Volume 79, No. 90B ©SS 2020 CONTINGENCY EDITION SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 2020 stripes.com Free to Deployed Areas Rash of suspected homicides increase scrutiny of Army’s crime-riddled Texas base BY ROSE L. THAYER Stars and Stripes AUSTIN, Texas — Latrece Johnson woke up gasping for air at exactly 2:43 a.m. March 14 in her home in Vidalia, Ga. She said it felt like a dream, but she knew in- stantly that something had happened to her son, Spc. Freddy Delacruz. “I felt him take his last breath. I saw him call to me. I felt him being shot,” Johnson said, recalling the pain she felt at the exact time her son was shot six times in an apart- ment in Killeen, Texas. “I literally gargled on the same blood.” Delacruz, 23, was shot and killed along with his pregnant girlfriend Asia Cline, 20, and Army veteran Shaquan Allred, 23. He was the second soldier murdered this year at Fort Hood but not the last. SEE DEATH ON PAGE 4 Activists held signs depicting Spc. Vanessa Guillen at a rally on July 30 in Washington, D.C. Guillen’s family said Vanessa, who was killed at Fort Hood in April, told them she was being sexually harassed but was too afraid to report it. NIKKI WENTLING/Stars and Stripes Restored palace a bright spot for Afghans celebrating holiday BY J.P. LAWRENCE Palace now stands as “a symbol of Af- The neoclassical palace’s shimmering end of the same decade when Amanullah’s Stars and Stripes ghans’ unity, resistance, independence and copper roof and gleaming white walls have reign was cut short by a revolt of religious sacrifices,” historian Habibullah Rafi said replaced the husk that was long a morbid mullahs. KABUL, Afghanistan — A palace that Tuesday at an Independence Day celebra- attraction for visitors to Kabul. The refur- Originally intended to house the nation- was once bombed-out and pockmarked tion at the historic building, which sits on a bishment came after years of work, most of al parliament, the palace and its grounds with bullet holes is now fully restored as hill on the western edge of Kabul. which was completed last summer. have served during the past four decades of Afghans mark 101 years of independence Its name means “Abode of Peace,” but The palace was considered the unfin- war as government offices and ministries. from Britain. President Ashraf Ghani called it the “Pal- ished masterpiece of the reformist King Much more recently, it was a temporary Long seen by many Afghans as a painful ace of Abandoned Dreams” a few years be- Amanullah, who reigned early last century. reminder of decades of war, Darul Aman fore ordering its restoration in 2016. Work began in the 1920s but stopped at the SEE BRIGHT ON PAGE 7 MILITARY NATION MUSIC Former Green Beret California wildfires have ‘Total Freedom’ sound faces charges of forced over 100,000 of singer-songwriter spying for Russia to flee amid pandemic Edwards’ second wind Page 3 Page 8 Page 13 ‘Greatest Spectacle in Racing’ set to go on in Indianapolis » Back Page PAGE 2 •STARS AND STRIPES• Sunday, August 23, 2020 BUSINESS/WEATHER EXCHANGE RATES Tech firms propel S&P 500 to all-time Military rates Switzerland (Franc)............................ 0.9124 Euro costs (August 24) ........................$1.15 Thailand (Baht) .................................... 31.58 Dollar buys (August 24) ................... €0.8248 Turkey (Lira) .........................................7.3407 British pound (August 24) .................. $1.28 (Military exchange rates are those Japanese yen (August 24) ................103.00 available to customers at military banking Associated Press rope after more discouraging re- cord-setting week, the market’s South Korean won (August 24) ....1,155.00 facilities in the country of issuance ports there indicated a slowdown momentum has slowed recently Commercial rates for Japan, South Korea, Germany, the NEW YORK — The S&P 500 Bahrain (Dinar) ....................................0.3770 Netherlands and the United Kingdom. For in its economies. after roaring back from its nearly British pound .....................................$1.3095 nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e., ticked higher to close at another The Dow Jones Industrial Av- 34% plunge from late February Canada (Dollar) ...................................1.3190 purchasing British pounds in Germany), all-time high Friday, powered by China (Yuan) ....................................... 6.9195 check with your local military banking erage climbed 190.60, or 0.7%, to into March. Denmark (Krone) ................................6.3165 facility. Commercial rates are interbank strength for technology stocks 27,930.33, and the Nasdaq com- The S&P 500 rose 0.7% for the Egypt (Pound) ................................... 15.9305 rates provided for reference when buying Euro ........................................$1.1788/0.8483 currency. All figures are foreign currencies and a couple reports on the U.S. posite added 46.85, or 0.4%, to week. It was the seventh gain for to one dollar, except for the British pound, economy that were better than Hong Kong (Dollar) .............................7.7504 which is represented in dollars-to-pound, 11,311.80. the index in the last eight weeks, Hungary (Forint) ................................. 