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Volume 78, No. 116 ©SS 2019 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2019 50¢/Free to Deployed Areas Impeachment probe roils Washington

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy

PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY NOGA AMI-RAV/Stars and Stripes Dems launch inquiry; released transcript shows Trump pushed Ukraine to investigate Biden

BY LISA MASCARO, The president’s words set the param- Trump spent Wednesday meeting with RELATED MARY CLARE JALONICK AND JULIE PACE eters of the political debate to come, with world leaders at the United Nations, a re- Associated Press Democrats saying that it laid the predicate markable split screen even for the turbu-  Poll shows majority for an impeachment inquiry and Trump lence of the Trump era. On his schedule: WASHINGTON — President Donald dismissing it as a “nothing call.” Yet the a meeting with Ukrainian President of Americans against Trump repeatedly pushed Ukraine’s presi- rough transcript clearly shows Trump’s Volodymyr Zelenskiy, whose contacts with dent to investigate Democratic rival Joe willingness to engage a foreign leader on Trump are now central to the impeach- impeachment Biden, according to a rough transcript of a matters directly related to his reelection ment inquiry. summer phone call that is now at the cen-  Investigation pushes prospects. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who ter of Democrats’ impeachment probe into The new impeachment probe plunges launched the impeachment inquiry after Trump. nation to political brink a deeply divided nation into an election months of resistance, said Trump’s call In the conversation, Trump told his year clash between Congress and the com- with Zelenskiy amounted to a “shakedown”  World reacts warily Ukrainian counterpart, “I would like for mander in chief. The probe injects deep un- to benefit his campaign. She declared, you to do us a favor.” He urges him to work certainty into the 2020 election campaign to news of probe with Attorney General William Barr and and tests anew the nation’s constitutional “Congress must act.” Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s personal lawyer. system of checks and balances. SEE IMPEACHMENT ON PAGE 10 Pages 10-11 PAGE 2 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Thursday, September 26, 2019 MILITARY Warning issued on ‘Joker’-related threat

BY J.P. LAWRENCE from loner to killer, the Guardian Stars and Stripes newspaper reported. That attack, in Aurora, Colo., Military commanders in Okla- left 12 dead and 70 injured. homa were warned of the po- Sandy Phillips, whose daughter, tential threat of violence at the Jessica Ghawi, was one of 12 peo- theatrical release of the upcom- ple killed in the suburban Den- ing “Joker” movie, though law ver theater, told The Associated enforcement officials are not sure Press she and four others sent which theaters may be affected. the letter to Warner Bros., ask- An Army Criminal Investiga- ing the studio to lobby Congress tion Command memo issued Mon- for gun control, support survivor day put commanders at Fort Sill, programs and end any contribu- Okla., on notice about an intelli- tions to politicians backed by the gence bulletin that said a Texas National Rifle Association. law enforcement agency working The Aurora theater was re- with the FBI had discovered “dis- modeled and renamed after the turbing and very specific chatter shooting, the AP reported. An in the dark web” about the pos- employee at Century Aurora and sible targeting of an unknown XD, reached by telephone by the theater for a mass shooting dur- AP Tuesday, said there were no ing the Oct. 4 release. immediate plans to show “Joker” An image of the memo was at the theater but referred calls posted briefly to the popular Air Force amn/nco/snco Facebook for comment to Cinemark spokes- page before being removed Tues- man James Meredith. day. The command, which is also The Batman movie just hap- known as CID, confirmed its au- pened to be a blockbuster open- thenticity to Stars and Stripes. ing at the time the shooter, James “Out of an abundance of cau- Holmes, intended to commit the tion, our Fort Sill office distribut- crime, George Brauchler, the 18th Judicial District attorney ed the memo to internal military NIKO TAVERNISE/Warner Bros. personnel at Fort Sill,” said CID who prosecuted the case, told the spokesman Christopher Grey. Joaquin Phoenix stars in the upcoming movie “Joker.’’ A threat of violence at the movie’s scheduled Denver Post. Holmes was con- The memo was based on in- Oklahoma opening prompted the Army Criminal Investigation Command to issue a warning. victed of murder and sentenced formation in a bulletin from the to life in prison without parole. Texas Joint Crime Information warning about the “Momo Chal- make the Army community aware vals. But it has also come under Meanwhile, “Joker” director Center, Grey said. lenge,” though it had been widely of the susceptibility of children as fire for purportedly glamorizing Todd Phillips has responded to An official at the Texas center, debunked as a hoax. … internet and social media plat- its villainous and violent main the controversy surrounding his who declined to be named to dis- Still, CID issued the warning form usage increases,” he said at character. film, including some critiques cuss the matter freely, called the because the challenge, which the time. “We have a significant Families of the victims of a arguing that it could inspire threat “valid,” but said there was purportedly involved a series role in preventing crimes and 2012 shooting at a screening violence. no specific location mentioned. of increasingly dangerous tasks threats to our Army.” of the Batman film “The Dark “I would just argue that you CID has in the past issued leading up to suicide or self-harm, The warning comes as the up- Knight Rises” delivered a letter might want to watch the movie,” warnings based on information “still has potential holding power coming movie, which focuses on Tuesday to Warner Bros., the stu- Phillips told the website IGN. from civilian agencies about mat- over young and impressionable the eponymous villain from the dio behind both that movie and “You might want to watch it with ters that were found to not to be children” online, Grey told Stars Batman comics, played by Joa- the “Joker,” criticizing the latest an open mind.” serious threats. Earlier this year, and Stripes via email in April. quin Phoenix, has been winning film portrayal for its “sympa- [email protected] the command issued an internal “The warning’s intent is to awards at pre-release film festi- thetic” take on the villain’s rise Twitter: @jplawrence3 T O D A Y IN STRIPES American Roundup ...... 17 Business ...... 21 Classified ...... 19, 23 Comics ...... 22 Crossword ...... 22 Faces ...... 18 Opinion ...... 20 Sports ...... 25-32 Weather ...... 21 Thursday, September 26, 2019 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 3 MILITARY Army’s warfighting plans face obstacles in Europe

BY JOHN VANDIVER the London-based Royal United Services Stars and Stripes Institute. The top priority in the Army’s effort to An Army strategy to work closely with upgrade its arsenal, for instance, is devel- allies to fight future wars could be at risk oping long-range precision fires crucial for if the capability gap between the U.S. and countering Russia. some European militaries is allowed to “The intent is to deploy fires in Europe widen, a new study suggests. able to outrange Russia’s Iskander short- The Army outlined in a report called range ballistic missiles to strike railways, “Multi-Domain Operations 2028” its plan ammunition dumps and infrastructure to rapidly deploy and integrate all elements critical to Russia’s Integrated Air Defense of American military power — from tra- System in the event of conflict,” the report ditional ground and air combat to newer said. JOANNA GAONA GOMEZ/U.S. Army warfighting zones such as cyber, space and The weapons would be central in future information operations — in the event of warfare, but the “political ramifications of An AN/TWQ-1 Avenger missile system fires at a moving target in Utska, Poland, on conflict with powers like Russia or China. reintroducing these systems to Europe may June 17. A report by the Association of the U.S. Army’s Institute of Land Warfare The plan focuses on how to penetrate so- be significant,” the report says. warns that a capability gap between the U.S. and its allies could derail a strategy for phisticated enemy defenses and ensure the Allies may be concerned that new de- fighting future wars. U.S. and its allies can maneuver, resupply ployments would set off an arms race, risk and reinforce troops. aggressive messaging from Russia about matic clearances to accelerate troop move- such as information and cyberoperations, But there are problems with the strategy, its nuclear capabilities and ultimately ments in a crisis, but there are still no but to be effective that would require access the new study, titled “European Allies in make European populations feel they are universal guidelines. to cyberinfrastructure of foreign states. US Multi-Domain Operations,” has found. potential targets. “In this climate, gaining At the same time, military capability Providing access to the U.S. in peacetime “There is a risk that if the U.S. does not permission to base LRPF (long-range pre- gaps are widening between the U.S. and its to conduct cyber-reconnaissance “would engage its allies early … U.S. capabilities cision fires) on European territories may allies, and training isn’t keeping pace with be politically sensitive,” according to the will diverge from allied systems, making be difficult,” the report says. the demands imposed by the multidomain report. the level of integration necessary to achieve While countries such as Poland would concept. For its part, the Army has described its convergence unworkable,” says the report probably be eager to host the American NATO exercises, and joint exercises be- plans as a work in progress. by the Association of the U.S. Army’s Insti- weapons, others, like Germany, could be tween European and U.S. forces, are “in- When it released the Multi-Domain Op- flexible and overly scripted” with allies tute of Land Warfare. expected to oppose such a move, opening a erations 2028 concept at the end of last “reluctant to have their limitations demon- If the U.S. is to counterattack against a rift within NATO. year, then-chief of staff Gen. Mark Milley strated in front of U.S. partners.” Russian incursion within 21 days, as mili- Meanwhile, non-NATO states like Aus- said it was a “first step” in the Army’s evo- tary plans call for, “there will need to be tria could also be opposed to such weapon “Very little is trained to the point of fail- lution. “We must examine all aspects of our widespread European cooperation on the deployments and may cause difficulties ure,” the report states. “Scripting is also warfighting methods and understand how movement of personnel and arms across in other areas that are key to the Army’s pushed by NATO, which wishes such activi- borders,” the report said. plans, such as the free movement of mili- ties to be used to bolster its image internal- we enable the joint force on the future bat- Political realities in Europe are among tary equipment and troops around Europe, ly, and its deterrence posture externally. tlefield. We must challenge our underlying the problems and could undermine the the report says. This makes failure unacceptable.” assumptions,” Milley wrote at the time. heart of the Army’s modernization push, For years, the U.S. military and NATO Meanwhile, the warfighting concept also [email protected] says the report published this week with has been pushing for streamlined diplo- requires competing with Russia in areas Twitter: @john_vandiver For first time, Japan takes lead on Malabar exercise

BY CHRISTIAN LOPEZ fense Force for the first time will be lead- fine our support for each other, so we can marine Group 7. Stars and Stripes ing Malabar through a series of on-shore have greater confidence in our combined Japan sent the JMSDF helicopter carrier and at-sea training events, according to a capabilities.” JS Kaga, destroyer Samidare and cruiser YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan statement issued Wednesday by the U.S. Malabar focuses on high-end warfighting Chokai. The Indian Navy sent its stealth — Naval exercises involving warships and 7th Fleet. skills, maritime patrol and reconnaissance frigate INS Sahyadari, antisubmarine war- aircraft from the United States, Japan and “Thanks to the hard work of staffs and operations, surface and antisubmarine fare corvette INS Kiltan and Posedion-8I India got underway off the coast of Sasebo, warfare, helicopter operations and more, leaders in the Indian and U.S. navies, we long-range maritime patrol aircraft. Japan, on Wednesday. according to the statement. Malabar began in 1992 with the U.S. and Exercise Malabar is an annual 10-day now enjoy this excellent relationship be- The U.S. Navy sent the destroyer USS exercise aimed at addressing shared tween our three countries,” JMSDF Rear McCampbell from Yokosuka, the amphibi- India. Japan became a permanent partner threats and improving relations between Adm. Masafumi Nishiwaki said in the ous transport dock USS Green Bay from in 2015. the participating countries. statement. “This exercise is an opportu- Sasebo and an unnamed Los Angeles-class [email protected] This year, the Japan Maritime Self-De- nity to fully integrate our teams and re- nuclear fast attack submarine from Sub- Twitter: @CLopez_Stripes US tanks, troops head to Lithuania for extended deployment

BY JOHN VANDIVER region. time is good and awaited news volving the 2nd Armored Brigade an area of focus over the past cou- Stars and Stripes The looming arrival of U.S. and a result of our efforts and Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Divi- ple of years. All three have mul- forces was welcomed by Lithu- investment.” sion, which deploys in October, tinational alliance battlegroups, STUTTGART, Germany — anian officials, who have lobbied The U.S. military is “a vital fac- U.S. Army Europe said. which were deployed on a year- More than 500 U.S. soldiers and for more frequent and longer tor of deterrence” in the Baltic re- The 9th Cavalry will bring with round basis in 2017 to deter Rus- dozens of tanks and heavy fighting American troop rotations since gion, Karoblis said. it 30 Abrams tanks, 25 Bradley sian aggression. vehicles will deploy to Lithuania Atlantic Resolve began in the Unlike past deployments of Infantry Fighting Vehicles and A U.S. battlegroup is also posi- in the coming days on an extend- wake of Russia’s annexation of Army battalions to Lithuania, the 70 wheeled vehicles, the Defense tioned in northern Poland, near ed mission to bulk up NATO’s Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in current mission is for a long-term Ministry said. They will be based the Russian military hub Kalin- eastern flank, the Baltic country’s 2014. deployment rather than an inter- out of a training area in Pabrade, ingrad, which is wedged between military said Wednesday. “We have sought a larger, long- national exercise, the Lithuanian a small town near the country’s Poland and Lithuania. NATO The troops are being dispatched term U.S. military involvement Defense Ministry said. The unit border with Belarus. forces in the area are focused on as part of U.S. Army Europe’s At- in Lithuania and the region con- — the 1st Battalion, 9th Cavalry Lithuania will provide lodging defending the Suwalki Gap, a vul- lantic Resolve campaign, which sistently and patiently,” Defense Regiment out of Fort Hood, Texas and logistical support during the nerable 45-mile corridor regard- involves rotating hundreds of Minister Raimundas Karoblis — is expected to be in the country deployment, the ministry said. ed as a likely battle zone in the troops to locations up and down said in a statement. “Therefore through spring 2020, it said. For the U.S.-led NATO alliance, event of a conflict with Russia. eastern Europe in an effort to the deployment of the U.S. Army The unit is part of a broader the Baltic countries of Estonia, [email protected] deter Russian aggression in the battalion for a longer period of brigade rotation into Europe in- Latvia and Lithuania have been Twitter: @john_vandiver PAGE 4 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Thursday, September 26, 2019 MILITARY Mold, water force partial closure of 2 new schools

BY JENNIFER H. SVAN moved out of the affected area at one of the walls, causing water Stars and Stripes the Vogelweh school to allow the to overflow and drain into the floor to dry, officials said. floors, raising humidity in the KAISERSLAUTERN, Germa- Work was also being done to atrium, Ross said. ny — Mold and water issues have determine the source of the leak, Kaiserslautern High School has forced two new schools on U.S. Steve Ross, DODEA program several living walls throughout bases in Germany to partially manager for the Army Corps of the school. They’re intended to close as officials work to correct Engineers Europe district, said remove indoor air contaminants, the potential health hazards. in a statement. USACE is over- serve as an educational tool and Black mold was discovered in seeing repairs at both schools. enhance the transmission of nat- one of the walls at Kaiserslautern The black mold at the high ural light. High School last spring, while a school may have started with The living wall was a pilot water leak was detected last week clogged drains in one of the project at Kaiserslautern and no under the floor in the Vogelweh Elementary School’s first-grade school’s “living walls,” a plant other DODEA school in Europe “neighborhood” — a term used to wall and irrigation system that’s has one, Ross said. describe a cluster of open class- one of several nontraditional de- The mold was tested this sum- JENNIFER H. SVAN/Stars and Stripes rooms in Department of Defense sign features built into the $74 mer and damaged plaster was Education Activity’s newer fa- million school, officials said. removed, Ross said. Dehumidifi- Students work in class last spring at Kaiserslautern High School in cilities, dubbed “21st Century The mold was found in adjacent ers were used for several weeks Germany. Black mold was found in the state-of-the-art school a year Schools.” walls. to dry out the affected areas. The after it opened, forcing it to be partially closed. Kaiserslautern opened last fall The wall near where the mold next step is to repair the damaged and Vogelweh opened several was found is constructed of re- areas and retest the air quality, and Prevention says on its web- to parents. weeks ago. inforced concrete with an alu- Ross said. site. There have been no reports “Our 21st Century learning The building issues have not af- minum frame — which holds Repair efforts are expected to of any illnesses connected to the environment allows us to accom- fabric-lined baskets filled with take about a month and a half. fected instruction, said the prin- mold, school officials said. modate a variety of class configu- cipals at both schools. plants and soil — and a drip ir- Meanwhile, the wing where the The flexibility of modern rations and maintain our high “We do not expect any disrup- rigation system. It drains into the mold was found remains closed. schools, such as Kaiserslautern tion to daily activities,” Vogelweh building’s sewer and stormwater Exposure to mold may cause and Vogelweh, is what allowed expectations for instruction,” he principal David Lee said in a note system, Ross said. health issues, particularly in indi- classes to continue without “any wrote. to parents last week. Leaves appear to have plugged viduals with allergies or asthma, disruption,” Lee, the elementary [email protected] Students and furniture were the open drains connected to the Centers for Disease Control school principal, said in his note Twitter: @stripesktown Thursday, September 26, 2019 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 5 MILITARY S. Korea out, China in at Japan’s fleet review

BY HANA KUSUMOTO He did not specify during the confer- to South Korean manufacturers. French navy, in a rare move by a European AND CAITLIN DOORNBOS ence what he meant by negative actions, Relations between the countries have power, on April 6 sent a warship through Stars and Stripes the spokesman said. been fraught with tension for decades over the Taiwan Strait, a waterway over which “We comprehensively determined that atrocities that happened during Japan’s oc- China asserts authority. South Korea is out, but China is in this we don’t have an adequate environment to cupation of South Korea in 1910-45. That act by France presumably led to year at the Japan Maritime Self-Defense invite South Korea for [this year’s] fleet re- Last year, South Korea’s Supreme Court China withdrawing its invitation, accord- Fleet Review scheduled for Oct. 14, a view,” Yamamura added, according to the ruled Japan must compensate South Ko- ing to published reports at the time. JMSDF spokesman said Wednesday. spokesman. reans forced to work for Japan during the The U.S. declined an invitation to send South Korea last month decided to let ex- South Korea’s decision to end the pact occupation. Japan disputes the ruling, ar- warships to the China fleet review. pire in November an intelligence-sharing brought criticism from the United States, guing a 1965 treaty settled the debts, ac- Japan expects 46 ships and 40 aircraft, pact with Japan — the General Security of which has defense treaties with both cording to a July 18 Reuters report. including those from the U.S., Canada, Military Information Agreement. The pact countries. South Korea has participated in Japan’s China, Singapore, the United Kingdom, allows the countries to share critical secu- “This will make defending [South Korea] fleet review twice in the past, including the India and Australia, according to a JMSDF rity information, including intelligence on more complicated and increase risk to U.S. most recent one in 2015, according to the press release. North Korea’s nuclear and missile works. forces,” State Department spokeswoman JMSDF spokesman. The review will be held in Sagami Bay, “Japan-South Korea relations remains Morgan Ortagus said in a tweet Aug. 25. The spokesman also said China will be southwest of Tokyo Bay and between Ja- very harsh due to negative actions taken South Korean officials have said the participating for the first time. pan’s Miura and Izu peninsulas. by the South Korean side,” JMSDF Chief decision was made after Japan removed The Chinese navy, which held its own [email protected] of Staff Adm. Hiroshi Yamamura said dur- the country from its list of trusted trading fleet review in April to celebrate its 70th Twitter: @HanaKusumoto ing a news conference Tuesday, according partners and announced it would restrict anniversary, similarly retracted an invita- [email protected] to a spokesman. exports of chemicals considered essential tion to France to take part in the event. The Twitter: @CaitlinDoornbos Navy investigating shooting death of Marine sentry at Georgia base

Stars and Stripes Bay, according to a military mis- Coast home of the Ohio-class attended Virginia Military Insti- friends, and country. His hob- hap report cited by the Marine submarines. tute before joining the Marines. bies included spending time with The Navy is probing the Aug. Corps Times on Wednesday. The Naval Criminal Investiga- He was married and had a 2- his wife and daughter, working 18 shooting death of a Marine Diesel joined the service in tive Service is investigating the year-old daughter, the obituary on their house, cars and motor- sentry in Georgia, according to 2014 and was assigned to the Ma- death, the report said. said. media reports. cycles. He was also a member of rine Corps Security Force Regi- The young Marine’s obituary, “Derek was a hardworking, Rival (Motorcycle Club) and en- Sgt. Derek Diesel, 25, died ment tasked with guarding the on the Florida-based Beach Fu- passionate leader both at home joyed riding with his brothers in from a gunshot wound to the head submarine base, the newspaper neral Homes website, states that and throughout his service in while posted as an armed sentry reported. The facility is described he was born in Manhasset, N.Y., the Marine Corps,” the obitu- the club.” at Naval Submarine Base Kings on its official website as the East to Keith and Marion Diesel and ary states. “He loved his family, [email protected] PAGE 6 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Thursday, September 26, 2019 MILITARY Some Navy residents will see jump in electricity rates

BY WYATT OLSON Capt. Marc Delao, head of Naval tual costs of utilities and facilities Stars and Stripes Facilities Engineering Command management. Hawaii, told a group of about 200 For roughly the past five years, JOINT BASE PEARL HAR- residents during a Monday eve- the engineering command had BOR-HICKAM, Hawaii — Navy ning town hall at Joint Base Pearl set the electricity rate paid by installation officials are scram- Harbor-Hickam. residents of Hickam Communi- bling to explain a 68% jump in He said he understood the frus- ties and Ohana Military Commu- electricity rates next month for tration expressed by some resi- nities below what it actually costs airmen and sailors living in priva- dents for not being given notice of the Navy to buy from Hawaiian tized housing in Hawaii. the rate increase months earlier. Electric Co., Delao said. Residents of Hickam Com- “I totally get that,” he said. “I As of Oct. 1, the Navy will buy munities and Ohana Military will be absolutely honest with electricity from Hawaiian Elec- WYATT OLSON/Stars and Stripes Communities were notified only you. I failed here. I will take full tric, add overhead costs of man- two weeks ago that the rate for responsibility for that on behalf agement and maintenance and Capt. Jeff Bernard, commander of Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam electricity coming from a Navy- of the Navy, the team. I take then charge customers based on in Hawaii, speaks about increased electricity rates for residents of owned power grid would increase responsibility.” those real costs, he said. Navy privatized housing during a town hall meeting Monday . from 19 cents per kilowatt-hour to But he was quick to add that Hawaii’s residential electricity 32 cents per kWh on Oct. 1. “there ain’t really a whole lot I rates are the highest in America. customers on Oahu, he said. ment that evaluates the efficiency A residence using 500 kWh per can do” about changing the rate Delao said he flew to Washing- Some residents questioned why of home appliances. month — roughly the Hawaii state that begins Oct. 1, which is the ton two weeks ago to plead with the energy being generated and But a resident who identified average — would see a monthly start of federal fiscal year 2020. “corporate headquarters” for sold back to Hawaiian Electric herself as a single mother chal- bill increase from $95 to $160. “What is done is done for FY20,” relief from the 39 cents per kilo- from the many solar panels in the lenged the usefulness of the Hickam Communities and he said. “That rate is there.” watt-hour the Navy had initially two communities did not lead to program. Ohana Military Communities The rate increase is the result intended for Hawaii. lower electric bills. An engineer- “I’ve done it twice, and both host just over 7,000 residential of a Navy-wide budget reform Last week, Naval Facilities ing command representative said times they told me that I’m doing units. that converted the engineering Engineering Command Hawaii solar is offsetting only 15 percent everything fine, everything’s The Navy is holding a series of command from a self-support- learned that the rate for fiscal of electrical demand. perfect,” she told the audience. town hall meetings in an attempt ing revolving-fund organization year 2020 was being lowered to Delao and other officials at the “Yet I’m still paying over $300 a to explain the increase and the into a general fund entity. Under 32 cents per kWh, which is basi- town hall meeting encouraged month.” short notice. the new structure, the command cally the same as Hawaiian Elec- residents to use the Navy’s Know [email protected] “No excuses, no excuses,” is required to bill users the ac- tric’s rate for regular residential Load program, an energy assess- Twitter: @WyattWOlson Low-altitude flight ban urged after helo’s hard landing

BY MARTY EGNASH windshield cracked in several places. been a downed drone. AND MARCUS KLOECKNER “One of the pilots said that he felt some Shortly after local fire crews arrived Stars and Stripes pain in his back,” Hofmann said. “But on the scene, Army military police also he did not want to be checked out by our showed up. The German crews then began ANSBACH, Germany — A German pro- paramedics.” taking care of the power lines. test group called Wednesday for low-alti- The Apache and crew were from the “The damage was really bad,” Hofmann tude military flights to be banned after an 12th Combat Aviation Brigade, stationed said. Army attack helicopter cut six high-voltage in Ansbach, about 20 miles away, the Army A power outage lasted only a few mil- power lines when it made an emergency said in a statement. The incident happened liseconds, but the emergency landing had landing in the Bavaria region, officials and during a routine training flight. a somewhat longer-lasting impact. The A7 media reports said. “One of our Apache helicopters had to highway between Rothenburg ob der Tau- “The extremely lax flight regulations for land quickly and unexpectedly,” said Col. ber and Bad Windsheim was shut down in U.S. helicopters stationed in Ansbach-Kat- both directions for several hours as crews terbach and Illesheim put lives in danger,” John B. Broam, the brigade commander. “There are no reported injuries at this worked to repair the power line, Hofmann the Etz Langt’s pressure group said in a said. It had reopened by Wednesday eve- time.” statement posted on its website. ning, local media reported. Army aviators undergo training that is “Flights as low as three meters above The area where the emergency landing 7th Army Training Command “realistic and challenging,” Broam said. ground and landings in open fields and occurred is “not suitable for risky flight near residential areas are allowed. This is A 12th Combat Aviation Brigade AH-64 “It has to be to ensure we are constantly training,” said the Etz Langt’s protest totally irresponsible,” the group said. Apache helicopter flies over Germany in proficient and ready to respond to any mis- group. More than 200 firefighters responded to March . A n Apache cut six power lines sion we are called on to perform,” he said. “In the U.S., there are plenty of uninhab- a field near the town of Linden on Tuesday when it made an emergency landing near “We balance that difficult training with ited areas where no residents would be in after getting reports of a helicopter crash, the German town of Linden on Tuesday . taking every safety precaution we can.” danger,” the group said. “If Donald Trump said area fire chief Johannes Hofmann, Hofmann, who has been a firefighter in wants to play war games, he should do it at who said he was the first on the scene. AH-64D Apache helicopter standing in a the region since 2004, said he has seen a home, not here.” “We did not know if it was a bad crash field, with its two crewmembers outside. lot, but he was in disbelief when initial re- [email protected] and if the helicopter was on fire,” he said. Pictures and video taken by a local photog- ports came in of a helicopter crash. He and [email protected] When Hofmann arrived, he saw the rapher appeared to show the helicopter’s other firefighters thought it might have Twitter: @Marty_Stripes Navy Exchange joins AAFES in banning sale of vape products

BY CHRISTIAN LOPEZ who do sell these products,” Navy the decision Sept. 12, the same vape products from store shelves Directorate, Business and Sup- AND JAMES BOLINGER Exchange Service Command day the Army Public Health starting Monday. port Services, Headquarters Ma- Stars and Stripes public affairs officer Courtney Center warned servicemembers The Marine Corps Exchange, rine Corps. Williams said in an email. to avoid vape products after the however, hasn’t decided whether The Navy Exchange is banning Last week, retail giant Walmart “Therefore, due to recent feder- Centers for Disease Control and to take e-cigarettes and vape concessionaires from selling announced it would stop selling electronic cigarettes and vape al proposals, beginning on 1 OCT, Prevention said vaping may be products off its shelves, a Marine the products amid concerns about products at its locations starting the NEX will prohibit all conces- linked to hundreds of cases of se- Corps official said in an email links to severe lung disease. Oct. 1, an official said Tuesday. sionaires or vendors from selling vere lung disease and at least six Wednesday. e-cigarettes or vaping products in deaths in dozens of states. “No decisions have been made [email protected] “The NEX does not sell any Twitter: CLopez_Stripes vaping products, but some NEX all NEX locations,” she said. The Army and Air Force Ex- at this time,” said Bryan Driver, [email protected] locations have concession vendors Williams said the Navy made change Service also plans to pull of the Plans, Policy and Analysis Twitter: @bolingerj2004 Thursday, September 26, 2019 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 7 PACIFIC US, S. Korea to continue cost-sharing deal talks Washington wants Seoul to pay more for stationing troops on peninsula

