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The Associated Press ATLANTA Former Pres- ident Jimmy Carter an- nounced he has been di- agnosed with cancer in a brief statement issued Wednesday. "Recent liver surgery re- vealed that I have cancer that now is in other parts of my body," Carter said in the statement released by the Carter Center. "I will be rearranging my schedule as necessary so I can undergo treatment by physicians at Emory Healthcare." The statement makes clear that Carter's cancer is widelyspread,butnotwhere it originated, or even if that is known at this point. The liver is often a place where cancerspreadsandlesscom- monly is the primary source of it. It said further informa- tion will be provided when more facts are known, "pos- sibly next week." Carter announced on Aug. 3 that he had surgery to remove a small mass from his liver. Carter, 90, was the na- tion's 39th president. After leaving the White House, he founded the center in Atlanta in 1982 to promote health care, democracy and other issues globally. He has remained active for the center in recent years, making public ap- pearances at its headquar- ters in Atlanta and travel- ing overseas, including a May election observation visit to Guyana cut short when Carter developed a bad cold. Carter also completed a book tour this summer to promote his latest work, "A Full Life." Carter included his family's history of pancre- atic cancer in that mem- oir, writing that his father, brother and two sisters all died of the disease and said the trend "concerned" the former president's doctors at Emory. "The National Institutes of Health began to check all members of our fam- ily regularly, and my last remaining sibling, Gloria, sixty-four, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and died in 1990," Carter wrote. "There was no record of another American family having lost four members to this disease, and since that time I have had reg- ular X-rays, CAT scans, or blood analyses, with hope of early detection if I de- velop the same symptoms." Carter wrote that be- ing the only nonsmoker in his family "may have been what led to my longer life." "Our thoughts and prayers go out to President Carter," said Dr. Len Lich- tenfeld, deputy chief med- ical officer of the American Cancer Society. "There's a lot we don't know," but the first task likely will be determining wherethecanceroriginated, as that can help determine what treatment he may be eligible for, Lichtenfeld said. Sometimes the primary site can't be determined, so ge- netic analysis of the tumor might be done to see what mutations are driving it and what drugs might tar- get those mutations. WIDELY SPREAD MATTROURKE—THEASSOCIATEDPRESSFILE Former President Jimmy Carter is seen in Philadelphia. Carter announced he has been diagnosed with cancer in a brief statement issued Wednesday. Jimmy Carter reveals th at h e ha s can ce r By Bradley Klapper and Michael Weissenstein The Associated Press WASHINGTON Cuban dis- sidents, so long the center of U.S. policy toward the island, won't be invited to Secretary of State John Ker- ry's historic flag-raising at the U.S. Embassy in Havana on Friday, vividly illustrat- ing how U.S. policy is shift- ing focus to its single-party government. Kerry intends to meet more quietly with prominent activists later in the day, officials said. The Cuban government labels its domestic oppo- nents as traitorous U.S. mercenaries. As the two countries have moved to re- store relations, Cuba has al- most entirely stopped meet- ing with American politi- cians who visit dissidents during trips to Havana. That presented a quan- dary for U.S. officials orga- nizing the ceremony on Fri- day to mark the reopening of the embassy on Havana's historic waterfront. Invit- ing dissidents would risk a boycott by Cuban officials including those who nego- tiated with the U.S. after Presidents Barack Obama and Raul Castro declared detente on Dec. 17. Exclud- ing dissidents would cer- tainly provoke fierce crit- icism from opponents of Obama's new policy, includ- ing Cuban-American Re- publican presidential can- didate Marco Rubio. Officials familiar with the plans for Kerry's visit, the first by a sitting U.S. sec- retary of state to Cuba since World War II, told The As- sociated Press that a com- promise was in the works. The dissidents won't be in- vited to the embassy event, but a small group will meet with Kerry at the U.S. chief of mission's home in the afternoon, where a lower- key, flag-raising ceremony is scheduled. "It really is not at all a change although it's very much in keeping with the new policy," a senior State Department