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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2018
WORLD IN BRIEF
Associated Press
House panel
opens investigation of
ex-Trump aide Porter
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers on Capitol
Hill want to know how former presidential aide
Rob Porter was allowed to work at the White
House under an interim security clearance —
despite allegations of spousal abuse.
Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., chairman of the
House Committee on Oversight and Govern-
ment Reform, sent letters to the FBI and White
House today as his panel opened an investi-
gation into the matter. Porter, the president’s
staff secretary, resigned last week after his two
ex-wives came forward with allegations of
abuse.
House Speaker Paul Ryan was asked today
about how the White House has handled the
Porter allegations, and whether President Don-
ald Trump needs to publicly condemn domes-
tic violence.
“Clearly, we all should be condemning
domestic violence,” Ryan told reporters. “And if
a person who commits domestic violence gets in
the government, then there’s a breakdown in the
system. There’s a breakdown in the vetting sys-
tem and that breakdown needs to be addressed.”
Ryan’s comments and word of the House
probe come a day after the FBI contradicted the
White House over the Porter accusations. The
FBI said it gave the Trump administration infor-
mation on multiple occasions last year about
Porter and that the investigation wrapped up in
January.
That account by FBI Director Christopher
Wray challenged the White House assertion
that Porter’s background “investigation was
ongoing” and officials first learned the extent
of accusations against him only last week, just
before he abruptly resigned.
The weeklong fallout from the allegations
against Porter has thrown the West Wing into
chaos not seen since the earliest months of the
administration and has sparked new rounds of
recriminations inside the White House.
Romney to launch Senate
campaign Thursday
SALT LAKE CITY — Former GOP pres-
idential nominee Mitt Romney will announce
Thursday that he’s running for the Utah Sen-
ate seat held by retiring Orrin Hatch, three
people with direct knowledge of the plan con-
firmed today.
The former Republican presidential can-
didate will release an online video Thursday
announcing he’s running for the seat. His first
public appearance as a Senate candidate will
be Friday night at a county Republican party
dinner in Provo.
Romney, a former Massachusetts gover-
nor and one of the most famous Mormons, is
expected to easily win the Senate seat in Utah,
which is heavily Mormon.
The 70-year-old Republican moved to
Utah after losing the 2012 presidential elec-
tion and is very popular in the state. He helped
turn around the scandal-plagued 2002 Winter
Olympics and has earned broad respect.
In addition to his instant name recogni-
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AP Photo/Matt Slocum
South Korea’s Lee Jingyu (29), of the combined Koreas team, falls as she passes
the puck against Haruna Yoneyama (10), of Japan.
Rivalry between Koreas,
Japan transcends sports
GANGNEUNG, South Korea — As South Korea’s national soccer coach prepared to play
Japan in a 1954 World Cup qualifier, President Syngman Rhee, who’d been liberated, with
the rest of Korea, from Japan’s brutal colonial rule in 1945, had some advice should the Kore-
ans lose: “Don’t think about coming back alive,” he supposedly told the coach. “Just throw
yourself into the Genkai Sea.”
There are sports rivalries, and then there’s Korea vs. Japan — an often toxic mix of vio-
lent history and politics, with a (un)healthy dose of cultural chauvinism and envy mixed in.
The fierce grudges over historical persecution and a thousand perceived national and cul-
tural slights cannot be untwined from the sports for many Koreans. These swirling emotions
were front and center today as a combined team of North and South Koreans played regional
power Japan in women’s hockey.
Both had yet to win a game these Olympics. Both desperately wanted that win to come
against their rival. But Japan pulled it out in the end, defeating the joint Korean team 4-1.
The two Koreas share much, not least language and culture, but they’ve also been divided
for seven decades and are still in a technical state of war. Just weeks ago, there were real fears
of military conflict here. More than any temporary cooperation on the hockey ice, then, it
may be their shared hatred of Japan — and the near universal perception that Tokyo has never
fully apologized for or acknowledged its colonial evils — that joins them most forcefully.
The last time the Koreas were unified, in fact, was during Japanese rule from 1910 to
1945. The end of World War II saw the division of the peninsula into a U.S.-backed south and
Soviet-backed north.
tion, Romney has a deep network of fundrais-
ers and his own personal wealth to help carry
him.
During the 2016 presidential election,
Romney gave a scathing speech in which he
called Trump “a phony” who is “playing the
American public for suckers” and a man who
was unfit to be president.
He softened his stance after Trump won the
presidency and put himself forward as a can-
didate for secretary of state. But he resumed
his criticism last year, calling out the presi-
dent for blaming “both sides” following a
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Israeli leader vows
to carry on despite
corruption charges
JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to carry on today
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after police recommended indicting him on
corruption charges, angrily dismissing the alle-
gations and the critics calling on him to step
down.
With his coalition partners dutifully lining
up behind him, the longtime leader readied
himself for a prolonged battle over his politi-
cal legitimacy as the attorney general considers
whether to ultimately press charges.
The police announcement that Netanya-
hu’s acceptance of nearly $300,000 in gifts
from two billionaires amounted to bribery sent
shockwaves through the Israeli political sys-
tem and delivered a humiliating blow to Net-
anyahu after years of allegations and investi-
gations. But it did not appear to immediately
threaten his lengthy rule as reaction largely fell
along partisan lines. Nearly all of Netanyahu’s
Cabinet ministers issued statements of sup-
port and his coalition partners all signaled they
would stick by him, for now.
Though he is not legally compelled to
resign, several opposition figures called on
Netanyahu to do so to avoid corrupting the
office further.
Under similar circumstances a decade ago
Netanyahu, then the opposition leader, urged
then-Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to resign
after police recommended he be indicted, say-
ing a leader “sunk up to his neck in interroga-
tions” could not govern properly. Olmert even-
tually stepped down and was convicted and
imprisoned.
White apologizes for
comments on sexual
misconduct lawsuit
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea — Shaun
White has apologized after dismissing the sex-
ual misconduct allegations made against him
in a 2016 lawsuit as “gossip” shortly after win-
ning his third Olympic gold medal in the men’s
halfpipe today.
White has been the world’s dominant snow-
boarder for more than a decade, winning gold
medals in 2006, 2010 and again this year, com-
pleting a comeback after finishing fourth in
2014.
As White was competing, many on social
media resurfaced the details from the lawsuit
by a former drummer in White’s rock band,
Bad Things. Lena Zawaideh said White sexu-
ally harassed her and refused to pay her wages
after he fired her. The lawsuit was settled in
May for an undisclosed amount.
White was asked during a news conference
if the allegations might tarnish his reputation.
“I’m here to talk about the Olympics, not
gossip and stuff,” he said. “I don’t think so.”
White later said on NBC’s Today Show he
used “a poor choice of words to describe such
a sensitive subject.”
“I’m just truly sorry,” he said. “I was
so overwhelmed with just wanting to talk
about how amazing today was and share my
experience.”
In the lawsuit, Zawaideh said White repeat-
edly sexually harassed her, forced her to watch
pornography and told her how to get her hair
cut.
The lawsuit included screengrabs of text
messages allegedly sent by White asking about
the haircut and suggesting she wear a provoc-
ative outfit.
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