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Journalist of the Year Keith Bradsher, Hong Kong bureau chief International New York Times ! ! 1. Storm’s trail of destruction (p.2-3) 2. Residents urged to flee crippled city of Tacloban (p.4-5) 3. As relief efforts falter, a political dynasty takes a hit (p.6) 4. Aid slowly arrives for battered Leyte (p.7-8) 5. Nature turns tables on an island of green energy (p.9-10)

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TUESDAY,NOVEMBER 12, 2013 Not seeking love, just great bargains Storm’s trail of destruction

HANGZHOU, CHINA largest online retailer in China, said it had reached its target of 30 billion ren- minbi, or about $5 billion, in sales for the Chinese flood Internet dayvia its online payment system, on lonely-hearts day Alipay. That is two and a half times the total yielded last year by ‘‘Cyber Mon- turned shopping spree day,’’ the biggest e-commerce day of the year in the United States, which comes BY SHANSHAN WANG after the Thanksgiving holidayinlate AND ERIC PFANNER November. Analysts estimate that Alibaba accounts for two-thirds to After moving into anew apartment in three-quarters of total online retail sales this city near Shanghai in August, Yuan in China. Keru, a postgraduate student, and her The promotion was pioneered five boyfriend waited several months to buy years ago by Alibaba, which owns Tmall furnishings for their new home. Finally, and other e-commerce sites, when it on Monday, they splurged. latched on to an existing, unofficial At midnight, Ms. Yuan logged on to Chinese holiday dubbed Singles’ Day. her laptop, clicked on Tmall, an e-com- Forsome yearspreviously,young merce website, and began shopping. Chinese men had been gathering once a She selected a floor lamp, a carpet and year to lament —or raise atoast to — some wallpaper. Herboyfriend picked their single status. They chose Nov. 11 out aset of earphones. Finally,they because it wasthe only day of the year added a cozy touch: his and herscotton when the calendar showedfour 1’s, or slippers for the winter. ‘‘singles.’’ In all, Ms. Yuan spent 1,500 renminbi, In aculture where young women face or nearly $250, beforecalling it anight. considerable pressureto marry by the That, Ms. Yuan said, represented about age of 30 and whereyoung men areex- half a month’s living costs for her. pected to own ahome beforepopping ‘‘We love window-shopping in the lo- the question, this might have seemed cal department store,’’ Ms. Yuan said. likearejection of cultural mores and ‘‘But we have never spent so much consumerism alike. But, likeColumbus money in one day. Never!’’ Day sales in the United States, Singles’ Ms. Yuan and her boyfriend, a 3-D an- Day retains little connection with the imator, were just two people among tens people or events that inspired it. As a of millions of Chinese consumers who red letter day for shoppers, it has spread took to the Internet on Monday for the beyond lonely-hearts to Chinese con- latest edition of an annual one-dayon- sumers of all kinds —single or married, line shopping blowout that has bal- male or female, young or old, urban or looned into the world’s biggest e-com- rural. merce event. ‘‘Chinese people love to shop,’’ said Shortly after 9p.m. here, Alibaba, the Eric Wong, managing director for Greater China at Possible, an e-com- merce strategycompany, in Shanghai. PHOTOGRAPHS BY DENNIS M. SABANGAN/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY ‘‘If you have the right excuse and the The Philippine town of Guiuan on Monday, after the typhoon flattened homes, and roads were strewn with debris and uprooted trees. The death toll was still uncertain on Monday. right occasion, they willspend money. One of the tacticstoget people to buyis CHINA, PAGE 15 TACLOBAN, PHILIPPINES aid convoy to Tacloban had to turn back on Sunday after it stopped at a collapsed CHANGING ENGINE FOR CHINA’S GROWTH bridge and was nearly hijacked by a The service sector is playing an Strong typhoon ravages crowd of hungry people. ‘‘There is very increasing role in the economy as swath of Philippines, little food going in, and what food there China’spopulation growsricher. PAGE 14 was wascaptured’’ by the crowd,Mr. laying bare its woes Gordon said in atelephone interview on PART OF A MAJOR SHIFT IN THE ECONOMY Monday morning. QILAI SHEN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES As China seeks to reorient its economy BY KEITH BRADSHER The storm posed new challenges for Yuan Keru shopping Monday on Tmall to toward individual consumption, the President Benigno S. Aquino III, who help furnish her apartment near Shanghai. buying spree seems to fitin. PAGE 15 Threedays after one of the most power- just two months ago struggled to wrest ful storms ever to buffet the Philippines, back a major city in the south from in- the scale of the devastation and the des- surgents. Mr. Aquino has wonplaudits peration of the survivors were slowly at home and abroad for his fight against coming into view on Monday. corruption during his three and a half Theliving told stories of the dead or years in office, leading to increased for- Same time, same channel? TV the dying —the people swept away in a eign investment and an impressive torrent of seawater,the corpses strewn growth rate. But he must still contend woos children who can’t wait among the wreckage. Photos from the with Muslim separatists in the south hard-hit cityof Tacloban showed vast and with provinces that have long been NEW YORK works’. Their expectations —that every stretches of land swept clean of homes, the domains of regional strongmen, res- episode of every showbe available any- and reports emerged of people who istant to government control. BY BRIAN STELTER time —give a glimpse into the future of were desperate for food and water raid- Now add to that list a storm that looks entertainment and arealready shaping ing aid convoys and stripping the stores to be one of the country’s worst dis- When Eric Nelson’s 6-year-old daugh- the decisions of media executiveswho that were left standing. asters, at a time when emergency funds ter,Charlotte, and 10-year-old son, Asa, are their grandparents’ ages. As Mondaydawned, it became in- have been depleted by aseries of other discover that they cannot rewind or Netflix, Amazon and other streaming creasingly clear that Typhoon Haiyan calamities, most notably a 7.2-mag- fast-forward a TV show, they are per- video services arecompeting fero- had ravaged cities, towns and fishing A survivor and her child aboard a military helicopter flying them to safety on Monday. nitude earthquake that struck the plexed —and their father is, too. It is ciously for children’s programming. villages acrossthe islands of the central The typhoon appeared to have brought a heavy loss of life to cities, towns and villages. middle of the country four weeks ago. hard to explain the limitations of live And networksthat cater to children are Philippines on Friday. By some esti- On Monday, after the reports of wide- television to children who have grown starting to show programs online before mates, at least 10,000 people mayhave spread raiding of stores and robberies up in an on-demand world. they appear on old-fashioned televi- died in Tacloban alone, and with phone the Philippines, lifting awall of water rupt and incompetent governments, are and rising fearsof abreakdown of law ‘‘They say ‘live TV’the way I say ‘do- sion. service out across stretches of the far- onto the land as they struck. By some some of the worstin Southeast Asia and and order, the government said it was ing my taxes’ —with resignation,’’ said ‘‘Kids todaydon’t knowaworld flung archipelago, it was difficult to accounts, the winds reached 190 miles often make traveling long distances a flying more police officers to the region. Mr. Nelson, a literary agent in Manhat- wherethey had to wait for aprogram,’’ know if the storm was as deadly in more an hour. trial. On Monday, clogged with debris Although deadly storms are not un- tan. said Tara Sorensen, the head of original remote areas. As aid crews struggled to reach rav- from splintered buildings and shattered usual in the Philippines, Typhoon Haiy- Charlotte and Asa, likemany chil- programming at Amazon Studios. The culprit increasingly appeared to aged areas, the storm appeared to lay trees, the roads in the storm’s path were an appears to stand apart, both in the fe- dren, perceive all of television to be As Ms. Sorensen’s title indicates, be astorm surge that wasdrivenby bare some of the perennial woes of the worse, slowing rescue teams. rocityof its winds, which some more Netflix than Nickelodeon: on de- Amazon and its rivals are commission- those winds, which were believed to be Philippines. The country’s roads and Richard Gordon, the chairman of the described as sounding like afreight mand and on their schedule, not the net- CHILDREN, PAGE 15 among the strongest ever recorded in airports, long starved of money by cor- Philippine Red Cross, said a Red Cross PHILIPPINES, PAGE 4

