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Page 8 Aruba’s ONLY English newspaper 1 officer indicted in Breonna Taylor case; not for her death

By DYAN LOVAN and PIPER HUDSPETH BLACKBURN Associated Press/Report for America LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky grand jury brought no charges against Louisville police for the killing of Breonna Tay- lor during a drug raid gone wrong, with prosecutors saying Wednesday two of- ficers who fired their weap- ons at the Black woman were justified in using force to protect themselves. The grand jury instead charged fired Officer Brett Hankison with three counts of wanton endangerment for firing into Taylor's neigh- bors' homes during the raid on the night of March 13. The FBI is still investigating potential violations of fed- eral law in the case. Along with the killing of George Floyd in Minneso- ta, Taylor's case became a major touchstone for the nationwide protests that have gripped the nation since May — drawing at- tention to entrenched rac- “OUTRAGEOUS AND OFFENSIVE” ism and demanding police reform. This undated photo provided by Taylor family attorney Sam Aguiar shows Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Ky. Continued on next page Associated Press A2 Thursday 24 September 2020 UP FRONT general, said that the offi- Trump's list to fill a future Su- cers acted in self-defense preme Court vacancy. after Taylor's boyfriend fired Before charges were at them. He added that brought, Hankison was Hankison and the two other fired from the city's police officers who entered Tay- department on June 23. lor's apartment announced A termination letter sent themselves before entering to him by interim Louisville — and so did not execute Police Chief Robert Schro- the warrant as "no-knock," eder said the white officer according to the investiga- had violated procedures tion. by showing "extreme in- "According to Kentucky difference to the value of law, the use of force by (Of- human life" when he "wan- ficers Jonathan) Mattingly tonly and blindly" shot 10 and (Myles) Cosgrove was rounds of gunfire into Tay- justified to protect them- lor's apartment in March. selves," he said. "This justifi- Hankison had already cation bars us from pursu- been placed on admin- ing criminal charges in Miss istrative reassignment, as Breonna Taylor's death." were Sgt. Johnathan Mat- Taylor's boyfriend, Kenneth tingly, Officer Myles Cos- Walker, opened fire when grove and the detective police burst in, hitting Mat- who sought the warrant, Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron addresses the media following the return of a grand jury investigation into the death of Breonna Taylor, in Frankfort, Ky., Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020. tingly. Walker was charged Joshua Jaynes. Associated Press with attempted murder of On Sept. 15, the city settled a police officer, but pros- a lawsuit against the three Continued from Front offensive!" the laws under which those ecutors later dropped the officers brought by Taylor's Taylor's image has been "Justice has NOT been officers are charged, which charge. mother, Tamika Palmer, painted on streets, em- served," tweeted Linda regularly favor working po- Walker told police he agreeing to pay her $12 blazoned on protest signs Sarsour of Until Freedom, a lice and do not often result heard knocking but didn't million and enact police and silk-screened on T-shirts group that has pushed for in steep criminal accusa- know who was coming into reforms. Protesters in Louis- worn by celebrities. charges in the case. tions. the home and fired in self- ville and across the coun- The charges drew imme- Taylor, an emergency At a news conference, defense. Regarding the dis- try have demanded justice diate sadness, frustration medical worker, was shot state Attorney General appointment of those who for Taylor and other Black and anger that the grand multiple times by officers Daniel Cameron spoke to wanted criminal charges people killed by police in jury did not go further. The who entered her home on that disconnect. brought in Taylor's death, recent months. The release wanton endangerment a no-knock warrant during "Criminal law is not meant he remarked, "The decision in late May of a 911 call by charges each carry a sen- a narcotics investigation. to respond to every sorrow before my office as the spe- Taylor's boyfriend marked tence of up to five years. The warrant used to search and grief," Cameron told cial prosecutor in this case the beginning of days of Protesters began march- her home was connected reporters after the charges was not to decide if the protests in Louisville, fueled ing through the streets of to a suspect who did not were announced. loss of Ms. Taylor's life was a by her shooting and the Louisville, where Taylor was live there, and no drugs "But my heart breaks for the tragedy. The answer to that killing of Floyd while at the killed, after the announce- were found inside. The use loss of Miss Taylor. And I've is unequivocally yes." hands of police in Minne- ment, shouting "No justice, of no-knock warrants has said that repeatedly. My A Republican, Cameron is apolis on May 25. no peace." Some sat qui- since been banned by Lou- mother, if something was to a protege of Senate Ma- Several prominent Afri- etly and cried. isville's Metro Council. happen to me, would find jority Leader Mitch McCon- can American celebrities Attorney Ben Crump, who The case exposed the wide it very hard," he added, nell who has been tagged including Oprah and Be- is representing Taylor's fam- gulf between public opin- choking up. by some as his heir appar- yoncé have joined those ily, called the grand jury's ion on justice for those who But Cameron, who is the ent. His was also one of 20 urging that the officers be decision "outrageous and kill Black Americans, and state's first Black attorney names on President Donald charged.q Single-dose vaccine tested as U.S. experts say no corners cut WASHINGTON (AP) — A vaccine, although there health experts for his own huge international study of is never a guarantee of political ends," Sen. Patty a COVID-19 vaccine that that," Dr. Anthony Fauci, Murray, a Democrat from aims to work with just one infectious disease chief at Washington state, said be- dose is getting underway the National Institutes of fore ticking off examples of as top U.S. health officials Health, told a Senate com- pressure on the FDA. sought Wednesday to as- mittee. But President Don- FDA Commissioner Stephen sure a skeptical Congress ald Trump is pushing for a Hahn pledged that career and public that they can faster timeline than many scientists, not politicians, trust any shots the govern- experts say is adequate to will decide whether any ment ultimately approves. fully test the candidates. coronavirus vaccine meets Hopes are high that an- On Wednesday he tweet- clearly stated standards swers about at least one ed a link to news about the that it works and is safe. of several candidates be- new Johnson & Johnson "Science will guide our de- Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy ing tested in the U.S. could vaccine study and said the cisions. FDA will not permit and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, testi- come by year's end, may- Food and Drug Administra- any pressure from anyone fies during a Senate Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pen- be sooner. tion "must move quickly!" to change that," Hahn said. sions Committee Hearing on the federal government response "We feel cautiously optimis- "President Trump is still try- "I will put the interest of the to COVID-19 on Capitol Hill Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020, in Wash- tic that we will be able to ing to sabotage the work American people above ington. have a safe and effective of our scientists and public anything else."q Associated Press A3 U.S. NEWS Thursday 24 September 2020 Ginsburg remembered as prophet for justice, American icon

