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BY DANIELLE PAQUETTE The Washington Post DAKAR, Senegal — U.S. Special Op- erations on Saturday rescued an Ameri- can citizen who was kidnapped by armed attackers last week in southern Niger, the Pentagon said. U.S. Navy SEAL Team Six led the over- night mission in northern Nigeria, where fighters loyal to al-Qaida and the ‘ The United Islamic State have established States will hideouts. continue to No service members were in- protect our jured in the raid. people and “This Ameri- can citizen is our interests safe and is now anywhere in in the care of the U.S. Department the world.’ of State,” said Jonathan Hoffman Jonathan Hoff- assistant to the man, assistant to secretary of defense the secretary of Army gets special delivery defense for pub- for public affairs lic affairs. “The United States will New infantry squad vehicles can rapidly move nine-soldier team across battlefield continue to protect our people and our in- terests anywhere in the world.” BY JAMIE L. LAREAU and it will support the production of up The assailants forced Philipe Nathan Watson, 27, from his farm in remote Mas- Detroit Free Press to 2,065 vehicles as it gets additional au- LOOKING FORWARD thorization over the eight-year contract. salata on Tuesday, demanding more he U.S. Army received the GM Defense will make the first 27 ISVs than $1 million from his family, who are first Infantry Squad Vehicle GM Defense is eyeing at least three at the General Motors Proving Grounds missionaries. made by GM Defense LLC on more bids, one of which is for the Joint in Milford, Mich. Then production will Otherwise, they threatened to sell the Tuesday, just 120 days after Light Tactical Vehicle, or JLTV, that is move to a facility in Mooresville, N.C., captive to extremists, said a U.S. official, winning the contract. in production with Oshkosh Defense, a where higher volumes can be achieved. who was not authorized to discuss the mat- TThe Infantry Squad Vehicle is based on tactical vehicle maker. That contract was GM’s ongoing fuel cell development ter publicly. the 2020 Chevrolet Colorado ZR2 pickup led to the creation of GM Defense as put up for bid in mid-June. The JLTV Groups linked to al-Qaida and the Is- and uses 90% commercial components. a way to explore applying technology is the new and improved High Mobility lamic State have made tens of millions of It is designed for rapid ground mobil- meant for the commercial car market Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle, or Humvee, dollars from kidnappings in recent years, ity and carrying a nine-soldier infantry into potential solutions for the Depart- which offers superior protection and analysts say. squad through the battlefield. ment of Defense. performance compared to the old model. The extremists gained a foothold nearly GM Defense will make 649 ISVs, a decade ago in the Sahel, which lies just which it will deliver by fiscal year 2024, SEE DELIVERY ON PAGE 5 SOURCE: Detroit Free Press south of the Sahara Desert, after the Lib- yan government collapsed and mercenar- Above: The Infantry Squad Vehicle carries a nine-man squad, packs a payload of 3,200 pounds, can be sling loaded under ies once employed by Moammar Gadhafi Black Hawk and Chinook helicopters, is air droppable and provides exceptional mobility over all terrain. streamed into neighboring Mali. U.S. Army Violence has since spilled into Niger SEE RESCUE ON PAGE 5

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Military rates Switzerland (Franc)...... 0.9170 Euro costs (Nov. 2)...... $1.14 Thailand (Baht) ...... 31.17 S&P has worst loss in 7 months Dollar buys (Nov. 2) ...... €0.8335 Turkey (Lira) ...... 8.3756 British pound (Nov. 2) ...... $1.27 (Military exchange rates are those Japanese yen (Nov. 2) ...... 102.00 available to customers at military banking Associated Press have been built too high for some for the economy and uncertainty South Korean won (Nov. 2) ...... 1,100.00 facilities in the country of issuance Commercial rates for Japan, South Korea, Germany, the of the market’s biggest stars. surrounding the presidential Bahrain (Dinar) ...... 0.3770 Wall Street closed out another Netherlands and the United Kingdom. For Investors have bid up shares in election. British pound ...... $1.2959 nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e., punishing week Friday with the Canada (Dollar) ...... 1.3318 purchasing British pounds in Germany), those and other Big Tech compa- The S&P 500 lost 40.15 points to China (Yuan) ...... 6.6927 check with your local military banking S&P 500 posting its first back-to- nies this year, anticipating they 3,269.96. It ended October with a Denmark (Krone) ...... 6.3925 facility. Commercial rates are interbank back monthly loss since the pan- Egypt (Pound) ...... 15.7013 rates provided for reference when buying would deliver strong profits, but 2.8% loss. The Dow Jones Indus- Euro ...... $1.1644/0.8588 currency. All figures are foreign currencies demic first gripped the economy their latest results and uncertain trial Average fell 157.51 points, or Hong Kong (Dollar) ...... 7.7537 to one dollar, except for the British pound, in March. Hungary (Forint) ...... 315.06 which is represented in dollars-to-pound, outlooks left traders wanting. 0.6%, to 26,501.60. The Nasdaq Israel (Shekel) ...... 3.4066 and the euro, which is dollars-to-euro.) The S&P 500 dropped 1.2% and Wall Street was already composite gave up 274 points, Japan (Yen) ...... 104.68 Kuwait (Dinar) ...... 0.3058 ended the week with a 5.6% loss, wracked by fears about the po- or 2.5%, to 10,911.59. The tech- Norway (Krone) ...... 9.5538 INTEREST RATES its worst in seven months. Sharp tential economic damage from heavy index is within 0.6% of a Philippines (Peso)...... 48.55 Poland (Zloty) ...... 3.96 Prime rate ...... 3.25 drops in big technology stocks surging coronavirus counts “correction,” Wall Street-speak Saudi Arabia (Riyal) ...... 3.7506 Discount rate ...... 0.25 Singapore (Dollar) ...... 1.3659 Federal funds market rate ...... 0.09 drove much of the selling, re- around the world, Washington’s for a decline of 10% or more from 3-month bill ...... 0.09 South Korea (Won) ...... 1138.95 flecting worries that expectations inability to provide more support an all-time high. 30-year bond ...... 1.65 WEATHER OUTLOOK SUNDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST SUNDAY IN EUROPE MONDAY IN THE PACIFIC

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BY ROSE L. THAYER issue during cadet basic training,” Wil- Stars and Stripes liams wrote. Working with Army Materiel Command, AUSTIN, Texas — Women entering the he wrote the academy developed a viable U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., solution that will begin with the next group will now have access to smaller-sized Army of incoming cadets. Current cadets can ex- combat uniforms following a request from change two sets of issued unisex ACUs for Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., to review the the ACU-Female, he wrote. school’s policy on unisex uniforms for in- The unisex policy went into effect in coming cadets. 2016, Williams wrote. Prior to that, all “I am grateful that the Army has agreed female cadets were automatically issued to change its uniform policy at West Point only ACU-Female sizes. to be more inclusive for female cadets,” “The decision may have been informed Hassan said in a statement. “Uniforms are by the cadet chain of command but ulti- an important part of military academies’ mately was made without full consider- culture, and ensuring that female cadets ation of the downstream impacts on our have uniforms that fit is essential to mak- female cadets,” he wrote. “We are commit- ing them feel included in a space that has ted to continuing our efforts for inclusive been historically male-dominated.” The senator wrote to Army Secretary environments here at West Point where ev- Ryan McCarthy on Oct. 5 asking he review eryone is treated with dignity and respect. the policy and explain why women weren’t I appreciate you bringing this concern to offered the female sizes of the Army Com- our attention.” bat Uniform, known as the ACU, during Adding the uniforms to the initial dis- their issuance of gear, even though the tribution adds 32 lines of warehouse stock uniforms are sold in the base’s Post Ex- and will cost an estimated $156,000, Wil- change. This left women to pay out-of- liams wrote. pocket for better-fitting uniforms. Known “A properly fitted uniform is also im- portant to a cadet’s ability to perform as the ACU-Female, this line of uniform ANGELINE TRITSCHLER/U.S. Army sizes offers more room in the hips, thighs competitively and effectively during their and bust and comes in smaller sizes. The The U.S. Military Academy agree to give female cadets access to smaller-sized training,” Hassan said. “I appreciate the unisex version of the ACU is better fit for uniforms before completing cadet basic training. crucial role that military academies play in a man’s body, though some women might molding the military’s future leaders, and prefer it. was never the intent of the policy. today to changing this uniform issue policy this is an important step as we continue Lt. Gen. Darryl Williams, the West Point He noted most uniforms are sized to so that future incoming West Point cadets working to fully support the young women superintendent, responded Thursday to each cadet and the full-dress uniform is are afforded the opportunity to be issued and men who step up to serve.” Hassan with a letter on behalf of McCar- custom tailored. the type of ACU that best fits their indi- [email protected] thy and wrote the perception of exclusion “Secretary McCarthy and I commit vidual body type as part of their uniform Twitter: @Rose_Lori Midshipman asks judge to block his removal over tweets

Associated Press singled out several other tweets in A government lawyer urged the which Standage advocated using judge to throw out the lawsuit. As- COLLEGE PARK, Md. — lethal force against civilians. sistant U.S. Attorney Kelly Mar- Chase Standage, a U.S. Naval “All it takes is one drone strike,” zullo said the courts must show Academy midshipman facing ex- he tweeted in response to another “great deference” to the judgment pulsion over social media posts, user’s post about “antifa extrem- of military authorities. sees himself as a casualty of a ists” in Seattle. “In this case, a military com- campus “culture war.” Academy Standage posted under the mander is better situated to leaders say the damage to his mil- username “Cheese Sandwich” evaluate whether comments that itary career was self-inflicted. and didn’t identify himself as advocate for the use of airstrikes An academy official recom- a midshipman in the posts, against civilians dishonor or dis- mended disenrolling the white but his Twitter handle was grace an aspiring naval aviator midshipman for tweeting a flurry @ChaseStandage. and compromise his standing as of crude messages, including one Hollander expressed concern an officer,” Marzullo wrote in a in which he said Breonna Taylor that Standage’s discipline will court filing. received “justice” on the day po- have a chilling effect on the free Standage’s lawsuit claims the lice in Louisville, K y., killed the speech of other midshipmen. academy is waging a culture war Black woman during a drug raid. “I am not condoning or endors- “that not only mirrors the broader But a federal judge in Maryland ing what he said, but there is a culture war at which the country ultimately could decide whether larger issue here,” the judge said. currently finds itself, but one that the 21-year-old California na- “Where does the student know is exacerbated by the unprec- tive has a future as a Naval offi- PATRICK SEMANSKY/AP what would be deemed unprofes- edented external stressor of the cer and pilot. U.S. District Judge sional? Where is that outlined? coronavirus pandemic and many An entrance to the U.S. Naval Academy campus in Annapolis, Md. Ellen Hollander didn’t immedi- Because it seems like it’s totally midshipmen’s reckless abuse of ately rule on Friday after presid- subjective.” social media.” ing over a hearing on Standage’s separation from the academy, “This case is the kind of case Standage’s attorney, Jeffrey Like many other colleges and request for a court order allowing claiming it violated his First that keeps you up at night when McFadden, said other midship- universities in the U.S., the Naval him to finish his senior year and Amendment right to freely ex- you’re a judge,” she said. men with different views than Academy has been grappling with graduate. press his views. His lawsuit also The son of two Los Angeles Standage routinely violate the questions about systemic racism The judge said Standage’s posts claims academy leaders violated Police Department officers, same standards without any within their institutions. were “distasteful at best” and his Fifth Amendment right to due Standage says he feared for their consequences. In June, the Naval Academy demonstrated poor judgment, but process, denying him a fair and safety during the week in June “It’s a deeply flawed process,” rescinded an appointment to a she questioned why he faces “the impartial disciplinary hearing. when he posted the tweets in McFadden said. Maryland student who posted most draconian sanction he could He is accused of violating acad- question. An academy official who rec- racist, transphobic and sexist get” when the academy explicitly emy rules governing political ac- “Why is it taking so long for ommended Standage’s removal statements on the Discord instant permits midshipmen to express tivity and of engaging in conduct Breonna Taylor to receive her said the midshipman “lost my messaging platform. That same their personal opinions on social unbecoming a midshipman. justice?” a Twitter user posted in confidence in his ability to make month, a retired Navy captain re- media. Hollander expressed doubt that June. sound decisions and to uphold the signed from the US Naval Acad- “It appears that people in she will rule before the academy’s “Her justice was received on core values expected from an of- emy Alumni Association board charge didn’t like his point of semester ends on Dec. 12. She March 13, 2020,” Standage re- ficer in the Navy.” The court tem- after accidentally posting live view. Not the way he said it but previously ruled that Standage plied, referring to the day of the porarily suspended Standage’s video on social media of a conver- what he said,” Hollander said. could remain at the academy deadly raid. disciplinary process after he sued sation with his wife that included Standage sued to block his while his lawsuit is pending. Academy investigators also on Sept. 30. racist comments. PAGE 4 •STARS AND STRIPES• Sunday, November 1, 2020 MILITARY Unit rebranded as Guard preps for election

BY DAN LAMOTHE sought to portray itself as citizen The Washington Post soldiers who are also neighbors. But convincing people of that has The National Guard Bureau not always been easy, especially has established a new unit made as the National Guard’s involve- up mostly of military policemen ment in responding to unrest has that could be dispatched to help been thrust into the spotlight. quell unrest in coming days, after In Washington, the low-hang- a turbulent summer in which Na- ing flight of two D.C. National tional Guard members were de- Guard helicopters in June in an VAN CROFT, 715TH PAD/U.S. Army ployed to several cities. apparent attempt to disperse pro- The unit, which also could be testers prompted an investigation A District of Columbia National Guard soldier supporting local authorities, observes the Lafayette Park used to respond to natural di- that found that the aircraft did protest in Washington, D.C. on June 2. sasters and other missions, was not have the authorization they formed in September and ini- needed to be where they were, tially described as a rapid-reac- said two defense officials, speak- tion force. But as one of the most ing on the condition of anonymity divisive elections in American due to the sensitivity of the issue. More states adding Guardsman history closes in, National Guard The officials said that the inves- officials have softened how they tigation found that Lt. Col. Jeffrey characterize the service mem- Wingblade, who oversaw aviation support at polls for Election Day bers, instead referring to them as for the District of Columbia Na- “regional response units.” tional Guard, also did not get the BY ROSE L. THAYER Pentagon. Because elections receive site-specific training A National Guard official, special approval that would have are conducted by state govern- speaking on the condition of ano- Stars and Stripes and assist with polling place been needed to use a medical ments, Guard members work- nymity because of the sensitivity setup before fulfilling the role helicopter, a Lakota emblazoned AUSTIN, Texas — About ing election-related missions of the issue, said the new name of traditional poll workers on with a red and white cross, in a 400 members of the Wisconsin are not deployed on federal ac- more accurately details their Tuesday during the election. non-medical mission. The details National Guard will serve as tive duty. mission. But the shift away from The troops will be released were first reported Friday by De- poll workers during Tuesday’s Another five states are antici- language used in war also hints at from duty Wednesday. fense One. presidential election, joining pating the need to deploy troops the complicated situation the Na- Tuesday will be the fourth The results of the investigation Guard troops in about 10 other next week, Hall said. Those tional Guard could face, as Presi- have not been released because election in Wisconsin this year states to support voting in vari- numbers could change because supported by Guard troops dent Donald Trump signals that the Defense Department Inspec- ous capacities. not all states report nonfed- because of a shortage of poll he might not accept the results of tor General’s office has taken up “The Wisconsin National eral activations to the National workers in the wake of the the election if he loses. the case for a separate review. Guard has played a critical role Guard Bureau. Hall said he did coronavirus pandemic. Prior National Guard members, who That examination still has not in our response to the [coronavi- not know which states were con- to 2020, troops had never sup- are organized within each state concluded and is assessing the rus] pandemic and this mission sidering Guard deployments ported the state’s elections. and territory and typically com- poor communication involved is no different,” Wisconsin Gov. manded by their governor, could or how many troops could be Kentucky National Guard an- between National Guard officers Tony Evers said in a statement. activated. be called upon to perform crowd that night and whether any more nounced earlier this week that “As Wisconsin faces an urgent In Washington, D.C., some control, safeguard landmarks senior officers also should be 280 troops will serve as poll crisis with more than 200,000 National Guard troops have or enforce curfews, based on found at fault, one of the defense workers and Tennessee Nation- positive cases of [coronavirus] been placed on standby be- roles they already have had this officials said. al Guard officials said it will across the state, the help of the cause of next week’s election, year. Some of them also could The flights came as National Guard will be needed to ensure if needed, said Master Sgt. provide 13 facilities to serve be deployed to the nation’s capi- Guard members from several that Election Day goes smoothly Craig Clapper, spokesman for as polling locations, along with tal, if Trump decides to repeat states were dispatched to Wash- and that voters and election of- the D.C. Guard. The mission about two service members as his plan from June and amass a ington amid the unrest to per- ficials alike have the assistance and amount of troops would be support staff at each site. military force in Washington that form crowd control functions. they need.” determined once the Guard re- Officials in Washington state, teams with federal and local law Alongside law enforcement, that More than 10 states were ceives an official request. Illinois and Tennessee have enforcement. eventually included the forced planning to use troops as of The 400 troops in Wisconsin said they are actively providing The new response unit, with a clearing of protesters in Lafayette Friday to support elections in will report Sunday to complete troops to state and county offi- total of about 600 members split Square outside the White House, various missions including cy- necessary training and begin cials to conduct cyber missions between Alabama and Arizona, which prompted an outcry over bersecurity, said Wayne Hall, receiving assignments, accord- related to election security. is not large enough to provide a the use of pepper spray, shields spokesman for the National ing to Wisconsin Guard offi- response like the one Washington and clubs. [email protected] Guard Bureau, located at the cials. They’ll report Monday to Twitter: @Rose_Lori saw in June. First reported on by In Louisville, a Black restaurant the Associated Press this month, owner, David McAtee, was killed it could provide an initial wave in June as police and the National of extra support in states where Guard sought to enforce a curfew testers in Nashville and danced in “They determine how we are be available if there is unrest. there is unrest or be used in the during protests over the police the streets with demonstrators in used in support of their efforts to Lindsay Cohn, a professor who nation’s capital, where the Trump killing of Breonna Taylor. State of- Atlanta. address those kinds of situations,” studies civil-military relations at administration has broader con- ficials said McAtee fired a hand- In a conference call with re- said Air Force Maj. Gen. Daryl the Naval War College in New- trol because of the city’s status as gun and was killed by a National porters this week, National Guard Bohac, the adjutant general of the port, R.I., said that if there is un- a federal jurisdiction. Guard member’s rifle round. The generals in four states detailed the Nebraska National Guard. “The rest after Election Day, National “As governors across the na- McAtee family filed a wrongful- duties their members have had in bottom line here is we are not in Guard officials will probably be tion continue to request sup- death lawsuit in September, alleg- the run-up to the election, includ- charge.” concerned about what governors port to law enforcement, they ing that authorities used excessive ing preventing cyber intrusions Bohac said senior National ask them to do, especially if it in- frequently turn to the National force that included firing pepper and, in some cases, preparing to Guard officers have had planning volves crowd control or suppress- Guard,” Wayne Hall, a National balls — possibly indistinguishable assist as unarmed poll workers in discussions with police in Nebras- ing what appears to be political Guard Bureau spokesman, said from other ammunition — into civilian clothing. ka but nothing that is atypical. speech. in a statement. “A National Guard McAtee’s restaurant. The officers said it is unlikely Army Maj. Gen. Jeff Holmes, “The more political and more Regional Response Unit was cre- Other interactions between Na- that the National Guard will be the adjutant general of the Ten- violent these things get, the less ated to quickly provide additional tional Guard members and the placed under federal control if nessee National Guard, said the the Guard is going to want to have Military Police to state or territo- public during the protests have there is turmoil after the elec- duties of Guard members in his to do with them,” she said. “But ry to augment their own respond- been peaceful. National Guard tion. If Guard members are dis- state on Election Day will include the larger or more violent the sit- ing units.” members at one point laid down patched, it will probably be by an effort to “backfill” for traffic uation is, the more likely the state The National Guard has long their shields at the request of pro- their own governor, they said. officers, allowing more police to is to need Guard support.” Sunday, November 1, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 5 MILITARY Petty officer gets 27-month term in bribery scandal

