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A2 | Tuesday, November 8, 2016 THEWALL STREET JOURNAL.
An official report on cor-ruption in the South Africangovernment released last weekcited the cellphone records ofPresident Jacob Zuma’s sonDuduzane Zuma to back up itsallegations. A World News arti-cle on Thursday about that re-port incorrectly stated that itcited the cellphone records ofPresident Zuma.
Mexican presidential hope-ful Andrés Manuel López Obra-dor transferred title of twoapartments to one of his sonsin 2005 although Mr. López Ob-rador was still named as theowner in the public registry
that is the government’s officialrecord. A Sept. 28 World Watcharticle, reporting that Mr. Ló-pez Obrador’s public declara-tion of assets didn’t referencethe apartments, included hisspokesman’s statement that theapartments had been donatedto his two eldest sons. But itdidn’t note the spokesman’scomment that title to the apart-ments had also been trans-ferred. After publication of thatarticle, Mr. López Obrador’s at-torney provided the Journalwith copies of title documentsindicating that Mr. López Obra-dor transferred his 50% owner-ship in the two apartments to
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the Iranian RevolutionaryGuard Corps, which is deeplyinvolved in the country’s oiland gas sector.
The deal is a draft that stillmust be completed over thenext six months, the Iranianoil-ministry official said, but itgives Total and CNPC a headstart over competitors. Totaland CNPC both signed dealsyears ago to develop theSouth Pars project beforesanctions forced them to pullout in 2009 and 2012, respec-tively.
Representatives for CNPCand Petropars didn’t respondto requests to comment. Totalsaid representatives weren’tavailable to comment on Mon-day. A U.S. State Departmentspokesman didn’t return a re-quest for comment.
“This agreement will be en-couraging” for other compa-nies to do business with Iran,particularly those with littleactivity in the U.S., said MehdiVarzi, a consultant who ad-vises companies on MiddleEastern investments.
Total was long one of themost active Western oil com-panies in Iran, and its execu-tives have said they were ea-ger to return to a country withthe fourth-largest reserves of
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IRAN
PENNSYLVANIA
Transit Strike Ends,In Time for Election
A six-day transit strike inPhiladelphia ended Monday, andofficials said bus, trolley andsubway service in the city wouldbe fully restored by the timevoters head to polls Tuesday.
The regional transit agencyand the transport workers unionannounced early Monday a ten-tative five-year contract.
The agreement still must gobefore union members for ratifi-cation and to the SoutheasternPennsylvania Transportation Au-thority board for approval.
—Scott Calvert
CALIFORNIA
Life Sentence forRampage at Airport
A gunman who killed a fed-eral transportation security offi-cer and wounded three otherpeople in a rampage at Los An-geles International Airport wassentenced to life plus 60 yearsin prison Monday for the attack.
Paul Ciancia, 26, had facedthe mandatory life sentence formurdering a federal officer, butprosecutors also sought the ad-ditional 60-year term because heshowed no remorse and stillclings to the beliefs that led tothe violence in 2013.
—Associated Press
U.S. NEWS
During eight years as attor-ney general under Mr. Clin-ton—the longest tenure of the20th century—she earnedpraise for her bluntness andindependence, but faced criti-cism for her handling of somehigh-profile controversies.
Shortly after taking officein 1993, she approved a Fed-eral Bureau of Investigationraid on a cult compound inWaco, Texas, led by David Ko-resh. In the assault, which fol-lowed a weekslong standoff,about 75 people died, includ-ing many children. Ms. Renolater expressed regret for hav-ing authorized the offensiveand said she took responsibil-ity for the loss of life.
In the ensuing years, sheoversaw numerous prominent
Justice Department cases, in-cluding the 1997 conviction ofTimothy McVeigh and TerryNichols for the Oklahoma Citybombing that killed 168 peo-ple. In 1998, the Justice De-partment secured a guilty pleafrom Theodore Kaczynski, the“Unabomber” who unleasheda bombing campaign againstnumerous people in the U.S.The department also sued Mi-crosoft Corp. over alleged an-titrust violations, a case thegovernment later settled withthe software maker in 2001,after she left her position.
Ms. Reno was criticized byRepublicans for refusing in1997 to appoint an indepen-dent counsel to investigate al-leged fundraising irregulari-ties in the White House. She
also faced criticism fromDemocrats for allowing an in-vestigation into a failed landdeal known as Whitewater toexpand to a wide-rangingprobe that ensnared Mr. Clin-ton over his sexual relation-ship with White House internMonica Lewinsky.
