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Page 8A NATION/WORLD East Oregonian Wednesday, October 12, 2016 Unshackled, Trump unleashes aggressive attacks on own party Associated Press Tom Stromme/The Bismarck Tribune via AP A person with a hand drum paces between law enforce- ment oficers and a line of protesters along North Dakota Highway 6, south of St. Anthony, N.D., Monday. Dakota Access pipeline work resumes near site of protest Associated Press ST. ANTHONY, N.D. — Construction on the four- state Dakota Access pipeline resumed Tuesday on private land in North Dakota that’s near a camp where thousands of protesters supporting tribal rights have gathered for months. In turn, protesters said they’re discussing nonvio- lent opposition measures, including chaining themselves to equipment. And nine people were arrested Tuesday attempting to shut down pipe- lines in other states as a show of solidarity with the Dakota Access protesters. Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners resumed digging trenches and laying pipe, Morton County Sheriff’s Ofice spokesman Rob Keller said, a move that comes in light of Sunday’s federal appeals court ruling that allowed construction to resume within 20 miles of Lake Oahe. That Missouri River reservoir is the water supply for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s reserva- tion. “We reiterate our commit- ment to protect cultural resources, the environment and public safety,” the company said in a statement earlier Tuesday. The $3.8 billion, 1,200-mile pipeline from North Dakota to Illinois is otherwise largely complete. The work area is a few miles from two protester camps, where scores of people have gathered in recent months and say they intend to stay through the winter. Energy Transfer Partners still needs approval from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to work on a separate parcel of federal land bordering and under Lake Oahe, which the agency manages. The Corps said Monday it was not ready to give that approval because it is still reviewing whether reforms are needed in the way tribal views are considered for such projects. The Standing Rock Sioux wants construction halted because of concerns about potential contamination of its water supply and says the pipeline will encroach on tribal burial sites and other cultural artifacts. A state archaeologist’s inspection found no such arti- facts on the private land where construction will resume. The tribe disputes that, and is still appealing a lower-court ruling from September that allowed work on the entire pipeline to proceed. Protesters will discuss nonviolent measures to oppose the resumption of construction, camp spokesman Cody Hall said Tuesday. Methods might include chaining themselves to equipment, as they have done in the past, but nothing had been decided early Tuesday, he said. “The people are going to stay vigilant. They’re going to ight this pipeline to the very end,” he said. One of the protest sites has a school, which North Dako- ta’s superintendent of public instruction said Tuesday is operating illegally and that students should enroll at other schools until it meets state standards. Kirsten Baesler also said in a letter to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Council that it’ll likely take “considerable time” to gain needed approval and that the Mandan Public School District is prepared to accept students, as well as bus them to and from the camp. In early September, tribal oficials accused construction crews of bulldozing several sites of “signiicant cultural and historic value,” leading to a clash between protesters and private security guards hired by the pipeline company. No one was arrested, and at least 30 people were pepper- sprayed. Dozens have been arrested at construction sites, including actress Shailene Woodley and Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein. The nine who were arrested Tuesday were targeting two pipelines in Minnesota, one in Montana, one in North Dakota and one in Washington state, all of which move oil from Canada to the United States, according to records. Pipeline company oficials say the attempt to disrupt delivery was not successful. Pipelines at four of the sites were temporarily shut down before the protesters could reach the valves, and all resumed operation within hours. In Washington, the Mountain Puget Sound pipe- line system wasn’t operating at the time of the attempt. Carl Reimer, executive director of the Pipeline Safety Trust, said it takes “a push of a button” to remotely close and open valves along the system and turn pumps on and off to start and stop the low of oil. He said the protest was a “stupid move” that did not accomplish its goal. The trust “was formed because of a valve that was shut unexpectedly and caused a pressure surge that ruptured a pipeline and killed three kids,” Reimer said. “We’re pretty sensitive to people shutting valves illegally.” WASHINGTON — The “shackles” gone, Donald Trump stepped up his ierce attacks on his own party leaders Tuesday, promising to teach Republicans who oppose him a lesson and ight for the presidency “the way