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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2018
WORLD IN BRIEF
Associated Press
Trump backs efforts to
bolster FBI gun checks
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President
Donald Trump offered support today for an
effort to strengthen the federal gun background
check system as he hunkered down at his pri-
vate Florida golf course just 40 miles from last
week’s deadly school shooting.
Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders
said the president spoke on Friday to Sen. John
Cornyn, a Texas Republican, about a bipartisan
bill designed to strengthen the FBI database of
prohibited gun buyers.
Trump started President’s Day at Mar-a-
Lago and spent most of the weekend there,
as White House aides advised against golfing
too soon after the shooting at a Parkland high
school that left 17 dead.
In a marathon series of furious weekend
tweets, Trump vented about Russia, raging at
the FBI for what he perceived to be a fixation
on the Russia investigation at the cost of fail-
ing to deter the attack on a Florida high school.
He made little mention of the nearby school
shooting victims and the escalating gun control
debate.
The background check legislation would
be aimed at ensuring that federal agencies and
states accurately report relevant criminal infor-
mation to the FBI. It was introduced after the
Air Force failed to report the criminal history
of the gunman who slaughtered more than two
dozen people at a Texas church.
Kristin Brown, co-president of the Brady
Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, said the
measure Trump discussed with Cornyn would
help to enforce existing rules but would not
close loopholes permitting private sales on
the internet and at gun shows. She’s press-
ing for a ban on assault-type weapons and for
laws enabling family members, guardians or
police to ask judges to strip gun rights tempo-
rarily from people who show warning signs of
violence.
‘No known ties’ between
white nationalist leader,
Florida school shooter
A law enforcement official says he knows of
“no known ties” between the suspect who con-
fessed to a deadly mass shooting at a Florida
high school and a white supremacist group.
Lt. Grady Jordan, a spokesman for the Leon
County Sheriff’s Office in Tallahassee, where
the white nationalist militia known as the
Republic of Florida is based, said his office has
arrested militia leader Jordan Jereb at least four
times since January 2014 and has been monitor-
ing the group’s membership.
He says his office has “very solid” informa-
tion on the group and “there’s no known ties
that we have that we can connect” 19-year-old
Nikolas Cruz with the group.
Jereb told The Associated Press last week
that Cruz was a member and participated in
paramilitary drills in Tallahassee.
Jereb said he didn’t know Cruz personally
and that “he acted on his own behalf of what
he just did and he’s solely responsible for what
he just did.”
Doping charge could
hurt Russia’s chance
at reinstatement
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea — Russia
could lose its chance to be reinstated before the
end of the Winter Olympics because of a doping
charge against curling bronze medalist Alexan-
der Krushelnitsky.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport said in a
statement today that it has “initiated a proce-
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People visit a makeshift memorial outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where 17 students and faculty were killed in
last week’s mass shooting.
Shooting survivors on potential collision course with Trump
PARKLAND, Fla. — Student survivors of the deadly Florida school shooting who hope to become the face of a revived gun control move-
ment are on a potential collision course with President Donald Trump.
Several of the students have criticized the president, whose election was strongly supported by the National Rifle Association and who ran
on a platform opposing gun control.
“You’re the president. You’re supposed to bring this nation together, not divide us,” said David Hogg, a 17-year-old student at Marjory
Stoneman Douglas High School in South Florida, speaking on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “How dare you,” he added.
After more than a day of criticism from the students, the White House said the president would hold a “listening session” with unspecified
students Wednesday and meet Thursday with state and local security officials.
Florida politicians, meanwhile, scrambled to produce legislation in response to the Feb. 14 attack that killed 17 people. Nikolas Cruz, a
19-year-old who had been expelled from the school, is being held without bail in the Broward County Jail, accused of 17 counts of first-degree
murder.
In a TV interview, Republican Sen. Marco Rubio embraced a Democratic bill in the Florida legislature to allow courts to temporarily prevent
people from having guns if they are determined to be a threat to themselves or others.
Gov. Rick Scott, also a Republican, attended a prayer vigil at the First Church Coral Springs, blocks from the shooting site. He is expected to
announce a legislative package with GOP lawmakers this week.
Seeking to increase pressure for gun control, the students plan to visit the state capitol in Tallahassee this week to demand immediate action.
They are also calling for anti-gun violence demonstrations in Washington and other cities March 24.
dure involving” Krushelnitsky, who finished
third in mixed doubles with his wife, Anasta-
sia Bryzgalova.
Russian officials said he tested positive for
meldonium, which was banned in 2016, and has
left the Olympic village. No date has been set
for a hearing.
IOC spokesman Mark Adams says a failed
doping test could keep Russia’s banned team
from marching under the national flag at the
closing ceremony.
Russian athletes are participating in the
Pyeongchang Olympics as “Olympic Athletes
from Russia.” The IOC suspended the Russian
Olympic committee last year in connection with
a massive doping scheme at the 2014 Olympics
in Sochi but allowed 168 athletes to compete
under neutral uniforms and without the Russian
national flag.
Adams confirmed the positive test and says
it could have “consequences” in evaluating the
behavior the Russian team, which was required
to abide by restrictions — including bans to
some medal favorites — and to undergo extra
drug tests.
Meldonium is the substance that Russian
tennis star Maria Sharapova was suspended for
after testing positive at the Australian Open in
2016. Before it was banned, many Russian ath-
letes used the drug, which is designed for peo-
ple with heart problems and some believe can
help athletes increase stamina.
Iranian rescuers
find wreckage
from plane crash
TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian search and rescue
teams today reached the site of a plane crash that
authorities say killed all 65 people on board.
The Aseman Airlines ATR-72, a twin-engine
turboprop used for short-distance regional fly-
ing, went down on Sunday in foggy weather,
crashing into Mount Dena in a remote area of
southern Iran.
The crash of the aircraft, brought back into
service only months ago after being grounded
for seven years, was yet another fatal aviation
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disaster for Iran, which for years was barred
from buying necessary airplane parts due to
Western sanctions over its contested nuclear
program.
Iran’s Press TV said search teams reached
the crash site before dawn today. The semi-of-
ficial Tasnim news agency cited the military as
saying Russia had helped locate the crash site.
Russia and Iran are close military allies.
The TV broadcast footage of a helicop-
ter joining the search and showed ambulances
and rescue vehicles preparing to reach the site
on Mount Dena, which is about 14,400 feet tall.
The site is reportedly at a height of 11,500 feet.
High winds have made it difficult to fly heli-
copters and drones, hampering search efforts.
The 2015 nuclear accord with world pow-
ers lifted international sanctions on Tehran
in exchange for curbs on its nuclear enrich-
ment program, allowing Iran to purchase air-
planes and airplane parts. The country has since
signed deals to purchase tens of billions of dol-
lars’ worth of new aircraft. However, President
Donald Trump’s refusal to recertify the deal has
injected uncertainty into those sales.
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