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Volume 78, No. 131 ©SS 2019 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2019 50¢/Free to Deployed Areas Army chief touts longer tours to help out families

BY JOHN VANDIVER Stars and Stripes Army Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville wants longer tour op- tions for Army families, saying the traditional system of required moves to new duty stations every three years is an antiquated way of doing business. “I don’t see why people can’t stay four, five, six, seven, eight, nine years,” McConville said Tuesday during a town hall held at the As- sociation of the United States Ar- my’s annual meeting in Washington . For years, the military has general- ly struggled to manage McConville permanent UGUR CAN, DHA/AP change-of-station moving sea- sons, which peak during the Turkish forces advance toward Manbij, Syria, on Monday. Turkey called on Kurdish fighters to lay down arms and vacate the border. summertime when school is out. McConville said the Army is re- viewing how it handles moves and suggested that longer tours could be part of the solution. “Part of the future that we see in the talent management system On the offensive is we do look at preferences … where you want to go and what you want to do,” McConville said. “If Russia offers to mediate as Turkish president says no end to Syria invasion we can accommodate that (longer tours), why shouldn’t we?” The Army’s current approach BY ELENA BECATOROS leave a designated border area. RELATED — where most soldiers move Associated Press Erdogan also said he had “no problem” accept- every three years — was the ing an invitation from Russian President Vladimir product of an “industrial age” CEYLANPINAR, Turkey — Russia offered Trump says US Putin to visit Russia soon to discuss Syria. But he personnel management system, Wednesday to mediate a resolution in northern threw into doubt a planned Nov. 13 meeting with has no stake in he said. Syria, further asserting Moscow’s role as a re- U.S. President Donald Trump, citing anger over The idea of spreading moves gional force, ahead of a mission by U.S. Vice Pres- the sanctions that Washington imposed Monday Turkey’s fight around rather than concentrat- ident Mike Pence to press Turkey for a cease-fire on the NATO ally. ing them in the summer has been in its attack on Syrian Kurdish fighters. Russia has moved quickly to entrench its lead- against Kurds looked at and rejected, McCon- Ahead of talks with Pence, Turkish President ership role and fill the void after Trump ordered ville said. Recep Tayyip Erdogan defied U.S. economic in Syria the pullout of American forces in northeastern “I don’t sign up for that,” McCo- sanctions, saying the only way its military of- Page 5 nville said. “I sign up for making fensive would end was if Syrian Kurdish fighters SEE OFFENSIVE ON PAGE 4 less moves or stabilizing people SEE TOURS ON PAGE 2 PAGE 2 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Thursday, October 17, 2019 MILITARY Airman tapped as Tours: Extension took effect already for some single soldiers

FROM FRONT PAGE The goal is to better match a adviser to Joint longer, but we’re not going to soldier’s skills with the service’s have the soldier moving in March requirements, but the system will and the kids getting pulled out of also log when a soldier wants to school.” remain at a location for an ex- The proposed change to the tended period. Chiefs chairman length of tours was welcomed The Army has already begun to by some servicemembers with experiment with slightly longer families, including Sgt. Franklin deployments for single soldiers. BY BRIAN FERGUSON SEAC since December 2015. Chief Master Santana, a truck driver with the In June, single-soldier tours in Stars and Stripes Troxell gained popular- Sgt. Ramon Colon-Lopez Army’s 2nd Cavalry Regiment in Europe and Japan increased ity among soldiers and on social from two to three years in a move Air Force Chief Master Sgt. years of military service, which Vilseck, Germany. media during his term for his designed to save money and re- Ramon Colon-Lopez will be the included five combat tours. “I think staying in one place straightforward messages. In duce unit turnover. next senior enlisted advis er to Colon-Lopez will be the first for more than three years would January 2018 on Twitter, he told Improving how moves are han- the chairman of the Joint Chiefs airman to serve in the position. benefit my family,” said Santana, Islamic State that they needed dled is one part of a new Army of Staff, defense officials said His awards include the Defense who recently became a father. to surrender or die, even if it strategy that aims to improve Wednesday. Superior Service Medal, Legion Moving every three years puts meant beating them to death with quality of life for servicemembers “Our brothers and sisters in of Merit and two Bronze Star added stress on soldiers with shovels. and their families. The strategy service are in the best hands pos- Medals with Valor, according to families and doesn’t allow them He was temporarily removed also prioritizes improvements to sible with our newest Senior En- his biography. to establish roots where they live, housing, child care access, spouse listed Advisor to the Chairman,” last year after an investigation The SEAC position, created in he said. employment and health care. Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force by the Army Inspector General 2005, is the senior noncommis- Others said the appeal of a lon- Changing how often Army Kaleth O. Wright said in a Face- found that he improperly used sioned officer in the U.S. armed ger tour length would depend on book post. “I’m proud to say that military personnel to carry out forces. The SEAC is appointed by the situation. Being in a place a families have to PCS would also Chief CZ, our SEAC #4, is a friend tasks and improperly endorsed the chairman of the Joint Chiefs soldier doesn’t necessarily want seek to relieve pressure on the and an exceptional leader.” commercial fitness and nutrition of Staff to serve as an advis er to to be would be an inconvenience, Army’s overwhelmed logistical Colon-Lopez, currently the se- products on military social media the Joint Chiefs and the secretary said Spc. Brian Firmino, a single network, which has frustrated nior enlisted leader for U.S. Africa accounts. of defense on all matters involv- soldier and 2nd Cavalry Regi- military families and resulted in Command, joined the Air Force Troxell was reinstated in ing joint and combined total force ment mechanic. long waits for household goods in 1990 and served as an air traf- March after Marine Gen. Joseph integration, utilization, health of McConville’s comments were shipments. fic controller before becoming a Dunford, then chairman of the the force and joint development made as the Army moves forward Stars and Stripes reporter Martin pararescueman. He will replace Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he had for enlisted personnel. with a plan to build a new talent Egnash contributed to this report from Grafenwoehr, Germany. Army Command Sgt. Maj. John weighed the gravity of the eth- [email protected] management system that will [email protected] W. Troxell, who has served as the ics violations against Troxell’s 37 Twitter: @BrianFerg57 overhaul how jobs are assigned. Twitter:@john_vandiver Democrats protest additional $200M in border wall transfers from DOD

Associated Press tests from Democrats who say he sage of a stopgap funding bill, top heroin production in Afghani- to pay for border fence construc- WASHINGTON — Presi- is again abusing his powers. Democrats said in a letter to Sec- stan; or divert these funds to pay tion, considerably more than law- dent Donald Trump has quietly The move would shift $129 mil- retary of Defense Mark Esper. for cost increases of a border wall makers have provided through transferred more than $200 mil- lion to wall construction from The Defense Department “was project that does not have the sup- annual appropriations bills. Wall lion from Pentagon counter- anti-drug efforts in Afghanistan faced with a simple choice: either port of the American people,” the funding has been a major source drug efforts toward building his — the source of perhaps 90 per- additional funds be used for their Democrats wrote. of conflict between Capitol Hill long-promised wall along the cent of the world’s heroin — along intended purpose, to accelerate Trump has shifted more than Democrats and Trump as they U.S.-Mexico border, drawing pro- with $90 million freed up by pas- our military’s efforts to combat $6 billion from Pentagon accounts negotiate agency funding bills . T O D A Y IN STRIPES American Roundup ...... 17 Business ...... 21 Classified ...... 19, 23 Comics ...... 22 Crossword ...... 22 Faces ...... 18 Opinion ...... 20 Sports ...... 25-32 Weather ...... 21 Thursday, October 17, 2019 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 3 MILITARY Space Command sees erosion of US advantage

BY JOHN VANDIVER advances in recent years could Stars and Stripes pose threats to satellites that are crucial to all major U.S. military STUTTGART, Germany missions. — U.S. Space Command will dis- “While the public perception of patch teams of experts to combat- space is an area that is wide open, ant commands worldwide with the aim of adding expertise in a the military sees it as congested, MARTIN EGNASH/Stars and Stripes domain where other nations are contested and competitive,” Ray- Avenger short-range air defense missile systems mounted on Humvees drive toward their targets at the catching up to America’s capa- mond said. Grafenwoehr Training Area in Germany on Tuesday . bilities, the In recent years, the commercial general in space launch industry has also charge of the expanded. There are now about Pentagon’s 1,500 satellites in orbit, and that ‘We’re back’: Avengers return to space mis- number is expected to rapidly in- sion said. crease, Raymond said. “We are Another challenge is the amount Grafenwoehr after long absence clearly the of debris threatening satellites. best in the Once every three days, the world in military provides early warning BY MARTIN EGNASH ed drones. The system includes to aid the Army units permanent- space, but when a satellite is in danger of Stars and Stripes Stinger missiles and a .50-caliber ly assigned to Europe, including the advan- Raymond colliding with a piece of debris. machine gun. the 2nd Cavalry Regiment and tage is eroding. Potential adver- There are more than 20,000 dif- GRAFENWOEHR, Germany Last year, the Army activated the 173rd Airborne Brigade. saries are moving fast,” Air Force ferent pieces of debris, much of it — Soldiers armed with Avenger the first short-range air defense If those ground units were at- Gen. John Raymond said during a remnants of old satellites, that the air defense systems are shooting unit to be stationed in Ger- tacked, the Avengers would try stop Tuesday in Stuttgart, where down drones in southeast Ger- many since the end of the Cold to knock enemy targets out of the he met with leaders at U.S. Euro- military tracks, Raymond said. many this week for the first time War drawdown. The battalion sky, Malpica said. pean and Africa commands. Meanwhile, the White House in more than a decade. replaced rotations of National In addition to the Avenger sys- Raymond, who also met this continues to push for a new Space The weeklong training at the Guard Avenger battalions, which tems, the battalion also maintains week with leaders at NATO head- Force, which would serve as a Grafenwoehr Training Area did not participate in live-fire ex- AN/MPQ-64 Sentinel radars, quarters in Brussels, said the plan separate military branch like marks the return of short-range which can detect aircraft flying is to stand up “integrated plan- the Army, Navy, Air Force and air defense for U.S. troops in Eu- ercises at Grafenwoehr, Army of- ficial said. at about 25 miles away. ning elements” that will be based Marines. There is still debate in rope, soldiers on the ground said. with other combatant commands. The U.S. has been using con- The battalion has participated Congress about the need for such “The Germans working here Their task will be to incorpo- tinuous rotations of soldiers in in several exercises since the a force or whether the space mis- on the range haven’t seen these rate space concerns into how Europe, in place of more perma- Avenger unit assembled last year. sion should remain with the Air (Avenger) systems in more than the military trains and operates, Force. a decade,” said Maj. Mario Mal- nently stationed troops in Europe, But it has taken about a year to Raymond said. Those concerns Raymond said the growing se- pica, the 5th Battalion, 4th Air in recent years. get the clearance to conduct live- include the ability of adversaries curity demands in space require Defense Artillery Regiment op- This year’s training comes as fire training at Grafenwoehr, the to jam GPS communication satel- a military branch devoted to it. erations officer. “We’re back.” the Army has focused more atten- Army’s largest overseas training lites, directed energy threats and The idea is for the Space Force to The soldiers used the Aveng- tion on Eastern Europe since a re- area, because extensive drone ground-based missiles that can er, an anti-aircraft system that surgent Russia annexed Ukraine’s use takes longer for German gov- destroy satellites, Raymond said. be a partner to the Air Force as mounts to the back of a Hum- Crimean Peninsula in 2014. ernment approval, Army officials In late August, Space Com- the Marine Corps is to the Navy, vee, to take out ground targets The battalion is filling a critical said. mand was officially launched to he said. and enemy helicopters, which gap in the Army’s defense in Eu- [email protected] deal with challenges presented by [email protected] were simulated by remote-pilot- rope, Malpica said. Its mission is Twitter: @Marty_Stripes Russia and China, whose military Twitter: @john_vandiver About 250 have enrolled in the Army’s new housing health registry

BY CAITLIN M. KENNEY last week. ported specific concerns about children under the age of 6 have dinate the housing assessment, Stars and Stripes Several Army officials dis- their home, an Army official been diagnosed with elevated which is led by the installation cussed Army initiatives for sol- said. blood lead levels that exceed the housing office, according to the WASHINGTON — About 263 diers and their families before “The majority of those were action level” set by the Centers for Army official. So far, 68 home as- people have enrolled in the Ar- Tuesday’s family forum with mold and dampness. Of that half, Disease Control and Prevention sessment recommendations have my’s new registry to document Army senior leaders at the Asso- about half requested additional for lead in the blood, the official been made in the past year. environmental health concerns ciation of the United States Army contact with the public health said. Health officials then try to The preventive medicine sec- related to military housing, Army annual meeting in Washington. professional at the Army public find the source for the exposure. tion of the local Army hospital officials said in advance of a town While housing concerns were health center,” the official said. About 19 of those children lived follows up after the assessment, hall meeting Tuesday. a main topic at the packed fam- “So we have physicians and in on-post housing, and only two and the information is entered A hotline and health registry ily forum, the health registry was nurses who make contact with were linked directly to the hous- into the health registry record for were established in April to re- not discussed. registry enrollees who would ing, the official said. The others follow-up. cord health concerns from mili- Once a call is made, it is reg- like specific information about could have been exposed due to The Army Medical Command tary families after media reports istered into an Army database; their concern on targeted educa- “parental hobbies or environ- is looking to work with Installa- uncovered widespread issues Army public health officials ac- tion or assistance with medical mental exposures otherwise,” tion Management Command to with the condition of military cess the information to follow referrals.” they said. homes, including mold, pest in- up with the caller. During the The Army has released two During a patient visit, if their develop a checklist for on-post festation and lead paint. follow-up, callers are given a policies on mold and lead in the health condition is potentially homes to assess environmental Since April, the hotline has re- questionnaire with demograph- past year for identifying health linked to the home, a recommen- health and safety “so that we have ceived about 560 calls, but only ic information to enroll in the conditions associated with “po- dation for a home assessment is a good baseline … for quantifying 263 callers have completed the registry. tential environmental health made by the health care provider and providing actionable recom- process of enrolling in the Hous- The officials said not everyone hazards in the home,” the Army to the installation Department of mendations for health and safety ing Environmental Health Re- wants to go through the registra- official said. Public Health. in housing,” the official said. sponse Registry, Army officials tion process. Since the Army’s lead policy Public health professionals [email protected] told reporters at the Pentagon About half of the enrollees re- was published last October, “40 help those who live on-post coor- Twitter: @caitlinmkenney PAGE 4 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Thursday, October 17, 2019 MIDEAST Offensive: Erdogan stands firm against pressure for cease-fire

FROM FRONT PAGE ing with Italian President Sergio Erdogan said he was not con- Syria. Russian Foreign Minister Mattarella. cerned by the sanctions. He told Sergey Lavrov said in remarks In an address to his ruling party reporters that chances for his carried by Russian news agen- legislators, Erdogan said Turkey November trip to Washington are cies that Moscow is committed would not be coerced into halting “something to be assessed” after to mediating between Syria and its offensive or accepting offers the talks with the American del- Turkey. for mediation with the Kurdish egation, he said, adding that the The American move effectively fighters, which Turkey consid- sanctions and criticisms in the abandoned the Kurdish fighters ers to be terrorists. He vowed to U.S. constituted “great disrespect allied with the U.S. and cleared press ahead with the incursion toward the Turkish Republic.” the way for Turkey’s invasion until Turkish troops reach 18-20 He ruled out direct or indirect aimed at crushing them. After miles inside Syria to form a “safe talks with the Kurdish fighters, heavy criticism at home, Trump zone” along the border area. saying Turkey will not negotiate sought new leverage with Turkey “Our proposal is for the terror- with “terrorists.” by imposing the sanctions. ists to lay down their arms, leave “We are not looking for a peace America’s abrupt withdrawal their equipment, destroy the mediator, nor do we need one,” he of its troops pushed the Kurds traps they have created and leave said. to strike a deal with the Russia- the safe zone we designated, as of With the Turkish assault in its backed government of Syrian tonight,” Erdogan said. “If this is eighth day, Turkish forces and hopes to capture the town, located thetic to their needs. President Bashar Assad, allowing done, our Operation Peace Spring Kurdish fighters battled over the just west of the Euphrates River. Lavrov also blamed the U.S. his forces to return to regions of will end by itself.” border town of Ras al-Ayn. Tur- Lavrov also said Moscow will and the West for undermining the northern Syria they abandoned at Erdogan’s office confirmed he key said it had captured the town continue to encourage Syria’s Syrian state, saying this pushed the height of the 8-year-old civil would meet Thursday with Pence days ago, but its hold appeared Kurds and government to seek “the Kurds toward separatism war. It has also allowed Moscow and Secretary of State Mike uncertain. rapprochement following the U.S. and confrontation with Arab to take a more prominent role Pompeo. Russia already has announced withdrawal. The Kurds are hop- tribes.” But anger over the sanctions it had deployed troops outside ing to reach a deal with Damas- as an interlocutor among Assad, Also Wednesday, a resident of the former U.S.-allied Kurds and hung over the upcoming talks. the flashpoint town of Manbij to cus that preserves at least some Kobani and the Syrian Observa- Turkey. Trump has taken a tough tone, keep apart the Syrian military degree of the autonomy they “Syria’s friendly with the warning that the U.S. has “a lot in and Turkey-led forces. Syrian seized for themselves during the tory for Human Rights said that Kurds. The Kurds are very well- store” if Turkey doesn’t comply forces took control of Manbij as civil war. Syrian government troops drove protected. Plus, they know how with cease-fire demands. Pence U.S. troops completed their pull- During a visit to Iraq last week, into the town after dark. Kurdish to fight. And, by the way, they’re said the U.S. is “simply not going out from the town Tuesday. The Lavrov met with the leaders of and U.S. forces first defeated Is- no angels,” Trump told reporters to tolerate Turkey’s invasion of Syrian and Russian deployments the Kurdish autonomous region lamic State militants together in at the White House while meet- Syria any longer.” appear to have thwarted Turkey’s and said that Moscow is sympa- Kobani four years ago. Thursday, October 17, 2019 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 5 MIDEAST Trump: US has no stake in Turkey’s fight with Kurds

BY DARLENE SUPERVILLE “Our soldiers are not in harm’s of the Middle East. AND ROBERT BURNS way. As they shouldn’t be,” he He answered reporters’ ques- Associated Press said. “And the Kurds are much tions as he met at the White safer right now. But the Kurds House with Italian President Ser- WASHINGTON — President know how to fight and, as I said, gio Mattarella. Donald Trump declared Wednes- they’re not angels.” Turkey launched a military day that Turkey’s attacks in Syria Trump’s characterization of operation against Kurdish fight- against Kurdish fighters who the state of play in Syria encoun- ers allied with the United States fought alongside American sol- tered criticism from Republicans after Trump pulled troops from diers are not a U.S. concern. on Capitol Hill on Wednesday in the region earlier this month. His “It’s not our border,” he said. the latest display of how his de- “We shouldn’t be losing lives over cision to pull U.S. troops from decision was strongly condemned it.” the area has drawn bipartisan in the U.S. — including by usual Dismissing outrage among condemnation. Republican allies in Congress — even some of his staunchest sup- Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and around the world as contrib- porters, Trump said the U.S. has told reporters he didn’t know uting to regional instability and no stake in protecting the Kurds, what could be done to undo the the abandonment of an ally. and he brushed off suggestions harm that has resulted from the He noted that Syria was getting that the U.S. military exit has cre- withdrawal. “some help with Russia and that’s ated a new opening for Russia in “There are some mistakes that fine.” Syria. are not easy to reverse. And there EVAN VUCCI/AP Trump imposed new sanctions “Syria probably will have a are some that are irreversible,” President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference with on Turkey this week in an at- partner of Russia,” Trump told said Rubio, who was a Trump Italian President Sergio Mattarella, left, at the White House on tempt to force President Recep reporters in the Oval Office. rival for the GOP presidential Wednesday . Tayyip Erdogan to end his as- “Whoever they may have, I wish nomination in 2016. sault. Trump is also sending a ’em all a lot of luck.” Sen. Mitt Romney, of Utah, the delegation led by Vice President The president appeared to that while the soldiers are con- pull out of Syria, which critics GOP’s 2012 presidential nomi- Mike Pence to Turkey to meet make light of the desperate situ- nee, said Turkey is “going into solidating onto two main bases, say amounted to giving Turkey with Erdogan in an attempt to ation the Kurdish fighters face Syria and wiping out our friends” they have not yet begun flying a green light to invade Syria’s help negotiate a cease-fire. with the loss of U.S. military sup- and “that’s shame on us for hav- out of Syria in significant num- northeast, where it has been at- port. The Kurds in recent days ing taken the decision.” bers. Military equipment is being tacking Kurdish fighters whom Trump said the U.S. shouldn’t struck a deal with the Syrian gov- Trump, in his Oval Office gathered and flown out, the offi- Turkey views as terrorists. be involved in “endless wars” in ernment and Russia to help them remarks, said U.S. troops are cial said, speaking on condition of “It’s not between Turkey and the Middle East and “it’s time for against the Turks. “largely out” of the area. anonymity due to the sensitivity the United States, like a lot of us to come home.” “They’ve got a lot of sand over However, a U.S. official famil- of the withdrawal, which poses stupid people would like you to The president said that if Syria there,” Trump said. “So there’s iar with planning for the with- big security risks. believe,” Trump said, adding that wants to fight over land that a lot of sand that they can play drawal of the approximately 1,000 Trump downplayed the cri- he’s more than willing to let ad- doesn’t belong to the U.S., “that’s with. troops in northeastern Syria said sis that followed his decision to versaries fight it out in that area up to them and Turkey.” PAGE 6 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Thursday, October 17, 2019 MIDEAST Planning preceded new alliances in Syria Fearing US abandonment, Kurds kept back channels wide open

