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Volume 79, No. 35 ©SS 2020 FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 2020 $1.00 VIRUS OUTBREAK Mattis blasts Trump

Ex-defense secretary criticizes president for threatening protesters with troop deployments

BY WYATT OLSON Stars and Stripes Former U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis excoriated President Donald Trump in an open letter Wednesday for worsening divi- siveness in the country and con- sidering the use of active-duty troops in the wake of na- tionwide protests. “Donald Trump is the first presi- dent in my lifetime Mattis who does not try to unite the American people — does not even pretend to try,” Mattis wrote. “Instead he tries to divide us. We are witness- ing the consequences of three Goodbye to Guam years of this deliberate effort. We are witnessing the consequences of three years without mature leadership.” USS Theodore Roosevelt officially restarts patrol 2 months after coronavirus outbreak Mattis resigned as defense sec- retary in December 2018 over Trump’s decision to withdraw BY CAITLIN DOORNBOS said in a Facebook post Thursday afternoon. Navy Airman American troops from Syria. The Stars and Stripes “We owe them all a debt of gratitude that words cannot Matthew express,” he said. Malvas mans retired Marine Corps general he USS Theodore Roosevelt redeployed Thurs- The carrier was patrolling the Western Pacific when it the rails as the has kept largely silent about his day after a coronavirus outbreak on board that diverted to Guam on March 26 after several of its sailors aircraft carrier SEE MATTIS ON PAGE 3 had sidelined the aircraft carrier at Naval Base tested positive for the coronavirus. Over the following USS Theodore TGuam since March. weeks, more than 1,150 of the Roosevelt’s 4,800 crew- Roosevelt Sailors manned the rails “as a gesture of respect and members became infected, according to the Navy. departs Apra Dialogue on race: admiration for the people of Guam for their support and One Roosevelt sailor died from the virus, according Harbor, Guam, Air Force leaders urge hospitality over the last two months” as the ship left the to the Navy. on Thursday. island, the carrier’s commander, Capt. Carlos Sardiello, SEE ROOSEVELT ON PAGE 6 tolerance, education

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BY JOSEPH DITZLER opened. Stars and Stripes To leaders, Wright said: “You have to create the environment Thousands turned to Facebook where they feel like they can do on Wednesday to hear two top it.” leaders in the Air Force talking Goldfein seconded Wright: openly about racism in the ranks “Part of creating a safe space, I and curbing its influence. think, is sharing a little bit of vul- A black enlisted man, Chief nerability as a leader.” Master Sgt. of the Air Force To Wright, he said: “You and I Kaleth O. Wright, and a white grew up with different life expe- officer, Air Force Chief of Staff riences. Almost every room I’ve Gen. David Goldfein, answered ever walked into has been full questions from their audience for of ‘me,’ people that look like me, close to two hours while stream- people that sound like me. ing live online. “Most of the systems in our Their talk took place as Presi- Air Force have been designed by dent Donald Trump evoked the people like me, for people like me. military to rein in a week’s worth So, therefore, I got blinders that of civil unrest across the na- are going to keep me from see- tion. Riots and protests gripped ing what others in a different life the country following the May experience and background are 25 killing of an unarmed black going to see immediately.” man, George Floyd, by police in Minneapolis. ‘Aggressive listeners’ U.S. Air Force Meanwhile, three other mem- bers of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is- The town hall session followed Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Golfein, left, and Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force Kaleth O. Wright sued their own statements in the statements published by Wright host a dialogue on race Wednesday . wake of events the past week. and Goldfein on social media de- By Wednesday evening, Chief crying violence as rioters looted Goldfein and Wright promised sive listeners.” Take time to learn ing time.” of Naval Operations Adm. Mike and rampaged in cities from New a long fight against discrimina- about their airmen by asking Gilday referred to the “murder Gilday, Commandant of the York to Los Angeles. tion while pouring out advice, about their background, experi- of George Floyd and the events Marine Corps David Berger, Their statements in videos suggestions and recommended ence and motivation when the op- that we have all watched on TV reading. They also counseled portunity allows, he said. Secretary of the Army Ryan Mc- posted to Facebook and Twitter for the last several nights.” Carthy and Army Chief of Staff acknowledged legitimate griev- patience. Wright pitched in: “Don’t look Like Goldfein, Gilday expressed Gen. James McConville had all ances expressed by thousands of “These discussions we need past the source, don’t look past if weighed in with remarks posted protesting Americans. to have are going to be most ef- you work with, minority airmen. a lack of knowledge about life as a on social media that touched on Wright expressed a visceral fective at the smallest unit. This Ask them. Ask them how they see person of color in America. common themes: eliminating di- connection to African Ameri- is flight-team work, this is com- the world, ask them how they feel, “I will never walk in the shoes vision, condemning racism, tak- can men killed by police and mand-team work to make sure ask them what happens when of a black American or any other ing time to listen. related his own fear at seeing a we create the spaces for this dis- they go outside the gate, ask them minority,” he said. “I will never cussion and really be aggressive Their senior enlisted leaders police cruiser’s flashing lights in how they get treated when they know what it feels like when you signed onto those statements or his rear-view mirror. Goldfein, listeners,” Goldfein said. “It’s ab- go in stores, ask them if they feel watch that video of Mr. Floyd’s like Wright issued their own. among the first heads of a U.S. solutely OK to walk into a conver- like they’re part of the organiza- Among the first questions military branch to do so, on Tues- sation and not have the answers.” tion if they’ve dealt with racism murder. And I can’t imagine the pitched to Wright and Goldfein: day released his own statement, He referenced lessons he or exclusion.” pain and the disappointment How do I find the right thing to circulated internally the day be- learned from a recent round of and the anger that many of you say? fore, expressing his outrage at stand-downs, pauses in day-to- ‘Can’t imagine the pain’ felt when you saw that. Because “For airmen who might be feel- Floyd’s killing. day Air Force routines to talk it’s not the first time, it’s hap- about the problem of suicide in Also Wednesday, Gilday posted ing some kind of way about this The general said he recognized pened time and time again in our and who need to express how they some airmen are “weary of the the service. his own, self-recorded video state- feel, just be honest. Say what’s battle against racial prejudice” Air Force leaders, Goldfein ment to Facebook and Twitter in country.” on your mind; say what you and pledged to address dispari- said, should exhibit open-mind- which he described “a very sad [email protected] feel,” Wright said as the session ties in military justice. edness, patience and be “aggres- time for our country — a confus- Twitter: @JosephDitzler Mattis: Trump calls former Pentagon chief ‘world’s most overrated General’

FROM FRONT PAGE calling his former secretary “the world’s commander-in-chief, with military leader- “It sickened me yesterday to see secu- former boss since, saying at one point he most overrated General.” ship standing alongside.” rity personnel — including members of the believed it inappropriate for a former gen- “His primary strength was not mili- Without naming Esper, Mattis con- National Guard — forcibly and violently eral and Cabinet member to publicly criti- tary, but rather personal public relations,” demned his reported use of the word “bat- clear a path through Lafayette Square to cize the president and administration he Trump tweeted. “I gave him a new life, tlespace” during a conference call Monday accommodate the president’s visit outside once served. things to do, and battles to win, but he sel- between Trump, administration officials St. John’s Church,” Mullen wrote. “I have dom ‘brought home the bacon.’ I didn’t like and state governors to describe American That reluctance ended Wednesday as to date been reticent to speak out on issues his ‘leadership’ style or much else about cities experiencing riots. Trump seemed poised to deploy active- him, and many others agree. Glad he is “At home, we should use our military surrounding President Trump’s leader- duty troops to quell protests and riots that gone!” only when requested to do so, on very ship, but we are at an inflection point, and began in Minneapolis on May 26 in re- White House spokeswoman Kayleigh rare occasions, by state governors,” Mat- the events of the past few weeks have made sponse to a police officer killing George McEnany tweeted that Mattis’ comments tis said. “Militarizing our response, as we it impossible to remain silent.” Floyd, an African American. were “little more than a self-promotional witnessed in Washington, D.C., sets up a While he expressed confidence in the “I have watched this week’s unfolding stunt to appease the DC elite.” conflict — a false conflict — between the professionalism of the men and women in events, angry and appalled,” Mattis said, Mattis also criticized the administra- military and civilian society. It erodes the uniform, he questioned the soundness of adding that the protesters are “rightly de- tion for using force Monday to clear away moral ground that ensures a trusted bond their leader. manding equal justice under the law.” peaceful protesters near the White House between men and women in uniform and “They will obey lawful orders,” Mullen “It is a wholesome and unifying demand for Trump and top officials, including cur- the society they are sworn to protect, and said. “But I am less confident in the sound- — one that all of us should be able to get be- rent Defense Secretary Mark Esper, to of which they themselves are a part. ness of the orders they will be given by hind. We must not be distracted by a small walk to a nearby church for a brief photo “We must reject and hold accountable this commander in chief, and I am not con- number of lawbreakers. The protests are op. those in office who would make a mockery vinced that the conditions on our streets, defined by tens of thousands of people of Citing the oath he took to uphold the U.S. of our Constitution.” conscience who are insisting that we live Constitution when he joined the military The Atlantic magazine published a letter as bad as they are, have risen to the level up to our values — our values as people a half-century ago, Mattis said he never Tuesday by Mike Mullen, former chair- that justifies a heavy reliance on military and our values as a nation.” imagined that American troops would be man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, that also troops.” In response to the Mattis letter, Trump called on to violate the rights of citizens “to took umbrage with the White House’s use [email protected] took to Twitter on Wednesday evening, provide a bizarre photo op for the elected of force in clearing protesters. Twitter: @WyattWOlson PAGE 4 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, June 5, 2020 MILITARY Detained US Navy veteran freed by Iran, on way home

