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CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK Hope in a bottle US regulators approve use of 1st drug shown to assist in virus recovery

BY MATTHEW PERRONE AND MARILYNN MARCHIONE Associated Press WASHINGTON — U.S. regulators on Friday allowed emer- gency use of the first drug that appears to help some COVID-19 patients recover faster, a milestone in the global search for ef- fective therapies against the coronavirus. The Food and Drug Administration cleared Gilead Science’s intravenous drug for hospitalized patients with “severe disease,” such as those experiencing breathing prob- lems requiring supplemental oxygen or ventilators. President Donald Trump announced the news at the White House alongside Gilead CEO Daniel O’Day and Food and Drug

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Intravenous drug remdesivir was cleared Friday for emergency use on hospitalized patients suffering from COVID-19. Gilead Sciences / AP Supply chain shortages force limit on commissary meat sales BY ROSE L. THAYER ‘ and household products. “There may be some short- Stars and Stripes Enacting this policy now will help ensure that The limits on meat purchases ages of fresh protein products in all of our customers have an opportunity to stem from a rash of processing the coming weeks,” retired Rear AUSTIN, Texas — Stateside purchase these products on an equitable basis. plant closures related to the coro- Adm. Robert J. Bianchi, Defense commissary shoppers will face ’ navirus pandemic. Department special assistant for limitations on the amount of fresh Robert J. Bianchi More than 20 meatpacking commissary operations, said in a meat that they can buy because Defense Department special assistant for commissary operations plants have closed temporarily, statement. “Enacting this policy of an anticipated shortage in the because of outbreaks of the coro- now will help ensure that all of supply chain, the Defense Com- navirus among workers, The As- our customers have an opportu- missary Agency announced. purchase two packages of fresh worldwide chain of grocery stores sociated Press reported. Others nity to purchase these products As of Friday, customers in the beef, chicken, pork and turkey, on military bases to provide mili- have slowed production as work- on an equitable basis.” United States, including Alaska, according to the news release tary personnel, retirees, select ers have fallen ill or stayed home Hawaii and Puerto Rico, can only from the DCA, which manages a veterans and their families food to avoid getting sick. SEE LIMIT ON PAGE 4

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Online: Get the latest news on the virus outbreak » stripes.com/coronavirus PAGE 2 •STARS AND STRIPES• Sunday, May 3, 2020 BUSINESS/WEATHER EXCHANGE RATES Stocks slide as companies detail virus fallout Military rates Switzerland (Franc)...... 0.9615 Euro costs (May 4) ...... $1.06 Thailand (Baht) ...... 32.50 Dollar buys (May 4) ...... €0.8961 Turkey (Lira) ...... 7.0291 British pound (May 4) ...... $1.22 (Military exchange rates are those Associated Press latest quarter that fell short of Wall Street’s fore- Japanese yen (May 4) ...... 105.00 available to customers at military banking casts. A sharp increase in costs related to providing South Korean won (May 4) ...... 1,188.00 facilities in the country of issuance Stocks closed broadly lower on Wall Street on Fri- Commercial rates for Japan, South Korea, Germany, the deliveries safely during the pandemic outweighed Bahrain (Dinar) ...... 0.3781 Netherlands and the United Kingdom. For day after Amazon and other big companies reported a big increase in revenue. The retail giant’s move- British pound ...... $1.2520 nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e., disappointing results, the latest evidence of how the Canada (Dollar) ...... 1.4035 purchasing British pounds in Germany), ments have an outsized sway on the S&P 500 be- China (Yuan) ...... 7.0623 check with your local military banking coronavirus pandemic is hobbling the economy and cause it’s the third-largest company in the index. Denmark (Krone) ...... 6.7959 facility. Commercial rates are interbank hurting corporate earnings. Egypt (Pound) ...... 15.7552 rates provided for reference when buying “We all had these great expectations for Ama- Euro ...... $1.0975/0.9111 currency. All figures are foreign currencies A day after closing out its best month since 1987, Hong Kong (Dollar) ...... 7.7522 to one dollar, except for the British pound, zon,” said J.J. Kinahan, chief strategist with TD which is represented in dollars-to-pound, the S&P 500 fell 2.8%. The slide gave the benchmark Hungary (Forint) ...... 321.44 Ameritrade. “The stock ran up amazingly because Israel (Shekel) ...... 3.5041 and the euro, which is dollars-to-euro.) index its second-straight weekly loss. we were expecting their earnings to be good.” Japan (Yen) ...... 106.91 The selling accelerated as the day went on, with Kuwait (Dinar) ...... 0.3094 INTEREST RATES The S&P 500 gave up 81.72 points to close at Norway (Krone) ...... 10.3182 energy stocks taking the biggest losses. Technology 2,830.71. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell Philippines (Peso)...... 50.28 Prime rate ...... 3.25 stocks and companies that rely on consumer spend- 622.03 points, or 2.6%, at 23,723.69. The Nasdaq, Poland (Zloty) ...... 4.15 Discount rate ...... 0.25 Saudi Arabia (Riyal) ...... 3.7585 Federal funds market rate ...... 0.04 ing accounted for a big slice of the decline. which is heavily weighed with technology stocks, Singapore (Dollar) ...... 1.4147 3-month bill ...... 0.10 Amazon sank 7.6% after it reported profit for the slid 284.60 points, or 3.2%, to 8,604.95. South Korea (Won) ...... 1223.96 30-year bond ...... 1.27 WEATHER OUTLOOK SUNDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST SUNDAY IN EUROPE MONDAY IN THE PACIFIC

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T O D A Y IN STRIPES American Roundup ..... 18 Books ...... 12 Comics/Crossword ...... 14 Lifestyle ...... 11, 13 Music ...... 16-17 Opinion ...... 19 Sports ...... 21-24 Sunday, May 3, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 3 MILITARY 200 airmen and 4 B-1 bombers deploy to Guam

BY WYATT OLSON exercises.” Stars and Stripes Two weeks ago, the Air Force abruptly ended its longtime prac- Four B-1B bombers and about tice of rotating bombers through 200 airmen from Texas arrived in Andersen for six-month intervals, Guam on Friday to conduct train- opting instead for a less predict- ing and operations with allies and able means of deploying the air- partners, the Air Force said. craft throughout the globe. The Lancers and airmen flew The Air Force had used those in from the 9th Bomb Squadron, Guam-based bomber missions to 7th Bomb Wing, at Dyess Air patrol over the East and South TAYLOR CRUL/U.S. Air Force Force Base, Texas, the service China Seas as a means of project- Pilots from the 25th Flying Training Squadron and the 5th Flying Training Squadron soar over Oklahoma said in a statement Friday. ing U.S. airpower and resolve to in T-38C Talons, July 25, 2019. They were deployed to support North Korea, China and Russia. Pacific Air Forces in training al- B-1s were last deployed to the lies and partners and to reinforce Indo-Pacific region in 2017, the the “rules-based international Air Force said. Air Force: Pilots at fault for fatal order” in the Indo-Pacific region The B-1 is valued for its capa- through strategic deterrence mis- bility to carry a larger conven- sions, the statement said. tional payload of both guided and Oklahoma T-38C training collision The Air Force did not disclose unguided weapons than the B-52. the length of the deployment. “The B-1 is able to carry a larg- Three of the bombers flew er payload of Joint Air-to-Surface BY JAMES BOLINGER over the top of the other, “then figured for landing and at an in- directly to Andersen Air Force Standoff Missiles and a larger Stars and Stripes impact the ground in a nearly in- creased angle of attack — caused Base on Guam, while the fourth payload of 2,000-pound class Joint verted attitude, fatally injuring [the leading T-38C) to roll and flew east of Japan to train with Direct Attack Munitions,” Lt. Col. The Air Force said pilot error [Kincade] and [Wilkie].” yaw to the right and placed [it] on is to blame for a collision that the U.S. Navy before joining the Frank Welton, Pacific Air Forces’ The T-38C flown by Kincade a collision course with [the trail- killed two T-38C Talon pilots in others, the statement said. chief of operations force manage- and Wilkie then slid approximate- ing aircraft],” the report said. Oklahoma on Nov. 21, according ly 700 feet before coming to a stop “Deployments like this allow ment, said in the statement. “Ad- to an accident investigation re- Though Kincade could not our Airmen to enhance the readi- ditionally, the B-1 is able to carry in a grassy area, the report said. have prevented the collision after port released Friday. The trailing jet remained upright ness and training necessary to the [anti-ship cruise missile], Wilkie used the rudder, he should The morning crash happened as it departed the runway surface respond to any potential crisis or giving it an advanced stand-off, when two Talons — one of which and came to a stop in the grass, have intervened beforehand, ac- challenge across the globe,” wing counter-ship capability. It also was flown by instructor pilot Lt. where its pilots safely exited the cording to the report. commander Col. Ed. Sumangil has an advanced self-protection Col. John “Matt” Kincade, 47, aircraft. Brig. Gen. Evan Pettus, the ac- said in the statement. “It also suite and is able to transit at su- and student pilot 2nd Lt. Travis The accident board found that cident board’s president, found provides a valuable opportunity personic speeds to enhance offen- B. Wilkie, 23 — attempted a for- the leading aircraft, under the that Kincade failed to take control to better integrate with our al- sive and defensive capabilities.” mation landing while training at control of Wilkie, “prematurely of the jet “as a precarious situa- lies and partners through joint [email protected] Vance Air Force Base. initiated an aerodynamic brak- tion developed” and that Wilkie and combined operations and Twitter: @WyattWOlson Immediately after touchdown, ing maneuver immediately after subsequently made “an inappro- the leading aircraft piloted by touchdown,” according to the re- priate flight control input,” the Wilkie and Kincade “became port. The maneuver involves the report said. briefly airborne, rolled rapidly to pilot raising the aircraft’s nose Pettus also found that Wilkie the right, then touched down once to block airflow and slow the jet was overly focused on his wing- more in a right bank,” the report to speed at which mechanical man and did not adequately cross- said. It then skidded across the brakes can be applied. check his runway alignment runway’s centerline from left to The premature aerobrake before touching down, according right toward the other aircraft, caused the T-38C to become to the report. which was trailing. briefly airborne, the report said. The leading aircraft lifted off Wilkie then simultaneously ap- Kincade was assigned to the runway once again and then plied and held the right rudder to Vance’s 5th Flying Squadron. Wilkie was with the base’s 25th struck the trailing aircraft with steer the aircraft away from the RIVER BRUCE/U.S. Air Force its right main landing gear, ac- left edge of the runway. Flying Wing. cording to the report. The colli- “[Wilkie’s] use of rudder under [email protected] A B-1B Lancer bomber sits on the flight line at Andersen Air Force sion caused the leading jet to roll these conditions — airborne, con- Twitter: @bolingerj2004 Base, Guam, on Friday . Marine recruit from New York dies during military fitness test

BY CAITLIN M. KENNEY page, without naming Audain. Valley High School in Middletown, N.Y., In November, a petty officer first class Stars and Stripes On Friday, the Marine Corps confirmed which he graduated from in 2019. died after collapsing while running on a Audain was the Marine who died April 15 Audain’s death in the latest in a string treadmill during a physical fitness test at WASHINGTON — Pfc. Tyrell J. Audain at Twentynine Palms after his death was of Navy Department personnel who have Fort Meade, Md., according to the Naval was in the midst of a physical fitness test listed in the Naval Safety Center’s mishap collapsed during a physical fitness test and Safety Center. News reports identified the more than two weeks ago at Marine Corps summaries report. His death is under in- later died. sailor as Trent Fraser, 24, a cryptologic Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine vestigation, but it was not related to the In February, Midshipman 3rd Class technician-interpretive and his death was Palms, Calif., when he collapsed. coronavirus, according to Capt. Samuel Duke Carrillo, 21, of Flower Mound, Texas, under investigation. The Marine, a 19-year-old former high Stephenson, a Marine spokesman. collapsed during the mile and a half run In February and April 2019, two Navy school athlete, was rushed to a hospital Audain was attending the Marine Corps of his physical readiness test at the U.S. recruits died during their final physical where he was later pronounced dead, Brig. communications-electronics school at the Naval Academy. The sophomore was taken assessments before the end of their train- Gen. Roger Turner, the commanding gen- time of his death, according to his service to a nearby medical center where he was ing at Naval Station Great Lakes, Ill. eral at Twentynine Palms, wrote at the record. On his Facebook page are photos of pronounced dead, according to the school. [email protected] time in a statement on the base Facebook him racing for the track team at Minisink The cause of his death was under review. @caitlinmkenney PAGE 4 •STARS AND STRIPES• Sunday, May 3, 2020 VIRUS OUTBREAK Reopened meat plants may not be cure-all

Associated Press that nearly 300 employees at a Triumph Foods pork plant in St. SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Signs Joseph have tested positive for Friday that several big meatpack- the virus. ing plants will soon reopen might “I think it’s ridiculous that (Ag- appear to support President Don- riculture Secretary) Sonny Per- ald Trump’s assertion that he due can think all of a sudden he had “solved their problems” in can wave a magic wand and all of keeping grocery stores’ coolers stocked during the coronavirus a sudden these plants are going to crisis. But the reality isn’t likely operate at capacity,” said Mark to be so easy. Lauritsen, who directs the meat- Though meatpackers have packers division at the United been moving to shift operations to Food and Commercial Workers make employees less vulnerable union. to coronavirus infection, they still According to a CDC report re- have a workforce depleted by ill- leased Friday, more than 4,900 ness, with at least 4,900 employ- workers at meat and poultry ees nationwide infected. Many processing facilities have been others may be unwilling to risk diagnosed with the coronavirus, entering plants that have been including 20 who died. The ill- rife with infections. Even plants nesses occurred among 130,000 that keep the production lines workers at 115 facilities in 19 moving will have to do so more states, according to the CDC. slowly, renewing concerns about Some states didn’t provide data, whether Americans can count on so the actual count is believed to KEMBERLY GROUE/U.S. Air Force seeing as much meat as they’re be higher. used to. Keesler personnel select limited meat items for purchase inside the Commissary at Keesler Air The researchers said plant A Smithfield Foods pork pro- Force Base, Mississippi, in March. workers may be at risk for a num- cessing plant in South Dakota ber of reasons, including difficul- where more than 850 workers ties with physical distancing and tested positive will partially re- Limit: hygiene and crowded living and open Monday after shuttering Quantities to be posted for customers transportation conditions. They for more than two weeks, a union suggested that disinfection be that represents plant workers FROM FRONT PAGE limits will be removed once we experience any unexpected enhanced and that workers get regular screening for the virus, said Friday. And Arkansas-based Depending on supply, each supply chain operations return major hiccups in the pipeline, more space from co-workers and Tyson Foods said its Logansport, store can increase or decrease to normal. we will look at expanding shop- training materials in their native Ind. , pork processing plant where as needed, according to the “We always recommend to ping limits to other locations.” languages. nearly 900 employees tested posi- news release. Each affected our customers that they pur- From the start of the corona- The United Food and Commer- tive will also resume “limited store will post quantity limits chase what they need and avoid virus outbreak, commissaries cial Workers union, which rep- production” on Monday. to inform customers, similar to any panic buying to ensure overseas – starting with stores resents roughly 80% of beef and “We toured the plant and feel signs indicating limits for toilet products are available for oth- in Italy, South Korea and Japan pork workers and 33% of poultry the additional measures imple- paper, sanitizers, canned food ers in their communities,” Bi- – instituted shopping limits on workers nationwide, has appealed mented will allow employees to items and other items in high anchi said. items such as hand sanitizers, work safely, while continuing to Overseas commissaries are disinfectants and toilet paper. to governors for help enforcing demand because of the pan- worker safety rules. They also follow (Centers for Disease Con- demic. Limits on those items not impacted because the agen- “We know this is a poten- trol and Prevention) guidelines want to get rid of waivers that began March 14 and vary based cy has enough supply on hand tially stressful time for all and recommendations,” Dori allow some plants to operate at on location. to avoid limits in stores, accord- concerned,” Bianchi said. “But Ditty, the health officer for the faster speeds. Placing shopping limits on ing to the release. together we will meet these county where the Tyson plant is With so many employees stay- fresh meat will particularly “Our overseas supply chain challenges and support our ser- located, said in a statement. ing home because they are sick or keep commissaries that don’t remains strong,” Bianchi said. vice members and their fami- As Trump touted his executive worried about getting sick, many receive daily meat deliveries “In addition, we continue to pri- lies throughout the duration of order on Wednesday that requires plants are operating only at half from having their meat inven- oritize quantities for our over- this crisis wherever necessary. meat plants to stay open, he sug- capacity, according to Lauritsen. seas shipments, so we should be gested it would solve the break- tory wiped out because of panic [email protected] Smithfield Foods asked about Twitter: @Rose_Lori down in the food supply chain that buying, Bianchi said. These able to support the demand. If 250 employees to report to its threatens the availability of meat Sioux Falls plant on Monday to in grocery stores while farmers staff two departments — ground face the prospect of euthanizing president said Wednesday after But the clearing of those “bot- performed by hand and can take seasoned pork and night cleanup, hundreds of thousands of healthy getting off a call with meatpack- tlenecks” depends on thousands weeks to learn. In the latest sign according to the United Food pigs. ing executives. “We unblocked of people who work physically- of the strain on workers, Mis- and Commercial Workers union “We solved their problems,” the some of the bottlenecks.” demanding jobs that must be souri health officials said Friday local. Hope: FDA uses emergency powers to authorize use of experimental drug