By MARK SHERMAN and court in tribute. Court work- MATTHEW BARAKAT ers cleared away the items Associated Press and cleaned the court WASHINGTON (AP) — With plaza and sidewalk in ad- crowds of admirers swell- vance of Wednesday's cer- ing outside, Supreme Court emony. Justice Ruth Bader Gins- Inside, the entrance to burg was remembered the courtroom, along with Wednesday at the court by Ginsburg's chair and place grieving family, colleagues on the bench next to Rob- and friends as a prophet erts, have been draped in for justice who persevered black, a longstanding court against long odds to be- custom. These visual signs come an American icon. of mourning, which in years The court's eight justices, past have reinforced the masked along with every- sense of loss, will largely go one else because of the unseen this year. The court coronavirus pandemic, begins its new term Oct. 5, gathered for the first time but the justices will not be in more than six months in the courtroom and in- for the ceremony to mark stead will hear arguments Ginsburg's death from can- by phone. cer last week at age 87 af- On Friday, Ginsburg will lie ter 27 years on the court. The flag-draped casket of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, carried by Supreme Court police officers, in state at the Capitol, the Washington already is con- arrives in the Great Hall at the Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020. first woman to do so and sumed with talk of Gins- Associated Press only the second Supreme burg's replacement, but Court justice after William Chief Justice John Roberts the court to limit the num- Washington, D.C., com- be such a giant," Setzler Howard Taft. Taft had also focused on his longtime ber of people inside the pared Ginsburg to a proph- said, wearing a face mask been president. Rosa Parks, colleague. building, which has been et who imagined a world of adorned with small portraits a private citizen not a gov- The best words to describe closed to the public since greater equality and then of Ginsburg. ernment official, is the only Ginsburg are "tough, brave, March. worked to make it happen. Rachel Linderman and Ry- woman who has lain in a fighter, a winner," Roberts Thousands of people were "This was Justice Ginsburg's chelle Weseman of Olean, honor at the Capitol. said, but also "thoughtful, expected to pay their re- life's work. To insist that the New York, traveled to the Ginsburg will be buried be- careful, compassionate, spects to the women's rights Constitution deliver on its nation's capital because side her husband, Martin, in honest." champion and leader of promise, that we the peo- they said they wanted to a private ceremony at Ar- The woman who late in life the court's liberal bloc. Her ple would include all the be counted among Gins- lington National Cemetery became known in admira- casket, carried inside past people. She carried out burg's followers and dem- next week. Martin Ginsburg tion as the Notorious RBG her former law clerks who that work in every chapter onstrate how important her died in 2010. She is survived "wanted to be an opera lined the courthouse steps, of her life," said Holtzblatt, legacy is to Americans. by her son and daughter, virtuoso, but became a is to be on public view until whose husband, Ari, once They said they were buoyed four grandchildren, two rock star instead," Roberts 10 p.m. Wednesday and 9 worked as a law clerk to as they waited in line to be step-grandchildren and a said. Ginsburg's two chil- a.m. to 10 p.m. Thursday. Ginsburg. surrounded by people who great-grandchild. dren, Jane and James, and The members of the court Outside, some people felt the same way. Ginsburg's death has add- other family members sat were arrayed in their seats waiting to pass by the cas- "I liked that I was with like- ed another layer of tumult on one side of the casket, in order of seniority, now ket said they had driven minded people," Linder- to an already chaotic elec- across from the justices. changed by Ginsburg's through the night. One of man said. "I feel ener- tion year. President Donald With her portrait on dis- death so that Justices Clar- those in line, Heather Set- gized,." Trump and Senate Repub- play nearby, Ginsburg's ence Thomas and Stephen zler, a physician assistant "Where we live, we're usu- licans are plowing ahead flag-draped casket sat in Breyer flanked Roberts. from Raleigh, North Caro- ally in the minority," Wese- with plans to have a new the court's Great Hall for Breyer took the spot Gins- lina, said she named her man said. justice on the bench, per- the private service before burg held when the court two cats Hillary Ruth and Since Ginsburg's death haps before the Nov. 3 it was moved outside so last gathered for a justice's Kiki, in honor of Ginsburg's Friday evening, people election. Trump, who trad- the public could honor her memorial, in 2019 following childhood nickname. have been leaving flow- ed insults with Ginsburg four Wednesday and Thursday. the death of John Paul Ste- "There was just something ers, notes, placards and years ago, was expected Health precautions be- vens. about her. She was so di- all manner of Ginsburg to pay his respects on cause of the pandemic led Rabbi Lauren Holtzblatt of minutive yet turned out to paraphernalia outside the Thursday.q Appeals court rejects rehearing in transgender bathroom case Associated Press jected a request from the Grimm to use restrooms The school board had ar- An attorney for the school RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Gloucester County School that corresponded with his gued that laws protect board did not immediately federal appeals court on Board for a rehearing to sex assigned at birth — fe- against discrimination respond to a request for Wednesday denied a re- review a ruling that the male — or to use private based on sex, not gender comment Wednesday. quest for a full-court review board's policy discriminat- restrooms. identity. Because Grimm Grimm filed his lawsuit in of a ruling that a Virginia ed against Gavin Grimm, A federal judge in Norfolk had not undergone sex-re- 2015, saying he suffered school board's transgender a transgender student ruled against the school assignment surgery and still from urinary tract infec- bathroom ban is unconsti- who was barred from us- board last year, a ruling had female genitalia, the tions from avoiding school tutional. ing the boys bathrooms at that was upheld last month board's position was that bathrooms as well as sui- The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Gloucester High School. by a three-judge panel of he remained anatomically cidal thoughts that led to Appeals in Richmond re- The board's policy required the 4th Circuit. a female. hospitalization.q A4 Thursday 24 September 2020 U.S. NEWS Judge: Eric Trump must testify in NY probe before election NEW YORK (AP) — Eric so "simply on the grounds Trump must testify in a New of personal inconvenience York investigation into his to the witness." He argued family's business practices that the typical compli- before the November pres- ance deadline courts have idential election, a judge found is reasonable is five ruled Wednesday, reject- days. ing his lawyers' claims that Eric Trump's lawyers had his "extreme travel sched- proposed four dates for ule" on the campaign trail him to testify, the earliest warranted a delay. being Nov. 19, which they State Judge Arthur En- contended was just after goron said President Don- James' office is scheduled ald Trump's middle son, a to interview other witness- Trump Organization execu- es in the investigation. Eric tive, must comply with a Trump switched lawyers in subpoena to give a depo- mid-July, Futerfas said, con- sition under oath no later tributing to the need for a than Oct. 7, adding that delay. the court is not "bound by Eric Trump did not partici- the timelines of the national pate in Wednesday's hear- election." ing, which was held via Sky- New York Attorney General pe. Eric, the third of Trump's Letitia James went to court five children, was sched- to enforce Eric Trump's sub- uled to appear Wednes- Eric Trump, the son of President Donald Trump, greets supporters at a campaign rally, Tuesday, poena after his lawyers Sept. 17, 2020, in Saco, Maine. day at a campaign event abruptly canceled a July Associated Press in Glendale, Arizona, called interview with investigators "Evangelicals for Trump: in her office's probe, which dictate how or when our poena, but that he could James' office is seeking as Praise, Prayer, and Patrio- is focused on whether the investigation will proceed do so only after the Nov. part of the civil probe. tism." Trump Organization lied or set the parameters of a 3 election. Beside schedul- "As the world knows, James went to court to about the value of its assets lawful investigation," James ing conflicts related to his there's an election going compel Eric Trump and in order to get loans or tax said. "The court's order to- father's reelection cam- on in about four weeks in other business associates to benefits. day makes clear that no paign, they said they want- this country, maybe five testify and turn over docu- Eric Trump, the company's one is above the law, not ed "to avoid the use of his weeks," Futerfas argued. ments as part of a civil in- executive vice president even an organization or an deposition attendance for "Eric Trump is a vital and in- vestigation into whether of development and ac- individual with the name political purposes." tegral part of that, and he's the family's company, the quisitions, was first served Trump." At Wednesday's hearing, traveling just about seven Trump Organization, lied with the subpoena in May. A message seeking com- Futerfas said they were days a week." about the value of assets James, a Democrat, said in ment on the ruling was left "happy for him to sit down Matthew Colangelo, a law- including a suburban New a statement after the ruling with Eric Trump's lawyer, and be deposed," but that yer for the attorney gener- York City estate. that "justice and the rule of Alan Futerfas. they needed more time al's office, countered that Investigators have yet to law prevailed today." In a court filing last week, before he testified to re- Eric Trump's lawyers didn't determine whether any "To be clear, no entity or his lawyers said he was will- view with him thousands of have a legal basis to seek law was broken, James' of- individual is allowed to ing to comply with the sub- pages of documents that a delay and were doing fice has said.q eBay workers who sent spiders to couple to plead guilty

BOSTON (AP) — Four former eBay Inc. employees have agreed to plead name on them to their neighbor's house, planned to break into the cou- guilty to their roles in a campaign of intimidation that included sending ple's garage to install a GPS device on their car, and posted the couple's live spiders and cockroaches to the home of a Massachusetts couple names and address online, advertising things like yard sales and encour- who ran an online newsletter critical of the auction site, federal prosecu- aging strangers to knock on the door if the pair wasn't outside, officials tors said Wednesday. said. "Four former employees of #eBay are scheduled to plead guilty on Oct. 8 The suspects engaged in a "systematic campaign fueled by the resourc- at 2pm via zoom in federal court in #Boston," according to a tweet from es of a Fortune 500 company to emotionally and psychologically terror- the official account of the U.S. attorney's office in Massachusetts. "The ize this middle-aged couple in Natick," U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling said defendants are charged w/ participating in a cyberstalking campaign at a news conference when charges were announced in June. that targeted a Massachusetts couple." An internal investigation was launched after San Jose, California-based The four expected to plead guilty are Brian Gilbert, 51; Stephanie Popp, eBay was notified by law enforcement of "suspicious actions by its secu- 32; Stephanie Stockwell, 26; and Veronica Zea, 26, according to The Bos- rity personnel," company officials wrote in a prepared statement. The ton Globe. employees were ultimately fired, the company said. All live in San Jose, California, except for Stockwell, who lives in Redwood Popp was a senior manager of global intelligence at eBay; Gilbert was City, California. senior manager of special operations for eBay's Global Security Team; They are among seven former eBay employees charged in the case, in Stockwell was manager of eBay's Global Intelligence Center; and Zea which the Massachusetts couple had other disturbing items sent to their was an eBay contractor who worked as an intelligence analyst in the home, including a funeral wreath and a bloody pig Halloween mask. Global Intelligence Center. Authorities say they were working at eBay at They are all charged with conspiracy to commit cyberstalking and con- the time of the alleged harassment. spiracy to tamper with a witness. Their lawyers either declined to com- Court documents say the couple was targeted after their newsletter ment or didn't immediately return emails seeking comment Wednesday. published an article in August 2019 about a lawsuit filed by eBay accus- The employees also sent pornographic magazines with the husband's ing Amazon of poaching its sellers.q A5 WORLD NEWS Thursday 24 September 2020 EU proposes new asylum system to help frontline nations

