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.
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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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