FROM FRONT PAGE is not yet large enough for scien- tiveness of using remdesivir.” under its emergency powers to U.S. government would coordi- Administration Commissioner tists to know for sure. The drug’s side effects include quickly speed the availability of nate distribution of remdesivir Stephen Hahn. Dr. Sameer Khanijo, a critical potential inflammation of the experimental drugs, tests and to parts of the country that need “This was lightning speed in care specialist, said he wants to liver and problems related to other medical products during it most. No drugs are currently terms of getting something ap- see additional studies to clarify its infusion, which could lead to public health crises. FDA-approved for treating the proved” said Hahn, calling the the drug’s benefit. nausea, vomiting, sweating and In normal times the FDA re- coronavirus, and remdesivir will drug “an important clinical “I don’t think this is a cure yet, low blood pressure. Information quires “substantial evidence” of still need formal approval. advance.” but I think it’s starting to point about dosing and potential safety a drug’s safety and effectiveness, The FDA can convert the drug’s The FDA acted after prelimi- us in the right direction,” said issues will be provided to physi- usually through one or more status to full approval if Gilead or nary results from a government- Khanijo of North Shore Univer- cians and patients, the FDA said. large, rigorously controlled pa- other researchers provide addi- sponsored study showed that the sity Hospital in New York. “As a The National Institutes of tient studies. But during public tional data of remdesivir’s safety drug, remdesivir, shortened the society it’s nice to have something Health’s Dr. Anthony Fauci said health emergencies the agency and effectiveness. time to recovery by 31%, or about that will help stem the tide of this Wednesday the drug would be- can waive those standards and “This is a very, very early stage four days on average, for hospital- disease.” come a new standard of care for require only that an experimen- so you wouldn’t expect to have ized COVID-19 patients. The FDA said preliminary re- severely ill COVID-19 patients. tal treatment’s potential benefits any sort of full approval at this Those given the drug were able sults from the government study Remdesivir, which blocks an en- outweigh its risks. point,” said Cathy Burgess, an to leave the hospital in 11 days on warranted Friday’s decision, zyme the virus uses to copy its ge- Gilead has said it will donate attorney specializing in FDA is- average vs. 15 days for the com- though regulators acknowledged netic material, has not been tested its currently available stock of sues. “But obviously they want to parison group. The drug may also “there is limited information on people with milder illness. the drug and is ramping up pro- get this out to patients as quickly help avert deaths, but that effect known about the safety and effec- The FDA authorized the drug duction to make more. It said the as possible.” Sunday, May 3, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 5 VIRUS OUTBREAK Stabilizing states begin to restart economies

Associated Press customers to dine in, though only at 25% capacity in most places. GRETNA, La. — More than a A video posted on social media dozen states let restaurants, stores showed a city park ranger in Aus- or other businesses reopen Friday tin getting shoved into the water in the biggest one-day push yet to Thursday while asking people in get their economies up and run- ning again, acting at their own a crowd to keep 6 feet apart from speed and with their own quirks each other. Police charged a 25- and restrictions to make sure the year-old man with attempted coronavirus doesn’t come storm- assault. ing back. At Gattuso’s Restaurant in People in Louisiana could eat Gretna, La., Kent and Doris Al- at restaurants again but had to imia and their daughters, Molly sit outside at tables 10 feet apart and Emily, celebrated Molly’s with no waiter service. Maine 22nd birthday at one of the out- residents could attend church door tables, which were screened services as long as they stayed in by plants in wooden planters 5 their cars. And a Nebraska mall feet high. reopened with plexiglass barriers “It’s a nice change of scenery and hand-sanitizing stations but to actually get out of the house,” few shoppers. Molly Alimia said. “I feel like I just got out of Outside Omaha, Neb., Jasmine jail!” accountant Joy Palermo Ramos was among a half-dozen exclaimed as she sat down with shoppers wandering the open-air a bacon-garnished bloody mary Nebraska Crossing mall. Most at the Gretna Depot Cafe outside wore masks. New Orleans. “I do think it’s a little soon, but President Donald Trump said it’s kind of slow and there aren’t a Friday that he’s hoping the total lot of people here, so I’m not too number of COVID-19 deaths in worried,” Ramos said. /AP the United States will be below MARK J. TERRILL Restrictions were still in place 100,000, which he acknowledged Linda White poses with a sign as she celebrates graduating with a Bachelor of Science in elementary in Arizona, but warnings from po- is a “horrible number.” Trump’s education and special education from Grand Canyon University on Friday in Simi Valley, Calif. White lice and health officials didn’t stop predictions of the expected U.S. could not go to the graduation ceremony in Arizona because of pandemic restrictions. Debbie Thompson from serving death toll have changed over time, food Friday inside her Horseshoe with his earlier 60,000 projection health experts that a second wave ties. Wyoming let barbershops, in Myrtle Beach, the state’s most Cafe in Wickenburg, a town of now being eclipsed. But he said at of infections could hit unless nail salons, gyms and day care- popular tourist destination, hotel 6,300 people about 65 miles west a White House event that “maybe testing for the virus is expanded centers reopen. In Maine, golf elevators will be restricted to one of Phoenix. Cheered on by a few millions of lives” have been saved dramatically. courses, hairdressers and den- person or one family — a poten- customers, Thompson was not by shutting down the economy. In much of Colorado, people tists opened. tial inconvenience at the area’s arrested, but she later received With the crisis stabilizing in could get their hair cut and shop Hotels near South Carolina 15- and 20-story resorts. a call from the state Department many places in the U.S., states at stores again, though stay-at- beaches opened, and state parks Texas’ reopening got underway of Health Services telling her to are gradually easing their re- home orders remained in place unlocked their gates for the first with sparse crowds at shopping stop violating Gov. Doug Ducey’s strictions amid warnings from in Denver and surrounding coun- time in more than a month. But malls and restaurants allowing stay-at-home order. Priority for reopening businesses is employee safety, comfort

BY JOYCE M. ROSENBERG Before the virus struck, clients ing protective gear for health Associated Press would walk their dogs into Paws workers, has spread its 22 em- Chateau and hand the leashes ployees across its 50,000-foot NEW YORK — Before the over to staffers. Now McCullough warehouse in Chicago — they’re coronavirus outbreak, furniture is creating a safe space where no longer working side by side. deliveries at Sunnyland Outdoor dogs will be unleashed by own- And while they used to take cof- Living meant two employees sit- ers outside the building, and then fee and lunch breaks together, ting side-by-side in a truck. Now, staffers will wipe the dogs down those traditions are on hold. one will be driving the truck with pet-safe antiseptic soap and “They’re in the break room by while the second follows in a car. take them inside. themselves — their breaks are all And when Sunnyland’s workers Wolf’s Ridge Brewing, a restau- staggered,” CEO Kevin Hundal reach a customer’s home, “we’ll rant and bar in Columbus, Ohio, is says. deliver outside — we won’t go in- a large establishment, with three Staffers are also now getting side people’s houses,” says Brad kitchens. Co-owner Bob Szuter is more than a “good morning” as Schweig, the Texas retailer’s vice using all three even though his they arrive. Hundal is taking president for operations. Employee safety is a priority business right now is limited to staffers’ temperatures, and if as small and midsize businesses takeout and delivery. On a busy someone has a reading of 100.4 rehire laid-off employees and get Friday or Saturday night, this al- degrees or higher, he’ll send them back to work, and many owners lows for just four to five staffers in home. each kitchen instead of the usual Monitoring employees’ symp- realize that supplying masks and LM OTERO/AP gloves won’t be enough. 15 or 20. toms, which can include taking Many staffers are anxious Brad Schweig looks over paperwork after unloading products as he Szuter recalled about 25 staff- temperatures, is something the about increased contact with prepares his family-owned retail store, Sunnyland Outdoor Living, for ers after the company received CDC is encouraging employers others that could make them a limited reopening in Dallas, Texas. government loan money, bring- to do. But as owners take on that more vulnerable to catching the ing the work force to about 50. As new routine, they may find them- virus — feelings owners under- open with social distancing re- The steps that businesses are he plans for how Wolf’s Ridge will selves dealing with confidential- stand that they need to consider. strictions. Alabama has allowed taking are in line with recent operate safely when the state al- ity issues, says Hagood Tighe, a They’re staggering work hours some limited openings, and guidance from the Centers for lows restaurants to resume table labor law attorney with Fisher and shifts to cut the number of Texas and Colorado permitted Disease Control and Prevention. service, Szuter is including staff- Phillips in Columbia, S.C. people on-site. They’re also redo- many companies to reopen on “Some of it is common sense ers in the process. “If employers are doing that, ing floor plans and operations to Friday. Around the country own- that we should have been doing “It’s going to be a negotiation they need to be doing it in such minimize contact — a step that ers are recalling laid-off workers long before this,” says Louise with them. We’re asking them, a way that an employee’s privacy also helps keep customers safe. although they can’t resume full McCullough, who hopes to soon ‘hey, what do you guys feel com- is protected,” Tighe said. That Georgia has already allowed operations yet; with government reopen her dog care company, fortable doing?’” Szuter says. means testing in a private area, businesses like hair and nail sa- loan money arriving, companies Paws Chateau in Huntington Atrend, an audio equipment something that may be difficult in lons, restaurants and gyms to can pay their workers again. Beach, Calif. manufacturer that’s now produc- a business with close quarters. PAGE 6 •STARS AND STRIPES• Sunday, May 3, 2020 VIRUS OUTBREAK Parts of Europe ease restrictions

Associated Press minister reporting they had con- tracted the virus. BARCELONA, Spain — Span- At the same time, Spain, one iards filled the streets Saturday of the worst-hit countries in to exercise outside in gorgeous the world with 24,543 deaths spring weather for the first time and more than 213,000 cases of in seven weeks, while German children rushed to playgrounds COVID-19, was rolling back such as countries in Western Europe emergency measures that helped moved ahead with the gradual re- bring the outbreak under control laxation of coronavirus lockdown and save hospitals from collapse. restrictions. A huge field hospital the military Russia and Pakistan, however, helped set up at a Madrid conven- reported their biggest one-day tion center was closed on Friday, spikes in new infections, in a sign and the capital has already closed the pandemic is far from over. a makeshift morgue the army Concern was growing in Mos- had established at an ice rink in a ALVARO BARRIENTOS/AP cow about the possibility that shopping mall. hospitals might become over- Since Spain’s lockdown started A woman wearing a face mask to protect against coronavirus goes for a walk with her pet in Vuelta del whelmed after Russia recorded March 14, only adults have been Castillo park in Pamplona, northern Spain, on Saturday . a new one-day high of 9,633 new able to leave home, for shopping infections, a 20% increase over for food, medicine and other es- also important to do exercise for a count kept by Johns Hopkins have already been opened and Friday’s count which, itself, was a sential goods, and to walk dogs health reasons.” University. Health experts warn this is the first weekend in which new daily record. close to home. The lockdown is The government has set up time a second wave of infections could playgrounds, museums and zoos Russia has now reported credited with succeeding in re- slots for age groups and activities, hit unless testing is expanded have been permitted to open as 124,054 total cases, with 15,013 ducing daily increases of infec- and social-distancing measures dramatically. well. recoveries and 1,222 fatalities. tions from more than 20% to less are still in place. In Italy, which has seen 28,000 Elsewhere, China, where the True numbers are believed to than 1%. Spain has detailed a complex deaths, people looked enviously pandemic began in December, re- be higher because not everyone As restrictions were relaxed rollback plan that will vary by on at Spain as they awaited their ported a single new infection Sat- is tested and Russian tests are Saturday, people ran, walked, or province. Those with the fewest own relaxation of restrictions urday, extending a steady decline reported to be only 70% to 80% rode bicycles under a brilliant cases and with health care re- now that the number of new cases in confirmed cases. South Korea accurate. sunny sky in Barcelona, where sources in place to handle a re- has leveled out. On Monday, peo- reported six new cases on Satur- Moscow’s mayor said this week many flocked to the maritime bound of the virus will be the first ple will be allowed out to walk or day, none of them in the hard-hit that officials are considering es- promenade to get as close as pos- to enjoy a further loosening of the jog, though most stores need to city of Daegu in the southeast. tablishing temporary hospitals sible to the still-off-limits beach. measures. remain closed. Both countries are easing anti- at sports complexes and shop- “I feel good, but tired. You sure The virus has killed more Germany, which has registered virus controls and reviving eco- ping malls to deal with the in- notice that it has been a month than 238,000 people worldwide, more than 164,000 cases but seen nomic activity. flux of patients. Infection cases and I am not in shape,” 36-year- including more than 65,000 in only about 6,700 deaths, has strict But Pakistan on Saturday an- have reached the highest levels of old Cristina Palomeque said in the United States and more than social distancing guidelines but nounced 1,297 new cases, rais- government, with both the prime Barcelona. “Some people think it 20,000 each in Italy, Britain, never restricted people going out- ing the total in the country of 220 minister and the construction may be too early, as I do, but it is France and Spain, according to side for exercise. Smaller shops million people to 18,114. White House blocking Fauci testimony to House panel

Associated Press Diseases — as a witness for a sub- tion, Labor and Pensions committee Judd Deere. “We are committed to committee hearing on the govern- said. The Senate is held by Trump’s working with Congress to offer testi- WASHINGTON — A spokesman ment’s response to the pandemic, but Republican allies while the House is mony at the appropriate time.” for a key House panel said Friday was denied. Hollander said the panel controlled by Democrats. that the White House has blocked Dr. Fauci is the top scientist on Presi- was informed by an administration “While the Trump Administration dent Donald Trump’s coronavirus Anthony Fauci from testifying next official that Fauci’s testimony was continues its whole-of-government task force and is no stranger to tes- week at a hearing on the coronavirus blocked by the White House. response to COVID-19, including tifying before Congress. He has outbreak. The White House said Fauci is safely opening up America again and House Appropriations Commit- busy dealing with the pandemic and expediting vaccine development, it is sometimes contradicted Trump’s tee spokesman Evan Hollander said will appear before Congress later. In counter-productive to have the very optimistic misstatements about the the panel sought Fauci — the highly fact, Fauci is set to appear the week individuals involved in those efforts virus and how much it is under con- respected director of the National after next at a Senate hearing, a appearing at Congressional hear- trol after claiming more than 64,000 Fauci Institute of Allergy and Infectious spokesperson for the Health, Educa- ings,” said White House spokesman lives in the U.S. Senate to convene with risks because of lack of quick testing

Associated Press be a changed place, after all but shutter- cording to a Republican familiar with the ate Rules Committee says people can view ing for more than a month amid the virus call with GOP chiefs of staff. the proceedings online. Several House WASHINGTON — The Senate is set to outbreak. Instead, the physician said the office committees are also expected to hold convene Monday but the health risks from Senators are being advised to wear only checks those lawmakers who are hearings. the coronavirus are being laid bare as the masks, stay six feet apart and keep most of showing symptoms. Test results can take Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCo- Capitol physician says there is no way to their staff working from home, according up to seven days, he told them. nnell’s office is expected to send out ad- quickly test the 100 senators and staff. to official guidance provided to top staff. The U.S. Capitol remains closed to visi- ditional guidance ahead of Monday’s It’s a high-profile snapshot of the nation- Republicans will resume their private tors, a shutdown extended to mid-May, scheduled reopening, officials said. al testing shortfall as the Trump adminis- lunches, but it will be just three senators and the Washington, D.C., region remains The House declined last week to bring tration strives to resume business as usual to a table. Democrats will have lunch by under stay-home orders. its 400-plus members back into session to kick-start the economy. conference call. “This is a dangerous moment in our after the Capitol physician warned it was “The sooner we can have testing, the Testing though, and the stark lack of it, is region,” said Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., not worth the health risks. safer we’ll be,” Senate Democratic leader sounding alarms. whose district includes the surrounding McConnell has declined to say if he con- Chuck Schumer said Thursday on “The On a conference call Thursday, the Capi- suburbs that are home to many federal sulted with the physician in deciding to re- Late Show with Stephen Colbert.” tol physician said his office does not have workers. sume Senate operations. As Congress prepares to partially re- a testing system available for instant virus While the Senate has scheduled key “I think we can conduct our business turn this week, the legislative branch will checks, as happens at the White House, ac- public hearings, guidance from the Sen- safely,” McConnell said this week on Fox. Sunday, May 3, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 7 VIRUS OUTBREAK Economic anxiety fuels spreading protests