BY KRISTINA DAVIS in the 7th Fleet, Parks was in a The San Diego Union-Tribune prime position to offer Francis intelligence on ship itineraries, SAN DIEGO — Brooks Alonzo MICHAEL J MALIK/U.S. Army competitors and pricing to boost Parks, a naval logistics officer his company, which provides port The ISV underwent rigorous Soldier evaluation as part of the formal acquisition process. serving in the western Pacific, services for visiting Navy ships. was often quite specific about The relationship with Francis what he thought he deserved in — nicknamed “Fat Leonard” for exchange for the insider informa- Delivery: his girth — lasted from 2006 to Army eyes another contract for tion he was leaking to military contractor Leonard Francis. 2010, according to Parks’ plea One time, it was a case of Hen- agreement. almost 50,000 replacements for Humvee nessy Pure White cognac. Much of the quid pro quo is Another, it was a $4,000-a- documented in emails between FROM FRONT PAGE three more bids that carry big Defense, told the Free Press in night room at the Ritz-Carlton in Parks and GDMA. For instance, in 2009 Parks In June, the U.S. Army awarded paydays if GM wins them. a previous report. Oshkosh built Singapore. asked a GDMA employee for a GM Defense the contract for the One of those is the Joint Light the first 15,000, but there will be a “It feels good living like a KING “major hook up” — specifically ISV. The contract is worth $214.3 Tactical Vehicle that is in produc- contract to build the other 34,099, on an E-6’s salary!!!” Parks wrote million. GM Defense beat out two tion with Oshkosh Defense, a tac- Ryder said, “and that’s the part in one email to Francis’ company, a five-star suite at the Shangri- Glenn Defense Marine Asia, or other finalists. tical vehicle maker. That contract we’re looking at.” La hotel in Singapore “because GDMA, referring to his military Tim Herrick, GM’s global chief was put up for bid in mid-June. GM Defense is conducting a I have a very special lady meet- pay grade. ing me there!!! ... I need the suite engineer, said this ISV contract is The Joint Light Tactical Vehicle review to determine whether it or JLTV is the new and improved Parks admitted back in 2007 to be especially nice. Let me “just the beginning of GM’s sup- has what it takes to win the JLTV High Mobility Multipurpose that he’d been bitten by the GDMA know if you and the Boss need port” for GM Defense’s future contract. The Army’s request for programs. Wheeled Vehicle, more common- “bug” by joining Francis’ deep anything!!!” proposal is due in February 2022. David Albritton, president of ly called a Humvee. The JLTVs network of naval officers who Parks, 48, who lives in Mary- It is expected to award the con- GM Defense, said the ISV “rep- are formidable-looking trucks leaked proprietary information land, pleaded guilty to conspiracy tract in September of that year, resents a fantastic cornerstone” that offer superior crew protec- to give his company a competitive to commit bribery in June. Ryder said. advantage in exchange for bribes. to look at expanding the busi- tion and enhanced performance “Parks traded on his important It’s a monumental contract On Friday, he followed the same ness to other parts of government compared with the old Humvee. position of trust, selling his loy- worth $14.5 billion to be paid out path of many in that network by and even foreign government The military wants 49,099 alty to a foreign defense contrac- being sentenced in a San Diego business. JLTVs, Jeff Ryder, vice president over the course of 10 years as ve- tor,” U.S. Attorney Robert Brewer GM Defense is eyeing at least of growth and strategy for GM hicles are delivered. federal courtroom to prison. U.S. District Judge Janis Sam- said in a statement. martino, who has overseen the Parks is among 34 defendants - massive court case involving most of them Navy officials - who Francis, handed down a 27-month have been charged in the U.S. Pentagon creates new top civilian job for term. Parks was also ordered to in the case. Twenty-three have pay just over $24,000 in restitu- pleaded guilty. Francis, who has tion, a figure corresponding to cooperated with the investiga- overseeing space policies and planning the value of the bribes. tion, has not yet been sentenced As a logistics lead petty officer since pleading guilty. BY CAITLIN M. KENNEY nated yet. Until that happens, fense for space policy until some- Stars and Stripes Justin Johnson has been desig- one has been appointed for the nated as the official performing position. Pejic has been working WASHINGTON — The Penta- the duties of the assistant secre- as a special assistant to the dep- gon has created a new top civilian tary of defense for space policy, uty secretary of defense, Orland Rescue: Second kidnapped job to oversee all of the Defense according to the Pentagon. said. Department’s space-related plan- Johnson had been working as “The establishment of the as- ning in a move that elevates the the acting sistant secretary of defense for American still missing in Niger position of its senior space poli- deputy as- space policy is a change of the cymaker, defense officials an- sistant sec- civilian oversight of the space FROM FRONT PAGE official said. nounced Friday. retary of enterprise that aligns with the and Burkina Faso, turning the “Thanks to the extraordinary The National Defense Autho- defense for establishment of the U.S. Space rization Act for fiscal year 2020 once peaceful countryside into courage and capabilities of our space policy Force and U.S. Space Command,” called for an assistant secretary conflict zones. military, the support of our in- when it was David Norquist, the deputy secre- of defense for space policy along Watson’s abduction came two telligence professionals, and our under the tary of defense, said in a prepared with an office of the assistant sec- months after Islamic State fight- diplomatic efforts, the hostage office of the statement. retary of defense for space policy, assistant ers ambushed a giraffe sanctuary will be reunited with his family,” Space Force is the newest both of which were established secretary of near Niger’s capital, Niamey, kill- Secretary of State Mike Pompeo branch of military and was of- Thursday, according to a Penta- defense for ing seven aid workers and their said in a statement Saturday. ficially established December gon statement. homeland local guide. Johnson 2019 under the Department of Another American kidnapped “The [assistant secretary] will defense and The nation’s military has part- the Air Force. The branch has in Niger is still missing. be the senior official responsible global security. Now the position nered with French and regional Jeffrey Rey Woodke, a 59-year- for the overall supervision of DoD is being realigned under the new already started enlisting recruits troops to fight rising extremism and activated Space Operations old Christian aid worker, remains policy for space warfighting,” the office of the assistant secretary of in West Africa. More than 5,000 in captivity four years after ISIS statement says. “In addition, [the Command on Oct. 21 at Peterson people have died in the unrest defense for space policy, accord- militants snatched him in the assistant secretary] is responsi- ing to Lt. Col. Uriah Orland, a Air Force Base, Colo., which is this year alone, according to the country’s northern desert. ble for interagency coordination Pentagon spokesman. the first of three field commands, Armed Conflict Location & Event and international engagement on The new assistant secretary according to a news release. This Data Project, which tracks the His wife, Els Woodke, urged space policy and strategy.” position will join five other as- Space Force field command pro- casualties. his captors to free him this spring The new assistant secretary sistant secretaries that oversee vides Space Force personnel and Hundreds of American sol- as the world battled the coronavi- position, which will report to the different policy areas, including capabilities such as intelligence diers are stationed at two bases rus pandemic. undersecretary of defense for Indo-Pacific security affairs and and cyber support to U.S. Space in Niger, a country of roughly “I would say, please consider policy, requires a presidential international security affairs. Command, a combatant com- 24 million. U.S. forces normally Jeff’s age and what is going on nomination and Senate confirma- Gregory Pejic has also been mand established August 2019. provide training and intelligence in the world,” Woodke told ABC tion. The Pentagon did not state chosen to serve as the principal [email protected] support in the region. Saturday’s News. “It’s not good to keep cap- whether anyone has been nomi- deputy assistant secretary of de- @caitlinmkenney operation was extremely rare, the tives. Send him home.” PAGE 6 •STARS AND STRIPES• Sunday, November 1, 2020 VIRUS OUTBREAK Limited response in states with 2nd waves

BY ADAM GELLER politics and the personal beliefs of AND DAVID PITT a significant sector of the popula- Associated Press tion have become entangled with supposedly nonpartisan matters DES MOINES, Iowa — Even as of public health. a new surge of coronavirus infec- Michelle Riipinen, a 38-year- tions sweep the U.S., officials in old resident of Boise, Idaho, said many hard-hit states are resisting state-mandated school closings, taking stronger action to slow the business shutdowns and mask re- spread, with pleas from health ex- quirements are “draconian mea- perts running up against political sures” that do more harm than calculation and public fatigue. good. She said she chooses not to Days before a presidential elec- wear a mask. tion that has spotlighted President “I believe in personal respon- Donald Trump’s scattershot re- sibility and that it is our respon- sponse to the pandemic, the virus sibility as American citizens to continued its resurgence Friday, choose if we want to wear it or with total confirmed cases in the not,” she said. “Our government U.S. surpassing 9 million. shouldn’t be making that choice The number of new infections for us.” reported daily is on the rise in In Utah, Republican Gov. Gary 47 states. They include Nebras- Herbert has ordered mask man- ka and South Dakota, where the dates and limited social gather- number of new cases topped pre- ings to 10 people or fewer only in vious highs for each state. counties with the highest trans- The record increases in new mission rates, not the entire state. cases have eclipsed the spikes The latter measure includes ex- that set off national alarms last ceptions for religious services spring and summer. During those and school events. outbreaks, first in the Northeast “This is not an easy thing to en- and then in Sun Belt states, many force. As you drive down the road, governors closed schools and you talk about people getting tick- businesses and restricted public ets for speeding, but how many gatherings. MARCIO JOSE SANCHEZ, POOL/AP are actually speeding?” Herbert But this fall’s resurgence of said when asked about his resis- the virus, despite being far more Technicians conduct COVID-19 tests at a new facility Friday in Valencia, Calif. California Gov. Gavin tance to broader mandates. widespread, has brought a de- Newsom announced the new $120 million, 134,000 sq. foot coronavirus testing facility Friday. The Herbert said Friday he was cidedly more limited response state is working with corporate partner PerkinElmer to run the lab, which will enable the state to “disgusted” after someone shot at in many states. Most are led by process an additional 150,000 COVID-19 tests per day. a state health department office. Republican governors backing a The incident came a day after president who insists, falsely, that not choose to social distance, or disease specialist at MercyOne pressures on states with Demo- anti-mask protesters gathered the country is getting the virus choose to wear a mask or not,” hospitals. cratic governors, but the politics outside the home of Utah state said Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, a have played out differently. under control. Republican Gov. Kim Reyn- epidemiologist Dr. Angela Dunn, Republican. “What we can do is Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly, a Over the past two weeks, more olds, who has rejected mask re- who recommended that the state to remind them is that personal Democrat, has repeatedly tried than 76,000 new virus cases have quirements and said Iowans must reinstate restrictions to avoid responsibility can protect them.” to impose restrictions but been been reported daily in the U.S. on learn to live with the virus, con- overwhelming hospitals. Lee’s state is among those stymied by the Republican-con- average, up from about 54,000 in tinued this week to downplay ef- “It’s taken a really big toll on without a blanket mask mandate trolled legislature. She is consid- mid-October, according to Johns forts to contain it. my family and myself,” Dunn despite a study released this week ering calling lawmakers into a Hopkins University. Deaths, On Wednesday, Reynolds, who said. “I think it’s really unfortu- showing that areas of Tennessee special session to impose a state- which usually lag case numbers has made frequent campaign ap- nate we live in a state where peo- where people are not required to wide mask mandate. and hospitalizations, are also ris- pearances for Trump and other ple feel that it is OK to harass civil wear them are seeing the most In Wisconsin, where the virus ing, from about 700 to more than candidates surrounded by crowds servants.” hospitalizations. has raged since September, Dem- 800 a day. of often maskless supporters, Herbert, who has not heeded In Iowa, where a record 606 ocratic Gov. Tony Evers pleaded The virus has now killed more poked fun at Theresa Greenfield, Dunn’s recommendation, said coronavirus patients were hospi- with residents this week to shelter than 229,000 Americans. a Democrat running in a tight protesters were within their talized Friday, one health expert in place to slow the spread. Evers Nevertheless, many officials Senate race, for suspending a rights to criticize him or other said officials there had been too issued a formal stay-at-home have resisted calls to enact mea- campaign tour after a staff mem- elected officials, but that they quick to reopen, along with sev- order in March, but the state’s sures like statewide mask man- ber was exposed to someone who should leave state employees eral neighboring states. conservative Supreme Court dates or stricter curbs on the tested positive. alone. “If we follow the course that struck it down in May. He was size of gatherings, casting the re- “Theresa didn’t get very far “I know we’re asking a lot of the other Midwestern states like subsequently sued over a mask sponse to the virus as a matter of on her RV tour, did she?” Reyn- the people of Utah to be patient,” Wisconsin, North Dakota and mandate and limits on gatherings individual decision-making. olds said. She went on to accuse South Dakota have, we’re going in bars and restaurants. the governor said. “We know that Greenfield and other Democrats “At the end of the day, per- to have trouble keeping up,” said The parrying by governors and their time is valuable. I would of “hiding in their basements.” sonal responsibility is the only Dr. Ravi Vemuri, an infectious legislators reflect the way that hope that they would put that in a way. People will either choose or The pandemic has put similar constructive effort.” CDC develops new rules for cruise ships in US waters

Associated Press convinced officials that the ves- needed. Before being allowed at ports and in the communities were infected on the Grand Prin- sels were potential cauldrons of to sail, they will have to conduct where they live.” cess, including eight who died. Federal health officials on Friday issued new rules that infection. The order was renewed mock voyages with volunteers The CDC developed the cri- On March 13, the Cruise will enable large cruise ships to a few times, with the latest re- playing passengers who get sick, teria with input from the White Line International Association start sailing again in U.S. waters, newal set to expire Saturday. the CDC said. House Coronavirus Task Force, — a trade group — announced though not immediately. The new guidelines effectively All of this will take time, possi- an agency spokesperson said. its members would voluntarily Among the requirements bring the no-sail order to an end. bly months, a CDC spokesperson The health agency said it could suspend operations. But at least spelled out by the Centers for To resume carrying passen- said. force limits on passenger capac- 19 outbreaks were identified on Disease Control and Prevention: gers, the companies have to dem- “This framework provides a ity, but the framework doesn’t cruise ships between mid-March Ship owners must test all passen- onstrate they have procedures pathway to resume safe and re- spell out specifics. and mid-April, the new CDC gers and crew at the start and end for testing, quarantining and sponsible sailing,” said Dr. Robert The original no-sail order was order noted. of all voyages, which are limited isolating passengers and crew. Redfield, the agency’s director, influenced by an outbreak on The CDC document is “an im- to seven days. They will have to build test labs in a statement. “It will mitigate the Diamond Princess early this portant step toward returning our In mid-March, the CDC ordered on all ships, and make their own the risk of COVID-19 outbreaks year, which resulted in more than ships to service from U.S. ports,” cruise ships to stop sailing to U.S. arrangements to isolate or quar- on ships and prevent passengers 700 people testing positive and said Kelly Craighead, the trade ports because several outbreaks antine passengers on shore if and crew from seeding outbreaks nine reported deaths. At least 159 group’s president. Sunday, November 1, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 7 VIRUS OUTBREAK ROUNDUP Surge in cases is filling North Dakota hospitals

Associated Press clear they had no intention of end- ing their dangerous conduct, the BISMARCK, N.D. — The ram- county counsel and district attor- pant spread of the coronavirus in ney filed the request for a court North Dakota is putting its hos- order,” it said. pitals to the test, as the steady influx of people requiring in-pa- tient stays has left only about 200 Iowa regular beds and 20 in intensive LOGAN — A surge in corona- care units vacant, health officials virus cases has led officials in indicated Friday. one western Iowa county to re- After escaping the surge in quire people to wear face masks cases that many other states were in public. dealing with early on during the The Harrison County Board pandemic, North Dakota has the on Thursday approved the mask nation’s highest number of new mandate in a 2-1 vote, according cases per 100,000 people over the to television station KETV. past two weeks, according to The Supervisor John Straight, who COVID Tracking Project. voted for the mandate, said he The state reached a grim hopes requiring masks will help DAMIAN DOVARGANES/AP new milestone on Friday, as its reduce virus numbers in the Artist and altar maker Ofelia Esparza, 88, from East Los Angeles, brings fresh marigolds for her COVID-19 death toll eclipsed the county, where the positivity rate 500 mark, rising by 13 to 512, community altar for Day of the Dead, titled at Grand Park in Los Angeles on Thursday. of the virus has topped 20% for according to state health data. three straight weeks. Nearly half of those deaths, 241, cols and refused to help contact hot spots. Paxton wrote that Abbott’s most “It’s really a hot issue, and it is have occurred this month. tracers identify who attended The decision by U.S. District recent order “explicitly preempts hard,” Straight said. “It was hard Hospitalizations from the dis- church events, which kept inves- Judge Gary Sharpe in Albany all contradictory local orders,” on us today.” ease caused by the coronavirus tigators from potentially contain- followed two other similar rul- rendering the county judge’s order Supervisor Walter Utman also also reached a new high for the ing viral spread. ings earlier this month that also “invalid and unenforceable.” voted for the mandate, while state, 191, with a net increase of On Friday, in their first public refused to block Gov. Andrew In issuing the order Thursday, Tony Smith voted no. All three seven since Thursday. comments since the outbreak, Cuomo’s limits on areas in the Samaniego said, “Our hospitals supervisors are Republicans in a The surge is stressing the church leaders praised the state that are deemed COVID-19 are at capacity, our medical pro- county that heavily leans toward state’s health system, and San- county’s decision in a statement hot spots. fessionals are overwhelmed, and the GOP, with state data show- ford Health Bismarck President and said they were “excited and The rules limit indoor prayer if we don’t respond we will see Michael LeBeau expressed worry ing active registered Republicans thankful to be able worship the services to 10 people in areas unprecedented levels of death.” on Friday about where things are outnumber Democrats by a more Lord and do so together.” where the virus is spreading Samaniego, the county’s top elect- headed. than 2-to-1 ratio. The modified order, effective fastest. In other areas within hot ed official, assured that county “I do have a concern that the Outbreaks in elder care facili- immediately, allows nearly a spots, indoor religious services officials “have done everything rate of growth is not sustainable,” ties have been driving the coun- dozen House of Prayer locations are capped at 25 people. possible” to avoid shutting down LeBeau said. ty’s numbers up, said Brad Brake, in Mecklenburg County to reopen The plaintiffs asking for the the county’s economy. He said medical facilities the county’s health administra- with capacity limits. rules to be blocked include two “We need to build capacity for throughout the state are meeting tor. Brake said 266 of the county’s Catholic priests who aren’t cur- hospitals, build capacity, to shore regularly and working together to more than 700 confirmed cases New Mexico rently in virus hot spots, as well up contact tracing and identify provide the best care they can to come from nursing homes, and as several Catholic and Jewish hot spots,” he said. COVID-19 patients, but he hopes 16 COVID-19 deaths had been re- ALBUQUERQUE — New residents of parts of New York El Paso and Ciudad Juarez in the public will do better at wear- corded in the county as of Friday. Mexico on Friday marked a grim that had been designated as such. Mexico, with a combined met- ing face masks and social distanc- Statewide, 76 long-term care fa- milestone, as deaths related to the In his decision denying a tem- ropolitan population of 3 million ing to help slow the progression of cilities have outbreaks, Iowa De- coronavirus topped 1,000. porary restraining order against people, represent a hotspot in the disease. partment of Public Health data The statewide toll surpassed the rules, Sharpe said, “the court the deadly comeback of the virus The state health department shows. the mark with the addition of 13 is satisfied that the initiative was across the entire U.S. Health offi- reported 1,357 new confirmed The state data also shows Iowa more deaths, the most in a single guided by science and data.” cials blaming the spike on family cases of COVID-19 on Friday, had 2,621 new confirmed corona- day since the pandemic began. gatherings, multiple generations which was also a record high for virus cases in the past 24 hours, They included two women in their Texas living in the same household and North Dakota, eclipsing the re- one of the highest single-day to- 20s and another in her 30s who all younger people going out to shop cord set one day earlier by 135 tals recorded so far. The daily had underlying conditions. EL PASO — Texas Attorney or conduct business. cases. positive case numbers average The tally came as New Mexico General Ken Paxton on Friday more than 1,700 a day for the past struggles with increasing rates of joined several El Paso County Oklahoma California week. An additional 14 deaths spread and record daily case to- restaurant owners in suing to raised the state’s death total to tals and hospitalizations. In just block a county order shutting OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklaho- SAN FRANCISCO — A Cali- 1,705. Hospitals reported 606 a week, the number of deaths in down all non-essential activities ma health officials reported 1,302 fornia county has filed a lawsuit COVID-19 patients, a new high the state jumped by about 43%. for two weeks. new cases Friday of coronavirus. against a San Jose church to stop for the state. Nationally, the U.S. is averaging The suit, filed in state court in That raised the state’s total by it from holding weekly indoor just over 800 coronavirus deaths El Paso, comes a day after Coun- 1.1% to 121,495 since the outbreak services for hundreds of people, North Carolina a day, up about 14% over the past ty Judge Ricardo Samaniego struck at the start of March, the claiming $350,000 i fines have two weeks. Gov. Michelle Lujan ordered the shutdown amid a Oklahoma State Department not stopped church officials from CHARLOTTE — Health offi- Grisham ordered flags to fly at skyrocketing number of COVID- of Health said. That kept Okla- violating coronavirus shutdown cials on Friday eased a shutdown half-staff starting Monday for a 19 cases he said was “over- homa in the COVID-19 “red orders. of a North Carolina church where week of mourning. She called it whelming” the county’s medical zone,” Johns Hopkins University Santa Clara County said Fri- a COVID-19 outbreak stemming “an unfathomable tragedy,” say- resources. reported. day it filed for a restraining order from a weeklong event led to 181 ing the drumbeat of a few more In-person dining was among Of those cases, 15,032 are against Calvary Chapel San Jose cases and six deaths. deaths every day should not di- the non-essential activities Sa- active, an increase of 64 from and Pastor Mike McClure over Mecklenburg County health of- minish the acute feeling of loss. maniego’s order targeted. The Thursday. Of those active cases, the services that attract about ficials announced the decision on “Every one of these 1,000 New order also closed bars, gyms, 865 have required hospitaliza- 600 people who don’t wear masks the same day 35 new COVID-19 Mexicans was loved by some- tattoo parlors and nail and hair tion, down by 20 from Wednesday or social distance. cases and one additional fatality one. Every one of these 1,000 lost salons, and directed residents and by 91 from the record high Under the county’s health order, were reported from the outbreak New Mexicans leaves a hole in a to shelter in place except for es- set Oct. 23, state health officials indoor gatherings for religious or at The United House of Prayer family, a community, our state. sential tasks. Grocery and drug said. other purposes are capped at 100 for All People, The Charlotte I grieve with them. New Mexico stores, funeral homes, health However, the true number of people, masks must be worn, and Observer reported. The church grieves with them,” she said in a care services and government cases in Oklahoma is likely high- social distancing requirements was prohibited last weeknd from statement. activities were among activities er because many people have not must be followed. holding in-person gatherings at deemed essential, as were all been tested, and studies suggest County officials spent months its buildings after convocation New York election-related activities. people can be infected and not trying to work with church offi- events earlier this month resulted According to the lawsuit, the feel sick. cials and issued fines when they in the outbreak. ALBANY — A federal judge in county order violates Gov. Greg Twenty COVID-19 patients refused to comply, the county County officials have said upstate New York on Friday up- Abbott’s emergency orders that died since Thursday, raising the said. church leaders initially failed to held the state’s restrictions on re- reopened those targeted activi- Oklahoma toll for the outbreak to “After church officials made comply with public health proto- ligious gatherings in coronavirus ties. In a letter to Samaniego, 1,326. PAGE 8 •STARS AND STRIPES• Sunday, November 1, 2020 NATION Trump, Biden battle it out on road to 270

