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WORLD NHL VIDEO GAMES China flies warplanes Playoffs showcase Spellbreak weaves near Taiwan during a renaissance in battle royale genre US envoy’s visit Russia’s goaltending into a fantasy RPG Page 10 Back page Page 13 Trump to ban US downloads of WeChat, TikTok starting Sunday » Page 9 Volume 79, No. 110A ©SS 2020 CONTINGENCY EDITION SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2020 stripes.com Free to Deployed Areas After Sally Rescuers reach people cut off by Gulf Coast hurricane Page 7 ANGIE WANG/AP A damaged business is seen in the aftermath of Hurricane Sally, in Perdido Key, Fla., on Thursday. Rescuers on the Gulf Coast used boats and high-water vehicles on Friday to reach people cut off by floodwaters in the aftermath of the hurricane as others struggled to recover. US Embassy in Kabul warns of extremist attacks against women BY KATHY GANNON end to decades of relentless war. sides. He said that some among Afghani- The embassy didn’t provide specifics, in- Associated Press The “Taliban don’t have any plans to stan’s many leaders would be content to cluding how imminent the threat is. carry out any such attacks,” the group’s continue with the status quo rather than The Taliban have been harshly criticized KABUL, Afghanistan — The U.S. spokesman Zabihullah Mujahed told The find a peaceful end to the war that might for their treatment of women and girls dur- Embassy in Afghanistan warned that Associated Press on Friday. involve power sharing. ing their five-year rule, when the insurgent extremists groups are planning attacks Peace negotiations underway in Qatar, According to the embassy warning issued group denied girls access to school and against a “variety of targets” but are tak- where the Taliban maintain a political of- late Thursday, “extremist organizations women to work outside their home. The ing particular aim at women. fice, are in the initial stages, with partici- continue to plan attacks against a vari- Taliban rule ended in 2001 when a U.S.-led The warning didn’t specify which or- pants still hammering out what items on ety of targets in Afghanistan, including a coalition ousted the hard-line regime for ganizations were plotting the attacks. But the agenda will be negotiated and when. heightened risk of attacks targeting female its part in sheltering al-Qaida, which was it comes as the Taliban and government- Washington’s peace envoy Zalmay government and civilian workers, includ- responsible for the 9/11 terrorist attacks on appointed negotiators are sitting together Khalilzad said at the start of negotiations ing teachers, human rights activists, office the U.S. for the first time to try to find a peaceful last weekend that spoilers existed on both workers, and government employees.” SEE KABUL ON PAGE 4 PAGE 2 •STARS AND STRIPES• Saturday, September 19, 2020 BUSINESS/WEATHER EXCHANGE RATES Military rates Switzerland (Franc) ........................... 0.9110 Euro costs (Sept. 21) ............................$1.16 Thailand (Baht) .................................... 31.12 Google gets tax break for facility Dollar buys (Sept. 21) ...........................€0.82 Turkey (Lira) ........................................7.5725 British pound (Sept. 21) ...................... $1.26 (Military exchange rates are those Japanese yen (Sept. 21) ....................102.00 available to customers at military banking South Korean won (Sept. 21) ........1,136.00 facilities in the country of issuance Commercial rates Associated Press center at the Tahoe Reno Indus- The facility is expected to open for Japan, South Korea, Germany, the Bahrain (Dinar) ................................... 0.3771 Netherlands and the United Kingdom. For trial Center in northern Nevada, in 2021, the Reno Gazette-Jour- British pound ....................................$1.2944 RENO, Nev. — Google will re- nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e., Canada (Dollar) ..................................1.3187 bringing its total investment in nal reported. purchasing British pounds in Germany), ceive more than $25 million in China (Yuan) .......................................6.7736 check with your local military banking the state to $1.8 billion, said Gov. “This is a very good deal for Denmark (Krone) ...............................6.2882 tax breaks after pledging an addi- facility. Commercial rates are interbank Egypt (Pound) ...................................15.7597 Steve Sisolak. To date, the com- Nevada,” said Michael Brown, rates provided for reference when buying tional $600 million for a new data Euro ....................................... $1.1833/0.8451 currency. All figures are foreign currencies pany has invested $300 million in the director of the development Hong Kong (Dollar) ............................7.7501 center in southern Nevada, state to one dollar, except