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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2017
WORLD IN BRIEF
very important.”
A Russian boycott would have been the big-
gest at any Olympics since the Soviet Union and
its allies missed the 1984 Los Angeles Games.
That itself was in response to the U.S.-led boy-
cott of the Moscow Olympics four years earlier.
Putin also said Russia still did not accept accu-
sations that it ran a state-backed doping system
around the Sochi Olympics. He called the IOC
ruling “politically motivated” and unfair “collec-
tive punishment.”
Associated Press
Trump flouts world’s
warnings, to name
Jerusalem a ‘capital’
WASHINGTON — Defying dire, world-
wide warnings, President Donald Trump pre-
pared today to declare Jerusalem as Israel’s capi-
tal, a move upending decades of U.S. policy and
carrying unclear consequences for Mideast peace
efforts.
Although officials said Trump would again
delay action on his oft-repeated campaign prom-
ise to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jeru-
salem from Tel Aviv, his decision to recognize
Jerusalem as Israel’s capital risks infuriating the
Muslim world, and potentially sparking protests
that could fray American alliances in the world’s
most volatile region.
Trump administration officials cast the pres-
ident’s impending announcement as a simple
acknowledgement of the “historical and current
reality” of Jerusalem, which Israel effectively
controls but whose status has been contested
for centuries. But any presidential pronounce-
ment, even couched as Trump’s personal opin-
ion, breaks from Washington’s painstakingly
maintained position of neutrality, which has held
that the city’s ultimate fate must be determined
through Israeli-Palestinian negotiation.
Ahead of Trump’s White House speech, Arab
and Muslim leaders spoke about the potential for
violence. In Gaza, hundreds of Palestinian pro-
testers burned American and Israeli flags. They
also waved Palestinian flags and banners pro-
claiming Jerusalem as their “eternal capital,” lan-
guage that Israelis similarly use.
Even America’s closest allies in Europe ques-
tioned the wisdom of Trump’s radical departure
from past U.S. positions. Trump faced a dead-
line this week on whether to move the U.S.
Embassy to Jerusalem, not on stating his view or
his nation’s on whether Jerusalem should be con-
sidered the Israeli capital.
Temporary OK for
travel ban puts focus
on hearing today
SEATTLE — The U.S. Supreme Court’s
decision allowing President Donald Trump’s
third travel ban to take effect — at least for now
— has intensified the attention on a legal show-
down this afternoon before three judges in Seat-
tle who have previously been cool to the admin-
istration’s efforts.
Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judges
Ronald Gould, Richard Paez and Michael Haw-
kins are scheduled to hear arguments in Hawaii’s
challenge to the ban, which restricts travel to the
United States by residents of six mostly Mus-
lim countries and has been reviled by critics as
discriminatory.
The same panel unanimously ruled against
Trump’s second travel ban, saying the president
had not made a showing that allowing travelers
from the listed nations would harm American
interests.
While courts in Hawaii and Maryland had
partially blocked the third ban, the Supreme
Court on Monday stepped in and lifted those
orders pending the outcome of legal challenges in
West Coast crisis
leads to rise in US
homeless population
AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean
Palestinians burn a poster of President Donald Trump during a protest Tuesday in Beth-
lehem, West Bank.
the 9th as well as the Richmond, Virginia-based
4th Circuit, which is scheduled to hear arguments
Friday. The justices urged those courts to rule
swiftly, but offered no rationale for letting the full
ban take effect in the meantime.
Many legal experts saw it as sign of the high
court’s thinking, one that’s likely to color the
arguments this week.
New blaze erupts in
tony Bel-Air area
of Los Angeles
VENTURA, Calif. — A dangerous new wild-
fire erupted in the tony Bel-Air area of Los Ange-
les early today as firefighters battled three other
destructive blazes across Southern California.
Flames exploded before dawn on the steep
slopes of the east side of Sepulveda Pass, which
carries heavily traveled Interstate 405 through
the Santa Monica Mountains where ridge tops
are covered with expensive homes. At least two
could be seen burning.
Hundreds of firefighters battled flames on the
ground as aircraft dropped water and retardant
near neighborhoods on the east side of the pass.
Commuter traffic snarled in the pass and beyond.
Hundreds of homes burned in the area during
the famous Bel-Air Fire of 1961. The Getty Cen-
ter art complex, on the west side of the pass,
employs extensive fire protection methods. Its
website says it was closed to protect its collec-
tion from smoke.