BY MATTHEW LEE feating ISIS — something Trump AND SARAH EL DEEB repeatedly touts as a signature Associated Press achievement of his presidency. After all that, would the Ameri- WASHINGTON — When Syr- cans really abandon them? ia’s Kurdish fighters, America’s Trump sent signals they would, longtime battlefield allies against venting regularly about U.S. Islamic State, announced over the troops in Syria and wondering weekend that they were switching why U.S. soldiers were in the sides and joining up with Damas- Middle East at all. The relation- cus and Moscow, it seemed like a ship with the Americans was moment of geopolitical whiplash. wobbling. But in fact, the move had been Sensing an opportunity, Mos- in the works for more than a year. cow reached out to the Kurds and Fearing U.S. abandonment, the asked them to forgo their alliance Kurds opened a back channel to with the United States. Kurdish the Syrian government and the officials rejected the outreach Russians in 2018, and those talks publicly, saying they were stick- ramped up significantly in recent ing with the Americans. weeks, American, Kurdish and What happened next was, in Russian officials told The Associ- many ways, a turning point. ated Press. Turkey launched a military op- “We warned the Kurds that eration — with the blessing of the Americans will ditch them,” Russia — in Afrin, a Kurdish Russia’s ambassador to the Eu- area of northwestern Syria. The ropean Union, Vladimir Chizhov, Kurds complained that the U.S. told Russia’s Tass news agency on was standing by doing nothing Monday. while they took hit after hit from The switch in allegiances is a Turkey. stark illustration of how Ameri- Afrin has major significance BADERKHAN AHMAD/AP can foes like Russia and Syria to the Kurds. It’s one of the first are working steadily to fill the Kurdish areas to rise up against Syrian Democratic Forces fighters stand guard in Qamishli, Syria, on Oct. 10, the day after Turkish vacuum left by President Donald Syrian President Bashar Assad forces began their push into northeastern Syria. Syria’s Kurds have acknowledged courting the Syrian Trump’s retreat in the region. It and back self-rule, a base for se- government and its allies behind the scenes over the past year . also betrays the anxiety that U.S. nior fighters who pioneered the allies across the globe now feel in alliance with the Americans and but the Syrians ultimately pulled rized to speak to the media. look into other options,” he said. the face of Trump’s seemingly im- a key link in their efforts to form back to a Russian base nearby, After Mattis and McGurk re- On Tuesday, the results of the pulsive foreign policy decisions, a contiguous entity along Tur- according to AP journalists who signed, senior Kurdish official back channel were on clear dis- which often come as a surprise to key’s border. traveled to the area. Ilham Ahmed said the Kurds pre- play. Russia moved to fill the allies and critics alike. The back-channel discussions In December 2018, Trump sented Moscow with a framework void left by the United States in When Trump announced Oct. heated up. — against the advice of his se- for possible talks with Damascus. northern Syria, deploying troops 6 that he was pulling American In one of the first high-level nior policy The plan’s 11 points included the to keep apart advancing Syrian troops back from northeastern meetings in Russia, a Kurdish advisers recognition of Syria’s territo- government forces and Turkish Syria, paving the way for an as- delegation in November 2018 flew ‘ After we — an- rial integrity and the inclusion troops. sault by Turkey, the Kurds knew to Moscow, where on the same found that nounced of Kurdish-led forces within the Syrian troops waved flags after exactly where to turn. day a Turkish senior security del- that he Syrian army. they rolled into Manbij. Syria’s Kurds have publicly ac- egation was present. At the time, the U.S. was going In return, the Kurds would get Trump, meanwhile, has dug knowledged courting the Syrian Arab newspapers reported that decision is to pull all a political agreement establish- in on his decision to pull out the government and its allies over the Turkey had proposed a 19-mile- unwavering, American ing a decentralized Kurdish state, troops, believing it fulfills a key past year. But much of the back- deep safe zone along the border. troops out which would give them some level campaign promise and will be a channel diplomacy, including the Russia argued for a 3- to 5-mile we had of Syria. of self-governance. But the pro- winning issue in the 2020 elec- most recent talks, happened be- zone, but the Kurdish delegation to look The sur- posal never went anywhere. tion, according to three White hind the scenes. rejected it. prise The deal the Kurds struck this House officials and Republicans Discussions between the Kurds, Days after, the same delega- into other announce- past weekend with Syria and close to the White House. the Syrian government and Mos- tion, headed by a Kurdish militia options. ’ ment Russia was negotiated in Aleppo It’s not a new issue for the pres- cow began early last year as the prompted and finalized in Damascus, said ident. He rallied around it in 2016 leader, flew to Damascus, where Badran Ciya Kurd Kurds grew nervous that the it reportedly met with the Syrian Kurdish official the resig- Razan Hiddo, a senior Kurdish and, during his term, repeatedly Americans would leave them in intelligence chief and other senior nations of official. Kurdish forces will work urged bringing the troops home the lurch, Kurdish officials said. security officials in the presence Defense side by side with the Syrian army only to be talked out of it by mod- Pulling U.S. troops out of north- of a high-level Russian delegation. Secretary Jim Mattis and Brett to try to ward off the Turkish of- erating forces like Mattis and his eastern Syria would leave the The secret meeting was reported McGurk, the special envoy for the fensive, which began swiftly last former chief of staff, John Kelly. Kurds directly in Turkey’s line by a veteran Syrian reporter at counter-ISIS campaign. week after Trump told Turkish But those guardrails are gone, of fire, because the Americans Ashraq al-Awsat, a Saudi-owned Even though Trump’s national President Reccep Tayyip Erdo- and the issue never left Trump’s served as something of a buffer newspaper, who said the Kurdish security team managed to delay gan that U.S. troops would no lon- mind. He has told aides that the between the two sides. delegation told Damascus they the withdrawal, the Kurds were ger be in the way. chants of “Bring them home!” The Turks have long been did not want to repeat the Afrin concerned enough to expand Hiddo told the AP that the first from his rally crowds, includ- eager for an opportunity to go mistake and were ready to show their contacts with Damascus part of the agreement will see ing one in Minnesota earlier this into Syria and flush out the Kurd- flexibility. and Moscow. Syrian forces deploy in the city month, are evidence that the deci- ish fighters, whom they consider The meeting resulted in the A U.S. official said the Kurds of Manbij and be followed by sion is popular with his base — a terrorists. Turkey says the group first cooperation between the described it as an insurance poli- Kobani — a strategic decision to key demographic as he heads into is an offshoot of a Kurdish guer- Kurdish group and the Syrian cy to guard against Turkey in the keep the Turkish offensive from the 2020 election. rilla group known as the Kurd- government — at least in public. event the U.S. left. The official expanding west. Russia and Syria, meanwhile, istan Workers’ Party, which has And it signaled the fraying ties said the Kurds preferred to deal Another Kurdish official, are in a strong position to fill the waged a decadeslong insurgency with the U.S. with the United States on military Badran Ciya Kurd, said the deal vacuum left by Trump. inside Turkey. The Kurdish militia invited issues and on matters related to applies only to military protec- Last week, Russian Foreign As Turkey spoiled for a fight, the Syrian government to send in civilian governance and recon- tion and was forced upon the Minister Sergey Lavrov was the Kurdish fighters were losing troops to protect another Kurd- struction, but they determined it Kurds once they determined that asked about how both the Syrians confidence in their alliance with ish-held area, Manbij, where the was unwise to count on support Trump’s decision could not be and the Kurds were looking for the Americans. For five years, U.S. had a presence. The move from Washington alone. swayed. Russia to step in as a mediator. the Kurds had fought alongside would have undermined U.S. He spoke on condition of ano- “After we found that the U.S. Lavrov made no promises, but U.S. soldiers and were vital to de- power and influence in the area, nymity because he was not autho- decision is unwavering, we had to said, “We’ll see what we can do.” Thursday, October 17, 2019 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 7 EUROPE

PHOTOS BY BRIAN FERGUSON/Stars and Stripes Above: Fans video John Krasinski and Michael Kelly, from the Amazon series “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan,’’ as they visit with servicemembers and their families before a Tuesday premiere of season two at Ramstein Air Base in Germany. Right: Kelly takes a selfie with Krasinski and members of the audience. ‘Jack Ryan’ actors share premiere at Ramstein

BY JENNIFER H. SVAN prisoner interrogations that go awry, pres- Stars and Stripes ent another challenge. “We didn’t do a lot of them on ‘The Office,’ ” he said, “so I wasn’t RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany used to that.” — About 500 people filled the Ramstein But going from office worker to CIA base movie theaters Tuesday night to greet operative wasn’t too much of a stretch, he two stars of “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan” and said. catch an early screening of the drama’s “If you saw the first season (of ‘Jack season two opener. Ryan’), I sit behind a desk. I had some ex- The USO-sponsored event allowed ser- perience with that,” he joked. “I think I vicemembers and their families to watch pushed some paper around.” the episode ahead of its Nov. 1 release on It was his turn as a bearded former Navy Amazon Prime. SEAL in the movie “13 Hours,” about the For many, the big draw was an appear- 2012 attack on the American diplomatic ance by John Krasinski, who greeted the compound in Benghazi, that landed him audience along with actor Michael Kelly. the part of Jack Ryan. He put on 25 pounds Krasinski, who plays Clancy’s iconic pro- of muscle for the role. tagonist, Jack Ryan, is also widely known Paramount saw an early screening for for playing Jim Halpert on the U.S. version Mike Lewis, left, regional director of operations for USO Europe, shows the first the movie when they were casting for Jack of the comedy “The Office.” Bob Hope coin to Kelly as Krasinski looks at the coin he received from Regional Vice Ryan, he said. Senior Airman Jazmin Flores, 21, said President Walt Murren. “They said, ‘Would you ever want to do she was waiting in line mainly to see Kra- it?’ I said, ‘I’m already in shape, let’s go,’ ” sinski. Flores knows him mostly from “The the sequel to the horror movie he co-wrote time, answering questions and fronting he told the audience. Office,” she said, and loved his character and directed, “A Quiet Place,” scheduled group selfies. The show relies on intelligence and mili- “for his pranks, definitely his pranks.” for release in March. One kid asked Krasinski if he would tary consultants to make sure they portray Krasinski takes a more serious turn in Their day at Ramstein began with a tour adopt him. “Yes, I will, sure,” he said. those communities accurately. In Tues- Jack Ryan as a fledgling CIA analyst who that included sitting in the cockpit of a C-17 Baumholder spouses Erica Lozano, Kar- day’s screening, the episode portrayed ends up, in season one, chasing down the cargo plane and participating in a military ina Galvan and Jessica Jackson presented a character who said he was treated at mastermind of a terrorist cell in Syria. working dog demonstration. Krasinski with a teapot, a gift fans of “The Landstuhl after being injured in Afghani- Ryan, a former U.S. Marine and stock- “Everyone kept trying to say, ‘thank you’ Office” will remember from the “Secret stan. Krasinski also did some crying in one broker, heads to Venezuela in season two to us,” Krasinski said, while visiting with Santa” episode. scene. to track a potentially suspicious shipment fans. “That’s just ridiculous because we “We’re starstruck,” they gushed. It’s easier for him to cry when he’s laugh- of illegal arms. just keep trying to say ‘thank you’ to them. Someone wanted to know how hard it ing, he revealed to fans, after someone Kelly, previously known for his role as Thank you for everything you guys do … was to play Jack Ryan. asked if he was able to cry intentionally. Doug Stamper in the presidential drama and for letting us be here. This is just pure “Not at all,” Krasinski said with a laugh. “I’m a crier-laugher,” he said. He cried “House of Cards,” portrays CIA field offi- fun and we’ve had a blast.” “I was sort of born for it.” the hardest he has in a long time earlier in cer Mike November. “It really does mean the world to us Joking aside, Krasinski said, “it was ac- the day, after Kelly donned protective gear The Ramstein visit was the second of to give this to you guys first,” Kelly told tually a big change for me. I’ve loved the for the canine demonstration and was “at- two stops for the actors on a USO tour they servicemembers. character for a really, really long time, but tacked by a guard dog.” fit in while promoting “Jack Ryan” in Lon- Before the screening, Krasinski and the key for me was to make it realistic.” “If I show you the video you will laugh don. On Saturday, the actors visited RAF Kelly ducked into each of the four theaters It’s challenging to portray the CIA in a as hard as you ever laughed,” he said. “He Alconbury in England. playing the show to chat with audience way that sheds “light on the sacrifice that is the slowest human being ever in full They’re on break from the show, with members, who greeted them with screams goes on,” he said. “That was important to marshmallow (suit).” shooting for season three expected to and cheers. me.” [email protected] begin next year. Krasinski is also editing The actors were generous with their The various stunts, from firefights to Twitter: @stripesktown PAGE 8 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Thursday, October 17, 2019 NATION Debate rivals assail front-runner Warren

BY STEVE PEOPLES, WILL WEISSERT CNN anchor Anderson Cooper asked, AND DARLENE SUPERVILLE “If it’s not OK for a president’s family to Associated Press be involved in foreign businesses, why was it OK for your son when you were vice Elizabeth Warren repeatedly came president?” under attack during the Democratic presi- Biden faltered some before offering, dential debate as rivals accused the Mas- “My son did nothing wrong, I did nothing sachusetts senator of ducking questions wrong.” about the cost of Medicare for All and her Toward the end, Biden was more confi- signature wealth tax plan in an attempt to dent when he accused Warren and Sanders derail her rising campaign. of “being vague” on the true costs of Medi- The pile-on Tuesday reinforced her new care for All. status as a front-runner in the contest to “Tell people what it’s going to cost, how take on President Donald Trump next you’re going to do it and why you’re going year. With first state primaries rapidly to do it,” he said. approaching, her many challengers have Sanders responded by criticizing the for- dwindling opportunities to emerge as pow- mer vice president’s record, including his erful alternatives to the progressive agen- support for what Sanders called the “disas- da she’s championing. trous war in Iraq.” Warren also accused The night’s confrontations were mostly Biden of not doing enough as vice president fought on familiar terrain for the Demo- to empower a consumer financial protec- crats, who have spent months sparring tion agency she helped set up in the wake over the future of health care with former of the national financial crisis. Vice President Joe Biden and other mod- “I went on the floor and got you votes,” erates pressing for a measured approach Biden responded, waving his finger at while Warren and Vermont Sen. Bernie JOHN MINCHILLO/AP Warren. Sanders call for a dramatic, government- funded overhaul of the insurance market. Democratic presidential candidates Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., left; former Vice Warren answered that she was “deep- Still, unlike Sanders, Warren refused to President Joe Biden, center; and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., raise their hands to ly grateful” that then-President Barack say whether she would raise taxes on the speak during the Democratic presidential primary debate Tuesday . Obama supported her efforts, implying middle class to pay for a Medicare for All that Biden didn’t help. universal health insurance plan — a stance ing an impeachment inquiry in the House “What we are doing or what we were doing She swatted back at criticism of her that’s increasingly difficult to maintain centered on his quest to get Ukraine to dig in Syria was keeping our word.” sweeping plan to tax wealthy Americans given her more prominent status. up unflattering details about Biden, anoth- “I would have a hard time today look- to pay for her domestic agenda. Klobuchar Her rivals seized on the opportunity to er front-runner among the Democrats hop- ing an Afghan civilian or soldier in the eye said she wanted to provide a “reality check” pounce. ing to unseat the Republican president. after what just happened over there,” said on the issue while former Texas Rep. Beto “I appreciate Elizabeth’s work but, “You would think there is NO WAY that Buttigieg, who served in Afghanistan. “It O’Rourke suggested it was “punitive.” again, the difference between a plan and any of the Democrat Candidates that we is undermining the honor of our soldiers. Warren framed the measure as part of a pipe dream is something you can actu- witnessed last night could possibly become You take away the honor of our soldiers, the ambitious agenda she’s pitching to fun- ally get done,” said Minnesota Sen. Amy President of the United States,” Trump you might as well go after their body armor damentally reshape the economic and po- Klobuchar. tweeted on Wednesday. “Now you see why next.” litical system. Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, they have no choice but to push a totally il- Biden has faced the sharpest criticism “Look, I understand that this is hard, but Indiana, added: “We heard it tonight. A legal & absurd Impeachment of one of the from rivals in previous debates. But fewer I think as Democrats we are going to suc- ‘yes’ or ‘no’ question that didn’t get a ‘yes’ most successful Presidents!” candidates engaged with him on Tuesday ceed when we dream big and fight hard, or ‘no’ answer.” The debate also served as Sanders’ re- as they trained their focus on Warren. not when we dream small and quit before Warren insisted that she has “made clear turn to the campaign trail following a Still, he struggled to fully explain why we get started,” Warren answered. what my principles are here,” arguing that heart attack earlier this month. The Ver- his newly promised ethics plan to prevent Though Warren fielded much of the criti- lower premiums would mean that overall mont senator failed to show all the fire of conflicts of interest involving his relatives cism on Tuesday, other rivalries emerged. costs would go down for most Americans. previous debates but made his points with wasn’t applied to his son Hunter when he O’Rourke and Buttigieg argued about California Sen. Kamala Harris tried force. He was applauded when he thanked was hired in 2014 as a director for a Ukrai- gun control, with the mayor saying the to get in on the action on another subject, supporters and rivals for their good wishes nian energy company. Texan himself wasn’t even sure how the scolding Warren for not echoing her calls and declared, “I’m feeling great.” That relationship has become a focal mandatory federal buyback of assault for Twitter to suspend Trump’s account. The debate touched on foreign policy too, point of Trump’s push for a Ukrainian weapons he’s called for would work. That Warren responded: “I don’t just want to a subject that has dominated the news in government probe of the Bidens — an ef- touched off a stretch where both candi- push Trump off of Twitter. I want to push recent weeks as Trump said he was with- fort that was a major factor leading to the dates talked over one another. him out of the White House.” drawing most U.S. forces from Syria and House impeachment inquiry. At one point, Buttigieg told O’Rourke, “I Featuring a dozen candidates, the de- then Turkey invaded the northern part of On Sunday, Biden had vowed that “no don’t need lessons from you on courage, bate, sponsored by CNN and The New York the country to attack Kurdish fighters. one in my family will have an office in the political or personal.” Times and held in Ohio, was the largest in Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, who served White House, will sit in on meetings as if Also debating were New York entrepre- modern history. It was the first time the in Iraq with the Army, questioned the need they’re a Cabinet member, will in fact have neur Andrew Yang, New Jersey Sen. Cory White House hopefuls gathered in a little for U.S. involvement in “regime change” any business relationship with anyone that Booker, former Obama housing chief Ju- more than a month. In that time, the politi- conflicts in the Middle East. That prompt- relates to a foreign corporation or a foreign lian Castro and billionaire activist Tom cal landscape has changed with Trump fac- ed Buttigieg, himself a veteran, to respond, country.” Steyer. Campaign: Warren’s call to exit Ocasio-Cortez to endorse Sanders CQ-Roll Call est woman ever elected to Congress and has worked to pull the Democratic caucus Mideast means combat troops WASHINGTON — New York Demo- further to the left on issues such as climate cratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is Associated Press Warren has advocated shrinking the U.S. expected to endorse Vermont Sen. Ber- change. presence overseas and has said she wants “We’re super excited about Saturday,” WASHINGTON — Sen. Elizabeth War- nie Sanders for president this weekend, a to withdraw troops from Afghanistan, Iraq Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign spokesman, ren’s call Tuesday night for the United source with knowledge of the endorsement and Syria. But a call to pull back from all of confirmed Tuesday night. Corbin Trent, said late Tuesday. He de- States to “get out” of the Middle East, if the Middle East would appear to go a step The 30-year-old outspoken freshman, clined to comment on whether she would implemented, would end a generations- further. who with Sanders and other liberals has be backing Sanders at the rally. long U.S. military presence in the volatile In a statement after the debate, Warren become a regular feature in Republican at- Sanders teased a “special guest” at an region. Her campaign later softened that spokeswoman Alexis Krieg said the candi- tack ads warning Democratic victories in upcoming rally when asked during the de- statement, saying she was talking about date “was referencing combat troops, not 2020 would lead to socialism, will attend a bate how he would assure voters he could combat troops only. those stationed in the Middle East in non- Sanders rally in New York City on Saturday. handle the stresses of the presidency fol- “I think that we ought to get out of the combat roles.” Sanders, 78, teased the event from the stage lowing his heart attack. Middle East,” Warren said in a Democrat- “She believes we need to end the endless of the Democratic presidential debate. “Well, let me invite you all to a major ic presidential debate during a discussion wars. That means working to responsibly Ocasio-Cortez’s endorsement, first re- rally we’re having in Queens, New York, of President Donald Trump’s decision to remove U.S. troops from combat in the ported by The Washington Post, could BernieSanders.com. We’re going to have a pull troops out of Syria. Middle East, and using diplomacy to work boost Sanders’ campaign as he returns special guest at that event, and we’re going “I don’t think we should have troops in with allies and partners to end conflicts to the campaign trail after suffering a to be mounting a vigorous campaign all the Middle East,” she added. and suffering in the region,” Krieg said. heart attack. Ocasio-Cortez is the young- over this country,” Sanders said. Thursday, October 17, 2019 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 9 NATION Trump meets Officials with parents of British car shared crash victim Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump met Tuesday with Ukraine the parents of a British teenager who was killed in a car crash in- volving an American diplomat’s wife. The White House declined to say what message the president unease had delivered, but a spokesman ANDREW HARNIK/AP for the family suggested they may BY LISA MASCARO, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State George Kent, fourth from left, leaves Capitol Hill on Tuesday after have been disappointed by it. MARY CLARE JALONICK testifying as part of the House impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. “Meeting with President AND LAURIE KELLMAN Trump complete,” tweeted the Associated Press system of checks and balances of Volodymyr Zelenskiy. It is on that up military aid to Ukraine while spokesman, Radd Seiger. “We the executive. call that Trump urged Zelenskiy pressing Zelenskiy to investigate will review where we are up to WASHINGTON — The im- “This is not a game for us. This to investigate a firm tied to politi- a company linked to Biden’s son. and determine next steps shortly peachment inquiry is reveal- is deadly serious. We’re on a path cal rival Joe Biden’s family and In 10 hours of testimony Mon- when we will comment further. ing vivid new details about the that is taking us, a path to the Ukraine’s own involvement in the day, Hill, who was a top adviser on In the meantime the search for high-level unease over President truth,” Pelosi told reporters after 2016 presidential election. Russia, recalled to investigators #Justice4Harry continues.” Donald Trump’s actions toward a closed-door session with House In a daylong session Tuesday, that Bolton had told her he was Harry Dunn, 19, was killed in Ukraine and those of his personal Democrats. House investigators heard from not part of “whatever drug deal August when his motorcycle col- lawyer Rudy Giuliani as the swift- With Ukraine situated between Kent, who was concerned about Sondland and Mulvaney are cook- lided with a car allegedly driven moving probe by House Demo- the United States’ Western allies the “fake news smear” against ing up,” an apparent reference to by Anne Sacoolas, the U.S. diplo- crats shows no signs of easing. and Russia, Pelosi noted the in- the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, talks over Ukraine. She testified mat’s wife, outside a British air The testimony from the wit- quiry raises fresh questions about Marie Yovanovitch, whom Trump that Bolton asked her to take con- force base in southern England nesses, mainly officials from Trump’s relationship with Rus- recalled in May, according to cerns to National Security Coun- used by the U.S. military. the State Department and other sian President Vladimir Putin. emails obtained by The Associ- cil lawyer John Eisenberg. Sacoolas left Britain shortly foreign policy posts, is largely Trump calls the impeachment ated Press. As White House lawyers now after, though police released a corroborating the account of the inquiry an “illegitimate process” Kent told the lawmakers that try to learn more about the han- statement saying she had previ- government whistleblower whose and is blocking officials from he “found himself outside a paral- dling of the Ukraine call, Eisen- ously told them she had no plans complaint first sparked the im- cooperating. lel process” and had warned oth- berg is coming under particular to depart. Her current where- peachment inquiry, according to Democratic leaders had been ers about Giuliani as far back as scrutiny, said one White House abouts are uncertain. lawmakers attending the closed- gauging support for a vote to au- March. He felt the shadow diplo- official. He was both the official Dunn’s parents have been door interviews. thorize the impeachment inquiry macy was undermining decades who ordered that the memoran- pressing for Sacoolas to return to One witness, former White after Trump and Republicans of foreign policy and the rule dum of the call be moved to a Britain . Charlotte Charles, Dunn’s House aide Fiona Hill, testified pushed them for a roll call. Hold- of law in Ukraine and that was highly classified system, and the mother, tearfully urged her to “do that national security adviser ing a vote would test politically “wrong,” said Rep. Gerry Con- one who involved the Justice De- the right thing,” during a news John Bolton was so alarmed by vulnerable Democrats in areas nolly, D-Va. partment in a complaint from the conference Monday. “She needs Giuliani’s back-channel activities where the Republican president Connolly said Kent described CIA general counsel. The latter to set an example to her own chil- in Ukraine that he described him is popular. the results of a May 23 meeting caught the attention of the presi- dren that you can’t run away.” as a “hand grenade who is going But several Democratic fresh- at the White House organized by dent, according to the official. to blow everybody up.” men who are military veterans or Trump’s acting chief of staff, Mick Giuliani said Tuesday he was Another, career State Depart- had careers in national security Mulvaney, where three admin- “very disappointed” in Bolton’s ment official George Kent, tes- before joining Congress spoke istration officials — U.S. ambas- comment. Bolton, Giuliani said, tified Tuesday he was told by up during the meeting Tuesday, sador Gordon Sondland, special “has been called much worse.” administration officials to “lay warning Pelosi and her leader- envoy Kurt Volker and Energy Giuliani also acknowledged he low” on Ukraine as “three ami- ship team a vote was unnecessary Secretary Rick Perry — declared had received payments totaling gos” tied to the White House took and would be playing into Repub- themselves the people now re- $500,000 related to the work for a over U.S. foreign policy toward licans’ hands, according to a per- sponsible for Ukraine policy. company operated by Lev Parnas the Eastern European ally. son granted anonymity to discuss “They called themselves the — who, along with associate Igor Speaker Nancy Pelosi, despite the private session. three amigos,” Connolly said Kent Fruman, played a key role in Gi- intensifying calls from Trump The inquiry is moving quickly testified, and they said as much to uliani’s efforts to launch a Ukrai- and Republicans to hold a formal as a steady stream of officials ap- Zelenskiy in Ukraine when they nian corruption investigation vote to authorize the impeach- pears behind closed doors this visited. against Biden and his son Hunter. ment inquiry, showed no indica- week, some providing new revela- Kent also told them that Trump, The two men were arrested last tion she would do so. She said tions about the events surround- through the Office of Manage- week on campaign finance charg- Congress will continue its investi- ing the July 25 phone call between ment and Budget, which Mul- es as they tried to board an inter- gation as part of the Constitution’s Trump and Ukrainian President vaney previously led, was holding national flight.