Associated Press TAMPA, Fla. — President Don- ald Trump and Democratic chal- lenger Joe Biden each have a path to the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the White House. Biden’s is appreciably wider. The former vice president is competitive in all the battle- ground states Trump carried in 2016 and has put a handful of tra- ditionally Republican states, in- cluding Georgia and Arizona, in play. That has Trump scrambling to defend a wide swath of terri- tory and putting the incumbent’s hopes for reelection on two of the most populous swing states, Flor- ida and Pennsylvania. A look at the most likely roads to victory: Biden True North: Biden can win an electoral majority most simply by carrying the three states where Trump stunned Democrat Hill- ary Clinton in 2016: Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Those states were carried by Democrats for decades before 2016. They would give Biden 279 electoral votes, as long as he wins all the other states in Clinton’s column. Under this scenario, Biden would not need to win any other states Trump won in 2016. The three northern industrial REBECCA BLACKWELL/AP states have been Biden’s sharpest Supporters of President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden wave flags and hand out information to arriving voters outside target for advertising dollars. He an early voting polling station in West Palm Beach, Fla., on Friday . spent almost $150 million — 30% of his total national ad spending rying the state. In 2008, Barack have been eyeing the state for than 60% of the vote, and his cam- “Biden’s plan to abolish the en- since June — in the three, accord- Obama was the first Democrat years, but this is the first year in paign hopes it can further run up tire U.S. oil industry — you saw ing to Kantar/CMAG’s review for to take it in 32 years. Although he decades where it may really be the score with first-time and less that?” Trump noted at a rally last The Associated Press. narrowly lost there in 2012, as did within reach for the party. regular voters in these places. week in Lansing, Mich, recalling The fiercest struggle among the Clinton in 2016, waves of college- The state’s new battleground Trump planned to accompany three is in Pennsylvania. Biden Biden’s call for phasing renew- educated newcomers are swell- status highlights not just Trump’s first lady Melania Trump when able fuels in and fossil fuels out has had a slight advantage in most ing its booming suburbs, a boost struggles in the suburbs, which she votes Tuesday near Palm polls, while some suggest Trump over time. “Will cripple our na- to Biden’s chances. are booming outside Texas’ major Beach County. The Trumps tion and send us into an absolute remains within striking distance. The rest is extra: There’s an- cities, but also his weaknesses in moved their residence from re- Biden, who was born in Scranton, deep depression.” other scenario for Biden: a more nearly every state with a diverse liably Democratic New York to The rest isn’t the best: Even claims some favorite-son status comfortable Electoral College Florida last year. electorate. if Trump wins Florida and Penn- in the state. Trump’s hopes have victory. “Biden has more of an oppor- Pennsylvania avenue: Even sylvania, he would still be short been boosted by Biden’s recent Should Biden win Michigan, tunity to win by a larger electoral if Trump nets Florida and holds of the magic number if he can’t call for phasing out fossil fuels, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, and number than Trump does,” said battlegrounds he won in the South carry most of the states he won though Biden has said he would either Arizona and North Caroli- Republican pollster Glen Bol- and Southwest, he would still be not ban fracking. na, he would capture at least 290 ger, who is surveying in several short of 270 electoral votes. in 2016. South by Southwest: If Biden electoral votes. battleground states but not for The president is wagering He could nose ahead in Ohio, loses Pennsylvania, it would re- He’s also competing for Ohio, Trump’s campaign. “It doesn’t much on Pennsylvania as the best long one of his strongest states, quire him to find 11 electoral which Trump won by 8 percent- mean Trump can’t win.” chance of moving within striking but would still need to cobble to- votes elsewhere. age points in 2016; Iowa, which distance of that threshold. After gether a series of states he won Once reliably Republican Ari- Trump won by nearly 10 percent- Trump a trio of rallies this past week, in 2016, such as Iowa, and some zona, offering exactly 11, and age points; and Georgia, which Trump was set to hold four more he lost narrowly and continues to North Carolina, with 15, are states Trump carried by 5 percentage Florida or bust: Trump al- in the state on Saturday. trail. Trump won four years ago that points. Victories in those states most certainly cannot reach 270 He’s been making stops across That more complicated path are well within Biden’s reach. would boost Biden’s electoral electoral votes without carry- Pennsylvania, from counties would include flipping Minneso- Democrats are particularly total above 300. ing Florida, where polls show a outside Philadelphia, the largest ta, Nevada and New Hampshire. bullish about Arizona, last car- Biden made two stops in Geor- tight race. Some have suggested a metro area, to the rural north- That, however, would defy politi- ried by a Democrat in 1996. gia this past this week and on slight Biden advantage. west corner of the state. cal logic for an incumbent to lose Trump won the state in 2016 by Friday had his first fall campaign Trump’s rally Thursday in Flor- Among his upcoming stops: in places won four years ago and 3.5 percentage points, the small- visit to Iowa. He’s spent almost ida was his third campaign trip to Bucks County. It was once Phil- win in places lost back then. est margin in 20 years, and this $5 million but hasn’t visited Iowa the state this month, underscor- adelphia’s most GOP-heavy Grasping for every vote he can, year, the Democrats’ Senate can- ing why Florida is so important to since the state’s caucuses in Feb- suburb but has been trending Trump has even campaigned didate, former astronaut Mark ruary. Biden has campaigned his reelection. He plans to return Democratic and is an example in Maine and Nebraska, where Kelly, is running a strong race. lightly in Ohio but has spent al- before Tuesday’s election. of the obstacles Trump is facing. electoral votes are awarded by The Arizona alternative sup- most $7 million in advertising. His stop Thursday was in He lost the county by less than 2 poses, as most of Biden’s paths Surveys and operatives in both swing-voting Hillsborough Coun- percentage points in 2016 and has congressional district and to the do, that he also wins Nevada, last parties said the two states were ty, where Clinton beat him by seen his standing in the suburbs overall state winner. A week ago, carried by a Republican in 2004. very close heading into the cam- about 41,000 votes. Hillsborough steadily eroded since then. Trump was in Levant, Maine, Trump has campaigned in the paign’s final weekend. is next to — and shares a media Trump’s argument to Penn- near the hub of the state’s GOP state, though Democrats say they Oh, and remember Florida? market with — Pinellas County, sylvania voters was recharged leaning north, Bangor, hoping to are comfortable with their pros- The perennial battleground of- the most populous county in the after Biden, during their Oct. 22 hold the single electoral vote in pects there. fers 29 electoral votes and is, per state to flip from Democratic in debate, called for phasing out fos- its 2nd District, and in Omaha, The race for North Carolina ap- usual, exceedingly close. 2012 to Republican in 2016. sil fuels. That created an oppor- Neb. , on Tuesday, hoping to hold pears tighter, but there is recent There’s one more big prize Trump won some counties in tunity for Trump in a state with a that metropolitan district’s single precedent for a Democrat car- on the table: Texas. Democrats the surrounding area by more robust natural gas industry. vote. <%W>,Sunday, <%M> November <%D>, 1, 2020 <%Y> •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 9 NATION/WORLD Sean Connery, ‘original Bond,’ dies at age 90

Associated Press LONDON — Scottish actor Sean Connery, the first actor to play James Bond on film and for many fans the best, has died. He was 90. Bond producers EON Produc- tions confirmed his death, first PAULA BRONSTEIN/AP reported by the BBC. Producers People gather for Kevin Peterson Jr., who was killed in Thursday’s shooting with police involved, at a Michael G. Wilson and Barbara candlelight vigil in Vancouver, Wash., on Friday. Broccoli said they were “devas- tated by the news.” “He was and shall always be remembered as the original Protests erupt over Black man James Bond whose indelible en- trance into cinema history began when he announced those unfor- Connery gettable words — ‘The name’s ken” at the news. killed by police near Portland Bond... James Bond,’ ” they said “Our nation today mourns one in a statement. of her best loved sons,” she said. BY GILLIAN FLACCUS of people shouting at each other. Family and friends had de- The producers said Connery’s He was knighted by Queen Associated Press Also, some armed demonstrators scribed Peterson as a former “gritty and witty portrayal of Elizabeth II in 2000 for services gathered near a building they told high school football player and the sexy and charismatic secret to film drama and in 2005 he was agent” was largely responsible VA NCOUVER, Wash. — Ten- reporters they were protecting. the proud father of an infant chosen for a lifetime achievement sions boiled over into unrest late for the success of the series. The crowds ultimately fizzled daughter. award by the American Film Friday following a vigil for a The Scottish actor rose to in- out near the vigil but a group In a statement, Clark County Institute. Black man shot and killed by law ternational superstardom as the of hundreds of protesters later Sheriff Chuck Atkins said a joint Thomas Sean Connery was enforcement in a city near Port- suave and fearless secret agent, marched through downtown Van- city-county narcotics task force born Aug. 25, 1930, in Edinburgh, land, Ore. , in southwestern Wash- first playing Bond in “Dr. No” in couver. Windows were shattered, was conducting an investigation ington state. 1962. After a further four films, Scotland, the first of two sons of a flags were burned and federal just before 6 p.m. Thursday and long-distance truck driver and a Mourners gathered in Hazel agents clothed in riot gear sur- he abandoned the role, before chased a man into the parking lot domestic worker. Dell, an unincorporated area of rounded a building — warning being enticed back to play him of a bank, where he fired a gun at He left school at age 13 during Vancouver, Wash., where family people that trespassing on fed- twice more, finally in 1983’s them. A firearm was recovered at and friends say Kevin E. Peter- eral property would be subject to “Never Say Never Again.” World War II to help support his the scene, Atkins said. son Jr., 21, was shot Thursday arrest. While he will be most remem- family. night. The city is about 12 miles Multiple videos showed two ve- Authorities have not named the bered for his portrayal of Bond, Weary of day labor, he joined north of Portland. hicles facing each other just after person who was shot, but Kevin Connery enjoyed a varied career, the British navy and was medical- Hundreds of people gathered midnight on a downtown street. E. Peterson Sr. told The Orego- which included the best support- ly discharged after three years. for the vigil Friday evening, Two shots were heard but report- nian/OregonLive the person was ing actor Oscar for his portrayal The ailment: stomach ulcers. with some holding signs read- ers at the scene said it didn’t ap- his son, Kevin E. Peterson Jr. of a tough Irish street cop in the Back in Edinburgh, he lifted ing, “Honk for Black lives. White pear anyone was hit. Atkins referenced the Peterson 1987 movie “The Untouchables.” weights to build his body and silence is violence” and “Scream Authorities declared an unlaw- family in his remarks but did not He also had major roles in films compete in the Mr. Universe con- his name.” ful assembly and ordered pro- confirm Peterson was the person including “Indiana Jones and the test. He came in third, briefly Nearby, tensions flared between testers to disperse. At least one who was killed. Last Crusade,” “Highlander” and considered becoming a profes- left- and right-wing protesters. person appeared to have been de- “I can say that our agency is “The Hunt for Red October.” sional soccer player, but chose Video recorded by journalists in tained, according to video posted grieving as is the Peterson family Scottish First Minister Nicola acting because he reasoned his a parking lot showed two groups online by a journalist. and the community,” Atkins said. Sturgeon said she was “heartbro- career would last longer. IG: US turning away asylum-seekers at border is flawed

BY ELLIOT SPAGAT The 37-page report paints a picture lum-seekers to go to ports of entry, instead west Border land ports of entry,” the re- Associated Press starkly at odds with previous accounts of of entering the country illegally between port says. how the practice of making people wait in official crossings. At the time, CBP was Homeland Security did not immediately SAN DIEGO — The head of the Depart- Mexico was introduced two years ago amid turning away people at official crossings, respond to a request for comment and nei- ment of Homeland Security ordered bor- an unprecedented surge of people seeking though Nielsen disputed those reports. ther did Nielsen, who was ousted last year der agents to stop asylum-seekers from asylum, many of them Central American Chad Wolf, her chief of staff and now act- in a broad purge of senior department of- stepping on U.S. soil at official crossings families. U.S. authorities have said re- ing secretary, acted on Nielsen’s May 24, ficials. CBP referred the AP to its written with Mexico in 2018, undercutting public peatedly that processing constraints were 2018, request to ask CBP how many asy- responses in the report. statements at the time that they were wel- the sole reason for making people wait in lum-seekers would likely be turned away The inspector general says that CBP, come to do so, according to a government Mexico. each day if the agency limited processing without public notice, stopped processing watchdog report published Friday. The practice — one of many measures at the border, a practice known as “meter- asylum-seekers at seven of 24 southern The DHS inspector general also found President Donald Trump has implemented ing.” She was told that 650 people daily border crossings, all of them in the San those trying to seek asylum at four official to limit asylum — has been on hold since could be denied entry if 200 officers were Diego and Laredo, Texas, field offices. Of- crossings were removed to Mexico before March, when the administration tempo- assigned to the task. ficers at the Tecate, California, crossing having a chance to seek protection from rarily suspended asylum altogether, using On June 5, Nielsen signed an order put- questioned the legality of the order and re- persecution back home, contrary to U.S. the coronavirus to invoke special powers ting the plan in effect, the report says. fused to participate. immigration law. The internal watchdog under a public health law. “(While) DHS leadership urged asylum CBP, in its written response to recom- said U.S. Customs and Border Protection Kirstjen Nielsen, who as DHS secretary seekers to present themselves at ports of mendations, rejected the inspector gener- had unused detention space at two cross- in 2018 was dealing with a crisis over the entry, the agency took deliberate steps to al’s proposal to resume processing at the ings that could have been used to process administration’s decision to separate fami- limit the number of undocumented aliens seven crossings or publicly announce that asylum-seekers. lies at the border, repeatedly urged asy- who could be processed each day at South- it won’t. PAGE 10 •STARS AND STRIPES• Sunday, November 1, 2020 WORLD Suspect’s family demands answers in church attack

Associated Press attack, which took place amid before the attack was already in radicalism would flee to France mitted the attack and judge him growing tensions around car- custody, bringing the number of and attack a church. as a terrorist,” Wissem said. “If SFAX, Tunisia — A third sus- toons published by a French detained suspects to three. Their “We want the truth about how he was the attacker, he will take pect is in French custody Satur- day in connection with an Islamic newspaper mocking the Prophet connection to the attack remains my son carried out this terrorist his responsibility.” extremist knife attack that killed Muhammad, an act of Islamist unclear. attack. I want to see what the sur- On the dusty Tina Street in the three people in a Nice church, as terrorism. A previously unknown Tuni- veillance cameras showed. I will Nasr neighborhood of Sfax, his the family of the suspected Tuni- Issaoui, who transited through sian extremist group claimed not give up my son’s rights outside friends and neighbors described sian assailant demanded to see Italy last month en route to responsibility for the attack, and the country. I want my son, dead Issaoui as a man who sold gasoline video footage of what happened. France, is in critical condition Tunisian and French authorities or alive,” his mother Gamra told for motorcycles. While not starv- Investigators in France, Tuni- in a French hospital after being are investigating whether the The Associated Press, her words ing or homeless, he was poor like sia and Italy are trying to deter- wounded by police as they ar- claim is legitimate. often interrupted by tears. many in the area, poverty that is mine the motive of chief suspect rested him. In Issaoui’s hometown of Sfax, His father and brother Wissem driving more and more young Tu- Ibrahim Issaoui and whether he A 35-year-old man who had met his family expressed shock and said that if Issaoui indeed car- nisians to seek jobs in Europe. He acted alone and whether he pre- with Issaoui in Nice was arrested appealed for peace. But they also ried out the attack, he should face had had small-time run-ins with meditated Thursday’s attack on overnight, a judicial official said expressed bewilderment that this justice: “We are Muslims, we are the law as a teen, but nothing that the Notre Dame Basilica. Saturday. A 47-year-old man who young man who drank alcohol against terrorism; we are poor. alerted Tunisian authorities to Authorities have labeled the had met with Issaoui the night and showed no outward signs of Show me that my brother com- possible extremist leanings. Survivors sought in Aegean earthquake

Associated Press en building in Izmir and cleared a corridor to bring them out. IZMIR, Turkey — Three young More than 5,500 rescuers from children and their mother were different agencies and cities rescued from the rubble of a col- worked together to reach survi- lapsed building in western Tur- key on Saturday, some 23 hours vors, at times hushing the crowds after a powerful earthquake in to listen into the rubble with sen- the Aegean Sea killed at least 37 sitive headphones and crawling people and injured more than 800 through the cracks. A 65-year-old others. man was saved 26 hours after the The Friday afternoon quake quake. that struck Turkey’s Aegean Earlier Saturday, search-and- coast and north of the Greek is- rescue teams working on eight land of Samos registered a mag- collapsed buildings lifted teenag- nitude that Turkish authorities er Inci Okan out of the rubble of a put at 6.6 while other seismol- devastated eight-floor apartment ogy institutes said it measured building. Her dog, Fistik, or Pis- 6.9. It toppled buildings in Izmir, tachio, was also rescued, Turkish media reported. Turkey’s third-largest city, and /AP triggered a small tsunami in the A video showed a female res- DARKO BANDIC Seferihisar district and on the cuer trying to calm down the 16- Security officers walk by the debris of a collapsed building in Izmir, Turkey, Saturday after a powerful Greek island. Hundreds of after- year-old girl under the rubble as earthquake struck Turkey’s Aegean coast and north of the Greek island of Samos Friday afternoon. shocks followed. she inserted a catheter. “I’m so At least 35 people were killed scared,” the girl cried. “Can you vironment and urban planning The health minister said eight a 14-year-old, being airlifted to in Izmir, Health Minister Fahret- hold my hand?” minister, told reporters. It was people were being treated in in- Athens and seven hospitalized tin Koca said. Among them was “We are going to get out of unclear how many more people tensive care, with three of them on the island, health authorities an elderly woman who drowned here soon,” the rescuer, Edanur were trapped under buildings in critical condition. said. in the tsunami. But rescue teams Dogan, said. “Your mother is that were leveled. Two teenagers were killed The small tsunami that hit on Saturday made contact with waiting outside for you.” Turkey’s Disaster and Emer- on the island Samos after being the Turkish coast also affected 38-year old Seher Perincek and In all, around 100 people have gency Management Presidency struck by a collapsing wall. At Samos, with seawater flooding her four children — ages 3, 7 and been rescued since the earth- said 885 people were injured in least 19 people were injured on streets in the main harbor town 10-year-old twins — inside a fall- quake, Murat Kurum, the en- Izmir and three other provinces. the island, with two, including of Vathi.

