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May 22, 2019 The Skanner Portland & Seattle Page 7 Bids & Classified To place your ad, email advertising@theskanner.com or go to www.TheSkanner.com and click on the “Ads” menu. World News cont’d from pg 8 Washington and Tehran try to ease heightened tensions in the region. The reported com- ments by Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh come after the White House earlier this month sent an air- craft carrier and B-52 bombers to the region over a still-unexplained threat it perceived from Iran. Since that devel- opment, Iran has an- nounced it will back away from the 2015 nu- clear deal with world powers, an accord that President Donald Trump pulled America out of a year ago. The United Arab Emirates, mean- while, alleged that four oil tankers were sabo- taged off its coast, and Iranian-allied rebels in Yemen have launched drone attacks into Saudi Arabia. Falahatpisheh’s com- ments, reported by the semi-official ILNA news agency, carry additional heft as he serves as the chairman of the Iranian parliament’s national se- curity and foreign policy commission. “Under no circum- stance will we enter a war,” Falahatpisheh said, according to ILNA. “No group can announce that it has entered a proxy war from Iran’s side.” Biden: Congress Should Protect Abortion Rights, if Necessary WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden would sup- port Congress enshrin- ing abortion rights into federal law “should it become necessary,” his presidential campaign said Tuesday, following several other Democrat- ic candidates in prom- ising to take that step if elected president. The hot-button issue has shot to the forefront of the Democratic prima- ry following a spate of new Republican-backed state laws curbing access to abortion. With all the two dozen Democratic White House hopefuls supportive of abortion rights, the debate in the party has centered on how aggressive they should be if the Supreme Court were to eventually overturn legalized abor- tion nationwide. Biden released a vid- eo on Tuesday blasting the GOP-backed state laws as “pernicious” and “wrong.” He stopped short in the video of endorsing congressio- nal action and offered no specifics on how he would defend Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision that is now potentially threatened with new le- gal challenges. Asked by The Associat- ed Press whether Biden believed the high court decision should be codi- fied in law, the campaign initially pointed to the video, then later add- ed that the former vice president would support legislation “should it be- come necessary.” A cam- paign aide then clarified that Biden would sup- port action immediately, regardless of whether the Supreme Court over- turned Roe. The campaign’s re- sponses highlight what Biden, a devout Roman Catholic, once called his “middle of the road” approach on abortion. As a young senator, he expressed reservations that the Supreme Court “went too far” in its abor- tion decision. Since then, he’s joined the main- stream of the Democratic Party in defending Roe, though as a senator he sometimes voted with abortion-rights foes on bills related to late-term terminations. Plea Deal for Serial Online Harasser Fits Lenient Pattern DENVER (AP) — Only hours before women marched through many U.S. cities in January, Christopher Cleary set off a manhunt when he posted a Facebook mes- sage threatening to kill “as many girls as I see” in retaliation for years of romantic rejection. Cleary, 27, called him- self a virgin who never had a girlfriend, stoking fears of another dead- ly rampage by a man blaming women for his problems. When police tracked his cellphone and arrested the Colora- do resident at a McDon- ald’s restaurant in Provo, Utah, Cleary said he had been upset and wasn’t thinking clearly. The frightening Face- book post fit a pattern of behavior for a troubled man with a history of ter- rorizing women he met over the internet. His plea deal with Utah prosecutors appears to fit a pattern of lenient punishments — a com- mon outcome for cyber- stalking and online ha- rassment cases. “The vast majority of people, if there isn’t a lot of training and education going on, tend to dismiss Advertising deadlines 12:00 Noon Monday APT WAIT LIST these things,” said Carol Tracy, executive direc- tor of the Women’s Law Project in Philadelphia. “That’s why stalking is so dangerous. You think, ‘It’s not a crime. He’s got free speech.’” Threat or Promise? E-Auto Boom Could Cost Industry Jobs ZWICKAU, Germany (AP) — Over 115 years the auto industry in the east German town of Zwick- au has lived through wrenching upheavals including World War II and the collapse of com- munism. Now the city’s 90,000 people are plung- ing headlong into an- other era of change: top employer Volkswagen’s total shift into electric cars at the local plant. The world’s largest carmaker is creating its first all-electric plant and phasing out produc- tion of the internal com- bustion-engine cars built by generations of local workers. The electric transfor- mation raises questions about the long-term prospects of the auto industry, which em- ploys 840,000 people in Germany and millions worldwide, as a source of jobs for communities like Zwickau, which gave the world both the lux- ury brand Audi and the communist-era Trabant “people’s car.” Fewer workers will likely be needed, with dif- ferent skills. And there is no mass market yet for battery-only cars. 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