In 2000, Ms. Reno autho-rized the armed seizure byfederal agents of EliánGonzález, a 6-year-old Cubanrefugee caught in an interna-tional custody dispute be-tween his father on the islandand his relatives in Miami.Ms. Reno’s action, which re-sulted in the boy’s return tohis father, enraged the Cuban-American community, whichopposed sending him back tothe communist country.
Janet Reno, the firstwoman to serve as U.S. attor-ney general, who played keyroles in some of the most acri-monious events of PresidentBill Clinton’s administration,died early Monday at the age
of 78.Ms. Reno
died at herl o n g t i m ehome in Mi-
ami-Dade County, Fla., of com-plications related to Parkin-son’s disease, from which shehad suffered for more than 20years, said her sister, MaggyHurchalla. She spent her finaldays surrounded by lovedones, receiving visitors andmessages from admirers.
BY ARIAN CAMPO-FLORES
Reno,FirstFemaleAttorneyGeneral,Dies
Janet Reno died of complications related to Parkinson’s disease.
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chiatric unit.“As a victim of rape, Jenny
experienced an overwhelmingsense of hopelessness and help-lessness,” said the plaintiff’slawyer, Sean Buckley. “The de-fendants in this lawsuit sub-jected her to the same kind oftrauma by confining her in afilthy jail for 27 days.”
Kim Ogg, Ms. Anderson’s op-ponent, has run campaign adsaccusing the district attorney ofbotching the case, one of whichfeatures a woman who identi-fies herself only as the victim’smother.
“This is terrible public pol-icy,” said Ms. Ogg. “There areother ways of persuading peo-ple to testify in difficult and hu-miliating cases like rape otherthan putting them in jail.”
A University of Houston pollfrom last month showed Ms.Ogg leading Ms. Anderson by 7percentage points.
Authorities rarely use jail asway of compelling witnesses totestify, legal experts said,though the practice can vary byjurisdiction. Such scenarioswere more common in cases ofdomestic violence and rape adecade ago, as prosecutors hadbegun focusing more on crimesagainst women but struggled toget victims to come forward.Outcry from victims’ advocatesand increased training for pros-ecutors has made the practiceless frequent.
In Texas, the Harris Countydistrict attorney’s office saidthe specific prosecutor whoworked on the case, NicholasSocias, should be granted im-munity from Jenny’s suit be-cause he was simply acting inhis official legal role. Rusty Har-din, a Texas attorney represent-ing Mr. Socias, said his clientnever intended to have Jennyjailed with the general popula-tion and wanted her placed in amental health unit.
Harris County authoritieshave sought to dismiss the suitagainst the county, saying jail-ers were carrying out the or-ders of prosecutors.
his son Andres Manuel in 2005.
AmerisourceBergen Corp.is a pharmaceutical whole-saler. A Business & Tech arti-cle on Monday about S&P 500companies’ profits incorrectlydescribed the company as adrugmaker.
Since Nick Saban’s arrivalat the University of Alabama, allof the other Southeastern Con-ference football teams have re-placed their head coaches. ASports article on Saturdayabout the SEC incorrectly saidthat all of the other SEC schoolshave fired their coaches.
Readers can alert The Wall Street Journal to any errors in news articles by emailing [email protected] or by calling888-410-2667.
CORRECTIONS AMPLIFICATIONS
oil in the world. Total kept anoffice open in Iran throughoutsanctions from 2010 until ear-lier this year and was the firstEuropean oil company to buyIranian oil and ship it to Eu-rope after the restrictionswere lifted.
But actually setting up shopin Iran and drilling has been ariskier proposition. Total ChiefExecutive Patrick Pouyannéhas said he was in no rush toreturn to Iran until terms ofworking there were better un-derstood.
The deal with Total is part
of a push by Iranian PresidentHassan Rouhani to showcasethe success of the nuclearagreement ahead of the May2017 presidential election inIran, said Roozbeh Aliabadi, anIranian consultant whose firm,Global Growth Advisors, helpscompanies enter the Iranianmarket.
The U.S. government loos-ened restrictions on trading inU.S. dollars with Iran. But theU.S. still bans direct bankingrelations with Iran and invest-ment by U.S. oil companies inthe country.
Total and CNPC have beenleaders among oil companiesin finding ways to do businessin countries under U.S. sanc-tions. Both companies were in-strumental in developing a $27billion natural-gas field in Rus-sia with a company, OAO No-vatek, hit by sanctions, a deallargely financed by Chinesebanks.
Other Western companieshave also made headway inIran. Last month, BP PLCbought its first oil shipmentfrom Iran while Royal DutchShell PLC has signed a prelimi-nary deal to help develop apetrochemical plant there.