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A top leader Typhoon leaves trail of destruction behind of insurgents PHILIPPINES, FROM PAGE 1 train, and in its type of destruction. Most deaths from typhoons in the Philippines is killed arecaused by mudslides and rivers flooding from heavy rains. So when Haiyan sped across the is- in Pakistan lands on Friday, some officials and weather experts in the Philippines LONDON thought they had witnessed something of a miracle. Thestorm that lit up social media for days with dire warnings was Son of Haqqani warlord thought to have mostly spared the is- may have been shot over lands because it did not linger long enough to dump a deluge of rain. dispute with a cousin What they did not factor into their hopeful assessments was a storm surge BY DECLAN WALSH that some reports said reached 13 feet in AND IHSANULLAH TIPU MEHSUD Tacloban, and which left atrail of de- struction that in some ways mirrored A senior leader of the Haqqani network, the aftermath of tsunamis. One photo of one of the most lethal elements of the in- a merchant ship left stranded on land surgencyin Afghanistan, has been resembled images from Japan in 2011, killed on the outskirts of the Pakistani when an earthquake flung a wall of wa- capital, Islamabad, Pakistani militants ter onto its northeastern shore. and Afghan intelligence officials said on Prof. Rick Murray, an oceanographer Monday. with expertise in Asian climate systems Nasiruddin Haqqani, ason of the at Boston University’s department of Afghan warlord Jalaluddin Haqqani and earth and environment, said in an email the group’s chief fund-raiser,was shot that several factors had contributed to and killed by a gunman riding a motor- Haiyan’sdestructiveness, starting with bike outside a bread store on Sunday its intensity. ‘‘Just by looking at the satel- night, the militants said. lite images, the eyeisperfectly formed,’’ In telephone interviews from Pe- he said. ‘‘The storm is tight, nearly per- shawar and the tribal belt, two Haqqani fectly circular, with incredibly high wind network commandersconfirmed that speeds. It is right out of the textbooks.’’ Nasiruddin Haqqani, who was desig- Thelow atmospheric pressureofthe nated by the United States as a ‘‘global storm’s eyehelps pullthe storm surge, terrorist’’ in 2010, had been killed. in which water can rise by dozens of feet ‘‘We have receivedhis body, and the very rapidly, Professor Murray said. funeral has taken place,’’ said Gul Has- ‘‘This is, of course, on top of the wind, on san, a commander in North Waziristan, top of the waves, on top of the normal the main hub of Haqqani network activ- tidal cycle,’’ he said. ‘‘Youhave swollen ity in Pakistan’s tribal belt. rivers from the intense rain, falling at ‘‘The mujahedeen are in shock,’’ said inches per hour. Thebottom line is that Mr. Gul, describing the dead militant as thereisaheck of alot of water arriving ‘‘a devoted brother who had been doing from all directions.’’ jihad against the crusaders.’’ While it wasunclear if the powerof JES AZNAR FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES A Pakistani intelligence official, the storm was tied to climate change, Tacloban airport on Monday. After reports of widespread looting and rising fears of a breakdown of law and order, the government said it would deploy more police officers. speaking on the customary condition of the surge may serve as another remind- anonymity, said that after funeral pray- er to low-lying cities of the need to pre- ersin Miram Shah, the main town in pare for the worst. winds ripped away the roof of their home North Waziristan, Mr. Haqqani was bur- Mr. Aquino had urged residents to Ahistoric storm in Banata, another hard-hit town. ‘‘All we ied in the family graveyard at Danday leave low-lying areas, but he did not or- could do was hide and pray,’’ she said. Darpa Khel —the same village where der an evacuation. On Sunday, he toured Though it has received less attention Hakimullah Mehsud, the leader of the some stricken areas and declared a CHINA than nearbySamar and Leyte, Panay Pakistani Taliban, was killed in an ‘‘state of calamity,’’ a firststep in the re- GUANGXI Tacloban and Palo on Leyte, Island was hit hardby Haiyan. The is- American drone strike on Nov. 1. PROVINCE lease of emergency money from the TAIWAN aboutab 15 miles north of the land’s northeastern coast borethe It is unclear whether the two events government. sttorm track, took the brunt of brunt of the storm’s powerful winds are linked. An Afghan intelligence offi- Hanoi Hong Kong Lynette Lim, a spokeswoman for MYANMAR 185-mile18 -per-hour winds and after it tore through Tacloban. Theoffi- cial, speaking in Kabul, said that prelim- Save the Children, weathered the storm LAOS sttorm surge.Cargo ships in cial death toll in the area is 142, but offi- inary intelligence assessments showed in alocal government office in Tacloban Pacific Ocean Tacloban were torn from cials expect it to rise. that Mr.Haqqani died as a result of a beforeleaving the city on a military air- mooringsm and deposited on the About half a million people in north- family dispute. Path of Typhoon Haiyan craft Sunday morning.She said that Hueuee wreckagew of waterfront eastern Panay were affected by the Atribal leader in the eastern Afghan even schools, gymnasiums and other THAILAND storm and more than 65,000 homes were province of Khost, which is the main Manilala PHILIPPINES buildings.bu Typhoon Haiyan sites that the local government had des- movedm rapidly through the completely destroyed, according to lo- stronghold of the Haqqani tribe, noted ignated as evacuation centers had failed cal officials. Gov. Arthur Defensor Sr. that Nasiruddin Haqqani had a long- PhilippinesPh and then lostpower to hold up against the powerful winds. CAMBODIA told a local radio station that 90 percent running financial dispute with a cousin, Taclobanclclobaoba as it headed for Vietnam. ‘‘The roofs had been ripped off, the VIETNANAMA of all structures on the northeast coast Ishaq, whom he had accused of working windows had shattered, and sometimes had been severely damaged. with Afghan intelligence officials. DETAIL the ceilings had caved in,’’ Ms. Lim said 5005 km South China Sea Across Cebu Province, 43 people were The fact that Mr. Haqqani was killed in a telephone interview from Manila. killed, 111 were injured and five are on the edge of the Pakistani capital was Poor neighborhoods fared especially missing,said Wilson Ramos, the deputy a major embarrassment to the Pakistani badly, with virtually no structures left disaster management officer for Cebu. government, underscoring long-held standing except for a few government MMINMINDORODORD RO Theauthorities were trying to conduct accusations that the Haqqani network buildings. With no police officers in sight CALCA AMIMIANN Pacifc ic Ocean aerial surveys of the area directly hit by operates with ease inside the country, GROR UP on Sunday morning, Ms. Lim said, people SAMAR the storm’s center, particularly the town and not just inside the tribal belt. had begun grabbing food and other items of Daanbantayan and Bantayan Island, ‘‘Another Abottabad? Massive Em- off pharmacy and grocery store shelves. Mr. Ramos said. barrassment,’’ Talat Hussain, asenior Video from Tacloban on ABS-CBN 9:40 amm ‘‘We are very tired already,’’ he said in television journalist, said on Twitter, re- Path of TaT clobacloban television showed scores of people en- 3p.m. Sat. the province’s disaster offices. ‘‘But we ferring to the embarrassment caused by tering stores and stuffing suitcases and Typhoon Haaiyiyan Sat. PANAY Guiuan hope to send relief to those affected.’’ the American commando assault that South China Paalo bags with clothing and housewares. One Sea Residentsof Cebu, one of the coun- killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Ormocmo Lannnddffaall photo showedaman holding agun pro- LEYEYTE try’s largest cities, said manyroads to near Islamabad, in May 2011. Maanndaueda 4:30aa.m.m Saat. tecting his store. Catteeggory 5Typhoonn the north of Cebu Island were still The Haqqani network is one of the PALAWAN CeCebebu News reports from Tacloban told of WinWindspeeddspdspeedspeeded 181 5m.pp.h. closed after towns there suffered heavy most prominent elements of the Afghan Approximate pathof CEBCCEBUEBU officials’ being unable to get an accurate Tropical Storm Thelma 1991 BOHOLL damage, although the city wasspared insurgency, with a track recordofwell- death count because law enforcement NEN GROS the brunt of the storm. organized operations on high-profile and government personnel could not be PHHILIPPINES ‘‘It was very loud, likeatrain,’’ said targets. It has launched coordinated as- found after the storm. 150 km Ranulfo L. Manatad, a night watchman saults on government ministries and The weakened typhoon made landfall at astreet market in Mandaue City, on five-star hotels in central Kabul, Ameri- early Mondayin Vietnam; hundreds of the northern outskirts of Cebu. can bases near the border with Paki- thousands of people there had been In Mabolo, another town on the north- stan, and Indian diplomatic facilities. evacuated as the storm approached, but Hagel, ordered the deployment of ships ine spokesman, the team has made re- were beginning to reach the Tacloban ern flank of Cebu, the winds toppled a lo- The group has come under strain this therewereno reports of significant and aircraft to deliversupplies and help quests for C-130 cargoairplanes, MV-22 airport, they could go no farther be- cally famous tree with a trunk roughly a year amid reports of discontent and even damage or injuries, according to The in the search-and-rescue efforts, the De- Osprey helicopters and other aircraft to cause debris was blocking the roads in yard in diameter. The tree had withstood resentment inside its tribal support base Associated Press. Haiyan was down- fense Department said. participate in search and recovery at the area. every typhoon for more than a century. in the mountains of Paktika and Khost graded to atropical storm as it entered On Sunday, about 90 American Mar- sea. The Navy has also sent two P-3Or- ‘‘Theentire airport was under water Provinces in eastern Afghanistan. southern China, The A.P. said. ines and sailors based in Okinawa,Ja- ion surveillance planes, which areoften up to roof level,’’ Mr. Roxas said, accord- Reporting was contributed by Gerry International aid agencies and for- pan, landed in the Philippines as part of used during natural disasterstopatrol ing to the Philippine Daily Inquirer. Mullany from Hong Kong; Floyd Declan Walsh reported from London, eign governments sent emergency an advance team assessing the disaster the seas in search of survivors stranded On Panay Island, Mary Ann Baitan, 42, Whaley from Iloilo, Philippines; Austin and Ihsanullah Tipu Mehsud from Is- teams to the Philippines. At the request to determine what the Pentagon might in ships and boats. said she cowered with her two daughters, Ramzy from Cebu, Philippines; Mark lamabad. Farooq Jan Mangal contrib- of the Philippine government, the need to help in relief efforts. Mar Roxas, the Philippine interior ages 6 and 10, under a bamboo table for Mazzetti from Washington; and Alan uted reporting from Khost, Afghanistan, United States defense secretary, Chuck According to Col. Brad Bartlet, a Mar- minister, said that while relief supplies more than two hours, singing to them as Feuer from New York. and Salman Masood from Islamabad. Danger persists for reporters in Pakistan, despite vow to protect them

ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN wise intimidated because of their work. Ms. Yousafzai, who survived her in- The men questioned him about his A spokesman for the Pakistani Army Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate Part of the problem is that the attack- juries, has gone on to become aglobal work and accused him of being atraitor denied that the military was involved in spy agency for his death. BY SALMAN MASOOD erscome from every side. It is not just celebrity. She recently met with Presi- to Pakistan and an American spy. Mr. Mr. Haq’s abduction or in the case of The military denied the accusations, insurgents and criminals who aretar- dent Obama and Queen Elizabeth II, Haq insisted he wasworking only as a Muhammad Zaib Mansoor, ajournalist and the government ordered a judicial The killers were waiting for Ayub Khat- geting reporters, but also, most and was nominated for the Nobel Peace journalist, but the men accused him of who was reported missing on Oct. 18 inquiry into the controversy, but it failed tak, a small-town reporter in northwest- chillingly, operatives from Pakistan’s ci- Prize. But at home, the spotlight on her lying, periodically beating him with their from Malakand District, near Swat, by to identify the culprits and was widely ern Pakistan, as he returned to his vilian and military intelligence agen- case has angered both the Taliban and fists and a leather whip, leaving exten- Reporters Without Borders, an ad- viewed as a whitewash. house one evening in October.They cies. Human rights groups say the secu- the Pakistani authorities. sive bruising on his torso, head and legs. vocacy group. ‘‘We see them still active,’’ said Mr. gunned him down just outside his door. rityservices have along recordof At first, the Taliban criticized several They also kicked him between the legs. ‘‘None of these people were either Dietz, referring to the intelligence ser- Mr. Khattak, who worked for a small violence and impunity, and that has con- Western news outlets, including Reu- Mr. Haq’s abductorsreleased him at picked up or detained by the military au- vices. local paper and Jang, Pakistan’s biggest tinued unabated. ters and the BBC, for their coverage of dawn the following morning,dropping thorities,’’ the spokesman said. The ‘‘ground zero’’ for attacks on news daily, died instantly. His assailants ‘‘Things are getting worse,’’ said Bob her case, forcing some correspondents him on the roadside in Mingora, and journalists, Mr.Dietz said, is in western sped away on a motorbike, unmolested. Dietz, Asia coordinator for the Commit- to temporarily leave Pakistan. There warning him to tell no one of his experi- ‘‘I am a patriotic Pakistani. I Baluchistan, where several dozen jour- And acrossthe rest of Pakistan, small tee to Protect Journalists. ‘‘Journalists has also been speculation that the secu- ence. have done nothing wrong. I nalists have been killed in recent years. protests by journalists quickly fizzled arevulnerable to pressure from all rity forces, which have effectively run His abductors showed detailed knowl- But, he added, the dangers are out. sides.’’ the Swat region since 2009,have also edge of New York Times reporting ac- kept asking them that they heightened by the fact that some jour- In Pakistan, one of the world’s most The most perilous reporting beats are been unhappy about the attention. tivities in Pakistan, and repeatedly should tell me my mistake.’’ nalists arealso activists for the nation- dangerous countries for journalists, the in conflict-affected provinces likeKhy- Sana ul Haq, a freelance journalist in asked about and referred to Declan alist cause. ‘‘Thereis growing discus- death of areporter sometimes barely ber-Pakhtunkhwa, where Mr. Khattak Swat, said he was abducted, interrogated Walsh, the newspaper’s bureau chief for sion on who is a journalist in makes the news. And despite promises worked, or Baluchistan, where a nation- and beaten for 11 hours on Oct. 14 by men Pakistan, who was expelled from the Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s gov- Baluchistan,’’ Mr. Dietz said. by a new government in recent months alist insurgency has been raging. But he believed were intelligence officials. country in Maywith no explanation and ernment said it was interested in protect- In Karachi, however, the greatest that protecting journalists is vital, the not always: Attacks on reportersare He said the men had made it clear that has remained blocked from returning. ing journalists. On Oct. 8, the information danger comes from political parties. problem has continued, and even inten- also rising in Karachi, the country’s his offense had been helping two New The ordeal left Mr. Haq with exten- minister, Pervaiz Rashid, said he would Wali Babar,areporter for the GEO sified. largest city, experts say. York Times reporters gauge local reac- sive bruising and some back injuries, support a proposed United Nations in- News network, wasgunned down in So far this year,five journalists have Pakistani reporters who work with tion to the news of Ms.Yousafzai’s Nobel and he said he felt newly vulnerable. vestigation into attacks on journalists. traffictherein2011. Apolice report said been killed on the job; an additional 44 Western news organizations face par- Prize nomination just days before. Last week he receivedtwo anonymous But attackson journalists have sel- he was killed by the Muttahida Qaumi have been killed in the past decade, ac- ticular dangers —especially when cov- Mr. Haqsaid the men grabbed him as phone calls, warning him to stop his dom been solved, and justice has been Movement, a political party that domi- cording to the Committee to Protect ering sensitive stories that reflect he was walking home around 7 p.m., then freelance work for The Times. elusive. nates the city. Journalists, alobbying group based in poorly on the security services. That blindfolded him and drove him away in ‘‘I am still confused about what In 2011, Syed Saleem Shahzad, a re- Theparty has denied the accusation, NewYork. And the effect beyond the has included the aftermath of the attack an unmarked Jeep. He wastaken to alo- happened,’’ Mr.Haq said, recalling his porter,was abducted from central Is- and police investigations into the case deadly cases is both wide and deep: on Malala Yousafzai, the teenage educa- cation about 30 minutes away wherehe ordeal. ‘‘I am a patriotic Pakistani. I have lamabad and killed hours later under have seemingly gone nowhere. Several Countlessother reportersinPakistan tion activist who was shot by the Taliban was questioned for about 10 hoursby done nothing wrong. Ikept asking them mysterious circumstances. At the time, witnesses and investigatorsin the case have been kidnapped, beaten or other- in the northwestern Swat Valley in 2012. three men, two of whom were masked. that they should tell me my mistake.’’ many journalists blamed the military’s have been killed. HUGE LEGACY THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN APPS THAT ADD UP FINAL TEST FOR BALANCING IRAN TALKS DISGUISING MATH PRIDE OF INDIA WITH WIDER U.S. GOALS IN GAMEPLAY PAGE 12 | SPORTS PAGE 9 | OPINION PAGE 18 | BUSINESS ASIA WITH

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THURSDAY,NOVEMBER 14,2013 China’s vow Residents gets a tepid urged to flee reception crippled city in Asia of Tacloban

HONG KONG TACLOBAN, THE PHILIPPINES Leaders’ talk of markets Mayor says survivors underwhelms investors are better off with family looking for specifics elsewhere in Philippines

