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Nation+Worldnewsfeed 9dead:AfirefighterwalksupadrivewayTuesdayasafour-unitapartmentbuilding burns in Akron, Ohio, a er a Hawker H25small business jet crashed into it, killing all nine aboard. Seven were associates of Pebb Enterprises, a Florida real estate invest- ment company. No one was home in the units, and there were no other injuries. DEADLY OHIO PLANE CRASH SCOTT FERRELL — FOR THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ARussianproposaltoendSyr- ia's conflict that would include early presidential elections faced opposi- tion from both sides on Wednesday, as deep divisions remained over the fate of President Bashar Assad. Syrian legislator Sharif Shehadeh, a member of the ruling Baath party, told The Associated Press there will be no presidential vote before Assad's latest term ends in 2021. He added that parliamentary elections are an internal Syrian affair. His comments came a day af- ter Russia circulated a document on ending Syria's conflict that calls for drafting a new constitution within 18 months. The charter would be put to a popular referendum. Prominent Syrian opposition fig- ure Haitham al-Maleh said Russia, which began launching airstrikes in support of Assad's troops Sept. 30, is an "occupation force" in Syria, add- ing that the opposition will not ac- cept any role for Assad during the transition. —TheAssociatedPress CIVIL WAR Syriansexpressoppositionto Russian plan to end conflict Immediately after the U.S. killed at least 30 people in a devastating airstrike on a charity hospital, Af- ghanistan's national security adviser told a European diplomat his coun- try would take responsibility be- cause "we are without doubt, 100 percent convinced the place was oc- cupied by Taliban," according to notes of the meeting reviewed by The Associated Press. More than a month later, no evi- dence has emerged to support that assertion. Eyewitnesses tell the AP they saw no gunmen at the hospital. Instead, there are mounting indi- cations the U.S. military relied heav- ily on Afghan allies who resented the internationally run Doctors With- out Borders hospital, which treated Afghan security forces and Taliban alike but says it refused to admit armed men. The new evidence includes details the AP has learned about the loca- tion of American troops during the attack. — The Associated Press AFGHANISTAN CONFLICT US troops didn't have eyes on Kunduz hospital before attack A white college student suspected of posting online threats to shoot black students and faculty at the University of Missouri was arrested Wednesday, adding to the racial ten- sion at the heart of the protests that led two top administrators to resign earlier this week. Hunter M. Park, a 19-year-old sophomore at a sister campus in Rolla, was arrested shortly before 2 a.m. at a residence hall, authorities said. The school said no weapons were found. Park, who has not yet been for- mally charged, is enrolled at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. He was arrested by Uni- versity of Missouri police and taken to jail in Columbia, about 75 miles to the northwest, where he was booked on a preliminary charge of suspicion of making a terrorist threat. Because the county courts were closed Wednesday for Veterans Day, he will not appear before a judge un- til at least today — The Associated Press MISSOURI Online threats against blacks net arrest at campus Republican presidential contender Donald Trump often touts the efforts of the Eisenhower administration in the 1950s, as proof that he could de- port the estimated 11 million people living in the country illegally. But the program Trump is referring to is viewed by historians as a dark moment in America's past. The com- plicated undertaking was plagued by deaths and poor conditions for those immigrants apprehended. Also lost in Trump's telling is that "Operation Wetback" coincided with a guest worker program that provided legal status to hundreds of thousands of largely Mexican farm workers. The operation was named after a term for Mexicans who crossed the Rio Grande that is now viewed a ra- cial slur. The 1954 initiative was aimed at apprehending and deporting agri- cultural workers who had crossed the border illegally looking for work. Trump's rivals have criticized the plan as unrealistic and inhumane, ar- guing that it would tear apart families. — The Associated Press 1950S Trump touts program with dark history as deportation model Myanmar's transition to greater democracy after decades of military rule surged ahead Wednesday as op- position leader Aung San Suu Kyi's party continued its election sweep and the government promised a peaceful transition of power. Suu Kyi's National League for De- mocracy said it received a message from Information Minister Ye Htut on behalf of President Thein Sein congratulating it for leading the race for parliamentary seats in Sunday's