment support in last year’s presidential campaign against Hil-
lary Clinton.
Trump came to his son’s defense Wednesday, praising Donald
Trump Jr.’s performance in an interview on Fox News Channel.
Trump tweeted: “He was open, transparent and innocent. This is
the greatest Witch Hunt in political history. Sad!”
McConnell rolling out new GOP
health bill to uncertain fate
WASHINGTON — Senate Republican leaders are trotting out
their new, but reeling, health care bill and angling toward a show-
down vote next week amid signs that they have lots of work ahead
to win over GOP lawmakers or face a resounding failure.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., planned to
present the revamped measure rolling back much of President
Barack Obama’s health care law to GOP senators Thursday. He’s
aiming at a do-or-die vote next week on whether to begin debat-
ing the bill — a roll call for which he’s got no margin for error.
Since Democrats uniformly oppose the effort, McConnell
needs the votes of 50 of the 52 GOP senators to prevail. But con-
servative Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky says he’s a “no,” Maine
moderate Susan Collins seems all but certain to be opposed
and other Republicans are threatening to vote against it if their
demands are not met, leaving party leaders struggling to preserve
one of their highest-profile priorities.
“It’s going to be a test of our ability to actually embrace prog-
ress, even though it’s not perfect,” said No. 2 Senate Republican
leader John Cornyn of Texas.
President Donald Trump heaped additional pressure on party
leaders Wednesday. In an interview with the Christian Broadcast-
ing Network’s “The 700 Club,” he said he will be “very angry” if
the Senate fails to pass the health care measure and said McCon-
nell must “pull it off.”
Human remains found in search
for missing men, 1 victim ID’d
NEW HOPE, Pa. — Investigators found the body of one of
four missing young men along with other human remains buried
on a Pennsylvania farm, and vowed to “bring each and every one
of these lost boys home to their families.”
Cadaver dogs led them to the spot on the 90-acre (36-hectare)
farm in Solebury Township where they discovered human remains
inside a 12 ½-foot-deep (3.66-meter-deep) common grave.
“I don’t understand the science behind it, but those dogs could
smell these poor boys 12 1/2 feet below the ground,” Bucks
County District Attorney Matthew Weintraub said at a midnight
news conference.
The body identified was that of 19-year-old Dean Finocchiaro.
Weintraub did not say how he died. The other remains have not
yet been identified. The missing men are 22-year-old Mark Stur-
gis, 21-year-old Tom Meo and 19-year-old Jimi Tar Patrick. Pat-
rick, who was a year behind DiNardo at a Catholic high school
for boys, was last seen on Wednesday, while the other three van-
ished on Friday.
“This is a homicide; make no mistake about it. We just don’t
know how many homicides,” Weintraub said.
North Korea’s Kim: Dictator?
Reformer? Shrewd negotiator?
SEOUL, South Korea — Ruthless dictator? Economic
reformer? Shrewd master of nuclear brinksmanship?
When Kim Jong Un took the helm of North Korea in late 2011,
speculation swirled around the young, Swiss-educated leader.
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President Donald Trump waves as he arrives at the Elysee
Palace before his meeting with French President Emman-
uel Macron in Paris Thursday. Trump will be the parade’s
guest of honor to commemorate the 100th anniversary of
the U.S. entry into World War I. U.S. troops will open the
parade Friday as is traditional for the guest of honor.
What would he do for an economically backward authoritarian
nation that had been in a high-stakes nuclear standoff with its
neighbors and Washington for years?
Almost six years later, there are still unanswered questions,
but some things about Kim have come into focus. His rule has
actually seen the economy improve, and when it comes to the
nuclear drive, it’s obvious that Kim, who rattled nerves last week
by test-firing his country’s first intercontinental ballistic missile,
has a more uncompromising stance than his late father, Kim Jong
Il, who occasionally sat down for talks with Washington meant to
gain concessions.
Kim Jong Un seems uninterested in negotiations until he per-
fects a nuclear missile capable of striking anywhere in the United
States.
The stance has so far worked, and he’ll likely achieve the
badly needed nuclear deterrence against the United States fairly
soon if he’s not stopped.
Militants find sanctuary in
Libya’s wild south
BENGHAZI, Libya — A series of military victories over
extremist Islamic groups along Libya’s Mediterranean coastline
has forced hundreds of militants, including Islamic State fight-
ers, to seek refuge in the vast deserts of the North African nation,
already home to militias from neighboring countries, cross-border
criminal gangs and mercenaries.
Libya’s lawless, desolate center and south provides a sanctuary
for militants to reorganize, recruit, train and potentially plot for a
comeback. That is especially important at a time when the Islamic
State group lost not only its urban holdings in Libya but is crum-
bling in Iraq and Syria.
In Libya’s remote stretches near the borders with Egypt,
Sudan, Chad, Algeria, Niger and Tunisia, multiple armed groups
already operate freely. Arms are easily available. Human traffick-
ing and cross-border smuggling, especially fuel, are rampant and
lucrative.
