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WAR/MILITARY MILITARY FACES Carrier-launched Officials: Flu shots might J-Pop stars ARASHI release airstrikes hit ISIS not arrive at Navy hospital first all-English single with targets in Iraq in Naples until December Bruno Mars ahead of hiatus Page 4 Page 5 Page 14 MLB: Brewers, Astros qualify for playoffs despite losing records » Back page stripes.com Volume 79, No. 117 ©SS 2020 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2020 50¢/Free to Deployed Areas PACIFIC More DODEA students return to class as virus threat eases BY CAITLIN DOORNBOS Stars and Stripes YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — Though the fall semester for Defense Department schools began more than a month ago, students of the four base schools here on Monday returned to the classroom for the first time in more than six months. Freshman Emma Snyder, 15, posed for a faux first-day-of- school photo with her siblings at about 7:30 a.m. before ‘ Now I get heading into to actually Kinnick High School. meet my While stu- friends dents at Kinn- ick, Yokosuka and hang Middle and out with Sullivans them. and Ikego ’ Elementary Emma Snyder schools began Kinnick High School remote learn- ILLUSTRATION BASED ON AP PHOTOS BY NOGA AMI-RAV/Stars and Stripes ing on Aug. President Donald Trump speaks Sunday at the White House after a report alleged he paid $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017. 24, they hadn’t been taught on campus since the coronavirus pandemic closed U.S. schools on military bases across Japan on March 19. “Now I get to actually meet my friends and hang out with them,” Emma said. The Department of Defense Tax bombshell Education Activity requires all bases under Health Protec- tion Condition-Charlie, which According to NY Times report, Trump paid IRS $750 in 2016, 2017 indicates a substantial risk of the coronavirus spreading, or BY JOSH BOAK as a shrewd and patriotic businessman, revealing IRS figures higher to close their school build- Associated Press instead a series of financial losses and income ings and instead provide online from abroad that could come into conflict with indicate that the instruction. President Donald Trump paid just $750 in fed- his responsibilities as president. The president’s Yokosuka was under condition eral income taxes the year he ran for president financial disclosures indicated he earned at least average tax filer Charlie in August when school and in his first year in the White House, accord- $434.9 million in 2018, but the tax filings reported paid roughly began but moved to condition ing to a report in The New York Times. a $47.4 million loss. Bravo, a moderate risk, on Sept. Trump, who has fiercely guarded his tax filings The tax filings also illustrate how a reputed bil- $12,200 in 2017, 14. Teachers and administrators and is the only president in modern times not to lionaire could pay little to nothing in taxes, while make them public, paid no federal income taxes about 15 times spent the following two weeks pre- someone in the middle class could pay substantial- in 10 of the past 15 years. paring for the return to in-person ly more than him. Roughly half of Americans pay more than what instruction, DODEA Pacific East The details of the tax filings published Sun- Superintendent Judy Allen said in day complicate Trump’s description of himself SEE TAX ON PAGE 10 the president paid. a letter to parents a day later. SEE DODEA ON PAGE 7 RELATED: Tax revelation could tarnish image that fueled Trump’s rise Page 10 PAGE 2 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Tuesday, September 29, 2020 BUSINESS/WEATHER EXCHANGE RATES Amazon plans fall Prime Day to spur holiday sales Military rates Switzerland (Franc)............................0.9273 Euro costs (Sept. 29) ............................$1.14 Thailand (Baht) ..................................... 31.66 Dollar buys (Sept. 29).......................€0.8356 Turkey (Lira) .........................................7.7768 British pound (Sept. 29) ......................$1.26 (Military exchange rates are those BY JOSEPH PISANI Even before Amazon’s an- Prime Day. Japanese yen (Sept. 29) ....................103.00 available to customers at military banking South Korean won (Sept. 29) ........1,144.00 Associated Press nouncement Monday, major re- Amazon started the sales event Commercial rates facilities in the country of issuance for Japan, South Korea, Germany, the tailers have said they plan to in 2015 as its answer to Singles’ Bahrain (Dinar) ....................................0.3769 Netherlands and the United Kingdom. For NEW YORK — Amazon is aim- British pound .....................................$1.2868 push shoppers to start their holi- Day, a shopping holiday in China nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e., Canada (Dollar) ...................................1.3373 ing to kickstart the holiday shop- purchasing British pounds in Germany), day shopping in October and offer popularized by Chinese ecom- China (Yuan) ........................................6.8149 check with your local military banking ping season early this year. Denmark (Krone) ................................6.3798 deals earlier, hoping to avoid merce company Alibaba. Prime facility. Commercial rates are interbank The company is holding its an- Egypt (Pound) ....................................15.7811 crowds in their stores in Novem- Day has become one of Amazon’s Euro ........................................ $1.1671/0.8569 rates provided for reference when buying nual Prime Day over two days in ber and December. biggest shopping days, since it of- Hong Kong (Dollar) .............................7.7501 currency. All figures are foreign currencies to one dollar, except for the British pound, October this year, after the pan- Prime Day, which will run fers some of its deepest discounts Hungary (Forint) .................................312.79 Israel (Shekel) .....................................3.4601 which is represented in dollars-to-pound, demic forced it to postpone the from Oct. 13 to Oct. 14 this year, of the year. Japan (Yen) ...........................................105.52 and the euro, which is dollars-to-euro.) sales event from July. It’s the first is sure to put pressure on rivals Amazon also sees it as a way Kuwait (Dinar) .....................................0.3063 INTEREST RATES time Prime Day is being held in Norway (Krone) ...................................9.4882 to offer deals around the same to get more people to sign up for Philippines (Peso).................................48.51 Prime rate ................................................3.25 the fall, and Amazon is position- time. In past years, Walmart, its Prime membership, since only Poland (Zloty) ..........................................3.92 Discount rate ..........................................0.25 Saudi Arabia (Riyal) ...........................3.7508 Federal funds market rate ...................0.09 ing it as a way to get people to Best Buy and Target have offered those paying $12.99 a month or Singapore (Dollar) ..............................1.3739 3-month bill ............................................. 0.10 start their holiday shopping. their own online discounts during $119 a year can access the deals. South Korea (Won) ..........................1,169.69 30-year bond ...........................................1.40 WEATHER OUTLOOK TUESDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST TUESDAY IN EUROPE WEDNESDAY IN THE PACIFIC Misawa 64/59 Kabul 68/49 Seoul 79/58 Baghdad 102/76 Kandahar 86/50 Osan Tokyo Mildenhall/ Drawsko 78/57 67/55 Lakenheath Pomorskie Busan 57/52 58/50 76/61 Iwakuni 72/69 Kuwait Bahrain Zagan Sasebo City 94/88 Brussels 55/50 Guam 100/81 62/50 Ramstein 73/67 84/81 Lajes, 53/50 Riyadh Doha Azores Stuttgart Pápa 97/74 100/80 68/65 54/49 58/51 Aviano/ Vicenza 61/46 Naples 70/59 Okinawa Morón 81/78 88/56 Sigonella Rota 78/60 The weather is provided by the Djibouti Souda Bay American Forces Network Weather Center, 94/82 79/63 78/73 2nd Weather Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. T O D A Y IN STRIPES American Roundup ..... 11 Classified .................. 13 Comics ...................... 15 Crossword ................. 15 Faces ........................ 14 Opinion .................16-17 Sports .................. 18-24 Tuesday, September 29, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 3 MILITARY Tours to N. Korea border village may resume soon BY KIM GAMEL Stars and Stripes SEOUL, South Korea — Tours to the truce village that straddles the border with North Korea, which have been closed for about a year due to concerns about Af- rican swine fever and the coro- navirus, may resume soon, the U.S.-led United Nations Com- mand said Monday. The Joint Security Area is the only point in the buffer zone that divides the peninsula where North Korean and U.N. troops come face to face. Tours to the area, which is in the heart of the Demilitarized Zone and includes the iconic blue building where the armistice that ended the 1950-53 Korean War was signed, have been extremely popular. Authorities began limiting ci- vilian access to the JSA and other points in the 155-mile long, 2.5- mile wide DMZ in September 2019 to prevent the spread of Af- rican swine fever after wild boars were found dead with the disease. MATTHEW KEELER/Stars and Stripes The coronavirus pandemic fur- A South Korean soldier stands in front of the Military Demarcation Line in the Joint Security Area in 2019. A North Korean tour group can ther complicated efforts to re- be seen on the roof of the building in the background. open the area. Citing “the successful contain- resumption of tours as part of its of coronavirus prevention mea- preserve the health and safety,” Korean summit in 2018 as well as ment efforts and the reduced education and orientation pro- sures and will soon announce of visitors, the command said. an impromptu meeting between number of infected swine in the gram at the JSA, according to a the reopening date to the general COVID-19 is the respiratory dis- President Donald Trump and region,” the command said it has press release. public. ease caused by the coronavirus. North Korean leader Kim Jong agreed with the South Korean The U.N.