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Tuesday, November 15, 2011 – Daily News 5A WORLD BRIEFING Oakland raid is latest police crackdown OAKLAND (AP) — Police decked in riot gear and armed with tear gas cleared out Oakland's anti- Wall Street encampment early Monday, the latest law enforcement crackdown amid complaints around the country of health and safety hazards at protest camps. The raid at the Occupy Oakland camp, one of the largest and most active sites in the movement, came a day after police in Portland, Ore., arrested more than 50 people while shutting down its camp amid complaints of drug use and sanitation issues. Police in Burlington, Vt., also evicted protesters after a man fatally shot himself last week inside a tent. Police staged a previous raid on the Oakland encampment on Oct. 25, but Mayor Jean Quan allowed protesters to re-establish their tent city. On Monday, however, Quan said officials could no longer ignore the problems posed by the camp. ''We came to this point because Occupy Oakland, I think, began to take a differ- ent path than the original movement,'' Quan said. ''The encampment became a place where we had repeated violence and last week a murder. We had to bring the camp to an end before more people got hurt.'' Jordan calls on Syria's Assad to step down BEIRUT (AP) — Jor- dan's king said Monday that Syrian President Bashar Assad should step down for the good of his country, the first Arab leader to publicly make such a call as Syria's neighbors close ranks against an increasingly iso- lated regime. Syria's crackdown on an 8-month-old uprising has brought international con- demnation, but Damascus generally has been spared broad reproach in the Arab world. That changed Satur- day, with a near-unanimous vote by the 22-member Arab League to suspend Syria. Assad has tried to blunt the most serious threat to his family's 40-year dynasty by promising reform while also using the military to crack down on protests that refuse to abate despite 3,500 dead — including at least 12 reported killed on Monday. He still has a firm grip on power, in part because the opposition remains frag- mented and he retains the support of the business classes and minority groups who feel vulnerable in an overwhelmingly Sunni nation. The 46-year-old leader can ride out sanctions imposed by the U.S. and Europe — at least in the near term — as long as he has the support of key allies Russia, China and Iran. As the uprising wears on, the regime could wobble. Sanctions are chipping away at the ailing economy, and a financial collapse might per- suade the middle classes to abandon their allegiance to Assad. Gingrich points to debates for recent rise, WEST DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — His public support growing, Republi- can presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said Mon- day that voters are taking a second look at his candida- cy because he proved dur- ing recent debates that he understands the enormity of the nation's problems. But he didn't really have to make the point. Lillie Anderson made it for him. ''I didn't enter this cam- paign a Gingrich fan,'' the 76-year-old Des Moines Republican told Gingrich after he addressed more than 100 employees of a Des Moines-area insurance company. ''I'm closer than I was. I'm more interested now.'' 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