BY BETTINA WASSENER BY KEITH BRADSHER The Asian business community’s initial Themayor of this typhoon-ravaged city reaction Wednesday to a highly antici- urged residents on Wednesday after- pated pronouncement of China’s Com- noon to flee to other cities and find shel- munist Party leaders on how to over- ter therewith relativesif they could, haul China’s economy: ‘‘long on goals saying that the local authorities were and short on details’’; ‘‘broad- struggling to provide enough food and brushed’’; and falling ‘‘some way water and faced difficulties in maintain- short’’ of expectations. ing law and order. President Xi Jinping of China The appeal from Mayor Alfred S. Ro- emerged late Tuesday after the four-day mualdez came as the first attempt in closed-door meeting of partyleaders Tacloban to conduct a mass burial ended with amandate to give markets a ‘‘de- in failure. Apolice convoy of truckscar- cisive role’’ in the world’s second- rying morethan 200 rotting corpses largest economy, and for reaching ‘‘de- turned back after the officers heard gun- cisive outcomes’’ for overhauls by 2020. shots as they approached the city limits. China also plans anew top-level work- Covered with black plastic tarpaulin, ing group tasked with pushing through the bodies were returned to a gathering changes. place at the foot of the hill topped by City The seemingly investor-friendly talk Hall,wherethey released apowerful failed to impress. TheShanghai com- odor. posite index finished 1.8 percent lower, Mr.Romualdez said the citydesper- and in Hong Kong,where many main- ately needed trucks and drivers to dis- land companies are listed, the Hang JES AZNAR FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES tribute relief shipments of food that are Seng index fell 1.9 percent. Typhoon victims boarded a plane to leave the Philippine city of Tacloban. Just assessing the extent of the damage is still a challenge, said an official from one humanitarian group. piling up at the airport, as well as more Many of the Chinese leadership’s trucks, heavy equipment and personnel broad priorities —raising incomes for to pull decaying corpses out of the un- China’s 1.3 billion inhabitants, for ex- ending mounds of debris and collapsed ample —had already been widely tele- houses that stretch across this city. graphed in speeches and editorials over ‘‘I have to decide at every meeting the past year and had been welcomed U.S. to offer reward in wildlife trafficking fight which is more important, relief goods or by analysts who say China urgently picking up cadavers,’’ he said. needs to overhaul its outdated economic BANGKOK poverished and authoritarian Southeast Asked specifically about rhino horns Mr. Romualdez denied persistent ru- growth model. Asian country whose government, in- The $1 million reward targets sent from South Africa and addressed to mors of gunfights among the increas- a syndicate based in Laos. As aresult, a summary of the leader- BY THOMAS FULLER vestigators say, has been uncooperative him personally —evidence that was ingly hungry and thirsty population, ship’sdeliberations were largely areit- in stopping a thriving trade of African presented in a trial that concluded last saying that businessowners and others eration, leaving analysts hungry for Taking a page from the battle against in- ivory,rhino horns, tiger bones and en- Investigators saythe Laotian syndic- year in South Africa —Mr. Vixayac- were firing only warning shots. ‘‘That’s more details of howand when the ternational drug cartels, the United dangered animals harvested by the ate is headed by a Laotian businessman, knowledged that he had received them. why sometimes you hear gunshots, but changes would occur. States was due to announce on Wednes- thousands from Asian jungles. Vixay Keosavang,who wasthe subject ‘‘I admit that Iaccepted them in good it is to ward off looting,’’ he said. ‘‘There’s a fair bit of disappoint- day a$1 million reward for information In adraft statement, Secretary of of an investigative report in The New faith,’’ he said, adding that Laotian offi- He did not offer anymunicipal assist- ment,’’ said Chris Weston, chief market to help dismantle one of Asia’s largest State John Kerry described the syndic- York Times in March. cials were aware of the shipments. But, ance to those seeking to leave the city, strategist at IG in Melbourne, Australia. wildlife trafficking syndicates. ate, the Xaysavang Network, as ‘‘one of Reached on his cellphone on Wednes- he added, ‘‘I never ordered them.’’ noting that the cityhad virtually no The new 2020 deadline for reaching ‘‘de- In what officials said was the first the most prolific wildlife trafficking syn- day, Mr. Vixay said he was being framed. Bouaxam Inthalangsi, an official at working vehicles. The local fleet of light cisive outcomes’’ provided auseful time such a reward had been offered, dicates in operation,’’ with affiliates in ‘‘There are people slandering me,’’ he the Laotian Ministry of Agriculture and buses and group taxis in Tacloban, a city timeframe by which to expect progress, the State Department said it was target- China, Malaysia, Mozambique, South said. ‘‘If you want to know the truth, you Forestry, said by telephone on Wednes- of 220,000 before the typhoon, was de- he said, but ‘‘people were expecting a ing a syndicate based in Laos, the im- Africa, Thailand and Vietnam. should ask Lao officials.’’ TRAFFICKING, PAGE 3 stroyed by the storm surge. TheUnited bit more.’’ The market, he added, States and the Philippines have been of- wanted ‘‘moremeat to sink its teeth in- fering some seats on planes leaving to.’’ after dropping off relief supplies. Fred Hu,founder of Primavera Capit- Jerry Sambo Yaokasin, the second- al, and a former chairman for greater ranking official in the municipal govern- China at Goldman Sachs, is optimistic Cash donations to Syria rebels ment, said in an interview that Philip- about China’s prospects. But he cau- pine soldiers and police officers may be tioned at an investor forum in Hong become wild-card factor in war stretched too thin to provide securityin Kong on Wednesday: ‘‘Obviously this Tacloban even as they try to reach other political commitment to afree market AL SUBAYHIYAH, KUWAIT money to equip 12,000 rebel fightersfor coastal communities to assess damage. economy has yet to be translated into $2,500 each. Another campaign, run by a He suggested that foreign forces may be concrete measures —the laws, regula- BY BEN HUBBARD Saudi sheikh based in Syria and close to needed, including to provide security tions or policies remain to be seen.’’ Al Qaeda, is called ‘‘Wage Jihad With for gas stations to reopen. The initial communiqué from the The money flows in via bank transfer or Your Money.’’ Donors earn ‘‘silver ‘‘If the United States will come in, if it leadership conference was never ex- is delivered in bags or pockets bulging status’’ by giving $175 for 50 sniper bul- will be allowed to come, or if the United pected to layout in specific detail the with cash. Working from his sparely fur- lets, or ‘‘gold status’’ by giving twice as Nations cancome in, it willreally help complicated puzzle of changes that are nished sitting room here, Ghanim al- much for eight mortar rounds. us secure the city,’’ he said. needed to put the Chinese economyon Mteiri gathers the funds and transports ‘‘Once upon a time we cooperated PHILIPPINES, PAGE 4 the path to more balanced and sustain- them to Syria for the rebels fighting with the Americans in Iraq,’’ said Mr. able growth. This left analysts reading President Bashar al-Assad. Mteiri, a former soldier in the Kuwaiti AS LIVING GET AID, BODIES LIE UNCOLLECTED the runes of the communiqué’s precise Mr. Mteiri —one of dozens of Kuwait- Army, recalling the American role in The Philippine authorities have been wordings, and continued the longstand- is who openly raise money to arm the pushing Iraq out of Kuwait in 1991. ‘‘Now criticized for the unburied corpses, but CHINA, PAGE 15 opposition —has helped turn this tiny, we want to get Bashar out of Syria, so experts saythey pose no danger. PAGE 4 oil-rich Gulf state into avirtual Western why not cooperate with Al Qaeda?’’ REUTERS BREAKINGVIEWS Union outlet for Syria’srebels, with the Outside support for the warring THE INEQUALITY OF CLIMATE CHANGE The pronouncements coming out of the BRYAN DENTON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES bulk of the funds he collects going to a parties in Syria has helped sustain the Typhoon Haiyan underscored a cruel meeting of Chinese leaders were vague, A sign posted in Kuwait City pointing the way to the home of Sheikh Shafi al-Ajmi, who Syrian affiliate of Al Qaeda. conflict and transformed it into a proxy truth about climate change: It will hit which mayhavebeen the point. PAGE 18 is raising funds for Islamist rebel groups fighting President Bashar al-Assad in Syria. One Kuwait-based effort raised KUWAIT, PAGE 7 the world’s poorest the hardest. PAGE 4

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As living get needed aid, corpses lie uncollected Authorities are criticized, but experts say bodies not carrying lethal germs

