A25 U.S. NEWS Saturday 11 July 2020 Continued from Front the family. The change made in The family waded across March is evident in figures the Rio Grande to Eagle released Thursday: The Pass, Texas, trapped in a Border Patrol in June put strong current for hours. 27,535 people on a track After surrendering to the to expulsion under the pub- Border Patrol, they were re- lic health emergency and turned to Mexico to wait for made only 2,859 arrests un- a hearing in Laredo, Texas. der immigration law. More than 60,000 people Chad Wolf, the acting have been forced to wait Homeland Security sec- in Mexico for hearings un- retary, boasted that most der a policy introduced last expulsions are carried out year called "Migrant Pro- within two hours. tection Protocols." The special powers will ex- Alexy said the family was pire when the pandemic held at gunpoint on a taxi ends, but Trump administra- ride to the Laredo border tion officials have proposed crossing by unidentified a string of regulations over men in bulletproof vests the last month to put asy- who released them un- lum further out of reach. harmed but forced them The proposals instruct judg- to miss their March 25 hear- es to be more selective and ing. A judge rescheduled In this Nov. 10, 2019, file photo, migrants gather at the U.S.-Mexico border in Tijuana, Mexico, to deny some claims without for Sept. 30. hear names called from a waiting list to claim asylum in the U.S. a hearing. On Wednes- After Alexy lost a job as a Associated Press day, the administration security guard, still rattled proposed denying asylum by the holdup and spooked cure legal status. He said er in the U.S. to fight their Ebadolahi is slower to opine to people from countries by talk of child abductions, they should have settled in case. on the legality of expelling with widespread commu- the family left Monterrey for Mexico. She believes the authori- the newborn, a U.S. citizen. nicable disease.Most of the Tijuana. "Asylum has been so widely ties broke the law by twice She said it was done to people crossing the border Alexy said drug dealers used as a gambit for illegal refusing to have an asylum keep him with his mother. illegally are now Mexican and users made going immigration that honestly I officer interview the family "To me that's less a pure adults — a change from outside unsafe in Tijuana, don't believe it anymore," about their fears of being question of law and more the recent past, when they prompting them to try the said Krikorian, echoing returned to Mexico — first a question of what country were predominantly Cen- United States again to ask views of the president and in Texas and again in Cali- we want to be," she said. tral American families and for asylum. other hard-liners. "I as- fornia. "The cruelty is staggering."q children. The Associated Alexy believes hiking in sume that anyone crossing Press agreed to identify the San Diego mountains through Mexico and apply- the Honduran family using precipitated Karina's la- ing for asylum (in the U.S.) only their middle names bor. He felt helpless when is lying until proven other- Comet streaking because of fears for their agents separated them as wise." safety. her pain intensified, shut- Last week, a federal ap- past Earth, providing A year ago, the family fled tling him and his son back peals court and a district the steamy, tropical low- to the border. "They didn't judge blocked a Trump pol- spectacular show lands of northwest Hon- tell me anything. They said icy to deny asylum to any- duras, where the father they might return my wife one who passes through By MARCIA DUNN ters) across. Its nucleus is worked in a shoe factory later," he said in a phone another country on the AP Aerospace Writer covered with sooty mate- and gang violence was interview from Tijuana. way to the U.S. border with CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. rial dating back to the ori- rampant. The father was Karina was crying when she Mexico without first seeking (AP) — A newly discov- gin of our solar system 4.6 held with a gun to his head called two days later with protection there. ered comet is streaking billion years ago. while his son cried, leading their newborn in Tijuana. Jewish Family Service wants past Earth, providing a The comet will be visible to a beating that required In response to questions the family released in the stunning nighttime show across the Northern Hemi- stitches to the boy's head, about the case, CBP said United States, where they after buzzing the sun and sphere until mid-August, the father said. Friday that it does not com- have relatives, to argue expanding its tail. when it heads back to- They applied for refugee ment on pending litigation their asylum case in court. Comet Neowise — the ward the outer solar sys- status in Mexico and were — the expulsion author- Together with the Ameri- brightest comet visible tem. While it's visible with cleared for humanitarian ity is under legal challenge can Civil Liberties Union from the Northern Hemi- the naked eye in dark visas in February but did — but underscored that of San Diego & Imperial sphere in a quarter-cen- skies with little or no light not complete the process agents can make excep- Counties, the group on Fri- tury — swept within Mer- pollution, binoculars are in the southern state of Chi- tions for humanitarian or day