ACROSS
1 Neutral hue
5 Book of legends?
10 Irreverent radio
host
14 Become painfully
dry
15 Airboat area
16 Narrow margin
17 Hardly noticeable
amount
18 Black-eyed peas
dish
20 Like some Netflix
movies
22 Wore a belittling
look
23 Notable gap
26 More pleasant
27 Pretend nothing’s
going on
31 Empty the recycle
bin, e.g.
32 Petri dish gel
33 Cast off
37 Informal pass
38 “Also sprach
Zarathustra”
composer
41 Miner issue
42 Reunion attendee
44 Third Pillar of
Islam subject
45 Short stroke
47 Brunch fare
50 Bygone Detroit
brewery
52 Gas leak
warnings
53 Starts a revolution
55 Comparable to,
with “with”
59 Country star with
an un-countrylike
name
62 What “will keep
us together,” in a
1975 hit
63 Hamburg’s river
64 “Transcendental”
Liszt piece
65 Blunted blade
66 Downhill coaster
67 Pitching scout’s
device
68 Lowly worker

DOWN
1 Bounce back
2 Uppercut target
3 It’s tender in
Johannesburg

4 Market advances
5 Picnic area barrel
6 __-Face:
duplicitous
Batman foe
7 __ cat
8 Rock concert
gear
9 Dreidels and
pinwheels
10 Adds to a
conversation, as
a remark
11 “A Visit From St.
Nicholas” poet
Clement 
Clarke __
12 Seat finder
13 Delight
19 Frau’s refusal
21 Draws back in
fear
24 Hairbrush targets
25 Gable/Gardner
classic set in
Africa
27 Actress Olin
28 __ hygiene
29 Pearl Harbor
locale
30 Led to
34 Native Arizonans
35 Obama attorney
general Holder

36 Bit of hail
damage
39 Swiss luxury
watchmaker
40 Strict
43 Deserved
46 Source of TV
revenue
48 “Crikey!”
49 Midday tryst
50 Compete in a
bee
51 34-Down, e.g.

53 Luau strings
54 Arg. miss
56 Religious 
leader
associated with
the ends of the
four longest
puzzle answers
57 State as fact
58 Great 
Barrier __
60 Future bloom
61 Oral health org.

By Gareth Bain
©2015 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
01/07/15

01/07/15

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Divers search for crash 
remnants in Indonesia

ACHMAD IBRAHIM/AP

Divers from the National Search And Rescue Agency (BASARNAS) on a rubber boat conduct their search operation for 
the victims of AirAsia flight QZ 8501 at Java Sea, Indonesia.

European Union likely to 
 

continue with sanctions

EU divisions make 
measures against 
Russia difficult to 

overturn

PARIS (AP) — EU sanctions 

against Russia over the crisis in 
Ukraine are cutting both ways: 
hurting Russia as well as pinch-
ing some big European compa-
nies. 

But economic relief isn’t 

likely any time soon, diplomats 
and analysts say, since EU divi-
sions make the sanctions tough 
to overturn.

France, 
Germany, 
Russia 

and Ukraine are trying to set 
up talks next week in Astana, 
Kazakhstan, to ease the ten-
sions behind the punitive mea-
sures that, along with slumping 
oil prices and U.S. sanctions, 
have sent the ruble sinking. 

The sanctions, and Rus-

sian retaliation, have in turn 
squeezed corporate Europe — 
including banks, oil companies, 
machinery makers and food 
giants that do business with 
Russia.

European Union rules com-

plicate any attempt to modify 

the sanctions put into place last 
year amid the separatist vio-
lence in eastern Ukraine and 
after Russia’s annexation of 
Crimea. A unanimous decision 
by all 28 EU nations is needed 
to change the sanctions, and 
analysts say such unanimity 
doesn’t exist.

The main EU sanctions — 

which have hit Russian banks 
and oil companies and have 
banned arms exports and the 
export of dual-use goods — are 
in place until the end of July. A 
first review of some sanctions 
could come in March.

