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NATION/WORLD Tuesday, June 5, 2018 East Oregonian Page 9A BRIEFLY Trump, lawyers lay out expansive presidential powers view AP Photo/Oliver de Ros A firefighter carries the body of a child recovered near the Volcan de Fuego, which means Volcano of Fire in Spanish, in Escuintla, Guatemala, Monday. A fiery volcanic eruption in south-central Guatemala sent lava flowing into rural communities, killing dozens. 65 killed in Guatemalan eruption By SONIA PEREZ D. Associated Press EL RODEO, Guatemala — Rescuers pulled survivors and bodies from the charred after- math of the powerful eruption of Guatemala’s Volcano of Fire, as the death toll rose to 65 on Monday and was expected to go higher from a disaster that caught residents of remote mountain hamlets off guard, with little or no time to flee to safety. Using shovels and back- hoes, emergency workers dug through the debris and mud, perilous labor on smoldering terrain still hot enough to melt shoe soles a day after the vol- cano exploded in a hail of ash, smoke and molten rock. Bodies were so thickly coated with ash that they looked like statues, and rescu- ers were forced to use sledge- hammers to break through the roofs of houses buried in debris up to their rooflines to try to see if anyone was trapped inside. In the afternoon, Fanuel Garcia, director of the National Institute of Forensic Sciences, said 62 bodies had been recov- ered and 13 of those had been identified. Guatemala’s national disaster agency later raised the toll to 65. “It is very difficult for us to identify them because some of the dead lost their features or their fingerprints” from the red-hot flows, Garcia said. “We are going to have to resort to other methods ... and if pos- sible take DNA samples to identify them.” Hilda Lopez said her mother and sister were still missing after the slurry of hot gas, ash and rock roared into her village of San Miguel Los Lotes, just below the moun- tain’s flanks. “We were at a party, cel- ebrating the birth of a baby, when one of the neighbors shouted at us to come out and see the lava that was com- ing,” the distraught woman said. “We didn’t believe it, and when we went out the hot mud was already coming down the street.” “My mother was stuck there, she couldn’t get out,” said Lopez, weeping and hold- ing her face in her hands. Her husband, Joel Gonza- lez, said his father had also been unable to escape and was believed to be “buried back there, at the house.” Guatemalan authorities say they had been closely monitor- ing the Volcano of Fire, one of Central America’s most active, after activity picked up around 6 a.m. Sunday. The volcano has registered a number of minor eruptions over the years, and no evacu- ations were ordered as scien- tific experts reported the activ- ity was decreasing. Guatemala’s disaster agency, Conred, issued a num- ber of standard precautions, advising people to wear pro- tective face masks, clean their rooftops of ash once the erup- tion was over and cover any food and water intended for human consumption. It also said to heed any recommen- dations from authorities. Gua- temala City’s international airport was closed due to the danger to planes. Conred spokesman David de Leon said that around 2 p.m. the volcano regis- tered a new, more powerful explosion. WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump claimed Monday he has an “absolute right” to pardon him- self, part of an extraordinarily expan- sive vision of executive authority that is mostly untested in court and could por- tend a drawn-out fight with the prosecu- tors now investigating him. No need of a pardon anyway, Trump tweeted, because “I have done nothing wrong.” In fact, his lawyers assert in a memo to special counsel Robert Muel- ler, it’s impossible for him to have done anything wrong in the area of obstruct- ing justice, an issue Mueller has been investigating. That’s because, as the country’s chief law enforcement offi- cer, Trump himself has ultimate control of the Justice Department and executive branch. Beyond that, his lawyers have repeat- edly insisted that it’s beyond dispute that a sitting president cannot be crim- inally prosecuted. Trump also tweeted Monday that the Justice Department’s “appoint- ment of the Special Counsel is totally UNCONSTITUTIONAL.” Mueller’s investigation moves for- ward nonetheless, and as it does courts may have to confront questions with minimal if any historical precedent. Those include whether a president can be forced to answer questions from prosecutors, whether it’s possible for a commander in chief to criminally inter- fere in investigations and whether a president’s broad pardon power can be deployed for corrupt purposes. Bill Clinton bristles at questions on Lewinsky, #MeToo WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton says the #MeToo movement is overdue. Just don’t ask him about Monica Lewinsky. In an interview with NBC’s “Today Show” released Monday, Clinton bris- tled at questions over whether he should have resigned 20 years ago over his sex- ual relationship with the White House intern and whether the #MeToo move- ment has changed his perspective. At the same time, the former Dem- ocratic president claimed credit for empowering women in his orbit and dis- puted that he might owe Lewinsky a pri- vate apology, insisting his public tele- vised apology was adequate. Lewinsky wrote in March that their relationship “was not sexual assault” but “constituted a gross abuse of power.” “I dealt with it 20 years ago, plus,” said Clinton. “And the American peo- ple, two-thirds of them stayed with me. And I’ve tried to do a good job since then, and with my life and with my work. That’s all I have to say.” Clinton is promoting his new fic- tional thriller, “The President Is Miss- ing,” with best-selling author James Patterson. In clips released from the interview, Clinton was at times both vague and combative in his answers, repeatedly blaming his critics and even the NBC interviewer for “omitting facts” by try- ing to lump him in with other men who have abused their positions of power to leverage sexual relationships. Clinton said he was right not to resign. And while he said he supports the #MeToo movement, “I still have questions about some of the decisions which have been made.” After 24 days out of sight, Melania Trump makes an appearance WASHINGTON (AP) — Finally, Melania Trump has reappeared. After more than three weeks out of the public eye, the first lady strolled into a White House event Monday for mil- itary families and swept away the wild speculation that she was incapacitated or had otherwise vanished. The White House did not allow jour- nalists to cover the Gold Star event out of respect for the families, which meant Mrs. Trump was seen in person only by the 40 or so families and administration officials who attended. Others had to keep an eye on social media. Video posted on Twitter showed the first lady, who wore a black sleeveless dress and her trademark stilettos, stroll- ing into the East Room accompanied by President Donald Trump. 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