297.71 and the euro, which is dollars-to-euro.) expected. The S&P 500 surpassed its but the last two have been the Israel (Shekel) .....................................3.4008 The benchmark index rose Japan (Yen) ...........................................105.82 prior closing high of 3,389.78, most modest during that stretch. Kuwait (Dinar) .....................................0.3059 INTEREST RATES 11.65 points, or 0.3%, to 3,397.16, which was set on Tuesday after Investors are still waiting for Norway (Krone) ...................................9.0175 Philippines (Peso).................................48.66 Prime rate ................................................3.25 even though the majority of the index erased the last of its more clarity on several fronts, Poland (Zloty) .......................................... 3.74 Discount rate ..........................................0.25 stocks in the index weakened. It historic losses from the corona- which could drive the next big Saudi Arabia (Riyal) .......................... 3.7508 Federal funds market rate ...................0.09 Singapore (Dollar) ..............................1.3722 3-month bill .............................................0.09 followed up on losses across Eu- virus pandemic. Despite its re- move up or down. South Korea (Won) ...........................1192.03 30-year bond ...........................................1.35 WEATHER OUTLOOK SUNDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST SUNDAY IN EUROPE MONDAY IN THE PACIFIC Misawa 75/71 Kabul 91/66 Seoul 85/70 Baghdad 102/76 Kandahar 102/73 Osan Tokyo Mildenhall/ Drawsko 86/72 81/73 Lakenheath Pomorskie Busan 67/57 71/61 83/74 Iwakuni 82/78 Kuwait Bahrain Zagan Sasebo City 94/87 Brussels 69/63 Guam 105/86 68/59 Ramstein 87/77 85/82 Lajes, 70/62 Riyadh Doha Azores Stuttgart Pápa 112/83 99/82 73/70 68/62 80/67 Aviano/ Vicenza 77/68 Naples 86/71 Okinawa Morón 86/83 101/61 Sigonella Rota 95/68 The weather is provided by the Djibouti Souda Bay American Forces Network Weather Center, 103/88 81/64 81/74 2nd Weather Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. T O D A Y IN STRIPES American Roundup ..... 11 Books ....................... 14 Comics/Crossword ...... 15 Gadgets & Technology ..16 Music ........................ 13 Opinion ..................... 17 Sports .................. 18-24 Sunday, August 23, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 3 MILITARY SEAL appears in court on assault charge BY ANDREW DYER Grace told the AP the victim called her The San Diego Union-Tribune to her room at 1:50 a.m. after the party. She said her friend was in bed with a bruised A San Diego-based Navy SEAL charged face. with a violent sexual assault against a fel- Grace said the sailor told her that what low sailor in Iraq last year appeared in a begun as a consensual sexual encoun- Naval Base San Diego courtroom Friday ter turned violent, when the SEAL began for a motion hearing. choking her and biting her face. San Diego-based Special Warfare Oper- Grace said she took photos of her friend’s ator 1st Class Adel Enayat is charged with injuries. sexual assault, battery and aggravated as- In addition to saying the SEAL was the sault, according to a Navy charge sheet ob- rape victim, Sullivan also bought up his tained by the Union-Tribune. concerns in court about institutional rac- Although the charges include an accusa- ism with the military judge during Fri- tion of intercourse without consent, under day’s hearing. He said his client might not the military justice system the assault has receive a fair trial. to rise to the level of life threatening for the Enayat, who has fair skin and reddish- victim in order to become a charge of rape, blonde hair, is “non-white,” Sullivan said. said Brian O’Rourke, a Navy spokesman. He declined to specify his Enayat’s race or Enayat’s civilian attorney, San Diego- ethnicity when asked by the Union-Tribune based Jeremiah Sullivan, declined to com- after court, citing his client’s privacy. ment on the case after court Friday but told Enayat arrived to court in civilian clothes the judge his client is the victim of sexual and, despite a lingering heat wave, wore a assault. gray hooded sweatshirt upon leaving the A spokesman for the Naval Criminal In- courthouse Friday with the hood pulled vestigative Service said in an email that up. He wore his dress white uniform dur- the investigation into Enayat’s allegation ing the hearing. is closed. Sullivan declined to answer questions “We can confirm NCIS opened a sexual about Enayat’s claim that he was the vic- assault investigation based on an allega- EDUARDO CONTRERAS, THE SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE/TNS tim in the case, though he pointed out that tion brought by SO1 Eneyat’s attorney,” his client has been assigned victim’s legal Jeff Houson, an NCIS spokesman wrote.