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Plan to reduce US forces by one-third, could relocate some troops to Poland

BY KAREN DEYOUNG The Washington Post WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has signed off on a plan to permanently withdraw up to one-third of about 34,500 U.S. troops currently based in Germany, bringing the total down to no more than 25,000, according to U.S. officials. Implementation of the plan is being turned over to the De- fense Department, a senior administration official said. Defense officials said they had no immediate comment on the subject, and referred questions to the White House National Security

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US soldiers move off the demolition area at Grafenwoehr Training Area in Germany earlier this year. Under a plan approved by President Donald Trump, the Pentagon must reduce the number of troops based in Germany by one-third.

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Amid mourning, nation’s capital braces for more protests

BY TOM FOREMAN JR., DAVID CRARY Military vehicles and officers in fatigues In Raeford, the small town near Fayette- from beneath the covered entrance. AND JOHN LEICESTER closed off much of downtown Washington to ville where Floyd was born 46 years ago, “It could have been me. It could have Associated Press traffic ahead of the planned march, which two lines of people about 100 deep formed been my brother, my father, any of my was expected to attract up to 200,000 peo- separate lines at the entrance to the church friends who are black,” said a man in the RAEFORD, N.C. — Mourners held a pri- ple outraged by Floyd’s death 12 days ago where the private service took place. A crowd, Erik Carlos of Fayetteville. “It vate memorial service Saturday in George at the hands of police in Minneapolis. public service was scheduled for later in was a heavy hit, especially knowing that Floyd’s North Carolina hometown, and the Large protests also took place across the day. George Floyd was born near my hometown. nation’s capital prepared for what was ex- the U.S. and in major cities overseas, in- When a hearse bearing Floyd’s coffin It made me feel very vulnerable at first.” pected to be the city’s largest demonstra- cluding London, Paris, Berlin and Sydney, arrived, chants of “Black Power,” “George tion against police brutality yet. Australia. Floyd” and “No justice, no peace,” echoed SEE MOURNING ON PAGE 6

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Goodell: NFL wrong to ignore players’ fight for racial justice » Page 23 PAGE 2 •STARS AND STRIPES• Sunday, June 7, 2020 BUSINESS/WEATHER EXCHANGE RATES

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FROM FRONT PAGE Council, which did not respond to queries. The Wall Street Journal, which first reported the move, said the troops would be shifted by September. Moving 9,000 troops, many of them likely with families, within three months would be a major logistical undertaking. U.S. Euro- pean Command declined to com- ment on whether it was drawing up plans to scale down, referring questions to the Pentagon. Reuters News Agency quoted an unidentified administration official as saying some of the 9,500 troops would be sent to Po- land, some to other allied coun- tries, and some would return to the United States. A n A ir Force F-16 squadron and Army support units are among the forces that would be moved out of Germany, The New York Times reported, citing unnamed former defense officials. Trump pledged during his last presidential campaign to end U.S. involvement in what he has called America’s “forever wars,” primarily in the Middle East and Afghanistan. He has /U.S. Army repeatedly threatened to end or MARKUS RAUCHENBERGER reduce the peacetime defensive U.S. Soldiers with Archer Battery, Field Artillery Squadron, 2nd Cavalry Regiment, supported by 12th Combat Aviation Brigade CH-47 deployments of troops in Asia Chinook helicopter crews, conduct M777A2 howitzer air assault training at the 7th Army Training Command’s Grafenwoehr Training Area, and Europe, charging that those Germany, on May 7 . countries were not paying enough for what he has described as U.S. Street Journal, said had been for- cility for American deployments traveling during the pandem- Jeff Rathke, a former career protection. mally signed by Trump national worldwide and the site of massive ic, particularly given the high Foreign Service officer and a Until now, however, he has security adviser Robert O’Brien U.S. military hospital facilities. numbers of U.S. infections and Germany scholar at Johns Hop- made only small reductions — after the president approved it. Germany is the headquarters for deaths. kins University, was critical of along with a number of increas- It was unclear whether mem- U.S. forces throughout Europe, But Merkel’s public refusal the move. “For those who think es — in U.S. forces deployed in bers of Congress had been told and also hosts the U.S. Africa tipped the balance, and Trump this will punish Merkel and Ger- war zones, while threats to scale of the withdrawal. But as word of Command. was forced to postpone the gath- many, they have it wrong,” he back the tens of thousands of U.S. the plan became public, Sen. Jack Factoring in rotations and over- ering of world leaders, at the same said. “It is important to remem- forces in countries such as South Reed, D-R.I., the ranking mem- laps, the number of troops in Ger- time he declared that America Korea, Japan and Germany have ber of the Senate Armed Services many at any given moment can was ready to “reopen” and to re- ber that the U.S. force presence not been acted upon. Committee, called Trump’s order total more than 50,000. It was not capture the economic boom that in Germany is not about defend- The reduction plan, pushed by “petty and preposterous.” clear whether the 25,000 cap was he has hoped would lead to his ing Germany, but about having a U.S. Ambassador to Germany “It’s another favor to [Russian absolute, or would still allow for reelection. platform from which the U.S. can Richard Grenell, has been close- President Vladimir] Putin and such temporary spikes. The fact that Germany was engage and bolster NATO allies, ly held within the White House. another leadership failure by U.S. officials, who spoke on the given no “heads up” that Trump deter Russia, and project power Grenell has also served for the this Administration that further condition of anonymity to discuss had signed off on the withdrawal into the Middle East and North past several months as acting strains relations with our allies,” the still-unannounced plan, said “speaks for itself,” said one se- Africa when necessary.” director of national intelligence, Reed said in a statement issued that it had been under consider- nior European official, and is “Until we know more about the following Trump’s firing of his by his office on Friday. ation for several months. But con- unlikely to improve the generally types of forces that will be with- predecessor, acting director Jo- U.S. troops in Germany, num- firmation that Trump has signed low state of “the trans-Atlantic drawn, and how the U.S. plans to seph Maguire, over concerns bering 235,000 during the Cold off on it came as he has been in- environment.” compensate for a smaller plat- about Maguire’s staff’s loyalty. War with the Soviet Union, have creasingly at odds with German Trump has frequently criti- form,” Rathke said, “it is hard to Rep. John Ratcliffe, R-Texas, was been gradually reduced over the Chancellor Angela Merkel. cized Germany’s foot-dragging tell what the strategic intent might confirmed for the post last month. years. German officials have ar- Merkel declined to attend the in reaching the 2% NATO target Attempts to contact Grenell were gued that their primary function Group of Seven summit that for member defense spending. He be behind this, and how it leads to not successful. was not to defend that country Trump had announced for later has also pledged to deploy more greater security for the U.S. and As of late Friday, Germany had but to defend U.S. interests by this month in Washington, citing troops to Poland, whose right- NATO, rather than less.” not been officially informed of the being close to Russia, serving as health concerns. Other leaders wing populist government he has Stars and Stripes reporter John withdrawal order, which the Wall a transfer station and training fa- had also expressed worries about praised. Vandiver contributed to this report. Separate attacks kill 14 Afghan forces in Kabul, northeast

Associated Press four militants were killed in the fighting. after setting off a roadside bomb. on a new round of diplomatic trips to Qatar, An hour-long gunbattle also erupted in U.S. forces had carried out two sets of Pakistan and Afghanistan, according to a KABUL, Afghanistan — Two separate Kabul’s Gul Dara district when insurgents airstrikes Friday against the Taliban in U.S. State Department statement Friday. militant attacks killed 14 Afghan security attacked a police checkpoint, killing three western and southern Afghanistan. These The U.S.-Taliban agreement was signed personnel on Saturday in the northeastern police officers, said Interior Ministry were the first U.S. strikes following a brief to allow American soldiers to return Badakhshan province and the capital of spokesman Tariq Arian. cease-fire declared by the insurgents for a home, ending America’s longest military Kabul, officials said. Both Afghan officials said the Taliban major Muslim holiday last month. engagement. A roadside bomb killed 11 security force had carried out the attacks, although no Since the signing of a U.S.-Taliban peace The deal also calls for Afghans in Kabul members in Badakhshan when it tore one immediately claimed responsibility. agreement at the end of February, U.S. and the Taliban to start negotiations to de- through a security vehicle responding to The Taliban on Saturday claimed an at- forces have only once before announced cide the country’s future. Those negotia- attacks on checkpoints in Khash district. tack a day earlier that killed 10 policemen a strike against the Taliban, in defense of tions have been delayed because of political Sanaullah Rohani, spokesman for Badakh- in the southern Zabul province. Afghan Afghan forces. feuding between Afghanistan’s President shan’s provincial police chief, said a local government officials said the Taliban am- The uptick in fighting comes as U.S. Ashraf Ghani and his rival in last year’s commander was among the dead, and that bushed an Afghan police convoy on Friday peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad embarked presidential polls, Abdullah Abdullah. PAGE 4 •STARS AND STRIPES• Sunday, June 7, 2020 NATION Top black general addresses racial unrest

BY WYATT OLSON mentary school, where they tried Brown said. “I can’t fix centuries Stars and Stripes ‘ their best to fit in, Brown said. of racism in our country, nor can I I just want to have the Roughly half the students in his fix decades of discrimination that FORT SHAFTER, Hawaii wisdom and knowledge to high school were African Ameri- may have impacted members — The general nominated to be- can, but the sense of trying to fit of our Air Force,” he said. “I’m come the Air Force’s first African lead during difficult times in remained. thinking about how I can make American chief of staff weighed like these. In the Air Force, he was often improvements — personally, pro- in on the racial unrest roiling the ’ the only African American in his fessionally and institutionally — country in a poignant video de- Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. squadron and, as a senior officer, so that all airmen, both today and scribing his personal and profes- commander of Pacific Air Forces “the only African American in tomorrow, appreciate the value of sional experiences navigating the the room,” he said. diversity and can serve in an en- “two worlds” of black and white “I’m thinking about wearing vironment where they can reach lives. the same flight suit with the same their full potential.” “As the commander of Pacific of white America. fein, the sitting chief of staff, held Brown said he does not have Air Forces, a senior leader in our Other high-ranking U.S. mili- a virtual town hall on Wednesday wings on my chest as my peers, “clear-cut answers” for creating Air Force and an African Ameri- tary officials issued statements discussing the matter. and then being questioned by an- can, many of you may be won- and videos earlier this week on Brown — in a speech that at other military member, ‘Are you such an environment across the dering what I’m thinking about protests and riots sparked by times seemed to barely contain a pilot?’ ” he said. Air Force. current events surrounding the Floyd’s death on May 25. The 46- his rage — said he was filled “I’m thinking about some of “I just want to have the wisdom tragic death of George Floyd,” year-old African American died with emotion “not just for George the incidents and comments and knowledge to lead during dif- Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. said as a Minneapolis police officer Floyd, but for the many African made without awareness by oth- ficult times like these,” he said. “I in the opening moments of the 5- pressed his knee into his neck Americans who have suffered the ers,” he said. “I’m thinking about want the wisdom and knowledge minute video posted to Facebook for nearly 9 minutes while he same fate as George Floyd.” being a captain at the [officers] to lead, participate in and listen on Friday. was handcuffed and lying on the He noted that the ideals of the club with my squadron and being to necessary conversations on “I’m thinking about living in pavement. Declaration of Independence and told by other African Americans racism, diversity and inclusion. I two worlds, each with their own Chief Master Sgt. of the Air the Constitution “that I’ve sworn that I wasn’t black enough since I want the wisdom and knowledge perspective and views,” he said of Force Kaleth O. Wright, who my adult life to support and de- was spending more time with my to lead those willing to take com- the divide many African Ameri- is also African American, ex- fend” have not always delivered squadron than with them.” mitted and sustained action make cans feel during lives and careers pressed solidarity with protesters “liberty and equality” to all. His nomination to the Joint our Air Force better.” spent encountering — and often Monday by saying, “I am George He and his sister were the only Chiefs of Staff has brought to him [email protected] accommodating — the worldview Floyd.” He and Gen. David Gold- African Americans in their ele- both a feeling of hope and burden, Twitter: @WyattWOlson Top US military officer reaches out to Capitol Hill leaders

Associated Press Milley and Esper, in a speech on the Senate floor, not to allow the WASHINGTON — The nation’s U.S. military to engage in “ugly top military officer, Gen. Mark Milley, spoke privately with con- stunts” like the event the night gressional leaders and many before outside the White House. other lawmakers as Pentagon Esper told reporters Wednes- officials came under fire for the day he was not aware of the op- military’s role in containing pro- eration to clear the park and did tests following the police killing not know he was heading into a of George Floyd. photo op. He also distanced him- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, self from Trump’s threat to step D-Calif., called Milley, chair- up the military’s role in quelling man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, protests, arguing against invok- to express her concerns on Tues- ing the Insurrection Act. day, according to two people who Milley released a message this were not authorized to publicly week to military leaders stating discuss the private conversations that the Constitution “is founded and were granted anonymity. on the essential principle that all That was the day after authori- men and women are born free ties cleared protesters near the and equal and should be treated White House so President Donald with respect and dignity” and Trump could hold a photo oppor- that it “also gives Americans the tunity at a nearby church. Mil- right to freedom of speech and ley and Defense Secretary Mark peaceful assembly.” Esper were sharply criticized The chairman of the Senate for accompanying Trump and Armed Services Committee, thereby giving the impression of James Inhofe, R-Okla., defended endorsing a politicization of the Milley’s handling of the protest. military. In his own Senate speech Tues- Milley also reached out Tues- ALEX BRANDON/AP day morning, Inhofe said he want- day to Senate Democratic leader ed to “set the record straight” Chuck Schumer of New York, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley speaks during the presentation of the Space Force Flag in the after conferring with Milley be- said another person granted ano- Oval Office of the White House with President Donald Trump on May 15 in Washington. fore and after Monday’s events. nymity to discuss the situation. Inhofe said Milley “told me that A third official said Milley had ful protesters from a park so the of this country, and Congress is House unless they have cleared spoken with perhaps 20 or more president and his entourage could constitutionally responsible for any appearances with the White he intends to honor his oath and members of Congress in the days walk to the church and Trump oversight,” the Democrats wrote. House chief of staff. uphold the delicate balance be- following Monday’s photo op and could pose with a Bible. “They must appear and testify on The protests in Washington tween civilians and the military, Trump’s implicit threat to invoke Late Friday, Esper and Milley these crucial matters in order to were among those nationwide fol- and I fully believe him.” the Insurrection Act to permit declined a request from Demo- meet that responsibility.” lowing the death of Floyd, a black In her letter to Trump on Thurs- him to use federal troops in a law crats to appear before the House An informal briefing Friday man who died when a white po- day, Pelosi asked the president enforcement role in the nation’s Armed Services Committee next with the secretary of the Army lice officer pressed his knee into under what authority and chain of capital and in other cities. week. was also canceled, according to a his neck for several minutes. command the troops were operat- The outreach comes as Mil- “This is unacceptable,” Rep. congressional aide who spoke on In the call with Milley, Pelosi ing in the nation’s capital, warn- ley and Defense Secretary Mark Adam Smith, D-Wash., the com- condition of anonymity to discuss raised a number of issues that ing the approach “may increase Esper have tried to contain dam- mittee chairman, said in a state- a matter that had not been pub- were spelled out in a subsequent chaos.” age in the aftermath of Monday’s ment Friday, joined by the panel’s licly disclosed. letter to Trump seeking an ac- The House Armed Services walk with Trump. Federal au- 30 Democrats. The White House has prohib- counting of “increased militariza- Committee members said they thorities used smoke canisters “Our military leaders are sworn ited officials from the adminis- tion” in response to the protests. expect a briefing from the De- and pepper balls to clear peace- to be accountable to the people tration from testifying before the Schumer on Tuesday warned fense Department by Monday. Sunday, June 7, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 5 NATION Mattis’ decision to speak out based on ‘Nonpartisan issue’ his belief that DOD should be apolitical