BY CRAIG TIMBERG, by police tape went viral in far- ELIZABETH DWOSKIN right circles, pushed out by the AND MORIAH BALINGIT conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. The Washington Post The mother, Sara Walton Brady, is an anti-vaccine activist Protests against covid-related with connections to a number of government restrictions contin- conservative groups, said Dono- ued to spread on Friday as a co- van. The video was live-streamed alition of gun activists, vaccine on Facebook by supporters, and opponents and anxious business the incident followed an earlier owners used the organizing power anti-quarantine demonstration in of social media to build increas- Idaho organized by anti-vaccine ingly visible and vocal opposition activists, the gun rights group movements in several states. Second Amendment Alliance, Crowds waving signs, honking and the Idaho Freedom Founda- horns, and demanding an im- tion, a politically prominent con- mediate relaxation of measures servative group in the state. imposed to slow the pandemic Brady did not reply to calls and gathered in Chicago, Raleigh, texts seeking comment. N.C. , Los Angeles and Sacra- Shortly after Brady’s arrest, mento, Calif., on Friday. More far-right anti-government activ- protests were planned for the ist Ammon Bundy staged a pro- weekend, including in the state test outside the home of the Idaho capitals of Kentucky, Oregon and police officer that arrested her, New Hampshire, despite polling prompting several copycat stand- consistently showing that most offs against police, said Burghart, Americans support public-health of the Institute for Research and restrictions by governors and Education on Human Rights. mayors even as the economic toll “Creating spectacles for media mounts. isn’t new, but now organizers are The protests at first were working to ensure that the protest mostly small and scattered, often RICH PEDRONCELLI/AP is optimized to be live-streamed, organized by a few ardent gun- tailored to become a meme,” said A protester is detained by California Highway Patrol officers during a demonstration against stay-at-home rights activists, but the events Renee DiResta, technical re- orders due to the coronavirus pandemic at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., on Friday. drew mainstream attention and search manager at the Stanford support this week, and dozens Internet Observatory. “The audi- more are planned for the coming low rates for freight during the virus crisis as a vehicle to spread toll reported from covid-19 and ence for a local protest is much days. Hundreds of protesters in pandemic. their beliefs, said Devin Burghart, does not believe that the govern- bigger than the local community. Michigan — many of them car- “We’re compassionate people, president of the Institute for Re- ment should be counting people It’s the ideological community rying guns and wearing mili- and we care about lives. Our search and Education on Human who contract the virus and die of online.” tary gear and some shouting at whole movement is because we Rights, a nonprofit group that pneumonia, even though the term Even though the hate group officers wearing protective face care about lives. Not only people monitors far-right activity and describes any infection that in- Proud Boys were not early pro- masks — entered the state Capitol directly affected by covid, but has been tallying the protests. vades the lungs test organizers, they have shown in Lansing on Thursday. for the millions of people who More than 100 such events in 32 Pettinaro, a mother of five, up at protests to spread their “What an incredibly beautiful have filed for unemployment and states are planned for the coming co-founded Michigan United for ideas. Members have appeared and freedom-invoking vision,” are lining up a food banks, and days, Burghart said. But he added Liberty, a group that has sued or spoken at rallies and demon- said Karen Kirkpatrick Hoop, the business owners who have that it was unclear how many Whitmer over the restrictions im- strations in Michigan, Colorado, 49, a consultant in the insurance worked for years to build their were actual events or merely the posed during the pandemic and Nevada, and Florida, according industry who drove two hours to business,” said Jeremy Wood, a work of local and far-flung activ- urged businesses to open Friday to the Southern Poverty Law Cen- attend the protest in Lansing with home supply business owner who ists throwing up a Facebook page in defiance of the state order. The ter. Group members have spread her two children, demonstrat- is a spokesman for the “The Great to try to build more momentum group organized Thursday’s pro- xenophobic messages, including ing alongside members of militia 48!,” a private Facebook group of for their causes. test at the state capitol. blaming China and Chinese peo- groups dressed in army fatigues Arizona business owners that has “By organizing on Facebook, She thinks states are “fluffing” ple for the virus. and carrying rifles. “This is an more than 25,000 members and is these groups are harnessing the their numbers because they have In Michigan, the protests come international movement of people organizing a protest for Sunday. coordinated power of the Internet a perverse incentive: “The more as Whitmer, the first Demo- that are fed up with an increase Others active in the burgeoning to stage flash protests in public deaths and cases that you have, crat to lead the state in nearly a in government control.” movement question the legality of places — strategies that were once the more federal funding you decade, continues to draw the Images of that protest and oth- the restrictions and whether they tactics used by left-wing move- get,” said Pettinaro. ire of Trump, whose response ers — some of them doctored to are an overreaction to a pandemic ments like Black Lives Matter,” The group’s members have at- to the pandemic she has called make the crowd appear bigger or that has killed more than 64,000 said Joan Donovan, Research Di- tended and organized protests inadequate. alter the messages of the protest- Americans since the end of Feb- rector of the Shorenstein Center that have rattled the state capitol Whitmer’s own national pro- ers — spread around the world ruary and infected more than 1.1 on Media, Politics and Public Pol- in recent weeks, drawing heav- file, meanwhile, has risen, spur- through news reports, as well as million. icy at Harvard University. “Now ily armed militia members and ring speculation that the Biden links on Twitter, Facebook and “If this was as bad as every- though, it threatens the health creating a spectacle that made campaign is considering asking Instagram, underscoring the so- body says, the employees at of the protesters and the police international news.” Its Facebook her to join his ticket. cial media savvy of the protesters Kroger and Walmart should be who must enforce stay-at-home page has more than 6,700 fol- But this has not helped her and their potential to create simi- dropping like flies, and they’re orders.” lowers, and it now has a website. standing with Republican law- larly vivid new scenes around the not,” said Lee Watts, a Kentucky The protests also are fueled It has offered legal assistance to makers, who dominate the state- nation. chaplain organizing a protest that by an Internet echo chamber of business owners who face pros- house. The governor remains in The growing political stakes was planned for the state Capitol medical misinformation that has ecution for opening in defiance of a tense standoff with Republican were heightened overnight as steps Saturday. Kentucky has had been amplified by conservative the governor’s shutdown orders. lawmakers, who say she does not Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whit- 240 covid deaths, and dozens of news personalities, some busi- Some of the more visible pro- have the authority to extend the mer, a Democrat, hours after the grocery workers have died from ness leaders and by President tests include elements that ap- emergency declaration and laid protest, extended stay-at-home coronavirus across the U.S., ac- Trump. pear designed to become Internet the groundwork to sue her Thurs- restrictions until May 28, prompt- cording to the United Food and A debunked viral video by two memes and make the protests day. Friday, after extending the ing President Donald Trump to Commercial Workers, the union California doctors, for example, appear bigger than they are or emergency declaration over the tweet Friday morning that she that represents them. claiming that covid-19 is no dead- change the messages on signs. objections of Republicans, she should “give a little, and put out In many cases the protests, lier than the flu was touted on In one instance, a sign carried reflected on the demonstrations the fire.” which have been supported by Twitter by Tesla CEO Elon Musk. by a protester in California that that had drawn heavily armed Many of the protesters are mo- conservative megadonors, have YouTube’s removal of the video said “Give me liberty or Give protesters to the capitol. tivated by the deepening econom- ties to a host of darker Internet landed the doctors an appear- me Death” was changed to one “Yesterday’s scene at the capi- ic crisis caused by the pandemic subcultures — people who oppose ance on the Tucker Carlson show that appeared to blame former tol was disturbing, to be quite and frustration with the stay-at- vaccination, white supremacists on Fox, adding to its legitimacy president Barack Obama for the honest,” she said. “Swastikas and home orders issued by governors such as the Proud Boys, anti- and its reach. coronavirus. Confederate flags, nooses and and mayors across the country. government conspiracy theorists Erica Pettinaro, 28, who works Earlier this month, a video of automatic rifles do not represent In Washington, truckers parked known as QAnon, and people part-time as a medical assistant an Idaho mother who was arrest- who we are as Michiganders. This near the White House on Friday, touting a coming civil war. and doula near Flint, Mich. , said ed after letting her kids play on a state has a history of people com- honking their horns, to protest These groups see the corona- she is suspicious of the death playground that was surrounded ing together in times of crisis.” PAGE 8 •STARS AND STRIPES• Sunday, May 3, 2020 VIRUS OUTBREAK ROUNDUP New York nursing home reports 98 new deaths

Associated Press for older voters, black voters and disabled voters who are also the NEW YORK — A New York groups most at risk for COVID-19 City nursing home on Friday re- complications, the plaintiffs said. ported the deaths of 98 residents “No one should have to choose believed to have had the corona- between their life or their vote,” virus — a staggering death toll LDF Senior Counsel Deuel Ross that shocked public officials. said in a statement announcing “It’s absolutely horrifying,” the lawsuit. Mayor Bill de Blasio said. “It’s an inestimable loss, and it’s just impossible to imagine so many California people lost in one place.” LOS ANGELES — A week It is hard to say whether the after Californians weary of stay- spate of deaths at the Isabella Ge- at-home orders packed beaches, riatric Center, in Manhattan, is authorities pleaded for weekend the worst nursing home outbreak visitors to follow social distancing yet in the U.S. because even rules: no bunching, keep walking within the city facilities have or swimming, and leave the um- chosen to report fatalities in dif- brellas at home. ferent ways. A state tally of nurs- Lifeguards and police will be ing home deaths released Friday out in force Saturday even in cit- listed only 13 at the home. ies that are battling Gov. Gavin PETER MORGAN/AP But officials at the 705-bed Newsom’s new order that took center confirmed that through Shoppers wait on one of several lines to make purchases at the farmer’s market at Grand Army Plaza in effect Friday and singled out Or- Brooklyn on Saturday . As warmer temperatures tempted New Yorkers to come out of quarantine Wednesday 46 residents who ange County beaches for closure. tested positive for COVID-19 had In Huntington Beach, Police died as well as an additional 52 Chief Robert Handy said officers navirus in its prison system but wages, she said. Evening and and homeless populations as well people “suspected” to have the would start with warning people stopped when an outbreak mush- nighttime shifts are particularly as overwhelm hospital intensive virus. Some died at the nursing who hit the sands and move on to roomed and created a danger of hard to fill, and some employees care units, leading coronavi- home and some died after being citations but would end with “ar- returning infected offenders to might stay home because they rus patients to be transferred to treated at hospitals. rests if we have to.” their communities, Gov. Laura don’t want to risk infecting fam- Albuquerque. The number of bodies became In neighboring Newport Beach, Kelly said Friday. ily members. Some visitors were caught off so overwhelming the home or- the city put out barricades and Kelly said during an Associated guard as they traveled from the dered a refrigerator truck to store spoke with surfers to advise them Press interview that the Depart- Nevada Navajo Nation to stock up on sup- them because funeral homes have ment of Corrections released only plies, only to find entire sections of the closure, and said people CARSON CITY — A newly been taking days to pick up the were quick to comply. six inmates and put them under of the Gallup Walmart cordoned deceased. house arrest for the rest of their formed state Department of Edu- off as sales were restricted to food In San Diego, where people cation committee has been tasked “Isabella, like all other nursing can exercise on the beach but sentences. But confirmed coro- and other essential commodities. homes in New York City, initially navirus cases at the Lansing Cor- with helping develop a plan and not linger, Mayor Kevin L. Faul- guidelines for Nevada’s school had limited access to widespread coner praised residents for rectional Facility outside Kansas Washington and consistent in-house testing City have skyrocketed among in- districts and charter schools to heeding safety restrictions that reopen for the 2020-2021 aca- SEATTLE — Hispanic, Pacific to quickly diagnose our resi- public health officials have cred- mates and staff, and the prison is dents and staff,” Audrey Waters, under quarantine. demic year. Islander and black residents in ited at slowing the spread of the State Superintendent Jhone the Seattle area are being dispro- a spokeswoman for the nursing coronavirus. “We got the testing results at home, wrote in an email. “This Lansing and realized that we had Ebert said the committee in- portionately sickened by COVID- hampered our ability to identify some other work to do before we cludes school district superinten- 19, and Hispanic residents are Indiana dents, health officials and safety those who were infected and as- could let anybody else go,” Kelly more than twice as likely to die experts. ymptomatic, despite our efforts to INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana said. The Department of Correc- from the disease as whites, public Gov. Steve Sisolak directed swiftly separate anyone who pre- Gov. Eric Holcomb announced tions said none of the six released health officials said Friday. that schools continue operations sented symptoms.” Friday the steps toward relaxing were from Lansing. The county’s top health of- during the current school year business and activity restrictions ficer, Dr. Jeff Duchin, said the by providing distance learning imposed to slow the coronavirus data echo findings from other Alabama Minnesota to students. Ebert said that has spread for much of the state, al- parts of the country that minori- raised challenges that include MONTGOMERY — A lawsuit lowing more manufacturers, MINNEAPOLIS — Staffing ties are being hit harder by the access to technology, training filed Friday challenges Alabama’s retailers and shopping malls to has become such a challenge at novel coronavirus. It reflects teachers and quality instruction- election procedures by argu- open their doors, starting Mon- some Minnesota care facilities long-standing discrepancies with al materials. ing that restrictions on absentee day, under health and social dis- due to the coronavirus outbreak housing, work, language barriers, A newly formed educational ballots and a lack of other voting tancing guidelines. that a few aren’t sure how they’re access to healthcare and environ- collaborative will use federal as- methods jeopardize the health of The Republican governor’s going to get through the weekend, mental problems that can lead to sistance to bolster distance learn- voters — especially older voters, plan aims to gradually ease rules the head of an industry group worse health outcomes for minor- ing capabilities, Ebert said. black voters, and voters with dis- with the goal of allowing nearly said Friday. ities, he said. abilities — during the coronavi- all activities to resume on July 4, Minnesota’s congregate-care “No one should be surprised rus outbreak. potentially opening the way for facilities were already strug- New Mexico we’re seeing these disparities in The lawsuit filed by the NAACP gling to hire enough staff before COVID-19 disease,” Duchin told a major summer events such as the SANTA FE — A modern-day Legal Defense and Educational media briefing. “It’s been an ongo- rescheduled Indianapolis 500 on the pandemic hit, said Patti Cul- trading post on the southern ing national tragedy and a shame Fund, the Southern Poverty Law Aug. 23. len, president of Care Providers outskirts of the Navajo Nation that we have had communities of Center and the Alabama Disabili- The new directive lifts travel of Minnesota, which represents was on lockdown over the week- ties Advocacy Program alleges restrictions under the statewide about half of the state’s senior end under the watch of National color throughout our country suf- that Alabama’s rules will require stay-at-home order that took ef- care communities. But now, when Guard troops and state police to fering disproportionate adverse people to choose between voting fect March 25 but doesn’t allow a staffer or resident tests positive, discourage nonessential travel health impact from a wide vari- and protecting their health. restaurants to resume in-person employees who’ve been exposed and commerce as local coronavi- ety of health conditions.” Alabama absentee voters are dining or hair salon reopenings to them have to isolate them- rus infections soar. King County, which suffered currently required to submit pho- for another week. Fitness cen- selves. So, a facility can start the Invoking provisions of the state the nation’s first severe outbreak tocopies of their photo identifica- ters, movie theaters, bars and ca- day thinking it’s in good shape Riot Control Act, New Mexico at a Kirkland nursing home, tion as well as sign the absentee sinos are among businesses that but suddenly find itself in trouble, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham had 6,348 confirmed COVID- ballot before a notary or two wit- will remain closed until at least she said. ordered residents of Gallup to re- 19 cases as of Friday, or 285 per nesses. The lawsuit asks a federal late May. A decision on whether “We are familiar with two or main home except for emergen- 100,000 residents. Among minor- judge to waive those mandates schools will reopen in the fall three that are really straining for cies and blocked roads leading in ity groups, Hawaiian natives and and also force the state to offer won’t be made until later. this weekend, but it could happen and out of town to nonessential Pacific Islanders had the high- curbside voting. to any facility if you have to send travel and any vehicles carrying est rate of cases, about 666 per The lawsuit notes that many Kansas staff home,” Cullen said in an in- more than two people. 100,000 residents, followed by people do not have a way to terview but declined to identify The restrictions were wel- Hispanic or Latino residents at photocopy their ID or lack ID TOPEKA — Kansas began re- them. comed by local and state officials 628 and blacks at 328, the county completely. The existing require- leasing inmates this week as a It’s hard for a lot of long-term who have watched COVID-19 in- said. There were about 149 cases ments create a particular barrier way to check the spread of coro- care facilities to pay competitive fections spread to nursing homes per 100,000 white residents. Sunday, May 3, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 9 NATION Gunman attacks Cuban embassy The Cuban-born shooter said he feared organized crime groups threatening him

BY MICHAEL BALSAMO umns and facade of the building AND BEN FOX on a busy street in the Adams- Associated Press Morgan section of the city. There were several bullet holes in the WASHINGTON — A Cuban glass around the door, which man who sought asylum in the cause spider webs of cracks in U.S. opened fire with an AK-47 the panes and scattered glass and at the Cuban Embassy in Wash- wood from the door from along ington, spraying the front of the the marble-floored interior of the building with nearly three dozen entryway. ANDREW HARNIK/AP rounds because he wanted to “get Cuban Ambassador Jose Ca- Secret Service officers investigate after police say a person with an assault rifle opened fire at the them before they could get him,” banas said there were seven peo- Cuban Embassy, on Thursday, in Washington. according to court papers. ple inside the embassy, mainly Alexander Alazo, 42, of Aubrey, security personnel, at the time middle of the day there would political asylum in the U.S. a few to Washington on Wednesday to Texas, was taken into custody of the shooting. He noted that have been carnage,” Cabanas years later. He went back to Cuba target the Cuban Embassy “be- shortly after the shooting early around 50 people would be there said Friday, as he showed the in 2014 to preach at a church and cause he wanted to get them be- Thursday morning in northwest on a typical day and that rounds damage to journalists from The began receiving threats from or- fore they got him, referring to the Washington. came close to where the recep- Associated Press. ganized crime groups there, he Rounds from the gunman tionist sits and where foreign dig- Alazo, who told investigators told police. Cuban government, for the con- pierced the bronze statue of Jose nitaries and other visitors gather he was born in Cuba and served Alazo, who had been living in stant threats from the organized Marti, the Cuban writer and na- in the foyer. in the Cuban Army, had moved to his car and moving from state to Cuban criminal organization,” tional hero, as well as the col- “If this had happened in the Mexico in 2003 before claiming state for several months, drove according to court papers. Dems say women should be believed, but vet their claims

