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NATION/WORLD Tuesday, May 30, 2017 East Oregonian Page 7A Merkel warns against ‘simple answers’ after G7 By DAVID RISING and GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN — Chancellor Angela Merkel cautioned Monday against seeking “simple answers” to complex global issues, a day after suggesting that Europe’s relationship with the U.S. had shifted significantly following NATO and G-7 meetings with President Donald Trump that produced disappointing results. The comments at an elec- tion rally Sunday in Bavaria, where Merkel stressed that “we Europeans must really take our destiny into our own hands,” were widely seen as acknowledgement from Europe’s most powerful leader of the changing dynamic of trans-Atlantic ties. Her foreign minister, a political rival, upped the rhetoric Monday by declaring that with Trump’s policies, “the West has become smaller.” Merkel’s remarks came after a Group of Seven summit at which the Euro- peans couldn’t reach an agreement with Trump on climate change. AP Photo/Andrew Medichini Leaders of the G7, from left, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, German Chan- cellor Angela Merkel, U.S. President Donald Trump, Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni, French President Emmanuel Macron, Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and British Prime Minister Theresa May pose during a group photo for the G7 sum- mit in the Ancient Theatre of Taormina in Taormina, Italy, Friday. “The times in which we can fully count on others are somewhat over, as I have experienced in the past few days,” she said. “And so all I can say is that we Europeans must really take our destiny into our own hands.” Merkel also emphasized the continued need for friendly relations with the U.S. and others. Her spokesman Steffen Seibert, said Monday the chancellor is “a convinced trans-Atlan- ticist.” U.S.-German relations “are a strong pillar of our foreign and security policy, and Germany will continue working to strengthen these relations,” Seibert said. “Precisely because they are so important, it’s right to Relative ‘devastated’ after shooting kills 8 in Mississippi Associated Press BROOKHAVEN, Miss. — Head in hands, his voice strained, Vincent Mitchell sat outside his little yellow home and tried to make sense of how a family dispute led to a rampage that killed eight people, including the deputy who tried to keep them safe. “I’m devastated. It don’t seem like it’s real,” Mitchell said shortly after the arrest of his stepson-in-law, Willie Corey Godbolt. “Him and my stepdaughter, they’ve been going back and forth for a couple of years with that domestic violence.” Godbolt showed up at Mitchell’s home in the southern Mississippi town of Bogue Chitto shortly before midnight Saturday to demand that his estranged wife give up their two chil- dren. She and the kids had been staying with them for about three weeks, Mitchell told The Associated Press. “He’d come to get his kids. The deputy was called,” and asked him to leave, and it seemed like Godbolt would comply at first, Mitchell said. “He acted like, motioned like, he was fixing to go. Then he reached in his back pocket and grabbed a gun,” Mitchell said. “He just started shooting everything.” Mitchell said he escaped along with Godbolt’s wife, but Mitchell’s wife, her sister and one of the wife’s daughters were killed. Also slain was Deputy William Durr, a two-year sheriff’s department veteran and former police officer in nearby Brookhaven, where authorities said Godbolt fled and killed four more people at two other homes. Authorities on Monday said Godbolt was related to or acquainted with all the victims except Durr. The Mississippi Bureau of Inves- tigation identified them as: Barbara Mitchell, 55; Brenda May, 53; Tocarra May, 35; a child who was not identified; a 17-year-old boy who was not identified; Ferral Burage, 45; and Shelia Burage, 46. Police have not said exactly how Godbolt knew them. A member of Godbolt’s church previously told the AP that everyone but the deputy was related to Godbolt by blood or marriage. Mississippi Bureau of Investigation spokesman Warren Strain said prosecu- tors plan to charge Godbolt, 35, with one count of capital murder and seven counts of first degree murder, but authorities haven’t discussed a motive. Strain said those charges could change as the investigation continues. Godbolt was still hospital- ized Monday at the Univer- sity of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson. Police have said Godbolt is being treated for a gunshot wound. Godbolt himself shed some light on what happened, AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis Christianna May-Kelly, center, is supported by family members as she cries after answering reporters ques- tions outside her parents’ home in Brookhaven, Miss., Sunday. May-Kelly said her parents were among the people gunned down during a shooting in rural Missis- sippi Saturday night. Therese Apel/The Clarion-Ledger via AP Officers arrest suspect Willie Corey Godbolt on Sun- day, May 28, 2017, following several fatal shootings Saturday in Lincoln County, Miss., officials said. Slain deputy had worked in ministry before law enforcement BROOKHAVEN (AP) department and even in the — A Mississippi deputy church he served in.” killed in a shooting rampage Durr was married and had worked in Christian had an 11-year-old son. His ministry before mother spoke going into law briefly with the enforcement, AP on Monday, and liked doing saying that the puppet shows to family is still in deliver uplifting distress. messages to chil- “He was a dren. good Christian Wi l l i a m man,” Debbie Durr, 36, was William Durr Durr said at her responding to a rural home near domestic-violence call late Brookhaven. “He was a Saturday when he was shot. youth minister and a pastor The Lincoln County before going into law Sheriff’s Department has enforcement.” about 75 employees and is Off duty, Durr also was like a close-knit family, said a ventriloquist who took Zach Harveston, who has his puppets to schools worked as a dispatcher there and churches. Two weeks for two years. Harveston ago, Durr entertained said he was shaken by preschoolers at Brookhaven Durr’s death. Academy, a Christian school “He loved to lead in town. The message he children to the good Lord,” shared was that — like fire- Harveston said. “He was