asked the Homeland cury's orbit a week ago. needed to see the long apas, said Carlos Gonzalez other reasons. Security Department's in- Its close proximity to the tail, according to NASA. Gutierrez, Mexico's consul The agency has only ternal watchdog to investi- sun caused dust and gas It will be about 7,000 years general in San Diego. about 100 people in cus- gate what happened. to burn off its surface and before the comet returns, They had moved to the tody, down from more ACLU attorney Mitra Eba- create an even bigger "so I wouldn't suggest northern city of Monterrey than 19,000 at the peak of dolahi calls it "a perfect debris tail. Now the com- waiting for the next pass," because they were being last year's surge of asylum- storm of inhumanity." The et is headed our way, said the telescope's dep- followed by a man who seeking families from Cen- family waited in Mexico with closest approach in uty principal investigator said he wanted to take tral America. for months as instructed, two weeks. Joe Masiero of NASA's Jet the 9-year-old under his Mark Krikorian, executive leaving for San Diego only NASA's Neowise infrared Propulsion Laboratory in wing and a Mexican of- director of the Center for when they felt physically space telescope discov- Pasadena, California. ficial told them they could Immigration Studies, said threatened, she said. ered the comet in March. He said it is the bright- travel freely, according to U.S. authorities handled Ebadolahi said U.S. authori- Scientists involved in the est comet since the mid- Luis Gonzalez, an attorney the case properly and ac- ties should have exercised mission said the comet is 1990s for stargazers in the for Jewish Family Service of cused the family of trying their significant discretion about 3 miles (5 kilome- Northern Hemisphere. San Diego who represents to use the newborn to se- to keep the family togeth- A26 Saturday 11 July 2020 U.S. NEWS Medical group cited by Trump denounces school funding threat By COLLIN BINKLEY roundtable. "Although this AP Education Writer will not be easy, pediatri- A medical association cians strongly advocate that the White House has that we start with the goal cited in its press to reopen of having students physi- schools is pushing back cally present in school this against President Donald fall." Trump's repeated threats Her comments echoed to cut federal funding if guidelines issued by the schools don't open this fall. group in June, which said In a joint statement with time away from school can national education unions lead to social isolation and and a superintendents make it harder for schools group, the American to identify learning deficits, Academy of Pediatrics on child abuse, depression Friday said decisions should and other problems. be made by health ex- Vice President Mike Pence, perts and local leaders. The Education Secretary Betsy groups argued that schools DeVos and McEnany have will need more money to repeatedly, and as recent- reopen safely during the ly as Wednesday, cited coronavirus pandemic and the American Academy that cuts could ultimately of Pediatrics in defense of President Donald Trump listens during a "National Dialogue on Safely Reopening America's harm students. Schools," event in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, July 7, 2020, in Washington. Trump's approach. The statement comes at a Associated Press But Friday's statement ac- time when schools across knowledged that it may the nation are weighing threaten the health of stu- funding he would withhold that schools reopen de- be best for some schools decisions for the fall as dents and teachers." or under what authority. But spite growing coronavirus to stay online. School lead- Trump pushes them to re- Trump, however, repeated White House spokeswom- outbreaks in parts of the ers, health experts, teach- open. Millions of parents his threat on Friday, say- an Kayleigh McEnany has U.S. The White House hosted ers and parents should be are still waiting to hear if ing on Twitter that virtual said the president wants a summit on the topic on at the center of reopening their children will be return- learning has been "terrible" to use future coronavirus Tuesday, gathering health decisions, the groups said, ing to school, but some of compared with in-person relief funding as leverage. and education leaders "taking into account the the nation's largest districts classes. McEnany said Trump wants who said students should spread of COVID-19 in their have said students will be "Not even close! Schools to "substantially bump up return to the classroom this communities and the ca- in the classroom only a few must be open in the Fall. If money for education" in fall to continue their aca- pacities of school districts days a week. not open, why would the the next relief package, demics and to regain ac- to adapt safety protocols "Public health agencies Federal Government give but only for schools that re- cess to meal programs and to make in-person learning must make recommenda- Funding? It won't!!!" he open. mental health services. safe and feasible." tions based on evidence, wrote. Trump issued a simi- "He is looking at potentially Among those at the event "For instance, schools in ar- not politics," the groups lar warning on Twitter on redirecting that to make was Dr. Sally Goza, presi- eas with high levels of CO- wrote