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5A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 2018 WORLD IN BRIEF tion for oxycodone in the name of Prince’s bodyguard, intending it to go Prince. Metz said the evidence shows Prince thought he was taking Vicodin, not fentanyl. He said there’s no evidence any person associ- ated with Prince knew he possessed any coun- terfeit pill containing fentanyl. Prince was 57 when he was found alone and unresponsive in an elevator at his Paisley Park studio compound on April 21, 2016. His death sparked a national outpouring of grief, and prompted a joint investigation by Carver County and federal authorities. Associated Press Trump leaves open possibility of bailing on meeting with Kim WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said that although he’s looking ahead optimistically to a historic summit meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un he could still pull out if he feels it’s “not going to be fruitful.” Trump said that CIA Director Mike Pompeo and Kim “got along really well” in their recent secret meeting, and he declared, “We’ve never been in a position like this” to address world- wide concerns over North Korea’s nuclear weapons. But speaking alongside Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Wednesday, after the allies met at Trump’s Florida resort, he made clear that he’d still be ready to pull the plug on what is being billed as an extraordi- nary meeting between the leaders of longtime adversaries. “If I think that if it’s a meeting that is not going to be fruitful we’re not going to go. If the meeting when I’m there is not fruitful I will respectfully leave the meeting,” Trump told a news conference. He also said that a U.S.-led “maximum pressure” campaign of tough eco- nomic sanctions on North Korea would con- tinue until the isolated nation “denuclearizes.” Abe echoed the sentiment. “Just because North Korea is responding to dialogue, there should be no reward. Max- imum pressure should be maintained,” he said. Trump has said his summit with Kim, with whom he traded bitter insults and threats last year as North Korea conducted nuclear and missile tests, could take place by early June, although the venue has yet to be decided. It would be the first such leadership summit between the two nations after six decades of hostility following the Korean War. Syrian rebels hand over arms, leave another town near Douma Thomas P. Milne/U.S. Navy Lt. Tammie Jo Shults, one of the first women to fly Navy tactical aircraft, in 1992. Southwest Airlines pilot lauded as hero for handling crisis BOERNE, Texas — The Southwest Airlines pilot being lauded as a hero in a harrowing emergency landing after a passenger was partially blown out of the jet’s damaged fuselage is also being hailed for her pioneering role in a career where she has been one of the few women at the controls. Tammie Jo Shults, one of the first female fighter pilots in the U.S. Navy, was the captain and piloting the Dal- las-bound Flight 1380 when it made an emergency landing Tuesday in Philadelphia. One of the engines on the Boeing 737 exploded while the plane was traveling 500 mph at 30,000 feet with 149 people on board. Shrapnel hit the plane and pas- sengers said they had to rescue a woman who was being blown out of a damaged window. The woman later died of blunt force trauma to her head, neck and torso. California reaches deal on National Guard border mission SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California has reached an agreement with the federal govern- ment that the state’s National Guard troops will deploy to the border to focus on fighting trans- national gangs as well as drug and gun smug- glers, Gov. Jerry Brown said. The announcement Wednesday came after a week of uncertainty in which President Don- ald Trump bashed the governor’s insistence that troops avoid immigration-related work. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen wrote on Twitter that final details were still being worked out “but we are looking for- ward to the support.” Brown said he secured federal funding for terms similar to those outlined in last week’s proposed contract: The Guard cannot handle custody duties for anyone accused of immigra- tion violations, build border barriers or have anything to do with immigration enforcement. Federal officials refused to sign the pro- posal because they said it was outside estab- lished protocol for the Guard. Brown’s office said Wednesday that the previous contract was unnecessary after he secured federal funding for his goals. Brown spokesman Evan Westrup said the exact cost has not been determined. Some troops may be deployed this month and are expected to stay until at least Sept. 30, Brown said. Members of the contingent will be assigned to all parts of the state, not just the border. Brown elicited rare and effusive praise from Trump last week when he pledged 400 troops, which helped put the president above the lower end of his threshold of marshaling 2,000 to 4,000 troops for his border mission. Poland marks 75th anniversary of uprising in Warsaw Ghetto WARSAW, Poland — Sirens wailed, church bells tolled and yellow paper daffodils of remembrance dotted the crowd as Polish and Jewish leaders extolled the heroism and determination of the Warsaw Ghetto Upris- ing fighters on the 75th anniversary of their ill- fated rebellion. Polish President Andrzej Duda and World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder said the hundreds of young Jews who took to arms in Warsaw in 1943 against the overwhelming might of the Nazi German army fought for their dignity, but also to liberate Poland from the occupying Germans. The daffodil tradition comes from Marek