But the flood of oil-industrydevelopment that Iran haswanted since nuclear sanctionswere lifted in January has yetto materialize.
The country has said itneeds $30 billion of foreign in-vestment to reach its oil-in-dustry goals. Among thoseaims is ramping up its produc-tion of crude oil to six millionbarrels a day over the next de-cade, a target that, if reached,would make it the world’sfourth-largest producer behindonly Russia, Saudi Arabia andthe U.S.
Iran produces about 3.7 mil-lion barrels of crude a day andis trying to reach four millionbarrels or more this year.
The deal with Total willhelp Iran build out its natural-gas production. The South
Pars field, which is shared byIran and Qatar, contains 14,000billion cubic meters of gas—8%of the world’s known reserves.
The agreement marks thefirst time a Western oil com-pany has been contracted un-der the new terms for for-eign firms working in Iran.Those contracts still haven’tbeen released, but Iranian of-ficials have said they foreseeallowing oil companies tomake more money and workfor longer than previousdeals.
The new terms have been asource of political conflict be-tween Mr. Rouhani’s adminis-tration, which is seeking toopen up the country to foreigninvestment, and religioushard-liners who oppose moreWestern involvement in thecountry’s affairs.
Iran has, by some estimates,the world’s largest natural-gasreserves, but its production ca-pacity and infrastructure toexport the fuel are limited. Ira-nian officials have said theywant to become a major ex-porter of natural gas to Eu-rope.
Mr. Varzi said Mr. Rouhani’sadministration was wise tomake natural gas the focus ofIran’s first contract with aWestern company. “It’s lesspolitically controversial thanoil,” he said.
—Inti Landauro in Pariscontributed to this article.
U.S.Watch
ZIKA VIRUS
Potential TreatmentFor Zika Is Identified
Scientists have identified apotential treatment for Zika—one that might protect bothpregnant women and their fe-tuses, who are at risk of the se-vere birth defects that the viruscan cause.
A human antibody isolatedfrom the blood of people whohad been infected with Zika“markedly reduced” Zika infec-tion in pregnant mice, their fe-tuses and their placentas, ac-cording to a study publishedonline Monday in the journalNature. More research needsto be done to determinewhether the antibody workssimilarly in humans, thestudy’s authors cautioned. It islikely to be several months be-fore it can be tested in hu-mans.
The findings could help scien-tists develop a Zika vaccine byshowing how the powerful anti-body works, the authors said.
—Betsy McKay
8%Share of the world’s knowngas reserves contained in theSouth Pars field, which isshared by Iran and Qatar.
After a rape victim suffereda breakdown while testifyingagainst her assailant, Houstonprosecutors took an unusualstep: They had the 25-year-oldwoman jailed for nearly amonth last December to ensureshe testified at a later hearing.
The case—now the subjectof a federal civil lawsuit filedagainst Harris County offi-cials by the woman, knownonly by her first name,Jenny—has shed light on apractice sometimes used byauthorities in rape and do-mestic-violence crimes thatvictims’ advocates have triedto stop. It is also playing acentral role in the district at-torney’s race in one of the na-tion’s most populous counties.
Harris County District Attor-ney Devon Anderson, a Republi-can locked in a battle for re-election, has had to defend heroffice’s handling of the case af-ter facing criticism from herDemocratic opponent. Calling ita “heartbreaking situation,”Ms.Anderson said the prosecutor inthe case got a judge to approvea request to detain Jenny, whois bipolar, because she no lon-ger wanted to testify and wasthe only witness against a serialrapist. Following her break-down, Jenny was first hospital-ized and then taken to jail.
“It was a choice of letting aserial rapist walk out of thecourtroom or jailing her for aperiod of time in order to haveher comply with the court or-der,” Ms. Anderson said.
Jenny testified in her case.The defendant, Keith Hen-dricks, who pleaded not guiltyand had previously facedcharges in 11 other rapes andassaults, was convicted andsentenced to two life terms forher rape. But not before Jennywas mistakenly placed in thejail’s general population.
Ms. Anderson has said sheregretted the jail mix-up, not-ing the prosecutor had tried toensure she was put in the psy-
BY DAN FROSCH
RapeVictim’sJailingUnderFire
Another Earthquake Shakes Oklahoma
DAMAGE CONTROL: Rubble spilled on to a street in Cushing, Okla., after a magnitude 5.0 earthquake Sunday night. Dozens ofbuildings were hit in Cushing, home to a major oil hub, but officials said Monday that no damage was reported at the oil terminal.
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