By LORNE COOK tion proposal. Associated Press The catch is that the plan BRUSSELS (AP) — The Euro- involves "flexible forms of pean Union announced a support, starting off on a major overhaul of its asy- voluntary basis." Stricter lum system Wednesday in requirements to help out hopes that more countries would only be imposed in will finally share responsi- crisis situations like Greece bility for people landing saw in 2015, when hundreds on Europe's shores seeking of thousands of Syrian refu- sanctuary or better lives. gees made the short — but The move comes after sometimes deadly — jour- years of chaos and dis- ney across from Turkey. pute among the bloc's 27 So far, voluntary EU migra- nations over the handling tion management schemes of migrants and refugees have tended to fail. amid a recognition that the EU Migration Commissioner current EU system for decid- Ylva Johansson ruled out ing whether they should re- the use of mandatory quo- ceive protection or be sent tas for sharing migrants. home has failed. When asked whether more "The old system to deal effort would be made to with it in Europe no longer save people in the Medi- European Commissioner for Promoting our European Way of Life Margaritas Schinas, speaks dur- works," European Commis- ing a media conference on the New Pact for Migration and Asylum at EU headquarters in Brussels, terranean, she said: "Not sion President Ursula von Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020. according to our propos- der Leyen told reporters in Associated Press al. It will be the opposite, I Brussels, adding that the guess." "New Pact for Migration mission says. Turkey, Leba- prepared for deportation. lows countries with anti- Johansson said this, com- and Asylum" offers Europe non and Jordan have had Both procedures would migrant governments to bined with swift screening "a fresh start." to cater to far more. take 12 weeks and the mi- become "the bouncers of and return procedures, The arrival in 2015 of well EU nations have responded grants could be held in de- Europe" but she raised con- should make people "think over 1 million migrants, in various ways, from erect- tention. cerns about the legal status twice before paying a lot mostly refugees fleeing war ing razor-wire border fenc- From there, EU members of people in the process. of money to the smugglers in Syria, sparked one of the es to ignoring emergency could choose to help ease "Those put in a border pro- and before risking their lives EU's biggest political crises. calls from overcrowded the load on countries that cedure, it will be as if they going into these very dan- EU nations have fought smugglers' boats in the have seen the most mi- have never entered EU ter- gerous boats." since over who should Mediterranean. Some mi- grant arrivals by sea — like ritory," she said. That legal The proposals suggest the take responsibility for the grants have been left to Greece, Italy, Malta and limbo allows authorities to EU will continue holding un- migrants, with front-line languish on ships for weeks Spain — by taking in some quickly put people on a authorized migrants in the Mediterranean nations like rather than being allowed refugees or providing other plane or a boat home. Greek islands until they can Greece, Italy, Malta and into safe harbors. Aid support. Austrian Interior Minister Karl be sent away. Earlier this Spain demanding more groups and European citi- Those not willing to do that Nehammer cautiously wel- month, a blaze destroyed help from their EU neigh- zens face criminal charges could take charge of de- comed the plan, saying it the squalid Moria refugee bors. for their efforts to save lives. porting people whose ap- "goes in the right direction camp on the Greek is- The arguments rage on The new plan hinges on the plications are refused. This in very important areas." He land of Lesbos, where over even though the number fast-track screening of mi- option might suit Austria, stressed the need for the EU 12,000 people lived in facili- of unauthorized migrants grants arriving at Europe's the Czech Republic, Hun- to conduct deportations ties built for 3,000. has dwindled sharply in re- borders without permission. gary, Poland and Slovakia, "faster, more strongly and Von der Leyen said the EU cent years. Some 140,000 It would be completed who are all reluctant to ac- more efficiently," the Aus- has agreed to set up a joint people arrived last year, within 5 days. People would cept refugees. tria Press Agency reported. pilot project with Greek au- compared to around 2 mil- then be sent into an asylum Hanne Beirens, Director of Czech Interior Minister Jan thorities to manage an im- lion migrants who entered track if they qualify for pro- Migration Policy Institute Hamacek said his country migrant reception center legally, the European Com- tection, or they would be Europe, said this option al- was open to the deporta- on Lesbos.q China blasts U.S. House bill, denies forced labor in Xinjiang BEIJING (AP) — China on Tuesday "The so-called problem of forced na, one of the world's top produc- chain is free of materials that have lashed out at the passage of a bill labor is totally a lie fabricated by ers of the fiber, as well as tomatoes been produced with forced labor. by the U.S. House of Representa- some organizations and personnel and manufactured goods. The U.S. has banned imports made tives that threatens sanctions over in the United States and the West," Members of Congress say the with forced labor since 1930 to en- the alleged use of forced labor in Wang told reporters at a daily measure is needed to press China sure fair trade. Enforcement has China's Xinjiang region, calling the briefing. The House voted 406-3 to to stop a campaign that has result- increased in recent years and U.S. accusation a lie. declare that any goods produced ed in the detention of more than 1 Customs and Border Protection Foreign ministry spokesman Wang in Xinjiang are presumptively made million Uighurs and other predomi- has blocked shipments by eight Wenbin said the bill "maliciously with the forced labor of detained nantly Muslim ethnic groups under companies and entities operat- slandered the human rights situa- Uighurs and other ethnic minorities, brutal conditions. ing in Xinjiang over the past year. tion in Xinjiang" and sought to curb and therefore banned from being Some companies and trade groups The bill passed Tuesday would go development and progress in the imported to the U.S. oppose a Xinjiang-wide declara- further, shifting the burden to any region while stirring up ethnic divi- If enacted into law, it could force tion because it puts the burden on company that operates in Xinjiang sions and interfering in China's in- companies to avoid a region that private enterprises to ensure that or buys goods from there to prove ternal affairs. products 80% of the cotton in Chi- an often complex global supply their goods are not tainted.q A6 Thursday 24 September 2020 WORLD NEWS Mexican leader: Protesters welcome to camp near his office

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexi- The protesters appear to can President Andrés Man- be a little more well-heeled uel López Obrador said than those who manned Wednesday that conser- communal tents for miles vative protesters demand- on the city's main avenue ing his resignation are for seven weeks in 2006 to welcome to camp out in protest what they claimed Mexico City's main plaza was electoral fraud that outside his offices in the co- prevented López Obrador lonial-era National Palace. from winning in the first of López Obrador himself led his three runs for the presi- numerous protest encamp- dency. ments in his decades as an The conservative protest- opposition leader, and he ers sleep in their own indi- offered some advice to the vidual or family-sized tents more novice opposition of and appear to have a bit today. more camping gear that "Don't playact," López the pro-AMLO encamp- Obrador said. "The (pro- ments of 2006 and others in test) leaders should stay the 1990s. to sleep" in the collection But it is also not clear that A protester waves a Mexican flag to demand the resignation of Mexican President Andrés Manuel of hundreds of small tents López Obrador, commonly known by his initials AMLO, during a sleep-in protest at the intersection López Obrador followed that sprang up on an av- of Avenida Juarez and Reforma in Mexico City, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020. his own advice. Toward enue leading to the plaza Associated Press the end of his seven-week- over the weekend after long encampment in 2006, demonstrators complained tents, an uncomfortable has ignored checks and on free speech. In fact, po- many of the tents pitched that police blocked their proposition in Mexico City's balances and civic groups. lice have been limiting ac- along the city's Reforma attempt to march into the rainy season. They are also angered by cess to the plaza off and on boulevard were actually main plaza, known as the The protest movement calls his handling of the pan- since the coronavirus pan- empty. Zócalo. itself the "National anti- demic and its economic demic began as a way to While López Obrador no The president, who is bet- AMLO Front" or FRENA, a effects. enforce social distancing. longer enjoys the over- ter known by his initials as contrived acronym that is On Sunday, the group The group pledged to whelming popularity he AMLO, was apparently also the Spanish word for complained that dozens of make another attempt had after taking office in suggesting that only foot "brake." The leaders claim police blocked protesters Wednesday to enter the December 2018, he still ap- soldiers among the demon- López Obrador has accu- from marching to the Zóca- plaza, the symbolic and pears to have the support strators were sleeping in the mulated too much power, lo and called it an attack historical center of the city. of a majority of Mexicans.q First stone laid at Dutch Holocaust Memorial in Amsterdam THE HAGUE, Netherlands rial in March. A Dutch court (AP) — A friend of World cleared the way last year War II Jewish diarist Anne for the memorial to be con- Frank laid the first stone structed. Amsterdam Mu- Wednesday at a new me- nicipality had granted per- morial under construction mission for construction to in Amsterdam to honor all start in 2017, but residents Dutch victims of the Holo- argued that it was too big caust. for the location and could The ceremonial laying of cause traffic problems. the first stone, on which the Jacqueline van Maarsen, name of a Dutch Holocaust who knew Anne Frank victim was engraved, is the before the diarist and her latest step in construction of family were captured and the Dutch memorial, which sent to Nazi concentra- will feature the names of tion camps, laid a stone more than 102,000 Jews, engraved by laser with the Roma and Sinti who were name, date of birth and murdered in Nazi concen- age of Dina Frankenhuis, tration camps during World who was murdered, aged War II or who died on their 20, on June 4, 1943, at the way to the camps. Sobibor camp. "I almost can't believe it, but Designed by Polish-Jewish it is now really happening," architect Daniel Libeskind, Jacques Grishaver, chair- the memorial in the heart of man of the Netherlands Amsterdam's historic Jewish Auschwitz Committee, said In this Wednesday, June 12, 2019 file photo, Jacqueline van Maarsen, left, and Albert Gomes de Quarter will be made up of Mesquita, school friends of Anne Frank, talk to students during an event to mark what would have in a statement. "The first been Anne Frank's 90th birthday, in Amsterdam. walls shaped to form four of the more than 102,000 Associated Press Hebrew letters spelling out stones has been laid." a word that translates as "In The last of the stones, each of which is engraved with a name, is expected to be placed in the memo- Memory Of."q A7 WORLD NEWS Thursday 24 September 2020 Wave of massacres signals new chapter in Colombia's conflict