Lack of effective border controls has allowed militiamen fight-
ing the Sudanese and Chadian governments to set up camp inside
Libya. Alongside them came soldiers-for-hire from places as far
afield as Cameroon. Tribal and ethnic rivalries frequently boil
over into deadly strife.
Militants “travel back and forth near the southern borders and
all the way to the central parts of the country, robbing traveling
cars and attacking civilians,” said Brig. Gen. Abdullah Nouredeen
of the Libyan National Army. “They sometimes work close to the
borders since there is money to be made from smuggling and arms
trading.”
Senator profits from
outsourcing he slams
INDIANAPOLIS — An Indiana senator railed against Carrier
Corp. for moving manufacturing jobs to Mexico last year, even as
he profited from a family business that relies on Mexican labor to
produce dye for ink pads, according to records reviewed by The
Associated Press.
Joe Donnelly, considered one of the nation’s most vulnerable
Democratic senators up for re-election next year, has long blasted
free-trade policies for killing American jobs. He accused Carrier,
an air conditioner and furnace maker, of exploiting $3-an-hour
workers when it announced plans to wind down operations in
Indiana and move to Mexico.
However, an arts and crafts business Donnelly’s family
has owned for generations is capitalizing on some of the very
trade policies — and low-paid foreign labor — the senator has
denounced.
Top US diplomat to return to
Qatar for talks with emir
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The U.S.’s top diplomat
was expected to travel back to Qatar on Thursday for more talks
with the country’s 37-year-old emir, a day after wrapping up dis-
cussions with the king of Saudi Arabia and other officials from
Arab countries lined up against Qatar.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s travels have so far not
led to any signs of a breakthrough in an increasingly entrenched
dispute that has divided some of America’s most important Mid-
east allies.
Tillerson’s trip from Kuwait to the western Saudi city of Jiddah
followed discussions on Tuesday with Qatari emir Sheikh Tamim
bin Hamad Al Thani that ended with the signing of a counterter-
rorism pact.
Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Bahrain
severed relations with Qatar and cut air, sea and land routes with it
over a month ago, accusing Doha of supporting extremist groups.
Qatar denies the allegations.
The quartet has given no indication it would be willing to
back off from its hard-nosed stance. Just hours before Tillerson’s
arrival in Jiddah, the four Arab states said the counterterrorism
deal that Qatar signed with him on Tuesday was “not enough” to
ease their concerns.
McDonald’s super-sized order:
Get people visiting more
ROMEOVILLE, Ill. — McDonald’s is hoping to make a dif-
ference in its future seven seconds at a time.
The company that helped define fast food is making supersized
efforts to reverse its fading popularity and catch up to a landscape
that has evolved around it. That includes expanding delivery, digi-
tal ordering kiosks in restaurants, and rolling out an app that saves
precious seconds.
Much of the work is on display in an unmarked warehouse
near the company’s headquarters in suburban Chicago, where a
blowup of a mobile phone screen shows the app launching nation-
ally later this year. McDonald’s estimates it would take 10 sec-
onds for a customer to tell an employee their order number from
the app, down from the 17-second average of ordering at the
drive-thru, a difference that could help ease pileups. Elsewhere at
the Innovation Center, the digital ordering kiosk shows how cus-
tomers can skip lines at the register.
“Five, 10 years ago, we were the dominant player in conve-
nience, as convenience was defined in those days,” CEO Steve
Easterbrook said last month. “But convenience continually gets
redefined, and we haven’t modernized.”
The push come as McDonald’s Corp.’s stock has hit all-time
highs as investors cheer a turnaround plan that has included
slashed costs and expansion overseas. Yet the asterisk on the
headlines is the chain’s declining stature in its flagship U.S. mar-
ket, where it is fighting intensifying competition, fickle tastes and
a persistent junk food image.
‘This is Us,’ ‘The Crown’ vie for
Emmy nods; no ‘Thrones’
LOS ANGELES — With “Game of Thrones” off the Emmy
battlefield this time around, the likely beneficiaries will be stream-
ing dramas and, in a reversal of fortune, a broadcast series.
Netflix’s “The Crown” and “Stranger Things” and Hulu’s
“The Handmaid’s Tale,” all streamed shows, could be among the
nominees to be announced Thursday at the TV academy by Anna
Chlumsky (“Veep”) and Shemar Moore (“Criminal Minds,” the
upcoming “S.W.A.T.”) The announcement will be streamed live
at 11:30 a.m. EDT on www.emmys.com .
The NBC freshman series “This is Us,” a hit with viewers and
critics, has a chance to show network dramas can be Emmy wor-
thy again. A commercial broadcast network hasn’t fielded a best
drama series contender since CBS’ “The Good Wife” was nomi-
nated in 2011. The last network winner was Fox’s “24” in 2006.
HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” which dominated last year’s
Emmys with 23 nods and 12 trophies, including its second con-
secutive best drama award, falling outside the eligibility window
for Emmy consideration this year.
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