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Show Of Force

US Bombers Fly Over South Korea after North’s 2nd ICBM Test

In this photo released by Japan Air Self Defense Force, U.S. Air Force B-1B bombers, top, fly with a Japan Air Self Defense Force F-2 fighter jet over Japan’s southern
island of Kyushu, just south of the Korean Peninsula, during a Japan-U.S. joint exercise Sunday, July 30, 2017. Japan’s Defense Ministry reported the U.S. supersonic
bombers flown from the Anderson Air Force Base in Guam conducted a joint exercise with South Korean Air Force over the Korean Peninsula later in the day. The U.S.
Pacific Air Forces said in a statement that the mission was a response to consecutive intercontinental ballistic missile tests by North Korea this month.
(Japan Air Self Defense Force via AP)
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At Press Time:

Venezuelans Stay Away from Polls to Protest Government Vote

By M. WEISSENSTEIN creasingly alienated and seven deaths Sunday in day’s vote. Canada and western Caracas, several
Associated Press violent young protesters. clashes between protest- Mexico have also issued thousand people waited
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) The government swore to ers and police across the statements repudiating about two hours to vote,
— Venezuelans stayed continue its push for total country. Seven police offi- the election. many drawn from oppo-
away from the polls in mas- political dominance of this cers were wounded when Across the capital of more sition-dominated neigh-
sive numbers on Sunday in once-prosperous OPEC an explosion went off as than 2 million people, doz- borhoods where polling
a show of protest against nation, a move likely to they drove past piles of ens of polling places were places were closed. But
a vote to grant President trigger U.S. sanctions and trash that had been used virtually empty, including at least three dozen other
Nicolas Maduro’s ruling so- new rounds of the street to blockade a street in an many that saw hours-long sites visited by The Associ-
cialist party virtually unlim- fighting that has killed at opposition stronghold in lines of thousands vot- ated Press had no more
ited powers in the face of least 122 and wounded eastern Caracas. ing to keep the govern- than a few hundred vot-
a brutal socio-economic nearly 2,000 since protests Argentina, Colombia, ment in power over the ers at any one time, with
crisis and a grinding battle began in April. Peru, Panama, Peru and last two decades. By con- many virtually empty.
against its political oppo- Venezuela’s chief pros- the United States said they trast, at the Poliedro sports
nents and groups of in- ecutor’s office reported would not recognize Sun- and cultural complex in Continued on Page 12