CAROL D. LEONNIG AND DAN LAMOTHE The Washington Post WASHINGTON — For former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, it was the last straw: the sight of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, walking the streets of downtown Washington in battle- ready camouflage amid a show of brute federal force. Smoke was still rising from Lafayette Square, where authori- ties had just used pepper spray and smoke canisters to disperse a group of largely peaceful pro- testers, when Gen. Mark Milley, along with Defense Secretary Mark Esper, joined President Donald Trump Monday evening as he strolled to a nearby church to pose for cameras with a Bible. In Mattis’s eyes, the appearance of the two top military leaders ap- peared to condone an unprovoked use of force. The nonpartisan military that Mattis had served for nearly five decades was being featured as decoration for a photo op, and Mattis fumed that the U.S. Navy president was using the leaders who replaced him at the Defense President Donald Trump stands outside the Pentagon with then-Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis in 2017. Department to further divide the nation, according to four people serving in the military had assessment of Trump, noting that followed the police killing of ing 1,600 active-duty troops to the familiar with his thinking. warned him in recent months Americans would soon be decid- George Floyd, Trump has repeat- D.C. region, including infantry- He was especially upset to see about Trump’s sway over its lead- ing whether to give him a second edly raised the threat of mili- men. That decision was reversed Milley — whom Mattis believed ership. Some told him that Esper term. tary force to quell the protests by Esper this week, halted for a had sought to curry favor with had been dubbed “Yesper” by “Are you saying you don’t think and pushed the Pentagon to de- day amid the tension and then Trump when he was defense some in the Pentagon because it’s your responsibility to speak up ploy troops to cities hit hard by continued Thursday night. secretary — appear in his Army he seemed unable to say no to the before the election?” she asked. protests. Amid this week’s furor, some combat uniform at a peace- president. And they said they be- “That’s exactly what I’m say- On May 29, as protests spread Pentagon officials have privately ful demonstration. That jarring lieved Milley was effectively run- ing,” Mattis replied, adding that to Washington and other cities, acknowledged that it was a mis- image highlighted the military’s ning the department by talking he and other former defense active-duty members of the Army take for Esper and Milley to ap- involvement in a heavy-handed to Trump directly and bypassing secretaries believe “the defense were put on alert. pear with Trump on Monday crackdown on civilians. the secretary, a dynamic that po- of this country is a nonpartisan “Crossing State lines to in- evening after the protesters had With that, the military histo- tentially threatened civilian con- issue.” cite violence is a FEDERAL been forcefully cleared away. rian and retired Marine general trol of the military. Mattis had told friends that he CRIME!” Trump tweeted May Esper’s supporters say he has decided it was time to call out the Several Pentagon officials de- did not want any critiques he has 30. “Liberal Governors and May- attempted to right the ship when damage he saw Trump doing to clined to address Mattis’s criti- to interfere with the efforts of the ors must get MUCH tougher or it comes to keeping politics out of the country. cism on the record. new defense secretary and his for- the Federal Government will step the department, sending a mes- “The military was never set An administration official, who mer colleagues at the Pentagon to in and do what has to be done, and sage to U.S. troops on Tuesday up to prop up anyone’s political spoke on the condition of ano- work with the White House. that includes using the unlimited night that reminded them of their agenda, and I think that really nymity because of the sensitiv- He made his general disagree- power of our Military and many role to protect the American peo- pissed him off, when he saw that,” ity of the issue, defended Esper’s ment with the president clear arrests.” ple and highlighting on Wednes- said Carlton Kent, a retired Ma- actions during a “fast-moving when he announced his resigna- Esper and Milley, meanwhile, day at the Pentagon the role of the rine sergeant major who advised week.” tion in December 2018 amid a dis- were advocating privately to use National Guard in maintaining Mattis in Iraq. “He never wanted “Esper is working to keep the pute with the president’s decision the National Guard — but not peace in the nation. them to be in a compromising Department of Defense apolitical to withdraw troops from Syria at active-duty troops, which have Under fire, Esper also ex- situation.” in turbulent times,” the adminis- the Turkish president’s request. rarely been called up to respond pressed regret for his use of the In a statement published by the tration official said. “That is not Mattis’s resignation letter sig- to domestic unrest. term “battlespace,” saying it Atlantic two days later, Mattis easy and is not without criticism naled his disapproval of Trump’s The current secretary has re- was a part of the lexicon he grew described himself as “angry and — both inside and outside DOD long-standing objections to inter- peatedly stressed his belief that up with as an Army officer. He appalled” — and denounced the — but in the long run it is what is national alliances, and his dismay the U.S. military should remain president he had served for two best for the department, the men at the president leaving Kurdish apolitical. But at least two inci- said that when he joined Trump years. and women in uniform, and the allies unprotected in Syria. dents on Monday drew Mattis’s for the walk through Lafayette “When I joined the military, nation.” But while at the helm of the ire. Square, he thought he was going some 50 years ago, I swore an oath The official said Mattis never Pentagon, Mattis himself failed First, on a call with Trump, to survey damaged buildings and to support and defend the Con- reached out to his successor to at times to shield his department administration officials and gov- meet National Guard members, stitution,” Mattis wrote. “Never share his concerns before his from the perception that the mili- ernors, Esper said that the sooner not participate in a photo op. did I dream that troops taking statement was published. tary was furthering the presi- that authorities could “dominate But for Mattis, the damage was that same oath would be ordered Mattis’s decision to speak out dent’s political objectives. the battlespace” in their cities, done. under any circumstance to vio- came after he had long refused The most prominent example the sooner things could return to “He knew his voice would have late the Constitutional rights of to directly criticize Trump, even was Trump’s contentious deploy- normal. A recording of that call power and he could see that no- their fellow citizens — much less though the fact that he had been ment of active-duty troops to the leaked to the media within hours. body was stopping this danger,” to provide a bizarre photo op for frustrated with the president was southern border beginning in Then Esper and Milley walked one ally said. the elected commander-in-chief, well known. fall 2018, just ahead of midterm with Trump from the White Kent, who speaks frequently with military leadership standing Critics have said he should elections. House to nearby St. John’s Epis- with Mattis, said he was glad to alongside.” have used his standing to express When pressed about the bor- copal Church, which had been see his old battle buddy speak up. Mattis’s decision to thrust him- his concerns sooner, noting that der mission, Mattis dismissed damaged in a fire started during Other retired generals, including self in the maw of the country’s in his book “Call Sign Chaos” that suggestions that the troops were protests, minutes after federal David Petraeus, have since, as fraught politics — after long hov- was published last year, he faulted being used for political purposes, authorities rushed at demonstra- well. ering on the sidelines — grew out Obama administration decisions saying, “We don’t do stunts.” tors with shields and batons. “You never should put them in of his ongoing concern about the but held back when it came to the He visited the border in No- The White House quickly pack- a compromising situation in the Defense Department’s indepen- sitting president. vember 2018, one month before aged the scene into a video set to military,” Kent said. “You should dence, according to people who In a PBS interview during his he resigned, and defended the triumphant music. never put them in a political situ- know him. book tour, Judy Woodruff prodded mission. The following day, the Penta- ation, and that’s where they are His former colleagues still him on why he had not offered his Since the civil unrest that has gon announced that it was deploy- right now.” PAGE 6 •STARS AND STRIPES• Sunday, June 7, 2020 NATION DOD sends home all troops deployed to DC

BY COREY DICKSTEIN back to Fort Bragg on Thursday. sion to end the deployments after generate enough personnel from Amendment activities.” Stars and Stripes The Army will leave a small four consecutive nights without the National Guard standpoint to National Guard troops in recent contingent of the 3rd U.S. Infan- violence on Washington’s streets, support operations at present,” days have been photographed WASHINGTON — The Penta- try Regiment, known as the Old where more than 5,000 National McCarthy said. working alongside federal law en- gon on Friday sent home the re- Guard, on alert status to respond Guard troops from the city and But Washington’s mayor has forcement officers and guarding maining 900 active-duty soldiers i n c a s e demo n s t r at io n s i n t he c o m - at least 10 states were on duty to called for Guard troops from out- national monuments, including that it had rapidly deployed to the ing days grow violent, McCarthy aid law enforcement efforts dur- side of D.C. to return home. the Lincoln Memorial, which was Washington region this week in said. The active-duty unit, based ing demonstrations. The mostly Mayor Muriel Bowser on vandalized over the weekend. response to large protests in the at Joint Base Myer-Henderson peaceful protests against police Thursday sent a letter to Trump The vast majority of the Na- city, the Army said. Hall in Arlington, Va., primar- brutality and institutional racism demanding removal of those tional Guard troops have not been Those military police officers ily serves ceremonial purposes, carrying firearms, Pentagon offi- from Fort Drum, N.Y., and Fort including providing sentinels for were sparked by the May 25 kill- troops and federal law enforce- Bragg, N.C., were on alert at Joint the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier ing of a handcuffed black man, ment officers deployed from out- cials have said. The Washington Base Andrews, Md., all week, but at Arlington National Ceremony, George Floyd, by a Minneapolis side the city. Post on Friday reported Esper they never entered Washington which is guarded at all times. police officer. That officer has She said violence in the city had ordered none of those troops before they were ordered home “It is our intention to turn that since been fired and faces charg- has dropped and local police carry such weapons in a signal Friday, Army Secretary Ryan off as quickly as possible,” Mc- es, including second-degree mur- force and federal law enforce- of “de-escalation,” citing an un- McCarthy said. They follow the Carthy said of those soldiers der in Floyd’s death. ment agencies in Washington named U.S. defense official. roughly 700 soldiers of the 82nd serving on alert status. “We are in a very good pos- were “well equipped to handle [email protected] Airborne Division who were sent He said Esper made the deci- ture because we’ve been able to large demonstrations and First Twitter: @CDicksteinDC Mourning: Protests continue around world; US looks at police reform

FROM FRONT PAGE Washington has seen daily protests for the past week — largely peaceful, with people marching back and forth from the White House to the Capitol and the Lincoln Memorial. Army Secretary Ryan McCar- thy said local officials expected 100,000 to 200,000 protesters for Saturday’s event. The White House has been forti- fied with new fencing and extra security precautions. In general, demonstrations in the U.S. have shifted to a calmer tenor in recent days after frequent episodes of violence in the early stages. Protesters and their supporters in public office say they are determined to turn the extraordinary out- pouring of anger and grief into change, no- tably in regard to policing policies. In Minneapolis, city officials have agreed to ban chokeholds and neck re- straints by police and to require officers to try to stop any other officers they see using improper force. In California, Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered the state’s police train- ing program to stop teaching officers how to use a neck hold that blocks the flow of blood to the brain. Democrats in Congress are preparing a sweeping package of police reforms, which are expected to included changes to police- accountability laws, such as revising im- munity provisions and creating a database /AP of police use-of-force incidents. Revamped PHOTOS BY PATRICK SEMANSKY training requirements are planned, too, People kneel in silence, Saturday, in Washington, in remembrance of George Floyd. among them a ban on chokeholds. The House is expected to vote by month’s joined a Black Lives Matter protest in Ber- end. With Democrats in the majority, the lin’s Alexanderplatz. Some held up plac- bills will almost certainly pass the House. ards with slogans such as “I can’t breathe” The outcome in the Senate is less certain. and “Germany is not innocent.” Republican Majority Leader Mitch Mc- In Paris, hundreds of people gathered at Connell has said the chamber would look the Place de la Concorde in defiance of a at the issues, but he has not endorsed any police ban on large protests. Members of particular legislation. the multiracial crowd chanted the name of Meanwhile in New York, two Buffalo po- Adama Traore, a black man whose death lice officers were charged with assault Sat- while in police custody a few years ago has urday after a video showed them shoving a 75-year-old protester, who fell backward been likened by critics of French police to onto the pavement and was hospitalized. Floyd’s death in Minnesota. Both pleaded not guilty to second-de- Jessica Corandi, a subway driver, said gree assault and were released without she cried when she saw the video of Floyd’s bail. The two were suspended without death, which came after a white officer pay Friday after a TV crew captured the pressed his knee onto Floyd’s neck for confrontation. more than eight minutes. In London, thousands of demonstrators Corandi said her three young girls have endured cold rain to gather in Parliament started to notice people looking at them Square, a traditional venue for protests. strangely on the streets of Paris, which she They knelt in silence and chanted Floyd’s believes is because they are black. name before applauding his memory. “It’s sad to say to our kids that we have to Thousands of mostly young people, many fight just to exist,” said Corandi, 37, who at- A checkpoint blocks traffic on 16th Street Northwest as people gather near the White dressed in black and wearing face masks, tended the protest near the U.S. Embassy. House, before scheduled protests over the death of George Floyd. Sunday, June 7, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 7 VIRUS OUTBREAK Amid reopening, some jobs gone for good

BY ANGELA CHARLTON AND TASSANEE VEJPONGSA Associated Press BANGKOK — Factories and stores are reopening, economies are reawakening — but many jobs just aren’t coming back. That’s the harsh truth fac- ing workers laid off around the world, from restaurants in Thai- land to car factories in France, whose livelihoods fell victim to a virus-driven recession that’s ac- KHALIL SENOSI/AP celerating decline in struggling Margaret Awino, 54, prepares industries and upheaval across raw chicken to fry in the street the global workforce. to earn some income in Nairobi, New U.S. figures released on Kenya earlier this month. Friday showed a surprise drop in joblessness as some of those who were temporarily laid off el-Sayed is among thousands sent returned to work. But it’s only a home in March as the pandemic dent in the recent months’ surge began to decimate Dubai’s tour- of unemployment, which remains ism industry. He returned to his near Depression-era levels. In a wife and three kids in the city of pattern repeated across the world, Sohag, about 310 miles south of high unemployment means less Cairo. He has not been paid since money spent in surviving stores, April. restaurants and travel business- CHRISTOPHE ENA/AP “There’s no work here at all,” es, with repercussions across he said. “Even tourism here is op- Protesting Renault workers stand outside their plant Friday, in Choisy-le-Roi, outside Paris last month. economies rich and poor. erating at 25% so who’s going to “My boss feared that since we hire here?” come from Kibera (an impov- safety rules mean restaurants He is already preparing for into my business,” she said. He sits idle, relying on his erished slum), we might infect and stores can’t hold as many interviews and confident he will Some days she earns more brother and father for support. them with COVID-19, and so he people as they used to, so they find a new position soon. In a than what she was making at her He is hopeful the Marriott hotel let us go,” said Margaret Awino, can’t afford as much staff. Many country versed in disruptions old job, but it’s hard work, and where he worked will bring him a cleaning worker in a Nairobi can’t afford to reopen at all. from wars and security threats, unpredictable. City council and back at the end of the summer charity. “I don’t know how I can Bangkok’s restaurants are fir- he said Israelis have built up a health inspectors are known to when they plan to re-open. go on.” ing, not hiring, she said. certain resilience to upheaval. raid informal street vendors, who “We are waiting, God willing,” As the virus and now protests “I will have to go on and keep Still, he said this time feels dif- are often arrested and have their el-Sayed said. across the U.S. have shed new fighting,” she declared. “If there ferent. His wife, a self-employed goods confiscated.  Long road ahead: So why light on economic inequalities, is any job that I can do, I will do dance instructor, has also seen Awino has no choice but to take aren’t all the jobs coming back, if some experts say it’s time to re- it.” her income temporarily evapo- the risk, and she’s not alone: Hun- economies are reopening? think work, wages and health Wannapa’s unemployment ben- rate, forcing the couple to dig into dreds of thousands of Kenyans Some companies that came benefits altogether, especially as efit can only tide her over for so their savings. have also lost their jobs because into the recession in bad shape automation escalates and tradi- long. She said if she can’t find “The ‘comeback’ is going to of the pandemic. can no longer put off tough deci- tional trades vanish. work, she’ll have to return to her take longer,” said Lev, father of  Cloudy skies: On a global sions. Meanwhile, even though  Thai chef: When Wannapa family’s rubber plantation to start a 5-year-old girl. “It’s a difficult scale, the industry perhaps most reopened cities are filling anew Kotabin got a job as an assistant life all over again. period. We’re just going to have vulnerable is aviation. with shoppers and commuters, chef in the kitchen of one of Bang-  Israeli programmer: When to take a deep breath and get Germany’s Lufthansa is losing many consumers remain wary kok’s longest-established Italian the coronavirus first broke out, through it.” a million euros an hour, and its about returning to old habits for restaurants, she thought her ca- Israeli software developer Itamar  Kenyan cleaner: Perhaps CEO estimates that when the pan- fear of the virus. reer was set. Lev was told to work from home. hardest-hit by virus job losses demic is over it will need 10,000 “Some firms that were healthy But five years on, she’s in line Then the online advertising com- are low-paid service workers fewer workers than it does now. before governments imposed with more than 100 other jobless pany he worked for slashed his like Awino, 54, who lost her job Emirates President Tim Clark shutdowns will go bankrupt, and Thais outside an unemployment salary 20%. Finally, just as re- after 15 years as a cleaner at one signaled it could take the Dubai- it could take a long time for them office. strictions started to ease, he was of Mother Teresa’s charities in based airline four years to return to be replaced by new business- The government ordered all fired. Nairobi. to its full network of routes. es,” Capital Economics said in a restaurants closed in March to Lev, 44, is among hundreds of Awino shares a shack with her The ripple effect on jobs in research note. “Other firms will combat the coronavirus, and thousands of Israelis out of a job four daughters, including one tourism and hospitality sectors is delay or cancel investment.” 38-year-old Wannapa has been as a result of the pandemic, more who has epilepsy and requires massive. It estimates that a third of U.S. spending her savings on food and than 25% of the workforce. costly medical care, and they Countries like the United Arab workers made jobless by the pan- shelter. “It was sudden. I wasn’t ready share a communal toilet nearby. Emirates are home to millions of demic won’t find work within When restaurants were allowed for it,” he said. She hasn’t seen her husband in foreigners who far outnumber the six months. And some European to re-open in May, Wannapa’s res- Tied to the American market, nine years. local population — many of whom workers on generous govern- taurant told staff its closure was Lev’s company’s advertising rev- Without her regular $150 have lost their jobs. Their families ment-subsidized furlough pro- permanent. enue dried up and they had to monthly salary, she now buys raw in countries like India, Pakistan, grams could get laid off when “I never thought this would make cutbacks. Lev said he was chicken and fries it on the streets Nepal and the Philippines rely they expire, as companies like happen,” she said. “It’s like my treated respectfully, and sees for sale. on their monthly remittances for French carmaker Renault and heart got broken twice.” himself as simply a victim of the “Ever since I was fired because survival. plane maker Airbus face up to a Around the world, new virus times. of COVID-19, I put all my efforts Egyptian hotel chef Ramadan bleaker future. Senators introduce bill to help veterans with toxic exposure