“We don’t turn any sanction 

screw just for the sake of turn-
ing,” German Chancellor Ange-
la Merkel’s spokesman, Steffen 
Seibert, told reporters Monday. 
“The sanctions are responses 
to concrete situations from the 
Russian side and concrete situ-
ations in eastern Ukraine.”

Under the combined blow 

of sanctions and slumping oil 
prices, the ruble has lost about 
half its value this year and the 
Russian economy has drifted 
into recession. 

President 
Vladimir 
Putin 

has promised the economy will 
rebound, but he has failed to 
offer a specific plan for easing 

Russia’s heavy dependence on 
oil and gas revenues.

Zsolt Darvas, a senior fellow 

at the Bruegel think tank in 
Brussels, said France and Italy 
are among the nations more 
open to lifting the sanctions 
while Poland, Britain and the 
Baltic countries want to stand 
firm.

It’s not certain the talks 

scheduled for Jan. 15 in Astana 
will take place — diplomats say 
high-level 
preparatory 
talks 

are planned Friday. French 
President Francois Hollande 
told France-Inter radio that he 
would only attend the Astana 
talks if progress could be made 
in easing the tensions.

“The sanctions should be lift-

ed if there’s progress. If there’s 
no progress, the sanctions will 
remain,” he said Monday, add-
ing that Putin “of course is not 
letting on that he has the slight-
est difficulty.”

“The sanctions ... and the 

decrease of the oil price ... 
weaken him. 

He doesn’t say it of course, he 

doesn’t let people think that he 
has any kind of difficulty, but he 
has some difficulties.”

So do some European corpo-

rate titans.

Pieces from AirAsia 

crash discovered 

after weeks of 

recovery

PANGKALAN BUN, Indone-

sia (AP) — At least two divers 
plunged into the choppy waters 
early Wednesday during a break 
in the bad weather to search for 
two large objects suspected of 
being chunks of the fuselage of 
the AirAsia plane that crashed 
more than one week ago, an 
Indonesian official said.

A U.S. Navy ship, the USS 

Fort Worth, detected the lat-
est two objects on Tuesday at a 
depth of 28 meters (92 feet) near 
the Karimata Strait off Indone-
sia.

“We will start to identify the 

wreckage, which appears to be 
part of the jet’s body, as quickly 
as possible,” Indonesian search 
and rescue operation coordina-
tor Tatang Zainudin said, add-
ing that teams equipped with 
a remote-operated vehicle will 
also try to capture images of the 
objects.

So far, seven objects sus-

pected to be parts of the plane 
have been detected by sonar on 
the ocean floor, but strong cur-
rents, silt and mud have kept 
divers from seeing or reaching 
them.

Zainudin said the bad weath-

er that has held up the search 
was “frustrating.”

Two 
more 
bodies 
were 

retrieved Tuesday, bringing the 
total to 39. But there are con-
cerns that it will become harder 
to find the remaining corpses 
from Flight 8501, which crashed 
Dec. 28 with 162 passengers and 
crew aboard.

The crash has put a spotlight 

on Indonesia, where dozens of 
new airlines have popped up in 
recent years to meet booming 
demand, but a string of deadly 
accidents has raised concerns 
about safety.

Experts say poor mainte-

nance, 
rule-bending 
and 
a 

shortage of trained personnel 
are largely to blame. Infrastruc-
ture has also failed to keep pace 
with exploding demand.

The country’s transportation 

ministry said it was cracking 
down after it was discovered 
that Flight 8501 did not have a 
permit to fly between Surabaya, 
Indonesia, and Singapore on the 
day of the crash. 

It suspended two ministry 

officials and five workers at 
Surabaya’s main airport Tues-
day for allowing the flight. 
Others are still under investi-
gation.

All AirAsia flights on that 

route also have been canceled 
for the time being.

