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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2017
WORLD IN BRIEF
Thai PM: Fugitive
former leader Yingluck
Shinawatra in Dubai
Associated Press
Hefner, leader
of the sexual
revolution, dies at 91
LOS ANGELES — Hugh Hefner turned silk
pajamas into a work uniform, women into cen-
terfolds and sexual desire into a worldwide mul-
timedia empire that spanned several generations
of American life.
With Playboy, he helped slip sex out of
the confines of plain brown wrappers and into
mainstream conversation.
In 1953, a time when states could legally ban
contraceptives and the word “pregnant” was not
allowed on “I Love Lucy,” Hefner published the
first issue of Playboy, featuring naked photos
of Marilyn Monroe and an editorial promise of
“humor, sophistication and spice.”
The Great Depression and World War II
were over and Playboy soon became forbidden
fruit for teens and a bible for men with time and
money, primed for the magazine’s prescribed
evenings of dimmed lights, hard drinks, soft
jazz, deep thoughts and deeper desires. Within
a year, circulation neared 200,000. Within five
years, it had topped 1 million.
Hefner, the pipe-smoking embodiment of the
lifestyle he touted, died at his home of natural
causes on Wednesday night, Playboy said in a
statement. He was 91.
$5 trillion question
for Trump tax plan:
How to pay for it?
WASHINGTON — How do you pay for an
estimated $5.8 trillion tax cut?
For President Donald Trump and Republican
congressional leaders, that is the mostly unan-
swered $5,800,000,000,000 question.
The plan they released Wednesday took a
first step toward outlining how Republicans pro-
pose to cover some of the monumental cost over
the next 10 years, mainly by removing certain
tax breaks. But even those proposed changes
were left vague — and wouldn’t remotely pay
the full cost of the tax cut.
The administration says it would eliminate
most personal tax breaks. Possibly gone would
be people’s ability to deduct state and local
taxes as well as eligible medical expenses. But
doing so would still leave the tax cut more than
$2 trillion shy of paying for itself.
The Trump administration argues that it can
accelerate the economy’s growth far beyond its
current pace and, in doing so, generate enough
federal revenue to cover the shortfall. Most
economists have called that wishful thinking.
In Mexico, survivors
recount amazing
escapes from quake
MEXICO CITY — A tree branch saved
a maintenance mechanic from the collapsing
building where a dozen co-workers died when
last week’s earthquake rocked central Mexico.
A slap across the face startled a dazed father
back to his senses, spurring him to carry his
critically injured daughter to safety. Neighbors,
co-workers and passers-by pulled people from
the jaws of death, while taxis, private cars and
even buses rushed them to hospitals.
Amid the endless tragedies from the magni-
tude 7.1 quake that killed more than 300 people,
there were incredible stories of survival.
Conrad Vazquez Martinez, a 67-year-old
mechanic, was on the roof of the four-story
laboratory building where he worked in Mex-
ico City’s Roma Norte neighborhood when the
quake hit at midday Sept. 19.
“I wanted to run to get to people, but the
building was collapsing behind me,” Vazquez
Martinez said Wednesday as he lay in a bed at
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Juana Matos resident Hector Rosa walks through a flooded area after the passing
of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico.
Now even money is running out in Puerto Rico
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — First, Hurricane Maria knocked out power and water to Puerto
Rico. Then diesel fuel, gas and water became scarce. Now, it’s money.
The aftermath of the powerful storm has resulted in a near-total shutdown of the U.S. terri-
tory’s economy that could last for weeks and has many people running seriously low on cash
and worrying that it will become even harder to survive on this storm-ravaged island.
There are long lines at the banks that are open with reduced hours or the scattered ATMs
that are operational amid an islandwide power outage and near total loss of telecommunica-
tions. Many people are unable to work or run their businesses because diesel to run generators
is in short supply or they can’t spend all day waiting for gas to fill their car.
Engineer Octavio Cortes predicts it will only get worse because so many of the problems
are inter-connected and cannot be easily resolved.
“I don’t know how much worse it’s going to get,” Cortes said as he joined other motor-
ists stopping on a bridge over a river in northern Puerto Rico to catch a faint cellphone signal.
“Right now it’s manageable, but I don’t know about next week or after that.”
the Magdalena de las Salinas hospital, recover-
ing from a broken hip and leg. “I ran and ran,
and with one jump I grabbed a branch that grew
close to the building.”
“Another employee and I had once talked
about that branch. We said, ‘If there’s ever a
problem here, we’ll jump out here,’” he remem-
bered. “Unfortunately it was old, and it broke.”
paring the company to Facebook. “They don’t
deny they have allowed more anonymity. So
they’ve got a different business model, we’ve
got different questions for them.”
WASHINGTON — Social media giant Twit-
ter will visit Capitol Hill Thursday as part of the
House and Senate investigations into Russian
interference in the 2016 elections.