Associated Press and on his way home,” White’s mother, Joanne White, said in a WASHINGTON — A Navy vet- statement. She thanked the State eran detained in Iran for nearly Department and Bill Richardson, two years has been released and a former U.S. ambassador to the started making his way home, with the first leg on a Swiss gov- United Nations and onetime New ernment aircraft, U.S. officials Mexico governor, for raising her said Thursday. “The nightmare is son’s case with the Iranians. over,” his mother said. Richardson, who met with Iran’s foreign minister and am- The U.S. special envoy for Iran, /Stars and Stripes Brian Hook, flew to Zurich with a bassador to the U.N. about the CHAD GARLAND doctor to meet freed detainee Mi- case, said in a statement that the Police vans are parked in the Stiftsplatz in Kaiserslautern, Germany, on Thursday ahead of a scheduled chael White and will accompany “release should have and could demonstration against racism. White to the United States aboard have been done earlier, but I an American plane, the officials am glad and relieved that Mike said. is on his way home to get treat- White’s release was part of an ed.” White had been diagnosed Service members told to stay away agreement involving an Iranian- with coronavirus, but has been American doctor prosecuted recovering. by the Justice Department, and White, of Imperial Beach, from Kaiserslautern racism protest followed months of quiet nego- Calif., was detained by Iranian tiations over prisoners. The two authorities in July 2018 while vis- BY CHAD GARLAND barring their participation in from attending due to concerns countries are at bitter odds over iting a woman he had met online Stars and Stripes demonstrations while overseas, over the virus. U.S. penalties imposed after and fallen in love with. He was even when off-duty and in civil- The event began at 5:30 p.m. President Donald Trump with- convicted of insulting Iran’s su- KAISERSLAUTERN, Ger- ian clothing. and was scheduled to run until 8 drew the U.S. from the 2015 nu- preme leader and posting private many — U.S. military person- The German state of Rhein- p.m. Participants were expected clear deal and over the killing by information online, and was sen- nel in Germany were warned to land-Pfalz, where Kaiserslautern to maintain social distancing American forces of a top Iranian tenced to a decade in prison. avoid an anti-racism demonstra- is located, is home to some 50,000 and wear masks during the dem- general in Iraq at the beginning “Simply put, the ‘charges’ tion that drew about 300 people U.S. personnel and their families. onstration, organizers said on a of this year. against Michael were pretexts for by early Thursday evening in DOD civilian employees may Facebook event page. “I am blessed to announce that a state-sponsored kidnap-for-ran- Kaiserslautern. attend a rally in their personal The demonstration was meant the nightmare is over, and my som scheme,” family spokesman The rally in front of Stiftskirche capacity, “never on duty, never as a show of solidarity with the son is safely in American custody Jon Franks said in a statement . downtown began with a moment expressing or implying they are protests against racism and police of silence for George Floyd, who speaking for DoD,” the 21st The- abuse in the United States, and died May 25 after a Minneapolis ater Sustainment Command legal as a response to racial injustices police officer kneeled on his neck office said, according to Stefan in Germany, its organizers said . for nearly nine minutes. Alford, USAG Rheinland-Pfalz It was held by the Linksjugend Bailey to take command of A group held signs with slogans spokesman. ’solid groups’ in Kaiserslautern like “Fight racism and inequal- For family and others, rules and Rheinland-Pfalz, the youth Aviano’s 31st Fighter Wing ity” and “Smash capitalism,” about respecting host nation laws organizations of the German po- while chanting “No justice, no remain in place, he said. litical party, The Left. peace.” Others wore signs around A general order issued late last “Even if the weather could be BY NORMAN LLAMAS plans and programs from 2011 to better, we take to the streets today Stars and Stripes 2013. their necks that said “Black Lives month related to the coronavirus Matter.” pandemic would not bar Army to remember George Floyd and Bailey is a 1995 Air Force all victims of racist violence, to AVIANO AIR BASE, Italy But U.S. service members in civilian employees and families Academy graduate who has also show solidarity with the protests — Brig. Gen. Jason E. Bailey is the region — home to large Army from attending the event, said served overseas as the flight lead in the USA and to fight against scheduled to take command of and Air Force commands — were Master Sgt. Dan Bailey, a 21st and flight commander of the 80th racism, oppression and exploita- Aviano’s 31st Fighter Wing during told to avoid the event, which was TSC spokesman. But they would Fighter Squadron, Kunsan Air tion here too!” Linksjugend ’solid a virtual ceremony Friday, wing organized by German left wing be required to maintain physical Base, South Korea; commander Kaiserslautern said on the Face- officials youth organizations. distancing and wear face cover- of the 455th book page. said. Expedition- Ramstein Air Base and U.S. ings in public in keeping with Bailey ary Opera- Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz German measures. Stars and Stripes reporter Jennifer takes over Svan contributed to this report. tions Group both warned service members of Air Force civilians and family [email protected] command at Bagram the Defense Department policy members were also discouraged Twitter: @chadgarland from Brig. Airfield, Af- Gen. Daniel ghanistan; T. Lasica, and com- who will as- mander of sume com- the 52nd Army general in Germany suspended mand of the Fighter Wing 9th Air and Space Ex- Bailey Lasica at Spang- BY JOHN VANDIVER the 7th MSC. peditionary dahlem Air Stars and Stripes “No further information will be released until the Task Force-Afghanistan, as well Base, Ger- investigation is complete,” USAREUR said. as concurrent leadership roles many. Bailey will command the STUTTGART, Germany — The one-star general The 21st TSC manages logistics for the Army with NATO and Air Forces Cen- only permanently assigned Air who commands the Army’s reserve headquarters in in Europe and plays a key role in getting supplies tral Command. Force fighter aircraft wing in Europe was suspended this week, pending the out- to forces operating at relatively austere outposts Lasica, who arrived at Aviano NATO’s southern region. With come of an internal probe, U.S. Army Europe said. in places like Poland. It also supports U.S. Africa in June 2018, will now be respon- approximately 4,200 active duty Brig. Gen. Michael Harvey, who leads the 7th Command. sible for the integration of air and military members, nearly 300 Mission Support Command and also serves as depu- Harvey, a native of Piney Flats, Tenn., assumed space power in support of NATO’s U.S. civilians and 700 Italian ci- ty commanding general of the 21st Theater Sustain- command of the 7th MSC in June 2019. Resolute Support mission. vilian employees, the wing con- ment Command, is under investigation for a matter LeVien takes over with extensive logistics expe- Bailey returns to Aviano after ducts and supports air combat that “does not involve criminal activity or safety,” rience. Before arriving at the 21st TSC, he com- previously serving as the com- operations, and maintains muni- USAREUR said in a statement Wednesday. manded the 406th Army Field Support Brigade out mander of the 31st Operations tions for NATO. Harvey was removed from his position Tuesday. of Fort Bragg, N.C. Support Squadron, as well as an [email protected] Col. Douglas A. LeVien, a 21st TSC deputy com- [email protected] instructor pilot and chief of wing Twitter: @normanllamas manding officer, was named acting commander of Twitter: @john_vandiver Friday, June 5, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 5 MILITARY S. Korea vows to stop border protests after North’s threat

BY KIM TONG-HYUNG democracies. The shift followed remarks ear- Associated Press Sending balloons across the lier in the morning from Kim’s border has been a common ac- powerful sister, who threatened SEOUL, South Korea — South tivist tactic for years, but North to end the military agreement Korea said Thursday it planned Korea considers it an attack on and said the North could perma- to push new laws to ban activ- its government. Defectors and nently shut a liaison office and ists from flying anti-Pyongyang other activists in recent weeks an inter-Korean factory park leaflets over the border after have used balloons to fly leaflets that have been major symbols of North Korea threatened to end criticizing the North’s authori- reconciliation. an inter-Korean military agree- tarian leader Kim Jong Un over In her statement released ment reached in 2018 to reduce his nuclear ambitions and dismal through state media, Kim Yo tensions if Seoul fails to prevent human rights record. Jong called the defectors involved the protests. While Seoul has sometimes sent in the balloon launches “human Sebastian Demmel The South’s desperate attempt police officers to block such activ- scum” and “mongrel dogs” who German woodcarver Sebastian Demmel holds one of thousands of to keep alive a faltering diploma- ities during sensitive times, it had betrayed their homeland and said carvings he has made for American service members over the past cy will almost certainly trigger resisted the North’s calls to fully it was “time to bring their owners five decades. debates over freedom of speech ban them, saying the activists to account,” referring to the gov- in one of Asia’s most vibrant were exercising their freedoms. ernment in Seoul. Bavarian woodcarver to join other dignitaries as an honorary Green Beret

BY MARCUS KLOECKNER mel said. Stars and Stripes In the nearly 50 years since that meeting, Demmel has “hand- KAISERSLAUTERN, Ger- carved over 3,000 plaques and many — A German man who has over 1,500 statues for members made wood carvings for the 10th of the Special Forces Regiment,” Special Forces Group for nearly Martinez said in a statement. 50 years has been nominated for His carvings are given to Spe- a rare distinction — to become an cial Forces personnel in recog- honorary member of the Green nition of a job well done or as Berets. going-away gifts, Martinez said. Sebastian Demmel will be the They can be seen at Special Op- first German to receive the honor, erations Command Europe head- U.S. Army Special Operations quarters in Stuttgart, and “grace Command spokesman Lt. Col. the walls and mantles of Green Loren Bymer said in an email. Berets around the globe, includ- Once he is formally inducted, ing my own,” Beaudette wrote in the 80-year-old Demmel will join the letter announcing Demmel’s a select club that includes Presi- nomination. dent George H.W. Bush; actors Beaudette wrote that the carv- John Wayne, Sylvester Stallone ing by Demmel that he received and Bo Derek; Snoopy; baseball when he was commander of the Hall of Famer Bob Feller and 10th SFG was “the best gift I’ve around a dozen others, according received in my 31-year career.” to the museum’s list. Demmel’s ties to the U.S. mili- The date and place for an offi- tary go back much further than cial induction ceremony have not when he began making wood yet been set, Army spokesman carvings for soldiers, he said. Maj. Juan Martinez said. Shortly after World War II, “This honor is a testament to Demmel and other children your skill as a master woodwork- used to run behind U.S. military er and your decades of support vehicles as they drove through to Special Forces units in Ger- Sachsenkam, picking up chewing many,” the commander of Army gum that the soldiers spat out and Special Forces, Lt. Gen. Francis popping it into their mouths to see M. Beaudette, wrote in a letter if it was still sweet. He and other that was presented to Demmel, boys also once got into a large along with a green beret, at an American car and started eating event in Stuttgart. the pears they found in a brown Demmel’s bond with the 10th paper bag on the back seat. SFG goes back to 1972 when the When a U.S. soldier walked to- group was based in Bad Toelz, ward the car from an inn across about four miles from the Bavar- the street, most of the boys ran ian village of Sachsenkam, where away, leaving Demmel, the young- the sculptor has lived all his life. est, behind to face what he was One day, a soldier drove by the sure would be a severe scolding. artist’s home and stopped to ad- “But the soldier simply picked mire the wood carvings outside, me up, helped me out of the car Demmel said. The two struck up and sent me on my way,” Dem- a conversation and the American mel said. “The fact that he didn’t commissioned a carving of the shout at me impresses me to this Trojan Horse badge that mem- day.” bers of the 10th SFG have worn on their berets since 1956. Stars and Stripes reporters Karin Zeitvogel and Immanuel Johnson con- “After the first soldier came, tributed to this report. more and more followed,” Dem- [email protected] PAGE 6 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, June 5, 2020 VIRUS OUTBREAK Airline downturn may spur USAF pilots to remain

BY SETH ROBSON withdraw their paperwork since Stars and Stripes March, and at this time 171 pilots have been approved to stay past The Air Force is hoping more their original retirement or sepa- soon-to-be-departing pilots will ration dates,” she said. consider its generous retention Airlines have received billions bonuses as commercial airlines of dollars in government funding struggle with the effects of the for payrolls in recent months, the coronavirus. Financial Times reported. Gen. David Goldfein, the Air The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, Force chief of staff, told the House and Economic Security Act, Armed Services Committee on passed March 18, prohibits air- March 4 that the service was lines from laying off or furlough- PETER THOMPSON/U.S. Air Force 2,000 pilots short of the 21,000 ing staff until Oct. 1, Singleton needed to meet requirements laid said. An F-35A Lightning II is seen before takeoff at Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla., in 2016. out in the 2018 National Defense “We might expect to see fur- Strategy. He cited competition loughed pilots requesting to re- naissance pilots, combat search expired, or who have never signed  Air battle managers: Annual from high-paying commercial turn to active duty after this date and rescue fixed wing pilots and a previous retention agreement, payments of $20,000 for contracts airlines. and are keeping a close watch on remotely piloted aircraft pilots: are being offered the following of three to five years. However, the pandemic has the situation,” she said. Annual payments of $30,000 for retention bonuses: The Air Force is working to thrown commercial aviation into Active-duty aviators whose ini- contracts of three to six years and  Bomber, fighter, mobil- increase its training capacity to a free fall with passenger volumes tial service commitment expires $35,000 for contracts of seven to ity and special operations pilots: produce 1,480 pilots a year as dropping by 90%, the Financial during this fiscal year are being 12 years. Lump-sums of $100,000 Annual payments of $35,000 for well as improving quality of life Times reported May 14. offered the following retention for 10- to 12-year contracts. contracts of three to nine years. for aircrew and their families, “Recognizing the challenges bonuses:  Combat search and rescue  Remotely piloted aircraft Singleton said. the airline industry is facing, we  Bomber, fighter, mobil- rotary wing pilots: Annual pay- pilots, command and control “In addition, the Air Force are providing options for rated ity and special operations pilots: ments of $25,000 for contracts intelligence, surveillance and re- is partnering with commercial officers to remain on active duty Annual payments of $35,000 for of three to six years and $30,000 connaissance pilots and combat aviation and pilot educators who who otherwise had plans to de- contract lengths of three to 12 for contracts of seven to 12 years. search and rescue fixed wing pi- share our concern in ensuring part,” Air Force spokeswoman years. Lump-sums of $100,000  Combat systems officers and lots: Annual payments of $30,000 the national pilot supply meets Lt. Col. Malinda Singleton said in for seven- to nine-year contracts air battle managers: Annual pay- for contracts of three to nine years. the needs of both the military and an email Wednesday. and $200,000 for 10- to 12-year ments of $20,000 for contracts of  Combat search and res- commercial communities,” she “We have seen Air Force mem- contracts. three to six years and $25,000 for cue rotary wing pilots: An- said. bers with approved retirement  Command and control intel- contracts of seven to nine years. nual payments of $25,000 for [email protected] and separation dates request to ligence, surveillance and recon- Aviators whose contracts have contracts of three to nine years. Twitter: @SethRobson1 Roosevelt: Crew members with the virus still kept behind until recovered

