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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, MAY 18, 2018
WORLD IN BRIEF
Associated Press
CIA gets first female chief with
confirmation of Gina Haspel
WASHINGTON — Veteran spy Gina Haspel will become the
first female director of the CIA after six Democrats joined Repub-
licans in a Senate confirmation vote that overrode concerns about
her role in the spy agency’s harsh interrogation program after 9/11.
Thursday’s 54-45 vote split both parties, and the margin was the
closest for a CIA nominee in the nearly seven decades that a nod
from the Senate has been required. Haspel, who has spent nearly all
of her 33-year CIA career in undercover positions, is the first career
operations officer to be confirmed since William Colby in 1973.
Haspel, 61, is a native of Kentucky but grew up around the
world as the daughter of an Air Force serviceman. She worked in
Africa, Europe and classified locations around the globe and was
tapped as deputy director of the CIA last year. She worked under
former CIA director Mike Pompeo until President Donald Trump
moved him to secretary of state.
Haspel was backed by many in the CIA rank-and-file and was
robustly supported by senior intelligence officials, including six
former CIA directors and three former national intelligence direc-
tors, who said she earned the chance to take the helm of the nation’s
premier spy agency. National Intelligence Director Dan Coats said
Haspel has integrity and both frontline and executive intelligence
expertise. “We salute Director Haspel, a trailblazer who today
becomes the first woman to lead the CIA,” he said.
Her opponents argued that it wasn’t right to promote someone
who supervised a covert detention site in Thailand where terror
suspects were waterboarded, an interrogation technique that sim-
ulates drowning. They said the U.S. needed to slam closed what
was one of the CIA’s darkest chapters that tainted America’s image
with allies abroad.
Several senators said Haspel was not forthcoming in answering
questions about her role in the torture program or the CIA’s deci-
sion to destroy videotaped evidence of the sessions. They also had
questions about her rejection of the now-banned techniques.
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said in a floor speech that Haspel
“offered up almost the classic Washington non-apology.” He
asked how the Senate could take seriously Haspel’s “conversion
on torture?”
Investigators probe cause of
school bus crash that killed 2
MOUNT OLIVE, N.J. — Investigators combed through evi-
dence today seeking answers to why a school bus carrying 45
fifth-graders and teachers on a field trip collided with a dump
truck on a New Jersey highway, killing a student and teacher and
sending dozens to area hospitals.
Police declined to release details about how the crash hap-
pened, but it occurred on a stretch of highway just past the exit
for Waterloo Village, where the group from East Brook Middle
School in Paramus was headed. The bus wound up on a guardrail
close to a spot for emergency vehicles to make a U-Turn on the
highway. A sign there reads “No Turns.”
Thirty-eight students and seven adults were on the bus. For-
ty-three people from the bus and the truck driver were hospital-
ized, some in critical condition.
Schools were open today, with crisis counselors on hand to help
students and staff. But evening activities were canceled, and stan-
dardized testing was canceled for Friday and next Monday.
The bus was one of three taking students from the school, about
15 miles west of New York City, to Waterloo Village, a historic
site depicting a Lenape Indian community and once-thriving port
about 5 miles from the crash scene. The other buses made it to the
site but returned to the school about 50 miles away.
Gunman kills up to 10 at Texas high school
SANTA FE, Texas — At least one gunman opened fire at
a Houston-area high school today, killing eight to 10 people,
most of them students, authorities said.
Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said he could not be
precise about the number of deaths at Santa Fe High School,
which went on lockdown around 8 a.m. Two suspects
believed to be students were in custody.
Possible explosive devices have been found at and adja-
cent to the school. The Santa Fe Independent School District
said in a statement that authorities are in the process of ren-
dering the devices safe. There’s no indication how many have
been found.
It was the nation’s deadliest school shooting since the
February attack in Parkland, Florida, that killed 17 people
and re-energized the gun-control movement after surviving
teens launched a campaign for reform.
“We hope the worst is over, and I really can’t say any
more about that because it would be pure speculation,” Assis-
tant Principal Cris Richardson told reporters at the scene.
Aerial footage showed students standing in a grassy field
and three medical helicopters landing at the school in Santa
Fe, a city of about 13,000 residents roughly 30 miles south-
east of Houston.
School officials said law enforcement officers were work-
ing to secure the building and move students to another loca-
tion. Students were being transported to another location to
reunite with their parents.
One student told Houston television station KTRK in a
Michael Ciaglo/Houston Chronicle
A woman prays in the grass outside a gym where par-
ents wait to reunite with their kids.
telephone interview that a gunman came into her first-period
art class and started shooting. The student said she saw one
girl with blood on her leg as the class evacuated the room.
“We thought it was a fire drill at first but really, the teacher
said, ‘Start running,’” the student told the television station.
The student said she did not get a good look at the shooter
because she was running away. She said students escaped
through a door at the back of the classroom.
Authorities did not immediately confirm that report.
The crash left the bus lying on its side on the guardrail of Inter-
state 80 in Mount Olive, its undercarriage and front end sheared off
and its steering wheel exposed. Some of the victims crawled out
of the emergency exit in the back and an escape hatch on the roof.
Fifth-grade student Theo Ancevski was sitting in the fourth
row and was treated at a hospital for cuts and scrapes. He said he
thought something hit the truck right before he heard a scraping
sound and the bus “toppled over.”