I want to.” Exactly four weeks before Elec- tion Day and with his campaign loundering, the businessman reverted to the combative, divisive strategy that propelled him to victory in the GOP primary: Attack every critic — including fellow Republicans. Those close to Trump suggested it was “open season” on every detractor, regardless of party. “It is so nice that the shackles have been taken off me and I can now ight for America the way I want to,” Trump said in a tweet that brought new concern — near panic in some cases — to a party trying to stave off an all-out civil war before Nov. 8. In another series of tweets, the Republican nominee called House Speaker Paul Ryan “weak and ineffective,” Sen. John McCain “very foul-mouthed” and “disloyal” Republicans “far more dificult than Crooked Hillary.” “They come at you from all sides,” Trump declared. “They don’t know how to win — I will teach them!” Rage against fellow Republicans from the face of the 2016 GOP exposed a party slipping from mere feuding into verbal warfare with advance voting already underway in roughly half the states. Polls suggest Trump is headed toward a loss of historic proportions if he doesn’t turn things around. His scorched-earth approach, days after his sexual predatory language caught on tape triggered a mass Republican defection, threatened to alienate even more supporters. “Fighting for the sake of ighting is not really very helpful,” said former Trump adviser Barry Bennett. Trump has acknowledged the possibility of defeat in recent days, but on Tuesday he tried to shift the blame for his struggles on Republican defections and an election system that may be “rigged” against him. On Monday, he warned of potential voter fraud in heavily African-American Philadelphia, a claim for which there is no evidence but one that could challenge Americans’ faith in a fair democratic process. At the same time, Trump’s campaign is considering whether to feature Bill Clinton accusers at his upcoming rallies. Trump shocked the political world before Sunday’s debate by appearing with several women who had accused the former president of sexual impropriety decades earlier. The aggressive shift is in line with the philosophy of recently hired North Carolina braces for more looding in downstream towns GREENVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A state trooper shot and killed an armed man during a search for lood victims in a tense and dispirited North Carolina, and thousands more people were ordered to evacuate as high water from Hurricane Matthew pushed downstream Tuesday, two days after the storm blew out to sea. Matthew’s death toll in the U.S. climbed to 30, half of them in North Carolina. In Greenville, a city of 90,000, oficials warned that the Tar River would overwhelm every bridge in the county by sundown, splitting it in half before the river crests late Wednesday. Evacuations were ordered there as rivers swelled to campaign chaiman Steve Bannon, whose conservative website has long fueled attacks on Republican leaders and perpetuated popular conservative conspiracy theories. The approach has done little to endear Trump to anxious party leaders. At least 40 Republican sena- tors and congressmen have revoked their support for the embattled Republican nominee — with nearly 30 of them urging him to quit the race altogether. Republican Speaker Ryan, in a Monday conference call with congressional Republicans, said he would no longer campaign with Trump. He said he would focus instead on ensuring Clinton doesn’t get a “blank check” with a Demo- cratic-controlled Congress, all but conceding that Trump would lose. Trump’s running mate Mike Pence said in an interview with NBC Tuesday that he was “disappointed” by the defections and “respectfully” disagreed with Ryan. Yet Trump’s aggressive shift is popular among his most loyal supporters who continue to lock to his rallies by the thousands. “He’s ighting for us,” said Megan Johnston, 54, who was among an estimated 2,000 people who packed into a high school gym to see him on Monday near Pittsburgh. She shrugged off his sexually aggressive comments in the 2005 video and pointed at Democrat Hillary Clin- ton’s shortcomings. “He said what he said and he apologized. She should be in jail,” Johnston said. At a rally in Newton, Iowa, Pence received multiple standing ovations and was thanked at one point for sticking with Trump — a sign of just how badly Trump has faltered. “You ... just got my respect for not jumping and bailing out on Donald Trump,” the questioner said. Another woman told Pence she was concerned about widespread voter fraud and warned that, if Clinton wins, “I am ready for a revolution.” “Don’t say that,” Pence responded. As the GOP battled itself, Clinton focused on climate change in swing state Florida alongside former Vice President Al Gore. Gore, whose 2006 documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” focused on global warming, said Clinton would “make solving the climate crisis a top national priority.” While Trump devoted much of his ire to fellow Republicans on Tuesday, he did not ignore his oppo- nent. His campaign released a new ad that