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NATION/WORLD Thursday, March 17, 2016 BRIEFLY More than 12 punished for mistaken Afghan hospital attack WASHINGTON (AP) — More than a dozen U.S. military personnel have been disciplined — but face no criminal charges — for mistakes that led to the bombing of a Doctors Without Borders hospital that killed 42 people in Afghanistan last year, U.S. GHIHQVHRI¿FLDOVVD\ The punishments, which have not been publicly announced, are largely administrative. But in some cases the actions, such as letters of reprimand, are tough enough to effectively end chances for further promotion. The military has previously said some personnel were suspended from their duties but has given no further details. The disciplined include ERWKRI¿FHUVDQGHQOLVWHG SHUVRQQHOEXWRI¿FLDOVVDLG none are generals. 7KHRI¿FLDOVZKRZHUH not authorized to discuss the outcomes publicly and so spoke on condition of anonymity, said the disciplinary process is nearly complete. It is derived from a military investigation of the Oct. 3, 2015, attack, the results of which are expected to be made public in a partially redacted form in coming days. Sandra Murillo, a spokeswoman for Doctors Without Borders, said the charity would not comment on disciplinary actions until the Pentagon communicates its decisions directly to the group or makes a public announcement. The hospital, run by the medical charity Doctors Without Borders in the northern city of Kunduz, was attacked by a U.S. Air Force special operations AC-130 gunship, one of the most lethal in the U.S. arsenal. Doctors Without Borders called the attack “relentless and brutal” and demanded an international investigation, but none has been undertaken. Army Gen. John Campbell, who was the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan at the time but has since relinquished command, has called it a “tragic but avoidable accident caused primarily by human error.” Fed keeps key rates unchanged; foresees fewer hikes in 2016 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve is keeping a key interest rate unchanged in light of global pressures that risk slowing the U.S. economy. $VDUHVXOW)HGRI¿FLDOV expect to raise rates more gradually this year than they had envisioned in December. 7KHRI¿FLDOVQRZIRUHVHH two, rather than four, modest increases in their benchmark short-term rate during 2016. The Fed said Wednesday that the economy has continued to grow moderately but that the global economy and ¿QDQFLDOPDUNHWVVWLOOSRVH risks. Offsetting the threats, the Fed said in a statement after a policy meeting that it foresees further strengthening in the job market. At a news conference, Chair Janet Yellen said the )HGH[SHFWVLQÀDWLRQZKLFK has stayed persistently low, to reach the central bank’s 2 percent target in two to three years. Investors seemed pleased by the Fed’s expectation of a more gradual pace of rate increases. The Dow Jones industrial average, which had been up slightly before the Fed’s statement was issued, closed up 74 points. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note fell to 1.91 percent from 1.97 percent. Asked at her news conference whether she thought the Fed could receive enough new economic information to raise rates at its next meeting in the last week of April, Yellen stressed, as in the past, that “every meeting is a live meeting. April remains a live meeting.” East Oregonian Page 7A Obama nominates Garland to Supreme Court Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama nominated appeals court judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court on Wednesday, thrusting a respected moderate jurist and former prosecutor into the center of an election-year clash over the future of the nation’s highest court. Obama cast the 63-year-old Garland as “a serious man and an exemplary judge” deserving of a full KHDULQJ DQG D 6HQDWH FRQ¿UPDWLRQ vote, despite Republican vows to deny him both. Standing in the White House Rose Garden with Garland, Obama argued the integrity of the court was at stake and appealed to the Senate to “play it straight” in ¿OOLQJ WKH VHDW OHIW YDFDQW E\ WKH death of Justice Antonin Scalia. “It’s supposed to be above poli- tics,” Obama said of the high court. “It has to be. And it should stay that way.” Republican leaders, however, held to their refusal to consider any nominee, saying the seat should EH¿OOHGE\WKHQH[WSUHVLGHQWDIWHU this year’s election. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell spoke with Garland but did not change his posi- tion that “the American people will have a voice.” He said he would not be holding “a perfunctory meeting but he wished Judge Garland well,” a spokesman said. Others in the GOP ranks were less wedded to the no-hearing, no-vote, not-even-a-meeting stance — a sign that Republicans are aware the strategy could leave them branded as obstructionist. Unlike McConnell, Senate Judi- ciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley said he is open to meeting with Garland in the coming weeks, DVGLG¿YHRWKHU5HSXEOLFDQVHQDWRUV — Rob Portman of Ohio, Jeff Flake of Arizona, Susan Collins of Maine, James Inhofe of Oklahoma and Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire. Others vowed to give his record a close look. The judge will begin visiting with Democratic senators on Thursday at the Capitol, before the giving the District of Columbia a vote in Congress. Particularly on criminal defense and national secu- rity cases, he’s earned a reputation as centrist with a law-and-order streak, siding more often with prosecutors. :KHQ KLV QDPH ZDV ÀRDWHG IRU the Supreme Court in the past, it was liberal groups that expressed concerns, pointing to early decisions favoring the government in disputes over the legal rights of detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison. Progressives and