BY LAURIE KELLMAN ise that this person is telling the does nothing to shake my belief AND BILL BARROW truth, then you do the investiga- that women have to be able to be Associated Press tion and look at the facts,” she heard and that all the claims be said, “and if the facts tell a differ- taken seriously,” Biden said. “It WASHINGTON — “Believe ent story, then that’s an important isn’t enough just to simply take women” was never a call to be- conversation to have.” my word for it and dismiss it out lieve all women automatically. Biden’s supporters in the Sen- of hand. Frankly, that shouldn’t That’s what leading Democrats, ate, too, have stood by him, in- be enough for anyone because we including the prominent figures cluding some who challenged of the #MeToo movement, are know that sort of approach is how him for the nomination and are the culture of abuse has been al- suggesting as they stand behind now said to be on his short list for lowed to fester for so long.” former Vice President Joe Biden a running mate. Unreleased document troves — and his bid to unseat President But a few hours after his ap- Biden’s at the University of Dela- Donald Trump. pearance on MSNBC, Trump’s ANALYSIS From House campaign posted a video fea- ware and other Senate files at the Speaker Nancy turing many of them — Kirsten National Archives — have raised questions about what might be Pelosi to the fe- MSNBC’S MORNING JOE/AP Gillibrand of New York, Kamala male senators who ran for presi- Harris of California and Mazie found in them. Reade says she dent and prominent Hollywood Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden Hirono of Hawaii — saying in the filed a complaint about Biden activists, they’re not backing speaking to co-host Mika Brzezinski, Friday . past that female accusers should with the Senate. Biden says such down after Biden on Friday pub- be believed. a document, if it exists, would be licly denied a former aide’s ac- Justice Brett Kavanaugh when a party finally uniting around The reel begins and ends with stored in the archives. cusation that he assaulted her in he denied Christine Blasey Ford’s him, Milano penned an essay for Biden and Clinton, the 2016 Dem- A dozen times on MSNBC, 1993. accusation of sexual assault when Deadline.com in which she ac- ocratic nominee whose husband, Biden said he knew of no com- “It never happened,” Biden they were teenagers. knowledged “shades of gray” and Bill Clinton, was impeached in plaint Reade had filed against Pelosi, the nation’s highest- reiterated her support for the for- said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” connection with his extramarital him and got somewhat mired in ranking Democrat, recognized mer vice president. “Believing women means tak- affair with White House intern the details of where such a docu- ing the woman’s claim seriously the maw and curtly stepped “Believing women was never Monica Lewinsky. The Senate ment might be stored. when she steps forward, and then around it. about ‘Believe all women no mat- acquitted him, but the episode re- Biden was asked if he is “ab- vet it, look into it. That’s true in “I don’t need a lecture or a ter what they say,’ it was about mains one of the party’s fraught solutely certain” and “absolutely this case as well. ... But in the end, speech,” she said at her weekly changing the culture of NOT be- chapters in its advocacy for positive, that there is no record the truth is what matters, and in news conference as she cut into a lieving women by default,” Mi- women. this case, the truth is the claims reporter’s question about a double lano wrote. of any complaint by Tara Reade” Biden appeared Friday to rec- against him. are false.” standard. “With all the respect Karen Finney, a prominent ognize the need to reinforce his His answer was highly quali- It was largely the denial Demo- in the world for any woman who Democratic strategist and mes- commitment. fied: “I’m absolutely positive that crats were hoping for. comes forward, I have the highest sage-maker who worked for Hill- During an evening virtual no one that I’m aware of ever has Even so, there was a clear dis- regard for Joe Biden. And that’s ary Clinton’s 2016 campaign, fundraiser with hundreds of vet- comfort and perhaps resentment what I have to say about that.” rejected the Kavanaugh compari- erans from the Obama adminis- been made aware of any com- with being on defense on the Others have been less succinct. son outright. tration, he addressed the matter plaint, a formal complaint, made issue while campaigning against Actress and leading #MeToo ac- In the context of sexual assault again, repeating his assertions by or a complaint by Tara Reade a president accused by more than tivist Alyssa Milano sat behind allegations, Finney said “believe that Reade’s account “didn’t against me at the time this alleg- two dozen women of sexual mis- Kavanaugh during his televised women” doesn’t mean accepting happen,” but explaining that his edly happened, 27 years ago,” conduct. (Trump has denied the confirmation hearings, a position as fact any assertion, but instead reaction doesn’t amount to hypoc- until he announced his campaign allegations.) Especially galling she sought as a way to stand in means affording women the de- risy because of how Democrats for president. to some is the charge by Repub- “solidarity” with Blasey Ford. fault credibility to take claims have approached the #MeToo Then Biden tried again: licans that Democrats are giving But as the Tara Reade allega- seriously. movement. “I know of no one who’s aware Biden a pass they didn’t afford tions swirled around Biden and “If you start from the prem- “My knowledge that it isn’t true that any complaint was made.” PAGE 10 •STARS AND STRIPES• Sunday, May 3, 2020 WORLD Kim’s fertilizer factory visit quiets health rumors

BY KIM TONG-HYUNG Kim Yo Jong, who many ana- ing balloons into the air. A sign in- pearance since April 11, when The possibility of high-level Associated Press lysts predict would take over if stalled on a stage where Kim sat he presided over a ruling Work- instability raised troubling ques- her brother is suddenly unable to with other senior officials read: ers’ Party meeting to discuss the tions about the future of the se- SEOUL, South Korea — North rule. “Sunchon Phosphatic Fertilizer coronavirus and reappoint his cretive, nuclear-armed state that Korean leader Kim Jong Un State media showed videos and Factory : Completion Ceremony: sister as an alternate member of has been steadily building an ar- made his first public appearance photos of Kim wearing a black May 1, 2020.” the powerful decision-making senal meant to threaten the U.S. in 20 days as he celebrated the Mao suit and constantly smiling, There were no clear signs that Political Bureau of the party’s mainland while diplomacy be- completion of a fertilizer factory walking around facilities, ap- Kim was in discomfort. He was Central Committee. That move tween Kim and President Donald near Pyongyang, state media said plauding, cutting a huge red rib- shown moving without a walk- confirmed her substantial role in Trump has stalled. Saturday, ending an absence that bon with a scissor handed by his ing stick, like the one he used the government. had triggered global rumors that sister, and smoking inside and in 2014 when he was recovering Speculation about his health Some experts say South Korea, he may be seriously ill. outside of buildings while talking from a presumed ankle surgery. swirled after he missed the April as well as its regional neighbors The North’s official Korean with other officials. However, he was also seen rid- 15 birthday celebration for his and ally Washington, must begin Central News Agency reported Seemingly thousands of work- ing a green electric cart, which late grandfather Kim Il Sung, the preparing for the possible chaos that Kim attended the ceremony ers, many of them masked, stood appeared similar to a vehicle he country’s most important holiday, that could come if Kim is side- Friday in Sunchon with other se- in lines at the massive complex, used in 2014. for the first time since taking lined by health problems or even nior officials, including his sister roaring in celebration and releas- It was Kim’s first public ap- power in 2011. dies. Ex-Green Beret led failed bid to oust Venezuelan leader

BY JOSHUA GOODMAN leader. Undeterred, Goudreau Associated Press returned to Colombia and began working with Alcala. MIAMI — The plan was sim- Alcala and Goudreau revealed ple but perilous. Some 300 heav- little about their military plans. ily armed volunteers planned to But they told the volunteers that sneak into Venezuela from the — once challenged in battle northern tip of South America — Maduro’s demoralized troops and ignite a popular rebellion would collapse like dominoes, that would end in President Nico- several of the soldiers said. las Maduro’s arrest. Many saw the plan as foolhardy Instead, the ringleader of the and there appears to have been plot is now jailed in the U.S. on no serious attempt to seek U.S. narcotics charges. Authorities in military support. Colombia are asking questions “There was no chance they about the role of his former U.S. were going to succeed without Green Beret adviser. And dozens direct U.S. military interven- of combatants who flocked to se- tion,” said Mattos, who trained cret training camps in Colombia the volunteers in basic first aid on have been left to fend for them- behalf of his selves amid a global pandemic. nonprofit. This bizarre, never-told story of Mattos said he was surprised a call to arms that crashed before to find men skipping meals and it launched is drawn from inter- training with sawed-off broom- views with more than 30 Maduro sticks. He grew wary as the opponents and aspiring freedom men recalled how Goudreau fighters directly involved in or had boasted to themthat he was familiar with its planning. Most readying a shipment of weapons spoke on condition of anonymity fearing retaliation. AP and arranging aerial support for an eventual assault. The poorly-planned operation An anti-government protester sits by ammunition being used by rebel troops rising against Venezuelan stood little chance of beating the The volunteers also shared President Nicolas Maduro in April 2019 outside La Carlota air base, where the rebels planned to with Mattos a document listing Venezuelan army, said Ephraim confront loyalist troops in Caracas. Mattos, a former U.S. Navy SEAL wished-for supplies for a three- week operation. Items included who trained some of the would-be loyalty to Guaido, recognized by Goudreau’s focus on Venezuela Venezuelan military officer — 320 M4 assault rifles, $1 million combatants in basic first aid. the U.S. as Venezuela’s rightful started in February 2019, when Cliver Alcala. in cash and night vision goggles. “You’re not going to take out leader. he worked private security at a Alcala, a retired major general, The plot to oust Maduro came Maduro with 300 hungry, un- A few weeks later, some in- concert on the Venezuelan-Co- seemed an unlikely hero to re- to an end in late March when Co- trained men,” Mattos said. volved in the failed rebellion lombian border in support of store his homeland’s democracy. lombian police stopped a truck When hints of the conspiracy retreated to Bogota, Colombia. Guaido. In 2011, he was sanctioned by the transporting a cache of brand- surfaced last month, the Maduro- That’s where they met Jordan “He was always chasing the U.S. for allegedly supplying guer- controlled state media portrayed Goudreau, an American citizen golden BB,” said Drew White, rillas in Colombia with weapons new weapons, including 26 Amer- it as a CIA plot. An Associated and three-time Bronze Star re- a former business partner at in exchange for cocaine. And last ican-made assault rifles with the Press investigation found no evi- cipient who served as a medic in Silvercorp, who broke with his month, Alcala was indicted by serial numbers rubbed off. dence of U.S. government involve- the U.S. Army Special Forces, Special Forces soulmate last fall U.S. prosecutors alongside Madu- Alcala claimed ownership of ment in the plot. Nevertheless, according to five people who met when Goudreau asked for help ro on narcoterrorist charges. the weapons shortly before sur- interviews revealed that lead- with the former soldier. raising money to fund his regime Over two days of meetings with rendering to face the U.S. drug ers of Venezuela’s U.S.-backed Goudreau, 43, declined to be change initiative. Golden BB is Goudreau and Toledo, Alcala ex- charges, saying they belonged to opposition knew of the covert interviewed but said in a written military slang for a one-in-a-mil- plained how he was housing doz- the “Venezuelan people.” He also force, even if they dismissed its statement that he would not “con- lion shot that, if it hits in the right ens of combatants selected from lashed out against Guaido, accus- prospects. firm nor deny any activities in place, can bring down an aircraft. among the throngs of soldiers who ing him of betraying a contract Opposition leader Juan Guaido any operational realm.” “As supportive as you want to be had fled to Colombia, according with his “American advisers.” was also told about it but was not Venezuelans that he interacted as a friend, his head wasn’t in the to three people who participated Guaido, through a spokesman, involved and showed little inter- with described him alternately as world of reality.” in the meeting. said he doesn’t know Alcala. est, according to Hernan Aleman, a freedom-loving patriot, a mer- According to White, Goudreau Goudreau told Alcala he could After the would-be insurrec- a Venezuelan lawmaker and one cenary and a gifted warrior in was looking to capitalize on the prepare the men for battle, ac- tion collapsed, Maduro’s allies of a few politicians to openly em- way over his head. Trump administration’s grow- cording to the three people. He celebrated. Socialist party boss brace the clandestine mission to After retiring from the Army ing interest in toppling Maduro. also claimed that he had high- Diosdado Cabello said the gov- remove Maduro. in 2016, he set up Silvercorp USA, In May, he attended a meeting level contacts in the Trump ad- ernment was aware of the plot “Lots of people knew about it, a private security firm, near his in Miami with representatives of ministration that could assist the for at least six months. He outed but they didn’t support us,” he home in Melbourne, Fla. The Guaido to hear how he could con- effort. Goudreau on state TV, showing said. “They were too afraid.” company’s website features vid- tribute to Venezuela’s rebuilding. Guaido’s envoys ended contact snapshots of the “mercenary.” Planning for the incursion eos of Goudreau firing machine In Bogota, Lester Toledo, Guai- with Goudreau after the Bogota “We knew everything,” said began in the aftermath of an guns in battle, running shirtless do’s coordinator for international meeting, believing it was a sui- Cabello. “Some of their meetings April 30, 2019 barracks revolt up a pyramid and flying in a pri- humanitarian aid, introduced cide mission, according to three we had to pay for. That’s how in- by a cadre of soldiers who swore vate jet. Goudreau to a rebellious former people close to the opposition filtrated they were.” Sunday, May 3, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES•PAGE 11 LIFESTYLE Homebrewed ESCAPISM COVID-19 closed bars, but it hasn’t stopped kitchen counter hops

BY ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press

March 14, the day after the COVID-19 outbreak ANDREW SELKY/AP was declared a national emergency in the United States, I decided to take up an activity Homebrewed beer is bottled March 28 by the author, Andrew Selsky, in Salem, Ore. Othat I had abandoned decades ago. I brewed some beer. Hazy IPAs are trendy these days, but many customers I became part of a trend. While states imposed stay- are asking for “classic hops” — like cascade, centennial, Learn how to brew the at-home orders, brewpubs closed, and people lost jobs chinook — that were popular years ago, said Mike Bren- and tried to economize, homebrewing in America has nan, sales manager in the western U.S. for the homebrew Pangea Proxima Polar IP at exploded in popularity. division of BSG HandCraft, a wholesaler of brewing homebrewersassociation.org “Our industry in a recession does well because not supplies. as many people are working, people are more cost-con- “They’re dusting off their old equipment, the fermen- scious and they have time on their hands,” said David ters, and they’re going back and brewing some of those Stuart, national sales manager for Ohio-based LD classic-style IPAs, those more bitter IPAs, like we used to Carlson, a wholesale distributor of beer- and do,” he said. winemaking supplies. I myself brewed long before Inda Homebrewing also provides Pale Ales became the rage in an escape from dwelling on the America. COVID-19 pandemic. Back in the early 1990s, “It’s so easy to get wrapped my fi rst attempt, a brown ale, up in the news, constantly feel- was a failure: I had added ing like you need to be updat- too much water. My third ed,” said Gary Glass, director and last attempt back then, of the American Homebrew- an Anchor Steam Beer style, ers Association. “So it’s a way turned out fi ne. It was a lot to get away from what’s going of work, including sterilizing on out there in the world and all the equipment and bottles do something that’s fun, and in the confi nes of our small later drink that beer that apartment in Brooklyn. I had you brewed.” other things to do, though hon- May 2 is National Home- estly I should chalk up my lack brew Day. Normally, home- of persistence to laziness. brewers come together to Over the next 30-odd years, make the same offi cial my wife and I moved frequent- recipes for side-by-side ly, with the brew kit accompa- competition. This year, nying our household goods each it will be a “virtual big time. Finally, she suggested I brew,” in which people dump the barrels, along with brew at home with a the tubes, rods, gauges and suggested recipe (Pangea other paraphernalia that look Proxima Polar IPA) and like they could have come from do a toast on social media. the workshop of a scientist, or More than 1,700 people sorcerer. from around the world Then last December, a big card- have pledged to join. board box with Northern Brewer’s Northern Brewer, a logo arrived at my doorstep. This major supplier of home- must be a mistake, I thought. I didn’t brewing and winemaking order this. I called our son Sam, who equipment in America, says lives in Washington, D.C., and is a business has shot up by 40% homebrewer, thinking he ordered it for to 50%. But not all shops himself. Turns out it was his and our are seeing an upturn. Gina other son, Blaine’s, Christmas present to Fox’s Salem Brew Supply, in me. Salem, Ore., has had a slight I was delighted to get such a thoughtful dip in sales since they moved gift. from in-store sales to home It remained in a closet for almost three deliveries. But she’s optimis- months until, on an idle Saturday, I brought tic. it to the kitchen and began brewing a batch of “I think with the tight German-style hefeweizen. community that we have, the It did take my mind off the pandemic. I put homebrewing community, and some music on, made sure the brewing kettle with the fact that once people didn’t boil over, poured in hops and malt extract start homebrewing they usu- and, using a timer, followed the other steps. ZOE SELSKY/AP ally continue down the road, I One month later, it was time to pop the cap off The author holds a bag of hops for his homebrewed feel like we could survive this,” a bottle and sample the fruits of my labor. It was German-style hefeweizen March 14. He poured it into a she said. delicious. glass (left) and tasted it April 11. PAGE 12 •STARS AND STRIPES• Sunday, May 3, 2020 BOOKS A master of short fiction ‘If It Bleeds’ reaffi rms Stephen King’s skill, creativity