BY ROSE L. THAYER The Pandemic Care for Burn Burn pits were commonly used toxic chemicals linked to cancers release from Klobuchar’s office. Stars and Stripes Pits Exposure Act, introduced by during the first several years of and chronic respiratory illnesses. Those who answer yes will be Sens. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, If passed into law, the bill would enrolled in the VA’s Airborne Military and veteran health and Mike Rounds, R-S.D., is de- and in other wars, as a place to require the Defense Department Hazards and Open Burn Pit Reg- care providers would be required to ask service members and vet- signed to ensure that service get rid of anything the military and Department of Veterans Af- istry, unless they choose to opt erans who test positive for the members and veterans with ex- no longer had use for, such as fairs to ask service members and out. That registry collects names coronavirus about their exposure posure to burn pits, which often computers, tires, medical waste veterans who have tested positive of veterans who voluntarily pro- to burn pits under bipartisan leg- impacts the respiratory system, and aircraft engines. The smoke for the virus if they were exposed vide their information and details islation introduced Wednesday in receive the care they need if they that drifted across military bases to burn pits to ensure they re- about personal exposure to burn the Senate. contract the coronavirus. from these pits often included ceive proper care, according to a pits on deployment. PAGE 8 •STARS AND STRIPES• Sunday, June 7, 2020 VIRUS OUTBREAK ROUNDUP Bars and movie theaters reopen in most of Florida

Associated Press the disease caused by the virus, is now at 24,332. ORLANDO, Fla. — Universal Gov. Doug Ducey allowed his Orlando Resort along with bars, stay-home orders to end May 15. movie theaters and other enter- A surge of new cases began about tainment venues reopened with 10 days later — about the time it restrictions in most of Florida on takes an infected person to de- Friday as the state took another velop symptoms. step away from the economic Ducey didn’t appear overly shutdown caused by the corona- concerned Thursday when he virus outbreak. said the surge in cases wasn’t un- Also allowed to reopen are expected and not yet a trend that bowling alleys, tattoo and mas- merited a reimposition of restric- sage parlors and arcades in tions. And he noted that no matter most of the state. Bars, theaters, what is done, the virus isn’t going concert halls and bowling alleys away. must limit their capacity to 50% of normal and keep groups at least 6 feet apart — restrictions Idaho restaurants statewide have been BOISE — More than 60% of Ida- using. ho’s coronavirus-related deaths Massage, tattoo, tanning and are among residents of long-term similar parlors must employ care facilities like nursing homes, masks, limit times in waiting according to numbers released by areas and sanitize work areas be- the state on Friday. SOPHIA GERMER, THE TIMES-PICAYUNE/The New Orleans Advocate tween customers. Barbershops, The Idaho Department of hair stylists and nail salons have Health and Welfare said that so Artist Chris Paul tattoos Alexandra “Ali” Terrebonne at Galactic Tattoo Studio after they open for the first been operating under similar re- far 25 long-term care facilities time since the start of the coronavirus pandemic in Metairie, La., on Friday. strictions statewide. have had COVID-19 outbreaks However, bars, movie theaters since the pandemic reached Ida- ers or even took another week to should have been a full briefing It looked like things were im- and these other entertainment ho’s borders earlier this year. A prepare. and oral arguments. proving but then officials learned and personal services businesses total of 289 residents and staffers Bars, massage facilities, bowl- that conditions had deteriorated remain closed in the state’s three at the facilities were confirmed ing alleys, recreational pools and New Mexico and COVID-19-related deaths most-populous, hardest-hit coun- to have the illness, according to tattoo shops in Louisiana were al- and cases weren’t being quickly ties — Miami-Dade, Broward and the report, and of them 52 people lowed to reopen under an order SANTA FE — The New Mexico reported, said Dr. Umair Shah, Palm Beach. Those counties must have died. signed Thursday by Gov. John Supreme Court is temporarily the health department’s execu- seek permission from Gov. Ron Statewide more than 3,000 peo- Bel Edwards. suspending consumer debt collec- tive director. DeSantis — their facilities such ple have contracted COVID-19 At A Bodyworks Massage and tion — such as garnishing wages Officials weren’t told of eight of as restaurants have been reopen- and 83 people have died, accord- Spa in Monroe, owner Donna La- or seizing assets — in response the 14 deaths until after May 27, ing about one to two weeks after ing to a tally from Johns Hopkins seter had no time for an interview. to the coronavirus pandemic and Shah said. the rest of the state. University. “We’ve been off for 10 weeks, so related economic downturn. The facility had also failed to The state reported Friday that The facilities with the biggest we’ve got everybody coming in The court ordered the tem- implement protocols and create a there have been almost 61,500 outbreaks so far include the Life and our phone’s ringing off the porary suspension Friday in a plan to prevent the spread of the confirmed cases of COVID-19 Care Center of Lewiston, where hooks,” she said. new effort to alleviate economic coronavirus, Shah said. in the state since March 1 and at 54 people were infected and 18 Restaurants and other busi- hardship amid a surge in unem- The health department said 56 least 2,660 deaths. That’s a jump died; Bridgeview Estates in Twin nesses that had been allowed to ployment and uncertainties. The residents and staff members are of about 1,500 cases in one day Falls, where 48 people were in- open in mid-May at 25% of ca- suspension takes effect Monday actively being monitored for the and 60 deaths. Both the number fected and 11 died; and Avamere pacity were allowed to expand to and does not pertain to business virus that causes COVID-19. of confirmed cases reported daily Transitional Care and Rehabili- half-capacity on Friday. The new debts. In a statement, officials of the and the percentage of tests re- tation in Boise, where 42 people rules will be in effect for at least The decision took place as health care facility said they turning positive have been trend- were infected and two died. three weeks, Edwards said. a COVID-19 outbreak raced were was doing everything they ing up over the last week as the New Orleans, the state’s origi- through privately run prison fa- can “to ensure we stop the spread state’s economy reopens. Illinois nal outbreak hot spot, isn’t par- cilities for state and federal in- of this within our center and our Universal Orlando Resort on ticipating in the wider reopening. mates in Otero County, infecting community.” Friday became the first of Or- SPRINGFIELD — Illinois on More time and data are needed to 583 prisoners as of Friday. lando’s major theme park resorts Friday reported 59 new deaths decide when that is safe, city of- The Court said it took action Utah to open their gates to the public related to COVID-19, raising the ficials said. “in response to the extraordi- since coronavirus fears forced total to nearly 5,800. nary circumstances presented by SALT LAKE CITY — Utah their closures in mid-March. The state also said a cat recent- Michigan the current public health emer- reported its largest single-day in- Passholders were welcomed back ly tested positive for COVID-19 gency.” Consideration was given crease in the number of COVID- on Wednesday and Thursday. while in a house with people who DETROIT — The Michigan to “protecting the due process 19 cases on Friday, with many of had also tested positive. Supreme Court on Friday over- rights of New Mexicans to claim those coming in connection with Arizona “This is the first animal to test turned orders that directed a exemptions and protect their as- an outbreak at a meatpacking positive for the virus in Illinois,” barber to close his shop during sets from garnishment and ex- plant in northern Utah. GLENDALE — Arizona has hit the Department of Public Health the coronavirus pandemic, with ecution as provided by law.” Health officials are investigat- a grim milestone in its battle with said. “There is no evidence one justice saying judges need There have been 8,672 cases in ing the “ongoing outbreak” at the new coronavirus as deaths COVID-19 is transmitted from to follow the “rule of law, not New Mexico, and 387 deaths have the unnamed facility in the Bear topped 1,000 on Friday and the animal to humans. However, if hysteria.” been linked to the virus. River Health District, which cov- number of new infections soared you are sick, you should distance The Michigan appeals court ers Cache, Rich and Box Elder to a new high. yourself from pets as well as made mistakes in telling a local Texas counties. One-third of the 439 The state Department of Health people.” judge to shut down Karl Manke’s cases reported Friday came from Services reported 16 new deaths, The state logged an additional shop in Owosso, 40 miles north- HOUSTON — Health officials that area, and many of those are bringing the total to 1,012 since 1,156 virus cases, boosting the east of Lansing, the Supreme said Friday that they are investi- linked to the facility. the first death was revealed on total since the outbreak began to Court said. gating an outbreak of the COVID- “I expect to see additional March 21. The department said about 126,000. On May 4, Manke stopped com- 19 virus at a suburban Houston cases of COVID-19 identified as 1,578 new cases were tallied, by Labs said they have received plying with Gov. Gretchen Whit- health care facility that has been part of this outbreak, both at the far the highest daily count since more than 1 million specimens mer’s order to keep barbershops quarantined after 14 deaths were worksite and in the community,” the outbreak began. for testing. and salons closed to prevent the reported. said Utah State Epidemiologist The number of emergency spread of the coronavirus. In re- Harris County Public Health Angela Dunn in a statement. room visits and hospitalized pa- Louisiana sponse, the state suspended his began investigating the outbreak “Many of the workers at this fa- tients also hit records. Hospitals licenses. It also got a prelimi- on April 21 after two people tested cility match the demographics of told the department that 713 NEW ORLEANS — Some busi- nary injunction from the appeals positive for the new coronavirus who we know are at the highest people were seen in emergency nesses were slammed from the court. at the Oakmont Healthcare and risk for infection.” rooms Thursday and 1,234 people minute they reopened Friday But Justice David Viviano said Rehabilitation Center of Humble. More than 11,000 people have were hospitalized. after a 2 1/2-month COVID-19 the 2-1 injunction needed to be The facility provides short-stay now been infected with the virus The number of people con- pandemic closure, while others unanimous under Michigan court rehabilitation and long-term and in Utah. A total of 120 people have firmed infected with COVID-19, waited for their first custom- rules. In addition, he said there hospice care to older patients. now died. Sunday, June 7, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 9 NATION Mail ballots allow Biden to clinch nomination

BY STEPHEN OHLEMACHER ballots, driven in large part by congressional districts so the del- lot at the Democratic National due to the outbreak. Associated Press the coronavirus pandemic, meant egates could be allocated between Convention. The formality of reaching 1,991 election officials were still count- Biden and Bernie Sanders. Biden became the party’s pre- was also delayed by a deal Biden’s WASHINGTON — After pri- ing ballots Friday. The process led the AP to al- sumptive nominee two months campaign cut with Sanders in an maries and caucuses in 42 states Democrats don’t hold winner- locate 21 delegates to Biden late ago, following decisive wins over and the District of Columbia, Joe take-all contests in which the top Friday, after it completed an Bernie Sanders in several March effort to build Democratic Party Biden has won the last few dele- vote-getter wins all the delegates. analysis of votes released by elec- primaries and in Wisconsin on unity and avoid the bitter feelings gates needed to clinch the Demo- Instead, the delegates are split up tion officials in the three states April 7. The Vermont senator, the that marred the party’s 2016 con- cratic nomination for president as proportionally among the candi- earlier in the evening. AP later final major challenger in the race, vention and helped lead to Hill- states worked to tally a surge of dates based on their share of the added two more to Biden’s total, dropped out the next day. ary Clinton’s defeat. mail ballots. vote — both statewide and in indi- after the release of additional re- Biden would have wrapped up The agreement allowed Sand- Indiana, Pennsylvania and vidual congressional districts. sults in New Mexico. the Democratic nomination much ers to keep about 300 delegates Rhode Island were among the As the states that voted Tuesday The former vice president now earlier, if not for the coronavirus seven states, plus the district, updated their results, a team of has a total of 1,995 delegates. pandemic — 15 states, along with he would have otherwise forfeited holding elections Tuesday. But analysts at The Associated Press It takes 1,991 delegates to win Guam and Puerto Rico, post- under party rules after suspend- a huge increase in vote-by-mail parsed the votes into the correct the nomination on the first bal- poned their nominating contests ing his campaign. Ruling: Hickenlooper violated Colo. ethics law by accepting gifts

Associated Press exceptions. That figure is now $65. DENVER — U.S. Senate candi- By a 4-1 vote, the quasi-judicial date John Hickenlooper violated commission found that Hicken- Colorado ethics law as governor looper violated ethics law by ac- by accepting a private jet flight cepting transport, meals, tours to an official event and by receiv- and other perks during a 2018 ing benefits he didn’t pay for at a conference in Turin, Italy, spon- meeting of government, business sored by Fiat Chrysler. Hicken- and financial leaders in Italy, the looper testified that he believed state’s ethics commission ruled a $1,500 hotel bill he paid there Friday. covered all expenses. PATRICK SEMANSKY/AP The Colorado Independent Institute attorney Suzanne Stai- Ethics Commission dismissed ert asked Hickenlooper whether President Donald Trump tours Puritan Medical Products medical swab manufacturing facility, Friday in four other complaints against Guilford, Maine. he felt that the $1,500 he paid Hickenlooper that were filed by personally covered hotel costs, a conservative group led by a for- shuttles, tours of cultural attrac- mer Republican Colorado House tions, dinners and cocktail hours speaker. at the event. Trump uses visit to Maine as It scheduled a June 12 hearing “To my knowledge I felt I paid to discuss possible fines for the vi- the full cost,” Hickenlooper re- olations as well as for a contempt plied, adding he was invited to opportunity to rebuke governor order it issued when Hickenloop- attend not as governor but in a er ignored a subpoena to appear private capacity. BY JILL COLVIN said she was preventing her state the death of George Floyd and at its hearing on Thursday. Commissioners voted 5-0 to AND PATRICK WHITTLE from reaping money from Maine’s Trump’s heavy-handed response Hickenlooper has long denied find that Hickenlooper also vio- Associated Press busy summer tourist season. to protests. the charges as politically moti- lated the law by accepting a trip “She’s going to destroy your Trump is anxious to get be- vated. But his absence Thursday to Connecticut on a jet owned GUILFORD, Maine — Presi- state,” he said. “I’m not a fan.” yond the unrest and the economic drew fire from his Democratic by Republican billionaire Larry dent Donald Trump on Friday Mills responded with a lengthy downturn caused by the corona- primary opponent, former House Mizel’s company, MDC Holdings, Speaker Andrew Romanoff, as laced into Maine’s Democratic rebuttal. virus and focus on his reelection. to preside at the commissioning well as national Republicans governor for not moving quickly “Yesterday, I asked the presi- His visit to Puritan had the feel of of the USS Colorado, a U.S. Navy seeking to defend U.S. Sen. Cory enough to reopen the state’s econ- dent to check his rhetoric at the a campaign rally. submarine. MDC Holdings is a Gardner’s seat in November. The omy and urged his supporters to door and to lead us with courage The official White House event large developer in Colorado. They help him win the rest of the state primary is June 30. and compassion through this dif- showcased the fact that his ad- cited several of Hickenlooper’s in November if they want to see Hickenlooper declined to par- ficult time, ” she said. “Sadly, but ministration is providing $75.5 attendances at VIP events hosted the country rebound from the ticipate in the remote hearing unsurprisingly, he continues to million through the Defense Pro- by MDC Holdings. coronavirus shutdown. after seeking an in-person hear- prove himself incapable of doing duction Act for Puritan to double “What was given to the gover- Referring to Maine’s electoral ing that he said would make it so.” production to 40 million swabs a nor in this case was far beyond votes, Trump said: “Get that easier to confront his accusers. what was necessary for the gov- “What Maine people heard month, and the company plans to other half to go with Trump.” He today was more of the same incen- The Public Trust Institute, the ernor to represent the state at this open a second production site by spoke in the small town of Guil- diary rhetoric and insults he uses conservative group that brought event,” Commissioner William July 1. ford, home to Puritan Medical to try to divide us and to stoke ten- the complaint, didn’t oppose Leone said. More than 350 workers in Products, one of only two major sion and fear ,” she added. “What that request. Commissioners ul- Hickenlooper insisted he ei- companies producing a special Maine people heard today was Guilford have been working long timately set this week’s remote ther was not on state business, type of swab needed to ramp up largely devoid of fact and absent hours since the coronavirus pan- hearing, noting the format ad- had offered to pay personally for coronavirus testing. of reality. What Maine people saw demic began. opted because of the coronavirus the travel or accepted the travel At stops in Guilford and Ban- today was a rambling, confusing, “We’re doing our best to sup- pandemic worked for civil cases to save time for pressing state gor, Trump used his first visit to thinly veiled political rally.” ply the needs. It’s critical that not requiring juries in Colorado business, among other reasons. the state as president to lob jabs at She rebuffed Trump’s claim our country is taken care of, ” co- courts. He said he and his top staff re- Gov. Janet Mills for not reopening that Maine remained shuttered owner Timothy Templet told The Hickenlooper repeatedly in- viewed each trip for possible eth- businesses more quickly. Trump by the virus, saying 13 of Maine’s Associated Press. sisted the trips either involved ics violations. won just one of Maine’s four elec- 16 counties have been reopened Trump began his visit in Ban- personal business or happened The ex-governor acknowledged toral votes in 2016. and that the state was the first in gor, where he met commercial while he was promoting Colora- that on several occasions he ei- “When are you going to open New England to allow indoor din- fishermen and signed an order to do’s economy to potential inves- ther didn’t seek an opinion from the state up?” Trump demanded ing at restaurants. reopen fishing waters that were tors during his 2011-2019 term as the ethics commission on indi- as he spoke at Puritan Medical Ahead of Trump’s visit, Mills closed in 2016 when the Obama governor. vidual gifts. Products. “What’s she doing?” had urged him to cancel the administration designated the Colorado law at the time pro- He also acknowledged he didn’t Earlier in Bangor, Trump com- trip because of security con- first and only national marine hibited gifts worth more than $59 get formal training on Colorado pared Mills to a “dictator” and cerns given the civil unrest over monument in the Atlantic Ocean. to elected officials with limited ethics law. PAGE 10 •STARS AND STRIPES• Sunday, June 7, 2020 NATION/WORLD US-Mexico wall breached; solution sought