in the statement. Wednesday, saying other sure it goes to the stu- dent of the American VID-19 community spread "Withholding funding from nations had successfully dent," McEnany said at a Academy of Pediatrics, should not be compelled schools that do not open opened schools and that a Wednesday press briefing. who called for schools to to reopen against the judg- in person full-time would fall reopening is "important She added that the fund- open. ment of local experts," the be a misguided approach, for the children and fami- ing would be "tied to the "Being away from peers, statement said. "A one- putting already financially lies. May cut off funding if student and not to a district teachers, and school ser- size-fits-all approach is not strapped schools in an im- not open!" where schools are closed." vices has lasting effects for appropriate for return to possible position that would Trump has not said what Trump has been insistent children," Goza said at the school decisions."q No bail for 2 accused of helping ex-Nissan boss escape Japan BOSTON (AP) — A Mas- cases" and defendants The Taylors' lawyers had ar- sachusetts father and "must demonstrate 'special gued the pair were unlaw- son who prosecutors say circumstances' that justify fully arrested and can't be helped smuggle Nissan's their release on bail." extradited because "bail former chairman out of Ja- Paul Kelly, a lawyer for the jumping" is not a crime pan last year were denied Harvard, Massachusetts in Japan and, therefore, bail by a federal judge in residents, said his clients helping someone evade Boston on Friday. maintain they did not com- their bail conditions isn't a Michael Taylor, a 59-year- mit an extraditable offense. crime, either. old U.S. Army Special Forc- "We also believe that these Prosecutors countered that es veteran, and his 27-year- two U.S. citizens, one a the Taylors have the skills old son, Peter Taylor, had decorated Special Forces and resources to flee. They sought immediate release veteran, and the other an provided evidence that while they challenge Ja- impressive young man with Carlos Ghosn wired two pan's extradition request. no criminal history, should payments totaling more In this Jan. 10, 2020, file photo, former Nissan Chairman Carlos But Judge Donald Cabell, not be held in custody dur- than $860,000 to Promote Ghosn speaks to Japanese media during an interview in Beirut, in his 18-page ruling, said ing a pandemic while these Fox LLC, which prosecutors Lebanon. "there is a presumption issues are being litigated," say is managed by Peter Associated Press against bail in extradition he said in a statement. Taylor. q A27 WORLD NEWS Saturday 11 July 2020 Dutch government to take Russia to European court over MH17 By MIKE CORDER "Of course, the relatives THE HAGUE, Netherlands themselves do not have all (AP) — The Dutch govern- this information so we can ment is taking Russia to the help them by starting this European Court of Human procedure." Rights for its alleged role in Moscow has repeatedly the shooting down of Ma- denied involvement in the laysia Airlines Flight 17 over downing of the Boeing 777. eastern Ukraine six years Foreign Ministry spokes- ago, the foreign minister woman Maria Zakharova announced Friday. said Russia sees Friday's The move is intended to announcement "in con- support individual cases nection with the disaster being brought to the Eu- of the Malaysian Boeing as ropean court by relatives another blow to Russian- of some of the 298 people Dutch relations." who were killed when a Buk Throughout the case, the surface-to-air missile fired Netherlands has acted "ex- from territory controlled by clusively within the frame- pro-Moscow Ukrainian reb- work of anti-Russian logic, els blew the Amsterdam- to which both technical to-Kuala Lumpur flight out and criminal investigations of the sky on July 17, 2014. were subordinated," Zakha- In this Friday, Aug. 1, 2014 file photo, Australian and Dutch investigators examine a piece of the "Achieving justice for 298 rova said. Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 plane, near the village of Hrabove, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine. victims of the downing of However, an international Associated Press Flight MH17 is and will re- team of prosecutors inves- main the government's tigating the case has, how- from a Russian military base what does the European purpose of these meet- highest priority," Foreign ever, charged three Rus- and the mobile launcher Court for Human Rights ings is to find a solution that Minister Stef Blok said. "By sians and a Ukrainian with was later returned to Rus- have to do with it?" Kosa- does justice to the enor- taking this step today ... we involvement in bringing sia. chev said. mous suffering and dam- are moving closer to this down the plane and the The Russian foreign ministry Friday's move is the lat- age caused by the down- goal." murder of all on board. The didn't immediately react. est legal maneuver by the ing of Flight MH17." By launching the case men are on trial in a Dutch Konstantin Kosachev, head Dutch government, which Blok said the twin legal against Russia, the Dutch court, although none have of the foreign affairs com- has long vowed to secure tracks are headed toward authorities can share evi- been extradited to the mittee in the upper house justice for