“A lot of people were screaming and hanging from their seat
belts,” he said.
Dade quickly encountered him and exchanged gunfire. The man
was arrested without further violence.
“You know, these officers did not hesitate one second to
engage this individual that was actively shooting in the lobby of
the hotel,” he said. “They risked their lives, knowing that that they
had to get in there to save lives in that hotel.”
Gunman arrested after police
shootout at Trump resort
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration will resurrect
a Reagan-era rule banning federally funded family planning clin-
ics from referring women for abortions, or sharing space with
abortion providers.
The Department of Health and Human Services will announce
its proposal today, a senior White House official said Thursday,
speaking on condition of anonymity ahead of the release.
The policy has been derided as a “gag rule” by abortion rights
supporters and medical groups, and it is likely to trigger lawsuits
that could keep it from taking effect. However, it’s guaranteed to
galvanize activists on both sides of the abortion debate going into
the congressional midterm elections.
The announcement comes as President Donald Trump is
scheduled to speak at the Susan B. Anthony List’s “campaign for
life” gala on Tuesday night. The group works to elect candidates
who want to reduce and ultimately end abortion. It says it spent
more than $18 million in the 2016 election cycle to defeat Hillary
Rodham Clinton and promote a “pro-life Senate.”
The Reagan-era rule barred family planning clinics from dis-
cussing abortion with women. It never went into effect as writ-
ten, although the Supreme Court ruled that it was an appropriate
use of executive power. The policy was rescinded under Presi-
dent Bill Clinton, and a new rule went into effect that required
“nondirective” counseling to include a full range of options for
women.
DORAL, Fla. — Gunfire erupted early today at President
Donald Trump’s Miami-area golf resort, as a man shouting anti-
Trump rhetoric draped a flag over a lobby counter and exchanged
fire with officers in what one official called an “ambush” before
being arrested, police said.
One officer broke an arm and the suspect was wounded by
gunfire in the incident, which began around 1:30 a.m. at the
Trump-owned Trump National Doral Golf Club.
Trump was not at the club at the time.
Miami-Dade Police Director Juan Perez identified the suspect
as 42-year-old Jonathan Oddi of Doral. Police were preparing a
search warrant to enter Oddi’s house, Perez said. His neighbors
were evacuated this morning as officers swept the area looking
for booby traps.
“We don’t know what his intentions were in the long term but
we know what he was doing at the time — he was trying to engage
our police officers in some kind of ambush-type attack,” Perez said.
In plotting the ambush, Perez added, “He did succeed and he
did lose.”
The man fired shots into the ceiling and waited for officers to
arrive, he said. Four officers from Doral and one from Miami-
Trump to deny funds to clinics
that refer for abortion
Farm: The idea for a bed-and-breakfast at the house has been kicked around for a while
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The house has a history of
hosting travelers, all the way
back to Chinese immigrants
employed to build the region’s
dikes and troops during war-
time, Hess said.
The idea for a bed-and-
breakfast at the house has been
kicked around for a while, he
said. But the idea came to a
head when the Schauermanns
— a family known for their
work with the Gateway Com-
munity Church and North
Coast Christian School, who
lived there over the past 27
years — began moving out.
“They didn’t know what
was going to happen to the
house after they left,” Moore
said of the Hess family. “The
main idea was to bring it back
into the family and use it for
something that would not play
Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian
Steven Hess examines the greenhouse.
down the industrial farming
side of it.”
People batted around the
concept of an Airbnb or sim-
ilar rental, but they decided a
traditional bed-and-breakfast
would better incorporate the
site’s history, including farm-
ing, metalworking, logging
and other traditional industries
Not just serving
the community.
Part of the
community.
Tina Galey, ARNP
Family Medicine
of the North Coast, she said.
The couple, who will stay
on-site, plan to grow a small
garden next to the house and
raise chickens, goats, pigs and
other animals. They will pro-
vide much of the bed-and-
breakfast’s food, along with
optional tours to nearby farm-
lands and other businesses,
including metalsmiths and
boat-builders.
“It’s all about experiences,
getting out without too much
liability,” Hess said. “I’m
going to teach them how to
chop wood. I’ve got a buddy
in Seattle … never chopped
wood in his life, never split a
piece of wood, which some
people have never done. He
loved it. He’s addicted to it.”
Hess envisions kayaking
trips in surrounding waterways
or visits to a nearby archery
range. Moore said they hope
to also create an all-inclusive
venue for weddings and other
events.
Hess and Moore are work-
ing on the house, planting the
garden and planning on a soft
opening in August.
The
bed-and-breakfast
will have an occupancy of 12,
which is less than the Schauer-
manns, who raised 13 children
at the house.
Family patriarch Chris
Schauermann recently retired
as pastor of the Gateway Com-
munity Church. He and his
wife, Shary, who renovate and
flip houses, recently purchased
a farm in Newberg, where they
plan to plant a hazelnut orchard
or grapes and host events for
their 40 grandchildren.
“There’s some sentimen-
tal things going on,” Schauer-
mann said of leaving the fam-
ily home in Miles Crossing.
“That house is awesome.”
Their son, Angelo Schau-
ermann, was recently voted in
as the new pastor of Gateway
Community Church. Chris
Schauermann said he and
Shary plan to keep a regular
presence on the North Coast.
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