It is not known what caused 

the Airbus A320 to crash into 
the Java Sea 42 minutes after 
takeoff, 
though 
Indonesia’s 

Meteorology, Climatology and 
Geophysics Agency says bad 
weather appears to have been 
a factor.

Just before losing contact, 

the pilot told air traffic control 
he was approaching threat-
ening clouds, but was denied 
permission to climb to a higher 
altitude because of heavy air 
traffic. No distress signal was 
issued.

No pings have been detected 

from the plane’s all-important 
cockpit voice and flight data 
recorders. That’s because high 
waves 
have 
prevented 
the 

deployment of ships that drag 
ping locators. 

The batteries in the pingers 

on the black boxes are likely to 
go dead in about 20 more days.

“We are confident that res-

cuers would be able to locate 
them in time,” said Nurcahyo 
Utomo, an investigator for 
Indonesia’s National Commit-
tee on Transportation Safety.

The search for the remain-

ing bodies has been exhausting 
for family members anxiously 
waiting to identify and bury 
their loved ones.

Eight Islamic clerics flew in 

a helicopter over the site Tues-
day and scattered rice into 
the sea, a local tradition, and 
prayed for those who perished.

South Korea threatened by 
North Korean technology

Seoul’s Defense 
Ministry reports 
6,000-member N. 
Korean cyber army 

ISEOUL, South Korea (AP) 

— South Korea said Tuesday 
that rival North Korea has a 
6,000-member cyber army dedi-
cated to disrupting the South’s 
military and government, a dra-
matic increase from an earlier 
estimate of 3,000 such specialists.

Without elaborating, Seoul’s 

Defense Ministry also said in 
a report that North Korea may 

also have gained the ability to 
strike the U.S. mainland because 
of its progress in missile tech-
nology demonstrated in recent 
long-range missile tests. 

It also said North Korea is 

advancing in efforts to min-
iaturize nuclear warheads to 
mount on such missiles.

There is considerable mys-

tery, and outside debate, about 
the state of North Korea’s 
opaque nuclear and missile pro-
grams, which it has persisted 
in pursuing for decades despite 
widespread domestic poverty 
and heavy international sanc-
tions and criticism.

North Korea has conduct-

ed three nuclear tests since 
2006, the most recent in early 
2013, and experts believe it 
has a handful of crude nuclear 
bombs. 

Many 
outside 
observers 

speculate that it has not mas-
tered the technology to make 
the bombs small enough to 
put on long-range missiles, 
although some say it may be 
able to arm shorter-range mis-
siles with warheads.

North Korea has conducted 

several long-range rocket tests, 
which are seen as covers for 
banned tests meant to develop 
missiles that could hit main-
land American shores. 

North Korea says its launches 

are meant to put peaceful satel-
lites into orbit, and that its nuclear 

program is crucial to protecting 
itself from U.S. hostility.

The South Korean Defense 

Ministry 
report 
said 
North 

Korea’s 6,000 cyber warriors 
are dedicated to “paralyzing 
the South psychologically and 
materially” and have been con-
ducting cyberattacks to disrupt 
the South’s military operations 
and main government systems. 
It didn’t describe how it made its 
assessments.

The United States accuses 

North Korea of a cyberattack 
on Sony Pictures over a movie 
depicting the fictional assassina-
tion of the North’s leader, Kim 
Jong Un. 

Washington 
has 
slapped 

sanctions on government offi-
cials and North Korea’s defense 
industry. There are doubts in 
the cyber community, however, 
and North Korea has denied 
any involvement in the breach 
of tens of thousands of confi-
dential Sony emails and busi-
ness files.

Former South Korean Defense 

Minister Kim Kwan-jin said in 
2013 that North Korea was oper-
ating a cyberwarfare staff of 
3,000. 

South Korea accuses North 

Korea of conducting at least six 
high-profile cyberattacks since 
2007 and many more unsuc-
cessful attempts to infiltrate 
computer systems of businesses 
and government agencies.

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