FROM FRONT PAGE The aircrew returned to sea two weeks ago for carrier flight qualifications before the ship went back to Guam this week to retrieve the remaining sailors who were medically cleared to re-embark, Sardiello wrote in the post. “To this date, since returning TR to sea two weeks ago, we continue to sail and op- erate with no return of the virus onboard,” he said. “The Rough Riders and our fami- lies’ tenacity and resiliency in the face of uncertainty has been put to the test and met the challenge.” WILL BENNETT/U.S. Navy Sailors still battling the coronavirus were left behind, where “they will con- The Theodore Roosevelt flies a replica of tinue to be cared for ashore until all are Capt. Oliver Hazard Perry’s Don’t Give Up recovered, while we remain on mission,” the Ship flag in the Philippine Sea. Sardiello said. “Now it is time to continue to protect worldwide media. our ability to do our mission and protect “The spread of the disease is ongoing our sailors’ health,” he added. “We have and accelerating,” Crozier wrote March returned Theodore Roosevelt to sea as a 30. “We are not at war. Sailors do not need CHRISTOPHER BLACHLY/U.S. Navy symbol of hope and inspiration, and an in- to die.” strument of national power.” Modly received backlash from sailors A sailor aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt searches for surface Sardiello took over for Capt. Brett Cro- and lawmakers for removing Crozier. contacts in the Philippine Sea, on Wednesday. zier, the carrier’s former commander, Video of thousands of Roosevelt sailors when then-acting Navy Secretary Thomas chanting Crozier’s name as he walked off pid” was leaked to the public. Gilday’s office has not commented on Modly removed Crozier from command in the carrier for the last time flooded social A report on the outbreak’s handling was the report but told media on May 27 that April. media. turned in to Chief of Naval Operations Gilday will need time to review and en- The removal came after a letter Crozier Modly resigned about a week after re- Adm. Mike Gilday last week. Crozier’s re- dorse its contents. had written to Navy higher-ups plead- moving Crozier when a recording of his moval prompted an inquiry into the situa- ing for help for his crew was leaked to the speech to the Roosevelt’s crew criticizing tion, which led Gilday to order a follow-on [email protected] San Francisco Chronicle and picked up by the former skipper and calling him “stu- investigation. Twitter: @CaitlinDoornbos Friday, June 5, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 7 VIRUS OUTBREAK US military relaxes more restrictions for More seek jobless aid; troops on Okinawa reopenings slow layoffs BY MATTHEW M. BURKE However, some restrictions AND AYA ICHIHASHI remain in place: the use of mass BY CHRISTOPHER RUGABER that the unemployment rate jumped from 14.7% to Stars and Stripes transit, visiting off-base bars, barbers, hotels, nail salons and Associated Press 19.8%. If those forecasts prove accurate, it would CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — mean that nearly 30 million people have lost jobs tattoo shops are still prohibited. WASHINGTON — Nearly 1.9 million people ap- Marine spouse Kristin Edick and Base access remains limited to since the viral outbreak intensified in March, and her daughters Ellisyn and Logan plied for U.S. unemployment benefits last week, the that joblessness has reached its highest point since mission-essential personnel, ac- ninth straight decline since applications spiked in were all smiles Thursday as they cording to a wing Facebook post. the Great Depression. shopped for a new pair of shoes at mid-March, a sign that the gradual reopening of Since mid-March, 42.7 million people have ap- Marine officials said the re- businesses has slowed the loss of jobs. the American Village retail com- maining restrictions comply with plied for unemployment benefits. Not all of them plex on Okinawa. The diminishing pace suggests that the job mar- are still unemployed, though. Some have since been guidelines from the government ket meltdown triggered by the coronavirus may The Marine Corps and Air of Japan, U.S. Centers for Disease rehired. And some laid-off people, it turns out, filed have bottomed out as more companies call at least Force on Wednesday and Thurs- Control and Prevention and U.S. duplicate applications for benefits as they struggled some of their former employees back to work. day relaxed some coronavirus Forces Japan and will be “con- with unresponsive state unemployment systems. The total number of people who are now receiving restrictions for service members tinually reviewed.” The depth of the job cuts since the virus forced jobless aid rose only slightly to 21.5 million, suggest- and their families on the island, “The fight against COVID-19 is the widespread shutdown of businesses reflects an which as of Wednesday had 146 ing that rehiring is offsetting some of the ongoing not over,” the 18th Wing said on economy gripped by the worst downturn since the coronavirus cases and seven layoffs. Facebook. “We must remain vigi- Great Depression. The economy is thought to be Though applications for benefits are slowing, the deaths. The last infection on lant and continue to practice so- Okinawa was reported April 30. latest weekly number is still more than double the shrinking in the April-June quarter at an annual cial distancing and good hygiene The Edick family, and others rate approaching 40%. That would be, by far, the as well as wear a face mask when record high that prevailed before the viral outbreak. like them, are now able to dine worst quarterly contraction on record. social distancing isn’t possible.” It shows that there are limits to how much a partial at off-base restaurants, as long as Still, real-time private data on consumer behav- The wing instructed service reopening of the economy can restore a depressed they sit outdoors, and patronize ior is showing signs that the economy is gradually members to focus on keeping a job market mired in a recession. off-base retail stores for nones- reviving. Credit and debit card spending tracked by detailed contact log as they get With all states gradually reopening for business, sential goods and services. These Chase Bank shows that consumer spending, though out more and more. USFJ has de- more consumers are starting to return to restau- freedoms, realized once again roughly flat last week, rebounded from its low point clared a public health emergency rants, stores and hair salons. That trend has boosted after nearly seven weeks under consumer spending from exceedingly low levels in mid-April, when it was 40% below year-ago lev- lockdown, were enough to lift the until June 14. els. Now it is down 20% from a year ago. While military officials eased and has likely encouraged some companies to hire family’s spirits, as they looked Economists have cautioned that most Americans restrictions Wednesday night and again. forward to a post-coronavirus will need to feel more confident about returning to Thursday morning, the message In addition to the laid-off employees who applied reality. for benefits last week, 623,000 others sought jobless their former habits of shopping, traveling and eating Ellisyn, 7, and Logan, 2, tried was taking some time to reach the force. aid under a new program for self-employed and gig out before the economy can sustain any meaningful to catch a bug in a small pool of workers, who now qualify for unemployment ben- recovery. That will likely require the availability of water while they patiently waited Popular service member hang- outs like the Burger Bear outside efits for the first time. These figures aren’t adjusted a vaccine or a significant increase in testing. for the store to open. for seasonal variations, so the government doesn’t “What’s really going to move the needle economi- “I needed to buy Ellisyn a new Camp Foster’s front gate, the include them in the overall data. cally is when consumers and businesses feel com- pair of Crocs and I had been wait- Starbucks on Route 58 in front The figures come one day before the govern- fortable re-engaging with the economy the way they ing for it,” Kristin Edick, 36, of of Camp Lester and the massive ment’s jobs report for May is expected to show that did before COVID-19,” said Adam Kamins, a senior Charlotte, N.C., said of the an- Aeon Mall Okinawa Rycom in Ki- employers slashed 8 million jobs last month, and regional economist at Moody’s Analytics. nouncement easing restrictions. tanakagusuku were devoid of ser- She saw the Facebook post on vice members and their families. Wednesday night, she said, “so Despite that, the news was well here we are.” received by Marines and sailors Edick said she couldn’t wait aboard Camp Foster. for the rest of the restrictions to Marine Master Sgt. Toby eventually be lifted as well. Brown said he couldn’t wait to “We all did our part during the visit the Japanese home improve- lockdown,” she said. “We did so ment store Makeman. well. Now, I cannot wait to travel “I think it’s a good move for- to the outer islands like Keramas. ward in the right direction,” he I also would love to visit Taiwan.” said as he exited the Camp Fos- Marine Forces Japan first an- ter commissary with an armful nounced the latest relaxation of groceries Thursday. “I’ve got of restrictions with a statement some stuff around the house I Wednesday night. Air Force Brig. want to try and get done.” Gen. Joel Carey, 18th Wing com- Marine Gunnery Sgt. Rebecca mander at Kadena Air Base, fol- Culp said she couldn’t wait to lowed suit Thursday morning. combine a day at the beach with “The move towards more le- eating at an off-base restaurant nient conditions reflects the and socializing with friends. effectiveness of preventive mea- “I think everyone’s excited sures and a gradual return to rou- about it,” she said as she rushed tine training and operations,” the to get her lunch. “It’s going to be Marine statement said. helpful for the Marines to be able The 18th Wing also gave the to get out in town and will defi- green light to off-base youth pro- nitely lift everyone’s spirits.” grams like swimming and piano Navy Petty Officer 1st Class lessons, according to a Facebook Justin Hayes, a corpsman with post Thursday. The wing also the 3rd Medical Battalion, said authorized base-sponsored trips, he couldn’t wait to patronize his tours and educational classes favorite island eateries. “when available.” “I think it’s awesome in the “Non-contact outdoor sports sense of being able to go to out- and activities such as volleyball, side retail stores, i.e. the Daiso (a softball, baseball, etc. are autho- 100-yen store franchise), just the rized,” the post said. “While these small things that matter,” he said select sports are permitted, per- with a wide smile. “Hopefully the sonnel in the stands and dug-outs restrictions loosen up a little bit must observe social distancing.” more, but I’ll take what we can Base bars, clubs and lounges get.” are also authorized, according to [email protected] the wing. Health screenings will Twitter: @MatthewMBurke1 no longer be conducted on those [email protected] entering the air base. Twitter: @AyaIchihashi PAGE 8 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, June 5, 2020 VIRUS OUTBREAK British government hosts vaccine summit

Associated Press As countries such as New Zea- land and Australia mark progress LONDON — The British gov- in containing the pandemic and ernment hosted a vaccine summit work on plans to resume some in- Thursday, hoping to raise billions ternational air travel, others are of dollars to immunize children having to step up precautions. in developing countries and to North Macedonia reintroduced discuss how any potential vac- stringent restrictions on move- cine against the new coronavi- ment in its capital, Skopje and rus might be distributed globally three other areas. On Thursday — and fairly. the Health Ministry announced The United Nations and the In- 120 new confirmed cases — the ternational Red Cross and Red highest increase since the out- Crescent Movement have urged break began — and two deaths. that “a people’s vaccine” be de- In the U.S., Arizona officials veloped for COVID-19 that would reported nearly 1,000 new cases be freely available to everyone, Wednesday amid a rise in hospi- calling it a “moral imperative.” talizations, a little over two weeks Thursday’s event was a pledg- after Gov. Doug Ducey ended ing conference for the vaccines his stay-at-home order. The state alliance GAVI, which says the has now tallied more than 22,000 funds will be used to vaccinate cases and 981 deaths. about 300 million children in doz- Utah’s state epidemiologist is- ens of countries against diseases sued a renewed plea Wednesday like malaria, pneumonia and for people to maintain social dis- HPV. tancing and exercise caution after GAVI was also expected to start DITA ALANGKARA/AP state figures showed an average a new “advance market commit- A firefighter sprays disinfectant at mannequins as a precaution against coronavirus outbreak at Tanah of about 200 new cases a day last ment” mechanism that it hopes Abang textile market in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Thursday. week, the highest weekly average will enable developing countries by far since the pandemic began. to get any effective COVID-19 planes to obtain ventilators — are than ours, so they can get the pandemic. South Carolina has logged its vaccine when available. not encouraging signs that there vaccine first and we’ll remain Pakistan reported over 4,000 three highest daily case counts But experts pointed out that will be much global cooperation if vulnerable.’ ” new cases and said 82 more in the past week. The two high- the unprecedented pandemic est death counts have occurred in and when a coronavirus vaccine The urgency of finding a way people had died, raising its death — where arguably every country the last week — 20 deaths on May is available. to stem outbreaks was evident as toll to 1,770. Its confirmed cases will be clamoring for a vaccine 27 and 17 on Wednesday. — may make such discussions “Rich countries will most India on Thursday reported yet surpassed neighboring China, As of Thursday, more than 6.5 extremely messy. likely try to push their way to the another record number of new in- jumping to 85,264 compared with million people worldwide have And the worldwide scramble front of the queue, leaving poorer fections — 9,304, with 260 deaths, Beijing’s total of 82,967. been confirmed infected with for masks and ventilators that countries at the back, and that’s a in the previous 24 hours. The spike in infections comes the coronavirus and more than erupted in the early stages of the problem,” said Jimmy Whitworth, India’s total tally of COVID-19 weeks after Prime Minister 386,000 have died, according to pandemic — where countries like a professor of international pub- fatalities surpassed 6,000 and its Imran Khan overrode warnings data compiled by Johns Hopkins France requisitioned the coun- lic health at the London School of number of infections has risen to from experts and eased a lock- University. The actual number of try’s entire supply of masks and Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. nearly 217,000, the Health Min- down. Officials have blamed the infections is thought to be much the U.S. apparently paid off the “I can’t imagine any country istry said. That makes India the public for not adhering to social higher, due to limits on testing shippers of loads already on air- saying, ‘Africa’s need is greater seventh worst country hit by the distancing regulations. and many asymptomatic cases. Protests eclipse virus, but White House fears resurgence

