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Trump Takes Charge, Assertive But Untested 45th US President JULIE PACE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Pledging emphatically to empower America’s “forgotten men and women,” Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States Friday, taking command of a riven nation facing an unpredictable era under his assertive but untested leadership.

Under cloudy, threatening skies at the West Front of the U.S. Capitol, Trump painted a bleak picture of the America he now leads, declaring as he had throughout the election campaign that it is beset by crime, poverty and a lack of bold action.

The billionaire businessman and reality television star — the first president

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump walk along the Inauguration Day parade route after being sworn in as the 45th President of the United States, Friday, Jan. 20, 2017, in Washington.

(AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Pool)

to have never held political office or high military rank — promised to stir a “new national pride” and protect America from the “ravages” of countries he says have stolen U.S. jobs.

“This American carnage stops right here,” Trump declared. In a warning to the world, he said, “From this day forward, a new vision will govern our land. From this moment on, it’s going to be America first.”

The crowd that spread out before him on the National Mall was smaller than at past inaugurals, reflecting both the divisiveness of last year’s campaign and the unpopularity of the incoming president compared to modern predecessors.

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FRONT

Trump takes charge, assertive but untested 45th US president Continued from Front Demonstrations unfolded at various security checkpoints near the Capitol as

gress — and all but ensures conservatives can quickly pick up a seat on the closely divided Supreme Court. Despite entering a

Trump declared his moment a fulfillment of his campaign pledge to take a sledgehammer to Washington’s traditional ways,

President Donald Trump takes the oath of office from Chief Justice John Roberts, as his wife Melania holds the Bible, and with his children Barron, Ivanka, Eric and Tiffany, Friday, Jan. 27, 2017 on Capitol Hill in Washington.

(Jim Bourg/Pool Photo via AP)

police helped ticket-holders get through. After the swearing-in, more protesters registered their rage in the streets of Washington. Police in riot gear deployed pepper spray and made numerous arrests after protesters smashed the windows of downtown businesses, denouncing capitalism and the new president.

At least one vehicle was set afire.

Short and pointed, Trump’s 16-minute address in the heart of Washington was a blistering rebuke of many who listened from privileged seats only feet away. Surrounded by men and women who have long filled the government’s corridors of power, the new president said that for too long, “a small group in our nation’s capital has reaped the rewards of government while the people have borne the cost.”

His predecessor, President Barack Obama, sat stoically as Trump pledged to push the country in a dramatically different direction.

Trump’s victory gives Republicans control of both the White House and Con-

time of Republican dominance, Trump made little mention of the party’s bedrock principles: small government, social conservativism and robust American leadership

and he spoke directly to the alienated and disaffected.

“What truly matters is not which party controls our government, but whether our government is con-

mountain to mountain, from ocean to ocean, hear these words: You will never be ignored again.”

But the speech offered scant outreach to the millions who did not line up behind his candidacy.

Trump’s call for restrictive immigration measures, religious screening of immigrants and his caustic campaign rhetoric about women and minorities angered millions. He did not directly address that opposition, instead offering a call to “speak our minds openly, debate our disagreements honestly, but always pursue solidarity.”

While Trump did not detail policy proposals Friday, he did set a high bar for his presidency. The speech was full of the onetime showman’s lofty promises to bring back jobs, “completely” eradicate Islamic terrorism, and build new roads, bridges and airports.

Despite Trump’s ominous portrait of America, he is taking the helm of a growing economy. Jobs have increased for a record 75 straight months, and the unemployment rate was 4.7 percent in December, close to a 9-year low.

President Donald Trump is joined by the Congressional leadership and his family as he formally signs his cabinet nominations into law, Friday, Jan. 20, 2107, in the President’s Room of the Senate on Capitol Hill in Washington From left are, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., Donald Trump Jr., Vice President Mike Pence, Jared Kushner, Karen Pence, Ivanka Trump, Melania Trump, Barron Trump, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, D-Calif., House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.

(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, Pool)

around the world.

He left no doubt he considers himself the product of a movement — not a party.

trolled by the people,” he said. “To all Americans in every city near and far, small and large from

Yet Trump’s victory underscored that for many Americans, the recovery from the Great Recession

has come slowly or not at all. His campaign tapped into seething anger in working class communities, particularly in the Midwest, that have watched factories shuttered and the certainty of a middle class life wiped away.

Trump’s journey to the inauguration was as unlikely as any in recent U.S. history.

He defied his party’s establishment and befuddled the news media. He used social media to dominate the national conversation and challenge conventions about political discourse. After years of Democratic control of the White House and deadlock in Washington, his was a blast of fresh air for millions.

At 70, Trump is the oldest person to be sworn in as president, marking a generational step backward after two terms for Obama, one of the youngest presidents to serve as commander in chief.

The 44th president, who will continue to live in Washington, left the city after the swearing-in ceremony for a family vacation in California. At a farewell celebration with staff members at Joint Base Andrews, he thanked them for having “proved the power of hope.”

While Trump bucked convention as a candidate, he embraced the pomp and pageantry of the inaugural celebrations. He was sworn in by Chief Justice John Roberts, reciting the 35-word oath with his hand placed upon two Bibles, one used by his family and another during President Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration. During an afternoon parade, he stepped outside the armored presidential limousine with Mrs. Trump and his 10-yearold son, Barron, to walk two brief stretches of Pennsylvania Avenue.

In a show of solidarity, all of the living American presidents attended the inaugural, except for 92-yearold George H.W. Bush, who was hospitalized this week with pneumonia. His wife, Barbara, was also in the hospital after falling ill.q

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Melee near Trump’s parade route as police, protesters clash

A parked limousine burns during a demonstration after the inauguration of President Donald Trump, Friday, Jan. 20, 2017, in downtown Washington. Protesters registered their rage against the new president Friday in a chaotic confrontation with police who used pepper spray and stun grenades in a melee just blocks from Donald Trump’s inaugural parade route. Scores were arrested for trashing property and attacking officers.

(AP Photo/John Minchillo)

JESSICA GRESKO MICHAEL BIESECKER JEFF HORWITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Protesters registered their rage against the new president Friday in a chaotic confrontation with police who used pepper spray and stun grenades in a melee just blocks from Donald Trump’s inaugural parade.

Scores were arrested for trashing property and attacking officers while a burning limousine sent clouds of black smoke into the sky during Trump’s procession. Several spirited demonstrations unfolded peacefully at various security checkpoints near the Capitol as police helped ticket-holders get through to the inaugural ceremony. Signs read, “Resist Trump Climate Justice Now,” ‘’Let Freedom Ring,” ‘’Free Palestine.” But about a mile from the National

Mall, police gave chase to a group of about 100 protesters who smashed the windows of downtown businesses including a Starbucks, a Bank of America and a McDonald’s as they denounced capitalism and Trump. Police in riot gear used pepper spray from large canisters and eventually cordoned off protesters at 12th and L streets in northwest Washington.

Two uniformed police officers suffered “minor injuries from coordinated attacks” as protesters fled the scene, according to a statement from the Metro-

politan Police Department.

The confrontation began an hour before Trump took the oath of office and escalated several hours later as the crowd of protesters swelled to more than 1,000, some wearing gas masks and with arms chained together inside PVC pipe.

One said the demonstrators were “bringing in the cavalry.” When some crossed police lines, taunting, “Put the pigs in the ground,” police charged with batons and pepper spray, as well as stun grenades, which are used to shock and disperse crowds. Loud booms

echoed through the streets about six blocks from where Trump would soon hold his inaugural parade.

Some protesters picked up bricks and concrete from the sidewalk and hurled them at police lines. Some rolled large, metal trash cans at police.

The limousine was attacked on the perimeter of the secured zone. As Trump and his parade of celebrants moved along Pennsylvania Avenue, the vehicle was ablaze, tainting the air for blocks and sending protesters and passers-by moving swiftly away.q

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NEWS

Obama exits the presidency voicing optimism for the future JOSH LEDERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Closing out a barrier-breaking chapter in history, former President Barack Obama left the White House on Friday much the way he entered it eight years ago: insisting Americans have reason for optimism despite the national sense of unease.

He was gracious to President Donald Trump to the end, warmly welcoming his successor to the home where he raised his daughters. Yet to those fearful about Trump’s presidency, Obama suggested it would be a mere blip.

“This is just a little pit stop,” Obama told supporters just

before departing Washington. “This is not a period, this is a comma in the continuing story of building America.”

Obama leaves the national stage as a widely popular figure, with his poll numbers approaching 60 percent.

He’s being replaced by the least popular president in four decades, polls show — a reality on display in Trump’s low-key inauguration. On the National Mall, far fewer showed up than the throng that attended Obama’s 2009 inauguration, and some protesters downtown hurled bricks and broke windows in a show of defiance. Many others demonstrated peacefully.

President-elect Donald Trump and President Barack Obama arrive for Trump’s inauguration ceremony at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Jan. 20, 2017.

(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, Pool)

Left unspoken in Obama’s final hours was the unpleasant reality that his

successor has pledged to reverse much, if not most, of what he accomplished.

That has raised the prospect that Obama’s major lasting legacy may be as a cultural icon: the first black president, who ushered the country into a new era in which gays can marry, marijuana is legal in more places than ever and white people will soon be a minority.

Yet inside the White House, the Obama imprint that once appeared indelible suddenly seemed more fleeting. Photos of him and his family were taken down from the walls, leaving big, white voids that seemed to beckon the new president to make “the people’s house” his own.

Obama’s staffers left one reminder on the wall near a West Wing entrance: a collection of newspaper front pages from Obama’s proudest moments, including the day he signed the Affordable Care Act and the day the Senate confirmed his nomination of the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice.

Speaking to his former aides at Joint Base Andrews after Trump’s swearing-in, Obama sought to reassure those who toiled on his behalf that it was all worth it, no matter what Trump might do. He said his supporters had defied the skeptics who “didn’t think we could pull it off,” invoking themes from his campaign.

“You proved the power of hope,” Obama said. If there were hard feelings toward Trump, Obama didn’t let on. He sat stoically as Trump, in his inaugural address, offered a bleak assessment of the state of the country after eight years of Obama’s leadership.

And at the White House, he and Mrs. Obama tried to gently coach Trump and his wife on the mechanics of presidential pageantry.

When Melania Trump presented Mrs. Obama with a gift just as they were expected to pose for photos, Mrs. Obama looked left, then right, for someone to hand it to before Obama himself eventually walked it to a nearby aide.

On his last day in office, Obama left a letter to Trump in the Oval Office, in keeping with presidential tradition. He signed one last bill, codifying a government fellowship program he’d created, and was given a gift by the residential staff: a pair of flags that flew above the White House on the first and last days of his presidency.

Vice President Joe Biden accompanied the Obamas and the Trumps to the swearing-in, then departed Washington, in his characteristically down-home style, by Amtrak train. q

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‘El Chapo’ hauled off to US jail that has held terrorists TOM HAYS JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — In a scene U.S. authorities had dreamed of for decades, Mexican drug lord and escape artist Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was hauled into an American courtroom Friday and then taken away to an ultra-secure jail that has held some of the world’s most dangerous terrorists and mobsters.

Holding his unshackled hands behind his back, a dazed-looking Guzman quietly entered a not-guilty plea to drug trafficking and other charges at a Brooklyn courthouse ringed by squad cars, officers with assault rifles, and bomb-sniffing dogs.

“He’s a man known for a life of crime, violence, death and destruction, and now he’ll have to answer for that,” Robert Capers, the U.S. attorney in Brooklyn, said at a news conference.

The court appearance came hours after Guzman’s Thursday night extradition from Mexico, where he had become some-

thing of a folk hero for two brazen prison escapes.

Guzman, who is in his 50s, was ordered held without bail in a special Manhattan jail unit where other highrisk inmates — including Mafia boss John Gotti and several close associates of Osama bin Laden — spent their time awaiting trial.

“It is difficult to imagine another person with a greater risk of fleeing prosecution,” prosecutors wrote in court papers.

Prosecutors described Guzman as the murderous overseer of a three-decade campaign of smuggling, brutality and corruption that made his Sinaloa cartel a fortune while fueling an epidemic of cocaine abuse and related violence in the U.S. in the 1980s and ‘90s.

Guzman faces the possibility of life in prison. To get Mexico to hand him over, prosecutors agreed not to seek the death penalty.

They are also demanding he forfeit $14 billion in assets.

Outside court, Guzman defense attorney Michael Schneider said: “I haven’t

U.S. attorney Robert Capers, right, speaks during a news conference, announcing charges for Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman as the murderous architect of a three-decade-long web of violence, corruption and drug trafficking, Friday Jan. 20, 2017, in the Brooklyn borough of New York.

(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

seen any evidence that indicates to me that Mr. Guzman’s done anything wrong.” He also said he would look into whether his client was extradited properly to New York.