BY KIM GAMEL /U.S. Marine Corps South Korean media have reported that the Trump KELSEY DORNFELD YOO KYONG CHANG AND administration has sought a fivefold increase to An MV-22B Osprey from the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing prepares Stars and Stripes to land on an Okinawan island in 2016. The Japan Coast Guard is about $5 billion a year. SEOUL, South Korea — With seeking charges against a Marine Osprey pilot in a 2016 crash. a Dec. 31 deadline looming, the United States and South Korea agreed to work toward a “reason- Trump has consistently called South Korea was “a very wealthy able and fair” military cost-shar- for South Korea to increase its nation” and had “agreed to pay Japan Coast Guard ing deal as negotiators wrapped contribution, in line with his gen- substantially more money to the up the first round of talks Wednes- eral position that U.S. allies should United States in order to defend wants Osprey pilot in day, the Foreign Ministry said. pay more for their own defense. itself from North Korea.” South U.S. demands that Seoul pay He and South Korean President Korean officials stressed at the more for stationing some 28,500 Moon Jae-in also discussed the time that negotiations had not yet American troops on the divided issue during a summit Monday on begun. 2016 crash charged peninsula have raised pressure the sidelines of the United Nations South Korea says it has paid on the longtime alliance as the General Assembly in New York. nearly half of the $2 billion cost BY MATTHEW M. BURKE prosecute U.S. servicemembers two sides are trying to get nuclear “We are also revitalizing our AND AYA ICHIHASHI “with respect to offenses com- talks with North Korea back on alliances by making it very clear for stationing U.S. troops in South Stars and Stripes mitted within the territory of track. that all of our partners are ex- Korea annually as well as funding Japan and punishable by the law Teams led by State Depart- pected to pay their fair share of the nearly $11 billion expansion of CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa of Japan.” ment official James DeHart and the tremendous defense burden Camp Humphreys, the new U.S. — Japan Coast Guard officials However, the SOFA also waives veteran South Korean negotiator which the United States has borne military headquarters base south have requested that prosecutors certain claims of property dam- Chang Won-sam met Tuesday in the past,” Trump reiterated of Seoul. charge a Marine helicopter pilot age and maritime salvage if “the and Wednesday at the Korea In- during his speech Tuesday at the found to be at fault in a 2016 MV- [email protected] vessel or cargo salved was owned stitute for Defense Analyses in General Assembly. Twitter: @kimgamel 22 Osprey crash off Okinawa. by a Party and being used by Seoul to discuss the 11th Special In August, he tweeted that [email protected] The charges were referred its defense services for official Measures Agreement. Tuesday to the Naha District purposes.” “South Korea and the United Public Prosecutors Office by the Officials from Japan’s Foreign States agreed to continue the ne- Nakagusuku Coast Guard Office, Ministry did not respond to re- gotiations for sharing the cost at a a Coast Guard spokesman con- quests seeking comment regard- reasonable and fair level based on firmed to Stars and Stripes on ing the SOFA on Wednesday. mutual respect and trust as allies Wednesday. The crash occurred during in a dynamic and new negotiating Coast Guard officials request- nighttime aerial refueling on environment,” the Foreign Min- ed that the unnamed Marine pilot Dec. 13, 2016, after one of the he- istry said. “Both sides shared the be charged with negligence re- licopter-airplane hybrid’s propel- view that the [South Korean]-U.S. sulting in an aircraft crash under lers clipped a thick hose on an Air alliance is stronger than ever.” Japanese aviation law, which Force C-130 tanker, officials said The next round of talks is to could bring three years in prison at the time. be held next month in the United or up to $1,863 in fines. The pilot was able to limp 18 States. Prosecutors declined to com- miles back to Okinawa but put the The two sides missed last year’s ment Wednesday when asked if tilt-rotor aircraft down into the deadline after months of fraught they intend to charge the pilot. sea rather than fly over a residen- bargaining but agreed in Febru- The pilot’s name is not known tial area to reach Marine Corps ary on a stopgap measure that because Marine officials have Air Station Futenma. required South Korea to pay 1.04 declined to provide it to Coast Two of its five crewmembers trillion won ($920 million at the Guard officials, the Coast Guard were injured in the crash. The time) for 2018. spokesman said. aircraft — assigned to Marine That was an 8.2% increase from “We will examine the case Aircraft Group 36, 1st Marine the previous year. However, the thoroughly and make a decision,” Aircraft Wing — was a total loss contract was for only one year, in- a spokesman for the prosecutor’s at approximately $90 million. stead of the usual five years, and office said Wednesday. Osprey operations were tem- is due to expire at the end of this The spokesman said not having porarily suspended after the year. the name of the servicemember incident. South Korean media have re- does not necessarily doom any The crew was lauded by then- ported that the Trump admin- potential prosecution. III Marine Expeditionary Force istration has sought a fivefold Coast Guard officials said they commander Lt. Gen. Lawrence increase to about $5 billion a year recently wrapped up their inves- Nicholson for risking their lives by including payment for the de- tigation into the incident. They rather than flying over Okinawan ployment of bombers and other declined to comment further. homes en route to Futenma, strategic assets in addition to the In Japan, the Coast Guard though local opposition over the traditional labor costs. serves in a maritime law enforce- safety of the aircraft flared up. Negotiations over the agree- ment capacity and is separate Nicholson delivered the report ment, which have taken place from the Ministry of Defense. regarding the incident to Oki- since 1991, have always been It is customary in Japan for nawan officials on Sept. 11, 2017. difficult. some government officials to Responsibility for the crash was But the current discussions speak on condition of anonymity. determined to rest solely with the come as the allies face new chal- Marine officials did not re- pilot. Marine officials never com- lenges after the South Koreans spond to requests seeking com- mented on the pilot’s status or ended a U.S.-backed military ment Wednesday. Okinawa whether the pilot was punished. intelligence-sharing agreement prefectural officials declined to The U.S. military took a series with rival Japan. comment and Okinawa Defense of preventative measures after North Korea also has stepped Bureau officials, which represent the crash, from adding wake tur- up criticism of the alliance, Japan’s Ministry of Defense on bulence to flight simulators to which it considers an existential the island, did not respond to re- education and instruction. threat, as it seeks security guar- quests seeking comment. antees as well as sanctions relief The status of forces agreement [email protected] in exchange for possible conces- Twitter: @MatthewMBurke1 between the countries gives Jap- [email protected] sions over its nuclear weapons anese authorities jurisdiction to Twitter: @AyaIchihashi program. PAGE 8 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Thursday, September 26, 2019 MILITARY Edwards AFB will honor parachutist who died in jump

BY CHAD GARLAND his teammates to their hotel the Stars and Stripes day he died and for his family on the day of his burial last week . A master parachutist who died “We’ve cried a lot for Adam,” in a training exercise in southern Fountain, superintendent of the California this month will have SERE/Test Parachute Program two drop zones dedicated in his at the base, was quoted saying in honor at Edwards Air Force Base, a statement. “But I can promise officials said. you that most of those tears had One of the areas will be called been from laughing.” “Rick Drop Zone” in a nod to The Ojai, Calif.-native was post- the nickname of Staff Sgt. Adam humously awarded a Meritorious Erickson, 29, who was killed on Service medal, which 412th Op- CHRISTOPER DYER/U.S. Air Force Sept. 10 during a routine military erations Group commander Col. A memorial for Staff Sgt. Adam Erickson was held Friday at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. The base will proficiency jump, Master Sgt. Timothy Spaulding presented to dedicate two parachute drop zones in honor of Erickson, a master parachutist who died in a jump. Brandon Fountain said during Erickson’s mother, Karen. a memorial service at one of the “Thank you for making him the Calling him a “phenomenal friends and others could travel A caravan of airmen traveled to base’s chapels on Friday. wonderful, loving, smart, funny jumpmaster,” Fountain said Er- to attend Erickson’s funeral last that ceremony, “to ensure a sea of Erickson was a Survival, Eva- and ridiculous perfect man that ickson had earned the coveted week near his hometown. Erick- blue service dress uniforms” was sion, Resistance and Escape spe- he was,” Fountain told the Erick- master parachutist rating just son’s sister has said some of that present, including more than 70 cialist who was certified as a test son family. weeks before his death. money would be used for memo- members of the SERE commu- parachutist and served as non- “Saying Adam will be missed The days since his death have rials at Edwards and in Ojai. nity who shared stories of Erick- commissioned officer in charge is a massive understatement; he been “full of mixed emotions,” “When Adam’s prior Group son’s life with his family, Eishen of parachutist program opera- very clearly enhanced every life 412th Test Wing Command Chief Chief Marc Allen took leave to fly said. tions with the 412th Operations that he touched.” Master Sgt. Ian Eishen said in a back to the area to help this team Support Squadron, a base state- Erickson had deployed to Qatar Facebook post Saturday thanking grieve and asked what he could Listening to family stories ment said. to support battlefield personnel members of the Air Force and the do, the family said they needed “confirmed how lucky we were to Since his death, many have recovery operations in U.S. Cen- community for various forms of help with yardwork” before the know you,” Eishen said. “Thank rallied to show support for his tral Command in 2016 and had support. large gathering of family arrived you, Adam.” family and colleagues, including served as a jumpmaster on a de- Donors rallied to raise more for the funeral, Eishen said. “So [email protected] providing motorcades to escort ployment to Romania this year. than $23,000 to ensure family, Marc got to work.” Twitter: @chadgarland Veterans ask Trump to end Man sentenced delay on blue water claims for theft from Army Reserve BY NIKKI WENTLING known as disability and indemnity com- Stars and Stripes pensation, when he dies. The couple has taken a second mortgage on their home to BY ROSE L. THAYER WASHINGTON — Vietnam veteran pay for his medical expenses, he said. Stars And Srtripes Bobby Daniels has between 24 and 32 They celebrated it as a victory when months to live, and he’s using some of those AUSTIN, Texas — A former Army Re- Trump signed the new law in June. Then, serve civilian employee was sentenced to ensure that his wife receives the benefits with Wilkie’s announcement, Daniels “felt JOE GROMELSKI/Stars and Stripes she’s owed when he’s gone. Tuesday to 18 months in federal prison for like somebody sledgehammered me in the Bobby Daniels and Claudia Holt at a press stealing more than $400,000 from the 63rd Daniels, 79, is diagnosed with terminal mouth.” prostate and bone cancer, thought to be conference during which lawmakers Regional Support Command at Moffett “My wife has been by my side for 56 and veterans urged the administration Field in Mountain View, Calif., according associated with his military service. He years. We struggle through tough times to- served aboard the USS Lexington and is to provide health care and benefits to to the Justice Department. gether,” Daniels said. “My biggest fear now a “Blue Water” Navy veteran — those who Vietnam-era veterans living with the Ramon Torry, 55, of Irvine, Calif., admit- is leaving her behind to struggle through worked aboard aircraft carriers, destroy- effects of exposure to Agent Orange. ted guilt in a plea agreement to charges of tough times alone.” ers and other ships in the territorial seas wire fraud and theft of government money Daniels traveled from his home of New of Vietnam. awaiting claims decisions. in a scheme related to creating a public Daniels and other blue water veterans — Madrid, M o., to join the Veterans of For- “We are working to ensure that we have service announcement for the command. a group that fought for years to prove they eign Wars, Vietnam Veterans of America the proper resources in place to meet the Along with time behind bars, U.S. Dis- were exposed to the chemical herbicide and Disabled American Veterans, as well needs of our Blue Water veteran communi- trict Court Judge Beth Labson Freeman in Agent Orange — saw some major wins as Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., and Rep. ty and minimize the impact on all veterans the Northern District of California’s San during the past year. They won a federal Mark Takano, D-Calif., outside the Senate filing for disability compensation,” Wilkie Jose Division sentenced Torry to three court case that granted them Department on Tuesday. The group urged Trump to lift said in the statement. years supervised release and ordered him of Veterans Affairs benefits. In June, they the hold on claims. Earlier Tuesday, nine Tester said his office has asked the VA to pay $302,982.29 in restitution and for- witnessed the passage of a new law, the veterans organizations delivered a letter about the rollout of the claims processing feiture of the same amount, according to a Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act to the White House urging Trump to meet Jan. 1 but has not received any details. press release. of 2019, that reinforces their eligibility for with them about the issue. “We’ve done our job, the courts have Between December 2015 and October disability compensation. Shane Liermann, a leader with Disabled done their job, and now they need to pro- 2017 while employed as a manpower ana- However, about a week after President American Veterans, said Wilkie’s recent vide the benefits,” Tester said. “As far as lyst with the command, Torry devised Donald Trump signed the legislation, VA response about the delay prompted them I’m concerned, they should start right a scheme to steal money from the unit Secretary Robert Wilkie imposed a hold to directly appeal to Trump. away, not January 2020. And if there are through a contract for the creation of a on processing blue water claims until next “It is apparent our pleas have fallen on any excuses in January 2020, I may pull public service announcement touting the year, citing a provision in the law that says deaf ears,” Liermann said. what little hair I have out.” command’s accomplishments. In Febru- the secretary can enforce a stay on claims In an official statement this past sum- The lawmakers and veterans who spoke ary 2016, Torry began creating fake in- until the law goes into effect Jan. 1, 2020. mer, Wilkie justified the delay by arguing Tuesday said the VA could process at least voices for work allegedly performed by a Daniels has been attempting to have the the VA needed time to implement the Blue some blue water claims before Jan. 1. California production company. VA recognize his Agent Orange exposure Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act without [email protected] [email protected] so his wife can receive survivor’s benefits, causing adverse effects on other veterans Twitter: @nikkiwentling Twitter: @Rose_Lori Thursday, September 26, 2019 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 9 MILITARY 2 lawmakers seek chemical Army mulls restricting eligibility for burial contaminant reform in NDAA at Arlington Cemetery

BY NEIL FOTRE ing PFAS can be harmful, even in BY NIKKI WENTLING Federal Register. The rule-mak- Stars and Stripes small quantities. Stars and Stripes ing process is expected to take at “PFAS have been linked to can- least nine months. WASHINGTON — Two House cer and other deadly diseases,” WASHINGTON — The Army “The hard reality is we are lawmakers on Tuesday called she said. is proposing to restrict eligibil- running out of space,” said Karen for reform on toxic fluorinated Kildee and Dingell want PFAS ity criteria for burial at Arlington Durham-Aguilera, director of chemicals to help prevent further guidelines to be included in the National Cemetery in a move to the cemetery. “To keep Arling- contamination at military bases final National Defense Authori- extend its use as an active cem- ton National Cemetery open and throughout the country. zation Act for fiscal year 2020. etery well into the future, acting active well into the future means “This is a national health This would be an integral start- Secretary of the Army Ryan Mc- we have to make some tough deci- crisis,” Rep. Debbie Dingell, ing point in the beginning phases Carthy announced Wednesday. sions that restrict the eligibility.” D-Mich., said during a news con- of cleanup operations at PFAS Under rules now, most veterans Last September, the cemetery ference with Rep. Dan Kildee, contamination sites, Dingell said. and military retirees are eligible opened a 27-acre expansion, D-Mich., to announce their plan The guidelines would also hold for either above- or below-ground which had been in the works to combat the chemicals, com- accountable corporations desig- burial in Arlington. The Army since the 1990s. Another project, monly known as PFAS. “Today nated as polluters for PFAS con- will begin a monthslong rule- the Southern Expansion, is in the nearly all Americans, including tamination by making further making process to change the planning stages and would add 37 newborn babies, have PFAS in contamination against the law. criteria. acres to the cemetery. Even with their blood, and up to 110 million Dingell discussed three pro- The Army proposed restrict- the extra acres, Arlington Nation- people may be drinking PFAS- visions to address PFAS chemi- ing below-ground burial in the al Cemetery is expected to reach tainted water.” cals in the House-passed NDAA. TNS Virginia cemetery to service- capacity in the mid-2050s. members killed in action, Purple The National Defense Authori- More than 100 Army instal- These amendments designate A sign at Clark’s Marsh Heart recipients, former prison- zation Act approved by Congress lations were discovered to have PFAS as a harmful and hazard- in Michigan warns of fish ers of war, presidents and vice for fiscal year 2019 ordered the drinking water contaminated ous substance to human health. contaminated with chemicals presidents, combat veterans who secretary of the Army to develop with PFAS, according to a recent The designation would allow leaching from the former were awarded the Silver Star or new criteria for burial at Arling- report from the Army conducted PFAS to be cleaned up under the Wurtsmith Air Force Base. by the Environmental Working EPA’s Superfund Program, which above, servicemembers who had ton — restrictions that would combat-related deaths and com- allow it to remain an active cem- Group, a nonprofit organization. is responsible for cleaning up the set aside money for cleanup and bat veterans who also served as etery for the next 150 years. The highest levels were found nation’s most contaminated land. take preventative measures from government officials and “made The Federal Advisory Commit- in Fort Leavenworth, Kan., the The designation would also ban furthering PFAS contamination. National Guard’s Joint Training significant contributions to the tee on Arlington National Cem- the use of PFAS chemicals in ma- The provisions include phasing Base in Los Alamitos, Calif., and nation’s security at the highest etery, which includes a Medal of terials used to manufacture the out the use of PFAS in firefight- Belmont Armory, Mich. levels of public service.” Arling- Honor recipient, military retir- military’s Meals Ready to Eat ing foam by 2025, boosting fund- The Environmental Protection and require military installations ton also would reserve 1,000 plots ees, military families and former ing for the national Centers for Agency designates per- and poly- to cooperate with state govern- for Medal of Honor recipients. members of Congress, began dis- Disease Control and Prevention’s fluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, ments when PFAS contamination Under the propos al, above- cussing new eligibility criteria nationwide health study on PFAS, as “a categor y of ma n-made chem- is detected on the facilities. ground inurnment would be avail- years ago. The rule-making pro- icals that are found in everyday Kildee is the founder and co- provide the U.S. Geological Sur- able to World War II veterans, cess will include a period of pub- items including food packaging, chairman of the PFAS Task vey with $5 million to conduct a armed forces retirees, combat lic comment, during which the nonstick products, and stain re- Force, a bipartisan congressional nationwide sampling for PFAS in veterans who served two years on Army will collect more feedback. pellent fabrics.” PFAS chemicals group that works to educate the the environment and require the active duty and veterans without “This is a lengthy process, but build up in the human body over public and create legislation to Government Accountability Of- combat service who worked as it’s another opportunity to have a time and are not able to be broken address PFAS contamination in fice to review the Department of government officials and contrib- say in what the future of Arling- down by the environment. the United States. The task force Defense’s response to PFAS con- uted to national security. ton National Cemetery should be Jennifer Sass, a senior scientist works with members of Congress tamination in and around mili- A spokesman for the cemetery for our nation,” Durham-Aguilera with the nonprofit National Re- to address the PFAS public health tary bases. said the Army couldn’t comment said in a statement. sources Defense Council, spoke threat. The House NDAA includ- [email protected] on the details of the proposed cri- [email protected] at the news conference, explain- ed several provisions that would Twitter: @Neil_Fotre teria until they were posted to the Twitter: @nikkiwentling GAO will review rating system for VA nursing homes

BY ROSE L. THAYER ties across the country. policy on encountering bedbugs on various factors including tor nursing homes, though the Stars and Stripes The senators asked the ac- and to call in-house pest control nurse staffing and unannounced department on average cares for countability office for a review in to allow the facility’s “profession- inspections. The VA data showed sicker and more complex patients AUSTIN, Texas — The Govern- August, before this month’s rev- al team of experts to treat and ex- the majority of facilities had a rat- than do private facilities. Many of ment Accountability Office will elation of an ant infestation at the terminate” the bedbugs. ing of four or five stars. our patients carry the wounds of examine how the Department of VA’s Atlanta nursing home. Three of the bugs were found “We appreciate that many war.” Veterans Affairs rates its nurs- Officials at the Eagle’s Nest in two rooms earlier this month, community living centers care The rating system used for VA ing homes at the request of three Community Living Center in the according to Mary Dillinger, for a disproportionately complex nursing homes is an adapted ver- senators, who announced the up- Atlanta VA Medical Center con- spokeswoman for the Prescott resident population with multiple sion of Medicare’s five-star meth- coming review Monday. firmed that three veterans were VA. Staff immediately “reported chronic and difficult conditions,” odology based on health surveys, Sens. Edward J. Markey, D- bitten by ants that had infested the incident to pest control of- Markey, Tester and Warren said staffing and quality of resident Mass.; Elizabeth Warren, D- rooms in the facility. One veteran, ficials, who followed protocol by in the statement. “But public con- care measures. The health sur- Mass.; and Jon Tester, D-Mont., a cancer patient, was bitten more conducting preventive measures cerns and reporting underscore veys and star ratings are avail- who is the ranking member of the than 100 times in the days before throughout the hospital and re- the need to ensure [community able on the VA’s website, as well Senate Committee on Veterans’ he died. The incident led to disci- solving the issue,” she said. “No living centers] have the tools, re- as a map to compare the ratings Affairs, sent a letter to the GAO plinary action for nine employ- patients were found with bedbugs sources and properly trained staff with those of nearby facilities. with the request in August follow- ees, including the removal of two on their person, and this incident necessary to provide the quality When comparing the commu- ing a number of “reports indicat- leaders at the southeast regional did not negatively affect patient nursing home care our veterans nity living centers with non-VA ing poor quality ratings as well level. care in any way.” need and deserve.” as disturbing anecdotal stories of The Atlanta nursing home isn’t When the VA first released The VA welcomes the facilities rated by the Centers substandard treatment and con- the only facility encountering star-rating data in 2018, nearly GAO’s oversight, said Susan for Medicare and Medicaid Ser- ditions at some” nursing homes bugs. The Northern Arizona VA half of the nation’s centers were Carter, spokeswoman for the vices, VA has a lower number of over the years. Health Care System’s communi- rated one-star, the lowest rank, department. low-performing facilities and a The VA refers to the facilities ty living center in Prescott had a according to the senators’ state- “Like any health care provider higher number of high-perform- as community living centers be- bout with bedbugs this month, ac- ment. The latest data has shown — including those in the private ing facilities, Carter said. cause they are not solely intended cording to an internal email from improvement in the ratings. sector — VA nursing homes some- In a letter to Tester’s office, the for end-of-life care but are also the system’s director. The VA, however, refuted the times encounter isolated prob- GAO said a staff member should a place to recover from surgery “Bedbugs can occur in any hos- senators’ information. The agen- lems, and when we find them, we begin reviewing the rating sys- or a mental health crisis or to pital,” d irector Barbara Oemcke cy said its own data shows only 11 fix them,” she said. “But overall, tem in about four months. receive respite care. The VA op- wrote on Sept. 16. She advised community living centers had the VA’s nursing home system com- [email protected] erates more than 100 of the facili- employees to follow their local one-star rating at that time, based pares closely with private sec- Twitter: @Rose_Lori PAGE 10 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Thursday, September 26, 2019 NATION Impeachment: Trump’s Ukraine dealings prompted call for probe

FROM FRONT PAGE lomatic dealings with Kyiv. Though the Trump, who thrives on combat, has all timing raised concerns among anti-cor- but dared Democrats to move toward im- ruption advocates, there has been no evi- peachment, confident that the specter of dence of wrongdoing by either the former an investigation led by the opposition party vice president or his son. will bolster rather than diminish his politi- Biden said Tuesday, before Pelosi’s an- cal support. nouncement, that if Trump doesn’t co- “Just so you understand, it’s the single operate with lawmakers’ demands for greatest witch hunt in American history, documents and testimony in its investiga- probably in history,” Trump said during a tions the president “will leave Congress meeting with foreign leaders in New York. … with no choice but to initiate impeach- Republicans largely stood by the presi- ment.” He said that would be a tragedy of dent and dismissed the notion that the Trump’s “own making.” rough transcript revealed any wrongdoing While the possibility of impeachment by Trump. “I think it was a perfectly appropriate has hung over Trump for many months, J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE/AP the likelihood of a probe had faded after phone call; it was a congratulatory phone House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, D-Calif., joined, from left, by Rep. Jim special counsel Robert Mueller’s Trump- call,” said Rep. Liz Cheney, the No. 3 House Jordan, R-Ohio; Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo.; and Rep. Doug Collins, R-Georgia, criticizes Republican. “The Democrats continually Russia investigation ended without a clear House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and the Democrats for launching a formal make these huge claims and allegations directive for lawmakers. impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump on Wednesday. about President Trump, and then you find Since then, the House committees have out there’s no there there.” revisited aspects of the Mueller probe The call is one part of a whistleblower while also launching new inquiries into complaint on the president’s activities, Trump’s businesses and various adminis- though the administration has blocked tration scandals that all seemed likely to New poll shows limited support Congress from getting other details of the drag on for months. report, citing presidential privilege. But details of Trump’s dealings with for removing Trump from office The complaint was being reviewed for Ukraine prompted Democrats to quickly classified material and could go to Con- shift course. By the time Pelosi announced BY JOHN WAGNER D-Calif., announced the launch of of- gress by Thursday, according to a person the probe, about two-thirds of House Dem- ficial proceedings, accusing Trump of familiar with the issue who was not autho- The Washington Post ocrats had announced support for moving violating the Constitution in seeking rized to discuss it publicly and spoke on Amid a groundswell of support for im- help from a foreign leader to damage a condition of anonymity. toward impeachment probes. peachment proceedings among House political opponent. In the rough transcript of the 30-min- The burden will probably now shift to Democrats, a new poll finds a majority The poll shows a stark partisan divide ute phone call with Zelenskiy, Trump en- Democrats to make the case to a scan- of Americans do not favor ousting Pres- on the question of impeachment. Among courages the Ukrainian leader to talk with dal-weary public. In a highly polarized ident Donald Trump from office. Democrats, 73% support impeachment, Giuliani and Barr. Immediately after say- Congress, an impeachment inquiry could Thirty-seven percent of voters say while 21% are opposed. Among Repub- ing they would be in touch, Trump refer- simply showcase how clearly two sides can that Trump should be impeached and licans, only 4% support impeachment, ences Ukraine’s economy, saying: “Your disagree when shown the same evidence removed from office, while 57% say he while 95% are opposed. economy is going to get better and better I rather than approach consensus. should not be impeached, according to Trump’s overall job approval rating predict. You have a lot of assets. It’s a great On Wednesday, the Democratic-con- a Quinnipiac University poll released country.” remains in the range it has for nearly trolled House was expected to consider a Wednesday morning. In the days before the call, Trump or- his entire presidency, with 40% of vot- symbolic but still notable resolution insist- The poll was conducted from Thurs- dered advisers to freeze $400 million in ers approving of how he is handling his ing the Trump administration turn over to day through Monday, as details were military aid for Ukraine — prompting job and 55% saying they disapprove. Congress the whistleblower’s complaint. emerging about Trump’s July call with speculation that he was holding out the The poll shows Trump remains popu- The Republican-led Senate, in a rare bi- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelen- money as leverage for information on the lar among Republicans and faces no partisan moment, unanimously approved Bidens. Trump has denied that charge and skiy in which Trump acknowledged he significant threat from his three GOP the aid package does not come up in the a similar resolution Tuesday. asked Zelenskiy to investigate former primary challengers. Among Republi- conversation with Zelenskiy. The lawyer for the whistleblower, who vice president Joe Biden and his son. can voters, he has 80% support, while Trump has sought to implicate Biden is still anonymous, released a statement That revelation prompted a rush of none of the three challengers has more and his son in the kind of corruption that saying he had asked Trump’s director of moderate House Democrats to call for than 2% . has long plagued Ukraine. Hunter Biden national intelligence to turn over the com- an impeachment inquiry into Trump, The poll is said to have a margin of served on the board of a Ukrainian gas plaint to House committees and asked a step they had resisted for months. On error of plus or minus 3.2 percentage company at the same time his father was guidance to permit the whistleblower to Tuesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, points. leading the Obama administration’s dip- meet with lawmakers. What you need to know about the impeachment inquiry