BY NICK MIROFF sive metal-cutting blades. Others The Washington Post have fashioned long, improvised ladders out of cheap metal rebar. U.S. Customs and Border Pro- More athletic border-jumpers tection has asked contractors have been seen using rope lad- for help making President Don- ders to climb up the wall, sliding ald Trump’s border wall more down the other side by gripping difficult to climb over and cut the bollards like a fireman’s pole. through, an acknowledgment that The CBP request for informa- the design currently being in- tion says the agency is looking for stalled across hundreds of miles new ways to stop them. of the U.S.-Mexico boundary re- “Customs and Border Protec- mains vulnerable. tion (CBP) recognizes that in- The new Request For Informa- dustry, other agencies, and other tion notice that CBP posted gives private entities may have inter- federal contractors until June 12 esting, innovative, and useful to suggest new anti-breaching ideas that could be implemented and anti-climbing technology and to enhance and or improve mis- tools, while also inviting propos- sion essential operational deter- als for “private party construc- rent capabilities related to the tion” that would allow investors anti-climb/anti-cut features of and activists to acquire land, the border wall and persistent build a barrier on it and sell the impedance,” it reads. whole thing to the government. Such proposals could include Trump continues to campaign sensors and cameras that would for reelection on a promise to provide early warnings for climb- complete nearly 500 miles of ing and breaching attempts, as new barrier along the border well as “advanced paint tech- with Mexico by the end of 2020, nology that would enhance the but administration officials have ability of thermal sensors to rec- scaled back that goal in recent ognize wall jumpers and improve weeks. The president has ceased detection.” promoting the $15 billion barrier Trump maintains a keen inter- as “impenetrable” in the months est in the aesthetics and design since The Washington Post re- elements of the barrier, and his ported smuggling crews have shifting preferences have re- been sawing through new sec- CAROLYN VAN HOUTEN/The Washington Post peatedly left border officials and tions of the structure using inex- military engineers struggling to pensive power tools. The border fence construction continues up a mountain in the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in adjust his tastes to the operation- In a statement, CBP officials Lukeville, Ariz., in January. al and geographic realities of the said their new request for infor- U.S.-Mexico border. mation — first reported by the slowing the efforts of those who border wall system we have ever by The Post via the Freedom of In recent weeks, the president KJZZ Fronteras Desk in Arizona still try.” built, but we will never disregard Information Act indicate there has once more insisted the bar- — does not amount to an admis- The public notice is the first innovative and creative ideas that were 18 breaches in the San Diego rier should be painted black, tell- sion that the current design is in- indication CBP officials do not could continue to enhance border area during a single one-month ing aides it will absorb more heat adequate or flawed. believe the steel bollard design barriers,” CBP said. period last fall. The San Diego from the sun and deter climbing “We have an adaptive adver- they selected from prototypes in Trump is expected to attend a areas have some of the most for- by scalding the hands of would- sary; regardless of materials, 2017 is sufficiently formidable to ceremony in Yuma, Ariz., next midable barriers along the entire be fence jumpers. The black paint nothing is impenetrable if given achieve that goal. The primary week to mark the completion of border, and construction of new will drive up construction costs unlimited time and tools,” the design, consisting of 30-foot-tall the barrier’s 200th mile, accord- double-layered fencing there is by at least $500 million, accord- agency said. “Walls provide the steel bollards topped with flat ing to officials who were not au- largely complete. ing to government estimates, and U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) the metal anti-climb panels, is now thorized to describe the plans. Smuggling crews have nonethe- skeptics have pointed out that the ability to slow and stop potential being installed by private con- CBP has not said publicly how less managed to saw through the black paint will increase mainte- crossings. That means building tractors at multiple locations often smuggling crews have steel bollards using commercially nance costs. That, and climbers the wall will deter some people along the border. breached or attempted to breach available demolition tools such as could simply use gloves to protect from attempting to cross, while “This is the most sophisticated the structure. Records obtained reciprocating saws with inexpen- their hands. North Korea threatens to shut liaison office with South

BY KIM TONG-HYUNG gered a debate over freedom of speech. Saturday afternoon. In a speech marking activists were exercising their freedom. Associated Press But an unidentified spokesman of the South Korea’s Memorial Day, President South Korea’s ruling liberal party Workers’ Party’s United Front Depart- Moon Jae-in vowed to strengthen the na- clinched a resounding victory in April’s SEOUL, South Korea — In the latest ment said Seoul’s promise lacked sincer- tion’s defense, but he made no mention of parliamentary elections, giving it a solid blow for inter-Korean cooperation, North ity, and the scrapping of the liaison office North Korean threats to abandon inter-Ko- majority to win approval in the Nation- Korea threatened to permanently shut a will be the first in a series of North Korean rean peace agreements. al Assembly for legislative restrictions liaison office with South Korea as it con- steps that would cause extreme suffering Sending balloons across the border has against the leaflet protests. tinued to condemn its rival for failing to for the South. been a common activist tactic for years, “It’s remarkable how this comes when prevent activists from sending anti-North The statement also confirmed an el- but North Korea considers it an attack on the Moon government looks to reengage Korean leaflets across the border. evated status for Kim Yo Jong, who was its government. Defectors and other activ- after relative success fighting COVID-19 The statement by North Korea’s ruling described as her brother’s top official for ists in recent weeks have used balloons to and the new progressive majority is seated Workers’ Party late Friday came a day inter-Korean affairs. fly leaflets criticizing Kim Jong Un over in the National Assembly,” said Leif-Eric after the powerful sister of leader Kim “We do not hide that we have had long in his nuclear ambitions and dismal human Easley, a professor at Ewha University in Jong Un said her country would end a mili- mind decisive measures to fundamentally rights record. Seoul. tary agreement reached with South Korea remove all provocations from the South Pyongyang’s official Rodong Sinmun in 2018 to reduce tensions if Seoul fails to and to completely shut down and remove on Saturday published several articles “Instead, Kim uses his sister, who was stop the activists. all the contact leverage with the (South),” and columns expressing contempt for de- special envoy for North Korea’s smile di- Kim Yo Jong also said North Korea said the spokesman. fectors it says are behind the protests. Its plomacy during the 2018 Winter Olympics, could permanently shut the liaison office Referring to the leaflets, he said the photos showed mass rallies in North Korea to threaten the minimal foundation that and a joint factory park in the border town “nonstop disposal of dirty rubbish from the where crowds raised their fists beneath remains of inter-Korean cooperation on of Kaesong, which have been symbols of South side has exhausted us so much as to signs such as “Death to the human scum which South Korean progressives hope to reconciliation between the two countries. come to a clearer conclusion that enemies defectors.” build.” Desperate to save a faltering diplomacy, are enemies after all ... Our determination While Seoul has sometimes sent police The liaison office in Kaesong has been South Korea in response said it would push is to follow as far as the evil cycle of the officers to block the activists during sensi- closed since late January after the Kore- new laws to ban activists from flying leaf- confrontation leads.” tive times, it had previously resisted North as agreed to temporarily shut it until the lets by balloon to the North, which trig- Seoul had no reaction to the statement Korea’s calls to fully ban them, saying the coronavirus is controlled. Sunday, June 7, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 11 TRAVEL With eyes on the future How the coronavirus pandemic is changing entertainment in Japan

BY SHOKO ODA AND NAO SANO Bloomberg inging your heart out at karaoke boxes may never feel the same in Japan in Sthe coronavirus era. To encourage customers to return following the lifting of the state of emergency, the Japan Karaoke Box Association has drafted a set of guidelines detail- ing recommendations on how the industry can safely resume. They call for a limit on how many people can be in one box — typically a booth smaller than a motel room — and for people to wear masks “and/or other protective gear that covers the eyes and face” while belting out the latest hits. A national pastime and cultural export, karaoke un- fortunately ticks every box in the government’s guidelines of environments to avoid: crowded, cramped and potentially laden with virus-carrying droplets. But that didn’t stop customers from lining up outside outlets of Manekineko, Japan’s largest karaoke chain, as they reopened for business on Wednesday in Kanagawa, south of Tokyo. “We’re asking for everyone ex- cept the person singing to wear masks,” said Hitomi Baba, a spokeswoman for chain operator Koshidaka Holdings Co. “We’re also giving out a mask to each customer where possible, and where we can’t, giving disinfec- tant sheets instead.” About half of the chain’s 527 outlets across iStock the country have resumed busi- ness. The Shibuya shopping street district, a major fashion and nightlife center in Tokyo, was crowded in this 2017 photo. How the coronavirus Japan lifted its state of emer- changes the landscape of such hot spots remains to be seen as restrictions are slowly lifted and businesses once again open their doors. gency nationwide on May 25, as new infections and overall hospi- people live with the virus as care of their customers will be name-and-shame campaign casual bars where young women talizations dropped to fractions part of their everyday lives and subject to fi erce criticism if it against outlets that defi ed calls chat to customers to prostitution, of the peak. The government has try to reduce risk of infection, comes to light,” said Tomoki to voluntarily close, such as which is in large parts legal. warned people they must adjust instead of sheltering at home to Inoue, chief analyst at NLI Re- pachinko parlors, was highly Hostess bars, where female to a “new lifestyle,” with recom- avoid it. Japan’s approach to the search Institute. “That’s a risk, successful in securing coopera- escorts pour drinks and chat mendations covering everything pandemic has assumed that the so everyone will be looking to tion. Karaoke booths can resume with multiple tables of men from how to commute and shop virus won’t be wiped out, with turn behavior into daily habits.” in stage three, while gyms may throughout an evening, have to the right way to enjoy leisure small clusters already spreading Japanese TV shows will begin be reopened in stage two of been particularly singled out as and hobbies. days after the emergency was fi lming again, with one widely the plan, which began in some a source of multiple infection Some recommendations may declared over. reported book of guidelines from regions last weekend. clusters. The government has be easier to obey than others, Amid lingering questions over Nippon TV calling for kissing High-end fi tness gym operator continued to urge people to avoid however. An organization repre- why Japan hasn’t seen anywhere and action scenes to be avoided Rizap Group Inc., which saw its them, with several of the recent senting theme parks, including near the level of cases and deaths to the extent possible, no meet- shares drop as much as 59% this cases identifi ed in Tokyo linked the operators of Tokyo Disney from the virus as other coun- ings over lunch, and for actors year during the pandemic as it to such outlets, according to an Resort and Universal Studios tries, the nation’s experts have to dress and microphone them- closed outlets, has gone as far as NTV report. Japan, unveiled a set of mea- credited advice given early in selves. announcing that it will provide With no end to the situation sures to reduce risk at the parks. the pandemic to avoid what they “Japanese organizations like to coronavirus antibody tests to in sight, some have resorted to Among the recommendations term the “Three Cs” — closed create rules,” said Rochelle Kopp more than 6,000 employees and opening hostess bars online to was one calling on customers to spaces, crowded places and of Japan Intercultural Consult- trainers, and in principle test all alleviate the fi nancial hit. Cus- refrain from screaming on roller close-contact settings where the ing, who advises and trains new clients. tomers can choose a bar of their coasters and attractions and, of virus is thought to spread most Japanese fi rms. “And Japanese “We have established our own choice, and chat and virtually course, to wear masks while on easily. individuals like to have rules so safety and security standard drink with a hostess or other cus- the rides. The seven-week loose lock- they know what’s appropriate or protocol, ‘Rizap Standard With tomers in a webcam “nomikai,” Countries around the world down — which requested not. Going along with what the Corona,’ as a new normal, de- or drinking session. are cautiously reopening their some fi rms to close and urged rule is, what has been deter- veloped under the guidance of in- Whether it’s a small bar or a economies as people try to re- residents to stay home, albeit mined, is very important.” fectious disease control doctors,” fairly large one, you can’t avoid sume a sense of normality while no penalties for disobedience In Tokyo, the metropolitan the company said in a statement. close-contact settings with these mindful that the virus could re- — has pushed many businesses government has laid out a three- One sector that has yet to get places as hostesses need to turn in second waves until there to the brink, and left industries stage reopening road map for guidance from the authorities is socialize with customers, said is a vaccine for widespread use. scrambling to create environ- when businesses can resume Japan’s nighttime entertainment Mayuko Igarashi, who started an People in Japan have begun ments where customers will feel operations. While the govern- sector, known as “mizu shobai,” online bar. “We launched it May to speak of the “With Corona” safe spending. ment can’t force businesses to meaning “the water trade,” 14 and it’s been full house the era, meaning a time in which “Companies that don’t take close during the pandemic, a which spans everything from past four, fi ve days,” she said. PAGE 12 •STARS AND STRIPES• Sunday, June 7, 2020 MUSIC

around their kitchen table. On “Fire and Flame,” which builds like a U2 “Joshua Tree”-era arena rock song, Moore addresses his tendency to sometimes neglect his faith. In ‘Wild World,’ “When I am taking the time to pray and meditate and stay grounded in that, I am so much more in peace,” Kip Moore turns Moore said. “But yet, I still push it away and I’ll walk away from it for mirror on himself a long time. I still hold onto it, but I don’t spend time nurturing it. And that’s when I get really dark and lost feeling.” Moore tends to put the most impor- tant song at the end of record, which are also the album cuts that fans Moore made his name in 2011 with gravitate toward the most, whether his multiplatinum hit “Somethin’ they are played on radio or not. On ’Bout a Truck,” but to lump him into this album’s closer, “Payin’ Hard,” he the truck- and beer-focused bro-coun- shares his remorse of not spending try set that has dominated country more time with his father, who died in radio over the past decade would be 2011 just as his career was starting. BY KRISTIN M. HALL selling him short. When programmed “ ‘Payin’ Hard’ was the single most Associated Press beats and pop-infl uenced country is personal song I’ve ever written,” the sound of the moment, Moore’s Moore said. “Those are deep-rooted, hen country singer Kip Moore wasn’t performing, heartland country-rock songs with dark-kept things I’ve had in the closet his growling voice feel muscular, for a long time with regret.” he was traveling the world to places like Iceland and nostalgic and honest. Moore didn’t expect to be trying Costa Rica looking for the next great wave to surf, “He’s probably one of the most to promote his album remotely from or a cliff to climb or a remote trail to hike. But when refl ective, introspective humans I a lodge in Kentucky, but he’s trying know,” said Cindy Mabe, president of to make the most of the situation by the coronavirus pandemic hit, the Georgia-born Universal Music Group Nashville. focusing on the simple things, globetrotter W found himself pretty well suited to isolation as well. “And that’s not necessar- like writing songs and rock “I’ve always kind of been an introvert at heart that’s forced to be an ily common DNA in the climbing in the nearby extrovert because of what I do,” said Moore, from his rock-climbing entertainment indus- sandstone cliffs. try. He really is soul “This has given me a lodge near the Red River Gorge in eastern Kentucky. searching every day.” chance to take a little When other artists have decided to postpone releasing albums The album’s title breath, sleep in the during the pandemic, Moore put out on May 29 “Wild World,” his track isn’t just an apt same bed every night description of today’s for a little bit,” he fourth album and one of his most soul-searching releases. uncertain times. In said. “I’m ready “This is a time of need for people,” Moore said. “I think there’s so the lyrics of “Wild to get back out many messages on this album that it will help people dig up those World,” he’s thinking and play now, back to the life lessons but I needed bones of what they’ve suppressed and analyze them and process his mother and his a little bit of them.” father taught him this pause.”