The U.S. has been trying to get custody of Guzman since he was first indicted in California in the early 1990s.

American authorities finally

got their wish on the eve of Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration, though it was not clear if the timing of the extradition was intended as a sign of respect to the Republican or some kind of slap, perhaps an effort to let outgoing President Barack Obama take the credit.

When Guzman got off a

plane in New York, “as you looked into his eyes, you could see the surprise, you could see the shock, and to a certain extent, you could see the fear, as the realization kicked in that he’s about to face American justice,” said Angel Melendez, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent.q

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NEWS Floating strip club owner says he was unfairly targeted Saturday 21 January 2017

RACHEL D’ORO Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska man convicted of illegally dumping human waste into a harbor from his floating strip club said he plans to appeal whatever sentence is imposed Friday afternoon.

Hours before his sentencing following his conviction on federal charges that could

land him in prison, Darren Byler claimed in a telephone interview with The Associated Press that he was targeted because of disapproval over the business he ran on the 94-foot “Wild Alaskan,” a converted crabbing boat.

“Simply put, I was selectively and maliciously prosecuted by an emotionally charged case because

of what I was doing with my entertainment charter. That’s just the bottom line,” he said while waiting to catch a flight to Anchorage from Kodiak Island.

“This is all about morality police.” Federal prosecutors have recommended an 18-month prison sentence for Byler.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Kyle Reardon denied in an inter-

view that Byler was targeted because of his business and said evidence showed the U.S. Coast Guard tried to work with Byler to bring his waste disposal practices into compliance. “This was a case, in our view, based upon all the facts, that required prosecution,” Reardon said. Byler’s attorney, John Cashion, in a sentencing memorandum asked

the judge to consider a fine and probation instead of prison time. Cashion said that Byler is “especially needed as a partner to his wife and family in a frontier subsistence environment.”

In a letter to U.S. District Judge Sharon Gleason, Byler’s wife Kimberly Riedel-Byler also asked for her husband to be kept out of prison.q

Hawaii bill compels mediation for Zuckerberg-type land deals AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A Hawaii lawmaker said Friday he plans to introduce legislation that could force Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg into mediation before he is allowed to buy real estate on Kauai island.

State Rep. Kaniela Ing said Hawaii’s sugar barons long employed laws Zuckerberg is using to take land from Native Hawaiians. He said Zuckerberg is “completing the theft.”

“Zuckerberg may be acting more transparent than folks who exploited this law in the past, but it doesn’t make it right,” Ing said. “I just hope he understands the context of his actions in the history of our state.”

Zuckerberg last month filed lawsuits to identify owners of 14 parcels interspersed with his 700-acre spread hugging a stunning white-sand beach so he could pay them and buy the land.

Ownership of the small lots could be split between hundreds of people — many of them unidentified.

If passed, Ing’s bill would likely take effect July 1.

This Jan. 15, 2017 photo shows public Pilaa Beach, center, below hillside and ridgetop land owned

by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, near Kilauea on the north shore of Kauai in Hawaii. Zuckerberg Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017, went to court to gain ownership of isolated pockets of land tucked away within his sprawling estate in Hawaii, many of which are less than an acre and could be split between hundreds of owners in a situation unique to the islands.

(Ron Kosen/photospectrumkauai.com via AP)

It would apply to Zuckerberg’s cases if they are still ongoing.

Ing, a Democrat who represents the southern part of Maui island, said Zuckerberg should enter mediation regardless of the legislation. He said he hopes Zuckerberg will do so if enough people in Hawaii echo this sentiment.

A Zuckerberg spokesman

did not immediately return email and phone messages seeking comment.

The bill would allow a parcel’s shareholders to band together in a group in mediation against the person seeking to buy the land. He said this would give people with rights to the land more bargaining power as a group against wealthy landowners like Zucker-

berg.

Ing said he also wants to lessen the burden on families facing potentially costly land rights legal battles.

“If you’re a working class local family and you get sued by sixth richest man in the world, that’s going to cause you a lot of stress.

You’re going to spend money on a lawyer no matter how expensive it

is. That’s the problem,” he said.

Ing said he also plans to introduce legislation that would require that people must own at least a 50 percent share in a property before they can launch a legal case seeking to establish other owners and potentially buy them out.

He said the Zuckerberg case brought attention to the ongoing situation of the so-called kuleana lands, which are small parcels awarded to Native Hawaiian commoners when the Kingdom of Hawaii established private property rights in the mid19th century.

He said lawmakers have not discussed the issue for decades, and Native Hawaiians have lost land on every island as a result.

In the 1800s, Hawaii’s King Kamehameha III intended for the land reforms to divide property equally among the monarch, other royals and the commoners who fished and farmed the land. Only about 28,000 acres went to commoners in the end. Millions went to the king, government and royals.q

Appeals court tells judge to allow transgender name changes KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Two transgender men may legally change their names, a Georgia appeals court ruled Friday, overturning a judge’s orders that said the name changes could be confusing and considered a type of fraud.

Columbia County Superior Court Judge J. David

Roper abused his discretion when he denied the name change petitions, the Georgia Court of Appeals decision said. The appeals court sent the two cases back to Roper and directed him to enter an order changing the names.

Roper did not immediately respond to an email and voicemail seeking comment Friday. LGBT rights

group Lambda Legal last year filed appeals on behalf of Rowan Elizabeth Feldhaus, whose birth name was Rebeccah Elizabeth Feldhaus, and Andrew Norman Baumert, whose given name was Delphine Renee Baumert.

Roper had denied the name changes, saying they could confuse and mislead people who inter-

act with the young men and could be considered a type of fraud. In both cases Roper said he would allow a transgender person to choose a gender-neutral name. But he said allowing a transgender man to choose a male name would “confuse or mislead the general public.”

The appeals court said it has affirmed the denial of a

name change petition only when there is evidence that the petitioner has an “improper motive,” including “intentionally assuming another person’s name for the purpose of embarrassing that person or avoiding the petitioner’s own criminal past.” Lambda Legal attorney Beth Littrell called the unanimous decision an “unequivocal win” and a great precedent.q

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Saturday 21 January 2017

1 student hurt, another in custody in Ohio school shooting

Parents wait at Lions Park in West Liberty, Ohio, Friday, Jan. 20, 2017, to pick up their children after a shooting at West Liberty-Salem Schools. A male student was shot and wounded was hospitalized Friday, and another student suspected in the shooting was in custody, officials said.

(Marshall Gorby/Dayton Daily News via AP)

ANDREW HUGGINS Associated Press WEST LIBERTY, Ohio (AP) — A male student who was shot and wounded at an Ohio school was hospitalized Friday, and another

student suspected in the shooting was in custody, officials said.

West Liberty-Salem Local School District Superintendent Kraig Hissong said the shooting occurred just as

classes were getting underway at the school complex roughly 45 miles northwest of Columbus.

Authorities haven’t released information about the shooter. The shooting

victim was taken to a Columbus hospital, but neither details about the extent of injuries nor the circumstances of the shooting have been released. No other injuries were reported.

Senior Ashley Rabenstein told local TV reporters that she was in class down the hall at the time, and when students first heard an odd noise, they weren’t sure what it might be because construction has been occurring at the property. She said her teacher checked the hallway, then ran back and said there was a shooter and threw desks against the door to block it. Students fled through the windows and ran through a cornfield to regroup at nearby houses, Rabenstein said.

“Especially in ... such a small town like this where you pretty much know everyone who lives in the town, you just never think

that stuff like this is going to happen,” she said.

Hissong said teachers and students followed their emergency training.

“This is one of those things that you always see happen in places that aren’t near you, and you don’t think it’s going to occur,” Hissong said. “Of course when they happen closer, such as some of the shootings that occurred within the last year, it helps you take notice and remember that you need to be prepared for a moment like this.”

The district slowly evacuated the school three or four school buses at a time, loading up students — younger grades first — and taking them to a city park in nearby West Liberty where they were met by families.

Parent Emily Thornburg, of West Liberty, was waiting there for her daughter, a fourth-grader.q

Autopsy suggests Orlando officer on back when fatally shot MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — An autopsy shows that an Orlando police officer gunned down outside a Wal-Mart last week was struck four times and the fatal shot hit her neck, apparently as she lay on her back, according to an arrest affidavit filed Friday.

The bullet from the fatal shot appeared to be impacted by concrete, suggesting that Lt. Debra Clayton was on her back, according to the affidavit.

Security video showed Markeith Loyd running out of the store and Clayton pursuing him about 10 feet behind after the lieutenant was told by a Wal-Mart customer that Loyd was wanted in the fatal shooting of

his pregnant ex-girlfriend last month.

Loyd took cover behind a concrete pillar and fired at Clayton, striking and fracturing her hip. Clayton was on her back when Loyd approached her, the affidavit said.

“Clayton fires her weapon from her back seven times at the suspect as he stands over her firing,” the affidavit said. Clayton was promoted from sergeant to lieutenant after her death.

The affidavit said Loyd had on a bulletproof vest, and he was wearing body armor when he was arrested Tuesday night.

Loyd told detectives that the fatal shooting might not have happened if the lieutenant “had waited for backup.”

“She pulled her gun out first,” Loyd told detectives, according to the affidavit.

Loyd, 41, claimed self-defense when asked by detectives about the killing his ex-girlfriend, Sade Dixon.

The suspect appeared in court Friday for five charges related to Clayton’s killing and he was more subdued than the day before when he appeared on charges related to Dixon’s killing, though Loyd still interrupted and refused to answer questions.

In Clayton’s shooting, Loyd faces charges of first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder of a law enforcement officer, carjacking, aggravated assault and wearing a bulletproof vest while committing an offense.

The judge set no bond for the first three charges,

guaranteeing that Loyd will stay in jail until his trial.q

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WORLD NEWS

‘Miracle underway’: Rescuers pull out avalanche survivors PAOLO SANTALUCIA GREGORIO BORGIA COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press FARINDOLA, Italy (AP) — With cheers of “Bravo! Bravo!” rescue crews pulled survivors from the debris of an avalanche-crushed hotel in central Italy on Friday, boosting spirits two days after the massive snow slide buried some 30 people.

Four children were among the 10 people found alive — and one asked for cookies when she got out.

The news buoyed rescue workers who had already located four bodies in the rubble of the luxury Hotel Rigopiano, 180 kilometers (112 miles) northeast of Rome, where the avalanche dumped 16½ feet (5 meters) of snow on top of the resort.

“Today is a day of hope.

There’s a miracle under way,” declared Ilario Lacchetta, mayor of the tiny town of Farindola, where

Rescuers work in the area of the hotel that was hit by an avalanche on Wednesday, in Rigopiano, central Italy, Friday, Jan. 20, 2017. Rescue crews located more than eight people alive in the rubble of an avalanche-crushed hotel on Friday, an incredible discovery that boosted spirits two days after the massive snow slide buried around 30 people in the resort.

(ANSA via AP)

the hotel is located.

Relatives of the missing rushed from the rescue operations center in the mountains to the seaside hospital where the survivors were taken for treatment in hopes that their loved ones

were among the lucky few to be found.

First word of the discovery came around 11 a.m.

Video released by rescuers showed a boy wearing blue snow pants and a matching ski jacket emerg-

ing through a tunnel dug in the snow. It was Gianfilippo Parete, the 8-year-old son of Giampiero Parete, a chef vacationing at the resort who had gone to his car when the avalanche struck and first sounded the alarm by calling his boss.

Emergency crews mussed the boy’s hair in celebration. “Bravo! Bravo!” they cheered.

Next to emerge was the boy’s mother, Adriana Vranceanu, 43, wearing red snow pants and appearing alert as she told rescuers that her 6-year-old daughter, Ludovica, was still trapped inside. Mother and son were helped to a stretcher for the helicopter ride out.

They were then reunited with Parete at a hospital in the coastal town of Pescara, suffering from hypothermia and dehydration but otherwise in good health, hospital officials said.

“They had heavy clothes,” said Dr. Rossano di Luzio.

“They had ski caps to cover themselves. They remained away from the snow and cold, they were always inside the structure. That’s why the hypothermia wasn’t severe.”

Ludovica was later rescued and asked for cookies when she got out: Ringos, an Italian version of Oreos, said Quintino Marcella, the restaurant owner who rallied the rescue after get-

ting the phone call from her father.

About 30 people were trapped inside the hotel in the Gran Sasso mountain range when the avalanche hit Wednesday after days of winter storms that dumped up to three meters (nearly 10 feet) of snow in some places. The region was also rocked by four earthquakes on Wednesday, though it was not clear if they set off the avalanche.

As the rescue work continued, relatives of the missing gathered anxiously at the Pescara hospital waiting for word of their loved ones.

“I just hope that my niece and her boyfriend will make it out of there,” said Melissa Riccardo. “We came to see if she was here.”

