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DOD Is Asked for 100K Body Bags for Civilians COLLEGE BASKETBALL FACES WAR Austin Carr’s 61-point night Dua Lipa parties US deploys Patriot in 1970 NCAA Tournament with a purpose on missiles to Iraq as still a standout performance sophomore album Iran tensions escalate Back page Page 16 Page 6 Commandant: Marines displaced by force plan will have options » Page 3 Volume 78, No. 250 ©SS 2020 CONTINGENCY EDITION FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 2020 stripes.com Free to Deployed Areas CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK US applications for jobless aid near 10 million in 2-week span BY CHRISTOPHER RUGABER Associated Press WASHINGTON — More than 6.6 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week — doubling a record set just one week earlier — a sign that layoffs are accelerating in the midst of the coronavirus. The stunning report Thurs- day from the Labor Department showed mounting job cuts against the backdrop of economies in the U.S. and abroad that have almost certainly sunk into a severe re- cession as businesses close across the world. Applications for unemployment benefits generally reflect the pace of layoffs. Combined with last week’s report that 3.3 million people sought unemployment aid two weeks ago, the U.S. economy has now suffered nearly 10 mil- JOHN MINCHILLO/AP lion layoffs in the past several weeks — far exceeding the figure A body wrapped in plastic is loaded onto a refrigerated truck Tuesday at Brooklyn Hospital Center in New York. The Federal Emergency for any corresponding period on Management Agency has asked for the Pentagon’s help in securing body bags with deaths expected to soar from COVID-19. record. SEE JOBLESS ON PAGE 9 RELATED Navy working to remove crew from DOD is asked for 100K USS Roosevelt Page 8 Feds: Man wrecked train intentionally body bags for civilians near hospital ship Page 10 BY ANTHONY CAPACCIO AND ARI NATTER Agency has requested 100,000 body bags, spokesman, said in a statement Thursday con- Bloomberg News known as Human Remains Pouches, through firming a Bloomberg News report. an interagency group that directed it to the He said “the Department of Defense and Go online to read WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is seeking Defense Department. the Defense Logistics Agency have a long- to provide as many as 100,000 military-style The Defense Logistics Agency “is currently standing arrangement with FEMA to procure the latest news on body bags for potential civilian use as the U.S. responding to FEMA’s prudent planning ef- key commodities from DLA’s industrial part- the virus outbreak warns that deaths could soar in the coming forts for 100,000 pouches to address mortu- ners during crisis response operations.” weeks from the coronavirus pandemic. ary contingencies on behalf of state health stripes.com/coronavirus The Federal Emergency Management agencies,” Lt. Col. Mike Andrews, a Pentagon SEE CIVILIANS ON PAGE 10 PAGE 2 •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, April 3, 2020 BUSINESS/WEATHER EXCHANGE RATES Judge dismisses pharmacies’ suit against doctors Military rates Switzerland (Franc)............................0.9722 Euro costs (April 3) ............................... $1.07 Thailand (Baht) ..................................... 33.02 Dollar buys (April 3 ...........................€0.8922 Turkey (Lira) .........................................6.6642 British pound (April 3) .........................$1.21 Associated Press (Military exchange rates are those tices, but to the failure of the November, Polster said. Japanese yen (April 3) .......................105.00 available to customers at military banking South Korean won (April 3) ...........1,210.00 companies to implement systems Attorneys for the pharmacy Commercial rates facilities in the country of issuance CLEVELAND — A federal for Japan, South Korea, Germany, the and policies to prevent the illegal chains argued in a filing in Janu- Bahrain (Dinar) ....................................0.3770 judge in Cleveland has dismissed Netherlands and the United Kingdom. For British pound .....................................$1.2369 diversion of painkillers. ary that Polster should reject the nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e., an effort by pharmacy companies Canada (Dollar) ...................................1.4256 purchasing British pounds in Germany), “Plaintiffs’ theory and intend- counties’ claims because phar- China (Yuan) ........................................ 7.0967 to shift their liability for the opi- check with your local military banking Denmark (Krone) ................................6.8806 ed proof do not rely on whether macies can fill only prescriptions facility. Commercial rates are interbank oid crisis to physicians and prac- Egypt (Pound) ....................................15.7498 rates provided for reference when buying titioners in the two Ohio counties prescribers made negligent or written by prescribers authorized Euro ........................................ $1.0852/0.9215 fraudulent representations,” Pol- by the state of Ohio and registered Hong Kong (Dollar) .............................7.7524 currency. All figures are foreign currencies suing them, alleging they created to one dollar, except for the British pound, ster wrote. with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Hungary (Forint) .................................335.40 a public nuisance. Israel (Shekel) .....................................3.6548 which is represented in dollars-to-pound, U.S. District Judge Dan Pol- Adding claims against pre- Administration. Japan (Yen) ........................................... 107.30 and the euro, which is dollars-to-euro.) ster ruled Tuesday that lawsuits scribers would cause a significant “While pharmacists are highly Kuwait (Dinar) .....................................0.3122 INTEREST RATES Norway (Krone) .................................10.4718 filed by Cuyahoga County, which delay in the trial of the counties’ trained and licensed profession- Philippines (Peso).................................50.93 Prime rate ................................................3.25 includes Cleveland, and Summit lawsuits against Walgreens, CVS, als, they did not attend medical Poland (Zloty) ..........................................4.22 Discount rate ..........................................0.25 Saudi Arabia (Riyal) ...........................3.7627 Federal funds market rate ...................0.08 County, which includes Akron, Rite Aid, Discount Drug Mart school and are not trained as phy- Singapore (Dollar) ..............................1.4348 3-month bill .............................................0.09 are not tied to prescribing prac- and HBC, scheduled to begin in sicians,” the attorneys wrote. South Korea (Won) ..........................1,233.24 30-year bond ...........................................1.29 WEATHER OUTLOOK FRIDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST FRIDAY IN EUROPE SATURDAY IN THE PACIFIC Misawa 61/37 Kabul 66/43 Seoul 55/31 Baghdad 84/60 Kandahar 79/55 Osan Tokyo Mildenhall/ Drawsko 55/31 69/49 Lakenheath Pomorskie Busan 51/37 47/32 66/40 Iwakuni 66/43 Kuwait Bahrain Zagan Sasebo City 86/71 Brussels 50/33 Guam 86/67 52/35 Ramstein 63/47 87/78 Lajes, 54/31 Riyadh Doha Azores Stuttgart Pápa 96/65 88/72 62/56 52/37 60/34 Aviano/ Vicenza 61/42 Naples 62/45 Okinawa Morón 69/62 68/49 Sigonella Rota 55/52 The weather is provided by the Djibouti Souda Bay American Forces Network Weather Center, 87/79 66/55 67/59 2nd Weather Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. T O D A Y IN STRIPES American Roundup ..... 15 Comics ...................... 17 Crossword ................. 17 Faces ........................ 16 Opinion ................ 18-19 Sports ...................21-24 Friday, April 3, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 3 MILITARY Pentagon steps up counternarcotics effort BY CAITLIN M. KENNEY “We came upon some intelli- Americans and we will marshal on responding to the coronavirus trafficking by the United States, Stars and Stripes gence some time ago that the drug whatever assets are required to outbreak, Trump said, and Amer- with a $15 million reward for my cartels, as a result of [the corona- prevent your entry into this coun- ica needs to return to stopping the capture, having the U.S. Navy WASHINGTON — The Penta- virus], were going to try to take try to kill Americans,” Milley flow of drugs. conducting anti-drug operations gon has deployed several ships, advantage of the situation and try said. “I don’t think we’re losing off my coast would be some- aircraft and thousands of troops to infiltrate additional drugs into Esper pointed to Venezuelan ground, but we don’t want to lose thing I would worry about,” said to strengthen counternarcotics our country,” Milley said. leader Nicolás Maduro’s govern- ground. That’s why we’re doing it. Sen. Marco Rubio, a Florida Re- operations in the Caribbean Sea Thousands of personnel from ment for using the illicit drug I don’t want to lose ground. It’s a publican who has been among and eastern Pacific Ocean and the Navy, Marines, Air Force, trade to keep hold of its power. big fight,” Trump said. those calling for a tougher stance help prevent drugs from coming Army, and Coast Guard are now “These enhanced counternar- Esper would not say how long against Maduro. into the United States, Defense under the leadership of Adm. cotic operations that are now un- the operation would last, only that Maduro’s communications Secretary Mark Esper announced Craig Faller, the commander of derway will further disrupt the it would be run “for some matter minister, Jorge Rodriguez, called Wednesday. U.S. Southern Command, for the flow of illicit drugs to America, of time.” the deployment a “desperate
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