Associated Press the pandemic that has claimed the potential impact on infection It could take weeks to judge the by the virus but may also have the lives of more than 105,000 rates. impact of the nationwide protests greater numbers of asymptom- WASHINGTON — For weeks, Americans and imperiled his re- Any uptick in cases in the weeks on the spread of COVID-19, which atic spreaders — complicating President Donald Trump has election prospects. ahead could slow the economic had been dramatically ebbing predictions. been eager to publicly turn the But political dangers for the rebirth that Trump’s advisers across most of the country before Dr. Deborah Birx, the adminis- page on the coronavirus pan- president remain. believe he needs before he faces the killing of Floyd, a black man tration’s coronavirus coordinator, demic. Now fears are growing Thousands of Americans voters again in five months. who died after a white Minneapo- has been monitoring the protests within the White House that the — many without protective face “A second wave, whether now lis police officer pressed a knee since they began, looking for in- very thing that finally shoved the masks — have jammed the na- or in September, would obviously on Floyd’s neck for several min- dicators of potential resurgence virus from center stage — mass tion’s streets over the past week be a setback to the economic re- utes even after he stopped mov- in cases, a White House official protests over the death of George in defiance of social distancing covery and Trump’s reelection ing and pleading for air. said. Floyd — may bring about its guidelines from governors and hopes,” said Republican strate- Those infected with the virus The official, who spoke on the resurgence. the Centers for Disease Control gist Alex Conant. “What Trump sometimes take several days to condition of anonymity to discuss Trump this week has eagerly and Prevention. The White House needs more than anything is a re- display symptoms, creating a lag internal matters, said Birx was pronounced himself the “presi- coronavirus task force, which has surgence of consumer and busi- in the data. expected to present the task force dent of law and order“ in response dramatically scaled back its op- ness confidence. A second wave And many protesters were with early impressions this week to the racial unrest that has swept erations as states reopen their or prolonged civil unrest will un- masked and skewed younger — a but the fuller picture likely won’t across the nation, overshadowing economies, is scrambling to track dermine that.” population that is less affected be known for some time. China easing airline access amid fresh conflict with Washington

Associated Press would bar four Chinese airlines Airlines that aren’t on the surname, Yan. the status of Hong Kong. from the United States because March list can make one flight Asked what it heard from Chi- All foreign carriers authorized BEIJING — Chinese regula- Beijing was failing to allow Unit- per week starting Monday, the nese regulators about its status, to fly to China will be allowed to tors said Thursday more for- ed Airlines and Delta Air Lines to Civil Aviation Administration of United said in a statement, “We eign airlines will be allowed to increase to two flights per week if resume flights to China. China said on its website. look forward to resuming passen- they go three weeks with no pas- fly to China as anti-coronavirus Airlines that were flying to The announcement appeared ger service between the United sengers testing positive for the controls ease but it was unclear China when controls were im- to open the door to United and States and China when the regu- whether the change will defuse a posed in March were allowed to Delta but CAAC gave no indica- latory environment allows us to virus, CAAC said. fresh conflict with the Trump ad- keep making one flight per week. tion which carriers were affected. do so.” It said a route will be suspended ministration over air travel. United and Delta had suspended An employee who answered the The dispute adds to U.S.-Chi- for one week if the number of pas- The announcement came after their flights before that and asked phone at CAAC said she had no nese strains over trade, technol- sengers who test positive reaches Washington said Wednesday it permission to resume. details. She would give only her ogy, Taiwan, human rights and five. Friday, June 5, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 9 VIRUS OUTBREAK ‘Bandits’ spread smiles at Yokota one can at a time

BY THERON GODBOLD rus’ spread. Stars and Stripes “It was spur of the moment and we didn’t expect it to take off,” YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan said one of the Bandits, who dress — Mysterious cans of Chef Bo- in dark clothing and wear paper yardee Beefaroni recently began bags over their heads. “We start- BEEFARONI BANDITS popping up outside residences ed with our friends; we thought it and offices at the home of U.S. was funny.” A Beefaroni Bandits member poses with cans of Beefaroni left outside the Stars and Stripes office at Forces Japan in western Tokyo. The idea sprang from a Red- Yokota Air Base, Japan, on Monday. The unexpected 16-ounce bun- dit post in which the author de- dles of macaroni, ground beef scribed pranking his best friend donated to Yokota’s food pantry, military and civilian personnel to people’s property or vandal- and tomato sauce come with yel- for a year by placing cans of Beef- volunteer Cristy McDaniel said home and work and trips for es- ize anything. We are all adults; low sticky notes attached bear- aroni in his mailbox and on his Tuesday. She said that such items sential services only, are sched- we just like acting like children ing handwritten messages like: doorstep. are popular at the food bank, uled to expire June 30. sometimes,” one of the bandits You’ve been Beefaroni’d #Beef- The Redditor described the which is always accepting canned The bandits said that they said. “Stay tuned, because we are aroniBandits #BeefaroniBan- lengths to which he went to throw goods that are up to six months hope to reveal their identities at very far from done.” ditsStrikeAgain #StayTuned. his friend off the trail. He con- past expiration. an event that benefits Yokota’s The Chef Boyardee Co. has a This campaign of canned fri- cluded the prank by dressing as “I think it breaks the monotony,” food pantry once the emergency previous military connection. volity is the work of five service Chef Boyardee and telling his McDaniel said of the Beefaroni is lifted and life returns closer to Founded in 1928 by Italian im- members, spouses and civilians friend, “Your subscription to Chef Bandits. “With [the coronavirus normal. migrant Hector Boiardi and his who spoke to Stars and Stripes by Boyardee Beefaroni has ended. restrictions], it brings a little bit The group, which has a Face- brothers, it provided canned ra- phone, but refused to reveal their Would you like to renew?” of comedy to the situation.” book page with about 80 mem- tions to American troops during identities. Their aim, they said The story made its way to Face- Yokota as been under a public bers, expects to continue its World War II. Boiardi sold the during a group call Tuesday, is to book, where the Beefaroni Ban- health emergency declared by campaign into the foreseeable fu- company not long after; it’s owned raise morale and have some fun dits found their inspiration. 374th Airlift Wing commander ture. Nearly 30 people have asked today by Conagra Brands. during the ongoing restrictions Over the past week, quite a Col. Otis Jones on April 6. The to be Beefaroni’d. [email protected] aimed at reducing the coronavi- few cans of Beefaroni have been restrictions, which limit travel by “We are not here to mess with Twitter: @GodboldTheron PAGE 10 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, June 5, 2020 NATION Floyd to be eulogized in Minneapolis memorial

Associated Press ing a decision by prosecutors to charge the three other Minneapo- MINNEAPOLIS — Mourn- lis officers at the scene of Floyd’s ers converged in Minneapolis on death with aiding and abetting a Thursday for the first in a series murder. of a memorials to George Floyd, whose death at the hands of po- Authorities also filed a new, lice has sparked turbulent pro- more serious murder charge tests around the world against — second-degree, up from third- racial injustice. degree — against the officer at The afternoon event was set the center of the case, Derek for North Central University, Chauvin. If convicted, they could where civil rights leader the Rev. get 40 years in prison. Al Sharpton was scheduled to be The new second-degree mur- among those eulogizing the 46- der charge alleges that Chauvin year-old Floyd. intentionally caused Floyd’s “He was a human being. He death without premeditation had family, he had dreams, he while committing another felony, had hopes,” Sharpton said ahead namely assault. of the gathering. “The real duty The attorney for Floyd’s family, of one with this type of assign- Ben Crump, called the additional JULIO CORTEZ/AP ment is to underscore the value charges against the officers “a of the human life that was taken, The body of George Floyd arrives before his memorial services on Thursday in Minneapolis. bittersweet moment” and “a sig- which gives the reason the move- nificant step forward on the road ment was occurring.” pacity was reduced to about 500. he was raised and lived most of the handcuffed black man’s neck to justice.” Inside the sanctuary, a golden Memorials are set to take place his life. Then a 500-person ser- for several minutes — come as Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, said casket was flanked by white and in three cities over six days. After vice will take place Tuesday at demonstrations across the Unit- that Americans need to “seize purple flowers, and an image was the Minneapolis event, Floyd’s the Fountain of Praise church. ed States and around the globe the moment” and confront the projected above the pulpit of a body will go to Raeford, N.C., The farewells for Floyd — an continue. effects of racism, including un- mural painted at the street corner where he was born, for a public out-of-work bouncer who was In the U.S., where protests had equal educational and economic where Floyd was pinned to the viewing and private family ser- arrested on suspicion of passing been marked by bouts of lawless- opportunities. ground by police. The sanctuary vice on Saturday. a counterfeit $20 bill at a con- ness earlier in the week, rela- “I think this is probably our last normally seats 1,000, but because Next, a public viewing will be venience store and died when a tive quiet continued for a second shot, as a state and as a nation, to of the coronavirus outbreak, ca- held Monday in Houston, where white officer pressed his knee on straight night Wednesday follow- fix this systemic issue,” he said. Pentagon planned to send DC troops home, but changed call

BY COREY DICKSTEIN N.C., a defense official said. Later Top Pentagon officials ulti- apolis police officer, had grown Politico and CNN reported, cit- Stars And Stripes Wednesday, after Esper attended mately delayed their final deci- violent. ing unnamed administration a meeting at the White House, sion on removing any troops from Esper appeared to break with officials. White House press sec- WASHINGTON — The Penta- McCarthy was notified that Esper the Washington region, accord- President Donald Trump in dis- retary Kayleigh McEnany said gon ordered active-duty soldiers had changed his mind, the official ing to one of the defense officials, couraging invocation of the In- that she was unaware of Esper’s deployed outside Washington, said. who was not authorized to com- surrection Act, a rarely used 1807 position on the Insurrection Act D.C., for riot control to remain in The roughly 1,600 soldiers ment on the issue and spoke on statute that allows the president before Wednesday but did not the region after hours earlier de- deployed this week from Fort condition of anonymity. It was not to deploy federal troops within say whether Trump had lost con- ciding that some of those troops Bragg and Fort Drum, N.Y., to clear Wednesday afternoon when the United States to quash civil fidence in his second defense should return to their home undisclosed military installations a decision to send troops back to unrest. Trump on Monday said secretary. bases, a defense official said late in the national capital region re- their home bases would be made. that if the nation’s governors did “As of right now, Secretary Wednesday. mained “on alert” Wednesday The moves follow Esper’s not use their own National Guard Army Secretary Ryan McCar- afternoon, two other defense offi- Wednesday morning Pentagon troops to address violent protests, Esper is still Secretary Esper,” thy received orders Wednesday cials said. Top Pentagon officials, news briefing to announce his which in many cases have led to she said in a White House news morning from Defense Secretary including Esper, have said that opposition to the use of active- rioting and looting, he would take briefing. “If the president loses Mark Esper to send some 200 they were reticent to move those duty forces on American streets, it upon himself to respond by de- faith, we will all learn about that infantrymen from the 82nd Air- troops — the vast majority of as protests sparked by the May ploying active-duty troops. in the future.” borne Division’s Immediate Re- whom are military police — onto 25 killing of a handcuffed black Esper’s comments were not [email protected] sponse Force back to Fort Bragg, Washington’s streets. man, George Floyd, by a Minne- well received at the White House, Twitter: @CDicksteinDC After protests, Northam orders removal of Lee statue in Richmond