BY RICK GLADSTONE Thecorpses of Typhoon Haiyan, which have been part of the ravaged landscape of the central Philippines for days and nauseated survivors as they walk past, are among the stark images from the disaster that struck last week. But med- ical experts say the unburied dead are not a significant public health hazard. Although the smellof rotting remains can be overwhelming,and many survi- vors have criticized the Philippine au- thorities for not doing more to urgently collect them, the dead in this disaster were not considered carriers of germs that can infect the living. While they can become a problem if they contaminate drinking water supplies, that risk is con- sidered low at best in the typhoon catas- trophe zone, where relief workersare providing imported water anyway. ‘‘The widespread belief that corpses pose a risk of communicable disease is wrong,’’ the World Health Organization says in a guide to disposal of the dead on its website. ‘‘Especially if death resulted from trauma, bodies are quite unlikely to cause outbreaks of diseases such as typhoid fever, cholera or plague.’’ Compared with the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami in Indonesia, wheremore than 250,000 people died, and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, which disputed ac- counts saykilled between 158,000 and JAY ROMMEL LABRA/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY 316,000, the tollofthe Philippine calam- A family on the island of Bantayan in the Philippines tried Wednesday to use a ceiling fan attached to a tree to generate electricity. ‘‘We’ve got a lot of people without the basics, and it is quite a confusing picture,’’ one aid worker said. itycould turn out to be relatively low. Yet likeother mass-casualtyemergen- cies, particularly in tropical climates where bodies decompose rapidly, the smelland sight of the dead is traumatic, particularly to relatives and friends. Residents urged to flee Philippine city Health officials saythat is the primary reason to deal with the dead ur- gently. PHILIPPINES, FROM PAGE 1 ‘‘The dead should never be left vis- The Philippines wasaSpanish pos- ible. Youcollect them, and that’s part of session and then an American posses- In the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan dignity and respect,’’ said Robert A. sion, and any suggestion that it needs to Jensen, the chief executive of Kenyon As international aid groups and governments struggled to help the tens of thousands of people left without food or shelter,the president of PHILIPPINELIPPINES rely on foreign forces can be an emo- the Philippines said the death toll from Typhoon Haiyan may be lower than the 10,000 previously estimated. International Emergency Services, a tional issue here. Mr. Romualdez dis- Maanila Houston-based provider of disaster- agreed with Mr. Yaokasin on the need management help and an authority on for security forces from outside the Phil- management of mass fatalities. ippines. ‘‘Right now, that won’t be nec- David Olson, the deputymedical di- essary,’’ he said. rector at Doctors Without Borders, the BUSUANGA Calalbayogb Service station owners are refusing to SAMAR Paris-based medical emergency organi- start pumping fuel from their under- Areaa ofo ded tailtai zation, said its teams of doctorsnow de- ground storage tanks for fear that they Catbalbalogano ployed in the Philippines were worried will be robbed by desperate people, Mr. Visayan Roxas Yaokasin and Mr. Romualdez said. The Path of Sea ‘‘In this case, the living is result has been the virtually complete Typhoon Haiyan the priority.’’ disappearance of gasoline and diesel at 3p.mm. Taaccloban any price, immobilizing aid vehicles and 9:40 a.m. private cars alike. Scavengers have PANAY LEYTE about the emotional impact of the vis- already combed over the large numbers ible dead on their patients but were Cadiz Guiuan of vehicles crushed, overturned or oth- Sulu Sea OrmocOrmo more concerned about treating the liv- erwise damaged during the typhoon, si- Sagay ing. phoning fuel from them. Iloilo 4:30 a.m. ‘‘The pathogens in the dead either die Darker gray areas showhigher Bacolod Ample gasoline and diesel reserves CEBU Friday in the body or arenot passed from per- remain in the city, but officials must find population density local time son to person,’’ Dr. Olson said. Disposal a way to provide security for their distri- of the bodies, he added, ‘‘is made apri- 80 km Cebu bution, Mr. Yaokasin said. ority because it seems likethe right Valerie Amos, the top United Nations thing to do —just to lessen the horror of relief official, held a public meeting with Busuanga The United Cadiz Cityy About 5,000 Alangalangg Eight people were Tacloban The city Guiuan Early Tuesday, what’s just happened.’’ Mr. Romualdez at a building next to City Nations reported severe houses and nearly all corn and crushed to death on Tuesday administrator said 90 percent Philippine authorities delivered As of Tuesday, it remained unclear Hall and promised international assist- damage to housing and public sugar crops were destroyed in when awall collapsed as of the city had been destroyed aid to the area, which had been howthe organized collection of victims ance. But she said the United Nations infrastructure,and said food the storm. The nearby city of thousands of people stormed a and only 20 percent of without water or electricity from the typhoon, which areestimated desperately needed service stations to and water would run out in Sagay was also severely government rice warehouse residents were receiving aid; since Friday.Nearly all of the to number anywhere from 2,000 to more open to operate trucks here. two days. damaged. about 25 km westofTacloban. looting was widespread. municipality’s50,000 residents than 10,000, would be handled and docu- Mr. Romualdez told her that the city are homeless. mented throughout the country. Ac- could not easily cope with the influx of Sources: United Nations, Philippine Information Agency, CNN, Reuters cording to the World Health Organiza- aid workers, as practically no vehicles or tion guide, however, it is inadvisable to fuel is available to bring them in from the conduct rushed burials or cremations. airport, while food and drinking water pacityof the private sector to bring in deaths have been confirmed in Tacloban swept out to sea and drowned. Arie Levy, math had lined up for injections. Many ‘‘This does not allowfor the correct are running out. ‘‘I’m asking those who food. Because grocery stores have been because local officials say they are the president of Sauveteurs Sans Fronti- streets here are so clogged with debris identification and recordtaking of the come here, ‘Please be self-sufficient, be- heavily looted and continue to be looted, counting only bodies that they have col- ères, aFrench nonprofit group, said that that pedestrians must walk carefully details of the dead,’’ the guide states. cause there’s nothing,’ ’’ he said. surviving storeowners arerefusing to lected or formally recorded. he had visited a village a mile beyond the overpiles of boards and other construc- ‘‘Nor does it give time for the bereaved Ms. Amos is in Tacloban to coordinate bring in new inventory and reopen their But Mr. Yaokasin said that the leader city limits of Tacloban on Wednesday tion materials with protruding nails. to carry out the ceremonial and cultural the United Nations efforts in the coun- stores, Mr. Yaokasin said. of asingle Tacloban neighborhood of morning and estimated that there were Many children have begun showing up practices, which would normally occur try, and on Tuesday she made an appeal ‘‘The police visibility has to be there to 4,000 people had notified him that 1,000 roughly 1,000 bodies visible there. at the group’s field hospital with fevers after a death.’’ for more than $300 million to meet the the point that businesses feel the securi- residents had died. Disease is the next concern. Mr. Levy and diarrhea as well, probably from Dr.Emmanuel M. Bueno, asurgeon country’s projected needs over six ty to open their businesses,’’ he said. Jennifer Cicco, the Leyte Island ad- said his group had run through its entire drinking contaminated water, he said. who is amedical center director in Ma- months. The true death tollfrom the typhoon ministrator of the Philippines Red Cross, supply of tetanus vaccine from France in nila for the Philippine Department of Many grocery store ownersdied dur- is amystery. ThePhilippine govern- said that thousands of people were miss- just two days, as crowdsof people with Austin Ramzy reported from Cebu and Health and is helping to oversee medic- ing the storm, disabling much of the ca- ment put the official tollat2,275. Few ing and were presumed to have been lacerations from the typhoon or its after- Gerry Mullany from Hong Kong. al care in the devastated cityof Taclob- an, said in an interview that the author- ities thereplanned to dig three mass graves on Wednesday, putting layers of bodies side by side with a plastic tar- paulin sprinkled with lime on top of each Poorest nations are put more at risk by climate change layer. ‘‘We willgive them at least ade- cent burial, with ablessing by apriest,’’ BY ANNIE LOWREY The reason is twofold. First is the geog- idents are being pushed to the edges of has a plan for evacuation are critical to Nations like Bangladesh, Palau and he said. raphyofclimate change itself.The high- livable land and into the most danger- preserving life and property. Right after the Philippines have all made the case. The police and other personnel have Typhoon Haiyan has left thousands er the latitude, the bigger the tempera- ous zones for climate change. Their in- a storm, highways, search-and-rescue ‘‘Each destructive typhoon season lacked even enough glovesto pick up dead and hundreds of thousands home- ture increase. And generally,the farther formal settlements cling to riverbanks teams, helicopters, tractors, firefighters, costs us 2percent of our G.D.P., and the the bodies, but more gloves and other less in the Philippines. And it has once from the equator, the wealthier the coun- and cluster in low-lying areas with poor hospitals and surgeons become critical reconstruction costs a further 2 percent, supplies are coming, Dr. Bueno added. again underscored for manydevelop- try —meaning rich countries like Nor- drainage, few public services, and no for doing the same. Afterward, insur- which means we lose nearly 5 percent of Mr. Jensen, who worked on disasters ment experts a cruel truth about climate way and Canada might see a dispropor- protection from storm surges, sea-level ance, savings and a well-financed gov- our economyevery year to storms,’’ including the 2001 World Trade Center change: It willhit the world’s poorest tionate impact from global warming. rise, and flooding.’’ ernment response become necessary for said a Filipino climate negotiator last attack as well as the Indonesian the hardest. But poorer, lower-latitude regions are ‘‘These communities —the poor in rebuilding livesand cities. When it year. ‘‘We have not seen any money tsunami and Haiti earthquake, said the ‘‘No nation will be immune to the im- expected to face desertification and coastal cities and on low-lying islands — comes to such disasters, money matters. from the rich countries to help us to ad- decaying corpses on the streets of Tac- pacts of climate change,’’ said amajor more intense storms. The increase in the are among the world’s most vulnerable The same goes for many other phe- apt.’’ loban and elsewherewere not surpris- World Bank report on the issue last sea level might be 15 percent to 20 per- to climate change and the least able to nomena related to climate change Without a global pact to stop warming ing to him, given all the other immediate year. ‘‘However, the distribution of im- cent higher in the tropics than the global marshal the resources to adapt, a new caused by human activity. If agiven and an overarching plan to mitigate its needs confronting the survivors. ‘‘In pacts is likely to be inherently unequal average, meaning flooding for coastal report finds. They face a world where area is getting drier and hotter, asub- effects, the concern for development ex- this case, the living is the priority —wa- and tilted against manyofthe world’s cities in regions like southern Asia. climate change willincreasingly sistence farmer is going to face greater perts is that extreme weather might ter, shelter, restoration of services,’’ he poorest regions, which have the least Droughts are also expected to in- threaten the food supplies of sub-Saha- struggles than a diversified agricultural stall or even erase years of progress for said. economic, institutional, scientific and crease significantly in lower-latitude ran Africa and the farm fields and water conglomerate. A shrinking water sup- the developing world. Nonetheless, he said, the authorities technical capacity to cope and adapt.’’ areas, including Africa and the Middle resources of South Asia and Southeast ply might be harder for Pakistan to ‘‘Poverty reduction and climate there will have to find an efficient way That is the firmly established view of East. TheUnited States and Australia Asia within the next three decades, manage than California. The same change arelinked,’’ said Dr. Jim Yong not only to collect the dead but to identi- numerous national governments, devel- might also be hard hit. while extreme weather puts their might be true for rising oceans. Kim, the president of the World Bank, in fy the bodies so relatives canreclaim opment and aid groups, and the United Moreover, in many countries, the vul- homes and lives at risk.’’ Forthat reason, many poorer coun- a commentary this year.‘‘We have them, even if the bodies are buried, so Nations as well. ‘‘It is the poorest of the nerable poor might cluster in areas The second, more significant reason tries hold rich countries likethe United powerful new evidence that even if cli- their loved ones can at least know that poor in the world, and this includes poor where climate change might have a dis- is that the poorer the country, the States responsible for climate change, mate change falls short of the much-dis- the bodies had not been left abandoned. people even in prosperous societies, proportionate impact, likeflood zones harder it might be for it to respond to a and want them to help pay for its effects. cussed 4-degree Celsius (7 Fahrenheit) ‘‘What’s important is a dignified buri- who are going to be the worsthit,’’ said and dry rural areas. Here’s the World changing climate. Carbon emissions, for instance, are cor- warmer world, we could witness the al,’’ he said. Rajenda Pachauri of the Intergovern- Bank on the topic earlier this year: Take the example of a typhoon. Before related with income. ThePhilippines rolling back of decades of development mental Panel on Climate Change, speak- ‘‘As the coastal cities of Africa and a storm hits, building sturdy, secure emits 0.9 metric tons of carbon per cap- gains and force tens of millions moreto Keith Bradsher contributed reporting ing to reporters in Brussels back in 2007. Asia expand, many of their poorest res- houses and ensuring that a population ita. The United States emits 17.6. live in poverty.’’ from Tacloban, the Philippines. .. INTERNATIONAL NEW YORK TIMES SATURDAY-SUNDAY,NOVEMBER 16-17, 2013 | 5 asia world news

As relief efforts falter, a political dynasty takes a hit

TACLOBAN, THE PHILIPPINES winds nearly twice that fast, based on satellite estimates, and gusts that were even more powerful. Though revered in area, ‘‘How do youpreparefor asuper- family of Imelda Marcos typhoon likethat, when you don’t have the structures?’’ he asked. risks taking blame Mr. Romualdez said that he had not been able to speak to his aunt since the BY KEITH BRADSHER typhoon, partly because he was too busy but also because his cellphone was Look around this once-gracious city by washed away when the storm destroyed a horseshoe-shape bay, and it is still pos- his house. But a niece, who insisted on sible to imagine it before the mass anonymity because she was not author- deaths and devastation of the Nov. 8 ized to speak for the family, said other typhoon, when it wasajewel of the Pa- family members were sheltering Mrs. cific, thanks in good part to alocal girl Marcos from the worst of the news as who became aglobal celebrity: Imelda she recovered from an infection. R. Marcos, the flamboyant former first ‘‘She just knows that astrong lady of the Philippines. typhoon hit, but she’s not being told the Spaced along the main coastal road extent of the damage,’’ the niece said. areSt. Niño’s Shrine, an elegant man- ‘‘Thefamily is concerned that she will sion that once held Mrs. Marcos’s in- find a wayto go there if she finds out famous shoe collection; a stately white what happened. She cannot be stopped community hallfit for a much larger —they can’t control her.’’ city; and the pink St. Niño’s Church. All Mrs. Marcos, who is nowamember of were built or restored at lavish expense Congress for a different region, is some- when Ferdinand E. Marcos ruled the times viewed with bemusement by her country from 1966 to 1986. fellow countrymen. In 2006, she started Mrs. Marcos’sfamily, the Romualdez a jewelry line made of trash and recycled clan, has dominated local politics for gen- goods, one of several pursuits to be erations. She held a congressional seat mocked by the Philippine news media. for the province in the 1990s, one of her Still, her family’s continued influence nephews is the mayorof Tacloban, and could pose a political complication here. another is a congressman in the region. Thepolitical party of the Romualdez So as Tacloban residents fume over and Marcos families has faded at the na- the widespread initial failure of relief ef- tional level and is now aminor player. forts to provide food, water, medical Mr.Romualdez declined to comment on treatment or even security, some of the whether differences between him and blame is falling on afamily that many President Benigno S. Aquino III of the here have long revered. Liberal Party had hurt relief efforts. Thedebate over who is responsible (Mr. Aquino’s mother,Corazon C. wasinfullswing on Thursdayatabus Aquino, became president when Mr. shelter outside St. Niño’s Shrine, which Marcos wasdriven from power after lost the collection of shoes that symbol- her followers say he stole the election.) ized Mrs. Marcos’s opulent lifestyle to a TYLER HICKS/THE NEW YORK TIMES Mr.Romualdez said he believed relief museum in Manila but stilldisplays her A man sitting in the staff quarters adjacent to St. Niño’s Shrine, built during Ferdinand Marcos’s rule. Unlike many structures in the Philippine city of Tacloban, it survived the typhoon. efforts would have gone better if the na- private collection of ancient vases. tional government had sent 2,000 troops As atropical downpour began to turn at the start instead of 1,000. Ricky Caran- roads clogged with debris into ankle- water —unlike otherswhere people extension, the Romualdez clan. family out to sea. Thefamily members cause they are not taking care of us.’’ dang, a presidential spokesman, denied deep lakes, Perlin V. Bechachino, a local drowned when the sea entered. ‘‘I’m missing my son; he’s 24 years at the bus shelter had survived by hold- Mrs. Aroza’s21-year-old daughter, there had been any political difficulties. resident who is married to afisherman, And she spokealmost rapturously old,’’ said TeresitaAroza, the 54-year- ing onto floating banana trees, but Mrs. Devi, said, ‘‘Seventy-five percent of the At St. Niño’s Shrine, it wasclear that explained whyshe still held Mrs. Mar- about how she had been one of 500 people old wife of a security guard. ‘‘I’ve not re- Aroza’s son disappeared in the torrents. people now do not like the Marcoses.’’ the Marcos name retained some of its cos, 84, and the Romualdez family in at a relief station this past week to re- ceivedanything at allfromthe local The family has been opening body Mayor Alfred S. Romualdez of Taclo- mystique. While nearly every storein high esteem. (Mrs. Marcos’s maiden ceive food directly from Senator Fer- government.’’ bags along a coastal road and checking ban, Mrs. Marcos’snephew, made the the area was stripped clean, this build- name was Romualdez.) dinand Marcos Jr., Mrs. Marcos’s son. Standing with her husband, her the purple, misshapen corpses inside to same point as Mrs. Bechachino in inter- ing —sometimes called the Imelda Mar- Mrs. Bechachino cited the family’s ‘‘I really love the Marcos family, be- daughter and her daughter’s boyfriend, try to find her son. As they search, they views on Wednesdayand Thursday, cos shrine —was unscathed. Gonzalo many donations to St. Niño’s Church, cause they have loved the people of Tac- Mrs. Aroza described how they had been have receivedno food or water as the contending that Typhoon Haiyan would Lu said he and other guards had pushed whereshe attends services every Sun- loban City,’’ she said. in their home as a wall of water from the aid response here continues to falter. have devastated any city and slowed re- back crowds who sought shelter after day. She praised the local government But seven other newly homeless storm surge hit last Friday evening and ‘‘The Marcos family is distant from covery. Buildings sturdy enough to be the typhoon. ‘‘We would have killed and for warning people five days in advance people who were huddled under the bus the house crumbled. They rushed to the people,’’ Mrs. Aroza said. ‘‘We al- designated as evacuation centersare died before we’d let anyone in,’’ he said. that a typhoon was coming, prompting shelter angrily disagreed and faulted their neighbors’ moresolid house, only ways respected the Marcos family,but required to have roofs that could with- her to head with her family to an official the local government —which is sup- to find them drowned inside. we did not idolize them, and nowour stand winds of up to 100 miles per hour, Floyd Whaley contributed reporting evacuation center that did not fill with posed to respond to disasters —and by Then an even bigger wave swept the view of the Marcos family has fallen be- he said. Typhoon Haiyan had sustained from Manila. Rivalries play a role in typhoon aid m