Trump vetoes block of his emergency powers 3 House bills support Hong Kong protesters WASHINGTON — President Associated Press jing’s influence over the territory. contrast to “the cowardly govern- Donald Trump has vetoed legis- A third bill would ensure that ment that refuses to respect the WASHINGTON — The House lation that attempted to overturn U.S. weapons are not being used rule of law” and the “one country, passed three bills Tuesday aimed his use of emergency powers to against protesters by police. two systems” policy that was sup- raid military base projects to at showing U.S. support for pro- All three bills were approved posed to ensure a smooth political pay for his long-promised border democracy protesters in Hong on separate voice votes. transition after the former Brit- fence. Kong. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Trump killed a similar measure The action follows months of ish colony was returned to China called the bills important remind- in 1997. in March. He says in his veto mes- protests over the Beijing govern- ers of U.S. support for human Under U.S. law, Hong Kong re- sage Tuesday that the situation on ment’s aggressive attempts to rights in the face of significant ceives special treatment in mat- the nation’s southern border with enforce control over the semi-au- commercial interests in China. ters of trade, customs, sanctions Mexico remains a national emer- tonomous territory. “If America does not speak out gency and “our Armed Forces are One of the bills condemns Chi- for human rights in China be- enforcement, law enforcement still needed to help confront it.” na’s intrusions into Hong Kong’s cause of commercial interests, cooperation and more. China has Congress is unlikely to have the affairs and supports the right of then we lose all moral authority benefited from that special status votes to override the veto. In all, people to protest. Another re- to speak out on behalf of human and used it to evade U.S. export 127 military construction proj- quires annual reviews by the U.S. rights anyplace in the world,” she controls and sanctions, Pelosi and ects totaling $3.6 billion will lose secretary of state of Hong Kong’s said. other lawmakers said. funding. special economic and trade sta- Pelosi said the bravery of young The three bills now head to the From The Associated Press tus, providing a check on Bei- protesters in Hong Kong stands in Senate. PAGE 10 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Thursday, October 17, 2019 NATION Study: ‘Medicare for All’ not only path to goal

BY RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR ing to say whether her support for law to a full government-run more in revenue in 2020. Such ployer coverage would be able to Associated Press Medicare for All would translate single-payer plan like Sanders amounts would require a mix of pick the public plan. There would to higher taxes for the middle is proposing. Collins said the op- broad-based taxes, the research- be a mechanism to sign up all WASHINGTON — Health care class. Warren said “costs” would tions studied are not carbon cop- ers said, although the report those eligible for coverage. memo to Democrats: There’s be lower, but Sen. Amy Klobu- ies of the candidates’ proposals, steered clear of how the plans Such an approach would re- more than one way to get to cov- char, of Minnesota, suggested partly because many details are would be financed. duce the number of uninsured by erage for all. that was a dodge. still in flux. However, they are “It is a big lift to get this kind of about 80%, the study estimated. A study out Wednesday finds “I’m sorry, Elizabeth,” said generally similar. money, for sure,” said John Hola- That would still leave nearly 7 that an approach similar to the Klobuchar. “I think we owe it to The study found that a full gov- han, a top Urban Institute health million U.S. residents without plan from former Vice President the American people to tell them ernment-run plan like Sanders’ policy expert. coverage, mainly people who Joe Biden can deliver about the where we’re going to send the in- would cover all U.S. residents, A Kaiser Family Foundation don’t have legal permission to same level of coverage as the gov- voice.” She urged Democrats not including people in the country poll out this week found slippage be in the country. Under Biden’s ernment-run “Medicare for All” to “trash Obamacare” but build without legal authorization. That in public support for Medicare plan taxpayer subsidies would be plan from presidential rival Ber- on it. adds up to more than 30 million for All. Fifty-one percent support available only to U.S. citizens and nie Sanders. The study suggests such heated currently uninsured people. such a government-run approach, legal residents. The study from the Common- discussions may have more to do However, it would increase U.S. down 5 percentage points since Employer coverage would de- wealth Fund and the Urban Insti- with differences over the scope health care spending because April. Opposition has risen sig- cline by about 10% as some low- tute think tanks concludes that the and reach of government than of generous benefits with no co- nificantly, from 38% in April to income workers switch to the U.S. can achieve a goal that has with the ultimate objective of pro- pays and deductibles. Expanded 47% in the latest survey. public option. eluded Democrats since Harry viding universal coverage. benefits would include home and The Commonwealth Fund- Assuming the plan was fully Truman by building on former “A goal that they all share community-based long-term care Urban Institute study also mod- effective in 2020, total U.S. health President Barack Obama’s health — universal coverage — can be services. Assuming the plan was eled options resembling the plan care spending would decline by care law. reached in different ways,” said fully effective in 2020, total U.S. that Biden is pushing. about $20 billion, a relatively Health care has sparked sharp Sara Collins, the Commonwealth health spending would grow by It starts with more generous small amount considering the exchanges in the Democratic Fund’s vice president for cover- nearly $720 billion. subsidies for “Obamacare” plans nation’s tab is now more than $3.5 presidential debates, and Tues- age and access. The federal government, which and Medicaid expansion in states trillion a year. The decline would day night was no exception. Mas- The researchers modeled a would take on costs now paid by that have so far refused it. Then it be partly due to the public option sachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren range of health care overhaul sce- employers and individuals, would adds a “public option” plan based paying hospitals and doctors less was challenged for being unwill- narios from tweaks to Obama’s have to raise nearly $2.7 trillion on Medicare. People with em- than what private plans do now. British family decries treatment Warren, Sanders stockpile by US after crossing from Canada millions more than rivals Associated Press Grant Woodard, a Des Moines attorney who is a veteran of John BY MICHAEL RUBINKAM WASHINGTON — Bernie Kerry’s and Hillary Clinton’s Associated Press Sanders and Elizabeth Warren don’t just lead the Democratic Iowa campaigns. “It’s still a fluid Seven members of an extend- presidential primary in fundrais- race. But to be competitive in this ed British family who made an ing. They’ve stockpiled millions thing you are going to have to be unauthorized crossing into the more than their rivals, including on TV, digital and you are going United States from Canada are former Vice President Joe Biden, to have to be on direct mail. The being held in federal custody at who burned through money at fundamentals still matter.” a Pennsylvania detention center a fast clip over the past three Biden has built a formidable nearly two weeks after their ar- months while posting an anemic campaign, but it’s come at a cost. rest, their lawyer said Tuesday, fundraising haul. The $17.6 million he spent over as U.S. border officials defended Sanders held $33.7 million the past three months was more their handling of the case by dis- cash on hand on his third-quarter than the $15.7 million he took in, closing that two of the adults had fundraising report. Warren had according to his fundraising fig- previously been denied entry to $25.7 million during the same ures that were submitted to the the country. period, while South Bend, Ind., Federal Election Commission on The family said they blundered Mayor Pete Buttigieg came next Tuesday’s reporting deadline. into Washington State while try- with $23.3 million. Despite his lackluster totals, he ing to avoid an animal in the road BILL UHRICH, READING (PA.) EAGLE/AP Biden, meanwhile, held just still remains a favored candidate on the Canadian side and have $8.9 million . in recent public opinion polls, Members of a British family being held in U.S. custody after their since been “treated like crimi- With the first votes of the along with Warren. In recent nals” by their U.S. jailers, forced unauthorized crossing from Canada say they have been mistreated Democratic contest just months by U.S. officials, who defend their handling of the case. weeks, both Biden and his wife, to bide their time in a series of away, the candidates are entering Jill, have kept up a busier fund- cold and unsanitary immigration a critical and expensive period raising schedule. facilities as they await deporta- were inside. “We will be traumatized for the where having an ample supply of “During processing, record rest of our lives by what the Unit- “People focused on the minu- tion to England. The detainees cash can make or break a cam- tia and the details,” said Westly, include an infant and 2-year-old checks revealed two of the adults ed States government has done paign. Biden’s total raises ques- a Silicon Valley venture capital- twins. were previously denied travel au- to us,” she wrote in an affidavit tions about his durability as a ist. “The reality is this is quickly Their attorney, Bridget Cam- thorization to come to the United released by immigrants’ rights front-runner. boiling down to a two-person race bria, lodged a formal complaint States,” U.S. Customs and Bor- groups in Pennsylvania. “Can he do better at fundrais- — and that’s between Joe Biden over the family’s treatment with der Protection said Tuesday in a Connors’ family, a couple re- ing? Absolutely. And I think he and Elizabeth Warren.” the U.S. Department of Homeland statement . lated to them, and their young will,” said Biden donor and fund- The advantage Warren and Security’s inspector general and Officials did not say which children were driving along the raiser Steve Westly. Sanders have was evident in the civil rights office. She described adults had been denied entry into U.S.-Canada border while vaca- The advantage enjoyed by the way they have been able to spend. the situation as a “very bizarre” the U.S. or why. tioning in the Vancouver area Vermont and Massachusetts case of federal overreach. The agency said border agents when Eileen Connors said they de- senators means they will have Sanders’ $21.5 million in spend- “What is bothersome for me tried returning the family to Can- toured briefly onto an unmarked the luxury of spending when and ing between July and the end of as an attorney, and I guarantee ada, but Canada refused to have road to avoid an animal — and, in where they want. That will allow September topped the list. It en- for them, was the lack of com- them back. After making two at- the process, unknowingly crossed them to buy large amounts of abled him to spend $3.8 million mon sense at almost every stage tempts to contact British consul- into the U.S. A U.S. Border Patrol advertising, respond to attacks on advertising and online fund- of their apprehension and deten- ar officials, the border patrol said agent quickly pulled them over, and boost their ground games in raising, drop nearly $1 million on tion,” Cambria said. it turned the family over to U.S. declared they had “crossed an early voting states like Iowa, New campaign merchandise and pay U.S. officials assert the fam- immigration officials for removal international border” and took Hampshire and South Carolina. his staff a combined $5.6 million, ily of Eileen and David Connors proceedings. them into custody, Connors said. “If you are sitting at fourth, records show. crossed the border on purpose, Eileen Connors, 24, who is She said the family asked to turn fifth or even seventh place and Warren’s $18.6 million in noting their vehicle was observed being held in Pennsylvania along around and go back, but the offi- you don’t have the money to have spending during that period al- “slowly and deliberately” driving with her husband, David, their 3- cer refused. a real paid media campaign, the lowed her to fund a sprawling through a ditch to cross into U.S. month-old son and other family Cambria, the immigration law- future for you is probably pretty staff operation in addition to fi- territory in Blaine, Wash., on Oct. members, said U.S. officials have yer, said the family should be on a bleak. You will get drowned out nancing a more than $3.2 million 2. Four adults and three children mistreated them. plane to England within days. by the rest of the noise,” said digital operation, records show. Thursday, October 17, 2019 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 11 NATION Book: Trump mulled closing parts of VA system

BY HOPE YEN post-traumatic stress disorder. early inten- ert Wilkie , has put the agency at considered for the VA secretary Associated Press At the meeting, Trump asked tions toward risk “as never before.” Shulkin job , to ask his opinion. whether “we should begin to the VA and cited political forces inside and “We can find the money from WASHINGTON — Eager to close the VAs,” according to the remains sig- outside the administration that within the VA,” Hegseth told make changes to the Department book. Legislation prohibited that, nificant as are more interested in putting Trump, according to the book, of Veterans Affairs, President so Shulkin responded that the VA he pushes for “companies with profits” over the suggesting significant cuts to VA Donald Trump toyed early on was working with Congress to set reelection, care of veterans, and suggested care. with issuing an executive order to up a systemwide review to ad- citing in part that only new leadership — at “Much of my narrative deals close parts of the VA health sys- dress underperforming facilities, his accom- the department, probably at the with the factions pushing me to tem without consulting Congress, whether by fixing or closing. plishments White House, too — could save simply close the VA or at least according to an upcoming book “But this takes time,” Shulkin in expand- VA. large parts of it that weren’t work- by his former VA secretary. Shulkin said. ing Choice Yet, as VA secretary, Shulkin ing well,” Shulkin wrote. “But I In the book, obtained by The Trump exclaimed, “So let’s just and boost- pushed a plan to give veterans didn’t see how shutting down a Associated Press, David Shulkin do an executive order!” ing mental health care for vet- wider access to doctors outside system specifically designed to describes a March 6, 2017, con- erans. Veterans as a group have “This is a legislative issue,” the VA medical system. Veterans care for veterans could be in the versation in the Oval Office at largely backed Trump through- Shulkin said. should get “more choice in the say veterans’ best interests.” which Trump explored ways his out his presidency despite linger- Trump then offered, “Can’t of their care,” he told the House The legislation that Trump ul- administration could act quickly ing questions about his intentions we just declare a national Veterans’ Affairs Committee in timately signed last year gives to shutter government-run VA about preserving the VA. medical centers that he viewed as emergency?” Shulkin, a former Obama ad- October 2017. “Nobody should veterans more freedom to see doc- poorly performing. At that point, according to ministration official, was fired feel trapped in the VA system.” tors outside the VA in an effort to Trump was fresh off his 2016 the book, Trump’s son-in-law by Trump in March 2018 amid Shulkin says Trump’s plans re- cut wait times, paving the way for campaign in which privatizing and White House adviser, Jared an ethics scandal over a trip to garding “privatization” were still new rules that Shulkin says will VA had become a political hot but- Kushner, chimed in, “Yes. We’re Europe that Shulkin took with an open question when Shulkin “lead to the rapid dismantling of ton after he pledged to steer more still in a war, so we could.” his wife that mixed business was fired. the current VA system.” veterans to private-sector doctors Shulkin told the AP that ulti- and pleasure, as well as mount- A few weeks before, Shulkin Recent studies have actually outside the VA. He had said the mately he dissuaded Trump from ing rebellion by political appoin- said he was explaining to Trump found that veterans got into a VA VA was “the most corrupt” and pursuing that route, persuading tees in his agency. His book, “It in an Oval Office meeting why facility for an appointment faster “probably the most incompetent- him to sign executive orders for Shouldn’t Be This Hard to Serve an aggressive expansion of pri- on average and received better ly run” Cabinet department. changes with wider support, such Your Country,” will be released vate care for veterans could be care than if they went to a private Democrats and major veterans’ as expanded telehealth options Tuesday. very costly for the government, at facility, raising questions about groups oppose “privatization” and for veterans. He said the expansion of the more than $50 billion. Trump de- the value of steering veterans to say VA facilities are best suited to The 2017 Oval Office conver- Veterans Choice program under cided to call Pete Hegseth, a Fox the private sector if it results in treat battlefield injuries such as sation is illustrative of Trump’s his successor, VA Secretary Rob- News commentator who was once inferior care. GM, auto union reach tentative contract deal

BY TOM KRISHER peaked and are now heading in Associated Press the other direction. GM and other carmakers are also struggling to DETROIT — Bargainers for make the transition to electric General Motors and the United and autonomous vehicles. Auto Workers reached a tentative Meanwhile, President Donald contract deal on Wednesday that Trump’s trade war with China could end a monthlong strike that and his tariffs on imported steel brought the company’s U.S. facto- and aluminum have raised costs ries to a standstill. for auto companies. A revamped The deal was hammered out North American free trade deal after months of bargaining but is stalled in Congress, raising won’t bring an immediate end to doubts about the future of Amer- the strike by 49,000 hourly work- ica’s trade in autos and auto parts ers. They will likely stay on the with Canada and Mexico, which picket lines for at least two more last year came to $257 billion. days as two union committees Amid that uncertainty, GM vote on the deal, after which the workers have wanted to lock members will have to approve. in as much as they can before Terms of the tentative four- things get ugly. They argue that year contract were not released, they had given up pay raises and but it’s likely to include some pay made other concessions to keep raises, lump sum payments to GM afloat during its 2009 trip workers and requirements that through bankruptcy protection. GM build new vehicles in U.S. Now that GM has been nursed factories. Early on, GM offered back to health — earning $2.42 new products in Detroit and billion in its latest quarter — they Lordstown, Ohio, two of the four want a bigger share. U.S. cities where it planned to If approved, the contract agree- close factories. ment will set the pattern for nego- The company offered to build a tiations at Fiat Chrysler and Ford. new electric pickup truck to keep It wasn’t clear which company the the Detroit-Hamtramck plant union would bargain with next, or open and to build an electric ve- whether there would be another hicle battery factory in or near strike. Lordstown, Ohio, where GM is The union’s International Ex- closing an assembly plant. The ecutive Board first has to vote on battery factory would employ far the GM deal, then union leaders fewer workers and pay less money from factories will travel to De- than the assembly plant. troit for a vote Thursday. The ear- GM and the union have been liest workers could return would negotiating at a time of troubling be after that. uncertainty for the U.S. auto in- In past years, it’s taken a mini- dustry. Driven up by the longest mum of three or four days and as economic expansion in American long as several weeks for the na- history, auto sales appear to have tional ratification vote. PAGE 12 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Thursday, October 17, 2019 VETERANS Capturing the soldier’s perspective Work of Vietnam War-era cartoonist Vernon Grant is honored in exhibit

BY MATTHEW M. BURKE Stars and Stripes The thin black lines are simple and el- egant, the content biting and insightful. The cartoon depicts a decrepit old man in uniform, shaking as he walks, being propped up by his rifle. A sergeant first class places a hand on the man’s shoulder. “I’ve got good news for you, Goonfin- kle!” the caption says. “After 10 months on ‘Point,’ you’ll be on R&R for your 19th birthday!” Cartoonist and Army officer Vernon Grant had a unique ability to capture the soldier’s perspective during the Vietnam War. The Stars and Stripes contributor was the latest in a long line of social commenta- ‘Translating life into humor’ tors to grace its pages during times of war, Grant and Betsy moved to Massachu- the most notable being setts in 1973 and were married five years Pulitzer Prize winner later. Bill Mauldin during Grant was known in the community for World War II. his smile, intelligence, his ability to listen, Grant, who died in drawing cartoons for local kids and for 2006 at 71, is being running, Betsy Grant said. honored with an ex- His wartime experiences influenced his Grant hibit showcasing his decision to publish “The Love Rangers” work at The National graphic novels between 1977 and 1988. Stars and Stripes Museum and Library in The series was about a spaceship crew that Bloomfield, Mo. It runs until Nov. 30. would travel around the universe to pro- “One Vietnam veteran said to me, ‘We mote peaceful change through the use of had some terrible times in Vietnam, but we love, often stopping wars. also laughed a lot,’ ” Grant’s widow, Betsy didate Course at Fort Benning, Ga., and out, a look of shock on his face. Behind Grant ran 33 marathons, retiring at 61 in Grant, told Stars and Stripes during a re- was commissioned a second lieutenant. 1996. But he never stopped running. cent phone interview. Grant’s work “will him, a Vietnamese soldier lights his bud- He took and passed infantry and airborne He suffered a heart attack on a run July make you laugh. His sense of humor was dy’s cigarette. The soldier says, “Thanks training courses. 7, 2006, and fell into a coma. He died July universal for all soldiers.” for the light, Fred.” He arrived in Japan in 1964 and stayed 23. Vernon Grant was born Feb. 14, 1935, The strip was humorous, informative for three years, Betsy Grant wrote. “His creations of the stories of ‘Point- in Cambridge, Mass., Betsy Grant wrote and a bit unsettling. Grant made captain in 1966 and a year Man Palmer’ and cartoons in the military in a retrospective of her husband’s work Grant — who was quiet, scholarly and later went to Vietnam , where he com- field as well as his science fiction world titled “Adventures of Point-Man Palmer in more apt to listen than to speak — left the manded the Signal Security Force — 400 of ‘The Love Rangers’ are his legacy,” his Vietnam: Cartoons and Writings of Vernon military in 1968 after 10 years of service. men guarding 23 communications sites Grant.” He was the second-youngest of five He enrolled in classes at the Jesuit Sophia widow wrote in her book. scattered the length of Vietnam. His tour University, which had a campus in the Speaking with Stars and Stripes in 1972, children in a family that immigrated from lasted 13 months. Barbados. Yotsuya area of Tokyo. He met his wife in Grant made his intentions abundantly clear. At 3, Grant started drawing birthday Japan in 1972. He just wanted to make people laugh. cards and some science fiction, his widow Hello, Vietnam Spending eight years total in Japan, “Translating life into humor is the big- Grant was inspired by Japanese manga, gest thing with me,” he said at the time. wrote. That started his lifelong love affair If Grant saw combat, he never talked Betsy Grant said. He enjoyed the “Lone with the craft. about it, said his wife and Grant’s best Since her husband’s death, Betsy Grant Wolf and Cub” series by Goseki Kojima Encouraged by his father, Joseph Grant friend, Bob Miko, from Sophia University has made it her mission to re-release his and Kazuo Koike. It added new dimensions Sr., and an older cousin, Grant took classes in Tokyo, which he attended after his mili- work. She often speaks with veterans at the Vesper George School of Art in Bos- tary service. When Grant went to the Viet- to his style and abilities. groups and participates in literary fo- ton. He pored over science fiction litera- nam Veterans Memorial in Washington, Grant wrote three books on Army life rums. She said it is cathartic for her and ture and comic books — titles like “Donald in 1998, he made rubbings of the names of and one on Japan; a two-volume graphic for veterans. Duck” and other Disney comics, “Andy four men with whom he’d been friends. novel, “Adventures of Point-Man Palmer “I just love when I’m showing these Panda,” “Daredevil,” “Little Lulu” and One of those men was Medal of Honor re- and his Girlfriend ‘Invisible Peppermint’ ”; books to veterans and their families. I get “Archie.” cipient Army 1st Sgt. Maximo Yabes, who “Stand-By One!”; and “A Monster is Loose! to watch all these people laugh,” she said. As he grew older, he developed an af- was killed in action in 1967. After Grant — in Tokyo.” “He’s doing it again, which is marvelous.” finity for “Tin Tin” and underground died, Betsy Grant released an old, unpub- “Stand-By One!” is a cartoon book of sin- One of this generation’s most popu- comics like “The Fabulous Furry Freak lished strip he had authored where he gave gle panel humor on Vietnam. Grant sold all lar military cartoonists, Marine veteran Brothers.” his friend Yabes a ribbing for being a bit 13,000 copies that were printed. The book Maximilian Uriarte, agreed. He launched is available today through online retailers An athlete all his life, Grant was a Boy too motivated during drills. “Terminal Lance,” a strip about Marine thanks to Betsy Grant, who is working to Scout and enjoyed hiking along the Charles Between 1966 and 1969, Grant drew grunt life, in Marine Corps Times in 2010. keep his memory alive. River in Cambridge, Mass.. He played strips for Stars and Stripes, under the titles “It seems every generation has some “Point-Man Palmer” strips are also baseball and basketball in high school “Grant’s Heroes,” “A Grant Time in Japan” cartoon-inclined soul to keep things light,” available online in the retrospective about and was a multi-state champion weight and “Grant’s Grunts.” he wrote in an email to Stars and Stripes. Grant’s life. lifter. He developed a lifelong passion for The comics were biting and humorous The Grant exhibit — found within The running. He told reporters in 1977 that his popu- but offered a window into the soldier’s ex- National Stars and Stripes Museum and After graduating from Rindge Technical perience in Vietnam. larity among front-line soldiers was a bit Library’s Vietnam display — features pic- High School in Cambridge in 1952, Grant In one strip, four Asian men walk in a overwhelming. tures of Grant, his books and originals pro- held menial jobs, Betsy Grant wrote. Two line, all wearing the conical bamboo hats “I became an institution for the U.S. of his brothers had served in the military worn by farmers and associated with the GIs who sought comic relief from the dan- vided by his widow. and Grant was inspired to serve his coun- region. Three are skinny, but one has a ger of combat and the boredom of army “I think it tells us what it was like at the try. He also hoped to gain secure employ- large belly. The caption reads, “Guess who life,” Grant told the Cambridge Chronicle time,” said museum administrator Laura ment and travel the world. works in the mess hall?” weekly in Massachusetts. “More soldiers Meyer, referring to Grant’s work. “It Grant at 23 joined the Army in 1958, with “He used exaggeration really well,” read my books than any other cartoonist or brings us a perspective we wouldn’t have if segregation still a dehumanizing force in Betsy Grant said. writer in the front. I still get embarrassed we were just reading an article about it.” the United States. Two years in, he was in- In another, two soldiers are in a foxhole when I meet someone on the street who [email protected] vited to enroll in the Infantry Officer Can- at what appears to be nighttime. One looks recognizes me.” Twitter: @MatthewMBurke1 Thursday, October 17, 2019 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 13 NATION Uber, Lyft to skip hearing on labor, safety practices

