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PATRICK SEMANSKY/AP A member of the District of Columbia National Guard looks out from a vehicle driving on West Executive Avenue at the White House on Monday in Washington, as protests over the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis, occur nearby. Presidential powers allow wide latitude Air Force’s top enlisted leader speaks for use of military against US citizens out on black rage and urges change

BY ERIC TUCKER But a decision to do so would be BY JOSEPH DITZLER men and so many others in our LOLITA C. BALDOR AND met with likely legal opposition Stars and Stripes ranks … I am outraged at watch- Associated Press and strong opposition from gover- ing another Black man die on nors seeing it as an overreaction. As violence tore across U.S. cit- television before our very eyes,” WASHINGTON — President “If a city or state refuses to ies in the wake of a black man’s Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force Donald Trump’s warning that he take the actions that are neces- death, the top enlisted member Kaleth O. Wright wrote on Twit- would deploy the United States sary to defend the life and prop- ter and Facebook. “What happens military to any state that refuses of the Air Force on social media erty of their residents, then I will WAYNE CLARK/U.S. Air Force all too often in this country to to take aggressive action against Monday urged his countrymen deploy the United States military rioting rests on a long-standing Chief Master Sergeant of the and women to acknowledge the Black men who are subjected to and quickly solve the problem presidential power that gives Air Force Kaleth O. Wright plight of black men in America police brutality that ends in death wide latitude to the White House, for them,” Trump said during a spoke out about the plight of and to do something about it. … could happen to me.” legal experts said. SEE POWERS ON PAGE 9 black men in America. “Just like most of the Black Air- SEE LEADER ON PAGE 4 PAGE 2 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Wednesday, June 3, 2020 BUSINESS/WEATHER EXCHANGE RATES Publishers sue Internet Archive for book scans Military rates Switzerland (Franc)...... 0.9609 Euro costs (June 3) ...... $1.09 Thailand (Baht) ...... 31.55 Dollar buys (June 3) ...... €0.8729 Turkey (Lira) ...... 6.7351 BY HILLEL ITALIE ies of the books in whole via pub- The Archive has defended its British pound (June 3) ...... $1.22 (Military exchange rates are those Japanese yen (June 3) ...... 104.00 available to customers at military banking Associated Press lic-facing websites,” according to actions by saying that it operates South Korean won (June 3) ...... 1,192.00 Commercial rates facilities in the country of issuance papers filed Monday in federal like a traditional lending library. for Japan, South Korea, Germany, the Bahrain (Dinar) ...... 0.3776 NEW YORK — Four of the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. For court in New York. The publishers have contended British pound ...... $1.2566 nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e., country’s biggest publishers have In March, the Internet Archive that the archive does not work Canada (Dollar) ...... 1.3523 purchasing British pounds in Germany), China (Yuan) ...... 7.1048 sued a digital library for copy- announced that it had established like a traditional library in part check with your local military banking Denmark (Krone) ...... 6.6602 facility. Commercial rates are interbank right infringement, alleging that a “National Emergency Library” because it offers scans of paper Egypt (Pound) ...... 16.0051 the Internet Archive has ille- in response to the coronavirus out- books without reaching licensing Euro ...... $1.1189/0.8937 rates provided for reference when buying currency. All figures are foreign currencies gally offered more than a million break that had shut down most of deals with copyright holders. Hong Kong (Dollar) ...... 7.7506 Hungary (Forint) ...... 309.12 to one dollar, except for the British pound, scanned works to the public. the country’s schools and librar- The plaintiffs, who include Pen- Israel (Shekel) ...... 3.4717 which is represented in dollars-to-pound, “Without any license or any ies. According to the Archive, the guin Random House, Hachette Japan (Yen) ...... 108.34 and the euro, which is dollars-to-euro.) payment to authors or publish- Kuwait (Dinar) ...... 0.3081 INTEREST RATES emergency library would support Book Group, HarperCollins and Norway (Krone) ...... 9.5425 ers, Internet Archive scans print “remote teaching, research ac- Wiley, are seeking a permanent Philippines (Peso)...... 50.19 Prime rate ...... 3.25 books, uploads these illegally tivities, independent scholarship injunction against the library Poland (Zloty) ...... 3.93 Discount rate ...... 0.25 Saudi Arabia (Riyal) ...... 3.7539 Federal funds market rate ...... 0.05 scanned books to its servers, and and intellectual stimulation” with and an undetermined amount of Singapore (Dollar) ...... 1.4007 3-month bill ...... 0.14 distributes verbatim digital cop- free digital materials. money for damages. South Korea (Won) ...... 1,218.85 30-year bond ...... 1.45 WEATHER OUTLOOK WEDNESDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST WEDNESDAY IN EUROPE THURSDAY IN THE PACIFIC

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BY PHILLIP WALTER WELLMAN Qaida, the Taliban remains “a formidable Stars and Stripes fighting force” and “appears well prepared for the 2020 fighting season,” it said. KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban The U.S. invaded Afghanistan in 2001 to haven’t severed ties with al-Qaida and may destroy al-Qaida, mastermind s of the 9 /11 have strengthened them, despite pledging attacks on the U.S., and to oust the ruling to stop cooperating with terrorist groups, Taliban, who provided sanctuary to the the United Nations said in a report released terrorist group. this week. Between 400 and 600 active al-Qaida Al-Qaida has hailed the Taliban’s deal fighters remain in 12 of Afghanistan’s 34 with the U.S. as a victory for global mili- provinces, the U.N. has estimated. They tancy, the report said. It added that some have long-standing ties to the Taliban members of the Taliban — which pledged — especially the Pakistan-based Haqqani in the Feb. 29 deal to no longer allow terror network affiliate — through friendship, in- groups to launch attacks from Afghan soil termarriage and a history of shared strug- /Stars and Stripes and to start talks with the Afghan govern- gle, and those “deep personal ties” don’t J.P. LAWRENCE ment — still believe they “can and will … appear to be weakening, the U.N. report Zalmay Khalilzad, American special envoy for Afghan reconciliation, left, and the achieve their aims by force.” said. Taliban’s top political leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar sign a peace deal in Doha, The U.S. pledged under the deal to with- “The Taliban regularly consulted with Qatar on Feb. 29. A United Nations report says the Taliban have not met the deal’s draw its forces from Afghanistan by the al-Qaida during negotiations with the requirement that they sever ties with al-Qaida. summer of 2021, but only if the Taliban ful- United States and offered guarantees that filled commitments under the agreement. it would honor their historical ties,” the re- completed before the November elections The blast killed two civilians and wound- Several U.S. lawmakers have criticized port said. in the U.S., The New York Times reported. ed two, said Tariq Arian, Ministry of Inte- the deal for failing to include mechanisms While most measures outlined in the The country has seen a significant rior spokesman. After the explosion at 7:25 to ensure the Taliban keep their promises. U.S.-Taliban deal are behind schedule, drop in Taliban attacks since a ceasefire p.m., Afghan police found other bombs The lawmakers also voiced concerns that the U.S. military has said a preliminary announced during the three days of the placed around the mosque and defused groups intent on attacking the U.S. could drawdown of American forces from about Islamic holiday of Eid, Afghan security of- them, Arian said. strengthen once international forces leave 13,000 to 8,600 is on track to be completed People had been leaving nightly prayer ficials told Tolo News on Tuesday. the country. by early next month. when the bomb went off, an eyewitness told Achieving “many, if not all” of the objec- Senior military officials are expected to A bomb blast that echoed out from a Stars and Stripes. tives “will prove challenging,” the U.N. re- brief President Donald Trump this week mosque Tuesday night in downtown Kabul [email protected] port warned. on several withdrawal timetables, includ- about a half mile away from the U.S. Em- Zubair Babakarkhail and J.P. Lawrence contrib- In addition to maintaining ties to al- ing one that would see the troop drawdown bassy was not claimed by any group. uted to this report. Army starts $3M VA relents, w ill replace project to examine three Nazi gravestones off-road drones BY NIKKI WENTLING licans called on the VA to replace Stars and Stripes the three gravestones. When BY J.P. LAWRENCE Wilkie argued that the National Stars and Stripes WASHINGTON — In an about- Historic Preservation Act of 1966 face, the Department of Veterans would prevent the department A nearly $3 million military-funded program Affairs decided Monday to re- from removing the stones, Rep. aims to find out whether robots can drive through move three gravestones etched Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D- tomorrow’s battlefields without human input. with swastikas from VA-operated Fla., criticized Wilkie for “hiding A group of seven universities and one company cemeteries. behind” the policy. received funding in May to research off-road move- The decision reverses what the Now, the department says it will ment by unmanned vehicles, as part of an effort VA said last week. After calls to JIM NELSON/Army Research Lab “begin taking the required steps” launched by the Army Research Laboratory, re- remove the stones, the depart- to legally replace the stones with searchers said Monday. A $3 million Army research effort will test ment first insisted it would con- others that don’t include swas- Army researchers said autonomous planes and software for unmanned driving in a Warthog all- tinue to preserve them “like every tikas or other Nazi inscriptions. trucks are part of the future of war, and after a de- terrain autonomous ground vehicle, in conjunction past administration.” The VA wants to preserve the cade of research have developed a prototype “brain” with seven universities and one company. VA Secretary Robert Wilkie headstones in the National Cem- for unmanned vehicles, dubbed the ARL Autonomy then told lawmakers Thursday he etery Administration’s history Stack. Mines; Florida Institute for Human and Machine favored an approach that would collection. Over the next year, civilian researchers will have Cognition; GE Research; Indiana University; Uni- keep the gravestones but would Wilkie also wants to install access to the prototype brain and will be asked to versity of California, Berkeley; University of Dela- add historical context in an effort signs at all national cemeteries improve it, said Eric Spero, manager of the Scal- ware; University of Rochester and the University of to educate Americans about the where foreign prisoners of war able, Adaptive and Resilient Autonomy program. Washington. Holocaust. were buried, explaining why they “With this $3 million in funding, we’ve reached Researchers will spend the next year working on Two gravestones of German out to industry and academia and asked, ‘who can improving the ARL Autonomy Stack. Their code prisoners of war are in Fort Sam are there. contribute to this Autonomy Stack?’” Spero said in a will be tested in a Warthog, a civilian unmanned Houston National Cemetery in In addition to the Texas and phone interview. ground vehicle about the size of an ATV that’s been San Antonio, Texas, and one is Utah cemeteries, German POWs The program aims to improve air and ground un- adapted to use the Army’s prototype brain. in Fort Douglas Post Cemetery were buried at 11 other national manned vehicles, but most of the research this year Experiments planned for the vehicle include find- in Salt Lake City. The graves are cemeteries in the United States. will focus on autonomous driving. ing safe paths through dense vegetation, climbing placed among those of American The gravestones at those sites are Future Army unmanned vehicles need to be able rough inclines and traversing rubble fields. veterans, some of whom fought not etched with swatstikas. to enter unfamiliar areas, without GPS or satellite, Researchers at the end of the year will then as- against Nazi Germany in World “Americans must always re- and make sense of the environment before moving sess what worked, with any advancements contrib- War II. member the horror of the Nazi quickly and safely, Spero said. uting to future robotics software for larger Army The gravestones were dis- regime and why so many Ameri- But current autonomous vehicles tend to move vehicles. covered recently by a retired cans sacrificed so much to free too slowly in rugged environments, said Brett Piek- Army researchers also hope to build unmanned colonel visiting his Jewish grand- the world from its reign of ter- arski, chief scientist of the lab’s vehicle technology vehicles that make better decisions and can work al- father’s grave at the San Antonio ror,” Wilkie said in a statement directorate. most like teammates with soldiers on the battlefield, cemetery. Monday. Their brains need to process what they’re seeing, Piekarski said. The finding prompted the Mili- “It is understandably upsetting build a map of where they are and decide where to “We want robots to be able to solve problems,” tary Religious Freedom Founda- to our veterans and their fami- go quickly, he said. Piekarski said. “Let’s say a drone lost signal: it tion, which attempts to protect lies to see Nazi inscriptions near “We’re trying to make these things operate much should be able to understand the intent of the mis- religious freedom for service those who gave their lives for this faster, but they have to operate on unstructured en- sion, the context of the environment, the condi- members, to call for the VA to re- nation. That’s why VA will initiate vironments, so that makes it challenging,” Piekarski tions of the battlefield and still continue on with its move them. the process required to replace said. mission.” During a hearing of the House these POW headstones.” The researchers given funding to improve off- [email protected] Committee on Appropriations on [email protected] road mobility are from the Colorado School of Twitter: @jplawrence3 Thursday, Democrats and Repub- Twitter: @nikkiwentling PAGE 4 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Wednesday, June 3, 2020 MILITARY Leader: ‘I encourage everyone Troops can’t join upcoming to fight … for understanding’

FROM FRONT PAGE Wright said, “especially within In fact, he wrote, what hap- our senior ranks.” anti-brutality rally in Italy pened to George Floyd, who died Wright did not immediately during his arrest at the hands of respond to a Twitter message Minneapolis police on May 25, Monday evening in Washington BY NANCY MONTGOMERY could happen to any black service seeking further comment. Air Stars and Stripes member, from basic airmen to a Force Public Affairs also did not wing commander. immediately respond to an email VICENZA, Italy — A protest condemning police “This my friends, is my great- message seeking an interview. brutality and racism is planned for Saturday in this est fear, not that I will be killed In his message, Wright said his northern Italian city that hosts U.S. Army Garrison by a white police officer (believe readers must “find a way to move Italy, but service members will be unable to attend me my heart starts racing like beyond the rage and do what you because of military coronavirus restrictions on most other Black men in Amer- think is right for the country, for public gatherings and regulations barring attending ica when I see those blue lights your sons, daughters, friends and protests in foreign countries. behind me),” Wright wrote, “but colleagues … for every Black man The demonstration will be held from 9:30 a.m. to that I will wake up to a report in the country who could end up noon in Vicenza’s main plaza, the Piazza dei Signori, that one of our Black Airmen has like George Floyd.” said organizer Shanda Holley, daughter of a black died at the hands of a white police Wright said solutions must in- U.S. soldier and an Italian mother who’s lived here officer.” volve filling the communications since 1991 and operates a medical clinic. Wright, who represents en- gap between law enforcement The demonstration follows the death of George listed interests to the public and and young black men. In a larger Floyd after a police officer pressed a knee on his government and advises the Air scope, he said, everyone must de- neck for nearly nine minutes in Minneapolis last Force chief of staff, in his state- cide what works best for them. week — despite Floyd’s protests that he could not “We didn’t get here overnight NANCY MONTGOMERY/Stars and Stripes ment said he struggles with “the breathe — as well as other killings of African Amer- Air Force’s own demons.” They so don’t expect things to change icans in the United States. Shanda Holley, who was born in the U.S. to include racial disparity in mili- tomorrow,” he wrote. “Vote, pro- “My mom fought for justice all her life,” said Hol- an Italian mother and an African American tary justice and discipline among test peacefully, reach out to our ley, 57, who said she grew up in a poor, black neigh- father who’d been stationed at Camp Darby, is the youngest black, male airmen, local and state officials, to your borhood in Dayton, Ohio. “And here we are 50 years spearheading a protest rally against police brutality “and the clear lack of diversity in Air Force leadership and become later fighting for the same thing. It’s been years and and racism to be held Saturday in Vicenza . our senior officer ranks.” active in your communities … we years and years of begging for justice.” He wrote that Americans have need all hands on deck.” Vicenza Women of Color, a nonprofit arts and cul- cause of coronavirus concerns. She said that partici- a “right to be upset about what’s Black people in America don’t ture group that includes Americans, had planned pants would stand distanced from each other, and happening in our nation,” and to expect special treatment, he said, to participate but were later informed of a Defense that all planned to wear white T-shirts splattered protest injustice. but “the same chance to succeed” Department directive that prohibits U.S. service with red to show “we all bleed the same color.” “But you must then find a way as their white counterparts. members from participating in demonstrations in They would also, she said, wear masks reading “I to move beyond the rage and do “If you don’t do anything foreign countries, a group spokeswoman said. can’t breathe,” as Floyd repeatedly said while face what you think is right for our else, I encourage everyone to According to Sgt. Maj. Christina M. Bhatti, a down on the ground in Minneapolis. A New York nation.” fight, not just for freedom, jus- spokeswoman for U.S. Army Africa, DOD civilian man, Eric Garner, said the same thing before he For himself, Wright said, “I tice and equality, but to fight for employees may attend demonstrations in their per- died in 2014 after a police officer put him in a choke- can only look in the mirror for a understanding.” sonal capacities. hold. It subsequently became a rallying cry for the solution.” Only black people know the “This means when not on duty and one should Black Lives Matter movement. He already has an “ongoing experience of life in America as not express or assert that they are speaking for the Near the end of the Saturday demonstration, par- dialogue” with 25 of his closest a black person, Wright said, add- DoD, Bhatti said. ticipants will lie on the ground for nine minutes. friends of varied ranks and eth- ing that others may sympathize A general order to protect the military commu- “I can’t be quiet anymore,” Holley said. “I feel it’s nicities “where we began by ac- or only believe they know. nity from COVID-19 also remains in effect, said necessary we all come out and show America what knowledging our right to be angry But let me tell you, he wrote, Col. Ryan Dillon, a spokesman for Maj. Gen. Roger “regardless of how many Black the world is capable of doing. They’re killing their about what’s happening.” Cloutier, the senior officer at the garrison. friends you have, or how Black own people.” Admitting he has “not done “It does not allow for public gatherings,” Dil- your neighborhood was, or if your Similar protests were also being planned for Na- enough as your most senior en- lon said. “It’s not because we don’t want people to spouse or in-laws are Black … ples and Rome, she said. listed leader,” Wright said he is participate.” you don’t know. Floyd’s death has been ruled a homicide and the working with Air Force Chief Army officials have also encouraged civilian per- “You don’t know the anxiety, police officer, Derek Chauvin, is in custody charged of Staff Gen. David Goldfein to sonnel to follow the coronavirus restrictions. “have a full and thorough inde- the despair, the heartache, the with third-degree murder. Plans for the organized demonstration come after pendent review of our military fear, the rage and the disappoint- Scores of cities in the U.S. have over the past week about 50 people gathered briefly at the garrison’s justice system.” ment that comes with living in been the sites of protests and demonstrations, many perimeter wall Monday, Army officials said. The An independent watchdog this country, OUR country every group left spray-painted slogans on the wall used in of them peaceful. But some have devolved into arson group, Protect Our Defenders, in single day,” Wright said. the Black Lives Matter movement, including “We and looting. Videos have also shown police shooting a report released May 27 said the Take time, he said, to talk Can’t Breathe!” and “No Justice, No Peace.” rubber bullets and pepper balls at protesters and Air Force has failed to fix racial with your colleagues about their Army officials did not immediately respond Tues- journalists, spraying them with tear gas and hit- disparities within its justice sys- experiences. day to questions on who the protesters were, wheth- ting them with batons. A number of governors have tem and withheld documents to “Frankly, you owe this to every er anyone was being investigated or if there were called out the National Guard. hide that poor record. The same Airmen,” Wright said, “but I’m any arrests. Italian Carabinieri on post declined President Donald Trump on Monday said Gen. group published a 2017 report asking you specifically to pay comment. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of that found some of the military’s attention to the Black Airmen The protest Saturday is unrelated to the vandal- Staff, would be in charge of a national “command most extreme racial inequalities in your ranks during this trying ism, which Holley said was regrettable. center” to address the unrest. within the Air Force. time.” Holley said that the city approved plans for the [email protected] “We are also working to im- [email protected] Saturday demonstration but disallowed a march be- Twitter: @montgomerynance prove the diversity of our force,” Twitter: @JosephDitzler Philippines suspends abrogation of defense pact with US

