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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2018
WORLD IN BRIEF
with the decision said today.
The decision by Rick Gates could indicate
he is planning to cooperate with special counsel
Robert Mueller’s investigation.
The person said Gates, a longtime associ-
ate of former Trump campaign chairman Paul
Manafort, had informed family and friends in a
letter about his decision.
It would mark the fifth publicly known guilty
plea in the special counsel probe into possible
collusion between the Trump campaign and the
Kremlin during the 2016 campaign. A spokes-
man for Mueller did not respond to requests for
comment.
The Gates plea would come a day after a fed-
eral grand jury in Virginia returned a 32-count
indictment against him and Manafort accusing
them of tax evasion and bank fraud. It was the
second round of charges against the two men.
The plea also comes quickly on the heels of
a stunning indictment last week that laid out a
broad operation of election meddling by Russia,
which began in 2014, and employed fake social
media accounts and on-the-ground politicking to
promote the campaign of Donald Trump, dispar-
age Hillary Clinton and sow division and discord
widely among the U.S. electorate.
Associated Press
US tightens sanctions on
North Korean shipping
WASHINGTON — The Trump administra-
tion hit more than 50 vessels, shipping compa-
nies and trade businesses with sanctions today,
escalating pressure on North Korea over its
nuclear program.
The administration billed it as the largest
installment of North Korean economic restric-
tions to date. President Donald Trump went fur-
ther, declaring it was “the heaviest sanctions
ever imposed on a country before.”
While the number of companies from North
Korea and other nations was high, the eco-
nomic impact is unclear. It was certain to be less
than previous U.S. measures that targeted large
banks and business networks in China and Rus-
sia that deal with the North.
However, it significantly tightens the noose
on North Korean trading. Treasury Secretary
Steven Mnuchin told reporters that the U.S. has
now imposed more than 450 sanctions against
the North, about half of them in the last year —
including “virtually all their ships that they’re
using at this moment in time.”
The United Nations Security Council has
imposed three sets of sanctions on North Korea
in the past year to deprive it of revenue and
resources for its nuclear and ballistic missile
development. The weapons pose an emerg-
ing threat to the U.S. mainland. Washington is
particularly concerned about exports of North
Korean coal that are prohibited by the U.N.
sanctions and ship-to-ship transfers of imported
oil and petroleum products.
Trump calls for arming
many teachers, more
guards at schools
WASHINGTON — President Donald
Trump pressed today for the arming of many
teachers and school security guards, question-
ing the inaction of an armed officer who failed
to stop the gunman who carried out last week’s
Florida massacre. “He was not a credit to law
enforcement,” Trump said.
During wide-ranging remarks to the Con-
servative Political Action Conference, he urged
activists to help Republicans in the fall midterm
elections and heed his recent calls to address
gun violence.
Trump told reporters that “when it came time
to get in there and do something,” Florida dep-
uty Scot Peterson “didn’t have the courage or
something happened.”
“He certainly did a poor job. But that’s a case
where somebody was outside, they’re trained,
they didn’t react properly under pressure, or
Ghouta Media Center
A Syrian man runs between destroyed buildings in Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus.
Deaths mount in Syria bombing
campaign near Damascus
BEIRUT — Syrian government warplanes supported by Russia continued their relentless
bombardment of the rebel-controlled eastern suburbs of Damascus for a sixth day today, kill-
ing nine people, opposition activists and a war monitor reported. The death toll from the past
week climbed to more than 400.
The new wave of bombings came a day after the Syrian army dropped leaflets over reb-
el-held eastern suburbs of the capital, Damascus, calling on residents to leave for their own
safety and urging opposition fighters to hand themselves over. The leaflets were dropped by
helicopters over the area known as eastern Ghouta, telling residents that they are surrounded
from all sides by the Syrian army.
The number of casualties has overwhelmed rescuers and doctors at hospitals, many of
which have also been bombed. World leaders have called for an urgent cease-fire in Syria
to allow relief agencies to deliver aid and evacuate the critically sick and wounded from
besieged areas to receive medical care.
they were a coward,” Trump said.
Trump said that past efforts to address school
safety and gun violence had faded and “nothing
ever gets done. We want to see if we can get it
done. Let’s get it done right, we really owe it to
our country.” He added, “most of it’s just com-
mon sense. It’s not ‘do you love guns, do you
hate guns.’ It’s common sense.”
Trump’s speech at CPAC came at the end of
a week that included meetings with students and
teachers and state and local officials on ways to
bolster school safety and address gun violence.
Trump said the “evil massacre” of 17 people at
a Florida high school last week had “broken our
hearts.”
Ex-Trump campaign
aide agrees to guilty plea
in Russia probe
WASHINGTON — A former top
adviser to President Donald Trump’s
campaign is expected to plead guilty in the
special counsel’s Russia probe, a person familiar
Missouri governor
defiant after indictment
linked to affair
ST. LOUIS — Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens
remains defiant, even amid calls for impeach-
ment or resignation, after a St. Louis grand jury
indicted him for felony invasion of privacy,
alleging the Republican took a compromising
photo of a woman during an extramarital affair
the year before he was elected.
Greitens has repeatedly denied blackmailing
the woman, but has repeatedly refused to answer
questions about whether he took a photo.
St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner on
Thursday announced the indictment that fol-
lowed an investigation launched in January, a
day after Greitens admitted to an affair with his
St. Louis hairdresser that began in March 2015.
Greitens released a statement saying he
made a mistake but “did not commit a crime.”
He accused Gardner, a Democrat who was also
elected in November 2016, of playing politics.
Greitens canceled plans to go to Washington
this weekend for the National Governors Asso-
ciation annual meeting. In a statement today, the
Republican Governors Association said Greit-
ens informed the group he would stay in Mis-
souri “to fight back against what his team has
called a baseless charge.” The group said Greit-
ens also “no longer intends to serve” on its exec-
utive committee.
A few lawmakers from both parties suggested
that Greitens should consider resigning, just as
they did after he admitted to the affair on Jan. 10.
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