A few erupted in frustration at an evening news conference.

“The only news I have has been from the internet.

They haven’t given me anything direct,” said Domenico Angelozzi, awaiting news of his sister and brother-in-law.

The number of survivors found and extracted evolved over the course of the day.

“We found five people alive. We’re pulling them out. Send us a helicopter!” a rescuer was heard saying over a firefighters’ radio as Associated Press reporters made their way on foot to the site of the disaster.

Late Friday, civil protection chief Fabrizio Cari said a total of 10 people had been found alive: Five who had been extracted, including four children. Rescuers were working to remove the rest, he said.

“A beautiful feeling. Wonderful. I can’t describe it!” marveled Simona Di Carlo, aunt of Edoardo Di Carlo, after hearing word that he was among the survivors.

“But I would like to see him.”

Rescue crews said one group of survivors was found in the hotel’s kitchen area in an air pocket that formed when reinforced cement walls partially resisted the avalanche’s violent power.q

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Saturday 21 January 2017

Will Trump end globalization? The doubt haunts Davos’ elite PAN PYLAS JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — It’s been impossible to escape the shadow of Donald Trump at this year’s gathering of the business elites at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Uncertainty over whether Trump’s presidency will mark the end of globalization dominated discussions all week at an event synonymous with international business.

Sure, lofty ambitions were discussed, from fighting epidemics to dealing with inequalities across the world.

But inevitably all talk turned to Trump, who has promised to rewrite free trade deals and even slap tariffs on China, the world’s second-largest economy.

“Do I really think we’re gonna go back to protectionism? I don’t really know yet and I can promise you I’m paying a lot of attention to it because trade matters to us,” said David Cote, chairman and CEO of industrial conglomerate Honeywell.

“It’s a little too early to press the panic button; we ought to see what ends up happening here.”

decades.

The main allegations are that it has increased inequalities in wealth, eroded job security for middle and lower-income families

among many middle- and lower-income households in developed economies like the U.S. and Europe that globalization hasn’t worked for them. And it’s

visited the Davos forum this year for the first time.

Chinese President Xi Jinping cast his country as a champion of free trade and stability. Though China

... No one will emerge as a winner in a trade war.”

THE CASE FOR Globalization has helped lift hundreds of millions to escape poverty over the past few decades. Populous countries like China and India have enjoyed phenomenal growth, improved standards of living, life expectancy, literacy and employment rates.

As though to underscore that point, China’s leader

does in fact put big limits on foreign companies in the country, Xi’s message was clear: that China wants to take a bigger role on the global stage and keeping business flowing.

“We must remain committed to promoting free trade and investment through opening up, and say no to protectionism,” Xi said, without directly referencing Trump. “Pursuing protectionism is like locking oneself in a dark room. While wind and rain may be kept outside, so are light and air

THE ROAD AHEAD The key will be what policies Trump actually puts in motion, and whether other countries follow the temptation to throw up bigger barriers to business.

Britain will this year renegotiate its trade relations with the rest of the EU, the region it does most business with. And populist political movements have risen in countries like the Philippines and are increasingly prominent in rich nations like France, the Netherlands and Italy.

“We may be at a point where globalization is ending,” said Ray Dalio, founder of hedge fund Bridgewater Associates.

Beyond Trump, Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, said the broader international system must change to deal with the growing inequalities evident in the Oxfam report.

Theresa May, Britain’s prime minister, sought to convince the Davos elite that Britain was not retreating from the global scene. But she did concede that policymakers have to support those for whom globalization is not working.

“The forces of liberalism, free trade and globalization that have had, and continue to have, such an overwhelmingly positive impact on our world ... are somehow at risk of being undermined,” she said.q

Leading pro-U.K. Protestant politician Ian Paisley, Jr., said McGuinness’ “remarkable journey ... not only saved lives, but made the lives of countless people better.”McGuinness’ surprisingly productive po-

litical partnership with Paisley’s late father, the firebrand Protestant preacher Ian Paisley, helped end Northern Ireland’s decades of violence.

When Northern Ireland’s Catholic-Protestant power-

sharing government began in 2007, the elder Paisley and McGuinness were leader and deputy in the coalition between Sinn Fein and the major British Protestant party, the Democratic Unionists.q

A woman cleans the stage prior to a panel session on the closing day of the 47th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, WEF, in Davos, Switzerland, Friday, Jan. 20, 2017.

(Gian Ehrenzeller/Keystone via AP)

that unease that many say was behind Trump’s victory and Britain’s vote to leave the European Union.

THE CASE AGAINST Whether or not world trade goes into reverse, it’s evident that globalization — the commitment to trade internationally and to lower barriers to doing business around the world —is under threat like no other time in

in developed countries, and kept a lid on wages as businesses seek low-cost workers in poorer countries.

The breakneck pace of technological innovation has made many jobs redundant, particularly in industries like manufacturing.

Anti-poverty charity Oxfam illustrated the issue of inequality starkly in a report this week in which it said that eight billionaires own as much wealth as half the world’s population, or 3.6 billion people.

There’s a perception

LONDON (AP) — Allies and political opponents paid tribute Friday to Martin McGuinness, the Irish Republican Army commanderturned-peacemaker who is stepping down as one of Northern Ireland’s most in-

fluential politicians.

British Prime Minister Theresa May said McGuinness had played a key role in moving the Irish nationalist Republican movement toward “peaceful and democratic means.”

IRA leader turned peacemaker McGuinness announces retirement

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Saturday 21 January 2017

NEWS

Syria’s rebels head for talks in Kazakhstan SARAH EL DEEB ZEINA KARAM Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian rebels are sending more than a dozen representatives next week to the capital of Kazakhstan for talks with government representatives, the first such negotiations between the two sides in a year.

per hand, leaving his forces in control of Syria’s major cities and key population centers.

In the most significant setback for the rebellion since the conflict in Syria began in March 2011, pro-government forces recaptured the northern city of Aleppo in December, ending the opposition’s four-year hold

po,” said Yasser al-Youssef, a member of the political bureau of the Noureddin el-Zinki armed group, a major rebel group in northern Syria. “Now they are trying to deal us another defeat, politically,” he said, referring to the conference in the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan.

The humiliating loss forced

Russian Military engineers drive in their APCs in Aleppo, Syria. Syrian rebels are sending representatives next week to the capital of Kazakhstan for talks with government representatives. Without much foreign support and with the wider rebellion in crisis, the opposition will be negotiating for scraps.

(Russian DMPS photo via AP)

But the loss of Aleppo, the election of Donald Trump and the pivot of Turkey toward Russia has left the opposition with very little room to maneuver.

Without much foreign support and with Syria’s wider rebellion in crisis, the opposition will be negotiating for scraps, having been forced to take part in a Russia-led initiative that won’t challenge President Bashar Assad’s hold on power.

“They have no choice. With Trump’s win, any lingering hope to push the West into increasing its rebel support is lost,” said Joshua Landis, director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma.

Monday’s scheduled meeting in Astana, Kazakhstan, highlights the dramatic changes in the year since the last talks broke down in Geneva.

Russia’s massive military intervention has unequivocally given Assad the up-

on parts of Syria’s largest and most important city.

For the rebels, it was an emotional departure from a place that once represented the dream of a Syria free of Assad.

It will be difficult for them to recover from such a defeat. Turkish President Recep Tayyep Erdogan is embroiled in troubles at home and has moved closer to Russia recently, prioritizing the fight against Kurds and the Islamic State group over support for the Syrian rebels he has propped up for years. Instead, Ankara is leading Syrian opposition fighters in its own offensive against IS and Kurdish rebels in northern Syria.

On Friday, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Simsek said his country has to be “realistic” and can no longer insist on any settlement for Syria’s long-running war without Assad.

“The Russians have dealt us a military defeat in Alep-

the rebel factions on Dec. 29 to sign a cease-fire deal in which they agreed to the talks with representatives of Assad’s government.

The Russians cast the talks as the first opportunity to bring opposition military leaders to the table. Officials have said the session initially would focus on strengthening the truce in Syria, which Russia brokered with Turkey and Iran, and would help pave way for prospective talks in Geneva. The negotiations will undoubtedly set the tone and agenda for future talks.

“Vladimir Putin’s rush to establish a new political framework through organizing Syria peace talks in the Kazakh capital are primarily designed to cement the Kremlin’s position as the architect of a political solution,” said Ayham Kamel, Middle East and North Africa director at Eurasia Group. q

Gambia: defeated leader agrees to cede power to new president CARLEY PETESCH BABACAR DIONE Associated Press BANJUL, Gambia (AP) — Gambia’s new president declared late Friday that “the rule of fear” had ended, while word emerged that longtime leader Yahya Jammeh was finally stepping aside under the threat of a regional military offensive.

In neighboring Senegal, where Adama Barrow has sought refuge after winning last month’s presidential election, a government official confirmed that Jammeh had agreed to leave. But at the airport in Gambia’s capital, Banjul, officials rolled up the red carpet leading to the plane that had signaled a possible departure.

Jammeh has refused to accept his loss to Barrow, who was inaugurated Thursday at Gambia’s embassy in Senegal. The leaders of Guinea and Mauritania met with Jammeh on Friday to try to persuade him to cede power. The Senegalese government official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to talk to reporters, said final arrangements for the agreement with Jammeh were still being worked out. Jammeh, who first seized power in a 1994 coup, has offered to step aside once before during the current crisis — only to change his mind later.

He has been holed up in his official residence in Banjul, and was becoming increasingly isolated as his security forces abandoned him and he dissolved his Cabinet.

Defense forces chief Ousmane Badjie told The Associated Press that Gambia’s security services now support Barrow and would not oppose the regional force that was poised to move against Jammeh if he refused to step down.

“You cannot push us to war for an issue we can solve politically,” Badjie said. “We don’t see any

reason to fight.”

The force, including tanks, rolled into Gambia without facing any resistance, said Marcel Alain de Souza, chairman of the West African regional bloc, ECOWAS. At least 20 military vehicles were seen Friday at the border town of Karang.

The force included troops from Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria, Togo and Mali, and they moved in after Barrow’s inauguration and a unanimous vote by the U.N. Security Council to support the regional efforts.

Fearing violence, about 45,000 people have fled Gambia for Senegal, according to the Senegalese government and the U.N. refugee agency.

Jammeh met Friday with President Alpha Conde of Guinea and President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz of Mauritania, which has been mentioned as a possible home in exile for Jammeh.

Jammeh “has the choice of going with President Alpha Conde,” de Souza said, but if that fails, “we will bring him by force or by will.” Jammeh had agreed to step down but demanded amnesty for any crimes he may have committed during his 22 years in power and wanted to stay in Gambia, in his home village of Kanilai, de Souza said.

Those demands were not acceptable to ECOWAS, he added. In his inaugural speech, Barrow urged Jammeh to step aside and called for Gambia’s armed forces to stay in their barracks.

Some of Gambia’s diplomatic missions began switching their allegiance, while some African nations announced they no longer recognized Jammeh. “We embrace and support the new president Adama Barrow,” said Almamy Kassama, an official at the Gambian mission to the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in an email.q

WORLD NEWS A11

Saturday 21 January 2017

Timing of Mexico drug lord’s extradition seen as political

Police board Mexican Air Force plane after the extradition of drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

(AP Photo/Christian Torres)

PETER ORSI Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s abrupt exit to face charges in the U.S. marks the probable end of the career of Mexico’s most notorious drug cartel boss, and a delicately timed gesture by Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, who faces a new and hostile U.S. administration.

Observers differed on whether Guzman’s extradition was a final-hour salute to outgoing President Barack Obama, or a gesture of obeisance to incoming President Donald Trump. Pena Nieto is already deeply unpopular, in part for his perceived mishandling of Donald Trump’s tough rhetoric on Mexico.

Deputy Attorney General Alberto Elias Beltran said at a Thursday night news conference that the timing was due to a court ruling, not politics.

“It was resolved today, and we under terms of the international treaty had to make the handover immediately,” he said.

But many considered the timing to have been carefully planned.

“It could be a coincidence, but I think that’s unlikely,” Mexican security analyst Alejandro Hope said, noting it came the last full day of Barack Obama’s presidency and hours before Trump’s inauguration.

“They could not send him after Trump was inaugurated because the interpretation would have been that of a tribute,” Hope said.

“But maybe they wanted to do it close enough so that both administrations — the outgoing and the incoming — could really make some political hay out of this.”

Others saw it as a reward to Obama and a shot across the bow of Trump, who has called immigrants coming illegally from Mexico criminals and “rapists” and vowed to build a border wall and make Mexico pay for it.

“The Mexican government decided to move up the time frame because they didn’t want Trump to be in the presidency when they sent him over,” said Michael Vigil, the former head of international operations for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.

“They wanted Obama to

take credit. They wanted to send a message to Trump that they won’t be bullied.”