Associated Press the Philippines is delaying its Philippines.” keep the agreement. demic hit and hampered possible decision to abrogate the Visiting President Rodrigo Duterte’s The waiting time will be sus- talks ahead of the agreement’s MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine president has sus- Forces Agreement by at least six administration notified the U.S. pended by at least six months and actual abrogation in August. pended his decision to terminate a months. government on Feb. 11 that it in- could be extended by another half “We both were concerned key defense pact with the United Washington immediately wel- tends to abrogate the 1998 agree- a year, according to the diplomat- about the deadline for the termi- States, at least temporarily avoid- comed the move. ment, which allows the entry of ic letter to the U.S. nation which was coming close,” ing a major blow to one of Ameri- “Our longstanding alliance has large numbers of American forc- Philippine Ambassador to Romualdez said. ca’s oldest alliances in Asia. benefited both countries,” the es for joint combat training with Washington Jose Manuel Ro- President Donald Trump’s ex- Foreign Secretary Teodoro U.S. government said in a state- Filipino troops and lays down the mualdez told The Associated pression of readiness to help the Locsin Jr. said Tuesday he dis- ment released by its embassy legal terms for their temporary Press by telephone that he and Philippines deal with the pan- patched a diplomatic note to the in Manila. “We look forward to stay. The termination would have his American counterpart, Sung demic during a telephone call U.S. ambassador in Manila in- continued close security and taken effect after 180 days, in Au- Kim, helped discuss what could with Duterte in April fostered the forming the U.S. government that defense cooperation with the gust, unless both sides agreed to be done after the coronavirus pan- decision, Romualdez said. Wednesday, June 3, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 5 MILITARY US bases in Japan resuming in-person worship services

BY CAITLIN DOORNBOS virus’s spread. Each of the pro- Stars and Stripes grams — four Protestant services and a Catholic Holy Communion YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, offering — was well-attended, the Japan — Donning masks and sit- base’s senior chaplain, Capt. Phil- ting on lawn chairs and picnic ip King, said in an email to Stars CAITLIN DOORNBOS/Stars and Stripes blankets six feet apart, about 150 and Stripes on Monday. Navy spouse Lori Ann Chavez-Garcia prays with other churchgoers during an outdoor service at churchgoers gathered under an “They came out in bigger num- Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan, on Sunday. outdoor pavilion near Yokosuka bers than we expected, and did Naval Base’s ballpark Sunday for their best to observe the mitiga- took a step toward normalcy Sun- drive-in style Christian music pecially with the chaos in the the first in-person Christian wor- tion guidelines, despite the pal- day when services were offered concert. world,” said Navy spouse Lori ship services in 12 weeks. pable exhilaration of sharing in Across Japan, U.S. military indoors. Pews were marked to en- “Though we’re physically dis- Ann Chavez-Garcia, choking worship together again as a com- sure proper social distancing and tant how do we connect socially?” chapels ceased in-person reli- back tears. “This is an essential munity,” King said. Bibles were removed to prevent Marlowe said. “It’s not good for gious services in March to pre- service. I consider it as essential There were no handshakes, the virus’s spread, according to people to be alone. That does take vent the coronavirus’s spread. as food and water.” hugs or fellowship. Services the chapel’s Facebook page. a general toll on people. We’re re- U.S. military chaplains have been King likened the break from were held outdoors — on soccer The pandemic has “forced lational people.” working since to meet the reli- fields and under picnic pavilions in-person services to the spiritual [chaplains] to adapt and embrace Chaplains have also been using practice of fasting. gious needs of the service mem- — families sat six feet away from technology,” in part by stream- video chats, the telephone and bers and civilians stationed here one another. There was no sing- “Fasting can be arduous, and ing regular religious services live limited physically distant in-per- during this time of fear and un- amid a pandemic. ing either, as it could have spread online, U.S. Forces Japan Chap- son exchanges to counsel those certainty with the pandemic, Yokosuka’s Chapel of Hope sus- the nose and mouth droplets that lain (Lt. Col.) Dale Marlowe in a experiencing stress, grief and going without a life-sustaining pended in-person services March carry the virus into the air. May 21 interview with Stars and anxiety associated with coronavi- act like public worship has been 16. On March 27, the base issued Some of the larger faith groups Stripes. rus isolation, Marlowe said. a shelter-in-place order that con- are instead still holding wor- Military chapels have also got- “There has been more of a need especially difficult,” he said. tinues to keep service members, ship opportunities online. For ten creative with establishing of people wanting to talk to chap- King said that while the online civilian workers, contractors and instance, while Catholics offered safe opportunities to worship. For lains through this time,” he said. services provide opportunities families isolated from those out- Holy Communion, Mass was still example, Naval Air Facility Atsu- Still, some who came to the for private devotions, returning side their household. celebrated virtually. gi chaplains have been produc- live services Sunday in Yokosuka to public worship, even in a miti- That changed Sunday, when five It’s unclear when a return to ing online resiliency and workout said that there’s no true substi- gated form, “has been an oasis in of Yokosuka’s 11 religious com- more traditional religious servic- videos to keep spirits high, and tute for worshipping together as a a desert.” munities held in-person services es will be possible, but the chapel the Misawa Air Base chapel on congregation. [email protected] modified to prevent the corona- at Kadena Air Base on Okinawa Sunday held a “park and praise” “This has been a godsend, es- Twitter: @CaitlinDoornbos DOD wants plasma from recovered virus patients

BY JOHN VANDIVER that, then we’ll be on a good path greater Kaiserslautern area, said Audra Taylor, chief of the Armed are healthy, able and eligible to Stars and Stripes toward getting some really pow- Stacy Sanning, a spokeswoman Services Blood Program. donate today to help us all stand erful therapeutics.” for the blood program. There is currently no approved mission-ready and save lives,” The Pentagon has launched a The Armed Services Blood “We are also reaching out to treatment for COVID-19, the she said. “Our goal as a lifesav- drive to collect plasma from mili- Bank Center at Landstuhl Region- other military medical facili- statement said. Using the plasma ing program is to always provide tary members and others who al Medical Center in Germany is ties in areas within driving dis- of recovered patients is being in- a safe and ample supply of blood have recovered from the corona- one of 15 facilities — and the only tance to contact their recovered vestigated as a treatment for the products. The need is now.” virus as part of the global effort In addition to the other re- to develop an effective treatment one outside of the United States COVID-19 patients and invite illness because it has helped some for it. — that will be collecting plasma them to consider donating plas- patients recover, it said. quirements, donors must be at “We may want to ask you to from eligible military personnel, ma,” Sanning said. Several patients in the military least 17 years old, weigh at least stick your arm out and donate their families and civilians with Plasma from recovered pa- health system have already un- 110 pounds and be in good over- blood,” Army Gen. Mark Milley, access to the facility, the Army tients contains infection-fighting dergone the treatment, which is all health. Appointments are re- chairman of the Joint Chiefs of said in a statement. antibodies, which can then be used for those hospitalized with quired for a screening meeting Staff, said in a virtual town hall Landstuhl accepted its first transfused into a patient fighting severe cases of COVID-19, Taylor with medical personnel prior to meeting last week. “What that plasma donor last week and the virus to try to boost their im- said, without specifying what the donating. can then do is help others who health officials are looking for mune system and help with the outcomes were in those patients. [email protected] are severely ill, and if we can do more possible donors in the recovery process, said Army Col. “We are calling for all who Twitter: @john_vandiver Tokyo Disneyland to stay closed; Universal Japan will reopen June 19

BY HANA KUSUMOTO quest to ease out of their closures Japan will be limited to residents face masks in the park, cooper- Japan counted 16,930 corona- Stars and Stripes in phases. of Osaka and five surrounding ate with temperature screenings virus cases and 894 deaths as of Tokyo Disneyland and Disney- prefectures, but also season pass at the entrance, disinfect their June 1, according to the Ministry TOKYO — Tokyo Disneyland Sea have both been closed since holders who live outside that and DisneySea in Chiba prefec- hands often while in the park and of Health, Labour and Welfare. Feb. 29. area. ture will remain closed despite maintain social distancing, the [email protected] Meanwhile, Universal Studios Annual pass holders from the lifting of a state of emer- website said. Twitter: @HanaKusumoto gency to combat the coronavirus Japan in Osaka announced Mon- Osaka may register for park ad- pandemic. day that it will resume operations mission between June 8-18, before The parks will reopen when on June 19. It also closed Feb. 29. the general opening. The park “external and internal conditions “This comes as Japan lifts its will also offer special admission have been readied,” according to state of emergency and a call for for residents of Osaka prefecture a Monday statement on the parks’ the closure of large-scale facili- who are not regular pass holders websites. Park management will ties,” the park’s website stated. from June 15-18. consider the government’s re- Admission to Universal Studios Visitors will be asked to wear PAGE 6 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Wednesday, June 3, 2020 VIRUS OUTBREAK Parisians return to cafes; cases surge in Latin America BY MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS epicenter. AND THIBAULT CAMUS “Clearly the situation in many Associated Press South American countries is far from stable. There is a rapid in- PARIS — Parisians returned crease in cases and those systems to the City of Light’s beloved side- are coming under increasing walk cafes as lockdown restric- pressure,” said Dr. Mike Ryan, tions eased Tuesday, but health the executive director of the experts expressed deep con- World Health Organization’s cerns as several Latin American emergencies program. countries opted to reopen their His warning came as some of economies despite a rapid rise in Brazil’s hardest-hit cities, includ- coronavirus cases. ing the jungle city of Manaus and The post-lockdown freedom the sprawling metropolis of Rio along Paris’ cobbled streets will de Janeiro, were starting to allow CHRISTOPHE ENA/AP be tempered by social distancing more business activity. Brazil rules for the city’s once-densely has reported more than 526,000 People sit on a terrace in Paris on Tuesday. Parisians who have been cooped up for months with take- packed cafe tables. Paris City infections, second only to the 1.8 out food and coffee are now able to savor their steaks tartare in the fresh air and cobbled streets of the Hall has authorized outside seat- million cases reported by the City of Light once more, albeit in smaller numbers. ing areas only, with indoor seat- U.S. ing off-limits until June 22. But Bolivia and Venezuela have trated with Chinese authorities WHO officials publicly lauded back a $2.5 trillion plan to tackle the tiny tables will have to be also started opening up their for not immediately providing China to coax more information COVID-19 and launch an econom- spaced at least 1 meter apart, economies, Ecuador has resumed the world body with information out of the government, but private- ic recovery from the pandemic. sharply cutting their numbers. flights and shoppers have re- it needed to fight the spread of ly complained in the first week of They said poor and middle-in- “It’s amazing that we’re finally turned to Colombia’s malls. the deadly virus, the Associated January that China wasn’t shar- opening up, but the outside area In Mexico, President Andres Press has found. ing enough data to assess how the come countries, which represent is just a fraction of the inside Manuel Lopez Obrador offered Tight controls on information virus spread between people or nearly 70% of the world’s popula- space,” said Xavier Denamur, the a personal note of caution to his and competition within China’s what the global risk was, costing tion, need immediate action. owner of five popular cafes and country’s gradual rollback of health services are believed to be valuable time. British lawmakers were return- bistros. “It’s a start.” virus restrictions by opting to why the country delayed releas- As economic fallout from the ing to Parliament on Tuesday but But as Parisians reclaimed drive 1,000 miles instead of fly- ing the genetic map, or genome, pandemic slammed economies some are sharply critical of the the rhythm of city life, health ing to promote a key infrastruc- of the virus for more than a week around the world, more than 225 experts warned that virus cases ture project. after three different govern- current and former global VIPs government’s decision to scrap a are still rising in Latin Ameri- Despite its public praise of ment labs had fully decoded the urged the leaders of the Group remote-voting system used dur- ca, the world’s latest COVID-19 China, the WHO was deeply frus- information. of 20 major economic powers to ing the country’s lockdown. Virus found in another US By the numbers At least 16 West Point soldier arriving in S. Korea cadets test positive BY KIM GAMEL contact tracing due to the soldier 32 Stars and Stripes being immediately quarantined, and conducted thorough cleaning prior to Trump speech SEOUL, South Korea — An- of the bus and quarantine room,” People affiliated with U.S. other American soldier has tested the press release said. Forces Korea who have BY TOM VANDEN BROOK In addition, 71 of the more than positive for the coronavirus after The Pentagon announced last been found to test positive USA Today 5,000 faculty, staff and civilians arriving in South Korea for a new month that travel restrictions for for COVID-19. at West Point have tested positive assignment, the military said military and civilian personnel WASHINGTON — The Army for COVID-19 since March. All Tuesday. aimed at preventing the spread of has determined 16 West Point but four civilians have recovered, The new case, which brings to the respiratory disease caused by cadets have tested positive for and they are living off the post. 32 the number of people affiliated the coronavirus would be gradu- COVID-19 after returning to the The COVID-19 pandemic has with U.S. Forces Korea who have ally reduced in a “conditions- 6 campus for a commencement ad- scrambled graduation plans for been found to have the virus, un- based, phased approach.” dress by President Trump sched- the nation’s elite military schools. derscores the continuing chal- Troops and others also may uled for June 13, according to The Naval Academy held a vir- lenges involved in personnel travel after obtaining an excep- Troops who recently arrived sources on Capitol Hill. tual ceremony, and the Air Force movements amid the pandemic. tion to policy to facilitate moves in South Korea from abroad The affected cadets, a fraction Academy sequestered its senior Six troops who arrived in South deemed essential. who have tested positive of the 850 who have returned to class on campus, holding gradu- Korea from abroad are among South Korea has seen a sharp the campus since spring break in ation with cadets spaced at safe those whose coronavirus tests decline in the number of corona- for COVID-19. March, are receiving treatment distance from one another. have come back positive. virus cases since reaching a peak but are not showing symptoms of Critics have called Trump’s The latest was a soldier who was of 909 on Feb. 29, although au- the disease, Army Lt. Gen. Darryl decision to attend West Point tested, according to procedure, thorities remain concerned about Williams, the West Point superin- graduation a political stunt that after arriving at Osan Air Base outbreaks and imported cases. 28.5K tendent, said in an interview. endangers the health of cadets on Saturday aboard the Patriot USFK, which commands some Williams, who declined to spec- and those with whom they have Express, a government-chartered 28,500 American troops stationed ify the number of cadets affected, had contact on their return to flight, U.S. Forces Korea said in a in South Korea, has implemented American troops stationed said screening and safety proce- campus. press release. a strict process for all arrivals in South Korea. dures will allow the ceremony to Top Army officials have de- He got the results while in including a coronavirus test and be held safely. fended the decision, pointing out mandatory quarantine at Camp 14-day quarantine. Sources on Capitol Hill, with that the seniors had to return to Humphreys and was moved to a Only two soldiers have been SOURCE: Stars and Stripes access to information but not au- the campus before heading to barracks that has been outfitted infected while stationed on the thorized to speak publicly, said their first active-duty posts. The with negative-pressure isolation divided peninsula, and both have service members who are cur- that of the 16 affected cadets, 14 seniors need to pass physicals rooms for infected patients, the recovered. rently confirmed positive for had tested positive for the an- and retrieve their belongings, command said. “Despite the confirmed case, COVID-19,” it said. tibody that indicates they had Williams said. The remaining “USFK health professionals USFK remains at a high level of [email protected] contracted the virus, recovered 200 seniors are scheduled to ar- determined there was limited readiness with four active duty Twitter: @kimgamel and had developed antibodies. rive Saturday. Wednesday, June 3, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 7 VIRUS OUTBREAK Gilead: Drug helped moderately ill virus patients