The Green Room Sunday, June 7, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 13 MUSIC REVIEWS ‘Chromatica’: A star is reborn on the dance floor

BY MIKAEL WOOD (“Shallow,” one of Gaga’s rootsy and Skrillex; it also contains In a recent interview with Los Angeles Times power ballads from the movie much-hyped features by Ariana Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, Lady musical, won an Academy Award Grande (“Rain on Me”), K-pop Gaga described the album as ady Gaga released for best original song.) girl group Blackpink (“Sour being about healing and per- “Chromatica” on May The new record — whose Candy”) and 73-year-old Elton severance — about “dancing 28, marking a return original April 10 release date the John, who duets with the singer through pain,” as she put it, to the sleek dance-pop L singer planned to celebrate with on “Sine From Above,” about while detailing her struggles sound that made her a star more a surprise appearance at the feeling immortal when you’re with mental health. But “Chro- than a decade ago. Her fi rst studio album since since-delayed Coachella festival young. matica” arrives, of course, just the classic-rock-inspired — goes long on the throbbing “I’ll keep on looking for Won- as the COVID-19 pandemic has “Joanne” in 2016, “Chromatica” beats and synthetic textures that derland,” Gaga sings in “Alice,” shut down the very festivals follows Lady Gaga’s Oscar-nomi- Gaga was drawn to for early hits which carries echoes of Crys- and clubs in which the singer nated acting turn in director such as “Just Dance,” “Poker tal Waters’ 1991 dance staple might’ve envisioned her new Bradley Cooper’s 2018 remake Face” and “Bad Romance.” “Gypsy Woman”; “911,” with a music coming to life. of “A Star Is Born,” in which she Lady Gaga Her studio collaborators on the lyric regarding mood-stabilizing “I can’t wait to dance with played the showbiz-ingenue role Chromatica (Interscope) 16-track “Chromatica” include drugs, has the singer processing people to this music,” she told previously portrayed by Barbra rave-circuit regulars such as her voice with an android-like Lowe, “to show them how much I Streisand and Judy Garland. BloodPop, Axwell, Madeon effect. love them.”

Sparks Willie Nile A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip (BMG) New York at Night (River House Records) Sparks, that most European of Ameri- Not for the fi rst time in his career of can bands, has released one of their more than 40 years, Willie Nile fi nds his best albums nearly 50 years after their muse nearby with “New York At Night,” debut. an album inspired by his adopted city. “A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip” shows His 13th studio effort has plenty of brothers Ron and Russell Mael as rockers and a few refl ective ballads and eclectic, extravagant, inventive, melodic is as sharp and guitar-driven as ever, and theatrical as ever, preoccupying with Nile and his long-serving live band themselves with lawnmowers, the en- radiating energy and commitment. vironment and life on their native West Opener “New York Is Rockin’ ” is Coast, all while envisioning how an enthusiastic even if it feels a bit like iPhone would disrupt Eden or the Get- a commission from Madison Avenue, tysburg Address and fantasizing about listing a catalog of NYC neighborhoods, Igor Stravinsky’s life as a pop star. personalities, sports teams and land- The album follows in a similar vein to marks. both its immediate predecessor — “Hip- It also mentions the Giants and the popotamus,” surely the best, if likely Jets, even though their shared stadium only, record of 2017 to tip its hat to both is in New Jersey. It’s OK, though, be- Mrs. Lincoln and Taylor Swift — and cause despite Nile’s Big Apple identity, to many of the 22 studio albums before he recorded this album, like several that one. No two tracks are alike, even of its predecessors, at Hobo Sounds in when the subject matter is related. Weehawken, N.J. That is the case with “I’m Toast” and Even better is the metropolitan “Existential Threat,” which are both Atlantic Records boogie of “The Backstreet Slide,” one understandably anxious, but the fi rst of several songs showing how the fi re alternates power chords with sweet within Nile, once a peer of bands like vocal harmonies, while the other sounds Charli XCX — itching to start a party at a time that it The Replacements and The Clash, con- like a klezmer band with a saxophone wouldn’t be prudent to do so. tinues to light a similar torch. how i’m feeling now (Atlantic) instead of a clarinet. “Lip gloss on, and I’m looking like a Other high points: The furious “The “All That,” on the other hand, is about The title of Charli XCX’s fourth album star,” she sings on the hard-edged “Pink Fool Who Drank the Ocean”; the anthe- as earnest as Sparks gets, a paean to is lowercase, e.e. cummings-style, to Diamond.” “Gonna give you good views.” mic “A Little Bit of Love,” inspired by a lasting love with a catchy melody that, express the disconnection and dissatis- But those views will be virtual only: She’s visit to his 102-year-old father in his na- if it went on just a little longer, could be faction of leading a life in limbo during turning herself out in anticipation of tive Buffalo; and “Surrender the Moon,” the band’s “Hey Jude.” lockdown. going “on a video chat.” with some fi nely intertwined guitars. Sometimes, music and lyrics show a The empathy and security offered The British electro pop star and song- “How i’m feelin” explores the impact natural affi nity, like the angularity of on “Under This Roof,” a truly fi ne song writer — who has penned hits for Icona of living in isolation with one you love: the music of “Stravinsky’s Only Hit” that builds up from an acoustic intro, Pop, Iggy Azalea and Camila Cabello “Building walls,” Charli sings in the com- or the youth choir on the album closer, feels custom-made for these challenging — conceived, wrote and recorded the bustible “Detonate.” “Close myself off in which asks people to, ahem, not mess up entirety of the glitchy, uneasy “how i’m times, and closer “Run Free” deserves new ways.” our world. feeling now” during the coronavirus to be a big hit. But in the end, the strange new world “A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip” enhances pandemic. Nile once sang that “MTV rock ’n’ Sparks’ position as the Picassos of art Quarantining in Los Angeles with breeds optimism. “Anthems” longs for an rollers will lose all their hair.” While rock, their current resurgence proof boyfriend Huck Kwong, she announced epic night out on the town but hopes that limited exposure on the video channel of their irrepressible creativity and the project in early April and give herself the forced intimacy of lockdown might may have helped preserve his locks, curiosity with no visible signs of slowing a May 15 deadline, keeping fans up to lead to a connection that lasts: “Finally, albums like “New York at Night” show down, even as the brothers unsettle into speed on her progress on Instagram Live. when it’s over,” she sings, “we might even that Nile still has all it takes to be a their 70s. The resulting music, made in collabo- be closer.” radio star, and more. — Pablo Gorondi ration with producers like A.G. Cook — Dan DeLuca — Pablo Gorondi Associated Press and Dylan Brady of 100 gecs, is restless The Philadelphia Inquirer Associated Press PAGE 14 •STARS AND STRIPES• Sunday, June 7, 2020 BOOKS Thrillers, mysteries An ode to oddballs offer summer escape P.D. James said, “Crime fi ction confi rms our belief, despite some ‘Weird’ an entertaining examination of unique individuals evidence to the contrary, that we live in a rational, comprehen- sible, and moral universe.’ ” BY ANNIE MURPHY PAUL raked the toilet paper into a bound community to a more Ready for some escape into a Special to The Washington Post garbage bag and put it in his liberal and accepting milieu. rational universe? A few new top- bathroom for future use. ‘Free “It’s easier to be weird in a loose notch mysteries and thrillers are eird” is a dis- toilet paper!’ he said happily culture than in a tight one,” she here to help out. tinctly odd cre- over dinner.” observes. ation. A medley Now a successful magazine This is Khazan’s own journey, The Delightful Life ‘Wof social science writer, Khazan nonetheless of course, and the book is driven of a Suicide Pilot reporting, autobiographical acknowledges that “having been by her search for answers to confession and in-depth inter- weird for so long still haunts her eternal questions: Why Colin Cotterill views with an array of “weird” me in so many ways.” It’s a are some people made to feel It’s too bad that this 15th people, it is held together — just status that others seem to sense weird? How do such “weirdos” installment in the Siri Paiboun barely — by the singular voice immediately. “Sometimes,” she come to feel more comfortable mystery series is the fi nal one. In of its author, Atlantic magazine writes, “strangers ask me if I’m in their skin? Khazan trains her details begin to blur. 1981, Dr. Paiboun is retired from writer Olga Khazan . By turns lost.” attention outward, on a cast of It’s not clear, either, if there is his job as the national coroner in insouciantly candid, calmly “Weird” is Khazan’s attempt real-life outsiders and misfi ts. any essential quality that unites corrupt, Communist Laos. He’s authoritative and poignantly to fi nd herself — in the psycho- The fi rst of these is Michael Ain, this motley group; as Khazan helping out in his wife’s noodle insightful, Khazan’s persona logical and sociological litera- a professor of orthopedic sur- herself hastens to acknowledge, shop when an anonymous party has a startling freshness that ture she regularly covers for the gery at Johns Hopkins Hospital she doesn’t intend “to imply that sends him a Japanese soldier’s ultimately wins over the reader, Atlantic, and in the narratives in Baltimore. Ain’s difference I consider the low-level unease World War II-era bilingual diary. though not without inspiring of other people who feel they from others is immediately ap- of, say, a white immigrant to be While tracking down a present- some head-scratching and eye- don’t fi t. On her wide-ranging parent: He has achondroplasia, equivalent to the obstacles faced day perilous connection to the brow-raising along the way. tour of the former realm, she or dwarfi sm, and stands only 4 by people of color or those living relic, the good doctor is assisted Khazan, she tells us, has examines research on norms, feet 3 inches tall. When he fi rst with rare medical conditions.” by, among others, Auntie Bpoo, evoked such bewildered reac- conformity, ostracism, preju- interviewed for admission to Yet Khazan is looking for com- Dr. Paiboun’s recently deceased tions all her life. She has always dice, loneliness and “impostor medical school, Khazan reports, monalities, and she fi nds them, “transvestite spirit guide.” It’s a felt weird, not like others — a syndrome” — a voluminous “some admissions offi cers making connections among her wonderful farewell to a bound- painful and seemingly perma- catalogue of the ways humans would go through the motions. many sketches and drawing ary-breaking series. nent state that she traces back create groups that include some Others stared awkwardly, then parallels to her own story. to her childhood as a Russian and exclude others. One frame- dismissed him from the meet- Toward the end of the book, The Mist immigrant transplanted to Mid- work to which Khazan returns ing. ‘Patients won’t respect you,’ the author experiments with Ragnar Jonasson land, Texas. Her experiences repeatedly concerns tight vs. one said. ‘They want tall doctors trying to become less weird, If you’re looking for a fi ctional growing up in this Bible Belt loose cultures. “Tight cultures with long, white coats.’ He was while also advancing the notion good fright to distract you from oil town are a mix of baffl e- are those in which social norms rejected from every school.” that being odd is actually an the real ones, look no further ment, biting mockery and rueful are strict and formal, and the More oddballs follow: a male advantage. Both of these efforts than this third entry in the humor — often featuring her punishments for breaking them preschool teacher, a female feel a bit halfhearted. “Weird” Hidden Iceland series , featur- father, a larger-than-life per- are severe,” she explains. Loose racecar driver, a Mormon mis- is at its strongest when Khazan ing brainy, glum police inspec- sonality notable for his strong cultures, by contrast, “permit sionary who doubts his faith, a allows herself to explore, with tor Hulda Hermannsdottir. It’s opinions and gleeful penny- a wider range of behaviors.” rebellious teenager in an Amish bracing candor and unexpected midwinter with blowing snow pinching. “One day, someone This distinction appears in a order, a liberal professor in humor, what it feels like to be and little daylight when three toilet-papered our house, and less academic form in many a conservative small town, a weird — a state that is “at once bodies are found in and near a I had to explain to my parents of the weird-people stories transgender city council mem- energizing and maddening, like remote farmhouse. The talented that this is what American kids Khazan proceeds to tell. Most ber in another small town — so trying to squeeze into a space Jonasson backs up two months do to losers,” Khazan recounts. of these narratives trace a path many purportedly weird people, where you might plausibly fi t, to portray — with the precision “Undeterred, my dad eagerly of liberation from a rigidly rule- in fact, that their biographical but don’t quite.” of Harold Pinter — two complex marriages whose outcomes are not at all ambiguous, this being a ‘Hunger Games’ prequel fills in villain’s backstory crime novel. The Silence BY KARIN TANABE show that has been on for a decade, it could the Games until the end of the book, much Susan Allott Special to The Washington Post use new bells and whistles. It is decided of “Songbirds and Snakes” is rooted in the that for the fi rst time, Academy students idea that what is past is prologue. Although Australia’s ugly history of f you know Suzanne Collins’ dys- will mentor the tributes forced to compete. the Games are inspired by the theatrics and forcibly removing Aboriginal topian Hunger Games trilogy, you Coriolanus is chosen as a mentor and is as- violence of ancient Rome, the TV viewers children from their families is know Coriolanus Snow. He’s Katniss signed Lucy Gray Baird, the District 12 girl. aren’t materializing. The ratings need a central to the plot of this fi rst IEverdeen’s nemesis and the tyrannical “Could there be boost, and it’s up to the mentors to increase novel, a wrenching melodrama president of Panem, where every year 24 a bigger slap in the them. Shall they execute those who don’t about a Sydney seaside neighbor- kids from the districts are selected to fi ght face?” Coriolanus watch? Or let viewers feed the tributes as if hood that’s rife with alcoholism, to a televised death. He’s a sadist who smells wonders. “District they were zoo animals? Oh, the possibilities. marital discord, thwarted good of roses and has a talent for crushing both 12, the smallest The scenes during the Games are sharply intentions and possibly murder. spirits and heartbeats. district, the joke plotted and move with the same super- Londoner Isla Green, intent on Do you need to know more? With the district, with its speed readers will remember from the sobering up and staying that publishing odds ever in her favor (the Hun- stunted, joint-swol- series. But it is the third part of the book, way, fl ies to Sydney to help her ger Games trilogy has sold more than 100 len kids that always which takes the action to District 12, that is ever-tipsy father, a suspect in the million copies), Collins believes you do. In died in the fi rst fi ve the most revelatory in terms of the gradual disappearance 30 years earlier her new book, “The Ballad of Songbirds and minutes, and not chipping away of Coryo’s humanity. of a neighborhood woman. Snakes,” a prequel to “The Hunger Games,” only that ... but the One of the delicious qualities of a prequel The Streel she looks at the man (OK, the teenager) who girl?” Turns out is that it fi lls in the blanks. For those who became the monster. Coriolanus has no lapped up the trilogy and have been waiting Mary Logue To do that, Collins takes readers back need to panic. 10 long years for answers — to questions The author of the Deputy Sher- 64 years before Katniss competed in the Hunger Games like “Which unhinged savage came up with iff Claire Watkins series is off Games, to a Capitol that is still rebuilding fans know that District 12 was Katniss’ kids killing kids?” or “What’s the mean- on a winning new tangent with after the districts’ unsuccessful rebellion. district, and that she was anything but ing behind the song ‘The Hanging Tree’? Brigid Reardon, an immigrant Eighteen-year-old Coriolanus, Coryo to stunted. The same can be said of Lucy Gray — Collins has them. Irish housemaid who lands in the his friends, is a student at the prestigious Baird. Though lacking that killing-machine As soon as news of the book broke, this Dakota Territory of the 1870s Academy, desperately in need of a fi nancial vibe, she’s a singer with charisma to spare, was the question: In a series with so many and sets out to clear her gold- scholarship. Heavy on lineage but short on crooning her way into hearts and making likable characters, why did Collins choose miner brother in the murder of a food, Coryo is living with his cousin Tigris pronouncements such as, “I’ve got a song the most sadistic as the protagonist? In the “streel,” a Deadwood prostitute. and his grandmother in a luxury apartment that was made for this whiskey voice.” She’s fi rst third of the book, head gamemaker Dr. Reardon is a prayerful Catholic stripped of all luxuries. He is the son of a basically the Stevie Nicks of the Hunger Gaul reminds her Academy students that girl who is also appealingly droll dead war hero, and his singular goal is to Games, and Coriolanus, who has survived “wars are won with heads, not hearts.” It’s and self-possessed. Brigid also bring glory back to the House of Snow. on smiles, knows what a powerful weapon the pull between Coryo’s head and heart learns to swoon on cue and aim That’s a tall order for someone surviving charm can be. For the populace placing bets — and the realization that he actually has a a derringer in this vibrant new off beans and cabbage, but the Games prove on the tributes, she is an easy girl to fall in beating heart, not just a rose-scented lump series. to be a game-changer. 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BY RUSSELL CONTRERAS The DJs say they welcome the Associated Press challenge and will do what they can to bring joy amid uncer- woman who identi- tainty. fi ed herself as Rachel The two shows have long been from San Ysidro, Calif., popular with Latinos and those Acalled into the syndicat- with family members in prison. ed “The Art Laboe Connection But now those Show” last month with a message in lockdown for Alex “the Wizard.” are sending “Babe, I want you to know I messages love you more than the distance to others in between us,” Rachel told her lockdown. husband, who is serving time in a “We’re all in state prison in Delano, Calif. “We confi nement got mail from you this week.” today,” Masso, JOSH REYNOLDS/AP She then asks DJ Art Laboe to 69, said. play “God Blessed Our Love” by The 94- Radio host Jose Masso reads the liner notes of a song played during the bilingual “Con Salsa!” radio Al Green. He obliged. Laboe year-old show on WBUR 90.9 FM in Boston. Fans of Masso’s show frequently call in with song requests In Boston, DJ Jose Masso of Laboe is insu- dedicated to separated family members. 90.9 WBUR-FM’s “Con Salsa!” lated in his Palm Springs, Calif., got a similar letter from a Mas- home while still hosting his drawn to his multicultural musi- public radio station while he was Last month, Masso decided he sachusetts inmate. The writer syndicated oldies show, accord- cal lineup. a high school teacher in the city. would try to record new shows wanted a Celia Cruz song and ing to Dale Berger, Laboe’s busi- Over the decades, Laboe In addition to playing salsa and from his home. While he worked asked Masso to tell his family to ness partner. Still, he insists that maintained a fan base, especially Afro-Latino artists, Masso has to get the quality squared, he stay inside. He also obliged. the show continue, even though among Mexican Americans who used the show as a community began live-streaming a version Some Latino families sepa- he has to call in from home or followed him from station to forum and a vehicle for families of his show on Facebook. rated by distance or with loved record promos. station. He started getting calls to communicate with inmates. Some battling depression ones serving time in prisons are “We don’t want him out and from inmates’ family members The show runs from 10 p.m. from isolation messaged. They bypassing COVID-19 restrictions anywhere near the studio,” in the 1990s on his syndicated EDT Saturday until 3 a.m. Sun- thanked him for bringing delight on visits by sending dedica- Berger said. “He can’t catch this oldies show. Current and former day, and can be heard in most of by allowing Puerto Rican salsero tions and messages through the thing.” gang members were some of his Massachusetts, southern New Hector Lavoe to sing about “Mi airwaves and internet via two of Born Arthur Egnoian in Salt most loyal fans. Hampshire and parts of Con- Gente” (My People). the nation’s longest-working disc Lake City to an Armenian Amer- “I don’t judge,” Laboe said in necticut. Like Laboe’s show, it A woman had another request. jockeys. With the novel coronavi- ican family, Laboe gained fame an interview with The Associ- also is streamed live online. She had turned 75 and was alone. rus forcing these families in the when he worked as a disc jockey ated Press at his Palm Springs But Masso also has been Could Masso play the following American Southwest and New for KXLA in Los Angeles. He studio last year. “I like people.” barred as a nonessential em- songs? England to stay home, some are was one of the fi rst DJs to play Today, his Sunday show airs in ployee from the studio’s Boston He obliged. turning to the two popular radio R&B and rock ’n’ roll in Califor- California, Arizona and Nevada. University public radio station, “This woman had expected shows to reaffi rm public declara- nia and is credited by scholars It’s also popular in New Mexico which has opted to play old “Con to celebrate alone,” Masso said. tions of love — or pain — even for helping integrate dance halls where audiences listen online. Salsa!” shows. And Masso still “But there on Facebook, strang- while the shows’ vulnerable, among Latinos, blacks, Asian Masso began “Con Salsa!” 45 is receiving letters from inmates ers across the globe were danc- elder DJs have to sequester, too. Americans and whites who were years ago on Boston University’s and family of inmates. ing with her.” GADGET WATCH Turn your iPhone images into a book Motif

