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Tuesday, August 22, 2017
Trump commits to Afghan surge By JULIE PACE and KEN THOMAS The Associated Press
PHOTOS BY CHRIS LEE/ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH/TNS and REGISTER REPORTERS CHRISTIAN GIN, RICK DANLEY AND RICHARD LUKEN
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Folks young and old turned their (protected) eyes skyward Monday for the celestial event of the decade, the 2017 solar eclipse. Morning clouds gave way for spectacular viewing. Clockwise from top left, front row from left, Taitum Ryan, teacher Reagan Parks, Jaiden Shimp and Sophia Lee, and second row, Greta Ladd and Jean Still watch from the Windsor Place parking lot; Iola High School students Brad Bennett, foreground, and Kylee Maloney had a relaxing view of the eclipse; IHS student Jada Cunningham eyes the eclipse’s shadow utilizing a pinhole atop a small box; Windsor Place resident Jannie Shisler dons safety glasses to watch; Gina Storrer’s third-grade class at Lincoln Elementary School donned protective eyewear affixed to paper plates for even safer viewing; other Lincoln students took advantage of their safety glasses to watch the eclipse while playing on the swings during recess. At the top of the page is a composite image of eight pictures showing the phases of the total eclipse as the moon passes from left to right in front of the sun near Perryville, Mo. Shot with an equivalent of an 800 mm lens, the partial phases are single exposures. The center image of the total eclipse is made from multiple exposures that help show more detail of the sun’s corona around the moon.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is vowing to win what has seemed to be an unwinnable war. How he plans to do so is still murky despite the months of internal deliberations that ultimately persuaded Trump to stick with a conflict he has long opposed. In a 26-minute address to the nation Monday, Trump alluded to more American troops deploying to Afghanistan, but refused to say how many. He said vic- Donald Trump tory would be well-defined, but outlined only vague benchmarks for success, like dismantling al-Qaida and preventing the Taliban from taking over Afghanistan. He said the U.S. would not offer Afghanistan a “blank check,” but provided no specific timetable for the end of an American commitment that has already lasted 16 years. Instead, Trump projected an “I got this” bravado that has become a hallmark of his presidency. “In the end, we will win,” he declared of America’s longest war. Victory in Afghanistan has eluded Trump’s predecessors: President George W. Bush, who launched the war after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, and President Barack Obama, who surged U.S. troop levels to 100,000, but ultimately failed in fulfilling his promise to bring the conflict to a close before leaving office. As Trump now takes his turn at the helm, he faces many of the same challenges that have bedeviled those previous presidents and left some U.S. officials deeply uncertain about whether victory is indeed possible. Afghanistan remains one See TRUMP | Page A3
Record fine in baby powder suit LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles jury on Monday ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay a record $417 million to a hospitalized woman who claimed in a lawsuit that the talc in the company’s iconic baby powder causes ovarian cancer when applied regularly for feminine hygiene. The verdict in the lawsuit brought by the California woman, Eva Echeverria, marks the largest sum awarded in a series of talcum pow-
der lawsuit verdicts against Johnson & Johnson in courts around the U.S. Echeverria alleged Johnson & Johnson failed to adequately warn consumers about talcum powder’s potential cancer risks. She used the company’s baby powder on a daily basis beginning in the See POWDER | Page A3
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Oops U.S. 54 west of Iola was closed briefly this morning after a truck spilled more than 30 sheets of glass onto U.S. 54. Kansas Department of Transportation crews were quickly on the scene to clear up the various piles of broken glass. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN
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