Associated Press The drug is given through an IV and is to improve by at least one on a seven-point disease specialist at the University of Min- designed to interfere with an enzyme the scale that included measures such as need- nesota Medical Center in Minneapolis who A California biotech company says its experimental drug remdesivir improved virus uses to copy its genetic material. It’s ing treatment with a breathing machine, had no role in the work. symptoms when given for five days to approved for treating COVID-19 in Japan Gilead said. Since there are limited supplies of the moderately ill, hospitalized patients with and is authorized for emergency use in the Ten days of treatment did not prove bet- experimental drug, finding benefit from COVID-19. United States for certain patients. ter than standard care alone. five versus 10 days means more people can Gilead Sciences gave few details on The company-led study involved nearly There were no deaths among patients on be treated, she added. Monday but said full results would soon be 600 patients who had moderate pneumonia five days of the drug, two among those on In a note to investors, Evercore ISI ana- published in a medical journal. but did not need oxygen support. All were 10 days, and four among patients getting lyst Umer Raffat noted that the study’s Remdesivir is the only treatment that’s randomly assigned to get five or 10 days standard care alone. Nausea and headache main goal was changed partway through, been shown in a rigorous experiment to of the drug plus standard care, or stan- were a little more common among those on from the percentage of patients discharged help fight the coronavirus. A large study dard care alone. Patients and their doctors the drug. within two weeks to the scale of improve- led by the National Institutes of Health knew who was getting what, which limits The study has some limitations, but ment after 11 days. recently found it could shorten average the objectivity of the results. “there was a control group which does help “A fair amount of critical data,” such as recovery time from 15 days to 11 days in By the 11th day in the study, those on five verify that remdesivir has some benefits,” hospital discharge information, has not hospitalized patients with severe disease. days of remdesivir were 65% more likely said Dr. Radha Rajasingham, an infectious been disclosed, he wrote. Congo now facing 2nd Ebola outbreak in northern province Associated Press ka, WHO director-general Tedros Adha- time that Ebola has hit the province since cases before a declaration can be made. nom Ghebreyesus said. the virus was first discovered in Congo in COVID-19 already has touched 7 of Con- DAKAR, Senegal — Health officials have confirmed a second Ebola outbreak in “This is a reminder that COVID-19 is not 1976. Just two years ago an outbreak killed go’s 25 provinces, with more than 3,000 Congo, the World Health Organization said the only health threat people face,” he said 33 people before the disease was brought confirmed cases and 72 deaths. However, Monday, adding yet another health crisis in a statement. under control in a matter of months. like many African countries Congo has for a country already battling COVID-19 Four other people were being held in iso- The latest cases turned up in Wangata conducted extremely limited testing, and and the world’s largest measles outbreak. lation at a hospital in Mbandaka, UNICEF health zone near Mbandaka, which is home observers fear the true toll may be far Congo also has yet to declare an official said. to some 1.2 million. higher. end to Ebola in its troubled east, where at The victims died May 18 but test results Meanwhile, in the east health officials While Ebola and COVID-19 have drawn least 2,243 people have died since an epi- confirming Ebola only came back over the are still waiting to declare an official end far more international attention, measles demic began there in August 2018. weekend, according to Congolese Health to the epidemic after nearly two years. has killed more Congolese than those dis- Now Congolese health authorities have Minister Dr. Eteni Longondo. WHO said it The last known patient there was released eases combined. WHO said there have identified six cases including four fatalities already had teams on the ground. in mid-May but the country now must go been 369,520 measles cases and 6,779 in the north near the port city of Mbanda- This announcement marks the 11th about another month without any new deaths since 2019. PAGE 8 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Wednesday, June 3, 2020 VIRUS OUTBREAK Tracing app goes live in France amid debate over privacy

BY SYLVIE CORBET but we’re in a democratic state, AND KELVIN CHAN we have checks and balances,” O Associated Press told the AP. The government said that the PARIS — France is rolling out app doesn’t track location and de- an official coronavirus contact- letes user data after 14 days. tracing app aimed at contain- Some French lawmakers have ing fresh outbreaks as lockdown raised doubts over the app’s ef- restrictions gradually ease, be- fectiveness if few people install coming the first major European /AP it amid privacy concerns and PAVEL GOLOVKIN country to deploy the smartphone because of potential technical is- Vladimir Perevalov shows a Social Monitoring app installed on his smartphone in his apartment in technology amid simmering de- sues. O said that the app detects Shcherbinka outside Moscow. He diligently took required selfies, yet was fined three times for $168. bate over privacy fears. about 80% of surrounding phones The French will be able to via Bluetooth. download the StopCovid app on Parisian Sami Mounir said that their Google Android devices and he won’t download it because of Smartphone tracking app angers Apple iPhones starting Tuesday, the privacy concerns. the same day they’ll once again “We don’t know what they be allowed to go to restaurants, could do with the data or whether thousands in Moscow with fines cafes, parks, beaches, museums it could be hacked,” Mounir, 31, and monuments. said. “Plus, it’s health data, it’s too BY DARIA LITVINOVA spread criticism. rector for Human Rights Watch’s Neighbors including the United sensitive.” Associated Press After two virus cases were re- Europe and Central Asia division, Kingdom, Germany, Italy and Officials and experts have said ported in February, Mayor Sergei said that while many countries Switzerland are developing their that tracing apps aren’t a magic MOSCOW — When nurse Maria Sobyanin authorized facial recog- use mobile tracking apps, she own apps, though they’re using bullet against the virus, but can Alexeyeva caught the coronavi- nition software to track Chinese hasn’t seen one getting so many different technical protocols, aid time-consuming manual con- rus at work, she isolated herself citizens in the capital, drawing complaints. raising questions about compat- tact tracing efforts. at home and followed the rules complaints from rights groups. “The situation is absurd. It’s in- ibility across Europe’s borders. Professor Arnaud Fontanet, set down by Moscow authorities: When the city introduced digital sane,” Lokshina said. “Instead of Authorities are hoping that the epidemiologist at the Paris Pas- She checked in with doctors regu- passes for commuters in April, serving to contain the epidemic, app can help manage virus flare- teur Institute and a member of larly, didn’t leave her apartment tightly packed crowds formed at it in fact serves … to punish law- ups as they reopen the economy the scientific committee advising and downloaded a smartphone Metro stations as police checked abiding citizens who actually at- in France, which has been living French President Emmanuel Ma- app required by the city to keep smartphones individually. tempt to play by the rules.” under some of Europe’s tightest cron, said that the app is “a tool, tabs on quarantined patients. But the biggest complaints On May 21, Human Rights restrictions since it became one not a revolutionary one, but a use- The Social Monitoring app focus on the Social Monitoring Watch urged Moscow authorities of countries hardest hit by the ful tool.” tracks users via GPS and sends app, which was rolled out in early to drop the app, noting that on pandemic, with nearly 29,000 France and other countries them random notifications de- April and was mandatory for top of the arbitrary fines, Social deaths. have set up teams to interview manding a selfie to prove they’re those infected with the virus or Monitoring violated users’ pri- Some Parisians were keen to people testing positive about still at home. If it detects they’ve suspected of having it. vacy by accessing their location, adopt the technology to help bring their contacts. But the tracers left home or they fail to provide Patients had to sign a form re- calls, camera, network informa- life back to normal. will likely miss strangers, so the a photo, they face a fine of about quiring them to install the app as tion and other data. Cafe waiter Paul Hubert said app may prove useful especially $56 each time. part of their quarantine notifica- Russia’s Presidential Human that he was ready to download the “in circumstances where you’re But the app soon became a tions, although they said that they Rights Council echoed HRW’s app because he sees “more ben- going to stand next to someone nightmare for Alexeyeva. It were not told how to use it or what stance, urging officials to cancel efits than risks. who is infected, without knowing, crashed when she tried to take actions would lead to fines. all fines. But Alexei Nemeryuk, “To me, it sounds like wearing for quite a long period of time” a photo. Weak with illness, she Svetlana Bystrova, quaran- the mayor’s deputy chief of staff, a mask in a shop,” said Hubert, like in public transports and res- struggled with the software for tined at home with flu-like symp- said that there will be no amnes- 24. “It’s easy and it can help pro- taurants, Fontanet said. days, sometimes on hold for hours toms, didn’t install the app. She ty, noting: “There’s a system for tecting others.” Other countries around Eu- with technical support. And when said that her doctors didn’t tell contesting the fines.” The various European apps use rope have been scrambling to her quarantine ended, she dis- her she had to, and she didn’t no- That has proved unsuccessful, low-energy Bluetooth signals to build their apps, often using the covered she had accumulated 11 tice a clause obligating her to use said Leonid Solovyov of the Apo- anonymously log the nearby pres- Google-Apple system. The reli- fines totaling $620. the app in the quarantine order logia Protesta legal aid group, ence of other users. Under the ance on the tech giants for a more “That’s more than my monthly she signed. which is working with over 100 French system, data is uploaded private system is an ironic turn of wage,” she told The Associated After two weeks of strict self- people were fined. He said that to government-run centralized events after the European Union Press. “This quarantine has been isolation, Bystrova found that those who are fined must provide servers. Users who test positive called them out repeatedly in re- hard on me. And now I have to she had been fined four times, proof they did nothing wrong, will be able to notify others who cent years for not protecting data deal with this on top of it.” totaling $224. One was for not which is difficult, while authori- have been in close contact for at privacy sufficiently. Thousands of Muscovites also installing the app, two said that ties are basing the punishment on least 15 minutes so that they can Italy’s Immuni app, based on complained that they have been it detected her outside her apart- data from the app. self-isolate and seek treatment. the Google-Apple system, was wrongfully fined by the app. In ment and one was for not giving “Some fines are indeed being France, like Britain, rejected a available to download starting just over a month, authorities details of her wrongdoing. overruled,” Solovyov told AP, but new mobile software interface for Monday, and will undergo test- issued some 54,000 fines, total- “The one for not installing the only the “most egregious cases.” tracing apps jointly developed by ing initially in parts of the coun- ing $3 million among its nearly app I get, fair enough,” Bystrova City Hall has said that it was U.S. tech giants Google and Apple, try less affected by coronavirus 70,000 registered users. said. “But how can the app I never canceling 468 fines for failing instead choosing to build its own. next week before being rolled out Authorities insisted that the installed track my movements?” to take a selfie because the app The Google-Apple system uses a nationwide. Authorities have said fines were justified, issued to Vladimir Perevalov, who in- made those requests in the mid- “decentralized” system backed that at least 60% of Italy’s 60 mil- those who repeatedly violated stalled the app and diligently took dle of the night. by privacy experts because it lion population will need to use it quarantine. But the app’s users selfies, was fined three times for Another high-profile case in- keeps data on phones, but British for it to be effective. said that it has glitches and flaws, $168. The app never sent him any volved Irina Karabulatova, a and French officials said that it Switzerland started a pilot test sometimes demanding selfies in notifications, he said. bed-ridden professor who hasn’t doesn’t give them enough infor- of its SwissCovid app last week to the middle of the night, adding The outrage has mounted as left her apartment in a year and mation to manage outbreaks. last until mid-June, when the gov- that the fines were dished out tales of arbitrary fines mush- got two fines for not installing the Civil liberties groups worry ernment is expected to introduce arbitrarily. roomed on social media. By the app. After her story made nation- that tracing apps are a gateway legislation covering the app. Moscow has been Russia’s end of May, authorities got over al headlines, the fines were can- to government surveillance but Britain launched a massive biggest hot spot during the pan- 2,500 complaints contesting the celed and officials apologized. Cedric O, France’s junior minis- countrywide “track and trace” demic, recording nearly half of fines, and more than 200 lawsuits “They canceled my (fines) be- ter for the digital economy, dis- program Friday, including 25,000 the country’s 414,000-plus cases. were filed. Three online petitions cause journalists stood up for missed those concerns. human contact tracers, but its As the city of 12 million struggled demanding to abolish the app got me,” Karabulatova told AP. “But “The problem with a central- tracing app, which is being tested, to contain the outbreak, it used over 94,000 signatures. what is going to happen to the oth- ized protocol is that you have to be isn’t ready and it’s unclear when technology that later drew wide- Tanya Lokshina, associate di- ers is a big question.” confident and to trust your state it will be launched. Wednesday, June 3, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 9 NATION At Trump’s command, Pentagon rushes troops to DC President calls for an end to violence amid ongoing protests across the nation

BY COREY DICKSTEIN duty troops to unidentified bases Stars and Stripes in what the military calls the National Capital Region, which WASHINGTON — The Pen- consists of D.C. and its immedi- tagon rushed hundreds of ate surroundings in Virginia and active-duty troops to military in- Maryland, included more than stallations just outside Washing- 200 military police officers from ton, D.C., on Monday as President Fort Bragg, N.C., and, separately, Donald Trump pledged a crack- an undisclosed element of the down on violence in the nation’s 82nd Airborne Division’s Imme- capital that grew over the week- diate Response Force, defense end out of peaceful protests call- officials said Tuesday. The 82nd ing for national police reforms. soldiers, also from Fort Bragg, Senior Pentagon officials on were last activated for a short-no- Tuesday said those troops — pri- tice deployment in January to the marily military police and com- Middle East amid escalating ten- bat engineers — never entered sions with Iran. Washington and are unlikely to do Pentagon and Army officials on so unless the more than 2,000 Na- Tuesday declined to say whether JACQUELYN MARTIN/AP tional Guard troops operating in additional active-duty troops had the city prove to be insufficient to been sent to the Washington area Vehicles for the District of Columbia National Guard are seen outside the D.C. Armory on Monday in aid the law enforcement response or how many troops had been Washington. Protests erupted across the United States to protest the death of George Floyd, a black in the capital. The officials, who moved into the region. They did man who was killed in police custody in Minneapolis on May 25. spoke on condition of anonymity, not provide an explanation for said violence was down overall the decision not to disclose the the territory has no governor, the mestic civil unrest mission among ployed into the city are under the in D.C. on Monday night, but also information. entirety of its 1,300 soldiers and the “most uncomfortable” for his command of Army Maj. Gen. Wil- noted more than 1,000 additional One senior defense official said airmen had been activated by troops to perform. Nonetheless, liam Walker, the D.C. National Guard troops from across the the troops moved into the region Monday. Air Force Gen. Joseph he said Guard troops deployed in Guard chief, the official said. country were set to arrive Tues- were deployed indefinitely and Lengyel, the chief of the National Washington and other areas of the Walker, in his role aiding law en- day in the city. were on “alert status,” meaning Guard Bureau, said additional country would continue until offi- forcement, reports to the Depart- Trump in a national address they could be tasked at any mo- troops from Utah and New Jer- cials determine they are no longer ment of Justice, which is leading Monday evening pledged to dis- ment to respond. sey also were deployed Monday needed. efforts to retain peace in the na- patch “thousands and thousands Two senior defense officials night to the city and he expected “It’s clearly one of our most dif- tion’s capital, the officials said. of heavily armed” service mem- said Tuesday that the Pentagon’s at least 1,500 new troops from In- ficult missions, and, frankly, prob- No Guard troops responding to bers and police to end rioting that preference is to use only National diana, South Carolina, Tennessee ably the mission we like doing the protesters were injured in Wash- led to property destruction across Guard troops for any civil unrest and Mississippi to soon join them least,” the general said. “We are ington or elsewhere on Monday the city, including defacement of response throughout the country. in the national capital. uniquely suited to do this … We night, these officials added, say- Lengyel, speaking to reporters don’t like to do it but we can do it, memorials in honor of World War “We don’t want to use [federal] ing troops properly followed II and President Abraham Lin- Tuesday morning, said his troops and we’ll be there to help as long forces,” one of the officials said. guidelines on the use of force dur- coln. He called upon America’s were best suited for civil unrest as it goes.” National Guard officials said ing the response. governors to follow his lead, and Tuesday that more than 20,400 responses because they had long Pentagon officials said Na- However, the officials de- send in their own National Guard Guard troops had been activated trained with law enforcement of- tional Guard troops responding clined to comment on videos and troops to quell demonstrations in 28 states to assist law enforce- ficials and were legally able to do in Washington were only there that have spread across the coun- ment officials in their responses some police work in their home to supplement local and federal photographs posted on social try in the wake of the May 25 kill- to riots. states. law enforcement. They said those media Monday evening appar- ing of a handcuffed black man, It meant at least 3,000 new Unlike active-duty forces, Na- troops were not armed with non- ently showing D.C. Army Nation- George Floyd, by a white police Guard troops had been mobilized tional Guard troops working di- lethal weapons, such as tear gas al Guard helicopters — including officer in Minneapolis. by state governors to assist in law rectly for their governors are not or rubber bullets, which reports a UH-72 Lakota helicopter with a “What happened in this city enforcement since they were be- bound to the 1878 Posse Comita- indicated had been used against red cross marking it as a medical last night was a total disgrace,” rated as “weak” by Trump in a tus Act that forbids federal troops protestors, including peace- evacuation aircraft — flying low Trump said Monday evening in a leaked phone call Monday about from policing in the homeland. ful demonstrators in the city on over crowds of demonstrators in Rose Garden speech. On Tuesday their responses to the protests. However, Trump hinted Monday Monday. the city. The imagery, including a morning, he claimed things had Trump in that phone call demand- that if he was unsatisfied with Guard troops are largely post by a New York Times report- improved. ed governors “dominate” against governors’ responses he might in- equipped only with batons and er who is a Marine veteran, show “D.C. had no problems last violent protests or they would be voke the Insurrection Act, a rarely riot gear, one of the senior de- the helicopter flying so low that night,” Trump tweeted. “Many “run over” and “look like a bunch used presidential power to deploy fense officials said. That official its rotors blow debris up in the air, arrests. Great job done by all. of jerks.” active-duty troops on American added a small number of Guard even snapping a tree limb. Overwhelming force. Domination. In Washington, where Army soil to perform some law enforce- military police officers deployed Stars and Stripes reporter Rose L. Likewise, Minneapolis was great Secretary Ryan McCarthy was ment duties even without a state’s in Washington were armed with Thayer contributed to this report. (thank you President Trump!).” designated as the official in con- permission. handguns and long rifles. [email protected] The deployments of active- trol of D.C.’s Guard force because Lengyel called the Guard’s do- All National Guard troops de- Twitter: @CDicksteinDC Powers: President’s comments set up conflict with some states’ officials