BY AMBER PHILLIPS the House of Representatives. to investigate Trump “under that now.” more difficult to make their case The Washington Post Under the framework of the Con- umbrella of impeachment inqui- So the House was already in that impeachment is necessary if stitution, the House can vote to ry.” If the investigations conclude an impeachment inquiry? it’s 2020 and nearing an election House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, impeach a president for “high there are reasons for impeach- Yes. Well, kind of. It depends in which Trump could get thrown D-Calif., announced a formal crimes and misdemeanors.” It’s ment, the Judiciary Committee on whom you ask. Nadler’s com- out of office anyway. impeachment inquiry of Presi- up to the House to decide what will draw up articles of impeach- mittee has charge over impeach- Will the Senate remove dent Donald Trump. Here’s what that means. ment, and the Judiciary Commit- ment, and he surprised some of Trump from office? As it stands you need to know about what im- But impeaching the president tee and then the full House will his members this summer when now, probably not. There’s no evi- peachment is and how it works, is not the same thing as remov- vote on it. he publicly said they’ve started an dence the Republican-controlled starting with the basics. ing the president from office. For Here’s how Judiciary Commit- inquiry. Pelosi was not support- Senate wants to confront Trump What does impeachment that, the Senate holds a trial pre- tee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D- ive of this and as recently as last in such a way. In fact, on Monday, actually mean? It means that sided over by the chief justice of N.Y., summed up the process in week wouldn’t say “impeachment Senate Republicans were trying Congress thinks the president is the United States. Two presidents August to CNN, when he decided inquiry” publicly. But the allega- to defend Trump. It’s up to House no longer fit to serve and should in American history have been his committee was launching an tions facing Trump on Ukraine Democrats to uncover something be removed from office. Here’s impeached (Andrew Johnson and impeachment inquiry: “We are changed her mind. that could change Republicans’ what the Constitution says: “The Bill Clinton). One resigned under investigating all the evidence, How long does the impeach- minds. President, Vice President and all threat of impeachment (Richard gathering the evidence. And we ment process take? It can be as Could Trump run in 2020 civil Officers of the United States, Nixon). None have been actually will [at the] conclusion of this long or as short as the House even if he’s impeached? shall be removed from Office on removed from office. — hopefully by the end of the wants. As The Washington Post’s If he’s impeached by the House, Impeachment for, and Conviction What is the process for an year — vote to vote articles of Aaron Blake notes, if past is prec- yes. If he’s removed from of- of, Treason, Bribery, or other high impeachment inquiry? Pelosi said impeachment to the House floor. edent, this could be wrapped up fice, well, that’s never happened Crimes and Misdemeanors.” Tuesday that the six key commit- Or we won’t. That’s a decision in four months. But Democrats before, so we’d probably all be Who can impeach the presi- tees that are already investigat- that we’ll have to make. But that’s probably are on a tight timeline armchair-interpreting the Con- dent? Congress. Specifically, ing the president will continue exactly the process we’re in right here; politically, it could be much stitution to figure that one out. Thursday, September 26, 2019 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 11 NATION Impeachment move Dems’ clash with triggers caution and Trump has new calculation overseas BY RICK NOACK able. Some of Trump’s criticism AND DAVID CRAWSHAW of Europe — including his attacks The Washington Post on Germany over its low defense spending — has been backed by The world reacted warily to analysts. German leaders may legal framework news that President Donald hope that post-Trump, it might Trump would face impeachment become easier again for them to proceedings, with some experts LEX RANDON/AP “duck again,” Bierling said. BY MICHAEL SCHERER calating conflicts even when the A B saying it would have little effect Britain: In Britain, the an- The Washington Post facts are not on his side. His 2020 on hot-button issues such as the Since the disclosures about nouncement of an impeachment reelection campaign, premised Ukraine, only a single trade dispute with China or his WASHINGTON — The Dem- inquiry was largely overshad- on the notion that liberal elites, Republican, Utah Sen. Mitt promises on Brexit, while others ocratic decision to launch an owed by the historic ruling of the Democrats and the media are predicted that increased domes- impeachment inquiry of Presi- Romney, above, has gone so conspiring against the American tic pressure would force Trump United Kingdom’s Supreme Court dent Donald Trump on Tuesday far as to call President Donald people, is now certain to prompt a Trump’s actions potentially to seek a quick foreign policy on Tuesday that Prime Minister pushed a strained nation to a new rallying cry. “troubling in the extreme.” breakthrough. Boris Johnson’s suspension of new political brink, activating “PRESIDENTIAL HARASS- With Washington in an en- Parliament was unlawful. for the fourth time in history the MENT!” he tweeted concisely trenched state of partisan division “[Many] people see so many U.S. Constitution’s most critical Tuesday afternoon. Within hours, “troubling in the extreme.” The remaining senators are and the Trump administration’s parallels between Trump and fail-safe with no certainty about his campaign put out a call for do- Johnson as populist, would-be where it will take the country. no doubt responding to Trump’s relations with allies and adver- nors to give to his “Impeachment strongmen who flout the rules After years of circling each powerful sway with their own saries mired in mistrust, experts Defense Team.” and seem to get away with it — at other in an increasingly bitter Although impeachment pro- constituents and public polls said the specter of further U.S. po- least until now,” Tim Bale, a pro- political clash, ceedings reflect America’s demo- from this summer that showed litical paralysis would have mini- ANALYSIS Trump and his cratic system working as it was a majority of the country op- mal immediate impact globally . fessor of politics at Queen Mary Democratic op- designed, to determine if a presi- posing an impeachment inquiry Here is how people around the University of London, said in an ponents will now dent accused of crimes should after a report by special counsel world assessed the latest U.S. email. find themselves locked in a legal be removed from office, Trump Robert Mueller laid out evidence political shootout, which Trump South Korea: In this U.S.-allied process designed to remove from and his allies are expected to use that Trump may have repeatedly derided as a “witch hunt” and “ha- East Asian country, experts said power elected leaders who have every tool at their disposal to test sought to obstruct justice. rassment” by House Democrats: that domestic pressure on Trump betrayed the public trust. Both the very foundations of that sys- Democratic consultants and China: Impeachment proceed- might spur him to seek a quick sides committed to emerge victo- tem, just as they have done since pollsters focused on House and ings are likely to take a long time, resolution on North Korea . rious from the fight. his earliest days in office. Senate races have been warning so they will have very little im- “His engagement with North for months that a pursuit of im- “I can’t tell you what will come Only three times before has the pact, if any, on the trade talks Korea has produced achieve- peachment following the Mueller from this. I don’t think anybody House formally pursued a presi- with China, said Yao Xinchao, a ments that are highly visible. He can,” said Dan Sena, who was dent’s impeachment. President inquiry could allow Republicans professor of trade at the Univer- to claim that Democrats are par- could turn to a diplomatic event executive director of the Demo- Andrew Johnson’s 1868 acquittal sity of International Business and tisans not focused on the concerns with North Korea to divert atten- cratic Congressional Campaign by the Senate, in the tumultuous Economics in Beijing. of voters. Interviews with several tion away from domestic political Committee in 2018. “But it is aftermath of the Civil War, re- “The odds of Trump getting of the party’s top pollsters and challenges,” said Kim Yong-hyun, definitely going to be an X-factor shaped the relationship between consultants Tuesday revealed impeached by the end of 2019 are professor of North Korean studies going into the 2020 election.” Congress and the presidency. that the concerns had not faded. very slim,” Yao said. “Of course, at Dongguk University in Seoul. House Speaker Nancy Pe- President Richard Nixon’s deci- But the advisers also said there Trump getting reelected would losi, D-Calif., spent much of the sion to resign in 1974 rather than further dim the prospects for undergo impeachment sparked was reason to believe polling year beating back impeachment would shift in coming months, as China-U.S. relations. It would re- calls in her party, warning that years of government reform and inforce his conviction that taking the election of Democratic Presi- Democratic voters united behind a partisan process would be, their party and details of Trump’s a hard line against China pays off in her words, “so divisive” and dent Jimmy Carter in 1976. and allow him to cast off his al- A voter backlash against the conversations with Ukraine were “not worth it.” As she told her known to the public. ready few misgivings in making colleagues in 2018, on the way impeachment of President Bill irresponsible decisions.” Clinton, who was also not re- Democrats intend to argue that to winning back control of the Chinese Foreign Ministry moved from office by the Senate, the fact pattern behind Trump’s House, “You can’t get in a tinkle spokesman Geng Shuang de- led to Democratic gains in the contact with Ukraine is far more contest with a skunk.” direct, damning and easily di- clined to respond to the impeach- But on Tuesday, she announced House in 1998 and the resigna- tion of Republican Speaker Newt gestible than complex stories of ment news, telling reporters that that everything had changed. Re- potential obstruction of justice it was “an internal matter for the cent revelations about Trump’s Gingrich. As in each of those cases, Dem- contained in the Mueller report. United States.” efforts to pressure the president The potential national security Germany and France: After of Ukraine to help find dirt that ocrats now have little hope of Trump’s removal from office by implications have also pushed more than two years, many con- would aid his own reelection were several more moderate Demo- tinental Europeans have grown a “betrayal of his office.” She was the Senate if they impeach him in cratic members to support im- weary of talk of impeaching ready to take the leap. the House. Republicans control peachment in recent days, despite Trump, even if they may support “Use any metaphor you want: the upper chamber, which would the political risks that have been it. Crossing the Rubicon, alea iacta have to convict him by a two- laid out to them by advisers. In France, the tone of coverage est, a new territory, a new day has thirds margin. Since the disclo- “I have a lot of moderate and mostly played up the uncertainty dawned,” she said, evoking the sures about Ukraine, only a single Republican, Sen. Mitt Romney, of Blue Dog clients who are look- of the proceedings at this early Latin phrase for “the die is cast,” ing at it through the prism of reportedly uttered by Julius Cae- Utah, has gone so far as to call stage too. the president’s actions potentially principle, not through the prism “The United States is engaged sar in 49 B.C. of politics. And that is a freight Pelosi’s dramatic declaration in the unknown,” the prominent train,” said another Democratic French daily Le Monde wrote may go down in history as an pollster, who spoke on the condi- in the lead of its story on the im- understatement. tion of anonymity to discuss pri- peachment inquiry. Presidential impeachment is ‘ I have a lot of vate conversations. enshrined in clear terms in the Republican election strate- In continental Europe, few founding documents, but its use in moderate and Blue gists, meanwhile, have been cel- would miss Trump as president. practice has less in common with ebrating the potential impact an “All parties apart from the (far- a typical legal proceeding than Dog clients who impeachment could have on their right) AfD party would be jolly with an atomic weapon, potential- are looking at it own voters in 2020 elections. glad if the Trump presidency was ly setting off chain reactions that “There is nothing that will do over,” said Stephan Bierling, an can dominate the nation’s atten- through the prism more for Republican turnout international politics professor tion for weeks, ripple through the than this. And the last couple of at the University of Regensburg political system for years and shift of principle, not presidential elections have all in Germany in an email. “The electoral outcomes in unexpected through the prism of been turnout elections,” said Jim faster, the better.” ways. That calculus is further McLaughlin, a Republican poll- But Bierling also acknowledged complicated by the extraordinary politics. And that is ster working on the Trump re- that some of the reasons for con- nature of Trump, a rule-bend- a freight train. election effort. “I always thought tinental Europe’s welcoming ing, norm-breaking spectacle of ’ Nancy Pelosi was smarter than stance toward possible impeach- a leader, who has thrived by es- unnamed Democratic pollster this. It’s crazy.” ment proceedings were debat- PAGE 12 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Thursday, September 26, 2019 NATION US slams Rouhani UN over slams US’ abortion The Washington Post The Trump administration declared that there’s no “inter- national right to abortion” at a ‘economic United Nations meeting in New York this week, calling on other countries to join a coalition push- ing the elimination of what it calls “ambiguous” terms and expressions, such as sexual and terrorism’ reproductive health, from U.N. documents. BY AYA BATRAWY “We remain gravely concerned that aggressive efforts to reinter- Associated Press pret international instruments to UNITED NATIONS — Iran’s president create a new international right accused the United States of “merciless eco- to abortion and to promote inter- nomic terrorism” Wednesday, using his U.N. national policies that weaken the speech to stress that security in the Persian family have advanced through Gulf can be guaranteed only when his nation’s some United Nations forums,” security is as well — and only with the involve- Health and Human Services Sec- ment of Iran’s neighbors. retary Alex Azar and Secretary President Hassan Rouhani told the U.N. of State Mike Pompeo said in a General Assembly gathering that Iran would letter circulated in advance of the not negotiate on the issue of its nuclear pro- gathering. gram as long as sanctions remain in place. Earlier this year, HHS officials began meeting with representa- “Our response to any negotiation under CRAIG RUTTLE /AP sanctions is negative,” he said. He said Iran tives from other countries, urging has “resisted the most merciless economic Iranian President Hassan Rouhani addresses the 74th session of the United Nations General them to join a new international terrorism” from a nation that is engaging in Assembly on Wednesday, on a speech in which he accused the U.S. of “merciless economic coalition that would focus on the “international piracy.” terrorism.” value of “the family,” and which Iranian state television broadcast Rouhani’s would not condone harmful speech live across the country of 80 million the rising tensions with Iran. the U.S. or Saudi Arabia will lead to “all-out sexual risks for young people or people. Rouhani’s manner during the speech was war.” promote abortion as a means of He spoke as his country’s nuclear deal with measured, but the words he delivered were The Sept. 14 attack followed months of family planning. world powers unravels under pressure from ominous. lower-level attacks on oil tankers and the Other countries, civil society and women’s rights groups have the Trump administration. Iran has turned “Our region is on the edge of collapse, as a shooting down of a U.S. surveillance drone expressed alarm at the efforts and back to expanding its nuclear enrichment single blunder can fuel a big fire,” he said. over the Strait of Hormuz. The U.S. and its accused the United States of align- program after President Donald Trump’s de- The region will become secure when U.S. regional allies blame those attacks on Iran, ing with countries like Saudi Ara- cision last year to pull out of the accord and troops withdraw, he said. which it also denies. bia and Sudan with poor human reimpose sanctions on Tehran, targeting its Rouhani spent much time appealing to Trump, speaking at the U.N. on Tuesday, left rights records and of putting un- ability to export oil. Iran’s neighbors, saying that their destinies open the possibility of diplomatic engagement fair pressure on poor countries Rouhani’s highly anticipated remarks at the are intertwined and they should consider with Iran. That was the same day that Rouhani that depend on U.S. aid. U.N. came a day after Trump described Iran each other rather than pinning their hopes on insisted that he’d consider meeting only after Numerous country representa- as “one of the greatest threats” to the planet. the involvement of the United States. sanctions against his country are lifted. tives tweeted their objections to “Security shall not be supplied with Ameri- But as he ended his General Assembly The escalating crisis has raised concerns U.S. statement under the hashtag can weapons and intervention,” he said. “Se- speech, Rouhani suggested there was still that direct conflict, with Iran at the center, #SRHR — sexual and repro- curity cannot be purchased or supplied by some room for diplomacy. could break out in the region — a scenario ductive health and rights, the foreign governments.” “This is the message of the Iranian nation: that all concerned parties, including Iran very language the United States and Saudi Arabia, have stressed they want to Rouhani’s remarks come as the U.S. and Let’s invest on hope toward a better future has sought to erase from U.N. avoid. its allies accuse Iran of being behind a major rather than on war and violence,” he said. documents. The United States has sent military rein- drone and missile strike on Saudi Arabia’s “Let’s return to justice, to peace, to law, com- Sweden’s minister for Interna- forcements and beefed up its security pres- key oil sites earlier this month. Iran has de- mitment and promise and finally to the nego- tional Development Cooperation ence in the Middle East in past months amid nied any involvement and says any strikes by tiating table.” tweeted that the action was “un- believable news,” and that “wom- en’s rights must be protected at Ukraine’s leader avoids controversy in speech all times.” The Netherlands’ Sigrid Kaag, minister of foreign trade, spoke BY JENNIFER PELTZ the matter as he called for wide Barely 100 days into his tenure, up the money as leverage for in- out in a competing joint statement Associated Press international support for his Zelenskiy is in a delicate spot after formation on Biden. issued on behalf of 58 countries. country, five years after Rus- the phone call with Trump, the Trump has denied that the While she did not use the word UNITED NATIONS — Abrupt- sia annexed Ukraine’s Crimean leader of one of Ukraine’s most funds were blocked as leverage abortion, she repeatedly stressed ly cast into the center of a politi- Peninsula and Moscow threw its steadfast allies. The two were due for information on the Biden and the need to uphold the full range of cal storm in the United States, weight behind separatists fighting to meet on the sidelines of the as- his son, Hunter, and says he did sexual and reproductive rights. Ukraine’s president steered clear in the eastern part of his country. sembly later Wednesday. nothing wrong, calling the matter Francoise Girard, president of of the controversy Wednesday as He warned that in an intercon- At issue is whether the Repub- a “witch hunt.” the International Women’s Health he made his debut speech on di- nected world, “there is no more lican Trump abused his presiden- In a TV interview over the Coalition, said “sexual and repro- plomacy’s biggest stage, focusing ‘somebody else’s war.’ ” tial powers and sought help from weekend, Ukraine’s foreign min- ductive rights are human rights, instead on the horrors of war and “Every leader bears his share Ukraine to undermine a Demo- ister denied Zelenskiy was pres- and are enshrined in UN agree- on his country’s ongoing conflict of responsibility not only for the cratic foe, former Vice Presi- sured to investigate Hunter Biden. ments for almost 25 years now.” with Russia. destiny of his own country but for dent Joe Biden, and help his own Zelenskiy’s office has declined to “The Trump administration’s Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s address the whole world,” said Zelenskiy, reelection. comment on the reports. position is extreme and its re- at the U.N. General Assembly who at one point held up a bullet Trump repeatedly pressed The United States has given peated attempts to strip women, came less than a day after a for- to decry violence and made ref- Zelenskiy to investigate Biden, Ukraine millions of dollars in aid girls, and gender-diverse people mal U.S. House impeachment erences to the classic World War according to a rough transcript since a pro-Western government of their rights at the United Na- inquiry into President Donald I novels “All Quiet on the West- summarizing the call released took power in Kyiv in 2014. tions have failed,” Girard said. Trump was launched — a devel- ern Front” and “A Farewell to Wednesday. The phone call came Zelenskiy, 41, a popular come- Antiabortion groups, mean- opment that was sparked partly Arms.” days after Trump ordered advis- dian with no political experience, while, praised the statement as by a July 25 phone call between “Today, it depends on everyone ers to freeze $400 million in mili- unseated incumbent Petro Po- a sign of the administration’s the two leaders. here whether there will be life at tary aid for Ukraine, prompting roshenko in an election this year “strong pro-life leadership on the Zelenskiy made no mention of all,” Zelenskiy said. speculation that he was holding in the nation of 45 million people. world stage.” Thursday, September 26, 2019 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 13 NATION Trump’s Senate allies give OK to $5B wall request

BY ANDREW TAYLOR ranges to finance the wall. Associated Press “There is a line here that I be- lieve has been overstepped,” said WASHINGTON — President GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski, of Donald Trump’s Senate GOP al- Alaska. “It is in this committee lies are pushing to give him his that we determine what the ap- full $5 billion request to build propriation level will be for the about 200 miles of fencing along wall.” the U.S.-Mexico border, but the Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., said plan ran into immediate oppo- the border wall is a “gross waste sition from Democrats and is a of taxpayer dollars.” MARY ALTAFFER/AP non starter with House Speaker The Senate wa s slated to vote Nancy Pelosi. Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg speaks to Australian businessman Andrew Forrest as she Wednesday on a Democratic The wall money is contained in arrives for a briefing focused on the release of a United Nations-affiliated report on oceans and ice on measure to nullify Trump’s a $71 billion draft funding bill for Wednesday in New York. emergency powers. An identical the Department of Homeland Se- bill passed Congress earlier this curity that cleared its first, easi- year but was successfully vetoed est hurdle in a Senate panel on by Trump. Tuesday. Senate Homeland Secu- International climate report: Oceans “If Republicans stand with rity Appropriations Chairwoman President Trump, they will be Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., saying they fully support allow- announced the $5 billion figure. rising faster, melting more ice, snow ing the president to take money The money faces an uphill slog. from our military to fund the bor- Tuesday’s subcommittee vote BY SETH BORENSTEIN These changes will not just Seas are now rising at one- was routine but a heated debate der wall,” said Minority Leader Associated Press hurt the 71% of the world covered seventh of an inch a year, which awaits on Thursday when the leg- Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. by the oceans or the 10% covered is 2.5 times faster than the rate islation is voted on in the full Ap- Tuesday’s legislation also NEW YORK — Due to climate in ice and snow, but it will harm from 1900 to 1990. propriations Committee, where would fund 52,000 detention change, the world’s oceans are people, plants, animals, food, so- The world’s oceans have al- Democrats promise votes to cut beds for immigrants entering getting warmer, rising higher, cieties, infrastructure and the ready lost 1% to 3% of the oxygen the wall funding back. the country illegally, a panel aide losing oxygen and becoming more global economy, according to the in their upper levels since 1970 said, which is higher than cur- acidic at an ever-faster pace and Trump won $1.4 billion ear- special report by the Intergovern- and will lose more as warming lier this year through the regular rent funding but is roughly equal melting even more ice and snow, mental Panel on Climate Change. continues. to the levels presently permitted a grim international science as- budget process. He almost imme- The oceans absorb more than From 2006 to 2015, the ice diately declared a national emer- after the Trump administration sessment concludes. 90% of the excess heat from car- melting from Greenland, Ant- gency that triggered his ability used transfer powers to finance But that’s nothing compared bon pollution in the air, as well as arctica and the world’s mountain to conduct a recently announced additional beds. with what Wednesday’s special much of the carbon dioxide itself. glaciers has accelerated and is $3.6 billion transfer from mili- Capito said the border wall and United Nations-affiliated oceans The seas warm more slowly than now losing 720 billion tons of ice tary base construction. If the $5 detention beds are “two areas and ice report says is coming the air but trap the heat longer, a year. billion is added to prior-year ap- where Republicans and Demo- if global warming doesn’t slow with bigger side effects — and Arctic June snow cover has propriations and various trans- crats can’t seem to agree.” down: three feet of sea rise by the the report links those waters with shrunk more than half since 1967, fers from the Pentagon, Trump The homeland security mea- end of the century, many fewer Earth’s snow and ice, called the down nearly 1 million square would have obtained almost $15 sure is one of four bills slated for fish, weakening ocean currents, cryosphere, because their futures miles. billion for the wall. initial committee votes this week. even less snow and ice, stronger are interconnected. Arctic sea ice in September, The new GOP-backed money But floor action is on hold after and wetter hurricanes and nas- “The world’s oceans and cryo- the annual minimum, is down al- comes after Trump roiled Capi- Democrats filibustered a huge tier El Nino weather systems. sphere have been taking the heat most 13% per decade since 1979. tol Hill by transferring $6.1 bil- funding package last week that “The oceans and the icy parts for climate change for decades. This year’s low, reported Mon- lion from Pentagon accounts to was anchored by an almost $700 of the world are in big trouble, and The consequences for nature and day, tied for the second-lowest on get around lawmakers opposed billion Pentagon funding bill. that means we’re all in big trouble humanity are sweeping and se- record. to his border wall. Some $3.6 bil- Democrats vow that the defense too,” said one of the report’s lead vere,” said Ko Barrett, vice chair For the first time, the interna- lion of the wall money is coming measure, which is a top priority of authors, Michael Oppenheimer, of the IPCC and a deputy assis- tional team of scientists is pro- through Trump’s controversial Trump and his GOP allies, won’t professor of geosciences and in- tant administrator for research jecting that “some island nations emergency declaration earlier advance until there is bipartisan ternational affairs at Princeton at the U.S. National Oceanic and are likely to become uninhabit- this year, which permitted him to progress on domestic spending University. “The changes are Atmospheric Administration. able due to climate-related ocean raid military construction proj- measures that they particularly accelerating.” The report found: and cryosphere change.” ects such as schools and target care about. Ex-Flynn business partner Stone loses bid to get evidence tossed sees convictions tossed out Associated Press set to stand trial in November in cratic rival, Hillary Clinton. Washington’s federal court. Stone has challenged the ac- Associated Press WASHINGTON — A judge has trial earlier this year. Stone had asked a judge to curacy of those conclusions and The case spun off from special denied Trump confidant Roger ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A fed- throw out the evidence seized says the warrants used to search counsel Robert Mueller’s inves- Stone’s efforts to suppress evi- from 18 FBI search warrants. his devices and property were eral judge on Tuesday tossed out tigation of Russian election in- dence in the case against him, ac- convictions against a one-time Those warrants were based therefore invalid. He contends terference . Prosecutors alleged cording to a court opinion made on the U.S. intelligence commu- the private cybersecurity firm business partner of former na- Kian and Flynn were acting at public Tuesday. nity’s assessment that Russia that investigated the hack of the tional security adviser Michael Turkey’s behest when they un- Stone is one of a half-dozen aides had hacked Democratic email Democratic National Committee Flynn who was accused of acting dertook a project to discredit an and advisers to President Donald accounts and distributed stolen failed to preserve evidence of the as a Turkish foreign agent. exiled cleric wanted by Turkey’s Trump who were charged as part communications to WikiLeaks, intrusion and that the intelligence U.S. District Judge Anthony government. of special counsel Robert Muel- which published the messages in community relied on the compa- Trenga ruled that the evidence Trenga also ordered that Kian ler’s Russia investigation. He is the weeks before the 2016 elec- ny’s assumptions that Russia was against Bijan Kian was insuffi- should be granted a new trial in accused of lying to Congress, wit- tion in what officials have said behind the hack. Mueller’s report cient to sustain a conviction even the event that an appeals court ness tampering and obstructing a was an effort to help Trump and also firmly concluded that Russia though a jury convicted him at a reverses his decision . congressional proceeding and is harm the campaign of his Demo- was behind the hack . PAGE 14 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Thursday, September 26, 2019 NATION Police still seek motive in Virginia Beach shooting

BY PETER COUTU, saying they can’t fully grieve he expects to deliver a final re- ALISSA SKELTON without knowing what led up to port by Nov. 12. AND JANE HARPER the tragedy and how it all un- After the briefing, families of The Virginian-Pilot folded. The city invited families three of the victims said the po- and employees to view the update lice update raised more questions VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Be- privately. than answers. fore anyone could call police, Nothing in Craddock’s past hint- “It doesn’t add up,” said Jason 10 people had been shot dead. ed at the tragedy about to unfold. Nixon, the husband of Kate Nixon, Two more had been severely He hadn’t been diagnosed with who was killed that day. “Nobody CARLOS GIUSTI/AP wounded. any mental illnesses and wasn’t just wakes up in the morning and A man uses a flour bag to protect himself from the rain in Yabucoa, Within minutes of the first 911 taking any prescription medica- says, ‘I’m going to kill people.’ call, two more would end up dead Puerto Rico, on Tuesday . Tropical Storm Karen caused flooding and tions, the deputy chief said. He There is a build up to what caused power outages when it hit the island. and two would suffer serious in- had about $20,000 in his bank ac- all of this.” juries in the May 31 mass shoot- counts and no credit card debt. On Tuesday, families were al- ing in Virginia Beach’s municipal He left no manifesto to explain lowed to enter the site of the trag- complex. his actions, had no social media edy for the first time. Tropical storm dumps After nearly four months of in- accounts and no known group af- Virginia Beach Police Chief vestigation, more than 750 inter- filiations, Gallagher said. Jim Cervera and Capt. Theresa views and thousands of hours of There was no apparent pattern Orr, who is helping lead the in- rain on Puerto Rico detective work, police still don’t to those he targeted, Gallagher vestigation into the shooting, know why. said. Six were women, 10 were stood outside a side entrance to Associated Press the U.S. Virgin Islands throughout “We have asked the question men. Some were black, some were Building 2 about an hour before Wednesday, but those were ex- ‘Why. Why did this suspect do SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Au- white. There were also people he the briefing, waiting to escort an- pected to dissipate by Thursday as what he did?’ ” Police Deputy encountered in the building that other family. thorities in Puerto Rico and the Karen heads north. Chief Patrick Gallagher said. he chose not to fire at. They had already led two fami- U.S. Virgin Islands reported lim- The U.S. National Hurricane “We’re still looking to determine “He shot people he knew, he lies inside, allowing them the ited power outages, flooding and Center said the storm might slow motive.” shot people he didn’t know,” the chance to stand where their loved l a n d s l i d e s a s T r o p i c a l S t o r m K a r e n and loop back toward the west by Police cornered the shooter, De- deputy chief said. ones died months earlier. Cerve- swirled away from the northeast Wayne Craddock, 40, six minutes The only hint of what was to ra said it was a chance to provide Caribbean on Wednesday. the weekend. after they entered the building come was discovered in his com- some kind of relief, though he ac- Schools remained closed in Karen was located about 155 and shot multiple times through puter history. He did a Google knowledged there will never be Puerto Rico, although government miles north northeast of San Juan a wooden door, Gallagher said search for maps of Building 2 complete closure after a violent offices reopened. Meanwhile, ev- early Wednesday and was moving in a briefing Tuesday to the City and the Municipal Center, police death. erything reopened in the U.S. Vir- north at 14 mph. Council and family members of said. The family of Kate Nixon, the gin Islands except for offices and Meanwhile, Jerry became a the victims. The gunman was Detectives have conducted former city engineer who died in schools in St. John. post-tropical cyclone and was ex- pronounced dead at a hospital a nearly all the interviews that they the shooting, went into Building 2 Crews also temporarily closed pected to pass near Bermuda on little over an hour after the ram- plan to do. But they still have on Tuesday afternoon. Her hus- some coastal roads in southeast- Wednesday. page began. thousands of documents, emails band, Jason, wrote a note to his ern Puerto Rico that flooded after In addition, Lorenzo became the Tuesday’s update on the ongo- and other information to scour wife on the wall. Karen hit the island Tuesday, fifth Atlantic hurricane of the sea- ing criminal investigation was the before they complete their inves- “I will always love you. I will leaving up to 29,000 customers son and was projected to become a first time police revealed new in- tigation, Gallagher said. It likely make sure the girls are taken without power at one point. An is- major hurricane by the end of the formation since June 3, when city will be another six to nine months care of. I will raise them the way landwide outage was reported in week, although it is not expected leaders released the gunman’s before it’s done, he said. you would want me to. Me and the neighboring St. Thomas on Tues- to affect the Caribbean. It was resignation letter. Arnette Heintze, head of the girls will never forget you. You day morning, followed by smaller centered about 640 miles south- The vacuum of information Chicago firm leading the sepa- have always been there for us, outages that afternoon. west of the southernmost Cape has left already reeling families rate independent probe into the and I will never quit until we get Forecasters warned of more Verde Islands and had maximum starved for closure, with several mass shooting, said Tuesday that the truth of your murder.” rain showers for Puerto Rico and sustained winds of 80 mph. Deported Army veteran returns to US in bid to become citizen

Associated Press set for Wednesday, but it’s un- diagnosed with post-traumatic known when immigration offi- stress disorder. CHICAGO — An Army vet- cials will decide the case. It was the disorder, which eran who was deported to Mexico Perez’s attorney, Chris Bergin, caused crippling anxiety, that in 2018 arrived back in Chicago hoped for a speedy decision so led him to the drug charge, ac- on Tuesday for a final chance at Perez wouldn’t have to return to becoming a U.S. citizen and liv- cording to Bergin. Perez wasn’t Mexico after the 14 days are up. able to immediately get medical ing in the city he has called home Officials with U.S. Citizenship since boyhood. care through a federal Veterans and Immigration Services and Administration hospital, so he Federal immigration authori- U.S. Customs and Border Protec- ties granted Miguel Perez Jr. a turned to drugs. tion declined to comment, citing In 2008, he was accused of two-week parole into the U.S. for privacy laws. an immigration hearing, accord- giving cocaine to an undercover Perez is among several deport- police officer. He pleaded guilty ing to his attorney. Perez, 41, has ed military members who have and spent seven years in prison a green card as a permanent U.S. been recently pardoned by Dem- and was then turned over to Im- resident, but after serving time ocratic governors. His case has migration and Customs Enforce- for a 2008 non violent drug con- received wide support, including viction was deported last year. from Sen. Tammy Duckworth, of ment, who detained him for two Then, last month, Illinois Gov. Illinois, a veteran who said Tues- years. Perez was deported last J.B. Pritzker issued a pardon, day that Perez should never been year after failing to persuade a erasing the conviction and reviv- deported in the first place. federal appeals court to block his ing Perez’s chances to become a Perez was born in Mexico, but removal. citizen. his family immigrated when he Perez said he faced “danger- “I’m speechless. I wish I could was a young child. His parents ous” conditions while living in say a lot more but it’s just, I’m are naturalized U.S. citizens and Tijuana, Mexico, after his depor- ERIN HOOLEY, CHICAGO TRIBUNE/AP choked up,” a teary-eyed Perez his two children were born in the tation, but he didn’t want to talk Army veteran Miguel Perez Jr. is greeted by friends and family at a said outside a church hours U.S. about it. news conference Tuesday at Lincoln Methodist Church in Chicago. after landing in Chicago. “I’m so He joined the Army in 2002 and He also declined to discuss how Perez, who was deported to Mexico in 2018, arrived back in blessed to be here.” served in Afghanistan where he he was managing PTSD, saying it Chicago on Tuesday for a final chance at becoming a U.S. citizen. His immigration hearing was suffered a brain injury and was was too personal. Thursday, September 26, 2019 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 15 WORLD Pakistan begins cleanup after earthquake