BY SARAH RANKIN neapolis when a white police of- uments started falling around the sembly approval. Some activists dorsed the monument’s removal. AND ALAN SUDERMAN ficer pressed a knee into his neck country, Virginia did not make and attorneys, including staff “Today is a day of justice not Associated Press while he pleaded for air. the same changes. of the American Civil Liberties for my family, but the families of “You see, in Virginia, we no lon- In part, local governments Union of Virginia, disagreed. countless enslaved persons who RICHMOND, Va. — A tower- ger preach a false version of his- were hamstrung by a state law The decision to remove the Lee continually have fought for justice ing statue of Confederate Gen. tory. One that pretends the Civil that protects memorials to war monument has so far been widely both long before and long after the Robert E. Lee will be removed War was about ‘state rights’ and veterans. That law was amended praised by black lawmakers and Civil War,” Lee, who attended the “as soon as possible” from Rich- not the evils of slavery. No one be- earlier this year by the new Dem- activists, many of whom have governor’s press conference, said mond’s Monument Avenue, Vir- lieves that any longer,” Northam ocratic majority at the statehouse long called for its removal. in a statement. “Though I know ginia Gov. Ralph Northam said said. and signed by Northam. When “I’m pleased to see it removed. the statue’s eventual promised Thursday. The decision came a day after the changes go into effect July 1, It’s disappointing it took so long,” removal won’t fix the issues we The statue, which sits on state Richmond’s mayor, Levar Stoney, localities will be able to decide said Del. Lamont Bagby, who face, it is a sign that sentiments property, will move to storage announced that he will seek to re- the monuments’ fate. represents Richmond and neigh- and hearts are changing toward while Northam’s administration move the other four Confederate As for the Lee statue, Northam boring Henrico County in the works “with the community to de- statues along Monument Avenue, and his predecessor, fellow Dem- General Assembly and is chair- justice.” termine its future,” the governor a prestigious residential street ocrat Terry McAuliffe, have not man of the Virginia Legislative Northam’s decision on the stat- said at a news conference where and National Historic Landmark previously pressed the issue. Black Caucus. “The Lee statue ue marks his most visible action the announcement was met with district. McAuliffe said that in the af- was a constant reminder to Black so far to make good on his pledge extended applause. Together, the decisions mark termath of the Charlottesville Virginians of racism, dehuman- to devote his term to promoting Northam made the decision a striking departure from recent rally, where a woman was killed ization and hate that exists and racial equity after a scandal over after days of angry protests in years when even after a violent by an avowed white supremacist was prevalent throughout our a racist photo that appeared on Richmond and across the country rally of white supremacists de- who drove a car into a crowd, that history his medical school yearbook page over the death of George Floyd, a scended on Charlottesville in he lacked the authority to remove A descendant of Lee, the Rev. nearly forced him from office last black man who was killed in Min- 2017 and other Confederate mon- the statue without General As- Robert W. Lee IV, has also en- year. Friday, June 5, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 11 NATION Police: Coordinated thieves capitalize on protest chaos

Associated Press off their trail. While opportunists Cuomo said this week that some have sometimes joined the fren- people stealing from stores were OAKLAND, Calif. — Police in zy, police and experts say there using encrypted messaging to a small San Francisco Bay Area is a sophistication that suggests a communicate and posted lookouts community were about to help au- level of planning that goes beyond to warn if police were coming. thorities in neighboring Oakland spontaneous acts. In the Southern California city keep the peace during a protest It’s hardly the first time legiti- of Long Beach, groups of thieves when a more pressing crisis hit mate protest has been used as a hit store after store Sunday as home: groups of thieves had pil- cover for crime. But crime ex- marchers demonstrated nearby. NOAH BERGER/AP laged malls, set fire to a Walmart perts note the scale of the thefts, Mayor Robert Garcia said they and stormed a car dealership. as they have taken place coast-to- went “from protest to protest” so Police officers leave a vandalized Decathlon sporting goods store in By the time San Leandro offi- coast, in big and small cities and they had cover to steal. Emeryville, Calif., on May 30. cers arrived at the Dodge deal- in suburbs. Police in Los Angeles, which ership, dozens of cars were gone “I’ve been a student of these had widespread burglaries for Groups of thieves struck a se- nothing,” he said. “And they are and thieves were peeling out of things. And I have never seen several days, said the crimes ries of big box stores on Chicago’s implicitly being told, ‘Don’t do the lot in $100,000 Challenger anything like it,” said Neil Sulli- didn’t occur until a third night of South Side on Sunday while pe- anything.’ ” Hellcat muscle cars. van, a nationally recognized ex- protests and shifted from thieves riodically calling 911 to falsely Some shoplifters displayed sur- Nearly 75 vehicles were stolen pert on mass-events security and on foot to those in cars able to report that a mall several miles prising brazenness, walking out Sunday, including models driven retired Chicago Police Depart- haul more off. away was being ransacked, Al- of stores with stolen goods. TV through glass showroom doors to ment commander. The arrival of more than 1,000 derman Ray Lopez said. helicopters captured some people escape. It’s one of the most brazen People who stole during civil- National Guard troops in Los An- By the time police rushed to changing into their pilfered at- heists law enforcement has seen rights protests in the 1960s, he geles County to provide security the mall to find no one there, the tire outside Long Beach shops in a wave of thefts nationwide tar- said, tended to be individuals freed up officers to more aggres- thieves had moved on to another and a thief struggling to close the geting big box electronics stores, who saw crimes of opportunity sively try to stop crimes. Sheriff large store — and phoned in addi- trunk of a car stuffed with clothes jewelry shops and luxury design- as demonstrations spun out of Alex Villanueva said his depart- tional false reports to again shake at a Walnut Creek mall near ers while officers have been busy control. By contrast, many of the ment was able to thwart “a very police off their trail. Oakland. patrolling protests over the police break-ins that have happened the significant operation to sack” a “It was a game of whack-a- Kelly, from the Alameda Sher- killing of George Floyd. last week appear to be meticu- large outlet mall in the nearby mole,” Lopez said. iff’s Office, said the county began “It was very strategic,” Sgt. lously planned and coordinated, City of Commerce. Dozens were In other instances, caravans of to get a handle on things after im- Ray Kelly of the Alameda County he said. arrested. 10 or more cars would pull up to posing evening curfews on Mon- Sheriff’s Office said about the auto One of the first of these crimes “They were there for only one a store, smash the windows, then day. He noted there was a clear thefts and other recent heists. unfolded Saturday in Emeryville, purpose and that was to loot,” he wait nearby to see if police would distinction between protesters Many of the smash-and-grab a tiny city of retail shopping said. arrive. If they didn’t, some of the who got out of hand while dem- thefts have coincided with or fol- centers next to Oakland, when a In the San Francisco Bay Area, same cars would return to load onstrating for social justice and lowed protests over the death of crowd showed up and broke into tweets warning of looting and up with goods and speed off. other people who seized on the Floyd, who struggled to breathe stores after an Instagram post rioting turned out to be false, A reluctance of officers to use uprising to steal. as his neck was pinned down by a said they would “hit“ the Target though they led some businesses force amid intensified scrutiny “Some of the burning was done white Minneapolis police officer’s and “break every stores“ (sic). to close and may have been at- of police tactics has emboldened out of anger and that was under- knee. They have been carried “This wasn’t the mafia and orga- tempts to divert police elsewhere. would-be thieves, said Eugene standable,” he said. “But the stra- out by caravans of well-coordi- nized crime, but this wasn’t indi- Richmond police tweeted that a O’Donnell, a professor of police tegic looting was definitely for nated criminals who capitalize on viduals acting alone,” said Mayor bogus rumor on social media of studies at New York’s John Jay personal gain. It was not to push chaos, communicate via messag- Christian Patz. “There definitely an officer being shot occurred College of Criminal Justice. forward the community con- ing apps and use both the protests was some organization.” around the time a pot shop was “All you have to tell police is cerns around police brutality and and other tactics to throw police In New York, Gov. Andrew ransacked. to do nothing and they will do reform.“ People are blowing up, or just taking, ATMs in Philadelphia

Associated Press General Josh Shapiro said at his news con- ference Wednesday. PHILADELPHIA — Explosions have “He further described having done this hit 50 cash machines in and near Philadel- at an ATM the night before, stealing more phia since the weekend, and one man has than $8,500,” he said. died, in a coordinated effort to steal them or take the money inside, authorities said Crump was taken into custody during an Wednesday. undercover buy, and his vehicle was found A 25-year-old who’s accused of selling to have enough dynamite to blow up at least homemade dynamite on the streets with four more ATMs, Shapiro said. instructions on how to use it on ATMs has “This individual, whether he proves to been arrested, though authorities aren’t be associated with coordinated efforts to yet sure whether the man is connected to blow up ATMs in Philadelphia, sought to the coordinated effort, the state attorney take advantage of civil unrest to sow chaos general said. and destruction,” Shapiro said. Police earlier urged businesses that host Cash machines in some other cities, in- the machines to remove cash to discourage cluding Pittsburgh and Minneapolis, also further thefts, one of which resulted in the have been stolen from or damaged since death of a 24-year-old man hours after he civil unrest struck the nation when George tried to break into an ATM early Tuesday, Floyd was killed on Memorial Day. But authorities said. Philadelphia’s problem appears to be on a “It’s not worth it,” Police Commission- larger scale. er Danielle Outlaw said. “It’s not worth Floyd, a black man, died in handcuffs the injuries that we’re seeing associated while a Minneapolis police officer pressed with this, and it’s not worth the risk to the a knee on his neck even after he pleaded DAVID MAIALETTI, THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER/AP community and the danger that it’s been for air and stopped moving. imposing.” A member of the Philadelphia bomb squad surveys the scene after an ATM machine The officer, Derek Chauvin, was fired Talib Crump is charged with felony pos- was blown-up in Philadelphia on Tuesday. May 26 and had his initial charge of third- session of weapons of mass destruction as degree murder upped to the second de- well as numerous misdemeanor charges was sent to the Defender Association of that using dynamite was better than bul- gree on Wednesday. Three other officers including weapons offenses, terroristic Philadelphia, listed in court documents as lets for robbing an ATM and offered up who were at the scene were also charged threats and risking a catastrophe. An representing Crump. explicit instructions on how to best set dy- Wednesday with aiding and abetting sec- email seeking comment on Crump’s behalf Crump had “bragged on social media namite up to blow up an ATM,” Attorney ond-degree murder and manslaughter. PAGE 12 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, June 5, 2020 NATION Obama reemerges as nation hit with multiple crises

