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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, JULY 19, 2018
WORLD IN BRIEF
Israeli parliament
passes contentious
Jewish nation bill
Associated Press
Amid harsh criticism,
Trump tries a tougher
tone on Russia
WASHINGTON — President Donald
Trump spent a second day managing the polit-
ical fallout from his widely criticized meeting
with Russia’s Vladimir Putin, shifting stances
and mopping up what the White House said
were misstatements.
His toughness with the longtime
American foe in question, Trump said Wednes-
day he told the Russian president face-to-face
during Monday’s summit to stay out of Amer-
ica’s elections “and that’s the way it’s going
to be.”
That rhetoric marked a turnabout from
Trump’s first, upbeat description of his sit-
down with Putin. Still, Trump backtracked
on whether Russia is currently targeting U.S.
elections. When asked the question Wednes-
day, he answered “no,” a reply that put him
sharply at odds with recent public warnings
from his own intelligence chief.
Hours later, the White House stepped in
to say Trump’s answer wasn’t what it
appeared.
The zigzagging laid bare the White House’s
search for a path out of trouble that has dogged
the administration’s discussions of Russia
from the start, but spiraled after Trump’s trip
to Helsinki. After days of criticism from both
Democrats and Republicans, Trump — a poli-
tician who celebrates his brash political incor-
rectness — has appeared more sensitive than
usual to outside opprobrium.
After rescue, Thai
soccer boys pray for
fortune at temple
CHIANG RAI, Thailand — The Thai soc-
cer boys and their coach began their first day
back home with their families since they were
rescued from a flooded cave with a trip to a
Buddhist temple to pray for protection from
misfortunes.
The 11 boys and the coach kneeled and
pressed their hands in prayer to the tune of
chanting monks. They were joined by rela-
tives and friends at the Wat Pra That Doi Wao
temple, overlooking Myanmar on Thailand’s
northern border.
The remaining member of the Wild Boars
soccer team — Adul Sargon — is not a Bud-
dhist and did not attend the ceremony, meant to
extend one’s life and protect it from dangers.
AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais
Interpreter Marina Gross, left, takes notes when President Donald Trump talks to
Russian President Vladimir Putin at the beginning of their one-on-one-meeting at
the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, Finland, on Monday.
US intelligence chief is tough
on Russia, at odds with Trump
ASPEN, Colo. — National Intelligence Director Dan Coats’ drumbeat of criticism
against Russia is clashing loudly with President Donald Trump’s pro-Kremlin remarks, leav-
ing the soft-spoken spy chief in an uncomfortable — and perhaps perilous — place in the
administration.
Trump’s remarks after Wednesday’s Cabinet meeting, where he appeared to deny the long-
time U.S. foe was still targeting American elections, are just the latest in a growing list of state-
ments that conflict with Coats’. His job is to share the work of the 17 intelligence agencies he
oversees with the president.
Coats is a former Republican lawmaker. He was banned from traveling to Russia in 2014
for calling out its annexation of Crimea, and he has continued to raise the alarm on Russia since
his appointment by Trump as intelligence chief in March 2017.
That’s left Coats in a tight spot. Trump has been determined to forge closer ties with Rus-
sian President Vladimir Putin, culminating in this week’s extraordinary summit in Helsinki.
The disconnect with Coats was laid bare after Trump sparked outrage back home by giving cre-
dence to Russia’s denial of interference in the 2016 U.S. election as he stood alongside Putin.
Back in Washington, Coats was quick to issue a statement Monday to rebut that position.
He restated the U.S. intelligence assessment about Russian meddling and “their ongoing, per-
vasive efforts to undermine our democracy.”
The team has already said they would
ordain as Buddhist novices to honor a
former Thai navy SEAL diver who died in
the cave while making preparations for their
rescue.
On Wednesday evening, the boys and
coach faced the media for the first time since
their ordeal, describing their surprise at seeing
two British divers rising from muddy waters
in the recesses of the cave. It would be another
week before they were pulled out of the Tham
Luang cave.
JERUSALEM — Israel’s parliament approved
a controversial piece of legislation that defines the
country as the nation-state of the Jewish people
but which critics warn sidelines minorities.
The government says the bill, passed in the
early morning hours, will merely enshrine into
law Israel’s existing character. Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu called its passage a “historic
moment in the history of Zionism and the history
of the state of Israel.”
“Israel is the nation state of the Jewish people,
which honors the individual rights of all its citi-
zens,” he said. “I repeat this is our state. The Jew-
ish state.”
“Lately, there are people who are trying to
destabilize this and therefore destabilize the foun-
dations of our existence and our rights,” he added.
“So today we have made a law in stone. This is our
country. This is our language. This is our anthem
and this is our flag. Long live the state of Israel.”
Israel’s 1948 declaration of independence
defined its nature as a Jewish and democratic
state, a delicate balance the country has grappled
to maintain for 70 years.
LGBT advocates fear
Kavanaugh’s votes
on gay-rights issues
WASHINGTON — Gay-rights supporters
who thronged the Supreme Court plaza after jus-
tices declared same-sex marriage a constitutional
right expect to have little to celebrate if Brett
Kavanaugh replaces Justice Anthony Kennedy,
the author of all the court’s major gay-rights
rulings.
None of Kavanaugh’s roughly 300 opinions
as an appellate judge deals directly with LGBT
issues, but his approach to judging leads some
scholars and activists to believe he is unlikely to
echo Kennedy’s votes.
Still, they said Kavanaugh might be reluc-
tant to overrule the landmark 2015 same-sex
marriage decision, even if he might have voted
against it in the first instance.
While LGBT advocates sound alarms about
Kavanaugh, opponents of same-sex marriage are
applauding his nomination, though not necessar-
ily focusing on its potential impact on gay rights.
The Family Research Council, a major
Christian conservative advocacy group, lauded
Kavanaugh’s rulings on religious freedom and
“long and praiseworthy history of judging as an
originalist,” a term that means interpreting the
Constitution as it was understood when written.
Warrenton: School district hopes to have location selected by August
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district east of the Skipanon
River and out of the tsunami
inundation zone. A district
facilities committee has also
recommended a 2022 bond to
build a high school on the mas-
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ter campus, and a 2032 bond to
move the elementary school.
The school district looked
for plots of land between 50
and 70 acres outside of the tsu-
nami inundation zone and wet-
lands. The choices have been
narrowed to three sites near
Dolphin Avenue, the North
Coast Business Park and along
U.S. Highway 101 Business
near Trails End Recovery.
The property near Dolphin
Avenue, a mix of high-density
residential and industrial land
owned by Warrenton Fiber,
is the most conducive site for
a campus, Jeffery said. The
school district hopes to have
a location selected before the
bond text is due to the county
in August.
“Without this, it would be
challenging to move forward
a 2016 bond, in the hills east
of the city on land donated
by Weyerhaeuser. The Asto-
ria School Board will decide
Monday whether to go out
for a bond to modernize and
improve security at the school
district’s five campuses.
on a bond,” Jeffery said. “The
property is the cornerstone of
what we’re doing.”
Warrenton’s search for a
master campus comes as the
Seaside School District pre-
pares to build a new $100 mil-
lion K-12 campus, financed by
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