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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
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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. Volk-
swagen’s 1.2 billion euros
($1.35 billion) investment
is taken as a sign of hope
for the community. But
the longer term trends
for employment are less
certain.
“We see dangers in this,
but we see this really as a
chance for Zwickau the
manufacturing center
to stand out,” the town’s
mayor, Pia Findeiss, told
The Associated Press.
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Madison High School Modernization
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Founder and Owner Ex-Boxing
Champ Lightning Ray Lampkin
Jr. have been servicing Portland
and surrounding areas for more
than 25 years.
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License #180676
Office: 503-528-9579 Lightningray1947@gmail.com
INSURANCE
2735 NE 82nd Ave, Portland, OR
Bid Date: Wednesday May 22, 2019
at 3 p.m. local time
Job Walk: May 15th at 3:30 pm at Madison High
School (meet at main entry)
Bid Assistance Open House: May 15th at 8 am
– 10 am at the Fortis main office for bidder’s with
questions
Construction Starts: June 17, 2019
Project Description: 296,000 sf reconstruction, ad-
dition and modernization of the existing high school.
1705 SW Taylor Street, Suite 200
Portland OR 97205
Contact accepting bids: Daniel Houf
daniel.houf@fortisconstruction.com
Phone: 503-459-4477
Fax: 503-459-4478
PHYSICIANS
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Chiropractic Physician
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Bid documents are available for review at the Fortis
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We are an equal opportunity employer and encour-
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egon Certification Office of Business Inclusion &
Diversity (COBID).
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