Associated Press tizing their implementation. “We’re in a political season, but WASHINGTON — Former our country is also at an inflec- President Barack Obama is tak- ing on an increasingly public role tion point,” said Valerie Jarrett, a longtime friend and adviser to J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE/AP as the nation confronts a conflu- ence of historic crises that has Obama. “President Obama is not Then-State Department Inspector General Steve Linick leaves a meeting in a secure area at the U.S. exposed deep racial and socio- going to shy away from that dia- Capitol in Washington, in October. economic inequalities in Amer- logue simply because he’s not in ica and reshaped the November office anymore.” election. During the roundtable, Obama In doing so, Obama is signaling drew parallels between the un- Ousted State watchdog confirms a willingness to sharply critique rest sweeping America currently his successor, President Donald and protest movements of the Trump, and fill what many Dem- 1960s. But he said that polls show prior investigations into Pompeo ocrats see as a national leader- a majority of Americans support- ship void. On Wednesday, he held ing today’s protesters and form- a virtual town hall event with ing a “broad coalition” in a way BY MARY CLARE JALONICK form Committee Chairman Caro- vestigation into allegations that young people to discuss polic- much of the country didn’t back AND ERIC TUCKER lyn Maloney, D-N.Y., and New he may have mistreated staffers ing and the civil unrest that has then — despite some of the recent Associated Press Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez, the by instructing them to run per- followed the murder of George protests “having been marred by top Democrat on the Senate For- sonal errands for him and his Floyd in Minneapolis. WASHINGTON — Ousted the actions of a tiny minority that eign Relations Committee, said in wife — such as walking his dog Obama rejected a debate he State Department Inspector Gen- engaged in violence.” a joint statement with other law- and picking up dry cleaning and said that he’d seen come up in “a eral Steve Linick on Wednesday Still, he warned, “at some makers that they still have many takeout food. Thus, Pompeo said, little bit of chatter on the inter- told members of three congres- point, attention moves away” and unanswered questions about the the move could not have been net” about “voting versus pro- “protests dwindle in size” so “it’s sional committees that before he firing. retaliatory. tests, politics and participation was abruptly fired, he was inves- important to take that moment “Mr. Linick confirmed that at Republicans questioned Linick versus civil disobedience and di- that’s been created as a society, tigating Secretary of State Mike the time he was removed as IG, on whether he had leaked infor- rect action. Pompeo’s use of government re- as a country, and say let’s use this his office was looking into two mation about sensitive investiga- “This is not an either-or. This sources as well as the secretary’s to finally have an impact.” matters that directly touched on tions, which the administration is a both and to bring about real decision to approve a multibillion- Obama was already beginning Secretary Pompeo’s conduct, and has suggested played a part in his change,” he said during the town dollar arms sale to Saudi Arabia. to emerge from political hiberna- that senior State Department offi- dismissal. In a letter to Engel this hall hosted by his foundation’s My tion to endorse Joe Biden’s Dem- Democrats are investigating Brother’s Keeper Alliance, which cials were aware of his investiga- week, Bulato wrote that “concern ocratic presidential bid when President Donald Trump’s fir- supports young men of color. “We tions,” the Democrats said. They over Linick had grown” concern- the coronavirus pandemic swept ing of Linick — one of several in- both have to highlight a problem said that Linick testified he was ing the handling of an investiga- across the U.S., killing more than spectors general he has recently and make people in power un- ousted — and whether it was a re- “shocked” when he was fired. tion that was leaked in the media 100,000 people, and the economy Their statement said that Lin- and later reviewed. comfortable, but we also have to taliatory move. Pompeo has said translate that into practical solu- began to crater. ick confirmed there was an ongo- The Democrats said Linick that he recommended the inspec- tions and laws that could be imple- In a lengthy written statement ing investigation into “allegations rejected that explanation, say- tor general be terminated, but in- mented and monitored, and make last week, Obama said that while sisted it wasn’t retribution. Linick of misuse of government resourc- ing it was “either misplaced or sure we’re following up on.” he understood millions of Ameri- was an Obama administration es by Secretary Pompeo and his unfounded.” Obama called for turning the cans were eager to “just get back appointee whose office had been wife.” Linick said that he had in- In his opening statement, re- protests over Floyd’s death into to normal” when the pandemic critical of what it saw as political formed officials close to Pompeo leased before the interview and policy change to ensure safer po- abates, it shouldn’t be forgot- bias in the State Department’s of the investigation, including by obtained by The Associated licing and increased trust between ten that normal life for people of current management, but had requesting documents from his Press, Linick said that he has communities and law enforce- color in the U.S. involves being also taken issue with Democratic executive secretary, the Demo- “served without regard to poli- ment. He urged “every mayor in treated differently on account of appointees. crats said. tics” in his nearly three-decade the country to review your use of their race. House Foreign Affairs Com- Pompeo, though, told reporters career in public service and has force policies” with their commu- “This shouldn’t be ‘normal’ in mittee Chairman Eliot Engel, after Linick was fired last month always been committed to inde- nities and “commit to report on 2020 America. It can’t be ‘nor- D-N.Y., House Oversight and Re- that he was unaware of any in- pendent oversight. planned reforms” before priori- mal,’ ” Obama wrote. Rosenstein says that he wouldn’t approve of FBI’s Russia warrant now

BY ERIC TUCKER and his allies, he defended his Russia investigation and the law adviser Michael Flynn while at ham asked if he would agree with Associated Press appointment of special counsel enforcement officials involved. times advancing unsupported the general statement that by Robert Mueller to lead the probe With subpoena authority ex- theories against Obama adminis- August 2017, there was “no there WASHINGTON — Former and affirmed his support for the pected to be approved this week, tration officials. there” when it came to a criminal Deputy Attorney General Rod conclusion that Russia interfered the hearing marked the opening “We’re going to look backward conspiracy between Russia and Rosenstein told lawmakers in the election but did not crimi- salvo of the GOP’s election-year so we can move forward,” com- Trump, Rosenstein said yes. Wednesday that he would not have nally conspire with associates of congressional investigation into mittee chairman Sen. Lindsey Democrats lamented the hear- approved an FBI surveillance the Trump campaign. what they say are damaging find- Graham, R-S.C., said in explain- ing’s politically charged and ret- application for a former Trump “I do not consider the investi- ings about the Russia probe from ing the hearings’ purpose. “If you rospective nature, saying that campaign aide during the Rus- gation to be corrupt, Senator, but a Justice Department inspector don’t like Trump, fine, but this is Republicans were attempting sia investigation had he known at I certainly understand the presi- general review. not about liking Trump or not lik- to refocus attention away from the time about the problems that dent’s frustration given the out- The president’s allies have ing Trump. This is about us as a more urgent problems, includ- have since been revealed. come, which was in fact that there taken fresh aim at the Russia nation.” ing unrest in cities set off by the Rosenstein’s comments were was no evidence of conspiracy be- investigation over the last year, Graham also questioned wheth- murder of George Floyd and the a striking concession that law tween Trump campaign advisers pointing to newly declassified in- er Mueller should have been ap- coronavirus pandemic. enforcement officials made mis- and Russians,” Rosenstein said at formation to allege that Trump pointed at all. Rosenstein, who “This hearing wastes this com- takes as they scrutinized ties be- a hearing of the Senate Judiciary and his associates were unfairly appointed Mueller in May 2017, mittee’s time in a blatant effort tween Russia and Donald Trump’s Committee. pursued. They have claimed vin- said that he believed there had to support the president’s con- 2016 presidential campaign. But His appearance before the com- dication from the Justice Depart- been a sufficient basis for the in- spiracy theories and to help the even as he acknowledged the le- mittee was the first in a series of ment’s decision to dismiss the vestigation and for the naming of president’s reelection,” said Sen. gitimacy of anger from Trump hearings scrutinizing the FBI’s case against ex-national security a special counsel. But when Gra- Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii. Friday, June 5, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 13 VETERANS Watchdog finds resort members advised VA

BY NIKKI WENTLING “According to a written state- Stars and Stripes ment from the three individuals, they provided advice and intro- WASHINGTON — Three mem- ductions when asked by VA of- bers of President Donald Trump’s ficials and helped to connect VA private Mar-a-Lago resort acted to other private citizens who were as advisers and organizers at the health care experts to help VA Department of Veterans Affairs improve services and health care from 2016 to 2018, the Govern- provided to veterans,” the report ment Accountability Office deter- reads. mined after an investigation into Former VA officials, who were the private citizens’ involvement not named in the GAO’s report, in the federal agency. told the watchdog agency other- The Mar-a-Lago members were wise. The officials told the GAO involved in hundreds of email that Perlmutter, Sherman and exchanges with VA officials, fre- Moskowitz had “power and influ- quent phone calls and at least five ence” at the VA, “in part because in-person meetings. Three top of the connection of one of the VA officials — none of whom still three private citizens to the presi- work at the department — com- dent,” the report says. municated with the men over One former official told the private email accounts, records GAO that the three men created of which were unavailable to the a “shadow reporting structure” GAO during its investigation. that created confusion for VA em- “The three private citizens in- ployees who recognized their in- ALEX BRANDON/AP teracted with VA and other feder- fluence. Shulkin was forced to get al officials frequently — at times President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla., is seen in 2017. the buy-in of Perlmutter, Sher- daily, according to former VA of- man and Moskowitz on certain ficials — through email and tele- three of Trump’s friends, who making recommendations re- Democracy Forward, an activ- decisions, including the Cerner phone,” the GAO wrote. have no experience in govern- garding, for example, the Cerner ist organization that often chal- contract, another VA official told Questions arose in 2018 about ment let alone with veterans mat- contract negotiation … and poten- lenges Trump’s actions, also filed the GAO. the influence that the three mem- ters, were secretly shaping the tial candidates for senior-level VA a complaint in U.S. District Court. The influence of the three men bers of Trump’s private club in VA’s policies without any trans- positions.” The suit alleges that former VA might have led to delays with the Palm Beach, Fla., exerted over parency or oversight,” Schatz said It was uncertain Wednesday Secretary David Shulkin used a Cerner contract, the GAO found. the VA, despite none of the men in response to the report. “Being what repercussions — if any private, unofficial email account The department paused negotia- having served in the U.S. military a member of the president’s club — would stem from the report. to communicate with the Mar-a- tions in part to address concerns or government. Some lawmakers does not qualify you to influence A draft of the report was sent to Lago members. from Perlmutter, Sherman and and veterans’ advocates wor- decisions that affect the millions the VA several weeks ago, but the The GAO reported Wednesday Moskowitz. ried that Marvel Entertainment who served in uniform.” department declined to provide that three officials — Shulkin, The men also meddled in per- Chairman Ike Perlmutter, lawyer The GAO reviewed 223 email written comment, the GAO said. former Chief of Staff Peter sonnel decisions at VA headquar- Marc Sherman and Bruce Mos- exchanges between the men and VA press secretary Chris- O’Rourke and former Acting Un- ters, the GAO reported. They kowitz, a Palm Beach doctor, used VA officials from 2016 through tina Noel addressed the report dersecretary for Health Poonam suggested candidates for chief their proximity to the president to 2018. The three men made rec- Wednesday. In a statement, she Alaigh — communicated with the information officer and under- steer VA officials on policies af- ommendations to the VA in 28 of claimed the report “vindicates men from private email accounts. secretary for health positions. fecting millions of Americans. those emails. In 70 others, they the department and completely The former VA officials directed The VA tried to hire one of their At the request of Sens. Brian provided information to VA of- undermines the sensational way the Mar-a-Lago members to use recommendations for chief infor- Schatz, D-Hawaii, and Elizabeth ficials about different initiatives, many media outlets covered this those email addresses. mation officer but failed. Warren, D-Mass., the GAO initi- including their thoughts on how story.” “We cannot quantify how often Warren said the report showed ated an investigation in spring the VA should handle its commu- A federal district court already exchanges occurred on non-gov- that “corruption ran rampant at 2019 into the relationship the nity care program. At the time, has ruled that the three private ernmental email accounts as we the VA.” three men had with VA officials. the VA was negotiating a major citizens did not break the Federal did not obtain those emails,” the “Three unqualified, unaccount- The results, released Wednesday, change to its process for send- Advisory Committee Act, an open GAO wrote. able cronies used their personal show the men were involved in at ing veterans to private-sector government law that requires The GAO was also unable to ob- relationship with the president least five VA initiatives, from per- doctors. transparency of outside advisory tain text messages and personal and membership at his country sonnel decisions at department “The three private citizens groups. The court held that the phone call logs. club as leverage to exert personal headquarters to a multibillion- acted as organizers by scheduling VA did not use the men as an ad- Perlmutter, Sherman and Mos- influence over health care, tech- dollar contract with Cerner Corp. meetings with VA officials and visory committee and dismissed kowitz told the GAO that they nology, personnel and other key to overhaul the agency’s electron- helping to plan events,” the re- a complaint from VoteVets, a lib- did not have a formal role at the decisions,” Warren said. ic health record system. port reads. “At times, the emails eral advocacy group. VoteVets department and had no decision- [email protected] “This new report confirms that show they acted as advisers by has appealed the decision. making authority. Twitter: @nikkiwentling VA backlog of claims grows to 119,000 as work stopped for virus

