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Clinton, Sanders debate
who is best for Hispanics
Associated Press
Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times via AP
People come to pay their respects in front of the casket
of former irst lady Nancy Reagan as she lies in repose
at the Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif.,
Wednesday.
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touch with the common man
and followed some of the
route his own funeral proces-
sion took in 2004, eventually
winding its way up to the
Ronald Reagan Presidential
Library, where volunteers
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a guardrail festooned with
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The day began with a
private ceremony for family
and close friends at a funeral
home in Santa Monica,
followed by a public viewing
at the library.
People came from near
and far to pay tribute to the
widow of the 40th president,
who was respected for her
grace, strength and unfailing
loyalty to her husband during
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Retired teacher Mary
Ellen Gruendyke, who arose
early so she could drive
nearly 100 miles from her
Riverside home, said she
admired Mrs. Reagan for
her “Just Say No” campaign
against drugs and the pres-
ident for infusing a sense of
patriotism in the country.
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ever had, and I admired them
both as a couple for their
love story and the support
they showed to each other,”
said Gruendyke, who wore
a colorful Ronald Reagan
souvenir scarf around her
neck.
Shuttles bused groups
of mourners to take turns
walking quietly in a circle
around the casket covered in
white roses and peonies —
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DUBAI, United Arab
Emirates (AP) — Iran
test-launched two ballistic
missiles Wednesday
emblazoned with the phrase
“Israel must be wiped out”
in Hebrew, Iranian media
reported, in a show of power
by the Shiite nation as U.S.
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visited Jerusalem.
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were the latest in a series of
tests in recent days, aimed at
demonstrating that Iran will
push ahead with its ballistic
program after scaling
backing its nuclear program
under the deal reached last
year with the U.S. and other
world powers.
Israel, long an opponent
of Iran, offered no comment
on the test, though Biden
issued a strong warning over
any possible violation of the
nuclear deal.
“A nuclear-armed Iran is
an absolutely unacceptable
threat to Israel, to the region
and the United States. And
I want to reiterate which I
know people still doubt here.
If in fact they break the deal,
we will act,” he said.
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came after meeting Israeli
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Netanyahu, who strongly
The mood was somber,
and many people wiped
away tears. More than 1,000
people paid their respects in
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to the library.
The public viewing came
hours after the small motor-
cade traveled 45 miles from
the coast to the hills above
Simi Valley northwest of Los
Angeles. The public viewing
was to continue for two days
leading up to the funeral
scheduled for Friday.
Mrs. Reagan, who died
Sunday at 94, planned
the smallest details of her
funeral. She selected the
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ments, the music to be played
by a Marine Corps band and
the list of guests invited to
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president on a hillside tomb
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moved in the other direction,
the normally contested
highway lanes were kept
wide-open for the hearse as it
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overpass.
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Ronald Reagan Freeway,
the vehicle passed under the
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blues and saluted atop their
trucks.
Construction
workers
in hard hats, riders on
horseback, parents holding
children and other observers
lined the roadside to watch
and to snap photos with their
cellphones.
When the hearse arrived
at the library, a military
honor guard carried the
casket between two identical
towering portraits of the
diminutive Mrs. Reagan
wearing a long, red dress and
then past a gurgling court-
yard fountain. The casket
was placed in a lobby behind
a bronze statue of a smiling
Ronald Reagan holding a
cowboy hat.
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violate the accord. The
landmark deal, which led
to Iran dramatically scaling
back its nuclear program,
does not include provisions
against missile launches.
Also, when the nuclear
accord came into effect on
Jan. 16, the Security Council
lifted most U.N. sanctions
against Tehran including a
ban it had imposed in 2010
on Iran testing missiles
capable of carrying nuclear
warheads — a ban that likely
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To deal with the restrictions
in the nuclear agreement, the
councill adopted a resolution
last July which among other
measures “calls on” Iran not
to carry out such tests.
At the United Nations,
there is likely to be a debate
about whether Iran is still
required to abide by the
ballistic missile test ban
under council resolutions.
Iran says none of its missiles
are designed to carry
nuclear weapons and so the
resolutions do not apply.
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MIAMI — Fighting for
Florida and beyond, Hillary
Clinton and Bernie Sanders
tangled in an intense debate
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the true friend of American
Hispanics, trading accu-
sations over guest worker
programs “akin to slavery”
and the embracing of “vigi-
lantes” against immigrants.
They had even worse
things to say about Repub-
lican front-runner Donald
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before Florida gives its
verdict on the presidential
race, Clinton faulted Sanders
for repeatedly voting against
a 2007 comprehensive
immigration reform bill; he
faulted her for opposing a
2007 effort to let people who
were in the country illegally
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Had the immigration
package passed back then,
Clinton said, “a lot of the
issues we are still discussing
today would be in the rear-
view mirror.”