By MANUEL RUEDA the attack, and offered a Associated Press reward of $300,000 for two BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — of its leaders. On Monday, Jose Manuel Mancilla was military commanders and taking a break from his job officials from the defense at a local gold mine. So on ministry visited the area Sunday he gathered with and said the army would friends at a hillside home step up operations against in his village of Munchique, the FARC dissidents. where about 20 people But there are many areas of were drinking and staging Colombia where similar at- cockfights. tacks have happened and The 19-year-old's life end- perpetrators still haven't ed abruptly when hooded been caught. men began to shoot at Camilo Gonzalez, president the improvised cockfight- of the Colombian think tank ing arena with machine Indepaz, said that so far this guns and threw at least year, there have been 61 two grenades at the terri- incidents in which three or fied crowd. Six men in all, more civilians were killed by aged 16 to 28, lost their armed groups, compared University students march holding a poster with a message that reads in Spanish: "Who killed lives during the attack on them?" during a demonstration against a wave of massacres, in Bogota, Colombia, Monday, to 35 for all of last year. the western Colombian vil- Sept. 21, 2020. These crimes are described lage, which is surrounded Associated Press as "massacres" by Colom- by small gold mines and bia's Human Rights om- coca fields. The deaths signal a new The new groups can be just Ocean, where cocaine is budsman, while the Ministry Hours later, four people chapter in the country's as violent, however. loaded onto fast boats that of Defense often calls them were killed in a similar at- long history of bloodshed. "There is less direct con- take the drug to Central "collective homicides." tack in Colombia's south- Rather than the previous frontation now between America and Mexico. Gonzalez said the spike in ern province of Narino. Vid- national dispute between armed groups and the Drug trafficking groups like massacres is happening eo shared on social media guerrillas and the state, government," said Juan the Gulf Clan and rebel as armed groups reposi- showed men with assault violence in rural Colombia Carlos Garzon, an expert groups led by former FARC tion themselves around the rifles shooting at corpses is now marked by a patch- on Colombia's conflict at members who did not country and fight for illegal floating on a pond. work of local feuds be- the Ideas for Peace Foun- sign the peace deal oper- resources abandoned by "With all that has been tween criminal groups that dation. "But what you see ate around the village of the FARC rebels. happening in Colombia it's fight over drug routes, ille- are many attacks against Munchique and elsewhere "These are smaller groups hard to expect any justice gal mines and even gaso- civilians who are perceived in Cauca state. who have little political pur- for these crimes," said Edil- line smuggling routes. to be part of the support "There are so many groups pose," Gonzalez said. "They son Adrono, a town coun- These groups are less ideo- structure of a rival group." with interests here that we are going after drug routes, cil member in Munchique logical than the leftist guer- Garzon said this struggle don't really know who to gold mines, timber smug- who lost two cousins in that rillas of the Revolutionary for territorial control could blame," said Clemencia gling, and forming allianc- town's massacre. "We've Armed Forces of Colombia, explain Sunday's attack at Carabalí, a spokeswoman es with money launderers." been left alone here, as if a movement known as the the Munchique cockfight- for the Association of Afro In Cauca, where there we didn't exist on the map." FARC that made peace ing arena. No suspects Colombian Women of have been nine massa- Alarms are sounding in Co- with the government in have yet been captured. Northern Cauca, a human cres this year, human rights lombia over a rising tide of 2016 after five decades of The village lies in a corridor rights group. leaders say slow implemen- violence. More than 230 conflict that killed 250,000 that connects coca fields in Colombia's government tation of the 2016 peace people have been slain in people and chased mil- Colombia's central moun- pointed to a group of for- deal with the FARC rebels massacres this year. lions from their homes. tain range with the Pacific mer FARC members for has made matters worse.q Seoul: Missing South Korean official may be in North Korea

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — the vessel, prompting a so- were on board when the A South Korean official who far fruitless search involving man went missing. It didn't disappeared off a govern- aircraft and ships. provide information about ment ship near the dis- The Defense Ministry said in the missing official. More puted sea boundary with a statement it had informa- than 30,000 North Koreans North Korea this week may tion that the missing official have fled to South Korea in be in North Korea, South was on North Korean shores the past 20 years for politi- Korea's Defense Ministry on Tuesday afternoon. The cal and economic reasons, said Wednesday. ministry did not say how it but it's highly unusual for a The ministry said the obtained that information. South Korean national to 47-year-old official was The ministry said officials will defect to North Korea. aboard a government ves- contact North Korea to ask At the height of their Cold sel that was checking on about the missing official War rivalry, North Korea of- potential unauthorized fish- and take other steps to find ten forcibly towed South ing near a South Korean more details. Korean fishing boats oper- border island. Colleagues The Ministry of Oceans and ating near the sea bound- In this Dec. 22, 2010, file photo, a government ship sails past the noticed the man was Fisheries, which was operat- ary into its waters, holding South Korean Navy's floating base as the sun rises near Yeonpy- missing at lunch time and ing the vessel the man was some of those on board eong island, South Korea. Associated Press found only his shoes still on on Monday, said 18 people and returning others. q A8 Thursday 24 September 2020 LOCAL Elements restaurant reveals dining renovations New offerings for thriving vegan scene cal distancing was already the Bucuti Wing refresh in EAGLE BEACH — The the norm at the romantic, 2020. rare downtime this adults-only enclave. Cou- spring allowed Bucuti & ples can also enjoy a spe- Vegan menu expands by Tara Beach Resort to in- cial 6-course meal for 2 with demand vest in renovations and a bottle of Champagne or Elements restaurant goes refresh its acclaimed El- wine included, in a private beyond one full menu and ements restaurant and beach palapa where they offers complete menus to create innovative will experience an array of for vegan/vegetarian, new items on its popu- flavors accompanied by gluten-free and world cui- lar vegan menu. The pastel skies transitioning to sine offering prized steaks Caribbean’s healthi- bright moonlit stars. and sustainable seafood. est and safest vacation The most notable invest- Aruba’s blossoming veg- can be enjoyed with a ment is the all-new dining an and vegetarian scene View to Dine For at the deck along Eagle Beach, has become a Caribbean vegan menu weaves in tele. award-winning dining aptly named one of the food destination anchored flavors of the world. From “After months of research destination. “Dream Beaches of the in large part to Elements the likes of classic comfort and testing, my talented World.” The Caribbean’s restaurant for its innovation foods given a modern twist culinary team and I im- Michelin-trained Chef most eco-certified resort and equal consideration to a zesty nod to Latin fa- proved the flavor and Marc Giesbergs, director of to include being its only for those seeking a fulfill- vorites and Far East staples, healthfulness of both tra- food & beverage at Bucuti carbon-neutral hotel, care- ing plant-based nourish- the team relishes relation- ditional and modern fare, & Tara, and his team quick- fully selected an innovative ment. While Chef Marc’s ships with local farmers and and are very proud of our ly seized the unexpected blend of 95% recycled ma- high-end steak and sea- procures as much on island new vegan menu at Ele- quiet time to reimagining terials. The earth-friendly food dishes continuously such as its microgreens. A ments restaurant,” shares the Eagle Beach dining ex- manufacturing process re- earn high praise, admira- sampling of the full menu Chef Marc Giesbers, direc- perience. They put on their coups factory waste and tion along with increased includes: tor of food & beverage at design hats in the front-of- eliminates the use of harm- requests for his innovative • Layered Roots of the An- Bucuti & Tara Beach Resort. the-house and turned the ful chemicals. and satiating healthy se- des: Towering layers of truf- Elements restaurant is back-of the-house into a Luxury resort designer lections prompted the ex- fle potato, sweet potato adults-only and available test kitchen. Dada Designs of Miami led pansion the restaurant’s mash, basil-marinated red to both resort guests and the aesthetic component existing standalone vegan beets along with chunky offsite guests, alike. Reser- Refreshed and stylishly so- of the renovations. The menu. seasoned avocado served vations are highly recom- cial distanced same team masterminded From dedicated vegans to with carrot chips accom- mended. The SandBar is re- Elements restaurant has the concepts resulting in guests who occasionally panied with roasted red served exclusively for resort long featured mostly seat- laidback luxury of the Tara seek a healthy, flavorful pepper pulp. guests. ing for two, so safe, physi- Wing revisions in 2017 and alternative, the extensive • Gado-Gado Entreé Sal- ad: Elements adaptation Bucuti & Tara: The Ca- of this classic Indonesian ribbean’s Healthiest dish composed of Tem- and Safest Vacation Ex- peh, beansprouts, green perience beans, carrot, bell pepper, As the region’s most- cilantro, pickled cabbage, eco certified hotel, complemented with a di- Bucuti has long had a vine peanut sauce atop a heightened awareness bed of rice noodles. for the health and safe- • Range-free Steak: A nod ty of both guests and to the West, this ground len- the planet. Its new CO- til patty is served with roast- VID-19 safety protocols ed vegetable gravy and were developed within partnered with a mosaic of Center for Disease Con- squash, glazed carrots and trol guidelines, World classic fondant potatoes. Health Organization • Agave and Cardamom- recommendations and infused Pineapple Quinoa in-person evaluations Margarita: Latin America by practicing ICU (in- inspired, this agave nectar- tensive care unit) doc- infused quinoa is crowned tors and nurses who with a slow simmered lime were hosted onsite this and pineapple chutney spring at Bucuti & Tara. laced with cardamom and With its new touch-free clove, finished with a touch experience combined of strawberry sauce. with the new hospi- A fine dining restaurant vet- tal-grade, high-tech eran, Chef Marc recently health safety protocols received on Elements’ and Aruba’s Health & behalf the coveted Wine Happiness Code seal, Spectator 2020 Award of guests can confident- Excellence for his diverse, ly relax into vacation sustainable wine list that mode. To learn more, exceeds the expectations visit Bucuti.com.q of the resort’s global clien- A9 LOCAL Thursday 24 September 2020