BY BILL SHEEHAN has tried and failed three times to fi nish Special to The Washington Post a novel, each failure bringing with it a greater degree of psychological damage. tephen King’s affi nity for the “Rat” recounts Drew’s fi nal desperate novella form goes back to the attempt to bring a novel to completion. early stages of his long, prolifi c Isolated in a cabin deep in the woods of Scareer. In 1982, King published Northern Maine, he learns once again “Different Seasons,” a quartet of long that art is a double-edged sword, one stories that contained some of his fi nest that can lead to exhilaration, despair work, and eventually led to some memo- and — in extreme moments — madness. rable fi lm adaptations, among them “The An unpredictable, often hallucinatory Shawshank Redemption” and “Stand by narrative, this is one of King’s defi ni- Me.” Since then, at roughly 10-year in- tive explorations of the dark side of the tervals, King has produced three similar creative impulse. volumes that have allowed him to play The centerpiece of this volume is the with a wide variety of themes, scenes title story. By far the longest story in the Old West feud and settings. The latest of these, “If It book, “If It Bleeds” is a fully developed Bleeds,” contains four new, exception- short novel with multiple ties to King’s ally compelling novellas that reaffi rm his recent fi ction. The protagonist — and comes to life mastery of the form. true hero — is Holly Gibney, the dam- King, of course, has made good use aged, savant-like young woman who fi rst in ‘Tombstone’ of virtually every mode of storytell- appeared in 2014’s “Mr. Mercedes,” and ing: short stories, screenplays, novels, who played a pivotal role in King’s 2018 BY BRUCE DESILVA multivolume epics and what he referred novel “The Outsider.” “If It Bleeds” is, Associated Press to as his “novel for television,” the in fact, a direct sequel to “The Outsider,” miniseries “Storm of the Century.” But though it contains enough relevant detail n 1881, fi ve Earp brothers gathered the mid-length narrative suits his talents to stand on its own. in hopes of fi nding their fortunes in As in “The Outsider,” when Holly particularly well, permitting a degree of Tombstone, Ariz., the last boomtown make despite seemingly insurmountable and a police detective tracked down an in what was still left of the untamed expansiveness while maintaining a con- I differences. ancient vampiric creature, “If It Bleeds” American West. They were relatively trolled, disciplined approach to the mate- “The Life of Chuck” gets my vote as fi nds her battling a similarly daunting young men — Wyatt, the middle brother, rial at hand. The results are stories that the collection’s most original story. It monster. This time, though, she must do just 31 — when they joined a growing cover a surprising amount of emotional opens on the image of billboards bearing so on her own. Watching her overcome community of shopkeepers, prospectors, territory but can still be read in a sitting. the portrait of a middle-aged accountant obstacles, among them her own fear, her gamblers, prostitutes and rustlers drawn “Mr. Harrigan’s Phone,” for example, named Charles Krantz. Each billboard troubled past and the disbelief of others, by a silver strike in the nearby Dragoon is yet another refl ection of King’s some- bears the words: “39 GREAT YEARS! is one of the central pleasures of this Mountains. times baleful fascination with technology THANKS, CHUCK!” Who is Chuck? And book. As some popular accounts, including and its effects on our lives. At the heart what is the story behind those billboards? Holly is that rarest of creations: a “Tombstone,” the 1993 movie starring of the story is the relationship between In time, we learn a good deal about this wholly admirable person. King’s affec- Kurt Russell, would have it, Wyatt and his Craig, the adolescent narrator, and John character as the story, constructed in tion for her is evident on every page and older brother Virgil had forsaken their Harrigan, retired billionaire and border- three acts, moves backward in time to adds a measure of emotional weight to previous profession as lawmen, but that’s line Luddite. As their uneven relationship Chuck’s early life. The result is a slightly the narrative. Holly has now appeared in not exactly true. Virgil was still a deputy develops, Craig gifts the older man a cell- surreal, wholly engaging narrative about fi ve of King’s novels, and I fully expect U.S. Marshal, and he remained a lawman phone. The gift is designed to facilitate dance, music, mortality and acceptance, to see her again. Her latest appearance for nearly all of his time in Arizona. “normal” communications, but — this is, and about the bedrock notion that all of adds a welcome grace note to a collection Myths surrounding the Earps, Wyatt’s after all, a Stephen King story — those us, like Chuck, contain multitudes. fi lled with startling, sometimes unset- pal Doc Holliday (who was far from the communications darken and change, con- “Rat” returns to one of King’s recur- tling pleasures. In “If It Bleeds,” King deadeye shot he’s been made out to be), necting the world of rural Maine to the ring subjects: the problematic nature of continues to draw from a rich and varied and the gunfi ght at the O.K. Corral are not unknown world beyond. At its deepest the writing life. His protagonist, Drew reservoir of stories. At its best, his work the only obstacles facing a writer intent level, “Mr. Harrigan’s Phone” is about Larson, is a struggling writer who has remains deeply empathetic and compul- on telling the true story of Tombstone. the lasting connections we sometimes produced a half-dozen short stories, and sively readable. May he never run dry. Primary sources, including witness tes- timony in court proceedings and reports in the boomtown’s two rival newspapers, are contradictory and laced with lies. And ‘The Glass Hotel’ a tragic tale, cleverly told other accounts by observers and partici- pants, including several books, are largely self-serving. BY ROB MERRILL sense of being outside of time and space.” But in researching “Tombstone: The Associated Press An ephemeral quality permeates the novel. Many of the char- Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the acters are haunted and most of the story is told in fl ashbacks to Vendetta Ride to Hell,” western historian ow does one follow up a National Book Award nomi- various times in Vincent’s life. As Mandel writes in the mind of nee? With something completely different, of course. and former newspaperman Tom Clavin Vincent: “It is possible to leave so much out of any given story.” had a lot of additional material to draw on Emily St. John Mandel’s new novel is more The thrill of “The Glass Hotel” is that the pieces do eventually grounded in reality and including previous histories of the town H connect, from Vancouver to the glittering skyscrapers of New and well-researched biographies of many smaller in scope than “Station Eleven,” York. of the participants. which imagined a theater troupe Characters are introduced at different times and collide Readers who have a passing familiarity traveling across America 15 years throughout the novel to complete a portrait of Vincent’s life with the story will recognize the names after a mysterious fl u killed most of the and sketch their own stories too. There’s Jonathan, an investor of the key players including Billy and world’s population. (That book is being whom Vincent seduces and lives with as a trophy wife back in Ike Clanton, Frank and Tom McLaury, talked about again because of the coro- New York; Vincent’s brother, Paul, whose journey takes him Johnny Ringo, Frank Stilwell, Curly Bill navirus pandemic.) from heroin addiction to an artistic career kick-started by using Brocius, Texas Jack Vermillion, Sher- “The Glass Hotel” tells the story of his sister’s personal videos without permission; and Walter, who man McMasters, Henry Hooker, Bat Vincent, a young woman whose fate we never leaves the hotel, working as the property’s caretaker for a Masterson, Fred White, John Clum, Big know from the fi rst sentence — “Begin decade after it closes. Nose Kate Elder and John Behan. Clavin at the end: plummeting down the side There are no heroes here and only a couple characters who explores where they, and many others, of the ship.” — but it’s the title that inspire much sympathy, but the unique structure keeps you came from and what they were doing inspires the novel’s central theme. turning the pages. At times, you’ll fi nd yourself fl ipping back to before they arrived in Tombstone. He “The Glass Hotel” is a more descrip- a chapter heading to fi nd out if what you’re reading happened in also describes the cultural and political tive name for “The Hotel Caiette,” an 1999 or 2004, but it’s a thrill when the puzzle pieces start to fi t climate of Arizona that contributed to the isolated establishment on the northern end of Vancouver Island. together. Or, as Paul expresses it near the end: “The smallness town’s troubles. Vincent moves there with her mother as a teenager, wander- of the world never ceases to amaze me.” With a former newsman’s nose for the ing the woods and eventually working as the hotel bartender. The fi nal chapter is haunting, taking readers full circle to truth, Clavin has sifted the facts, myths The clientele pay top dollar to stay in this remote and luxurious those words spoken by Raphael about time and space ceasing and lies to produce what might be as ac- place, “a glass-and-cedar palace at twilight” where, as general to exist. It’s a sense readers will enjoy as well when they lose curate an account as we will ever get of manager Raphael says to a prospective employee, “there’s a themselves in Mandel’s novel. the old West’s most famous feud. Sunday, May 3, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 13 LIFESTYLE

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ANDREA SACHS kitchen table chair) for a business-class cluding Paris, Shanghai and Orlando, Fla. Cultural landmarks The Washington Post United Polaris seat, one of a half-dozen Bucks County, north of Philadelphia, adds images from the airline. Or give yourself a pinch of Sesame Place to its collection of Become a character a la “Night at the magnanimous colleague or a promotion and settle into the cockpit. soothing images, which includes a covered Museum” with backgrounds from New family member might de- Close out your meeting with a moment bridge, a lavender farm and barrels of York City’s American Museum of Natu- scribe my backdrop during of calm: a plane wing coasting over a beer at a brewery. ral History, such as a diorama of a giant online meetings as a blizzardy cushion of clouds, with no self-quaran- squid doubling as a face mask for a sperm polar landscape, a whiteout so tined land in sight. If your spirit animal is Beach and snow destinations whale. Hide your Harry Potter obses- Athick it obscures all natural features. But sion with a photo of the New York Public a dolphin, then download an oceangoing With Uncommon Caribbean, you’ll let’s be frank: It’s a blank wall. photo from Royal Caribbean, such as one be pardoned for wearing work clothes Library’s stuffed stacks, book train or For the time being, our private and of CocoCay, the Bahamian island play- — at least from the waist up — on the literary lions, who are inspiringly named working lives are restricted to the indoors, ground owned by the cruise line. beaches of such island getaways as St. Patience and Fortitude. Zoom back to an- with limited views beyond our window John, St. Croix, Barbados and Anguilla. other challenging — but, spoiler alert, vic- frames. Most days, we may only glimpse Nature and theme parks To avoid dragging imaginary sand into torious — time period with the Museum of the outside world through the keyhole of Lose yourself in the great outdoors your imaginary bungalow, opt for a resort the American Revolution in Philadelphia. Zoom, the ubiquitous videoconferencing without leaving the indoors. The Wilder- pool in St. Thomas, Nevis, Antigua or the If you are late signing onto a meeting, you service. If we’re lucky, a friend or co- ness Society has assembled 10 videos and Dominican Republic. For kicks, pretend to have an excuse: You were helping George worker might be sitting on a deck or roof- 10 photos of national parks, wilderness hitch a ride on a sailboat or sea lion in La Washington cross the Delaware. Even if top and offer us a peek of their panorama. refuges, monuments and other natural Paz, the capital of Baja California Sur in you live in a basement apartment, you can Otherwise, we are spending an inordinate sanctuaries. Warning: You might end northwestern Mexico. Feel the Bahamian create the illusion of height with Skydeck amount of time staring at kitchen coun- up hypnotizing your colleagues with the waves lapping at your back with tropical Chicago, the observation platform on the ters, piles of shoes and, yes, unadorned videos of swaying grass in Colorado’s San settings from the Nassau Paradise Island 103rd fl oor of the Willis Tower. walls. Juan National Forest and swirling clouds Promotion Board. Pump up the party vibe Travel trove For an escape from the domestic drudg- in the John Muir Wilderness in California. with a snapshot of a Junkanoo, the boister- ery, a slew of travel industry players have Explore the many properties and active ous street parade celebrated throughout A number of specialized travel websites created scenic backgrounds for Zoom par- adventures of the Xanterra Travel Col- the Bahamas. If you’d rather be skiing have created a grab bag of images, so ticipants. The California-based company lection, which owns biking and walking than sunning, choose among eight wintry you can mix it up during the workweek is not tracking the proliferation of back- tour companies, as well as hotels in or images from Liftopia. You will fi nd per- and keep your colleagues curious about drops, but Amie Dehner, a Zoom spokes- near national parks, such as the Grand fect conditions: groomed trails, powdery where you might take them next: to see person, said, “We are delighted to know Canyon Railway & Hotel in Arizona and snow and no crowds. hot-air balloons in Cappadocia, Turkey that users are employing travel-themed the Cedar Creek Lodge, which sits 18 (Virtuoso), a penguin colony in South virtual backgrounds and that those back- miles outside Glacier National Park in U.S. cities and states Africa (Trip Savvy), the neon-lit skyline of grounds enhance their meetings.” Montana. The National Park Foundation Liven up meetings with a game of Shanghai (Smarter Travel), the mysteri- The free images are your mental ticket shares six parks from coast (Cape Cod Na- Name That State. For example, use a ous moai on Easter Island (Airfarewatch- to travel. (The websites provide instruc- tional Seashore in Massachusetts) to coast backdrop of Denali, Cumberland Island, dog) or moonwalkers at the Space Center tions on how to download the photos.) You (Olympic National Park in Washington the DeZwaan Windmill, Parkview Field Houston (The Points Guy). Lifestyle just need to pick a destination or scene, state). The egret has landed, thanks to the or Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, and see if photographer Gray Malin has released a preferably one that will also please the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, your colleagues can pick that member of handful of his pieces to the public, such as crowd on the other side of the screen. which offers eight landscapes, including the union. (Cheat sheet: Alaska, Georgia, a seaplane view of the Great Barrier Reef To help, we have curated a sampling of two of the stately suspension bridge. Even Michigan, Indiana and North Carolina.) in Australia. If you need to step out of a backgrounds that will hopefully move to though Cinderella and Prince Charming For a city version, check out pics from meeting to, say, shush your barking dog the foreground one day soon. are self-quarantining in her eponymous Galveston, Texas; Seattle; San Diego; New or console your wailing child, don’t click Transportation castle, you can still enjoy the Magic King- Orleans; Philadelphia ; or San Francisco, off the video function. Instead, switch to dom with more than a dozen photos from which includes a video of sea lions lolling Malin’s beach photo displaying the mes- Upgrade your desk chair (really, your Disney theme parks around the world, in- on Pier 39 at Fisherman’s Wharf. sage, “I Am Busy,” spelled out in balloons. PAGE 14 •STARS AND STRIPES• Sunday, May 3, 2020 CROSSWORD AND COMICS NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

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“Gunston Street” is drawn by Basil Zaviski. Email him at [email protected], and online at gunstonstreet.com. Sunday, May 3, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 15 HEALTH & FITNESS The time to walk is now Less strenuous form of exercise is still a viable option for men (and women) of all ages

BY ANDREW REINER not exercise at all than resort to walking. Special to The Washington Post “The idea of walking feels like I’m throwing in the towel,” he said. or 24 years, jogging was my While studies have shown that weight- main form of exercise. So it was lifting, and resistance and core training, frustrating and disheartening — burn fat and provide cardiovascular Fa bit demoralizing, too — when benefi ts, research likewise has shown I had to switch to walking 12 years ago that walking can be a perfect whole-body because of a slow, painful recovery from exercise : a lower-impact workout with a nasty bout of peritonitis, an infection in far fewer hazards. It can be done any- the lining of my stomach. where, anytime and with no expenditure Like many young men in our fast- of money. paced culture that values infallibility, While it may not be as cardio- I considered walking not real exercise, strenuous as, say swimming or and a submission to vulnerability. Once jogging, it has been shown to my body healed enough, I returned to yield the long-term physical, jogging and didn’t look back. mental and emotional health During research for a book about benefi ts men (and women) need what boys and men need to thrive and throughout their lives. Studies survive in a time when many of them are also have found that regular in crisis, I heard scores of men under 50 walking was associated with a say they would never walk for exercise. lower risk of stroke, of cognitive Their reasoning: its reputation as a “soft- impairment and of cardiovascular er” form of exercise embraced particu- disease. larly by women and older men; it paled Once middle age and its vicissitudes in comparison to weights and strength (back injuries, shoulder bursitis, ankle training; and it was a slow, boring move- strains) start to hit, a gentler form of ment that required too much time. exercise starts to look more appealing. At These attitudes explain the chasm in least that is what happened to me. gyms where you’ll fi nd far more women Although I returned to running after on treadmills and elliptical machines, my recovery from peritonitis, one while the vast majority of guys are unexpected outcome during that slower- grunting on free weights and resistance paced year stuck with me: With every machines. If these younger guys use step I took during those plodding walks, treadmills, they’re using them just to run a strange gravity drifted down through a quick mile. my legs, my feet and into the sidewalk. Matthew Harber, director of the Clini- It made me feel more connected, more cal Exercise Physiology Laboratory at grounded, at a time when I was all too Ball State University in Indiana, said that eager to disconnect from my compro- for men who grew up playing organized mised body. sports it’s possible they “associate ‘exer- And so two years ago, after I developed cise’ with competition.” This can create a what doctors think is mild asthma or mindset that values only “high-intensity exercise-induced bronchoconstriction, exercise ... (that) has a competitive angle I mostly gave up jogging and began to it. Perhaps it’s akin to the ‘no pain no walking every day for exercise. Now gain’ adage that is not true,” he wrote in squarely in middle age, I don’t feel the an email. need to prove anything to anyone — or Carol Ewing Garber, past president of myself — and the slower speed lets me the American College of Sports Medicine sink into my thoughts and my body at and the program director of the gradu- a time of life when I want to embrace ate program in applied physiology at the and integrate both. Teachers College at Columbia University, I also embrace walking these days said in an email that for many boys and because it feels, well, fi tting in these younger men, the “gym scene” may fi t frantic, fraught times. As a blog with their perceptions of what “mascu- post for the Anxiety and Depres- line” exercise should look like, especially sion Association of America puts when it comes to intense sweating. it: “Psychologists studying how “After all, we don’t see media images exercise relieves anxiety and de- of men going for walks ... we just don’t pression suggest that a 10-min- see a lot of men in our daily life who ute walk may be just as good as walk and are portrayed as ‘masculine.’ ” a 45-minute workout.” she said. “While there is no doubt that If this terrifying, historic walking is a healthful activity for both moment has done anything men and women, walking may be seen as positive, it has forced us to something only for women or older men.” slow down, to be more pres- Michael Heisler, 56, agrees. The part- ent, more aware. time tennis teaching professional prefers I walk now not just to get weightlifting, strengthening exercises in good exercise, but to feel that the gym and “getting my cardio on the connection to my breath, my court.” Like many men, he would rather feet and to the earth. iStock PAGE 16 •STARS AND STRIPES• Sunday, May 3, 2020 MUSIC

BY JON BREAM Star Tribune (Minneapolis) onsider them education. Or entertainment. Music documentaries provide an opportunity to celebrate C— or learn — about old music, the history of music or new music. Or just your favorite artist. For the equivalent of a semesterlong course, Ken Burns offers two spectacular marathons — the 10-episode “Jazz” (2001) and the eight- part “Country Music” (2019). However, those deep dives are not easy to track down. Here are some recommended music docs that can be found on YouTube, DVD/Blu-ray or streaming services like Netfl ix.