Sanders retorted that
he opposed the legislation
because it included a guest
worker program “akin to
slavery.”
The debate opened with
a question that appeared to
startle Clinton.
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asked her if she would drop
out of the race if indicted
over the handling of her
email while secretary of
state.
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even answering that ques-
tion.”
The FBI is investigating
the possibility of mishan-
dling of sensitive informa-
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server.
Sanders, as he has in the
past, declined to bite on the
issue, saying, “The process
will take its course.” He said
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issues of wealth and income
inequality.
Both candidates were
bidding for momentum after
Sanders surprised Clinton
with an upset victory in
Michigan on Tuesday.
Clinton stressed that
she has a strong lead in the
delegates, declaring, “This is
a marathon, and it is a mara-
thon that can only be carried
by the kind of campaign I
am running.”
Sanders said his Michigan
surprise was evidence that
his message is resonating.
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more aggressive policy of
pursuing IS militants on the
ground.
The Obama
administration launched the
new strategy in December,
deploying a commando
force to Iraq that it said
would be dedicated to
capturing and killing IS
leaders in clandestine
operations, as well as
generating intelligence
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team had captured an
Islamic State leader but
had refused to identify him,
saying only that he had been
held for two or three weeks
and was being questioned.
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as Sleiman Daoud al-Afari,
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Military Industrialization
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specialized in chemical
and biological weapons.
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branch for the research and
development of chemical
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Craig Rubadoux/Florida Today via AP
Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton respond
to audience members at the Miami Dade College Kendall Campus in Miami on
Wednesday.
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FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — His party
in disarray, a surging Donald Trump called
on mainstream Republicans to unify behind
his candidacy on Wednesday as his White
House rivals pursued their last best oppor-
tunity to block the billionaire businessman
from building an insurmountable delegate
lead in two key states.
The often-brash Trump softened his tone,
at least temporarily, hours after securing
three more primary victories, praising House
Speaker Paul Ryan as a man he respects
and encouraging Mitt Romney to promote
party harmony. As for his own campaign, he
who are backing Clinton to
switch to his column.
Immigration commanded
considerable attention for
good reason: Florida is
home to nearly 1.8 million
Hispanics, including about
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Democrats.
Hispanic voters have
made up about 10 percent
of voters in the Democratic
primaries so far this year,
and Clinton has been getting
about two-thirds of their
votes to about one-third
for Sanders. The Vermont
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making progress on winning
over younger Hispanics.
Clinton at one point
accused
Sanders
of
supporting legislation that
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detention of people facing
deportation, and for standing
with Minutemen vigilantes.
He called that notion “ridic-
ulous” and “absurd,” and
accused Clinton of picking
small pieces out of big legis-
lative packages to distort his
voting record.
“No, I do not support
vigilantes and that is a
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unfair statement to make,”
he said.
For all the disagreements,
the overall tone of the
candidates was considerably
less tense than their Sunday
faceoff.
Sanders
even
paused at one point to make
fun of his own pronunciation
of “huge” as “yuge.”
Both found agreement
in pointing to GOP front-
runner Trump as markedly
worse on immigration than
either of them.
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plan for a wall on the
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build “the most beautiful tall
wall, better than the great
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That, she said, is a fantasy.
Sanders said that in the
immigration debate “we do
not, as Donald Trump and
others have done, resort to
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bigotry.”
There were any number
of areas of agreement,
including the need to reduce
student loan debt. Sanders
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plan “many months before
she did.”
“Thanks for copying a
very good idea,” he said.
The candidates squared
off soon after a testy debate
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insurgent campaign, a number of former
GOP presidential hopefuls have re-emerged
in support of his current rivals.
in Michigan on Sunday in
which they argued about
trade and economic issues
of particular interest in the
industrial Midwest.
With Missouri, Illinois,
Ohio among the states that
will be voting on Tuesday,
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legislation that bailed out the
auto industry, among others.
Sanders said he opposed the
bill because it also bailed out
big banks that had fueled
the recession to begin with.
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with the automakers.
Overall, 691 delegates are
at stake on Tuesday, including
99 in Florida, which awards
all its delegates to the winner
rather than dividing them up
proportionately..
Clinton has won 762
pledged delegates compared
to 549 for Sanders, with 10
delegates from recent prima-
ries still to be allocated.
When superdelegates are
included, Clinton leads 1,223
to 574, more than halfway to
the 2,383 needed to win the
Democratic nomination.
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