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BY ANDREW JACOBS After criticism of China's initial offer of a$100,000 cash donation, the country .d beefed up its contribution to the Philippines to $1.6 million, roughly on par with The American aircraft carrier George www Washington has arrived, its 5,000 sailors Ireland ($1.4 million) and Spain ($1.8 million). and 80 aircraft already busy ferrying re- lief supplies to storm-battered survi- Britain Britain said thatitwas sending its largestship,the helicopter carrier vors, and the United States has commit- Illustrious, and announced thatits aid now exceeded $32 million. Apublic ted an initial $20 million in appeal in the countryraised $37 million in the first48hours. humanitarian assistance. Japan is dis- patching anaval force of 1,000 troops, in what officials sayis that country’s United The world body released $25 million from its emergencyrelieffund and is largest-ever disaster relief deployment. Nations trying to raise $301 million more. Also on the way: the Illustrious, a Brit- ish aircraft carrier stocked with trans- port planes, medical experts and United Washington has committed $20 million and dispatched an aircraft carrier $32 million worth of aid. States with 80 aircraft and 5,000 troops on board to the Philippines, in addition The outpouring of foreign assistance to anumber of other Navy vessels. for the hundreds of thousands left home- less and hungry by Typhoon Haiyan is shaping up to be a monumental show of Japan Japan is planning to send as many as 1,000 troops from its international largess —and a not-so- Self-Defense Forces, along with three ships and an unspecified number subtle dose of one-upmanship directed at of aircraft. Thatwould be the Japanese military's single largestrelief the region’s fastest-rising power, China. operation abroad since World WarII. It also pledged $10 million for China, which has its ownnewly com- emergencyshelters and other help,through aid organizations. missioned aircraft carrier and ambitions of displacing the United States, the dom- Sources: Official Gazette of the Philippines, Disasters EmergencyCommittee,United Nations News Center inant naval powerinthe Pacific, has been notably penurious. Beijing in- creased its total contribution to the relief Obama had to cancel a high-profile visit But China’s increasing power has also effort to $1.6 million on Thursdayafter to the region this falltograpple with the in some cases worked against it, includ- its initial pledge of $100,000 was dis- fiscal shutdown in the United States. So ing in the Philippines, where the battle missed as stingy, even by some of the when the typhoon struck an old ally,the over maritime territory has softened state-backed news media in the country. Pentagon did not waste much time of- the wariness of Japan and the bitter Typhoon Haiyan, described as the fering a robust show of assistance. memories of World WarII, when Japan most devastating natural calamity to hit ‘‘There is no other military in the invaded. the Philippines in recent history, is world, thereisno other navy in the In announcing their assistance on emerging as a showcase for the soft- world, that cando what we cando,’’ one Thursday, Japanese officials spokeofit power contest in East Asia. The geopo- American official said. mostly as an effort to provide humani- litical tensions have been stoked by Michael Kulma, an expert on East tarian assistance, though there was also China’s territorial claims in the South Asia at the Asia Society in New York, an acknowledgment of security ties. China Sea and heightened by the United said the Chinese reluctance to give ‘‘ThePhilippines is geographically States’efforts to reassert its influence more aid could hurt its chances to make close to Japan and an important stra- in the region. a favorable impression in the country. tegic partner,’’ said Japan’s defense China has showered aid on countries ‘‘Therewas an opportunity, right up minister, Itsunori Onodera. it considersclose friends, becoming the front, for China to make a commit- On Thursday, officials said Japan’s largest lender in Africa, rushing to help ment,’’ he said. ‘‘Atthe end of the day, it military would dispatch C-130 transport Pakistan after an earthquake in Septem- could be that the Chinese end up giving aircraft and helicoptersto ferry sup- ber and showing a more humanitarian more. But on the front end of it, they plies to areas that have been cut off by side to its neighbors in Asia. But Haiyan didn’t stand out.’’ the disaster. Japan willalso send three struck hardest at the country China con- At the same time, the relief efforts by navy ships, and it offered $10 million in sidersits biggest nemesis in the legal, the United States could give aboost to emergency aid. diplomatic and sometimes military its already strong influence in the Phil- As more countries came forward with standoff over control of tiny but stra- ippines. Despite its longtime alliance impressive aid packages —and after tegic islands in the South China Sea. with the United States, the Philippines days of ignoring criticism that it wasof- Over the past year,Chinese and Phil- has been tentative overwhat Washing- fering too little aid —China on Thursday ippine vessels have faced offover areef ton sees as the country’s role in its so- said it would increase its assistance. called Scarborough Shoal, and the Phil- called Asian pivot, which includes ef- The Foreign Ministry spokesman, Qin ippines has angered China by taking the forts to increase the presence of Ameri- Gang,said that China had never inten- dispute to an international arbitration can troops on Philippine soil. ded the amount of assistance to remain tribunal. It did not help that the Philip- But the American relief effort might fixed and insisted that it had adjusted its pines earlier this year accepted a gift of wear away at some of that reluctance, a contribution according to growing 10 coast guard vessels from Japan and hangoverfromthe yearswhen the Phil- needs. ‘‘An overwhelming majorityof voiced support for Tokyo’s plans to ippines was an American colony. Chinese people are sympathetic with strengthen its securitypresence in the The rise of China has been shifting the people of the Philippines,’’ he said. LA ROSE DIOR BAGATELLE COLLECTION region, or that it is in discussions with geopolitics in the region for years. With the United States about hosting more China’sinvestments in Southeast Asia Reporting was contributed by Martin Whitegold, diamonds,fancy pink diamonds,sapphires,pinksapphires, American troops there. mounting, even some countries worried Fackler from Tokyo, Jane Perlez from purple sapphires, emeralds,Paraiba tourmalinesand tsavoritegarnets. The challenge for China comes about being overwhelmed by their im- Beijing, Thom Shanker from Washing- shortly after the United States appeared posing regional neighbor have found it ton, Rick Gladstone from New York, and to suffer a setback of its own in the con- hard to resist the pull of its economy —a Keith Bradsher from Tacloban, the Phil- test for Pacific influence. President dynamic that is very likely to continue. ippines. SUZY MENKES DEEP DIVING ROGER COHEN SELL THE BABY? 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TUESDAY,NOVEMBER 19, 2013 Japan makes Aid slowly arrives sales pitch to America for for battered Leyte SANTA FE, PHILIPPINES whereateam from DoctorsWithout Borders was just setting up operations. fastest train Within an hour of their arrival, the Medical care is reaching Doctors Without Borders team had 80 TSURU, JAPAN the Philippines, but people in line for care. Emma Akerlund, a 33-year-old Swedish obstetrician, food remains a problem checked Ms. Doyola’s wound carefully Government offers to pay before beginning to work methodically through the cases. for part of route from BY KEITH BRADSHER Therewereother signs in the interior New Yo rk to Washington Rosalina Doyola, acheerful 22-year-old of an effort to begin delivering scarce with an accounting degree and the con- supplies. Rosaura Diola, the registered BY ERIC PFANNER fidence of youth that life willsomehow nurse who runs the main clinic in down- work out after all, woke up on Monday town Jaro, wore a new green uniform on As the world’s fastest train raced morning in a field hospital tent with Monday afternoon and said that the through the mountains of central Japan, both her legs and still alive. Philippines Department of Health had former Gov. George E. Pataki of New Ms. Doyola was one of two young just deliveredalarge box of medical York hoisted his 6-foot-5 frame into the women with deep lacerations just below supplies, including antibiotics. aisle and marveled at the smoothness of the knee who arrived on Sundayatthe She said that she would be able to give the ride. field hospital here of International patients a fullcourse of 21 tablets of anti- ‘‘In the subway I’d need astrap, at Search and Rescue Germany, a non- biotics over seven days, instead of just least,’’ Mr.Pataki said as the speedo- profit group. Both women had received the three tablets that she had been ra- meter hit 500 kilometersanhour,or very similar injuries during Typhoon tioning to each patient. ‘‘Giving them about 315 miles an hour, and he hunched Haiyan and had received scant medical just a few is useless,’’ she acknowledged. over to catch a fleeting glimpse of Mount care in the nine days that followed. But Mrs. Diola said that the clinic still Fuji through the porthole-likewindows. Doctors thereassessed both women, had many other needs that had not been ‘‘This is amazing. The future.’’ concluded that Ms. Doyola’sinjury was met by the box of supplies from the Mr. Pataki and a group of other re- the less infected, and did a vertical su- health department, including gauze, tired American politicians were in Ja- ture that extended six inches up her leg cotton balls, pain-killers, syringes and, pan on Saturday for a special test ride of and a lateral, three-inch suture. The oth- toughest of all, a new roof. the train, which uses atechnology er young woman wassent to abetter- Raul Artoza, a 49-year-old council called magnetic levitation, or maglev, to equipped and moreheavily staffed for- member in Macanip village, nearly an cruise at more than twice the 150 mile an eign hospital at the nearby airport in hour’s drive from downtown Jaro on a hour top speed of Amtrak’s Acela, the Tacloban to have her leg amputated. PHILIPPINES, PAGE 4 fastest train in the United States. They The other woman was beginning to aretrying to bring maglev to the develop septicemia, the potentially fatal crowded Northeast Corridor to speed blood poisoning that killed Richard up travel times and ease congestion be- Pulga, a27-year-old farmer,whose tween New York and Washington. lowerright leg became infected after it Maglev trains would cover the journey was fractured during the typhoon. of 320 kilometers in an hour, compared ‘‘Thepeople with sepsis died before with two hours and 45 minutes for Acela. we got here,’’ said Peter Kaup, an anes- That would be considerably faster than thesiologist who is part of the I.S.A.R. flying, once airport transfers are Germany team. ‘‘It wascomplicated to factored in. Yet this is only the latest in a get here.’’ series of high-speed train proposals for Marco Celia, a surgeon on the German the corridor, none of which have been team, said that the similarityofthe two implemented since Acela, which began young women’s injuries appeared to service in 2000. Why would this one have have prompted one of their colleagues any greater chance of success? to think initially that Ms. Doyola had To sweeten the deal, Japan has been referred to the airport hospital. offered to cover several billion dollars in Medical care is finally beginning to costs. The commitment of taxpayer improve after the typhoon in the east- money is a sign of Prime Minister central Philippines, with 62 foreign or Shinzo Abe’s determination to do Filipino medical teams nowworking in JES AZNAR FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES whatever it takes to prime the Japanese areas damaged by the storm. Rosalina Doyola receiving medical care on economy and to restoreJapan’s fading The availabilityof care even began to Monday, over a week after being injured. reputation for technological prowess. improve on Monday in the interior. Japan has long been a pioneer in high- After Ms. Doyola woke Monday morn- CHURCH OFFERS SOLACE TO THE DISPLACED speed rail. It introduced bullet trains, or RONI BINTANG/REUTERS ing,the German surgical team sent her In one town struck by Typhoon Haiyan, Shinkansen, to the world in 1964, on the Indonesian inferno Mount Sinabung,inNorth Sumatra, erupted on Monday, keeping away residents who had already been to the public clinic in her hometown of a church has become home to more eve of the TokyoOlympics. But others forced to flee by previous rumblings. It was Indonesia’s second eruption of the day, after Mount Merapi a few hours earlier. Santa Fe,three miles inland from Palo, than 100 people. PAGE 4 have been catching up. France and Ger- many developed high-speed trains that matched the Japanese speeds. Now China has built ahigh-speed network that surpasses Japan’s in its extent. Those areconventional high-speed Plan for Syrian arms raises alarm Doris Lessing, 94, recipient railroads, with trains traveling at amax- imum of 330 kilometers an hour for the WASHINGTON battlegrounds in the country’s civil war opposition forces linked to Al Qaeda, or of Nobel for her visionary prose Japanese and European trains, slightly and loading them onto a ship that has no even elements of Mr. Assad’s own less for the Chinese ones. To stake out its place to go. forces, a senior American official said: BY HELEN T. VERONGOS rican bush, the teachings of Eastern claim to leadership in a new generation Pentagon sees weapons Security for the shipments is being ‘‘That’s the problem —noone has at- mystics and yearsof involvement with of considerably faster technology, Japan as vulnerable to attack provided entirely by Syrian military tempted this before in a civil war, and no Doris Lessing, the uninhibited and out- grass-roots Communist groups. She em- next year plans to begin construction of units loyal to President Bashar al-As- one is willing to put troops on the spoken novelist who was awarded the barked on dizzying and at times stultify- its first intercitymaglev line, linking as they travel in war zone sad, who has surprised American offi- ground to protect this stuff, including 2007 Nobel Prize for a lifetime of writing ing literary experiments. Tokyowith Nagoya and, eventually, cials with how speedily he has complied us.’’ that shattered convention, both social Indeed, ‘‘Alfred & Emily,’’ published Osaka. In tests, the Japanese maglev has BY DAVID E. SANGER, with an agreement brokered by Russia Another official noted that the choice and artistic, died on Sunday at her home in the summer of 2008, is half fiction, half reached speeds of up to 580 kilometers THOM SHANKER to identify and turn overhis chemical now facing the United States and other in London. She was 94. memoir —on the one hand recounting an hour, the world record for a train. AND ERIC SCHMITT weapon stockpiles. Intelligence ana- nations was to ‘‘either leave the stuff in her parents’ livesas they eked out aliv- ‘‘It is truly a dream technology,’’ Mr. lysts and Pentagon officials say the place and hope for the best, or account O B I T UARY ing on a small farm in Rhodesia and, on Abe said in aspeech at the NewYork A plan announced over the weekend for shipments will be vulnerable to attack for it, get it out of there, and hope for the the other, imagining what their lives Stock Exchange in September. getting the bulkof Syria’s chemical as they travel past the ruins of a war best. That’s the ‘least worst’ option.’’ Her death was confirmed by her pub- might have been likeifWorld WarIhad But it could be a boondoggle unless Ja- weapons out of the country in coming that has raged for two and a half years. A range of current and former admin- lisher, HarperCollins. not occurred. pan can export it. So Mr. Abe is looking weekshas raised major concerns in Asked overthe weekend what the istration and Pentagon officials dis- Ms.Lessing produced dozens of nov- But it washer breakthrough novel, for aprominent overseas showcase. Washington, because it involves trans- backup plan would be if the chemical cussed the risks of moving the Syrian els, short stories, essays and poems, ‘‘The Golden Notebook,’’ a structurally JAPAN, PAGE 17 porting the weapons over roads that are weapons components were attacked by SYRIA, PAGE 5 drawing on a childhood in the central Af- LESSING, PAGE 8