“Don’t Look Back” (1967): No fi lm captures the whirl- wind of early pop stardom better than cinema verité pioneer D.A. Pennebaker’s chronicle of Bob Dylan’s 1965 electric tour of England. He’d split up with Joan Baez, switched from folk to rock and turned the Beatles onto pot. The must-see fi lm also features Dylan fl ipping cue cards for what became the “music video” of “Subterranean Homesick Blues.” “The Decline of Western Civilization” (1981): Punk rockers were rarely seen on fi lm until Penelope Spheeris’ landmark portrayal of the L.A. punk scene, featuring frantic performances by X, Black Flag and others. To add cinematic drama, she interviewed the musicians under one light bulb as they carped about suburban strip malls and their own urban squalor. “This Is Spinal Tap” (1984): Rob Reiner’s monumental mockumentary is fi ction, but it captures the true essence — and excesses and inanities — of a big-time touring band. Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer star as a popular British heavy-metal band whose drummers keep dying in bizarre ways. “Gospel According to Al Green” (1984) — After dogged pursuit, Robert Mugge, who has made music docs on the likes of Gil Scott-Heron and Sonny Rollins, fi nally landed an interview with the soul star turned preacher and fi lmed the seventh anniversary of his church in Memphis. The complex- ities, love and happiness of Al Green are here in abundance. “Truth or Dare” (1991) — If you think Madonna was the boldest, most brilliant superstar of the MTV Age, you might fi nd this to be a remarkably insightful backstage glimpse of a rock-concert tour. “Meeting People Is Easy” (1998): This fi lm is a snapshot of that moment when a band, specifi cally Radiohead, ex- plodes into superstardom. Declared Gen X’s answer to “Dark Side of the Moon,” “OK Computer” fi nds Radiohead on tour coping with living up to the critical acclaim and numbing questions of music journalists. In one scene, frontman Thom Yorke invites a concert crowd to sing “Creep” while he holds out his microphone and smirks. OK, Thom. “Buena Vista Social Club” (1999): Celebrated German director Wim Wenders follows the great American guitar- ist Ry Cooder to Cuba as he tracks down aging musicians to record an album and then perform in Amsterdam and New York. Although choppy, the fi lm elevated the music and the musi- cians into deserving global prominence. Top: “Amy,” released “Standing in the Shadows of Motown” (2002): This lov- in 2015, documents ing tribute to the Funk Brothers, the 13 musicians who (often the life and tragic death anonymously) played on hundreds of Motown records, fi nds of British singer-songwriter them revisiting their old Detroit haunts and backing modern Amy Winehouse, who stars like Gerald Levert, Ben Harper and Joan Osborne in a struggled with substance concert of Motown music. abuse before her death “Metallica: Some Kind of Monster” (2004): After an in 2011 at 27. underwhelming album and the departure of its longtime bassist, these metal heroes went through lots of expensive Right: The 2019 doc psychotherapy and aggravating gripe sessions about creative “ZZ Top: That Little Ol’ differences and addiction issues. Metallica never sounded so Band from Texas” is agitating. a deep dive into the “Shut Up and Sing” (2006): Two-time Oscar-winning music and mystique of documentarian Barbara Kopple followed the Dixie Chicks for the enigmatic trio that has three years after their lead singer’s controversial comment featured the same lineup about President George W. Bush and the Iraq War. Backlash for 50 years. and threats in the conservative world of country music were ZZ Top swift and lasting. This fi lm becomes a fascinating study of the relationship between celebrities, politicians and the media.

CONTINUED ON PAGE 17 Sunday, May 3, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 17 MUSIC REVIEW Apple’s latest makes bold show of unprettiness

BY MIKAEL WOOD Del Rey, Billie Eilish and King laid down at her house over the Basically, you’d need to go Los Angeles Times Princess; she recently gave a past fi ve years with a cozy group back to the later parts of Nina rare interview to the New Yorker of collaborators including drum- Simone’s catalog to fi nd another “Fetch the Bolt Cutters” is in which she described how mer Amy Aileen Wood, guitarist pop vocalist as eager as Apple is Fiona Apple’s third consecutive tortuous she found the idea of David Garza and bassist Sebas- to make such a show of unpretti- album with a title to suggest that reentering the fray to promote a tian Steinberg (familiar to ’90s ness — a shared result, perhaps, one of pop music’s fl esh-and- new project. alt-rock fans from his stint in of exiling oneself from a business bloodiest songwriters has cold, Indeed, you have to wonder if Soul Coughing). you can’t stand. hard machinery on her mind. she elected to release “Fetch the In “Heavy Balloon,” about the As for her lyrics, Apple has Eight years before this one, Bolt Cutters” — months earlier diffi culty of keeping the weight never cut closer to the bone: in 2012, there was “The Idler than she’s suggested unspecifi ed of depression aloft, Steinberg’s “Well, good mornin’, good Wheel…”; seven years before suits wanted her to — because slithering bass is an almost tac- mornin’,” she sings in “For Her,” that one, in 2005, there was the COVID-19 pandemic would tile presence, while the album’s “You raped me in the same bed “Extraordinary Machine.” provide some cover for the pub- memory-jammed title track ends your daughter was born in.” Certainly you can hear evidence licity she was already planning to with the sound of Apple’s beloved Yet as unfl inchingly personal of Apple’s fi xation in the records’ Fiona Apple avoid. (The album’s title quotes dogs barking their heads off — a as this music feels, Apple isn’t highly percussive arrangements, Fetch the Bolt Cutters (Epic) a bit of dialogue from the British bug of home recording that she always mining her own troubled which often emphasize quasi-in- crime drama “The Fall” in which turns into a feature. autobiography as she was widely dustrial rhythms — complicated sound is still a sound around no Gillian Anderson’s character Apple delivers that number in assumed to be doing in her teen- beats tapped out on drums and one.” Render the pain just so, calls for the tool required to open a breathy, slow-and-low mode cans and pieces of scrap metal her thinking seems to go, and a locked door.) that can harken back to her age-phenom days. “For Her,” she — over the type of swooning you might contain its ability to The result of Apple’s self-im- sultry early work. But mostly told the New Yorker, was actu- melodies that defi ned early hits continue hurting or staining you posed social distancing is the she seems determined to display ally inspired by watching Brett like “Criminal” (recently used to — like a dishwasher or a rock stunning intimacy of the mate- the frayed edges of her voice, as Kavanaugh be confi rmed to the show-stopping effect in “Hus- tumbler or an engine burning up rial here — a rich text to scour in the swaggering “Under the Supreme Court; in “Newspaper,” tlers”) and “Shadowboxer.” toxic fuel. in quarantine. Her idiosyncratic Table” and “Newspaper,” which she identifi es with a woman un- But taken together, the titles Not that her interest in gadgets song structures, full of sud- doesn’t have a tune so much as a fortunate enough to have ended also get at the way Apple, 42, extends to an assembly-line den stops and lurching tempo furious spray of loosely connect- up with her ex. appears to regard her music approach. In the near-decade changes, adhere to logic only she ed notes. In “Relay” and “Rack “I watch him let go of your as a device to process trauma: since “Idler Wheel…,” the singer could explain, which forces you of His,” she’s essentially rapping, hand, I wanna stand between “I know none of this will mat- has spent a decreasing amount to listen as attentively as though piling syllables on top of each you,” she tells the woman over a ter in the long run,” she sings of time outside her home near a dear friend were bending your other with thrilling abandon; in clanking punk-cabaret groove. in “I Want You to Love Me,” Venice Beach, Calif., even as ear; thus dialed in, you notice the “Ladies,” she repeats that loaded She’s seething, but she’s em- which opens the new album, her infl uence has spread among array of close-miked textures term so many times that it starts pathizing — a feeling machine her fi fth overall, “But I know a younger artists such as Lana in the music, much of which she to shed its meaning. operating at full tilt.

FROM PAGE 16 rounded portrait details her life, we seen such an unvarnished, “The Wrecking Crew” (2008): art and issues with a compelling unfl attering and revealingly real This tells the story of the dramatic arc, even though we portrait of a rock star. Crosby anonymous Los Angeles studio already know the ending. gushes without a fi lter about hav- musicians who played on “Good “Beats, Rhymes & Life: Trav- ing a lot of sex, taking too many Vibrations,” “You’ve Lost That els with A Tribe Called Quest” drugs, making harmony-fi lled Lovin’ Feeling” and other 1960s (2011): In his debut as a direc- rock ’n’ roll and being a complete hits. Hear from Wrecking Crew tor, actor Michael Rapaport ex- jerk to his lovers and bandmates players — including guitarist plores the infl uential ’90s jazzy, in the Byrds and Crosby Stills Glen Campbell and pianist Leon sophisticated hip-hop group Nash & Young. Russell — and such stars as Cher — from their childhood roots to “Rolling Thunder Revue: A and Herb Alpert. A must-see for their bickering breakup. The fi lm Bob Dylan Story by Martin liner-note readers. opts for drama over scrutiny, Scorsese” (2019): It’s another “It Might Get Loud” (2009): but Mary J. Blige, Common and Dylan/Scorsese collaboration This is the best movie ever made the Beastie Boys all boast about (their fi rst was the long-winded about guitars — and one of the Quest. 2005 PBS doc “No Direction best rock docs, period. Oscar- “What Happened, Miss Home”) about the bard’s 1975-76 winning director Davis Guggen- Simone?” (2015): It’s not the rambling, circuslike tour featur- heim explores guitars through personal mementos of potent ing Joan Baez, Allen Ginsberg the stories of heroes from three singer/activist Nina Simone or and a revolving cast of charac- different eras — Led Zeppelin’s the interviews with her daughter ters. Overlook some fake-news Jimmy Page, U2’s the Edge and and ex-husband that make direc- interviews with Sharon Stone the White Stripes’ Jack White. tor Liz Garbus’ profi le so power- and others and appreciate some Turn it up to 11! ful. It’s the live performance of Dylan’s most magnetic on- “Rush: Beyond the Lighted footage that speaks volumes stage performances ever on fi lm. Stage” (2010): Veteran heavy- Netflix about an often misunderstood “ZZ Top: That Little Ol Band metal documentarians Scot Mc- force. from Texas” (2019): You don’t Fayden and Sam Dunn examine Joan Baez and Bob Dylan are pictured in a scene from “Rolling “Gaga: Five Foot Two” get behind the shades and beards the polarizing prog-rock Toronto Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese.” (2017): About to release her of Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill and trio, with endorsements from change-of-pace album “Joanne,” beardless Frank Beard. But Jack Black and Billy Corgan, contributions of Don Henley and were recorded in the 1960s and Lady Gaga fi ghts heartbreak you do get a history of the band but Rush frontman Geddy Lee Glenn Frey. Other band mem- ’70s. Hear from Wilson Pickett, and loneliness, paranoia and and their sound. You learn how admitting his 10-year fascination bers disagreed, but the music Etta James, Mick Jagger, Lynyrd fear, a painful nerve injury and publicist Howard Bloom pumped with synthesizers was mis- and the concerts keep on selling. Skynyrd and many other greats, a change in image and sound. up their image with Texas-sized guided. “20 Feet from Stardom” including Aretha Franklin, in The fi lm — and perhaps Gaga’s hype for a record-setting tour on “Searching for Sugar Man” (2013): This Oscar-winning her last movie appearance. career — peaks as she prepares a Texas-shaped stage and how (2012): Sixto Rodriguez was documentary shines a spotlight “Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me” and pulls off her Super Bowl ZZ Top reinvented themselves as a late 1960s/early ’70s singer- on backup singers, including (2014): It’s hard to watch a halftime performance in 2017. MTV darlings with unplanned songwriter forgotten everywhere Darlene Love, Lisa Fischer and once-great singer/guitarist strug- “Miles Davis: Birth of the beards. except South Africa, where he Judith Hill, proving that they gle with dementia onstage and Cool” (2019): Director Stan- “Miss Americana” (2020): became something of a cult hero. have the voices to be front and off during his farewell tour. The ley Nelson Jr. takes a curious As Emmy-winner Lana Wilson Decades later, two obsessive fans center. Plenty of superstars, “Wichita Lineman” hitmaker’s approach to paint a complete surveys Taylor Swift’s career, we tracked him down in Detroit and including Bruce Springsteen and musical skills were still there, picture of the legendarily watch the intensely self-aware brought him to South Africa for Bette Midler, testify. but the lapses and vulnerability complex jazz man, with concert superstar reveal her insecuri- a series of concerts that became “Muscle Shoals” (2013): It’s are telling and heartbreaking. clips, interviews with associates, ties, creative process, love of the subject of this Oscar-winning another behind-the-scenes doc “Amy” (2015): This doc is as friends and lovers — and Minne- cats, frustrations with fame doc. about two recording studios in powerful and memorable as the apolis-reared actor Carl Lumbly and Kanye West, and obsession “History of the Eagles” the tiny Alabama town of Muscle late Amy Winehouse’s kohl-eyed narrating with Davis’ distinctive with being a “nice girl.” But as (2013): This three-hour warts- Shoals where such classics as ’00s soul music — only the fi lm rasp. she reaches her late 20s, she and-all doc celebrates the highs, “Brown Sugar,” “Free Bird” and leaves you numb. With cellphone “David Crosby: Remember liberates her sound, politics and lows, reunion and, above all, “When a Man Loves a Woman” videos and TV footage, this well- My Name” (2019): Rarely have image. PAGE 18 •STARS AND STRIPES• Sunday, May 3, 2020 AMERICAN ROUNDUP Police say 11-year-old girl stole a vehicle

BOSTON — Boston MA police officers who pulled over a vehicle that had been reported stolen were sur- prised to find that the suspect was an 11-year-old girl wearing a medical mask, the department announced . Because of her age, under state law the girl could not be charged with a crime. Instead, she was released and turned over to state child welfare authorities. A woman called police to re- port that her car had been stolen in the city’s Dorchester neighbor- hood, the department said. The woman told police she left her teenage son and nephew in the car. One of the teens told police that someone wearing a mask ap- proached the vehicle, demanded that the occupants roll down the window and ordered them out. The girl then got in the car and drove away, police said. She was stopped a few blocks away. Employees cited for taking free fishing trip