FROM FRONT PAGE sought federal help during the 1992 riots. that Trump should avoid using active-duty systemic racism — for good reason,” said Rose Garden address as cities across the Even so, the president’s comments set military forces except as a last resort. ACLU National Security Project Director country grappled with property destruc- up an immediate conflict with officials in “Most presidents, previous presidents, Hina Shamsi. tion, looting and violent police clashes in some states, who disputed that the presi- have understood the extreme sensitivity Eugene Fidell, who teaches military jus- the week since the death of George Floyd dent had unilateral authority to send in of using the U.S. military against Ameri- tice at Yale Law School, said Monday that in Minneapolis. troops against their will. can citizens or in confronting American he does not believe Trump has the author- Legal experts say the president does in- “The President of the United States is citizens,” Flournoy said at an online forum ity to send in troops without the governors’ deed have the authority under the Insur- not a dictator, and President Trump does hosted by the Center for Strategic and In- permission in these circumstances. rection Act of 1807 to dispatch the military not and will not dominate New York state,“ ternational Studies. “Absent a request from the legislature in states that are unable to put down an in- New York Attorney General Letitia James The American Civil Liberties Union or the governor of a state, I think the only surrection or are defying federal law. said in a statement Monday, adding that said it would be unnecessary to invoke the way the power can be lawfully exercised In the last half-century, presidents have the state was prepared to go to court if Insurrection Act — and irresponsible and is if there were an impeding of federal au- sent the military to Southern states to en- need be. dangerous. thority,” he said, pointing to the example sure desegregation of schools and to protect A leading Democratic voice on national “No level-headed governor is asking for of Little Rock, Ark., when troops were sent civil rights in the 1950s and 1960s, and to security, Michele Flournoy, who is a former an even more militarized response to civil- in because the state was not abiding by a Los Angeles after the California governor top Pentagon policy official, said Tuesday ian protests against police brutality and federal court order. PAGE 10 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Wednesday, June 3, 2020 NATION Mass gatherings, trust erosion upend virus control

BY MIKE STOBBE need of ways to help control it. Associated Press In a press conference Saturday, Minnesota Public Safety Com- NEW YORK — Protests erupt- missioner John Harrington used ing across the nation over the past the term “contact tracing” when week and law enforcement’s re- describing an investigation into sponse to them are threatening to arrested protesters there. He said upend efforts by health officials that the goal is to “see if there are to track and contain the spread of coronavirus just as those efforts crime or white supremacy orga- were finally getting underway. nizations that have played a role” Health experts need newly in- and “to understand how do we go fected people to remember and after them, legally,” Harrington recount everyone they’ve inter- said. acted with over several days in But Harrington’s use of “con- order to alert others who may tact tracing” by law enforcement have been exposed, and prevent may complicate the job of health them from spreading the disease workers as they try to track the further. But that process, known virus’s spread, some experts as contact tracing, relies on peo- said. ple knowing who they’ve been in “That was an abuse of the word RICK BOWMER/AP contact with — a daunting task if ‘contact tracing.’ That is not what they’ve been to a mass gathering. Protesters were demonstrating in close proximity to each other in Salt Lake City on Saturday. contact tracing is,” said Dr. Tom And the process relies on Frieden, former director of the something that may suddenly be from beginning. Vanderbilt University. It involves people who work for or federal Centers for Disease Con- in especially short supply: trust in Over the past week, protests But experts are still worried with health departments asking trol and Prevention. government. sparked by the death of George that public efforts to contain the intimate questions about where a “Contact tracing is a service “These events that are happen- Floyd, a black man who was disease in the future could be person has been and who they’ve to patients and their contacts ing now are further threats to the killed by a white Minneapolis po- undermined. been talking to — and getting full, to provide services for patients trust we need,” said Dr. Sandro lice officer pinning a knee to his In Los Angeles, the city’s truthful answers in return. and warning for contacts. It has Galea, dean of the Boston Univer- neck, have involved thousands of mayor announced Saturday that “In this current environment, nothing to do with police activ- sity School of Public Health. “If people gathered tightly together COVID-19 testing centers were which has enhanced or brought ity. Nothing,” said Frieden, who is we do not have that, I worry our in large crowds in more than 20 being closed because of safety forth a mistrust of governmen- now president of Resolve to Save capacity to control new outbreaks cities nationwide. concerns related to violent pro- tal authority, it might make them Lives, a nonprofit that works to becomes more limited,” he said. It’s unclear if the protests tests. Testing in Minneapolis will disinclined to speak with anyone Government officials have themselves will trigger large new be affected because some of the in government,” Schaffner said. prevent epidemics. been hoping to continue reopen- outbreaks. The protests were clinics that provide the service That is especially true in black Galea said that he hopes many ing businesses, churches and outside, where infections don’t have been damaged in the pro- communities trying to cope with people will separate in their other organizations after months spread as readily as indoors. tests, according to a city govern- police violence and longstanding minds the contact tracing done by of stay-at-home orders and other Also, many of the protesters were ment spokesperson. frustrations with how they have public health workers from crime infection-prevention measures. wearing masks, and much of the Reduced testing could “be giv- been marginalized and mistreat- investigations by the police. But, But health experts also hoped contact was likely less hazardous ing the virus another head start,” ed by people who work for gov- he added, “I do think sometimes that any reopening would be ac- “transient” moments of people Schaffner said. ernment agencies. And those are it’s difficult to make a distinc- companied by widespread test- moving around, passing each And contact tracing, which is the communities that have been tion when you feel marginalized ing, contact tracing and isolation other, said Dr. William Schaffner, only just getting going in several hardest hit by the coronavirus by, and targeted by, the entire to prevent new waves of illness an infectious diseases expert at states, is an even bigger concern. in the United States and most in government.” DC Episcopal bishop ‘outraged’ by Trump’s visit to local church

BY ELANA SCHOR partisan political purposes.“ Associated Press “This was done in a time of deep hurt and pain in our coun- The bishop of the Episcopal try, and his action did nothing Diocese of Washington sharp- ly criticized President Donald to help us or to heal us,” added Trump for staging a visit to the Curry, the first African Ameri- historic St. John’s Church across can to hold that leadership post from the White House, where he for U.S. Episcopalians. held up a Bible after authorities Budde took her position at had cleared the area of peaceful the church in Washington in protesters. 2011 after spending 18 years in The Rev. Mariann Budde, Minneapolis. whose diocese St. John’s belongs “I want to build up the liberal to, said in a statement Monday church again so we can be a le- night that she was “outraged” gitimate conversation partner in by Trump’s visit and noted that the public arena,“ she told The he didn’t pray while stopping by the church, a landmark known Washington Post at the time. for its regular visits from sitting The bishop, who last year presidents since the early 19th joined other Washington National century. Cathedral leaders in a statement “He took the symbols sacred to that excoriated Trump’s “racial- PATRICK SEMANSKY/AP our tradition and stood in front of ized rhetoric,“ firmly aligned her a house of prayer in full expec- President Donald Trump holds a Bible as he visits outside St. John’s Church across Lafayette Park from faith with the goals of peaceful tation that would be a celebra- the White House on Monday in Washington . protesters driven by Floyd’s death tory moment,“ Budde said in an to decry systemic racism. interview after her statement on completely caught off-guard” by George Floyd in Minneapolis, “We can rebuild the church. “In no way do we support the Trump’s visit was posted to the the visit, with “no sense that this St. John’s suffered minor dam- We can replace the furnishings President’s incendiary response diocese’s Twitter account. was a sacred space to be used for age Sunday night from a fire in of a nursery,” she said, referring to a wounded, grieving nation,” “There was nothing I could do sacred purposes.“ To facilitate the church basement. Budde said to the damaged area. “We can’t but speak out against that,” she Trump’s statement there, she “our suffering was minimal” bring a man’s life back.“ Budde said in her statement. “In added, calling for a focus on “the said, she believed tear gas was compared with businesses that The presiding bishop of the faithfulness to our Savior who deeper wounds of the country” used in the area between the were destroyed by recent looting, Episcopal Church, Michael Curry, lived a life of non-violence and amid ongoing demonstrations White House and the church. even as she defended the goals of issued his own statement saying sacrificial love, we align our- against racial injustice. As protests nationwide flared peaceful protesters responding to that Trump had “used a church selves with those seeking justice Budde said the church was “just following the police killing of Floyd’s killing. building and the Holy Bible for for the death of George Floyd.” Wednesday, June 3, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 11 NATION US sees another night of protests amid Trump threats

BY ZEKE MILLER breached the doors of Macy’s AND MATT SEDENSKY flagship store on 34th Street de- Associated Press spite the first curfew in the city in decades. Police said nearly 700 WASHINGTON — Presi- people were arrested and several dent Donald Trump on Tuesday officers injured in the overnight turned up the pressure on gov- violence. ernors to quell the violence set New York and other cities JEFF ROBERSON/AP off by the death of George Floyd, braced for more trouble after A member of the St. Louis Fire Department removes a hose outside a vandalized and burned demanding New York call up the nightfall Tuesday, with Mayor convenience store Tuesday in St. Louis. On Monday night, people were seen removing items from the National Guard to stop the “low- Bill de Blasio extending an 8 p.m. store before the building went up in flames and after a large peaceful protest had ended. lifes and losers.” curfew all week. As cities around the U.S. wit- “We’re going to have a tough lice officers were shot, run over members put down their riot by police. nessed a seventh straight night of few days,” he warned, but added: and showered with rocks and shields at the request of peace- “My goal is to use my voice and both peaceful demonstrations and “We’re going to beat it back.” He bottles. ful protesters. And at a demon- my leadership to make this world bursts of theft, vandalism and at- said he would do that with the In Philadelphia, where hun- stration in Buffalo, N.Y., an SUV safer so that one day I can bring tacks on police, the president am- help of community leaders, urg- dreds of protesters spilled onto a plowed into a group of officers, children here and won’t have to plified his hard-line calls of a day ing them to step forward: “Create highway in the heart of the city, injuring three. fear for their safety,” 19-year-old earlier, in which he threatened peace. ... Stand up.” Mayor Jim Kenney described a An officer was shot and gravely Amari Burroughs of Parkland, to send in the military to restore More than 20,000 National chaotic night in which one per- wounded as police tried to dis- Fla., said Tuesday as she pre- order if governors didn’t do it. Guard members have been called son was killed attempting to use perse a crowd outside a Las Vegas pared for another protest. “NYC, CALL UP THE NA- up in 29 states to deal with the explosives to open an ATM, a gun hotel and casino. Four officers The unrest in Minneapolis, TIONAL GUARD,” he tweeted. violence. New York is not among shop owner fatally shot a would- were shot in St. Louis; they were meanwhile, appeared to stabilize “The lowlifes and losers are rip- them. De Blasio has said he does be thief, and a 19-year-old died of expected to recover. on the same day Floyd’s brother ping you apart. Act fast! Don’t not want the Guard, and Demo- injuries during looting. “We have been sitting on a pow- made an impassioned plea for make the same horrible and cratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo has About a dozen other deaths der keg for some time and it has peace at the spot where a white deadly mistake you made with said he will not send it into the have been reported around the burst,” Philadelphia Police Com- police officer, Derek Chauvin, put the Nursing Homes!!!” city against the mayor’s wishes. country over the past week. missioner Danielle Outlaw said. his knee on the handcuffed black In New York on Monday night, During the violence that In Atlanta, police fired tear gas Some protesters framed the man’s neck for several minutes, people smashed shop windows gripped communities from coast at demonstrators. In Nashville, burgeoning movement as a ne- even after he stopped moving and near Rockefeller Center and to coast again Monday night, po- more than 60 National Guard cessity after a string of killings pleading for air. Some police EU official calls Floyd’s kneel with death an abuse of power protesters Associated Press times.” He added: “All lives matter. BRUSSELS — The European Black lives also matter.” Union’s top diplomat said Tues- BY HANNAH KNOWLES The EU official also said all day the death of George Floyd AND ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER societies “must remain vigilant was the result of an abuse of The Washington Post power and that the 27-nation bloc against the excessive use of force” and ensure that police work is Images of tense encounters is “shocked and appalled” by it. done while respecting the rule of between protesters and police EU foreign policy chief Josep law and human rights officers piled up over the week- Borrell told reporters that “like Protesters around the world end, as authorities intensified the people of the United States, have expressed solidarity with their efforts to quell nationwide we are shocked and appalled by Americans demonstrating against uprisings, using rubber bullets, the death of George Floyd.” pepper pellets and tear gas in vio- Floyd died last week after he Floyd’s death. lent standoffs that seared cities was pinned to the pavement by a Thousands marched through nationwide. white police officer in Minneapo- downtown Sydney on Tuesday. CURTIS COMPTON, ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION/AP But some officers took different lis who put his knee on the hand- The protesters in Australia’s larg- actions, creating contrasting im- In a show of peace and solidarity, law enforcement officials with riot cuffed black man’s neck until he est city chanted, “I can’t breathe” ages that told another story about shields kneel in front of protesters Monday during a fourth day of stopped breathing. His death set — some of the final words of both the turbulent national moment protests over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. off protests that spread across Floyd and David Dungay, a 26- following the death of George America. year-old Aboriginal man who Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, members of the crowd. The offi- solidarity. Borrell says law and order offi- died in a Sydney prison in 2015 in police custody in Minneapolis. cers remained as a circle of peo- Acceding to the demands of cials must not be “using their ca- while being restrained by five From New York to Des Moines ple began to chant names of black protesters brought a rebuke in pacities in the way that has been guards. The protesters, who appeared to Spokane, Wash., members of Americans killed in infamous re- some places. In downtown Wash- used in this very, very unhappy to number around 3,000, marched law enforcement — sometimes cent cases. ington, a black officer who knelt death of George Floyd. This is an from Hyde Park to the New clad in riot gear — knelt along- Cheers erupted, too, in the Iowa was yanked from the crowd by abuse of power and this has to be South Wales state Parliament, side protesters and marched in capital as Des Moines officers his supervisor, and he returned denounced.” solidarity with them. The act has He underlined that Europeans with plans to continue to the U.S. took a knee behind a police bar- standing to the line forming to become synonymous with peace- ricade. Two said a prayer for the “support the right to peaceful Consulate. hold back the demonstrations. ful protests in recent years after safety of those assembled. protest, and also we condemn vio- In Europe on Monday, thou- football player Colin Kaeper- Officers were filmed outside In Michigan, Genesee County lence and racism of any kind, and sands spilled across streets in nick knelt as part of his protests the courthouse in Spokane, in Sheriff Chris Swanson marched for sure, we call for a de-escala- Amsterdam to denounce police against police brutality on un- eastern Washington state, kneel- with demonstrators. So did the tion of tensions.” brutality, and those demonstrat- armed black citizens. ing at the request of protesters police chief in Norfolk. In Atlan- Borrell says that “we trust in ing in Paris urged the French A video circulating widely on instead of pushing them back. ta, the police chief won praise for the ability of the Americans to government to take police vio- Facebook captured two people in Police from Lafayette Square in wading into a crowd of protesters, come together, to heal as a na- lence more seriously and held up uniform joining a kneeling crowd Washington to Miami to Santa reaching out her hands and ask- tion and to address these impor- signs like “Racism is suffocating in Queens. “Thank you!” cheered Cruz, Calif., have taken knees in ing about their concerns. tant issues during these difficult us.” PAGE 12 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Wednesday, June 3, 2020 NATION Puerto Rico overhauls civil code amid sharp criticism