Armenian leader asks Russia for help after latest truce with neighbor frays

BY AVET DEMOURIAN Nagorno-Karabakh and both the control of ethnic Armenian dance with international humani- after it took effect Monday, just Associated Press sides accused each of breaking a forces backed by Armenia since a tarian law.” like two previous cease-fires ne- mutual pledge not to target resi- war there ended in 1994. The lat- But shortly after the mutual gotiated by Russia. The warring YEREVAN, Armenia — Ar- dential areas hours after it was est outburst of hostilities began pledge was announced by the sides have repeatedly blamed menia’s leader urged Russia made. Sept. 27 and left hundreds — per- Minsk Group co-chairs, Nagorno- each other for violations. Saturday to consider providing Russia, which has a military haps thousands — dead, marking Karabakh authorities accused With Azerbaijani troops ad- security assistance to end the base in Armenia and has signed the worst escalation of fighting Azerbaijani forces of firing rock- vancing deeper into Nagorno- fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh, a pact obliging it to protect its since the war’s end. ets at a street market and a resi- Karabakh, Armenia’s prime the biggest escalation in the de- ally in case of foreign aggression, On Friday, the foreign minis- dential building in the separatist minister made his first public cadeslong conflict between his faces a delicate balancing act, of ters of Armenia and Azerbaijan region’s capital, Stepanakert. plea for Russia’s assistance since country and Azerbaijan. trying to maintain good ties with met in Geneva for a day of talks, They said that residential areas the latest fighting started. Following more than a month Azerbaijan and avoid a showdown which were brokered by Russia, in the town of Shushi also came While Pashinian stopped short of intense fighting in which Azer- with Turkey. the United States and France, under Azerbaijani shelling. of directly asking Moscow to in- baijani troops forged into the Pashinian’s request puts Rus- co-chairs of the so-called Minsk Azerbaijan’s defense ministry tervene militarily, he asked Putin separatist territory, Armenian sia in a precarious position: join- Group of the Organization for Se- denied targeting civilian areas, to conduct “urgent consultations” Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian ing the fighting would be fraught curity and Cooperation in Europe and in turn accused Armenian on the “type and amount” of as- asked Russia’s President Vladi- with unpredictable consequences that tries to mediate the decades- forces of shelling several regions sistance that Russia could offer to mir Putin to quickly discuss pos- and risk an open conflict with long conflict. of Azerbaijan. ensure the security of Armenia. sible security aid to his country. Turkey, while refusing to offer The talks concluded close The rapid failure of the latest The Armenian leader argued that There was no immediate re- protection to its ally Armenia to midnight with the two sides attempt to contain the fighting the fighting is raging increasing- sponse from the Kremlin. would dent Moscow’s prestige. agreeing they “will not deliber- follows the collapse of three suc- ly close to the border of Armenia The request came as Azerbai- Nagorno-Karabakh lies within ately target civilian populations cessive cease-fires. A U.S.-bro- and pointed at alleged attacks on jani troops pushed deeper into Azerbaijan but has been under or non-military objects in accor- kered truce frayed immediately the Armenian territory. Sunday, November 1, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 11 AMERICAN ROUNDUP Dead zone in bay is the smallest in years

SALISBURY — Re- MD searchers said the Chesapeake Bay’s infamous dead zone is the smallest it’s been in years. The so-called dead zone is an area where oxygen levels are so low that aquatic life dies. The area is caused by pollution, often from runoff from farms and cities in the bay’s watershed. The Maryland Department of Natural Resources found that the bay’s average dissolved oxygen conditions were the second best on record since 1985. The only year in which the dead zone was smaller was in 2012. Beth McGee, director of sci- ence at the Chesapeake Bay Foun- dation, said the smaller dead zone is proof that years long cleanup efforts are working. W hite rhino births 150-lb. baby at park

ORLANDO — It’s a boy FL — a big boy. A 150-pound white rhinoceros was born at Disney’s Animal Kingdom theme park at Walt Dis- ney World in Florida recently. The as-yet-named rhino was born to Kendi, who was the first white rhinoceros born at the ani- mal theme park back in 1999. Both mom and son are doing well under the care of their human keepers, Disney said in a news release. ELAINE THOMPSON/AP White rhinos are the second- largest land mammal and are an endangered species with a near- Paws Across the Pacific to the rescue threatened status. Volunteers carry animals in kennels across the tarmac after the landing of a Paws Across the Pacific pet rescue flight in Seattle. Volunteer 60 charged in elder organizations flew more than 600 dogs and cats from shelters across Hawaii to the U.S. mainland, calling it the largest pet rescue. The fraud magazine scheme animals were taken from overcrowded facilities in the islands to shelters in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana. tire with her paws and tail frozen THE CENSUS stance abuse and undiagnosed MINNEAPOLIS to the metal surface, KDVR-TV mental illness. MN — Sixty people were reported. It is unclear how long it The length in feet of a Burmese python that was removed from In addition to his prison sen- charged in a widespread maga- was stuck. tence, Samuel Jose Baptista, 27, zine telemarketing scam that au- under the hood of a Ford Mustang in Dania Beach, Fla. The The Dumb Friends League said Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission tweeted that of Boston was also sentenced in thorities said netted $300 million the kitten appears to be healthy U.S. District Court in Worcester from more than 150,000 elderly 10 its officers safely captured and removed the invasive snake, which and a veterinary team will moni- to two years of probation and was and vulnerable people nation- was coiled up inside the engine compartment. Pythons have be- tor it for a few days before going to ordered to pay restitition, federal wide, the U.S. attorney’s office in come a serious environmental problem in the nearby Everglades because they eat a foster home until it is 8-weeks- prosecutors said in a statement. Minnesota announced . almost anything and have no natural predators, save for the occasional alligator. old and ready for adoption. He had faced up to 40 years in U.S. Attorney Erica MacDonald prison. Prosecutors had asked for called the scam the largest elder nearly four years behind bars. fraud scheme in the country. Rocket booster likely has been the focus of conservation Judo champion subdues Baptista pleaded guilty in Feb- MacDonald said in a statement efforts for decades has dipped to source of lights in sky ruary to robbing banks in Worces- that 60 defendants face a host of armed, would-be robber less than 370. ter and Revere in October 2019. charges, including conspiracy, HONOLULU — Reports The North Atlantic right whale KANSAS CITY— Po- mail fraud, wire fraud, and vio- HI of a cluster of blinking numbers only 366, the National Officials: Driving school lating the Senior Citizens Against lights traveling across Hawaii’s MO lice said a would-be Oceanic and Atmospheric Ad- Marketing Scams Act of 1994. night sky were likely caused by robber was in custody after pick- ministration said in an estimate gave answers for a fee The defendants are from 14 states a rocket booster reentering the ing the wrong guy to victimize that reflects the population as of and two Canadian provinces. planet’s atmosphere, scientists — a Judo champion. January 2019. The previous es- TALLAHASSEE— A The indictments and other said. WDAF-TV reported that Josh timate, which reflected that of FL Florida driving school court documents said that over Astronomers said there is Henges, 36, was in the Midtown January 2018, was 412. was suspended after investiga- the last 20 years, the defendants a high probability the booster area when someone came up from The whales have struggled with tors said it was providing correct behind, grabbed his shoulder and used a network of dozens of fraud- pierced Earth’s atmosphere after poor reproduction and high mor- answers to people taking a writ- tried to rob him. Henges has trav- ulent magazine sales companies orbiting for 12 years, The Hono- tality over the last decade, espe- ten driver license test, the De- eled around the world competing and telemarketing call centers to lulu Star-Advertiser reported . cially the last few years. They’re partment of Highway Safety and in Judo events and training oth- carry out the scam. The booster identified by sci- vulnerable to ship collisions and Motor Vehicles announced. ers. He’s a former member of the entists was used to launch Vene- entanglement in fishing gear. Universal Driving School in national Judo team. Kitten rescued after zuela’s communications satellite Oakland Park charged undercov- Henges turned to see a gun VENESAT-1 from China in Octo- Eagle Scout sentenced er investigators at least $400 to getting frozen to tire pointed directly at him. He took ber 2008. take the exam and then ensured the suspect to the ground, pinned for robbing 2 banks What residents saw was the that they’d pass it, the agency COMMERCE CITY him and called police. CO — A kitten was res- rocket body heating during reen- WORCESTER — An said in a news release. cued in Denver after it was fro- try and breaking into pieces, said MA Eagle Scout who re- The driving school also sold zen to a tire on a semi-trailer at Roy Gal, associate astronomer of Number of endangered searched how to rob banks on investigators Alcohol Drug Ac- a tire shop, an animal shelter and the Institute for Astronomy at the whales sinks even more YouTube was sentenced to 2 ½ cident Prevention Training cer- humane society said. University of Hawaii at Manoa. years in prison after his attorney tificates even though they did The Dumb Friends League “The friction from the atmo- PORTLAND — The requested leniency because his not take the four-hour course re- said the 5-week-old kitten was sphere makes it glow and burn,” ME population of an en- client had reached a low point in quired to receive them. found hanging off the side of a he said. dangered species of whale that his life and was driven by sub- From wire reports PAGE 12 •STARS AND STRIPES• Sunday, November 1, 2020 MUSIC

BY MESFIN FEKADU Associated Press ean Ono Lennon’s fi rst experience re-working his father’s catalog was terrifying and intimidating, but he had two main goals in mind to keep him on track: Preserve his father’s message in the songs and JUST help the late icon’s music reach a younger audience. On Oct. 9, which would have been John Lennon’s 80th birthday, “GIMME SOME TRUTH. THE ULTIMATE MIXES” was released. It includes 36 tracks hand-picked by Yoko Ono and Sean Ono Len- non,S who serve as executive producer and producer on the project. The duo worked closely with engineer and mixer Paul Hicks to maintain the essence of the songs, which were completely remixed. LIKE Ono Lennon, who shares the same birthday as his father and turned 45 on Oct. 9, came out stronger at the end of the at-times heavy process. “I knew that it was going to be kind of introspective for me, obviously. I was scared going into it, to be honest. I had a fear of messing everything up or not being helpful or it being too emotionally diffi cult to just listen to my dad’s voice over and over again,” Ono Lennon said. “Especially ‘Double Fantasy’; it triggers a whole period of my childhood that was tough because that’s when he died. I had a lot of STARTING resistance working on that record, actually.” “Ultimately it was very healing. It was like therapy. It was very therapeutic in the end. I’m very glad that I got to do it. I would not have revisited those songs on ‘Double Fantasy’ without having this project. It turned out to be kind of a cathartic thing.” “GIMME SOME TRUTH. THE ULTIMATE MIXES” includes Lennon’s post- Beatles songs, from “Imagine” to “Woman” to “Whatever Gets You Thru the OVER Night,” released digitally, on CD and on vinyl. “For me, the real motivation is this music can’t be forgotten. Especially ‘Gimme Some Truth,’ for example, which is the track we chose to lead with. I’ve never felt Sean Ono Lennon on remixing his like my dad’s music was more needed in terms of message than literally this week, like right now,” Ono Lennon said of the protest song. “I think a lot of people who are cynical assume that, father’s music for these times and ‘Oh everyone knows those songs.’ No, they don’t. There are a lot of kids who don’t know the differ- a new generation: It was therapy ence between Ringo (Starr) and Paul (McCart- ney). There’s a lot of kids who don’t know the difference between Mick Jagger and my dad.” In an interview with The Associated Press, Ono Lennon talked about the relevance of “Gimme Some Truth,” working on his dad’s music and fi nding his voice in the process.

AP: What was it like to work on this project? Ono Lennon: It was really deep and heavy and beautiful. I’d never listened to the original, multi-track tapes before. Just getting to hear my dad’s voice or even mute the vocals, just hearing what the instruments are doing was amazing for me. It was really fun. It was a little daunting, I guess. I’m still nervous because when you’re messing with music that’s so loved and so classic and immortal, there’s kind of a pressure there. It’s almost scary how “Gimme Some Truth” resonates today. Is that why the collection is named “Gimme Some Truth”? There was no choice for us in this moment. I think “Gimme Some Truth” means something now. We wanted to lead with that. I think it’s a message everyone can connect with. Every good person from whatever town you’re in. If you’re a good person, what you want now more than anything is a little reality. It just seems like we’re living in an alternate dimension of bulls---. I think everyone feels that way. I think it’s a very important mes- sage. What was it like working with Sean Ono Lennon poses for a your mother on this project? portrait Oct. 8 in New York City I was in the studio when I to promote a new collection was young, so I learned things of his father’s songs (above). like how compression works, “GIMME SOME TRUTH. how delay works, how reverb THE ULTIMATE MIXES” works, how to EQ vocals was released Oct. 9, — all from her. I actually which would have know very much what her been John Lennon’s philosophy is. Her main 80th birthday. The set priority with all mixing includes 36 tracks is to make sure that the selected by Yoko voice is clear. Ono and Sean Ono CONTINUED Lennon, who serve as ON PAGE 13 executive producer and producer.

MATT LICARI, INVISION/AP Sunday, November 1, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 13 MUSIC REVIEWS

NCT NCT – The 2nd Album RESONANCE Pt. 1 (SM Entertainment/Capitol/Caroline) Mega K-pop group NCT are not play- ing around. Two years after releasing their debut album, the group featuring 21 members of NCT 127, NCT DREAM and WayV — as well as newcomers SHOTARO and SUNGCHAN — are launching into a sophomore effort with a third project expected later this year. “NCT – The 2nd Album RESO- NANCE Pt. 1” skillfully combines a ’90s R&B vibe with a more modern, elec- Sammy Tweedy tronic sound, leaning into the romantic boy band-ness of it all, with piano bal- lads showcasing the various members’ beautiful voices. Lead single “Make A Wish (Birthday Wilco frontman gives pandemic some ‘Love’ Song)” reels in the unsuspecting fans with its catchy whistle beat, but the rest of the album pulls the rug and revels in “Here I am,” Jeff Tweedy sings at the onset of “I’m just having a ball / Being alive,” he sings its retro-ness with a slew of only slightly the title track, and also fi rst song, of “Love Is the on “A Robin or a Wren.” “And I don’t want to die modernized raps and R&B bangers; King,” a record made in April while the Wilco / I don’t wanna die.” “Volcano,” “Lightbulb” “From Home” frontman was quarantining with his wife and More than any other track, the stark “Bad Day and “Faded In My Last Song” lead in sons at home in Chicago. Lately” sums up quarantining as the pandemic this category. The song sets the mood and tone for the drags on. “Misfi t” is a classic, energetic rock record, which refuses to give up on love and “It’s been a bad day lately / A lonely place / I tune that echoes its title in sound; “Déjà optimism, while death, disaster and dread are can’t endure,” Tweedy sings. Vu” has a futuristic dance beat; and never far away. For a record that can at times be so dark, it’s “Nectar” introduces a compelling if “There it is,” Tweedy continues. “At the edge / not depressing. If anything, in Tweedy’s embrac- strange, wounded-animal trombone-like Of as bad as it gets.” ing the darkness that surrounds him, and us, he sound. Tweedy’s reaction to being quarantined was to Jeff Tweedy emerges more hopeful than before. Perhaps, as Overall, the hook of “Make A Wish work. In addition to the new record, made with Tweedy emphasizes with the record title, love (Birthday Song)” sums up my feelings Love Is the King his musician-sons Spencer and Sammy, he has a indeed is the king. about the album: “I can do this all day.” (dBpm Records) new book out called “How to Write One Song.” “When you need me,” he sings with assurance But so does the song’s naughtier Eng- “Love Is the King” is fi lled with beautiful on “Half-Asleep,” the fi nal track, “I’ll be there.” lish version: “I can do this all night.” melodies, while also embracing fear and uncer- — Scott Bauer — Cristina Jaleru tainty. Associated Press Associated Press

FROM PAGE 12 of awkward. That song makes me cially. Whenever I try to sing one feel like I’m infantilized or some- of his songs, I feel like I can sing She said my dad famously thing. People always play that them great. I do share a lot of the didn’t love his vocals. He would song and look at me with a smile turn it down a lot. When she was same chords. My voice isn’t as like, “Isn’t that sweet?” I’m like, tough as his, but it’s easier to sing producing “Imagine,” the album, “Oh God, I’m an old man. I’m not he would go to the bathroom and his songs than anyone else’s. It some smiling baby in a baby food does teach me something about she would turn it back up and commercial.” To be honest, that he would come back and turn it how to sing great. song is touching to me, but as a I think I’ve had a lifelong down. ... She really believes that musician and a songwriter and struggle with fi nding my own burying the vocal is the worst a producer, it’s sort of my least thing you can do. She really favorite song musically, because voice. I’ve had a lifelong struggle wants people to hear the lyrics it’s so saccharine. It’s great. I with fi nding my own voice be- and she thinks that the music has love it. Maybe it’s impossible for cause every time I would try to to serve the vocal. me to be objective about it. sing great, I would sound more When it comes to mixing my “Beautiful Boy” is a very sort and more like my dad. Actu- dad’s stuff, that’s her priority. I of family-friendly sound. It’s ally, I hate my fi rst few records think she’s right. not my aesthetic. Having said because I was always trying to This is your fi rst time work- that, it was a privilege to help not sing like my dad, and it actu- ing on your dad’s music — what work on a mix of a song that was ally took a lot of effort. I wound made you want to take this on? about me and is very touching. up singing in this very kind of I’m just trying to help. That’s And yes, I was very touched by whispery, whiny way that I don’t all it is. My mom’s the boss and if hearing my dad say my name. like. That was actually kind of I can help in any way, I’m here. He’s like “goodnight Sean” at unnatural to me. All moms are the boss. the end. That always reminded Listening to this record ... all of She may trust me a little more me of him putting me to bed. He his records, the compilation we now having made several albums had a sort of ritual, the way he put together, has helped me real- together, and we’ve toured the put me to bed. He would fl ick ize that I just need to stop trying world together. I was her music the lights sort of in rhythm with to avoid singing in a way that director for years. I think it may his voice, so it felt like his voice have taken some time, but I think was controlling the lights. Then I just sound better. I think it’s she feels comfortable with me in they’d go out. I have memories, going to help me with the vocals that way now. so it was nice. for the album that I’m working Your dad wrote “Beautiful Has working on your dad’s on now. To just not hold back. Boy (Darling Boy)” about you songs inspired your own To just sort of sing. I have this AP — what was it like re-working music? fear that when I push my voice, that song? It’s interesting because, fi rst of I sound too much like him, but Musician John Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, hold a bed-in for Honestly, it was my least all, the easiest songs to cover for what’s the point of singing if I’m peace in room 902, the presidential suite at the Hilton Hotel in favorite experience. It’s just kind me are my dad’s, vocally espe- not going to sound good? Amsterdam, on March 25, 1969. PAGE 14 •STARS AND STRIPES• Sunday, November 1, 2020 BOOKS Images that tell a different story Book of war photography challenges oversimplifi ed typical narratives by conveying disorienting realities