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BEIJING State-backed church’s pastor is detained in central China The police in a central Chinese city have detained a Christian pastor and about 20 churchgoers in a crackdown on a state-backed church involved in a local land dispute, relatives of the reli- gious leader said Monday. Relatives of the pastor, Zhang Shaojie, said he was taken away from his church in Puyang, Henan Province, on Saturday by the police, who provided no identification or basis for the detention. The police also took away around 20 others, including Mr. Zhang’s two sisters, said Sun Zhulei, Mr. Zhang’s son-in-law. The crackdown is unusual for a state- approved church. China’s government allows worship only in such churches, while unregistered congregations tend to be subject to harassment. But church leaders have been involved in a land dispute with the local authorities. Calls to local police and government offices rang unanswered. (AP)

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA Spies said to have tried to tap Indonesian president’s phone Indonesia’s president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, recalled his ambassador from Australia on Monday and ordered a review of bilateral cooperation after news reports said an Australian securi- ty agency tried to listen to his cell- phone in 2009. The Australian Broadcasting Corpo- ration and The Guardian reported on Monday that they had documents from the former American National Security Agency contractor Edward J. Snowden that showed that the agency also tar- geted the phones of the Indonesian first PHOTOGRAPHS BY SERGEY PONOMAREV FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES lady, Kristiani Herawati, as well as Saint Michael the Archangel Church in the Philippine town of Basey on Monday. Over 100 people who lost their homes in Typhoon Haiyan are now staying at the church, sleeping on wet pews and waiting for the next food shipment. eight other government ministers and officials. The documents reportedly showed that the Australian Defense Signals Directorate, now the top-secret Australian Signals Directorate, tried to listen to the president’s phone conver- Church offers solace, and a place to sleep sations on at least one occasion and tracked activity on the phone for 15 days in August 2009. BASEY, THE PHILIPPINES teams from the MetroManila Develop- The Australian prime minister, Tony ment Authority. Abbott, refused to comment on Monday At the church, arunners’ club from on the news reports. Mr. Abbottwas not Residents find refuge Samar handed out 6.5-pound bags of in the government in 2009. (AP) in damaged building rice, crackers and bottles of water to a line of people that streamed out the as they await more aid front door. It is not the firsttime this town’s Ro- BY AUSTIN RAMZY man Catholic church with the limestone wallsand wide buttresses has been When Typhoon Haiyan hit this coastal called on to house the homeless. First town, residents ran for Saint Michael built by Jesuits in 1656, the church was the Archangel Church. largely destroyed by atyphoon in 1880. Now, 10 days later,more than 100 of After the Japanese occupation during them remain. World War II, it served as a refugee ‘‘I was in my house, but it was de- camp. DINUKA LIYANAWATTE/REUTERS stroyed,’’ said Belen Cabonce, 87.‘‘We The church, which sits on a hill over- ‘‘All governments gather information,’’ said ran for higher ground, and this was it. looksthe badly damaged downtown, Prime Minister Tony Abbott of Australia. Some people stayed in houses trying to avoided destruction. But signs of dam- hold on, but most of them came here.’’ age are everywhere. Theforce of the KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN She has lived here ever since, sleep- storm blew out a stained-glasswindow Roadside explosion kills ing on a wet pew, wondering when the in the south wall of the chancel. It lies next shipment of relief goods will arrive. toppled over, the leading holding to- 2 children on shopping trip She has not heard from her two children gether its colored panes. A roadside bomb killed two children in in Tacloban, the citythat lost more than The corrugated metal roof, with de- southern Afghanistan on Monday, 800 people in the storm, since the tailed murals showing the TowerofBa- while six bodies found the day before in typhoon hit on Nov. 8. bel, Catholic saints and a scene from the restive region were identified as ‘‘Please give me aid,’’ Ms. Cabonce Revelations, has been riddled with coin- police officers and not laborers, as was said. ‘‘I’m alone.’’ A damaged statue of John the Baptist inside the church. The storm displaced about four million people, the Philippine government says. sized holes that allow in rain and thin initially reported. As the Philippines begins to clean up shafts of light. The confusion arose because the bod- after the worst typhoon in memory, it is Thered stone floor is slick with rain- ies found in Kandahar Province were in faced with a huge problem of feeding pressing need is food.’’ village of Iba, which is part of Basey, Mr. Ponferrada, the mayor, said other water.The wooden pews are wetand civilian clothes, said Mohammad Jan and housing its displaced population. Basey’s mayor, Junji Ponferrada, 43, said Typhoon Haiyan badly damaged towns and provinces had been the chief warped, their knee rests nowused as Rasoolyar, deputy governor of neigh- The government says that about four estimates that the typhoon damaged or his rice crop, leaving him with only 10 suppliersofaid to this city, where191 head rests for reclining evacuees. Water boring Zabul Province. The police of- million people have been displaced, destroyed the homes of one-thirdof the percent of his anticipated yield. died in the storm and 39 aremissing. In and food containers, pots, pans and ficers had disappeared several days with some 350,000 living in about 1,500 population of this city of 51,000 in Samar ‘‘We willtry again next season,’’ he the basketball stadium, a medical team bags of clothes line the pews. Dogs sleep earlier from Zabul. evacuation centers. Province. He struggles to feed and said. ‘‘We will start planting next month from Camarines Sur Province offered on the floor. In Monday’s explosion, the two chil- ‘‘The evacuation centersare an in- house them all. for harvest in April, if we have enough medicines and minor surgery. Outside, food is cooked over open dren died when their family’s vehicle hit creasing concern,’’ said Matthew Co- ‘‘People are saying, ‘We don’t want a money to pay for seeds.’’ A group from the city of Valenzuela in fires, clothes dry on lines hung between a roadside bomb, Mr. Rasoolyar said. chrane, spokesman for the United Na- message of hope. We want food,’’’ he In the nearby village of Magallanes, MetroManila arrivedon Mondayafter palm trees, and piles of bottles and trash The family was traveling to the Zabul tions Office for the Coordination of said. some 75 people stood by the side of the driving five days and scouted ways to climb high. The bathroom is a wall in the provincial capital, Qalat, to go shopping. Humanitarian Affairs. The Basey District Hospital, which road waiting for apromised delivery of distribute its five truckloads of goods church yard. The father was wounded along with a Places likethe Tacloban City Conven- sits on a hill in the city facing the church, food. They put up large, handmade and where to station five doctors. The Rev. Gil Cabujat, 44, says the third child, Mr. Rasoolyar said. (AP) tion Center, an indoor basketballstadi- suffered extensive damage in the storm. signs with the name of their neighbor- As Mr.Ponferrada cleaned mud and church is willing to house the homeless. um that is now home to about 2,500 But afew rooms survived, allowing the hood, and held tickets with the face of trash from his waterfront office, four But he sounded a note of frustration. He TOKYO people who lost their homes in the primary care hospital to provide basic Egay Tallado, the governor of Camar- trucksfromthe Japan International Co- said many of the churches’ new tenants Fuel rod removal begins storm, are straining under the lack of services, like delivering babies and ines Norte Province, which was provid- operation Agency arrivedwith 77 slept through the daily 6 a.m. Mass. sanitation and basic supplies. treating diarrhea caused by unclean ing the aid. bundles of plastic, each 165 feet long, for ‘‘They’re welcome to stay,but we ask at crippled nuclear plant ‘‘People areliving in squalid condi- water, said Dr. Jessamine Elona, 33. A ‘‘We weren’tgiven aspecific time, we building basic tents. them, if they’re able to start rebuilding, Workers began removing radioactive tions in need of as much support as they team of Japanese doctors has helped were just told to wait,’’ said Victoria Ca- A few hours earlier,the trucks would they should,’’ Father Cabujat said. ‘‘We fuel rods on Monday from one of four can get,’’ Mr. Cochrane said. treat cuts and wounds caused by flying jara, 51, aMagallanes village councilor not have been able to squeeze onto the can’t start rebuilding until they leave.’’ reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nu- About 2.5million people also require debris during the storm. who had been by the roadside for four narrow waterfront drive,which had clear power plant, the Tokyo Electric food aid, he said, adding, ‘‘The most Pacquito Manog,60, a farmer in the hours. only recently been cleared of debris by Robert Gonzaga contributed reporting. Power Company said. The painstaking and risky task is a crucial first step to- ward a full cleanup of the earthquake- and tsunami-damaged plant, in north- eastern Japan. Unit 4 was offline at the time of the Medical care reaches more victims, but food is still a hurdle disaster, which happened in March 2011, so its core did not melt down as PHILIPPINES, FROM PAGE 1 ‘‘Every time a helicopter passes, we soldiers halted the distribution of food three others’ did. But hydrogen explo- dirt road through shattered coconut try to wave for help,’’ she said on Mon- and drove off, only to be chased PHILIPPINEHILIP S sions blew the roof off the building and palm forests, said that two vanloads of day afternoon. ‘‘Many here have stepped through the streets for more than a Pacific weakened the structure, leaving it vul- aid workers from nonprofit groups had on nails, and we have no medicine.’’ block by a crowd of the desperate and BIBILIRANBIL Ocean Manila nerable to earthquakes. Tokyo Electric showed up by lunchtime to offer assist- The most chaotic scenes continue to hungry. has since reinforced the building, but ance. Aid workers in one of the vans left be in Tacloban itself,the provincial cap- Violata Dimaganpe, a 42-year-old res- SAMAR experts say keeping so many fuel rods Carigara in a storage pool in the building still behind six boxes of anti-diarrhea medi- ital of Leyte. Alarge freight truck with ident, joined the line at 2and never Bay cine, and after an initial assessment of soldiersaboard parked at 2 p.m. on reached the front of it. She received DeDetailtai poses a major safety risk. SaS nta the village’s needs both groups prom- Monday on the main coastal road in Tac- nothing. ‘‘There’s no order, that’s why Tunga Tokyo Electric has built a huge steel FeF TaT clobbanbaba ised to come back, Mr. Artoza said. loban to distribute sacks of rice to each it’s so slow,’’ she complained as the sol- Quinapondanpondana structure next to and partly over Unit 4 Jaroo Many shortfalls in humanitarian as- household in the neighborhood, only for diers finished up the food distribution. Palo to mount cranes for the operation. It sistance remain, however. In Malobago an often unruly crowd to form as mostly As for Miss Doyola, she remained will take at least until the end of 2014 to village, another town deep in the young people cut in line and some came surprised on Mondaythat the deep GuiuanG finish moving the 1,533 sets of fuel rods coconut palm forests of Leyte Island’s back again and again. gouges on her left leg that had received Leyte to a safer location. Each set includes LEYTEE Gulf Path of interior, Marissa Tañada, a 32-year-old Older residents and the less aggres- minimal treatment for nearly aweek about 60 to 80 rods. Six workers safely resident, said that no food supplies had sive found themselves standing at the and ahalf had been potentially life- Typhoon Haiyann stored four sets of fuel rods in a cask on arrived yet and that medical supplies back of a crowd that barely seemed to threatening. ‘‘I didn’t know it was so se- Monday, a spokesman said. No prob- 300km were still nonexistent. move forward. Four hours later,the rious,’’ she said. lems were reported. (AP) SUZY MENKES BRUTAL LEGACY ROGER COHEN RISK IN GERMANY KEEPING AN EYE WHY FOLLOW NOW IS A TIME INFRASTRUCTURE ON EMOTION BOXING AT ALL? FOR COURAGE NEEDS REPAIRS INSIDE | SPECIAL REPORT PAGE 13 | SPORTS PAGE 9 | OPINION PAGE 15 | BUSINESS ASIA WITH