The Washington Post and for any hope of ever partner- ing with agencies who utilize Fed- WASHINGTON — Uber and eral funds, they are going to have Lyft have decided to skip a con- to clean up their acts,” he adds. gressional hearing Wednesday The refusal by Uber and Lyft aimed at examining their safety to appear to testify is the latest and labor practices, risking ag- wrinkle in a long-running, rocky gravating members of the House relationship between Silicon Val- CAROLYN THOMPSON/AP Transportation and Infrastruc- ture Committee who are threat- ley tech companies and lawmak- Ooroba Hamideh, holding daughter Aya, and Ali Hamideh, holding son Abdallah , say their son Ameer, ening to press ahead regardless ers in the nation’s capital. Many who has cerebral palsy, a seizure disorder and uses a wheelchair, was unfairly removed from school with new legislation. in tech believe that their compa- after the upstate New York district rejected his medical exemption for vaccines. The two companies have come nies are trying to improve the under increased scrutiny in re- world, despite problems that may cent months over their treatment surface along the way. They be- of drivers and their efforts to lieve that the government should Scrutiny of vaccine exemptions keep passengers safe, prompt- stay out of regulating what they ing a House Transportation and think is important innovation. Infrastructure subcommittee to Just last week, Facebook chief banishes some from schools call a committee meeting and de- executive Mark Zuckerberg mand that the companies testify agreed to testify on the social BY CAROLYN THOMPSON York have led to unbending scru- ommending against additional on the future of ride-hailing. media giant’s plans to launch a Associated Press tiny and, in some cases, decisions shots because of a history of “sei- Both Uber and Lyft decided not cryptocurrency, Libra, after law- that overrule the guidance of zure activity triggered by these to send representatives, however, makers pressured him to do so. BUFFALO, N.Y. — Carl and family doctors and force children immunizations.” But the district according to company and Trans- Previously, chief operating offi- Kerri Schwartz say they have into home-schooling. instead followed the advice of a portation Committee officials. cer Sheryl Sandberg planned to good medical reason for not vac- New York this year became the state Health Department official That prompted Transporta- testify. cinating their disabled 11-year- fifth state to require all students who recommended against the tion Committee Chairman Peter Lawmakers’ attention has been old son, Thorn, and until recently except those with valid medical exemption. DeFazio, D-Ore., to say that the drawn to Uber and Lyft after his local public school went along reasons to be fully vaccinated “The doctor who’s been in his panel will press ahead with legis- reports about the companies’ with their family doctor’s advice. when lawmakers eliminated ex- life for nine years versus a lady lation that could encompass safe- safety practices and treatment of That changed, the Schwartzes emptions on religious grounds. in Albany that doesn’t know who ty and labor for transportation riders. said, when New York state did The state followed up with he is, has never met him, just read network companies, or ride-hail- Last month, The Post reported away with religious exemp- emergency regulations toughen- something and said, ‘Nope, we’re ing companies, with or without that employees in Uber’s special tions for vaccines in the middle ing requirements for medical ex- not accepting it,’ ” Ameer’s father, their cooperation, according to investigations unit said they were of a measles outbreak and then emptions. State officials said they Ali, said. prepared remarks he planned to under pressure to put the com- clamped down on medical ex- did not want a repeat of what hap- Ameer, who is now home- deliver Wednesday that were re- pany’s interests over the safety emptions like theirs. Thorn is pened in California, where medi- schooled, has been without the viewed by The Washington Post of passengers. Uber has said the now barred from his school in cal exemptions more than tripled physical therapy, occupational ahead of the hearing. unit’s role is to “provide special- Fairport while his parents chal- in the three years after they be- therapy, speech therapy and spe- Uber’s and Lyft’s “failure to ized customer support to riders lenge the district’s rejection of his came the only allowable reason cial education classroom place- appear at this hearing is a telling and drivers dealing with very se- exemption. for a student to be unvaccinated. ment included in his education sign that they would rather suf- rious real-life situations.” Thorn Schwartz has autism, California lawmakers’ efforts to plan. fer a public lashing than answer In August, The Post reported a developmental disorder that rein in the numbers by giving the “I can only do so much with questions on the record about on what victims said were in- affects each child differently, state greater oversight sparked him,” said Orooba Hamideh, his their operations,” DeFazio’s re- adequate responses to sexual and his father said a new state expansive protests during the re- mother. “I’m not a licensed thera- marks say. He says they might harassment and other types of policy is leaving little room for cent legislative session. pist. I do basic things with him, be trying to avoid talking about misconduct on the Lyft app. Lyft exceptions. Another New York child who like play, but as far as therapy, safety problems or their labor vowed to make safety changes in “It’s just so specific for that had his medical exemption re- I’m not equipped to do PT or OT records. the wake of that report and other patient. If that doctor can’t tie jected, Ameer Hamideh, 9, uses a or speech.” “For their long-term survival, scrutiny. a particular vaccination to this wheelchair and assisted commu- Frontier Superintendent Rich- particular child’s body, it’s just nication device because of cere- ard Hughes declined to discuss denied. Period,” Carl Schwartz bral palsy and a seizure disorder. Ameer’s case, noting only that said. He was in and out of the hospital “school districts often seek a US judge weighs extradition Amid a flurry of proposals to for seizures after his last round of review and recommendation end personal-belief exemptions immunizations as a toddler. from the professionals at the for vaccines in states around The child’s neurologist, Dr. New York State Department of of ex-Bosnian policeman the country, families like the Sarah Finnegan, completed a Health, and then consider that Schwartzes and others say the state-required form for the Fron- recommendation when making Associated Press against civilians.” The request wasn’t made until August. restrictions that passed in New tier Central School District rec- determinations.” ST. LOUIS — A magistrate Kostjerevac served with the judge will decide if a former Bos- nian military policeman now liv- army of Bosnia and Herzegovina. ing in Missouri should be sent The extradition document al- Huffman starts serving time in college scam back to face war crime charges leges that he repeatedly raped for allegedly raping an impris- the woman, who was a neighbor , following her arrest in Septem- Associated Press oned pregnant Serbian woman ment Judge Talwani ordered as rity prison for women in the San ber 1992, causing her to have a one part of the punishment she Francisco Bay Area. during the Bosnian war in the DUBLIN, Calif. — “Desperate miscarriage. imposed for Ms. Huffman’s ac- Huffman was one of 51 people early 1990s. Housewives” star Felicity Huff- U.S. Magistrate Judge Patricia Kostjerevac’s attorney, Kayla tions.” A spokesman for the agen- charged in the scandal. She plead- man reported Tuesday to a U.S. Cohen on Tuesday gave the at- Williams, said she will argue that prison in California to serve a cy refused to be named. ed guilty in May to fraud and con- torney for Adem Kostjerevac, 58, the victim was mistaken in iden- two-week sentence in a college A federal judge in Boston sen- spiracy for paying an admissions 30 days to file a response to the tifying Kostjerevac as her assail- admissions scandal, a represen- tenced Huffman last month to 14 consultant $15,000 to have a proc- extradition request. Cohen is ex- ant. She said after the hearing that tative said. days in prison, a $30,000 fine, 250 tor correct her daughter’s SAT pected to rule in December. the woman said she was assaulted A brief statement Tuesday from hours of community service and answers. The amount Huffman According to a court filing out- by a man with a mustache, which Huffman’s publicist, the TASC a year’s probation. paid is relatively low compared lining the extradition request, Kostjerevac didn’t have. She also Group, said that she “is prepared The Federal Correctional In- with other alleged bribes in the Kostjerevac was indicted in cited a nickname for the assailant to serve the term of imprison- stitution, Dublin is a low-secu- scheme . Bosnia in 2015 for “war crimes that Kostjerevac did not use. PAGE 14 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Thursday, October 17, 2019 NATION School suspends girl for rape-awareness ‘bullying’ Associated Press ‘ PORTLAND, Maine — A 15- There’s a rapist in our school and you year-old girl was suspended for know who it is. bullying after trying to draw at- ’ Aela Mansmann tention to what she believed was high school student, 15, in a note posted in her school’s bathroom an unaddressed problem of sex- ual assaults involving students at her high school. Now, she’s taking the school district to court. telephone interview. Emma Bond, a staff attorney Aela Mansmann, 15 , a sopho- Superintendent Donna Wol- with ACLU Maine, said the orga- more at Cape Elizabeth High from declined to comment Tues- nization isn’t aware of any other School outside Portland, has day. A district spokesperson also cases it has handled in which been at odds with Cape Elizabeth said there would be no official a student was suspended after Schools for a month after posting comment because the case is in sounding an alarm about sexual a note in a bathroom that said, court. abuse. However, other school dis- “There’s a rapist in our school The school’s principal, Jeffrey tricts in the country have grap- and you know who it is.” Shedd, said in a letter to the com- pled with how to handle sexual She and two other students who munity Wednesday that a male assault allegations as the #MeToo left similar notes were ordered student believed he was the target movement grows in influence. suspended. of the note campaign, and that he Students who report sexual The American Civil Liber- felt unsafe at school in the wake abuse can face backlash, and it’s ties Union of Maine is taking on of the notes. critical for districts to provide Mansmann’s case and calling on The ACLU is arguing that’s not them with support, said Erinn federal court to stop her suspen- the case, that Mansmann posted Robinson, a spokesperson for sion. The organization filed a mo- the note to raise awareness of a Rape, Abuse & Incest National tion Sunday in Maine asking for general problem in the school Network, a nonprofit group that a temporary restraining order community about sexual assault. works to prevent sexual assault. against the district, and a hearing She said she did not allege that “The decision for a student to is slated for a Portland courtroom she was a victim or mention any disclose or report abuse is already on Monday. accusers or abusers by name. a difficult one,” Robinson said. The ACLU’s filing states that The two other students sus- “When school districts ignore, or Mansmann has taken a “public pended from the school, about worse — punish — students for stance as an ally for victims and 6 miles south of Portland in one coming forward, those students survivors of sexual violence.” of the wealthiest communities in suffer in silence, and don’t get the Mansmann said she plans to Maine, have not come forward help they need to begin healing.” keep doing that. publicly. The suspensions led Mansmann’s mother, Shael “I think anyone that has expe- about 50 students at the 550-stu- Norris, couldn’t agree more, and rienced any sort of sexual vio- dent school to walk out of classes said she has her daughter’s back lence or harassment is especially one day this month. in the case. SHAEL NORRIS/AP vulnerable when they are going Mansmann appealed her sus- “This is the world I versed her through their healing process, pension, which has not occurred in, and there’s no other way in my In a photo provided by Shael Norris, high school sophomore Aela and to have an ally who is willing yet. It was unclear whether the household than to stand up and Mansmann, 15, of Cape Elizabeth, Maine, stands with her brother, to advocate for that, I think is cru- other two students had appealed speak out,” Norris said. “I have Aidan, 13, during a school walkout in protest of Aela’s suspension cial and beneficial,” she said in a or served their suspensions. raised her to do exactly that.” from school after she accused an unnamed person of sexual assault. Settlement vote set for woman subjected to intimate search

BY ALLYSON CHIU shocking display of what can her troubles began as she sat on ued the search, according to the ing to the suit. The Washington Post occur when police power is un- a curb on that August night wait- lawsuit. “Officer Wilson did so knowing checked,” Dean Malone, an at- ing for her boyfriend. Simms was “Officer Wilson was initially that Natalie was on her period, Natalie D. Simms was in shock torney for Simms, told WOAI in perched near the street, talking talking as if she were sitting down and also knowing and seeing that as she stood, hands raised, on 2018. on her cellphone when police of- and having a cup of coffee with Natalie had a menstrual pad in the dimly lighted side street in The city is scheduled to vote ficers descended, the suit said. Natalie,” the suit said. “Unfor- place,” the lawyers wrote. San Antonio, Texas. A police of- Thursday on a proposed settle- It was later revealed that offi- tunately, this was not a meeting Still, Wilson repeatedly asked ficer looking for drugs had failed ment that would award $205,000 cers had been investigating the over coffee, and Officer Wilson’s Simms to confirm she was using to find anything after combing to Simms, according to an official area after receiving complaints decision as to how to conduct the a tampon. through her pockets — but much agenda. Simms and her lawyer about possible drug activity, the search was about to take a turn “It’s full of blood, right?” Simms to Simms’ horror, the search have agreed to the sum, the San Express-News reported. A police for the worse.” said. “Why would you do that?” wasn’t over. Antonio Express-News reported, detective reportedly said he had Wilson instructed Simms to “I don’t know,” Wilson respond- “Spread your legs,” the officer citing a city memo. seen Simms, who has a criminal “spread your legs,” according to ed. “It looked like it had stuff in allegedly told Simms. The potential payout offered record, and another woman walk a transcript of dash-cam footage there.” On Aug. 8, 2016, Simms was to Simms, 40, is not the first of beneath a highway underpass included in the lawsuit. Wilson Ignoring Simms’ protests that subjected to a public vaginal its kind in Texas. In January, where they appeared to sell drugs, added, “I’m gonna ask you, do you she didn’t have contraband, Wil- cavity search during which her officials in Harris County paid according to the Express-News. have anything down here before I son continued her search, at one tampon was pulled out in view $185,000 to a Houston woman First, police obtained consent reach down here?” point even remarking, “You’re of male police officers and oth- who alleged in a federal lawsuit to search Simms’ car, which she Simms said she didn’t and ex- very hairy,” the suit alleged. ers nearby, according to a federal that her constitutional rights were gave “knowing that she had done pressed alarm about Wilson’s The complaint said Simms ul- lawsuit filed last year in the West- violated when two sheriff’s depu- nothing wrong,” court documents intent to examine her vagina, timately left in her own car after ern District of Texas. ties performed a cavity search on said. Meanwhile, a female officer noting that she was on her peri- officers did not find anything il- Simms sued the city of San her near a bustling convenience was called to the scene to search od. Armed with a flashlight, the legal in her possession. Antonio and now-retired San An- store, the Houston Chronicle re- Simms and it wasn’t long before officer said she planned only to Instead of facing serious pun- tonio Police Department detec- ported at the time. Wilson arrived. look, not touch, and “pulled open ishment such as termination, a tive Mara Wilson for unspecified The San Antonio Police De- After looking through Simms’ Natalie’s pants and underwear,” notation was made in Wilson’s damages, alleging that the act was partment, the San Antonio City clothing and finding nothing, Wil- the complaint said. Five other personnel file, the lawsuit alleged. a “blatant violation” of her consti- Attorney’s Office and lawyers son, who allegedly did not have a officers, all of whom were men, Wilson retired in May 2017, about tutional rights, and resulted “in for Simms did not respond to re- warrant at the time, asked if she were nearby, the suit alleged. nine months after her encounter significant and lasting harm.” quests for comment late Tuesday. could remove the woman’s shorts, That’s when Wilson noticed the with Simms, as a 32-year veteran “Natalie suffered through a According to Simms’ lawsuit, making small talk as she contin- tampon string and pulled, accord- of the department. Thursday, October 17, 2019 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 15 WORLD Chaos disrupts leader’s speech in Hong Kong

BY JOHN LEICESTER low-starred red flag to her right Associated Press and Hong Kong’s flag on her left. Describing the semi-autono- HONG KONG — Calling her mous Chinese territory as going “the mother of the mafia police,” through “major crisis,” Lam said, yelling pro-democracy lawmak- “People are asking: Will Hong ers twice forced Hong Kong lead- Kong return to normal?” er Carrie Lam to stop delivering She appealed for its 7.5 mil- a speech laying out her policy lion citizens to “cherish the city,” objectives Wednesday and then KOREAN CENTRAL NEWS AGENCY, KOREA NEWS SERVICE/AP warning that “continued violence clamored for her resignation in and spread of hatred will erode North Korean leader Kim Jong Un rides a white horse to Mount Paektu, North Korea, in a photo chaotic scenes that caused her to provided Wednesday by the North Korean government. the core values of Hong Kong.” walk out of the legislature. Standing ramrod-straight, she Lam was able to deliver the an- then launched into a dry and nual address more than an hour detailed explanation of plans to later by video, but the hostile tackle Hong Kong’s shortage of reception inside the Legislative Kim, in a symbolic act, rides affordable housing, a long-stand- Council marked a slap in the face ing source of discontent, and for the embattled chief executive other welfare issues. With its grappling with anti-government white horse to sacred summit focus on such minutiae as build- protests now in their fifth month. ing new tunnels and freeing up BY HYUNG-JIN KIM the Korean Peninsula, is sacred “He, sitting on the horseback When Lam started delivering the speech, she was shouted down land for development, the 50-min- Associated Press to North Koreans, and both it and atop Mt Paektu, recollected with ute speech only fueled criticism the white horse are symbols as- deep emotion the road of arduous by chanting pro-democracy law- SEOUL, South Korea — North makers who held aloft placards that Lam is deaf to protesters’ sociated with the Kim family’s struggle he covered for the great concerns about the future of the Korea released a series of photos dynastic rule. showing her waving with hands cause of building the most power- territory’s freedoms. Wednesday showing leader Kim Kim previously visited Mount ful country with faith and will as colored blood-red. They also used a projector to light up Lam’s face In a subsequent news confer- Jong Un riding a white horse to Paektu before executing his pow- firm as Mt Paektu,” KCNA said. a sacred mountain he has often and the wall behind her with pro- ence, Lam again made clear she erful uncle in 2013 and entering North Korean documents say climbed before making key de- testers’ key demands. wouldn’t resign and insisted there into diplomacy with South Korea Kim’s grandfather and national cisions. Near the mountain, Kim Lam left the chamber and then has been no erosion “whatsoever” and the U.S. in 2018. founder Kim Il Sung had an anti- reportedly vowed to overcome came back about 20 minutes later of Hong Kong’s freedoms. The photos were released by Japan guerrilla base on Paektu’s U.S.-led sanctions that he said the North’s official Korean Cen- to try again, only to be met with “Hong Kong is still a very free slopes during Japan’s 1910-45 had both pained and infuriated tral News Agency, or KCNA, days further fury. One legislator bran- society,” she said. colonial rule of the Korean Pen- his people. after North Korea’s first nuclear dishing a placard climbed onto a Even before Lam delivered her The images and Kim’s rhetoric talks with the U.S. in more than insula. The official biography of desk. speech, one of the protesting law- appeared aimed at bolstering his seven months fell apart. Kim Jong Un’s father, Kim Jong Again, the council president makers, Claudia Mo, dismissed leadership at home as the North South Korean media quickly Il, says the second-generation stopped the session and Lam left. it as a “shame and a sham” and tries to pressure the United speculated that Kim may be con- leader was born on Paektu when One lawmaker wearing a paper said the chief executive had lost States into making concessions in sidering a new strategy in his a double rainbow filled the skies. mask showing the face of Chinese all authority. nuclear diplomacy. dealings with the U.S. because The white horse is also a propa- President Xi Jinping tossed a “She is just a puppet on strings, The photos showed a bespec- he’s previously demanded that ganda symbol for the Kim family, placard as Lam walked out. being played by Beijing,” Mo said tacled Kim wearing a long coat Washington come up with new which has ruled North Korea for Finally, 75 minutes after the at an impromptu news conference and riding on horseback up proposals to salvage the stale- seven decades with a strong per- previously scheduled start of the with other lawmakers outside the snow-covered Mount Paektu. The mated diplomacy by the end of sonality cult surrounding family lengthy address, Lam delivered chamber after they successfully mountain, the highest point on December. members. it via video link, with China’s yel- thwarted Lam’s address there. Spain on edge amid clashes Brexit talks yield no breakthrough in Catalonia over sentencing BY RAF CASERT remain, diplomats made it clear Irish border, the thorniest issue AND JILL LAWLESS that both sides were within touch- in the talks. Associated Press wealthy region. Associated Press ing distance of a deal for the first An open border between EU Service on high-speed train BARCELONA, Spain — Spain time since a U.K. withdrawal plan member Ireland and the U.K.’s line between Barcelona and Gi- BRUSSELS — European Union is on edge after two straight days fell apart in the British House of Northern Ireland underpins both rona, near the French border, and British negotiators failed to of violent clashes in northeastern Commons in March. the local economy and the 1998 was halted due to “sabotage,” the reach a breakthrough in Brexit Catalonia between police and But talks saw no deal material- peace accord that ended decades Spanish government said. talks during a frantic all-night protesters who were angered by izing between experts from both of Catholic-Protestant violence in Traffic in downtown Barcelona session and will continue seek- the Supreme Court’s sentencing sides holed up late into the night Northern Ireland. But once Brit- was slowed by the massive clean- ing a compromise on the eve of at EU headquarters in Brussels. ain exits, that border will turn of nine separatist Catalan leaders up effort to remove the debris of Thursday’s crucial EU summit. British Prime Minister Boris into an external EU frontier that to prison. burned barricades and trash con- An EU official, who asked not Johnson’s office said the negotia- the bloc wants to keep secure. Students in the restive region tainers ignited by thousands of to be identified because the ne- tions had been “constructive” and The big question is how far went on strike Wednesday, and protesters who clashed with po- gotiations were still ongoing, said would continue. Johnson’s government is prepared protest marches involving sev- lice in riot gear Tuesday night. Wednesday that “discussions con- Johnson is eager to strike a deal to budge on its insistence that the eral thousand people set off from Peaceful protests in the eve- tinued until late in the night and at an EU summit starting Thurs- U.K., including Northern Ireland, several Catalan towns with the ning turned ugly in Barcelona and will continue today.” day that will allow for the U.K. to must leave the European Union’s goal of reaching Barcelona by other towns. Barcelona’s police Both sides were hoping that leave the bloc in good order on customs union — something that Friday. Organizers urged them to said 40,000 protesters packed the after more than three years of the scheduled date of Oct. 31, ful- would require checks on goods remain peaceful, like the major- streets near the office of Spain’s false starts and sudden reversals, filling his promise to get Brexit passing between the U.K. and the ity of separatist rallies have been government representative, and a clean divorce deal for Britain done, come what may. EU, including on the island of Ire- before this week. a running melee broke out when leaving the bloc might be sketched But both sides say gaps remain land. Ireland and other EU mem- Still, the marches down high- they turned over metal barriers out within the coming hours. over plans for keeping goods and bers say any checks in Ireland ways snarled traffic across the and threw objects at police. Even though many questions people flowing freely across the are unacceptable. 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CRAIG RUTTLE/AP PHOTOS ABOVE AND BELOW LEFT AND RIGHT BY JEFF CHIU/AP A Google Pixel 4 phone is displayed at an event announcing the product Tuesday in Isabelle Olsson, head of color and design for Nest, holds a Nest Mini, the smaller New York. The phones go on sale Oct. 24 and carry a starting price tag of $799. version of Google’s smart speaker. It goes on sale next week for $49.

The Nest Wifi devices will be available in the coming weeks for $269. The wireless Pixel Buds go on sale early next year for $179. Google debuts Pixel 4 phone, new gadgets

BY RACHEL LERMAN The “helpful” features Assistant an- Apple and Samsung devices are getting a details. Associated Press nounces could make people even more third lens, for wider-angle shots. True to “We see that being a really great long- likely to use it. Google’s focus on AI, the Pixel’s new cam- term opportunity, both for our users and SAN FRANCISCO — Google unveiled a “The voice is a whole new way to capture era will recognize people you have taken for us,” said Rick Osterloh, senior vice new Pixel smartphone and other hardware people’s behaviors,” many photos of be- president of hardware at Google devices Tuesday, all aimed at getting peo- she said. fore and automati- The company also unveiled true wire- ple even more dependent on its artificial Assistant faced cally focus on them less earbuds, called Pixel Buds, Google’s intelligence services. scrutiny this year in new shots. answer to Apple’s AirPods. The new model, The Pixel 4 phone promises to respond after reports re- The new phone which will go on sale early next year for to AI queries even faster than before, while vealed that Google also comes with mo- $179, does away with the wire that con- a home Wi-Fi system is getting the AI fea- contractors were tion-sensing tech- nects the two buds. tures for the first time. The company also transcribing some nology that allows Google introduced Nest Mini, the small- unveiled a new smart speaker and wireless customer’s spoken people to do simple er version of its smart speaker. It comes out earbuds, both invoking the AI-powered communication hand-waving ges- next Tuesday for $49. Google’s refreshed Google Assistant. with the AI to help tures to skip songs Wi-Fi router, Nest Wifi, will be available The Assistant, akin to Apple’s Siri and improve the system. or switch apps with- in the coming weeks for $269. A new Pix- Amazon’s Alexa , is now available on more Google has since out touching the elbook Go laptop goes on sale in January than 1 billion devices, including ones made clarified its policies phone. starting at $649. by other manufacturers. With Google’s own and said it will make The Pixel 4 will Google’s hardware team, including many products, though, the company can steer it more explicit that A new Pixelbook Go laptop computer carry a starting former Google Glass engineers, work from users to Assistant features even more. people must give goes on sale in January starting at $649. price tag of $799 — a light-filled, architecturally impressive That, in turn, could encourage Google explicit permission, $100 more than the building near the company’s main cam- users to interact with other Google servic- or opt in. entry-level iPhone pus in Mountain View, Calif. The building Still, many are skeptical of the prolif- es such as search and maps more frequent- 11 — and will go on sale Oct. 24. The larger is complete with a “color lab” for finding eration of digital assistants in homes and ly, feeding into Google’s multibillion-dollar XL version will cost $899. the perfect device hues, a materials library pockets. advertising business. More use of the As- Google’s phones have been well-re- for all sorts of elemental inspiration and a sistant also means that Google gets more With the new Pixel, the Google Assis- tant will complete some tasks entirely on viewed but have yet to make much of a small model shop to build device proto- data on user preferences and activities to the device — so it doesn’t have to wait for splash in the market dominated by Apple, types on site. build its advertising profiles. answers from the cloud — allowing users Huawei and Samsung. “We started by defining what it feels like Amazon and Google are both pushing to make commands and dictate text mes- In fact, Google’s hardware products have to hold Google in your hands,” hardware their voice assistants onto more devices, sages more quickly. never been big moneymakers. Rather, they design executive Ivy Ross said. “The good though they have different ultimate goals, The Pixel 4 will have better facial rec- offer a way for Google to showcase its mon- thing about coming a little bit late to the said Victoria Petrock, principle analyst at ognition for unlocking the phone with a eymaking services. hardware arena is you get to stand back eMarketer. Amazon is getting a shopping glance. Unlike the existing “trusted face” Google introduced a less expensive ver- and look at everyone else.” assistant into every device it can, she said, feature on Android phones, the new Face sion of its phone, the Pixel 3a, to positive One of the challenges this time around while Google is collecting more informa- Unlock is intended to be more secure and reviews in May, a trend that is sweeping was finding a way to make the products tion about user preferences. easier to use, matching what Apple and across the smartphone market as consum- more sustainable, a feat especially notable “I think their end game is trying to col- Samsung already offer. ers hold on to phones longer rather than on the Nest Mini, which has a “fabric” lect all this data and target you with adver- The new phone gets a second camera buy new, expensive models. Google hint- casing made of yarn created from plastic tising,” she said. lens, for better zooming, even as some ed the trend may continue but offered no water bottles. Thursday, October 17, 2019 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 17 AMERICAN ROUNDUP Firefighters calm girl in wreck with nail polish

CLEARFIELD — Two UT Utah firefighters re- ceived praise after they found a creative way to keep a young girl calm at the scene of a car accident. North Davis Fire District Fire Chief Mark Becraft said the fire- fighters let a young girl paint their fingernails after she and her mother were in a car acci- dent in the northern Utah city of Clearfield. Chief Allen Hadley and Cap- tain Kevin Lloyd checked on the crying girl while medics evalu- ated her mother. They asked her about the nail polish she was holding and offered to have their nails painted. Becraft said the girl was in- stantly soothed. Hadley and Lloyd left the scene with purple fingernails. National park allows e-bikes on road, trails