BY J.P. LAWRENCE ing calm and heroic, with captions that Stars and Stripes proclaim with certainty that objectives were being met and wars were being won. eterans of the wars in Iraq and These photos were generic enough that Afghanistan have often told me Brody said one of his war pictures was that they struggle to make sense used to sell vape pens. Vof their time spent fighting in The photos that didn’t fit the narrative conflicts marked by ambiguity and lack- or were confusing got discarded, even ing clear endings. though Brody, looking back, said the In his photo book “Attention Service- confusing moments most exemplified the member,” Army veteran Ben Brody works lives of soldiers downrange. through his experience during America’s “Attention Servicemember” is a re- almost 20-year-old war on terrorism by minder that what really sticks out to a lot forgoing traditional narrative tools like of veterans are the strangest moments of heroes and villains or victory and defeat. war. They’re moments like realizing sol- The book, which recently received a diers were risking their lives to deliver ice second printing, alternates essays and cream machines, or that sand was being photos from Brody’s two imported into Iraq for a volleyball court. combat tours in Iraq as Another war pho- an Army public affairs tographer, Christoph soldier and his coverage Bangert, said the ab- of fighting in Afghanistan surdities are aspects as a civilian reporter. of war that often get Looking through the edited out of public photos is a bit like picking view. up jumbled puzzle pieces Bangert, like one at a time. One page Brody, published his shows fighters storm- works of photography ing a house. The next, a to go beyond show- deployed soldier shops ing heroic military for jewelry on base, as if figures and suffering in a mall. Troops lounge victims. His 2016 on cots, sleep on duffel book, “Hello Camel,” bags. A dead body lies shares with “Atten- beneath a tarp. A soldier tion Servicemember” plays with a cat. A horse the same strange- bashes its head against its ness: camels peeking enclosure. over walls at soldiers, None of these photos cakes being cut with seem to be in any logical swords. order. Nor do any of the “War is something photos have captions. extremely confusing Very little is explained, and surprising, and except via the essays there are many more interspersed within the layers in these events than we real- imagery. ize,” Bangert told me in 2016. “But we The effect is bewildering at first, want things to be simple, and what has reminiscent of the nonlinear narratives of happened in the last 15 years is we have war novels such as “Catch-22” by Joseph oversimplified complicated events.” Heller or “Slaughterhouse-Five” by Kurt One wonders how the wars in Iraq and Vonnegut. Afghanistan would have gone had there By not offering easy answers, the book been more examination of these moments prompts the reader to ask their own ques- when things didn’t quite seem to add up, tions. The longer that one looks at his pic- and less listening to the dictation of of- tures, the more the intrinsic weirdness of ficial narratives that were so certain and each frame comes into focus, prompting yet so often wrong. thoughts such as, “How old is that child Today, Brody directs photography at the they’re searching for bombs?” Ground Truth Project, where he trains In a phone call, Brody said he wanted early-career journalists, including several readers to understand how his experi- veterans. He said he hopes viewers see ences with war were bizarre, absurd and honesty in his work, but he acknowledged often without explanation. war photography is a crowded market. “The reason there are no captions,” “When people look at these photographs Brody said, “is it’s more up to you to pro- of some war, these pictures people have cess what the pictures are about, because gone to extreme personal risk to make, I wanted to convey how disorienting war it’s just like they hear static,” Brody said, is, and the effect that it has on you as a “because they all look the same; they all person.” say the same thing.” This is the opposite of the work Brody But his book rises above the noise to tell used to do, which was to capture images a story of its own. “Attention Servicemember” is avail- that communicated the desired messages Photos by Ben Brody of the U.S. military as clearly as possible. able at Brody’s website, photobrody.com, Looking back, Brody calls himself a and Amazon. Outside of North America, “Attention Servicemember,” a book by U.S. Army war veteran Ben Brody, attempts propagandist, alluding to the job he did as it can be found at Idea Books, online at to convey the experience of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars through photography. No a public affairs soldier. ideabooks.nl. captions accompany any of the photos such as the ones he took of smoke obscuring Brody said he quickly learned what [email protected] a field (top) or of Humvees at night and cafeteria lunches (center). “I wanted to convey pictures his bosses wanted: soldiers look- Twitter: @jplawrence3 how disorienting war is, and the effect that it has on you as a person,” Brody said. Sunday, November 1, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 15 CROSSWORD AND COMICS NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

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“Gunston Street” is drawn by Basil Zaviski. Email him at [email protected], and visit gunstonstreet.com. PAGE 16 •STARS AND STRIPES• Sunday, November 1, 2020 ENTERTAINMENT Starting point for dialogue ‘Captain America’ star Chris Evans says online political platform is ‘landscape of competing ideas’

BY GEOFF EDGERS “While he is a liberal, he was sides of the aisle. Many potential no, served as a congressman in introduced Evans to Kiani, who The Washington Post looking to have a real dialogue voters simply turn off the news, Massachusetts for 20 years, but had made his fortune through a on important issues,” Scott says. never mind talking about actual other than volunteering on some medical technology company he o you’re Tim Scott, the “For me, it’s about wanting to policy. of his campaigns, Evans wasn’t founded and, of the three, was Republican senator from have a conversation with an audi- “A Starting Point” is meant to particularly political. the most politically involved. South Carolina who op- ence that may not be accustomed offer a digital home for people In recent years, he’s read polit- Kiani has donated to dozens Sposes Roe v. Wade and to hearing from conservatives to hear from elected offi cials ical philosopher Hannah Arendt of Democratic candidates across wants to repeal the Affordable and Republicans.” without having the conversation and feminist Rebecca Solnit’s the country and earlier this year Care Act, and you get a call from Evans, actor-director Mark framed by Tucker Carlson or “The Mother of All Questions” contributed $750,000 to Unite Chris Evans, a Hollywood star Kassen and entrepreneur Joe Rachel Maddow. — ex-girlfriend Jenny Slate the Country, a super PAC meant and lifelong Democrat who has gave him the latter — and been to support Joe Biden. But he ap- been blasting President Donald ‘ increasingly upset by Trump’s preciated the idea of focusing on Trump for years. He wants to If the downstream impact or the byproduct of policies and behavior. He’s come something larger than a single meet. And fi lm it. And share it on this site is some sort of unity between the parties, to believe that he can state his race or party initiative. He, Kas- his online platform. great. But if nobody’s still voting, it doesn’t work. own views without creating a sen and Evans would fund “A “I was very skeptical,” Scott confl ict with “A Starting Point.” Starting Point,” which has about admits. “You can think of the We need people involved. ’ “I don’t want to all of a sudden 18 people on staff. worst-case scenario.” Chris Evans become a blank slate,” Evans “There’s no longer ABC, NBC But then Scott heard from Actor, co-founder of “A Starting Point” says. “But my biggest issue right and CBS,” Kiani says. “There’s other senators. They vouched for now is just getting people to vote. Fox News and MSNBC. What Evans, most famous for playing If I start saying, ‘vote Biden; f-- that means is that we are no Captain America in a series of Kiani launched “A Starting “The idea is ... ‘Listen, you’re - Trump,’ my base will like that. longer being censored. We’re fi lms that have grossed more Point” as a response to what they in offi ce. I can’t deny the impact But they were already voting for self-censoring ourselves. And than $1 billion worldwide. The see as a deeply polarized politi- you have,’ ” Evans says. “ ‘You Biden.” people go to their own echo actor also got on the phone with cal climate. They wanted to offer can vote on things that affect my Evans began to contemplate chamber and they don’t get any Scott’s staff to make a personal a place for information about life.’ Let this be a landscape of the idea that became “A Starting wiser. If you allow both parties appeal. issues without a partisan spin. To competing ideas, and I’ll sit down Point” in 2017. He heard some- to speak, for the same amount of It worked. Sometime in 2018, do that, they knew they needed with you and I’ll talk with you.” thing reported on the news — he time, without goading them to go Scott met on camera with Evans both parties to participate. Or, as Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R- can’t remember what — and de- on into hyperbole, when people in the nation’s capital, and their Evans, 39, sat on the patio Alaska, who has appeared on the cided to search out information look at both sides’ point of view discussion, which ranged from outside his Boston-area home on site, puts it, “Sometimes, boring on the internet. Instead of fi nding of both topics, we think most of prison reform to student loans, is a recent afternoon talking about is OK. You’re being presented concrete answers, Evans fell the time they’ll come to a reason- one of more than 200 interviews the platform. two sides. Everything doesn’t down the rabbit hole of opinions able conclusion.” with elected offi cials published Nearly 100 million people have to be sensational. Some- and confl icting claims. He began “What people do too often is on “A Starting Point,” an online didn’t vote in the 2016 general times it can just be good facts.” talking about this with Kassen, a they get in their silos and they platform the actor helped launch election, Evans says. That’s more Evans wasn’t always active in friend since he directed Evans in only watch and listen and read in July. Not long after, Evans than 40 % of those who were politics. At Lincoln-Sudbury Re- 2011’s “Puncture.” What if they what they agree with,” says John appeared on Scott’s Instagram eligible. gional High School, he focused got the information directly from Kasich, the former Ohio gov- Live. They have plans to do more He believes the root of this dis- on theater, not student govern- elected offi cials and presented it ernor and onetime Republican together. interest is the nastiness on both ment. His uncle, Michael Capua- without a spin? Kassen, in turn, presidential candidate. “If you go to Chris’ website, you can’t bury yourself in your silo. You get to see the other point of view.” As much as some like to blame Trump for all the confl icts in Washington, Sen. Christopher Coons, D-Del., says he’s watched the tone shifting for decades. He appreciated sitting down with Evans and making regular submissions to “Daily Points,” a place on the platform for commentary no longer than two minutes. During the Supreme Court confi rmation hearings, Coons recorded a comment on Judge Amy Coney Barrett and the Affordable Care Act. “ ‘A Starting Point’ needs to be a sustained resource,” Coons says. “Chris often talks about it being ‘Schoolhouse Rock’ for adults.” It’s not by chance that Evans has personally conducted all of the 200-plus interviews on “A Starting Point” during trips to D.C. Celebrities often try to mo- bilize the public, whether it’s Eva Longoria, Tracee Ellis Ross and Julia Louis-Dreyfus hosting the Democratic National Convention or Jon Voight recording video clips to praise Trump. But in this case, Evans is using his status in a different way, to entice even the most hesitant Republican to sit down for an even-toned chat. And he’s will- ing to pose with anyone, even if it means explaining himself on “The Daily Show” after Repub- ROSA PINEDA/U.S. Senate lican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas On one of his trips to Washington, D.C., to conduct interviews for “A Starting Point,” actor Chris Evans, left, spoke with Alaska Sen. Lisa posted a selfi e with Evans. Murkowski. Evans launched the online platform with fellow actor-director Mark Kassen and entrepreneur Joe Kiani. CONTINUED ON PAGE 17 Sunday, November 1, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 17 ENTERTAINMENT

