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Russian Bounties to Taliban Fighters MILITARY MLB FACES Iran issues arrest Fans can find a view At BET awards, warrant for Trump of games, even if they’re artists protest over Soleimani killing not allowed in stadiums racial inequality Page 6 Page 22 Page 15 Navy kicks off its 2nd Western Pacific dual-carrier exercise in a week » Page 3 stripes.com Volume 79, No. 52 ©SS 2020 TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 2020 50¢/Free to Deployed Areas AFGHANISTAN VIRUS OUTBREAK Tracking cases proves difficult amid new surge BY TAMMY WEBBER, BRADY MCCOMBS AND JOHN MONE Associated Press HOUSTON — Health depart- ments around the U.S. that are using contact tracers to contain coronavirus outbreaks are scram- bling to bolster their ranks amid a surge of cases and resistance to cooperation from those infected or exposed. With too few trained con- tact tracers to handle soaring caseloads, one hard-hit Arizona county is relying on National Guard members to pitch in. In Louisiana, people who have tested positive typically wait more than two days to respond to health offi- cials — giving the disease crucial time to spread. Many tracers are finding it hard to break through suspicion and apathy to convince people that compliance is crucial. Contact tracing — tracking people who test positive and anyone they’ve come in contact with — was challenging even when stay-at-home orders were in place. Tracers say it’s expo- nentially more difficult now that many restaurants, bars and gyms Report: Russian bounties to Taliban are full, and people are gathering with family and friends. “People are probably letting their guard down a little ... they think there is no longer a threat,” fighters resulted in US troop deaths said Grand Traverse County, Mich., Health Officer Wendy Hirschenberger, who was alerted BY ELLEN NAKASHIMA, KAREN DEYOUNG, Afghan security forces are sometimes believed to have been infiltrated by the by health officials in another part MISSY RYAN AND JOHN HUDSON gather at the site of Taliban. of the state that infected tourists The Washington Post a suicide attack near Officials and others with knowledge of the matter had visited vineyards and bars in Bagram Airfield, north who spoke on the condition of anonymity told The As- her area. WASHINGTON — Russian bounties offered to of Kabul, Afghanistan, sociated Press that the intelligence community has Her health department was Taliban-linked militants to kill coalition forces in Af- in April 2019, in been investigating an April 2019 attack on an Ameri- then able to urge local residents ghanistan are believed to have resulted in the deaths of which three American can convoy that killed three U.S. Marines after a car who had visited those businesses several U.S. service members, according to intelligence service members and rigged with explosives detonated near their armored to self-quarantine. gleaned from U.S. military interrogations of captured a U.S. contractor were vehicles as they traveled back to Bagram Airfield, the SEE TRACKING ON PAGE 8 militants in recent months. killed. The Associated largest U.S. military installation in Afghanistan. Several people familiar with the matter said it was un- Press is reporting U.S. Three other U.S. service members were wounded RELATED clear exactly how many Americans or coalition troops intelligence suspects in the attack, along with an Afghan contractor. The from other countries may have been killed or targeted the incident was linked Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack on Twit- under the program. U.S. forces in Afghanistan suffered Gilead’s $2,340 to Russian bounties. ter. The officials the AP spoke to also said they were a total of 10 deaths from hostile gunfire or improvised looking closely at insider attacks — sometimes called bombs in 2018, and 16 in 2019. Two have been killed RAHMAT GUL/AP price for coronavirus “green-on-blue” incidents — from 2019 to determine if this year. In each of those years, several service mem- drug draws criticism bers were also killed by what are known as “green on they are also linked to Russian bounties. blue” hostile incidents by Afghan security forces who SEE BOUNTIES ON PAGE 4 Page 7 PAGE 2 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Tuesday, June 30, 2020 BUSINESS/WEATHER EXCHANGE RATES Fed issues list of companies it will buy bonds from Military rates Switzerland (Franc)............................0.9482 Euro costs (June 30) .............................$1.10 Thailand (Baht) .....................................30.89 Dollar buys (June 30) .......................€0.8639 Turkey (Lira) .........................................6.8549 British pound (June 30) .......................