FAIRBANKS — A AK rule change will allow electronically assisted bikes any- where that traditional bicycles are permitted in Denali National Park and Reserve. The Fairbanks Daily News- Miner reported that the National Park Service issued the e-bike di- rective at the end of August. BEN MARGOT/AP The park service said the policy aimed at expanding recreational opportunities and accessibility allows the motorized vehicles on Squashing the record the entire length of the Denali Park Road. Leonardo Urena, of Napa, Calif., reacts after learning his pumpkin weighed in at 2,175 pounds, a new California weight record, Monday in An official said that beyond the Half Moon Bay, Calif. 92 miles of the road, e-bikes can travel on a single trail of Denali’s foot piece of unsupported chim- THE CENSUS dog from Grandeur Peak in Mill- front country and into the back- ney fell and pinned his arm. creek Canyon. country via a limited number of Fire crews dismantled the The number of blue catfish the West Virginia Division of The Salt Lake County Sheriff’s access points. chimney to free the man’s arm. Natural Resources has given to boost fish populations in Search and Rescue team was the Kentucky River. Acting Fisheries Director Paul Wilkes, alerted that a 3-year-old male Brazen thief steals Orville Wright bust 15K of the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife, said the mastiff was hurt while walking $20,000 Dali artwork stolen from memorial donation from the neighboring state will restock catfish in on the trail with his owner. The areas where numbers are low but catfishing is popular. The stocked fish from West owner was unable to carry the SAN FRANCISCO KILL DEVIL HILLS Virginia averaged 11 inches in length. large canine to safety. CA — Authorities said a NC — The National Park Rescue team members put the brazen thief stole a Salvador Dali Service said a bust of Orville dog named Floyd on a litter and etching valued at $20,000 from Wright that was stolen from the gram that said Moilanen’s casket Firefighter hurt by carried him down the mountain . a San Francisco gallery, then Wright Brothers National Memo- was 8 feet 3 inches long. walked off down the street with rial on the North Carolina coast Don Crawford told The Mining exploding ammunition Manufacturer creates the work in his hand. has been found. Gazette it was the measurement KGO-TV said the etching enti- A news release from the park of the inside of the casket. He said TALIHINA — Author- largest 3D printer tled “Burning Giraffe” vanished service Tuesday says a visitor it means that Moilanen was 8 feet OK ities in southeastern from an easel at Dennis Rae Fine to the beach at Kill Devil Hills 3 inches tall. Moilanen’s height Oklahoma said a firefighter was ROCKFORD — A Rock- Art off Union Square. called authorities in Dare County led to a job with a circus. injured during a weekend house IL ford manufacturer’s poly- Gallery Director Angela Kel- to say the bust was tucked into fire when ammunition inside the mer 3D printer has been declared lett said the 1960s etching was some dunes. School’s solution for burning residence exploded and the globe’s largest by Guinness normally secured with a lock and The park service said the mon- food waste: pig farms struck him in the face. World Records. cable but they’re missing. It’s un- ument was damaged Saturday Latimer County Emergency The Rockford Register-Star re- clear whether the thief cut them evening or Sunday morning. The Management officials said the ported Ingersoll Machine Tools’ off earlier or during the 30 sec- granite base on which the bust PORTLAND — A new firefighter was injured while bat- ME law in Maine that says printer dubbed MasterPrint was onds he was in the store before was mounted had been toppled tling a blaze in the Buffalo Val- sold to the University of Maine. schools can give food waste away ley community, located about stealing the piece. and damaged. The school produced a boat Surveillance cameras caught to pig farmers took effect. 148 miles southeast of Oklahoma measuring 25 feet long and the man strolling down Geary The practice of feeding human City. Telegram from 1913: weighing 5,000 pounds in less Street with the etching. food waste to pigs goes back mil- Officials said flames caused Big Louie was very big lennia, but some school districts the ammunition to overheat and than 72 hours. That earned two Fire crews free man’s in Maine have expressed confu- ignite, wounding a firefighter in more Guinness records: largest HANCOCK — Big sion about the rules. The Maine the face and head . The firefighter 3D-printed boat and largest 3D- hand from chimney flue MI Louie was, indeed, a big Legislature passed a clarifying was transported to a hospital in printed object. man. bill, and it took effect Sept. 19. Tulsa. His condition was not im- Ingersoll engineer Nate Hang STAMFORD — Fire- The archive at Finlandia Uni- Supporters of the new rules mediately available. said the university intends to CT fighters and emergency versity in Michigan’s Upper Pen- said it will help school districts make molds for the boat-building medical responders in Connecti- insula was given a document that cut down on food waste. industry. cut rescued a man whose hand appears to settle the height of a They state any individual or Injured 190-pound dog Ingersoll CEO Chip Storie said was crushed after it got caught in legendary man, Louis Moilanen. institution, including a school, rescued from canyon a chimney flue. Moilanen, known as “Big can donate garbage to a swine the primary reason for Master- Stamford fire officials told the Louie,” died in 1913. The grand- producer for use as feed even if MILLCREAK CAN- Print’s development was to create Advocate the man was cleaning son of the founder of Crawford they’re unaware of the producer’s UT YON — First respond- large aerospace tools. up a construction area when a 5- Funeral Home discovered a tele- licensure status. ers rescued an injured 190-pound From wire reports PAGE 18 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Thursday, October 17, 2019 FACES Gina Rodriguez apologizes for rapping N-word in video

From wire reports Grammy Award winner went too far last week during a concert in Gina Rodriguez has apologized Dallas, where she wore only the for singing along on her Insta- top part of an ao dai — a tradition- gram story to a Fugees verse that al Vietnamese outfit that includes includes the N-word. a tunic and pants — without other The “Jane the Virgin” actress clothing underneath. deleted the short video she posted The choice has drawn criticism Tuesday and re- in recent days from media outlets placed it with her in Vietnam as well as Vietnamese apology, but not Americans in the U.S., who have before memes called out Musgraves for disre- and other back- specting and degrading their cul- lash ensued. ture. Not only does the singer’s Rodriguez said in her apology Rodriguez skimpy look reek of cultural ap- she’s a longtime propriation, they say, but it sexu- Fugees and Lauryn Hill fan and alizes an outfit that’s meant to be didn’t mean to offend anyone. serious and dignified. She sang along to “Ready or Musgraves’ publicist did not respond to a request for comment Not” and recited the racial slur as late Tuesday. she sat in a makeup chair. Some of the outrage focused on remarks Rodriguez made last Crossover artist Daigle year during a panel discussion. reigns at Dove Awards She said black women in Holly- wood are paid more than Latina Grammy-winning singer Lau- women. Detractors at the time ren Daigle reigned at the 50th an- noted the highest paid TV actress nual Gospel Music Association’s in the world that year was Sofia Dove Awards on Tuesday, win- ning artist of the year, song of Vergara, from Colombia. the year and pop/contemporary Late Tuesday, Rodriguez is- LIFETIME/AP album of the year. sued a longer apology in a written The 28-year-old Louisiana- Jessie Mueller plays Loretta Lynn, right, and Megan Hilty portrays Patsy Cline in the TV film “Patsy & statement. born artist was the leading artist Loretta.” The film airs on Oct. 19 on Lifetime. nominee coming into the awards Musgraves criticized show, held in Nashville, and she over Vietnamese outfit won artist of the year for the sec- ond time in three years. Country singer Kacey Mus- Her 2018 album “Look Up Pals and pioneers graves is known for pushing Child” debuted at No. 3 on the boundaries. She has spoken out Billboard 200 all-genre chart in favor of gun control and called and has broken chart records on fans to “hold your politicians for weeks atop the Top Christian ‘Patsy and Loretta’ highlights bond between iconic singers accountable,” going against the Albums chart. She won song of grain of her genre. Her lyrics the year for her multiplatinum BY KRISTIN M. HALL and that is rarely done. These stories are not told mention same-sex romance, and and Grammy-winning crossover she’s been known to sport kitschy, single “You Say,” which has in- Associated Press in general.” Hilty, who is known for her Broadway roles in over-the-top outfits. troduced her to much wider audi- riter-director Callie Khouri is drawn Some critics say the six-time ences in the past year. “Wicked” and “9 to 5” and the TV series “Smash,” to stories about female friendships delved deep into Cline’s recordings and videos of and country music, and her latest her performing and read letters written by Cline to television fi lm “Patsy and Loretta” W family and friends. combines those passions into the true story of a “To play an icon of this magnitude is extremely Biggie, Houston, friendship between two of country music’s most powerful voices. daunting,” Hilty said. “But she’s a fascinating per- Soundgarden lead The biopic about Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn, son. I’m absolutely obsessed and in love with her.” which airs Oct. 19 on Lifetime, centers on their Jessie Mueller, who won a Tony Award for her ’20 Hall nominees friendship, which has often been underexplored in role as Carole King in the Broadway musical “Beautiful,” also had the challenge of capturing Los Angeles Times country music history, at a time when the pioneer- ing women’s careers overlapped in the early ’60s. Lynn’s well-known Appalachian accent and phras- The hip-hop legend the Notori- Khouri, who wrote the classic female adventure ing. ous B.I.G., pop-R&B queen Whit- fi lm “Thelma and Louise” and brought her coun- “There’s dialect work. There’s guitar work. It’s a ney Houston, Seattle grunge band try music drama “Nashville” to primetime televi- lot to try to encompass the essence of someone like Soundgarden, the jam group the sion, said even she was surprised to fi nd out that Loretta Lynn,” Mueller said. Dave Matthews Band, pioneer- the singers had a close friendship when her step- The fi lm was shot in Nashville, including at the ing German electronic music AP daughter brought her the script. historic Ryman Auditorium, where both singers ensemble Kraftwerk and pow- “I was just blown away because it was a time be- have performed and the former home of the Grand erhouse rock singer Pat Benatar The Notorious B.I.G. is among fore we really knew much about any of the women Ole Opry. Khouri knows the theater intimately hav- are among the diverse slate of 16 the 16 acts nominated for the in country music,” Khouri said. “I loved both of the ing shot a lot of scenes from “Nashville” there. music acts nominated for induc- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. artists of course and the fact that they had this re- “Every time I come here I feel all the history, tion next year into the Rock and ally incredible bond.” all the music that’s been played. And you know, Roll Hall of Fame. sists of artists, managers, record In the fi lm, Cline is at the peak of her career with it doesn’t feel like there’s ghosts, but it feels very The 2020 nominees also in- industry personnel and music hits like “Walking After Midnight” and “I Fall to present to me. I just imagine Patsy on the stage and clude Depeche Mode, the Doobie critics. Pieces,” while Lynn is a young singer-songwriter Bill Monroe and Hank Williams,” Khouri said. Brothers, Motörhead, Thin Lizzy, The Notorious B.I.G., born from Kentucky just getting her footing in Nash- Cline died in a plane crash in 1963 at the age MC5, Nine Inch Nails, Rufus fea- Christopher Wallace, is one of ville. of 30, ending a career far too early, while Lynn is turing Chaka Khan, Todd Rund- nine nominees who made the bal- Their styles were different: Cline’s powerful, now 87 and has stopped touring after suffering a gren, Judas Priest and T. Rex. lot for the first time, along with almost theatrical voice made her one of country’s Inductees are expected to be Houston, Matthews, the Doo- fi rst crossover artists, while Lynn penned songs stroke in 2017, although she continues to put out announced in January after the bies, Motörhead, T. Rex, Benatar, about rural life and honky-tonk women. But both new records. But their legacies as progressive and hall’s 1,000-plus voting members Soundgarden and Thin Lizzy. were dealing with industry demands on how they infl uential voices in a male-dominated industry has cast their ballots. As has been the If inducted, Biggie, who was looked and sang, juggling being mothers with their continued to impact today’s artists, said Mueller. case in recent years, fans also killed in 1997, would join six other careers and clashing with husbands that liked to “I just get the feeling that, God bless them, they can vote for their favorites on the rap artists who previously have fi ght and drink. didn’t know what they were doing for all the gen- Rock Hall’s website. Fan ballot- made the Rock Hall: Grandmas- “We all know the story of Patsy Cline’s life. We erations to come,” Mueller said. “They were just ing adds only one vote apiece for ter Flash and the Furious Five, all know the story of Loretta Lynn’s life. What not trying to make it happen and they were just doing the top five vote-getters, but pub- N.W.A, Tupac Shakur, the Beas- many people are aware of is their friendship,” their thing, but they were really laying the ground- lic sentiment can affect the hall’s tie Boys, Run-D.M.C. and Public said Megan Hilty, who plays Cline. “It’s about this work for so many amazing women artists that came voting membership, which con- Enemy. beautiful supportive friendship between women, after them.” Thursday, October 17, 2019 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 19