BY NIKKI WENTLING Questions from senators focused on the abilities, which determines the compensa- wear face coverings. Stars and Stripes department’s response to the pandemic, tion they receive each month, as well as To help handle the delay, Lawrence as well as its fiscal their eligibility for VA programs. asked Wednesday for Congress to approve WASHINGTON — The backlog of De- 2021 budget request. Without the exams, the claims backlog legislation that would allow non-physi- partment of Veterans Affairs claims has Sen. John Boozman, has grown and thousands of veterans are cians, such as nurse practitioners, to con- grown by tens of thousands of cases since R-Ark., asked about waiting for decisions. The coronavirus pan- duct the exams. the department halted work because of the the claims backlog, demic coincided with the start of the Blue Lawrence also asked that some of the coronavirus pandemic, top VA officials which he said had Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act, which money Congress gave the VA for its coro- said Wednesday. “grown significantly” prompted a surge of new claims, Lawrence navirus response efforts be moved to the There were 119,000 backlogged claims since the start of the said. The new law made thousands of Viet- Veterans Benefits Administration to help as of Wednesday, up from 64,000 in No- pandemic. nam War veterans newly eligible for VA pay employees for overtime. In the $2 tril- vember. The VA considers backlogged The VA stopped benefits beginning in January. lion CARES Act approved March 27, Con- claims for benefits to be those that take performing in-person The VA is restarting in-person C&P longer than 125 days to approve or deny. compensation and exams at some locations Monday. Agency gress allotted $19.6 billion for the VA. The “We are not happy about the backlog,” pension exams April Lawrence officials chose 20 facilities that will begin department had spent only $2.3 billion of said Paul Lawrence, the VA undersecre- 2 to encourage veter- to offer health services unrelated to the the money as of last week, and other VA of- tary for benefits. “Our team is very proud ans to stay home to prevent the spread of coronavirus. Based on how the reopening ficials asked Congress for the authority to of processing claims quickly, so we want to the coronavirus. Compensation and pen- goes at those sites, the department will transfer it between accounts. get to that right away.” sion exams, referred to as C&P exams, are begin to open more. On Wednesday, the VA reported that Lawrence testified before the Senate appointments with doctors, during which Those facilities must still screen patients nearly 15,000 of its patients had tested posi- Veterans’ Affairs Committee on Wednes- disabilities are evaluated. The results of and implement social distancing measures, tive for the coronavirus and 1,284 had died. day alongside VA Secretary Robert Wilkie. the exams help the VA rate veterans’ dis- the VA said. Patients will be required to Nearly 12,000 patients have recovered. PAGE 14 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, June 5, 2020 WORLD Floods in Yemen leave at least 16 people dead SANAA, Yemen — Floods swept through Yemen amid heavy Many defy ban on Hong Kong vigil seasonal rains, leaving at least 16 people dead and flooding dozens Associated Press of homes, security officials said Thursday. HONG KONG — Thousands The casualties were reported in of people in Hong Kong defied eastern Hadramawt and southern a police ban Thursday evening, Shabwa provinces, where it began breaking through barricades to raining late Wednesday, said the hold a candlelight vigil on the 31st officials, who spoke on condition anniversary of China’s crushing of anonymity because they were of a democracy movement cen- not authorized to brief the media. tered on Beijing’s Tiananmen Yemen’s rainy season runs from Square. April to the end of August. With democracy snuffed out At least 25 houses were flooded in the mainland, the focus has and hundreds of livestock killed shifted increasingly to semi-au- in Hadramawt, the officials said. tonomous Hong Kong, where au- Yemeni military planes have thorities for the first time banned been rescuing residents trapped the annual vigil that remembers in valleys by the flooding. victims of the 1989 crackdown. Beijing is taking a tougher Spokesman: Forces stance following months of anti- take key Libya airport government protests last year, in what activists see as an accelerat- CAIRO — Forces allied with ing erosion of the city’s rights and the U.N.-supported government liberties. Earlier Thursday, the in Libya have captured a key air- Hong Kong legislature passed a port in Tripoli from rival troops law making it a crime to disre- attempting to take control of the spect China’s national anthem. capital for over a year, a govern- Pro-democracy lawmakers dis- ment forces spokesman said. rupted the proceedings twice to The fall of Tripoli International try to prevent the vote. Airport came two days after the Despite the police ban, crowds U.N. announced Libya’s warring poured into Victoria Park to light candles and observe a minute of parties had agreed to resume KIN CHEUNG/AP cease-fire talks following weeks silence at 8:09 p.m. . Many chant- of heavy fighting. Photos show- ed “Democracy now” and “Stand Participants hold candles during a vigil for the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre at Hong ing shelled Libyan commercial for freedom, stand with Hong Kong’s Victoria Park on Thursday, despite applications for the vigil being officially denied. planes inside the airport were Kong.” posted on the official Facebook While police played recordings Tiananmen Square the night of communications with the outside doing the same in Hong Kong.” page of the Tripoli-allied forces. warning people not to partici- June 3-4, 1989, to break up weeks world cut off, according to rights China did not intervene di- Since 2015, Libya has been di- pate in the unauthorized gather- of student-led protests that had groups. rectly in last year’s protests, de- vided between two governments. ing, they did little to stop people spread to other cities and were “We all know the Hong Kong spite speculation it might deploy from entering the park. Authori- seen as a threat to Communist government and the Chinese troops, but backed the tough re- A t least 39 injured in ties had cited the need for social Party rule. government really don’t want to sponse of the Hong Kong police distancing during the corona- On Thursday, the square where see the candle lights in Victoria and government. knife attack in China virus pandemic in barricading thousands of students had gath- Park,” said Wu’er Kaixi, a former U.S. Secretary of State Mike the sprawling park, but activists BEIJING — State media report ered in 1989 was quiet and large- student leader who was No. 2 on Pompeo tweeted criticism of saw the outbreak as a convenient ly empty. Police and armored the government’s most-wanted China and Hong Kong for ban- at least 39 people were injured in excuse. a knife attack on a kindergarten vehicles stood guard on the vast list following the Tiananmen ning the vigil earlier this week “If we don’t come out today, we space. Few pedestrians lined up Square crackdown. before meeting with a group of in southern China on Thursday don’t even know if we can still morning. at security checkpoints, where “The Chinese Communists Tiananmen Square survivors at come out next year,” said partici- they had to show IDs to be allowed want us all to forget about what the State Department. The attack was an eerie throw- pant Serena Cheung. back to deadly attacks at schools through as part of nationwide happened 31 years ago,“ he told Zhao, the Foreign Ministry Police said they made arrests mass surveillance to prevent any The Associated Press in Taiwan, spokesperson, said, “We urge the in China over past years that in the city’s Mongkok district, prompted security upgrades. commemoration of the event. where he lives. “But it is the Chi- U.S. to abandon ideological preju- where large crowds also rallied. As has become customary, nese government themselves dice, correct mistakes and stop The local government in the When several protesters tried to many dissidents were placed reminding the whole world that interfering in China’s internal af- Guangxi region’s Cangwu county block a road, officers rushed to under house arrest and their they are the same government ... fairs in any form.” said 37 students and two adults detain them, using pepper spray suffered injuries of varying de- and raising a blue flag to warn grees in the attack. them to disperse or they would Chinese state media identified use force on the unauthorized the attacker as a security guard gathering. On Twitter, they urged at the school surnamed Li. No people not to gather in groups be- motive was known and the sus- cause of the coronavirus. pect had been detained while an After the vigil ended in Vic- investigation was underway, they toria Park, groups of protesters said. dressed in black carried flags State broadcaster CCTV said that said, “Liberate Hong Kong, 40 had been injured, three seri- Revolution of our times” as well ously, including the head of the as “Hong Kong Independence.” school, another security guard Hundreds and possibly thou- and a student. sands of people were killed when From The Associated Press tanks and troops moved in on Friday, June 5, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 15 WORLD Cannabis traces found in ancient Israeli temple

BY ILAN BEN ZION miles south of Jerusalem, in the the ingredients mentioned in the Associated Press 1960s discovered a stronghold Bible for the incense sacrifice in belonging to the ancient kingdom the ancient Jewish Temples, the JERUSALEM — Israeli archae- of Judah, and at its core, a small authors wrote. ologists said they’ve found canna- shrine bearing striking simi- Eran Arie, curator of Iron Age bis residue on artifacts from an larities to the biblical Temple in archaeology at the Israel Museum ancient temple in southern Israel Jerusalem. in Jerusalem and lead author of — providing the first evidence of But for decades, attempts to the study, said that the discovery the use of hallucinogenics in the determine the composition of was “revolutionary,” as it was the ancient Jewish religion. black deposits found on two lime- earliest evidence of cannabis use In a research paper, the au- stone altars from the shrine’s in the ancient Near East and the thors said that the discovery inner sanctum — now located at “first time we see psychoactive from an 8th-century B.C. shrine the Israel Museum in Jerusalem substances in Judahite religion.” at Tel Arad offers the first proof — were inconclusive. for “the use of mind-altering sub- Chemical analysis of the sam- The absence of cannabis pollen stances as part of cultic rituals in ples conducted at Israel’s Hebrew or seeds from the ancient Near Judah,” including the first Jewish University and Technion Institute East indicates that the cannabis Temple that stood in Jerusalem at found that one altar contained the was likely imported over long dis- tance trade routes, possibly in the the same time. psychoactive compounds found LAURA LACHMAN, ISRAELI ANTIQUITIES AUTHORITY, ISRAEL MUSEUM/AP Archaeological excavations in marijuana, and the other had form of resin, known colloquially at Tel Arad, located around 35 traces of frankincense — one of as hashish. An ancient altar is on display at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. Dozens raided over hate comments on slain German politician

Associated Press central Kassel region, was shot with murder in the case. Prosecu- Frankfurt prosecutors said They are being investigated on his porch on June 1, 2019, and tors say that he attended an Oc- that authorities in 12 of Germa- on suspicion of offenses includ- BERLIN — German investiga- tors on Thursday carried out raids died later that night. His killing tober 2015 town hall event where ny’s 16 states conducted searches ing public incitement to commit on dozens of people suspected of sparked widespread outrage in Luebcke defended the German and questioning of 40 people sus- crimes, endorsing crimes and posting hate messages about a re- Germany and warnings about government’s decision to allow pected of posting “criminally rel- disparaging the memory of the gional politician from Chancellor the growing danger of violent far- hundreds of thousands of refu- evant comments” about Luebcke, dead. Angela Merkel’s party who was right extremism. gees into the country. A video of largely on various social media Prosecutors in Bavaria, where killed last year. A man with previous convic- Luebcke’s remarks was widely networks. The action was the re- seven of the suspects live, said Walter Luebcke, who led the tions for a string of violent anti- shared in far-right circles, draw- sult of an investigation launched the comments were posted both regional administration in the migrant crimes has been charged ing numerous threats. in September. before and after Luebcke’s death. PAGE 16 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, June 5, 2020 SCIENCE Scientists study tiny ocean ‘I’m in awe of these animals’ critters’ ‘snot palaces’

BY SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press KENSINGTON, Md. aster builders of the sea construct the equivalent of a com- Mplex five-story house that protects them from preda- tors and funnels and filters food for them — all from snot coming out of their heads. And when these delicate mucus homes get clogged, the tadpole- looking critters — called giant larvaceans — build a new one. Usually every day or so. These so-called “snot palaces” could possibly help human con- struction if scientists manage to crack the mucus architectural code, said Kakani Katija, a bioen- gineer at Monterey Bay Aquari- um Research Institute. Her team took a step toward solving the mystery of the snot houses and maybe someday even replicating them, according to a study in Wednesday’s journal Nature. The creatures inside these houses may be small — the big- gest are around 4 inches — but they are smart and crucial to Earth’s environment. Found glob- ally, they are the closest relatives to humans without a backbone, MBARI/AP Katija and other scientists said. This 2002 photo provided by the Monterrey Bay Aquarium Research Institute shows a close up view of a “giant larvacean” and its “inner Together with their houses house” — a mucus filter that the animal uses to collect food. “they are like an alien life form, made almost entirely out of water, yet crafted with complexity and tively big — about 10 times big- purpose,” said Dalhousie Univer- ger than the critters themselves sity marine biologist Boris Worm, — reaching more than three feet who wasn’t part of the study. wide. It would be the equivalent “They remind me of a cross be- of a person making a five-story tween a living veil and a high tech house, Katija said. filter pump.” “They create these small ver- Also, when they abandon their sions of houses by secreting clogged homes about every day, mucus from cells on their heads the creatures collectively drop and then expand those much like millions of tons of carbon to the a balloon into the structures that seafloor, where it stays, prevent- we see,” Katija said. All in about ing further global warming, an hour. Worm said. They also take mi- Water can flow through the croplastics out of the water col- structure so that when it moves umn and dump it on the sea floor. through the water it doesn’t give And if that’s not enough, the other much of a motion detectable by waste in their abandoned houses predatory fish. That, Katija said, is eaten by the ocean’s bottom essentially masks the house dwellers. from whatever wants to eat the But it’s what they build that larvaceans. fascinates and mystifies scien- NASA engineers looking to tists. Because the snot houses are build structures on the moon so delicate, researchers haven’t would probably like to learn from often been able to take them to the larvaceans, she said. the lab to study them. So Katija None of this could be done in and team used a remote subma- Above: This 2015 the lab. Katija’s team used 3D image provided by rine, cameras and lasers to watch laser scan technology to virtually these creatures in water about the Monterrey Bay fly through the inner chambers of 650 to 1300 feet deep off Mon- Aquarium Research the snot palaces, then recreated terey Bay in Northern California. Institute shows the them with software to model the These mucus structures aren’t inner and outer inner-workings of the structure. simple. They include two heart- houses of a giant like chambers that act as a maze But she said the scientists are larvacean, left, and the laser and camera of for the food that drifts in, except still far from understanding ev- the DeepPIV system, there’s only one way for it to go: erything going on there. lower right. Left: into the larvacean’s mouth. The Providence College biologist Kakani Katija works in snot houses often are nearly Jack Carroll, who wasn’t part the remote operated transparent and flow all around of the study, said Katija’s team vehicle control room the critter that looks like a tad- did “really cool work … to detail on MBARI’s research pole, but isn’t. the complex houses. It’s not easy vessel Western Flyer “It could be the most kind of to do in the best circumstances as the DeepPIV complex structure that an animal and they’ve done it deep in the system illuminates makes,” Katija said. “It’s pretty oceans.” a giant larvacean in astonishing that a single animal “We have a lot to learn,” Car- 2015. is able to do it.” roll said. “I’m in awe of these And the houses are compara- animals.” Friday, June 5, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 17