BY DANICA COTO Roman, president of Puerto Rico’s Bar Association, Associated Press adding that in the future, it could be used to question the legality of abortion or in cases where a mother SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — For the first time in might be in a coma or incapacitated in some way. nearly a century, Puerto Rico overhauled a series Meanwhile, the island’s LGBTQ community in of laws that regulate rights in the U.S. territory in- part decried what it described as obscure and con- cluding marriage, abortion and property ownership tradicting language regarding the ongoing right to without having held any public hearings. change one’s gender on their birth certificate. STEVEN SENNE/AP Gov. Wanda Vazquez on Monday night signed into Human rights activist Pedro Julio Serrano said he law a new civil code that replaces the one created expects a flurry of lawsuits over the new civil code: Poll worker Neuza Ferreira, left, checks in voter Christina in 1930 and contains more than 130 amendments, “They wanted to satisfy God Tremblay, both of Providence, R.I., on Tuesday at a voting station raising concerns that some could lead to cer- and the devil, and they ended in Providence. Joe Biden could clinch the Democratic presidential tain loopholes in what is considered Puerto Rico’s up making no one happy.” nomination in primaries in seven states and the District of Columbia. second most important legal document after its The island’s House of Repre- Constitution. sentatives had approved some “We will never have a civil code with 100% con- 70 amendments alone that sensus,” she said as she defended the new code, add- Roman said were adopted to Biden looks to clinch ing there will always be room to improve or change promote the conservative vision it. of various religious groups. The Vazquez said she consulted numerous experts Senate then introduced more Dems’ nomination in including judges and professors as part of an effort than 60 new amendments. that began more than 20 years ago. Vazquez Vazquez said she doesn’t be- Critics agree that it was time to revise and mod- lieve the civil code violates the Tuesday’s primaries ernize the civil code, but said legislators should have rights of anyone and that it would go into effect in held public hearings before it was approved. One of 180 days. Roman, however, wants to delay imple- Associated Press a dominant showing on Super the biggest concerns for some is that while the new mentation of it to give attorneys and others time to Tuesday in early March, the for- MONTCLAIR, N.J. — Joe code upholds the right to have an abortion in Puerto read and understand all the changes. mer vice president pushed out all Biden could seize the number Rico, it also for the first time recognizes the rights Among those changes are that couples getting a his major opponents. He will al- of delegates needed to formally of a fetus. divorce no longer have to justify their decision in most certainly secure the needed clinch the Democrats’ presiden- “You have to ask yourself, ‘Why was that clause front of a judge and inheritors are not responsible delegates later in the month if included? What’s the final intention?’ ” said Edgardo for the debts or obligations of those who died. tial nomination on Tuesday as seven states and the District of necessary. Columbia push through a pan- Still, Tuesday offers a historic demic and exploding racial ten- opportunity for the 77-year-old sions to host the largest slate of Democrat, who is waging his Judge: Reversal in Flynn case ‘unusual’ primary elections in almost three third presidential campaign and months. who hopes to amass as many dele- gates as possible to show strength BY ERIC TUCKER the Washington-based federal ap- the ambassador was entirely Voters will be asked to navi- before going up against President Associated Press peals court to order Sullivan to gate curfews, health concerns appropriate. Donald Trump. grant the department’s request. Flynn enjoys strong support and a sharp increase in mail WASHINGTON — A federal balloting as elections take place Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders But Sullivan laid out in detail his from President Donald Trump judge Monday defended his de- reasons for concern as he urged from Maryland to Montana. Four is not actively campaigning, hav- and conservative media, but the cision not to quickly approve the the appeals court to stay out of states were originally scheduled ing suspended his operation and Justice Department’s request the case until he has a chance decision to drop the case out- to vote in April but delayed their endorsed Biden, but his name will to dismiss its own criminal case to study the dismissal request, raged former law enforcement contests because of the coronavi- appear on the ballots. On the eve against former Trump adminis- which he said he may ultimately officials who were involved in rus outbreak. Pennsylvania offers of Tuesday’s primaries, senior tration national security adviser grant. the investigation as well as many the day’s biggest trove of dele- adviser Jeff Weaver encouraged Michael Flynn, saying that the The Justice Department, in its Democrats who called it a politi- gates and represents a high-pro- progressives to vote for Sanders anyway. department’s reversal was un- own brief Monday, said Sullivan cally motivated act. The motion file test case for Republicans and “People who support Bernie usual and he wanted to consider has no authority “to stand in the to dismiss followed the recom- Democrats working to strength- the request carefully before rul- en their operations in one of the Sanders and his agenda, who way of a dismissal the defendant mendation of U.S. Attorney Jeff ing on it. does not oppose.” It urged the ap- most important general election want to maximize the influence Jensen, who was appointed by The brief from U.S. District peals court to direct him to drop battlegrounds. of progressives at the convention, Judge Emmet Sullivan offers the the case. Attorney General William Barr “We think we’re prepared,” should cast their vote for Bernie most detailed explanation for his Flynn admitted lying to the to investigate the handling of the said state Democratic Party Sanders,” Weaver said, remind- refusal to immediately sign off FBI about his conversations on Flynn case. Chairwoman Nancy Patton Mills. ing voters that the Vermont sena- on the department’s decision to sanctions during the presidential Rather than grant the request, “Thank goodness we have the tor is seeking leverage to shape drop its case against Flynn, who transition with the then-Russian Sullivan appointed a retired fed- opportunity of working this out the party’s platform and rules. pleaded guilty as part of special ambassador, a topic that recently eral judge, John Gleeson, to argue in the primary because we don’t Those voting Tuesday included counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia released transcripts of the call against the Justice Department’s know where we’ll be with the the District of Columbia, Indi- investigation. It raises the pros- ana, Maryland, Montana, New show the two men discussed in position and to consider whether pandemic in November.” pect of a drawn-out clash between detail. Biden needs to win 89% of all Mexico, Pennsylvania, Rhode Is- Flynn could be held in criminal two branches of government over But the Justice Department delegates at stake on Tuesday to land and South Dakota. An eighth whether a judge can be forced to said last month that the FBI contempt for perjury since he had clinch the nomination, but his state holding primary elections, unwind a guilty plea at the Jus- should never have interviewed previously pleaded guilty under role as his party’s clear presi- Iowa, chose its presidential nomi- tice Department’s behest. Flynn in the first place and that oath to lying and was now assert- dential nominee is not in dan- nee early in the year and focused Flynn’s attorneys have urged the communication he had with ing his innocence. ger should he fall short. With on other offices. Wednesday, June 3, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 13 WORLD Indian city Acquitted Iranian scientist is deported braces for Associated Press been working on a project for the U.S. Navy was cancelled due to the coronavirus pan- rare cyclone Office of Naval Research to create and pro- demic, he said. TEHRAN, Iran — An Iranian scientist im- duce anti-corrosive stainless steel. Asgari’s supporters told The Guardian Associated Press prisoned in the U.S. and acquitted in a federal Asgari ultimately was acquitted in Novem- newspaper in April he had contracted the trade secrets case is on his way back to Iran ber after U.S. District Judge James Gwin coronavirus while imprisoned. He had been NEW DELHI — A cyclone in after being deported, the country’s foreign tossed out the case by the prosecutors. held at Louisiana’s Winn Correctional Center the Arabian Sea was barreling minister said Tuesday. Ken Cuccinelli, the acting deputy Home- by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforce- toward India’s business capital Sirous Asgari was in the air on a flight back land Security secretary, earlier told The As- ment before his deportation, they said. Mumbai on Tuesday, threatening to Iran, Mohammad Javad Zarif said in an In- sociated Press that the DHS had started to Iran’s deputy education minister, Hossein to deliver high winds and flood- stagram post. try to deport Asgari on Dec. 12 following his Salar Amoli, recently said Asgari had recov- ing to an area already struggling “Congratulations to his wife and his es- acquittal. However, he said, Iran refused to ered from the virus and would be able to trav- with the nation’s highest number teemed family,” Zarif wrote. recognize him as legitimately Iranian and el, IRNA reported. of coronavirus infections and Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency later re- provide him with a valid passport until late Iranian officials had associated Asgari’s deaths. ported the news, citing Zarif. February. release with U.S. prisoners held in Iran po- Cyclone Nisarga was forecast Asgari, a professor at Iran’s Sharif Univer- Once Asgari received the passport, DHS tentially being freed, something Cuccinelli to make landfall Wednesday af- sity of Technology, had been indicted in April made several attempts to fly him back to Iran, strongly disputed. ternoon on the country’s west 2016, accused by federal prosecutors of trying purchasing tickets for flights on March 10, Iranian officials in recent days had been coast near Mumbai, a coastal city to steal secret research from Case Western March 18, March 23, April 1 and May 1, ac- saying they believed Asgari soon would re- home to 18.4 million people and Reserve University. The Cleveland school had cording to Cuccinelli. Each of those flights turn to Iran. known for the Bollywood film industry. Mumbai hasn’t been hit by a cyclone in more than a century, raising concern about its readiness. Trading for Assad cousin’s company is halted in Syria National Disaster Response Force personnel have been sent Associated Press dispute within the Assad family, which has ternal cousin of President Bashar Assad, said to both Maharashtra state, home ruled Syria for five decades. The company, in an online posting after the decision late to Mumbai, and nearby Gujarat BEIRUT — Syria’s stock market Tuesday Syriatel, is one of the country’s largest em- Monday that the situation was a “farce.” He state and officials were urg- suspended trading for the largest cellular ployers, with thousands of staff and 11 million said that over the past 10 years, 70% of the ing people in at-risk areas to company in the country, owned by a cousin subscribers. company’s profits were spent on charity. evacuate. of the president and one of Syria’s richest The commission said its measure aims to “No one will be able to prevent this money Maharashtra’s top official, businessmen. protect shareholders and that the suspen- from reaching” those in need, he vowed. Uddhav Balasheb Thackeray, The decision by the Syrian Commission of sion would last until further notice. It did not Last month, a Syrian court imposed a travel said on Twitter that residents in Financial Markets and Securities marked an- elaborate. ban on Makhlouf until a dispute over out- Mumbai’s expansive slums had other development in a deepening financial The businessman, Rami Makhlouf, a ma- standing financial dues is settled. been ordered to evacuate. PAGE 14 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Wednesday, June 3, 2020 AMERICAN ROUNDUP Ban on sale of flavored tobacco takes effect

BOSTON — A state- MA wide ban on the sale of flavored tobacco products, in- cluding menthol cigarettes, took effect on Monday. Massachusetts became the first state to approve such a ban when Republican Gov. Charlie Baker signed the bill in November. The law applies to the sale of all fla- vored tobacco products in Massa- chusetts, both in retail stores and online. The new law specifically re- stricts the sale of the products to licensed smoking bars such as cigar bars and hookah lounges, where they’ll only be allowed to be consumed on-site. The restriction extends to menthol cigarettes and flavored e-cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco and chewing tobacco. Anti-smoking groups hailed the ban, arguing that flavored tobacco products attract young people. They said that menthol cigarettes are no different. Con- venience stores are among those who oppose the law. Opposition to hunting at refuge ramps up

MIDDLETOWN — RI Plans to allow hunting at a federal national wildlife refuge CHARLIE RIEDEL/AP in Rhode Island are getting push- back from area residents who have said that it’s too dangerous. Fun in the surf and sand The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Ser- vice has proposed allowing hunt- People play at the beach in Satellite Beach, Fla., while maintaining social distancing to help stop the spread of the coronavirus . ing at all sanctuaries of the Rhode Island National Wildlife Refuge Complex, including Sachuest Man firing shots from THE CENSUS sure families that need help can Point in Middletown, according get it during the pandemic. to The Newport Daily News. apartment arrested The amount of money the city government of Savan- The Illinois State Board of Ed- The proposal is currently going nah, Ga., was hoping to get for a historic building ucation said that more organiza- ALBUQUERQUE through an environmental assess- next to City Hall before plans fell through. A divided tions are needed to participate in NM — Police in Albu- ment, said Janis Nepshinsky, visi- $7M city council narrowly approved the sale of the Thomas the summer food program, as the querque said that a man who was tor services manager for federal Gamble Building last fall to a Texas-based private de- number of families relying on the wildlife refuges in the state. randomly firing shots from an veloper, which had planned to transform the property into a hotel with surrounding Albuquerque apartment complex assistance for meals when school The plan calls for the 242-acre office space. Mayor Van Johnson said the deal failed to close, and therefore the isn’t in session has increased due was arrested. They said that the building will remain city property. The city council voted to sell the building after it refuge to be opened for hunting to the coronavirus outbreak. for three days in the fall or winter man allegedly fired at four people was estimated that renovations and upgrades would cost $7 million. Carmen Ayala, State Superin- beginning in 2021, Nepshinsky with a rifle , but nobody was shot said. The refuge would be closed or injured. tendent of Education, said that Albuquerque TV station KOAT schools have found safe and cre- to all other activities. that only a small percentage of reported that police were called Woman dies after ative ways to provide food to stu- the original rabbits released sur- to the apartments near Albuquer- County sees jump in vived long enough to reproduce, exiting moving truck dents while schools have been que High School after receiving and survival was highest in the closed, including curbside pickup illegal dumping reports of gunshots. year of the initial release. MANCHESTER and providing meals for multiple A SWAT team arrived on — Police said that a days at one time. Those options ALBUQUERQUE It’s estimated that there are MD scene after police and after sev- Pennsylvania woman died on a will continue during the summer. NM — Officials in New eral hours of negotiations, police fewer than 100 cottontails in New Hampshire today. western Maryland highway after Mexico’s most populous county said that the suspect peacefully jumping out of a moving pickup in Man shot in leg after are reporting a rise in illegal surrendered to officers and was the midst of an argument. dumping amid the COVID-19 taken into custody. Couple apologizes for Maryland State Police said that road rage confrontation pandemic. helicopter in wilderness Nicole Renae Whitcomb, 23, of KRQE-TV reported that Ber- Rabbit reintroduction Hanover, P a., was pronounced NEWARK — A man nalillo County officials believe BOZEMAN — A Boze- dead at a nearby hospital. DE was shot in the leg and the uptick in illegal dumping is a not yet self-sustaining man couple apologized Police said that she was a pas- recovering from serious injuries result of people cleaning out their MT for landing a helicopter in the Bob senger in a Ford F250 driven by homes during the stay-at-home DURHAM — Univer- following what police in Delaware sity of New Hampshire Marshall Wilderness last month. a 32-year-old man from Hanover describe as a road rage incident. order and failing to make trips to NH on Hanover Pike in Manchester . authorized dump sites. researchers tracking the reintro- Sara and Sam Schwerin said in Newark Police said that they duction of the endangered New a statement released by a public- Police said that the two were were called to Capitol Trail after County officials said that they arguing and Whitcomb attempt- England cottontail in the state relations firm that they believed a report of shots fired. Officers have received double the number ed to get out of the truck while it have found that the rabbit’s sur- they had landed outside the wil- found the 29-year-old-man suf- of calls for service connected to was moving and was run over by vival and reproduction have been derness boundary. dumping from this time last year. the truck. fering from a gunshot wound. He The county reported having to successful, but reintroduction it- The Bozeman Daily Chronicle was taken to the hospital. pick up tires, mattresses, home self is not yet self-sustaining. reported that the Schwerins re- Officers took three people into ported the incident to the Federal Youth to get free meals appliances, cars and other big Wildlife biologists released custody at the scene. The fire- Aviation Administration. items. 42 captively bred rabbits at the during summer break arm used in the shooting was also Bellamy River Wildlife Manage- Federal law prohibits landing The county’s health protec- recovered. tion manager, Lucas Tafoya, said ment Area in Dover. They’ve a helicopter in a designated wil- SPRINGFIELD — Illi- Police did not identify anyone that crews have to wait a couple been watched over five years. Of derness area. The National Park nois will offer free meals IL involved in the incident, which of days before they clean up the those, six bred in the wild, along Service and Forest Service also to school-aged children at hun- reported messes in case there are with nine of their offspring, re- requests that all aircraft stay at an dreds of sites this summer, using they said started as a road rage traces of the coronavirus on the sulting in at least 29 wild-born altitude of at least 2,000 feet above options such as home delivery incident. material. rabbits. Researchers determined any federal wilderness land. and drive-thru distribution to en- From wire reports Wednesday, June 3, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 15 FACES Old story gets revised script Spike Lee weighs in on what’s different about George Floyd protests