A cry for help: Aruba’s creative industries in need

ORANJESTAD — Around but that there is no mention the Aruban Government the world, along with the of a national strategic plan website: “on March 31, tourism industry, cultural to help this industry sustain 2020, FASE received 5700 and creative sectors are the impact of COVID-19 on personal applications, 744 among the most affected a short term or long term business registrations, and economies by the current scope. more than 15 thousand coronavirus (Covid-19) cri- calls” (Government of Aru- sis. This is not an exception How is Aruba helping the ba, 2020). The private sec- for Aruba. Since August 3rd Creative Industries? tor, entrepreneurs, and self- 2020, a rise in (local trans- Aruba is facing hard and employed people (ZZP’ers) missions) registered cases difficult times due to the could apply for FASE while caused new guidelines emergence of COVID-19. the funding was available. that devastated the Aruban This pandemic has de- Since Aruba could not offer Cultural and Creative In- stroyed Aruba’s financial this assistance on their own, dustries. These procedures and economic develop- the Aruban Government included but were not lim- ment. The financial circum- had no choice but to ask ited to: obligatory use of stances of the island don’t The Netherlands for help (in VID times. This project was not much has been done masks, no dancing, no Dj/ provide much room for as- accordance with the King- executed for the months for the cultural and cre- Band performances, no ag- sisting families that have dom Constitution). of May and June 2020 and ative sectors on the island. glomeration at bars, and 4 no income or let alone in- was a total success. A total Besides the lack of a Na- people max at a table in vesting in programs that Besides the social assis- of 25 cultural project grants tional Cultural Policy or a a restaurant, just to name could still stimulate socio- tance fund, specifically were awarded. Each ap- Creative Industry Policy for a few. The reaction of the economic development. related to the Aruban Cul- plicant is granted AWG Aruba, policy-wise there community, especially The Aruban Government in tural and Creative Indus- 2000.00 for their project, has been no information of professionals in the Aru- solidarity with the Aruban try, UNOCA (local cultural meaning AWG 50.000,00 how the Aruban Govern- ban Cultural and Creative people has introduced grant agency) in the heat was invested so far in the ment is going to assist the Industry (CCI), were not a program called FASE, of the COVIG-19 pandem- Aruban Cultural and Cre- Aruban Creative industry positive. In the meantime, an Emergency Social As- ic introduced a funding ative Industries. The project (with a contingency plan) the criticism and the disap- sistance Fund. Applicants project called “UNOCA was so successful that the during and post COVID-19. pointment of this industry is that meet all requirements CARES” with the hopes of organization announced not that the Government of can receive AWG 950.00 stimulating the develop- the second round of grants Aruba has imposed these monthly for a maximum ment of cultural and cre- in September 2020. How- Continue on Page 10 guidelines and measures, of 3 months. According to ative content during CO- ever, besides this initiative, A10 Thursday 24 September 2020 LOCAL

A cry for help: Aruba’s creative industries in need

Continued from Page 9 approx. 120.000 people, to bigger the Commission is setting up two to name a few. More detailed in- and more developed countries platforms to help share challenges formation of what the EU is doing How are other countries helping with millions of inhabitants, but the and solutions at the EU level in re- to remediate the impact of CO- the Creative Industries? reason this report is relevant is be- lation to the COVID-19 impact on VID-19 can be found on the fol- In the words of the European Com- cause it illustrates the endless sup- the cultural and creative sectors. lowing website: https://ec.europa. mission (2020) “empty cultural port (or lack thereof) other coun- “The first platform for EU Member eu/culture/resources/coronavirus- places, drastically reduced mo- tries have expressed to the Cre- States was launched on 24 April response bility and tourism blockade as an ative Industry. and it allows the representatives of effect of COVID-19 measures not EU culture ministries to exchange Moving Forward only generate an evident eco- The Netherlands good practices. The second plat- The Aruban community and the nomic damage to cultural institu- Recently, on September 15th 2020 form, Creatives Unite aims to help creative and cultural community tions, companies and workers but the Dutch Government released a people in the cultural and creative are experiencing great pain and also create a strong economic notice on their website that “in ad- sectors share information and solu- loss. The Aruban Government is and social discomfort at city level”. dition to the support package of € tions more easily. It was launched fighting many battles in regards to Therefore, the need for reform and 482 million, the budget for culture on 5 May within the framework of public health, the increasing co- policy responses are highly nec- will have available an additional the Creative FLIP Pilot project co- vid-19 spread, economic develop- essary for the Creative Industries. € 15 million per year the next four funded by the European Union” ment, tourism industry, education There are different ways countries years (a total of € 60 million over (European Union, 2020). crisis during COVID times, financial around the world are helping the 2021-2024). These funds are intend- crisis, negotiations with The Nether- Creative Industries. This is done ed to further strengthen the cultural Both national and city govern- lands and so much more. The load through Public Funding (grants for infrastructure in Dutch regions. The ments in Europe have issued a is heavy; however, the Aruban Cul- cultural sector, grants for creative cabinet is committed to a solid cul- comprehensive collection of poli- tural and Creative Industry needs entrepreneurs, compensations, tax tural and creative sector. This sec- cy measures (from compensatory attention as well. Not only for now incentives), Employment Support tor makes a significant contribution grants to tax reliefs) to maintain but for the future. All cultural and (income support and unemploy- to a favorable economic business alive Europe’s cultural capital, creative organizations (public, pri- ment benefits which in most cases climate in the Netherlands” (Ri- while giving cultural institutions, vate and non-profit) should unite are also public funding), Admin- jksoverheid, 2020). This news drew companies and workers the time to and create a platform like the EU istrative Support (advanced aid, a lot of attention on Facebook. get prepared to post-COVID times. did to discuss how we can col- postponement of dues, relief of Aruban creative professionals such A good example of such works laborate and bring concrete solu- dues, and procedural flexibility), as Ms. Pierangely Wever (Dancer/ includes the “European Cultural tions on the table and initiate real and Structural Policies (training, Dace teacher) expressed by stat- and Creative Cities in COVID-19 change. Especially, exploring how employment, knowledge mobiliza- ing: “Ok and Aruba? Is there mon- times: Jobs at risk and the policy Aruba can deliver COVID-safe cul- tion, digitalization, innovation, and ey for ART and CULTURE? Dance response” (2020) report. Many of tural experiences as time goes by. copyright licensing). schools are suffering; many stu- the policy measures Europe used dents don’t come to class. What to help creative entrepreneurs and The government has a responsibil- On September 7th 2020, the Or- is going to happen? I can imagine creative businesses include: Aid ity, but it cannot carry it alone. This ganization for Economic Co-oper- that Music, Visual Arts, and other package for solo self-employed is why public policy is important ation and Development (OECD) disciplines in the ARTS are also suf- persons and micro-enterprises, aid and why culture and the creative published a report called “Culture fering! What is going to happen?” for organizers of cultural events, li- industries also needs their own pol- shock: COVID-19 and the cultural You can hear her cry for help, her quidity assistance, short-time allow- icy plan. I cannot emphasize this and creative sectors” which in de- cry for an answer, and her cry for ance, simplified access to basic in- enough. Aruba has endured many tail explained the impact of CO- a plan. come, aid for parents and families, obstacles in the past, so I am con- VID-19 on the cultural and creative tax aid measures, insolvency law, fident that our creative profession- sector around the world while also Europe protection of tenants, artists' social als are capable to help come up illustrating what these countries In the case of Europe, Commission- security fund, consumer loans, re- with ideas and turn this miserable have done (policy-wise) to help er Mariya Gabriel announced in allocation of funds and flexibiliza- situation around. However, it will this industry. We realistically can’t April 2020 at the conference of EU tion of programs, film funding, and only happen if we do it together. compare Aruba, a small island of ministers of culture and media, that capacity building measures, just q