BY GREGG ELLMAN alized home that’s easily Tribune News Service accessible. I recently did just ven with the lockdown that with Motif, using starting to lift, our hours the photo roll on my iPad, at home are more plenti- which is synced with my iPhone, Eful than ever, so what to produce a hardcover 24-page using the app was easy once I I thought the automation gave or change them entirely for full better time to turn some of those 11-by-8.5-inch book. selected my photos for the book. me a great starting point, but it customization. Either is easy. priceless photos you have stored To start the project, the fi rst The app connects to my photo also allowed for customization, Overall, I thought the quality on your iPhone into a coffee table thing I did was fi nd all the photos folders, where I choose what I so I did change the order of a of the product was high, includ- photo book? Think of vacations, for the subject of my book and want in the book. few pictures and swap out a few ing the premium paper and the graduations, birthdays, anniver- put them in their own folder in Overall it’s an easy app to navi- pictures entirely. The app made overall craftsmanship. saries or just a select period of the iOS photo app. gate with a user-friendly dash- it easy to make these changes. A few days later, the book of time. Any group of images will Next, I got the Motif iOS for board and screen shot examples Next was the choice of the memories arrived at my door- work. iPhone or iPad or the Motif for of what all the choices will look book theme; you’ll see samples step, encased in a protective Storing photos digitally is the macOS app for laptop or desktop. like. of each image, and how many sleeve. way go compared to the closet Once downloaded, I chose the I let the Motif app organize the can fi t on a page with different Motif states on its home page: full of prints my mom had in type of book I wanted among images, which took no time at all. layouts and designs. There’s no “Your Best Memories Just Got shoeboxes. If you’re like me, sizes; hardcover choices are In a few steps, the app evaluated right or wrong here, it’s whatever Better.” I can absolutely agree you have photos taken over the 13-by-10, 11-by-8.5, 10-by-10 and image content of my selections you like and want. after I had my completed book. I course of time in your iPhone, 8-by-8 inches. Softcover sizes and then gave me a screen with After you choose the book have a few more books I need to which when combined would are 11-by-8.5, 8-by-6 and 8-by-8 all the images and checkmarks style, it gives you a full layout of do, and I certainly have the time. make a great photo book to give inches. for the choices the software the book with the chosen images. Online: motifphotos.com; the images a permanent, person- After creating my account, thought were best. You can re-crop the images prices vary based on book sizes Sunday, June 7, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 17 AMERICAN ROUNDUP Man suspected of cannibalizing grandma

RICHMOND — Police CA in the San Francisco Bay Area arrested a man on sus- picion of murdering and canni- balizing his own grandmother. Dwayne Wallick, 37, was ar- rested after Richmond police allegedly caught him in the act of eating his 90-year-old grand- mother, Ruby Wallick. Police are unsure of a motive, and continued to investigate, the East Bay Times reported. Officers responded to the home after receiving a report of a man standing over a woman’s body cov- ered in blood. When they entered the home, they allegedly found Dwayne Wallick standing over his grandmother, police said. Police: Man stole from same bar twice in 3 days