BY JAKE COYLE Lee said, citing the movements of the ’60s. “I’m encouraged Associated Press that my white sisters and brothers are out there. “That is the hope of this country, this diverse, younger gen- t’s not the first time that Spike Lee’s “Do the Right eration of Americans who don’t want to perpetuate the same Thing” has been freshly urgent, but Lee’s 1989 film (expletive) that their parents and grandparents and great- has again found blistering relevance in the wake of grandparents got caught up in. That’s my hope.” George Floyd’s death. To illustrate the point, Lee cited cities with smaller black On Monday, Lee released a short film titled “3 Broth- populations, like Des Moines, Iowa, where protests and riots ers” connecting the death of Radio Raheem (played by have occurred. IBill Nunn) in “Do the Right Thing” to the deaths of Floyd and “My young white sisters and brothers are out there in the Eric Garner. Floyd died last week after a white Minneapolis streets. How many black folks are in Salt Lake City, Utah? police officer pressed his knee against his neck as he begged And let’s take into account that the NBA is not playing,” for air. Garner’s dying plea of “I can’t breathe” became a rally- said Lee, letting out an enormous cackle. “The ing cry against police brutality in 2014. Utah Jazz are not playing!” Blazed across the screen is the question: “Will history stop “3 Brothers” is the second short Lee has re- repeating itself?” leased during the pandemic. While Lee has “I’ve seen this before. This is not new,” Lee said in an in- kept to his Upper East Side apartment with terview with The Associated Press on Monday. “I was born in ’57, so I was 11 years old when I saw the riots with Dr. King’s his family, he has also biked around the assassination, later on with Rodney King and the Simi Valley city to shoot. Lee’s “New York, New York,” verdict, Trayvon Martin and Ferguson.” set to Frank Sinatra, was released in early “People are tired and they take to the streets,” said Lee. May as an ode to his outbreak-stricken city. “Do the Right Thing,” about rising racial tensions on a hot Next week, he’ll release on Netflix “Da 5 summer day in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, Bloods,” a Vietnam War drama about four took direct inspiration from reality. In the film, Raheem is black veterans who return to Vietnam to choked to death by a police officer, sparking a riot. find the remains of their fallen squad leader Lee modeled the choke hold that kills Raheem on the murder (Chadwick Boseman). of Michael Stewart, a graffiti artist who was killed by New York Lee has only modest hopes for justice City police officers in 1983. Lee dedicated the film to Stewart’s in the aftermath of Floyd’s death. Attor- family, as well as those of several other black people killed by ney General William Barr he calls “not a police officers. friend to justice.” “He’s going to do what “His death is not just made up. Many years later, Eric Gar- Agent Orange tell him to do,” said Lee, ner, automatically I thought of Ray Raheem,” said Lee. “Then using his favored nickname for President to see my brother George Floyd. I mean, he was quoting the Donald Trump. words of Eric Garner: ‘I can’t breathe.’ He was channeling Eric But Lee has been buoyed by a photo of Garner. I’m sure of it.” New York police officers kneeling with As much as Lee sees history repeating itself, there’s one ele- protesters, an image he likened to Colin ment of the current unrest that strikes the filmmaker as new. Kaepernick’s NFL protests. “I’ve been very encouraged by the diversity of the protest- “They need to show the image more,” ers. I haven’t seen this diverse protests since when I was a kid,” said Lee. “Colin Kaepernick is a patriot.”

Spike Lee on Monday released a film titled “3 Brothers” that draws parallels between the deaths of George Floyd, Eric Garner and Radio Raheem, a character in Lee’s 1989 film “Do The Right Thing.”

CHARLES SYKES, INVISION/AP New this week: Apollo benefit, Bruce Lee doc Other news A federal judge dismissed a law- suit in which two former University of Associated Press have lost their lives due to COVID-19. starter for kids. A new Netflix documenta- Maryland men’s basketball players ac- — AP Music Editor Mesfin Fekadu ry has also stepped up to the microphone. cused makers of the Fortnite video game Here’s a collection curated by The Asso- “Spelling the Dream,” debuting Wednes- of misappropriating a dance move they ciated Press’ entertainment journalists of Movies day, explores the fascination the bee — an popularized. U.S. District Judge Paul what’s arriving on TV, streaming services intrinsically American institution — holds Grimm in Maryland ruled Friday that and music platforms this week. “Be Water”: Bruce Lee didn’t get the for Indian Americans. the Copyright Act preempts claims that most favorable portrayal in Quentin Tar- —AP Film Writer Jake Coyle Jared Nickens and Jaylen Brantley fi led Music antino’s “Once Upon a Time ... in Hol- in February 2019 against Epic Games lywood.” No such Television Inc., creator of the wildly popular online Graduation Day: Yes, there will be criticism will be lev- shooting game. Nickens and Brantley epic speeches from Barack and Michelle eled at Bao Nguyen’s Amanda Peet and Christian Slater star claimed the Cary, N.C.-based company Obama, and even Beyonce, but there will “Be Water,” an af- in “Dirty John: The Betty Broderick misappropriated their identities by digi- also be musical performances. YouTube’s fectionate bio-docu- Story,” the true-crime anthology’s second tally copying the “Running Man Chal- virtual commencement ceremony called mentary about the installment which debuted Tuesday on lenge” dance they performed in social “Dear Class of 2020” will take place Satur- kung-fu legend. The USA. Dan and Betty Broderick’s marriage media videos and on “The Ellen DeGe- day at 3 p.m. EDT and will include perfor- film, which details hit the rocks amid allegations of infidel- neres Show” in 2016. mances from BTS, Lizzo, Doja Cat, Megan the movie star’s trag- ity, spawning a 1980s San Diego divorce Drug use killed an actor from the Thee Stallion, Chloe x Halle, Maluma, ically short career, Lee case so bitter that it drew national atten- fi lm “Twilight” and his girlfriend, the tion. Then anger exploded into violence, CNCO and Camila Cabello. It will also captures the cool coroner in Las Vegas said Monday. Clark as recounted from Betty Broderick’s per- include appearances from Taylor Swift, power of Lee, an early Asian American County Coroner John Fudenberg said Lady Gaga, Bill and Melinda Gates, Jenni- spective in the eight-part series written, Gregory Boyce, 30, and Natalie Adepoju, big-screen hero. It airs Sunday at 9 p.m. directed and produced by women. fer Lopez, Billy Porter, Malala Yousafzai, EDT on ESPN as part of the network’s “30 27, died from the effects of cocaine and Zendaya, Alicia Keys, Joseph Gordon-Lev- The documentary “We Are Freestyle fentanyl intoxication, and their deaths for 30” documentary series. Love Supreme” could be subtitled “Lin- itt and Demi Lovato. were accidental. The bodies were dis- For the first time since World War II, Manuel Miranda, the early years.” The fu- covered May 13 after police were sum- “Let’s Stay (In) Together: A Benefit the Scripps National Spelling Bee was can- ture “Hamilton” sensation was part of an moned to a condominium east of the Las to Support The Apollo”: Guitar company celed this year due to the coronavirus pan- improv comedy and hip-hop group whose Vegas Strip. Offi cers reported fi nding Gibson is holding a benefit concert to sup- demic. The showdown of spellers had been work caught filmmaker Andrew Fried’s a white powder on the dresser and no port the famed Apollo Theater in Harlem planned for late May in Maryland, but two eye in the mid-2000s. Fried was on hand featuring Kool & the Gang, Gary Clark Jr., films will try to fill in the blanks. On Sat- again when Miranda and other members evidence of foul play. Fentanyl has been Michael McDonald and Keb Mo. Dionne urday, the Criterion Channel will stream of Freestyle Love Supreme reunited 14 blamed for overdose deaths nationwide. Warwick and Doug E. Fresh will make “Spellbound,” the oddly thrilling and alto- years later for a Broadway run, with past Boyce appeared as Tyler Crowley in special appearances. The performances gether delightful Oscar-nominated 2002 and present combining in the film out Fri- “Twilight,” the 2008 fi lm starring Kris- will stream on the Apollo’s website and documentary. It remains one of the great day on Hulu. ten Stewart and Robert Pattinson. are dedicated to the memory of those who competition documentaries and a good doc — Television Writer Lynn Elber From The Associated Press PAGE 16 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Wednesday, June 3, 2020 OPINION Max D. Lederer Jr., Publisher Lt. Col. Marci Hoffman, Europe commander The differences between 1968 and today Lt. Col. Richard McClintic, Pacific commander Caroline E. Miller, Europe Business Operations Joshua M. Lashbrook, Pacific Chief of Staff BY DAVID VON DREHLE Barack Obama, Trump’s the one in the entire term the public forms a pretty strong The Washington Post White House, where he has been for near- opinion about how well it’s being handled. ly 3 ½ years. His role is closer to the part In poll after poll, voters have been telling EDITORIAL little knowledge, said Alexander played by Vice President Hubert Hum- Trump for quite some time that they don’t Pope, is a dangerous thing. It’s phrey in 1968. Though Humphrey was not, like the way he governs — even when they Terry Leonard, Editor true of the Trump advisers who [email protected] technically, the incumbent, he carried an like certain results. Right now, they don’t A beguile the president with glib incumbent’s baggage — and what a load it even like the results. Senior Managing Editor Robert H. Reid, history lessons, telling him that it’s 1968 all was: Vietnam, urban riots, campus upris- Nixon had another outsider’s advantage. [email protected] over again and he’s Richard M. Nixon, the ings, an exhausted New Deal. Besides law and order, he touted a secret Tina Croley, Managing Editor for Content law-and-order candidate ready to tame an- Trump’s toting the baggage now. He’s plan to end the war in Vietnam. Later, we [email protected] archy. President Donald Trump, who has the unhappy owner of this unsettled year. learned that the plan was secret because it no knowledge of history at all, appears to In 1968, Nixon represented change — a didn’t actually exist. But in 1968, Nixon’s Managing Editor for Presentation Sean Moores, be falling for this bad advice. change from anarchy to the comparatively secret was tantalizing indeed, and it helped [email protected] The facile theory goes like this: America placid days of the 1950s, when young Rich- him to his narrow victory, because Ameri- Joe Gromelski, Managing Editor for Digital is polarized today, like in 1968. Cities are ard Nixon was Dwight Eisenhower’s vice cans wanted the war to end and a secret burning from coast to coast, like in 1968. [email protected] president. Enough voters associated the plan was better than no plan at all. Trump should project toughness, like Nixon brand with a calmer, quieter, more Trump loves secret plans and magical Nixon in 1968. And Republicans will win, competent time. Trump is many things, solutions. Remember his plan for ending BUREAU STAFF like they did in 1968. but never calm, never quiet. As for compe- North Korea’s nuclear program? And his There are a couple of key flaws in that Europe/Mideast analysis. Yes, America is polarized today tent — well, just look around. plan for bringing China to heel? His plan Erik Slavin, Europe & Mideast Bureau Chief — but not like in 1968. Today’s polarization No matter how they package their mes- for a wall paid for by Mexico? 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Voters say Washington Democratic crackup. employment and unrest, a year of palpable to incumbents: If you’ve got a plan, let’s not Joseph Cacchioli, Washington Bureau Chief Nixon offered an alternative to Demo- unhappiness. wait until Election Day. Go right ahead and [email protected] crats in chaos. In 1968, the Democrats had And it’s an unfamiliar place for Donald solve these problems. (+1)(202)886-0033 defenestrated their incumbent president, Trump. In his long and colorful life, the The advisers egging Trump on as he Brian Bowers, Assistant Managing Editor, News one thing he has never experienced is ac- tweets his tough-guy nonsense about [email protected] Lyndon B. Johnson, over the war in Viet- nam. They had waged a long and divisive countability. Through bankruptcies and MAGA gangs and vicious dogs, about CIRCULATION nomination battle that ended only with the divorces, through busted friendships and ominous weapons and STRENGTH, seem assassination of a leading candidate, Rob- cratered companies, through fabrications to think that he’s still the unconventional Mideast ert F. Kennedy. They had staged their con- and prevarications, there has never been a outsider of 2016. Something’s changed Robert Reismann, Mideast Circulation Manager vention in the middle of a riot in Chicago. problem he couldn’t turn his back on. since last time, though: Trump became [email protected] So he’s an easy mark for the advisers president, and he will be judged on the [email protected] And they had suffered the loss of the once DSN (314)583-9111 “solid South” to a third-party candidate, who tell him to run like an outsider from results. For the first time in his life, he’s George Wallace. inside the White House. Yet the presidency accountable. 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CONTACT US BY EDITH BARTLEY CIA officers and other U.S. embassy per- Unfortunately, the compensation pro- Washington Special to The Washington Post sonnel who deserve our nation’s support posed in the administration’s diplomatic tel: (+1)202.886.0003 when they are killed or injured in the line agreement with Sudan will not be close 633 3rd St. NW, Suite 116, Washington, DC 20001-3050 ast month, the Supreme Court of duty. We proved in court that Omar Has- to what was awarded by the courts, and ruled that Sudan owes punitive san al-Bashir’s regime in Sudan (as well as clearly cannot adequately compensate Reader letters damages for victims of the hor- Iran) supported the al-Qaida terrorists, anyone for our horrific losses. While this [email protected] Lrific Aug. 7, 1998, dual bombings and was therefore legally responsible for is disappointing, we understand that the of the American Embassies in Tanzania these notorious acts of terror. The Supreme international bilateral claims agreement Additional contacts and Kenya. This historic court win repre- stripes.com/contactus Court’s ruling caps a long series of court contemplated by the administration and sents another big step in the long struggle decisions accomplishing this goal. Sudan is modeled on the agreement with OMBUDSMAN by victims and their families to ensure that And while we were fighting Sudan in Libya reached in 2008 by President George regimes that support unspeakable acts of the courts, Congress enacted the United W. Bush and Secretary of State Condo- Ernie Gates terror against Americans are brought to States Victims of State Sponsored Terror- leezza Rice. Indeed, the Sudan proposal justice. It comes just as the Trump admin- ism Fund. This fund, administered by the goes far beyond the Libya model by pay- The Stars and Stripes ombudsman protects the free flow istration is close to finalizing a diplomatic Justice Department, has already resulted ing compensation to foreign nationals and of news and information, reporting any attempts by the settlement agreement with Sudan to re- military or other authorities to undermine the newspaper’s in some compensation to families of the family members who have been excluded independence. The ombudsman also responds to concerns solve all the claims of those, like us, who Americans as well as to the foreign nation- from international claims agreements in and questions from readers, and monitors coverage for fair- have long pursued the Sudanese govern- als and contractor employees who were the past. ness, accuracy, timeliness and balance. The ombudsman welcomes comments from readers, and can be contacted ment in court for providing safe haven and killed and injured in the bombings. For all We, the families of those Americans by email at [email protected], or by phone at support to the al-Qaida terrorists who car- this, we are very grateful for the bipartisan whose lives were cut short in August 1998, 202.886.0003. ried out the two attacks. support we have found in Congress. believe that the administration has been The search for justice is very personal Separately from the fund and our suc- forthright with us in explaining the com- to me. My father, Julian L. Bartley, the cess in the courts, and with the encour- plex practical and legal obstacles it faces to Stars and Stripes (USPS 0417900) is published week- days (except Dec. 25 and Jan. 1) for 50 cents Monday first African American consul general to agement of the State Department, we have resolve these claims and the need to sup- through Thursday and for $1 on Friday by Pacific Stars and serve our country in Kenya, was a highly engaged directly with Sudan to ensure that port the new civilian government of Sudan. Stripes, Unit 45002, APO AP 96301-5002. Periodicals respected career diplomat. My younger this country meets its legal and moral ob- We believe the administration has pressed postage paid at San Francisco, CA, Postmaster: Send address changes to Pacific Stars and Stripes, Unit 45002, brother, Julian L. Bartley Jr., was a college ligations to the victims. For several years, Sudan hard, and that the resulting bilat- APO AP 96301-5002. student and summer intern at the Nairobi we have continually supported efforts to eral agreement will provide a measure of This newspaper is authorized by the Department of embassy. Both were killed in the terrorist reach a settlement with Sudan that is fair Defense for members of the military services overseas. justice for all the victims and families. However, the contents of Stars and Stripes are unofficial, attack. This was an unimaginable loss to for all victims. Sadly, we were unable to Clearly, Sudan must pay significant com- and are not to be considered as the official views of, or me and my mother as my father and broth- reach any agreement with the prior re- pensation before it can be removed from endorsed by, the U.S. government. As a DOD newspaper, er were half of my immediate family. Stars and Stripes may be distributed through official chan- gime of al-Bashir. the state sponsors of terrorism list, and nels and use appropriated funds for distribution to remote As a longtime advocate and spokesper- Since al-Bashir was overthrown in Su- the proposed diplomatic settlement of our locations where overseas DOD personnel are located. son for the families of the 12 Americans dan’s peaceful revolution last year, the ad- claims by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo The appearance of advertising in this publication does not constitute endorsement by the Department of Defense killed in these bombings, I am speaking ministration has made significant progress is an important step. We support those ef- or Stars and Stripes of the products or services advertised. publicly to support the administration’s in getting Khartoum to resolve, through forts and look forward to the day when all Products or services advertised shall be made available for diplomatic efforts to reach an agreement diplomacy, the claims of all those who have victims and families — Americans, Ke- purchase, use or patronage without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, physical with Sudan’s new government to resolve all been pursuing it in the courts. And with nyans and Tanzanians — can look back on handicap, political affiliation or any other nonmerit factor of the claims we and others — Americans, this progress — in court and in diplomacy these years of struggle and pain with pride of the purchaser, user or patron. Tanzanians and Kenyans — have pursued — we have also witnessed a willingness on for contributing to this noble achievement. in court in the years since the attacks. the part of the new Sudanese government © Stars and Stripes 2020 Edith Bartley is the spokesperson for the families For the past 22 years I have advocated to distance itself from the terrorist conduct of the Americans killed in the Aug. 7, 1998, U.S. stripes.com in Congress and the courts for diplomats, of its criminal predecessor. Embassy bombing in Nairobi, Kenya. Wednesday, June 3, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 17 OPINION Mr. President, do not withdraw from Afghanistan

