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Tuesday, August 28, 2018
BRIEFLY
Iran asks UN’s
court to suspend
U.S. sanctions
THE HAGUE, Nether-
lands (AP) — Iran warned
Monday that re-imposed
U.S. sanctions would crip-
ple its economy and plunge
the volatile Middle East
deeper into crisis as it urged
the United Nations’ highest
court to suspend the Trump
administration’s economic
pressure on Tehran.
In a written statement
about the case at the Inter-
national Court of Justice,
U.S. Secretary of State Mike
Pompeo called Iran’s claims
“meritless” and defended
the sanctions as a way of
keeping Americans safe.
The world court’s Great
Hall of Justice in The Hague
is the latest backdrop for
Washington and Tehran’s
high-stakes dispute about
Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
President Donald Trump
said in May that he would
pull the U.S. out of a 2015
agreement
over
Iran’s
nuclear program and would
re-impose sanctions on Teh-
ran. Washington also threat-
ened other countries with
sanctions if they don’t cut
off Iranian oil imports by
early November.
Alleged cover-up
pivots on when, if
sanctions imposed
Poll: Few Dems
favor closing ICE
WASHINGTON (AP) —
The rallying cry from some
liberals to abolish Immigra-
tion and Customs Enforce-
ment isn’t a likely winner this
election year, as a new poll
finds only a quarter of Demo-
crats support eliminating the
agency that carried out the
Trump administration’s pol-
icy of separating immigrant
children from their parents.
But even as they don’t
want to fully dismantle
ICE, 57 percent of Demo-
crats view the agency nega-
tively, including nearly three-
fourths of those who describe
themselves as liberal, accord-
ing to a poll released Mon-
day by The Associated Press-
NORC Center for Public
Affairs Research.
The findings demonstrate
tension among Democrats
about how to address the cri-
sis at the border that intensi-
fied in June when the Trump
administration instituted a
family separation policy to
deter illegal immigration.
President Donald Trump
has seized on the Democratic
criticism of ICE to paint the
party as weak on immigra-
tion and national security.
The administration reversed
its separation policy amid an
international outcry, but hun-
dreds of children remain sep-
arated from their families.
Overall, opinions about
ICE are divided along parti-
san lines. A sizable chunk —
a full one-third of Americans
— are too unfamiliar with the
agency to form an opinion.
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students.
“The current world situ-
ation demands that I remain
in uniformed active mil-
itary service beyond the
term which we originally
contemplated when the
board granted me a leave of
absence,” he wrote.
In March of 2017, the
board approved a three-year
employment contract with
Maiocco, with an annual
salary of $165,753.95.
Interim superintendent Tri-
cia Mooney said Maiocco
does not get paid by the
school district while he
is on military leave, and
that his contract is on hold
during that time.
According to documents
provided by the school dis-
trict, Maiocco received a
letter from the U.S. Army
dated June 29, 2017, stat-
ing that he was required
to report by July 27. He
informed the school board
of his impending leave on
July 10, 2017, at a board
meeting. Under the Uni-
formed Services Employ-
ment
and
Reemploy-
ment Rights Act of 1994
(USERRA), Maiocco’s con-
tract is protected while he is
on active duty, and guaran-
tees him re-employment for
three years from the date
of his return. Had the dis-
trict refused to approve his
BUY ANY 5
leave when he was called
to duty in July 2017, they
would have had to buy out
his contract.
Goller said the full buy-
out of Maiocco’s contract
would have been some-
where in the neighborhood
of $786,000, including
benefits.
To arrive at the agree-
ment of $281,346, board
vice-chair Ginny Holthus
said it was the equivalent
of one year’s worth of his
contract, plus some money
from benefits.
Mooney said the pur-
pose was to offer the district
some more stability.
“I am not speaking for
the board, but I know that
Hermiston School Dis-
trict is the largest district
in Eastern Oregon,” she
said. “When you have an
organization of our size, it
requires some stability and
leadership.”
She said while the
board’s job is to represent
the community, their main
task is to hire and evaluate
the superintendent.
“This is out of an inten-
tion to move the district for-
ward and do what’s best for
our community,” she said.
Goller added that the
board is pleased with the
job Mooney has done, but
the situation has put some
uncertainty on her role, too.
“It’s a difficult posi-
tion for an interim superin-
tendent to be accountable
to both the board of direc-
tors and the superintendent
when he returns,” Goller
said.
Mooney’s contract as
interim superintendent ends
June 30, 2019. Sherman said
that the board’s two options
were to appoint Mooney as
full-time superintendent, or
search for another perma-
nent superintendent. She
said the board would dis-
cuss it at their next meeting,
on September 10.
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Jayati
Ramakrishnan at 541-564-
4534 or jramakrishnan@
eastoregonian.com.
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VATICAN CITY (AP)
— The archbishop of Wash-
ington on Monday “cate-
gorically denied” ever being
informed that his predecessor
had been sanctioned for sex-
ual misconduct, undercutting
a key element of a bombshell
allegation that Pope Francis
covered up clergy abuse.
Cardinal Donald Wuerl
issued a statement after the
Vatican’s former ambassador
to the United States accused
Pope Francis of effectively
freeing ex-Cardinal Theodore
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