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Transportation 944 Transportation 944 PAGE 20 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Thursday, October 17, 2019 OPINION Max D. Lederer Jr., Publisher Lt. Col. Sean Klimek, Europe commander Lt. Col. Richard McClintic, Pacific commander Trump didn’t hide foreign policy principles Caroline E. Miller, Europe Business Operations BY DOYLE MCMANUS as no surprise, because he’s reverting to Trump bluntly proposed U.S. withdrawal Los Angeles Times views he’s held for more than 30 years. from NATO, an idea he has frequently re- EDITORIAL The popular notion that Trump is mer- turned to. WASHINGTON Editor curial and inconsistent in foreign policy The surprisingly rich record of early Terry Leonard, resident Donald Trump never [email protected] is mistaken, Thomas Wright of the Brook- Trump pronouncements on world affairs wanted to put U.S. troops in Syria. ings Institution wrote in a 2016 essay that provides a road map to future Trump Robert H. Reid, Senior Managing Editor His strategy for defeating Islamic remains one of the clearest dissections policies. [email protected] PState — “I would bomb the [s---] of the president’s strategic thinking: “He An unfettered Trump will seek to with- Tina Croley, Managing Editor for Content out of them” — didn’t include boots on the has a remarkably coherent and consistent draw more of the remaining 14,500 U.S. [email protected] ground. worldview.” troops from Afghanistan. He’ll renew His generals insisted that they needed Trump doesn’t want U.S. troops fighting his threat to take the United States out of Sean Moores, Managing Editor for Presentation U.S. forces to direct the mostly Kurdish overseas. He’s willing to use air power, but NATO. He’ll be tempted to pull U.S. troops [email protected] fighters who battled the radical militia reluctant to deploy troops on the ground — out of South Korea, especially if it can help Joe Gromelski, Managing Editor for Digital on the ground, so the president relented and implacably opposed to using U.S. forc- him make a deal to freeze Kim Jong Un’s [email protected] — briefly. But when Turkish President es for peacekeeping, which he dismisses as nuclear program. (The U.S. goal has long Recep Tayyip Erdogan decided to move “police work.” He doesn’t much care who been to dismantle North Korea’s nukes, into northeastern Syria, Trump ordered runs other parts of the world or how they but Trump has tacitly redefined success at BUREAU STAFF U.S. troops out of the way. run it, as long as they don’t ask the United a less ambitious level.) Trump’s critics bewailed the outcome as States for help. On the other hand, Saudi Arabia may Europe/Mideast a defeat and a betrayal of our Kurdish al- Erik Slavin, Europe & Mideast Bureau Chief He admires authoritarian rulers, includ- continue to benefit from a U.S. defense [email protected] lies. To the president, it was a victory. ing Turkey’s Erdogan, Russia’s Vladimir umbrella. +49(0)631.3615.9350; DSN (314)583.9350 “Let Syria and Assad protect the Kurds,” Putin, China’s Xi Jinping and North Ko- “They pay cash,” Trump explained last he wrote on Twitter. “Anyone who wants to rea’s Kim Jong Un. He has little interest in month. Pacific assist Syria in protecting the Kurds is good human rights or democracy promotion. As he pursues a trade deal with China’s Aaron Kidd, Pacific Bureau Chief with me, whether it is Russia, China or Na- [email protected] And he’s allergic to lasting commitments, Xi, whom he has called “a very good man,” +81.42.552.2511 ext. 88380; DSN (315)227.7380 poleon Bonaparte. I hope they all do great, whether with small, dependent partners Trump will be tempted to give Beijing a we are 7000 miles away!” like the Kurds or longstanding allies like free pass on its military expansion into the Washington It was the voice of the real Donald Trump, Germany, France and other members of South China Sea; he’s never sounded as Joseph Cacchioli, Washington Bureau Chief unfiltered by speechwriters or aides. the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. passionate about China’s geopolitical ex- [email protected] And it gives a clear glimpse of his for- “Trump’s starting point and defining pansion as its trade policy. (+1)(202)886-0033 eign policy to come. emotion on foreign policy is anger — not And he’ll continue to pursue a better re- Brian Bowers, Assistant Managing Editor, News [email protected] For his first years in the White House, at America’s enemies, but at its friends,” lationship with Putin’s Russia. Trump was surrounded by aides who tried Wright wrote. Those moves will leave the United States CIRCULATION to nudge him toward a conventional ver- As early as 1987, Trump criticized Presi- less safe, less powerful and less able to re- sion of conservative internationalism: sup- dent Ronald Reagan for spending money to spond to challenges around the world. Mideast port for traditional allies, competition (if defend allies — in that case, the oil export- They’ll meet with criticism from Dem- Robert Reismann, Mideast Circulation Manager not confrontation) with Russia and China, ers of the Persian Gulf. ocrats — and, perhaps, from those Re- [email protected] a muscular U.S. role in the Middle East. “The world is laughing at America’s pol- publicans who still cling to the muscular [email protected] Republicans in Congress tried to re- DSN (314)583-9111 iticians as we protect ships we don’t own, internationalism that Reagan represented. strain him too, joining Democrats to slap carrying oil we don’t need, destined for The GOP dissidents face a challenge: Europe sanctions on Russia over the president’s allies who won’t help,” the New York real The party’s voters largely support the Karen Lewis, Community Engagement Manager objections. estate mogul wrote. president, not them. They have a choice to [email protected] Trump never liked it. Now, with a new In 1990, Trump expressed grudging ad- make: Speak up for their convictions, or [email protected] national security adviser (his fourth in less miration for China’s massacre of protesting watch U.S. foreign policy erode. +49(0)631.3615.9090; DSN (314)583.9090 than three years), an untested defense sec- students in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. The one option they don’t have is to ex- Pacific retary and a secretary of state acting as his “They were vicious, they were horrible, press surprise. Trump’s been promising to Mari Mori, [email protected] most pugnacious defender, the president but they put it down with strength,” he said do these things all along. +81-3 6385.3171; DSN (315)229.3171 faces few restraints. He’s increasingly con- in an interview with Playboy magazine. 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The China Daily, an English- island, language newspaper aimed at foreign readers, warned Tuesday the two sides have yet to put last week’s agreement on paper. level ups Business groups welcomed the truce as a possible step toward ending the costly, 15-month-old fight but said it was a small one. BY GENE PARK The Washington Post From The Associated Press Fortnite has reopened world- EXCHANGE RATES wide after a temporary shutdown, Military rates EPIC GAMES/The Washington Post throwing millions of players back Euro costs (Oct. 17) ...... $1.1338 Dollar buys (Oct. 17) ...... €0.8820 into the game with a new island British pound (Oct. 17) ...... $1.32 to explore (with some familiar The new Fortnite map is grayed out and new locations like Slurp Swamps are left for you to discover. Japanese yen (Oct. 17) ...... 106.00 South Korean won (Oct. 17) ...... 1,156.00 areas) and several new ways to Commercial rates level up. The battle pass also allows play- Bahrain (Dinar) ...... 0.3770 One of the new ways to gain experience British pound ...... $1.2845 Players were greeted with a ers to earn back 1,500 V-bucks, Canada (Dollar) ...... 1.3210 new trailer teasing all the new points in the game, it appears, is assisting which is more than enough to China (Yuan) ...... 7.0979 features, including swimming, Denmark (Krone) ...... 6.7593 purchase the next season’s battle Egypt (Pound) ...... 16.2206 fishing, motorboats and several another player with a kill, which was pass. Previous seasons awarded Euro ...... $1.1053/0.9047 new ways to level up. players just enough to earn back Hong Kong (Dollar) ...... 7.8459 previously not available. Hungary (Forint) ...... 301.70 As soon as the trailer finishes, the money, so the battle pass of- Israel (Shekel) ...... 3.5348 the player leaps out of the black fers more value now. 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Sports Deals Pro basketball College football Tuesday’s transactions NBA preseason Schedule SE Missouri (3-3) at Jacksonville St. on AFN (5-2) BASKETBALL EASTERN CONFERENCE Wednesday Old Dominion (1-5) at UAB (5-1) National Basketball Association Atlantic Division SOUTH Missouri (5-1) at Vanderbilt (1-5) LOS ANGELES LAKERS — Waived G Da- W L Pct GB South Alabama (1-5) at Troy (2-3) Charlotte (2-4) at W. Kentucky (4-2) Philadelphia 4 0 1.000 — vid Stockton. Signed G Reggie Hearn. Thursday Houston Baptist (4-3) at McNeese St. Go to the American Forces MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES — Waived G Dusty Boston 4 0 1.000 — SOUTH Hannahs. Signed G Ahmad Caver. Brooklyn 3 0 1.000 ½ (3-4) Network website for the most ETSU (2-4) at Chattanooga (3-3) Austin Peay (4-2) at Tenn. St. (1-6) NBA G League New York 1 1 .500 2 SOUTHWEST Toronto 1 2 .333 2½ NC A&T (4-1) at Florida A&M (5-1) up-to-date TV schedules. WESTCHESTER KNICKS — Traded the Louisiana-Lafayette (4-2) at Arkansas Southeast Division Kentucky (3-3) at Georgia (5-1) returning rights to G Paul Watson and a St. (3-3) myafn.net third-round draft pick to Raptors 905 for Miami 3 0 1.000 — Maine (2-4) at Liberty (4-2) the returning rights to G JJ Moore and a Orlando 3 2 .600 1 FAR WEST Yale (3-1) at Richmond (3-3) UCLA (1-5) at Stanford (3-3) first-round draft pick. Washington 2 2 .500 1½ UTEP (1-4) at FIU (3-3) Friday, Oct. 18 FOOTBALL Charlotte 1 3 .250 2½ Army (3-3) at Georgia St. (4-2) EAST Pro football National Football League Atlanta 0 3 .000 3 Tulane (5-1) at Memphis (5-1) CAROLINA PANTHERS — Waived WR Central Division Pittsburgh (4-2) at Syracuse (3-3) Milwaukee 4 0 1.000 — SOUTH Charleston Southern (1-5) at North Ray-Ray McCloud. Released WR Tyron Alabama (2-4) Johnson from the practice squad. Indiana 3 1 .750 1 Marshall (3-3) at FAU (4-2) NFL CHICAGO BEARS — Placed DT Akiem Detroit 2 2 .500 2 MIDWEST Cent. Arkansas (4-2) at Northwestern St. (0-6) American Conference Hicks on IR. Signed OL Alex Bars from Chicago 1 3 .250 3 Ohio St. (6-0) at Northwestern (1-4) the practice squad and LB Fadol Brown Cleveland 1 3 .250 3 FAR WEST East Carolina (3-3) at UCF (4-2) East WESTERN CONFERENCE Texas A&M (3-3) at Mississippi (3-4) W L T Pct PF PA to the practice squad. UNLV (2-4) at Fresno St. (2-3) Southwest Division Florida St. (3-3) at Wake Forest (5-1) New England 6 0 0 1.000 190 48 CINCINNATI BENGALS — Placed DE Saturday Kerry Wynn on IR. Claimed OL Fred John- W L Pct GB Tennessee (2-4) at Alabama (6-0) Buffalo 4 1 0 .800 90 70 EAST son off waivers from Pittsburgh. New Orleans 4 0 1.000 — N.Y. Jets 1 4 0 .200 63 123 NC State (4-2) at Boston College (3-3) MIDWEST CLEVELAND BROWNS — Traded OL Houston 3 1 .750 1 Wisconsin (6-0) at Illinois (2-4) Miami 0 5 0 .000 42 180 Memphis 2 1 .667 1½ Lafayette (0-6) at Georgetown (4-2) Austin Corbett to the Los Angeles Rams Dartmouth (4-0) at Marist (1-4) Purdue (2-4) at Iowa (4-2) South Dallas 1 3 .250 3 for an undisclosed 2021 draft pick. Duquesne (3-2) at Sacred Heart (3-3) Houston 4 2 0 .667 162 134 San Antonio 0 3 .000 3½ Kent St. (3-3) at Ohio (2-4) DETROIT LIONS — Released WR Tom Houston (2-4) at UConn (1-5) Indianapolis 3 2 0 .600 113 115 Northwest Division S. Dakota St. (4-1) at Indiana St. (3-3) Kennedy. Signed DT John Atkins from the Robert Morris (2-4) at Wagner (1-5) Jacksonville 2 4 0 .333 117 131 Oklahoma City 2 1 .667 1 Toledo (4-2) at Ball St. (3-3) practice squad. Princeton (4-0) at Brown (1-3) Tennessee 2 4 0 .333 98 92 KANSAS CITY CHIEFS — Released DT Minnesota 2 2 .500 1½ Cent. Mich. (4-3) at Bowling Green (2- Portland 1 2 .333 2 Bryant (2-5) at CCSU (5-1) North Braxton Hoyett from the practice squad. 4) signed WR Gehrig Dieter to the practice Utah 1 3 .250 2½ New Hampshire (4-2) at Delaware (3- Illinois St. (4-2) at W. Illinois (0-6) Baltimore 4 2 0 .667 184 140 Pacific Division 3) Cleveland 2 4 0 .333 120 154 squad. TCU (3-2) at Kansas St. (3-2) LOS ANGELES RAMS — Traded CB L.A. Lakers 2 2 .500 — Lehigh (2-3) at Fordham (3-4) N. Illinois (2-4) at Miami (Ohio) (2-4) Pittsburgh 2 4 0 .333 123 131 Sacramento 2 2 .500 — Harvard (3-1) at Holy Cross (3-3) Cincinnati 0 6 0 .000 97 159 Marcus Peters to Baltimore for LB Kenny Youngstown St. (4-2) at S. Illinois (2-4) Young and an undisclosed 2020 draft Phoenix 2 2 .500 — St. Francis (Pa.) (3-3) at LIU (0-5) West L.A. Clippers 2 2 .500 — Buffalo (2-4) at Akron (0-6) pick. Gardner-Webb (3-3) at Monmouth Tulsa (2-4) at Cincinnati (5-1) Kansas City 4 2 0 .667 172 144 Golden State 1 2 .333 ½ (NJ) (4-2) MIAMI DOLPHINS — Released CB John- Missouri St. (1-4) at N. Dakota St. (6-0) Oakland 3 2 0 .600 103 123 son Bademosi. Monday’s games Penn (2-2) at Columbia (1-3) Miami 120, Atlanta 87 South Dakota (3-3) at N. Iowa (3-3) Denver 2 4 0 .333 106 106 MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Signed WR Da- Colgate (0-7) at Cornell (1-3) L.A. Chargers 2 4 0 .333 120 118 vion Davis to the practice squad. Charlotte 120, Memphis 99 Merrimack (2-4) at Delaware St. (1-5) W. Michigan (4-3) at E. Michigan (3-3) Dallas 107, Oklahoma City 70 SOUTHWEST National Conference NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Re-signed Rhode Island (1-5) at Albany (NY) (4- Sacramento 128, Utah 115 Auburn (5-1) at Arkansas (2-4) East TE Ben Watson. Signed TE Eric Tomlinson. 3) Denver 107, Phoenix 102 West Virginia (3-3) at Oklahoma (6-0) W L T Pct PF PA Signed OL Tyler Gauthier and WR Devin Indiana (4-2) at Maryland (3-3) L.A. Lakers 104, Golden State 98 Iowa St. (4-2) at Texas Tech (3-3) Dallas 3 3 0 .500 153 114 Ross to the practice squad. Released QB South Florida (3-3) at Navy (4-1) Cody Kessler. Released K Younghoe Koo Tuesday’s games Va. Lynchburg (0-5) at Prairie View (2- Philadelphia 3 3 0 .500 161 149 Boston 118, Cleveland 95 Minnesota (6-0) at Rutgers (1-5) and TE Jason Vander Laan from the prac- Bucknell (1-5) at Towson (3-3) 4) N.Y. Giants 2 4 0 .333 111 160 tice squad. Minnesota 119, Indiana 111 Washington 1 5 0 .167 90 167 Philadelphia 106, Detroit 86 Michigan (5-1) at Penn St. (6-0) Nicholls (4-2) at Sam Houston St. (4-3) NEW YORK GIANTS — Signed RB Jon SOUTH Southern U. (3-3) vs. Texas Southern South Hillman to the practice squad. Wednesday’s games New Orleans 5 1 0 .833 128 122 Detroit at Charlotte Clemson (6-0) at Louisville (4-2) (0-5) at Dallas NEW YORK JETS — Signed DB Blake Georgia Tech (1-5) at Miami (3-3) Temple (5-1) at SMU (6-0) Carolina 4 2 0 .667 166 133 Countess. Waived CB Arthur Maulet. Atlanta at New York Tampa Bay 2 4 0 .333 173 185 Signed OL Corbin Kaufusi to the practice Memphis at Oklahoma City Florida (6-1) at South Carolina (3-3) Stephen F. Austin (1-5) at Abilene Atlanta 1 5 0 .167 135 186 squad, San Antonio at Houston The Citadel (3-4) at Furman (4-2) Christian (3-4) Portland at Utah Davidson (4-2) at Jacksonville (2-4) North OAKLAND RAIDERS — Released RB Middle Tenn. (2-4) at N. Texas (2-4) Melbourne United at Sacramento Dayton (4-1) at Stetson (4-1) Green Bay 5 1 0 .833 142 115 Damarea Crockett. Signed RB James But- Baylor (6-0) at Oklahoma St. (4-2) Golden State at L.A. Lakers Morgan St. (1-5) at SC State (3-2) Minnesota 4 2 0 .667 150 93 ler and WR Anthony Ratliff-Williams to Lamar (4-3) at Incarnate Word (4-2) Thursday’s games W. Carolina (1-5) at Wofford (3-2) Chicago 3 2 0 .600 87 69 the practice squad. Rice (0-6) at UTSA (2-4) Miami at Orlando Butler (1-5) at Morehead St. (3-3) Detroit 2 2 1 .500 119 118 PHILADELPHIA EAGLES — Released Kansas (2-4) at Texas (4-2) LB Zach Brown. Waived CB Ryan Lewis. Atlanta at Chicago Kennesaw St. (5-1) at Presbyterian West Minnesota at Milwaukee FAR WEST Signed RB De’Angelo Henderson to the (0-6) Oregon St. (2-4) at California (4-2) San Francisco 5 0 0 1.000 147 64 practice squad. Portland at Denver Coastal Carolina (3-3) at Georgia Seattle 5 1 0 .833 165 146 Dallas vs. L.A. Clippers at Vancouver, Portland St. (4-3) at N. Colorado (1-6) PITTSBURGH STEELERS — Placed DE Southern (2-3) New Mexico (2-4) at Wyoming (4-2) L.A. Rams 3 3 0 .500 153 154 Stephon Tuitt on IR. Signed DE L.T. Wal- BC Jackson St. (1-5) at MVSU (1-5) Oregon (5-1) at Washington (5-2) Arizona 2 3 1 .417 134 171 ton. Signed RB Tony Brooks-James and OL VMI (4-3) at Mercer (2-4) N. Arizona (3-3) at Weber St. (4-2) Thursday’s games Christian DiLauro to the practice squad. E. Kentucky (3-3) at Murray St. (4-3) Valparaiso (0-6) at San Diego (3-2) New England 35, N.Y. Giants 14 TENNESSEE TITANS — Signed LB Nigel E. Illinois (0-7) at UT Martin (4-2) Sunday’s games Harris to the practice squad. Released LB Tennis Louisiana-Monroe (3-3) at Appala- Idaho St. (3-3) at Idaho (2-5) Carolina 37, Tampa Bay 26 Ukeme Eligwe from the practice squad. chian St. (5-0) Arizona St. (5-1) at Utah (5-1) New Orleans 13, Jacksonville 6 WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Placed TE Southern Miss. (4-2) at Louisiana Tech San Diego St. (5-1) at San Jose St. (3- Houston 31, Kansas City 24 Jerome Cunningham on IR. Signed FB Kremlin Cup (5-1) 3) Minnesota 38, Philadelphia 20 Michael Burton. Terminated the practice LSU (6-0) at Mississippi St. (3-3) Colorado (3-3) at Washington St. (3-3) squad contracts of TE Drew Belcher and Wednesday Washington 17, Miami 16 Duke (4-2) at Virginia (4-2) North Dakota (3-3) at Cal Poly (2-4) OT Victor Salako. Signed TE Wes Saxton At Olympic Stadium Baltimore 23, Cincinnati 17 Moscow N. Carolina (3-3) at Virginia Tech (4-2) UC Davis (3-4) at S. Utah (1-6) Seattle 32, Cleveland 28 to the practice squad. Montana (5-1) at Sacramento St. (4-2) HOCKEY Purse: $840,130 James Madison (6-1) at William & Arizona 34, Atlanta 33 Surface: Hardcourt indoor Mary (2-4) Arizona (4-2) at Southern Cal (3-3) San Francisco 20, L.A. Rams 7 National Hockey League Reassigned C Isac Men’s Singles Norfolk St. (2-5) at Bethune-Cookman Boise St. (6-0) at BYU (2-4) ANAHEIM DUCKS — Round Of 32 Denver 16, Tennessee 0 Lundestrom to San Diego (AHL). (5-1) Nevada (4-2) at Utah St. (3-2) N.Y. Jets 24, Dallas 22 Egor Gerasimov, Belarus, def. Thomas Hampton (3-3) at Campbell (4-1) Air Force (4-2) at Hawaii (4-2) DALLAS STARS — Reassigned Fs Nick Fabbiano, Italy, 6-3, 6-4. Pittsburgh 24, L.A. Chargers 17 Caamano, and Joel L’Esperance to Texas Open: Buffalo, Indianapolis, Chicago, Alen Avidzba, Russia, def. Alibek (AHL). Recalled F Denis Gurianov from Kachmazov, Russia, 6-1, 4-6, 6-1. Oakland Texas. Monday’s games Men’s Singles DETROIT RED WINGS — Assigned RW Round Of 16 Auto racing Green Bay 23, Detroit 22 Evgeny Svechnikov to Grand Rapids Andreas Seppi, Italy, def. Roberto Thursday, Oct. 17 (AHL). Activated C Frans Nielsen and D Carballes Baena, Spain, 5-7, 6-1, 6-3. Kansas City at Denver Trevor Daley from injured reserve. Adrian Mannarino (7), France, def. Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Sunday, June 30 — Camping World Sunday, Oct. 20 SOCCER Mikhail Kukushkin, Kazakhstan, 7-6 (4), 400, Joliet, Ill. (Alex Bowman) Miami at Buffalo Major League Soccer 6-2. schedule and winners Sunday, July 7 — Coke Zero Sugar 400, Houston at Indianapolis MLS — Fined FC Cincinnati M Joseph- Women’s Singles Daytona Beach, Fla. (Justin Haley) Claude Gyau an undisclosed amount for Sunday, Feb. 10 — x-Advance Auto Arizona at N.Y. Giants Round Of 16 Saturday, July 13 — Quaker State 400, failure to leave the field in a timely man- Belinda Bencic (3), Switzerland, def. Parts Clash, Daytona Beach, Fla. (Jimmie Oakland at Green Bay Johnson) Sparta, Ky. (Kurt Busch) L.A. Rams at Atlanta ner after receiving his red card during an Polona Hercog, Slovenia, 1-6, 6-3, 6-4. Oct. 6 match against D.C. United. Fined Thursday, Feb. 14 — x-Duel 1 at Dayto- Sunday, July 21 — Foxwoods Resort Minnesota at Detroit Ekaterina Alexandrova (8), Russia, def. New York City FC M Valentin Castellanos na, Daytona Beach, Fla. (Kevin Harvick) Casino 301, Loudon, N.H. (Kevin Harvick) Jacksonville at Cincinnati Anna Kalinskaya, Russia, 6-1, 6-1. an undisclosed amount for simulation/ Kirsten Flipkens, Belgium, def. Dayana Thursday, Feb. 14 — x-Duel 2 at Day- Sunday, July 28 — Gander RV 400, Long San Francisco at Washington embellishment during an Oct. 6 match Yastremska (5), Ukraine, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3. tona, Daytona Beach, Fla. (Joey Logano) Pond, Pa. (Denny Hamlin) L.A. Chargers at Tennessee against Philadelphia. Sunday, Feb. 17 — Daytona 500, Day- Sunday, Aug. 4 — Go Bowling at The Baltimore at Seattle COLLEGE tona Beach, Fla. (Denny Hamlin) Glen, Watkins Glen, N.Y. (Chase Elliott) New Orleans at Chicago Luxembourg Open Sunday, Feb. 24 — Folds of Honor OKLAHOMA STATE — Named Barry Sunday, Aug. 11 — Consumers Energy Philadelphia at Dallas QuikTrip 500, Hampton, Ga. (Brad Kesel- Hinson men’s basketball analyst. Wednesday 400, Brooklyn, Mich. (Kevin Harvick) Open: Tampa Bay, Cleveland, Carolina, SHENANDOAH — Named Tim McGuire owski) At Kockelscheuer Sport Centre — Bass Pro Shops Pittsburgh wrestling coach. Kockelscheuer, Luxembourg Sunday, March 3 — Pennzoil 400, Las Saturday, Aug. 17 Purse: $250,000 Vegas (Joey Logano) NRA Night Race, Bristol, Tenn. (Denny Surface: Hardcourt indoor Sunday, March 10 — TicketGuardian Hamlin) Women’s Singles 500, Avondale, Ariz. (Kyle Busch) Sunday, Sept. 1 — Bojangles’ Southern Pro soccer Round Of 32 Sunday, March 17 — Auto Club 400, 500, Darlington, S.C. (Erik Jones) Anna Blinkova (8), Russia, def. Cori Fontana, Calif. (Kyle Busch) Sunday, Sept. 8 — Big Machine Vodka Gauff, United States, 6-4, 6-0. Sunday, March 24 — STP 500, Martins- 400 at the Brickyard, Indianapolis (Kevin ville, Va. (Brad Keselowski) Thursday, Oct. 24 Women’s Singles Harvick) MLS playoffs Round Of 16 Sunday, March 31 — O’Reilly Auto Minnesota-LA Galaxy winner at Los Playoff Races First Round Elena Rybakina (3), Kazakhstan, def. Parts 500, Fort Worth, Texas (Denny Angeles FC Hamlin) Sunday, Sept. 15 — South Point 400, Saturday Conference Championships Denisa Allertova, Czech Republic, 6-2, 6-1. Sunday, April 7 — Food City 500, Bris- Las Vegas (Martin Truex Jr.) Eastern Conference Tuesday, Oct. 29 New England at Atlanta Margarita Gasparyan, Russia, def. tol, Tenn. (Kyle Busch) Saturday, Sept. 21 — Federated Auto Western Conference at higher-seeded Monica Niculescu, Romania, 6-2, 7-5. Saturday, April 13 — Toyota Owners Parts 400, Richmond, Va. (Martin Truex D.C. at Toronto team Western Conference Laura Siegemund, Germany, def. Vik- 400, Richmond, Va. (Martin Truex Jr.) Jr.) Wednesday, Oct. 30 toria Kuzmova (5), Slovakia, 6-2, 6-3. Sunday, April 28 — Geico 500, Talla- Dallas at Seattle Eastern Conference at higher-seeded Sunday, Sept. 29 — Bank of American Portland at Salt Lake dega, Ala. (Chase Elliott) ROVAL 400, Concord, N.C. (Chase Elliott) team MLS Cup Monday, May 6 — Gander RV 400, Do- Sunday Sunday, Oct. 6 — Drydene 400, Dover, Eastern Conference MLS Cup European Open ver, Del. (Martin Truex Jr.) New York Red Bulls at Philadelphia Sunday, Nov. 10 Wednesday Saturday, May 11 — Digital Ally 400, Del. (Kyle Larson) Western Conference Eastern Conference champion vs. At Lotto Arena Kansas City, Kan. (Brad Keselowski) Sunday, Oct. 13 — 1000Bulbs.com 500, LA Galaxy at Minnesota Western Conference champion at high- Antwerp, Belgium Saturday, May 18 — x-Monster Energy Talladega, Ala. (Ryan Blaney) Conference Semifinals er-seeded team Purse: $635,750 Open, Concord, N.C. (Kyle Larson) Sunday, Oct. 20 — Hollywood Casino Eastern Conference Surface: Hardcourt indoor Saturday, May 18 — x-Monster Energy 400, Kansas City, Kan. Wednesday, Oct. 23 NWSL playoffs Men’s Singles All-Star Race, Concord, N.C. (Kyle Lar- Sunday, Oct. 27 — First Data 500, Mar- Toronto-D.C. winner at New York City FC Round Of 32 son) tinsville, Va. Frances Tiafoe, United States, def. Thursday, Oct. 24 Semifinals Sunday, May 26 — Coca-Cola 600, Con- Sunday, Nov. 3 — AAA Texas 500, Fort Philadelphia-New York Red Bulls win- Yannick Maden, Germany, 7-6 (7), 6-3. Sunday cord, N.C. (Martin Truex Jr.) Worth, Texas ner vs. Atlanta-New England winner at Reign FC at North Carolina Pablo Cuevas (8), Uruguay, def. Hugo Sunday, June 2 — Pocono 400, Long higher-seeded team Portland at Chicago Dellien, Bolivia, 6-4, 6-3. Pond, Pa. (Kyle Busch) Sunday, Nov. 10 — Bluegreen Vaca- Western Conference Championship Men’s Singles Monday, June 10 — FireKeepers Casi- tions 500, Avondale, Ariz. Wednesday, Oct. 23 Sunday, Oct. 27 Round Of 16 no 400, Brooklyn, Mich. (Joey Logano) Sunday, Nov. 17 — Ford EcoBoost 400, Salt Lake-Portland winner vs. Seattle- At Cary, N.C. Guido Pella (5), Argentina, def. Kwon Sunday, June 23 — Toyota/Save Mart Homestead, Fla. Dallas winner at higher-seeded team Semifinal winners Soon Woo, South Korea, 7-5, 7-5. 350, Sonoma, Calif. (Martin Truex Jr.) x-non-points race PAGE 26 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Thursday, October 17, 2019 NFL Statistics