BY JOE LIEBERMAN AND JACK KEANE structure and long-term basing in neigh- Special to The Washington Post boring Kuwait; in contrast, the United States relies on precarious and sometimes resident Donald Trump is consid- threatened supply lines through Pakistan, ering whether the United States where it lacks a base, to reach Afghanistan. should withdraw all of its troops Withdrawing from Afghanistan is likely Pfrom Afghanistan this year. Doing irreversible. so would be a humiliating surrender to an The United States can afford the cost of enemy we have already largely defeated. It fighting al-Qaida in Afghanistan. The few would also be a disastrous error. thousand troops needed in Afghanistan The U.S. military is in Afghanistan represent a small fraction of the U.S. mili- today fighting deadly enemies who contin- tary and only a tiny fraction of the defense ue to plan and prepare to kill Americans budget — to say nothing of the federal bud- at home. It is not policing Afghanistan. It get. U.S. commanders have recommended is not helping Afghans build their nation. a residual presence even smaller than the It is performing missions only the U.S. United States now has. This small number armed forces can perform. If U.S. troops of troops is a wise investment in protect- are withdrawn prematurely it is Ameri- ing Americans against al-Qaida. But with- cans, not just Afghans, who will suffer the drawing all troops dangerously exposes consequences. the American people. U.S. casualties in The United States entered Afghanistan Afghanistan have been and will remain in 2001 to defeat and expel al-Qaida from extremely low. And while we regret and the bases it used to launch the Sept. 11 at- mourn every one lost, we know that our tacks and to prevent the terror group from servicemen and women (and their civil- returning. We accomplished that aim in ian counterparts) volunteer to risk their 2002 and have been struggling since then lives to defend their nation against dead- to find a way to leave Afghanistan without ly threats — and that they are prevailing against those threats in Afghanistan. They allowing al-Qaida, and now Islamic State, RAHMAT GUL/AP to regain an important safe haven. will not be grateful to have their sacrifices There have been many errors and set- Afghan security forces inspect the site where a bus carrying local TV station employ- squandered. backs in that effort. But the force reduc- ees hit a roadside bomb in Kabul on Saturday. Mr. President, please do not impose an tions that the president has already ordered unnecessary defeat on U.S. forces, engage will bring the number of U.S. troops in Af- from which the United States must extri- But Afghanistan is not Yemen. U.S. forces in a humiliating surrender, and retreat ghanistan below 10,000 this year. That is cate itself, but rather a critical platform can hit targets in Yemen, Somalia, Syria from an important front against some of one-tenth the number who were there at that the United States needs to keep deadly and Libya without keeping large numbers our deadliest foes. You are right that we the height of the U.S. war effort. Conduct- enemies off balance. The terror attack in of troops on the ground because those coun- cannot and should not remain in Afghani- ing a complicated withdrawal within the Pensacola, Fla., in December was planned tries all have long coastlines. Afghanistan stan forever simply to help Afghans build next few weeks entails extremely high and supported by al-Qaida leaders enjoy- is landlocked. The most dangerous areas their nation. That is not why we went there, risks and would likely result in unneces- ing a partial safe haven in Yemen. Its aim are more than 700 miles from the ocean, and it is not why we are there today. sary American casualties. and effects were limited in part because deep in valleys sheltered by mountains But we can and should remain there as U.S. forces that remain in Afghanistan the United States has continued to target many thousands of feet high. U.S. forces long as we need to, at the small force levels today are carrying out a clear and limited and kill leaders and key facilitators of that can hit terror groups in Afghanistan only required, to protect Americans from those mission. They are not engaged in counter- group in Yemen. It strongly suggests that, from bases inside Afghanistan. Giving up who would kill us. You have rightly made insurgency. They are not engaged in na- should terrorist groups regain a safe haven those bases means giving up much-needed that the mission of our troops in Afghani- tion-building. They are not police. They in Afghanistan as in Yemen, they will use and largely successful operations against stan and everywhere they are deployed. are no longer primarily supporting Af- it to plan and conduct attacks against the those groups. Let them carry out that mission. ghan forces fighting the Taliban. They are American homeland. The costs of returning U.S. forces to Af- Joe Lieberman represented Connecticut in the instead laser-focused on fighting al-Qaida Trump promises to attack terrorists ghanistan once they leave are prohibitive, U.S. Senate from 1989 to 2013 and Jack Keane, a and ISIS in ways that only the U.S. military in Afghanistan if they threaten or attack much more so than reentering Iraq after retired general, is former vice chief of staff for the U.S. Army. Both serve on the board of directors at can. Americans — even after U.S. forces leave, the catastrophic rise of ISIS. In 2014, the the Institute for the Study of War, whose analysts Afghanistan has become not a quagmire likely having the model of Yemen in mind. United States relied on logistical infra- contributed to this column. Burden-sharing talks distracting from the N . Korean threat

BY AMI BERA AND VICTOR CHA wants his ally to pay more than 400% more United States, they are undermining sup- North Korean leader’s proclamations this Special to The Washington Post than the previous agreement of $920 mil- port for the alliance in South Korea. So- week of an enhanced nuclear capability. lion per year, which represented an 8% cial media interaction with anti-alliance The United States and South Korea need he unexplained periodic absences increase over prior years. Failed negotia- chat groups and YouTube videos in Korea to enhance deterrent capabilities in the of North Korean leader Kim Jong tions to close this gap in April resulted in reaches all-time highs whenever there is a face of North Korea’s burgeoning nuclear Un over the past two months are the furloughing of thousands of workers news story about the failed burden-sharing weapons program, which has only expand- Ttroubling. Presumed health ail- on U.S. bases. A recent reported South Ko- negotiations. ed despite three summits between Trump ments for this obese smoker and drinker rean offer of a 13% increase, the largest in This is not in U.S. interests. South Korea and Kim. could leave his nuclear-armed dictatorship the history of the alliance, was rejected out is not only a military ally of the United Moreover, Washington and Seoul need potentially leaderless overnight. of hand by President Donald Trump after States, one that has fought with us in every to prepare to counter more provocations When Kim does briefly show up in pub- Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and De- war since the Korean War. Seoul is also a from North Korea in the coming year. lic, however, the news is no less settling. fense Secretary Mark Esper had reached key partner on a host of global issues in- North Korea has a penchant for ramping In his first reported appearance after an agreement with their South Korean cluding climate change, nonproliferation, up provocations during U.S. presidential three weeks around May 23, he vowed to counterparts. development assistance and global pan- and midterm elections in order to garner boost North Korea’s nuclear war capabili- Trump’s logic is not hard to understand. demics. Indeed, when Washington was additional attention. The approaching U.S. ties against the United States. Meanwhile, In a 1990 interview in Playboy magazine, short of coronavirus test kits, South Korea, election virtually rules out any new sum- we’re seeing many signs that the global then-businessman Trump stated his belief which has responded immeasurably bet- mit diplomacy between Trump and Kim. COVID-19 pandemic has seeped into the Trump may still look to China to help isolated country, creating a potential health that allies free-ride off the U.S. security ter to the pandemic than us, immediately commitment while fleecing Americans on prioritized the United States over eight him cut an 11th-hour deal with his pur- crisis of regime-rattling proportions given ported friend Kim to freeze further weap- a failed public health infrastructure. You trade; his rhetoric since then has remained other countries and dispatched hundreds ons testing until after the election in return would think that under these circumstanc- amazingly consistent — and it has stayed of thousands of test kits. for sanctions-lifting. But that would be a es, the U.S.-South Korean alliance would that way since he became commander in Washington and Seoul need to get away bad move borne out of two base motiva- be focused like a laser beam on these chief. Moreover, he wants to play hardball from the tactical and focus on the strate- tions: politics and desperation. threats. You would be wrong. with South Korea because similar cost- gic. The two allies (as well as Japan) need Rather than focusing on near- and long- sharing agreements are to be negotiated to coordinate contingency plans for any The U.S. president would be better off term threats posed by the North Korean with allies Japan and NATO over the com- potential instability in North Korea result- reaching a cost-sharing deal with Seoul regime, Washington and Seoul are entirely ing year. ing from a leadership or health crisis that and working together with all of America’s absorbed by a petty dispute over who pays Perhaps it is Trump’s nature to obsess China might exploit to assert a sphere of allies on a strategy to face the security for what. Every five years, the two coun- about tactical negotiations over money. But influence over the Korean Peninsula. challenges ahead. tries negotiate how much South Korea this particular dispute comes at a larger New commercial satellite imagery pub- Rep. Ami Bera, D-Calif., is chairman of the House should pay for the non-personnel costs of strategic cost. Research from the Center lished by CSIS last month shows that the Foreign Affairs subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, stationing 28,500 U.S. forces on the Ko- for Strategic and International Studies in primary North Korean facility providing and Nonproliferation. Victor Cha is senior ad- viser and Korea chair at the Center for Strategic rean Peninsula. But now those talks have Washington shows that while the burden- core fuel for its nuclear programs is op- and International Studies and a professor at been hijacked by a U.S. president who sharing talks gain little attention in the erating at full tilt, lending credence to the Georgetown University. PAGE 18 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Wednesday, June 3, 2020 Wednesday, June 3, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 19 PAGE 20 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Wednesday, June 3, 2020 Wednesday, June 3, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 21 COLLEGES/SOCCER FIFA signals its support for Floyd in-game displays

BY ROB HARRIS Associated Press FIFA urged soccer competition organizers on Monday to apply “common sense” and consider not sanctioning players demand- ing justice for George Floyd dur- DARRON CUMMINGS/AP ing matches. More than a dozen national associations in various sports, including hockey, soccer, tennis, golf, The recognition by FIFA of the swimming and gymnastics, have signed a memo outlining “significant concerns” about effects of allowing “depth of sentiment” over Floyd’s NCAA athletes to profit from use of their names, images and likenesses. death came in a rare statement telling the global game to show flexibility and not enforce laws of soccer it helps to set. Players used weekend games Nonrevenue sports fret over in Germany to reveal messages expressing solidarity with Floyd, LARS BARON/AP a handcuffed black man who died Achraf Hakimi of Borussia college athlete compensation in Minneapolis after a white po- Dortmund celebrates scoring his lice officer pressed a knee into team’s fourth goal with a ‘Justice his neck for several minutes after for George Floyd’ shirt during a BY AARON BEARD memo focuses on nonrevenue with addressing what is.” he stopped moving and pleading match Sunday. Associated Press sports, many of which are includ- The NCAA and Power Five con- for air. ed in Olympic competition. ference commissioners also want Germany’s soccer federation was booked while playing for College coaches in nonrevenue “Legislation like this, if it goes Congress to create a federal NIL announced earlier Monday that Borussia Dortmund on Sunday sports are worried about the im- wrong, could be incredibly cata- law ahead of varied state versions it was assessing whether to sanc- for removing his jersey — a yel- pact legislation allowing compen- strophic to Olympic sports,” said being proposed so schools oper- tion the players for breaking laws low-card offense — only so he sation for athletes could have on Mike Moyer, executive director ate under the same rules. That’s of the game that prohibit “any po- could reveal a T-shirt with a “Jus- their programs. of the National Wrestling Coach- where the law commission could litical, religious or personal slo- More than a dozen national asso- es Association that supports assist; it includes lawyers, judges, gans, statements or images” on tice for George Floyd” message. ciations in various sports — hock- the memo. “Our position is: let’s legislative staff and law profes- equipment. Borussia Dortmund teammate ey, soccer, tennis, golf, swimming pump the brakes and just be re- sors who research and draft stan- “FIFA fully understands the Achraf Hakimi displayed the and gymnastics, among them ally, really careful what is agreed dardized legislation for states depth of sentiment and concerns same message on a T-shirt after — have signed a memo outlining to and what’s not agreed to.” to consider instead of enacting expressed by many footballers in scoring in the same game but was “significant concerns” about ef- The committee, part of the widely varying laws. light of the tragic circumstances not booked because he did not lift fects of allowing athletes to profit Uniform Law Commission, holds California and Colorado al- of the George Floyd case,” FIFA his jersey over his head. for use of their names, images a virtual meeting Tuesday. That ready have approved laws that said in a statement . In the Bundesliga on Saturday, and likenesses (NIL). The con- comes after the NCAA moved go into effect in January 2023. “The application of the laws of American midfielder Weston cerns include reduced resources ahead with a plan for athletes to Florida’s legislature has passed a the game ... is left for the compe- McKennie wore an armband for lower-profile programs, the profit through NIL deals with bill awaiting Gov. Ron DeSantis’ titions’ organizers, which should over his Schalke jersey with the risk of “crowdfunded recruiting” third parties, though regulations signature to take effect in July use common sense and have in handwritten message “Justice for boosters to “buy talent” for a — dubbed “guardrails” by the 2021. Additionally, 34 more states consideration the context sur- for George,” and Borussia Mon- competitive advantage, increased NCAA — are being developed. have introduced at least one piece rounding the events.” chengladbach forward Marcus influence by agents and whether “We’re listening to everybody’s of NIL legislation, according to FIFA controls half of the eight Thuram took a knee after scoring schools can effectively monitor views,” said Dale G. Higer, an a committee report from Tulane votes on the International Foot- for Borussia Monchengladbach in for compliance. Idaho attorney and chairman of sports law program director ball Association Board, which another game. The memo, prepared by North the study committee. “We’ll make Gabe Feldman. approves the laws. The other four The expressions of protest are Carolina athletics director Bubba a decision. But my own view is it Many associations that support votes are held by England, North- being investigated by the German Cunningham and associate ath- looks like the horse is out of the UNC’s memo are part of the co- ern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. soccer federation’s control body. letics director Paul Pogge, was barn and you can’t get it back in. alition that fought an unsuccess- A law change in 2014 — proposed “As is the case internationally,” sent last week to a law commit- A lot of people think the sky is ful proposal to temporarily lower by England — led to players being federation vice president Rainer tee examining whether to craft a falling, and in many ways it is in the NCAA’s 16-sport minimum in banned from revealing personal Koch said, “the game itself should standardized athlete-compensa- terms of the way things used to Division I amid the coronavirus statements on undergarments. remain free of political state- tion law for states to adopt. The be. But we’re trying to come up pandemic. England winger Jadon Sancho ments or messages of any kind.” PAGE 22 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Wednesday, June 3, 2020 SCOREBOARD/MLB/COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Sports on AFN Owners, players

