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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2017
WORLD IN BRIEF
Associated Press
GOP senator to retire, takes
parting shots at Trump
WASHINGTON — Can the traditional Republican Party sur-
vive the presidency of Donald Trump?
That existential question, which has nagged at Republicans
since Trump’s stunning election one year ago, flared up anew
Tuesday with Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake’s announcement that he is
retiring from Congress. One of the GOP’s most consistent critics
of the president, Flake was facing a tough primary challenge in
next year’s election from at least one candidate with the backing of
some Trump allies.
“There may not be a place for a Republican like me in the current
Republican climate or the current Republican Party,” said Flake, a
conservative who has worked with Democrats on issues like immi-
gration and the Obama administration’s detente with Cuba.
The senator’s dour assessment of his future in the Republican
Party gave voice to worries that have gripped the GOP heading
into the midterm elections. Trump has shown little loyalty to some
sitting senators, and has openly squabbled with Flake and Senate
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Some of the president’s ardent
supporters — led by former White House senior adviser Steve
Bannon — are actively courting GOP primary challengers who are
more willing to buck the Republican establishment in Washington
than line up behind its leaders.
Andy Surabian, a senior adviser for the pro-Trump group
Great America Alliance, said Flake’s retirement is part of a trend
and “should serve as another warning shot to the failed Republi-
can establishment that backed Flake and others like them that their
time is up.”
Source: Clinton camp helped
fund Trump dossier research
WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign
and the Democratic National Committee helped fund political
research into President Donald Trump that ultimately produced
a dossier of allegations about his ties to Russia, a person familiar
with the matter said Tuesday night.
The revelation is likely to fuel complaints by Trump that the
dossier, which the president has derided as “phony stuff,” is a polit-
ically motivated collection of salacious claims. Yet the FBI has
worked to corroborate the document, and in a sign of its ongoing
relevance to investigators, special counsel Robert Mueller’s team
— which is probing potential coordination between Russia and the
Trump campaign — weeks ago questioned the former British spy,
Christopher Steele, who helped compile the claims in the dossier.
The dossier, which circulated in Washington last year and was
turned over to the FBI for its review, contends that Russia was
engaged in a longstanding effort to aid Trump and had amassed
compromising information about him. Trump has repeatedly dis-
missed the document as false and in recent days has questioned on
Twitter whether Democrats or the FBI had helped fund it.
Trump has also attacked the findings of the FBI, NSA and CIA
that Russia waged a large-scale influence campaign to interfere
in the election. The FBI and the CIA have said with high con-
fidence that the effort was aimed at hurting Clinton’s candidacy
and helping Trump. The NSA found the same with “moderate”
confidence.
The person familiar with the matter, who spoke on condi-
tion of anonymity to discuss confidential client matters, said
the arrangement was brokered by Marc Elias, a lawyer for
the Clinton campaign and the DNC, and his law firm of Perkins
Coie.
EPA chemical review would
exclude millions of tons of toxins
BILLINGS, Mont. — Spurred by the chemical industry, Pres-
ident Donald Trump’s administration is retreating from a congres-
sionally mandated review of some of the most dangerous chem-
icals in public use: millions of tons of asbestos, flame retardants
and other toxins in homes, offices and industrial plants across the
United States.
Instead of following President Barack Obama’s proposal to
look at chemicals already in widespread use that result in some
of the most common exposures, the new administration wants to
limit the review to products still being manufactured and entering
the marketplace.
For asbestos, that means gauging the risks from just a few hun-
dred tons of the material imported annually while excluding almost
all of the estimated 8.9 million tons of asbestos-containing prod-
ucts that the U.S. Geological Survey said entered the marketplace
between 1970 and 2016.
Lawmakers say the review was intended to be the first step
toward enacting new regulations needed to protect the public. But
critics — including health workers, consumer advocates, members
of Congress and environmental groups — contend ignoring prod-
ucts already in use undermines that goal.
The administration’s stance is the latest example of Trump sid-
ing with industry. In this case, firefighters and construction workers
say the move jeopardizes their health.
Rock ‘n’ roll pioneer
Fats Domino has died at age 89
NEW ORLEANS — Fats Domino, the amiable rock ‘n’ roll
pioneer whose steady, pounding piano and easy baritone helped
change popular music while honoring the traditions of the Crescent
City, has died. He was 89.
Mark Bone, chief investigator with the Jefferson Parish, Lou-
isiana, coroner’s office, said Domino died of natural causes early
Tuesday.
In appearance, he was no matinee idol. He
stood 5-feet-5 and weighed more than 200
pounds, with a wide, boyish smile and a hair-
cut as flat as an album cover. But Domino sold
more than 110 million records, with hits includ-
ing “Blueberry Hill,” ‘’Ain’t That a Shame” —
originally titled “Ain’t It A Shame”— and other
standards of rock ‘n’ roll.
