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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2017
WORLD IN BRIEF
Israel has long identified Iran as its biggest threat, citing its
suspect nuclear program, development of long-range missiles
and hostile rhetoric. But gains by Syrian troops and their Irani-
an-backed allies have given those concerns new urgency.
Israel fears the establishment of a Shiite “corridor,” with land
links from Iran to Lebanon, allowing the movement of fighters
and weapons across the region. At the heart of those fears is Hez-
bollah, the Lebanese militia that battled Israel to a stalemate in a
monthlong war in 2006. The group has greatly beefed up its arse-
nal of rockets and missiles since then, and after years of fighting
in Syria, is more battle-tested than ever.
In his U.N. address Tuesday, Netanyahu warned that Iran was
spreading a “curtain of tyranny and terror” across the region, and
said Israel would defend itself.
Associated Press
Mexicans dig through collapsed
buildings as quake kills 217
MEXICO CITY — Police, firefighters and ordinary Mexicans
dug frantically through the rubble of collapsed schools, homes
and apartment buildings early Wednesday, looking for survivors
of Mexico’s deadliest earthquake in decades as the number of
confirmed fatalities stood at 217.
Adding poignancy and a touch of the surreal, Tuesday’s mag-
nitude-7.1 quake struck on the 32nd anniversary of the 1985
earthquake that killed thousands. Just hours earlier, people around
Mexico had held earthquake drills to mark the date.
One of the most desperate rescue efforts was at a primary and
secondary school in southern Mexico City, where a wing of the
three-story building collapsed into a massive pancake of concrete
slabs. Journalists saw rescuers pull at least two small bodies from
the rubble, covered in sheets.
Volunteer rescue worker Dr. Pedro Serrano managed to crawl
into the crevices of the tottering pile of rubble that had been
Escuela Enrique Rebsamen. He made it into a classroom, but
found all of its occupants dead.
“We saw some chairs and wooden tables. The next thing we
saw was a leg, and then we started to move rubble and we found
a girl and two adults — a woman and a man,” he said.
Rescuers wriggle into collapsed
school after Mexico quake
MEXICO CITY — The three-story school structure had pan-
caked into a pile of concrete slabs. The bodies of 21 children
and four adults had been pulled out. But still sounds came from
the collapsed structure early Wednesday — nobody knew if they
were survivors pounding for help, or simply the noises of shift-
ing rubble.
After a wing of the Enrique Rebsamen primary and second-
ary school collapsed in Tuesday’s magnitude-7.1 earthquake, res-
cuers dug at the pile of rubble and soldiers wedged in wooden
beams to try to prevent it from crumbling further.
Then a group of them decided to head in.
Pedro Serrano, a 29-year-old doctor, was one of the ordi-
nary Mexicans who had volunteered to join the rescue effort. He
crawled into a crevice amid the tottering pile.
“We dug holes, then crawled in on our bellies,” Serrano said.
Hurricane Maria aims at Puerto
Rico after slamming Dominica
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Puerto Rico faced Wednesday
what officials said could be the strongest hurricane to ever hit
the U.S. territory as they warned it would decimate the power
company’s crumbling infrastructure and force the government to
rebuild dozens of communities.
Maria barreled toward the island with 155 mph winds and was
expected to make landfall Wednesday midmorning along Puerto
Rico’s southeast coast as a Category 4 storm, punishing the island
with life-threatening winds for 12 to 24 hours, forecasters said.
Maria had previously been a Category 5 storm with 175 mph
winds.
“This is going to be an extremely violent phenomenon,” Gov.
Ricardo Rossello said. “We have not experienced an event of this
magnitude in our modern history.”
The number of power outages spiked as Maria approached,
with the storm centered early Wednesday about 50 miles south-
east of San Juan, Puerto Rico, and moving northwest at 10 mph,
according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami.
Trump’s trashing of Iran deal
poses problems for NK strategy
UNITED NATIONS — President Donald Trump’s threat
before the world to obliterate North Korea left no doubt about his
determination to stop the communist country’s nuclear weapons
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Pelting rain, relocation add to
woes in Rohingya Muslim camp
AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo
A car sits crushed from a building felled by a 7.1 earth-
quake in Jojutla, Morelos state, Mexico.
buildup. His disparagement of the Iran nuclear deal in the same
speech offered Pyongyang little hope of a negotiated solution.
In his maiden address at the U.N. General Assembly on Tues-
day, Trump spelled out in blunt and personal terms the reasons
why Kim Jong Un and his government should be treated as pari-
ahs. It was a surprisingly brutal indictment, even by the standards
of a president who has spoken about unleashing “fire and fury”
on Kim’s country if it didn’t end its nuclear provocations.