Elsewhere, use of firefighting aircraft has
been constrained by the same winds that have
spread the fires.
The planes and helicopters essential to tam-
ing wildfires have been mostly grounded because
it’s too dangerous to fly them in the strong wind.
Tuesday saw gusts of over 50 mph.
Commanders hoped to have them back in the
air today to battle flames that spurred evacuation
orders for nearly 200,000 people, destroyed nearly
200 homes and remained mostly out control.
Democratic female
lawmakers call for
Franken to step down
WASHINGTON — Sen. Al Franken’s sup-
port among his fellow Democrats is cratering as a
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Putin will allow
Russians to compete at
Pyeongchang Olympics
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir
Putin won’t boycott the Pyeongchang Olympics.
Putin said today his government will allow
Russians to compete as neutral athletes at the
upcoming games in South Korea.
The International Olympic Committee has
banned the Russian team from the games as pun-
ishment for doping violations at the 2014 Sochi
Olympics. The IOC, however, plans to invite
individual Russians to compete under the Olym-
pic flag.
“Without any doubt we will not declare
any kind of blockade,” Putin said in televised
remarks after launching his re-election campaign
at an automobile factory. “We will not block our
Olympians from taking part, if any of them wish
to take part as individuals.
“They have been preparing for these compe-
titions for their whole careers, and for them it’s
House conservatives
show openness to bill
averting shutdown
WASHINGTON — Hard-right House con-
servatives signaled an openness today to back-
ing a short-term spending bill this week, rais-
ing the odds that Congress will pass the measure
and prevent a partial government shutdown on
Saturday.
“We’ve got to get across the finish line on tax
reform,” Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., leader of
the House Freedom Caucus, told reporters after
the group met privately early today. “Any dis-
traction from that is a problem.” Asked if a fed-
eral shutdown would be a problem, he said, “Of
course.”
Top Republicans plan to push legislation
through Congress this week financing federal
agencies through Dec. 22, a period that would
allow time for both parties to bargain over
long-term budget decisions and other issues.
Government closures would begin at midnight
Friday night unless lawmakers approve more
money.
The roughly 30-member caucus has been try-
ing to win promises of tight budget curbs and
other concessions from leaders in exchange for
backing the short-term bill. Without support from
many of them, Republicans would need votes
from Democrats to push the temporary spending
measure through the House, and Democrats have
not said what they will do.
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host of female Democratic senators today called
upon him to resign.
Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., Patty Mur-
ray, D-Wash., Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., Mazie
Hirono, D-Hawaii, Kamala Harris, D-Calif., and
Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., all called on Franken to
step down.
The demands came in rapid succession after
Franken vehemently denied a new sexual mis-
conduct accusation that came from a former
Democratic congressional aide that he tried to
forcibly kiss her after a taping of his radio show
in 2006.
The Minnesota Democrat said in a statement
that the allegation, reported by Politico, was “cat-
egorically not true.”
The woman, who was not identified by name,
said Franken pursued her after her boss had left
and she was collecting her belongings. She said
she ducked to avoid his lips, and that Franken
told her: “It’s my right as an entertainer.”
Franken, in his statement, said the idea he
would claim such conduct as a right as an enter-
tainer was “preposterous.”
But the tide quickly turned against Franken
today. Fellow Democrats had previously been
cautious and respected Franken’s right to cooper-
ate with an ethics probe. But the steady stream of
allegations has female Democrats fed up.
LOS ANGELES — The nation’s homeless
population increased this year for the first time
since 2010, driven by a surge in the number of
people living on the streets in Los Angeles and
other West Coast cities.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development released its annual Point in Time
count today, a report that showed nearly 554,000
homeless people across the country during local
tallies conducted in January. That figure is up
nearly 1 percent from 2016.
Of that total, 193,000 people had no access to
nightly shelter and instead were staying in vehi-
cles, tents, the streets and other places considered
uninhabitable. The unsheltered figure is up by
more than 9 percent compared to two years ago.
Increases are higher in several West Coast
cities, where the explosion in homelessness has
prompted at least 10 city and county govern-
ments to declare states of emergency since 2015.
City officials, homeless advocates and those
living on the streets point to a main culprit: the
region’s booming economy .
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