Fats
He was one of the first 10 honorees named to
Domino
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and the Roll-
ing Stone Record Guide likened him to Benjamin
Franklin, the beloved old man of a revolutionary movement.
His dynamic performance style and warm vocals drew crowds
for five decades. One of his show-stopping stunts was playing the
piano while standing, throwing his body against it with the beat of
the music and bumping the grand piano across the stage.
Domino became a global star but stayed true to his hometown,
where his fate was initially unknown after Hurricane Katrina struck
in August 2005. It turned out that he and his family were rescued
by boat from his home, where he lost three pianos and dozens of
gold and platinum records, along with other memorabilia.
Bergdahl due back in court with
Trump talk looming over case
RALEIGH, N.C. — Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl returns to a
military courtroom at Fort Bragg today for his sentencing hear-
ing, where prosecutors plan to present evidence that fellow ser-
vice members were seriously wounded in a fruitless search for
him after he abandoned his post in Afghanistan.
Prosecutors are expected to start calling witnesses to discuss
these search missions and resulting wounds to multiple service
members, which the judge ruled would not have happened had
Bergdahl not endangered his comrades in 2009. They include an
Army National Guard sergeant who suffered a traumatic brain
injury after being shot in the head and a Navy SEAL whose career
was ended by a leg wound.
Bergdahl, 31, who spent five years as a Taliban prisoner,
faces up to life behind bars in the U.S. after pleading guilty to the
rare charge of misbehavior before the enemy as well as desertion.
President Donald Trump’s criticism looms over the case. The
military judge, Army Col. Jeffery R. Nance, has yet to rule on a
defense motion that Bergdahl can’t get a fair sentence with the
Republican as commander in chief.
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“It wasn’t just a physical
fire,” Daniels said. “It’s men-
tal fatigue. We all take it per-
sonally. When you stand on
the hillside and thousands
of homes and buildings are
gone, when you drive down
the freeway and their com-
mercial buildings are burned
down on both sides — none
of us wants to see somebody
devastated like that.”
Daniels was one of five
members of the Seaside Fire
Department contingent, in
addition to Lt. Genesee Den-
nis, Capt. Mike Smith and
firefighters Alex Hernandez
and Katie Bulletset.
Gearhart’s crew consisted
of Eddy, Tanner Rich, Mike
LaLonde and Angels Garcia.
Olney-Walluski Volun-
teer Fire and Rescue Chief
Ron Tyson led the county
strike team, joined by volun-
teers from Lewis and Clark,
Knappa and Columbia River
Fire in addition to those from
Seaside and Gearhart.
Firefighters step up
The Oregon Fire Mar-
shal received the request for
assistance through the Emer-
gency Management Assis-
tance Compact, a national
state-to-state mutual aid sys-
tem, late at night on Oct. 10.
Crews were mobilized
and on their way down Inter-
state 5 the next day, Daniels
said, about a 15-hour trip.
Clatsop County firefight-
ers worked with the more
than 4,200 firefighters in the
Santa Rosa region, sleeping
in tents outside the Sonoma
County Fairgrounds.
Oregon
firefighters
offered relief to local crews
whose resources had been
spread thin.
Some local firefighters
had been working shifts of
three or four days straight,
Daniels said.
Crews cleared brush
fires and put out hot spots
in an effort to contain blazes
driven by the wind, reaching
speeds of 60 mph at times.
“Until the wind dies down
you are just trying to keep it
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Firefighters:
‘Everybody
helps support
everybody else’
Seaside Fire and Rescue
Seaside’s Katie Bulletset
on the scene of wildfires
in Santa Rosa, California.
at bay, or to redirect it so it
does not take out more,”
Daniels said. “They just had
an awful wind.”
Turning the tide
It wasn’t until rain fell
overnight, Thursday into Fri-
day, that crews could begin
cleaning up the last hot spots.
“They were glad to see
it,” Daniels said. “And boy,
they got some rain.”
With help from precip-
itation, Oregon firefighters
demobilized and returned
after 11 days in California.
Eddy
and
Daniels
returned Saturday.
As of Tuesday, the Tubbs
fire in and around Santa Rosa
was 94 percent contained,
Cal Fire reported, but not
before growing to more than
36,000 acres.
The fire killed 22 peo-
ple, destroyed 7,000 homes
and buildings and damaged
another 500. Five percent of
homes were destroyed and
damage reached more than
$1 billion in Santa Rosa
alone.
This summer, Califor-
nia sent resources to Ore-
gon to fight blazes in the
Chetco Bar Fire in Brook-
ings and the Eagle Creek
Fire in the Columbia Gorge.
They joined teams from as
far away as Victoria, a state
in Australia.
“Everybody helps support
everybody else,” Eddy said.
“Firefighters are firefight-
ers,” Daniels added. “We all
do the same job.”
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