Biography - Thaïs G. Franken (25) is a recently graduated Aruban student at the University of Maastricht (UM). She obtained her graduate double master of science degree in Public Policy and Human Develop- ment in collaboration with the United Nations University Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT). Back home, on the beautiful island of Aruba, she completed her Bachelor of Arts in Organization, Governance & Management (OGM) at the University of Aruba (UA), where she successfully defended her thesis titled “Placing Culture and Creativity at the Heart of the Aru- ban Sustainable Development”. It was precisely this research project that inspired the emergence of the “Creative Islander” column in 2018. Thaïs is very passionate about topics such as sustainability, innovation, culture, creativity, social entrepreneurship and their role in public management. Next to her academic in- terests, she enjoys reading, writing, dancing and cooking. A11 BUSINESS Thursday 24 September 2020 Americans load up on candy, trick or treat - or not By DEE-ANN DURBIN market is going to cele- Americans may not know brate a little bit differently," if trick or treating will hap- LeBel said. pen this year because of CVS Caremark says it's re- the pandemic, but they're duced the number of large buying a lot of Halloween and giant bags of candy candy while they wait to stores will receive. It's also find out. expanded its assortment of U.S. sales of Halloween "instant consumable" sized candy were up 13% over candy and gum that par- last year in the month end- ents can pick up to treat ing Sept. 6, according to themselves. Target says it's data from market research cut back its assortment of firm IRI and the National Halloween candy in an- Confectioners Associa- ticipation of a reduction of tion. That's a bigger jump trick or treating this year. than the usual single-digit Still, online sales could give increases. Sales of Hallow- candy companies a boost een chocolate alone are as the pandemic changed up 25%. shopping habits. Digital Earlier Halloween displays sales more than doubled at some chains, like dollar at Easter, LeBel said, and stores, Meijer and ShopRite, that could happen again likely helped boost sales. at Halloween. In this Oct. 31, 2018 file photo, a local convenient store worker, hands out candy to trick or treaters But Americans may also on Halloween in Brooklyn Borough of New York. Companies have also shift- be in a mood to celebrate Associated Press ed their marketing in re- after months of pandemic sponse to the pandemic. anxiety. by Christmas and Easter. in the state. But some cities, gust and found that 52% Mars is launching a Treat Cassandra Ambrosius, who Valentine's Day is a distant like Springfield, Massachu- planned to buy less candy Town website that will let lives in central Wisconsin, fourth. setts, and Antigo, Wiscon- this year than they usually people trick or treat virtual- was surprised to see bags Ferrara Candy Co., which sin, have called it off. Big do. Just 11% planned to ly and earn credits toward of Halloween candy at the makes Brach's Candy Corn, Halloween events at plac- buy more. real candy. Hershey has a grocery in early Septem- says it saw online demand es like Disney World and Sa- Candy companies have map showing COVID risk by ber; her husband snapped three months earlier than lem, Massachusetts aren't been making some chang- county on its website. one up. She expects to buy usual. Some stores also happening. es to deal with all the un- Miranda Leon of Albany, more bags as Halloween asked Ferrara for earlier Ben Reed, of Arlington, Tex- certainty around Hallow- Georgia, still plans to buy gets closer, because she shipments. as, takes pride in giving out een. Hershey is selling fewer Halloween candy in mid- thinks people in her neigh- But while early demand are full-size candy bars for Hal- large Halloween-themed October and make treat borhood will figure out how strong, sales in late October loween. He usually buys be- bags of candy and shift- bags for her three kids' to trick or treat safely. could suffer if the coronavi- tween 160 and 200 candy ing more candy to smaller, classrooms. There's no of- "I'm sure people are just rus clamps down on trick or bars. everyday bags that can still ficial word on Halloween excited for a little sense of treat. Fifty-five percent of "This year I have no idea be sold after the holiday, in her city, but she plans to normalcy," Ambrosius said. Mars Wrigley's Halloween how many to purchase," he said Phil Stanley, Hershey's take her kids trick or treat- That enthusiasm is good candy sales usually hap- said. "I do not want to dis- global chief sales officer. ing and hand out candy. news for candy compa- pen in the last two weeks appoint the kids, but on the Mars is customizing bag "So much has been taken nies, which rely on the 10- of October, says Tim LeBel, other hand, I do not want sizes. A place like Los An- from our kids this year — week Halloween period for the company's chief Hal- to be stuck with too many geles County, which is dis- classes cut short, sports nearly 14% of their annual loween officer and head of and add more COVID couraging trick or treating, cancelled, summer camps $36 billion in U.S. sales. Hal- U.S. sales. pounds to myself." may get smaller bags, for cancelled," she said. "I re- loween is the biggest holi- New York's governor re- Numerator, a market re- example. fuse to take away the joy day of the year for candy cently announced that he search firm, surveyed 2,000 "We're trying to cover all of trick or treating from my makers, followed closely won't ban trick or treating consumers in early Au- the bases because each kids."q Wells Fargo CEO apologizes for comments about diversity

By KEN SWEET memo to employees was workers," said Rep. Alex- AP Business Writer written in June, but be- andra Ocasio-Cortez of NEW YORK (AP) — Wells came public this week. New York, on Twitter. Fargo CEO Charles Scharf The comments and simi- Scharf on Wednesday apologized Wednesday lar statements made in a said in a prepared state- for comments he made Zoom meeting, reported ment that his comments about the difficulty of find- by Reuters, led to an in- reflected "my own uncon- ing qualified Black execu- tense backlash in Wash- scious bias." tives. ington and on social me- "There is no question Wells Scharf said that "there is a dia. Fargo has to make mean- In this March 10, 2020 file photo, Wells Fargo CEO and Presi- very limited pool of Black "Perhaps it is the CEO of ingful progress to increase dent Charles Scharf is seated before he testifies during a hear- talent to recruit from" in Wells Fargo who lacks diverse representation," ing of the House Financial Services Committee, on Capitol Hill, corporate America. The the talent to recruit Black he wrote. q in Washington. Associated Press A12 Thursday 24 September 2020 SCIENCE China, top global emitter, aims to go carbon-neutral by 2060

