NATION/WORLD Tuesday, September 8, 2015 East Oregonian Page 7A Clinton says no email apology: ‘What I did was allowed’ By CATHERINE LUCEY Associated Press AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris A Syrian family react after arrived with others aboard a dinghy from Turkey, on the island of Lesbos, Greece on Monday.. The island of some 100,000 residents has been transformed by the sudden new population of some 20,000 refugees and migrants, mostly from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. Migrants stranded on Greek island By HAMZA HENDAWI Associated Press MYTILENE, Greece — It was supposed to be the ¿UVW VWHS RQ WKHLU MRXUQH\ WR Western Europe. But now thousands of migrants are mired in despair, anger and frustration on the scenic Greek island of Lesbos. After perilous sea voyages from neighboring Turkey, they have been stranded here for days, some for nearly two weeks, running out of money and desperate to get to main- land Greece and continue their route. The island of some 100,000 residents has been transformed by the sudden new population of some 20,000 refugees and migrants, mostly from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan — and the strain is pushing everyone to the limit. Fights break out among the migrants as they wait in long lines for hours in the summer heat and humidity, after days without showers. Families, sleeping on the streets, wander the seaside promenade of Mytilene, Lesbos’ capital, asking at the swanky cafes and restaurants to use their bathrooms or charge phones. The small police force, over- whelmed by the numbers, charges in at any sign of trouble, beating crowds with batons to break them up. “We escaped from ruin to be met with more ruin here,” said Mohammed Salama, a \HDUROG 6\ULDQ +H ÀHG the Damascus suburbs where ¿JKWLQJ KDV UDJHG IRU \HDUV seeking a refuge so he can bring his four daughters and pregnant wife who remained behind. “I did not come here to make money,” he said Sunday. “I came here so I can later bring my children and have them live in safety.” Lesbos is one of several Greek islands hugging the 7XUNLVKFRDVWWKDWDUHWKH¿UVW stop for many of those trying to reach Western Europe. Here, they must register with SROLFHDQGUHFHLYHDQRI¿FLDO document. Without that document, they can’t buy a Hundreds break past police near Hungary border AP Photo/Angelos Christofilopoulos A Greek policeman tries to put migrants and refugees waiting for a registration procedure in a line, at the port of northeastern Greek island of Lesbos, Greece, on Saturday. ferry ticket to the mainland to continue on land through the Balkans. %XWWKHUHJLVWUDWLRQRI¿FHV are swamped, slowing everything down. Under the punishing sun in high humidity, hundreds crowd RXWVLGHWKHRI¿FHVIRUKRXUV Brawls break out frequently among the hot, exhausted crowds, often met by police swinging batons and shouting, “Pisso!” — Greek for “go away.” The nerves of Lesbos residents as well are fraying. Drivers blast their horns in fury at migrants walking in the middle of the streets by Mytilene’s port. Some passers-by roll their eyes disapprovingly. Many put on surgical masks when they pass through the area, convinced the new arrivals are bringing disease. On Saturday, two elderly men walked among the overwhelmingly Muslim migrants handing out copies of the Bible in Arabic. Others complain about the litter — bottles, plastic bags and cardboard thrown into the sea and covering the streets around the port. “Why, man? Why?” one municipality worker, pointing to bottles in the sea, yelled at some young Iraqis sitting by the water throwing bread to ¿VK There are also acts of courtesy and kindness. Sitting outside a hotel having a morning coffee, a Greek woman in her 60s was met by an endless stream of passing Syrians, Iraqis and Afghans asking her questions — Where was a pharmacy? Where do they sell phone cards? She patiently answered every one. Some restaurants let in women and children to use their bathrooms. Policemen sometimes help the elderly, offering them seats, and when there are no tensions, they quietly answer the migrants’ countless questions about their fate. Among the refugees and migrants, confusion reigns. Lines suddenly form and SHRSOH UXVK WR MRLQ WKHP and wait for hours, only to discover the line was sparked by a rumor and they were waiting for nothing. On Saturday, a crowd converged on one of the prefab caravans that serve as UHJLVWUDWLRQRI¿FHVE\WKHSRUW ,PSDWLHQW $IJKDQV MXPSHG on the roof, pounding it, and LWWXUQHGLQWRD¿JKWEHWZHHQ them and Syrians in the line, until police rushed in. It turned out the caravan was empty. “I