victims and their the same goal. dence with the Strasbourg- Netherlands to face justice. of Russia's parliament, loved ones. Separately, the "From the onset, we have based European court so it Blok said much of the evi- called the Dutch move "a government is pursuing Rus- made clear that the down- can be considered in indi- dence the government will strange initiative from ev- sia for state responsibility in ing of an airplane, civilian vidual relatives' cases. submit to the human rights ery aspect" in remarks car- the downing. airplane, and 298 innocent "As a government, we have court also is part of that ried by the Interfax news "The government attaches casualties is such a severe information, evidence, that criminal case. agency. importance to continuing breach of international leads us to the conclusion Prosecutors say they have "The investigation isn't over the meetings with Russia on law that we will pursue any of the involvement of the evidence the missile that yet, there have been no the matter of state respon- venue to find the truth and Russian Federation," Blok blew MH17 out of the sky court verdicts on the na- sibility," the foreign ministry bring justice to the rela- told The Associated Press. was trucked into Ukraine tional level yet and, finally, said in a statement. "The tives," he said.q Hundreds try to storm Serbian parliament as protests heat up BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — have said the violence was considered the most in- Hundreds of demonstrators the work of demonstrators tense since the overthrow tried to storm Serbia's par- controlled by the govern- of former Serbian strong- liament on Friday, clashing ment — with an aim to man Slobodan Milosevic in with the police during for discredit the protests that 2000. He instead expressed the fourth night of protests began in response to Presi- his fear about the spread of against the president's in- dent Aleksandar Vucic's ef- the virus by the demonstra- creasingly authoritarian forts to reimpose lockdown tors. rule. restrictions against the vi- "It is so irresponsible to call Demonstrators — who were rus, but have mushroomed upon people to gather and defying a ban on mass into an expression of wider demonstrate when we are gatherings amid a spike frustration with his hard-line faced with the most horrific in virus infections — threw rule. numbers of infections from bottles, rocks and flares at Vucic has denied that the coronavirus," Vucic told the police guarding the "hooligans," who were seen reporters during his state domed parliament build- beating up the peaceful visit to France. ing in central Belgrade. protesters earlier this week, "I beg people, please let's Smoke rose above the en- are under his control, claim- keep our health safe. No- try stairway. Police used ing they were brought in by body is going to take pow- their shields to push back the opposition. er by force. Power is taken the protesters and prevent Speaking earlier Friday, at the elections. You can them from entering the Vucic said he's not wor- protest as much as you building. ried about losing political want when the epidemic is Some opposition leaders power amid the protests, over," he said. q A28 Saturday 11 July 2020 WORLD NEWS China vows retaliation against U.S. sanctions over Xinjiang BEIJING (AP) — China ist tendencies. It says those said Friday it will retaliate facilities have since been against U.S. officials and closed, a claim impossible institutions following Wash- to deny given the restric- ington's imposition of sanc- tions on visits and reporting tions on three local officials about the region. of the ruling Communist Camp veterans and fam- Party over human rights ily members say those held abuses in the northwestern are forced, often with the region of Xinjiang. threat of violence, to de- China will "definitely fight nounce their religion, cul- back" against actions it ture and language and considers interference in swear loyalty to party its internal affairs and that leader and head of state which threaten its sover- Xi Jinping. China says vast, eignty, security and devel- resource-rich Xinjiang has opment interests, foreign long been its territory and ministry spokesperson Zhao claims it is bringing stabil- Lijian told reporters at a ity and prosperity to the daily briefing. region. Many Uighurs and Zhao said China "strongly others among the region's opposes and condemns" native population say they the Trump administration's are being denied eco- decision to bar the three In this June 10, 2020, file photo, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a news confer- nomic options in favor of officials from entering the ence at the State Department in Washington. migrants from elsewhere in U.S., the latest in a series Associated Press China and that the party moves taken against Chi- wishes to eliminate their na as relations deteriorate responsible for barring for- last year. Xinjiang, to include forced separate cultures. In Octo- over the coronavirus pan- eigners' access to Tibet. The sanctions were an- labor, arbitrary mass deten- ber 2019, the United States demic, human rights, Hong Thursday's step, however, nounced a week after an tion, and forced popula- imposed visa restrictions on Kong and trade. hits a more senior level of AP investigation showed tion control, and attempts Chinese officials "believed "In response to the wrong leadership, targeting Chen forced population control to erase their culture and to be responsible for, or practice of the U.S., China Quanguo, Xinjiang's rank- of the Uighurs and other Muslim faith," Secretary of complicit in" the detention decided to take reciprocal ing leader and a member largely Muslim minorities, State Mike Pompeo said in of Muslims in Xinjiang. It also measures against the rel- of the party's Politburo, one of the reasons cited by a statement. blacklisted more than two evant U.S. institutions and along with regional secu- the State Department for China has detained an es- dozen Chinese compa- individuals who performed rity officials Zhu Hailun and the sanctions timated 1 million or more nies and agencies linked badly on the Xinjiang-relat- Wang Mingshan. "The United States will not members of its Muslim eth- to abuses in the region ed issues," Zhao said. They and their immedi- stand idly by as the Chi- nic minority groups in intern- — including surveillance The U.S. administration's ate family members are nese Communist Party car- ment camps, described technology manufacturers Thursday announce- banned from entering the ries out human rights abus- by the government as vo- and Xinjiang's public secu- ment comes a day after United States. The Associ- es targeting Uighurs, ethnic cational training facilities rity bureau — effectively it slapped visa bans on ated Press profiled Zhu as Kazakhs and members of aimed at countering Mus- blocking them from buying Chinese officials deemed part of a package of stories other minority groups in lim radicalism and separat- U.S. products.q Lawmakers vote to shut down Philippines' largest TV network MANILA, Philippines (AP) — be viewed by millions of Fili- other and wept. "We lost Philippine lawmakers voted pinos on free TV, has been our voice," Irish Vidal, a Friday to reject the license able to continue broad- news staffer, said in tears. renewal of the country's casting some of its TV and Outside its headquarters, largest TV network, shut- radio news programs over journalists and TV and mov- ting down a major news paid cable channels, but ie celebrities lit candles and provider that had been with a small fraction of its held protest placards. repeatedly threatened by former viewership. Duterte and his allies had the president over its criti- "We are deeply hurt," ABS- questioned the network's cal coverage. CBN President and CEO compliance with the law The House of Representa- Carlo Katigbak said, but he and the terms of its fran- tives' Committee on Fran- suggested the company chise, including its alleged chises voted 70-11 to reject will try to find other ways to use of a dummy corpora- a new 25-year license for return to business. tion and large numbers of ABS-CBN Corp. The Na- "Together with our employ- non-regular workers with- tional Telecommunications ees and our audiences all out employment security. A supporter holds a slogan that reads: "ABS-CBN workers, Fight Commission had ordered over the world, we share in The company denied any continues" during a rally outside the ABS-CBN headquarters in the broadcaster to shut Quezon City, Philippines, Friday July 10, 2020. your sadness over this set- wrongdoing in a dozen down in May after its old Associated Press back," Katigbak said. "We televised House hearings. franchise expired. It halted look forward to the day International media watch- broadcasting then, but the sentatives, which is domi- chance of any reversal of when we can again re- dogs condemned the clo- vote takes it off the air per- nated by President Rodrigo Friday's vote is extremely unite." sure of ABS-CBN, which was manently. Duterte's allies, can grant low, lawmakers said. In the network's newsroom, founded in 1953, as a major Only the House of Repre- such franchises and the The network, which used to journalists hugged each blow to press freedom.q A29 TECHNOLOGY Saturday 11 July 2020 Reports: Amazon bars video app TikTok on workers' phones By TALI ARBEL ban. India is one of TikTok's AP Technology Writer largest markets and had Amazon has told employ- previously briefly banned ees to delete the popu- the app in 2019 because of lar video app TikTok from worries about children and phones on which they use sexual content. Amazon email, citing se- Amazon's move on TikTok curity risks from the China- may foretell actions by owned app, according to other companies. "If we are reports and posts by Twitter concerned about TikTok, users who said they were we should be concerned Amazon employees. about thousands of other The notice said employees apps that collect, sell, and must delete the app by Fri- give access to our location day to keep mobile access data, contacts, and pho- to Amazon email. Workers tos on our phones," said would still be allowed to Kirsten Martin, a professor use TikTok from an Amazon of technology ethics at the laptop browser. University of Notre Dame.q Amazon is the second-larg- est U.S. private employer after Walmart, with with more than 840,000 employ- ees worldwide. Amazon This Feb. 25, 2020, file photo, shows the icon for TikTok in New York. did not immediately reply Associated Press to requests for comment. In an emailed statement, host Laura Ingraham sug- privacy, even after the which Trump has referred TikTok said that Amazon did gested that the U.S. ban