AFC individual leaders NFC individual leaders Week 5 Week 5 Quarterbacks Quarterbacks Att Com Yds TD Int Att Com Yds TD Int Mahomes, KC 230 147 2104 14 1 Ryan, ATL 258 186 2011 15 7 Rivers, LAC 238 159 1785 9 6 Prescott, DAL 211 147 1883 11 6 Brady, NE 228 149 1743 10 3 Winston, TAM 220 132 1771 12 10 Dalton, CIN 243 150 1647 7 5 Goff, LA 246 153 1727 7 7 Watson, HOU 201 140 1644 12 3 Ru. Wilson, SEA 189 137 1704 14 0 L. Jackson, BAL 195 127 1507 11 5 K. Murray, ARI 238 153 1664 7 4 Mayfield, CLE 198 112 1496 5 11 Rodgers, GBY 219 137 1590 8 2 Minshew, JAC 194 124 1442 9 2 Wentz, PHL 214 131 1458 12 3 Flacco, DEN 196 130 1435 6 5 Stafford, DET 173 106 1387 9 2 Mariota, TEN 159 94 1179 7 2 Cousins, MIN 155 108 1374 9 3 Rushers Rushers Att Yds Avg LG TD Att Yds Avg LG TD N. Chubb, CLE 114 607 5.3 88t 6 McCaffrey, CAR 127 618 4.9 84t 7 Fournette, JAC 115 584 5.1 81 1 D. Cook, MIN 108 583 5.4 75t 6 M. Mack, IND 101 470 4.7 63t 2 C. Carson, SEA 118 504 4.3 25 2 L. Jackson, BAL 69 460 6.7 36 2 E. Elliott, DAL 113 491 4.3 27 5 J. Jacobs, OAK 88 430 4.9 51 4 Breida, SNF 65 376 5.8 83t 1 C. Hyde, HOU 99 426 4.3 26 3 Kamara, NOR 86 373 4.3 28 1 Ma. Ingram, BAL 87 424 4.9 49 7 A. Jones, GBY 89 349 3.9 18t 8 D. Henry, TEN 113 416 3.7 24 4 Da. Johnson, ARI 76 298 3.9 18 2 Lindsay, DEN 84 397 4.7 32 4 J. Howard, PHL 66 297 4.5 19 4 Michel, NE 100 348 3.5 26 3 Ker. Johnson, DET 87 285 3.3 14 2 Receivers Receivers No Yds Avg LG TD No Yds Avg LG TD Chark, JAC 30 528 17.6 69 5 Godwin, TAM 43 662 15.4 30 6 K. Allen, LAC 40 503 12.6 34 3 Mi. Thomas, NOR 53 632 11.9 42 3 Kelce, KC 32 497 15.5 42 1 Kupp, LA 45 522 11.6 66 4 Co. Sutton, DEN 30 477 15.9 70t 3 A. Cooper, DAL 33 515 15.6 53t 5 Edelman, NE 38 449 11.8 36 2 Hooper, ATL 42 480 11.4 30 3 W. Fuller, HOU 33 444 13.5 54 3 Ju. Jones, ATL 34 467 13.7 54t 4 J. Landry, CLE 25 439 17.6 65 0 Evans, TAM 27 464 17.2 67t 4 Beckham, CLE 29 436 15.0 89t 1 Lockett, SEA 35 454 13.0 44t 3 COLIN E. BRALEY/AP Boyd, CIN 40 416 10.4 47 1 Fitzgerald, ARI 35 427 12.2 54 2 M. Andrews, BAL 34 410 12.1 39 3 D.. Moore, CAR 33 425 12.9 52t 1 Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes throws a pass during the first half against the Houston Texans on Punters Punters No Yds Lg Avg No Yds Lg Avg Sunday. Kansas City’s offense, particularly the run-pass option plays, has struggled the past two weeks. T. Long, LAC 18 853 60 47.4 Way, WAS 33 1652 66 50.1 Koch, BAL 15 708 57 47.2 Hekker, LA 18 885 71 49.2 A. Cole, OAK 22 1038 60 47.2 A. Lee, ARI 19 931 59 49.0 Berry, PIT 26 1225 62 47.1 J. Scott, GBY 32 1556 66 48.6 Kern, TEN 40 1884 70 47.1 Palardy, CAR 28 1337 58 47.8 L. Edwards, NYJ 36 1685 57 46.8 Johnston, PHL 22 1039 60 47.2 Wadman, DEN 29 1349 64 46.5 O’Donnell, CHI 26 1222 75 47.0 Cooke, JAC 29 1346 61 46.4 Colquitt, MIN 22 1021 59 46.4 Haack, MIA 27 1252 62 46.4 Morstead, NOR 26 1194 64 45.9 Chiefs’ run-pass option Gillan, CLE 28 1289 71 46.0 Dixon, NYG 25 1147 58 45.9 Punt Returners Punt Returners No Yds Avg Long TD No Yds Avg Long TD Cy. Jones, BAL 8 98 12.2 25 0 Cohen, CHI 9 134 14.9 71 0 Rogers, IND 8 82 10.2 19 0 TJ Jones, NYG 8 96 12.0 60 0 D. Carter, HOU 9 89 9.9 23 0 R. James, SNF 11 127 11.5 32 0 King, LAC 8 76 9.5 68t 1 Deo. Harris, NOR 15 150 10.0 53t 1 Spencer, DEN 13 118 9.1 42 0 Natson, LA 9 85 9.4 32 0 Olszewski, NE 17 147 8.6 20 0 Sproles, PHL 9 84 9.3 17 0 has suddenly gone awry A. Roberts, BUF 11 54 4.9 13 0 McCloud, CAR 10 82 8.2 39 0 De’A. Thomas, KC 10 41 4.1 10 0 T. Quinn, WAS 8 64 8.0 15 0 Westbrook, JAC 10 36 3.6 15 0 Barner, ATL 11 85 7.7 18 0 BY DAVE SKRETTA 1 against Jacksonville. It was 21 Kickoff returners Kickoff returners No Yds Avg LG TD No Yds Avg LG TD Associated Press against Oakland, 20 against Balti- Hilliard, CLE 8 246 30.8 74 0 Agnew, DET 7 217 31.0 100t 1 more and 19 against Detroit. But Grant, MIA 10 236 23.6 39 0 Ballentine, NYG 9 237 26.3 52 0 KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Patrick J. Hill, BAL 8 182 22.8 46 0 Sanders, PHL 9 222 24.7 67 0 that total dropped to nine against Scoring Scoring Mahomes takes the snap from the Colts and was still nine last Touchdowns Touchdowns Chiefs center Austin Reiter, pulls TD Rush Rec Ret Pts TD Rush Rec Ret Pts week against the Texans, even Ma. Ingram, BAL 7 7 0 0 44 McCaffrey, CAR 9 7 2 0 54 away from the line of scrimmage though LeSean McCoy was hav- N. Chubb, CLE 6 6 0 0 36 A. Jones, GBY 8 8 0 0 48 and then, in a little more than a Kansas City Chiefs (4-2) Ekeler, LAC 6 3 3 0 36 D. Cook, MIN 6 6 0 0 36 ing a productive afternoon. Watson, HOU 5 5 0 0 32 Godwin, TAM 6 0 6 0 36 split-second, must identify the at Denver Broncos (2-4) He carried eight times for 44 Chark, JAC 5 0 5 0 30 Thielen, MIN 6 1 5 0 36 best way to make the chosen play AFN-Sports2 yards, most of that coming in the Conner, PIT 5 3 2 0 30 A. Cooper, DAL 5 0 5 0 30 work. D. Henry, TEN 5 4 1 0 30 E. Elliott, DAL 5 5 0 0 30 2:20 a.m. Friday CET first half. T. Hilton, IND 4 0 4 0 24 Gurley, LA 5 5 0 0 30 Are the second-level defend- “I guess I’ve become a sellout, J. Jacobs, OAK 4 4 0 0 24 J. Howard, PHL 5 4 1 0 30 ers breaking toward the line of 10:20 a.m. Friday JKT Lindsay, DEN 4 4 0 0 24 Da. Johnson, ARI 5 2 3 0 30 haven’t I? I might be the biggest Ty. Williams, OAK 4 0 4 0 24 McLaurin, WAS 5 0 5 0 30 scrimmage, forcing him to keep offender,” said Bieniemy, who Kicking Kicking the ball and look downfield? Or PAT FG LG Pts PAT FG LG Pts played running back in college Tucker, BAL 17-17 13-13 51 56 Gonzalez, ARI 10-10 16-19 47 58 are they dropping into coverage, Butker, KC 19-20 11-13 46 52 Slye, CAR 17-18 13-18 55 56 Indeed, it’s not just one issue and the NFL. “Yeah, we need in which case the MVP quarter- Lambo, JAC 9-9 14-14 48 51 Zuerlein, LA 15-15 12-15 58 51 that has conspired against their to run the ball, but we have our Boswell, PIT 12-12 11-11 49 45 Lutz, NOR 11-12 13-14 58 50 back will jam the ball in the gut RPO game. Injuries have forced RPOs and we give our quarter- McManus, DEN 8-9 12-14 53 44 Gay, TAM 16-18 11-13 58 49 of running back LeSean McCoy Bullock, CIN 10-10 9-11 48 37 Prater, DET 11-12 12-14 55 47 the Chiefs to use backups on the back the opportunity to make the Fairbairn, HOU 16-20 6-9 50 34 M. Crosby, GBY 16-16 10-11 48 46 or Damien Williams and keep entire left side of the offensive best read for us. You don’t want to Seibert, CLE 10-12 8-8 48 34 Gould, SNF 16-16 9-15 47 43 things on the ground. Vinatieri, IND 9-12 8-11 49 33 D. Bailey, MIN 16-17 8-9 50 40 line, Mahomes has been hobbled second-guess what he’s doing. But Gostkowski, NE 11-15 7-8 41 32 Maher, DAL 18-18 7-11 62 39 The Chiefs’ use of that very just about the entire season by a run-pass option is a big reason at the end of the day, when we’re AFC team statistics NFC team statistics sore ankle, and injuries at wide calling runs we have to make sure why their offense has been so receiver and running back have Week 5 Week 5 we’re executing.” successful the past season-plus. hardly helped. AVERAGE PER GAME AVERAGE PER GAME It does raise the question, OFFENSE OFFENSE It has largely kept defenses un- Then there is what the defenses Yards Rush Pass Yards Rush Pass though: Are the Chiefs still confi- certain where the ball is going, are doing. Baltimore 450.7 205.0 245.7 Dallas 443.7 138.8 304.8 dent in Mahomes making the best Kansas City 422.0 82.7 339.3 San Francisco 408.0 179.8 228.2 opening up the field for the Kan- The Colts may have published Houston 396.8 139.8 257.0 Seattle 399.0 130.5 268.5 read? sas City fleet of fast, athletic wide the blueprint for stopping the New England 386.3 101.5 284.8 Atlanta 391.3 73.5 317.8 “Oh yeah, very confident. We Buffalo 372.4 139.6 232.8 Arizona 376.8 122.7 254.2 receivers. Chiefs by using an aggressive L.A. Chargers 368.2 80.2 288.0 Minnesota 372.3 159.0 213.3 Only the past two weeks, the form of man-to-man defense, put all our faith in Pat,” Bieniemy Jacksonville 364.8 127.5 237.3 L.A. Rams 370.8 98.3 272.5 said. Cleveland 351.2 119.8 231.3 Detroit 369.8 107.6 262.2 RPO has been more like R-P-Oh jamming receivers at the line of Oakland 348.2 134.4 213.8 Tampa Bay 367.7 98.2 269.5 no! scrimmage and harassing them After every game, the Chiefs Indianapolis 344.0 142.0 202.0 Green Bay 355.5 105.8 249.7 break down the film and see Denver 336.2 116.0 220.2 Carolina 353.0 129.5 223.5 After rolling through their first downfield. Teams will often run Cincinnati 307.7 56.5 251.2 Philadelphia 349.3 111.2 238.2 four games, and with Mahomes the ball when they see a zone whether Mahomes made the Tennessee 290.5 102.8 187.7 New Orleans 344.7 104.3 240.3 right decision to run or pass. And Pittsburgh 276.5 76.5 200.0 N.Y. Giants 339.5 105.3 234.2 on another incredible statistical defense during an RPO play, but Miami 234.2 58.2 176.0 Washington 286.5 81.5 205.0 pace, one of the Chiefs’ signa- they tend to pass when teams the quarterback said Monday that N.Y. Jets 220.0 64.0 156.0 Chicago 266.0 80.6 185.4 with few exceptions, he made the DEFENSE DEFENSE ture offensive plays has lost its are man-to-man, because there Yards Rush Pass Yards Rush Pass effectiveness. The Colts held the are so many bodies at the line of right reads against Houston. New England 234.7 73.7 161.0 San Francisco 237.4 87.2 150.2 “You have to trust in what we’re Buffalo 275.0 87.8 187.2 Minnesota 310.3 91.5 218.8 Chiefs in check in a 19-13 victory scrimmage that it’s a challenge to Denver 307.8 111.8 196.0 Chicago 312.2 83.0 229.2 two weeks ago, and the Texans decipher who is in run support. doing,” Mahomes said. “I feel like L.A. Chargers 321.7 120.5 201.2 Dallas 331.8 93.8 238.0 there’s plays here and there every Tennessee 321.8 104.5 217.3 New Orleans 340.5 102.8 237.7 stopped them in the second half With the Colts running man- Baltimore 350.2 80.7 269.5 Carolina 344.0 119.0 225.0 of a 31-24 win Sunday. to-man defenses on three out of single game that changed the out- Pittsburgh 354.3 110.2 244.2 L.A. Rams 346.8 105.5 241.3 Indianapolis 355.2 113.2 242.0 Philadelphia 353.0 72.8 280.2 “I mean, obviously, we have to every four plays, the Chiefs large- come. That’s how hard it is in Oakland 355.6 92.0 263.6 Seattle 359.8 92.8 267.0 be better,” Chiefs offensive co- ly abandoned the run entirely, and the NFL. Any team can win any Houston 356.0 88.0 268.0 Green Bay 363.8 124.5 239.3 N.Y. Jets 357.8 95.8 262.0 Tampa Bay 372.5 68.0 304.5 ordinator Eric Bieniemy said. Mahomes and the passing game week, so it’s the little plays that Jacksonville 372.7 131.2 241.5 Washington 385.0 134.0 251.0 “There are a number of things was unable to pick up the slack. make a difference.” Cleveland 373.3 154.0 219.3 Atlanta 388.8 117.7 271.2 Kansas City 406.2 161.8 244.3 N.Y. Giants 412.3 127.3 285.0 that go into it, but everyone has to Kansas City ran the ball 23 Or the little decisions, such as Cincinnati 426.0 184.5 241.5 Detroit 413.8 133.8 280.0 be on the same page.” times with its running backs Week choosing whether to run or pass. Miami 439.8 169.6 270.2 Arizona 414.0 132.8 281.2 Thursday, October 17, 2019 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 27 NFL Briefl y NFL admits error on call that hurt Lions Wire reports Fitzpatrick to start for The NFL admitted officials Dolphins on Sunday erred in flagging Detroit Lions defensive end Trey Flowers on DAVIE, Fla. — Ryan Fitzpat- one of the two hands-to-the-face rick will start at quarterback penalties he was called for in the Sunday for the winless Miami fourth quarter of Monday night’s Dolphins at Buffalo, and Josh 23-22 loss to the Green Bay Rosen will be back on the bench. Packers. Coach Brian Flores announced NFL executive vice president the decision Wednesday. Fitzpat- of football operations Troy Vin- rick replaced Rosen at the start cent told reporters at the league’s of the fourth quarter last Sunday fall meeting Tuesday that there against Washington with the Dol- should not have been an infrac- phins trailing 17-3, and led them tion called on the second of Flow- to two late touchdowns in a 17-16 ers’ two penalties. loss. “There was one (earlier in the Following the game, Flores fourth quarter) that was clear had said Rosen would remain the JOHN RAOUX/AP that we support,” Vincent said, starter. Fitzpatrick started the first two games of the season, and Jacksonville Jaguars cornerback Jalen Ramsey got his wish Tuesday night as the team traded him to the via Newsday NFL writer Bob Los Angeles Rams in return for three draft picks. Glauber. “There was another that, Rosen started the past three. when you review the play, that’s Flores said he changed his not something that you want to mind because he decided Fitzpat- be called. After you review it, the rick would give Miami (0-5) the foul wasn’t there.” best chance to win in a tough en- Flowers was called for two vironment at Buffalo (4-1). In other NFL news: Rams trade 3 draft picks drive-extending penalties with  the Lions clinging to a late lead in Saints defensive back P.J. Williams has been suspended two Monday’s fourth quarter. games for a violation of the NFL’s Source: Titans to start substance abuse policy. The league said in a statement to Jaguars to land Ramsey Tannehill over Mariota Tuesday that Williams is sus- pended immediately and will be BY GREG BEACHAM NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The available to return to the Saints Ramsey has missed the Jag- Jaguars frayed in recent months. Titans are making a change at after the club’s Week 8 game Associated Press uars’ last three games with an He had a public spat on the side- quarterback in hopes of salvaging apparent back injury, but he re- line with coach Doug Marrone against Arizona. LOS ANGELES — The Los their season.  The Patriots have signed turned to practice last week. He in Week 2 at Houston, and he Angeles Rams acquired Jalen Tennessee will start Ryan Tan- tight ends Ben Watson and Eric will probably need to play imme- clashed with personnel chief Tom Ramsey from the Jaguars on nehill at quarterback instead Tomlinson and released quarter- diately with the Rams (3-3), who Coughlin after the game. Tuesday night, ending the star of Marcus Mariota on Sunday back Cody Kessler. New England are without both of their usual The Jags made their move five cornerback’s tumultuous tenure against the Los Angeles Char- announced the moves on Tues- starting cornerbacks as they head days after owner Shad Khan said gers, a person familiar with the day. Watson rejoins the team less in Jacksonville with a trade to the to Atlanta this weekend. he had a “heart-to-heart” with decision told The Associated than a week after being released. defending NFC champions. The defending NFC champions Ramsey and expected him to play Press on Tuesday night. The Tomlinson joins the Patriots after Jacksonville got first-round traded cornerback Marcus Peters against New Orleans last week- person spoke on condition of ano- stints with the Eagles, Texans, picks from the Rams in 2020 and to Baltimore earlier in the day, end. Ramsey didn’t, prompting nymity because the team has not Jets and Giants . 2021, along with a fourth-round getting depth linebacker Kenny Khan’s decision to move on from announced the change.  The NFL says the number of pick in 2021. Young for a two-time Pro Bowl the disgruntled defender. Coach Mike Vrabel benched concussions in preseason games Ramsey is one of the NFL’s selection who will be a free agent Ramsey is under contract Mariota in the third quarter of this year rose to 49 from 34 in elite defensive backs, earning next year. Los Angeles also put through the 2020 season after the a 16-0 loss in Denver, the first 2018, an increase of 44% and a two Pro Bowl selections and one cornerback Aqib Talib on injured Jaguars exercised his fifth-year, time the No. 2 pick overall in the setback in efforts to reduce brain first-team All-Pro nod in three reserve Monday after he missed $13.7 million option in April — at 2015 draft had been pulled from trauma. seasons with Jaguars. The fifth last weekend’s loss to San Fran- the same time Ramsey appar- a game for poor play and not be- “We have more work to do,” overall pick in the 2016 draft has cisco with a rib injury. ently was upsetting Coughlin by cause of injury. Vrabel said Mon- said Dr. Allen Sills, the league’s nine career interceptions along Ramsey had never missed a skipping the Jags’ voluntary off- day the Titans (2-4) would decide chief medical officer. with innumerable conflicts with start in his professional career season workouts. who would start against the Char- Concussions in preseason prac- his coaches, the front office and before his current injury, but The Rams began their day by gers (2-4) by Tuesday and then tices fell to 30 from 45 in 2018, the Jags’ opponents. that was about the only certainty acquiring offensive lineman Aus- tell the team. perhaps a reflection of the NFL’s One month after he requested a around the Tennessee native who tin Corbett from the Cleveland Now Tannehill will get his first decision this year to eliminate trade, Ramsey is off to the West once committed to USC, only to Browns. Los Angeles needs a new start since the Titans acquired the drills that involve especially vio- Coast to join Aaron Donald on the end up at Florida State. left guard after Joe Noteboom’s veteran in March from Miami. lent one-on-one contact. Rams’ defense. Ramsey’s relationship with the season-ending knee injury. PAGE 28 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Thursday, October 17, 2019 NHL NHL scoreboard

Eastern Conference Predators 5, Golden Knights 2 Atlantic Division Nashville 1 3 1—5 GP W L OT Pts GF GA Vegas 2 0 0—2 Buffalo 6 5 0 1 11 25 13 First Period—1, Nashville, Turris 2 Boston 6 5 1 0 10 16 10 (Ellis, Grimaldi), 2:14. 2, Vegas, Stone Toronto 7 4 2 1 9 28 24 5 (Stastny, Glass), 9:55 (pp). 3, Vegas, Tampa Bay 6 3 2 1 7 23 18 R.Smith 5 (Karlsson, Marchessault), Detroit 6 3 3 0 6 17 21 17:23. Florida 6 2 2 2 6 19 24 Montreal 6 2 2 2 6 22 24 Second Period—4, Nashville, Sissons Ottawa 5 1 4 0 2 12 19 2 (Bonino), 0:44. 5, Nashville, Jarnkrok 1 Metropolitan Division (Josi, Arvidsson), 5:08. 6, Nashville, Fors- Carolina 7 6 1 0 12 26 16 berg 5, 6:52. Pittsburgh 6 4 2 0 8 25 16 Third Period—7, Nashville, Bonino 2 Washington 7 3 2 2 8 22 23 (Ellis, Turris), 4:00 (pp). N.Y. Islanders 6 3 3 0 6 15 17 Shots on Goal—Nashville 10-12-17—39. Philadelphia 4 2 1 1 5 11 9 Vegas 18-9-8—35. N.Y. Rangers 3 2 1 0 4 11 9 Power-play opportunities—Nashville Columbus 5 2 3 0 4 11 18 1 of 5; Vegas 1 of 4. New Jersey 6 0 4 2 2 13 29 Goalies—Nashville, Rinne 4-0-0 (35 shots-33 saves). Vegas, Fleury 4-2-0 (39- Western Conference 34). A—18,188 (17,367). T—2:31. Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Colorado 5 5 0 0 10 22 12 Canucks 5, Red Wings 1 Nashville 6 4 2 0 8 28 23 Detroit 1 0 0—1 St. Louis 6 3 1 2 8 19 20 Winnipeg 8 4 4 0 8 26 30 Vancouver 1 3 1—5 Chicago 4 1 2 1 3 12 13 First Period—1, Detroit, Larkin 2 (Ber- Dallas 7 1 5 1 3 13 23 tuzzi, Mantha), 0:30. 2, Vancouver, Stech- Minnesota 6 1 5 0 2 14 25 er 1 (Virtanen, Sutter), 17:58. Pacific Division Second Period—3, Vancouver, Edler 3 Edmonton 6 5 1 0 10 23 16 (Boeser, Pettersson), 1:13 (pp). 4, Van- Anaheim 6 4 2 0 8 13 10 couver, Pettersson 2 (Boeser, Myers), Vegas 7 4 3 0 8 26 19 3:48. 5, Vancouver, Miller 2 (Boeser, Calgary 7 3 3 1 7 18 21 Edler), 12:45 (pp). PAUL CHIASSON, THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP Vancouver 5 3 2 0 6 18 11 Third Period—6, Vancouver, Miller 3 Arizona 5 2 2 1 5 11 9 (Edler, Pettersson), 13:23 (pp). Tampa Bay Lightning goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy makes a save as Montreal Canadiens’ Brendan Los Angeles 6 2 4 0 4 20 28 Shots on Goal—Detroit 8-9-10—27. San Jose 6 2 4 0 4 13 22 Vancouver 14-10-8—32. Gallagher looks for a rebound during the Lightning’s 3-1 win Tuesday in Montreal. Note: Two points for a win, one point Power-play opportunities—Detroit 0 for overtime loss. Top three teams in of 3; Vancouver 3 of 5. each division and two wild cards per Detroit, Bernier 2-1-0 (32 conference advance to playoffs. Goalies— Monday’s games shots-27 saves). Vancouver, Demko 1-0-0 Roundup N.Y. Islanders 3, St. Louis 2, OT (27-26). Boston 4, Anaheim 2 A—18,183 (18,910). T—2:22. Minnesota 2, Ottawa 0 Florida 6, New Jersey 4 Coyotes 4, Jets 2 Buffalo 4, Dallas 0 Colorado 6, Washington 3 Arizona 1 3 0—4 Chicago 3, Edmonton 1 Winnipeg 1 0 1—2 Tuesday’s games First Period—1, Winnipeg, Scheifele 4 Tampa Bay 3, Montreal 1 (Laine, Morrissey), 7:35 (pp). 2, Arizona, Vasilevskiy’s 33 stops lift Toronto 4, Minnesota 2 Garland 3 (Schmaltz, Ekman-Larsson), Arizona 4, Winnipeg 2 19:52. Calgary 3, Philadelphia 1 Second Period—3, Arizona, Dvorak 1 Vancouver 5, Detroit 1 (Ekman-Larsson, Kessel), 5:11 (pp). 4, Nashville 5, Vegas 2 Arizona, Schmaltz 3 (Soderberg, Oes- Carolina 2, Los Angeles 0 terle), 7:21 (pp). 5, Arizona, Dvorak 2 Wednesday’s games Dallas at Columbus (Schmaltz), 17:47. Colorado at Pittsburgh Third Period—6, Winnipeg, Connor 3 Toronto at Washington (Scheifele, Morrissey), 4:58 (pp). Lightning past Canadiens Shots on Goal—Arizona 13-15-7—35. Philadelphia at Edmonton Buffalo at Anaheim Winnipeg 10-14-16—40. Carolina at San Jose Power-play opportunities—Arizona 2 Associated Press record for assists in a period of a to remain unbeaten as Nashville Thursday’s games of 2; Winnipeg 2 of 6. regular-season game set by Rick won at Las Vegas. Tampa Bay at Boston Goalies—Arizona, Kuemper 2-2-0 (40 MONTREAL — Andrei Vasi- Minnesota at Montreal shots-38 saves). Winnipeg, Hellebuyck Vaive on March 12, 1984. Rinne is 4-0-0 this season and N.Y. Rangers at New Jersey 3-2-0 (35-31). levskiy made 33 saves to help the Luke Kunin and Gerald May- has been splendid in the net, sti- Vancouver at St. Louis A—14,764 (15,321). T—2:24. Tampa Bay Lightning beat the N.Y. Islanders at Winnipeg hew scored for the Wild. Devan fling one of the NHL’s most po- Detroit at Calgary Maple Leafs 4, Wild 2 Montreal Canadiens 3-1 on Tues- Dubnyk stopped 30 shots for tent offenses. Nashville at Arizona day night in the fifth game of a Ottawa at Vegas Minnesota 1 0 1—2 Minnesota . Kyle Turris, Colton Sissons, Buffalo at Los Angeles Toronto 0 4 0—4 six-game road trip. Friday’s games First Period—1, Minnesota, Kunin 2 Coyotes 4, Jets 2: Christian Calle Jarnkrok, Filip Forsberg Dallas at Pittsburgh Braydon Coburn, Steven Stam- Dvorak scored a pair of goals and and Nick Bonino scored for the N.Y. Rangers at Washington (Suter, Spurgeon), 5:30. kos and Tyler Johnson scored for Colorado at Florida Second Period—2, Toronto, Tavares 2 Arizona won at Winnipeg. Predators, who had nine players Columbus at Chicago (Rielly, Ceci), 1:58. 3, Toronto, Marner 3 the Lightning (3-2-1), who were The Coyotes had lost 10 straight get points in the win. Seventeen Detroit at Edmonton (Rielly, Johnsson), 7:17 (pp). 4, Toronto, coming off a 4-2 loss to the Ot- Carolina at Anaheim Johnsson 2 (Rielly, Marner), 8:29 (pp). games in Winnipeg, since the Jets of Nashville’s 20 skaters to appear 5, Toronto, Matthews 7 (Rielly, Marner), tawa Senators. Nikita Kucherov franchise moved from Atlanta in in a game registered a point. Calendar 13:05. added two assists. Third Period—6, Minnesota, Mayhew 1 2011. Canucks 5, Red Wings 1: J.T. Oct. 26 — Tim Hortons NHL Heritage (Donato, Greenway), 18:58. The 25-year-old Vasilevskiy Nick Schmaltz had a goal and Miller had a pair of goals and Classic, Calgary vs. Winnipeg, Regina, Shots on Goal—Minnesota 8-10-11— improved to 8-1-2 in his career Saskatchewan. 29. Toronto 9-19-6—34. two assists for Arizona and Conor Elias Pettersson and Alex Edler Nov. 18 — Hockey Hall of Fame induc- Power-play opportunities—Minnesota against Montreal. Garland also scored. Oliver each had a goal and a two assists tion ceremony, Toronto. 0 of 3; Toronto 2 of 3. “He made some great saves,” Jan. 1, 2020 — Winter Classic, Dallas Goalies—Minnesota, Dubnyk 0-5-0 (34 Ekman-Larsson finished with two as host Vancouver used a potent vs. Nashville at Cotton Bowl, Dallas. shots-30 saves). Toronto, Andersen 4-2-0 said defenceman Victor Hedman Jan. 26 — All-Star Game, St. Louis. (29-27). assists. Darcy Kuemper made 38 power play to beat Detroit. April 4 — Regular season ends. of the 25-year-old Vasilevskiy. saves for the Coyotes. Troy Stecher also had a goal A—19,149 (18,819). T—2:26. “His reaction time, he’s so quick Mark Scheifele had a goal and and Brock Boeser finished with Tuesday Hurricanes 2, Kings 0 in the net. Vasi is the best goalie an assist and extended his point three assists for the Canucks. Lightning 3, Canadiens 1 Carolina 0 1 1—2 in the world and he proved that streak to five games with his The Red Wings’ lone goal came Tampa Bay 1 2 0—3 Los Angeles 0 0 0—0 again today.” team-leading fourth goal of the from Dylan Larkin. Jonathan Montreal 1 0 0—1 Second Period—1, Carolina, Necas 2 Jeff Petry scored the lone goal First Period—1, Montreal, Petry 2 (Haula, Dzingel), 4:16. season for Winnipeg. Bernier stopped 27 of 32 shots for (Domi), 15:46 (pp). 2, Tampa Bay, Coburn Third Period—2, Carolina, Teravainen for the Canadiens (2-2-2) while Flames 3, Flyers 1: Michael Detroit. 1 (Kucherov, Stamkos), 19:53. 3, 19:53 (sh). Carey Price stopped 19 of 22 Second Period—3, Tampa Bay, Stam- Shots on Goal—Carolina 9-9-5—23. Los Frolik scored in his 800th NHL Thatcher Demko had 26 saves kos 4 (Hedman, Kucherov), 1:04 (pp). 4, Angeles 17-3-11—31. shots in defeat. Tampa Bay, Johnson 2 (Gourde, Palat), Power-play opportunities—Carolina 0 game and host Calgary beat and picked up his first win of 2:01. Montreal came into the match- Philadelphia. the season in his first start for Shots on Goal—Tampa Bay 7-9-6—22. of 4; Los Angeles 0 of 5. up with the league’s fourth-best Montreal 9-11-14—34. Goalies—Carolina, Mrazek 4-0-0 (31 Frolik scored the 154th goal of Vancouver. Power-play opportunities—Tampa shots-31 saves). Los Angeles, Campbell offense, scoring four goals per his 13-season career, fifth as a The Canucks have won three Bay 1 of 1; Montreal 1 of 5. 2-1-0 (22-21). game, but could only get one past Goalies—Tampa Bay, Vasilevskiy 3-1-0 A—14,219 (18,230). T—2:31. member of the Flames. games in a row, matching last (34 shots-33 saves). Montreal, Price 2-2-1 Vasilevskiy. Andrew Mangiapane also year’s best win streak. (22-19). Scoring Leaders A—20,406 (21,288). T—2:29. Maple Leafs 4, Wild 2: Mitch scored, and Elias Lindholm Hurricanes 2, Kings 0: Petr Through Tuesday Marner had a goal and two assists added an empty-net goal for Cal- Mrazek made 31 saves in his 19th GP G A PTS Flames 3, Flyers 1 Mark Scheifele, WPG 8 4 8 12 and host Toronto overcame a slow gary, which snapped a two-game career shutout, and Carolina ex- Philadelphia 0 0 1—1 Leon Draisaitl, EDM 6 4 8 12 start and beat Minnesota. losing skid. tended its torrid start to the sea- Calgary 1 1 1—3 Connor McDavid, EDM 6 4 8 12 Andreas Johnsson had a goal First Period—1, Calgary, Frolik 1, 1:35. Patrik Laine, WPG 8 3 9 12 David Rittich made 21 saves son with a win at Los Angeles. Second Period—2, Calgary, Mangiapa- John Carlson, WAS 7 2 9 11 and an assist, and Auston Mat- and improved to 3-2 on the Martin Necas scored in the ne 1 (Giordano, Ryan), 14:15. David Pastrnak, BOS 6 6 4 10 Third Period—3, Philadelphia, Nis- thews and John Tavares also season. second period and Sebastian Aho Mark Stone, VEG 7 5 5 10 kanen 1 (Konecny, Couturier), 4:58. 4, Sidney Crosby, PIT 6 3 7 10 scored for the Maple Leafs. Defenseman Matt Niskanen tipped in an empty-net goal as the Calgary, Lindholm 4, 19:49. Shots on Goal—Philadelphia 10-6-6— Anthony Mantha, DET 6 6 3 9 Frederik Andersen made 27 scored for the Flyers. Brian El- Canes rebounded from their first 22. Calgary 13-13-12—38. Brad Marchand, BOS 6 4 5 9 saves. liott made 35 saves in his first defeat and extended the best start Power-play opportunities—Philadel- Mikko Rantanen, COL 5 4 5 9 phia 0 of 4; Calgary 0 of 2. Mitchell Marner, TOR 7 3 6 9 Toronto defenseman Morgan start of the season. to a season in franchise history, Goalies—Philadelphia, Elliott 0-1-0 (37 Jack Eichel, BUF 6 3 6 9 shots-35 saves). Calgary, Rittich 3-2-1 Matt Duchene, NSH 6 2 7 9 Rielly added four assists in the Predators 5, Golden Knights improving to 6-1-0 in the opener (22-21). Morgan Rielly, TOR 7 0 9 9 second period, tying a franchise 2: Pekka Rinne made 33 saves of a four-game road trip. A—17,771 (19,289). T—2:32. 14 tied with 8 pts. Thursday, October 17, 2019 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 29 COLLEGE FOOTBALL/SOCCER/MLB Gamecocks hosting Gators By the numbers Maddon looking for another upset 2013 BY PETE IACOBELLI returns Associated Press The last time South Carolina beat two COLUMBIA, S.C. — While South Carolina players have en- Top 10 opponents, joyed their big win over Georgia when it defeated as Angels last week, the Gamecocks under- No. 5 Missouri and stand they need to build on suc- No. 6 Clemson. cess instead of reveling in it. “You go to sleep, you wake up and you realize you’ve got another manager game to play,” said Javon Kinlaw, who was named Southeastern 2017 BY GREG BEACHAM Conference defensive lineman Associated Press of the week for his performance The last time the against the then third-ranked Bulldogs. Gamecocks had three ANAHEIM, Calif. — Joe Mad- South Carolina (3-3, 2-2 South- consecutive wins, when don is back under the halo. eastern Conference) walked off they beat Arkansas, Maddon agreed to become the the field with the signature win of Tennessee and Vanderbilt. Los Angeles Angels’ manager on coach Will Muschamp’s four sea- Wednesday, reuniting the World sons in Columbia, a 20-17, double Series-winning former manager JOSHUA JONES, ATHENS (GA.) BANNER-HERALD/AP overtime victory last Saturday. SOURCE: Associated Press of the Chicago Cubs with the or- The Gamecocks look to bring that South Carolina offensive lineman Jaylen Nichols, left, celebrates ganization where he spent the same level of play against No. 9 with a South Carolina flag after defeating then-No. 3 Georgia last played well the past two games. first three decades of his baseball Florida (6-1, 3-1) on Saturday. Saturday. The Gamecocks play host to No. 9 Florida on Saturday. Muschamp has decided to play Muschamp wasn’t shy this off- career. more of a four-three alignment season, calling the Gamecocks “We are thrilled that Joe is ebrated and cheered by friends, with the plan to start against the instead of using a nickel scheme the deepest and most talented family and fans. Gators, who lead the SEC with 26 with five defensive backs. coming back home and bringing group he’s had since taking over “Everybody’s happy now,” line- sacks and 12 interceptions. That’s meant more playing time an exciting brand of baseball to as coach after the 2015 season. backer Ernest Jones said with a “I think he’ll be fine for Satur- for linebacker Sharrod Greene, our fans,” general manager Billy But the team stumbled out of the wide smile. day,” Muschamp said. “He wore a Eppler said. “Every stop he has gates at 1-3 and carried a six-game and he’s responded with 10 tack- The Gamecocks vow they’ve put brace, but he’ll be fine.” les in the Gamecocks’ past two made throughout his managerial losing streak against Power Five the celebrations behind them and Muschamp said his players wins. Having Greene on the field career, he has built a culture that opponents into late September. are now fully locked in on Florida. have responded the way he hoped Things took a positive turn has allowed South Carolina to is focused on winning while also The last time they beat two top-10 at practices this week following play faster, Muschamp said. with a 24-7 win over Kentucky opponents was in 2013 — against the Georgia win. allowing his players to thrive. We Along with Kinlaw’s confer- on Sept. 28, then went to another No. 5 Missouri and No. 6 Clem- He told his players Tuesday believe Joe will be a great asset ence award, safety Israel Muku- level with the victory at Georgia son — the last of Steve Spurrier’s morning that in life, “you gener- for our club and look forward to — where the Gamecocks had not amu was named defensive player three straight 11-2 teams. South ally get what you deserve.” him leading the team to another won since 2011. Carolina is also looking for three The Gamecocks worked and of the week for his three intercep- World Series championship.” The victory was confirmation, consecutive SEC wins for the first prepared the right way to have a tions (one returned for a touch- center Donnell Stanley said, that time since 2017 and only the sec- chance to take down the Bulldogs, down) off Georgia quarterback The Angels will formally intro- the team is heading in the right ond time in Muschamp’s tenure. Muschamp said. They’ll need a Jake Fromm. duce the 65-year-old Maddon at a direction. Freshman quarterback Ryan similar work ethic if they want Jones said it’s been a blast the news conference next week, but “We see what we can do when Hilinski was on the sidelines icing the chance to upset Florida. last few days with the excitement he already knows his way around we do all the right things, the his left knee and cheering on his “We’re going to pour our guts over the Georgia win, but that’s Angel Stadium. in the books and it’s time to look small things,” he said. “Like we teammates after a hard hit late in into Florida,” the coach said. Maddon signed with the Angels didn’t do early on in the season.” the third quarter that certainly “Hopefully, we’ll create the op- ahead. as an undrafted catcher in 1975, The past couple of days have looked serious. But Muschamp portunity to have the right to win “We’re over that now,” he said. been a dizzying and distracting said Hilinski had a knee sprain and on game day.” “We’ve got more of the season and he spent the next 31 years time for players, who’ve been cel- has moved around well at practice South Carolina’s defense has left.” working at almost every level of the organization as a player, coach and manager. He served as a big league assistant coach under five managers, and he had two stints Canada beats U.S. for first time in 34 years as the Angels’ interim manager. He was the Angels’ bench BY IAN HARRISON Canada,” Berhalter said. “Give coach during their champion- Associated Press them credit, but having said that, ship season in 2002. He left to the minimum we expect is to manage Tampa Bay in 2006 for TORONTO — The U.S. keeps match that. We need to compete coming up with underwhelming on every single play in games like nine mostly successful seasons, performances in its first year that, and that’s important. I don’t followed by a move to Chicago to under Gregg Berhalter, whose think it was lack of effort, I don’t make history. tenure as American coach is think it was purposeful, but I Maddon left the Cubs by mu- starting to draw criticism. wasn’t happy with the desire that Canada beat the United States tual consent last month after they we displayed. for the first time in 34 years, missed the playoffs for the first The U.S. already had lost to getting second-half goals from time in his five-year tenure. In Mexico in the CONCACAF Gold Alphonso Davies and Lucas Ca- 2016, he led Chicago to its first vallini in a 2-0 victory on Tuesday Cup final in July, the first com- petitive tournament after Berhal- World Series title in 108 years. night in the CONCACAF Nations Maddon replaces Brad Aus- League. ter was hired last December . mus, who was fired after one A little over two years after the Canada went ahead in the 63rd Americans failed to qualify for minute after Scott Arfield dispos- season when the Angels finished the 2018 World Cup by losing at sessed Michael Bradley on the 72-90, their worst record since Trinidad and Tobago, they saw edge of the center circle. After 1999. Ausmus was abruptly dis- their 17-match unbeaten streak several passes, U.S. captain Tim missed shortly after Maddon against their northern neighbor Ream made a poor clearance. The became available, and most ob- ball was played back toward the come to an end. They had not servers assumed Angels owner even allowed a goal to the Cana- American goal, and Arfield’s low COLE BURSTON, THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP Arte Moreno had his eye on a re- dians in four previous matches cross went across the goalmouth. dating to 2007. Davies got behind DeAndre Yed- Canada players celebrate their 2-0 victory over the United States union with Maddon, who was the “The first thing that stands lin and Aaron Long, redirecting in a CONCACAF Nations League soccer match Tuesday night in Angels’ bench coach when More- out to me is desire, the desire of the ball in. Toronto. no bought the club in 2003. PAGE 30 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Thursday, October 17, 2019 MLB PLAYOFFS Scoreboard