admit, we may not be organized, but the police don’t have to hit us so hard,” complained Khaled Ghazal, a Syrian travelling with a 10-year-old son suffering from a blood disease. Maysa Mustafa, a Syrian environ- mentalist, showed bruises on her shoulder she said were from police beatings. Another Syrian, Ahmed Tawil, had a black eye. ROSZKE, Hungary (AP) — Hundreds of angry and frustrated asylum-seekers broke through police lines Monday near Hungary’s southern border with Serbia and began marching north toward Budapest, while Britain and France pledged to take in tens of thousands more refugees to try to ease the crisis. As European leaders debated how to share responsibility for the more than 340,000 people from the Middle East, Africa and Asia who are already seeking refuge, Germany promised to spend billions of euros in extra aid for those already there and those yet to arrive. France weighed whether increased airstrikes against Islamic State militants would help WRVWHPWKHÀRZRIWKRVH ÀHHLQJ6\ULD But the Hungarian prime minister scoffed at a proposed quota system for refugees in the 28-member European Union, saying it wouldn’t ZRUNXQOHVV(XURSH¿UVW secured its borders. Hungary’s inability to FRQWUROWKHÀRZRISHRSOH across its southern border with Serbia was on graphic display Monday. Crowds who had grown tired of waiting for buses at Hunga- U\¶V¿UVWPLJUDQWKROGLQJ center near the border village of Roszke tore GRZQÀLPV\SROLFHWDSH advanced down a country road and walked around rows of police trying WREORFNWKHP2I¿FHUV offered no resistance as about half of the 500-strong crowd reached the M5 highway that connects Serbia and Hungary. They headed north along the shoulder, raising their arms and chanting “Germany! Germany!” Hillary Rodham Clinton “I take the responsibilities of handling classified materials very seriously and did so.” — Hillary Rodham Clinton she did not apologize for using a private email system when asked directly by NBC, “Are you sorry?” Asked Monday by the AP why she won’t directly apologize, Clinton said: “What I did was allowed. It was allowed by the State Department. The State 'HSDUWPHQW KDV FRQ¿UPHG that.” “I did not send or receive any information marked FODVVL¿HG´&OLQWRQVDLG³, take the responsibilities of KDQGOLQJ FODVVL¿HG PDWH- rials very seriously and did so.” Clinton’s efforts to address the email issue comes as her chief rival for the Democratic nomination, independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, exits the summer surging in still- quite-early public opinion polls and drawing massive crowds to his rallies and events. Asked for an example of how she differs with Sanders on policy, Clinton demurred. “I’m going to keep laying out what I would do as president, what I stand for. ... I’m very much looking forward to the debates that we’re going to have and we’ll have plenty of time to draw those contrasts.” Asked when she might start, Clinton said: “I don’t have any timing. 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Treatment Specialties • Head and Neck (including Thyroid) • Gynecological CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday she does not need to apologize for using a private email account and server while at the State Department because “what I did was allowed.” In an interview with The Associated Press during a Labor Day campaign swing through Iowa, the front- runner for the Democratic presidential nomination also said the lingering questions about her email practices while serving as President Barack Obama’s ¿UVWVHFUHWDU\RIVWDWHKDYH not damaged her campaign. “Not at all. It’s a distrac- tion, certainly,” Clinton said. “But it hasn’t in any way affected the plan for our campaign, the efforts we’re making to organize here in Iowa and elsewhere in the country. And I still IHHO YHU\ FRQ¿GHQW DERXW the organization and the message that my campaign is putting out.” Yet even in calling the inquiry into how she used email as the nation’s top diplomat a distraction, Clinton played down how it has affected her personally as a candidate. “As the person who has been at the center of it, not very much,” Clinton said. “I have worked really hard this summer, sticking to my game plan about how I wanted to sort of reintroduce myself to the American people.” As she has often said in recent weeks, Clinton told AP it would have been a “better choice” for her to use separate email accounts for her personal and public business. “I’ve also tried to not only take responsibility, because it was my decision, but to be as transparent as possible,” Clinton said. 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