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — on the United States," Ster- Chinese President Xi Jinping man said. says his country will aim to Perhaps even more impor- stop adding to the global tant than the carbon neu- warming problem by 2060. trality pledge is the effort to Xi's announcement dur- peak carbon dioxide emis- ing a speech Tuesday to sions before 2030 instead of the U.N. General Assembly by 2030, Sterman said. Car- is a significant step for the bon dioxide's more than world's biggest emitter of 100-year lifetime in the air greenhouse gases. makes earlier emission cuts Calling for a "green revolu- more effective than prom- tion," Xi said the coronavi- ises in the future, he said. rus pandemic had shown "Emissions that don't hap- the need to preserve the pen between now and environment. 2030 are going to reduce "Humankind can no longer warming a lot more than afford to ignore the repeat- the same emission reduc- ed warnings of nature," he tions after 2060," Sterman said. said. However, pledges are Citing the Paris Agreement not the same as actions. that he and former U.S. What's needed is signs of President Barack Obama action, such as eliminating helped forge in 2015, Xi In this Nov. 28, 2019 file photo, smoke and steam rise from a coal processing plant in Hejin in cen- plans to build new coal- said his country would raise tral China's Shanxi Province. fired power plants, cutting its emissions reduction tar- Associated Press subsidies for coal power gets with "vigorous policies and getting off coal en- and measures." sions and a significant step lines, with the EU aiming to could prevent 0.4 to 0.7 tirely, Sterman said. Coal is "We aim to have CO2 emis- forward in international be carbon neutral by 2050. degrees (0.2 to 0.4 degrees the biggest carbon dioxide sions peak before 2030 and cooperation" U.N. climate Frans Timmermans, who Celsius) further warming for emitter of power sources. achieve carbon neutrality chief Patricia Espinosa said. leads the EU executive's the world, according to Twenty-nine nations before before 2060," he said. The goal will be a chal- efforts on climate change, "very rough estimates" by China have pledged to The term "carbon neutral- lenge for China, which re- welcomed Xi's announce- MIT management professor achieve climate neutrality ity" means releasing no ad- lies heavily for its electricity ment. John Sterman, who models in different years, accord- ditional CO2 into the atmo- on coal, one of the most "We need decisive action and tracks emission reduc- ing to the Carbon Neutral- sphere, though technically carbon-intensive fossil fuels. from every country to keep tions and pledges with Cli- ity Coalition. it allows countries to keep China released the equiva- temperatures under con- mate Interactive. With China, the 30 coun- emitting if they ensure that lent of 10 billion tons of car- trol, tackle climate change But much depends on how tries that have some kind of an equal amount is cap- bon dioxide, or CO2, into and keep our planet inhab- they do their emissions re- carbon neutrality pledges, tured again in some form. the atmosphere in 2018, itable," he said. duction and how soon they account for about 43% of The announcement was according to the Global The United States has so far cut them, he said, adding the world's carbon dioxide cheered by climate cam- Carbon Project that tracks not set such a goal. Presi- he has to do a more thor- emissions from the burn- paigners. Greenpeace ex- emissions worldwide. That dent Donald Trump, who ough analysis. ing of fossil fuels. The larg- ecutive director Jennifer was almost twice as much once described climate "That's a lot," Sterman said. est polluting countries not Morgan called it "an im- as the United States and change as a hoax invent- "China's by far the world's on the list are the United portant signal" that showed three times as much as the ed by China, has started big emitter. They're emit- States, India, Russia, Iran, climate change is "top of European Union. the process of pulling the ting more than the EU and Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, agenda for China." Several other major emit- U.S. out of the Paris accord. US together.'' South Africa, Turkey, Brazil "A big shift for curbing emis- ters have set earlier dead- If China fulfills Xi's goal, it "It puts a lot more pressure and Australia.q Bus-size asteroid to zoom by Earth, ducking below satellites By MARCIA DUNN atmosphere and burn up once every year AP Aerospace Writer or two, said Paul Chodas, director of the CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — An asteroid Center for Near-Earth Object Studies at the size of a school bus is headed our way, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. There but NASA says the space rock will zoom could be as many as 100 million of these safely past Earth on Thursday. little asteroids out there. The newly discovered asteroid will come The real threat are considerably bigger within 13,000 miles (22,000 kilometers) of asteroids. The good news is that these are Earth, well below many of the communi- easier to spot much sooner than just a few cations satellites orbiting the planet, scien- days out. tists said this week. The closest approach Asteroid 2020 SW, as it is known, was dis- will occur Thursday morning over the covered last Friday by the Catalina Sky Sur- southeastern Pacific Ocean. vey at the University of Arizona in Tucson.q Once it's gone, the asteroid won't be back to Earth's neighborhood until 2041. 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By MARK KENNEDY Committee's emails were AP Entertainment Writer dumped on the Russian Let's take a trip back in online front DCLeaks or American history, but not appeared on WikiLeaks, too way back. To a time not revealing that Democratic that unfamiliar — the last officials favored Clinton presidential election. Do over her rivals. The media, you remember all the stuff wanting to seem balanced swirling around in 2016? when it came to Trump, Fancy Bear. Paul Manafort. seized on the controversy Julian Assange. Guccifer and elevated it. 2.0. George Papadopou- "It was a three-ring circus of los. The Steele dossier. The election meddling," the film "Access Hollywood" tape. concludes. The FBI's "Crossfire Hurri- The DNC email dump often cane" investigation. James got conflated with an ear- Comey and Roger Stone. lier controversy when Clin- Remember how they all fit ton was accused of misus- together? No? You're not ing the handling of emails alone. while Secretary of State, Enter director Alex Gib- This image released by HBO shows Andrew McCabe in a scene from the documentary "Agents meaning Clinton could ney with HBO's two-part of Chaos." never escape her name "Agents of Chaos," a timely HBO via Associated Press associated with an email yet dispiriting look at how scandal, a controversy in- a whole bunch of Russian new ground. These days, if ments by former officials miliar? advertently fed by the FBI dirty tricks helped Donald you come at the king, you at the National Security The film argues that Rus- that ultimately had little Trump into the White House best not miss. If you just re- Council and Department sian military intelligence heat, much less smoke. — just in time for a possible count, you missed. of State, as well as journal- used much of that play- The problem with the film is replay. Part one lays down the ists Michael Isikoff and Mar- book two years later in that — after four hours — it "I am interested in figuring background, exploring garita Simonyan. Former America. While Trump was can't generate much heat, out this Trump-Russia thing. the rise of Kremlin-backed Hillary Clinton campaign clearly more pro-Putin than either. "Agents of Chaos" What was that all about?" trolls, Russia's interference head John Podesta, whose Clinton, the goal was less a gives us a great blueprint of asks Gibney, who has previ- in Ukraine and then Vladi- emails were hacked, Trump win as much as sow- how all this happened. Too ously made documentaries mir Putin's spies turning their speaks of the breach, as ing distrust and alienation. often daily revelations are on Steve Jobs and Scien- attention to America to dis- well as former CIA director Russian trolls were pushing overwhelming and Gibney tology. (He also did a film rupt the 2016 vote, which John Brennan, former Sen. both Blue Lives Matter and does a superb job linking about Julian Assange, who Gibney calls "the most Harry Reid and former FBI Black Lives Matter and try- them coherently. naturally shows up here, chaotic election of our life- deputy director Andrew ing to dampen turnout. But Trump's odd orientation too, thanks to WikiLeaks). times." McCabe. Page defends Twitter accounts of seem- toward Putin is left to pure "Every time someone asked Part two — co-directed himself from collusion and ingly solid U.S. citizens were speculation, often getting me what this movie was with Javier Alberto Botero Trump business associate actually run by a team in no closer than, "on social about, I'd say, 'Well, how — is how Trump fit into all Felix Sater lays out what he St. Petersburg, often ampli- media, Russian trolls harmo- much time do you have?'" this, with the subsequent knows. fying contradictory false- nize with the Trump chorus." Gibney asks at the begin- investigations into shad- The look at Russian med- hoods in a "carousel of lies." Gibney can't go further ning. It turns out: Almost owy and oddball charac- dling in Ukraine in 2014 is a Some lies — like the murder than saying some things four hours, which will tax ters: Carter Page, George highlight, explaining how of Democratic staffer Seth in the Steele dossier might even political junkies. Papadopoulos, Michael trolls created fake news Rich — jumped to shady be true. That's not good "Agents of Chaos" is a rab- Flynn and Paul Manafort. sites to drive a wedge in online sites like Infowars, enough. He says the presi- bit hole that's fascinating Remember collusion? that country, sowed dis- and eventually mainstream dent's Russian ties are "pret- but ultimately frustrating. "Being an agent of chaos trust, used anti-Semitism media. ty obvious" and conducted It's a well-documented ac- was part of Trump's brand. and painted opponents as While paid trolls were doing with "winks and nods." count of what seems to More chaos, the better," neo-Nazis. The left and the that, Russian intelligence After such a long trip, it's have happened in 2016 the film says. right were lost in their own was actively hacking. both too much and not without breaking much The film has frank assess- internet bubbles. Sound fa- The Democratic National enough.q Woodward's 'Rage' sells 600,000 copies in first week By HILLEL ITALIE week sales include hardcovers, audiobooks and e- Solution Sudoku AP National Writer books. NEW YORK (AP) — Bob Woodward's "Rage" sold more Despite the ongoing publicity of the Trump tapes, than 600,000 copies in its first week of publication, con- "Rage" is not the year's fastest selling Trump book — Mary tinuing a yearlong wave of blockbuster books about Trump's scathing psychological portrait of her uncle, President Donald Trump. "Too Much and Never Enough," had sold 950,000 copies Simon & Schuster announced Wednesday that Wood- by the end of its first day of release. "Rage" also hasn't ward's book will be going into its fourth printing, with to- matched the pace of Woodward's previous Trump tal books in print to be 1.3 million copies. Featuring 18 book, "Fear," which sold more than 1 million copies its interviews with President Trump, including one in which first week and has sold 2 million since its 2018 release. he acknowledges in February the potential severity of Other Trump-related best-sellers in 2020 include John the coronavirus, "Rage" has topped Amazon.com and Bolton's "The Room Where It Happened" and Michael q other bestseller lists since coming out Sept. 15. The first Cohen's "Disloyal." Puzzle on Page 13 A15 SPORTS Thursday 24 September 2020 Murray, Nuggets hang on in Game 3, cut Lakers' lead to 2-1 LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. resting for their big run that (AP) — They had just lost a started it. Denver began playoff heartbreaker, and with a 7-0 spurt, the last five two nights later the Denver from Michael Porter Jr., to Nuggets quickly went from open a nine-point lead. Af- in control to in trouble. ter a dunk by James, Mur- Escaping trouble is what ray made a 3-pointer and these Nuggets do best. Monte Morris scored the "Everybody always has us next five to make it a 15-2 packing our bags and leav- start to the period and give ing, but we're not ready to the Nuggets a 44-29 ad- go," coach Michael Malo- vantage. ne said. "For some reason It would grow to 18 and we love this bubble." could have been worse if They'll get at least two more not for Davis, who scored games in it. nine straight Lakers points. Jamal Murray had 28 Markieff Morris' 3-pointer points, 12 assists and two trimmed it to 63-53 at half- late 3-pointers to halt a time. Lakers charge, helping the The Lakers got the first five Nuggets to a 114-106 vic- points of the third to cut the tory Tuesday night that cut lead in half, but Denver re- Los Angeles' lead to 2-1 in gained control and led 93- Denver Nuggets guard Jamal Murray, left, goes up for a shot attempt as Los Angeles Lakers' LeB- the Western Conference 75 after three. ron James, right rear, looks on during the second half of Game 3 of the NBA basketball Western finals. Conference final Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Murray finished with eight The Nuggets lost almost all Associated Press rebounds. of a 20-point lead in the TIP-INS fourth quarter but held on, to even the series on Thurs- baskets. and would have to be bet- Lakers: The Lakers had a avoiding a 3-0 hole that day. "We played some pretty ter Tuesday. six-game winning streak would have been daunting LeBron James had 30 good ball in the fourth Instead, it was the Nuggets snapped and fell to 10-3 even for this never-out-of-it points, 11 assists and 10 re- quarter, but those first 36 who raised their game and in these playoffs. ... Dwight team. bounds — his 26th playoff minutes, that hurt us obvi- played from ahead, end- Howard started the second "We feel that we should be triple-double — for the Lak- ously," James said. ing a streak of six straight half at center, replacing up 2-1 right now, to be hon- ers, who remain two wins With Denver's lead down games where they trailed JaVale McGee. est," Murray said. "So we're from their first NBA Finals to four, Murray made a at halftime. Nuggets: Denver's last half- just going to move on to appearance in a decade. 3-pointer with 2:16 remain- "Maybe they can beat us time lead had been a 59-57 Game 4." Anthony Davis, who made ing. He then found Paul Mill- by 20, 30, they can beat us edge over the Clippers in Denver has set a record by the winning 3-pointer at the sap under the basket for a by a last shot, but we just Game 3 of the West semi- erasing two 3-1 deficits in buzzer in Game 2, scored score before hitting a long cannot quit," Jokic said. "Ef- finals. ... Malone wished his this postseason, but no NBA 27 points. 3 to push the lead back to fort needs to be there." parents a happy anniversa- team has ever come back The Nuggets led by 20 with 111-99 with 53 seconds to The Lakers built leads of ry during his interview after from 3-0. 10 1/2 minutes left and soon play. 15 or more in the second the third quarter. His father, Jerami Grant added a after were hanging on after Coach Frank Vogel ac- quarter of the first two Brendan, was a longtime playoff career-high 26 the Lakers charged back knowledged the Lak- games. This time it was the NBA assistant coach who points and Nikola Jokic had with a 19-2 run, turning to a ers were fortunate to win Nuggets who started to run also coached the Toronto 22 points and 10 rebounds zone defense and forcing Game 2, in which they away in that period, even Raptors in 1995-96, their in- for the Nuggets, who will try turnovers that led to easy committed 24 turnovers, with Jokic on the bench augural season.q AP Source: Chargers' team doctor punctured Taylor's lung COSTA MESA, Calif. (AP) minutes before kickoff that agent and have started an — Los Angeles Chargers Taylor would be unable to investigation into the mat- quarterback Tyrod Taylor play. ter. ESPN first reported the missed last Sunday's game Herbert said he found out punctured lung. because a team doctor he was playing right as the Taylor was briefly on the accidentally punctured his Chargers were lining up to Chargers' injury report Fri- lung, according to a per- receive the opening kick- day due to a rib injury he son familiar with the case. off. suffered in the Sept. 13 The person spoke to The As- Taylor was taken to the opener against the Cincin- sociated Press on condition hospital due to difficulties nati Bengals. He was taken of anonymity Wednesday breathing after Lynn said off it, though, after fully par- because of medical restric- he had a reaction to an in- ticipating in practice and tion issues. jection. Taylor was released taking all of the snaps with Rookie Justin Herbert was Sunday night and was at the first team. the Chargers' surprise start- the Chargers' complex on Lynn did not have an up- er in last Sunday's 23-20 Monday. date on Taylor's status on Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Tyrod Taylor (5) looks to overtime loss to the Kan- The NFL Players Associa- Monday. He said that if throw during the first half of an NFL football game against the sas City Chiefs. Coach An- tion said on Wednesday Taylor was 100%, he would Cincinnati Bengals, Sunday, Sept. 13, 2020, in Cincinnati. thony Lynn said he didn't that they have been in be the starter on Sunday Associated Press find out until less than five contact with Taylor and his against Carolina. q A16 Thursday 24 September 2020 SPORTS Dodgers clinch NL's top seed, West title with win over A's