Samuel Logan of the business and security consulting firm Southern Pulse said it also probably involved practical concerns. Guzman has escaped twice from Mexican prisons, and Pena Nieto has more pressing concerns on his hands like the fast-rising Jalisco New Generation cartel, known as the CJNG. “There might be some political aspirations in it, but I think it’s more about cleaning up what loose ends he (Pena Nieto) can so he can focus on what is much more concerning, the CJNG,” Logan said.

A senior US official speaking on condition of anonymity

said Mexico’s legal system gave the Mexican government a small window of opportunity to extradite Guzman, and it quickly took it. The window — during which Guzman’s lawyers could have filed other appeals — was a matter of hours, so tight that the official acknowledged there was nervousness on both sides of the border.

One Guzman lawyer, Jose Refugio Rodriguez, said the extradition violated due process. He told the Radio Formula station that he planned to file a complaint with the Inter-American Human Rights Commission.

Guzman’s departure came the same day Mexican officials announced high-level talks Jan. 25-26 in Wash-

ington. The discussions will include Mexico’s newly installed top diplomat, Luis Videgaray, and key Trump administration officials such as chief of staff Reince Priebus, son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner and senior adviser Stephen Bannon. Hope said the timing also sends a message that Mexico is serious about anti-drug cooperation regardless of who occupies the White House.

Sen. Miguel Barbosa of the leftist opposition Democratic Revolution Party seized on the extradition to take a swipe at Pena Nieto. He said it was apparently the only choice after Guzman twice pulled off embarrassing escapes from maximum-security lockups.q

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Saturday 21 January 2017

NEWS

Standoff at Brazil prison where 26 killed over weekend RENATA BRITO Associated Press NATAL, Brazil (AP) — Inmates wielding knives, machetes and cellphones held their ground Friday at a prison in northeast Brazil where 26 were recently killed.

Tensions at the Alcacuz prison outside the city of Natal remained high a day after inmates from rival gangs fought in the yard and set up doors and mattresses as barriers.

Several inmates were injured, but authorities had not regained control of the prison and thus couldn’t provide specifics. Meanwhile, there were fears that more violence would spill over into the city, where 20 buses have been burned over two days.

“No one is giving us information about the situation inside,” complained Luciana Apolinario, one of the mostly women camped outside. Apolinario, whose son is serving a drug-trafficking sentence, said fami-

Inmates gesture and talk on cell phones as they stand on the roof of a building amid tension between rival gangs in the Alcacuz prison in Nisia Floresta, near Natal, Brazil, Friday, Jan. 20, 2017.

(AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

lies were learning about what was happening from prisoners with phones.

Latin America’s largest nation has experienced a wave of prison killings in recent weeks, with at least 126 dead since the begin-

ning of the year.

At the Alcacuz prison, inmates from the local Northern Syndicate gang stayed in the yard, waving their weapons while periodically participating in prayer and song. Meanwhile, inmates

from the First Command, Brazil’s largest criminal network with its base in Sao Paulo, periodically went inside their pavilion.

Stretchers were dropped into an area of the prison controlled by First Com-

mand members, and three injured inmates were removed by being pulled up.

One was shot in the neck, the bullet still lodged in his body.

While they were being pulled up, the women watching from outside screamed. Some had their faces covered, underscoring the fear that the beef between gangs could spill out of the prison.

Guards and military police have not gone inside the penitentiary, instead periodically breaking up fights by shooting tear gas from above.

Army soldiers were expected to arrive late Friday after the governor of the state of Rio Grande do Norte called for their help to help maintain control.

A riot squad briefly entered the prison on Thursday evening to remove several inmates who had been injured during clashes. But they did not send inmates back to their cells.q

Brazil investigates crash that killed Car Wash probe judge SARAH DiLORENZO Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilian authorities on Friday were investigating a plane crash that killed the Supreme Court justice in charge of a major corruption case just weeks before he was scheduled to issue a ruling that could have revealed accusations against politicians in several Latin American countries.

The death of Justice Teori Zavascki, 68, in Thursday’s crash is likely to delay, though not derail, the “Car Wash” investigation, the largest corruption investigation in Brazil’s history.

Investigators allege inflated contracts with state oil giant

Petrobras and other staterun companies yielded billions of dollars for bribes and election campaigns.

The small plane went down in heavy rains Thursday just off the coast of Paraty, a colonial town and popular vacation spot about 155 miles (250 kilometers) west of Rio de Janeiro. Rescuers said Friday that they had recovered all five bodies from the crash, including Zavascki, the pilot, a businessman, a woman who worked for the businessman, and her mother.

Although the cause was unclear, many Brazilians voiced fears of foul play since Zavascki held such an important role in the

corruption investigation, in which dozens of politicians and businessmen already have been jailed. Transparency International called for a full investigation into the crash, and federal police and the public prosecutor have opened probes alongside those of aviation authorities. The voice recorder was found Friday and is being sent to an Air Force laboratory, the Brazilian Air Force said in a statement. The wreckage of the plane will be analyzed in Rio de Janeiro state, where the crash occurred.

The prosecutor’s office has already asked aviation authorities for documents about the plane’s mainte-

nance and the cockpit recordings.

While the “Car Wash” probe — known as “Lava Jato” in Brazil — has been led by a team of prosecutors and Judge Sergio Moro in the southern city of Curitiba, Zavascki handled cases involving politicians. Under Brazilian law, only the Supreme Court can decide to charge or jail federal politicians.

Zavascki had been reviewing dozens of plea bargains of former and current executives of the Odebrecht construction company, which was one of the main players in the kickback scheme that prosecutors say yielded more than $2

billion in bribes over a decade.

The justice was expected to decide which of the Odebrecht plea bargains to validate by February, and his death will likely drag out that timeline.

Validation would make them public, potentially implicating dozens of politicians in Brazil and several other countries where Odebrecht did business.

President Michel Temer, who could be one of those implicated in the plea bargains, is supposed to name Zavascki’s successor, who would typically take over the deceased justice’s caseload. q

LOCAL A13

Saturday 21 January 2017

Loyal Visitors Honored by the Aruba Tourism Authority!

EAGLE BEACH - Recently the Aruba Tourism Authority had the great pleasure of honoring a group of loyal and friendly visitors of Aruba at the Costa Linda Beach Resort as Ambassadors of Goodwill. The symbolic honorary title is presented in the name of the Minister of Tourism as a token of appreciation to guests who visit Aruba for 20-to-34 consecutive years. The honorees were Mr. John and Mrs. Zvjezdana Perisa from Manhausett, New York, Mr. Pete and Mrs. Areti Hazangeles from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and Mr. Harry and Mrs. Irene Keares from Naples, Florida. All the honorees are loyal members of the Costa Linda Beach Resort, and they love Aruba for the climate, beaches, Casinos, restaurants, and they love to meet every year with their lovely Aruban friends at their home away from home, the Costa Linda Beach Resort. The

certificate was presented

by Mr. Ernest Giel repre-

senting the Aruba Tourism Authority together with Mrs.

Gloria Janga, Mrs. Miriam Rodriquez and Mrs. Lina

Asaytuno representing the Costa Linda Beach Resort.

A14 LOCAL

Saturday 21 January 2017

An Aruban in Libya

Stories of my years (1966 – 1973) with ESSO in Tripoli Chapter 19 - The Revolution That Failed Miserably

Ghadafi had the support of the Libyans in 1969 because two years before, when Israel attacked its Arab neighbors and the six days’ war ensued, King Idris remained neutral rather than coming to the aid of his Arab brothers. The Libyans never forgave him for that. Also, after 18 years of independence and with enormous revenues from ten years of oil production, Libya remained a backward nation. Very little had been done to upgrade the country’s infrastructure and administration.

Almost no public houses had been built and many Libyans still lived in very poor and primitive conditions, with no running water and no indoor toilets. Very few houses had telephone connection. Many roads still remained unpaved and in poor condition and public services remained unchanged. Garbage was still being picked up by horse drawn carts. And the sons of King Idris, especially the Black Prince”, were perceived to lead lives of “bonvivants” in Monaco, Beirut, Teheran and other gathering places for the wealthy Arabs rather than paying attention to the needs of the Libyans. The country was indeed rife for a revolution and Ghadafi brought it.

At the beginning of his governance, Ghadafi and his group showed their idealism of using the petroleum riches to move Libya into the 20th century in a democracy under the

Libyan soldiers who celebrated the victory of Ghadafi’s revolution in 1969 probably were not around to celebrate his death 42 years later.

ists that had oppressed his people for so many years.

Ghadafi was a fervent admirer of Egypt’s Gamel Abdel Nasser, Yugoslavia’s Tito Broz and Cuba’s Fidel Castro, leaders of the so-called

non aligned countries that were supposed neutrals in the cold war between the Western countries and the Soviet Union.

Continued on page 15

Garbage pick up in Tripoli 1968.

Sharia, the Islamic laws. In their first years Ghadafi’s government brought drastic changes for the betterment of the Libyan people as he had promised and the people had believed him. He improved the economic and social condi-

tions of the Libyans, building many public houses and improving the infrastructure of the country.

But Ghadafi could not subdue his hatred for everything that represented the western world, especially towards the Italian colonial-

This is the 19th of 22 chapters in English of my book originally published in Papiamento. After the last chapter has been published, they will be compiled into a book to be published and sold for the benefit of the Queen Wilhelmina Cancer Foundation of Aruba.

All profits, 100%, will go to that foundation. If you want to reserve a copy, you can do so by contacting the author at the email address below. Because of space constraints,

Poorly maintained roads caused many similar accidents in Tripoli 1n 1970.

the material that is published weekly (text and pictures) might not be as extensive as what eventually will appear in the book. Alumni of the Oil Companies School of Tripoli and members of the former Libya expatriate community have expressed an interest in the English version. Convinced that the Aruba Today readers also would be interested in the stories of an Aruban on the shores of Tripoli and eager to support the Queen

Wilhelmina Cancer Foundation, the editorial management of this newspaper has agreed to make space available to have one chapter published every week. If you would like to have future (and past) chapters sent to you in your electronic mailbox when you are back home, just send me your email address. I’ll be happy to add you to my subscribers. I would also welcome your comments. clydeharms@yahoo.com. q

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Saturday 21 January 2017

An Aruban in Libya Continued from page 14

Ghadafi and Chavez.

Ghadafi was anxious to play an important role in the world politics and he began to finance terrorist movements. He openly financed the Sin Fein and allowed them to build training camps in the Libyan deserts. I personally met many of these Irishmen in the lobby of a Tripoli hotel where they stayed on their way to the camps. Ghadafi also became close friends with Hugo Chavez, the leader of the Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela.

It did not take long for Ghadafi to govern Libya in a dictatorial way and with the riches that the oil

Despite the riches the oil fields generated, many Libyans lived in such decrepit conditions when Ghadafi deposed King Idris.

fields generated he started to buy arms, help the revolutionaries wherever they appeared and even became directly involved in terrorist actions such as the downing of the plane over Lockerbie, Scotland.

As time passed, it became apparent that instead of living a simple socialist life, Ghadafi and his family were wasting the people’s money living in luxury.

Ghadafi’s revolution failed miserably. Instead of bring-

ing progress to his country he left his country and his people in a chaos. Instead of dying like a hero, loved and revered by his people, he died like a coward, hiding in a stinking drainage pipe, murdered and brutal-

ized like an animal.

Ironically, at the same places where soldiers celebrated Ghadafi’s revolution in 1969, the rebels celebrated the death of Ghadafi, now known as “The dead mad dog”.q

A16 LOCAL

Saturday 21 January 2017

Loyal Island Guests from Canada Lend a Hand at Catalina Bay! MALMOK - As Aruba has such a high repeat visitor rate, it is not unusual for our loyal island visitors to ‘take ownership’ of the island, and get involved to lend a hand to their vacation ‘home-away-from-home.’

Featured is a large group of island guests currently visiting Aruba all the way from Canada. This communityminded group of friends and family has been visiting Aruba for years, and each year the group takes pride in lending a hand and cleaning up the beach at Catalina Bay in Malmok.

While there are regular volunteer beach cleanups on the island, and our beachgoers generally do their best to keep our beaches and island clean, a little litter here and there will always be naturally occurring, so the extra help is always welcome!

Thanks!q

SPORTS A17

Saturday 21 January 2017

Hudson Swafford reacts after making a birdie putt on the 18th hole during the second round of the CareerBuilder Challenge golf tournament on the Jack Nicklaus Tournament Course at PGA West Friday, Jan. 20, 2017, in La Quinta, Calif.