civil rights activists also had pushed the presi- dent to name an African-American woman or to otherwise expand the court’s diversity. Obama passed over appeals court Judge Sri Srinivasan, AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais ZKR ZRXOG KDYH EHHQ WKH ¿UVW Federal appeals court judge Merrick Garland is introduced as Asian-American justice, and Judge President Barack Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court during Paul Watford, who would have been an announcement in the Rose Garden on Wednesday. the second African-American on the Senate breaks for a two-week recess. parties, including seven current current court. Garland — a white, male jurist Scheduling courtesy meetings Republicans senators. As a replacement for Scalia, with an Ivy League pedigree and a is a long way from securing a full hearing, much less winning the Garland would undoubtedly shift the career largely in the upper echelon YRWHV QHHGHG IRU FRQ¿UPDWLRQ court away from its conservative tilt. of Washington’s legal elite — breaks Still, the White House seized the He would be expected to align with no barriers. 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He said he viewed a prompted concern from gun control judge’s job as a mandate to set aside potential justices. A graduate of Harvard College opponents. In 2007, Garland personal preferences and “follow the and Harvard Law School, Garland wanted the full court to reconsider law, not make it.” Obama quoted past praise for has clerked for two appointees of a panel decision that struck down Republican President Dwight D. Washington, D.C.’s ban on handgun Garland from Roberts and Sen. Eisenhower — the liberal Justice ownership. But Garland never took Orrin Hatch. In 2010, Hatch said he FRXOG EH FRQ¿UPHG WR WKH KLJKHVW William Brennan Jr. as well as a position on the merits of the case. In 2000, he was part of a 2-1 court “virtually unanimously.” Judge Henry J. Friendly, for whom Garland has experience with a Chief Justice John Roberts also majority that said the FBI could clerked. 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Trump: Time to rally around me — or expect voter riots WASHINGTON (AP) — After yet another round of convincing victories for Donald Trump, Republican leaders spent Wednesday wavering between grudging acceptance and deep denial about the businessman’s likely ascent to the GOP presidential nomination. An emboldened Trump warned that if the party tried to block him, “You’d have riots.” With at least three more states in his win column, Trump is now the only candi- date with a path to clinching the Republican nomination before the party’s convention in July. But he still must do better in upcoming contests to get the necessary 1,237 delegates, leaving some opponents with a sliver of hope he can still be stopped. “I still think it’s a very realistic chance that nobody’s going to have a majority of the delegates,” said Henry Barbour, a senior Republican National Committee member who worked on Marco Rubio’s delegate strategy until the Florida senator exited the race Tuesday. AP Photo/Chuck Burton Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Hick- ory, N.C., on Monday. Barbour said Trump “doesn’t deserve to be president,” but also said he could ultimately support the billionaire if he “can convince me that he’s pres- idential material.” Trump cautioned that his supporters would revolt if he falls just short in the delegate count and loses LQDUXOHV¿JKW “If you just disen- franchise these people, I think you would have problems like you’ve never seen before,” Trump said on CNN’s “New Day.” Despite the deep concerns about Trump within the Republican Party, there was little tangible action Wednesday that indicated a way to stop the real estate mogul’s march toward the general election. There was no rush among party leaders or donors to coalesce around Ted Cruz, the only candidate in the race with even a long-shot chance of overtaking Trump in the delegate count. A small group of conservatives moved forward with plans to meet Thursday to discuss the prospect of rallying behind a third-party option, but no candidate had been identi- ¿HGWROHDGWKDWHIIRUW 7KH WKUHH EHVW¿QDQFHG efforts to stop Trump abruptly ceased advertising after Tuesday’s elections. The outside groups Amer- ican Future Fund, Our Prin- ciples and Club for Growth have no Trump attack ads planned for Arizona - a crucial winner-take-all contest in six days - or in any states beyond. Former House Speaker -RKQ %RHKQHU ÀRDWHG KLV successor, Paul Ryan, as the nominee in the event of a FRQYHQWLRQ ¿JKW %XW 5\DQ quickly took himself out of the mix, saying through a spokeswoman that he would “not accept a nomination and believes our nominee should be someone who ran this year.” Meanwhile, Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton set her sights on a November showdown with Trump. Her sweep of Tuesday’s ¿YH SULPDU\ FRQWHVWV ² including a slim lead in yet-to-be-called Missouri — was a harsh blow to rival Bernie Sanders, giving Clinton what her campaign manager described as an “insurmountable lead” in the delegate count. ³:HDUHFRQ¿GHQWWKDWIRU WKH¿UVWWLPHLQRXUQDWLRQ¶V history, the Democratic Party will nominate a woman as their presidential nominee,” Robby Mook wrote in a memo to supporters. Clinton has at least 1,599 delegates to Sanders’ 844. It takes 2,383 to win the Democratic nomination. Trump urged Repub- licans to view the party’s nominating contest with the same sense of clarity. During a round of calls to morning television shows, he said some of the same Repub- lican senators who publicly criticize him have called him privately to say they want to “become involved” in his campaign eventually. Where would you go if you died today? WHAT GOD SAYS: Jacob Tyler Jones 1. 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