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FRIDAY,NOVEMBER 22, 2013 U.S. Navy Nature turns Security pact was warned tables on would keep of contractor an island of U.S. force in in fraud case green energy Afghanistan Malaysian is accused ORMOC, THE PHILIPPINES WASHINGTON of bribing officers with Superstorm disabled Bilateral agreement aims gifts, prostitutes and cash geothermal plants that for presence through

BY CHRISTOPHER DREW helped power Philippines 2024 and steady aid flow AND DANIELLE IVORY BY KEITH BRADSHER BY THOM SHANKER Leonard Glenn Francis, awealthy AND ROD NORDLAND Malaysian contractor at the heart of one Typhoon Haiyan inflicted many cruel in- of the United States Navy’s largest justices on the Philippines, from the TheUnited States and Afghanistan bribery scandals in decades, seemed to thousands of dead to the millions whose have finalized the wording of a bilateral have stepped right off the set of ‘‘Casa- homes were damaged or destroyed. security agreement that would allow for blanca.’’ Add one more: A superstorm consistent a lasting American troop presence in Af- At 6 feet 3 inches and 350 pounds, or with some warnings about climate ghanistan through 2024 and set the 1.9 metersand about 160 kilograms, Mr. change from fossil fuels did its greatest stage for billions of dollars of interna- Francis hosted dinnersat luxury hotels damage to an island that is one of the tional assistance to keep flowing to the in Malaysia, Singaporeand Hong Kong world’s biggest successstories of re- government in Kabul. for senior officers who knew him as Fat newable energy. The deal, which was to be presented Leonard, dispensing boxes of Cuban ci- Leyte Island, where the typhoon’s for approval by an Afghan grand council gars and dropping the names of admir- TYLER HICKS/THE NEW YORK TIMES storm surge of up to four meters, or 13 of elders starting on Thursday, came on als he knew, senior Navy officers said. Praying by candlelight in Tacloban. ‘‘Many Filipino families have become climate refugees,’’ said Loren Legarda, a Philippine senator. feet, inundated a string of coastal cities Wednesday after days of brinkmanship But as his reputation for lavish parties while some of the most powerful storm by Afghan officials and two direct calls spread, so, too, did warnings about his winds ever recorded ripped roofs off from Secretary of State John Kerry to business practices, according to Navy homes and businesses, relies entirely President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan, officials and court documents. Emails on geothermal energy for its electricity. including one before the announcement. obtained by criminal investigators show Such generation produces essentially Just the daybefore, asenior aide to that from 2009 to early 2011, several ship no emissions of greenhouse gases. Mr. Karzai had said the Afghan leader crews and contracting officials filed The geothermal energy is produced would not approve an agreement unless complaints about his ‘‘gold-plated’’ fees by digging mile-deep boreholes into hot, President Obama sent a letter acknowl- for fuel, port security and other services. wet volcanic rocks and using the super- edging American military mistakes dur- In 2010, the Naval Criminal Investigative heated water and steam that comes ing the 12-year war. But on Wednesday, Service opened investigations into ques- surging up to turn turbines, generating Mr.Kerry emphatically insisted that a tionable charges in Thailand and Japan electricity. Thegeothermal energy here deal wasreached with no American by his company, documents show. is so abundant that only a fifth of it goes apology forthcoming. Despite those red flags, in June 2011, to lighting homes and powering facto- ‘‘President Karzai didn’t ask for an the Navy awarded Mr. Francis $200 mil- ries for Leyte Island’s 1.5 million resi- apology. Therewas no discussion of an lion in contracts, giving him control dents. Therest of the flood of energy over providing supplies and dockside pouring out of the boreholes goes to oth- services for its fleet across the Pacific. er islands across the Philippines. Now Mr.Francis is at the center of a With that record of environmental widening investigation into an over- stewardship, the typhoon has triggered billing scheme in which federal prosecu- fury among many Filipinos, who place tors sayhe used cash, prostitutes and the blame for it on carbon emissions gifts to bribe Navy officials to help him over decades from countries mainly in defraud the service out of tens of millions the West. of dollars. Two Navy commandersand a ‘‘ManyFilipino families have become naval investigative agent have been climate refugees,’’ said Loren Legarda, charged with accepting bribes, while two chairwoman of the Committee on Cli- KEVIN LAMARQUE/REUTERS admirals and a captain are also under in- mate Change in the Philippine Senate. Secretary of State John Kerry said the pact vestigation. Officials say they expect ‘‘We maynot pollute the world, yet we still needed the approval of Afghan elders. more service members to be implicated. are victims of extreme weather and cli- Interviews with American officials and mate change.’’ documents obtained by TheNew York PHILIPPINES, PAGE 6 apology,’’ Mr.Kerry said. ‘‘I mean, it’s Times provide the firstdetailed look at just not even on the table.’’ howMr. Francis and his company, Glenn TACLOBAN LOOTERS TELL OF SCRAMBLE After awar that stands as the longest Defense Marine Asia, lowballed rivals to The breakdown of order after the storm in American history, the security agree- win contracts as the first step in the over- JES AZNAR FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES has slowed the resumption of normal ment defines a training and counter- charging scheme. Thecompany submit- The Tongonan geothermal field, outside Ormoc on western Leyte Island, is the world’s second-largest producer of geothermal energy. commerce in the Philippines. PAGE 6 terrorism mission in Afghanistan last- ted winning bids that experts say seemed ing at least 10 moreyears and involving so lowthat the Navy should have ques- 8,000 to 12,000 troops, mostly American. tioned whether they were realistic. Once Despite the sometimes harsh criticism it had locked up contracts, investigators from Afghan officials during the negoti- say, the company —with the assistance ations, the agreement includes conces- of Navy officers —began pumping out Stone Age DNA reveals kinships spanning continents sions that the Obama administration fake invoices to inflate its billings. could not win from Iraq during asimilar Though Glenn Marine’s low bids BY NICHOLAS WADE Thesecond surprise is that his DNA analyzing ancient DNA, wasseeking to process in 2011, leading to the final with- might have seemed enticing, military also matches alarge proportion — The first Americans may have understand the peopling of the Amer- drawal of American troops there. contracting experts who reviewed those Thegenome of a young boy buried at about 25 percent —ofthe DNA of living been a mix between Western icas by searching for possible source Now, the United States has at least an bids for The Times said the Navy should Mal’ta near Lake Baikal in eastern Native Americans. The firstpeople to Europeans and East Asians. populations in Siberia. He extracted initial agreement from Afghan officials have been wary, and certainly more Siberia some 24,000 yearsago has arrive in the Americas have long been DNA from bone takenfrom the child’s that American soldiers willnot face watchful, of Mr. Francis, particularly giv- turned out to hold two surprises for an- assumed to have descended from upper arm, hoping to find ancestry in the Afghan prosecution in the course of en the numerous warnings raised about thropologists. Siberian populations related to East ines were found of the kind produced by East Asian peoples from whom Native their duties. And United States Special his business practices over the years. The first is that the boy’s DNA Asians. It now seems that they may the Upper Paleolithic cultures of Americans are known to be descended. Operations forces will retain leeway to ‘‘The Navy watchdogs were sleeping matches that of Western Europeans, have been a mixturebetween the West- Europe. The remains were excavated But the first results were disappoint- conduct antiterrorism raids on private while a burglar walked out with every- showing that during the last Ice Age, ern Europeans who had reached Siberia by Russian archaeologists over a 20- ing. The boy’smitochondrial DNA be- Afghan homes —acentral American de- thing in the house,’’ said Charles Tiefer, people from Europe had reached and an East Asian population. year period ending in 1958 and stored in longed to the lineage known as U, which mand that Afghan officials had resisted aformer member of the federal Com- farther east acrossEurasia than previ- The Mal’ta boy was 3to 4 years old museums in St. Petersburg. is commonly found among the modern and described as the last sticking point mission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq ously supposed. Though none of the and was buried under a stone slab wear- There they lay for some 50 years until humans who first entered Europe about in negotiations. and Afghanistan and aprofessor at the Mal’ta boy’sskin or hair survives, his ing an ivory diadem, abead necklace they were examined by a team led by 44,000 yearsago. Thelineages found In the end, the Obama administration University of Baltimore School of Law. genes suggest he would have had brown and abird-shaped pendant. Elsewhere Eske Willerslev of the University of among Native Americans are those des- and the Karzai government had more NAVY, PAGE 4 hair, brown eyes and freckled skin. at the same site, about 30 Venus figur- Copenhagen. Dr. Willerslev, an expert in GENOME, PAGE 4 AFGHANISTAN, PAGE 6

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Nature turns tables on green showcase

