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5A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2018 WORLD IN BRIEF Associated Press Despite denial, Pope got abuse victim’s letter VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis received a victim’s letter in 2015 that graphically detailed how a priest sexually abused him and how other Chilean clergy ignored it, contradicting the pope’s recent insistence that no victims had come forward to denounce the cover-up, the letter’s author and members of Francis’ own sex- abuse commission said. The fact that Francis received the eight-page letter, obtained by the Associated Press, chal- lenges his insistence that he has “zero tolerance” for sex abuse and cover-ups. It also calls into question his stated empathy with abuse survivors, compounding the most serious crisis of his five- year papacy. The scandal exploded last month when Fran- cis’ trip to South America was marred by protests over his vigorous defense of Bishop Juan Bar- ros, who is accused by victims of covering up the abuse by the Rev. Fernando Karadima. During the trip, Francis callously dismissed accusations against Barros as “slander,” seemingly unaware that victims had placed him at the scene of Karad- ima’s crimes. On the plane home, confronted by a reporter, the pope said: “You, in all good will, tell me that there are victims, but I haven’t seen any, because they haven’t come forward.” But members of the pope’s Commission for the Protection of Minors say that in April 2015, they sent a delegation to Rome specifically to hand-deliver a letter to the pope about Barros. The letter from Juan Carlos Cruz detailed the abuse, kissing and fondling he says he suffered at Karadima’s hands, which he said Barros and oth- ers witnessed and ignored. had coordinated with the White House in draft- ing the document seized on by the president to vent his grievances against the nation’s premier law enforcement agencies. Former sports doctor sentenced to another 40 to 125 years CHARLOTTE, Mich. — The former sports doctor whose serial sexual abuse of girls and young women upended the gymnastics world was sentenced today to a third prison term of 40 to 125 years for molesting young athletes at an elite Michigan training center. Larry Nassar listened to dozens of victims for two days last week and was almost attacked by a man whose three daughters said they were abused. His final sentence comes after he pleaded guilty to molesting young athletes with ungloved hands when they sought treatment for injuries at Twistars, a gymnastics club that was run by a 2012 U.S. Olympic coach. Nassar’s conduct “robbed these girls and women of one of the most truly important human qualities: trust,” Judge Janice Cunningham said. The sentence is largely symbolic because the 54-year-old is already assured of spending the rest of his life in prison. Before serving either of his two state sentences, he must first serve 60 years in federal prison for child pornography crimes. In all, more than 260 women and girls have reported being molested by Nassar, who worked for Michigan State and USA Gymnas- tics, the sport’s governing body, which also trains Olympians. Some of the cases date back to the 1990s. The judge said the abuse “spans the country and the world.” Trump lashes out at Schiff over Russia probe memo US starts Iraq drawdown after declaration of victory over IS WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump traded insults with the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee today, a day after Demo- crats and Republicans said Trump was wrong to assert that a GOP-produced classified memo on FBI surveillance powers cleared him in the Rus- sia investigation. Trump’s attack on California Rep. Adam Schiff came before a planned meeting of the House intelligence panel today, where the com- mittee is expected to consider whether to release a Democratic rebuttal memo. Democrats are seeking to push back on the Republican docu- ment, which questions the FBI methods used to apply for a surveillance warrant on a onetime Trump campaign associate. On Twitter, Trump called Schiff “one of the biggest liars and leakers in Washington,” adding that he “must be stopped.” Schiff quickly shot back: “Instead of tweeting false smears, the American people would appre- ciate it if you turned off the TV and helped solve the funding crisis, protected Dreamers or ... really anything else.” Trump also praised Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., on Twitter, call- ing him a man of tremendous courage and grit, may someday be recognized as a Great Ameri- can Hero for what he has exposed and what he has had to endure!” The committee did not release the Demo- cratic memo last week, with one Republican member saying revisions were needed so the memo would not endanger national security. Key Democrats are seeking to put out the document, including the Senate’s Democratic leader, Chuck Schumer of New York, who urged Trump to back the public release and said that refusing to do so would show the president’s intent to undermine the Russia investigation. Schiff has branded the GOP memo “a polit- ical hit job” and has questioned whether Nunes AL-ASAD AIRBASE, Iraq — American troops have started to draw down from Iraq fol- lowing Baghdad’s declaration of victory over the Islamic State group last year, according to West- ern contractors at a U.S.-led coalition base in Iraq. Dozens of American soldiers have been trans- ported from Iraq to Afghanistan on daily flights over the past week, along with weapons and equipment, the contractors said. Two Iraqi officials confirmed to The Associ- ated Press that the U.S.-led coalition and the Iraqi government have reached an agreement to draw down troops in Iraq for the first time since the war against IS was launched over three years ago. The Iraqi officials said the process has not officially begun. However, an AP reporter at the Al-Asad base in western Iraq saw troop movements reflect- ing the contractors’ account of a drawdown. The contractors and the Iraqi officials spoke on con- dition of anonymity in line with regulations and declined to reveal the exact size of the drawdown. 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It was sup- posed to highlight the volunteer program Ram Nation. But it was criticized by viewers and ad experts alike for forging too tenuous a connection with the civil rights hero. WLTX TV In this image from video, train cars are smashed and derailed Sunday near Cayce, S.C. GPS-based system could have prevented latest deadly train crash CAYCE, S.C. — Federal investigators spent a second day today at the site of a deadly train crash in South Carolina, where an Amtrak train was mistakenly sent off a main track and down a side spur — and into a parked freight train. The ensuing crash early Sunday killed two people and injured more than 100 passengers. The investigation headed by the National Transportation Safety Board could take years, but federal investigators are already focusing on one critical factor: that a switch, set manu- ally, may have caused the passenger train to barrel down the wrong track. Moreover, authorities say the crash could have been prevented with a GPS-based system called “positive train control,” which knows the location of all trains and the positions of all switches in an area and is designed to prevent two trains from traveling on the same track at the same time. Regulators have demanded the implementation of positive train control for decades, and the technology is now in place in the Northeast, but railroads that operate tracks used by Amtrak elsewhere in the U.S. have won repeated extensions from the government. The dead- line for installing such equipment is now the end of 2018. On Wednesday, a chartered Amtrak train carrying Republican members of Congress to a retreat slammed into a garbage truck at a crossing where locals said the safety arms were down even when no trains approached. That accident in rural Virginia killed one person in the truck and injured six others. 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