$1.20 Associated Press Pfizer and Marathon Petroleum. ally large companies resumed is- (Military exchange rates are those Japanese yen (June 30) .....................104.00 available to customers at military banking The Fed announced in March it suing large amounts of new bonds. South Korean won (June 30) .........1,169.00 Commercial rates facilities in the country of issuance WASHINGTON — The Federal for Japan, South Korea, Germany, the would purchase corporate bonds Recent economic research found Bahrain (Dinar) ....................................0.3776 Reserve on Sunday released a list Netherlands and the United Kingdom. For British pound .....................................$1.2300 as the intensifying viral outbreak that simply by announcing the nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e., of roughly 750 companies, includ- Canada (Dollar) ...................................1.3693 purchasing British pounds in Germany), caused panicked investors to program, the Fed was able to boost China (Yuan) ........................................ 7.0784 ing Apple, Walmart and Exxon- check with your local military banking Denmark (Krone) ................................6.6204 dump most types of securities in confidence in corporate bonds and facility. Commercial rates are interbank Mobil, whose corporate bonds Egypt (Pound) ....................................16.1846 rates provided for reference when buying it will purchase in the coming a rush to hold cash. That pushed improve the market’s efficiency. Euro ........................................$1.1258/0.8882 up a range of interest rates and At a hearing last week, Sen. Hong Kong (Dollar) .............................7.7505 currency. All figures are foreign currencies months in an effort to keep bor- to one dollar, except for the British pound, made it nearly impossible for Pat Toomey, R-Pa., questioned Hungary (Forint) ................................. 317.06 rowing costs low and smooth the Israel (Shekel) .....................................3.4443 which is represented in dollars-to-pound, flow of credit. companies to borrow more by is- Fed Chair Jerome Powell about Japan (Yen) ........................................... 107.54 and the euro, which is dollars-to-euro.) The central bank also said it suing new bonds. whether the purchases were still Kuwait (Dinar) .....................................0.3078 INTEREST RATES Norway (Krone) ...................................9.6810 has purchased nearly $429 mil- Yet once the Fed said it intend- necessary since the corporate Philippines (Peso).................................49.83 Prime rate ................................................3.25 lion in corporate bonds from 86 ed to purchase up to $750 billion bond market has largely recov- Poland (Zloty) ..........................................3.98 Discount rate ..........................................0.25 Saudi Arabia (Riyal) ...........................3.7513 Federal funds market rate ...................0.08 of those companies, including of corporate debt, investors began ered. Powell said the Fed had to Singapore (Dollar) ..............................1.3938 3-month bill ............................................. 0.14 AT&T, Walgreen’s, Microsoft, buying bonds again and eventu- follow through on its promises. South Korea (Won) ..........................1,201.42 30-year bond ...........................................1.37 WEATHER OUTLOOK TUESDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST TUESDAY IN EUROPE WEDNESDAY IN THE PACIFIC Misawa 67/61 Kabul 80/63 Seoul 73/62 Baghdad 107/78 Kandahar 107/70 Osan Tokyo Mildenhall/ Drawsko 74/63 77/73 Lakenheath Pomorskie Busan 68/54 64/56 75/66 Iwakuni 74/70 Kuwait Bahrain Zagan Sasebo City 94/86 Brussels 70/58 Guam 106/88 63/54 Ramstein 74/70 83/80 Lajes, 65/55 Riyadh Doha Azores Stuttgart Pápa 112/81 110/79 67/64 68/54 78/58 Aviano/ Vicenza 78/67 Naples 84/69 Okinawa Morón 83/80 98/64 Sigonella Rota 94/64 The weather is provided by the Djibouti Souda Bay American Forces Network Weather Center, 106/89 79/68 78/70 2nd Weather Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. T O D A Y IN STRIPES American Roundup ..... 14 Classified .................. 13 Comics ...................... 19 Crossword ................. 19 Faces ........................ 15 Opinion .................16-17 Sports .................. 20-24 Tuesday, June 30, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 3 MILITARY Dual-carrier exercise 2nd in week in Pacific BY CAITLIN DOORNBOS statement Sunday. “The U.S. Navy remains Stars and Stripes mission ready and globally deployed.” Dual-carrier drills are relatively rare. YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan Sunday marked the seventh time such — For the second time in a week, the U.S. operations happened in the Indo-Pacific Navy paired aircraft carrier strike groups since 2001, according to 7th Fleet spokes- for training in the Philippine Sea as global man Lt. Joe Keiley. competitor China prepares for its own car- In that time, no back-to-back dual-car-
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