Associated Press

SUN DOWN

Hudson Swafford shoots second 65, leads in rainy La Quinta

JOHN NICHOLSON AP Sports Writer LA QUINTA, Calif. (AP) — Hudson Swafford beat the rain Friday in the CareerBuilder Challenge, and Phil Mickelson played his best in the worst of the conditions. Then, there’s Danny Lee. “I actually wanted to play in the rain, so I could experiment with myself,” Lee said. “Hopefully, it rains tomorrow.” The New Zealander probably won’t get his wish Saturday, but another storm could pass through the desert oasis Sunday afternoon. Swafford finished just before the rain moved in, shooting his second straight 7-under 65 to take a one-stroke lead. Winless in his fouryear PGA Tour career, the former Georgia star had a bogey-free round on the Jack Nicklaus Tournament Course at PGA West after opening the pro-am tournament Thursday at La Quinta Country Club.

Continued on Page 22

Phoenix falls in early hole, lose in Cleveland Cleveland Cavaliers’ LeBron James (23) looks up to dunk in the second half of an NBA basketball game against the Phoenix Suns, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017, in Cleveland. The Cavaliers won 118-103.

Associated Press Page 19

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Saturday 21 January 2017

‘Crazy’ good: Federer into 4th round at Australian Open JOHN PYE AP Sports Writer MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Roger Federer relaxed into the chair, his arms folded across his chest in a casual, confident way, and just savored a vintage Australian Open performance.

The 17-time Grand Slam champion, seeded a lowlyby-his-standards 17th after spending six months on the sidelines to let his left knee heal, only needed

90 minutes to beat Tomas Berdych 6-2, 6-4, 6-4 in the third round on Friday.

This was against a highlycredentialed pro, seeded No. 10, who beat Federer in the Wimbledon quarterfinals in 2010 on the way to the final. Berdych reached the quarterfinals or better in Australia the previous six years, and had beaten Federer in six of their previous 22 matches.

Federer said he felt like he

Switzerland’s Roger Federer celebrates after defeating Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic in their third round match at the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne, Australia, Friday, Jan. 20, 2017.

Associated Press

struggled against the qualifiers in his first two rounds, and knew the degree of difficulty would rise sharply.

Having beaten Berdych, he next faces No. 5 Kei Nishikori. And there’s a potential quarterfinal match against top-ranked Andy Murray. “It’s just crazy how quick I got out of the blocks,” Federer said of his almost flawless match against Berdych. “What a difference it was in the feeling afterward. I did surprise myself.

“From the baseline, honestly, I felt worlds better than in the first couple of rounds.”

Federer hit some classic one-handed backhand winners, including one that earned a hearty applause from the great Rod Laver — sitting in the crowd at the stadium named in his honor — in the second set.

He had 40 winners and won 95 percent of points when he got his first serve into play. He didn’t face a break point.

During his on-court interview, Federer acknowledged Laver, the last man to complete the calendar year Grand Slam.

Laver waved back.

“It’s always nice when he shows up to watch,” the 35-year-old Federer said.

“It’s always nice when he’s in the building.”

Nishikori, the 2014 U.S. Open finalist who beat Lukas Lacko 6-4, 6-4, 6-4, has lost four of his six matches against Federer, including the last three. “Guess I’m ready. There’s no turning back,” Federer said. “He’s ... maybe the best backhand in the business right now. Really got my work cut out for me.”

Five-time Australian Open runner-up Murray said he had no trouble with his sore right ankle as he advanced to the fourth round for the ninth straight year with a 6-4, 6-2, 6-4 win over No. 31 Sam Querrey.

Murray, who replaced Djokovic at No. 1 in November, said he was surprised at the six-time Australian Open champion’s second-round loss to Denis Istomin. But Murray didn’t think it changed anything for him. “I wasn’t scheduled to play Novak today, so my job’s to concentrate on Sam and to go into that match with a clear head and a good game plan and try to play well,” said Murray, who next plays Mischa Zverev. “I did that.

“If you’re to get to the final, then it has an effect.”

Seven-time major win-

ner Venus Williams routed Duan Yingying 6-1, 6-0 in 59 minutes to reach the fourth round in Australia for the 10th time. “It’s good (but) it’s never enough,” she said, looking ahead to her fourth-round match against Mona Barthel. “I’ve tasted it before and it’s always a great feeling because it means, hey, I have an opportunity for the quarterfinals. That’s what I’m going to go for.”

There’s no Americans or Australians remaining in the men’s draw. No. 23-seeded Jack Sock followed Querrey out, losing 7-6 (4), 7-5, 6-7 (8), 6-3 to No. 12 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. Daniel Evans beat Bernard Tomic 7-5, 7-6 (2), 7-6 (3).

U.S. Open champion Stan Wawrinka had a 3-6, 6-2, 6-2, 7-6 (7) win over Viktor Troicki to move into a fourth-round match against Andreas Seppi.

Women’s champion Angelique Kerber beat Kristyna Pliskova 6-0, 6-4 and will next play CoCo Vandeweghe, who had a 6-4, 3-6, 7-5 win over 2014 Wimbledon finalist Eugenie Bouchard. French Open champion Garbine Muguruza closed out Day 5 with a 6-4, 6-2 win over Anastasia Sevastova.q

SPORTS A19

Saturday 21 January 2017

Irving lead Cavs to 118-103 win over Suns CLEVELAND (AP) — Kyrie Irving scored 26 points, All-Star teammate LeBron James had 21 points and 15 assists, and the Cleveland Cavaliers looked more like themselves at home in a 118-103 win over the Phoenix Suns on Thursday night.

The Cavs were back in Quicken Loans Arena following a six-game road trip (their longest of the season) that concluded with an embarrassing 35-point loss at Golden State. But on their home floor, they had better offensive balance and ball movement while improving to 30-11 — the same record Cleveland had at the halfway point of its 2016 NBA championship season.

Channing Frye scored 18, Iman Shumpert 17 and James Jones 14 while filling in for star forward Kevin Love, still bothered by back spasms.

Tyson Chandler had 22 points and 16 rebounds, but the Suns lost for the fourth time in five games.

WIZARDS 113, KNICKS 110 NEW YORK (AP) — John Wall had 29 points and 13 assists, scoring Washington’s final four points in the last 32 seconds as the surging Wizards beat New York.

Otto Porter Jr. made six 3-pointers for the second straight night and added 23 points, but the Wizards needed big plays from Wall down the stretch to win their fourth in a row.

He made two free throws to put Washington back on top after New York had ral-

Cleveland Cavaliers’ Kyrie Irving, right, passes against Phoenix Suns’ Tyson Chandler (4) in the second half of an NBA basketball game, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017, in Cleveland.

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lied to take a 110-109 lead, then rebounded Carmelo Anthony’s miss and left all the Knicks in his dust as he raced down the floor for a dunk with 13.7 seconds to play.

Anthony finished with 34 points but Wall stole the ball from Brandon Jennings to prevent the Knicks from attempting a 3-pointer that could have tied it.

HEAT 99, MAVERICKS 95 MIAMI (AP) — Goran Dragic had 32 points, Tyler Johnson scored 10 of his 23 in the fourth quarter and Miami topped Dallas.

Dragic shot 11 for 15 from the field and 4 of 4 from 3-point range. He also got

a big offensive rebound in the final minute to extend a possession, and Johnson made a pair of free throws with 29.9 seconds left to give Miami an eight-point lead.

Dirk Nowitzki scored 19 points for Dallas, which had its season-best three-game winning streak snapped.

The Mavericks went 1 for 8 from the field during a late stretch of the fourth quarter and never got the lead again.

SPURS 118, NUGGETS 104 SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Kawhi Leonard scored 34 points, rookie Dejounte Murray added a seasonhigh 24 and short-handed

San Antonio overcame a pregame injury to Pau Gasol.

Denver’s three-game winning streak was snapped despite a career-high 35 points from Nikola Jokic.

Leonard had his fifth straight 30-point performance, right after learning he will start for the Western Conference in the All-Star Game for the second consecutive season.

The Spurs were unexpectedly without Gasol, Tony Parker and then coach Gregg Popovich. Gasol and Parker were both late scratches due to injury, and Popovich was ejected for the first time this season.

Gasol broke the ring finger on his left (non-shooting) hand when he jammed it against Kyle Anderson’s shoulder during pregame warmups while attempting a running hook. The veteran center immediately clutched his hand and left the court.

X-rays revealed the break, and the Spurs said there is no timeline for Gasol’s return.

Murray started in place of Parker, who sat out with a sprained left foot.

TIMBERWOLVES 104, CLIPPERS 101 LOS ANGELES (AP) — KarlAnthony Towns scored 37 points, including the goahead jumper with 45 seconds left, and Minnesota beat injury-depleted Los Angeles to stop its sevengame winning streak.

Andrew Wiggins added 27 points, including two free throws with five seconds left that helped Minnesota snap its six-game road losing streak.

DeAndre Jordan had 29 points and 16 rebounds to lead the Clippers, but was unable to make enough free throws down the stretch to keep his team in front.

Austin Rivers added 20 points for Los Angeles, which dropped to 7-1 in 2017.

The Clippers played without two injured stars, point guard Chris Paul and forward Blake Griffin.

Paul is expected to miss six to eight weeks, but Griffin could be back in a week or two.q

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Curry, Durant, LeBron, Irving to start NBA All-Star Game BRIAN MAHONEY AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stephen Curry won a tiebreaker to join Golden State teammate Kevin Durant in the lineup for the NBA All-Star Game, while LeBron James and Kyrie Irving also gave Cleveland two starters.

Curry and Houston’s James Harden beat out Russell Westbrook for the two Western Conference backcourt spots Thursday in the new voting system that included players and media for the first time.

They will join frontcourt choices Durant, Anthony Davis of New Orleans and Kawhi Leonard of San Antonio.

The rest of the East lineup for the Feb. 19 game in New Orleans is Giannis Antetokounmpo of Milwaukee and Jimmy Butler of Chicago in the frontcourt and DeMar DeRozan of Toronto in the backcourt.

He beat out Boston’s Isaiah Thomas in another tiebreaker.

Fan voting accounted for 50 percent in the new system, while current players

Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry, right, defends Oklahoma City Thunder’s Russell Westbrook during the second half of an NBA basketball game Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017, in Oakland, Calif.

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and a media panel each made up 25 percent.

James is the leading scorer in All-Star Game history and is set to become just

the fifth player to start at least 13 games. He said it meant something extra being the leading vote-getter among fans with nearly 1.9

million votes.

“From the standpoint of people enjoy the way I play the game, they respect the way I play the game and at this point in my career I’m still doing something right,” he said earlier Thursday.

“Makes me proud, makes my family proud, and my support system, so it’s cool in that sense.”

He and Durant had the highest possible scores across all three voting groups, but the new process eliminated Chicago’s Dwyane Wade, Philadelphia’s Joel Embiid and Golden State’s Zaza Pachulia, who would have

been elected by fans under the old format.

But they didn’t rank high enough to hold onto spots when player and media votes were counted, though Curry did.

Fan voting served as the tiebreaker, and the twotime MVP’s 1.8 million votes trailed only James.

So even though he ranked third behind MVP candidates Harden and Westbrook in the other categories and ended up with the same weighted score as them, he got one spot and Harden the other after earning nearly 200,000 more fan votes than his former teammate.

DeRozan edged Thomas by about 41,000 votes among fans, which gave him the tiebreaker to join Irving, the MVP of the 2014 All-Star Game in his other start, which was also in New Orleans.

Perennial East starters such as Wade and Carmelo Anthony missed out, leaving James surrounded by Irving and three players voted as starters for the first time.

Antetokounmpo became Milwaukee’s first All-Star since Michael Redd in 2003-04.

The NBA’s midseason spectacle will be a big night for the little guys, with most of the starters coming from outside the league’s biggest markets.

More than 38 million votes were cast by fans, a 146 percent increase from last season.

The reserves will be announced next Thursday after voting by head coaches in each conference.q

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Saturday 21 January 2017

NHL Capsules

Tavares, Greiss give Weight win in Islanders debut

NEW YORK (AP) — John Tavares narrowly missed out on his second hat trick in a week, Thomas Greiss got his second straight shutout and the New York Islanders beat the Dallas Stars 3-0 on Thursday night in their first game since firing longtime coach Jack Capuano.

New York canned Capuano in the middle of his seventh season Tuesday, replacing him on an interim basis with Doug Weight.

Tavares has seven goals in four games after scoring twice and then having an empty-net shot just deflected wide late in the third period. He had three goals last Friday at Florida.

Greiss stopped 23 shots after making 32 saves in a 4-0 win over Boston on Monday. Calvin de Haan added an empty-net goal on a coast-to-coast shot with 4 seconds left.

Kari Lehtonen made 33 saves for Dallas, which was coming off a 7-6 victory over the New York Rangers on Tuesday night.

SENATORS 2, BLUE JACKETS 0 COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Kyle Turris and Ryan Dzingel scored goals and Mike Condon made 42 saves to lead the Ottawa Senators past the Columbus Blue Jackets.