focuses on Clinton’s recent bout with pneumonia. The ad features images of masked gunmen and nuclear weapons as a sick Clinton stumbles toward a vehicle. “Hillary Clinton doesn’t have the fortitude, strength or stamina to lead in our world,” the narrator declares. Meanwhile, Trump’s campaign and the Republican National Committee declared that hacked emails released by WikiLeaks on Tuesday showed collusion between the Clinton campaign and the Department of Justice during a civil investigation into the former secre- tary of state’s email server. The evidence does indicate there was communication between the two about a court hearing date. But such dates are not inside information. They would have been publicly posted in advance on the court’s docket. The emails show that in May 2015, Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon alerted other staffers that the Justice Department was proposing to publish Clinton’s work-related emails by January in response to requests by news organizations. Fallon, a former Justice Department spokesman, wrote that unspeciied “DOJ folks” told him there was a court hearing planned soon in the case. Justices raise doubts about $399M judgment against Samsung WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court raised serious doubts Tuesday about a $399 million judgment against smartphone maker Samsung for illegally copying parts of the patented design of Apple’s iPhone. Justices hearing argu- ments in the long-running dispute seemed troubled that Samsung was ordered to pay all the proits it earned from 11 phone models, even though the features at issue are just a tiny part of the devices. But some justices strug- gled over how exactly a jury should be told to compute damages if the case is sent back to a lower court. “If I were a juror, I wouldn’t know what to do,” said Justice Anthony Kennedy. Justice Stephen Breyer appeared to embrace a test proposed by a group of internet companies including Facebook and Google that would outline new limits on such damage awards. Other justices seemed to favor a different test proposed by the Obama administration. The outcome could have ripple effects across the high-tech industry as the court balances the need to encourage innovation against a desire to protect lucrative design patents. The case is part of series of lawsuits between the technology rivals that began in 2011. None of the early generation Samsung phones involved in the suit remain on the market. Cupertino, Califor- nia-based Apple sued over South Korea-based Samsung’s duplication of a handful of distinctive iPhone features for which Apple holds patents: the lat screen, the rounded rect- angle shape of the phone, and the layout of icons on the screen. The companies are wrangling over how much Samsung is required to compensate Apple under an 1887 law that requires patent infringers to pay “total proit.” At issue is whether that means all the proits from phone sales, or just the proit related to the speciic components that were copied. Samsung says the hefty award ignores the fact that its phones contain more than 200,000 other patents that Apple does not own. Apple argues that the verdict is fair because the iPhone’s success was directly tied to its distinctive look. DON’T MISS OUT! BRIEFLY some of the highest levels ever recorded. Tens of thousands of people, some of them as far as 125 miles inland, have been warned to move to higher ground since the hurricane drenched the state with more than a foot of rain over the weekend. An angry Gov. Pat McCrory asked people to stop ignoring evacuation orders and driving around barricades on looded roads. In the hard-hit town of Lumberton, along the bloated Lumber River, sporadic looting was reported, and a North Carolina trooper searching for people trapped by the loodwaters killed a man who confronted oficers with a gun Monday night, police said. Authorities gave few details, but McCrory said the shooting happened in “very dificult circumstances,” adding: “Tension can be Christopher Dolan / The Citizens’ Voice via AP Republican Presidential nominee Donald J. Trump looks on during a rally at Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre Twp., Pa. on Monday. high when people are going through very, very emotional circumstances.” Celebrate Your Loved Ones in Our Oficials, parents worry Chicago deal won’t stick CHICAGO (AP) — Teachers in the nation’s third-largest school district pulled back from a threatened strike after a tentative last-minute contract agreement that Chicago oficials acknowledged Tuesday may amount to a temporary ix and parents worried would fall apart. But even as Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who fought bitterly with Lewis before and during the 2012 teachers’ strike, praised the union and the Chicago Public Schools in a speech in which he introduced his 2017 budget proposal, it still isn’t clear how the inancially strapped city will pay for the four-year deal. Veterans Day SALUTE Staff Sergeant Joel Davis US Marines Veteran Honoring those who have served and those that are currently serving our country! 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