FROM PAGE 16 Murkowski remembers when Evans came to Capitol Hill for the fi rst time in 2018. She admits she didn’t actually know who he was — she hadn’t yet seen any Marvel movies. She was in the minority. “We meet interesting and important people but, man, when Captain America was in the Sen- ate, it was all the buzz,” she says. “And people were like, ‘Did you get your picture taken?’ I said, ‘Yeah, I sat down and did the interview.’ ‘You did an interview? How did you get an interview with him?’ ” What impressed Murkowski wasn’t his star power. It was the way Evans conducted the interview. “It was relaxing,” she says. “You didn’t feel like you were in front of a reporter who was just waiting for you to say something you would get caught on later. It was a dialogue ... and we need more dialogue and less gotcha.” “Starting Points” offers two-minute answers by elected offi cials in eight topic areas, including education, the en- ABC vironment and the economy. In the second episode of season three of “The Conners,” Mary (Jayden Rey), right, is devastated that Halloween has been canceled by This is where the interviews the city, so Darlene and Becky enlist the rest of the family to create an unforgettable night for her and Mark, left (Ames McNamara). Evans conducted can be found. “Daily Points” has featured a steady fl ow of Republicans and Democrats. A third area, “Counterpoints,” hosts short debates between offi cials on ‘Couldn’t be more relevant’ particular subjects. For example, Rep. Eric Swalwell, a Democrat from California, debated mail-in voting with Dusty Johnson, the The Conner family tackles COVID-19 in season 3 of the ABC show Republican congressman from South Dakota. BY GREG BRAXTON overdue mortgage. Jackie and Becky have back. We all need to laugh. But it’s still re- “Most Americans can’t name Los Angeles Times sunk their inheritance money into reopen- ally melancholy. There is so much going on more than fi ve members of the ing the Lunch Box diner. the world, and there’s huge fi nancial risks. United States House,” Johnson wo years after the death of Rose- As the season opens, the Lunch Box is It’s pretty frightening for the majority of says. “ ‘A Starting Point’ allows anne Conner, the surviving Con- closed except for takeout and delivery be- Americans, and that is really refl ected in thoughtful members to talk to a ners are still in turmoil. They’re cause of the pandemic, and it’s struggling to the show in how the Conners are picking up broader audience than we would now dealing with the COVID-19 stay afl oat. Unable to hire a delivery person, the pieces now. normally have.” pandemic, and the troubles just Jackie delivers orders on a bike, and Becky The show has always found humor in The platform’s social media Tkeep piling on. is forced to take a second job at Wellman dire situations. But what’s happening with team pushes out potentially But that hasn’t stopped “The Conners,” Plastics. the Lunch Box is happening with restau- newsworthy clips, whether it’s ABC’s comedy about a struggling working- In an interview via videoconference last rants all over the country. It’s a wrenching Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, discuss- class family, from fi nding laughter and light week, Metcalf and Goranson discussed situation. ing his meeting with Barrett in the darkness. working during a pandemic and their Metcalf: It couldn’t be more relevant than just before he tested positive A spinoff of the short-lived “Roseanne” feelings about the continuing plight of the where we last left the Conners. Becky and for the coronavirus, or Angus revival starring Roseanne Barr, which was Conners. Jackie sunk their inheritance money into King, the independent senator canceled in 2018 after its namesake made Los Angeles Times: When did you know this restaurant, and now the two of them are from Maine, criticizing Trump racist comments on Twitter, “The Conners,” what would be happening to the Con- in a predicament like so many people. for his comments on a potential entering its third season, continues to tackle ners this season, and what’s it been like Goranson: There were so many stakes peaceful transfer of power after topical issues facing the country. The hard- returning under very different circum- in Becky’s and Jackie’s journey to open the November’s election. ships on families wrestling with the impact stances? Lunch Box. They had to fi ght hard and have Kassen notes that the King clip of COVID-19 are center stage as the Con- Laurie Metcalf: I knew it would become their business plan. They risked some of was viewed more than 175,000 ners confront a dire fi nancial situation and part of the show because “The Conners” has their familial relationships to get it going. times on “A Starting Point’s” internal family tension. always been dealing with what’s going on Things got really tense. Twitter account, compared The impact of the coronavirus also has in everyone’s life. The iffy part was know- Metcalf: It put a wedge in the family. This with the 10,000 who caught it on been felt behind the scenes — the series ing how it would be dealt with in terms of is the most intense situation that Jackie has CNN’s social media platform. was the fi rst ABC comedy to go back into the cast and the crew. We come in minimal had to deal with. She’s gone though relation- “Because it’s short-form production, and strict guidelines requiring contact when we actually shoot our scenes ships and other stuff, but the stakes on this media, we’re engineered to be masks and social distancing were instituted together. We drop our masks and sometimes are pretty high. They used their safety net social,” Kassen says. “As a result, before the cast and crew returned to the set. we’re closer than six feet. But it’s for a very to open. It’s do or die for this place. when something catches hold, “I was hesitant — it seemed too early to short period of time, and then the masks go Is it harder this season to strike that it’s passed around our audience come back because no one else was doing on again and we will scatter. delicate tone between seriousness and pretty well.” it,” said Laurie Metcalf, who plays Jackie We’re doing a lot of testing and sanitizing, humor? The key is to use modern tools Harris. “When I heard all the safety mea- but the environment has been a comfortable Metcalf: It comes from the writers. They to push out content that’s tonally sures being taken, we all felt more comfort- one and one where everyone is dedicated to do the heavy lifting for us, walking that fi ne different from what you might able to take that fi rst step. And we’ve all looking out for each other. We have to stay line. I don’t know how they do it, but the fi nd on modern cable news. Or been very strict about it.” on top of it without becoming complacent. tone is right on the page as a blueprint of on social media. Which is what Meanwhile, there’s been a halt to the live Lecy Goranson: The Conners are how to play the scene. But it’s very different Evans hopes leads to more audiences that would attend Friday night always going through crisis, so the family without that live audience. We don’t get that engagement. He’s particularly tapings. is somewhat prepared for something like adrenaline boost we would get on Friday proud that more than 10,000 Lecy Goranson, who plays Becky Conner, this. They’re constantly in a state of fi ghting night. We’ve got a great crew that still fi nds people have registered to vote misses their instant reactions: “They were some greater force, and they band together us semi-funny in rehearsal, and they will through “A Starting Point” since so excited. Many of them have been watch- as they do that. This is no exception. As chuckle so we sort of know what’s working. it went online. ing the show since the ’80s. They know our in real life, the Conners are handling the But it’s been a learning curve to do (it) with- “If the downstream impact characters.” COVID situation differently. The younger out an audience after all these years. And or the byproduct of this site is When last we saw “The Conners,” which generation has their stance — my TV now we’re doing it out of sequence. When we some sort of unity between the has established a solid foothold in the nephew Mark (played by Ames McNamara) have the audience, we do it like a play. Now parties, great,” Evans says. “But ABC lineup, Dan Conner (John Goodman) is really adamant about things. we jump around. But we’re fi nding a new if nobody’s still voting, it doesn’t learned that the bank was about to foreclose It’s interesting — everyone needs new momentum. And all of us are so grateful to work. We need people involved.” on the family home and wouldn’t extend his content and are looking to shows coming be back, that’s for sure. PAGE 18 •STARS AND STRIPES• Sunday, November 1, 2020 OPINION Max D. Lederer Jr., Publisher Lt. Col. Marci Hoffman, Europe commander Lt. Col. Richard McClintic, Pacific commander The danger in social media defining the truth Caroline E. Miller, Europe Business Operations BY STEPHEN L. CARTER Nevertheless, the tech giants, by pass- proper practice of democracy. Bloomberg Opinion ing judgment on what’s too unreliable to Nowadays, when we say “democracy” we EDITORIAL be seen, are taking tentative steps down a almost always think of voting. But I cling emocrats and Republicans alike road that’s rarely led anywhere good. Even to a classical vision in which voting is only Terry Leonard, Editor missed the point on Wednesday, [email protected] private restriction, although not matching one piece of what makes democracy valu- when members of the Senate any of the classic definitions of censor- able. More vital is acknowledging our joint Robert H. Reid, Senior Managing Editor Commerce Committee had their ship, betrays a kind of hubris — what John participation, together with co-equals, in [email protected] D last chance before the election to grill the Stuart Mill famously derided as a belief in a common enterprise of self-governance; Tina Croley, Managing Editor for Content CEOs of Facebook, Twitter and Google. one’s own infallibility. Worse, what tends an enterprise in which we respect, among [email protected] With the GOP on the hunt for partisan to motivate the removal of bad information other things, the ability of our fellow citi- bias and the Democrats urging greater ef- is a fear of the danger posed by whatever zens to decide for themselves which ar- Managing Editor for Presentation Sean Moores, forts to reduce misinformation, both sides is being omitted or suppressed — a worry gument to accept. When a point of view [email protected] ignored some fundamental principles of about what might happen should the wrong is suppressed because those who hold the Joe Gromelski, Managing Editor for Digital democracy. people wind up seeing it. power to shape dialogue consider it wrong [email protected] The ostensible purpose of the hearing The deep problem here isn’t that the com- — even dangerously wrong — we’re en- was to resume the argument over whether panies often act as though they’re wearing gaged in the opposite of democracy. BUREAU STAFF to amend Section 230 of the Communica- partisan blinders. The problem is that even Censorship deprives individuals of the tions Decency Act. In truth, Republicans were the work done with perfect political ethical right to decide for themselves what Europe/Mideast called the tech CEOs to press them on their neutrality, the determination to avoid the to believe. That a private company has the Erik Slavin, Europe & Mideast Bureau Chief handling of a controversial New York Post use of a platform to spread “misinforma- unquestioned freedom to violate that ethi- [email protected] story that alleges wrongdoing by Hunter tion” would still display the same basic cal right doesn’t mean that it should. +49(0)631.3615.9350; DSN (314)583.9350 Biden, son of Democratic presidential attitude. When a platform spots a piece it None of this means that I oppose efforts Pacific nominee Joe Biden. Democratic senators considers suspect and its staff or review by social media companies to moderate Aaron Kidd, Pacific Bureau Chief responded that the GOP was trying to partners say, “Nope, can’t let people see content. Given the influence of their plat- [email protected] “bully” the techies. this,” the unspoken message is, “We here forms, I think it’s wise and good to edit out +81.42.552.2511 ext. 88380; DSN (315)227.7380 Well, goodness. at Twinstabook are clever enough to un- personal attacks, harassment, and the like. Washington Let’s start with a reminder that the so- derstand what’s really going on. The peo- But the same reason — the importance of Joseph Cacchioli, Washington Bureau Chief cial media companies are private enter- ple who rely on our platform aren’t.” the platforms — forces me to conclude that [email protected] prises, and even in the run-up to an election On issues from climate change to the companies are mistaken in restricting (+1)(202)886-0033 — one might say especially in the run-up to COVID-19, the social media companies points of view they consider wrong. Brian Bowers, Assistant Managing Editor, News an election — they’re clothed with a First often take the view that there are argu- My libertarian soul fears any effort by [email protected] Amendment right to curate content on ments too dangerous to allow their users government to impose on privately owned CIRCULATION their sites as they like. Yes, absolutely, one to see. I agree that climate change poses companies a different set of rules. And might sometimes wish that they acted in a a dangerous threat and that bad advice I’ll grieve for true democracy if the social Mideast more principled and even-handed manner, about the coronavirus could lead to a dead- media giants continue to display so much Robert Reismann, Mideast Circulation Manager but did I happen to mention that they’re lier spread. 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This year, the electoral vote dent Franklin Roosevelt by just 0.36% of Ernie Gates know that Vice President Walter Mondale’s inflation factor favoring Biden should have the vote, and it chose Nixon over Kennedy elegant words of concession on election the wholesome effect of dampening Demo- in 1960 by 6.56%. night 40 years ago are still apposite: “The The Stars and Stripes ombudsman protects the free flow crats’ enthusiasm for abolition. The decline of political competitiveness of news and information, reporting any attempts by the American people quietly wielded their Trump, no stickler for precision, said is apparent in these numbers: In 1976, 20 military or other authorities to undermine the newspaper’s staggering power, and peacefully, without that in 2016 he won a “massive landslide” states were won by five percentage points independence. 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Stewart Darnold (right shoulder), T George Fant Cleveland 5 2 0 .714 200 221 (back), LB Sione Takitaki (hand). (knee), T Alex Lewis (shoulder), TE Trev- Cincinnati 1 5 1 .214 163 194 LOS ANGELES CHARGERS at DENVER Friday on Wesco (hand). CHIEFS: OUT: T Mitch- Bermuda Championship At Wiener Stadthalle West BRONCOS — CHARGERS: OUT: G Gray Kansas City 6 1 0 .857 218 143 Turner (groin). QUESTIONABLE: T Brian ell Schwartz (back), WR Sammy Watkins Vienna (hamstring). FULL: DE Taco Charlton PGA Tour Purse: $1,409,510 Las Vegas 3 3 0 .500 171 197 Bulaga (back), T Storm Norton (knee), Friday Denver 2 4 0 .333 116 153 QB Tyrod Taylor (ribs). BRONCOS: OUT: (knee), T Eric Fisher (shoulder), DT Chris Surface: Hardcourt indoor Jones (groin), DT Derrick Nnadi (ankle), At Port Royal Golf Course Men’s Singles L.A. Chargers 2 4 0 .333 149 154 TE Andrew Beck (hamstring), WR Dion- Southampton, Bermuda NATIONAL CONFERENCE tae Spencer (shoulder). QUESTIONABLE: C Austin Reiter (knee), DT Khalen Saun- Quarterfinals ders (elbow), S Armani Watts (illness), Purse: $4 million Kevin Anderson, South Africa, def. East LB Jeremiah Attaochu (quadricep), TE Yardage: 6,842; Par: 71 W L T Pct PF PA Jake Butt (hamstring), T Demar Dotson RB Darrel Williams (shoulder), T Andrew Daniil Medvedev (4), Russia, 6-4, 7-6 (5). Wylie (foot). Friday Andrey Rublev (5), Russia, def. Domi- Philadelphia 2 4 1 .357 163 196 (not injury related), RB Phillip Lindsay Ryan Armour 64-70—134 -8 Dallas 2 5 0 .286 176 243 (concussion), WR Tim Patrick (ham- PITTSBURGH STEELERS at BALTIMORE nic Thiem (2), Austria, 7-6 (5), 6-2. RAVENS — STEELERS: OUT: S Jordan Wyndham Clark 66-68—134 -8 Lorenzo Sonego, Italy, def. Novak Washington 2 5 0 .286 133 165 string), G Austin Schlottmann (not injury Kramer Hickok 67-68—135 -7 N.Y. Giants 1 6 0 .143 122 174 related). FULL: TE Noah Fant (ankle), DE Dangerfield (quadricep), LB Ulysees Gil- Djokovic (1), Serbia, 6-2, 6-1. bert (back), DE Chris Wormley (knee). Ollie Schniederjans 66-70—136 -6 Daniel Evans, Britain, vs. Grigor Dimi- South Shelby Harris (illness), WR Jerry Jeudy Doc Redman 65-71—136 -6 Tampa Bay 5 2 0 .714 222 142 (shoulder). QUESTIONABLE: CB Mike Hilton (shoul- trov, Bulgaria, 7-6 (3), 4-6, 6-3. New Orleans 4 2 0 .667 180 174 LOS ANGELES RAMS at MIAMI DOL- der), FB Derek Watt (hamstring). FULL: Denny McCarthy 70-67—137 -5 Men’s Doubles Luke Donald 69-68—137 -5 Carolina 3 5 0 .375 179 193 PHINS — RAMS: QUESTIONABLE: TE Ty- G David DeCastro (not injury related), TE Semifinals Atlanta 2 6 0 .250 209 224 Roger Sloan 67-70—137 -5 ler Higbee (hand). DOLPHINS: OUT: CB Eric Ebron (elbow), WR Diontae Johnson Jamie Murray and Neal Skupski, Brit- North Jamal Perry (foot). QUESTIONABLE: TE (toe), C Maurkice Pouncey (elbow), QB Kiradech Aphibarnrat 71-66—137 -5 ain, def. Robert Farah, Colombia, and Green Bay 5 1 0 .833 197 159 Adam Shaheen (shoulder). FULL: DT Rae- Scott Piercy 67-70—137 -5 Fabrice Martin, France, 6-4, 6-4. Ben Roethlisberger (not injury related), Chicago 5 2 0 .714 138 140 kwon Davis (shoulder), S Kavon Frazier WR JuJu Smith-Schuster (knee), DE Ste- Detroit 3 3 0 .500 156 165 (shoulder), WR Jakeem Grant (illness), phon Tuitt (elbow), T Alejandro Villanue- Minnesota 1 5 0 .167 155 192 LB Kamu Grugier-Hill (hand), CB Xavien va (elbow). RAVENS: DOUBTFUL: RB Mark Deals West Howard (knee), CB Byron Jones (achil- Ingram (ankle). QUESTIONABLE: S Antho- Seattle 5 1 0 .833 203 172 les), DE Shaq Lawson (shoulder), S Bob- ny Levine (abdomen), CB Jimmy Smith Arizona 5 2 0 .714 203 146 by McCain (ankle), WR DeVante Parker (achilles). DNP: LB Pernell McPhee (not L.A. Rams 5 2 0 .714 176 124 (groin), LB Kyle Van Noy (foot). BUFFALO BILLS — Activated TE Lee injury related), DE Derek Wolfe (not inju- Friday’s transactions San Francisco 4 3 0 .571 181 136 MINNESOTA VIKINGS at GREEN BAY ry related, neck). FULL: CB Marlon Hum- Smith from the reserve/COVID-19 list. Thursday’s game PACKERS — VIKINGS: OUT: CB Holton BASEBALL CINCINNATI BENGALS — Signed G phrey (illness), G Tyre Phillips (hand). Atlanta 25, Carolina 17 Hill (foot), CB Mike Hughes (neck). SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS at SEATTLE Major League Baseball Quinton Spain to the practice squad. Re- Sunday’s games QUESTIONABLE: WR Dan Chisena (hip). MLB — Announced approval of new leased DE Kendall Futrell. SEAHAWKS — 49ERS: OUT: WR Deebo Indianapolis at Detroit FULL: CB Kris Boyd (hamstring, back), Samuel (hamstring), RB Jeffery Wilson ownership group for the New York Mets CLEVELAND BROWNS — Claimed LB L.A. Rams at Miami RB Dalvin Cook (groin), S Anthony Harris led by Steve Cohen. Elijah Lee from Detroit waivers. Las Vegas at Cleveland (ankle). DOUBTFUL: LB Kwon Alexan- (wrist), G Dru Samia (wrist), WR Adam der (ankle), WR Richie James (ankle), S American League DALLAS COWBOYS — Signed QB Coo- Minnesota at Green Bay Thielen (shoulder). PACKERS: OUT: RB BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Claimed INF per Rush to the practice squad. N.Y. Jets at Kansas City Aaron Jones (calf), CB Kevin King (quad- Jaquiski Tartt (groin). QUESTIONABLE: Yolmer Sanchez for Chicago White Sox DENVER BRONCOS — Placed G Graham New England at Buffalo ricep). QUESTIONABLE: T David Bakhtiari DE Kentavius Street (illness), S Jimmie waivers. Glasgow on reserve/COVID-19 list. Pittsburgh at Baltimore (chest), K Mason Crosby (left calf, back), Ward (quadricep). SEAHAWKS: OUT: CB CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Reinstated DETROIT LIONS — Signed RB Jona- Tennessee at Cincinnati RB Tyler Ervin (wrist), S Raven Greene Shaquill Griffin (concussion, hamstring). RHP Michael Kopech from the restricted than Williams from Washington practice L.A. Chargers at Denver (oblique), DT Tyler Lancaster (shoulder), DOUBTFUL: S Ugochukwu Amadi (ham- list. Reinstated RHP Jimmy Lambert from squad. New Orleans at Chicago QB John Lovett (knee), S Darnell Savage string), RB Carlos Hyde (hamstring), G the 60-day IL. Declined club options on LAS VEGAS RAIDERS — Activated RT San Francisco at Seattle (quadricep). LIMITED: LB Krys Barnes Mike Iupati (back). QUESTIONABLE: S DH Edwin Encarnacion and LHP Gio Gon- Trent Brown and CB Damon Arnette from Dallas at Philadelphia (shoulder, biceps), LS Hunter Bradley Jamal Adams (groin), RB Chris Carson zalez. the reserve/COVID-19 list. Open: Houston, Jacksonville, Arizona, (groin), LB Rashan Gary (ankle), TE Mar- (foot), RB Travis Homer (knee), DE Ben- CLEVELAND INDIANS — Declined club LOS ANGELES CHARGERS — Placed OL Washington cedes Lewis (knee), LB Kamal Martin son Mayowa (ankle), CB Ryan Neal (ham- options on 1B Carlos Santana, OF Domin- Trey Pipkins on the reserve/COVID-19 Monday’s game (knee), LB Preston Smith (shoulder), LB string). go Santana and LHP Brad Hand. list. Tampa Bay at N.Y. Giants Za’Darius Smith (ankle), WR Equanime- TENNESSEE TITANS at CINCINNATI DETROIT TIGERS — Named A.J. Hinch LOS ANGELES RAMS — Activated DL ous St. Brown (knee). FULL: CB Jaire Al- BENGALS — TITANS: OUT: S Dane Crui- manager with a multi-year contract. A’Shawn Robinson from the injured re- NFL injury report exander (hand, knee), TE Robert Tonyan kshank (groin), CB Kristian Fulton (knee). KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Claimed serve (NFI) list (ankle, knee). QUESTIONABLE: C Daniel Munyer (hand), RHP Carlos Sanabria off outright waiv- MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Placed LB Todd NEW YORK — The National Football NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS at BUFFALO CB Tye Smith (shoulder). FULL: WR A.J. ers from Houston. Assigned RHP Kevin Davis on reserve/COVID-19 list. Placed League injury report, as provided by the BILLS — PATRIOTS: OUT: DT Carl Davis Brown (knee), LB Jadeveon Clowney McCarthy and LHP Mike Montgomery league (DNP: did not practice; LIMITED: (concussion), WR Julian Edelman (knee), (knee), CB Johnathan Joseph (illness), T CB Mike Hughes on injured reserve. Sign WR N’Keal Harry (concussion). DNP: CB outright to Omaha (PCL). Activated LHP S Curtis Riley to active roster. limited participation; FULL: Full partici- Dennis Kelly (knee), DT Jeffery Simmons pation): Stephon Gilmore (knee). LIMITED: LB Foster Griffin, RHPs Glenn Sparkman and PHILADELPHIA EAGLES — Placed DE (not injury related). BENGALS: OUT: T Kyle Zimmer from the 60-day IL. SUNDAY Shilique Calhoun (knee), S Kyle Dugger Bobby Hart (knee), C Trey Hopkins (con- Genard Avery and LB Nate Gerry on in- DALLAS COWBOYS at PHILADELPHIA (ankle), DT Lawrence Guy (ankle), RB LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Assigned C jured reserve. cussion), RB Joe Mixon (foot), T Jonah EAGLES — COWBOYS: DOUBTFUL: QB Damien Harris (ankle), T Justin Herron Williams (stinger). DOUBTFUL: WR John Jose Briceno, RHP Cam Bedrosian and TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Activated INF Elliot Soto outright to Salt Lake (PCL). Andy Dalton (concussion). LIMITED: P (ankle), CB J.C. Jackson (knee), TE Dalton Ross (illness). DNP: T Bobby Hart (knee), OL John Molchon from injured reserve. Chris Jones (abdomen). FULL: G Zack Keene (knee), G Shaquille Mason (calf), C Trey Hopkins (concussion), RB Joe Activated RHP Justin Anderson from 60- HOCKEY day IL. Martin (concussion), S Xavier Woods DE John Simon (shoulder), T Joe Thuney Mixon (foot), CB Darius Phillips (knee), National Hockey League (not injury related). EAGLES: OUT: T Jack (ankle). BILLS: OUT: T Cody Ford (knee), WR John Ross (illness), T Jonah Williams MINNESOTA TWINS — Claimed RHP Ian DALLAS STARS — Signed D Julius CB Josh Norman (hamstring). QUESTION- Gibaut off waivers from Texas. Claimed Driscoll (ankle), CB Craig James (ham- (stinger). FULL: DT Geno Atkins (not in- Honka to a one-year, two-way contract. string), WR Alshon Jeffery (calf), CB ABLE: DT Vernon Butler (groin), DE Jerry jury related), LB Markus Bailey (neck), LHP Brandon Waddell off waivers from SOCCER Cre’von LeBlanc (quadricep), RB Miles Hughes (foot), S Micah Hyde (concus- Pittsburgh. TE Cethan Carter (shoulder), DT Mike Major League Soccer Sanders (knee). DNP: DE Genard Avery sion), DT Quinton Jefferson (knee), CB Daniels (not injury related), CB William NEW YORK YANKEES — Exercised 2021 MLS — Fined MF Diego Valeri an undis- (elbow), LB Nathan Gerry (ankle). FULL: Cameron Lewis (wrist), LB Matt Milano and 2022 club option for LHP Zack Britton Jackson (concussion), G Michael Jordan closed amount for simulation/embellish- DE Vinny Curry (illness), DT Malik Jack- (pectoral), G Brian Winters (knee). LIM- (back), S Brandon Wilson (knee). and declined 2021 options for OF Brett ment in a match against Seattle on Oct. son (quadricep), T Lane Johnson (knee, ITED: QB Jake Fromm (not injury related), Gardner and LHP J.A. Happ. ankle), S K’Von Wallace (neck). CB Cameron Lewis (wrist), LB Matt Mi- MONDAY 22. Fined D Jose Bizama an undisclosed TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS at NEW TEXAS RANGERS — Declined 2021 club amount for simulation/embellishment in INDIANAPOLIS COLTS at DETROIT LI- lano (pectoral). FULL: QB Josh Allen (left option for RHP Corey Kluber. Assigned ONS — COLTS: QUESTIONABLE: TE Mo shoulder), WR John Brown (knee), DE YORK GIANTS — BUCCANEERS: DNP: WR a match against Los Angeles FC on Oct. Chris Godwin (finger). LIMITED: TE Rob RHP Luke Farrell outright to Nashville 28 and absolved the yellow card against Alie-Cox (knee), C Ryan Kelly (knee). DNP: Jerry Hughes (foot), DT Quinton Jeffer- (PCL). S Julian Blackmon (not injury related), T son (knee), WR Isaiah McKenzie (ankle), Gronkowski (shoulder), WR Scott Miller MF Latif Blessing from Los Angeles FC (hip, groin), DE Jason Pierre-Paul (knee), TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Exercised as a result of the incident. Fined head Anthony Castonzo (not injury related), G Brian Winters (knee). 2021 club option for RHP Rafael Dolis. WR T.Y. Hilton (not injury related). FULL: NEW ORLEANS SAINTS at CHICAGO S Antoine Winfield (shoulder, groin). GI- coach Diego Alonso from Inter Miami for ANTS: DNP: RB Devonta Freeman (ankle). Declined 2021 club option for RHP Chase the second mass confrontation violation DT Denico Autry (not injury related), TE BEARS — SAINTS: OUT: WR Marquez Cal- Anderson. Trey Burton (not injury related), TE Jack laway (ankle), G Nick Easton (elbow), LIMITED: S Adrian Colbert (shoulder), of the season during a match on Oct. 28. CB Darnay Holmes (neck), WR Sterling National Legue Fined Matiass Vera from Houston Dy- Doyle (not injury related), T Chaz Green WR Michael Thomas (ankle, hamstring). ATLANTA BRAVES — Signed OF Abra- (back), DE Justin Houston (not injury re- LIMITED: T Terron Armstead (elbow). Shepard (shoulder, toe), FULL: WR C.J. ham Almonte. namo an undisclosed amount for failure lated), LB Darius Leonard (groin). LIONS: BEARS: OUT: C Cody Whitehair (calf). Board (concussion), T Cameron Fleming CHICAGO CUBS — Claimed INF Max to leave the field in a match against Los QUESTIONABLE: T Taylor Decker (shoul- DOUBTFUL: WR Allen Robinson (concus- (not injury related), C Nick Gates (not Schrock off waivers from St. Louis. De- Angeles FC on Oct. 28. Fined D Francisco der), LB Jalen Reeves-Maybin (not injury sion). QUESTIONABLE: S Eddie Jackson injury related), G Shane Lemieux (not clined option on LHP Jon Lester. Assigned Calvo from Chicago Fire an undisclosed related), CB Darryl Roberts (groin, hip), (knee), LB Khalil Mack (ankle), S Sherrick injury related), C Spencer Pulley (not LHP Rex Brothers outright to Iowa (PCL). amount for failure to leave the field in a CB Desmond Trufant (hamstring). FULL: McManis (hamstring), WR Cordarrelle injury related), T Andrew Thomas (not LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Option has match against Philadelphia FC on Oct. RB Adrian Peterson (abdomen). Patterson (quadricep). FULL: T Rashaad injury related). been declined for RHP Jimmy Rogers. 28. Rescinded the one-game suspension MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Assigned and fine for a red card issued to Fran- 3B Ryon Healy outright to San Antonio cisco Calvo from Chicago Fire in a match (PCL). against Philadelphia Union. Pro soccer NEW YORK METS — Claimed RHP Ja- MINNESOTA UNITED FC — Aquired MF cob Barnes off waivers from Los Angeles Sam Gleadle, F Foster Langsdorf and MF Angels and Nick Tropeano off waivers Kevina Partida. MLS Friday, Oct. 23 Sunday’s games from Pittsburgh. National Women’s Soccer League New England 1, Nashville 1, tie Philadelphia at Columbus PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Assigned CHICAGO RED STARS — Announced EASTERN CONFERENCE Saturday, Oct. 24 Cincinnati at Atlanta RHPs Kyle Zimmer and Heathe Hembree, new contracts for G Emily Boyd, MFs Dan- W L T Pts GF GA Miami 2, Orlando City 1 New York at New York City FC INF Phil Gosselin, RHP Blake Parker and ielle Colaprico, Vanessa DiBernardo and x-Philadelphia 13 3 5 44 41 18 D.C. United 2, Atlanta 1 Orlando City at Montreal LHP Adam Morgan outright to Lehigh Zoey Goralski and Ds Hannah Davison, x-Toronto FC 12 4 5 41 30 23 New York 2, Chicago 2, tie D.C. United at New England Valley (IL). Activated RHP David Robert- Sarah Gorden, Bianca St. Georges, Kayla x-Columbus 10 5 5 35 31 17 Minnesota 1, Cincinnati 0 Minnesota at Sporting Kansas City son from 60-day IL. Claimed RHP Johan Sharples and Arin Wright, Fs Rachel Hill, x-Orlando City 9 3 8 35 35 21 New York City FC 3, Montreal 1 Miami at Toronto FC Quezada from Miami waivers. Declined Kaitlyn Johnson and Alyssa Mautz. Exer- x-New York City FC10 8 3 33 28 20 Philadelphia 5, Toronto FC 0 Seattle at Colorado club options on RHP David Phelps, RHP cised options for F Makenzy Doniak and x-New York 8 8 5 29 25 25 Columbus 1, Houston 1, tie Vancouver at Portland Hector Neris and RHP David Robertson. G Cassie Miller. x-New England 7 6 8 29 22 20 Sporting Kansas City 4, Colorado 0 Real Salt Lake at LA Galaxy PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Claimed C ORLANDO PRIDE — Waived F Abby x-Nashville 7 6 7 28 20 18 FC Dallas 0, Real Salt Lake 0, tie Los Angeles FC at San Jose Michael Perez from Tampa Bay waivers. Elinsky, Ds Julie King and Morgan Reid. Montreal 7 12 2 23 30 40 Vancouver 2, San Jose 1 Wednesday’s games Assigned Luke Maile, Kevin Kramer, John Announced new contracts for MFs Claire Inter Miami CF 6 12 3 21 22 32 Columbus at Orlando City Sunday, Oct. 25 Chicago at Minnesota Ryan Murphy, Jason Martin, Yacksel Rios Emslie, Emily van Egmond and Marissa Chicago 5 9 6 21 27 32 Los Angeles FC 2, LA Galaxy 0 outright to Indianapolis (IL). Viggiano, Fs Kristen Edmonds and Syd- D.C. United 5 10 6 21 20 34 FC Dallas at Nashville Tuesday, Oct. 27 Colorado at Portland ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Activated ney Leroux, Ds Camila Martins Pereira, Atlanta 5 12 4 19 20 28 Nashville 1, Montreal 0 Alanna Kennedy and Toni Pressley. Ex- Cincinnati 4 13 4 16 11 32 Seattle at LA Galaxy RHPs John Brebba, Dakota Hudson and Seattle 2, Vancouver 0 ercised options for MFs Taylor Kornieck, WESTERN CONFERENCE Sunday, Nov. 8 Mike Mikolas from the 60-day IL. Activat- Wednesday, Oct. 28 ed RHP Jordan Hicks from the restricted Marta Vieira da Silva and Jade Moore, G W L T Pts GF GA New York City FC at Chicago Erin McLeod, Ds Carson Pickett and Ali x-Sporting KC 11 6 3 36 36 25 New York 1, New England 0 Atlanta at Columbus list. Sent LHP Ricardo Sanchez and RHP Sporting Kansas City 1, Cincinnati 0 Nabil Crismatt to Memphis (PCL). Riley. Waived D Morgan Reid. x-Seattle 10 4 5 35 38 18 Montreal at D.C. United WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Selected SKY BLUE FC — Announced new con- x-Portland 10 5 5 35 44 33 Orlando City 4, Atlanta 1 Cincinnati at Miami the contract of RHP Steven Fuentes from tract offers for MFs Nicole Baxter and x-Los Angeles FC 9 7 4 31 44 35 Philadelphia 2, Chicago 1 Toronto FC at New York alternate training site. Kenie Wright, D Mandy Freeman and x-Minnesota United 8 5 6 30 31 24 New York City FC 1, Toronto FC 0 Nashville at Orlando City FOOTBALL Caprice Dydasco, Gs Didi Haracic and FC Dallas 7 5 7 28 24 21 D.C. United 1, Columbus 0 New England at Philadelphia National Football League Megan Hinz, Fs Ifeoma Onumonu and San Jose 7 8 6 27 31 45 Minnesota 2, Colorado 1 Colorado at Houston ARIZONA CARDINALS — Signed CB Imani Dorsey. Exercised options for MFs Vancouver 8 13 0 24 24 43 FC Dallas 2, Miami 1 Portland at Los Angeles FC De’Vante Bausby to a one-year contract. Elizabeth Eddy, Nahomi Kawasumi, Domi Real Salt Lake 5 8 7 22 24 31 Portland 5, LA Galaxy 2 FC Dallas at Minnesota ATLANTA FALCONS — Activated DE Richardson, McCall Zerboni and Sarah Houston 4 8 9 21 29 35 Los Angeles FC 2, Houston 1 Sporting Kansas City at Real Salt Lake John Cominsky from the reserve/COVID- Woldmoe, Ds Estelle Johnson, Gina Le- Colorado 5 6 4 19 26 26 San Jose 2, Real Salt Lake 0 San Jose at Seattle 19 list. wandowski, Kaleigh Riehl and Erica LA Galaxy 5 11 3 18 24 41 Saturday’s games LA Galaxy at Vancouver BALTIMORE RAVENS — Signed LT Ron- Skroski, Fs Paige Monaghan and Margret Note: For the 2020 season, MLS deter- Houston at FC Dallas nie Stanley to a five-year extension. Purce. mines standings using points per game. Chicago at Nashville SEE SCOREBOARD ON PAGE 20 PAGE 20 • S TARS AND STRIPES• Sunday, November 1, 2020 SCOREBOARD/MLB/SPORTS BRIEFS