Federal Trade Commis- to as "fake news" when- not notify it before sending Chinese social media apps, sion fined the company in ever it publishes unfavor- the email. "We still do not "especially TikTok," Secre- 2019 for collecting personal able stories about him. Last understand their concerns," tary of State Mike Pompeo information from children year, Amazon sued the U.S. it continued, adding that said that "We're certainly without their parents' con- government, saying that the company would wel- looking at it." sent. Trump's "personal vendet- come a dialogue to ad- Pompeo said the Trump TikTok, like YouTube, relies ta" against Amazon, Bezos dress Amazon's issues. administration has "worked on its users for the videos and the Post, led it to lose Chinese internet giant on this very issue for a long that populate its app. They a $10 billion cloud comput- ByteDance owns TikTok, time," including its stance are under a minute long, ing contract with the Pen- which is designed for users against Chinese telecom and many feature dancing tagon to rival Microsoft. outside of China, as well as firms Huawei and ZTE. The and lip-syncing. TikTok has Meanwhile, federal regula- a Chinese version called government has tried to a reputation as a fun, goofy tors as well as Congress are Douyin. The app is popular convince allies to root Hua- video destination, but it pursuing antitrust investiga- with young people, includ- wei out of telecom net- has racked up concerns tions at Amazon as well as ing millions of American us- works, saying the company ranging from censorship other tech giants. ers, but is the subject of na- is a national-security threat, of videos, including those TikTok has content-mod- tional security concerns. with mixed success; Trump critical of the Chinese gov- eration policies, like any TikTok has been trying to has also said he was will- ernment, the threat of shar- social network, but says its appease critics in the U.S. ing to use Huawei as a bar- ing user data with Chinese moderation team for the and distance itself from its gaining chip in trade talks. officials and violating kids' U.S. is led out of California Chinese roots, but finds it- Huawei has denied that it privacy. and it doesn't censor vid- self caught in an increas- enables spying for the Chi- Amazon is likely concerned eos based on topics sensi- ingly sticky geopolitical nese government. about a Chinese-owned tive to China and would web. "With respect to Chinese app's access to employ- not, even if the Chinese TikTok recently named a apps on people's cell ee data, said Susan Ariel government asked it to. As new CEO, t op Disney ex- phones, I can assure you Aaronson, a professor at for sharing U.S. user data ecutive Kevin Mayer, which the United States will get George Washington Uni- with the Chinese govern- experts said could help it this one right too," Pompeo versity and a data gover- ment, the company says it navigate U.S. regulators. said, and added that if us- nance and national-secu- stores U.S. user data in the And it is stopping opera- ers downloaded the app rity expert. China, accord- U.S. and Singapore, not tions in of Hong Kong be- their private information ing to the U.S. government, China; that its data centers cause of a new Chinese would be "in the hands of regularly steals U.S. intellec- are outside of China; and national security law that the Chinese Communist tual property. it would not give the gov- led Facebook, Google and Party." Part of Amazon's motiva- ernment access to U.S. user Twitter to also stop provid- A U.S. national-security tion with the ban may also data even if asked. ing user data to Hong Kong agency has been review- be political, Aaronson said, Concerns about China are authorities. ing ByteDance's purchase since Amazon "doesn't not limited to the U.S. India But a top Trump administra- of TikTok's precursor, Mu- want to alienate the Trump this month banned dozens tion official said this week sical.ly, while U.S. military administration." of Chinese apps, including that the government re- branches banned the app Amazon and its founder, TikTok, because of tensions mains concerned about from government-issued Jeff Bezos, are frequent between the countries. In- the national-security threat phones. Meanwhile, pri- targets of President Don- dia cited privacy concerns to the app's millions of U.S. vacy groups say TikTok has ald Trump. Bezos personally that threatened India's sov- users. When Fox News TV been violating children's owns The Washington Post, ereignty and security for the A30 Saturday 11 July 2020 PEOPLE & ARTS 35 years after Live Aid, assesses personal toll By JOHN CARUCCI Geldof is glad he and his Associated Press fellow musicians pulled off NEW YORK (AP) — The leg- their activist concerts be- endary Live Aid concerts 35 cause he doesn't believe years ago did a lot of good the world is the same today — helping reduce African as it was during the time of famine and putting a spot- Live Aid or even Live 8. light on the world's poorest "It was the end of that politi- nations. But it wasn't always cal period of cooperation good for one of its key or- and consensus and com- ganizers. promise. Would that hap- Irish rock star Bob Geldof pen today? No. You just may have earned awards have to look at the clowns and cheers for pulling off running the planet to un- 1985's transcontinental