BY ANJUM NAVEED government help?” he said. Associated Press Government aid arrived in Mirpur after Mohammad Afzal, MIRPUR, Pakistan — Au- chairman of the National Disas- thorities began distributing tents, ter Management Authority, said food and water among thousands tents, food and blankets should of earthquake victims in Paki- start reaching affected areas stan-held Kashmir on Wednes- later Wednesday, adding, “Each day as the death toll from a and every quake victim will be powerful magnitude 5.8 temblor looked after.” that rocked a large swath of the Afzal said doctors were treat- country’s northeast a day earlier ing hundreds of people, some of jumped to 37, officials said. whom had received multiple inju- Kashmir bore the brunt of ries. Authorities in Mirpur were Tuesday’s quake in which hun- seen repairing a key road close to dreds of other people were in- the earthquake’s epicenter. jured. One person was killed in Earlier in the day, mourners Jehlum, a city in northeastern Punjab province. buried the dead in Mirpur and Fearing aftershocks, many nearby villages. Mirpur is in the spent the night in the open in the mountainous Kashmir region, hardest hit areas in Mirpur, a dis- which is divided between Paki- trict in Pakistan-held Kashmir stan and neighboring India but where hundreds of homes and claimed by both in its entirety. buildings were damaged, affect- “The shallow earthquake was ing thousands in the city of some [6 miles ] deep, and that is why it 5 million residents. caused so much damage in Mir- Authorities said rescue work in pur in Kashmir,” which isn’t far quake-hit areas was completed from the quake’s epicenter, me- /AP and authorities were still assess- ANJUM NAVEED teorologist Muhammad Riaz said ing damages. Villagers walk alongside a damaged portion of a road Wednesday, the day after a powerful earthquake in Tuesday. According to a military state- Jatlan near Mirpur in northeastern Pakistan. The quake also rattled the ment, army chief Gen. Qamar capital, Islamabad, and parts of Javed Bajwa on Wednesday and some were seen by an As- ing and a part of the roof collapsed ily members were safe.” northwest Pakistan but caused no visited quake-affected areas in sociated Press reporter picking on my head. I was injured on my Mehmood said he was frus- damage there. Kashmir. through ruined buildings. Oth- head and back,” resident Muham- trated at having to wait for Pakistan is prone to violent Earlier, under cloudy skies, ers sat in shock as relatives and mad Mehmood said. “After re- assistance. seismic upheavals. A magnitude some residents complained they a small number of volunteers pro- ceiving treatment, I came to my “You can see my damaged 7.6 quake in 2005 killed thou- had not received any aid 24 hours vided small amounts of food. home and saw seven rooms of my home. You can see other damaged sands of people in Pakistan and after the quake rattled the region “I came out of the (office) build- house had collapsed but my fam- homes — and is there any sign of Kashmir. Lawmakers squabble Ex-president’s brother is 1 with government over of 7 guilty in Algerian plot suspension in Britain BY AOMAR OUALI They were convicted of plotting Associated Press against the state and undermin- BY DANICA KIRKA ing the army in the early weeks AND JILL LAWLESS ALGIERS, Algeria — A mili- of the protests against Bouteflika, Associated Press tary court in Algeria on Wednes- who was seeking a fifth mandate day sentenced the brother of the despite infirmities following a LONDON — British lawmakers returned to the country’s longtime former leader stroke. House of Commons on Wednesday, venting their and two ex-intelligence chiefs The charges centered on March pent-up anger over Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s to 15 years in prison for plotting meetings between the three men failed attempt to suspend Parliament and warn- against the state. and the leader of the left-wing ing that democracy itself is under threat from the The overnight ruling against Workers Party, Louisa Hanoune. government. men who once wielded immense Some feared they were plotting to Senior officials in Johnson’s government sparred power in Africa’s largest country fire powerful army chief Ahmed with lawmakers of all parties on their first day back represents another blow to the Gaid Salah, who was siding with /AP after Britain’s Supreme Court decision declared FRANK AUGSTEIN legacy of Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the protesters. that the prime minister’s move to suspend the body A protester wearing a crown participates in a who was forced out as president The four were arrested in May, for five weeks was illegal because it thwarted debate demonstration of pro- and anti-Brexit supporters by street protests and the army after Bouteflika was forced out over Brexit. outside the Houses of Parliament in London on chief in April. amid anger at rampant corrup- Johnson planned to address Parliament later in Wednesday as lawmakers returned following a The oil- and gas-rich country is tion, unemployment and lack of the day after returning in haste from the U.N. Gen- failed attempt to suspend Parliament. now struggling to find a new po- political freedom. The pro-de- eral Assembly in New York. litical path, and protesters have mocracy demonstrations have Johnson remains on a collision course with Par- pean Union,” Cox told lawmakers. “But the time is maintained street demonstrations continued since. liament over his determination to pull Britain out coming. The time is coming, Mr. Speaker, when even because much of the state appara- The trial was chaotic. Said of the European Union on Oct. 31 with or without a these turkeys won’t be able to prevent Christmas.” tus under Bouteflika remains. Bouteflika refused to answer the withdrawal agreement. Opposition Labour Party lawmaker Barry Sheer- In a statement from the town of judge’s questions and walked out, Parliament has passed a law requiring him to seek Blida, the court said seven people man accused Cox of having “no shame at all.” For- according to one of the lawyers a Brexit extension if there is no deal, but Johnson were convicted in the closed-door present. Tartag, who worked di- mer Cabinet minister Amber Rudd urged Cox to has said he won’t do that under any circumstances. trial in the town of Blida. One of rectly under the president, re- “cease this language of pitting Parliament against Johnson has begun to position himself as the the defense lawyers, Mokrane fused to leave his cell. Neither the people.” champion of the people facing a recalcitrant estab- Ait Larbi, said he would seek an was present for the verdict. lishment bent on frustrating the 2016 Brexit vote. “This Parliament was elected in 2017. It reflects appeal. Lawyer Ait Larbi, who repre- Johnson’s attorney general, Geoffrey Cox, called the divisions in this country, the divisions in our Among them were Said Boute- sents Hanoune, called it a “politi- Parliament a “disgrace” and tried to bait it into vot- communities and the divisions in our families,” flika, brother and special coun- cally driven trial.” ing for a no-confidence motion on Johnson’s gov- Rudd said. sellor of Bouteflika, and former All four were sentenced to 15 ernment and triggering an early election. He said After the court ruling Tuesday, Johnson had intelligence figures Gen. Ath- years in prison, the news reports Parliament would be “too cowardly” to do that. brushed aside questions about whether he would re- mane Tartag and Gen. Mohamed said. Three others who are be- “This Parliament should have the courage to face sign. He said he “strongly” disagreed with the court Mediene, who was known as Tou- lieved to have fled abroad were the electorate, but it won’t, because so many of them decision and even suggested he might try to suspend fik — a name that once made Al- convicted in absentia to 20 years are really all about preventing us leaving the Euro- Parliament for a second time. gerians tremble. of prison. PAGE 16 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Thursday, September 26, 2019 WORLD Irate walrus destroys Climate activist wins ‘Alternative Nobel’ Russian dingy in Arctic KIRKENES, Norway — A wal- rus attacked and sank a small Russian boat tooling Arctic wa- Sweden’s Thunberg ters on a reconnaissance mission, sending researchers scrambling is among 4 winners to shore. Expedition members from Rus- Associated Press sia’s Northern Fleet and the Rus- COPENHAGEN, Denmark sian Geographical Society barely — Swedish climate activist Greta escaped last week before walrus- Thunberg is among four people es sank their dinghy, The Barents named Wednesday as the win- Observer reported Monday. ners of a Right Livelihood Award, The group was sailing in a re- also known as the “Alternative mote archipelago known as Franz Nobel.” Josef Land in the Russian Arctic, Thunberg is being recognized the Observer said. To get ashore “for inspiring and amplifying po- for their research, they had to litical demands for urgent climate leave their more secure navy tug- action reflecting scientific facts,” boat, Altai, and climb into smaller the prize foundation said. boats. It added that the 16-year-old, who has been nominated for the Baby Archie makes Nobel Peace Prize, “personifies appearance in S. Africa the notion that everyone has the power to create change. Her ex- CAPE TOWN, South Africa ample has inspired and empow- — Baby Archie made a rare pub- ered people from all walks of life lic appearance on Wednesday as to demand political action.” his parents, Prince Harry and Created in 1980, the annual Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, FRANCOIS MORI/AP Right Livelihood Award honors continued their first official tour efforts that the prize founder, Greta Thunberg, center, leads a protest by thousands of French students in Paris in February. The sign as a family in South Africa. Swedish-German philanthropist reads: “School Strike for the Climate.” Thunberg is among four winners of the “Alternative Nobel.” Meghan held Archie as the Jakob von Uexkull, felt were being royal couple met with Nobel ignored by the Nobel prizes. activist Aminatou Haidar “for whose leadership has empowered Thunberg said in a statement Peace Prize winner and Arch- The four winners will each re- her steadfast nonviolent action” millions of people to defend their by the Right Livelihood founda- bishop Desmond Tutu in Cape ceive $103,000 . for Western Sahara; and Chinese inalienable rights and to strive for tion that “whenever I receive an Town. The foundation also gave its 2019 lawyer Guo Jianmei for her work a livable future for all on planet award, it is not me who is the win- The youngest member of Brit- award to Davi Kopenawa and the for women’s rights in China. Earth.” ner. I am part of a global move- ain’s royal family had been out of Hutukara Yanomami Association, Ole von Uexkull, the foun- An award ceremony is planned ment of school children, youth the spotlight since his christen- representing Brazil’s indigenous dation’s executive director and in Stockholm on Dec. 4, six days and adults of all ages who have ing in July. Archie, born in May, tribe, for protecting the Amazon nephew of the founder, said “we before the Nobel prizes are hand- decided to act in defense of our is the first child of Prince Harry forest and its people; Moroccan honor four practical visionaries ed out. living planet.” and the former Meghan Markle and seventh in line to the British throne. Male model arrested in sex case in Thailand German man douses Autobahn fire with beer BY BUSABA SIVASOMBOON fessional name, was hired to attend a party taking Thitima to his apartment but said he BERLIN — A German motor- Associated Press from which Ratchadech left with her on the had no intention to do her harm and did not ist is being credited for his quick night of Sept. 16. realize she was dead while she was with him. thinking after his engine caught BANGKOK — Police in Thailand on A media frenzy over the case has been fu- Police announced Tuesday that Thitima fire on the Autobahn. He turned Wednesday arrested a male model accused of eled by the suspect’s provocative online posts may have already been dead by the time to a slightly different foam ex- taking an unconscious woman home, boasting boasting of past sexual conquests, including Ratchadech brought her back to his apart- tinguisher to douse the flames: online about his sexual exploits and leaving as he had Thitima in his room, and copious ment. They said Wednesday that an autopsy bottles of beer. her lifeless body in the lobby of his building. surveillance video showing him carrying the found Thitima had died from extreme alcohol Police told the dpa news agen- Police brought charges of illegal deten- apparently unconscious victim. intoxication, citing a blood alcohol concentra- cy Wednesday that the man was tion leading to death, abduction with intent of Thitima’s family and boyfriend went to the tion of 418 milligrams per 100 milliliters. on the highway near the town of committing an indecent act and molestation media to press their case that her death in- There had been speculation that Thitima Hoesbach in Bavaria the day be- against Ratchadech Wongtabut, 24, in a case volved wrongdoing and that the perpetrator was given a date rape drug such as GHB. But fore when he smelled something that has riveted the attention of the public and be held to account. They acted as Ratchadech’s the drug rapidly disappears from the blood odd. press. involvement was made public and he initially stream, making its presence difficult to con- Pulling over, the man spotted The victim, Thitima Noraphanpiphat, 25, had been questioned by police and released firm. Thai media cited police as saying none flames under the hood of his car. made a living as a “pretty,” the term for young without charge after denying any criminal had been found in Ratchadech’s apartment. He quickly grabbed bottles of women normally hired for events such as auto actions. Police are investigating others who may be beer from a case in his car and shows to pose seductively with products they Metropolitan Police Commissioner Lt. Gen. involved in the affair, especially the owner quenched the fire. are promoting. Sutthipong Wongpin said at a news conference and guests at the house where Thitima at- Thitima, who used Lunlabelle as her pro- Wednesday that Ratchadech acknowledged tended the party before she died. Boat capsizes, leaving 7 dead in Philippines KALIBO, Philippines — The Administration to triple democracy aid to Venezuela Philippines coast guard said seven rowers drowned and 14 others were rescued when their Associated Press ing in New York with Guaido’s Venezuela’s rightful leader by ern should they manage to force dragon boat overturned Wednes- envoy, Carlos Vecchio, whom the more than 50 nations. But he has Maduro from power. NEW YORK — The Trump ad- day after being lashed by strong Trump administration recogniz- been unable to translate the inter- The U.S. official spoke on the waves during a practice run off a ministration is more than tripling es as Venezuela’s ambassador in national support and popularity condition of anonymity because popular resort island. U.S. support for pro-democracy Washington. at home into real power capable he is not aut hor ized to publicly dis- Coast guard spokesman Ar- work in Venezuela and for the The funding was mostly of helping regular Venezuelans cuss details of the aid package. first time directly funding oppo- repurposed from aid originally suffering from hyperinflation Guaido’s team said in a state- mand Balilo said the accident sition leader Juan Guaido as he earmarked for Honduras and and an economic collapse . ment that it would not administer happened off Boracay island in attempts to set up a government Guatemala that President Donald A senior Trump administra- the money directly or give it to the central Philippines’ Aklan to rival the socialist administra- Trump cut last year after accus- tion official said the new U.S. aid any institution or political party. province, where a local dragon tion of Nicolas Maduro. ing the Central American coun- package seeks to address that It said it hoped to work with the boat team was practicing ahead The $52 million in new aid was tries of failing to stem the flow of deficit, providing about $19 mil- U.S. in the coming days to decide of a rowing competition. announced Tuesday by Mark migrants to the U.S. lion to pay for secure communi- how the funds would be spent and The boat capsized less than a Green, the administrator of the The funding boost shows the cation devices, travel stipends leave it to the American authori- third of a mile from the nearest U.S. Agency for International level of U.S. support for Guaido, and training in budget planning ties to distribute the funds and beach. Development, following a meet- who has drawn recognition as and other tools to effectively gov- audit their use. From The Associated Press Thursday, September 26, 2019 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 17 AMERICAN ROUNDUP W oman pleads guilty to trespassing after selfie

BISMARCK — A Man- ND dan woman pleaded guilty to trespassing after author- ities say she jumped a guard rail at Bismarck’s Dakota Zoo in July and approached a primate cage to take a selfie. Ashlee Brown, 18, was fined $300 after Monday’s guilty plea and will be on unsupervised pro- bation for nearly a year. She can keep the incident off her record if she stays out of trouble during that time. Authorities said Brown touched a siamang, which is a small ape, and took a photograph. Canceled festival of the undead to rise again

DEWEY BEACH — A DE horde of undead is once again expected to flood the streets of a small Delaware town. News outlets reported that or- ganizers of Milton’s 2019 Zombie Fest announced the event’s res- urrection on Monday, unveiling a new name and location. The new, all-ages Milton Theatre Zombie Fest will take place Oct. 19 in Dewey Beach. The original festival was killed in August, with organizers blam- ing town leaders for the loss of an event that nearly doubles Milton’s population each year. Organizer and theater director Fred Munzert said the cancella- tion announcement led 11 other Delaware towns to offer to host JESSICA GRIFFIN, THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER/AP the growing festival. Man cited after loaded Flag-raising celebration gun found in luggage Lesly Fernandez, front center, dances with the Esperanza Academy Dance Ensemble during a Puerto Rican flag-raising that was hosted by the City of Philadelphia Office of Immigrant Affairs at City Hall in Philadelphia on Monday. HUNTINGTON WV — Officials said a West Virginia man was caught items from King’s estate took THE CENSUS The state attorney general’s place in Los Angeles on Saturday, with a loaded gun at an airport office said Brian Casaus and his a few days after what would have wife, Tammy, are facing numer- checkpoint. The number of dogs Tampa, Fla., officials have seized been his 94th birthday. ous charges that include tax fraud The Transportation Security from a dog-breeding business. Hillsborough County of- and money laundering. Administration on Monday said ficials, who are waiving adoption fees as they work with Criminal complaints allege the man was stopped with a 9 mm Officer who arrested 350 animal shelters and rescue groups to accommodate the handgun in his carry-on bag at 6-year-olds is fired dogs, said conditions were so dangerous at Trish’s All Brian Casaus used his position the Huntington Tri-State Airport Breed Grooming that they obtained a court order this week and evacuated the as the restaurant’s controller and office manager to transfer funds on Sunday. ORLANDO — A police dogs into the county’s pet shelters. Scott Trebatoski, the director of the county’s from the restaurant’s bank ac- The TSA didn’t release the officer who arrested two Pet Resource Center, told the Tampa Bay Times that county workers found as FL count to personal accounts be- name of the man , who they said 6-year-old students at a Florida many as 30 dogs in cages meant for just one or two at the business. One puppy longing to him and his wife. was cited by police on a weapons elementary school last week has was found dead and others are in critical condition. Tammy Casaus worked as the violation. The gun had a bullet in been fired. restaurant’s payroll coordinator. the chamber and there were an- Orlando police Chief Orlando other 13 bullets in his bag. Rolon announced Officer Den- the Gallivan Center on Friday A Department of Wildlife and Police deliver trashed nis Turner’s termination Monday evening when a business owner Fisheries statement Monday said B.B. King guitar sells afternoon. He said he reminded confronted him several times Kurt Wiggins, 55, is accused of Amazon packages for $280K at auction other officers of department about smoking near his eatery. theft and Ernie Jenkins, 53, of policy that prohibits arrests of Bird said he was volunteering at possessing stolen items. Both are BURLINGTON children under 12 without a man- JACKSON — A gui- an event and security personnel from Woodworth. MA — Officers in a Mas- ager’s approval. tar given to B.B. King gave him permission to smoke at Department spokesman Adam sachusetts police department MS State Attorney Aramis Ayala, for his 80th birthday has sold for the spot. Einck said a U.S. Department briefly turned into Amazon deliv- head prosecutor of Orange and $280,000 at an auction of items ery drivers after a stash of unde- Osceola counties, said earlier In a widely shared video, busi- of Agriculture feral hog trapper from the blues legend’s estate. ness owner Alex Jamison can be reported Sept. 16 that his game livered packages was found in a Monday she was dismissing mis- cemetery. Julien’s Auctions said King seen spraying Bird from a few feet camera, mount and battery pack demeanor battery charges against Burlington police tweeted that often used the black Gibson ES- away as Bird shields his face. were stolen from a trap site in the both children. Officials didn’t say a “diligent groundskeeper” at a 345 prototype that was one of sev- Jamison said he overreacted Kisatchie National Forest near what prompted the arrests. cemetery in the town northwest eral guitars he called “Lucille.” and he apologized to Bird. Woodworth. Einck said agents A spokeswoman for the auction of Boston found the packages Man smoking sprayed with a search warrant found the Monday morning in a trash re- house, Mozell Miley-Bailey, said Stolen camera sends items Sept. 19 at Jenkins’ home. Monday the buyer wants to re- with fire extinguisher ceptacle and contacted police. main anonymous. pictures that ID holder Couple accused of $1M Police did not say exactly how Before the auction, Julien’s SALT LAKE CITY — many packages there were, but in estimated the guitar’s value at UT A business owner has WOODWORTH — Lou- theft from restaurant photos posted on social media, it $80,000 to $100,000. The head- apologized after spraying a man LA isiana wildlife agents looked to be about 20. stock has “B.B. King 80” and smoking a cigarette in the face said a stolen cellular game cam- ROSWELL — A New Because the packages were ad- a crown inlaid with mother-of- with a fire extinguisher in down- era kept sending pictures, letting NM Mexico couple is ac- dressed to Burlington residents, pearl, and the guitar is auto- town Salt Lake City. them identify the man who had cused of stealing more than $1 police took it upon themselves to graphed on the back. KSL-TV reported that Jon Bird it. He and the man he said he’d million from the Cattle Baron deliver them. The auction of more than 550 was smoking a cigarette near bought it from were arrested. Restaurant in Roswell. From wire reports PAGE 18 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Thursday, September 26, 2019 FACES Jann Wenner Role with responsibility to step down as chairman Giancarlo Esposito feels pressure with ‘Godfather of Harlem’ part of Rock Hall Associated Press Jann Wenner will retire next BY RICK BENTLEY year as chairman of the Rock and Tribune News Service Roll Hall of Fame Foundation. t has never mattered to Giancarlo Es- Wenner announced Wednesday posito whether he was taking on the that he will step down Jan. 1. The role of a talking mirror, a member of co-founder and publisher of Roll- a California police department, one of ing Stone magazine is one of the I founding members of the Rock the most evil men to set foot in Albuquer- que, N.M., or a noted politician. He attacks and Roll Hall of Fame and is them all with a deep passion, as he shows credited with recruiting architect in his latest work, playing Adam Clayton I.M. Pei to create its Cleveland museum. Powell Jr. in the 10-part series “Godfather The annual induction ceremo- of Harlem.” ny is a major concert event that is Esposito co-stars with Forest Whitaker, broadcast by HBO. Vincent D’Onofrio, Nigel Thatch and Ilfen- Wenner, 73, will be replaced by esh Hadera in the production, which launch- Rock Hall board member John es Sunday on Epix. The series is based on Sykes, the co-founder of MTV the story of infamous crime boss Bumpy and VH1. Johnson (Whitaker), who in the early 1960s Wenner will remain on the returned from 10 years in prison to find board of directors. the New York neighborhood he once ruled in shambles. Johnson’s efforts to regain Dern, Neill, Goldblum control bring him in contact with radical preacher Malcolm X (Thatch) and minister/ in ‘Jurassic World 3’ congressman Powell. Jeff Goldblum, Laura Dern and Esposito feels more pressure when he’s Epix Sam Neill will reprise their “Ju- taking on a character based on a real per- rassic Park” roles in the upcom- son. Powell is well remembered because of Giancarlo Esposito plays the pastor and politician Adam Clayton Powell Jr. in the 10-part ing “Jurassic World 3.” his connection to the civil rights movement. series “Godfather of Harlem.” Their castings were announced “I feel extra responsibility when it’s a his- Tuesday night by executive pro- torical character to render them real,” Es- and “Breaking Bad,” everyone began to put anything. My career has been based on a face with the name. Other credits include meritocracy, quality, integrity. I feel more ducer and director Colin Trevor- posito says. “I do so much research for any row at a screening of “Jurassic character I do, but you have to make choices “Once Upon a Time,” ‘Bakersfield, P.D.” blessed that I have not allowed myself to and “Homicide: Life on the Street.” Up think as a color. The idea is to play a human World” attended by Dern. While as an actor. With characters who don’t have Goldblum’s Ian Malcolm ap- a historical background, you give them your next is a starring role in the live-action Star being each and every time.” Wars series “The Mandalorian” that will peared in 2018’s “Jurassic World: historical background. Fallen Kingdom,” Dern and Neill “Every role needs to be full and complete, be broadcast on the Disney+ streaming service later this year. haven’t been back with the dino- but even more with those based on real peo- saurs since 2001’s “Jurassic Park ple because there are people still alive who Esposito can’t talk much about the Star Wars project except to III.” knew Adam Clayton Powell. When I say I All originated their roles in the want to get the character right, that means say getting to be part of a beloved franchise is something that’s very 1993 original, “Jurassic Park.” to render the role completely human and “Jurassic World 3,” starring completely complicated with all of the col- exciting to him. Plus, he’s taking on a role unlike anything his Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas ors that he had as a human being.” Howard, is to be released in June fans have ever seen him play. Esposito got his first real understand- 2021. ing of the Harlem politician when he met Playing diverse roles his son at an event years before the series is not an official plan Grateful Dead’s poetic was in production. Esposito was excited Esposito set out about the meeting because he knew how for himself when lyricist dies at 78 he was young, powerful Powell was and how much he got Robert Hunter, the man behind accomplished. but he knows he’s always wanted to be the poetic and mystical words for Before Esposito started working on “God- many of the Grateful Dead’s fin- father of Harlem,” he had a full understand- able to take on a vari- ety of roles. Esposito left est songs, has died at age 78. ing of how Powell knew he was smart and Hunter died Monday at his charming. The only blip he saw was the the Broadway stage when he was young because there were Northern California home with year in college when Powell passed as white his wife, Maureen, at his side, for- and ended it when he realized it was “not so few roles for African-Ameri- can actors. mer Grateful Dead publicist Den- soulful.” Esposito sees the year as helping nis McNally told The Associated “People didn’t know if I was Powell become a great politician because Press on Tuesday. The family did black or white. They knew I had everyone running for an office has to be not release a cause of death. brown skin, but they also knew able to adapt to the moment. “We loved Bob Hunter and will there was something different Esposito had to do some quick adapting miss him unimaginably,” Grateful himself during the early years of his career. about me,” Esposito says. “Not know- Dead drummer M ickey Har t said, The Italian-American actor and director ing where you belong is a burden adding the lyricist was “a vision- would get called to auditions that were roles to carry. I wanted to be me, and so I ary wordsmith extraordinaire.” intended to be given to white actors because started to make choices that were re- Although proficient on a num- of his name. He laughs and says the casting flective of my spirit, my politics, my ber of instruments including director or producer would be apologetic humanity. guitar, violin, cello and trumpet, when they would see him in a room full “That had me realize Hunter never appeared on stage of people who looked completely different in my brain that I with the Grateful Dead dur- from Esposito. could do ing the group’s 30-year run that Eventually, with a string of much-her- ended with the 1995 death of lead alded roles in “Do the Right Thing,” “Mal- guitarist Jerry Garcia, his princi- colm X,” “The Usual Suspects,” “Twilight” pal songwriting partner. Hunter’s memorable Grate- ful Dead songs include “Friend of the Devil,” “Box of Rain,” Giancarlo Esposito has played a wide “Uncle John’s Band,” “Cumber- range of roles, but the actor says he land Blues,” “It Must Have Been feels more pressure when he’s taking the Roses,” “Terrapin Station,” on a character based on a real person. “The Days Between,” “Brown RICHARD SHOTWELL, INVISION/AP Eyed Women,” “Jack Straw” and “Black Muddy River.” Thursday, September 26, 2019 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 19

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Transportation 944 Transportation 944 PAGE 20 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Thursday, September 26, 2019 OPINION Max D. Lederer Jr., Publisher Lt. Col. Sean Klimek, Europe commander Lt. Col. Richard McClintic, Pacific commander Dems seem set on destroying Biden’s chances Caroline E. Miller, Europe Business Operations BY DAVID VON DREHLE And, “Keep the faith!” “What’s the dog’s thirds majority in the Senate is necessary The Washington Post name?” “How are ya, sis!” All the while, to convict and remove an impeached presi- EDITORIAL people were handing him their cellphones dent from office. KANSAS CITY, Kan. and leaning in for selfies, which Biden House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Terry Leonard, Editor can’t help looking at the pickup truck. framed and snapped before returning each has for months struggled to quiet her caucus [email protected] It’s a beauty of a beast: a 2019 phone in an almost perpetual motion. of feckless impeachers, but the drumbeat is Robert H. Reid, Senior Managing Editor Chevy Silverado, complete with the Summing up: A robust, relaxed and dis- now so deafening that she had no choice but [email protected] IZ71 off-road package and a Duramax ciplined Joe Biden visited the picket line to authorize an impeachment inquiry. And Tina Croley, Managing Editor for Content turbo-diesel engine, as black as a night outside the General Motors factory here, the price of impeachment for Biden will be [email protected] in Mammoth Cave, as glossy as a freshly and for the first time I found myself think- weeks, perhaps months, of nonstop discus- groomed Derby winner. But that’s not why ing, as I watched the performance, that sion of his son Hunter Biden and Hunter’s Sean Moores, Managing Editor for Presentation I’m transfixed. I’m looking at the bed of he just might have what it takes to nurse activities in Ukraine and elsewhere. While [email protected] the truck, where 76-year-old Joe Biden his little lead in the polls all the way to the some people will find the younger Biden a is about to stand and deliver encouraging Managing Editor for Digital Democratic nomination. He spoke the lan- sympathetic figure — he lost his mother Joe Gromelski, words to members of the striking United [email protected] guage and basked in the love of exactly the and sister in a car wreck as a boy, and lost Auto Workers. More precisely, I’m looking sort of working men and women who are his older brother, Beau, to cancer in 2015 at the very small, very steep step from the the keys to victory in swing states such as — others will likely focus on his long record BUREAU STAFF uneven ground to that elevated perch. Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. of drug abuse and reckless behavior, docu- Certain questions arise when politics Yet it was a terrible day for Biden, be- mented in detail this past summer by the Europe/Mideast meets gerontology. President Donald cause while he was winning labor votes on Erik Slavin, Europe & Mideast Bureau Chief New Yorker’s Adam Entous. [email protected] Trump and three of the leading Democrats the picket line, Democrats in Washington More to the point: Trump’s defenders +49(0)631.3615.9350; DSN (314)583.9350 running for president are all 70-plus years were freshly lathered over impeaching the will pick apart Hunter Biden’s work histo- of age. Call me ageist, but I can’t help won- president. And it appears they are going to ry, which is full of employers and partners Pacific dering how Biden is going to negotiate the feed Biden into a wood chipper as part of who, one way or another, sought the good Aaron Kidd, Pacific Bureau Chief climb into that truck bed in the 50th year their vain quest. favor of his powerful father. Among these [email protected] +81.42.552.2511 ext. 88380; DSN (315)227.7380 of his campaigning career. At issue is a Trump phone call with the was a Ukrainian energy company called Now, his car pulls up. The former vice president of Ukraine, during which the Burisma, which invited Hunter Biden to Washington president pops out wearing a big smile leader of the free world cajoled his coun- serve on its board. Burisma has been ac- Joseph Cacchioli, Washington Bureau Chief under his Clint Eastwood squint and a red terpart to dig up dirt on the Biden family cused of being part of the rampant corrup- [email protected] union T-shirt over his blue button-down. and may have used U.S. foreign aid as both tion that bedevils Kiev. (+1)(202)886-0033 And after the briefest of introductions, carrot and stick. Pretty jaw-dropping be- Make no mistake. While Trump’s behav- Brian Bowers, Assistant Managing Editor, News [email protected] Biden seemingly levitates — step, step, havior from a man who spent two years in ior would certainly be on trial, it would be sure-footed as a Sherpa — to take the mi- hot water over the issue of foreign election set alongside the awkward question: What CIRCULATION crophone and announce, “I’m Joe Biden, interference. Except that, by all appear- did Burisma expect to achieve by allying and I’m UAW!” ances, Trump has been trying for months with the then-vice president’s hot mess of a Mideast We should all be so spry. The rest of his to goad the House Democrats into im- son? And because impeachments are rare Robert Reismann, Mideast Circulation Manager appearance on Sunday went just as smooth- peaching him. and historic events, that awkward question [email protected] ly. His remarks were focused and appropri- Having watched 20 years ago as Presi- will be a centerpiece of the biggest politi- [email protected] DSN (314)583-9111 ate. None of the rambling riffs that have, in dent Bill Clinton’s poll numbers soared cal news event of the year. the past, made Biden supporters grit their after a failed impeachment attempt, For candidate Joe Biden, it could be an Europe teeth and pray. His glad-handing was mas- Trump is apparently ready to take that obstacle too steep to overcome. Karen Lewis, Community Engagement Manager terful, striking the all-important balance same medicine in hopes of a similar cure. David Von Drehle is a Washington Post columnist. [email protected] between making connections and keeping His firm grip on Senate Republicans vir- [email protected] He is the author of “Rise to Greatness: Abraham the line moving. “God love ya!” Biden said. tually assures his survival because a two- Lincoln and America’s Most Perilous Year.” +49(0)631.3615.9090; DSN (314)583.9090 Pacific Mari Mori, [email protected] +81-3 6385.3171; DSN (315)229.3171 A glimpse into a world where Trump is not in peril CONTACT US BY GARY ABERNATHY Washington cursion. As one fair official said this year: grounds enjoying a pulled pork or fish tel: (+1)202.886.0003 Special to The Washington Post “The fair is like a social event. 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A queen was “Sharpiegate,” Trump’s alleged weather- Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh crowned and an amateur talent show held, map manipulation. In the media, it brought Ernie Gates led to calls for Kavanaugh’s impeachment the winner being a performer of country hyperbolic accusations of illegality, but as in Washington but were largely dismissed music, naturally. Art, culinary, floral and fair visitors waited in line at the ticket gate The Stars and Stripes ombudsman protects the free flow here as more flimsy, partisan attacks. craft displays drew hundreds of entries, all ($10 admission, rides included), a few were of news and information, reporting any attempts by the Former Trump campaign manager Corey vying for coveted blue ribbons. But mostly, heard chuckling over how little it takes for military or other authorities to undermine the newspaper’s Lewandowski’s scornful testimony before independence. 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They © Stars and Stripes 2019 the first week of September on about 100 As fairgoers sat on bleachers inside the shall not be moved. sprawling acres on the edge of Hillsboro many barns to bid on champion livestock, Gary Abernathy is a freelance writer and former stripes.com — represent a much-anticipated annual ex- or relaxed on benches dotting the fair- newspaper editor based in Hillsboro, Ohio. Thursday, September 26, 2019 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 21 BUSINESS/WEATHER Strike pinches workers, GM, dealers, car owners