official told re- portersWednesday,speaking on condition of anonymity in accordance withthe rules for the briefing. "The opening ceremony, which is the flag- raising ceremony at the em- bassy, is principally a govern- ment-to-government event." Their presence at the em- bassy would have risked set- ting back the new spirit of cooperation the U.S. hopes to engender, according to the officials, who weren't authorized to speak pub- licly about internal plan- ning and demanded ano- nymity. But not meeting them at all, they said, would send an equally bad signal. "It wouldn't be surpris- ing if North American dip- lomats prioritize contacts with the Cuban govern- ment," said Elizardo San- chez, head of the Cuban Commission on Human Rights and National Recon- ciliation, a relatively moder- ate dissident group. "If we show up, they leave." The Obama administra- tion says it is normalizing ties with Cuba after more than 50 years of hostility failed to shake the commu- nist state's hold on power. It argues that dealing directly with Cuba over issues rang- ing from human rights to trade is far likelier to pro- duce democratic and free- market reforms over the long term. FLAG-RAISING Cu ba d is si de nt s wo n' t attend US Embassy event PHOTOS BY RAMON ESPINOSA — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A man walks along the ledge of a building a er hanging two giant Cuban flags, next to the U.S. embassy in Havana, Cuba, on Tuesday. With a giant Cuban flag hanging from his balcony, a man peers out of his apartment's window, next to the U.S. embassy, not seen, in Havana, Cuba, on Tuesday. By Brian Melley The Associated Press LOS ANGELES Jose Me- lena was loading tons of tuna into industrial ovens at Bumble Bee Foods when any worker's worst night- mare occurred — he got trapped inside and the mas- sive pressure cooker was turned on. Melena's grisly death in a 270-degree oven three years ago led to a $6 mil- lion agreement by Bum- ble Bee on Wednesday to settle criminal charges in what Los Angeles District Attorney Jackie Lacey said was the largest payout in a California workplace-vio- lation death. The sum was four times greater than the maximum fines the com- pany faced. "This is the worst cir- cumstances of death I have ever, ever witnessed," said Deputy District Attorney Hoon Chun, who noted that he had tried more than 40 murder cases over two de- cades. "I think any per- son would prefer to be — if they had to die some way — would prefer to be shot or stabbed than to be slowly cooked in an oven. " Melena, 62, perished at the seafood company's Santa Fe Springs plant af- ter a co-worker mistakenly believed he was in the bath- room and loaded six tons of canned tuna into the oven after he had stepped inside. The company didn't have safety procedures that would have required the equipment be turned off with an employee inside or provide an escape route or a spotter to keep watch with a worker in a confined space, Hoon said. In a rare prosecution of a workplace fatality, Bum- ble Bee, its plant Opera- tions Director Angel Ro- driguez and former safety manager Saul Florez were each charged with three counts of violating Occu- pational Safety & Health Administration rules that caused a death. Each party reached a different plea agreement Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court. Bumble Bee agreed to plead guilty in January 2017 to a misdemeanor of having willfully failed to provide an effective safety program. First, however, it must com- plete several safety mea- sures that include spend- ing $3 million to upgrade ovens so workers can't get trapped inside and provid- ing worker training. Florez, 42, of Whittier was sentenced to three years of probation and will face fines and penalties of about $19,000 after plead- ing guilty to a single fel- ony count of violating a workplace safety rule that caused a death. Rodriguez, 63, of River- side, agreed to plead guilty in 18 months to a misde- meanor and pay about $11,000 after he completes 320 hours of community service and worker safety courses. The two men had faced up to three years in prison and fines up to $250,000. The company had faced fines up to $1.5 million. WORKPLACE VIOLATION Tu na c om pa ny a gr ee s to $ 6M settlement in worker oven death Smog Check (MOST CARS & PICK-UPS) 527-9841 • 195 S. Main St. starting at $ 29 95 + $ 8 25 certificate Allmakesandmodels. We perform dealer recommened 30K 60K 90K Service At Lower Prices. Servicingyourdisposalneedsin Tehama County, and the City of Red Bluff including Residential, Commercial, and Temporary bin services. 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