mu- derstand that could never sic event, though it took a happen again," Geldof toll on his personal life and said. career. Earlier this year, Geldof fi- Live Aid changed Geldof nally got back to music from frontman of the Boom- and released a new town Rats singing their hit with , "I Don't Like Mondays" to "," something more divine. "I their first album since 1984's became Saint Bob," Geldof "." In this Nov. 21, 2016 file photo, Jeanne Marine, left, and Bob Geldof attend the Angel Ball benefit- told The Associated Press Thirty-five years after Live ting Gabrielle's Angel Foundation for Cancer Research in New York. Geldof's Live Aid concerts in an interview earlier this have raised millions. Aid, Geldof remains hum- year. Associated Press bled by his accomplish- He said he wasn't happy ments, and proud he's fol- about the glory that came others on the 1984 single, ple made me the man of little better, he said he was lowed a tradition of activ- with his charity work. "I "Do They Know It's Christ- the hour." no longer able to do what ist-musicians, like Woody hated it. It became impos- mas?" with proceeds going The Live Aid concerts held he loved: play music. Guthrie, who Geldof cites sible," Geldof said. "For a to Ethiopian famine relief. in London and Philadel- "I wasn't allowed go back as one of the main influ- while I was bewildered. I Geldof then appeared on phia raised over $100 mil- to my job. I'm a pop singer. ences of the Boomtown didn't have much money follow-up American ver- lion. Those shows included That's literally how I make Rats, a band that started at the time. It impinged en- sion, "We Are the World" in performances by Queen, my money. That's my job. during one of Ireland's most tirely on my private life. It 1985. Later that summer, he U2, Led Zeppelin, Madon- I get up in the morning, if tumultuous times. probably ended up costing helped organize Live Aid, na, and dozens of others. I'm in the mood. I'll try and "We made a series of re- me my marriage." the most ambitious global Twenty years later, he host- write tunes. I'll go and try cords, which became hits – The whole thing began with television event of its time. ed the Live 8 concerts and and rehearse," he said. which, of course, helped to Band Aid, an all-star group He suddenly found himself got the industrialized na- "And I couldn't. And no one change the country a bit. in the U.K. organized by an unlikely celebrity. tions to pledge an increase was interested. Saint Bob, It helped to change music. Geldof and recording art- "It wasn't because of my su- in aid to Africa by $25 bil- which I was called, wasn't And then through Band Aid ist Midge Ure that included perior musical excellence, lion. allowed to do this anymore and Live Aid we helped to Bono, Phil Collins, George like Elvis or the Beatles," While Geldof's altruism because it's so petty and so change the world a little bit, Michael and numerous Geldof said. "Billions of peo- helped make the world a meaningless. So, I was lost." and then we stopped."q Reid says she wants different perspectives on MSNBC show By DAVID BAUDER said in an interview. "Hope- "I happen to think she's the AP Media Writer fully, I have a very unique right person for the right NEW YORK (AP) — Joy Reid frame." moment in time."" says she wants to bring As a Black woman, Reid Reid was a news junkie, some different perspec- addresses a somewhat a sixth grader who con- tives to MSNBC's evening embarrassing oversight at vinced her mother to let In this April 20, 2018 file photo, Joy Reid attends the Tribeca TV lineup — lots of them. a news and talk network her stay up late to watch screening of "Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story" during the As anticipated, the host aimed at a mostly liberal Ted Koppel's "Nightline" re- 2018 Tribeca Film Festival in New York. Associated Press of MSNBC's weekend "AM audience. ports on the Iran hostage Joy" show was appointed Before her selection, the situation in 1979. Thursday to succeed for- 5 p.m. to midnight hours "It almost didn't even sink mer "Hardball" host Chris were hosted by five white in until I was older that I Matthews in the 7 p.m. men and one white wom- was watching a parade of Eastern time slot on week- an. white men tell me what's days. "She's earned this, spot on," happening in the world, ex- "We are going to try to fire said NBC Universal News plaining the world to me," out of the gate with what- Group Chairman Cesar she said. ever is the most important Conde, who has said his She naturally brings a differ- thing that's happening that goal is a workforce with 50 ent perspective to stories, night, and try to frame it percent minorities at NBC particularly with the current and contextualize it," Reid News, MSNBC and CNBC. debate over policing.q A31 local Saturday 11 July 2020 Coral spawning predictions for the South Caribbean

KRALENDIJK, BONAIRE — Caribbean Research and Man- agement of Biodiversity (CARMABI) has released its an- nual coral spawning prediction calendar for the south Caribbean. This calendar plays a central role in studying the reproductive biology of Caribbean corals and guid- ing coral restoration efforts for the southern Dutch Carib- bean islands. Based off these predictions, researchers are able to harvest coral gametes that are reared to lar- vae that can be used to cultivate future coral colonies.