BY TOM KRISHER Dealer inventory per week in union strike pay that Associated Press starts this Friday. When they’re GM had a 77-day supply of ve- on the job, most workers get about DETROIT — As the United hicles at the end of August, but big $30 per hour in wages, or roughly Auto Workers’ strike against SUVs were only at about 55 days, $1,200 per week. Whiston esti- General Motors stretches into a lower than the industry average . mates that the work stoppage will second week, it’s not just the com- With no shipments since Sept. 16, cost the UAW’s roughly $750 mil- pany and striking workers get- supplies are starting to drop. lion strike fund about $31.5 mil- ting pinched. Michelle Krebs, executive ana- lion per week in strike pay and WILFREDO LEE/AP With many replacement part lyst for Autotrader, said dealers health care costs. People seeking jobs at McDonald’s can now start an application by warehouses shut down, dealers have told her that they’ll have using voice commands on their smartphones with Amazon’s Alexa or are beginning to run short of ample supply for another week EXCHANGE RATES Google’s Assistant. components to repair cars, trucks or so. Sales in September thus far Military rates and SUVs. Companies that make have been slowing from August Euro costs (Sept. 26) ...... $1.1282 Dollar buys (Sept. 26) ...... €0.8864 auto parts are also starting to see levels, so supplies aren’t being British pound (Sept. 26) ...... $1.27 work slow down. Dealer inven- depleted that quickly, she said. Japanese yen (Sept. 26) ...... 105.00 McDonald’s enlists Alexa, South Korean won (Sept. 26) ...... 1,169.00 tory of new vehicles is holding up Citi analyst Itay Michalei es- Commercial rates but starting to get depleted on a timated GM is losing $100 mil- Bahrain (Dinar) ...... 0.3770 lion in profits per day. The strike British pound ...... $1.2384 Google to help with hiring few models. Canada (Dollar) ...... 1.3274 Meanwhile, GM is losing mil- has already caused GM to lay off China (Yuan) ...... 7.1291 1,850 workers and shut down its Denmark (Krone) ...... 6.7953 BY DEE-ANN DURBIN not yet available through Apple’s lions of dollars and has been Egypt (Pound) ...... 16.3591 assembly plant in Oshawa, On- Associated Press Siri. forced to close one Canadian Euro ...... $1.0985/0.9103 tario, near Toronto. Another 730 Hong Kong (Dollar) ...... 7.8385 The move is an unusual one. factory and send workers home Hungary (Forint) ...... 304.69 Starting Wednesday, McDon- While some job recruitment at another. The 49,000 striking were laid off from an engine plant Israel (Shekel) ...... 3.5017 in St. Catherine’s, Ontario . Japan (Yen) ...... 107.55 ald’s Corp. began letting job seek- companies have built voice-rec- workers are going to have to get Kuwait (Dinar) ...... 0.3039 ers start an application by using ognition systems on Google and by on $250 per week in strike Norway (Krone) ...... 9.0339 voice commands with Amazon’s UAW workers Philippines (Peso)...... 52.29 Amazon’s platforms, both com- pay. Poland (Zloty) ...... 4.00 Alexa or Google’s Assistant. panies say McDonald’s is the Here’s a look at the ripple ef- Striking workers received their Saudi Arabia (Riyal) ...... 3.7511 If users say, “Alexa, help me fects of the strike: Singapore (Dollar) ...... 1.3784 first direct employer to use its last GM paycheck last Friday South Korea (Won) ...... 1,200.80 get a job at McDonald’s,” Alexa platform in this way. McDonald’s and now will have to rely on $250 Switzerland (Franc)...... 0.9871 will ask which country they want developed the technology . Auto parts Thailand (Baht) ...... 30.56 Turkey (Lira) ...... 5.6977 to work in and play McDonald’s For McDonald’s, voice-initi- (Military exchange rates are those catchy “I’m lovin’ it” jingle. After ated hiring is a way to stand out The biggest impact so far MARKET WATCH available to customers at military banking facilities in the country of issuance that, users can share their phone in a tight job market. The U.S. un- seems to be the lack of availabil- for Japan, South Korea, Germany, the number and get a link to continue employment rate of 3.7% is near ity of some replacement parts for Netherlands and the United Kingdom. For nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e., the application process. a 50-year low. Unemployment GM vehicles. The strike has shut purchasing British pounds in Germany), Alexa also shares some facts down a parts depot in Charlotte, check with your local military banking is also below 4% in the U.K. and facility. Commercial rates are interbank about working for the company, Germany. N.C., where the Southeast region rates provided for reference when buying such as how it can lead to jobs in normally gets its replacements, currency. All figures are foreign currencies McDonald’s employs 2 mil- to one dollar, except for the British pound, other fields. lion people at 38,000 restaurants said Ed Williamson, who owns which is represented in dollars-to-pound, The function is available in the worldwide, and its needs are several GM dealers in the Miami and the euro, which is dollars-to-euro.) U.S., Canada, Australia, France, constantly changing based on area. Parts suppliers, especially INTEREST RATES smaller ones where GM is the Germany, Ireland, Italy, Spain turnover and seasonal demands. Prime rate ...... 5.00 and the United Kingdom. Mc- Over the summer, the Chicago- main customer, are also starting Discount rate ...... 2.50 Federal funds market rate ...... 1.90 Donald’s is also exploring adding based company said it was hiring to get hit, said Morningstar ana- 3-month bill ...... 1.88 the feature in other markets. It’s 250,000 people in the U.S. alone. lyst David Whiston. 30-year bond ...... 2.09 WEATHER OUTLOOK THURSDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST THURSDAY IN EUROPE FRIDAY IN THE PACIFIC

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Naples 74/69 Okinawa Morón 74/62 91/55 Sigonella Rota 85/63 The weather is provided by the Djibouti Souda Bay American Forces Network Weather Center, 100/84 78/62 77/70 2nd Weather Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. PAGE 22 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Thursday, September 26, 2019 Thursday, September 26, 2019 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 23 PAGE 24 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Thursday, September 26, 2019 Thursday, September 26, 2019 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 25 SCOREBOARD

Sports College football Pro football Pro soccer Deals Schedule NFL MLS Tuesday’s transactions on AFN Thursday’s games AMERICAN CONFERENCE EASTERN CONFERENCE BASEBALL SOUTH East W L T Pts GF GA COMMISSIONER’S OFFICE — Sus- Delaware St. (1-2) at NC A&T (2-1) W L T Pct PF PA New York City FC 16 5 10 58 57 38 pended Chicago Cubs bench coach Mark Navy (2-0) at Memphis (3-0) Buffalo 3 0 0 1.000 66 47 Atlanta 17 11 3 54 53 37 Loretta one game for inappropriate con- Go to the American Forces Friday’s games New England 3 0 0 1.000 106 17 Philadelphia 15 9 7 52 55 45 duct following a replay review during a EAST N.Y. Jets 0 3 0 .000 33 70 D.C. United 13 10 9 48 42 38 Sept. 21 game. Network website for the most Brown (1-0) at Harvard (0-1) Miami 0 3 0 .000 16 133 New York 14 13 5 47 53 48 American League Penn St. (3-0) at Maryland (2-1) South Toronto FC 12 10 10 46 54 50 CLEVELAND INDIANS — Activated 3B up-to-date TV schedules. SOUTH New England 10 10 11 41 45 52 Houston 2 1 0 .667 68 62 Chicago 9 12 11 38 48 43 Jose Ramirez from the 10-day IL. myafn.net Duke (2-1) at Virginia Tech (2-1) Indianapolis 2 1 0 .667 70 71 TEXAS RANGERS — Recalled RHP Phil- FAR WEST Montreal 11 17 4 37 43 59 Jacksonville 1 2 0 .333 58 60 Orlando City 9 14 9 36 41 46 lips Valdez from Nashville (PCL). San Jose St. (2-1) at Air Force (2-1) Tennessee 1 2 0 .333 67 52 National League Arizona St. (3-1) at California (4-0) Columbus 9 15 8 35 37 46 North Cincinnati 6 22 4 22 30 74 PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Reinstated Saturday’s games Baltimore 2 1 0 .667 110 60 RHP Juan Nicasio from the 10-day IL. Tennis EAST WESTERN CONFERENCE Cleveland 1 2 0 .333 49 66 W L T Pts GF GA BASKETBALL Holy Cross (1-2) at Syracuse (2-2) Cincinnati 0 3 0 .000 54 83 Los Angeles FC 19 4 8 65 78 34 NBA — Fined the Milwaukee Bucks LIU (0-2) at Wagner (0-4) Pittsburgh 0 3 0 .000 49 85 Seattle 14 10 8 50 50 49 $50,000 for violating rules governing the Tashkent Open Merrimack (2-2) at Lehigh (0-3) West Minnesota 14 10 7 49 49 40 timing of discussions regarding future Delaware (3-1) at Pittsburgh (2-2) Wednesday Kansas City 3 0 0 1.000 101 64 LA Galaxy 15 13 3 48 51 50 player contracts and permissible com- St. Francis (Pa.) (2-2) at Bryant (0-4) Oakland 1 2 0 .333 48 78 Real Salt Lake 14 12 5 47 42 38 At The Olympic Tennis School Georgetown (2-1) at Columbia (1-0) mitments to players. L.A. Chargers 1 2 0 .333 60 64 FC Dallas 12 11 9 45 48 43 FOOTBALL Tashkent, Uzbekistan Richmond (1-2) at Fordham (1-3) San Jose 13 13 5 44 50 49 Purse: $250,000 Bethune-Cookman (2-1) at Howard (1-3) Denver 0 3 0 .000 46 67 National Football League NATIONAL CONFERENCE Portland 13 13 5 44 45 44 ARIZONA CARDINALS — Signed P Ryan Surface: Hardcourt outdoor Drake (0-2) at Marist (1-2) Colorado 11 15 6 39 54 60 Women’s Singles Duquesne (2-1) at New Hampshire (1-2) East Winslow to the practice squad. W L T Pct PF PA Houston 11 16 4 37 43 52 BUFFALO BILLS — Signed DT Kyle Peko Second Round Cornell (1-0) at Yale (1-0) Sporting KC 10 14 7 37 46 57 Katarina Zavatska, Ukraine, def. Ter- William & Mary (2-2) at Albany (NY) (2-2) Dallas 3 0 0 1.000 97 44 from the practice squad. Peplace DT Har- Philadelphia 1 2 0 .333 76 78 Vancouver 7 15 10 31 33 55 eza Martincova, Czech Republic, 6-4, 6-4. Wake Forest (4-0) at Boston College (3-1) Note: Three points for victory, one rison Phillips on IR. Viktoria Kuzmova (1), Slovakia, def. Princeton (1-0) at Bucknell (0-3) N.Y. Giants 1 2 0 .333 63 94 point for tie. CAROLINA PANTHERS — Signed G Bry- Greet Minnen, Belgium, 5-7, 6-3, 7-6 (7). Penn (0-1) at Lafayette (0-4) Washington 0 3 0 .000 63 94 Wednesday, Sept. 18 an Witzmann. Anna Kalinskaya, Russia, def. Tatjana Georgia Tech (1-2) at Temple (2-1) South Atlanta 2, Cincinnati 0 INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Released RB Maria (6), Germany, 3-6, 7-5, 6-2. Akron (0-4) at UMass (0-4) New Orleans 2 1 0 .667 72 82 New York 2, Portland 0 Darius Jackson from the practice squad. Danka Kovinic, Montenegro, def. Mar- Maine (2-2) at Villanova (4-0) Tampa Bay 1 2 0 .333 68 77 FC Dallas 0, Seattle 0, tie Signed CB Deante Burton to the practice garita Gasparyan (2), Russia, 7-5, 6-4. Colgate (0-4) at Dartmouth (1-0) Atlanta 1 2 0 .333 60 75 Saturday, Sept. 21 squad. Alison van Uytvanck (3), Belgium, def. NC Central (1-3) at Morgan St. (0-3) Carolina 1 2 0 .333 79 70 Atlanta 3, San Jose 1 MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Signed CB- Monica Niculescu, Romania, 6-2, 6-1. Stony Brook (3-1) at Rhode Island (0-3) North Columbus 1, Vancouver 1, tie PR Marcus Sherels and WR Laquon Kristyna Pliskova (5), Czech Republic, SOUTH Green Bay 3 0 0 1.000 58 35 Chicago 0, Cincinnati 0, tie Treadwell. Placed WR-PR Chad Beebe on def. Katarzyna Kawa, Poland, 7-5, 3-6, 6- N. Illinois (1-2) at Vanderbilt (0-3) Detroit 2 0 1 .833 67 61 Real Salt Lake 0, New England 0, tie IR. Waived LB Devante Downs. 4. ETSU (2-2) at Furman (2-2) Minnesota 2 1 0 .667 78 47 Houston 2, Orlando City 1 OAKLAND RAIDERS — Signed LB Dako- Women’s Doubles Ave Maria (2-1) at Jacksonville (1-2) Chicago 2 1 0 .667 50 39 Colorado 3, Sporting Kansas City 2 ta Allen. Placed LB Marquel Lee on IR. Second Round NC Wesleyan (1-1) at Stetson (2-1) West LA Galaxy 2, Montreal 1 SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Released LB Irina-Camelia Begu, Romania, and Wofford (1-2) at VMI (2-2) L.A. Rams 3 0 0 1.000 77 49 Toronto FC 1, Los Angeles FC 1, tie Jachai Polite from the practice squad. Lidziya Marozava (2), Belarus, def. Katar- James Madison (3-1) at Elon (2-2) San Francisco 3 0 0 1.000 96 54 Sunday, Sept. 22 TENNESSEE TITANS — Signed DL Lyn- zyna Kawa, Poland, and Francesca Di Jacksonville St. (3-1) at Austin Peay (2-2) Seattle 2 1 0 .667 76 79 Minnesota 0, Portland 0, tie don Johnson to the practice squad. Lorenzo, United States, 6-4, 6-3. The Citadel (2-2) at Samford (2-2) Arizona 0 2 1 .167 64 88 New York City FC 1, FC Dallas 1, tie WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Waived C Viktoria Kuzmova, Slovakia, and Anna Mississippi (2-2) at Alabama (4-0) Thursday, Sept. 19 New York 2, Philadelphia 0 Casey Dunn. Released DT T.Y. McGill. Kalinskaya (1), Russia, def. Ludmilla Coastal Carolina (3-1) at Appalachian Jacksonville 20, Tennessee 7 D.C. United 2, Seattle 0 HOCKEY St. (3-0) Sunday, Sept. 22 Wednesday’s games National Hockey League Samsonova, Russia, and Katarina Za- FAU (2-2) at Charlotte (2-2) vatska, Ukraine, 7-5, 6-4. Minnesota 34, Oakland 14 Atlanta at New York City FC CAROLINA HURRICANES — Assigned Fs Clemson (4-0) at North Carolina (2-2) Green Bay 27, Denver 16 Sporting Kansas City at Minnesota Jacob Pritchard and Spencer Smallman Hayley Carter, United States, and Luisa W. Carolina (1-2) at Chattanooga (1-3) Stefani, Brazil, def. Ysaline Bonaventure, New England 30, N.Y. Jets 14 LA Galaxy at Real Salt Lake and D Fredrik Claesson and Alex Lintuni- Towson (3-1) at Florida (4-0) Indianapolis 27, Atlanta 24 Houston at Los Angeles FC emi to Charlotte (AHL). Assigned F Hunt- Belgium, and Miyu Kato, Japan, 6-1, 6-1. Florida A&M (2-1) at Norfolk St. (1-3 Danka Kovinic, Montenegro, and Har- Dallas 31, Miami 6 New England at Portland er Shinkaruk and D Cavan Fitzgerald and Presbyterian (0-3) at North Alabama (1-3) Detroit 27, Philadelphia 24 Philadelphia at San Jose Derek Sheppard to training camp. riet Dart, Britain, def. Naomi Broady, SMU (4-0) at South Florida (1-2) Britain, and Rosalie van Der Hoek, Neth- Kansas City 33, Baltimore 28 Sunday’s games LOS ANGELES KINGS — Assigned D Cincinnati (2-1) at Marshall (2-1) Buffalo 21, Cincinnati 17 Toronto FC at Chicago Mikey Anderson, F Martin Frk and G Cal erlands, 6-2, 6-3. Central St. (Ohio) (1-2) at Alabama Orlando City at Cincinnati Alison van Uytvanck and Greet Min- Carolina 38, Arizona 20 Petersen to Ontario (AHL). A&M (2-2) at Mobile, Ala. San Francisco 24, Pittsburgh 20 Philadelphia at Columbus MINNESOTA WILD — Traded D Gustav nen, Belgium, def. Vitalia Diatchenko, Tennessee St. (1-3) at E. Kentucky (2-2) Atlanta at Montreal Russia, and Sabina Sharipova, Uzbeki- N.Y. Giants 32, Tampa Bay 31 Bouramman to Florida for future consid- Louisiana-Lafayette (3-1) at Georgia New Orleans 33, Seattle 27 New York City FC at New England erations. stan, 6-7 (5), 7-6 (2), 10-8. Southern (1-2) Houston 27, L.A. Chargers 20 D.C. United at New York ST. LOUIS BLUES — Traded D Joel Ed- Reinhardt (3-1) at Kennesaw St. (3-1) L.A. Rams 20, Cleveland 13 FC Dallas at Colorado New Mexico (2-1) at Liberty (2-2) Vancouver at LA Galaxy mundson and F Dominik Bokk to Carolina Chengdu Open East Carolina (2-2) at Old Dominion (1-2) Monday, Sept. 23 Los Angeles FC at Minnesota for D Justin Faulk. Wednesday Arkansas St. (2-2) at Troy (2-1) Chicago 31, Washington 15 Houston at Real Salt Lake TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS — Released At Chengdu Center MVSU (0-3) at Alcorn St. (2-2) Thursday’s game Seattle at San Jose G Michal Neuvirth. Recalled G Kasimir Chengdu Mississippi St. (3-1) at Auburn (4-0) Philadelphia at Green Bay Portland at Sporting Kansas City Kaskisuo from Toronto (AHL). Purse: $1,096,575 South Alabama (1-3) at Louisiana- Sunday’s games SOCCER Surface: Hardcourt outdoor Monroe (1-2) Carolina at Houston NWSL Major League Soccer Men’s Singles Sam Houston St. (2-2) at McNeese St. Cleveland at Baltimore MLS — Fined Chicago F Nemanja First Round (2-2) Kansas City at Detroit W L T Pts GF GA Nikolic, Minnesota F Mason Toye, To- Joao Sousa, Portugal, def. Chung Hy- Campbell (2-1) at Mercer (2-2) Oakland at Indianapolis North Carolina 14 4 4 46 50 19 ronto M Michael Bradley, Toronto D Chris eon, South Korea, 1-6, 6-3, 6-4. SE Louisiana (2-1) at Northwestern St. L.A. Chargers at Miami Chicago 13 8 2 41 39 27 Mavinga, and San Jose coach Matias Jordan Thompson, Australia, def. (0-4) Washington at N.Y. Giants Portland 11 5 6 39 40 29 Almeyda undisclosed amounts for their Vasek Pospisil, Canada, 6-3, 3-6, 7-5. UTEP (1-2) at Southern Miss. (2-2) Tennessee at Atlanta Utah 9 8 4 31 21 20 actions during Sept. 21 matches. Fined Alexander Bublik, Kazakhstan, def. UConn (1-2) at UCF (3-1) New England at Buffalo Reign FC 8 6 7 31 21 24 the Los Angeles Football Club and coach Murray St. (2-2) at UT Martin (1-2) Seattle at Arizona Washington 7 8 5 26 25 24 Bob Bradley undisclosed amounts for Taylor Fritz (6), United States, 4-6, 7-5, Houston 7 11 4 25 20 34 7-5. UAB (3-0) at W. Kentucky (1-2) Tampa Bay at L.A. Rams violating the mass confrontation policy NC State (3-1) at Florida St. (2-2) Jacksonville at Denver Sky Blue FC 5 13 4 19 17 30 during a Sept. 21 match against Toronto. Denis Shapovalov (8), Canada, def. Ri- Orlando 4 15 2 14 21 47 cardas Berankis, Lithuania, 6-4, 6-3. Kentucky (2-2) at South Carolina (1-3) Minnesota at Chicago OLYMPIC SPORTS Dallas at New Orleans Note: Three points for victory, one Men’s Doubles MIDWEST USA LUGE — Named Kaspars Dumpis Middle Tennessee (1-2) at Iowa (3-0) Open: San Francisco, N.Y. Jets point for tie. assistant junior national team coach. Second Round Tuesday, Sept. 17 Ivan Dodig, Croatia, and Filip Polasek Buffalo (2-2) at Miami (Ohio) (1-3) Monday’s game COLLEGE Rutgers (1-2) at Michigan (2-1) Cincinnati at Pittsburgh North Carolina 1, Houston 0 BROWN — Named Brian Fleming assis- (1), Slovakia, def. Igor Zelenay, Slovakia, Wednesday, Sept. 18 and Roman Jebavy, Czech Republic, 6-4, BYU (2-2) at Toledo (2-1) tant women’s basketball coach. Cent. Michigan (2-2) at W. Michigan (2-2) Utah at Reign FC ppd. CHOWAN — Named Ashley Collins as- 6-4. Northwestern (1-2) at Wisconsin (3-0) NFL calendar Saturday, Sept. 21 Dusan Lajovic and Nikola Cacic, Ser- sistant softball coach. Charleston (WV) (2-1) at Valparaiso (0-3) Oct. 15-16 — Fall league meeting, Fort Chicago 3, Washington 1 FORDHAM — Named Jamilah Ali direc- bia, def. Robert Lindstedt, Sweden, and Kentucky St. (1-1) vs. Jackson St. (1-2) North Carolina 3, Utah 0 Santiago Gonzalez (3), Mexico, 6-7, 6-4, Lauderdale, Fla. tor of athletic compliance. at Indianapolis Oct. 29 — All trading ends for 2019 at Sky Blue FC 1, Reign FC 0 IOWA STATE — Announced men’s 10-6. Indiana (3-1) at Michigan St. (3-1) Portland 1, Houston 0 Joao Sousa, Portugal, and Radu Albot, 4 p.m. (ET) sophomore transfer basketball guard Virginia (4-0) at Notre Dame (2-1) Dec. 12 — League meeting, Las Coli- Wednesday’s games Rasir Bolton was granted an NCAA waiv- Moldova, def. Benoit Paire, France, and Minnesota (3-0) at Purdue (1-2) Washington at Houston Alexander Bublik, Kazakhstan, 6-1, 6-1. nas, Texas. Utah at Reign FC er for immediate eligibility. Tennessee Tech (3-1) at E. Illinois (0-4) 2020 SAINT AUGUSTINE’S — Named Okesa Robert Morris (1-3) at Youngstown St. Saturday’s games Jan. 4-5 — Wild-card playoffs. North Carolina at Washington Smith and Reginald Cooper interim head Wuhan Open (3-0) Jan. 11-12 — Divisional playoffs. football coaches. Ohio St. (4-0) at Nebraska (3-1) Utah at Chicago Jan. 19 — AFC and NFC championship Sunday’s games Wednesday SOUTHWEST games. At Optics Valley International Tennis Texas Tech (2-1) at Oklahoma (3-0) Orlando at Sky Blue FC Jan. 26 — NFL Pro Bowl. Portland at Reign FC Center Kansas (2-2) at TCU (2-1) Feb. 2 — Super Bowl, Hard Rock Sta- Pro hockey Wuhan, China Saturday, Oct. 5 Arkansas (2-2) vs. Texas A&M (2-2) at dium, Miami Gardens, Fla. Washington at Orlando Purse: $2,828,000 Arlington, Texas Feb. 24-March 2 — NFL scouting com- Surface: Hardcourt outdoor Iowa St. (2-1) at Baylor (3-0) bine, Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis. Women’s Singles Grambling St. (0-3) vs. Prairie View (1- NHL preseason 3) at Dallas Feb. 25 — First day for clubs to desig- Second Round nate franchise or transition players. AP sportlight Monday’s games Elina Svitolina (3), Ukraine, def. Svet- Southern U. (1-3) at Ark.-Pine Bluff (3-1) Toronto 3, Montreal 0 lana Kuznetsova, Russia, 6-4, 6-2. Texas Southern (0-3) at Houston Bap- N.Y. Islanders 3, Detroit 2, OT Ashleigh Barty (1), Australia, def. So- tist (3-1) Sept. 26 Boston 4, Philadelphia 3, OT fia Kenin (15), United States, 6-3, 7-5. Abilene Christian (2-2) at Incarnate Pro basketball 1942 — Jockey Club stewards revoke Vancouver 6, Ottawa 4 Aryna Sabalenka (9), Belarus, def. Kiki Word (1-2) Eddie Arcaro’s license for one year af- Los Angeles 3, Anaheim 0 Bertens (6), Netherlands, 6-1, 7-6 (9). Stephen F. Austin (0-4) at Lamar (2-2) ter his display of “rough riding” aboard Tuesday’s games Petra Martic, Croatia, def. Veronika Kansas St. (3-0) at Oklahoma St. (3-1) odds-on favorite Occupation in the N.Y. Rangers 3, N.Y. Islanders 1 Kudermetova, Russia, 6-3, 6-1. Louisiana Tech (3-1) at Rice (0-4) WNBA playoffs Nicholls (2-1) at Texas St. (1-3) Cowdin Stakes on Sept. 19, in which he Florida 6, Tampa Bay 3 Alison Riske, United States, def. Wang (x-if necessary) attempted to injure a fellow rider during Dallas 2, St. Louis 1 Qiang (8), China, 6-2, 6-1. Houston (1-3) at North Texas (2-2) FAR WEST First Round the race. Calgary 2, Winnipeg 0 Women’s Doubles Wednesday, Sept. 11 1961 — New York Yankee Roger Maris Arizona 4, Edmonton 2 Second Round N. Arizona (2-2) at Montana St. (3-1) Idaho (2-2) at N. Colorado (0-4) Chicago 105, Phoenix 76 ties Babe Ruth’s 34-year-old record with Anaheim 4, San Jose 1 Kveta Peschke, Czech Republic, and Seattle 84, Minnesota 74 his 60th homer, off Jack Fisher of Balti- Wednesday’s games Nicole Melichar (7), United States, def. Southern Cal (3-1) at Washington (3-1) Montana (3-1) at UC Davis (2-2) Second Round more. Montreal at Toronto Vania King, United States, and Oksana Sunday, Sept 15 1981 — Nolan Ryan of the Houston New Jersey at Boston Kalashnikova, Georgia, 7-5, 6-1. North Dakota (2-1) at E. Washington (1-3) Portland St. (2-2) at Idaho St. (1-2) Los Angeles 92, Seattle 69 Astros becomes the first player to pitch Columbus at Buffalo Abigail Spears, United States, and Na- Stanford (1-3) at Oregon St. (1-2) Las Vegas 93, Chicago 92 five no-hit, no-run games. This one is a Detroit at Pittsburgh diia Kichenok, Ukraine, def. Barbora Stry- Colorado St. (1-3) at Utah St. (2-1) Semifinals 5-0 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers Carolina at Nashville cova, Czech Republic, and Hsieh Su-wei Fresno St. (1-2) at New Mexico St. (0-4) (Best-of-five) at the Astrodome. Washington at Chicago (1), Taiwan, 6-4, 2-6, 13-11. N. Iowa (2-1) at Weber St. (1-2) Washington 3, Las Vegas 1 1983 — Australia II wins America’s Los Angeles at Anaheim Latisha Chan and Hao-Ching Chan (6), UNLV (1-2) at Wyoming (3-1) Washington 97, Las Vegas 95 Cup yacht race to end the longest win- Colorado at Vegas Taiwan, def. Renata Voracova, Czech Re- Cal Poly (1-2) at S. Utah (1-3) Washington 103, Las Vegas 91 ning streak in sporting history. Australia Ottawa at Vancouver public, and Anna Blinkova, Russia, 6-3, Washington St. (3-1) at Utah (3-1) Las Vegas 92, Washington 75 II, skippered by John Bertrand, wins the Thursday’s games 6-2. UCLA (1-3) at Arizona (2-1) Tuesday: Washington 94, Las Vegas 90 title in the seventh and final race. Aus- St. Louis vs. Detroit at Calumet, Mich. Duan Ying-Ying, China, and Veronika Hawaii (3-1) at Nevada (3-1) Connecticut 3, Los Angeles 0 tralia II crosses the finish line with a win- Philadelphia at N.Y. Rangers Kudermetova (8), Russia, def. Raluca- Thursday, Oct. 3 Connecticut 84, Los Angeles 75 ning margin of 41 seconds over Liberty, Tampa Bay at Florida Ioana Olaru and Simona Halep, Romania, SOUTH Connecticut 94, Los Angeles 68 which is skippered by Dennis Conner. Edmonton at Winnipeg walkover. Georgia Southern at South Alabama Connecticut 78, Los Angeles 56 The U.S. had successfully defended the Minnesota at Dallas Anna-Lena Groenefeld, Germany, and Temple at East Carolina Finals cup over a period of 132 years, since the Arizona at Vancouver Demi Schuurs, Netherlands, def. Aliak- Friday, Oct. 4 (Best-of-five) schooner America won it in a fleet race Calgary at San Jose sandra Sasnovich, Belarus, and Sofia EAST Connecticut vs. Washington around England’s Isle of Wight in 1851. Friday’s games Kenin, United States, 6-4, 3-6, 12-10. Dartmouth at Penn Sunday, Sept. 29: at Washington 1992 — Rocky Mountain’s Steve New Jersey at Columbus Elise Mertens, Belgium, and Aryna MIDWEST Tuesday, Oct. 1: at Washington Thompson rushes for 405 yards and six Toronto at Detroit Sabalenka (2), Belarus, def. Lyudmyla UCF at Cincinnati Sunday, Oct. 6: at Connecticut touchdowns in a 42-36 overtime victory Nashville at Carolina Kichenok, Ukraine, and Desirae Krawc- FAR WEST x-Tuesday, Oct 8: at Connecticut over Carroll College. The rushing total is Washington at St. Louis zyk, United States, 6-1, 6-3. New Mexico at San Jose St. x-Thursday, Oct. 10: at Washington the second highest in NAIA history. Los Angeles at Vegas PAGE 26 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Thursday, September 26, 2019 NHL Briefs Matthews issued summons TORONTO — The Toronto Maple Leafs say they are aware of a complaint of dis- turbing the peace against star forward Auston Matthews. The team says Matthews is cooperat- ing with authorities and declined further comment “out of respect for the process involved.” A Scottsdale, Ariz., police spokesman said the department in Matthews’ home- town investigated a disorderly conduct case involving an Auston Matthews on May 26. He said Matthews was not arrest- ed and the case has been forwarded to the city prosecutor’s office for review. Online court records show an Auston Matthews with a birthdate of September 1997 was issued a summons on July 23 for “disorderly conduct — disruptive behavior or fighting.” The Leafs center was born Sept. 17, 1997. Matthews, the first pick in the 2016 draft, has 111 goals and 205 points in 212 NHL games. He also has 10 goals and three assists in 20 playoff appearances for Toronto. Blues acquire Faulk in trade ST. LOUIS — The St. Louis Blues ac- quired All-Star defenseman Justin Faulk PAUL SANCYA/AP from the Carolina Hurricanes on Tuesday in exchange for defenseman Joel Edmund- The Detroit Red Wings are desperately trying to keep fans filing into 2-year-old Little Caesars Arena as the allure of the new facility son and a prospect. wears off while the team goes through a painful rebuild. The Red Wings filled the arena to 98% of capacity on average last season. The Blues also announced Faulk had signed a seven-year contract extension worth $45.5 million that goes into effect following this season with the defending Stanley Cup champions. Faulk gives the Blues another offensively gifted right-handed shooting defenseman Keeping butts in the seats who could play on the second or third pair. He could also run the second power-play unit. The 27-year-old Faulk had 85 goals and 258 points — club records in both stat cat- League aims to fill arenas, drawing fans away from TVs egories among defensemen — and had spent his entire eight-year NHL career BY LARRY LAGE in throughout Little Caesars Arena. part in keeping some fans at home. with Carolina . Associated Press “It was an expensive choice,” Larson “It’s a lot cheaper for a 12-pack on the said. “I would’ve hated to foot the bill for weekends,” Blues fan John Fuchs said. Leafs release goalie Neuvirth DETROIT it.” The Carolina Hurricanes have gotten ed Wings season ticket holder Like franchises in other sports and creative, trying to climb up from the bot- TORONTO — The Toronto Maple Leafs Matt Larson pays about $74 for leagues, NHL teams are invested in en- tom of the NHL’s attendance figures in have released veteran goalie Michal Neu- two of the cheapest seats in Little hancing game-day experiences, knowing terms of percentage of capacity. Carolina virth, meaning Michael Hutchinson has RCaesars Arena. there is a lot at stake to sold a little more than three-fourths of its likely won the backup job. The 32-year-old fan gets a pair of chairs keep them coming to tickets at its Raleigh arena last season to Neuvirth was vying for the No. 2 spot set up behind a counter — giving him plen- ‘ You have arenas instead of stay- rank ahead of only Ottawa after a three- behind Frederik Andersen. But he played ty of space for food and drink — in a spa- to be at ing at home. year run of being last in the league. just two periods during training camp be- cious area perched near the rafters behind “Our biggest com- The team has been offering monthly cause of an unspecified injury. a net. a hockey petitor is Netflix,” San subscription passes, giving fans access to Hutchinson made 38 saves in a 3-0 shut- “There’s nothing better than watching game in Jose Sharks vice presi- a certain number of games for a one-time out of the Montreal Canadiens on Monday hockey in person,” Larson said recently dent Doug Bentz said. fee at a substantial savings compared to behind a largely AHL lineup. Neuvirth while watching Detroit host Chicago in a person to “The one advantage individual tickets. The mobile-only, ticket- was supposed to be in Montreal, but coach preseason game. get it. TV we have over Netflix selling innovation has become relatively Mike Babcock said he “wasn’t feeling up The Red Wings, and every other NHL doesn’t do is you’re a part of a common in Major League Baseball, but to it.” team, hope there are a lot of people who community at a Sharks the Hurricanes are a unique team in the The 31-year-old Neuvirth has played in agree with him. it justice. game. We want more of NHL to try it. the NHL with Washington, Buffalo, the Detroit is desperately trying to keep It is the that in our world where “It gets people in the building for an af- New York Islanders and Philadelphia. He fans filing into its arena, which is a little most so many are stuck on fordable price,” Hurricanes vice president has a career record of 105-93-26, with a more than two years old, as the allure of devices in isolation or Mike Forman said. “We think if we can get .910 save percentage and 2.71 goals-against the spectacular facility wears off while the exciting binge-watching on a people to a game, they’re hooked.” average in 257 games. team trudges through a multiyear rebuild. sport to couch maybe with one Red Wings fan Melanie Bidwell was one Despite another season without a trip to other person.” of the many hooked on hockey in the Motor Isles break ground on arena the playoffs, the Red Wings said the arena be at.’ On streets and in liv- City for years, proudly counting herself was filled to 98% of capacity on average. Mike ing rooms, St. Louis is as a season ticket holder for more than a ELMONT, N.Y. — Work has begun on a They ranked in the middle of the pack in a Buschhorn still buzzing from its decade. When the team moved from Joe $1.3 billion arena for the New York Island- league that generally is able to draw fans to Blues season first Stanley Cup. Louis to Little Caesars Arena two years ers hockey team at Belmont Park. watch its high-speed, full-contact product ticket holder The Blues will raise ago, she continued to buy season tickets. The 19,000-seat arena will also include in person. Ten teams averaged sellouts and a championship banner Last season, she gave up her tickets. shops, restaurants and a hotel. Work is just five of 31 franchises had an average at- Oct. 2 before opening the season against “It’s nothing against the Red Wings. We expected to be completed in time for the tendance last season that didn’t fill at least the Washington Capitals. Blues season- still love them, but it’s not convenient to get 2021-2022 season. 90% of their arenas. ticket holder Mike Buschhorn plans to be to games when you’re juggling work sched- Until then, the Islanders will play home While Detroit did not have trouble selling there for the party, deciding not to cash in ules and a 9-year-old boy playing hockey,” games at the Nassau Coliseum and the tickets last year, it wasn’t always playing in on his tickets by selling them and watching she said. “I’m excited that the season is Barclays Center in Brooklyn. front of a packed house because some fans the festivities on TV. starting again, but our family priorities The new arena is being built on state- simply couldn’t get people to take and use “You have to be at a hockey game in will keep us at home watching games on owned property. As part of the work, de- their tickets. To make unoccupied seats person to get it,” the Blues fan said. “TV TV so we can get our kid in bed for school velopers have agreed to pay to build a new stand out less on TV for Red Wings and doesn’t do it justice. It is the most exciting and we can get up for work.” Long Island Rail Road station nearby. Pistons games, the red material covering sport to be at.” Freelance writer Joe Harris in St. Louis contrib- — Associated Press chairs has been replaced by black to blend The price of tickets, however, plays a uted to this report Thursday, September 26, 2019 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 27 MLB ROUNDUP Twins move closer to an AL Central title