Edelman, the last surviving commander of the uprising, who on every anniversary used to lay the spring flowers at the monument to the fighters. He died in 2009. In addition to the official observances, hun- dreds of others attended an emotional com- memoration by Poles furious at a conservative government that seems to tolerate anti-Se- mitic views despite its official denunciations of anti-Semitism. The Warsaw Ghetto uprising broke out April 19, 1943, when about 750 young Jewish T HURSDAY E VENING (2) (-) (-) (6) (-) (8) (9) (10) (12) (13) (-) (20) (-) (29) (30) (31) (32) (34) (35) (36) (38) (39) (43) (44) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (56) (57) (58) (61) (63) (64) (65) (162) L KATU KOMO KING KOIN KIRO KGW KRCW KOPB KPTV KPDX KCPQ TBS KZJO ESPN ESPN2 NICK DISN FAM FMC LIFE ROOT FS1 SPIKE COM HIST A&E TLC DISC NGEO TNT AMC USA FOOD HGTV FX CNN FNC CNBC BRAV TCM SYFY RFD (2) (4) (5) (-) (7) (-) (3) (10) (12) (-) (13) (20) (22) (29) (30) (31) (32) (34) (35) (36) (38) (39) (43) (44) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (56) (57) (58) (61) (63) (64) (65) (162) 6 PM fighters armed with just pistols and fuel bottles attacked a much larger and heavily armed Ger- man force that was putting an end to the ghet- to’s existence. In their last testaments they said they knew they were doomed but wanted to die in struggle, at a time and place of their own choosing. They held out nearly a month, lon- ger than some German-invaded countries did. The Germans razed the Warsaw Ghetto and killed most of the fighters, except for a few dozen who managed to escape through sewage canals to the “Aryan” side of the city, Edelman among them. Minnesota prosecutor won’t file charges in Prince’s death MINNEAPOLIS — The prosecutor in the Minnesota county where Prince died said today that no criminal charges will be filed in the musician’s death, effectively ending the state’s two-year investigation into how Prince got the fentanyl that killed him. Carver County Attorney Mark Metz’s announcement came just hours after docu- ments revealed that a doctor who was accused of illegally prescribing an opioid for Prince had agreed to pay $30,000 to settle a fed- eral civil violation. Prosecutors alleged Dr. Michael Todd Schulenberg wrote a prescrip- New data: Americans filling far fewer opioid prescriptions TRENTON, N.J. — The number of pre- scriptions for opioid painkillers filled in the U.S. fell dramatically last year, showing their biggest drop in 25 years and continuing a decline amid increasing legal restrictions and public awareness of the dangers of addiction, new data show. Health data firm IQVIA’s Institute for Human Data Science released a report today showing an 8.9 percent average drop nation- wide in the number of prescriptions for opi- oids filled by retail and mail-order pharma- cies. All 50 states and the District of Columbia had declines of more than 5 percent. Declines topped 10 percent in 18 states, including all of New England and other states hit hard by the opioid overdose epidemic, such as West Vir- ginia and Pennsylvania. “We’re at a really critical moment in the country when everybody’s paying attention to this issue,” said Michael Kleinrock, the insti- tute’s research director. “People really don’t want them if they can avoid them.” There was an even greater drop in total dosage of opioid prescriptions filled in 2017, down 12 percent from 2016. Reasons for that include more prescriptions being for a shorter duration, a 7.8 percent decline in new patients starting on opioid prescriptions and far fewer high-dose prescriptions. SCHEDULE THE DAILY ASTORIAN A Shults calmly relayed details about the crisis to air traffic controllers, and passengers commended her handling of the situation. In a statement late Wednesday, Shults and the other pilot on board, First Offi- cer Darren Ellisor, said they felt like they were simply doing their jobs. Shults was commissioned into the Navy in 1985 and reached the rank of lieutenant commander, said Commander Ron Flanders, the spokesman for Naval Air Forces in San Diego. Women aviators were excluded from combat missions until the month after Shults got off active duty in March 1993, but Flanders said Shults flew during Operation Desert Storm trainings as an aggressor enemy pilot. “While we at that time had an exclu- sion, she was in fact helping male pilots hone their skills,” Flanders said. BEIRUT — Hundreds of Syrian rebels in a town northeast of Damascus handed in their weapons and boarded buses to leave under an evacuation deal, state media reported today. Fighters were to relocate with their fami- lies to opposition-held areas in northern Syria, effectively surrendering their town of Dumayr to the Syrian government. The departure was set to involve 1,500 fighters from the Army of Islam rebel faction with 3,500 of their family members, said the state-run SANA news agency. Their destina- tion was Jarablus, a town shared under Turk- ish and Syrian opposition control near the Syr- ia-Turkey border. Dumayr, in the Qalamoun mountains, is a minute’s drive away from the eastern Ghouta region, a former rebel enclave that came under full government control last week after a driv- ing offensive that culminated in a suspected chemical weapons attack. Inspectors from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons were still not able to reach the scene, 12 days after the suspected attack. The April 7 attack prompted the United States, France, and Britain to strike at sus- pected Syrian chemical weapons facilities. The three countries said they held the Syrian government and its ally Russia responsible for the attack. Damascus and Moscow denied responsibility. 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