Go to the American Forces Network website for the most up-to-date TV schedules. back to haggling myafn.net Deals over money issues Monday’s transactions FOOTBALL National Football League BY RONALD BLUM provisions: ARIZONA CARDINALS — Released DB  Sojourn Shelton. Signed WR/TE Dylan Associated Press No government restrictions Cantrell. on playing in front of fans at regu- GREEN BAY PACKERS — Signed S Ver- non Scott and G Simon Stepaniak. NEW YORK — Baseball own- lar-season ballparks LOS ANGELES CHARGERS — Re-signed ers and players have reverted to  No relevant travel restric- DK Damion Square to a one-year con- tract. form — the type displayed over tions throughout the U.S. and NEW YORK JETS — Signed CB Bryce the past half-century during eight Hall. Canada COLLEGE work stoppages filled with salary  Manfred determining, after NORTH CAROLINA — Named Adrian squabbles. MARCIO JOSE SANCHEZ/AP Walters assistant women’s basketball consulting with the union and Players proposed to resume coach. medical experts, that there is no The Los Angeles Angels’ Mike Trout, right, one of the highest-paid ST. ROSE — Named Whitney Edwards the sport in the coronavirus pan- head women’s basketball coach. risk to players, staff or fans to play players in baseball, would see his pay cut by 77% under the owners’ SIENA — Named Casey Bump head demic with a 114-game regular games with fans at all 30 regular- proposal toward restarting the season. softball coach. season and full prorated salaries, season ballparks, provided that leaving each player with approxi- MLB and the union “will discuss and termination pay. Payrolls in February 2018 alleging the mately 70% of what he had been Auto racing in good faith the economic fea- have stayed in a historic narrow Miami Marlins, Oakland Athlet- slated to earn. sibility of playing games in the range since then: $4.24 billion in ics, Pittsburgh Pirates and Tampa That proposal was made Sun- Cheddar’s 300 absence of spectators or at appro- 2017, $4.23 billion in 2018, $4.22 day, five days after Major League Bay Rays did not use revenue NASCAR Xfinity Series priate substitute neutral sites.” billion in 2019 and $4.21 billion sharing money received properly. Monday Baseball’s plan for an 82-game Players say the March 26 deal At Bristol Motor Speedway this year, based on totals as of the The labor contract specifies a season with additional pay cuts covered salaries and they are Bristol, Tenn. March 28 roster freeze. team has to use the money “in an Lap length: 0.53 miles that would leave each player tak- under no obligation to revisit the (Start position in parentheses) Slow free-agent markets fol- effort to improve its performance 1. (9) Noah Gragson, Chevrolet, 303 ing in 23-47% of his original pay, subject. MLB says they are if the lowing the 2017 and 2018 seasons on the field.” laps, 59 points. with the highest earners accept- plan is to use empty ballparks, 2. (11) Chase Briscoe, Ford, 303, 49. sparked player anger, and a more Service-time manipulation: 3. (2) Brandon Jones, Toyota, 303, 43. ing the biggest cuts. which is the current intention. 4. (1) Harrison Burton, Toyota, 303, 40. regular market this past offsea- Players repeatedly accuse clubs 5. (22) Myatt Snider, Chevrolet, 303, 36. MLB claims an additional Mistrust among many is at its son hasn’t calmed players or the 6. (8) Daniel Hemric, Chevrolet, 303, 41. $640,000 would be lost with highest level since the 1994-95 of manipulating their service 7. (21) Brandon Brown, Chevrolet, 303, union staff. time to delay free agency and sal- 30. each extra regular-season game strike, the last of eight stoppages Tanking/rebuilding: Players are 8. (29) Jeremy Clements, Chevrolet, ary arbitration eligibility. played. The union has said it that started in 1972. Reasons livid over what they call tanking 303, 29. Arbitrator Mark Irvings de- 9. (23) Josh Williams, Chevrolet, 303, doesn’t believe those calculations abound. and clubs call rebuilding. They 28. nied a grievance by Kris Bryant 10. (27) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet, and asked MLB for more eco- Salaries: Salaries have been view noncompetitive teams as 303, 31. nomic documents and data. pretty much flat for five years bad for the entire industry, lead- against the Cubs, accepting Chi- 11. (24) BJ McLeod, Chevrolet, 303, 26. cago executive Theo Epstein’s 12. (14) Vinnie Miller, Chevrolet, 303, Baseball Commissioner Rob during a time revenue has been ing to an attendance drop in each 25. Manfred discussed the next move rationale for delaying the third 13. (36) Joe Graf Jr, Chevrolet, 303, 24. estimated to have risen at a 4% of the last four seasons. 14. (25) Timmy Hill, Toyota, 303, 0. with owners on Monday. annual rate, a sign the collective Manfred says each club makes baseman’s debut at the start of 15. (18) Jeffrey Earnhardt, Chevrolet, the 2015 season. Irvings wrote 301, 22. If spring training is to resume bargaining agreement agreed to its own judgment on whether it 16. (5) Ryan Sieg, Chevrolet, 300, 23. in mid-June followed by opening in November 2016 gained more can contend, and clubs are using there was no proof of “a nefarious 17. (4) Justin Haley, Chevrolet, 299, 35. 18. (10) Justin Allgaier, Chevrolet, ac- day at around the start of July, a for the clubs than it did for the the system to their advantage motive” and the union could not cident, 297, 38. deal would have to be reached by union. prove “bad faith to mask service 19. (26) Colby Howard, Chevrolet, 296, when they jettison veterans, re- 18. next week. Payrolls totaled $4.08 billion in build with draft picks and in- time manipulation.” He did not 20. (33) Bayley Currey, Chevrolet, 295, rule on whether service-time ma- 0. Players and clubs agreed 2016, according to figures com- ternational youth, then contend 21. (30) Kody Vanderwal, Chevrolet, March 26 to “complete the fullest piled by the commissioner’s office again. World Series titles by Kan- nipulation was permissible in any 293, 16. 22. (13) Carson Ware, Chevrolet, 289, 2020 championship season and that included season salaries, pro- sas City in 2015 and Houston in circumstance. 15. postseason that is economically rated shares of signing bonuses, 2017 are pointed to as examples. Manfred maintains roster deci- 23. (35) Tommy Joe Martins, Chevrolet, 284, 14. feasible,” consistent with three earned bonuses, option buyouts The union filed a grievance sions are a club right. 24. (17) Chad Finchum, Toyota, 277, 13. 25. (31) Matt Mills, Chevrolet, clutch, 268, 12. 26. (15) Jesse Little, Chevrolet, 260, 11. 27. (7) Riley Herbst, Toyota, accident, 256, 17. College football briefs 28. (6) Ross Chastain, Chevrolet, 255, 9. 29. (20) Patrick Emerling, Chevrolet, ac- cident, 140, 8. 30. (34) Mason Massey, Toyota, 111, 7. 31. (19) Ronnie Bassett Jr, Chevrolet, Notre Dame-Navy opener moved back to US engine, 77, 6. 32. (28) Joe Nemechek, Chevrolet, ac- cident, 69, 0. 33. (32) Alex Labbe, Chevrolet, over- heating, 41, 4. The Associated Press Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis, Md., Auburn won or shared four conference titles 34. (37) Stephen Leicht, Toyota, sus- on Sept. 5 or 6. This will be the first time the and the Tigers were ranked in The Associated pension, 23, 3. ANNAPOLIS, Md. — The college football 35. (16) Jeff Green, Chevrolet, ignition, Fighting Irish will play at Navy’s 34,000-seat Press’ Top 10 five times. 19, 2. season opener between Notre Dame and Navy 36. (3) Austin Cindric, Ford, accident, stadium. The game is usually played at a Dye’s overall coaching record was 153-62- 8, 1. has been moved out of Ireland because of the 37. (12) Michael Annett, Chevrolet, ac- cornavirus pandemic. larger alternative site when the Midshipmen 5 in 17 years at Auburn, Wyoming and East cident, 5, 1. host. Carolina. He was inducted into the College Race statistics The Irish and Midshipmen were scheduled Average speed of race winner: 71.225 to meet in Dublin on Aug. 29, but instead will Football Hall of Fame in 2005. mph. Time of race: 2 hours, 19 minutes, 3 seek to play at the Naval Academy during the Hall of Fame coach Dye dies seconds. Labor Day weekend. The decision to move Spinal condition sidelines Ross Margin of victory: 0.328 seconds. College Football Hall of Famer Pat Dye, Caution flags: 12 for 85 laps. the venue came after discussions between the Lead changes: 10 among 6 drivers. who took over a downtrodden Auburn football Clemson receiver Justyn Ross, considered Lap leaders: H.Burton 0-25; J.Haley 26; Irish government, medical authorities and the H.Burton 27-45; N.Gragson 46-91; H.Burton leadership teams at Navy and Notre Dame. program in 1981 and turned it into a South- a first-round NFL Draft pick next spring, will 92-128; J.Allgaier 129-175; R.Sieg 176- eastern Conference power, died Monday. He miss the upcoming college season due to a spi- 181; J.Allgaier 182-250; R.Herbst 251-254; “Our priority must be ensuring the health J.Allgaier 255-294; N.Gragson 295-303 and safety of all involved,” Navy athletic di- was 80. nal condition uncovered after he was hurt at Leaders summary (driver, times led, Lee County Coroner Bill Harris said Dye practice in March. laps led): J.Allgaier, 3 times for 156 laps; rector Chet Gladchuk said. “I am expecting H.Burton, 3 times for 81 laps; N.Gragson, died at a hospice care facility in Auburn from Tigers coach Dabo Swinney said Ross will 2 times for 55 laps; R.Sieg, 1 time for 6 that we will still be able to play Notre Dame laps; R.Herbst, 1 time for 4 laps; J.Haley, as our season opener, but there is still much complications of kidney and liver failure. have surgery on Friday because of a con- 1 time for 1 lap. Harris said Dye tested positive for COVID-19 genital fusion of vertebrae he has had since Wins: C.Briscoe, 2; N.Gragson, 2; to be determined by health officials and those H.Burton, 1; B.Jones, 1. that govern college football at large.“ after being admitted to the hospital for renal birth. Ross also has a bulging disc. The condi- Top 16 in points: 1. C.Briscoe, 300; 2. N.Gragson, 291; 3. H.Burton, 274; 4. Notre Dame and Navy planned to stage the problems, but was asymptomatic. tion was found after Ross apparently hurt his J.Allgaier, 256; 5. R.Chastain, 248; 6. 94th consecutive installment of the longest When Dye came to Auburn, he inherited a shoulder. A.Cindric, 244; 7. B.Jones, 229; 8. J.Haley, 221; 9. R.Sieg, 215; 10. R.Herbst, 177; continuous intersectional rivalry in the Unit- program that was deeply divided after only Ross is a 6-foot-4, 205-pound sophomore 11. D.Hemric, 176; 12. B.Brown, 174; 13. three winning seasons in the previous six from Phenix City, Ala., who led the Tigers M.Annett, 170; 14. J.Williams, 155; 15. ed States at Aviva Stadium in Ireland. Instead, M.Snider, 144; 16. A.Labbe, 132. the schools will strive to play at Navy-Marine years. In 12 years, he had a 99-39-4 record, with 66 catches last season. Wednesday, June 3, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 23 VIRUS OUTBREAK/SPORTS BRIEFS Game: Fan experience expected to be different

FROM BACK PAGE ter in Buffalo, N.Y., a company “There’s a wealth of unantici- called WaitTime utilizes an app to pated casualties, I guess, that are tell Sabres fans how long lines are going to be part of this, things we at restrooms and concessions. all took for granted as part of the It all sounds a bit Orwellian live game-day experience,” ex- — like Big Brother is watching plained Nate Appleman, director you. The systems dance a fine of the sports, recreation and en- line between informative and tertainment practice for Kansas intrusive. But they also could City-based architectural firm mitigate the threat of spreading a HOK. “Some things we have yet to virus, and that could make it all fathom but will become painfully worthwhile. clear once we are allowed back “We’re extrapolating off these into venues and get back to truly trends that have already existed, human nature, which is to gather and I think we’re going to kick- and celebrate community.” start into 2025 even though it’s Some leagues are returning only 2020,” said Jason Jennings, with few or no fans, including soc- director of strategy and digital cer in Germany, stock car racing integration for the sports and en- in the U.S. and baseball in Japan. tertainment group at Mortenson, BRIAN K. DIGGS/AP But as sports ramp up, The Asso- which is wrapping up construc- ciated Press found during inter- tion on the Raiders’ new $2.4 bil- Washington Wizards general manager Wes Unseld announces the trade of Chris Webber to the views with more than two dozen lion stadium in Las Vegas. “The Sacramento Kings for Mitch Richmond and Otis Thorpe on May 14, 1998 in Washington. Unseld, the experts in stadium design and technology is going to be deployed workmanlike Hall of Fame center who led Washington to its only NBA championship and was chosen one infrastructure that the only thing much faster because of the value of the 50 greatest players in league history, died Tuesday at age 74. that might look the same is what it has for the fan experience and happens on the field of play. public health.” Briefl y The biggest short-term change Even the way facilities are will be social distancing, which cleaned will change. No lon- already has permeated everyday ger will hosing down seats and life. Ticket sales will be capped. sweeping up trash left by fans be Entire rows and sections blocked enough. Venue giant ASM Global off. Seats on the aisle left open Hall of Famer Unseld dies recently announced a new hy- to keep a buffer from fans walk- giene protocol for its 325 facilities ing up the stairs. Fans will be worldwide . Associated Press Jr.’s race team. Gragson was winless in 2019 in his given an entrance time to prevent Few professional teams have first full season in NASCAR’s second-tier series. crowding at the gates. Lines at re- WASHINGTON — Wes Unseld, the workman- been willing to divulge their full His victory Monday night was set up by a caution strooms and concessions will be like Hall of Fame center who led Washington to its reopening strategies, whether with 13 laps remaining that wiped away Allgaier’s limited. Congregating in the cor- only NBA championship and was chosen one of the that be potential seating layouts lead. The Chevrolet teammates lined up side-by- ridors will no longer be allowed. 50 greatest players in league history, died Tuesday or infrastructure upgrades de- side for the restart with seven laps remaining but “There’s the old saying, ‘Neces- after a series of health issues, most recently pneu- signed to keep fans safe. That’s Allgaier cleared him on the restart. sity is the mother of invention.’ I monia. He was 74. because the rapidly changing would say we’re in a heightened Unseld’s family announced his death via a state- Gragson chased him and as he passed Allgaier for social and political environment situation of necessity right now,” ment released by the Washington Wizards, the fran- the lead, Allgaier wiggled into the wall and crashed coupled with the unpredictable Appleman said. “There are a lot chise he was with throughout his entire 13-season for a caution. nature of the virus have made of really smart people coming up playing career and also worked for as a coach and with really cool initiatives that planning difficult. general manager. NWSL sets schedule for tournament could just be a new way of doing “In large masses, there is no “Those of us who were fortunate enough to spend The National Women’s Soccer League has set the things, and new isn’t always bad. system that can effectively pre- time with Wes knew him as a generous and thought- schedule for the opening round of its tournament Sometimes change is good. Some- vent another person from giving ful man whose strong will was matched only by starting later this month in Utah, with the Portland times we have to adapt.” germs to a second individual,” his passion and drive for uplifting others,” current Thorns playing the defending champion North Car- Mercedes-Benz Stadium, the said Philip Tierno, a clinical pro- Wizards GM Tommy Sheppard said. “His physical olina Courage on the opening day. home of the Falcons and Atlanta fessor of pathology at New York prowess, undeniable talent and on-court demeanor The NWSL is scheduled to be the first U.S. pro United, already has cashless sys- University’s Grossman School may have struck fear in opponents throughout the team league returning to play amid the coronavi- tems in place for merchandise of Medicine. “If they sneeze or NBA, but he will be remembered best as a mentor, rus pandemic. The tournament will be held in the and concessions. Several profes- cough or talk directly, or even leader and friend.” Salt Lake City area starting June 27 with no fans in sional teams are in talks with mo- breathe directly on a person, A five-time All-Star and, along with Wilt Cham- attendance. tion analytics company iinside, there is no system that can pre- berlain, one of only two players to win NBA Rookie The Thorns and Courage played for the league whose SafeDistance system uses vent that.” of the Year and MVP honors in the same season, championship in 2017 and 2018, splitting the results. lasers to map spaces and measure Unseld instantly made the team then known as the AP sports writers Dave Campbell and The Chicago Red Stars and the Orlando Pride will crowd density. At KeyBank Cen- Larry Lage contributed to this report. Baltimore Bullets into a winner after he was taken also meet on opening day. One of those games will with the No. 2 overall pick — behind future team- be broadcast nationally on CBS, the league’s new mate Elvin Hayes — in the 1968 draft. A decade later, Unseld was the MVP of the 1978 television partner this season. NBA Finals as the Bullets beat the Seattle Super- The league’s nine teams will play four prelimi- Sonics in a seven-game series best known for Wash- nary round games, with eight teams advancing to ington coach Dick Motta’s proclamation: “The opera the quarterfinals. The final match on July 26 is also ain’t over until the fat lady sings.” set to be broadcast on CBS. Listed at 6-foot-7 and 245 pounds, Unseld over- In other soccer news:  came taller players and bad knees with a strong Players from several Major League Soccer work ethic and lots of grunt work in the paint. He teams skipped voluntary workouts Monday after the was a tenacious rebounder and strong passer. league and the players’ association hit an impasse Unseld was inducted into the Hall of Fame in on an agreement that would clear the way for a tour- 1988, his first year of eligibility. nament this summer in Florida. In the NBA, Unseld averaged 10.8 points and 14 A person with knowledge of the negotiations said rebounds for his career. the talks between the two sides were ongoing and a deadline has been pushed to Wednesday. The per- Gragson wins Xfinity race at Bristol son spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the negotiations were not being BRISTOL, Tenn. — Noah Gragson squeezed past made public. JR Motorsports teammate Justin Allgaier with The Major League Soccer Players Association four laps remaining, a move that caused Allgaier to had voted to approve economic concessions for this NICK LISI/AP crash, and Gragson held on at Bristol Motor Speed- season, including across-the-board salary cuts. The Syracuse fans celebrate on the court after beating Duke on Feb. way for his second win of the season. proposal, made public by the union Sunday night, 22, 2017 in Syracuse, N.Y. Scenes like this most likely won’t be Gragson also won the season-opening race at Day- was sent back to the league for approval by team occurring once sports arenas are open to fans again. tona to begin his second year with Dale Earnhardt owners. S TARS AND STRIPES Wednesday, June 3, 2020 F3HIJKLM At an impasse Owners, players still haggling SPORTS over money issues » MLB, Page 22

VIRUS OUTBREAK

A vendor sells beer and peanuts at a Colorado Rockies baseball game on May 9, 2011, at Coors Field in Denver. Vendors milling among the specators will likely be a casualty of the post-coronavirus sports world.

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Game changer How will fan experience be altered?

BY DAVE SKRETTA Associated Press ‘ Sometimes change is good. Sometimes KANSAS CITY, Mo. we have to adapt. he coronavirus pan- ’ Nate Appleman demic that brought Director of the sports, recreation and entertainment practice for HOK sports to a standstill for months has every- one wondering what T lasers. There might be nobody in checks could be mandatory. Vir- games will be like when specta- tual tickets will be the norm. tors are finally allowed back in. It the next seat to high-five after a It all begs the question: Will MARTIN MEISSNER/AP will almost surely be different in touchdown. The idea of passing fans even be able to enjoy the ex- ways big and small. cash to a beer vendor between A fan washes his hands at a disinfection station in the stadium prior perience again? Fans could have their every innings will be a memory. Tem- to a German Bundesliga soccer match between Borussia Dortmund move scrutinized by cameras and perature screenings and medical SEE GAME ON PAGE 23 and SC Freiburg on Feb. 29 in Dortmund, Germany.

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