Trump said not only has the North Korean government
starved its citizens and killed opponents, it was now threatening
the world with “unthinkable loss of life.”
“It is time for North Korea to realize that the denuclearization
is its only acceptable future,” Trump said.
He offered no path toward making that future a reality.
Trump’s North Korea threat
leaves Asia struggling to explain
SEOUL, South Korea — Was it a bluff? A warning that
Washington would shoot down North Korea’s next missile test?
A restatement of past policy? Or simply just what it seemed: a
straightforward threat of annihilation from the president of the
United States?
Officials and pundits across Asia struggled Wednesday to
parse Donald Trump’s vow Tuesday at the U.N. General Assem-
bly to “totally destroy North Korea” if provoked.
In a region well used to Pyongyang’s pursuit of nuclear weap-
ons generating a seemingly never-ending cycle of threats and
counter-threats, Trump’s comments stood out.
South Korea officially played them down, while some poli-
ticians worried that Trump’s words signaled a loss of influence
for Seoul. Tokyo focused on his mention of Japanese citizens
abducted by the North. Analysts across Asia expressed surprise,
worry, even wry amusement, in one case, that Trump’s words
seemed to mirror threats normally emanating from North Korean
state media.
Amid the speculation, the focus of Trump’s belligerence,
North Korea, remained silent in the hours after the speech.
As Syrian war winds down,
Israel sets sights on Hezbollah
PILON MILITARY BASE, Israel — With President Bashar
Assad seemingly poised to survive the Syrian civil war, Israeli
leaders are growing nervous about the intentions of his Iranian
patrons and their emerging corridor of influence across the region.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is agitating against Iran
in global forums like this week’s U.N. General Assembly. The
Israeli military is holding war games targeting the Iran-backed
Lebanese Hezbollah, and generals are issuing tough threats in
hopes of avoiding what could be another ruinous Israeli entan-
glement in Lebanon, this time with Iranian advisers and troops
on Israel’s doorstep.
COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh — Weary and uncertain, they
carried whatever they could on their backs, trudging through
monsoon rains and enduring relocations and extortion attempts
as they struggle to find small patches of land that can be their
own, at least for a moment.
Groups of Rohingya Muslims who fled Myanmar were on
the move again Tuesday and Wednesday, forced by the rains to
salvage what was left of their shanties and move toward drier
ground in hopes of some relief — if the mudslides don’t come
next.
Several Rohingya camps in this Bangladesh coastal city are
flooded from three days of unrelenting downpours. People in
the camps were pelted with heavy rain while desperately pack-
ing their meager belongings into plastic sacks and trying to find
fresh shelter.
The initial arrivals in the most recent exodus from violence
in Myanmar simply settled on whatever patch of land they could
find, building shelters of bamboo sticks and plastic sheets.
But as their numbers soared to more than 420,000 in a matter
of weeks, the local government has started moving them to newly
allocated refugee camp areas. Many refused to move, terrified
of being without shelter at all. But the rains washed away many
shanties or made them uninhabitable.
A last, last chance: Republicans
strain for Obamacare repeal
WASHINGTON — With time growing short, President Don-
ald Trump and Republican Senate leaders are engaged in a fran-
tic search for votes in a last-ditch effort to repeal and replace
“Obamacare.” The outcome is uncertain in a Capitol newly
engulfed in drama over health care.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, whose failure to
pass an Obamacare repeal bill in July opened a bitter public rift
with Trump, is pressing hard for the newly revived effort, which
had been left for dead as recently as a week or two ago. But in a
sign he remained short of votes, McConnell refused on Tuesday
to commit to bringing the legislation up for a vote.
As in July, much of the focus was on Arizona Sen. John
McCain. Would he step back in line with fellow Republicans now
that there was a bill co-written by Lindsey Graham of South Car-
olina, his best friend in the Senate? McCain wasn’t saying. Lisa
Murkowski of Alaska, another crucial vote, wasn’t disclosing her
views, either.
Republicans must act by Sept. 30 in the Senate or face the
prospect of a Democratic filibuster. That blocking action is cur-
rently staved off by budget rules that will expire at the end of the
month. The new legislation, by Graham and Sen. Bill Cassidy
of Louisiana, would undo the central pillars of former President
Barack Obama’s health care law, and replace them with block
grants to the states so they could make their own health care cov-
erage rules.
“Governors and state legislators of both parties would have
both the opportunity and the responsibility to help make qual-
ity and affordable health care available to their citizens in a way
that works for their own particular states,” McConnell said on the
Senate floor. “It’s an intriguing idea and one that has a great deal
of support.”
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