Condon was always where he needed to be for the Senators, who have won four of their last five and handed Columbus its fifth loss in the last eight games.

The Blue Jackets had trouble establishing passing lanes, and when they got the open looks, shot the puck right at Condon or off target. Eleven Columbus players took multiple shots with nothing to show for it.

Anaheim Ducks’ Cam Fowler, top, jumps to avoid a collision with Colorado Avalanche’s Gabriel Landeskog, of Sweden, during the first period of an NHL hockey game Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017, in Anaheim, Calif.

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Sergei Bobrovsky had 26 saves for the Blue Jackets, who were shut out for the first time since a 5-0 loss at Washington on Jan. 5 to end a franchise-record 16game winning streak.

CAPITALS 7, BLUES 3 ST. LOUIS (AP) — Andre Burakovsky, T.J. Oshie and Evgeny Kuznetsov each had a goal and an assist to lead the Washington Capitals over the St. Louis Blues.

Jay Beagle, Brett Connolly, Marcus Johansson and Justin Williams also scored, and Alex Ovechkin and Daniel Winnik each had

two assists to help Washington earn at least a point in its 12th straight game (10-02) for an NHL-best 66 points.

Braden Holtby bounced back from his roughest outing of the season with 22 saves. Holtby was pulled after giving up a seasonhigh five goals on 26 shots in an 8-7 overtime loss at Pittsburgh on Monday. He improved to 22-8-4 and 5-0 lifetime against St. Louis.

Alexander Steen scored twice and Jaden Schwartz had a goal and two assists for St. Louis.

RANGERS 5, MAPLE LEAFS 2

TORONTO (AP) — Michael Grabner scored two goals against his former team, helping the New York Rangers snap a three-game losing streak with a victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs.

Pavel Buchnevich, Brady Skjei and J.T. Miller added goals for New York, and Henrik Lundqvist made 23 saves following a series of rough outings.

Tyler Bozak and Zach Hyman scored for Toronto, which had a three-game winning streak stopped. The Maple Leafs had earned 21 of a possible 26 points in their previous 13 games (10-2-1). Frederik Andersen gave up four goals on 40 shots.

WILD 4, COYOTES 3 ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Nino Niederreiter had two power-play goals and an assist, including the go-ahead score for the Minnesota Wild with 7:06 remaining in a victory over Arizona after the Coyotes came back from a two-goal deficit.

With Shane Doan in the penalty box for hooking, Niederreiter knocked in a nifty redirect of Mikael Granlund’s slap shot for the winner. Devan Dubnyk stopped 20 shots for the Wild, who are 18-2-2 in their last 22 games.

Louis Domingue made 21 saves for the Coyotes, who lost their fourth in a row and fell to 2-12-1 in their last 15 games starting with a 4-1 loss to Minnesota in Arizona on Dec. 17.

PREDATORS 4, FLAMES 3 CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Ryan Ellis had his first career two-goal game and the Nashville Predators held off a late rally to beat the Calgary Flames.

James Neal scored his team-leading 15th goal, and Filip Forsberg added the other score for Nashville, which moved past idle Los Angeles into the second wild-card spot in the Western Conference.

Kris Versteeg, Michael Frolik and Sean Monahan all scored late in the third period for the Flames.

Rookie Juuse Saros made 32 saves for the win, while Chad Johnson turned aside 17 shots in defeat to fall to 16-11-1.

DUCKS 2, AVALANCHE 1 ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Nick Ritchie scored the tiebreaking goal with 2:02 to play, and the Anaheim Ducks beat the Colorado Avalanche in a game featuring a 45-minute delay and an early second intermission due to broken glass.

John Gibson made 21 saves and Hampus Lindholm scored the tying power-play goal early in the third period of the Pacific Division-leading Ducks’ eighth victory in 10 games.

Calvin Pickard stopped 34 shots for the NHL-worst Avalanche, who have lost four straight and 21 of 25.

SHARKS 2, LIGHTNING 1 SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Logan Couture scored 22 seconds into the third period and the San Jose Sharks beat the Tampa Bay Lightning. Ryan Carpenter also scored for the Sharks, who won their third straight and fifth in seven games overall.

Jonathan Drouin scored for the Lightning, who fell to 2-6-1 in their last nine games and 2-9-3 over their past 14 road games.

Rookie Aaron Dell stopped 24 of 25 shots to improve to 8-2. Andrei Vasilevskiy saved 22 of 24 shots.q

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SPORTS

Falcons don’t belong in such elite company? Guess again BY BARRY WILNER AP PRO FOOTBALL WRITER If you’re wondering what the Falcons are doing in the NFL’s version of the Final Four with the Patriots, Steelers and Packers, you aren’t alone.

While recent history has belonged pretty much to New England and Pittsburgh in the AFC, and Green Bay is a usual suspect in the NFC chase to the Super Bowl, Atlanta seems like an interloper.

That’s not only unfair, it’s dismissive.

Yes, experience on conference championship weekend can be a plus. It’s unlikely Tom Brady and the Patriots will have any case of nerves, especially being at home. Nor will Mike Tomlin’s Steelers, who figure to be aggressive from the get-go - the only way to beat New England.

The Packers are in their eighth straight postseason, and made it this far under Mike McCarthy in 2007, 2010 and 2014. Tested?

You bet.

Then there are the Falcons, who got to the NFC title game in 2012, losing at home to San Francisco.

Otherwise, not much to suggest they belong in this crowd.

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“Managed to keep the ball in the fairway,” Swafford said. “That gives you a lot of nice approach shots into greens. I’m driving the ball beautifully.”

The rain-seeking Lee and first-round leader Dominic Bozzelli were tied for second.

Lee closed with a birdie for a 64 at La Quinta, far exceeding his expectations after a month off.

“Just trying to break 80, seriously,” Lee said. “Trying to not shoot something overly ridiculous, since I’m playing with the amateurs.”

Bozzelli followed an opening 64 on PGA West’s Stadium Course with a 67 at La Quinta.

Atlanta Falcons wide receiver Mohamed Sanu catches a touchdown pass over Seattle Seahawks Jeremy Lane (20) during the fourth quarter of an NFL football NFC divisional playoff game Saturday, Jan. 14, 2017, in Atlanta.

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Except they do.

In this light-up-the-scoreboard era, no one is doing it better than Matt Ryan and Co. They rank second in total offense - all four semifinalists are in the

top eight - and have more balance than anyone. The blocking unit was maligned at times this season, but of the remaining four, only the Patriots might be better on the O-line.

“It wasn’t my best today, but I was able to save par, made some pretty big par saves throughout the round and kept it going,” Bozzelli said.

“Actually, pretty lucky that weather held off a little bit longer than I thought it would.”

The tee times were moved up an hour to 7:30 a.m., and Swafford and many players finished before the storm rolled in over the San Jacinto Mountains at about 1 p.m.

“I had a full rain suit, five towels in the bag,” said Swafford, coming off a tie for 13th last week in Hawaii in the Sony Open. “My caddie was griping all day about how heavy it was.

But I made a few birdies early and he said the bag was getting a little lighter.”

Mickelson got to use all of

his rain gear, playing the final six holes in intermittent showers in the second-tolast group off the 10th tee on the Nicklaus course. The tournament ambassador followed an opening 68 at La Quinta with a 66 to reach 10 under in his return from two sports hernia surgeries.

“I hit a lot more good shots today than I did yesterday, but I’m still hitting some really bad ones,” said Mickelson, the 2002 and 2004 winner. “And that’s fine. It’s to be expected.

I knew that was going to happen, but I’ve been able to kind of manage those and get away with some pars.”

The 46-year-old Mickelson had surgery Oct. 19 — three days after tying for eighth in the season-opening Safeway Open — and

With the ball, the Falcons are as good or better than anybody.

Defensively, there are issues, but the same is true of Green Bay. Atlanta already showed last week against an outstanding (if bangedup) D that it still could control matters. Coach Dan Quinn is a Pete Carroll disciple, and his unit looked just as physical as the Seahawks, who usually beat up every opponent.

The Falcons are as fundamentally sound as anyone, yielding the fewest giveaways (11) in the NFC. Their special teams are solid. So is the coaching, something other teams - most notably, San Francisco in the case of offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan - have recognized.

The one thing Atlanta doesn’t have on its side that the other three survivors do is history. It’s sometimes a factor, and while these Falcons could be impervious to any such pressure, the Patriots, Steelers and Packers will use it as a boost.

Consider that all three of those coaching staffs have seen pretty much everything that can be thrown in their way on the road to the Super Bowl. Both Pittsburgh

again Dec. 12.

Lefty made a 15-foot eagle putt on the par-5 11th — his second hole — and holed a bunker shot for birdie on the par-4 first. In the rain, he birdied Nos. 4-6 and closed with three pars with the wind picking up.

“It was really hard in these conditions,” Mickelson said.

“I actually made some birdies in these conditions, so I felt very fortunate with the score that I had in this weather. The back nine I played some really good golf.”

Brendan Steele, the Safeway winner from the nearby mountain town of Idyllwild, was two strokes back at 12 under with Brian Harman. Steele shot a 64 on the Nicklaus layout, birdieing four of the last six holes.

“It was nice of them to move the tee times up for

and Green Bay have won championships as a sixth seed, although the Steelers did it under Bill Cowher.

Regardless, that instills belief that no challenge is too big.

New England’s run of success since Brady became its starting quarterback in 2001 is almost unparalleled in the NFL. The Patriots are superbly prepared whether it’s a September or January kickoff. When things go askew, Brady usually finds a way to overcome any missteps.

And don’t forget how opponents tend to mess up in big spots against New England. In three of their Super Bowl victories, the Patriots were helped by John Kasey’s kickoff out of bounds; Donovan McNabb’s fourthquarter meltdown; and Seahawks offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell’s decision to pass from the New England 1 with Marshawn Lynch in his backfield.

Pittsburgh won’t be intimidated because, well, the Steelers’ resume never has included backing off, particularly under Tomlin.

The Steelers also enter the game with the knowledge that they haven’t lost since Nov. 13 and are relatively healthy.q

us as it starts to rain right now,” Steele said. “I was able to get done just in time and took advantage of some good conditions.”

Harman had a 65 on the Stadium Course, the toughest of the three layouts and the site of the final round.

DIVOTS: Defending champion Jason Dufner shot a 66 on the Nicklaus layout to reach 7 under. ... Patrick Reed, the top-ranked player in the field at No. 9, was 4 under after a 71 on the Nicklaus course. He won in 2014, shooting 6363-63-71 to break the PGA Tour record for relation to par for the first 54 holes at 27 under and become the first player in tour history to open with three rounds of 63 or better. ... Bill Haas, the 2010 and 2015 winner, also was 4 under. He’s playing alongside Mickelson.q

TECHNOLOGY A23

Saturday 21 January 2017

Trump gets Obama’s house, title _ even his Twitter handle MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press Donald Trump built his campaign on early morning tweet storms and hashtagworthy slogans. Now president, he’s in control of the White House’s powerful social media arsenal, including the official @POTUS Twitter account that has nearly 14 million followers.

The technological transition came just as Trump took the oath of office Friday, giving him a clean digital slate while preserving hundreds of tweets and posts made during President Barack Obama’s time in office.

The White House’s official Twitter and Facebook accounts were quickly purged and rebranded for the new administration — the first time social media accounts have been a part of the transition.

Trump didn’t rush to use the @POTUS account.

Trump sent his first tweets as president from @realDonaldTrump, the personal account where his thousands of candid on everything from immigration to golf course conditions helped propel him into a political

force.

“We will bring back our jobs. We will bring back our borders. We will bring back our wealth - and we will bring back our dreams!”

Trump told his 21 million followers about an hour into his presidency.

A few hours later, the @ POTUS account sprung to life with a photo of Trump being introduced at the swearing-in ceremony and a link to a Facebook post on the occasion. The same image appeared on the White House’s newly scrubbed Instagram account.

Tweets generated during the Obama administration have been archived and moved to separate accounts such as @FLOTUS44, @VP44 and @ObamaWhiteHouse.

The same went for official White House accounts on Facebook, Instagram, Medium, Tumblr and YouTube.

Turning over social media accounts is a modern twist on the complex presidential transition — the 21st century version of handing over nuclear codes and the keys to the Oval Office.

The White House’s digital

The new @POTUS Twitter account for President Donald Trump is shown in this frame grab, Friday, Jan. 20, 2017.

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transition plans, announced a week before the election, stressed that the National Archives would preserve social media content

in a similar fashion as paper records.

Twitter, which helped transition White House accounts on its platform, said anyone

who started following POTUS during Obama’s presidency would automatically start following POTUS44, too.q

Apple depicts Qualcomm as a shady monopolist in $1B lawsuit SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -Apple is suing mobile chip maker Qualcomm for $1 billion in a patent fight pitting the iPhone maker against one of its major suppliers.