FARMINGTON — A NM northwestern New Mexico man faces charges after police said he burglarized the same bar twice within three days and stole alcohol both times. And police said he fell asleep on a couch in one of the cases. The Farmington Daily Times reported Tyrone John was ar- rested following two reported burglaries at the B Lounge inside CHRIS DILLMANN, VAIL (COLO.) DAILY/AP the Brentwood Inn and Garden Motel in Farmington. According to court documents, Rushing waters John was arrested May 26 after police arrived and found the bar’s Lydia Smith digs in for the turn to ring the bell during the opening Vail Recreation District Whitewater Series in Vail, Colo. The Whitewater window broken. Series runs the next two Tuesdays at International Bridge in Vail. Farmington police were dis- patched on May 29 after a man al- cilman Andre Knight during a THE CENSUS seen stationed on top of a bridge legedly walked out of a side door discussion about renovations in over Interstate 85 in Macon Coun- of the bar with a bag of liquor Battle Park, the Rocky Mount ty, Macon County Sheriff Andre The amount Idaho is offering as a bonus bottles. Officers said video sur- Telegram reported. Brunson told WRBL-TV. for people to return to work. Idaho gov- veillance footage showed a man “I feel that we should not at John Bolton, one of the people ernor Brad Little said the incentive is in- who appeared to be John. this time allocate $100,000 or in who saw the burning cross, told John was found two hours later $1,500 tended to help get the Idaho economy the news outlet what “looked like the future any money to that park going again. Part-time workers would re- and arrested. a shadow” fled from the scene as until we as a council address the ceive $750. The state’s unemployment he ran toward the blaze with two Confederate statue in light of rate has rocketed to 11.5% with more than 100,000 unemployed. The money for Man allegedly pointed other men who were with him. He what has happened all across the the payments is coming from $100 million of the $1.25 billion Idaho received in called 911 while “one of the guys gun at an ATF agent country and in close proximity to federal rescue money. State officials estimate it will only last long enough to cover climbed up to the bridge to knock us,” Knight said. about 70,000 workers, but it could be supplemented with other federal money. CHICAGO — A Chicago Rocky Mount Mayor Sandy the cross down,” Bolton said. IL man was in federal cus- Roberson told WRAL-TV that A few minutes later, deputies tody after he allegedly pointed a once the decision is finalized with arrived and helped extinguish the another open meeting vote , the Police: Boy shot by gun ties said, but it’s not clear how the fire, Sheriff Brunson said. Once gun at a federal agent while a child weapon ended up there. stood by his side, authorities said . monument will be removed from found in father’s truck the fire was gone, Bolton said Joseph Hammond was arrested the park and stored elsewhere. they saw a tire and a fuel canister Arson suspect held after had also been set on fire. after U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, To- CLEVELAND — A bacco, Firearms and Explosive Restaurant chain to sell OH 12-year-old Cleveland fire threatens homes agents responded to a call of an company to pay debts boy was killed when a gun he and Oil spill settlement to armed man firing shots on a Chi- his brother found in their father’s SAN JOSE — A man aid in loon restoration suspected of setting cago street. HOUSTON — A popu- truck was accidentally fired, au- CA a half-dozen spot fires in San Prosecutors said agents drove lar Texas cafeteria thorities said. HADLEY — Federal TX Jose was detained as firefight- toward Hammond, announc- chain known for its comfort foods Donell King Sr., 37, is charged MA and state environ- ers worked to corral a blaze that ing themselves and instructing announced it plans to sell the with involuntary manslaughter, mental agencies are spending briefly threatened homes, au- him to stop and show his hands. company to pay off its millions of child endangerment and a weap- more than $8 million from a legal thorities said. Hammond, 33, pointed a hand- dollars in debt. ons offense in the death of his son, settlement stemming from a 2003 The fires were reported in the gun with an extended magazine Luby’s said it will begin the Donell King Jr. oil spill to help restore the com- dry Santa Teresa foothills near at one of the agents and told him process of selling its business op- Cleveland.com reported that mon loon to some areas of Massa- to “keep moving,” according to a water treatment plant. They erations and assets, including real the boy and his brother found the chusetts, and to support existing the federal complaint. He then prompted evacuations of some estate, to pay off $35 million of gun and the brother picked it up. populations of the birds across picked up the child and ran. He homes but the evacuations were debt. The remaining money from Donell Jr. tried to take the gun New England and New York, fed- was later tracked down by agents lifted. the sale will go to stockholders, away, authorities said, but the eral wildlife officials said . and arrested. No homes were damaged. the Houston Chronicle reported. weapon somehow fired and Donell The plan calls for the release of In the meantime, some restau- Jr. was struck in the chest. 45 to 60 common loon chicks from City votes to remove rants will remain open while the His brother, who wasn’t in- Deputies investigate Maine and New York to historic Confederate monument Houston-based company seeks a jured, ran to a nearby police sta- cross burning on bridge Massachusetts breeding sites at buyer. tion to report the shooting. Police the Assawompset Pond Complex ROCKY MOUNT — The move to sell comes after a went to the home and found the TUSKEGEE — Depu- in Lakeville and October Moun- NC The Rocky Mount City special board committee exam- wounded child, who was taken to AL ties in Alabama are in- tain Reservoir in Washington. Council in North Carolina voted ined how to maximize sharehold- a hospital but died a short time vestigating a cross burning after Another portion of the settle- to remove a Confederate monu- er value, which also considered later. a wooden cross lit ablaze was ment will be used to increase ment from a city park. selling the company altogether. Police found the gun in some found by drivers passing along- survival of nesting loons at many The 6-1 vote during a budget Luby’s has been struggling to lure overgrown grass outside a near- side a bridge. breeding sites in the Northeast. meeting was prompted by Coun- customers in recent years. by apartment building, authori- The burning cross was first From wire reports PAGE 18 •STARS AND STRIPES• Sunday, June 7, 2020 OPINION Max D. Lederer Jr., Publisher Lt. Col. Marci Hoffman, Europe commander Lt. Col. Richard McClintic, Pacific commander Put America first by leading again Caroline E. Miller, Europe Business Operations Joshua M. Lashbrook, Pacific Chief of Staff BY ELLIOT SILVERBERG and the Soft Power 30 index, have cor- U.S. to remain the majority shareholder at AND ANDREW INJOO PARK roborated America First’s negative impact multilateral organizations. The U.S. will EDITORIAL Special to Stars and Stripes on Washington’s international standing. need to be even more vigilant in ensuring Today we are witnessing the debilitating that these institutions uphold their man- Terry Leonard, Editor resident Donald Trump’s prom- effects of America First in real time, as the date instead of playing politics or showing [email protected] ise to put “America First” has U.S. struggles to formulate a constructive bad faith. Robert H. Reid, Senior Managing Editor precipitated arguably the most international response to COVID-19. 2) Discern friends from rivals in geopo- [email protected] Pconsequential rethinking of U.S. America’s prioritization of domestic litical competition. Since before the pan- foreign policy since the end of World War interests may seem myopic next to the demic, China has worked relentlessly to Tina Croley, Managing Editor for Content II. Taking its cues from a populist ground- challenges of climate change, deadly pan- exploit a loosening U.S. alliance network [email protected] swell of deglobalization, America First demics and other potentially existential through intimidation and appeasement. Sean Moores, Managing Editor for Presentation repudiates Washington’s accustomed role threats. But whether Trump is reelected However, instead of immediately clos- [email protected] since 1945 at the helm of an international or a Biden administration that attempts to ing ranks with like-minded nations in re- order backed by its military and economic hit the reset button replaces him, Wash- sponse, Trump pursued a self-destructive Joe Gromelski, Managing Editor for Digital leadership, a global network of alliances, ington will continue struggling to balance trade war with China that caused spillover [email protected] and multilateral institutions responsible its competing national and global com- harm to trading partners, while also play- for enforcing the rule of law and common mitments. This is because America First ing hardball in burden-sharing negotia- BUREAU STAFF liberal values. speaks more poignantly to the needs of an tions with South Korea, Japan and NATO. The subject of both extreme derision and impoverished underclass worried about Thanks, however, to the strong COVID-19 Europe/Mideast devotion, induced partly by the controver- being hung out to dry by globalization. responses of U.S. allies like Taiwan, South Erik Slavin, Europe & Mideast Bureau Chief sy surrounding Trump himself, America The problem with Trump’s articulation Korea and Japan, Washington has an op- [email protected] First carries the imprimatur of isolationist of America First, however, is that it re- portunity to shift the focus of U.S.-China +49(0)631.3615.9350; DSN (314)583.9350 opponents of the Washington “blob.” These jects certain features of the postwar order relations away from a futile game of con- bipartisan critics of the U.S. foreign poli- Pacific critical for winning today’s great-power spiracy mud-slinging to a meaningful cy establishment, constituting a diverse Aaron Kidd, Pacific Bureau Chief competition. 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Trump is finally America’s endless wars and transnational starting to rally like-minded nations, for Washington crony capitalism. the Quincy Institute for Responsible State- Joseph Cacchioli, Washington Bureau Chief craft, admit that “the challenge is to save example, through a new Economic Pros- But for proponents of the established perity Network intended to help allies di- [email protected] ‘America First’ from Trump.” Accordingly, (+1)(202)886-0033 “Washington consensus,” America First versify their supply chains from China. a more responsible formulation of America Brian Bowers, Assistant Managing Editor, News worryingly disavows many of the achieve- More of the same will gradually correct First than Trump’s might begin by doing [email protected] ments of neoliberal internationalism. America’s trust deficit. the following: These successes include its unleashing of America is already a great nation. How- CIRCULATION human ingenuity through multinational 1) Reestablish U.S. leadership in mul- ever, America is exceptional not simply private enterprise, and, on balance, its tilateral organizations. Despite early in- due to its military might or democratic val- Mideast dications to the contrary, multilateral Robert Reismann, Mideast Circulation Manager measured defense of global public goods ues, but because 75 years ago it took upon [email protected] such as democracy, human rights, and the frameworks like the Trans-Pacific Part- itself the monumental task of underwrit- [email protected] free flow of goods, people and ideas. nership, World Trade Organization and ing an international system of rules, norms DSN (314)583-9111 Proponents of the established system ad- Paris climate accord have been relegated and institutions that, on balance, have con- Europe ditionally worry that America First’s dis- to the sidelines in favor of unilateral and tributed to global stability and prosperity Karen Lewis, Community Engagement Manager missal of multilateral alliances, institutions bilateral approaches under America First. ever since. Though Trump’s central con- [email protected] and public goods weakens Washington’s COVID-19, however, affirms the endur- cern for U.S. interests is worthy, America [email protected] command over geopolitics. With neoliberal ing need for proactive U.S. leadership in First must not be allowed to absolve Wash- +49(0)631.3615.9090; DSN (314)583.9090 internationalism increasingly under siege global institutions. While Trump’s deci- ington of its indispensable role in global Pacific from a distended group of authoritarian sion to defund the World Health Organi- governance. Mari Mori, [email protected] regimes led by China and Russia, America zation is regrettable, the administration’s concerns regarding the WHO are not un- Elliot Silverberg is a fellow at Georgetown +81-3 6385.3171; DSN (315)227.7333 First has caused perceptions of U.S. cred- University’s Institute for the Study of Diplomacy ibility to dim, and left multilateral institu- founded. 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Deals approves plan Friday’s transactions for some fans FOOTBALL National Football League GREEN BAY PACKERS — Signed 2020 BY DOUG FERGUSON sixth-round draft pick G Jon Runyan. Associated Press KANSAS CITY CHIEFS — Signed S An- drew Soroh. WR Felton Davis placed on waivers. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine ap- HOCKEY proved a plan for Muirfield Village National Hockey League DETROIT REDWINGS — Signed 2020 Golf Club to have at least some second round draft pick D Albert Johans- son to a three-year entry-level contract. fans for the Memorial in July, SOCCER which would make it the first PGA Major League Soccer MLS — Suspended FC Dallas G Jesse Tour event with a crowd since the Gonzalez. tour was shut LOS ANGELES GALAXY — Agreed to mutually part ways with M Aleksander down March Katai. 13 by the COLLEGE CHARLESTON SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY coronavirus. — Hired Anthony Izzio To join baseball DeWine coaching staff as pitching coach. announced the decision Auto racing Friday. He said on Twit- DORAL CHENOWETH, COLUMBUS DISPATCH/TNS Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 ter that casi- lineup nos, racinos, Murifield Village Golf Club will host the first PGA event to allow spectators when it hosts the Memorial. amusement Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series DeWine At Atlanta Motor Speedway parks and the RBC Heritage at Hilton Head, without spectators. Dan Sullivan, the tournament Atlanta water parks Race Sunday the Travelers Championship The Memorial said it would director of the Memorial, had Lap length: 1.54 miles will be able to open on June 19. in Connecticut and the Rocket have more details later. been planning on different sce- (Car number in parentheses) “In addition, we received safe- 1. (9) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet. Mortage Classic in Detroit. The In a statement, the Memorial narios on returning from the 2. (10) Aric Almirola, Ford. ty plans for the Memorial Golf tour said the opening four events praised DeWine and his staff COVID-19 pandemic depending 3. (22) Joey Logano, Ford. Tournament to be held July 13- would not have spectators. and said it would work with state, on state and local governments. 4. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota. 5. (14) Clint Bowyer, Ford. 19,” he wrote. “We are approving The John Deere Classic was county and city leaders to use the Sullivan told the Greater Co- 6. (2) Brad Keselowski, Ford. that plan.” the first possibility for fans until tournament “as an example of lumbus Sports Commission last 7. (12) Ryan Blaney, Ford. 8. (88) Alex Bowman, Chevrolet. The PGA Tour resumes its it decided last week to cancel this how public gathering events can month about inserting chips into 9. (4) Kevin Harvick, Ford. schedule next week at the Charles year’s event. It was replaced by be developed and implemented tournament badges to know how 10. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota. 11. (19) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota. Schwab Challenge in Fort Worth, another tournament, also to be with approved and accepted pro- many people are congregating in 12. (1) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet. Texas. That is to be followed by held at Muirfield Village, only tocols in place.” different areas of the golf course. 13. (17) Chris Buescher, Ford. 14. (20) Erik Jones, Toyota. 15. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet. 16. (3) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet. 17. (6) Ryan Newman, Ford. 18. (38) John Hunter Nemechek, Ford. Briefl y 19. (42) Matt Kenseth, Chevrolet. 20. (24) William Byron, Chevrolet. 21. (21) Matt DiBenedetto, Ford. 22. (47) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Chevrolet. 23. (43) Bubba Wallace, Chevrolet. 24. (8) Tyler Reddick, Chevrolet. Elway joins call for change after Lloyd killing 25. (32) Corey LaJoie, Ford. 26. (51) Joey Gase, Ford. 27. (95) Christopher Bell, Toyota. Associated Press 28. (13) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet. In other NFL news: August. the world — Rory McIlroy, Jon 29. (37) Ryan Preece, Chevrolet.  More than half of the 32 NASCAR already has resched- Rahm, Brooks Koepka, Justin 30. (77) JJ Yeley, Chevrolet. ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — John NFL teams did not have coach- uled races through June 21 and Thomas and Dustin Johnson. 31. (41) Cole Custer, Ford. Elway says he’s no longer stay- 32. (27) Josh Bilicki, Ford. ing staffs at their facilities Friday the update released Thursday be- The biggest name — Tiger 33. (15) Brennan Poole, Chevrolet. ing on the sidelines and is “join- even though the league has ap- gins the next weekend at Pocono Woods — chose not to play. Woods 34. (53) Garrett Smithley, Chevrolet. ing with the players, coaches and 35. (00) Quin Houff, Chevrolet. proved such returns where local Raceway in Pennsylvania. The has only played Colonial once, in 36. (34) Michael McDowell, Ford. our organization in speaking up governments allow them. track will host ARCA, the Truck 1997, when he was going for his 37. (96) Daniel Suarez, Toyota. against racism, police brutal- 38. (66) Timmy Hill, Toyota. Clubs with coaches in place at Series, two Cup Series races on third straight victory and shot 72 39. (78) BJ McLeod, Ford. ity and any injustice against the 40. (7) Reed Sorenson, Chevrolet. black community.” their training complexes were consecutive days, June 27-28, and in the final round to finish three On Friday night, Elway tweeted Super Bowl champion Kansas the Xfinity Series. shots behind. Pro soccer that he spent much of the week lis- City, Green Bay, Pittsburgh, NASCAR will then move to In- tening to his players and coaches Cincinnati, Cleveland, Houston, dianapolis Motor Speedway for a Galaxy drop Katai after Washington, Denver, Dallas, July 4 weekend event combined MLS and realized the views he’s held wife’s online posts for decades were wrong. Jacksonville and Atlanta. While with the IndyCar Series. Then it EASTERN CONFERENCE entire staffs had not yet returned is on to Kentucky Speedway, the W L T Pts GF GA “I always thought that since I LOS ANGELES — Aleksan- Atlanta 2 0 0 6 4 2 in many cities, on hand were such All-Star Race and then Texas dar Katai has been released by New York 1 0 1 4 4 3 grew up in a locker room, I knew Montreal 1 0 1 4 4 3 everything there was to know head coaches as the Chiefs’ Andy Motor Speedway. the LA Galaxy after a series of Toronto FC 1 0 1 4 3 2 Reid, the Steelers’ Mike Tom- Kansas Speedway will host the alarming social media posts by Columbus 1 0 1 4 2 1 about understanding teammates D.C. United 1 1 0 3 3 3 from different backgrounds lin, the Falcons’ Dan Quinn, the Cup Series for a Thursday night his wife, Tea. Chicago 0 1 1 1 2 3 Broncos’ Vic Fangio and three of race July 23. The Galaxy announced their New England 0 1 1 1 2 3 and walks of life,” Elway wrote. Orlando City 0 1 1 1 1 2 “What I’ve realized is that I could the new hires: the Browns Kevin New Hampshire will host the decision to “mutually part ways” Philadelphia 0 1 1 1 3 5 Stefanski, the Cowboys’ Mike Cup Series on Aug. 2 in the final with their new Serbian winger Cincinnati 0 2 0 0 3 5 not have been more wrong. Inter Miami CF 0 2 0 0 1 3 “Listening to players and McCarthy and the Redskins’ Ron event announced in this latest re- Friday in a one-sentence news New York City FC 0 2 0 0 0 2 Rivera, who had much of his staff vised schedule. release. WESTERN CONFERENCE reading their social media, the W L T Pts GF GA strength they have shown and the with him. Tea Katai made the posts on Sporting Kansas City 2 0 0 6 7 1 her Instagram story earlier this Minnesota United 2 0 0 6 8 3 experiences they have shared has Colonial attracts top 5 Colorado 2 0 0 6 4 2 been powerful. It has impacted NASCAR sets schedule golfers in return to tour week, and the Galaxy angrily FC Dallas 1 0 1 4 4 2 me. I realize I have a long way to condemned them as “racist and Los Angeles FC 1 0 1 4 4 3 of races through August Seattle 1 0 1 4 3 2 go, but I will keep listening and FORT WORTH, Texas — The violent” on Wednesday. The posts Portland 1 1 0 3 2 3 CHARLOTTE, N.C. — NAS- PGA Tour returns after three included a photo with a caption Vancouver 1 1 0 3 2 3 learning,” Elway added. “That is Real Salt Lake 0 0 2 2 1 1 the only way to grow. I truly be- CAR’s All-Star Race will be a months, and some of its biggest written in Serbian urging police LA Galaxy 0 1 1 1 1 2 San Jose 0 1 1 1 4 7 lieve a lot of good will come from midweek event on July 15 at Char- stars are ready to play. to “kill” protesters, another re- Houston 0 1 1 1 1 5 the many difficult conversations lotte Motor Speedway as part of a The 148-man field for the ferring to protesters as “disgust- Nashville SC 0 2 0 0 1 3 Note: Three points for victory, one that are taking place around our new revision to the schedule that Charles Schwab Challenge at ing cattle,” and a third sharing a point for tie. team, league and country.” runs through the first weekend of Colonial features the top five in racist meme. Sunday, June 7, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 21 NBA Jordan giving $100 million for equality, racial justice

BY GENE WANG Washington Post Michael Jordan offered his most com- pelling response to date in debunking the narrative that the greatest player of his lifetime, and perhaps in the history of bas- ketball, isn’t doing enough to advance the cause of social justice. The six-time NBA champion, in conjunction with his Jordan Brand, pledged $100 million over the next 10 years to “organizations dedicated to en- suring racial equality, social justice and greater access to education.” The announcement came four days after the Hall of Famer and owner of the Char- lotte Hornets released a statement con- demning the death of George Floyd; a white Minneapolis police of- ficer had pressed his knee against the back JOHN RAOUX/AP of the black man’s A sign at the entrance to ESPN’s Wide World of Sports at Walt Disney World is seen Wednesday in Kissimmee, Fla. The NBA is set neck for nearly nine to restart its season at the ESPN complex at the Disney campus near Orlando next month. minutes. “Black lives mat- ter,” Friday’s state- Jordan ment read in part. “This isn’t a contro- Plan for testing next big step for NBA versial statement. Until the ingrained rac- ism that allows our country’s institutions to fail is completely eradicated, we will re- main committed to protecting and improv- Agreement on 22-team format first in series of major decisions ahead of restart ing the lives of black people.” BY TIM REYNOLDS The games: The season is set to resume when the season resumes. Floyd’s death May 25 sparked demon- July 31, with playoffs starting in mid-Au- “My season is over,” Durant said. “I don’t strations around the country, including Associated Press gust and leading up to an NBA Finals that plan on playing at all. We decided last sum- in the District of Columbia, with protests For the NBA, it is not officially time to could stretch until Oct. 12. mer when it first happened that I was just continuing on the heels of charges being play. It’s getting closer, but the league isn’t Other than Milwaukee and the Los An- elevated against Derek Chauvin, the po- going to wait until the following season. I there yet. geles Lakers, who are all-but certain of lice officer whose knee was on the back of had no plans of playing at all this season.” The move to agree on a 22-team format going into the playoffs with No. 1 seeds, ev- Durant ruptured an Achilles tendon a Floyd’s neck, to second-degree murder. for the resumption of the pandemic-inter- eryone at Disney will be playing for some- “We represent a proud family that has year ago for Golden State in Game 5 of the rupted season is a major step forward, but thing — a playoff seed or a playoff spot. NBA Finals against Toronto. overcome obstacles, fought against dis- it was just the first of many major deci- The dynamic at the bottom of the East crimination in communities worldwide He also had COVID-19 this year. sions that have to be completed before the is fascinating with Brooklyn and Orlando “This certainly wasn’t how we hoped and that works every day to erase the stain league moves into the ESPN Wide Wide Of separated by a half-game — and Washing- of racism and the damage of injustice,” our season would come to an end, and it’s Sports complex at the Disney campus near ton just 1 ½ games out of getting into a two- fair to say that we are disappointed that Jordan Brand’s statement read. Orlando, Fla., next month. game play-in series for the No. 8 spot. Jordan has been criticized for his per- our young team will not be allowed to Another step was completed Friday as Out West, expect craziness with six gain more valuable time playing togeth- ceived indifference to activism, including expected when the representatives from teams basically assured of vying for one er by being included in the restart of the not endorsing Harvey Gantt, an African the National Basketball Players Associa- berth. season,” Hawks general manager Travis American, during the 1990 Senate race tion voted to unanimously approve the pro- Whichever team emerges from that mess Schlenk and coach Lloyd Pierce said in a against incumbent Jesse Helms in his posal that the NBA’s Board of Governors will be playoff-ready and loaded with con- joint statement Friday. home state of North Carolina. approved a day earlier. fidence heading into Game 1 of Round 1 There’s a lot of teams feeling the same “I’ll be honest: When it was reported More talks and negotiations are sched- against the Lakers. That means the Lakers way. that Michael Jordan said, ‘Republicans uled for the coming days to work out every- will have to be playoff-sharp right away, Next season: The very long wait for the buy sneakers, too,’ for somebody who was thing else, and it is a sizable list. A look at because LeBron James and his teammates eight teams not going to Disney and the at that time preparing for a career in civil some of the other issues facing the league, will open against a team that’s hot. very short offseason for the teams that go rights law and public life, and knowing both in the quest to finish this season and The other eight: Consider this: Detroit deep into the playoffs at Disney are not the what Jesse Helms stood for, you would then what awaits in the coming year: didn’t win a game in March, and now won’t only schedule issue on the table right now. have wanted to see Michael push harder Testing: The format was significant, but play in April, May, June, July, August, Sep- on that,” former president Barack Obama not the biggest hurdle for the NBA to clear tember, October or November. If the NBA goes forward with a normal said in an episode of “The Last Dance,” in this process. That one, by far, is testing. The Pistons’ last win was Feb. 28. The regular season in 2020-21, a Dec. 1 start ESPN’s 10-part documentary on the Jor- The medical protocols are the most critical rough — very rough — draft of the NBA date means the playoffs wouldn’t start until dan-era Bulls. part of the return-to-play plan. calendar suggests next season will start late May and could reach into late July. Fellow Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul- The league and the players know they Dec. 1. And that calls into question whether Jabbar, who long has spoken about social must go above and beyond in the interest That’s almost nine full months without NBA players could take part in the Olym- issues, even chastised Jordan in 2015 for of safety. The protocols are the key — play- games. Meanwhile, the 2020 NBA finalists pics, which has qualifying scheduled for choosing “commerce over conscience.” ers will have to practice social distancing aren’t even slated to get nine weeks off be- June 2021 for the final four spots in the But in 2017, Jordan offered a statement when they aren’t playing, plus submit to a fore next season starts. men’s field and then the Tokyo Games in support of peaceful protest and free quarantine at the beginning of the time at And every team will have to cram a draft themselves beginning on July 23, 2021. speech. That same year, he voiced displea- Disney and likely daily testing for the en- and free agency into very small windows USA Basketball managing director Jer r y sure over North Carolina’s so-called “bath- tirety of their stay there. next fall. Colangelo has said the Americans will wait room bill” that compelled the NBA to move Players and coaches likely won’t even be For Detroit, Chicago, New York, Atlanta, and see what the NBA schedule really is the All-Star Game out of Charlotte. able to have their families at Disney until Cleveland, Charlotte, Minnesota and Gold- before reacting and setting a firm plan for “We must join forces with the communi- September, at the earliest. en State, it’ll be a long break. The Warriors’ picking a team for Tokyo next summer. ty, government and civic leaders to create A person with direct knowledge of the Klay Thompson last played a year ago, But for the players who play deep into a lasting impact together,” Jordan Brand talks said the NBA and NBPA have been when he tore his ACL in the NBA Finals. this season, then play deep into next sea- President Craig Williams said in a state- working on what will be lengthy protocols He’s basically going to go a year and a half son, that’s a lot of basketball without a lot ment. “There is still more work for us to do — which, among other things, will explain without playing a real game. The same for of time off. And that could make the job to drive real impact for the black commu- what happens when a player or coach tests Kevin Durant, who told The Undefeated on of picking an Olympic team much tougher nity. We embrace the responsibility.” positive while at the Disney complex. Friday he won’t return to Brooklyn’s lineup than usual. PAGE 22 • S TARS AND STRIPES• Sunday, June 7, 2020 VIRUS OUTBREAK Stadiums may look different post-quarantine