PHILIPPINES, FROM PAGE 1 The underground water hereis 250 to The Tongonan geothermal field on the 300 degrees Celsius (500 to 600 Fahren- outskirts of Ormoc, on western Leyte Is- heit). Four of the powerplants essen- land, is the world’s second-largest pro- tially rely on two steps: Firstthey spin ducer of geothermal energy, after one in turbines using the tendencyofwater at Geysers, Calif. Yet the operation here is such high temperatures to expand into remarkably little known even among re- steam, and then they further spin them newable-energy experts because of its as the steam cools. Finally, those four unusual history and a lingering pen- plants were designed to condense the chant for secrecy for national security steam into water in steel-reinforced reasons. The New People’s Army, one of wooden cooling towers for reinjection the world’s longest-lasting Maoist in- into the ground. surgencies and an enduring though low- Typhoon Haiyan destroyedall four intensitythreat on Leyte Island, repre- cooling towers, located near ridgelines, sents a potential threat to the opera- splintering the wood and casting aside tions. A small army of soldiers and secu- the steel. The Energy Development Cor- rityguards defends the site and poration is now studying whether to re- maintains layers of checkpoints to keep place the cooling towers with identical visitorsout of the mountain valley construction or build new ones that may where five geothermal power plants are be moredurable, said Leonita Sabando, located. chief of environmental management at Viewed from the outermost check- the site. The fifth power plant does the point —the site has alongstanding expansion from water to steam, the policy of not letting journalists visit — cooling of the steam and the condensa- the valley is spectacular. Clouds of tion of the steam in asingle complex steam surge from natural pits in the that is also high on the valley wall. But it earth along the beds of mountain does not stick up so high above the sur- streams that splash down steep volcan- rounding terrain and so suffered much ic slopes in aseries of waterfalls past less storm damage. The company is terraced farms and through coconut now testing all of the components of that palm forests. powerplant in the hope of bringing it The extraordinary force of Typhoon back into fullservice and repowering Haiyan’s winds shattered the forests, Leyte Island by Dec. 24, the national tar- particularly near the ridgelines. Mile get for restoring electricity after the after mile of trees have changed from typhoon, Ms. de Jesus said. green to brown after the winds ripped Replacing broken transmission poles loose and scattered virtually every across Leyte Island is another chal- JES AZNAR FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES frond. The winds then twisted and bent lenge. Phil Morales Jr., the leader of a A wrecked mall on Thursday in Tacloban, where Robinsons, the city’s largest department store, and other businesses were plundered shortly after Typhoon Haiyan struck the city. the usually resilient trunks until they posthole-digging team in central Leyte, snapped or burst. estimated that only 10 percent of the Sheltered in the deep, narrow valley poles were either new or survivedthe below, however, the homes of the site’s storm along the segment that is his re- 795 workers seem to have fared surpris- sponsibility; even fewer poles survived ingly well, although one of the military on links to villages to the north and Tacloban looters tell of chaotic scramble barracks has lost much of its green cor- south of the main east-west route. rugated-steel roof. Agnes de Jesus, se- ‘‘The backbone should be energized TACLOBAN, THE PHILIPPINES hit by an unprecedented storm, and in bles, soft drinks, soap and cooking oil tention facilities on Leyte Island. The nior vice president for the environment this coming December, but not the later- the immediate aftermath the prospects have opened, hawking goods next to Tacloban City Jail saw nearly 160 prison- at the Energy Development Corpora- als,’’ he said as he and his team paused of relief were faint. But the looting went piles of damp, decomposing debris. Res- ers escape after the storm, when storm tion, which now owns the powerplants, for lunch in sweltering heat in Tunga, a Breakdown of order far beyond necessities to taking any- idents say some looted goods were sold waters brokethe main gate, said Janu- said no one had been killed or seriously town in the hills of central Leyte. after storm has slowed thing people could get their hands on, here in recent days. ario Tragura, a senior jail official. As of injured at the plants during the typhoon, Other islands have not suffered including jewelry, appliances and vehi- Some banks have begun to open, but Thursday, 85 prisoners were still miss- even as the storm surge on the opposite power failures except as a result of dam- resumption of commerce cles. they offer only limited transactions. ing. The rest were recaptured or volun- side of the island, 80 kilometers, or 50 age to transmission lines, as plants else- Robinsons is now largely an empty A filing cabinet with its drawers pulled tarily returned, he said. miles, to the east, killed thousands in the where in the Philippines have made up BY AUSTIN RAMZY shell, with piles of glass, soaked papers open to let their contents dry in the sun In the city of Palo, just south of Taclob- coastal cities of Tacloban, Palo and for the loss of the geothermal capacity and broken mannequins scattered on sits in front of a Unionbank branch. Staff an, more than 600 inmates escaped from Tanauan. here, said Cynthia Alabanza, spokes- By the time Bjorn Racaza joined the the floor.Parts of the roof aremissing. memberscharge their computersand the provincial prison and 300 fled the city Responding to the Arab oil embargo woman for the National Grid Corpora- looting at Robinsons Department Store, The wheels of display vehicles have phones on asolar powered generator. jail, MayorRemedios Petilla said. Only a of the early 1970s, the president at the tion of the Philippines. About one-ninth he thought he wastoo late. It was been stolen. A single alarm stillsounds Theoutlet opened Thursday, said Joey handful have since returned, she said. time, Ferdinand E. Marcos, began de- of the Philippines’ electricity consump- around 6 p.m. on Nov. 10, two days after nearly two weeks after the storm. Samson, 50, abank employee who drove Most of the looting wasnot done by veloping the field later in the decade tion comes from geothermal power, the typhoon that destroyedmuch of this The streets of Tacloban, which are to Tacloban from Manila to help reopen hardened criminals, but by ordinary cit- with a small demonstration project. The mostly generated here; geothermal city of 235,000, and the plundering of the nowdotted with police checkpoints, feel outlets after the storm. izens. Marlon Taño, 46, a correspondent goal from the start was not environmen- powerproduces half the electricityin city’s largest department storewas in far safer than they did aweek ago. The ‘‘We’re not worried about security,’’ with TheFreeman, anewspaper in talist but nationalistic and economic: to the central Philippines, but a tiny share full fury. lack of power means little light in the Mr. Samson said. Thebranch has an Cebu, began looting goods after his reduce the Philippines’ dependence on for the energy-hungry northern Philip- ‘‘When I got here, the rice was gone,’’ evenings, though, and an 8p.m.-to-5 armed guard, and the police have set up a house and all his possessions were de- imported energy and save money on pines, including Manila, which relies said Mr. Racaza, 34, who works in cus- a.m. curfew remains in force. roadblock immediately across the street. stroyedby the huge storm surge. He re- fuel bills. more heavily on coal. tomer service for aHyundai dealership Business owners saythey still worry Thepolice have been trying to round located his wife and two daughters to the After the demonstration project As sunshine alternated with squalls here. ‘‘Theonly thing that wasnot about security, and the post-storm up looters and recover lost goods. Many Leyte provincial capital building in Tac- proved successful, five large geotherm- on Wednesday, a succession of luminous touched was the spaghetti.’’ So he breakdown in law and order has slowed of their roadblockshave items confis- loban, but with only 50 pesos, or about al plants were built in the same valley rainbows soared overLeyte Island’s grabbed a box, later finding sauce to go the return of normal commerce here. cated from vehicles on suspicion that $1, in his pocket, he did not know how he here in the mid-1990s, each big enough geothermal energy valley. That drew a with it. Aid groups saylooting did not affect the they were looted. In Tacloban on Wed- could buyrice and medicine for foot in- to power the entireisland. Each was comparison with the rainbow that the As he pushed a cart through the de- distribution of relief supplies, though nesday, the police placed four motor- juries that he suffered in the storm. built by a different company, and all five Bible describes Noah as seeing, as a partment storein this city’s largest two Philippine Red Cross convoys were cycles in the back of atrailer. They had He walked to the Rose Pharmacy, were then transferred to a state-owned pact that after nature’s violence, hu- mall, his two cousins fanned out to grab delayedlast week on Leyte Island be- been hidden along the waterfront and wherehenoticed several friends taking company, which subsequently privat- manity will endure. other goods. Then the looters broke cause of securityconcerns, said Ryan were probably stolen after the storm, items. He grabbed some antibiotics and ized them. The result was the Energy ‘‘It’s ahope that we canrevert to nor- open a storeroom, and Mr. Racaza was Jay Jopia, the health services depart- said Inspector Karl Sanchez of the Phil- from another store took rice, chocolates Development Corporation, which was malcy,’’ Ms. de Jesus said. ‘‘It’s a sign to able to find some things he really ment manager for the group. ippine National Police Special Action and candy. listed seven years ago on the Philippine us, because we Filipinos believe in God.’’ wanted: clothes and shoes, not just in In central Tacloban, debris has been Force, which has been dispatched to ‘‘Anybody willdo it,’’ he said. ‘‘Any- Stock Exchange. his size, but for his parents, his sister, mostly cleared from the streets, but in Tacloban to help alocal police force body will loot to stay alive and keep his The valley here differs from many ONLINE: AID GROUPS GET STRONG RESPONSE and her 5- and 6-year-old children. some places it has just been pushed onto vastly diminished by the storm. Three family alive.’’ geothermal sites around the world in The United Nations has already raised ‘‘I said, ‘Wow,this is really aChrist- sidewalks and parking places. Over- or four men suspected of stealing the Manuel Roxas, a businessowner,re- that the underground rocksare hotter $129 million, about half the amount it mas present,’’’ Mr. Racaza said. turned cars that once blocked intersec- motorcycles escaped by boat during the jected the assertion that people had to and what comes up through the bore- requested in an emergency appeal last In interviews, Mr. Racaza and others tions have been pushed aside. police raid, Inspector Sanchez said. loot to survive. ‘‘They were not looting holes is superpressurized water, not week to provide disaster relief in the explained their theft as the product of a At the downtown open-air market, Security concerns were exacerbated for food,’’ Mr. Roxas said. ‘‘They were steam. Philippines. nytimes.com/asia desperate situation. Their city had been stalls selling fruit, fish, shellfish, vegeta- by the breakout of prisonersfromde- stealing.’’

Deal may keep U.S. troops in Afghanistan Vote plot alleged in South Korea

AFGHANISTAN, FROM PAGE 1 SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA The new evidence, unveiled by prose- had nothing to do with its agents as their reason to agree than disagree, according cutors on Thursday, showed that the al- court evidence. to officials on both sides. American offi- leged online campaign wasmoreex- The allegation firstsurfaced during cials do not want to see Afghanistan Top intelligence officials pansive than previously known. The the election campaign last year. again become a haven for terrorists after are indicted over smear revelation came as political pressure has Threedays beforethe presidential it spent billions of dollars and thousands mounted on prosecutors. In the National election, the Seoul police announced that of lives in the war. And the Afghan lead- tactics favoring president Assembly, the opposition is pushing for they had found no evidence to support ership knows that more than $4 billion in the appointment of an independent in- the opposition accusations. During her annual international securityassistance BY CHOE SANG-HUN vestigator, saying that the investigation last television debate, Ms. Park excori- would simply not flow absent an Ameri- by prosecutors cannot be trusted. ated her main opposition rival, Moon can military presence to account for it. Agents from the National Intelligence During a budget speech to the Nation- Jae-in, overwhat she called the harass- Still, domestic political risks remain Service of South Koreaspread more al Assembly on Monday, Ms. Park called ment of a female agent by his party. for both presidents today, as well.Some than 1.2 million Twitter messages in a for people to trust prosecutorsand the But the scandal did not die with her in Afghanistan already criticize Mr. bid to sway public opinion in favor of court to investigate the election scandal. election. Karzai as the political agent of along- President Park Geun-hye and her party On Thursday, her deputy, Prime Min- Asenior police investigator told re- term foreign military presence. And Mr. ahead of the presidential and parlia- ister Chung Hong-won, said that the porters after the election that her super- Obama must explain to anation weary mentary elections last year, prosecu- prosecutors’new findings were evi- visor had intervened in the investiga- of warwhy he is pressing for a contin- tors said on Thursday. dence that they were doing afair job. tion, withholding evidence. Theboss — ued military deployment, albeit a smal- For months, South Korean politics The governing Saenuri Party also ac- Kim Yang-pan, the former chief of the ler one than advocated by American have been rocked by the opposition’s ac- cused the opposition of initiating a polit- Seoul Metropolitan Police —was in- military commanders. cusations that officials at the country’s ical offensive to discredit Ms. Park’s le- dicted together with Mr. Won, the Further, thereis an immediate risk to MASSOUD HOSSAINI/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE spy agencyand in the military conduct- gitimacy as president. former intelligence chief.Both denied the deal itself: Thebilateral security President Hamid Karzai talking to Afghan elders on Thursday. He had reportedly insisted ed an ambitious but clandestine online ‘‘We don’t think that the prosecutors’ the charges against them. agreement must now be approvedby on a letter acknowledging American military mistakes before he approved any deal. campaign to help Ms. Park, at the time fairness and neutrality were comprom- While indicting Mr. WoninJune, pros- the Afghan council, known as a loya the candidate of the governing party, ised,’’ Yoon Sang-hyun, adeputy floor ecutors said they had found thousands of jirga.About 3,000 eldersand leadership win the Dec. 19 election. leader, wasquoted by his partyas say- online political postings uploaded by his figures, allvetted by the Karzai govern- counterterrorism force envisioned by A State Department official said that Prosecutors have indicted several top ing during its leadership meeting. agents. Then last month, they said they ment, will meet in Kabul for the next American and NATO planners. Mr. Kerry had spoken by telephone with intelligence officials, including WonSei- Butthe main opposition Democratic had found more than 55,000 Twitter mes- three days to weigh the agreement’s Thecurrent draft agreement accedes Mr. Karzai on Wednesday morning, for hoon, former director of the spyagency, Party called for the dismissal of Justice sages spread by the agents. Theformer language, and it is sureto face at least to the central American demand that the second time in two days, to nail on charges of ordering an online smear Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn, accusing him head of the prosecutors’ investigation some criticism. ended up scuttling the Iraq negoti- down details of the agreement. campaign against opposition candi- of soft-pedaling the prosecutors’ inquiry also said his boss, the head of the Seoul ‘‘We have agreed on the language that ations: United States military person- While Mr.Kerry wasadamant that dates in violation of election law. A team to prevent any finding that would hurt District Prosecutor’s Office, tried to would be submitted to aloya jirga,but nel would be subject only to American therewould be no presidential apology of agents posted online messages before Ms.Park. Mr. Hwang,appointed by Ms. block him from submitting that evidence they have to pass it,’’ Mr. Kerry said. military law, not Afghan laws, and Af- for actions in Afghanistan, he left open the parliamentary election in April last Park, oversees prosecutors. to court —acharge the boss denied. The agreement itself would not estab- ghanistan pledges not to turn them over the possibility that therewould be some year and the subsequent presidential ‘‘What’s clear so far is that the Na- Separately, military investigators are lish a final troop number after the official to any international tribunals. form of White House communication in election that lauded government tional Intelligence Service and other investigating South Korea’s Cyberwar- NATO combat mission ends in Decem- Theproposed treatydoes, however, the coming days. policies while ridiculing opposition state agencies had engaged in a system- fareCommand, after it was revealed last ber 2014. That detail is still to come from grant Afghans legal jurisdiction over ‘‘It’s very important for President rivals of Ms. Park as untrustworthy, pro- atic and massive intervention in elec- month that some of its officials had the Obama administration, and the force contractors. Karzai to knowthat the issues that he’s North Korean sympathizers, they said. tions,’’ the top opposition partyleader, conducted a similar online campaign is expected to comprise 8,000 to 12,000 raised with us for many years have been But the prosecutorscould not clarify Kim Han-gil, said on Thursday. against opposition candidates. personnel to train, advise and assist ONLINE: ACTIVE AND IMPROVISING properly addressed,’’ Mr. Kerry said, how the alleged online operation af- The intelligence service said its on- On Thursday, prosecutors said that the Afghan forces. About two-thirds of that John Kerry has been a hyperactive ‘‘and it’s very important for us to know fected the result of the elections. Ms. line messages were posted as part of 1.2 million Twitter messages they had dis- force would be American, with the rest diplomat who plunges into seemingly that issues we have raised with him for a Park, who wonthe election by one mil- normal psychological warfare opera- covered were mostly copies of the 26,500 from NATO and other allies. intractable problems and improvises number of years are properly ad- lion votes, has said she neither ordered tions against North Korea, which it said original messages that the agents mass- There would be no direct combat role furiously along the way. dressed.’’ nor benefited from such acampaign. used the Internet to criticize South distributed through a special computer for most of those troops, who would be The nearly three million Afghan But the opposition partyclaimed that Korean government policies, forcing its program. But even if they were copies, assigned to major headquarters and not migrants in Iran have few rights and are Thom Shanker reported from Washing- she and the conservative government of agents to defend them online. In a state- they constituted an act of meddling in do- out in the field with Afghan fighting often deported multiple times. But they ton, and Rod Nordland from Kabul, Af- her predecessor,Lee Myung-bak, col- ment on Thursday, it also accused pros- mestic politics and elections, Lee Jin-han, units. There would be a much smaller keep returning. nytimes.com/asia ghanistan. luded to manipulate the election results. ecutors of citing online postings that a senior prosecutor, told reporters.