Twitter’s closed-door meetings with staff
follow similar briefings from Facebook earlier
this month, and the House and Senate panels
have invited both tech giants, along with Goo-
gle, to appear at public hearings this fall. The
committees are scrutinizing the spread of false
news stories and propaganda on social media,
to what extent Russia was involved and whether
anyone in the United States helped target those
stories.
Unlike Facebook, which has said phony
accounts on its platform attempted to stir
up divisiveness in the election, Twitter has
remained mostly silent. The two social media
companies have different types of platforms, as
Twitter allows users to register anonymously
and has more public accounts than Face-
book. Many lawmakers have expressed con-
cerns about the proliferation of anonymous
“bots” on Twitter and their potential to spread
misinformation.
Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat
on the Senate intelligence panel, said Wednes-
day that he hopes Twitter will be forthcoming.
“They have obviously a different business
model, and also they’ve never tried to prevent
fake accounts, use of bots,” Warner said, com-
seas four times in the last year to visit his Ira-
nian fiancee, most recently hoping to complete
government paperwork that would allow her to
come live with him in the United States.
But the 39-year-old now fears they will
be forever separated after President Donald
Trump’s administration rolled out new restric-
tions blocking most Iranians from traveling to
America. The new restrictions covering citi-
zens of Chad, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Soma-
lia, Syria, and Yemen — and some Venezuelan
government officials and their families — are to
go into effect Oct. 18.
“It is devastating,” said Jahanfar, who works
as a salesman in Long Beach, California, and
has lived in the United States for three decades.
“There should be no reason why my fiancée,
who is an educated person in Iran, who has a
master’s degree, why we cannot be with each
other. I cannot wrap my head around it.”
This is the Trump administration’s third
measure to limit travel following a broad ban
that sparked chaos at U.S. airports in January
and a temporary order issued months later that
was challenged in the courts and expired last
weekend.
Jahanfar is among 385,000 Iranian immi-
grants in the United States, according to the
Census Bureau, more than any of the other
countries covered by the travel restrictions
issued last weekend.
Iranian Americans in
limbo, despair after
Twitter to talk to House, new travel rules
BEACH, Calif. — U.S. Navy vet-
Senate in Russia probe eran LONG
Mohammed Jahanfar has traveled over-
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BANGKOK — Former Thai Prime Minis-
ter Yingluck Shinawatra appears to be staying
in the Mideast commercial hub of Dubai after
fleeing a criminal conviction, Thailand’s prime
minister said Thursday in the first word on her
whereabouts.
“We have received a preliminary informal
report from the Foreign Ministry indicating
that she is Dubai,” said Prime Minister Prayuth
Chan-ocha after expressing annoyance over
reporters’ questions.
Yingluck was sentenced in absentia to five
years in prison on Wednesday after being con-
victed of negligence in overseeing a money-los-
ing rice subsidy program.
Her government was ousted in a 2014 coup
and the military government that remains in con-
trol of the country has pursued Yingluck through
the courts. She fled Thailand shortly before the
court had been expected to rule last month.
Yingluck and her supporters have said she is
innocent, and she has called the charges against
her politically motivated. Her lawyers said
Wednesday they do not know her whereabouts.
Indonesian official:
More than 120,000
flee Bali volcano
BALI, Indonesia — More than 120,000
people have fled the region around the Mount
Agung volcano on the Indonesian tourist island
of Bali, fearing it will soon erupt, an official said
Thursday.
Nyoman Parwata, an official at the disaster
mitigation agency’s command post in Bali, said
the number of evacuees has swelled to about
122,500.
They are scattered in more than 500 loca-
tions across the island famed for its beaches, lush
green interior and elegant Hindu culture, taking
shelter in temporary camps, sports centers and
other public buildings.
The volcano has been at its highest alert
level since Friday, sparking the massive exodus
of villagers. Thousands of cows are also being
evacuated.
An exclusion zone around the mountain
extends as far as 7.5 miles from the crater in
places but officials say people farther from the
volcano are leaving too.
Obscure con man steals
spotlight as informant
in hoops probe
NEW YORK — A once-obscure admitted
con man named Louis Martin “Marty” Blazer III
may have failed in his scheme to make low-bud-
get movies with money swiped from pro athletes,
but he’s now succeeded in stealing part of the
spotlight in a scandal that’s shaken college bas-
ketball to its core.
Federal authorities revealed this week that
Blazer was the wily informant — referred to in
criminal complaints only as CW-1 “cooperating
witness-1” — who played a central role in a fed-
eral bribery investigation of assistant coaches at
four top-tier basketball schools.
“I’m aware of people who are willing to do
this,” federal prosecutors say Blazer told author-
ities in 2014 when he agreed to wear a wire and
buddy up to coaches who took covert payments
in exchange for encouraging top-flight NBA
prospects to choose a particular school, agent or
financial adviser.
Blazer, 46, posed as an experienced — and
corrupt — financial adviser and business manager
while helping the FBI make hundreds of record-
ings — a ruse resulting in a case charging 10 peo-
ple, including coaches from Auburn, Southern
California, Arizona and Oklahoma State.
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