NATION/WORLD
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
East Oregonian
Indonesia volcano forces mass
evacuation, shuts Bali airport
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Franken apologizes,
sees long fight
ahead for trust
WASHINGTON (AP) —
Sen. Al Franken apologized
Monday to “everyone who
has counted on me to be a
champion for women” as
the Minnesota Democrat
fought to bolster his support
with his first Capitol public
appearance since being
drawn into a wave of sexual
harassment accusations
buffeting Congress.
Franken spoke as
lawmakers began returning
from an extraordinary
weeklong Thanksgiving
break that saw sexually
tinged problems engulf
two other legislators as
well: Reps. John Conyers,
D-Mich., and Joe Barton,
R-Texas. Those revelations
were on top of allegations
that Alabama Republican
Senate candidate Roy
Moore sexually assaulted a
14-year-old girl and sought
romantic relationships with
other teenagers when he was
in his 30s four decades ago,
which he has denied.
With harassment charges
bringing down big names in
the worlds of entertainment
and journalism, Congress
was adding widespread
complaints about how it
handles such incidents to its
pile of year-end work.
In a brief appearance
before reporters, Franken
stopped short of specifying
how his memory differs
from four women’s accounts
of separate incidents in
which he allegedly initiated
improper sexual contact. He
said he recalls “differently”
one woman’s allegation that
he forcibly kissed her but
provided no detail, and said
he doesn’t remember three
other times women assert
he grabbed their buttocks,
citing “tens of thousands” of
people he meets annually.
“But I feel that you
have to respect, you know,
women’s experience,” he
said.
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AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati
A view of the Mount Agung volcano erupting in Karangasem, Bali, Indonesia, Mon-
day. The volcano on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali erupted for the second time
in a week on Saturday, disrupting international flights even as authorities said the
island remains safe.
KARANGASEM, Indo-
nesia (AP) — Indonesian
authorities ordered 100,000
people to flee Monday from
an erupting volcano on
Bali that forced the island’s
international airport to close,
stranding large numbers of
travelers.
Mount Agung has been
hurling clouds of white and
dark gray ash about 9,800 feet
into the atmosphere since the
weekend and lava is welling
up in the crater, sometimes
reflected as a reddish-yellow
glow in the ash plumes. Its
explosions can be heard
about 7 1/2 miles away.
Videos released by the
National Disaster Mitigation
Agency showed a mudflow
of volcanic debris and water
known as a lahar moving
down the volcano’s slopes.
It said lahars could increase
because it is rainy season and
warned people to stay away
from rivers.
The agency raised the
volcano’s alert to the highest
level early Monday and
expanded the danger zone
to 6 miles in places from the
previous 7 1/2 kilometers.
It said a larger eruption is
possible.
The volcano’s last major
eruption in 1963 killed about
1,100 people.
Spokesman
Sutopo
Purwo Nugroho told a news
conference in Jakarta that the
extension of the danger zone
affects 22 villages and about
90,000 to 100,000 people.
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Conservative group
linked to false
Moore accusation
NEW YORK (AP) — A
conservative group known for
undercover investigations has
been linked to a woman who
falsely told The Washington
Post that Alabama Senate
candidate Roy Moore
impregnated her as a teenager,
the newspaper reported.
Moore has been accused
of multiple instances of
sexual misconduct. But the
Post determined that one
accuser who approached
the newspaper earlier in the
month, identified as Jaime
Phillips, made up a fake
story likely designed to
embarrass the newspaper.
The Post published a
story Monday about its
dealings with Phillips. Earlier
in the day, reporters from
the newspaper saw Phillips
walking into the New York
offices of Project Veritas, a
conservative group with a
long track record of targeting
Democratic groups and
major media outlets, often
by hiding their identities and
using hidden cameras.
“We don’t comment on
investigations real or imag-
ined, or imagined stings,”
conservative activist and
Project Veritas leader James
O’Keefe told The Associated
Press Monday evening.
O’Keefe released an
unrelated video that he said
exposed liberal bias at the
newspaper hours after the Post
story was initially published.
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Meghan Markle to
wed Prince Harry
LONDON (AP) — She is
an entertainment figure in her
own right, and an outspoken
woman comfortable talking
about her background and her
passions. American actress
Meghan Markle will be a new
type of royal when she weds
Prince Harry in the spring.
In some ways, Markle
— a mixed-race American
raised in California, and
a divorcee — makes a
surprising addition to
Britain’s monarchy.
Markle, best known for
her role as an ambitious
paralegal in the hit U.S. legal
drama “Suits,” surprised
many when she shared
her feelings for Harry in a
September cover story for
Vanity Fair.
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