flies — people can use their just a natural-born servant inner light to help those of the good Lord here at the around them. in an interview he gave to The Clarion-Ledger as he sat with his hands cuffed behind his back on the side of a road in Brookhaven, about 70 miles south of Jackson. “I was having a conversa- tion with her stepdaddy and her mama and her, my wife, about me taking my children home,” he said. “Somebody called the officer, people that didn’t even live at the house. That’s what they do. They intervene.” “They cost him his life,” he said, apparently referring to Durr. “I’m sorry.” “My pain wasn’t designed for him. He was just there,” Godbolt said. “I ain’t fit to live, not after what I done.” Godbolt was hospitalized in good condition with a gunshot wound, though it wasn’t clear who shot him. name differences honestly.” Where Europe’s relation- ship with the U.S. during the Cold War and in its immediate aftermath had a strong emotional compo- nent, Merkel’s comments suggest she now sees them as more “pragmatic and transactional,” said Sylke Tempel, an expert with the German Council on Foreign Relations. “She feels there is a turning point — trans-At- lantic relations won’t be the relations we’ve seen over the last decades,” Tempel said. “Trump accelerates it, but it was to be expected.” She also noted that Merkel is seeking a fourth term as chancellor in September, and does not want to be seen as being too close to an Amer- ican president who is widely disliked in Europe. “You don’t want to be sitting too comfortably in Trump’s boat, or in Trump’s boat at all, because Trump’s not liked here,” she said. During a speech Monday in Berlin, Merkel did not specifically mention Trump but quoted a 1963 speech by former President John F. Kennedy in Frankfurt, where he told the audience “those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.” “With change comes insecurity, skepticism ... and, not infrequently, the glorification of the suppos- edly good old days,” Merkel said. “Particularly in view of the complexity of global contexts, a wish for simple answers spreads. But anyone who puts on national blinkers and has no view of the world around him will ultimately get lost.” Her main challenger in September, the Social Democrats’ candidate Martin Schulz, doubled down on Merkel’s Sunday comments, saying the summits made it clear that Trump was a presi- dent “who wants to humiliate others, who presents himself like an authoritarian ruler.” “Europe is the answer, and stronger cooperation between the European countries at all levels is the answer to Donald Trump,” Schulz said on ARD public television. “And above all else, we must not submit to Trump’s arms-race logic.” And Vice Chancellor and Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel, also a Social Demo- crat, said Monday that if the Trump administration “finds pushing through national interests more important than an international order... then I say that the West has become smaller — it has at least become weaker.” He added, however, that he hopes “we can win back the United States one day, because there are also large parts of American society that we must not forget.” Police seek clues in bomber’s suitcase LONDON (AP) — Police in Manchester, England issued a picture of the arena suicide bomber holding a blue suitcase and asked anyone who might have seen him with it before the attack to call a confiden- tial hotline. Counter-terrorism squads are trying to re-create Salman Abedi’s move- ments in the days before he detonated a bomb at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, killing 22 people. Police believe Abedi had the wheeled suitcase with him at two locations in Manchester. The suitcase was not used in the attack, which was carried out when Abedi detonated an improvised bomb minutes after the concert ended, Greater Manchester Police Detective Chief Superintendent Russ Jackson said. Jackson tried to reas- sure nervous residents of Manchester that the bag does not pose a risk to public safety. But if any members of the public find it, they should not approach it, but call police immediately, he said. “We have no reason to believe the case and its contents contain anything Greater Manchester Police via AP This is a handout photo taken on Monday, May 22, from CCTV in an un- known location of the city centre in Manches- ter, England. dangerous, but would ask people to be cautious,” Jackson said. He said Abedi may have had the blue suitcase with him when he visited the Wilmslow Road area and the Manchester city center in the days before the blast. “Did you see Abedi with this suitcase between the 18 and 22 May 2017? Where did you see him with it during that time?” Jackson said. The bombing investiga- tion expanded early Monday when police arrested a 23-year-old man on the south coast of England, hundreds of miles south of Manchester. Greater Manchester Police said the man was arrested in Shoreham-by-Sea on suspicion of terrorism offenses and an address there was being searched. The arrest means that 14 men are now in custody in Britain for suspected roles in Britain’s worst attack in a decade. The suspects have not been identified or charged. All are being held on suspicion of violating the Terrorism Act. Police and security services have said very little about the network believed to be behind Abedi, a Manchester native whose parents had moved to Britain from Libya. Abedi’s elder brother Ismail is among the suspects being held in Britain, and a younger brother and Abedi’s father have been detained in Libya. Britain’s intelligence services have launched an inquiry into how warnings about the 22-year-old Abedi’s radical views were handled amid indications that vital warning signs were missed. L i t t le D a r l i n gs ! This special section will be fi lled with photos of and messages for adorable little darlings from Umatilla County. Families will want to keep this special keepsake for their child and family for years to come. PUBLISHES: June 28, 2017 DEADLINES: June 08, 2017 Olivia, t. I loved you from the very star heart. my ed rac emb , You stole my breath un. beg just has er Our life togeth . You’re part of me, my little one Love, Mom Send in, or drop by, a full color high resolution photo, your child’s name and a message to your child today! Little Darlings 211 SE Byers, Pendleton, OR 97801 333 E. 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