COLUMBUS — The OH former director of the Ohio Department of Natural Re- sources and about 40 state em- ployees improperly accepted a free Lake Erie fishing trip two years ago, the state inspector gen- eral’s office has determined. CHARLIE RIEDEL/AP James Zehringer, the former director, and the employees — some of whom claimed overtime Follow the leader pay — accepted the trip as part of what was billed “Fish Ashtabula Day,” according to the report. A girl rides her bicycle past a family of geese at South Lake park in Overland Park, Kan. As temperatures warm, people are flocking to parks to Some state lawmakers also at- get some air and relief from continued stay-at-home orders which are part of an effort to stem the spread of the coronavirus. tended, the report noted, but their cautions against predators. cle until it drove out of sight, Col- presence was deemed proper. THE CENSUS Vermont Game Warden Col. The office did not make any lier said. Then, Herring came to a Jason Batchelder said there have criminal referrals concerning The number of African lion cubs born at the Denver Zoo. Zoo officials curve and hit a gravel driveway. been complaints across the state the investigation. However, the said the cubs were born to 4-year-old mother Kamara and 4-year-old He lost control and plowed into of bears, foxes, raccoons, fisher s, state Ethics Commission told father Tobias. The healthy newborns are bonding with Kamara behind a stop sign before slamming into skunks and bobcats eating birds Zehringer and the employees to 2 the scenes and will gradually be introduced to the rest of the pride over several brick columns, according and bird feed, the Rutland Herald file amended financial disclosure the next couple of months. They will mostly stay in their den box, which to the chief. reported. statements about the free trip in mimics the space Kamara would seek out to give birth in the wild. The cubs’ sexes A nearby resident pulled Her- The state recommends chicken July 2018 and its value. have not yet been determined. owners invest in electrified wire ring from his patrol car as flames or netting for fencing and wire or started erupting, carrying the of- Police move forward plastic netting to cover pens. ficer about 30 yards away. Motorcyclist strikes their latest crackdown on Port- on body camera plan land street racing. Explosion levels gas cop’s car during chase Ruben Gonzalez was arrested 3-year-old gets parade FAIRFAX — Virginia’s on suspicion of reckless driving, on last day of chemo most populous county is station; 2 inside injured VA CHESAPEAKE — and Nicholas Murphy was arrest- moving ahead with its plan to out- EARLING — Two men VA State police in Virginia ed on a warrant for first-degree PRIOR LAKE — A fit police officers with body-worn who were inside a west- said that a motorcyclist who was forgery, according to Portland cameras. IA MN 3-year-old Minne- ern Iowa gas station and auto re- fleeing police ended up striking a Fairfax Police Chief Edwin police. sota girl who has been battling pair shop when it was leveled by trooper’s vehicle head-on. Roessler said the first phase of The effort in North and North- cancer for two-thirds of her life an explosion are expected to re- Virginia State Police said in a east Portland also resulted in 10 got to celebrate on her last day the three-year program to out- statement that the person suf- fit officers with cameras began cover from their injuries. traffic citations, police said. Two of chemotherapy — with the help fered unspecified injuries. The last week. Officers, prosecutors Dan Grote, co-owner of Earling cars were towed, as well. of some fire trucks and dozens of Standard Shop, received stitches trooper suffered minor injuries. and public defenders have all decorated cars. for cuts and was released from a Police said that the chase began been training on how to use the Good Samaritan saves Family and friends couldn’t system. hospital hours after the blast in in the city of Chesapeake. the small town of Earling he told State troopers said the motor- officer from fiery crash hold a party for Mabel Franks be- That first phase begins with cause of social distancing restric- more than 400 cameras being put Omaha, Neb ., television station cyclist was driving more than 100 KETV. Grote said his brother-in- mph on Interstate 64. They said POPLARVILLE — A tions due to COVID-19, so they into service. Plans call for similar MS police officer in Mis- held a parade in her Prior Lake numbers of cameras to be phased law, Don Bruck, who was also in the person on the motorcycle re- the shop when it exploded, is ex- fused to stop when they tried to sissippi who crashed while chas- cul-de-sac. in for each of the next two years. ing a speeding vehicle was saved County officials said the camer- pected to be released soon from pull the person over. “We just felt we had to do some- an Omaha hospital. Police said the suspect exited by a good Samaritan that pulled thing to let her know how proud as will promote transparency and him out of his burning patrol car, build trust with the community. Grote said he had been in the the interstate only to strike a we are and what a warrior and shop fixing a customer’s tire when trooper’s vehicle. the chief of the police department survivor she’s been,” said Joan said. he heard what he at first thought Franks, Mabel’s grandmother. Bird owners warned to The Poplarville officer, identi- was another tire exploding. The 2 arrested, 10 cited in Mabel smiled and waved from blast sent him to the floor. fied as J.D. Herring, clocked a ve- guard against predators her father’s arms as fire trucks “I was kneeling down, and I street race crackdown hicle going about 50 mph over the and dozens of cars rolled by. RUTLAND — Ver- tried to crawl out because the speed limit , Chief Danny Collier VT monters with chickens roof must have come on me,” he PORTLAND — Au- told The Picayune Item. Mabel had been diagnosed with and other birds on their property said. “I didn’t know, really, what OR thorities arrested two Herring activated his lights acute lymphoblastic leukemia. were being advised to take pre- happened.” people and stopped 27 drivers in and sirens, and chased the vehi- From wire reports Sunday, May 3, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES•PAGE 19 OPINION Max D. Lederer Jr., Publisher Lt. Col. Sean Klimek, Europe commander Buildup push misreads threat posed by China Lt. Col. Richard McClintic, Pacific commander Caroline E. Miller, Europe Business Operations BY DANIEL L. DAVIS more on that below). bitions beyond its own borders. As proven Joshua M. Lashbrook, Pacific Chief of Staff Special to Stars and Stripes China’s decades-long military buildup in its decades of development of its A2AD has served to modernize its forces and capabilities, defense of its territory, not EDITORIAL ven amid the gash to our economy harden its defenses against American at- foreign conquest, is what China values and from coronavirus, there has been tack; A2AD in military-speak (Anti-access where it invests. Furthermore, America’s Terry Leonard, Editor considerable discussion suggest- to Chinese territory; area denial). unrivaled and dominant ability to project [email protected] Eing the U.S. should fund new This system develops, employs and syn- power around the world makes it a physi- Robert H. Reid, Senior Managing Editor initiatives in the Indo-Pacific to “send a chronizes technology, drones, missiles, cal impossibility for China to attack and [email protected] powerful strategic message of U.S. com- command-and-control, ships, anti-air as- invade any American territory. mitment to the region.” A careful examina- sets, and ground, sea, air and space forces There is no utility, therefore, in signifi- Tina Croley, Managing Editor for Content tion of the fundamentals involved, however, [email protected] into an integrated ability to repel a theo- cantly increasing American military power shows that such a plan would deepen the retical U.S. force as far away from Chinese in the Indo-Pacific region for the primary Managing Editor for Presentation dependencies on the U.S. military by many Sean Moores, territory as possible. A2AD is unquestion- purpose of “thwarting” an alleged Chinese [email protected] Asian nations while adding nothing to our ably a potent and effective deterrent to at- threat to other nations in the region. In fact, security. Joe Gromelski, Managing Editor for Digital tack. It’s what is missing from this buildup, expanding American military power in the Let’s be honest here: This is not about [email protected] however, that is most instructive for Amer- Pacific region works against our interests “the region.” This is about preparing for ican security. by ensuring other states spend less on their conflict with China, as Defense Secre- own national security because they know BUREAU STAFF tary Mark Esper plainly implied in recent For all China’s development over the past 30 years, it still lacks the equipment we’ll do it for them. Europe/Mideast congressional testimony, darkly warning For those countries in the Indo-Pa- that the U.S. must invest more militarily necessary to guarantee success in con- Erik Slavin, Europe & Mideast Bureau Chief ducting the relatively short and easy cross- cific region who feel they face a potential [email protected] in the Indo-Pacific area because China is strait invasion of what Beijing considers military threat from China, we should be +49(0)631.3615.9350; DSN (314)583.9350 “expanding its political and economic ties willing to provide them with advanced the break-away province of Taiwan. across Asia, Europe, South America and weaponry necessary for those countries to Pacific Since the Chinese Communist Party Africa.” build their own A2AD defensive system — Aaron Kidd, Pacific Bureau Chief (CCP) troops defeated the Chinese Nation- [email protected] The most critical question that needs to which they can purchase, not be provided alists in their 1949 civil war, the CCP has +81.42.552.2511 ext. 88380; DSN (315)227.7380 be answered about the utility or necessity free of charge by the U.S. — to make any of America embarking on such a military- constantly and unambiguously stated they Washington attack by China so costly for the attackers first plan of action: Is there evidence that would use force to reunify Taiwan should that Beijing is deterred from even making Joseph Cacchioli, Washington Bureau Chief the island declare independence. Yet in [email protected] China has both the intent and the capacity the attempt. (+1)(202)886-0033 (either in the near or medium term) to at- the 70 years since the end of the Civil War, Each nation in that region should be re- Brian Bowers, Assistant Managing Editor, News tack the United States or our armed forces? China still has insufficient military infra- sponsible for funding its own defense to [email protected] The answer is a resounding “no.” structure to ensure successfully invading the level it deems appropriate to the threat. CIRCULATION To be sure, China has made substantial and capturing Taiwan. A 2019 Pentagon The defense of other wealthy Asian nations improvements in its military. What we report concludes that, “An attempt to in- should not, under any circumstances, be Mideast must ascertain, however, is the extent to vade Taiwan would likely strain China’s the primary responsibility of the Ameri- Robert Reismann, Mideast Circulation Manager which these military improvements por- armed forces and invite international can taxpayer. The U.S. military should de- [email protected] tend a threat to American security. Such intervention.” fend our country and ensure the prosperity [email protected] analysis reveals that China’s military If it would strain China to the breaking DSN (314)583-9111 — first and foremost — of our citizens. buildup is designed to defend its territory point just to invade this one small island, Daniel L. Davis, a retired Army lieutenant colonel, Europe against the United States, not invade other there is no rational case to be made that is a Senior Fellow for Defense Priorities . His 21-year Karen Lewis, Community Engagement Manager nations (with the exception of Taiwan; China has any significant territorial am- Army career included four combat deployments. [email protected] [email protected] +49(0)631.3615.9090; DSN (314)583.9090 Pacific Shouldn’t rule out a woman as N. Korea’s next leader Mari Mori, [email protected] +81-3 6385.3171; DSN (315)227.7333 BY JUNG H. PAK Mount Paektu on a white horse in October ing her status as a trusted confidant and CONTACT US Special to The Washington Post 2019, a visit steeped in Kim dynasty sym- caretaker for North Korea’s leader. bolism, his sister was right by his side. Her Those episodes of diplomacy were re- Washington s rumors swirled about the presence there almost certainly was a cal- vealing for another reason. Her body lan- tel: (+1)202.886.0003 health of North Korean leader culated move designed to place her at the guage and interactions with much older 633 3rd St. NW, Suite 116, Washington, DC 20001-3050 Kim Jong Un, speculation about epicenter of power. who might replace him reached a men betrayed her sense of herself as a Reader letters A If she were to become the leader, Kim Yo person deserving deference. Observers fever pitch. Commentators seem especial- [email protected] Jong has at least as much bureaucratic ex- ly intrigued by the role of his sister Kim Yo noted a physical stance that communicates perience under her belt as her brother did a high level of self-confidence. During a Additional contacts Jong, who has drawn attention by her high- when he became leader in December 2011, stripes.com/contactus meeting in Seoul with South Korean of- ly public role in the regime’s activities. after their father’s sudden death. With at Yet some analysts insist that her gender ficials, Kim Yo Jong’s travel companion OMBUDSMAN least six years in the regime in various makes her a non-contender, arguing that leadership positions, she is likely to have Kim Yong Nam, the nonagenarian nominal a deeply patriarchal society like North Ernie Gates the honed political acumen that her father head of state, gestured for her to sit down Korea, infused with traditional Confucian in 2001 allegedly boasted about to Russia’s first, an honor reserved for the most senior values, would never accept her as Kim 4.0. The Stars and Stripes ombudsman protects the free flow ambassador to North Korea. person. That suggested that he — and prob- In fact, she might be more prepared to of news and information, reporting any attempts by the While her public profile has risen in ably other elderly officials in North Korea military or other authorities to undermine the newspaper’s take over than we think. independence. The ombudsman also responds to concerns recent years, she has been a constant — understood where the power lies. What the skeptics forget: Confucianism and questions from readers, and monitors coverage for fair- presence in the regime. She reportedly ac- Finally, Kim Yo Jong’s years in the re- ness, accuracy, timeliness and balance. The ombudsman also stresses the importance of filial piety gime and her privileged status have given welcomes comments from readers, and can be contacted and respect for one’s ancestors — which companied her father and her brother to by email at [email protected], or by phone at various site visits and party meetings dur- her a first-row seat into how a leader uses 202.886.0003. Kim Yo Jong has in spades. If she had to take over in a pinch, she has decades of ing the latter’s grooming process. In 2014, repression and fear to keep the elite in line.

regime propaganda and ideology to back she became the deputy director of the Ko- Kim Jong Un has purged hundreds of offi- Stars and Stripes (USPS 0417900) is published week- her up. As a grandchild of Kim Il Sung, rean Workers’ Party Propaganda and Agi- cials since he came to power. But brutality days (except Dec. 25 and Jan. 1) for 50 cents Monday tation department; three years later, she doesn’t run only through the Y chromo- through Thursday and for $1 on Friday by Pacific Stars and still revered even by North Korean defec- Stripes, Unit 45002, APO AP 96301-5002. Periodicals tors, Kim Yo Jong has revolutionary blood rose to the position of an alternate mem- some in the Kim family. She was also des- postage paid at San Francisco, CA, Postmaster: Send coursing through her veins. ber of the Politburo, a key decision-making ignated by the United States for “severe address changes to Pacific Stars and Stripes, Unit 45002, body. That exalted status doesn’t suggest APO AP 96301-5002. On Saturday, North Korean state media human rights abuses” and “rigid censor- that her gender is an issue for the people This newspaper is authorized by the Department of reported that Kim Jong Un made his first ship policies” that conceal the regime’s Defense for members of the military services overseas. who matter. public appearance in three weeks, accord- “inhumane and oppressive behavior.” However, the contents of Stars and Stripes are unofficial, She received international publicity and are not to be considered as the official views of, or ing to The Washington Post. Kim Yo Jong certainly has some deficits. endorsed by, the U.S. government. As a DOD newspaper, when she acted as her brother’s envoy and North Korea has long celebrated itself Her mastery and control of the military Stars and Stripes may be distributed through official chan- as a pure race, as noted scholar of North attended the opening ceremony of the Win- nels and use appropriated funds for distribution to remote and security apparatus are unknown, for locations where overseas DOD personnel are located. Korean propaganda B.R. Myers has per- ter Olympics in South Korea in February The appearance of advertising in this publication does suasively argued. Kim Yo Jong, like her 2018 to kick off Kim Jong Un’s charm of- example. But it would be a mistake to as- not constitute endorsement by the Department of Defense sume that a Kim woman doesn’t have the or Stars and Stripes of the products or services advertised. brother, is a part of the “pure” bloodline fensive. She stood next to her brother as he Products or services advertised shall be made available for directly descended from Mount Paektu, a was about to sign the Singapore statement aggressiveness and the institutional and purchase, use or patronage without regard to race, color, at his first summit in June 2018 with Presi- ideological support to take the reins. De- religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, physical sacred place where the Korean race sup- handicap, political affiliation or any other nonmerit factor posedly originated, and where regime ac- dent Donald Trump, next to whom Secre- spite the status of Kim Jong Un’s health, we of the purchaser, user or patron. counts say Kim Il Sung and his band of tary of State Mike Pompeo stood. She was should still be taking his sister seriously. guerrillas had a base to fight against Japa- seen lurking in the shadows and behind © Stars and Stripes 2020 Jung H. Pak, a senior fellow at the Brookings nese imperialists and Kim Jong Il was corners at her brother’s second meeting Institution and a former senior analyst at the CIA, stripes.com born. Notably, when Kim Jong Un traveled with Trump in Vietnam, further illuminat- is the author of “Becoming Kim Jong Un.” PAGE 20 •STARS AND STRIPES• Sunday, May 3, 2020 Sunday, May 3, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES•PAGE 21 SCOREBOARD/SPORTS BRIEFS/SOCCER Briefl y Sports on AFN

Go to the American Forces Eversley joins Bulls as new GM Network website for the most up-to-date TV schedules. myafn.net Associated Press ic on March 12, closing all team facilities but asking players to re- CHICAGO — The Chicago main in market with their teams. Bulls announced Marc Eversley Deals The league-wide moratorium on as their new general manager on group and team training remains Friday’s transactions Friday. in effect through May 15. BASEBALL Eversley agreed to take the job MLS says the individual work- MLB — Suspended Cleveland Indians earlier in the week. He succeeds P Emmanuel Clase 80 games for testing outs must follow certain health positive to a performance-enhancing the fired Gar Forman and will and safety protocols as well as substance. BASKETBALL work under new top executive Ar- local public health and govern- NBA turas Karnisovas. Eversley spent CHICAGO BULLS — Hired Marc Evers- ment policies. The workouts are ley as General Manager. four years in Philadelphia’s front voluntary. FOOTBALL office — the past two as the 76ers’ NFL MLS teams must submit a spe- ATLANTA FALCONS — Acquired DE senior vice president of player cific plan for training protocols Charles Harris from the Miami Doplhins personnel. in exchange for a 2021 seventh-round before players are allowed to draft selection. The Bulls were 11th in the start workouts. They are still not CINCINNATI BENGALS — Re-signed DL Eastern Conference at 22-43 and Josh Tupou to a one-year contract. allowed access to indoor facili- GREEN BAY PACKERS — Signed DL on the way to their third straight ties, such as locker rooms. Treyvon Hester. NEW ORLEANS SAINTS — Signed DE losing record when the league Margus Hunt stopped play. NEW YORK GIANTS — Waived DE Kevin CHRISTIAN BRUNA/AP Source: MLB owners Wilkins. “I’m grateful to be working with PHILADELPHIA EAGLES — Waived WR’s someone like Arturas, who shares The Red Bull Ring in Spielberg, Austria is naturally isolated by the to discuss draft length Marken Michel and River Cracraft. SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Signed RB my level of passion and commit- Styrian mountains. Formula One plans to open its season there. NEW YORK — Major League Salvon Ahmed to a three-year deal. ment to winning basketball, and Signed QB Nick Mullens to a one-year Baseball owners will discuss a contract. having both come from success- that, too, will likely have to One way to make up for lost length for the amateur draft next TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Claimed change in the coming weeks as time is having consecutive week- K Elliot Fry off waivers from Carolina. ful programs, we will put in the week and are likely to start the TENNESSEE TITANS — Signed S Ibra- work and all it entails to become the league continues reacting to ends on one circuit, like the Red heim Campbell to a one-year contract. selections on the original date of Exercised 5th year option on CB Adoree’ a sustainable and winning team,” the coronavirus pandemic. Bull Ring in Spielberg. F1 man- June 10, a person familiar with Jackson. Eversley said in a statement. The lottery was to have taken ager director of motorsports Ross HOCKEY the deliberations told The Associ- NHL A Canadian, Eversley becomes place May 19. The draft combine Brawn says this is a “real con- ated Press. CALGARY FLAMES — Signed G Dustin the Bulls’ first black general was to have run from May 21-24. sideration” so long as iron-tight Wolf to a three-year entry-level con- Teams and the players’ asso- tract. manager. safety regulations are met. ciation agreed March 26 to a deal EDMONTON OILERS — Signed D Filip In other NBA news: The Red Bull Ring’s location in Berglund to a two-year entry-level con- F1 hopes to start that allowed MLB to cut the draft tract.  The NBA is delaying the the Styrian mountains makes it from 40 rounds to as few as five NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Signed D season on July 5 naturally isolated. Ben Harper to a one-year contract. draft lottery and draft combine, this year and 20 next year, part events scheduled for Chicago PARIS — Formula One hopes It is unclear where F1 would of a plan to deal with the new later this month. to finally start the season with a race after Austria, if it even goes coronavirus pandemic that de- Pro hockey The league made the decision double-header in the naturally ahead. layed the start of the season and Friday, though it has been expect- isolated environment around the slashed revenue. As part of the NHL ed for some time. The lottery can- venue for the Austrian Grand MLS to allow workouts agreement, the sides agreed to EASTERN CONFERENCE not occur until the regular season Prix. leave the assigned slot values of Atlantic Division on team training fields GP W L OT Pts GF GA is completed or is declared over, Despite the first 10 races hav- draft signing bonuses at the same Boston 70 44 14 12 100 227 174 because team records determine ing been canceled or postponed Major League Soccer is allow- level in 2020 and 2021 as they Tampa Bay 70 43 21 6 92 245 195 Toronto 70 36 25 9 81 238 227 the odds that the 14 non-playoff because of the coronavirus pan- ing players to return to outdoor were last year. Florida 69 35 26 8 78 231 228 teams will have of securing the Montreal 71 31 31 9 71 212 221 demic, the targeted start date is team training fields for individual That left the total of slot values Buffalo 69 30 31 8 68 195 217 right to pick No. 1 overall . July 5 in Austria. F1 still envis- workouts starting Wednesday. for a 10-round draft this year at Ottawa 71 25 34 12 62 191 243 Detroit 71 17 49 5 39 145 267 For now, the draft remains ages holding 15 to 18 of the 22 MLS suspended the season be- $265.5 million, including $29.6 Metropolitan Division scheduled for June 25 — though scheduled Grands Prix. cause of the coronavirus pandem- million for rounds six through 10. Washington 69 41 20 8 90 240 215 Philadelphia 69 41 21 7 89 232 196 Pittsburgh 69 40 23 6 86 224 196 Carolina 68 38 25 5 81 222 193 Columbus 70 33 22 15 81 180 187 N.Y. Islanders 68 35 23 10 80 192 193 N.Y. Rangers 70 37 28 5 79 234 222 New Jersey 69 28 29 12 68 189 230 Unequal: Judge leaves other claims in lawsuit intact WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA FROM BACK PAGE St. Louis 71 42 19 10 94 225 193 not even qualify for the 2018 World Cup. The “This rationale does not fully explain the Colorado 70 42 20 8 92 237 191 USSF argued the women actually made more gross disparity on money spent on airfare and Dallas 69 37 24 8 82 180 177 they themselves rejected such a structure,” Winnipeg 71 37 28 6 80 216 203 he said. than the men both overall and by game aver- hotels for the teams,” Klausner wrote. Nashville 69 35 26 8 78 215 217 age, and the women claimed they should have In addition, the USSF has said spending in Minnesota 69 35 27 7 77 220 220 Klausner left intact claims the USSF dis- Chicago 70 32 30 8 72 212 218 criminated in the money it spent on com- the same bonus structure as the men. these areas has been equal since the women’s Pacific Division “Merely comparing what WNT players re- union agreed to a new labor deal in 2017. Vegas 71 39 24 8 86 227 211 mercial airfare, hotel accommodations, and Edmonton 71 37 25 9 83 225 217 medical and training support services. ceived under their own CBA with what they Klausner allowed other claims of discrimi- Calgary 70 36 27 7 79 210 215 would have received under the MNT CBA natory travel accommodations, such as money Vancouver 69 36 27 6 78 228 217 A trial is scheduled for June 16 in federal discounts the value that the team placed on spent on hotels and commercial flights, to go Arizona 70 33 29 8 74 195 187 court in Los Angeles. Anaheim 71 29 33 9 67 187 226 guaranteed benefits they receive under their to trial along with claims on support services Los Angeles 70 29 35 6 64 178 212 “We are shocked and disappointed with San Jose 70 29 36 5 63 182 226 agreement, which they opted for at the ex- such as medical and training staff. He said today’s decision, but we will not give up our pense of higher performance-based bonuses,” the USSF’s lawyers waited until reply briefs hard work for equal pay,” Molly Levinson, Klausner wrote. to ask for those claims to be thrown out, which AP sportlight spokeswoman for the women’s players, said “This issue is insufficient to create a genu- meant he did not have to consider them. in a statement. “We are confident in our case ine issue of material fact for trial,” he added. Seyfarth Shaw’s summary judgment mo- May 3 and steadfast in our commitment to ensuring 1902 — Alan-a-Dale, ridden by Jimmy Klausner also said the women could not go tion for the USSF included arguments criti- Winkfield, wins the Kentucky Derby by a that girls and women who play this sport will forward with their claim that the USSF dis- cal of American women’s players. That filing nose over Inventor, giving Winkfield his not be valued as lesser just because of their second straight Derby victory. Winkfield criminated against them by scheduling more caused an uproar and led to the resignation is the last black American to win the gender.” games on artificial turf than the men had. He of USSF President Carlos Cordeiro, who was Kentucky Derby. 2000 — The Dodgers beat the Atlanta Players intend to ask the 9th U.S. Circuit said there was not sufficient evidence to show replaced by Cindy Parlow Cone, a former na- Braves 6-4, ending Atlanta’s franchise- Court of Appeals to overturn Klausner’s de- that decisions on field surface were made for tional team player. Latham & Watkins took record 15-game winning streak, the lon- gest in the majors since 1991 and the Na- cision, a move that could delay the trial into discriminatory reasons. over as counsel and filed the reply brief. tional League’s longest since 1951. 2021 or later. 2001 — Dallas, with an 84-83 win over He rejected the USSF’s argument that Parlow Cone has said she hopes the suit can Utah, becomes the sixth team in NBA his- “If you know this team at all you know we the men had a competitive need for charter settle before a trial. tory to win a five-game series after trail- have a lot of fight left in us. We knew this ing 0-2. The Mavericks rally from double- flights that the women lacked, allowing that “We look forward to working with the wom- digit deficits in all three wins, including wasn’t going to be easy, change never is,” de- part of the suit to go forward. The federation en’s national team to chart a positive path 17 in Game 5. fender Becky Sauerbrunn wrote on Twitter. 2005 — Ben Gordon becomes the first has argued that the men, who have struggled forward to grow the game,” the USSF said in rookie to win the NBA’s Sixth Man of the While the Americans are the most suc- in World Cup qualifying, have more need for a statement. “We are committed to continu- Year Award. Gordon averaged 15.1 points, 2.6 rebounds and 2.0 assists in just over cessful women’s team, with four World Cup charters than the women in order to arrive ing that work to ensure our women’s national 24 minutes this season for Chicago. titles including the last two, the U.S. men did more rested for their qualifiers. team remains the best in the world.” PAGE 22 • S TARS AND STRIPES• Sunday, May 3, 2020 BEST SPORTS MOVIES No. 10: ‘A League of Their Own’ Croteau found kinship in film Baseball pioneer was inspired