Associated Press Another record season 2,075th run to help the Angels end a seven-game skid. DETROIT — The Minnesota for strikeouts Diamondbacks 3, Cardinals Twins took another step toward 2 (19): Ildemaro Vargas had a an AL Central title with a 4-2 win Major League Baseball has set its game-tying pinch-hit homer in over the Detroit Tigers on Tues- season strikeout record for the 12th the ninth inning and then singled day night. straight season. with the bases loaded in the 19th More importantly, they think Batters struck out 369 times Tues- at 1:34 a.m. local time to lift host they dodged an injury that could day to raise the season total to 41,467. Arizona past St. Louis. have significantly hampered That topped the 41,207 of last season their chances in October. with five days to spare. Carson Kelly and Nick Ahmed After allowing one run and two After topping hits for the first time started the final rally with back- hits in the first six innings, Twins in 2018, strikeouts are ahead again. to-back singles off John Brebbia starter Jake Odorizzi caught There were 40,883 hits through Tues- (3-4), who was the Cardinals’ 11th manager Rocco Baldelli’s atten- day. Last year finished with 41,018 pitcher of the night. Jarrod Dyson tion with some odd arm move- hits. and Robbie Ray — a pitcher who ments as he warmed up for the Strikeouts broke 40,000 for the had to pinch hit — struck out be- PAUL SANCYA/AP seventh. Odorizzi’s arm wasn’t first time in 2017, when there were fore Christian Walker was inten- the problem. 40,104. tionally walked to load the bases. Twins Jorge Polanco, left, and Eddie Rosario celebrate after a victory “He asked about my shoulder Before the record run started in Then it was Vargas’ turn to be over the Tigers in Detroit on Tuesday. Minnesota’s magic number to and I said that was fine — I was 2008, the mark had been 32,404 in the hero again, smacking a sin- clinch the AL Central title is two. just getting the blood flow going 2001. Strikeouts totaled 29,937 in gle — his fourth hit of the game again — but my hamstring was 1996 before reaching 30,000 for the — through the left side of the in- The Cubs dropped to 82-75 and Dodgers 6, Padres 3: Max cramping a little,” Odorizzi said. first time the following year. field. He raised his hands as play- would be eliminated with one Muncy hit his first career grand “I could have kept going, but MLB also set a record for home runs ers rushed the field to celebrate. more loss or Milwaukee win. slam and visiting Los Angeles taking me out was probably the this season. The league entered Tues- The game lasted 6 hours and 53 Aided by a fielding error by clinched home-field advantage smart thing.” day with 6,550, surpassing the mark of minutes and featured 24 pitchers second baseman Ben Zobrist throughout the NL playoffs even Baldelli agreed and brought in 6,105 set in 2017. and 48 strikeouts, with both teams and an errant throw by reliever before it beat staggering San Kyle Gibson. plowing through bullpen arms Danny Hultzen, the Pirates sent Diego. “Under different circumstanc- thanks to September’s expanded 13 batters to the plate in the sev- The seven-time NL West cham- es, I would have left Jake out game back of Tampa Bay for the rosters. The Diamondbacks used enth as they chased starter Kyle pion Dodgers (101-56) locked up there, but this way we are sure second AL wild card. a franchise-record 30 players. It Hendricks (11-10) and erased a home field when NL East cham- he’s going to be fine going for- Mike Clevinger (13-3) pitched was the longest game by innings 1-0 deficit. pion Atlanta (96-62) lost 9-6 at ward,” he said. seven innings of five-hit ball and and time in Chase Field history. Mets 5, Marlins 4 (11): Three Kansas City. Minnesota’s magic number to struck out 10 while extending his Kevin Ginkel (3-0) pitched a outs from postseason elimina- Red Sox 12, Rangers 10: Ed- clinch the division is two over scoreless streak to 18 innings. scoreless inning for the win. tion, host New York tied it 4-all uardo Rodriguez labored through Cleveland. The Indians beat the Rays 2, Yankees 1: Ji-Man St. Louis had its lead in the NL in the ninth when Michael Con- five innings to get his 19th win, White Sox 11-0 later Tuesday. Choi hit a game-ending home Central cut to 2 ½ games over forto clocked his second two-run allowing more runs than he had Odorizzi (15-7) hadn’t allowed run in the 12th inning that helped Milwaukee. The Cardinals have homer of the game, connecting in his previous seven starts com- a hit since Harold Castro’s bunt host Tampa Bay remain on track four games remaining, while the off Jose Urena for his 33rd long bined, and visiting Boston beat single in the first and left having for an AL wild-card berth after Brewers have five. ball of the season. Texas. struck out six and allowed one New York’s CC Sabathia pitched Rockies 8, Giants 5 (16): Brandon Nimmo won it by Rodriguez (19-6) exited with run. a perfect inning in his first regu- Colorado and host San Francisco working a bases-loaded walk a 12-7 lead after throwing 113 “I felt great,” he said. “I just lar-season relief appearance. combined to use a major league- in the 11th against rookie Jeff pitches. need to hydrate a little more.” Choi homered off Cory Gearrin record 25 pitchers, and Charlie Brigham. Boston (82-75) clinched a win- The Twins improved to 97-60, (1-3) after Pete Fairbanks (2-3) Blackmon hit a three-run homer After wins by Washington and ning record while the Rang- their most victories since going struck out Brett Gardner with a in the 16th inning to end it. Milwaukee earlier in the day, the ers (75-82) will have their third 98-64 in 1970. With three wins in runner on second and two outs in The game lasted 5 hours, 31 Mets needed a victory to stay in straight losing season. their final five games, they can the top half of the 12th inning. minutes, with Giants manager the playoff race. They are tied Royals 9, Braves 6: In its first become the record fourth club Tampa Bay remained a half- Bruce Bochy making 12 pitching with the plummeting Chicago game after manager Ned Yost an- with 100 wins this season. game ahead of Cleveland for the changes — hardly taking it easy Cubs, five games behind the nounced he will retire after the Taylor Rogers pitched a perfect second AL wild card. in his final week on the job. Brewers for the second NL wild season, host Kansas City burst to ninth for his 29th save. It was his Angels 3, Athletics 2: Homer Blackmon’s first hit of the night card with five to play. a six-run lead in the first three in- first appearance since allowing Bailey lost for the first time in came in his eighth plate appear- Astros 3, Mariners 0: Gerrit nings and beat NL East champion three runs in a loss to Kansas eight starts and visiting Oakland ance and off Dereck Rodriguez Cole won his 15th consecutive de- Atlanta behind three hits and two City on Saturday. suffered a setback in its postsea- (6-10) for his 31st home run. Both cision, striking out 14 and walk- RBIs from Nicky Lopez. Indians 11, White Sox 0: Jose son pursuit. clubs left the bases loaded in the ing none while pitching two-hit Orioles 11, Blue Jays 4: Trey Ramirez hit a grand slam and a The A’s let their lead for the top 11th, and Colorado stranded 15 ball for seven innings to lead vis- Mancini had a career-high five three-run homer in his first two AL wild card drop to a half-game baserunners. iting Houston. hits, DJ Stewart hit a two-run plate appearances after missing over Tampa Bay and one game Pirates 9, Cubs 2: At Pitts- Cole (19-5) is unbeaten in 21 homer and visiting Baltimore a month with a broken hand, and over Cleveland. Their magic burgh, freefalling Chicago com- starts since losing to the Chicago beat Toronto. Cleveland pounded host Chicago. number to clinch a playoff spot mitted five errors, including two White Sox on May 22. He is on With one more victory or a loss Roberto Perez and Oscar Mer- remained at five with five games in a seven-run seventh inning, the longest streak of consecutive by Detroit, the Orioles (51-106) cado also went deep for the Indi- left. and moved to the brink of elimi- winning decisions since Toronto’s can avoid having baseball’s worst ans, who won for the sixth time David Fletcher had three hits nation with its seventh straight Roy Halladay was 15-0 during an record for the second straight in seven games to remain a half- and Albert Pujols drove in his loss. 18-start span in 2003. season. PAGE 28 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Thursday, September 26, 2019 MLB SCOREBOARD