Expect plenty of empty seats whenever fans welcomed back

BY DAVE SKRETTA Associated Press LAWRENCE, Kan. — Empty seats have been the norm the past few years at the University of Kansas, where a succession of football coaches has failed to turn around the flailing fortunes of the Jayhawks. Now, all those open seats — and short lines and quiet concourses — will be the norm in stadiums just about everywhere. The coronavirus pandemic has forced universities, leagues and franchises to evaluate how they might someday wel- come back fans. While opinions vary from sport to sport, nation to nation and even state to state, one thing seems clear: Social distancing is a sure bet when fans return. So don’t expect 100,000-plus fans packed into Michigan Stadium for a football game this fall or 16,300 seated inside Kansas’ storied Allen Fieldhouse ‘ We’ve modeled when college basketball Allen Fieldhouse, season rolls and I can’t bring around. myself to look at “We don’t know how it because I know we’ll be com- how few people it ing back,” Jayhawks ath- will be and that’s letic director upsetting. ’ Jeff Long ac- Jeff Long knowledged. Kansas athletic director “We’ve mod- eled 15 to 16,000 in Memorial Stadium, and to be honest with you, we’ve modeled Allen Fieldhouse, and I can’t bring myself to look at it because I /AP know how few people it will be and that’s PHOTOS BY LM OTERO upsetting.” Baseball fans Mark Southard, center left, and his wife Janelle Southard pose for a photo taken by their son Grayson, 16, during a Most colleges rely heavily on ticket sales, tour of Globe Life Field, home of the Texas Rangers, during the first day of public tours in Arlington, Texas, on Monday. souvenirs and concessions in football and basketball to raise the bottom line to the can do,” said R.J. Orr, whose Arizona-based point that non-revenue sports can be fully firm Bluemedia specializes in such “seat funded. But smaller crowds are going to kills” and temporary structures. They al- be necessary to ensure proper social dis- ready have worked with Arizona State and tancing — in pro sports around the globe, other schools on similar projects. too. Forbes estimates the NFL would lose The next challenge is keeping fans so- $5.5 billion in stadium revenue if all games cially distant when they do leave their are played without fans, and the fallout for seats. A company called WaitTime has other leagues without lucrative TV deals software applications tied to security cam- could be catastrophic. eras that allow fans and stadium operators The virus that causes COVID-19 is most to know on monitors or apps just how busy easily spread when an infected person certain areas might be. A motion analyt- coughs, sneezes or talks and the drop- ics company, iinside, uses lidar sensors to lets spread to people nearby. That’s why detect unsafe crowding. guidelines from the Centers for Disease “We’re working on tools to overlay crowd Control and World Health Organization density on top of stadium maps,” iinside preach separation in public as an effective CEO Sam Kamel said. “These maps would safeguard. then tell fans where to avoid, or when it’s In a stadium, though, creating that kind ‘safe’ to get a hot dog or Coke and when the of buffer is no easy task. food court isn’t too crowded.” Most fans tend to file through the gates There is little dispute that the game-day at the same time, creating a bottleneck in experience will be vastly different. which thousands could be in close proxim- At baseball games in Taiwan, up to 1,000 ity. They gather in concourses to chat or spectators have been allowed into the ball- buy food, drinks and merchandise. They A member of the media uses a long microphone boom to interview Texas Rangers park, but they were barred from bringing stand in lines at restrooms. They surge to- fans during tours at Globe Life Field on Monday. The coronavirus pandemic has forced food, concession stands are closed and they ward the exits at the end of the game. sports teams and their leagues to evaluate how they will welcome back fans. are told to sit three seats apart. During a Most teams and leagues have not pub- recent Fubon Guardians game in New Tai- licly revealed their plans for fall sports, by row like a church service and using mate settings for concerts or other events, pei City, about 900 people showed up at its though some are up front about what to ex- technology to minimize person-to-person and Bristol Motor Speedway had some of 12,500-seat stadium, leaning across empty pect. Iowa State is looking at selling only contact. them strung up for last weekend’s NAS- seats to talk with friends and moving on enough tickets to fill up half of Jack Trice Once fans return, partitioning off seats CAR race in Tennessee. their own to cues from cheerleaders and Stadium for football games and Notre will become crucial. And those won’t just Another idea is to turn sections of 20 or mascots. Dame has warned of fewer fans and limits be empty seats. Teams and leagues are in- more individual or bench seats into tem- “There’s plenty of social distance here,” to tailgating. vestigating the use of temporary banners porary suites, where a group of 10 friends said Guardians fan Sun Ming, who works The Miami Dolphins released a num- spread across entire sections that can then and family members can be socially dis- in finance in New Taipei City. ber of ideas under consideration: using be sold for sponsorship, helping to bridge tant from other groups — and potentially It could be that way for quite a while. every other turnstile, calling fans into the the gap caused by unsold tickets. Such ban- selling them for a higher price. AP sports writers Dave Campbell, Larry Lage and stadium in sections, letting them out row ners are already used to create more inti- “There are a lot of different things you John Pye contributed to this report. Sunday, June 7, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES•PAGE 23 NFL/MLB Goodell says league was wrong Admits it should have listened to players fighting for racial equality

Associated Press cisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick and peacefully protest. We, the National began speaking out against in 2016 when Football League, believe Black Lives Mat- NEW YORK — NFL Commissioner he started taking a knee during the nation- ter. I personally protest with you and want Roger Goodell says the league was wrong al anthem. to be part of the much needed change in for not listening to players fighting for “It has been a difficult time for our this country. racial equality and encourages them to country. In particular, black people in our “Without black players, there would be peacefully protest. country,” Goodell said in a video released no National Football League. And the pro- One day after 2018 NFL MVP Patrick Friday. “First, my condolences to the fami- tests around the country are emblematic Mahomes and several of his peers released lies of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ah- of the centuries of silence, inequality and a video demanding the league condemn maud Arbery and all the families who have oppression of black players, coaches, fans LM OTERO/AP racism, Goodell made his strongest state- endured police brutality. We, the National and staff. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell ment on the issues many players passion- Football League, condemn racism and the “We are listening. I am listening, and I said Friday the league was wrong for ately support. systematic oppression of black people. We, will be reaching out to players who have not listening to players fighting for George Floyd’s death has ignited na- the National Football League, admit we raised their voices and others on how we racial equality and encouraged them to tionwide protests over racial injustice and were wrong for not listening to NFL play- can improve and go forward for a better peacefully protest. police brutality, issues former San Fran- ers earlier and encourage all to speak out and more united NFL family.” Play: Sides Save: Yankees, Astros, fighting over Dodgers benefit the most

FROM BACK PAGE Philadelphia catcher J.T. Real- salary cuts experience by far the steep- muto’s $10 million salary would est cuts. Set to earn $36 million drop to a $2.4 million base as part FROM BACK PAGE each, Mike Trout and Gerrit Cole of the MLB proposal and to $7 million under the union plan. Players responded on Sunday would get $25.3 million under the union’s plan and a base of $5.6 Milwaukee pitcher Brett An- with a 114-game regular-season derson would fall from $5 mil- schedule running through Octo- million under the teams’ propos- al, with the chance to get back to lion to $1.4 million in MLB’s plan ber and no additional cuts. Each and to $3.5 million in the union’s player would get about 70% of his about $8 million if the postseason is played. A rookie at the mini- formula. original salary under the union’s “Interesting strategy of making plan and roughly 22-47% under ELAINE THOMPSON/AP mum would get $396,537 from the union plan and $256,706 from the best most marketable play- MLB’s proposal, including $200 Grounds crew workers Jacob Weiderstrom, left, and Marcus Gignac ers potentially look like the bad million tied to the postseason the MLB proposal — not much continue to keep the Seattle Mariners’ field in playing shape during more than the $222,222 per game guys,” Anderson tweeted after being completed. MLB made its proposal. the coronavirus pandemic that has delayed baseball season. Trout and Cole originally were “We are disappointed that you MLB and the union have been slated to earn. are purportedly shutting down making plans to start the season that in the event of a unilateral Meyer criticized MLB for the The Yankees project to pay negotiations after making one next month in ballparks without implementation of a season by pace of negotiations and for not $155 million to players under the proposal demanding over $800 fans, and teams say they will sus- MLB there are numerous aspects responding to all of the union’s union’s plan, according to the AP million in further pay cuts,” document requests, which in- tain huge losses. In response to of a season that the players asso- analysis based on frozen March Meyer wrote. “We reject your clude agreements between clubs the union’s stance, MLB is con- ciation will not be under any ob- 28 rosters, and spend $48 million invitation at the end of the letter and regional sports networks. sidering proposing a much short- ligation to agree to, most notably on salary under management’s to negotiate against ourselves. Some of the RSNs have elements er schedule, perhaps 50 games or any changes to the existing play- proposal. The Astros drop from We are similarly chagrined by of ownership overlapping teams fewer. off structure and the locations of $149 million to $46 million and your decision to carry through on and individuals who own teams. The pandemic-induced stop- playoff games. If you intend to the Dodgers from $147 million to Rob’s threat from last Sunday to seek the players’ agreement to MLB claims that by playing page has wrecked baseball’s fi- intentionally play as few games $46 million. any such changes, we suggest that in empty ballparks, it would lose nances. MLB says that by playing as possible unless players agree Lower-spending teams save, you raise them expeditiously.” $640,000 for each additional in empty ballparks, teams would to your demand for pay cuts.” too, but not nearly as much be- Under the March agreement, game. The union has challenged combine to lose $640,000 for each MLB has proposed expanding cause their starting points are the season cannot start without MLB’s analysis. additional regular-season game. the playoffs from 10 teams to 14, lower. Miami is at $33 million MLB’s consent until there are “We note that the league fre- Teams also say they fear ex- which would create at least six under the union’s plan and $16 no government restrictions on quently claims that it has negative tending play deep into the fall, as new games with broadcast rights million under MLB’s. Pitts- playing in front of fans in home operating profits from playing the union proposes, would risk a to sell. The union offered to agree burgh’s salaries would drop from second wave of the coronavirus ballparks, no relevant travel re- baseball yet it still puts on base- to a playoff expansion through ball games every year,” Meyer $36 million to $17 million and that would prevent the postsea- strictions in the U.S. and Canada, 2021. said. “The league has done noth- Baltimore’s from $43 million to son from being played. and a determination by Manfred Both sides have said they hope ing to persuade us of the veracity $18 million. Both sides have said they hope there is no health risk to play- to start the season around the of its claims. As an example, the Players agreed on March 26 to to start the season around the ers, staff or spectators. The sides beginning of July, and talks may RSN contracts finally produced accept prorated shares of their beginning of July, and talks may committed to “discuss in good intensify next week. by the league on June 1 were so salaries during a shortened sea- intensify next week. Some on the Before the pandemic, players faith the economic feasibility of heavily redacted as to be essen- son, part of a deal that guaran- players’ side fear teams may at- were set to earn about $4 billion playing games in the absence of tially meaningless.” teed $170 million in advances and tempt to implement a relatively in salaries, not including signing spectators or at appropriate sub- The union offered to defer up service time even if the season is short schedule, which could pro- bonuses, termination pay and op- stitute neutral sites.” to $100 million in salaries if the scrapped. More than 100 players voke the threat of a grievance tion buyouts. Under the March 26 Halem had written to the union postseason isn’t completed this gathered for a digital meeting and to play while seeking money agreement, that would be cut to on Wednesday that “we do not year, but Halem said teams have Thursday and reaffirmed their damages. around $2 billion in an 82-game have any reason to believe that assumed $2 billion in additional stance against additional cuts. The AP study looked solely at season. a negotiated solution for an 82- debt. A player with a $20 million sal- 2020 salaries and did not include MLB’s offer would lower sala- game season is possible.” “Rob said at our last meeting ary, like St. Louis All-Star catcher prorated shares of signing bonus- ries to $1.2 billion plus the $200 “The commissioner is commit- that the league ‘can pay 100% of Yadier Molina, would be guaran- es, which are guaranteed when a million for the postseason. The ted to playing baseball in 2020,” salaries right now’ and that MLB teed just below $4 million under contract is signed and approved union’s proposal would leave sal- he added. “He has started dis- doesn’t have liquidity issues,” the MLB plan and about $14.1 by the commissioner’s office. aries at $2.8 billion. cussions with ownership about Meyer wrote. “Rob’s statement million under the union plan. MLB offered a six-tier sliding “The league needs to tell us im- staging a shorter season without that the league can easily borrow Tampa Bay pitcher Charlie Mor- scale of cuts starting at 10% and mediately when it plans to start fans. Assuming that those discus- the equivalent of the proposed de- ton’s $15 million salary would be rising to 90% for the amounts of the season if it plans to do so sions go well, we will notify you ferral is also noteworthy in light cut to a $3.2 million base under salaries above $10 million, fol- unilaterally,” Meyer wrote. “We at the appropriate time of our of the league’s claims about clubs the MLB plan and $10.6 million lowed by prorating based on an assume the league understands intentions.” being buried in debt.” under the MLB proposal. 82-game season. S TARS AND STRIPES Sunday, June 7, 2020 Hurdles to clear Despite settling on format, NBA SPORTS still has issues to solve » Page 21

MLB Are they going to play? Players say teams are depriving Americans of baseball games

BY RONALD BLUM Associated Press NEW YORK — Players accused teams of “depriving America of baseball games” as part of a money fight set off by the coronavirus pandemic and raised the possibility baseball Commis- sioner Rob Manfred might push ahead with a shortened season over the union’s objection. Bruce Meyer, the union’s chief negotia- tor, sent a letter to Deputy Commissioner Dan Halem on Friday threatening that an attempt to play without an agreement could lead players to block any attempt to expand the playoffs and deny consent to neutral-site games in the postseason. “The league’s cynical tactic of depriving America of baseball games in furtherance of their demand Analysis for unwarranted salary concessions is shortsighted and troubling,” Meyer wrote. “Meanwhile, other leagues are moving forward with their plans for Big-spending teams will save resumption.” Meyer’s letter was first reported by The Athlet- BY RONALD BLUM delayed season than they would ic, and a copy was obtained by The Associated Associated Press under the union’s plan, according Press. NEW YORK — The New York to an analysis by The Associated Major League Baseball made its initial economic Yankees, Houston Astros and Los Press. proposal on May 26, offering an 82-game regular- Angeles Dodgers would each save Top stars accustomed to eye- season schedule and a sliding scale of cuts beyond more than $100 million on player popping salaries that set them the prorated shares of salaries the sides agreed to salaries as part of management’s apart from mere All-Stars would on March 26. proposal to start the coronavirus- SEE SAVE ON PAGE 23 SEE PLAY ON PAGE 23

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