BY PAT GRAHAM Associated Press Editor’s note: Last week, the Associated Press revealed its here were moments Top 25 of sports movies, as when Julie Croteau’s voted on by 70 writers and baseball path was a lone- editors around the world. After Tly one even as she turned compiling the list, the AP as- in a career historic enough that signed writers to present sto- Cooperstown wanted her glove. ries examining the Top 10 from Little League with mostly boys. unique perspectives. This is the Suing her high school to take the first in the series, a look at the field on the varsity team (she impact of the 10th-best film, “A lost). Notoriety as one of the first League of Their Own.” female NCAA baseball players. PHOTO PROIVIDED BY JULIE CROTEAU/AP It wasn’t until the smooth-field- Julie Croteau poses near an exhibit in 1996 at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. Croteau ing infielder made the roster as showed up on the movie set that an extra in the Penny Marshall- was introduced to the world of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, which was featured Marshall made sure was full of in the 1992 hit film “A League of Their Own” starring Geena Davis, Madonna and Tom Hanks. directed movie “A League of actors and extras who actually Their Own” that she realized she resembled ball players. break a person.” run. wasn’t so alone. No worries with Croteau, who Or in this case, empower them. Croteau’s main role in the film About the fi lm There may be no crying in was already carving out her place Croteau earned a spot on the was to be a stand-in at first base baseball, but there certainly are in hardball history. baseball team at St. Mary’s Col- for actor Anne Ramsay dur- trailblazers. Growing up in Virginia, Crote- lege of Maryland as a walk-on. ing fielding scenes. Both were Year: 1992 Croteau was introduced to the au wanted more than anything to She made her debut for the Divi- left handed. The resemblance Screenwriters: Lowell Ganz, world of the All-American Girls be a left-handed shortstop in the sion III school on March 17, 1989, stopped there, with Croteau don- Babaloo Mandel Professional Baseball League, majors. Coaches pointed out that and drew plenty of headlines. ning a black wig to match Ram- Director: Penny Marshall which was featured in the 1992 left-handers don’t play shortstop Sports Illustrated wrote a blurb say’s look. Starring: Tom Hanks, Geena film starring Geena Davis, Ma- in the majors. about her under the header, “Dia- Croteau did have one speaking Davis, Lori Petty, Madonna, Rosie donna and Tom Hanks. The film So she moved to first base — mond Pioneer.” part in the film. After the tryout O’Donnell was voted No. 10 in The Associ- and kept the same dream. “It was a great redemption scene inside Wrigley Field, the Plot: Rival sisters (Davis, Petty) ated Press Top 25 favorite sports Croteau made national news in story,” Croteau said. roster list was posted on a cork join the fi rst female professional movies poll. the late 1980s when she sued her Next chapter: The movies. board. She ran over, saw her baseball league amid World World “To see their part of history high school in Manassas, Va., to She was a member of the Rock- name and exclaimed, “Yeah!” be- II and help it grow. come alive in this movie, it truly allow her to play. The court ulti- ford Peaches in a “A League of fore scampering away. Iconic Line: “There’s no crying was a gift,” said the 49-year-old mately ruled she had received a Their Own.” The Peaches were “I didn’t think they were going in baseball.” — Manager Jimmy Croteau, who’s now the director fair tryout. one of the teams in the AAGP- to keep that in,” she joked. Dugan (Hanks) of communications for wellness “I remember when we lost BL, a league created by Chicago Her Peaches teammates in- Oscars: No nominations programs at Stanford University. our lawsuit, I came out and they Cubs owner Philip K. Wrigley cluded Davis, Madonna and — Associated Press “To know that I wasn’t alone. Be- were celebrating like they’d won that started play in 1943. It gave Rosie O’Donnell. Their manager cause I felt like I was alone.” the World Series,” Croteau said. more than 500 women a chance at was Hanks, who played Jimmy Croteau was 20 when she “That experience really will a baseball career over its 12-year Dugan. ing men’s amateur and semi-pro In between scenes, Croteau squads. Her manager was Hall of played hacky sack with the other Fame pitcher Phil Niekro. extras. But the real treat was More history: She and pitcher listening to stories from some Lee Anne Ketcham are largely of the women who played in the recognized as the first women to AAGPBL and were brought in as play with a winter league team advisers. sanctioned by Major League As for the movie’s most famous Baseball. They were teammates line uttered by Hanks’ character on the Maui Stingrays in the — “There’s no crying in baseball!” Hawaiian Winter League. Their — Croteau had no idea it would roster also included current Mil- become so legendary. In fact, she waukee Brewers manager Craig remembers thinking, “but there’s Counsell. tons of crying in baseball.” Along the way, Croteau gave She’s not surprised about the up her glove — to Cooperstown. timelessness of a movie that’s Her first-base mitt, along with a raked in a cumulative worldwide photo, are enshrined in the Base- gross of more than $132 million, ball Hall of Fame to commemo- according to IMDb. rate her accomplishments. She “It’s an underdog story, because also served as an assistant base- it represents women in culture ball coach at the University of and also women in sports,” said Massachusetts-Amherst. Croteau, who years later worked So many baseball memories. with Davis before the actor threw But this remains high on the list: the first pitch at a Baltimore Ori- An invitation to an AAGPBL re- oles game (a perfect strike). “It union, where she met even more taps into our humanity.” of the pioneering women who Croteau’s career was just heat- played in the league that inspired ing up after filming. She went on “A League of Their Own.” GENE SWEENEY JR., THE BALTIMORE SUN/AP to play for the Colorado Silver “Being around them,” Croteau Croteau shouts encouragement to teammates as she makes her debut with the St. Mary’s College Bullets in 1994, with the women’s said, “just made me realize how baseball team on March 17, 1989, in St. Mary’s, Md. Croteau made the team as a walk-on. professional baseball team fac- lucky I am.” Sunday, May 3, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 23 MLB/MMA Replay may UFC sets vanish for matchups ’20 season for shows BY GREG BEACHAM Associated Press BY BEN WALKER Associated Press The UFC has announced the full fight lineups for its shows NEW YORK — Replay reviews scheduled for May 13 and May could vanish in Major League 16 as the mixed martial arts pro- Baseball in 2020 as part of a deal motion moves closer to resuming that covers how umpires would competition amid the coronavi- be paid for a season shortened rus pandemic. or wiped out by the coronavirus The UFC plans to stage several pandemic. shows without fans at VyStar Vet- The sides struck an agreement erans Memorial Arena in Jack- late Thursday night, two people sonville, Fla., this month. The told The Associated Press. They first event is the pay-per-view spoke Friday on condition of ano- UFC 249 on May 9. nymity because there was no of- Many of the bouts announced ficial announcement. Friday are matchups initially Umps are guaranteed 50% of ELAINE THOMPSON/AP made for shows that were can- celed in recent weeks. The May their salaries for May, but would Major League Baseball and its umpires have reached a deal to cover a 2020 pay structure during the be paid nothing else if no games 13 and May 16 shows are expect- coronavirus pandemic, including a 50% cut in May and nothing more this year if no games are played. ed to be broadcast on ESPN Plus. are played in 2020. Umpires gen- The nine-bout show on May 13 erally make between $150,000 the right to not use instant re- umps are guaranteed about one- and MLB reached a deal to run will be headlined by former light and $450,000. plays of umpires’ decisions dur- third of their salaries. through the 2024 season. As part heavyweight title contenders The start of the season has ing the 2020 season. Most calls The umps will be paid a pro- of that agreement, umps agreed Anthony Smith and Glover Teix- been postponed because of the have been subject to video review rated share of their salaries to cooperate with MLB in the de- eira. The matchup originally was virus outbreak and there is no since 2014 and it’s become a big based on games over a 182-day velopment and testing of an auto- scheduled to headline the UFC’s timetable for opening day. If part of games, with about half season, according to a copy of the mated ball-strike system. show in Lincoln, Neb., on April baseball is permitted to proceed the challenged calls resulting in four-page term sheet obtained by Spring training began in late 25. this year, MLB is considering a reversal. The Associated Press. February and exhibition games The May 13 show is co-head- playing regular-season games Umpires have already been In a statement, the MLB um- in Arizona and Florida were halt- lined by Ovince Saint Preux’s at spring training ballparks in paid from January through April pires’ union said it was “pleased” ed in mid-March because of the heavyweight debut against Ben Arizona and Florida that are not and will be paid at a 50% rate in to reach this agreement with the virus outbreak. Computerized Rothwell. Other matchups on the wired for replay. May. If even one regular-season commissioner’s office. strike zones weren’t used during card include lightweights Alexan- The new agreement gives MLB game is played this season, the In December, the umpires the exhibitions. der Hernandez and Drew Dober, bantamweights Ray Borg and Special feature Ricky Simon, and heavyweights Andrei Arlovski and Philipe Lins. The main event of the nine-bout show on May 16 is Dutch heavy- Appreciating the little things during lockdown weight veteran Alistair Overeem against Walt Harris. They were BY RYAN ZIMMERMAN scheduled to meet in the main For The Associated Press event of a show in Portland, Ore., on April 11. It has been kind of nice to be home, spend Harris (13-7) will fight for the more time with my girls. first time since his 19-year-old In a way, I get to see what it would be like stepdaughter, Aniah Blanchard, to not go to the park every day, to not have to went missing and was later found face Noah Syndergaard, Jacob deGrom, Clay- dead last November in Alabama. ton Kershaw. The May 16 show also includes My body feels unbelievable right now. Not featherweights Edson Barboza having to go through the grind of a season, and Dan Ige, middleweights Eryk but still working out. I kind of envision myself Anders and Krzysztof Jotko, ban- being that way when I’m done playing: Still tamweights Song Yadong and being active and staying in shape but not nec- Marlon Vera, and strawweights essarily doing what we do every single day to Claudia Gadelha and Angela Hill. get ready for a game. White still wants to hold 42 Going the other way, though, being home events in 2020, matching the num- PATRICK SEMANSKY/AP and not being able to even go to the field — ber promised to ESPN and the you don’t realize how much you love it until The Nationals’ Ryan Zimmerman lays on the ground after nearly getting hit by a pitch during UFC’s broadcast partners under it’s gone. Game 3 of the World Series on Oct. 25 against the Houston Astros in Washington. the latest rights deals that are a In that sense, this time has made me realize critical source of revenue for the how lucky I am to play the game. A lot of things could change. But part of the promotion, which was purchased So it’s kind of shown me that I’ll be OK, ei- Ryan Zimmerman is a two-time All-Star infielder reason I decided to come back this year is I by entertainment conglomerate ther way: Whether I continue past 2020 or not, who has played 15 years in the majors, all with wanted to see what it was like to try to defend Endeavor in a heavily leveraged I’ll be great whenever I retire. the Washington Nationals. He holds most of the a World Series title. deal in 2016. I would lean more toward that it shows me team’s career hitting records, and his two hom- That would be pretty cool. The UFC says fighters and I still really enjoy playing the game and com- ers and seven RBIs last postseason helped the Why didn’t I just win and ride off into the their cornermen will be subject peting and putting the work in that it takes to Nationals win their first World Series champion- sunset? The No. 1 answer is I still love this to daily medical screenings and be successful at that level. ship. With baseball on hold because of the coro- and think I can be productive. And being back tests after they arrive at their I already had decided that from here on out, navirus pandemic, Zimmerman occasionally will hotel, and every fighter will be with basically the same group of guys to try I’m just going to do one-year deals. That way I offer his thoughts — as told to AP sports writer provided with an individual work- and do what we did last season again was ap- can assess how I feel, how my body feels, how Howard Fendrich — while waiting for the 2020 out room. Only essential person- pealing to me. I performed and if I’m still capable of contrib- season to begin. nel will be allowed in the arena uting at this level and helping the team win. If we don’t have a season this year, it would on fight night. That’s the top priority. kind of be the same mindset going into next UFC 249 will be headlined by A lot of people were saying, “You could have to be able to see where things stand each year year. lightweight title contenders Tony gone somewhere else and gotten a two-year and go from there. Truth is, other than being a year older, hav- Ferguson and Justin Gaethje. deal.” Things like that. If it turns out there isn’t a 2020 season, and ing a year off wouldn’t be a bad thing for my Bantamweight champion Henry I obviously didn’t want to go anywhere else. I had to decide right now about 2021, I would body — and I wouldn’t be a “year older” in Cejudo also will defend his title And I also didn’t want a multi-year deal. say: Yes, I definitely would plan on playing baseball terms, I guess. It’s not another year against former champ Dominick I’m at the point now where it’s kind of nice next year. of wear and tear, so it kind of doesn’t count. Cruz. 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SOCCER Megan Rapinoe lifts the trophy after the United States won the Women’s World Cup on July 7 in France.

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Women suffer blow Judge tosses unequal pay claim in lawsuit BY ANNE M. PETERSON team receives under tact the Civil Rights Act claims. AND RONALD BLUM its labor deal. They ‘ If you “The history of negotiations between Associated Press asked for more than know this the parties demonstrates that the WNT re- $66 million in dam- team at all jected an offer to be paid under the same federal judge threw out the ages under the Equal pay-to-play structure as the MNT, and the unequal pay claim by players Pay Act and Title VII you know WNT was willing to forgo higher bonuses on the U.S. women’s national of the Civil Rights Act we have a for benefits, such as greater base com- soccer team in a surprising pensation and the guarantee of a higher of 1964. lot of fi ght loss for the defending World In a 32-page decision number of contracted players,” Klausner ACup champions but allowed their allega- wrote. Friday, U.S. District left in us.’ “Accordingly, plaintiffs cannot now ret- tion of discriminatory working conditions Judge R. Gary Klaus- Becky CHARLES REX ARBOGAST/AP roactively deem their CBA worse than the to go to trial. ner granted in part Sauerbrunn MNT CBA by reference to what they would Unites States Soccer Federation Players led by Alex Morgan sued in a motion for partial U.S. defender have made had they been paid under the President Cindy Parlow Cone said she March 2019, claiming they have not been summary judgment by MNT’s pay-to-play terms structure when hopes the women’s lawsuit can be settled paid equally under their collective bargain- the U.S. Soccer Federation. He threw out before it goes to trial. ing agreement to what the men’s national the Equal Pay Act allegations but left in- SEE UNEQUAL ON PAGE 21

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