Coral spawning is a miraculous event where entire coral colonies, prompted by the lunar cycle, sunset time and water temperature, release gametes (eggs and sperm) simultaneously. Gametes of one species fertilize another to become fertilized embryos that settle on the ocean floor after days to weeks. Being able to witness a spawn- ing event is a unique opportunity for scuba divers to enjoy the breath-taking scene as the entire reef becomes en- gulfed in a blizzard of future corals.

Each year, Caribbean Research and Management of Biodiversity (CARMABI) releases a calendar to predict when each species of coral is expected to spawn. During these events, researchers from CARMABI and Reef Resto- ration Foundation Bonaire (RRFB) also collect gametes to Release of gamete bundles by C, natans. Photo credit: M Vermeij be used to grow new corals in a laboratory setting.

One such project, which has been very successful, has been the restoration efforts centred on the elkhorn (Acro- pora palmata) corals. Historically, elkhorn coral could be found throughout the shallow waters of the Caribbean, however, this species is now listed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List as criti- cally endangered. Starting in 2010, CARMABI together with SECORE International initiated a project to study the reproduction of these corals leading to the first outplant of lab raised Acropora corals in 2011 that grew rapidly and spawned themselves “in the wild” in 2015.

The benefit of this approach using gametes rather than fragments harvested from existing colonies, is that colo- nies reared from larvae represent a large variety of new genetic combinations, including some that allow corals to survive despite changing (worsening) environmental conditions on reefs. Fragmented corals represent existing genetic varieties that have not experienced the selective pressures operating on reefs at present.

The approaches developed by CARMABI have been extended to other coral species and at present 12 coral species that release gametes (i.e., in contrast to brood- ing species that release larvae) are successfully grown at CARMABI. Similar projects have started by Reef Renewal Foundation Bonaire.

There are a variety of other species which are also of great importance but have been a bit more challenging to cultivate within the lab. These species include impor- tant reef-building corals, which have separate male and female colonies, and thus require different techniques for harvesting their gametes. Examples of these types of cor- als include the great star coral, Montastraea cavernosa, the round starlet coral, Siderastraea sidereal but in recent years CARMABI has also developed the methods to har- vest and rear gametes of these species and all of them are currently grown in the CARMABI labs on Curaçao.

The calendar for the coral spawning predictions for the southern Caribbean can be found here: http://www.re- searchstationcarmabi.org/predictions-for-coral-spawn- ing-events-in-the-southern-caribbean-for-2020/. q A32 Saturday 11 July 2020 local Two great American ladies on the first flights to Aruba

ORANJESTAD — They both are in love. With their second home, their escape to paradise, their heaven on earth. Yes, we are talking about Aruba. For Lois Landau Leeds and Gae Bailey it was an exciting day yesterday as they arrived on Aruba with the first flights from Newark and Boston after the COVID-19 lock- down. Welcome home ladies!

Lois was on the first flight in from USA, this was the 1.25pm ar- rival with United Airlines com- ing from Newark, New Jersey. “I own a house in Aruba for thir- teen years. My experience with the preparation for the trip was a little crazy, I have taken the COVID-19 test in New Jersey in the hope that Aruba would ac- cept this test but just to be sure I also bought the $ 75 test. Hon- estly I just wanted to get this ED card ready and get my green check.” She is so excited and GAE BAILEY so happy everything is open again. “I absolutely love Aruba, I have travelled to Aruba for 40 years already.” Lois will be ac- companied by her daughter and boyfriend and her grand- LUGGAGE BELT ARUBA daughter.

Gae Bailey flew in from Boston Logan International Airport with JetBlue and let us know that the Transportation Security Adminis- tration (TSA) was very busy but furthermore the Boston airport was empty with restaurants closed. Upon boarding she had to show her ED Card while the flight attendant handed out paper ED Cards during the flight which caused some confusion. Passengers were questioning about it and the flight attendant said she did not know why either but it was no big deal, says Gae. Upon arrival in Aruba they had to stand in one line which took a long time. She was expecting two lines, one for testing and the other for people that had done the test home. Social distancing was in place for this line, but at the luggage belt people were standing close to each other.

Outside of the airport building LOIS LANDAU LEEDS a steelpan band and carnival dancer welcomed the arriv- als to One Happy Island. “I am exhausted, but excited,” Gae states. Ready to go to her re- laxing vacation home to let the Caribbean vibes take over.q IMMIGRATION ARUBA