for the British pound, Hungary (Forint) ................................304.79 the Reno facility. board. “In return for the $25 mil- which is represented in dollars-to-pound, officials said. Israel (Shekel) ....................................3.4229 and the euro, which is dollars-to-euro.) The company previously com- Sisolak and seven members of lion abatement that Google will Japan (Yen) ..........................................104.40 mitted $600 million to the data the state Office of Economic De- receive, the company will make a Kuwait (Dinar) ....................................0.3057 INTEREST RATES Norway (Krone) ..................................9.0836 center in the Las Vegas suburb of velopment board approved more $427 million impact on the econ- Philippines (Peso) ................................48.45 Prime rate ................................................3.25 Henderson. than $25 million in tax breaks for omy over 20 years and generate Poland (Zloty) .........................................3.77 Discount rate ..........................................0.25 Saudi Arabia (Riyal) ..........................3.7513 Federal funds market rate ...................0.09 Google also said it would in- the construction of the company’s $94 million in tax revenue over Singapore (Dollar) .............................1.3583 3-month bill .............................................0.09 vest $600 million to build a data Henderson data center. 20 years.” South Korea (Won) ..........................1163.74 30-year bond ...........................................1.43 WEATHER OUTLOOK SATURDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST SATURDAY IN EUROPE SUNDAY IN THE PACIFIC Misawa 75/63 Kabul 87/55 Seoul 76/58 Baghdad 108/75 Kandahar 94/57 Osan Tokyo Mildenhall/ Drawsko 72/53 70/61 Lakenheath Pomorskie Busan 73/54 67/46 79/61 Iwakuni 77/63 Kuwait Bahrain Zagan Sasebo City 102/88 Brussels 71/47 Guam 112/86 83/57 Ramstein 79/64 86/79 Lajes, 78/51 Riyadh Doha Azores Stuttgart Pápa 102/74 102/84 74/66 76/52 72/46 Aviano/ Vicenza 77/58 Naples 88/68 Okinawa Morón 79/75 93/73 Sigonella Rota 84/68 The weather is provided by the Djibouti Souda Bay American Forces Network Weather Center, 97/85 75/63 83/66 2nd Weather Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. T O D A Y IN STRIPES American Roundup ............ 11 Comics ............................. 17 Crossword ........................ 17 Entertainment .............. 14-15 Health and Fitness ............12 Opinion ............................16 Sports ......................... 18-24 Video Games .....................13 Saturday, September 19, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 3 MILITARY Esper calls for more spending on shipbuilding BY STEPHEN SINGER a 30-year shipbuilding plan and The Hartford Courant force structure assessment. Nei- ther has been delivered, said Defense Secretary Mark Esper Courtney, chairman of the House is calling for increased spend- ing on shipbuilding with a larger Armed Services Subcommit- submarine force, even as Elec- tee on Seapower and Projection tric Boat hires more workers and Forces. expands its shipyard to build the Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a next-generation Columbia-class member of the Senate Armed submarine. Services Committee, also said DAVE RESS, THE DAILY PRESS/TNS But the drive to counter Chinese Congress “needs to see the details Cmdr Matt Wright of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 22 talks about the flexibility the unit gains with ambitions raises questions about as soon as possible so that we can the new MQ-8C he’s standing by. The squardon has the first MQ-8Cs on the East Coast. where more money would come assess our strategy and funding from in the Pentagon budget. needs going forward.” In a speech Wednesday at the To direct more money into new RAND Corp., a Santa Monica, Navy’s newest unmanned aerial Calif., think tank, Esper said the ships without pulling from other future U.S. naval force will be Navy accounts, Courtney said the more balanced in its ability to Pentagon could tap the National vehicle arrives at Norfolk base “deliver lethal effects from the Sea-Based Deterrence Fund es- air, from the sea and from under tablished by Congress in 2014 to BY DAVE RESS ers, will have more flexibility to instance, move it up and to the the sea.” The fleet will be made fund part of the Columbia-class Daily Press (Newport News, Va.) handle the many missions those right, is a two-step operation with up of more and smaller surface submarine. ships undertake, said Cmdr Matt a drone. combatants; manned, unmanned “They could do that today,” he For 21 years, Petty Office 1st Wright, the squadron’s command- It takes some getting used to, and autonomous surface and sub- said. surface vehicles; unmanned car- Class Timothy Egner has served ing officer. Jaenke said. But he has