American League Nationals 4, Phillies 1 Pirates 9, Cubs 2 D-backs 3, Cardinals 2 (19) Rays 2, Yankees 1 (12) East Division First game Chicago Pittsburgh St. Louis Arizona New York Tampa Bay W L Pct GB Philadelphia Washington ab r h bi ab r h bi ab r h bi ab r h bi ab r h bi ab r h bi x-New York 102 56 .646 — ab r h bi ab r h bi Rizzo 1b 4 0 1 0 Newman ss 5 1 1 0 Fowler rf 8 1 1 1 Almonte rf 3 0 0 0 LeMhu 1b-3b 5 0 1 0 Pham lf 5 0 1 0 Tampa Bay 94 64 .595 8 Hernndez 2b 3 1 1 0 Turner ss 4 2 3 0 Caratini 1b 1 0 0 0 Reynolds cf 5 0 0 1 Edman 2b 8 0 2 0 Walkr ph-1b 4 0 0 0 Judge rf 5 0 1 0 Meadows rf 4 0 2 0 Boston 82 75 .522 19½ Harper rf 4 0 1 0 Eaton rf 3 1 1 0 Castllnos rf 5 0 0 0 Frazier 2b 4 1 2 1 Gldshmdt 1b 8 1 2 1 Leyba 2b 2 0 0 0 Torres 2b 5 0 0 0 Aguilar dh 2 0 0 0 Toronto 64 94 .405 38 Hoskins 1b 3 0 0 0 Rendon 3b 1 1 0 2 Zobrist 2b 4 0 2 0 Osuna 1b 3 1 1 0 Ozuna lf 6 0 0 0 Vargs ph-2b 6 1 4 2 Stanton dh 4 0 1 0 Lowe ph-dh 3 0 0 0 Baltimore 52 106 .329 50 Miller lf 3 0 1 0 Soto lf 3 0 0 0 Norwood p 0 0 0 0 Moran 3b 4 1 1 1 Molina c 8 0 2 0 Escobar 3b 6 0 2 0 Frazier pr-dh 0 0 0 0 d’Arnaud c 5 0 1 0 Central Division Franco 3b 0 0 0 0 Zmmrmn 1b 3 0 1 1 Holland p 0 0 0 0 Stallings c 4 1 1 0 Carpenter 3b 8 0 1 0 Lamb 1b 3 0 0 0 Urshela 3b 2 0 0 0 Choi 1b 4 1 1 1 Minnesota 97 60 .618 — Morrison ph 1 0 0 0 Dozier 2b 3 0 1 0 d-Kemp ph 0 0 0 0 Kramer rf 3 1 1 2 DeJong ss 7 0 1 0 Jones ph-rf 5 0 0 0 Voit 1b 2 0 0 0 Duffy 3b 3 0 1 0 Cleveland 93 64 .592 4 Segura ss 4 0 1 1 Robles cf 4 0 1 0 Schwarber lf 4 0 2 0 Rodriguez p 0 0 0 0 Bader cf 8 0 2 0 Rojas lf 7 0 1 0 Gregorius ss 5 0 1 0 Wendle 2b 1 0 0 0 Chicago 68 88 .436 28½ Kingry 3b-cf 4 0 1 0 Read c 4 0 0 0 Contreras c 3 1 1 0 c-Elmore ph 1 1 1 0 Flaherty p 3 0 1 0 Avila c 3 0 0 0 Maybin cf-lf 5 1 1 1 Rbrtsn ph-2b 1 0 0 0 Kansas City 58 100 .367 39½ Haseley cf-lf 2 0 0 0 Ross p 1 0 0 0 Gallegos p 0 0 0 0 C.Kelly ph-c 4 1 1 0 Romine c 4 0 1 0 N.Lowe ph 1 0 0 0 Detroit 46 110 .295 50½ Happ 3b 4 0 1 0 Kela p 0 0 0 0 Grullon c 3 0 0 0 Fedde p 0 0 0 0 Heyward cf 3 1 0 0 Gonzalez lf 4 2 1 2 Miller p 0 0 0 0 Ahmed ss 7 1 2 0 Ford ph 1 0 1 0 Brosseau 2b 1 0 0 0 West Division Parker p 1 0 0 0 Kendrick ph 1 0 0 0 J.Martinz ph 1 0 0 0 Dyson cf 7 0 0 0 Estrada pr 0 0 0 0 Adames ss 4 0 0 0 x-Houston 103 54 .656 — Hoerner ss 4 0 2 2 Keller p 1 0 0 0 Morin p 0 0 0 0 Rainey p 0 0 0 0 Hendricks p 3 0 0 0 Stratton p 0 0 0 0 Webb p 0 0 0 0 Leake p 1 0 0 0 Higashioka c 0 0 0 0 Kiermaier cf 4 1 1 1 Oakland 94 63 .599 9 Bruce ph 1 0 0 0 Rodney p 0 0 0 0 Helsley p 0 0 0 0 Flores ph 1 0 0 0 Wade lf 3 0 0 0 Texas 75 82 .478 28 Phelps p 0 0 0 0 a-Joseph ph 1 0 0 0 Suarez p 0 0 0 0 Stevnson ph 1 0 0 0 Hultzen p 0 0 0 0 Liriano p 0 0 0 0 Ravelo ph 1 0 0 0 Lopez p 0 0 0 0 Gardnr ph-cf 2 0 0 0 Los Angeles 71 86 .452 32 Vincent p 0 0 0 0 Doolittle p 0 0 0 0 Cabrera p 0 0 0 0 Crichton p 0 0 0 0 Totals 43 1 7 1 Totals 38 2 7 2 Seattle 66 91 .420 37 Russell 2b 1 0 0 0 Reyes ph-rf 2 0 1 0 Alvarez p 0 0 0 0 Hudson p 0 0 0 0 Totals 36 2 9 2 Totals 37 9 10 7 Gant p 0 0 0 0 Cron ph 1 0 0 0 New York 001 000 000 000—1 Williams ph 1 0 0 0 Chicago 000 100 010—2 Fernandez p 0 0 0 0 McFarlnd p 0 0 0 0 Tampa Bay 000 010 000 001—2 National League Hughes p 0 0 0 0 Pittsburgh 000 000 72x—9 O’Neill ph 1 0 0 0 Sherfy p 0 0 0 0 DP—New York 1, Tampa Bay 0. LOB— Garcia p 0 0 0 0 PondLeon p 0 0 0 0 Bradley p 0 0 0 0 New York 8, Tampa Bay 6. 2B—Ford (6), East Division E—Hoerner 2 (2), Happ (2), Zobrist (3), Totals 30 1 5 1 Totals 28 4 7 3 Hultzen (1). LOB—Chicago 11, Pittsburgh Wieters ph 1 0 0 0 Andriese p 0 0 0 0 d’Arnaud (16). HR—Maybin (10), Kiermai- W L Pct GB Philadelphia 100 000 000—1 5. 2B—Schwarber 2 (28), Hoerner (1), Leone p 0 0 0 0 Locastro ph 1 0 1 0 er (14), Choi (18). x-Atlanta 96 62 .608 — Washington 000 102 01x—4 Arozrena ph 1 0 1 0 Clarke p 0 0 0 0 y-Washington 88 69 .561 7½ DP—Philadelphia 0, Washington 1. Contreras (18), Frazier (32), Kramer (1). IP H R ER BB SO HR—Gonzalez (1). SB—Newman (16). Brebbia p 0 0 0 0 Scott p 0 0 0 0 New York 82 75 .522 13½ LOB—Philadelphia 5, Washington 7. 2B— Joseph ph 1 0 1 1 New York Philadelphia 79 78 .503 16½ Turner 2 (35), Eaton (25). SF—Rendon 2 IP H R ER BB SO Chafin p 0 0 0 0 Montgomery 2 3 0 0 0 3 Miami 55 102 .350 40½ (9). S—Haseley (1), Eaton (9). Chicago Duplntier p 2 0 1 0 Heller 1 1 0 0 0 1 Central Division IP H R ER BB SO Hendricks, L, 11-10 6 6 6 5 0 5 Hirano p 0 0 0 0 Sabathia H,1 1 0 0 0 0 2 z-St. Louis 90 68 .570 — B Tarpley BS,2-3 1 2 1 1 0 1 Philadelphia Phelps 1 1 0 0 0 Ginkel p 0 0 0 0 Milwaukee 87 70 .554 2½ Hultzen B 1 0 0 1 1 Ray ph 1 0 0 0 Lyons 0 0 0 0 1 0 Chicago 82 75 .522 7½ Parker 2 0 0 0 0 2 Cessa 1 0 0 0 2 2 Morin 1 0 0 0 0 2 Norwood C 2 2 2 0 1 Totals 69 2 13 2 Totals 65 3 13 3 Cincinnati 73 84 .465 16½ C Holland C 0 0 0 0 0 St. Louis 100 000 000 000 100 000 0—2 Kahnle 1 0 0 0 0 1 Pittsburgh 66 91 .420 23½ Suarez BS,0-3 1 3 1 1 0 2 Britton 1 0 0 0 0 1 Vincent L,1-2 C 2 2 2 0 1 Pittsburgh Arizona 000 000 001 000 100 000 1—3 West Division C E—Escobar (7), Ginkel (1). DP—St. Ottavino 1 0 0 0 0 1 x-Los Angeles 101 56 .643 — Alvarez 1 0 0 1 1 Keller 5 7 1 1 2 7 Green 2 0 0 0 0 5 Hughes 1 1 0 0 0 2 Stratton 1 0 0 0 0 1 Louis 2, Arizona 2. LOB—St. Louis 14, Arizona 81 77 .513 20½ Arizona 15. 2B—Molina (24), Vargas (9). Gearrin L,1-1 0 1 1 1 0 0 San Francisco 75 82 .478 26 Garcia 1 0 1 1 3 2 Liriano, W, 5-3 1 0 0 0 0 0 Rodriguez 1 2 1 1 1 3 3B—Ahmed (7). HR—Fowler (18), Gold- Tampa Bay San Diego 70 87 .446 31 Washington schmidt (33), Vargas (6). Chirinos 3 1 1 1 0 0 Colorado 68 89 .433 33 Ross 4 5 1 1 2 4 Kela 1 0 0 0 1 0 Fedde 1 0 0 0 0 0 Hendricks pitched to 6 batters in the IP H R ER BB SO Kittredge 1 1 0 0 0 2 x-clinched division McKay 1C 2 0 0 1 3 Rainey W,2-3 1 0 0 0 0 2 7th. T—3:10. A—9,989 (38,362). St. Louis y-clinched wild card Castillo 1B 0 0 0 0 0 z-clinched playoff berth Rodney H,16 1 0 0 0 0 1 Flaherty 7 1 0 0 2 11 Pagan 1 1 0 0 0 2 Tuesday’s games Doolittle H,2 1 0 0 0 0 0 Gallegos H,19 1 0 0 0 0 0 Minnesota 4, Detroit 2 Hudson S,4-6 1 0 0 0 0 0 Dodgers 6, Padres 3 Miller BS,6-11 1 1 1 1 0 2 Poche 1 0 0 0 0 1 B Drake C 0 0 0 0 1 Baltimore 11, Toronto 4 WP—Garcia. T—3:07. A—23,442 (41,313). Los Angeles San Diego Webb 0 0 0 0 0 B Tampa Bay 2, N.Y. Yankees 1, 12 innings Helsley 1C 2 0 0 0 1 Roe 1 1 0 0 0 3 ab r h bi ab r h bi Fairbanks W,2-1 1 1 0 0 0 1 Cleveland 11, Chicago White Sox 0 Pederson rf 4 2 1 1 Margot cf 4 1 1 1 Cabrera 1 1 0 0 0 2 Kansas City 9, Atlanta 6 Nationals 6, Phillies 5 Gant 0 1 1 1 1 0 Lyons pitched to 1 batter in the 6th, Muncy 1b 3 2 1 4 Martini lf 3 0 1 0 Gearrin pitched to 1 batter in the 12th. Boston 12, Texas 10 Second game Taylor cf 1 0 0 0 Machado 3b 3 0 1 0 Fernandez BS,0-2 1 1 0 0 0 0 L.A. Angels 3, Oakland 2 Philadelphia Washington Ponce de Leon 3 2 0 0 3 3 HBP—Castillo (Urshela). T—4:00. A— Turner 3b 3 0 1 0 Hosmer 1b 4 0 0 0 16,699 (25,025). Houston 3, Seattle 0 ab r h bi ab r h bi Leone 2 1 0 0 2 2 Washington 4-6, Philadelphia 1-5 Bellngr cf-1b 4 0 0 0 Renfroe rf 4 0 0 0 C Hernndez 2b 4 0 1 0 Turner ss 4 1 2 4 Seager ss 3 0 1 0 Mej-Brn ss 3 0 0 0 Brebbia L,3-4 3 1 1 1 2 Milwaukee 4, Cincinnati 2 Morrison 1b 3 1 0 0 Eaton rf 3 0 0 0 Arizona Indians 11, White Sox 0 Arizona 3, St. Louis 2, 19 innings Pollock lf 4 0 1 1 Torrens c 4 1 1 0 Segura ss 4 1 1 0 Rendon 3b 3 0 0 0 Lux 2b 4 0 0 0 L.Urias 2b 3 1 1 1 Leake 6 5 1 1 2 3 Cleveland Chicago Pittsburgh 9, Chicago Cubs 2 Miller lf 4 2 2 4 Soto lf 4 0 1 0 Lopez 1 1 0 0 0 1 N.Y. Mets 5, Miami 4, 11 innings Smith c 3 1 0 0 Bolanos p 1 0 0 0 ab r h bi ab r h bi Neris p 0 0 0 0 Cabrera 2b 3 2 1 0 Hill p 1 0 1 0 Reyes p 0 0 0 0 Crichton 1 0 0 0 0 2 L.A. Dodgers 6, San Diego 3 Kingery cf 4 0 1 0 Adams 1b 4 0 1 0 B Lindor ss 5 1 1 0 Garcia cf 3 0 1 0 Colorado 8, San Francisco 5, 16 innings Gonsolin p 1 1 1 0 Jankwski ph 1 0 0 0 McFarland 0 0 0 0 0 Haseley rf 4 0 0 0 Robles cf 3 1 1 0 Sherfy C 0 0 0 0 1 Flaherty 3b 0 0 0 0 Engel cf 1 0 1 0 Wednesday’s games Floro p 0 0 0 0 Perdomo p 0 0 0 0 Mercado cf 5 1 1 3 Andrson ss 3 0 1 0 Minnesota at Detroit Franco 3b 4 0 0 0 Gomes c 3 1 1 2 Kolarek p 0 0 0 0 Strahm p 0 0 0 0 Bradley 1 0 0 0 0 3 Knapp c 3 0 0 0 Scherzer p 1 0 0 0 Andriese 1 1 0 0 1 3 Santana 1b 4 1 0 0 Goins ss 1 0 0 0 Baltimore at Toronto Rios ph 1 0 0 0 France ph 1 0 0 0 Allen lf 0 0 0 0 Abreu 1b 4 0 1 0 Nola p 2 0 0 0 Kndrick ph 0 1 0 0 Maeda p 0 0 0 0 Baez p 0 0 0 0 Clarke 1C 1 1 1 1 3 N.Y. Yankees at Tampa Bay B Puig rf 3 2 3 0 Moncda 3b 4 0 0 0 Boston at Texas Hughes p 0 0 0 0 Strickland p 0 0 0 0 J.Urias p 0 0 0 0 Mejia ph 1 0 0 0 Scott 0 0 0 0 0 Harper ph 1 1 1 1 Guerra p 0 0 0 0 Chafin 1 1 0 0 0 3 Zimmer pr-rf 1 0 0 0 Jimenez lf 4 0 0 0 Cleveland at Chicago White Sox Baez p 0 0 0 0 Luplow lf 0 2 0 0 Collins dh 3 0 2 0 Atlanta at Kansas City Irvin p 0 0 0 0 Hudson p 0 0 0 0 Beaty ph 1 0 0 0 Duplantier 3 3 0 0 0 2 Williams lf 0 0 0 0 Hirano 1 0 0 0 0 3 Bauers ph-lf 2 0 0 0 McCann c 3 0 0 0 Oakland at L.A. Angels Jansen p 0 0 0 0 Ramirez 3b 3 2 2 7 Skole ph 1 0 0 0 Houston at Seattle Totals 33 5 6 5 Totals 28 6 7 6 Totals 33 6 7 6 Totals 32 3 5 2 Ginkel W,3-0 1 1 0 0 0 1 Philadelphia 300 100 100—5 Gant pitched to 2 batters in the 13th. Chang 3b-ss 2 0 0 0 Sanchez 2b 3 0 0 0 St. Louis at Arizona Los Angeles 100 400 001—6 Reyes dh 4 1 1 0 Palka rf 3 0 0 0 Milwaukee at Cincinnati Washington 001 104 00x—6 WP—Leone. T—6:53. A—26,097 (48,519). DP—Philadelphia 1, Washington 0. San Diego 000 030 000—3 Plwcki ph-dh 0 0 0 0 Chicago Cubs at Pittsburgh E—Lux (1). DP—Los Angeles 0, San R.Perez c 4 1 2 1 Philadelphia at Washington LOB—Philadelphia 2, Washington 5. 2B— Hernandez (29), Turner (36). HR—Miller 2 Diego 1. LOB—Los Angeles 6, San Diego Astros 3, Mariners 0 Haase c 1 0 0 0 Miami at N.Y. Mets 6. 2B—Hill (1), Seager (42), Torrens (1). Colorado at San Francisco (9), Harper (34), Gomes (12), Turner (18). Houston Seattle Freeman 2b 5 0 2 0 SF—Gomes (1). S—Scherzer (6). 3B—Margot (3). HR—Muncy (34), Peder- Totals 39 11 12 11 Totals 33 0 6 0 L.A. Dodgers at San Diego son (33). ab r h bi ab r h bi Thursday’s games IP H R ER BB SO Springer cf 2 0 0 0 Long lf 4 0 0 0 Cleveland 413 030 000—11 Minnesota (TBD) at Detroit (Zimmer- IP H R ER BB SO Chicago 000 000 000— 0 Philadelphia Altuve 2b 4 0 1 0 Crawford ss 4 0 2 0 E—Sanchez (9). DP—Cleveland 0, Chi- mann 1-12) Nola L,12-7 5C 5 5 5 4 9 Los Angeles Brantley dh 4 0 0 0 Lewis rf 4 0 0 0 Boston (TBD) at Texas (Minor 13-10) B Hill 2 0 0 0 2 5 cago 1. LOB—Cleveland 7, Chicago 7. Hughes BS,0-1 1 1 1 0 0 Bregman ss 4 1 2 1 Seager 3b 4 0 0 0 2B—Puig 2 (15), Reyes (9), Garcia (27), Cleveland (Civale 3-3) at Chicago Irvin 1C 1 0 0 0 0 Gonsolin W,4-2 2 0 0 0 0 3 Gurriel 1b 4 0 0 0 Narvaez c 4 0 0 0 White Sox (Cease 4-7) B Floro C 5 3 3 0 0 Abreu (36). HR—Ramirez 2 (22), R.Perez Neris 0 0 0 0 0 Tucker lf 4 1 1 0 Nola 1b 3 0 0 0 (24), Mercado (15). Houston (Miley 14-6) at L.A. Angels Kolarek H,4 B 0 0 0 0 1 Diaz 3b 2 1 1 1 Voglbch dh 2 0 0 0 (Barria 4-10) Washington Maeda H,3 1B 0 0 0 1 1 IP H R ER BB SO Scherzer W,11-7 6 5 4 4 1 10 Maldnado c 3 0 0 0 Gordon 2b 3 0 2 0 Oakland (Fiers 15-4) at Seattle (Her- J.Urias H,6 C 0 0 0 0 1 Reddick rf 4 0 0 1 M.Smith cf 3 0 0 0 Cleveland nandez 1-7) Strickland H,9 1 1 1 1 0 0 Baez H,24 1 0 0 0 0 0 Guerra H,4 1 0 0 0 0 1 Totals 31 3 5 3 Totals 31 0 4 0 Clevinger W,13-3 7 5 0 0 1 10 Milwaukee (Anderson 7-4) at Cincin- Jansen S,31-39 1 0 0 0 1 1 Houston 000 100 200—3 Otero 1 1 0 0 0 2 nati (Castillo 15-7) Hudson S,5-7 1 0 0 0 0 0 HBP—Nola (Robles). T—3:06. A—22,214 San Diego Seattle 000 000 000—0 Maton 1 0 0 0 0 2 L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 15-5) at San Di- C DP—Houston 0, Seattle 2. LOB—Houston ego (Lucchesi 10-9) (41,313). Bolanos L,0-2 3 3 4 4 5 4 Chicago Reyes 1B 2 1 1 0 1 6, Seattle 5. 2B—Tucker (6), Diaz (11), Gor- Fulmer L,1-2 1 2 4 4 2 1 Colorado (Freeland 3-11) at San Fran- don (12). HR—Bregman (40). SB—Diaz (2). cisco (Beede 5-10) Mets 5, Marlins 4 (11) Perdomo 1 0 0 0 0 1 Santiago 4 9 7 7 3 8 Philadelphia (Vargas 7-8) at Washing- Strahm 1 1 0 0 0 1 IP H R ER BB SO Cordero 2 1 0 0 0 0 ton (Strasburg 17-6) Miami New York Baez 2 1 1 1 0 1 Houston Banuelos 2 0 0 0 1 2 Chicago Cubs (TBD) at Pittsburgh ab r h bi ab r h bi HBP—Bolanos (Turner). T—2:58. A— Cole W,19-5 7 2 0 0 0 14 Santiago pitched to 1 batter in the 6th. (Musgrove 10-12) Berti cf 5 0 3 1 Nimmo cf-lf 5 0 0 1 29,708 (42,445). Pressly H,29 1 1 0 0 1 3 T—3:02. A—13,940 (40,615). Miami (Yamamoto 4-5) at N.Y. Mets Rojas ss 5 0 1 0 McNeil 3b-lf 5 0 2 0 Osuna S,37-43 1 1 0 0 0 1 (Wheeler 11-7) Walker 1b 3 2 2 0 Alonso 1b 5 0 0 0 Royals 9, Braves 6 Seattle Red Sox 12, Rangers 10 Prado ph-1b 1 0 0 0 Cano 2b 4 0 1 0 Atlanta Kansas City Dunn 2 1 0 0 0 1 Tuesday Castro 3b 5 0 0 0 Haggerty pr 0 0 0 0 Milone L,4-10 4B 3 3 3 3 3 Boston Texas Alfaro c 4 0 1 1 Sewald p 0 0 0 0 ab r h bi ab r h bi Brennan C 0 0 0 1 0 ab r h bi ab r h bi Brewers 4, Reds 2 I.Diaz 2b 5 1 2 2 J.Davis lf 4 1 2 0 Acuna Jr. cf 1 0 0 0 Merrifld 2b 5 1 1 0 Swanson 1 1 0 0 0 0 Betts rf 2 1 1 1 DeShlds cf 6 1 2 0 Milwaukee Cincinnati Ramirez rf-lf 5 0 1 0 R.Davis pr 0 1 0 0 Hamltn ph-cf 4 1 1 0 Soler dh 3 1 2 0 McClain 1 0 0 0 1 1 G.Hrnndez rf 2 1 1 1 Andrus ss 3 2 3 2 Dean lf 4 1 1 0 Familia p 0 0 0 0 Albies 2b 4 2 3 2 Dozier 3b 4 1 1 1 WP—Pressly. T—2:51. A—11,259 Devers 3b 4 2 2 1 Calhoun lf 5 2 2 0 ab r h bi ab r h bi Brinson rf 1 0 0 0 Lagrs ph-cf 1 0 0 0 Grisham rf-lf 4 1 0 0 Ervin cf 4 0 0 0 Donldson 3b 4 0 1 0 Gordon lf 3 1 1 1 (47,943). Bogaerts ss 3 1 2 2 Solak dh 4 0 0 0 Alcantara p 3 0 0 0 Conforto rf 4 2 3 4 Markakis rf 4 1 2 2 McBroom rf 4 2 1 0 Martinez dh 5 1 2 3 Santana 1b 2 2 1 1 Grandal c 3 0 1 1 Votto 1b 4 1 2 0 Grandrsn ph 1 0 0 0 Rosario ss 4 1 1 0 Duvall lf 5 0 1 0 O’Hearn 1b 3 1 1 2 Moreland 1b 5 1 1 0 Odor 2b 3 2 1 3 Moustkas 3b 3 0 1 0 Suarez 3b 3 0 0 0 Garcia p 0 0 0 0 Nido c 2 0 0 0 Riley 1b 4 0 0 0 Starling cf 4 2 2 2 Angels 3, Athletics 2 Benintendi lf 5 2 2 0 Heinman rf 5 0 2 3 Hiura 2b 3 0 0 1 Aquino rf 4 1 1 1 Urena p 0 0 0 0 Panik ph 1 0 0 0 Cervelli dh 2 1 1 1 Viloria c 4 0 0 0 Oakland Los Angeles Vazquez c 3 1 1 0 Trevino c 5 0 1 1 Pomeranz p 0 0 0 0 Barnhart c 2 0 1 1 Moran p 0 0 0 0 Lugo p 0 0 0 0 Joyce ph-dh 1 0 0 0 Lopez ss 4 0 3 2 ab r h bi ab r h bi Bradley Jr. cf 5 1 1 2 Kin-Falfa 3b 5 1 3 0 Hader p 0 0 0 0 Casali ph-c 2 0 0 0 Holaday ph 1 0 0 0 Wilson p 0 0 0 0 Hchvra ph-dh 0 0 0 0 M.Hrnndz 2b 5 1 1 0 Braun lf 3 1 2 1 J.Iglesias ss 4 0 0 0 Semien ss 3 0 1 0 Fletcher ss 4 1 3 1 Conley p 0 0 0 0 Frzier ph-3b 1 0 0 0 McCann c 3 0 1 0 Taylor rf 0 0 0 0 Dietrich lf 2 0 0 0 Chapman 3b 4 0 0 0 Goodwin cf 3 0 1 1 Totals 39 12 14 10 Totals 38 10 15 10 Brigham p 0 0 0 0 Syndergrd p 1 0 0 0 Murphy c 1 0 0 0 Boston 411 240 000—12 Spngnbrg 2b 1 0 0 0 Sims p 0 0 0 0 Lowrie ph 1 0 0 0 Olson 1b 4 0 0 0 Pujols dh 3 0 1 1 Thames 1b 3 1 0 0 Blandino ph 1 0 1 0 Swanson ss 4 1 1 0 Canha cf 4 0 1 0 Calhoun rf 4 0 0 0 Texas 410 022 100—10 Mazza p 0 0 0 0 Totals 37 6 11 5 Totals 34 9 12 8 E—Odor (14), Santana (15). DP—Bos- Cain cf 4 0 1 0 Garrett p 0 0 0 0 Avilan p 0 0 0 0 Laureano rf 4 1 1 0 Smith c 4 0 1 0 Arcia ss 4 1 2 0 Bowman p 0 0 0 0 Atlanta 000 120 012—6 Davis dh 4 1 2 2 Walsh 1b 4 0 0 0 ton 0, Texas 1. LOB—Boston 6, Texas 11. Ramos ph-c 3 0 0 0 Kansas City 105 020 10x—9 2B—Bradley Jr. (27), Moreland (17), De- Houser p 0 0 0 0 Gausman p 0 0 0 0 Totals 43 4 11 4 Totals 41 5 9 5 Pinder lf 2 0 0 0 Ward lf 4 1 1 0 Freitas ph 1 0 0 0 Colon ph 1 0 1 0 E—McCann (3), Dozier (8). DP—Atlanta Profar ph-2b 1 0 0 0 Hermsillo lf 0 0 0 0 vers (51), Andrus (27), Kiner-Falefa (12). Miami 021 010 000 00—4 0, Kansas City 1. LOB—Atlanta 8, Kansas 3B—DeShields (4). HR—Betts (29), Odor Suter p 1 0 0 0 Perza 2b-lf 4 0 2 0 New York 000 000 202 01—5 Murphy c 3 0 0 0 Thaiss 3b 3 1 1 0 Gamel lf 1 0 0 0 Gray p 1 0 0 0 City 8. 2B—Albies (43), Markakis 2 (25), Neuse 2b 2 0 1 0 Cowart 2b 3 0 2 0 (28). SF—Bogaerts (5), G.Hernandez (1), E—Walker (3). LOB—Miami 9, New York Andrus 2 (10), Santana (5). Frmer ph-2b 3 0 0 0 10. 2B—Dean (13), Walker 2 (18), J.Davis (21). Merrifield (40), Lopez 2 (21), Starling 2 (7), Grssmn ph-lf 1 0 0 0 Totals 31 4 7 3 Totals 35 2 8 2 HR—I.Diaz (4), Conforto 2 (33). SB—Berti 4 O’Hearn (12), Soler (32). HR—Cervelli (2), Totals 32 2 6 2 Totals 32 3 10 3 IP H R ER BB SO Albies (24). SF—Dozier (5), O’Hearn (2). Milwaukee 012 000 001—4 (16), Rojas (9), Alfaro (4), Rosario (19). Oakland 000 200 000—2 Boston Cincinnati 200 000 000—2 IP H R ER BB SO IP H R ER BB SO Los Angeles 000 030 00x—3 Rodriguez W,19-6 5 11 7 7 3 6 E—Arcia (14), Casali (3). DP—Milwaukee DP—Oakland 1, Los Angeles 1. LOB— Walden 1 3 2 2 1 0 Miami Atlanta 1, Cincinnati 0. LOB—Milwaukee 6, Cincin- Teheran L,10-11 2B 6 6 6 1 1 Oakland 4, Los Angeles 7. 2B—Cowart 2 Cashner H,4 1 1 1 1 0 2 nati 7. 2B—Grandal (25), Moustakas (29), Alcantara 7 6 2 2 0 6 C (2), Goodwin (28), Smith (11). HR—Davis Garcia H,5 1 0 0 0 0 1 Dayton 1 0 0 0 1 0 Barnes H,26 1 0 0 0 2 2 Votto (32), Aquino (7), Peraza (16). HR— Swarzak 1 3 2 2 0 0 (23). SF—Pujols (8). Workman S,16-22 1 0 0 0 1 0 Braun (21). SF—Hiura (1). S—Houser (3). Urena BS,2-4 1 3 2 2 0 0 Moran 1 0 0 0 1 2 O’Day 1 1 0 0 0 2 IP H R ER BB SO Texas IP H R ER BB SO Conley 0 0 1 1 1 0 Blevins C 2 1 1 0 1 Oakland Volquez C 5 4 4 1 0 Milwaukee Brigham L,2-3 B 0 0 0 2 0 Sobotka B 0 0 0 0 0 Bailey, L, 6-3 5 8 3 3 0 3 Jurado L,7-11 3 6 4 3 0 1 Martin 1 0 0 0 0 2 C Houser 4 3 2 2 0 3 New York Luzardo 1 1 0 0 0 2 Martin 1 3 0 1 1 Suter W,4-0 3 3 0 0 1 3 Kansas City Petit C 1 0 0 1 1 S.Kelley C 1 1 1 2 0 Syndergaard 5 10 4 4 0 7 B Pomeranz H,10 1 0 0 0 0 2 Mazza 1C 0 0 0 2 3 Duffy W,7-6 5 5 3 3 2 5 Diekman 0 0 0 0 1 Springs 2 0 0 0 0 2 Hader S,36-42 1 2 0 0 0 1 Avilan B 0 0 0 0 1 McCarthy 2 1 0 0 0 0 Soria 1 0 0 0 0 2 Clase 1 0 0 0 0 1 Cincinnati Lugo 1 0 0 0 0 2 Rosario B 2 1 0 0 1 Los Angeles Montero 1 1 0 0 0 1 Gray L,11-8 5 3 3 3 2 6 Wilson 1 0 0 0 1 0 Barlow C 0 0 0 1 1 Peters, W, 4-3 5 5 2 2 1 3 Jurado pitched to 5 batters in the 4th. Sims 2 1 0 0 0 2 Familia 1 1 0 0 0 0 Kennedy 1 3 2 2 0 0 Ramirez, H, 3 1C 0 0 0 0 1 WP—Rodriguez, Cashner, Volquez(2), Garrett B 1 0 0 1 1 Sewald W,1-1 1 0 0 0 0 2 HBP—Teheran 2 (Gordon,McBroom), Mejia, H, 3 B 0 0 0 0 0 Martin, S.Kelley. T—3:59. A—23,341 Bowman C 1 1 0 1 2 Conley pitched to 1 batter in the 11th. Duffy (Albies), O’Day (Gordon). WP— Buttrey, H, 25 1 0 0 0 0 2 (49,115). Gausman 1 1 0 0 0 1 HBP—Brigham (Rosario). WP—Brigham. Teheran, Swarzak. T—3:28. A—16,688 Robles, S, 23-26 1 1 0 0 0 1 T—2:52. A—14,778 (42,319). T—3:51. A—21,766 (41,922). (37,903). T—2:52. A—34,505 (45,050). SEE SCOREBOARD ON PAGE 29 Thursday, September 26, 2019 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 29 MLB Braun homers as Brewers close in on playoffs

BY JOE KAY 18-4. Associated Press “I’ve seen glimpses of it being there, but it all started to fall into place for us,” said CINCINNATI — The clubhouse rocked Adrian Houser, who worked the first four with music played by a DJ. Television innings. screens showed the Cubs losing again, Braun connected for his 21st homer off moving the Brewers to the verge of anoth- Sonny Gray (11-8), making the final start er postseason berth. of his All-Star season. Braun’s 27 homers “Yes!” one Brewer yelled as the Pirates at Great American are his most in any road piled it on against Chicago. ballpark, and his 44 career against Cincin- Already, it was quite a party. The real nati are his highest total against any team. one was now only one more win away. Braun has been a solid contributor lately, Ryan Braun added to his impressive total going 9-for-21 in his last seven games. He of homers at Great American Ball Park, also singled off Gray, who went five innings and the Brewers moved one win away from and fanned six to top 200 strikeouts for the clinching a wild-card berth Tuesday night, first time in his career. beating the Cincinnati Reds 4-2 for their “It means a lot,” Gray said. “I know we fifth straight victory. lost, and I hate to lose, but it’s a good feel- “To do it here tomorrow would be incred- ing. It’s been quite a ride this year. I’m ible,” said Brent Suter (4-0 ), who attended overwhelmed with emotion.” Ken Griffey Jr.’s high school in Cincinnati. JOHN MINCHILLO/AP Yasmani Grandal’s double tied it at 2 in “I’m hoping for it.” the third, and Keston Hiura put the Brew- Just like last season, when Milwaukee put The Brewers’ Ryan Braun runs the bases after hitting a solo home run during the ers ahead to stay with a sacrifice fly. on a late rush to take the NL Central title, second inning against the Cincinnati Reds on Tuesday. Milwaukee won 4-2. Houser gave up a broken-bat RBI double the Brewers have closed in on a playoff spot by Aristides Aquino and a run-scoring sin- urgency to everything we’ve done. And I nals in the NL Central. with a September flourish. They’ve won 16 gle by Tucker Barnhart in the first inning. of 18, positioning themselves for one of the think our players have responded really With 2018 National League MVP Chris- The Reds lead the majors with 128 runs NL wild cards along with Washington. well to that sense of urgency.” tian Yelich sidelined by a broken right and 125 RBIs in the first inning. “They’ve recognized what’s at stake,” A win at Great American on Wednesday kneecap, the Brewers have turned to their Suter allowed three hits in three in- manager Craig Counsell said. “I think the night or losses by the Cubs and Mets would deep bullpen and different combinations of nings. Josh Hader allowed a pair of hits in common theme in both cases is we were give Milwaukee a second straight playoff hitting stars each night. Milwaukee has the the ninth before fanning Kyle Farmer on a chasing something, and that’s lent some appearance. The Brewers trail the Cardi- best record in the majors in September at slider for his 36th save in 42 chances. Scoreboard Nationals: ‘Here we are, going to the postseason’