The 100-page complaint filed Friday in a San Diego federal court depicts Qualcomm as a greedy monopolist abusing its power in a key segment of the mobile chip market to extort royalties for iPhone in-

novations that have nothing to do with Qualcomm’s technology.

For instance, Qualcomm demanded royalties on Apple’s fingerprint identification system built into recent models of the iPhone and also for larger storage capacities on the devices, according to the lawsuit.

Qualcomm didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.

Apple says it has been

cooperating with government regulators who have been investigating Qualcomm’s business practices, prompting Qualcomm to retaliate by withholding about $1 billion in scheduled payments.

“Qualcomm’s recent effort to cover its tracks - by punishing Apple for providing truthful testimony at the request of government regulators - underscores the lengths to which Qual-

comm will go to protect its extortion scheme,” the lawsuit alleges.

Apple launched its legal attack three days after the Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit alleging Qualcomm has been imposing unfair licensing terms on manufacturers.

Besides cooperating with the FTC’s investigation, Apple says it has been providing information about its dealings with Qualcomm

to regulators in Europe, South Korea and Taiwan.

South Korea regulators last month imposed an $853 million fine on Qualcomm for violating its antitrust laws, a decision that Qualcomm is fighting.

Shares in San Diego-based Qualcomm Inc. fell $1.56, or 2.4 percent, to close Friday at $62.88. Those of Apple Inc., which is based in Cupertino, California, ended up 22 cents at $120.q

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Stocks edge higher, snapping a 5-day losing streak for Dow ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer Materials companies led U.S. stocks modestly higher Friday, recouping much of the market’s loss from a day earlier and snapping a 5-day losing streak for the Dow Jones industrial average.

Another crop of encouraging company earnings news also helped lift the market, but investors were mostly focused on events in Washington as Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States.

The major stock indexes pulled back slightly as Trump delivered remarks after taking the oath of office.

Among topics of particular interest to Wall Street, the speech touched on trade and the Trump administration’s intention of protecting the U.S. from “the ravages of other countries making our products, stealing our companies, and destroying our jobs.”

“The market is still embracing the Trump agenda, based on the market’s

Specialist Glenn Carell works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Materials companies led U.S. stocks modestly higher Friday, recouping much of the market’s loss from a day earlier and snapping a 5-day losing streak for the Dow Jones industrial average.

(AP Photo/Richard Drew)

reaction to the speech,” said Quincy Krosby, market strategist at Prudential Financial. “Now the question the market has is, specifically, what does all of that mean in terms of trade?”

The Dow rose 94.85 points, or 0.5 percent, to 19,827.25.

The Standard & Poor’s 500 index gained 7.62 points,

or 0.3 percent, to 2,271.31.

The Nasdaq composite index added 15.25 points, or 0.3 percent, to 5,555.33.

Despite Friday’s gains, the three major stock indexes ended the week lower.

Stocks have slowed in 2017 after surging for several weeks following Election Day on investor optimism

that a Trump administration and Republican Congress would usher in businessfriendly policies. But the possibility of increased tariffs or trade restrictions has also loomed as a potential drag in profits for big U.S. companies.

“Historically, the market has performed best in

the November-April time frame,” said Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at CFRA Research. “The Trump victory added a tailwind to this traditional seasonal factor.”

Typically, stocks don’t do well on inauguration day.

Going back to 1928, the S&P has averaged a drop of 1.05 percent on inauguration days, according Bespoke Investment Group.

Beyond the presidential transition in Washington, investors pored over the latest batch of corporate earnings Friday, bidding up shares in companies that reported results that beat Wall Street’s expectations.

Skyworks Solutions jumped 13 percent, the biggest gainer in the S&P 500. The stock climbed $10.21 to $88.67.

Citizens Financial Group gained $1.09, or 3.1 percent, to $35.82.

Traders also drove up shares in Procter & Gamble after the consumer goods maker released a strong growth forecast. The stock added $2.75, or 3.2 percent, to $87.45.q

China’s growth edges up but 2016 weakest year since 1990 JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — China’s economic growth ticked up in the final quarter of 2016 but its full-year performance was the weakest in three decades as it heads into a potential trade battle with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump.

Trump, who takes office Friday, has promised to hike duties on Chinese goods, putting pressure on industries that employ millions of workers.

Supported by government spending and a real estate boom, the world’s second-largest economy expanded by 6.8 percent over a year earlier in the three months ending in December, up from the previous quarter’s 6.7 percent, government data showed Friday.

Full-year growth was 6.7 percent, down from 2015’s 6.9 percent and the weakest since 1990’s 3.9 per-

A worker sits by a billboard depicting the Central Business District under construction in Beijing, China, Monday, Jan. 16, 2017. China’s economic growth ticked up in the final quarter of 2016 but its full-year performance was the weakest in three decades.

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cent.

“A touch faster growth than expected, but no real change in trend,” Bill Adams of PNC Financial

Services Group said in a report.

China’s economy has cooled steadily as communist leaders try to nurture

domestic consumption and reduce reliance on trade and investment but trade still supports millions of jobs.

Government spending and a surge in real estate sales last year helped offset a 7.7 percent plunge in exports, but analysts expect the economy to cool further.

“We do not expect this rebound to extend far into 2017,” Tom Rafferty of the Economist Intelligence Group said in a report.

Export industries could face more pressure, raising the threat of politically dangerous job losses, if Trump goes ahead with promises to raise tariffs on Chinese goods.

In an implicit rebuke to Trump, Chinese President Xi Jinping emphatically defended free trade in a speech Tuesday at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland. He said a “trade war” would harm all countries involved.

Still, a member of the Cabinet’s economic planning agency on Friday expressed confidence.q

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Union Pacific cost cuts offset declining shipments in 4Q

JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Union Pacific’s fourth-quarter profit grew 2 percent as the railroad cut costs to offset a 3 percent decline in shipments.

Net income reached $1.14 billion, or $1.39 per share, well above the per-share earnings of $1.34 that Wall Street was looking for, ac-

cording to a survey by the data company Zacks Investment Research.

Revenue declined 1 percent to $5.17 billion, but that was also better than the $5.14 billion analysts expected.

The railroad reduced its expenses 3 percent to $3.2 billion in the quarter in response to the slower shipping volume.

Union Pacific Chairman and CEO Lance Fritz said higher energy prices, favorable agricultural markets and improving consumer confidence all suggest railroad shipping volumes will grow this year.

“We are fairly optimistic about some of the macroeconomic indicators that drive our core business,” he said.

Edward Jones analyst Dan Sherman said Union Pacific should be well positioned to profit when volumes do improve because the railroad has done so much to cut costs.

Fritz said potential changes from President-elect Donald Trump on tax reform, infrastructure investment and regulation could boost the economy, but hopes that

he doesn’t enact unnecessary trade barriers.

About 12 percent of Union Pacific’s carloads either come from or go to Mexico. And all railroads benefit from international trade because they haul containers of goods that ships bring into port hundreds or thousands of miles inland before trucks carry them to their destinations.q

American Express misses forecasts, hurt by Costco loss

KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — American Express’ fourth-quarter profit fell 8 percent from the same period a year earlier, hurt by the loss of the Costco credit card business and higher expenses to retain customers.

The company said it had a slight increase in delinquencies, a not good sign for a company whose customers are marketed among the most creditworthy and well-to-do in the country.

The New York-based credit card company said it earned $825 million, or 88 cents a share, down from $899 million, or 89 cents per share, in the same period a year ago.

The results came in well short of what Wall Street analysts were looking for, who expected AmEx to earn 98 cents per share, according to FactSet. AmEx is in transition following the loss of the Costco credit card business in 2016.

The retail giant moved its credit card processing to Visa, and Citigroup won the credit card portfolio.

American Express credit cards are seen in North Andover, Mass. On Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017, American Express reported financial results.

(AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

That partnership ended in June. Before this happened, Costco represented a sizeable portion of American Express’ credit card loans and its billed business. To recover, AmEx has been focusing on retaining those customers through promotions and marketing and developing new offerings.

“While we continue to op-

erate in a very challenging environment, we ended the year in a stronger position than we started and have built momentum across our business,” Kenneth Chenault, AmEx chairman and CEO, said in a prepared statement.

AmEx’s U.S. consumer business, the company’s biggest division by revenue and profit, reported quar-

terly earnings of $351 million, down 35 percent from a year earlier. The year-earlier quarter included revenue from Costco.

The U.S. consumer business had to set aside $363 million to cover delinquencies and charge-offs, up 9 percent from a year ago.

Despite the tick up in charge-offs and delinquencies, American Express

Chief Financial Officer Jeffrey Campbell said there has been “no change” in the company’s outlook on its credit metrics.

Also the modest increase is relative to American Express’s healthier-than-average credit metrics when compared to other credit card issuers.

In his prepared comments, Chenault said he expects AmEx to earn between $5.60 and $5.80 a share for 2017, which was slightly above the $5.58 per share that analysts were expecting for the company this year.

The credit card issuer and global payments company posted revenue of $8.02 billion in the period, beating analysts’ estimate of $7.93 billion, according to FactSet. American Express shares have climbed 3.5 percent since the beginning of the year, while the Standard & Poor’s 500 index has climbed 1 percent. In the final minutes of trading on Thursday, shares hit $76.69, a rise of 22 percent in the last 12 months.q

Yellen says Fed following prudent course on rates MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — While unemployment has fallen significantly and inflation is starting to tick higher, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said this week she does not believe that the central bank has fallen behind the curve and needs to start pushing interest rates up more quickly.

But Yellen acknowledged that it would be “risky and

unwise” to allow the economy to overheat by keeping interest rates too low for too long.

In a speech at Stanford University, Yellen said she believes the central bank is on the “prudent” course of gradually raising rates.

Yellen said the Fed’s approach should improve prospects that the economy will achieve sustainable growth, with the labor market operating at full

employment and inflation running close to the central bank’s 2 percent target.

The Fed last month boosted its benchmark rate by a quarter-point to a new range of 0.5 to 0.75 percent.

It was only the second rate hike in the past year, following an initial quarter-point move in December 2015.

The Fed also has indicated it expects another three rate hikes in 2017, while stressing

that any rate moves would depend on how the economy performs.

Some private economists have predicted that the Fed will accelerate its rate hikes this year if the incoming Trump administration is successful in getting Congress to approve tax cuts and other measures to boost economic growth.

Yellen said that the goal for the Fed was to move rates up gradually until reaching

its so-called natural rate, the spot where it is not providing additional stimulus to the economy or holding growth back.

In a speech in San Francisco on Wednesday, Yellen said she expected the Fed would raise its benchmark rate, the federal funds rate, “a few times a year” until officials had pushed the rate to close to 3 percent by the end of 2019.q

A26 COMICS

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Saturday 21 January 2017

Champagne corks pop in Moscow at President Trump’s inauguration V. ISACHENKOV N. VASILYEVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Champagne corks popped Friday in Moscow as Russians celebrated the start of Donald Trump’s presidency, confident of better relations ahead between the two countries.

“It’s weird, but it’s great, and for the first time ever Russians are applauding the victory of a U.S. presidential candidate,” political analyst Stanislav Byshok said.

Trump’s promises to fix ravaged relations with Moscow have elated Russia’s political elite following spiraling tensions with Washington over the Ukrainian crisis, the war in Syria and allegations of Russian meddling in the U.S. election.

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About 100 Trump sympathizers, nationalists and spin doctors gathered at a trendy loft just a few hundred meters away from the Kremlin to celebrate Friday, with a triptych of Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin and French nationalist politician Marine Le Pen in the center of the hall.

An hour before Trump took the stage in Washington, the sound of opening champagne bottles echoed in the vaulted hall.

The party was co-sponsored by the conservative Tsargrad TV channel, which is led by ultra-right ideologue Alexander Dugin.

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A28 SCIENCE

Saturday 21 January 2017

World’s primates facing extinction crisis, new report says SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Gorillas, monkeys, lemurs and other primates are in danger of becoming extinct, and scientists say it’s our fault that our closest living relatives are in trouble, a new international study warns.

About 60 percent of the more than 500 primate species are “now threatened with extinction” and 3 out of 4 primate species have shrinking populations, according to a study published in Wednesday’s journal Science Advances .

While scientists had tracked dwindling numbers of individuals and groups of primates in forests around the world, this is the first big-picture look. The result was “a bigger wake-up call” than previously thought, said researcher Paul Garber of the University of Illinois.

“The outlook is not very good,” said Garber, who recently returned from the jungles of Brazil studying marmosets.

The decline has been blamed on human activities including hunting, min-

In this Dec. 31, 2015, file photo, Tsunami, an eleven year old female Sumatran Orangutan eats fruit during her birthday celebration at the National Zoo Ape Center in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

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ing and oil drilling. Logging, ranching and farming have also destroyed precious habitat in Africa, Asia and South America.