FROM PAGE 19 Auto racing Free agent total rises as teams cut back NASCAR Hall of Fame 200 NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series Associated Press $4.5 million options. Gyorko gets Friday At Martinsville Speedway NEW YORK — Jon Lester, a $1 million buyout and Sogard Martinsville. Lap length: 0.53 miles Corey Kluber and Brad Hand $500,000. (Start position in parentheses) were among 15 more major The 32-year-old Gyorko hit .248 1. (8) Grant Enfinger, Ford, 200 laps, 51 points. leaguers who became free agents with nine homers and 17 RBIs in 2. (7) Ben Rhodes, Ford, 200, 42. 42 games and 135 at-bats. Sogard, 3. (2) Zane Smith, Chevrolet, 200, 41. Friday when teams declined their 4. (14) Christian Eckes, Toyota, 200, 41. 2021 options, many the victims of who turns 35 on May 22, hit .209 5. (5) Matt Crafton, Ford, 200, 50. with one homer, 10 RBIs and a 6. (18) Stewart Friesen, Toyota, 200, 42. budget cuts following a regular 7. (19) Danny Bohn, Toyota, 200, 30. season without fans due to the .560 OPS in 43 games. 8. (1) Sheldon Creed, Chevrolet, 200, 39. 9. (13) Austin Wayne Self, Chevrolet, new coronavirus pandemic. “I think there’s a recognition 200, 28. that flexibility is important right 10. (11) Derek Kraus, Toyota, 200, 27. Also cut loose were Milwau- 11. (21) Trevor Bayne, Chevrolet, 200, 26. kee infielders Jedd Gyorko and now, and we don’t know what the 12. (6) Tyler Ankrum, Chevrolet, 200, 30. next couple of months are going to 13. (33) Carson Hocevar, Chevrolet, Eric Sogard, Chicago White Sox 200, 26. designated hitter Edwin Encar- look like,” general manager David 14. (23) Timmy Hill, Chevrolet, 200, 23. 15. (17) Spencer Boyd, Chevrolet, 200, 22. nacion and left-hander Gio Gon- Stearns said. “We don’t know 16. (24) Dawson Cram, Chevrolet, 200, 21. what the environment is going 17. (9) Brandon Jones, Toyota, 200, 0. zalez, and Philadelphia relievers 18. (22) Sam Mayer, Chevrolet, acci- David Robertson, Hector Neris to be as we do plan for a spring dent, 199, 19. training in the 2021 season. So we 19. (16) Jordan Anderson, Chevrolet, and David Phelps. 199, 18. AL champion Tampa Bay de- have to remain flexible. ” 20. (10) Raphael Lessard, Toyota, 199, 26. 21. (32) Clay Greenfield, Toyota, 198, 16. clined 2021 options on right-hand- Cleveland declined Hand’s $10 22. (28) BJ McLeod, Chevrolet, 198, 0. er Charlie Morton and catcher million option and also turned 23. (15) Johnny Sauter, Ford, 197, 25. 24. (37) Parker Kligerman, Toyota, 196, Mike Zunino but says it remains down first baseman Carlos San- 13. tana ($17.5 million). The Indians 25. (30) Ray Ciccarelli, Chevrolet, 196, 12. hopeful of re-signing them. 26. (34) Norm Benning, Chevrolet, 196, There are 175 players who be- did exercise a $5.5 million option 11. came free agents following the for catcher Roberto Perez. Cleve- 27. (26) Natalie Decker, Chevrolet, 195, /AP 10. World Series and about 15 more ASHLEY LANDIS land owes buyouts of $1 million 28. (4) Brett Moffitt, Chevrolet, acci- dent, 192, 20. can go free this weekend. Among The Milwaukee Brewers declined the 2021 option on infielder to Hand and $500,000 to Carlos 29. (29) Jennifer Jo Cobb, Chevrolet, Santana. 174, 8. the remaining decisions are on Jedd Gyorko on Friday as teams across the league cut loose more 30. (25) Ryan Truex, Chevrolet, 169, 7. player options by Yankees slug- than 15 major leaguers as a result of coronavirus pandemic-induced Hand went 2-1 with a 2.06 ERA 31. (12) Tanner Gray, Ford, garage, 154, 6. ger Giancarlo Stanton, Boston budget cuts following a season without fans. and went 16-for-16 in save chanc- 32. (20) Todd Gilliland, Ford, overheat- designated hitter JD Martinez, es in the 60-game season. ing, 149, 5. 33. (36) Spencer Davis, Toyota, brakes, Cincinnati outfielder Nick Cas- year contract rather than a $25 with the Cubs, in 2016 helping Santana struggled in his second 135, 5. tellanos and Mets reliever Dellin season back in Cleveland after 34. (35) Codie Rohrbaugh, Chevrolet, million mutual option. The 36- them win the first World Series in overheating, 123, 5. Betances. year-old left-hander was 3-3 with 108 years. He was 3-3 with a 2.44 leaving as a free agent in 2018. 35. (3) Austin Hill, Toyota, engine, 117, 5. 36. (27) Tate Fogleman, Chevrolet, ac- Teams must decide by 5 p.m. a 5.16 ERA in 12 starts this year ERA and .201 opponents’ batting The switch-hitter batted a career- cident, 115, 5. Sunday whether to make $18.9 with 42 strikeouts and 17 walks. average in the postseason. low .199 with eight homers and 37. (31) Josh Reaume, Toyota, trans- mission, 0, 5. million qualifying offers to eligi- He earned a prorated $5,555,556 Milwaukee turned down Gyor- 30 RBIs in 60 games. Antonetti Race statistics ble former players who went free. from his scheduled $15 million ko and Sogard, a day after declin- said it’s possible the club could Average speed of race winner: 52.407 mph. Lester gets a $10 million buy- salary. ing a $15 million option on 2011 re-sign the 34-year-old Santana, Time of race: 2 hours, .0 minutes, 27 seconds. out from the Chicago Cubs that He was 77-44 with a 3.64 ERA NL MVP Ryan Braun. who has spent 10 seasons with the Margin of victory: 0.803 seconds. completes a $155 million, six- in 171 starts over six seasons Gyorko and Sogard each had Indians. Caution flags: 11 for 82 laps. Lead changes: 16 among 9 drivers. Lap leaders: S.Creed 0; Z.Smith 1-11; S.Creed 12-75; Z.Smith 76-84; J.Sauter 85-92; M.Crafton 93-98; S.Friesen 99- 103; G.Enfinger 104-125; J.Sauter 126- Sports briefs 156; C.Hocevar 157-161; G.Enfinger 162- 173; S.Creed 174; G.Enfinger 175-181; R.Lessard 182-191; G.Enfinger 192-197; B.Rhodes 198; G.Enfinger 199-200 Leaders summary (driver, times led, Mets’ Wilpon era nears end as sale is approved laps led): S.Creed, 2 times for 65 laps; G.Enfinger, 5 times for 49 laps; J.Sauter, 2 times for 39 laps; Z.Smith, 2 times for 20 laps; R.Lessard, 1 time for 10 laps; Associated Press M.Crafton, 1 time for 6 laps; S.Friesen, an awesome responsibility.“ the numerous issues that have ronto, but the ceremony was post- 1 time for 5 laps; C.Hocevar, 1 time for 5 Cohen said all Mets employ- to be decided before next season poned because of the COVID-19 laps; B.Rhodes, 1 time for 1 lap. NEW YORK — The Wilpon ees, including unionized ground- begins. pandemic. Wins: S.Creed, 4; G.Enfinger, 4; Z.Smith, family’s control of the New York 2; A.Hill, 2; B.Moffitt, 1; M.Crafton, 1; skeepers, security guards and It is the fourth extension of the In other hockey news: B.Rhodes, 1; R.Lessard, 1; S.Mayer, 1. Mets neared its end after 34 years Top 16 in points: 1. S.Creed, 4037; engineers, will receive restored opt-out deadline since the pan-  The University of North when Major League Baseball 2. G.Enfinger, 4024; 3. Z.Smith, 4022; 4. demic started in March. If either Dakota said Friday that Arizona B.Moffitt, 4021; 5. M.Crafton, 2246; 6. owners voted Friday to approve pre-pandemic salaries as of Sun- A.Hill, 2217; 7. C.Eckes, 2200; 8. B.Rhodes, day that reverse 5-30% salary the NBA or the National Basket- Coyotes top draft pick Mitchell 2198; 9. T.Ankrum, 2161; 10. T.Gilliland, the sale of 2113; 11. D.Kraus, 631; 12. R.Lessard, the team to cuts begun in March. He valued ball Players Association chooses Miller is no longer on the school’s 528; 13. J.Sauter, 497; 14. T.Gray, 489; 15. the restoration at over $7 million. to opt out by that date, the CBA hockey team. S.Friesen, 466; 16. A.Self, 369. billionaire In other MLB news: will be terminated Dec. 14 “un- The announcement by univer- Xfinity 500 lineup hedge fund  manager The Detroit Tigers have less the parties agree otherwise,” sity president Andrew Armacost Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Steve Cohen. hired AJ Hinch to be their new the NBA said. came a day after the Coyotes re- Race Sunday nounced their rights to the 2020 At Martinsville Speedway The vote manager, giving him a chance to In other NBA news: Martinsville, Va. return to a major league dugout  Mike D’Antoni and Amare fourth-round pick after learning Lap length: .526 miles was 26-4, a (Car number in parentheses) person fa- after he was fired by Houston in Stoudemire are joining Steve more about his bullying of a Black 1. (2) Brad Keselowski, Ford. the wake of the Astros’ sign-steal- Nash’s coaching staff, bringing a classmate with developmental 2. (19) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota. miliar with 3. (88) Alex Bowman, Chevrolet. the meet- ing scandal. glimpse of the old Phoenix Suns disabilities four years ago. 4. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota. Miller, an 18-year-old defen- 5. (1) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet. ing told “I understand how wrong it to Brooklyn. 6. (4) Kevin Harvick, Ford. was, and I’m sorry for that,” D’Antoni won the first of his seman, is a freshman at North 7. (22) Joey Logano, Ford. The Associ- Cohen 8. (9) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet. ated Press, Hinch said. “I’ve said that before, two Coach of the Year awards Dakota. 9. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota. I’ll say it again, I’ll continue to in 2005 while leading the potent 10. (12) Ryan Blaney, Ford. speaking on 11. (95) Christopher Bell, Toyota. condition of anonymity because say it. I’ll never forget the feeling Suns to 62 victories behind the Wimbledon champion 12. (21) Matt DiBenedetto, Ford. that I’ve had throughout the past play of point guard Nash and 13. (24) William Byron, Chevrolet. the balloting was not announced. Halep tests positive 14. (3) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet. Cohen needed 75% approval. year as I’ve navigated this with power forward Stoudemire. He 15. (41) Cole Custer, Ford. 16. (14) Clint Bowyer, Ford. The transfer from the Wilpon my family, but you quickly get to spent the last four seasons coach- BUCHAREST, Romania — 17. (8) Tyler Reddick, Chevrolet. the exciting time of getting back ing Houston, leading the Rockets Wimbledon champion Simona 18. (47) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Chevrolet. and Katz families values the fran- 19. (20) Erik Jones, Toyota. chise at between $2.4 billion and and leading a group of men again, to the playoffs each season and Halep has tested positive for 20. (10) Aric Almirola, Ford. and establishing what Tigers winning his second Coach of the 21. (6) Ryan Newman, Ford. $2.45 billion, a record for a base- COVID-19 and said Saturday that 22. (37) Ryan Preece, Chevrolet. ball team that tops the $2 billion baseball’s going to be all about.” Year award in 2017. she is “recovering well from mild 23. (38) John Hunter Nemechek, Ford. 24. (34) Michael McDowell, Ford. sale of the Los Angeles Dodgers symptoms.” 25. (13) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet. from Frank McCourt to Guggen- NBA, players extend No new 2021 inductees The 29-year-old Halep, cur- 26. (32) Corey LaJoie, Ford. 27. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet. heim Baseball Management in CBA opt-out deadline to Hockey Hall of Fame rently ranked No. 2 in the world, 28. (17) Chris Buescher, Ford. 29. (96) Daniel Suarez, Toyota. 2012. The Mets sale is likely to had skipped the U.S. Open due 30. (15) Brennan Poole, Chevrolet. close within 10 days. The NBA and its players agreed TORONTO — The Hockey Hall to fears of catching the corona- 31. (42) Matt Kenseth, Chevrolet. 32. (43) Bubba Wallace, Chevrolet. “I am humbled that MLB’s own- Friday to extend the deadline for of Fame will have no new induct- virus. She said in August that 33. (7) Josh Bilicki, Chevrolet. ers have approved me to be the opting out of the Collective Bar- ees in 2021, with the class of 2020 she preferred to stay and train in 34. (66) Timmy Hill, Toyota. 35. (00) Quin Houff, Chevrolet. next owner of the New York Mets,” gaining Agreement by one week honored that year instead. Europe. 36. (53) James Davison, Chevrolet. Cohen said in a statement. “Own- until Nov. 6, and talks will con- The Romanian player an- 37. (27) JJ Yeley, Ford. The 2020 inductees were to 38. (51) Joey Gase, Ford. ing a team is a great privilege and tinue in the interim regarding have been inducted Nov. 16 in To- nounced her test result Saturday. Sunday, November 1, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES•PAGE 21 NFL Best: Divisional games work against all 4 teams