FROM PAGE 28 Rockies 8, Giants 5 (16) FROM BACK PAGE Wild-card race team. They’re a great organiza- “They’re resilient. Perfect ex- AMERICAN LEAGUE tion,” Harper said. “That’s why Orioles 11, Blue Jays 4 Colorado San Francisco W L Pct WCGB ab r h bi ab r h bi they’re at where they’re at right Baltimore Toronto ample: Tonight they were down, Oakland 94 63 .599 — Story ss 6 1 1 1 Ystzmki rf-lf 6 1 1 0 ab r h bi ab r h bi but they never feel like they’re Tampa Bay 94 64 .595 — now.” Hampson 2b 6 3 3 2 Posey c 5 2 2 2 In the nightcap, Washington Villar ss 6 1 1 0 Valera ss 4 0 1 1 Arenado 3b 7 1 3 0 Barraclgh p 0 0 0 0 out,” Martinez said. “They stick Cleveland 93 64 .592 ½ Martin ss 0 0 0 0 Biggio 2b 3 0 0 0 Blackmon rf 5 2 1 3 J.Davis rf 1 0 0 0 together. And here we are, going NATIONAL LEAGUE trailed 4-2 entering the sixth Hays cf 4 1 0 0 Grichuk rf 3 0 0 0 Desmond lf 3 1 2 2 Belt 1b 7 0 1 0 W L Pct WCGB — and at that moment, about 250 Mancini 1b 5 2 5 1 McKinney rf 1 0 0 0 Tapia ph-lf 5 0 1 0 Longoria 3b 4 1 1 2 to the postseason.” z-Washington 88 69 .561 — Nunez dh 5 1 1 2 Guerrero dh 3 0 0 0 Hilliard cf 6 0 0 0 Pillar cf 7 0 0 0 He missed three full games Milwaukee 87 70 .554 — miles away, the Cubs were lead- Ruiz 3b 4 1 1 1 J.Dvis ph-dh 0 1 0 0 Fuentes 1b 4 0 1 0 Dickrson lf 2 0 1 0 ing the Pirates 1-0. Smith Jr. lf 4 2 3 3 McGuire c 4 1 1 1 McMhn ph-1b 2 0 0 0 Slater ph-rf 2 0 0 0 and part of another this month Chicago 82 75 .522 5 D.Stewart rf 4 1 2 3 Drury 3b 4 0 1 0 Harvey p 0 0 0 0 Adames ph 1 0 0 0 New York 82 75 .522 5 Everything changed within Wilkerson 2b 5 1 1 0 Tellez 1b 4 0 2 1 because of a heart issue; the 54- Howard p 1 0 0 0 Peralta p 0 0 0 0 z-clinched playoff berth Wynns c 5 1 1 1 Alford cf 3 1 0 0 year-old skipper was back in the minutes. Fisher lf 4 1 1 1 Lambert ph 0 0 0 0 A.Garcia c 2 0 0 0 While Washington was load- Totals 42 11 15 11 Totals 33 4 6 4 B.Shaw p 0 0 0 0 Crwford ss 5 0 0 0 dugout four days after having a Butera c-1b 6 0 0 0 Dubon 2b 5 0 1 0 entire season went, the Nationals Baltimore 300 203 030—11 cardiac catheterization. ing the bases against Aaron Nola Toronto 001 001 002— 4 Hoffman p 1 0 0 0 Bumgrner p 2 1 1 1 dug themselves out. (12-7) with two walks and a single LOB—Baltimore 9, Toronto 5. 2B—Man- Tinoco p 0 0 0 0 Vogt ph 1 0 0 0 “They keep telling me how Daza ph 1 0 0 0 Gustave p 0 0 0 0 “We knew nothing was going — setting the stage for Turner’s cini 2 (38), Nunez (24), Tellez (17), Mc- much they want to play for me,” Guire (7). HR—Smith Jr. (13), Wynns (1), Almonte p 0 0 0 0 Abad p 0 0 0 0 to be won or lost in the first five 18th homer of the season and sec- D.Stewart (3), Fisher (6). Pazos p 0 0 0 0 Anderson p 0 0 0 0 Martinez said in the mayhem, his Valaika ph 1 0 0 0 W.Smith p 0 0 0 0 months,” said Turner, who had ond career slam, which came off IP H R ER BB SO voice cracking. “And I tell them Johnson p 0 0 0 0 C.Shaw ph 1 0 0 0 three hits in the day’s first game, Jared Hughes — the Cubs were Baltimore Estevez p 0 0 0 0 Coonrod p 0 0 0 0 it’s not about me. It’s about us. Bundy W,7-14 7 3 2 2 2 6 Murphy ph 1 0 0 0 Suarez p 0 0 0 0 a 4-1 win for the Nationals, “and imploding during the Pirates’ Tan.Scott 1 0 0 0 0 2 Just play for us.” Diaz p 0 0 0 0 Franco p 0 0 0 0 now we’re in a good spot.” seven-run seventh. Tay.Scott 1 3 2 2 0 2 Alonso ph 1 0 0 0 B.Smith p 0 0 0 0 Washington is returning to the Toronto Parsons p 0 0 0 0 Gerbr ph-rf 1 0 0 0 The Nationals entered Tuesday T ur ner ’s dr ive to lef t made it 6 - 4, Pannone L,3-6 1 4 3 3 0 0 Diehl p 0 0 0 0 Rickard ph 1 0 0 0 playoffs for the fifth time in eight hoping to beat Philadelphia twice and he celebrated with the Nation- Luciano 2 1 0 0 0 1 Wolters c 2 0 0 0 Rodriguez p 0 0 0 0 years after sitting out October Font 2 3 2 2 0 3 Selman p 0 0 0 0 plus get a loss by the Chicago Cubs als’ customary dugout dance line B.Stewart C 3 3 3 1 1 Totals 58 8 12 8 Totals 53 5 8 5 in 2018, when the team went 82- at Pittsburgh — and each of those and a curtain call. The clubhouse Shafer 1B 0 0 0 2 2 Colorado 100 210 010 000 000 3—8 80 in Martinez’s rookie year as a Gaviglio C 3 3 3 1 2 San Francisco 201 010 010 000 000 0—5 things happened. party included a loud rendition, Boshers B 1 0 0 0 1 E—Hampson (6), Longoria (14). DP— manager. Right after center fielder Victor naturally, of “Baby Shark,” the Tepera 1 0 0 0 0 1 Colorado 2, San Francisco 2. LOB—Colo- Things started roughly in 2019: HBP—B.Stewart (Smith Jr.), Tay.Scott rado 15, San Francisco 7. 2B—Tapia (23), Robles made a running catch for walkup song for midseason acqui- (J.Davis). WP—Bundy, B.Stewart. T—3:12. Belt (32). HR—Hampson 2 (8), Desmond Washington was 12 games below the last out of the second game in sition Gerardo Parra, who brought A—12,625 (53,506). (19), Story (34), Blackmon (31), Posey (7), .500 after a loss on May 23 con- Bumgarner (2), Longoria (20). SB—Longo- Washington, the Nationals Park a dose of levity to the club. Twins 4, Tigers 2 ria (3). SF—Longoria (5). S—Lambert (3). cluded a four-game sweep at the scoreboard showed the Cubs vs. Harper drew loud boos from Minnesota Detroit IP H R ER BB SO New York Mets. the Pirates. spectators all day, especially when ab r h bi ab r h bi Colorado At that point, the Nationals were Many of the Nationals stood on he stepped in as a pinch hitter Arraez 2b 5 0 1 0 Reyes cf 4 0 0 0 Hoffman 3B 3 3 3 3 3 fourth in the NL East, thanks to Polanco ss 5 0 0 0 Lugo 3b 4 1 2 1 Tinoco C 1 0 0 0 1 the stadium’s infield and watched in the second game. That was in Cruz dh 3 0 1 0 H.Castro 2b 4 0 1 0 Almonte BS,0-2 1 2 1 1 0 2 defensive sloppiness, bad baser- the end of the Cubs’ 9-2 defeat, the seventh to face, of all people, Rosario lf 3 0 1 2 Candlrio 1b 2 0 0 1 Pazos 1 0 0 0 0 1 unning and, above all, unreliable- Sano 3b 4 0 0 0 C.Stewart lf 4 0 1 0 Johnson 1 0 0 0 0 0 then started celebrating there be- Hunter Strickland, with whom the Cave rf 4 1 2 0 Dixon dh 4 0 0 0 Estevez BS,0-2 1 1 1 1 0 1 as-can-be work from the bullpen. fore heading indoors for the real 2015 NL MVP has a complicated Wade Jr cf 3 1 2 0 Demritte rf 4 0 1 0 Diaz 2 1 0 0 0 1 Martinez retained his always- LaMrre ph-cf 1 0 0 0 J.Rogers c 3 0 0 0 Parsons 1 0 0 0 3 2 deal, which included red cans history that includes playoff hom- Astudillo 1b 3 1 1 2 W.Castro ss 3 1 1 0 Diehl C 0 0 0 0 0 sunny disposition and remained of Budweiser, blue cans of Bud ers and a brawl when the slugger J.Castro c 3 1 0 0 Harvey 1B 0 0 0 0 2 Totals 34 4 8 4 Totals 32 2 6 2 Howard W,2-0 2 0 0 0 0 2 in his post, unwilling to publicly Light, white cans of Stella Artois was with Washington and the re- Minnesota 000 000 400—4 B.Shaw S,1-6 1 0 0 0 0 0 criticize his players. and bottles of Campo Viejo Cava. Detroit 100 000 010—2 liever with San Francisco. San Francisco Eventually, things clicked. “With everything we went Harper got the best of this DP—Minnesota 0, Detroit 1. LOB—Min- Bumgarner 7 6 4 4 2 9 nesota 7, Detroit 5. 2B—Wade Jr (2), Gustave 0 1 1 1 1 0 Washington went on a real roll, through as a group,” reliever Sean matchup, turning on a 98 mph of- Rosario (28), Lugo 2 (10), W.Castro (6). Abad B 0 0 0 0 1 SF—Candelario (1). even playing winning baseball Doolittle said, “it feels so much fering and depositing it in the sec- Anderson C 0 0 0 1 0 IP H R ER BB SO W.Smith 1 0 0 0 1 1 while Max Scherzer took two sweeter.” ond deck. Minnesota Coonrod 0 1 0 0 0 0 trips to the injured list with a back Anthony Rendon delivered two That made it 6-5, but Daniel Odorizzi W,15-7 6 2 1 1 1 7 Suarez C 0 0 0 1 1 Gibson H,1 2 4 1 1 0 4 Franco 1 0 0 0 1 0 muscle problem. sacrifice flies to raise his majors- Hudson closed out both ends of T.Rogers S,29-35 1 0 0 0 0 1 B.Smith B 0 0 0 1 0 Perhaps fittingly, it was three- leading RBI total to 124 in the the doubleheader to raise his save Detroit Peralta 1B 0 0 0 1 2 time Cy Young Award winner Turnbull L,3-16 6 6 2 2 2 5 Barraclough 1C 0 0 0 1 2 opening victory, a result that also total with Washington to five in McKay BS,0-1 0 1 2 2 0 0 Rodriguez L,6-10 1B 4 3 3 0 3 Scherzer (11-7) who got the clinch- eliminated Philadelphia and $330 seven chances. Ramirez 2 1 0 0 1 2 Selman C 0 0 0 1 1 ing win despite a rocky start, al- Farmer 1 0 0 0 0 1 Gustave pitched to 2 batters in the 8th, million outfielder Bryce Harper, “At the end of the day they’re Turnbull pitched to 2 batters in the Coonrod pitched to 1 batter in the 10th, lowing a pair of homers to Brad the ex-Nationals star. still doing what they’re doing,” 7th, McKay pitched to 2 batters in the Franco pitched to 3 batters in the 11th. 7th. HBP—McKay (J.Castro). T—2:53. A— HBP—Bumgarner (Blackmon). T—5:31. Miller as Washington fell behind “I’ve got no hard feelings to- Harper said, “and we’re going to 16,174 (41,297). A—27,870 (41,915). 4-2. But much like the way the wards them at all. They’re a great go on a bus to go home.” PAGE 30 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Thursday, September 26, 2019 NFL Statistics

AFC individual leaders NFC individual leaders Week 3 Week 3 Quarterbacks Quarterbacks Att Com Yds TD Int Att Com Yds TD Int Mahomes, KC 114 82 1195 10 0 Keenum, WAS 124 86 933 7 3 Dalton, CIN 129 81 978 5 3 Ryan, ATL 123 89 928 8 6 Rivers, LAC 116 77 944 5 2 Prescott, DAL 94 70 920 9 2 Brady, NE 106 72 911 7 0 R. Wilson, SEA 105 75 901 7 0 L. Jackson, BAL 100 63 863 7 0 Stafford, DET 107 67 831 6 2 Mayfield, CLE 109 62 805 3 5 K. Murray, ARI 137 84 830 4 3 Watson, HOU 93 61 778 6 1 Wentz, PHL 118 72 803 6 2 Flacco, DEN 110 76 773 2 2 Winston, TAM 98 59 782 5 4 Josh Allen, BUF 103 66 750 3 3 Garoppolo, SNF 84 58 739 5 4 Mariota, TEN 92 56 706 4 0 Goff, LA 105 66 738 4 3 Rushers Rushers Att Yds Avg LG TD Att Yds Avg LG TD M. Mack, IND 61 299 4.9 63t 2 D. Cook, MIN 57 375 6.6 75t 4 Ma. Ingram, BAL 43 257 6.0 49 5 McCaffrey, CAR 59 318 5.4 76t 3 N. Chubb, CLE 58 233 4.0 19t 1 E. Elliott, DAL 55 289 5.3 27 2 J. Jacobs, OAK 45 228 5.1 51 2 Barkley, NYG 37 237 6.4 59 1 D. Henry, TEN 51 210 4.1 18 3 Breida, SNF 41 226 5.5 34 0 C. Hyde, HOU 40 192 4.8 20 1 Kamara, NOR 42 211 5.0 28 1 Fournette, JAC 43 179 4.2 69 0 Gurley, LA 44 203 4.6 25 1 Freeman, DEN 36 173 4.8 26 0 L. Jackson, BAL 27 172 6.4 19 1 Mostert, SNF 34 202 5.9 20 0 Gore, BUF 44 164 3.7 22 2 A. Jones, GBY 46 174 3.8 15 3 Receivers R. Jones, TAM 31 164 5.3 25 0 No Yds Avg LG TD Receivers K. Allen, LAC 29 404 13.9 34 3 No Yds Avg LG TD S. Watkins, KC 20 311 15.6 68t 3 Evans, TAM 14 279 19.9 55 3 Ross, CIN 13 292 22.5 66t 3 Engram, NYG 23 277 12.0 75t 2 Beckham, CLE 19 288 15.2 89t 1 Lockett, SEA 22 277 12.6 44t 2 Kelce, KC 17 284 16.7 42 1 Kupp, LA 23 268 11.7 66 2 M. Brown, BAL 14 282 20.1 83t 2 M. Thomas, NOR 25 266 10.6 24 1 Chark, JAC 15 277 18.5 69 3 Ju. Jones, ATL 19 265 13.9 54t 4 Waller, OAK 26 267 10.3 30 0 McLaurin, WAS 16 257 16.1 69t 3 Boyd, CIN 24 249 10.4 47 0 Fitzgerald, ARI 18 253 14.1 54 2 Co. Sutton, DEN 16 247 15.4 52 0 Cooper, DAL 16 238 14.9 45 4 Punters Gallup, DAL 13 226 17.4 62 0 No Yds Lg Avg Punters T. Long, LAC 10 493 60 49.3 No Yds Lg Avg Berry, PIT 16 766 60 47.9 Way, WAS 10 518 58 51.8 A. Cole, OAK 13 615 60 47.3 Johnston, PHL 10 507 57 50.7 BEN MARGOT/AP Kern, TEN 20 937 70 46.8 Morstead, NOR 13 656 64 50.5 Haack, MIA 18 839 62 46.6 Palardy, CAR 12 591 58 49.2 San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Dante Pettis scores the winning touchdown against the Pittsburgh L. Edwards, NYJ 24 1097 57 45.7 J. Scott, GBY 21 1021 66 48.6 Sanchez, IND 9 409 60 45.4 A. Lee, ARI 16 775 59 48.4 Steelers during the second half of Sunday’s game in Santa Clara, Calif. San Francisco won 24-20. Cooke, JAC 14 636 55 45.4 O’Donnell, CHI 16 768 75 48.0 Wadman, DEN 11 493 64 44.8 Hekker, LA 9 422 71 46.9 Bailey, NE 13 577 58 44.4 Dickson, SEA 16 746 60 46.6 Punt returners Colquitt, MIN 13 606 57 46.6 No Yds Avg Long TD Punt returners Cy. Jones, BAL 5 74 14.8 25 0 No Yds Avg Long TD J. Landry, CLE 4 48 12.0 18 0 T. Jones, NYG 4 88 22.0 60 0 Rogers, IND 5 47 9.4 18 0 Deo. Harris, NOR 9 107 11.9 53t 1 Spencer, DEN 5 38 7.6 17 0 Natson, LA 6 61 10.2 32 0 Erickson, CIN 6 42 7.0 11 0 McCloud, CAR 7 69 9.9 39 0 Pettis’ slow start this Olszewski, NE 13 88 6.8 20 0 Sproles, PHL 6 56 9.3 17 0 De’A. Thomas, KC 6 37 6.2 10 0 T. Quinn, WAS 4 35 8.8 11 0 Westbrook, JAC 4 14 3.5 9 0 Barner, ATL 8 68 8.5 18 0 J. Grant, MIA 5 6 1.2 5 0 R. James, SNF 7 57 8.1 15 0 King, LAC 4 -1 -0.2 0 0 Cohen, CHI 6 46 7.7 14 0 Kickoff returners Beebe, MIN 7 46 6.6 15 0 No Yds Avg LG TD Kickoff returners King, LAC 4 113 28.2 43 0 No Yds Avg LG TD J. Grant, MIA 5 124 24.8 39 0 Agnew, DET 4 148 37.0 100t 1 D. Phillips, CIN 6 137 22.8 37 0 Deo. Harris, NOR 4 96 24.0 32 0 season leads to big TD P. Campbell, IND 5 113 22.6 31 0 J. Hill, BAL 5 102 20.4 26 0 Sims, WAS 7 168 24.0 45 0 Jennings, TEN 4 78 19.5 26 0 Barner, ATL 4 89 22.2 28 0 McCloud, CAR 4 87 21.8 26 0 BY JOSH DUBOW Pettis then managed to get Scoring Did you know Touchdowns Ballentine, NYG 5 108 21.6 28 0 Associated Press on the field for two snaps in the TD Rush Rec Ret Pts Sanders, PHL 5 106 21.2 29 0 opener at Tampa Bay, catching Ma. Ingram, BAL 5 5 0 0 30 Isabella, ARI 5 105 21.0 32 0 Ekeler, LAC 4 2 2 0 24 Byrd, ARI 4 59 14.8 23 0 SANTA CLARA, Calif. one pass for 7 yards. After a good D. Henry, TEN 4 3 1 0 24 Scoring ante Pettis’ roller- T. Hilton, IND 4 0 4 0 24 Touchdowns San Francisco week of practice, he got more TD Rush Rec Ret Pts coaster start to his sec- K. Allen, LAC 3 0 3 0 18 49ers wide time in Week 2 in Cincinnati but Chark, JAC 3 0 3 0 18 D. Cook, MIN 4 4 0 0 24 ond season in the NFL threw more passes (one) than he Dorsett, NE 3 0 3 0 18 Cooper, DAL 4 0 4 0 24 receiver Dante D. Robinson, KC 3 0 3 0 18 Ju. Jones, ATL 4 0 4 0 24 Dhas led him to the end had thrown his way (zero) as he Ross, CIN 3 0 3 0 18 J. Wilson, SNF 4 4 0 0 24 zone for the biggest touchdown Pettis is the son S. Watkins, KC 3 0 3 0 18 Kicking once again came off the bench. Ty. Williams, OAK 3 0 3 0 18 PAT FG LG Pts of the year for the San Francisco of former Major “He’s just gotten better each Kicking Gonzalez, ARI 3/3 9/9 47 30 49ers. week,” Shanahan said. “We all PAT FG LG Pts Slye, CAR 8/8 7/8 54 29 League Baseball Butker, KC 11/12 6/6 46 29 Zuerlein, LA 8/8 7/9 56 29 Pettis came into the year ex- know how he finished last year. Gostkowski, NE 10/13 6/7 41 28 Gould, SNF 10/10 6/8 47 28 pected to build on a promising player Gary Pettis. Tucker, BAL 11/11 5/5 51 26 Gay, TAM 5/7 7/9 52 26 Had a few bumps in the road Lambo, JAC 4/4 6/6 48 22 Lutz, NOR 6/7 6/7 58 24 rookie season to become the No. throughout training camp, which McManus, DEN 2/3 6/7 43 20 Pineiro, CHI 5/5 5/6 53 20 1 receiver in San Francisco’s of- Boswell, PIT 4/4 5/5 46 19 Maher, DAL 13/13 2/3 28 19 SOURCE: Associated Press I think has been well documented Seibert, CLE 4/5 5/5 48 19 Prater, DET 7/8 4/6 55 19 fense. Instead, he struggled in and I talked about. But, I’ve been Bullock, CIN 6/6 4/6 43 18 D. Bailey, MIN 9/10 3/4 50 18 training camp and drew public T. Long, LAC 6/6 4/6 43 18 Jak. Elliott, PHL 6/6 4/4 41 18 I can do this. I know I’m here for extremely impressed with how Santos, TEN 8/8 3/4 53 17 criticism from coach Kyle Sha- a reason.” he’s responded since the first NFC team statistics nahan, barely saw the field in the AFC team statistics The 49ers were counting heav- week of the season. He’s taken the Week 3 opener, wasn’t targeted a single ily on Pettis heading into this challenge. He’s been working as Week 3 AVERAGE PER GAME time in Week 2 and had an in- AVERAGE PER GAME OFFENSE season after a strong finish to his hard as anyone on our team.” OFFENSE Yards Rush Pass terception go off his hands in the rookie season. Pettis caught a 22- That led to Pettis getting his Yards Rush Pass Dallas 481.3 179.0 302.3 first half this past week against Baltimore 511.7 216.7 295.0 San Francisco 421.0 175.0 246.0 yard TD pass from Garoppolo in first start of the season against Kansas City 487.0 94.7 392.3 N.Y. Giants 408.0 117.3 290.7 Pittsburgh. his NFL debut last year before the Steelers, although that didn’t New England 408.3 97.0 311.3 Seattle 390.7 110.7 280.0 Despite all the lows, Shanahan L.A. Chargers 408.3 111.7 296.7 Atlanta 369.7 74.3 295.3 struggling with knee injuries start well with the early intercep- Buffalo 391.3 151.3 240.0 Carolina 369.3 113.0 256.3 and quarterback Jimmy Garop- Houston 351.0 115.0 236.0 Detroit 367.7 98.7 269.0 that limited him to three catches tion off his hands and only three Cincinnati 350.3 42.0 308.3 polo still decided to go in Pettis’ Philadelphia 365.0 99.7 265.3 through the first nine games of catches for 15 yards until the Indianapolis 347.7 149.7 198.0 Tampa Bay 361.0 121.7 239.3 direction with the Niners trail- the season. closing minutes. Denver 342.0 111.3 230.7 Minnesota 358.3 193.7 164.7 Jacksonville 333.7 90.7 243.0 L.A. Rams 358.0 123.7 234.3 ing late against the Steelers. The Cleveland 330.3 89.0 241.3 But Pettis had 17 catches for Then with the game on the line, New Orleans 339.7 97.7 242.0 Oakland 322.0 105.0 217.0 move paid off with a 5-yard TD 338 yards and four TDs during a Garoppolo didn’t hesitate to go in Tennessee 307.3 112.7 194.7 Washington 336.3 48.0 288.3 catch that gave the 49ers a 24-20 four-game stretch late in the sea- his direction when Pettis got open Pittsburgh 269.3 64.0 205.3 Arizona 328.0 84.3 243.7 Miami 222.3 45.0 177.3 Green Bay 286.7 89.3 197.3 victory Sunday for their first 3-0 son before re-injuring his knee, between two defenders at the goal N.Y. Jets 196.7 65.7 131.0 Chicago 275.0 96.3 178.7 start in 21 years. showing why the Niners traded line. DEFENSE DEFENSE Yards Rush Pass Yards Rush Pass “It was good. There obviously up into the second round to take “Dante’s phenomenal in prac- New England 199.0 36.7 162.3 San Francisco 283.3 75.0 208.3 have been a lot of ups and downs. him in the 2018 draft. tice,” Garoppolo said. “I know Buffalo 299.7 88.0 211.7 L.A. Rams 285.7 93.0 192.7 Tennessee 308.7 119.0 189.7 Carolina 295.3 129.0 166.3 I know that’s part of sports. I’ve That success didn’t carry over you guys aren’t seeing all that Denver 314.0 109.3 204.7 Atlanta 311.3 100.0 211.3 been around professional sports into this season as Pettis strug- and everything, but he battles in Cleveland 315.3 102.0 213.3 Chicago 313.7 68.7 245.0 Baltimore 350.7 60.3 290.3 Seattle 318.3 67.7 250.7 my whole life,” said Pettis, whose gled throughout training camp, practice. Great mindset of when Indianapolis 358.3 114.0 244.3 Minnesota 327.3 101.7 225.7 father, Gary, is a former major leading him to play deep into his number’s called, he’s ready. L.A. Chargers 363.7 112.0 251.7 Green Bay 328.3 131.0 197.3 Jacksonville 364.7 110.0 254.7 Tampa Bay 330.7 69.7 261.0 league outfielder. some exhibitions when most es- You’ve got to appreciate a guy N.Y. Jets 375.3 88.7 286.7 Dallas 336.0 90.0 246.0 “I know what happens. You’re like that. Having all that com- Houston 385.7 108.0 277.7 Philadelphia 350.7 57.0 293.7 tablished players were already Kansas City 395.7 137.7 258.0 Detroit 394.7 125.3 269.3 not just going to be good every done for the night as Shanahan petitiveness, you love to see it as Oakland 398.7 112.3 286.3 Washington 402.7 142.0 260.7 Cincinnati 406.3 168.7 237.7 New Orleans 436.3 134.7 301.7 single day. Now that I know what said he hadn’t earned a starting a quarterback, because you can Pittsburgh 442.0 139.3 302.7 Arizona 443.3 157.0 286.3 it’s like to go through that, I know role. trust that.” Miami 499.3 208.0 291.3 N.Y. Giants 460.3 128.0 332.3 Thursday, September 26, 2019 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 31 COLLEGE FOOTBALL Fink likely starter for No. 21 Trojans

BY GREG BEACHAM tunity, especially today,” Fink Associated Press said. “Again, it (stinks) to see anyone on the team get hurt, but LOS ANGELES — Quarterback that leaves more opportunity and Kedon Slovis is in the concussion more doors for myself, so I’m protocol for No. 21 Southern Cali- going to go ahead and take that fornia, increasing the likelihood and run with it.” of Matt Fink making his first ca- Fink will be USC’s only schol- reer start at No. 17 Washington arship quarterback at Washing- this weekend. ton if Slovis doesn’t suit up. Jack Coach Clay Helton confirmed Sears, who finished fourth in the Tuesday night that Slovis isn’t four-man quarterback competi- currently cleared to practice or tion in training camp despite pre- play. vious starting experience at USC, Slovis was injured on the sec- entered the transfer portal and ond play of the Trojans’ victory hasn’t returned to the team. over then-No. 10 Utah last Fri- Fink nearly left the Trojans day. Fink stepped in and passed himself after spring football, en- for 351 yards with ample help tering the transfer portal and from his outstanding receivers in even taking a visit to Illinois. USC’s 30-23 win. The Rancho Cucamonga native Fink is likely to lead the under- strongly considered a move to the dog Trojans against the defending Illini before returning to USC in Pac-12 champion Huskies (3-1, June, citing a desire to stay close 0-1). Offensive coordinator Gra- to home. THOMAS GRANING/AP ham Harrell is working overtime When asked to choose the best California tight end Jake Tonges, left, shakes off Mississippi defensive back Jalen Julius for a 60-yard to train his third starting quar- part of his performance against touchdown catch during the second half of last week’s game in Oxford, Miss. California won 28-20. terback in five games — and the Utah, he cited the chance to cel- non-quarterbacks who would be ebrate afterward with his fam- Fink’s backup, including a walk- ily. Fink’s father was at practice Around the Pac-12 on safety and a starting receiver. Tuesday to watch him running “We plan on playing Fink,” the first-team offense. Harrell said. “And if something “It’s kind of surreal, (but) it’s happens, you’re in a scramble an amazing opportunity for me situation and you’ve got to make and the team to keep moving for- the best of what you’ve got.” ward,” Fink said. Believe it or not, Cal’s The Trojans (3-1, 2-0 Pac-12) Fink threw 18 passes in his first installed a completely new Air two seasons at USC as a backup Raid offense this season under to Sam Darnold and Daniels. He Harrell, but have still managed threw 30 more against the Utes, a solid start despite upheaval including one TD pass apiece to at the scheme’s most important Tyler Vaughns, Michael Pittman the only unbeaten team position. Jr. and Amon-Ra St. Brown, his J.T. Daniels was lost to a season- triumvirate of elite receivers. ending knee injury right before Helton and Harrell are get- BY ANNE M. PETERSON calls by replay.” But the conference also said it would halftime in USC’s season opener, ting creative to prepare backups and 18-year-old freshman Slovis for the potential disaster of Fink Associated Press have “supported” stopping play in this instance for a review to confirm the call. stepped in to start the next three going down with an injury. Following California’s victory over Mississippi, games. He was outstanding in a Brandon Perdue, a walk-on Other surprises in the Pac-12 heading into Week coach Justin Wilcox said: “We find a way to make 5: victory over a ranked Stanford junior who played quarterback it interesting.” team, but threw three intercep- sparingly in high school and ju- Yes, they certainly do. Bruins’ big win tions in an embarrassing over- nior college before moving to The Golden Bears not only emerged with a dra- time loss at BYU. safety at USC, would be Fink’s matic 28-20 victory over Ole Miss last weekend but Goodness, where to start? Winless UCLA (1-3, 1- Fink realizes he could be play- primary backup. He has been the the win also left them as the lone undefeated team 0) rallied from a 32-point deficit in the second half to ing for the permanent starting quarterback of USC’s scout team in the Pac-12. beat Washington State 67-63 in the highest-scoring job if he performs well in Slovis’ in practice, but hasn’t thrown a Cal (4-0, 1-0) is among the league’s biggest sur- game in league history. The Bruins scored 50 points absence, but it’s all tied to the competitive pass since some brief prises going into Week 5 of the season. Also surpris- in 19 minutes. Trojans’ overall success. action for New Mexico Military ing? The Trojans finding ways to win big games at Sophomore quarterback Dorian Thompson-Rob- “Every day is a great oppor- Institute in 2017. home even when faced with considerable challeng- inson set a UCLA record with 564 yards of total es. And the previously winless Bruins knocking off offense, including a career-high 507 passing yards Washington State in spectacular fashion. and five touchdowns. He was named the Pac-12’s The Pac-12 is the only Power 5 conference with Offensive Player of the Week. just one undefeated team left. Heading into last At the same time it was a surprising meltdown for weekend, there were four, but the Cougars, Utah the Cougars (3-1, 0-1). Anthony Gordon threw nine and Arizona State all lost as the league cannibalized touchdown passes and WSU still lost the game. itself. The Bruins visit Arizona (2-1) on Saturday, while Cal, meanwhile, was becoming the first Pac-12 Washington State is at No. 19 Utah (3-1, 0-1). team to win on the road against the SEC since 2010, when Oregon beat Tennessee 48-13 in Knoxville. The Trojans The Bears jumped from No. 23 to No. 15 in the AP rankings as a result. Clay Helton’s seat got a little less hot following No. The victory was dramatic. Cal linebacker Evan 21 USC’s 30-23 victory Friday night over the Utes. Weaver tackled Ole Miss quarterback John Rhys And the Trojans pulled it off with a third-string Plumlee for no gain at the 1-yard line as time ex- quarterback. pired. Just before that, Plumlee had completed a Combine that with an earlier win over Stanford, third-down pass to Elijah Moore at the 1 with less and USC tops the South with a 2-0 conference than 15 seconds remaining. record. Mississippi coach Matt Luke pleaded with the of- One downside, the conference’s chances at a Col- ficials to stop the clock for a look at the replay, but lege Football Playoff berth just got way narrower. the Pac-12 officiating crew quickly marked the ball Whereas Utah was favored to win the South, and at the 1-yard line and the Rebels attempted, unsuc- still could, only Cal and Oregon seem to have a cessfully, to score on Plumlee’s quarterback sneak. sliver of a CFP hope now. The Golden Bears likely MARCIO JOSE SANCHEZ/AP The Pac-12 issued a statement Sunday night say- need to go undefeated and the Ducks need Auburn Southern Cal quarterback Matt Fink took over on the third play of ing it had confirmed that officials correctly ruled to keep winning. the game last week after starter Kedon Slovis suffered a concussion that Ole Miss “did not score a touchdown and there Oh, and the Golden Bears visit the Ducks on Oct. during the Trojans’ 30-23 victory over then-No. 10 Utah. was no irrefutable video evidence to reverse those 5. S TARS AND STRIPES Thursday, September 26, 2019 F3HIJKLM Pettis perseveres 49ers wide receiver catches big TD SPORTS after early struggles » NFL, Page 30

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Nationals, 19-31 in May, sweep Phillies to lock up NL playoff berth

BY HOWARD FENDRICH Inside: Above: Washington Nationals Associated Press shortstop Trea Turner rounds the bases after hitting a go-ahead WASHINGTON — Dave Martinez’s words were Brewers close in on 2nd straight grand slam in the sixth inning drenched with emotion as he stood in a booze-soaked playoff appearance, Page 29 of the second game against the clubhouse, Washington Nationals players celebrating Philadelphia Phillies on Tuesday all around after clinching an NL wild card exactly Twins reduce magic number night in Washington. four months after they woke up with a 19-31 record to two in AL Central, Page 27 and calls for him to be replaced as manager. Left: Nats manager Dave Martinez It’s been quite a turnaround for Martinez — and Record number of strikeouts for celebrates in the clubhouse after for his club. his team clinched an NL wild card. “They don’t want to go home. They want to keep 12th consecutive season, Page 27 Martinez seemed likely to lose his job after an 82-80 rookie season playing,” Martinez said Tuesday night, wearing the the Philadelphia Phillies for a doubleheader sweep same red T-shirt reading “Let’s get wild” as his play- and a dismal record through 50 that assured the Nationals of extending their season games this year. ers had on. “They don’t quit.” and eliminated the Phillies from playoff contention. Trea Turner’s go-ahead grand slam in the sixth in- ning lifted Washington to a 6-5 comeback victory over SEE NATIONALS ON PAGE 29 Photos by Patrick Semansky/AP

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