Playoffs Tuesday x-if necessary Astros 4, Yankees 1 WILD CARD Washington 4, Milwaukee 3 Houston New York Tampa Bay 5, Oakland 1 ab r h bi ab r h bi DIVISION SERIES Springr cf-rf 4 0 0 0 LeMhieu 1b 5 0 2 0 (Best-of-five) Altuve 2b 5 2 2 1 Judge rf 4 0 1 0 American League Brantley lf 4 1 2 0 Gardner lf 4 0 0 0 Houston 3, Tampa Bay 2 Mrsnck pr-cf 0 0 0 0 Encrncn dh 4 0 1 0 Houston 6, Tampa Bay 2 Bregman 3b 2 0 0 0 Torres 2b 2 1 1 1 Houston 3, Tampa Bay 1 Gurriel 1b 4 0 1 1 Grgorius ss 4 0 0 0 Tampa Bay 10, Houston 3 Alvarez dh 3 0 0 0 Sanchez c 4 0 0 0 Tampa Bay 4, Houston 1 Correa ss 4 0 0 0 Urshela 3b 3 0 0 0 Houston 6, Tampa Bay 1 Reddick rf-lf 4 1 1 1 Hicks cf 2 0 0 0 N.Y. Yankees 3, Minnesota 0 Maldonado c 4 0 1 0 N.Y. Yankees 10, Minnesota 4 Totals 34 4 7 3 Totals 32 1 5 1 N.Y. Yankees 8, Minnesota 2 Houston 110 000 200—4 N.Y. Yankees 5, Minnesota 1 New York 000 000 010—1 E—Severino (1). LOB—Houston 10, New National League York 9. 2B—Maldonado (1), Encarnacion Washington 3, L.A. Dodgers 2 (3). HR—Altuve (4), Reddick (1), Torres L.A. Dodgers 6, Washington 0 (3). SB—Altuve (1). SF—Gurriel (1). Washington 4, L.A. Dodgers 2 L.A. Dodgers 10, Washington 4 IP H R ER BB SO Washington 6, L.A. Dodgers 1 Houston Washington 7, L.A. Dodgers 3, 10 innings Cole W,3-0 7 4 0 0 5 7 St. Louis 3, Atlanta 2 Smith B 1 1 1 0 0 St. Louis 7, Atlanta 6 Harris H,2 C 0 0 0 0 0 Atlanta 3, St. Louis 0 Osuna S,1-1 1 0 0 0 0 0 Atlanta 3, St. Louis 1 New York St. Louis 5, Atlanta 4, 10 innings Severino L,0-1 4B 5 2 2 3 6 St. Louis 13, Atlanta 1 Green C 0 0 0 0 1 LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES Kahnle 1 0 0 0 0 0 (Best-of-seven) Ottavino 0 1 2 2 1 0 American League Britton 1 0 0 0 1 0 Houston 2, N.Y. Yankees 1 Cessa 2 1 0 0 0 3 New York 7, Houston 0 Ottavino pitched to 2 batters in the Houston 3, New York 2, 11 innings 7th. HBP—Cessa (Bregman). WP—Brit- Tuesday: Houston 4, N.Y. Yankees 1 ton. T—3:44. A—48,998 (47,309). Wednesday: at N.Y. Yankees, ppd. PHOTOS BY FRANK FRANKLIN II/AP Thursday: at N.Y. Yankees AFN-Sports, Nationals 7, Cardinals 4 2 a.m. Friday CET, 9 a.m. Friday JKT St. Louis Washington Houston Astros pitcher Gerrit Cole wasn’t dominant, but still threw seven scoreless innings in his team’s Friday: at N.Y. Yankees, AFN-Sports, 1 a.m. Saturday CET, 8 a.m. Saturday JKT ab r h bi ab r h bi 4-1 win Tuesday as the Astros took a 2-1 lead in the American League Championship Series. x-Saturday, Oct. 19: at Houston Edman 3b-cf 4 0 0 1 Turner ss 4 1 2 2 x-Sunday, Oct. 20: at Houston J.Martinez rf 4 0 1 2 Eaton rf 3 1 1 0 National League Gldschmidt 1b 4 0 0 0 Rendon 3b 3 0 1 1 Washington 4, St. Louis 0 Ozuna lf 4 0 1 0 Soto lf 4 1 2 1 Washington 2, St. Louis 0 Molina c 3 1 1 1 Kendrick 2b 3 1 0 0 Washington 3, St. Louis 1 DeJong ss 3 0 0 0 Da.Hudson p 0 0 0 0 Washington 8, St. Louis 1 Bader cf 2 1 0 0 Zimmrmn 1b 4 1 0 0 Tuesday: Washington 7, St. Louis 4 Crpnter ph-3b 1 0 0 0 Robles cf 4 1 1 1 WORLD SERIES Wong 2b 4 1 2 0 Gomes c 4 1 1 2 Cole stymies Yankees (Best-of-seven) Dak.Hudson p 0 0 0 0 Corbin p 1 0 0 0 Washington vs. Houston-N.Y. Yankees Wainwright p 0 0 0 0 Rainey p 0 0 0 0 Arozarena ph 1 0 0 0 Parra ph 1 0 1 0 winner Helsley p 0 0 0 0 Doolittle p 0 0 0 0 Tuesday, Oct. 22: at Houston-N.Y. Yan- Fowler ph 0 1 0 0 Dozier 2b 0 0 0 0 kees winner Gallegos p 0 0 0 0 Wednesday, Oct. 23: at Houston-N.Y. Munoz ph 1 0 0 0 Yankees winner Miller p 0 0 0 0 Friday, Oct. 25: at Washington Wieters ph 1 0 0 0 Astros starter wins 19th straight, puts team up 2-1 Saturday, Oct. 26: at Washington Totals 32 4 5 4 Totals 31 7 9 7 x-Sunday, Oct. 27: at Washington St. Louis 000 130 000—4 x-Tuesday, Oct. 29: at Houston-N.Y. Washington 700 000 00x—7 BY MIKE FITZPATRICK ations. Other times, Cole flashed Yankees winner E—Wong (2). DP—St. Louis 1, Washing- Game 4 rescheduled at Houston-N.Y. Associated Press the filthy breaking balls and 98- x-Wednesday, Oct. 30: ton 0. LOB—St. Louis 6, Washington 4. 2B— Yankees winner J.Martinez (2), Eaton (2), Soto (1). HR— The threat of rain prompted the 100 mph heat that have made him Molina (1). SF—Rendon (3). S—Corbin (1). NEW YORK — Gerrit Cole ALCS game scheduled for Wednes- so unhittable in October — and Calendar IP H R ER BB SO is making his pitch to own this day to be postponed. The Houston November TBA — Deadline for teams St. Louis unbeatable since May. to make qualifying offers to their eligible Dak.Hudson L,0-1 B 5 7 4 1 0 October. Astros and New York Yankees will C His winning streak is the lon- former players who became free agents, Wainwright 1 2 0 0 0 0 A gritty Cole held the New play Game 4 on Thursday night fifth day after World Series. Helsley 2 0 0 0 1 1 gest by a pitcher in one year since November TBA — Deadline for free Gallegos 2 1 0 0 0 3 York Yankees scoreless without instead at Yankee Stadium, with agents to accept qualifying offers, 15th Miller 2 1 0 0 0 3 his sharpest stuff, Jose Altuve Game 5 on Friday at Yankee Sta- Rube Marquard began 19-0 for day after World Series. Washington Nov. 11-14 — General managers’ meet- Corbin W,1-2 5 4 4 4 3 12 sparked Houston at the plate and dium and Game 6 in Houston on the 1912 New York Giants. ings, Scottsdale, Ariz. Rainey H,1 1 0 0 0 0 1 the Astros locked down a 4-1 vic- Saturday, if necessary. “He’s exceptional. And he gets Nov. 11 — Rookies of the Year an- Doolittle H,3 1C 1 0 0 0 1 nounced. Dan.Hudson S,4-4 1B 0 0 0 1 0 tory Tuesday to take a 2-1 lead in better and better and better,” Nov. 12 — Managers of the Year an- HBP—Dan.Hudson (Molina). T—3:02. the AL Championship Series. Hinch said. “Once he found his nounced. A—43,976 (41,313). Altuve and Josh Reddick hom- manager AJ Hinch said. “Gerrit curveball, it was pretty lights out. ered early off Luis Severino, who is locked in. And to see him do it I think he finished his outing as labored into the fifth while keep- on the big stage in a playoff game strong as ever.” ing the Yankees close. But they with the magnitude of this game, After rolling to a 7-0 victory in never broke through against Cole, it was pretty awesome.” the series opener, the Yankees who grinded through seven in- Game 4 in the best-of-seven — the highest-scoring team in the nings to win his 19th straight de- playoff is scheduled for Thursday majors this season — have totaled cision despite walking five batters night after Wednesday’s game for the second time in his career. three runs on two homers in the was canceled because of a rainy last 20 innings. “Just boiled down to making forecast. some good pitches under pres- Gleyber Torres homered in the Let’s get it started sure,” he said. eighth off Houston reliever Joe Cole escaped a bases-loaded Smith, one batter after replay The 5-foot-6 Altuve connected jam in the first and stranded nine umpires reversed a call and ruled on Severino’s third pitch for his runners through five, improving Edwin Encarnacion out at first fourth homer of these playoffs, to 3-0 with a 0.40 ERA in three base. That led to a little trash and extending his postseason hitting playoff outings this year. Poised a ball being thrown onto the field streak to 12 games dating to last to become a prized free agent before public address announcer year. who could command more than Paul Olden reminded fans not to “I think everybody knows I $200 million, he’s putting togeth- toss any objects out of the stands. er a dominant run that’s begin- Roberto Osuna got three quick like swinging the bat,” he said. “I ning to rival some of baseball’s outs in the ninth for a save. don’t like wasting too much time greatest postseason pitching “Two more to go,” Osuna said. on home plate.” performances. “I’m excited.” The 29-year-old right-hander, The bushy-haired Cole grew up Trainer’s room unbeaten in 25 starts since late in California rooting for the Yan- Yankees LF Giancarlo Stanton May, allowed four hits and struck kees and was drafted by them sat out for the second consecutive out seven. That ended a streak of 28th overall in 2008. He didn’t game because of a strained right 11 consecutive games with dou- sign, choosing instead to attend ble-digit strikeouts — the previ- UCLA before the Pittsburgh Pi- quadriceps. He was replaced in ous big league record was eight. rates selected him with the top the lineup by CF Aaron Hicks, Cole led the majors with 326 Ks pick in 2011. who batted ninth in his first start this season. Making his second career start since Aug. 3 . Brett Gardner shift- “I think he’s the best pitcher at Yankee Stadium, he got away ed from center to left. Hicks went Yankees center fielder Brett Gardner can’t make the catch on a ball in baseball right now,” Astros with several pitches in key situ- 0-for-2 with two walks. hit by Martin Maldonado during the Astros’ 4-1 win Tuesday. Thursday, October 17, 2019 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 31 MLB PLAYOFFS From free-fall to Fall Classic Nationals’ once-turbulent season rolls on with NLCS sweep, trip to World Series

BY HOWARD FENDRICH Washington’s other starters in the Associated Press series. Still, he became the first pitcher to strike out 10 batters in WASHINGTON — As the Wash- the first four innings of a playoff ington Nationals moved a party game and earned the win after al- 86 years in the making from their lowing four runs in five innings. ballpark’s infield to a booze-filled Then Martinez turned to his clubhouse, manager Dave Marti- bullpen, such a problem for so nez paused near the dugout and much of this season with an NL- thrust the silver NL Champion- worst 5.66 ERA. ship Series trophy overhead, to After Rainey got three outs, the delight of loud, delirious fans and Doolittle got five, Hudson still in the stands. came in for his fourth save in four Who would have thought this chances this postseason. It wasn’t was possible five months ago, easy: After replacing Doolittle when the team was flailing, trade with two outs in the eighth, Hud- talk was swirling around Wash- son hit his first batter and walked ington and folks figured Marti- his second, bringing pinch-hitter nez’s job was in jeopardy? Matt Carpenter to the plate as From 19-31 during a mediocre the go-ahead run with the bases May to the Fall Classic in an out- loaded. standing October — and the city’s Carpenter, a career .481 batter first World Series appearance with the bases full, grounded out since 1933. to second baseman Brian Dozier, Extending their stunning turn- a defensive replacement who around, the wild-card Nationals briefly lost the ball before gather- got RBIs from middle-of-the- ing it and throwing to first to end order stars Anthony Rendon and the inning. Juan Soto in a seven-run first Hudson finished things with inning Tuesday night, and Pat- a perfect ninth, getting Tommy rick Corbin’s 12-strikeout per- Edman on a fly ball to center field formance plus a trio of relievers to end it, and red fireworks went JEFF ROBERSON/AP helped hold on to beat the St. off around the stadium. Louis Cardinals 7-4 in Game 4 to Washington Nationals manager Dave Martinez kisses the NLCS trophy after his team defeated the St. Corbin got the evening started complete a sweep in the NLCS. Louis Cardinals 7-4 on Tuesday night in Washington. The Nationals, who swept the Cardinals in the with a 1-2-3 top of the first, strik- “Often, bumpy roads lead to NLCS, became the fourth team to reach the World Series after being 12 games under .500. ing out all three Cardinals with a beautiful places,” said Martinez, high, 95 mph fastball, a contrast who underwent a heart proce- to the off-speed stuff Stephen dure in September, “and this is a Strasburg used for his 12 strike- beautiful place.” outs Monday night. Right from the first inning In the bottom half, Washing- Tuesday, most in a sellout crowd ton put up those seven runs, all of 43,976 rose from their seats to charged to rookie Dakota Hudson, applaud or yell or twirl their red who lasted 15 pitches — doing to towels, to chant “Let’s go, Nats!” the Cardinals what they did in the and “M-V-P!” and various players’ previous round, when they scored names, enjoying every moment of 10 to open Game 5 of the NLDS that game-deciding outburst. against Atlanta. And then, a couple of hours All the heartache of playoffs and several innings later, as Tan- past seemed to dissipate during ner Rainey, Sean Doolittle and Daniel Hudson were protecting a an evening that only briefly was shrinking lead, those same spec- tense for the home team and its tators stood and shouted and rev- supporters: In the fifth, a juggled eled some more. Cardinals lineup awoke, scoring “I just kept counting down: three runs — one more than the We’re 12 outs from the World team scored in Games 1-3 com- bined — to get within 7-4. Series. We’re nine outs from the PATRICK SEMANSKY/AP With a man on second and the World Series,” shortstop Trea JEFF ROBERSON/AP Dakota Hudson was charged tying run in the on-deck circle, Turner said. “Six. Three.” Patrick Corbin had a shorter outing than the Nationals’ other starters with all seven Nationals runs in Now the Nationals get plenty Corbin struck out St. Louis’ 3-4 in the series, but he became the first pitcher to strike out 10 in the the first inning. He lasted only hitters, Paul Goldschmidt and of time to rest and set up their first four innings of a playoff game. 15 pitches. so-far terrific rotation before be- Marcell Ozuna, with sliders. After becoming comeback ginning the last series of the sea- reality of it is you have to go out — moved to Washington in 2005. in Game 5 of the NL Division Se- son against the Houston Astros specialists, the Nationals never and play. Once we get out on the The Nationals had never ad- ries after trailing 3-1 heading to trailed against the Cardinals. or New York Yankees in a week. field, anything can happen.” vanced in the postseason since the eighth again. Houston leads the best-of-seven Dating to the final week of the The last time the World Series arriving, going 0-4 in the NLDS Then came this lopsided dis- AL Championship Series 2-1 after regular season, Washington has came to the nation’s capital, more over the past seven years, includ- missal of the NL Central champi- winning Game 3 at New York 4-1 won 16 of its past 18 games. than eight decades ago, the Wash- ing three Game 5 losses at home. on Cardinals, who were outscored on Tuesday. “We proved — and this doesn’t The Nationals became the ington Senators lost to the New First baseman Ryan Zimmer- 20-6 in the series. require advanced sabermetrics,” fourth team to reach the World York Giants in five games. You man, the Nationals’ first draft “Of course, we could’ve played Cardinals manager Mike Shildt Series after being 12 games under have to go even further back, to pick in Washington, was there for better,” said St. Louis first base- said, “you have to get a lead to .500 (2005 Astros, 1973 New York 1924, for the city’s lone baseball all of that heartache. man Paul Goldschmidt, who was win a game.” Mets, 1914 Boston Braves). championship, when the Senators “Sometimes,” he said, “you got 1 for 16 with nine strikeouts in “We think we can compete with defeated the Giants. to wait for good things.” the NLCS, “but we didn’t.” On the back page any team, any time,” said NLCS The Senators eventually left, This month alone, the Nation- Corbin, a left-handed pitcher MVP Howie Kendrick, who went and the town didn’t have a major als beat the Milwaukee Brewers signed with $140 million of the Washington Nationals catcher 5 for 15 (.333) with four doubles league team for more than three in the NL wild-card game after money that became available last Yan Gomes and relief pitcher and four RBIs in the series. “Peo- decades until the Montreal Expos trailing 3-1 heading to the eighth, offseason when Bryce Harper Daniel Hudson celebrate after ple always get caught up in the — who were founded in 1969 and and the Los Angeles Dodgers, left town to join the Philadelphia getting the final out in Game 4. things that are on paper, but the never made it to the World Series who had the league’s best record, Phillies, wasn’t quite the equal of Jeff Roberson/AP S TARS AND STRIPES Thursday, October 17, 2019 F3HIJKLM Hollywood ending Jaguars send disgruntled cornerback Ramsey to Los Angeles » NFL, Page 27

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