By JOE REEDY No. 3 seed. AP Sports Writer Mark Canha had two of LOS ANGELES (AP) — Wrap- Oakland's five hits. ping up an NL West title has Seager tied it at 1 in the first become routine for the Los with an RBI single and then Angeles Dodgers, but in a led off the fifth with a drive year in which no one was to center off T.J. McFarland sure three months ago if to extend LA's lead to 6-2. there would be a baseball Muncy gave the Dodgers a season, manager Dave 3-2 lead in the third inning Roberts wanted his team to with a two-run homer. Tay- still savor the moment. lor and Pollock extended it The Dodgers clinched the with solo shots in the fourth NL's top postseason seed off Oakland starter Frankie and eighth straight division Montas (3-5). title Tuesday night with a Grossman quickly gave 7-2 victory over the Oak- Oakland a 1-0 lead when land Athletics. They are he homered off the left- third team to win at least field pole in the first inning. eight straight division titles, Sean Murphy briefly gave joining the Atlanta Braves the Athletics a 2-1 ad- (14 straight from 1991-2005) vantage when he led off and New York Yankees the third with a walk and The Los Angeles Dodgers pose for a photo after the Dodgers clinched the NL West title with a 7-2 (nine straight from 1998- win over the Oakland Athletics in a baseball game Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020, in Los Angeles. scored on a wild pitch by 2006). Associated Press May with two outs. "To fast forward a couple Montas, who allowed only months and be crowned day with a magic number it. to describe it," Muncy said. four home runs in his first NL West champs is a credit of two and got help with "We talked about it in- "It's sad not to be celebrate seven starts, has given up to everyone. It should nev- the Angels' 4-2 victory over stead of dumping stuff on as usual but we know there six in his past three. The er be taken for granted," the San Diego Padres. people. It's a moment you is a lot more at stake." right-hander went four in- Roberts said. "Truth be told Instead of a wild celebra- need to celebrate and we Dustin May (2-1) went nings and yielded five runs a lot of guys didn't know tion on the mound after did," said Corey Seager, five innings and allowed on seven hits with a walk we could clinch. We were Jake McGee struck out who had three hits and two runs on three hits. The and three strikeouts. responsible but I let it know Sean Murphy for the final one of Los Angeles' four 22-year-old red-headed "They're a pretty good that it has to be appreci- out, players briskly walked home runs, "It stinks not be- righty set a team record team that when you make ated." out of the dugout to cele- ing able to do champagne by not allowing more than mistakes, they make you The Dodgers, who own the brate with teammates. Ev- and beer showers because three earned runs in his first pay," Oakland manager best record in the majors at eryone grabbed a division some of the younger guys 13 career starts, which in- Bob Melvin said. "They're 39-16, were the first team clinching shirt and cap be- haven't been able to expe- clude 10 this season. pretty good laying off and in the majors to clinch a fore heading to the mound rience that." Robbie Grossman hom- making you throw it over playoff berth on Sept. 16. for a group photo. Max Muncy, Chris Taylor ered for Oakland, which the plate. They made Mon- They will open postseason The clubhouse celebration and AJ Pollock also went clinched its first AL West tas pay, unfortunately." play on Sept. 30 by hosting was also muted. Cham- deep for Los Angeles, crown in seven years on Cody Bellinger added two every game in a best-of- pagne was still involved, which leads the majors with Monday during a day off. hits for the Dodgers, in- three series against the No. but it was players toasting 104 home runs. The Athletics, in the post- cluding an RBI single with 8 seed. each other with a glass in- "This whole year has been season for the third straight the bases loaded in the Los Angeles came into the stead of being showered in weird. There's no other way year, currently are the AL's seventh.q Frank de Boer appointed Netherlands coach By MIKE CORDER the team losing all three ning four straight Eredivisie THE HAGUE, Netherlands of its group games at the league titles from 2011- (AP) — Frank de Boer was MLS Is Back tournament in 2014. appointed coach of the Florida. But he has failed to impress Netherlands on Wednes- De Boer, a tough defender since then. He was fired in day, succeeding Ronald who won the Champions 2016 after only 85 days in Koeman who quit to join League as a player for charge of Inter Milan and Barcelona. Ajax in 1995, played 112 lasted just 10 weeks at The federation said the games for the national Crystal Palace in 2017 be- 50-year-old De Boer team. He was assistant to fore being ousted after the signed a contract through head coach Bert van Mar- team lost its first four Pre- the World Cup in Qatar in wijk when the Netherlands mier League games with- 2022. reached the World Cup fi- out scoring a goal. De Boer's appointment nal in South Africa in 2010, De Boer's first match in comes just over two losing by a single extra- charge will be a friend- months after he left Atlan- time goal to Spain. ly international against ta United by mutual con- De Boer had a success- Mexico on Oct. 7 at the In this May 19, 2019 file photo, Atlanta United coach Frank de sent after a poor re-start ful start to his manage- Johan Cruyff Arena in Boer watches his team's MLS soccer match against the New q York Red Bulls in Harrison, N.J. to the MLS season, with ment career at Ajax, win- Amsterdam. Associated Press