FROM BACK PAGE and running back. “Obviously, everybody has win- Still, their resourcefulness ning records in our division and and versatility with the ball in everybody’s doing really good, a league where offense tends to and some people might say we rule, a relatively healthy Seattle have the best division,” said Tyler is a Super Bowl threat. Lockett, the Seahawks’ outstand- ing wide receiver. “But at the end Los Angeles (5-2) of the day, who cares? We still got Rebounding nicely after a to be able to take care of business 2019 fade that followed a Super and those divisional games might Bowl appearance, the Rams end up being key.” have the stingiest defense and The schedule shows a regular the best player in the division, dose of those divisional show- Donald. Goff’s re-emergence as downs, beginning Sunday with a dependable (or more) quarter- the Seahawks hosting the 49ers. back, operating behind a back- They gave us a classic 2019 finale in-form offensive line, makes LA in which tight end Jacob Hollis- formidable. ter was stopped inches short of a There’s also a concern that touchdown that would have lifted the Rams sometimes over-think Seattle to the division crown. AP things. They do play on the edge. Beyond this weekend, Seattle Regardless, they’re capable of a Cowboys cornerback Herb Adderley, center, returns an interception during the fourth quarter of Nov. 1, visits Los Angeles in Week 10; return to the big game. 1970 game against the Philadelphia Eagles in Dallas. Adderley finished his career with six NFL titles. Arizona goes to Seattle in Week 11; the Rams host the 49ers in Week 12, then visit the Cardinals Arizona (5-2) in Week 13; the Rams at Seahawks Maybe arriving a year before and Cardinals at Niners in Week expected, especially after losing 16; and the grand finale of Seattle pass-rushing demon Chandler Hall of Fame cornerback at San Francisco and Arizona at Jones for the season, the Cardi- Los Angeles on Jan. 3. nals are 2-0 inside the NFC West. Don’t be shocked if the division They have no fear of the big boys, title and more than one wild-card but they also have more question spot are decided in Week 17. marks than the others. Many of When the Rams fell to the those apply to an inconsistent de- Adderley dies at age 81 49ers, all-world defensive tackle fense and offensive line. Aaron Donald noted: “I’d rather Is Kyler Murray, the 2019 top we lost every other game we did, offensive rookie, ready to lift the Associated Press play,” a memoir by former Packers teammate Jerry but win this division game. That Cardinals to unexpected heights Kramer. means a lot more.” Herb Adderley, the Hall of Fame cornerback who so soon? He certainly has the cre- Along with former teammates Fuzzy Thurston Which of these teams is best ativity and athletic ability. The joined the NFL as a running back and became part and Forrest Gregg, Adderley is one of four players positioned to not only emerge atop excitement quotient is through of a record six championship teams with the Pack- in pro football history to play on six championship the NFL’s premier sector, but do the State Farm Stadium roof. ers and Cowboys, has died. He was 81. teams. Tom Brady is the other. Adderley was en- damage in the postseason? In a His death was confirmed by the team Friday, with shrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1980. year impacted by a pandemic, San Francisco (4-3) no details given. Nasir Adderley, a safety for the Los Bart Starr, the Hall of Fame quarterback and a with so many intangibles — and Angeles Chargers, tweeted that his cousin was a former Packers teammate, once called Adderley the so many key injuries already — Teams that lose a Super Bowl “unique soul who has had such an incredible influ- “greatest cornerback to ever play the game.” no one knows. But here are some tend to struggle the next season, ence on my life.” Born on June 8, 1939, in Philadelphia, Adderley thoughts. as the Rams did in ’19. But the Herb Adderley played in four of the first six Super was a three-sport star in high school. He excelled 49ers’ issues have been more Bowls and won five NFL championships with Green at running back at Michigan State and was the 12th Seattle (5-1) related to injuries; only Philadel- Bay and one with Dallas during his 12-year career. pick overall of the 1961 draft. He came to training phia has been more damaged. But he was always a Packer at heart. camp expecting to compete for a starting job against The Seahawks have the most That said, many of the reserves, “I’m the only man with a Dallas Cowboys Super future Hall of Fame running backs Jim Taylor and dynamic player, Russell Wilson, particularly on offense, have Bowl ring who doesn’t wear it. I’m a Green Bay Paul Hornung. and the most experienced coach, come through lately. But over- Packer,” Adderley said in the book “Distant Re- Midway through the season, Packers coach Vince Pete Carroll. They also have a coming the losses of Nick Bosa, Lombardi switched Adderley to defense to replace sieve of a defense that can’t pres- Richard Sherman and so many injured starter Hank Gremminger. sure opposing passers. Injuries other regulars might be too tall a The move paid immediate dividends. have diminished the secondary task for a deep January run. Adderley’s speed and instincts made him a quick learner in his new position, which helped propel him into a stalwart of Green Bay’s secondary. Adderley intercepted 48 passes, returning them for 1,046 yards and seven touchdowns. “Herb Adderley simply wouldn’t let me get to the outside,” Hall of Fame receiver Tommy McDonald once said. “He’d just beat me up, force me to turn un- derneath routes all the time. ... Other guys tried the same tactic, but he was the only one tough enough and fast enough to get it done.” The 6-foot-1, 205-pound Adderley had a career- best seven interceptions in 1962. He also led the league in interceptions in 1965 and 1969. Adderley also returned kickoffs in all but the final year of his playing days with the Packers, averaging 25.7 yards per return. Adderley was a member of all five of Lombardi’s NFL title teams and played in the first two Super Bowls. In the second Super Bowl in 1968, he re- turned an interception 60 yards for the clinching touchdown over the Raiders. MEL EVANS/AP Adderley played in two more Super Bowls with ROSS D. FRANKLIN/AP Adderley poses next to a copy of his Hall of Fame Dallas in 1971 and 1972, winning his sixth title bust in a room full of memorabilia from his playing with the Cowboys in his final season. Adderley was Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray avoids the sack as Seattle days at his New Jersey home on Oct. 2, 2008. He an All-Pro seven times from 1962-67 and again in Seahawks middle linebacker Bobby Wagner, right, makes the hit was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1980. 1969. during the first half last weekend in Glendale, Ariz. PAGE 22 • S TARS AND STRIPES• Sunday, November 1, 2020 NFL Channeling Favre For better or worse, Eagles QB Wentz is playing more like the Ol’ Gunslinger

BY ROB MAADDI By the numbers Associated Press PHILADELPHIA — Carson Wentz is playing more like his fa- vorite player this season. Wentz, who grew up rooting 5 for Brett Favre, has turned into a younger version of the Ol’ Gun- slinger in his fifth year with the Number of fourth-quarter Philadelphia Eagles. comebacks engineered by Just like Favre was in his two decades with the Packers, Jets Eagles QB Carson Wentz and Vikings, Wentz is supremely over the past 11 games. confident in his ability to make any throw from anywhere on the field. That can be risky but the re- ward can be even greater. 10 Wentz made an exceptional 18- yard TD pass to Boston Scott with KELVIN KUO/AP 40 seconds left in the game to lift Number of interceptions Los Angeles Rams safety Taylor Rapp, center, celebrates with coaches and teammates after intercepting the Eagles to a 22-21 win over the this season for Wentz, the a pass in the end zone during the team’s win over the Chicago Bears on Monday in Inglewood, Calif. The Giants last Thursday. It was the Rams are 5-2 and hope to join the Lakers and Dodgers as champions. fifth time Wentz has engineered a most since his 2016 rookie comeback win in the fourth quar- campaign. ter in the past 11 games. SOURCE: Associated Press, NFL.com Earlier in that game, however, Rams looking to join Dodgers, Wentz threw his 10th interception toughness, being able to stand in of the season into double cover- the pocket, take some hits, bounce age in the end zone from the New up, and do it again. To me, that’s York 20. That was one he needed Lakers in bringing title to LA kind of some of the similarities to throw away. there. ” He also made a crossbody, cross- BY GREG BEACHAM ning games. We are playing well on offense, defense, Favre was a three-time NFL field pass to Travis Fulgham that Associated Press special teams. We always believe in ourselves, and MVP and won a Super Bowl on every coach tells his quarterback we’ve been there once with a lot of the same people. his way into the Hall of Fame. THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — Jared Goff texted never to make. A defender was We know how to get there. We’ve just got to finish it congratulations to Cody Bellinger and Joc Pederson there, but the ball hit Fulgham’s He also threw more interceptions off, and hopefully this is the year.” right after the Los Angeles Dodgers won the World hands and he dropped it. than any player in league history. And now there’s the City of Champions factor: If Series on Tuesday night. Wentz has 10 touchdown passes Wentz hasn’t always been reck- there is such a thing as civic momentum, the Rams “Cody actually texted me back and said, ‘It’s your to go with those picks and he’s also less with the ball. He threw only are riding a big old wave of it alongside the Lakers turn now,’ ” the Los Angeles Rams quarterback re- run for a career-high five TDs. seven picks in each of the past and the Dodgers. called Wednesday. “And I said, ‘Absolutely.’ ” The Eagles lead the weak NFC three seasons. He finished third “You’ve got to be great to be relevant in this city, Los Angeles has become a city of champions East at 2-4-1. in NFL MVP voting in his sec- and I think that’s awesome,” said coach Sean McVay, again in an incredible October, and the Rams (5-2) “That was always the thing with ond year when the Eagles won a boyhood Atlanta Braves fan who now roots for the want to extend this winning feeling into February. Brett, the reward was definitely the Super Bowl with backup Nick Dodgers and manager Dave Roberts, whom he de- They’ve been discussing it on group chats and in greater, but you knew there was Foles after Wentz was injured. scribes as a role model. the locker room ever since the Lakers raised their going to be some risk involved,” Wentz became the first quar- “Really amongst the team it’s, ‘Hey, let’s continue terback in NFL history to throw trophy two weeks ago, and the anticipa- to produce and do our part to hold up our end said Eagles coach Doug Peder- tion only increased when the Dodgers son, who played several seasons for 4,000 yards without a wide of the bargain for the city,’ ” McVay added. claimed their own championship. “That pressure is a good thing. I think all 32 with Favre in Green Bay. receiver having 500 yards receiv- ‘ You’ve ing last year. He also is the only “It’d be good to make that a little teams want to be able to do what the Dodg- “Carson obviously has the abil- three-peat with us involved there,” Goff got to be quarterback to throw 20 or more ers just did, so we’re no different. But we’ve ity to do that. He’s got the arm said. “It’s definitely something that we’re touchdowns and seven or fewer great to be got to get to (win) No. 6 first.” strength, the mobility to extend conscious of, absolutely.” plays with his legs. I would think interceptions in three straight relevant in The Rams actually arrived in Los Ange- The Rams were watching and cheer- les before either the Lakers or the Dodgers, the one thing that we’re seeing seasons. Tom Brady, Drew Brees, ing from home while the Lakers won this city. with Carson now, the same thing Aaron Rodgers and Russell Wil- ’ becoming the West Coast’s first major pro the NBA Finals in Florida just 16 days Sean McVay sports franchise way back in 1946. I saw with Brett, is that physical son have done it twice. before the Dodgers raised the World Se- Rams coach But their subsequent moves took them out ries trophy in Texas, capping an unprec- of many LA sports fans’ hearts until they edentedly quick back-to-back coronation returned to a city that infamously hadn’t for their metropolitan area’s two most had an NFL franchise since 1994, when Georgia beloved teams. Frontiere and Al Davis simultaneously left a wildly Although the Rams are the city’s most popular lucrative market and its millions of hungry sports franchise in the nation’s most popular sport, they fans. realize they aren’t nestled in LA’s heart as snugly as Although rings are irreplaceable, the Rams are the Dodgers or the Lakers — particularly not after steadily building their case to deserve LA’s love. their former owners moved them to Anaheim and They’ve been winners since McVay took over in St. Louis for 36 years before Stan Kroenke brought 2017, and the league machinations that subsequent- them home in 2016. ly landed the Chargers in LA instead of the Raiders But the Rams fully intend to be a cornerstone — the childhood favorite team of most Generation of the sports establishment in the nation’s second- X and many millennial Angelenos, thanks to their largest metro area for decades to come. Kroenke’s thrilling 13-year run in the Coliseum from 1982-94 sparkling new $5 billion SoFi Stadium in Inglewood — undoubtedly benefited the Rams’ quest. is a major step toward that goal — and bringing a Just ask Kai Forbath, the Rams’ new kicker. third championship in four months to Los Angeles The 33-year-old UCLA product is a Los Angeles just might cinch it. native who lives in West Hollywood in the offseason. Can the Rams do it? They’ve had three straight He grew up with season tickets at Dodger Stadium, winning seasons, and they made it to the Super and Kobe Bryant is his childhood hero. Bowl two years ago. Although they play in the NFL’s “ Just being an LA native, it’s crazy, because (the toughest division, they’re off to another strong start Rams) are the team here now,” said Forbath, who DERIK HAMILTON/AP this fall as they hit the midway point of the regular signed with the Rams last week. “All my friends Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Carson Wentz has as many season Sunday at Miami (3-3). and family here are Rams fans now, so it’s very ex- interceptions (10) as touchdowns this season. “We’ve got all the pieces,” Goff said. “We’re win- citing to be a part of it.” Sunday, November 1, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 23 NFL Vikes limited at CB against Rodgers, Pack

BY DAVE CAMPBELL Associated Press The Minnesota Vikings could be with- out three of their top four cornerbacks — Cameron Dantzler, Holton Hill and Mike Hughes — on Sunday at Green Bay. Hill (foot) and Hughes (neck) were ruled out on Friday with injuries for the game against the Packers, who are second in the NFL in scoring with an average of 32.8 points per game. Neither Hill nor Hughes practiced all week. Hill will miss his third straight game. Hughes missed two games earlier this season, was re-injured on Oct. 18 against Atlanta and placed on injured reserve on Friday. That means Hughes, the 2018 first-round draft pick who has played in only 24 career games, will be sidelined /AP for a minimum of three weeks. MATT PATTERSON Dantzler was placed on COVID-19 re- Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers could be in for a big game this weekend against the hobbled Minnesota Vikings secondary, serve on Wednesday. Coach Mike Zimmer which could be without three of its top four cornerbacks when its faces the Packers in Greeen Bay, Wis., on Sunday. left open the possibility of him suiting up in Green Bay, but he would need to clear said. le David Bakhtiari Vikings had entered the league’s return-to-play testing proto- The Packers won’t (chest), kicker Mason the NFL’s intensive cols in time. Otherwise, rookie Jeff Glad- have leading rusher Crosby (calf/back), protocol phase, re- ney would be the only regular cornerback Aaron Jones, who will running back Tyler quiring the organi- available for the Vikings, an ominous sign miss a second straight Ervin (wrist), safe- zation to implement for facing Aaron Rodgers. Kris Boyd, who game with a calf in- ty Raven Greene additional preventa- was limited in practice this week with jury. That leaves Ja- (oblique) and defen- tive measures against hamstring and back injuries, is next on the maal Williams and sive lineman Tyler virus spread. inexperienced depth chart, followed by A.J. Dillon as Green Lancaster (shoulder) Davis could be re- Harrison Hand and Mark Fields. Bay’s top two running as questionable. Cros- placed in the base The Vikings listed running back Dalvin backs against the by practiced on a lim- defense by rookie Cook as questionable, though Zimmer said Dantzler Vikings. Hill ited basis on Friday Hughes linebacker Troy Dye, before Cook’s status was designated that Green Bay also an- after not practicing who was designated he anticipated a standard workload. Cook nounced cornerback at all Wednesday or on Monday for return hurt his groin on Oct. 11 at Seattle and was Kevin King will miss a third straight game Thursday. from injured reserve along with starting sidelined for the next game. He was lim- with a quadriceps injury. Josh Jackson has Vikings linebacker Todd Davis joined right guard Pat Elflein. Both Dye (ankle) ited in practice this week. been starting in King’s place. Dantzler on the COVID-19 reserve list and Elflein (thumb) practiced this week. “He should be ready to go,” Zimmer The Packers have listed offensive tack- on Friday, and Zimmer confirmed the They were hurt in Week 2. Virus outbreak League recommends some sideline players wear masks

Associated Press the memo said. Matt Rhule and some assistants The NFL is recommending While the NFL considers ex- on Thursday night skirted those that players on the sidelines who panding the bench area further rules about properly wearing are not participating in a game or down the sideline, teams may masks. Several coaches, includ- about to go on the field wear pro- consider reconfiguring or adding ing Pete Carroll and Jon Gruden, tective masks. benches. were fined $100,000 for not obey- In a memo obtained by The “Assistant coaches and mem- ing the requirements, and teams Associated Press on Friday, the bers of the football staff should have been fined $250,000 apiece league’s management council pay particular attention to ensur- for sideline issues. also suggested the 32 teams en- ing that players remain separated “We do try to remain in con- hance physical distancing on the while waiting to enter the game, stant communication with the sidelines while the NFL consid- as well as avoiding grouping or clubs through memos, phone ers expanding the bench area. bunching,” the league said. calls, conference calls, one-offs, Although the NFL stopped “It’s really a look at how we can trying to remind and educate,” short of mandating masks for all expand that physical distancing Aponte said. “Everyone needs players not on the field, it “strong- on the sideline ... the distancing to lead by example. It is more so ly encouraged” all active players and face masking are critical,” about trying to educate and get in the bench area who are not said Dawn Aponte, the NFL’s everyone to adhere to the face- about to enter the game to wear chief football administrative of- covering protocol.” masks while standing on the side- ficer. “Every week we are learn- Two teams, the Tennessee Ti- line and/or sitting on the bench. ing something and trying to share tans and New England Patriots, BRETT CARLSEN/AP “A player wearing a mask best practices ... with our clubs.” have had significant coronavirus during a close contact has a sig- Titans head coach Mike Vrabel, right, wears a mask on the sidelines The league also is offering an outbreaks, causing juggling of nificantly reduced probability of during a game against the Buffalo Bills in Nashville, Tenn., on Oct. additional testing option for bus the NFL schedule. Several other being designated a ‘High Risk 13. The NFL has expanded it’s recommendations to include players drivers retained by teams in the clubs have had isolated cases. Close Contact’ after an exposure not participating in a game or about to go on the field among those away city, prior to the team’s “We have to continue to rein- to a COVID-positive individual,” who should be wearing masks to limit the spread of COVID-19. arrival. force all the messages about risk the memo said. The NFL has been proactive in mitigation, something we can Citing a player who tested team staffers — most of which clubs continue to implement mea- dealing with coaches who have never say enough,” said Dr. Allen positive two days after playing occurred while the player was sures to encourage physical dis- not obeyed protocols — though Sills, the league’s chief medical of- in a game and who had close con- standing on the sideline — “we tancing among players and staff such efforts might seem unsuc- ficer. “I think it just speaks to the tacts with 17 teammates and two are strongly recommending that on the sidelines during games,” cessful given how Panthers coach need to be diligent all the time.” S TARS AND STRIPES Sunday, November 1, 2020 Cut loose Free agent pool deeper as result of SPORTS budget reductions » MLB, Page 20

Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson, right, escapes the reach of Cardinals outside linebacker Devon Kennard during last weekend’s game in Glendale, Ariz.

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BY BARRY WILNER It’s unlikely, though, because they could be knock- Associated Press ing off each other during intradivision play. So far, only three games have been played within the di- ere’s a premise few can dispute: vision: Arizona beating San Francisco and Seattle, The NFC West is the best division and the Niners defeating the Rams. in pro football. “Yeah, we’re in the best division in football and, In fact, it isn’t close. you know, there’s a reason for it,” Rams quarterback Sure, the AFC North has shown Jared Goff said after the loss to the 49ers. “These someH power, but it also has the 1-5-1 Bengals. Plus, guys are good. Arizona’s good. Seattle’s obviously the Browns have built their 5-2 record mostly undefeated (then). We’re a great team. So every against the league’s dregs. time you play in this division, it’s going to be a tough NFC West teams are 19-8 overall. The AFC game, and we know that coming in.” North is 17-8-1, but it’s top-heavy, and until we What the four clubs also know, coming in and truly know if Cleveland is legitimate, the guys on going out, is they could be battered by the time they the West Coast win the prize. get to January. Fully tested by the trials and tribula- It’s not inconceivable that the Seahawks, Car- tions of the division, for sure. But perhaps not in the dinals, Rams and 49ers all could find their way best shape for a Super Bowl run. into the NFC playoffs with a third wild card added. SEE BEST ON PAGE 21

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