election. Ye Htut said the government will pursue a peaceful transfer of power "in accordance with the legislated timeline." The message helps remove linger- ing concerns that the military, which has a large influence over the ruling party, may deny the NLD power, as it did after elections in 1990. It also means that Myanmar is likely to soon have its first govern- ment in decades that isn't under the military's sway. — The Associated Press ELECTION Myanmar government promises peaceful transition The European Union pressed Af- rican leaders on Wednesday to take back thousands of people who do not qualify for asylum, as overwhelmed Slovenia began building a razor-wire border fence to keep migrants at bay, raising tensions with neighboring Croatia. Sweden, struggling to manage the influx too, became the latest EU na- tion to announce the introduction of temporary border controls, as of to- day. According to the International Organization for Migration, almost 800,000 people have entered Europe by sea this year. The EU predicts that three million more could arrive by 2017. The Europeans say most Africans are coming in search of work and should be sent home. At an EU-run summit in Malta, African leaders are set to commit "to cooperate with the EU on return and admission, notably on travel docu- mentation." — The Associated Press EUROPE CRISIS EU presses African nations to accept migrants back By Sue Manning The Associated Press LOS ANGELES Dogs work. Cats sleep, purr and preen. At least that is what dog people would have you be- lieve. Author Lisa Rogak set out to discover what cats re- ally spend their time doing. The result is her book called "Cats on the Job." She found that dogs do what you want, but cats do what they want. Dogs will follow your job descrip- tion, cats create their own. That's why so many cat jobs are one-of-a-kind. Basically, with dogs, you get the help you wanted. With cats, you get help you didn't know you wanted. After all, a lot of peo- ple swear the Internet was saved when memes came along, celebrating cats for being catlike — Grumpy Cat's frown (8.1 million Facebook follow- ers) or Nora's piano-play- ing prowess. Welcome cats greet you if they are in the mood, she said. "That's why some peo- ple are afraid of cats. They don't suck up to people like a lot of dogs will do." Rogak's first chapter tells the story of Sable, a crossing guard cat from West Richland, Washing- ton. Sable showed up one day in 2011, watched cross- ing guard Monti Franckow- iak for a while, then what Franckowiak did on one side of the street, Sable did on the other. Sable was there twice a day, every day. The school presented him with an of- ficial orange safety vest. If it was snowing, the cat would watch from the top of a snowpile. And if a stu- dent should fall, he would be right there to lick away the tears, Franckowiak said. Rogak said she laughed all the way through her re- search. "It was very thera- peutic." She even went to a book signing with one of the cats she profiled, Boswell the Fifth, who lives in Bo- swell's Books in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts. (She's the fifth cat named Boswell to hold court at the store over the years.) But when it came to sign- ing books, Boswell wanted none of it. So the store got a signature stamp in her name while she curled up in the front window or re- cycle bin. When Rogak visited Rusty, CEO of Rusty's Heir- loom Tomatoes, in Dun- barton, New Hampshire, she met owner Ken Cook and got a tour from Rusty. Then Rusty bowed out for a cat nap. In her introduction, Rogak says a lot of cat-lov- ers believe the best job for a cat is CMO — Chief Mous- ing Officer. Mousing was Carlow's first job when the tabby with an orange moustache first took up residence at a New York firehouse. Fire- fighters on Engine 22, Lad- der 13, were on a call in the spring of 2011 when they found the kitten in a car tire, said Jessica Mikel- Bertolini, whose husband, Thomas Bertolini, is one of the cat's buddies at the sta- tion on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. They took him to the firehouse, named him for a nearby bar and put him to work. At first they found a lot of dead mice. Now the mice are long gone and Car- low's got a new job as an up- and-comer on Instagram: Carlow FDNY Cat, with over 25,000 followers. The photos show off his many sleeping perches on the fire- truck and battalion chief's SUV, said Mikel-Bertolini, but she also posts pictures of other cats sent in by fans, some of them also firehouse residents. EMPLOYMENT He lp w an te d: B oo k lo ok s at 50 'Cats on the Job' JESSICA MIKEL BERTOLINI Carlow was found by firefighters of Engine 22, Ladder 13 in upper Manhattan and became their official mascot. He is named him a er a bar down the street. Carlow's job is one of 50showcased in Lisa Rogak's new book titled "Cats on the Job." | NEWS | REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2015 8 A