Primates, which include apes, monkeys and humans, have forward-facing eyes and grasping ability that set them apart from other mammals. Scientists

In this March 31, 2016 file photo, a ring-tailed lemur watches out of a window at the zoo in Duisburg, Germany.

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study them to learn about human behavior and evolution.

Much of the problems faced by primates are recent. For example, the Grauer’s gorilla dropped from a population of 17,000 in 1995 to just about 3,800 now, mostly from bushmeat hunting and mineral mining, the study found.

There are only about 14,000 Sumatran orangutans left in the world. The Hainan gibbon in China is down to just 25 individuals, while 22 out of the 26 primate species in China are endangered, Garber said.

About 94 percent of the lemur species in the world are endangered, especially in Madagascar, which is one of hardest-hit places for primate population loss.

“We need to look at (population losses) almost as signals. They’re telling us something about our future,” Garber said. “This is a critical world problem.”

While there’s hope that some species can be protected, many will disappear in the coming decades, said co-author Eduardo Fernandez-Duque of Yale University.

Emory University primate expert Frans de Waal called the work “very detailed and timely and unfortunately correct.”

“Primate populations are clearly moving in the wrong direction,” said de Waal, who wasn’t part of the study.q

PEOPLE & ARTS A29

Saturday 21 January 2017

Thelma Schoonmaker on sculpting ‘Silence’ and editing Powell JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Thelma Schoonmaker would still be working on Martin Scorsese’s “Silence” if she could.

The legendary editor is sitting in the Midtown Manhattan office where she cut Scorsese’s latest, his deeply felt spiritual epic about Jesuit priests in feudal Japan. Schoonmaker sits in between her monitors and those for Scorsese, added about a year ago so he could sit even closer to Schoonmaker while they worked. It makes for a jumble of screens, especially when the one devoted to Turner Classic movies is factored in. “This used to be quite a beautiful room,” Schoonmaker says with only mild regret.

The struggle to form and shape “Silence” is still fresh for the 77-year-old threetime Oscar winner, probably the most famous editor in film. (On Jan. 27, the American Cinema Editors will present her with a lifetime achievement honor.)

Questions still linger over the thousands of decisions that led to the final cut, one — like most — reluctantly relinquished rather than absolutely completed.

“It’s hard to let go of it,” says Schoonmaker, whose gentle demeanor tends to mask the passion within.

“It’s always hard to let go.”

“Silence,” which opened nationwide Jan. 13, is her 20the Scorsese feature as editor. Since 1980’s “Raging Bull,” they’ve been inseparable: one of cinema’s great duos. They first met as film students at New York University. Schoonmaker recut Scorsese’s 1967’s “Who’s That Knocking at My Door,” though a 12-year gap followed before Schoonmaker managed to get into the editors union. Scorsese taught the initially untrained Schoonmaker before they became mutual collaborators.

“He’d had some experiences where the editor did not want the director in the editing room. And he’s a great editor, Marty. It’s his favorite part of filmmak-

This Jan. 3, 2017 file photo shows film editor Thelma Schoonmaker at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards in New York.

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ing. So that was very hard,” says Schoonmaker. “I think he sensed with me that we could collaborate and it wouldn’t be an ego fight all the time.”

They’ve had their disagreements, notably including different takes of the final shot of “Raging Bull” in which Robert De Niro’s Jake LaMotta looks into the mirror. But, she says, “It’s always about what’s best for the film.”

“If we disagree, we screen it two different ways and ask friends what they think,” says Schoonmaker. “It’s hard to describe. You’d have to be here for three months with us. It’d be very

boring because we make a thousand decisions a day and then go back the next day and change them. It’s a very mysterious craft, editing.”

Schoonmaker speaks of editing like sculpture: countless massages that subtly shape a film and its actors’ performances. Often it means cutting your favorite scene. “The struggle to do right by the film,” she calls it.

“Silence” had its fair share of challenges. It’s based on Shusaku Endo’s 1966 novel, which is largely told through letters, so Scorsese and coscreenwriter Jay Cocks had to invent most of the film’s

dialogue.

Schoonmaker and Scorsese quickly decided to strike most of the original voiceover. “The images were so powerful that we could strip away a lot of it,” she says.

“It’s a very different film from anything I’ve ever worked on because it’s so meditative. So we had to find the right pace without being boring,” Schoonmaker says. “And to give the film the right shape and the right build toward the end was quite a challenge.

Normally what we like to do is ramp up toward the end, whereas this was sort of the reverse.”

Most naturally link Schoon-

maker with Scorsese, but her life has been spliced between two filmmakers.

Schoonmaker was married to the British director Michael Powell for six years before Powell’s death in 1990 at 84.

They were first introduced through Scorsese, a passionate admirer of Powell’s films with Emeric Pressburger (“The Red Shoes,” ‘’Black Narcissus” among them). At the time, Powell’s standing had badly dwindled following his controversial, now classic “Peeping Tom.” Scorsese helped resuscitate his reputation.

Powell, Schoonmaker says, gave them the ending to “After Hours” and encouraged Scorsese to give his once-languishing “Goodfellas” one more try.

“To have lived with one and worked for so long with another — two geniuses, so similar in so many ways but so different,” says Schoonmaker. “Without knowing it, Michael taught Marty how to be a filmmaker and then Marty repaid that great gift by bringing him back to the world, which was a beautiful thing to watch. I can’t tell you what it was like to watch the two of them together.”

Her devotion to Powell remains. When Schoonmaker isn’t at work on a Scorsese film, she’s plumbing Powell’s archives and helping restore his films, the latest of which was “The Tales of Hoffman.” She hopes to soon tackle the extraordinary “I Know Where I’m Going!”

Schoonmaker previously edited his twovolume memoir and is currently making her way through his journals.

She edits Powell and then she edits Scorsese, who’s due to start “The Irishman” in June. It’s a comfort, she says, to always have another Scorsese film on tap, unlike most who worked on “Silence.”

“When they leave, they go into Marty withdrawal and I have to sort of help them through it like a shrink,” she says, laughing. “I’m lucky. I know I always have another one coming.”q

A30 PEOPLE

Saturday 21 January 2017

& ARTS

Study illustrates Facebook’s growth as campaign news source

BY DAVID BAUDER AP TELEVISION WRITER NEW YORK (AP) -- Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton voters had different media diets, but a study finds common ground in Facebook as an important news source - even if their individual feeds bore little resemblance to each other’s. Facebook was the top non-television source for election news cited by

supporters of both candidates, according to a survey by the Pew Research Center. The social media site’s import as a driver of political news has been underscored by the lingering controversy of people using it to spread false news stories.

Eight percent of Clinton voters and 7 percent of Trump voters named Facebook as their main source

In this May 16, 2012, file photo, the Facebook logo is displayed on an iPad in Philadelphia.

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of election news, Pew said.

“That was a pretty important finding,” said Jeffrey Gottfried, senior researcher at the Washington-based think tank.

Facebook doesn’t produce news; members share stories from a multitude of sources and their news feeds tend to reflect the politics of their Facebook friends.

With a multitude of web sites serving fake news stories with no basis in fact, Facebook announced last month that it would partner with outside fact-checkers to flag particularly egregious examples that are spread on the social media site. While other digital brands like Breitbart News, BuzzFeed, the Drudge Report and the Huffington Post received plenty of publicity during the campaign, they received little attention from the voters surveyed by Pew.

Forty percent of Trump voters cited Fox News Channel as their main source of campaign news, the winner by a huge margin. The second most-cited news source by Trump supporters was CNN, with 8 percent.

“This is very much on par with previous research we have done,” Gottfried said.

Pew didn’t ask similar questions after past campaigns, but in a 2014 survey, 47 percent of conservatives cited Fox as their top news source, he said.

The finding shows Fox’s continued strength with conservative voters, and likely explains why the network has taken no change in direction following the ouster last summer of its founder and top executive, Roger Ailes, following sexual harassment allegations.

CNN was the top news source named by Clinton supporters, with 18 per-

cent, Pew said. Although that was twice as much as any other news source, Clinton voters were much more likely to have more diverse media diets. MSNBC, with 9 percent, was second among Clinton voters.

That network was named by only 1 percent of Trump voters.

National Public Radio was another news source held in high esteem by Clinton voters but by few Trump supporters, the survey said.

The New York Times was the most-cited newspaper source of news, with 3 percent of all voters saying it was their top news source, Pew said. Pew found little difference in media choices among Republicans who supported different candidates during the primary, yet real differences between Democratic supporters of either Clinton or Bernie Sanders. q

Twain children’s story, recently discovered, coming in fall NEW YORK (AP) — More than a century after his death, Mark Twain’s publishing life continues.

Doubleday Books for Young Readers announced Friday that it has acquired a fairy tale only recently discovered.

The book is called “The Purloining of Prince Oleomar-

garine” and is scheduled for Sept. 26.

The work is based on 16 pages of notes written by Twain in 1879 that were spotted at the Mark Twain Papers & Project at the University of California at Berkeley.

The prize-winning team of Philip Stead and Erin Stead

have expanded the unfinished story to an 11-chapter, 152-page illustrated book. The Steads are best known for “A Sick Day for Amos McGee.” “The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine” tells of a boy who can talk to animals and their joint effort to rescue a prince.q

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Saturday 21 January 2017

In this Feb. 13, 2016 file photo, people stand in line waiting to enter the Underwood 2016 booth ahead of the CBS News Republican presidential debate in Greenville, S.C. Associated Press

On Inauguration Day, ‘House of Cards’ announces May return BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — “House of Cards” will return in May for a fifth season.

The show’s Twitter account posted a video on Inauguration Day featuring an upside-down U.S. flag in front of the U.S. Capitol. The video ends with the date May 30. An upside-down flag is a signal of distress.

The show stars Kevin Spac-

ey as President Frank Underwood and Robin Wright as his wife, first lady Claire Underwood.

The upcoming season will be the first under new coshowrunners Melissa James Gibson and Frank Pugliese.

Former showrunner Beau Willimon stepped away from the role after last season.q

This Jan. 13, 2017 file photo shows Idina Menzel, left, and Nia Long posing for a portrait to promote their film “Beaches” at the Winter Television Critics Association press tour in Pasadena, Calif.

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Nia Long, Idina Menzel celebrate women’s bonds in ‘Beaches’

This Nov. 30, 2016 file photo shows Shia LaBeouf at the premiere of “Man Down” in Los Angeles.

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LaBeouf leads with ‘will not divide us’ on Inauguration Day

NEW YORK (AP) — On Inauguration Day, actor Shia LaBeouf led a group of teenagers with the chant: “He will not divide us.”

Looking into a camera placed on a wall outside the Museum of the Moving Image in New York, a diverse group of teenagers — some wearing backpacks — chanted the words on the day Donald

Trump was named president in Washington, D.C. Actor Jaden Smith, the son of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, was also in the crowd and recited the five-word chant.

At one point a man held a sign that read: “Abort Trump.”

The camera has been in place since 9 a.m. EST on Friday.q

MIKE CIDONI LENNOX AP Entertainment Writer PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — For Idina Menzel and Nia Long, director Garry Marshall’s 1988 melodrama “Beaches,” starring Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey, is a four-hankie treat.

So why do a remake?

“Why not?” replied Long (“The Best Man Holiday”), pointing to the story’s timeless elements. “It really is a film about friendship and girl power and just living your truth.”

“Beaches” airs Saturday on Lifetime (8 p.m. EST). Based on the 1985 novel by Iris Rainer Dart, it’s the story of childhood friends who have a falling out and are later reunited by tragedy.

Menzel (“Frozen”) said re-recording the original soundtrack’s “Wind Beneath My Wings” — which

won Midler a Grammy for record of the year — was challenging.

“So much of it was daunting,” Menzel said. “I was excited, I think, just because I have sung the song my whole life. I was a wedding/ bar mitzvah singer.

I had to sing that song to every 13-year-old boy who was dancing with his mom.”

While the 1988 “Beaches” was a musical with drama that focused on Midler’s self-absorbed singer character, the remake from director Allison Anders (“Ring of Fire”) is more of a drama with music. Long gets more time to flesh out her character than Hershey did, though the essential element of the characters’ bond remains the same: Each is seriously flawed, with each making up for

the other’s shortcomings.

“Even in the original, their flaws were interesting to me and kind of shocking,” Anders said.

“Here, we could just be a little more raw with the messiness of their relationship, but also with the kind of beauty of it, too.”

This is a story of sisterhood — for better or worse. But men are invited to a night at the beach, too: an invitation they may want to take seriously.

“They will, if they want to keep their wives,” Long said with a smile.

Added Menzel: “I think that men who are attracted to very strong, powerful women ... and are not threatened by that (will like the film).

And I’ll just say that with a little wink, especially the day after the inauguration.”q