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Gadgets — 18 Books — 22 Travel — 23-29 Health — 36 Crossword — 38 PAGE 18 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, June 5, 2020 WEEKEND: TECH & GADGETS Closing the gap DJs use dedications to help separated families feel closer

BY RUSSELL CONTRERAS The DJs say they welcome the Associated Press challenge and will do what they can to bring joy amid uncer- woman who identi- tainty. fi ed herself as Rachel The two shows have long been from San Ysidro, Calif., popular with Latinos and those Acalled into the syndicat- with family members in prison. ed “The Art Laboe Connection But now those Show” last month with a message in lockdown for Alex “the Wizard.” are sending “Babe, I want you to know I messages love you more than the distance to others in between us,” Rachel told her lockdown. husband, who is serving time in a “We’re all in state prison in Delano, Calif. “We confi nement got mail from you this week.” today,” Masso, JOSH REYNOLDS/AP She then asks DJ Art Laboe to 69, said. play “God Blessed Our Love” by The 94- Radio host Jose Masso reads the liner notes of a song played during the bilingual “Con Salsa!” radio Al Green. He obliged. Laboe year-old show on WBUR 90.9 FM in Boston. Fans of Masso’s show frequently call in with song requests In Boston, DJ Jose Masso of Laboe is insu- dedicated to separated family members. 90.9 WBUR-FM’s “Con Salsa!” lated in his Palm Springs, Calif., got a similar letter from a Mas- home while still hosting his drawn to his multicultural musi- public radio station while he was Last month, Masso decided he sachusetts inmate. The writer syndicated oldies show, accord- cal lineup. a high school teacher in the city. would try to record new shows wanted a Celia Cruz song and ing to Dale Berger, Laboe’s busi- Over the decades, Laboe In addition to playing salsa and from his home. While he worked asked Masso to tell his family to ness partner. Still, he insists that maintained a fan base, especially Afro-Latino artists, Masso has to get the quality squared, he stay inside. He also obliged. the show continue, even though among Mexican Americans who used the show as a community began live-streaming a version Some Latino families sepa- he has to call in from home or followed him from station to forum and a vehicle for families of his show on Facebook. rated by distance or with loved record promos. station. He started getting calls to communicate with inmates. Some battling depression ones serving time in prisons are “We don’t want him out and from inmates’ family members The show runs from 10 p.m. from isolation messaged. They bypassing COVID-19 restrictions anywhere near the studio,” in the 1990s on his syndicated EDT Saturday until 3 a.m. Sun- thanked him for bringing delight on visits by sending dedica- Berger said. “He can’t catch this oldies show. Current and former day, and can be heard in most of by allowing Puerto Rican salsero tions and messages through the thing.” gang members were some of his Massachusetts, southern New Hector Lavoe to sing about “Mi airwaves and internet via two of Born Arthur Egnoian in Salt most loyal fans. Hampshire and parts of Con- Gente” (My People). the nation’s longest-working disc Lake City to an Armenian Amer- “I don’t judge,” Laboe said in necticut. Like Laboe’s show, it A woman had another request. jockeys. With the novel coronavi- ican family, Laboe gained fame an interview with The Associ- also is streamed live online. She had turned 75 and was alone. rus forcing these families in the when he worked as a disc jockey ated Press at his Palm Springs But Masso also has been Could Masso play the following American Southwest and New for KXLA in Los Angeles. He studio last year. “I like people.” barred as a nonessential em- songs? England to stay home, some are was one of the fi rst DJs to play Today, his Sunday show airs in ployee from the studio’s Boston He obliged. turning to the two popular radio R&B and rock ’n’ roll in Califor- California, Arizona and Nevada. University public radio station, “This woman had expected shows to reaffi rm public declara- nia and is credited by scholars It’s also popular in New Mexico which has opted to play old “Con to celebrate alone,” Masso said. tions of love — or pain — even for helping integrate dance halls where audiences listen online. Salsa!” shows. And Masso still “But there on Facebook, strang- while the shows’ vulnerable, among Latinos, blacks, Asian Masso began “Con Salsa!” 45 is receiving letters from inmates ers across the globe were danc- elder DJs have to sequester, too. Americans and whites who were years ago on Boston University’s and family of inmates. ing with her.” GADGET WATCH Turn your iPhone images into a book Motif

BY GREGG ELLMAN you have photos taken over the Tribune News Service course of time in your iPhone, which when combined would ven with the lockdown make a great photo book to iPhone or iPad or the Motif for In a few steps, the app evaluated starting to lift, our hours style, it gives you a full layout of give the images a permanent, macOS app for laptop or desktop. image content of my selections at home are more plenti- the book with the chosen images. personalized home that’s easily Once downloaded, I chose the and then gave me a screen with ful than ever, so what You can re-crop the images E accessible. type of book I wanted among all the images and checkmarks or change them entirely for full better time to turn some of those sizes; hardcover choices are for the choices the software priceless photos you have stored I recently did just that with customization. Either is easy. 13-by-10, 11-by-8.5, 10-by-10 and thought were best. on your iPhone into a coffee table Motif, using the photo roll on my Overall, I thought the quality 8-by-8 inches. Softcover sizes I thought the automation gave photo book? Think of vacations, iPad, which is synced with my of the product was high, includ- are 11-by-8.5, 8-by-6 and 8-by-8 me a great starting point, but it graduations, birthdays, anniver- iPhone, to produce a hardcover ing the premium paper and the inches. also allowed for customization, saries or just a select period of 24-page 11-by-8.5-inch book. overall craftsmanship. After creating my account, so I did change the order of a time. Any group of images will To start the project, the fi rst A few days later, the book of using the app was easy once I work. thing I did was fi nd all the photos few pictures and swap out a few memories arrived at my door- selected my photos for the book. Storing photos digitally is the for the subject of my book and pictures entirely. The app made step, encased in a protective The app connects to my photo way go compared to the closet put them in their own folder in it easy to make these changes. sleeve. folders, where I choose what I full of prints my mom had in the iOS photo app. Next was the choice of the Motif states on its home page: want in the book. Overall it’s an shoeboxes. If you’re like me, Next, I got the Motif iOS for book theme; you’ll see samples “Your Best Memories Just Got easy app to navigate with a user- of each image, and how many Better.” I can absolutely agree friendly dashboard and screen can fi t on a page with different after I had my completed book. I shot examples of what all the layouts and designs. There’s no have a few more books I need to ON THE COVER: Minecraft: Education Edition has been available for choices will look like. right or wrong here, it’s whatever do, and I certainly have the time. free since March 24, helping kids combine gaming and learning. I let the Motif app organize the you like and want. Online: motifphotos.com; Mojang images, which took no time at all. After you choose the book prices vary based on book sizes Friday, June 5, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 19 WEEKEND: TELEVISION

NOT ONLY A QUESTION OF JUSTICE AMC’s ‘Quiz’ explores the humanity of the Ingrams in the ‘Millionaire’ coughing scandal

BY LYNN ELBER to appeal their conviction.) Macfadyen, star of “Suc- Associated Press The resulting play and TV cession” and 2005’s “Pride & Were the Ingrams drama take a nuanced, if not Prejudice,” and Clifford, who ny misconduct attached necessarily exculpatory, view of played Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s to ABC’s “Who Wants events. sibling in “Fleabag,” portray the to Be a Millionaire” treated unfairly? Graham recalls watching Ingrams, with Sheen (“Masters Awas of the garden-va- “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” of Sex”) as the quiz show’s long- riety business type. During the as a teenager and being “trans- time host, Chris Tarrant. quiz show’s initial 1999-2002 fi xed by what, in retrospect, Clifford said she dismissed run, the network milked the un- seems like a relatively simple everything she had heard and expected hit with nightly airings A: Yes B: No concept of questions and an- read about the couple after she until its ratings crashed. swers.” received the script. Then there was the lawsuit He borrows a line from the “You don’t have to dig very over the show’s profi ts that series to explain why his na- deep into this story to realize yielded a $269 million verdict, C: Not sure tion might have embraced pub there has been an injustice of plus interest, against ABC’s par- quizzes and trivia nights more sorts, ” she said, “whether or ent company, Disney. British TV, quickly than others: They com- not you think they’re guilty, which originated the series, eas- bine the “two great British loves, but certainly in terms of fair ily topped those corporate offens- drinking and being right.” treatment as human beings by es. In 2001, a husband and wife Then came the unlikely TV D: Unable to be determined the media and by the public and were accused of cheating their plot twist, with a “relatively even the way they were treated way to the top million-pound ordinary couple trying to achieve in the courtroom, which I think prize — allegedly coughing up this extraordinary thing of the correct multiple-choice an- tice was done, both in the series again.” stealing a million pounds like is appalling.” Graham approached the swers by brazenly signaling with and in his play of the same name The goal was to do that with you would from a bank vault,” couple’s portrayal with “care and exactly that, a cough. that debuted in London in 2017. a light touch, Graham said. (He Graham said. “But it was a game grace” and examines events in The headline-making chapter The story was “a vessel to also expressed hope that the show, live, in front of cameras a balanced way, one that “raises is the basis of AMC’s “Quiz,” explore thematically the issue “nasty cough” central to the and microphones and studio more questions than it gives us a three-part drama that looks of truth and reality and facts in saga doesn’t cast a pandemic-era lights and an audience.” at Charles and Diana Ingram shadow.) Viewers share his fascination. answers,” she said. “I think that’s your country and my country, exciting.” and their painful fall with a deft both to the presidential elec- Like many in the U.K. and When “Quiz” aired last month on combination of satire and expan- beyond, he was aware of the legal U.K. network ITV, the home of Macfadyen said portraying the tion and the Brexit referendum, sive humanity. Starring Mat- and tabloid ordeals of Charles “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire,” Ingrams and their relationship thew Macfadyen, Sian Clifford which is the time I started writ- Ingram, who was a major in the it drew big ratings along with became more important than and Michael Sheen, the series ing this,” he said. “I think we British army, and his wife, who enthusiastic reviews. The proj- whether they scammed the show, debuts June 5 at 9 p.m. on AFN- all became increasingly more were convicted in both forums. ect teamed Graham, at age 37 although he and Clifford did go Spectrum, with the concluding anxious that there was a battle More than a decade later, Gra- already a Tony Award nominee back and forth on the issue. episodes airing at 9 p.m. on June happening, and the battle was ham’s interest was reignited by for “Ink,” with veteran direc- “As to his guilt or innocence, 12 and 19. Writer James Graham over whether or not anything a book that argued for the pair’s tor Stephen Frears, a two-time “I don’t know,” the actor said of said he intended to convey more could ever be proven to be defi - innocence. (In April, an attorney Oscar nominee (“The Queen,” Charles Ingram. “I really don’t than a question of whether jus- nitely true or defi nitely false ever for the Ingrams said they intend “The Grifters”). know, is the honest answer.”

Sian Clifford, left, and Matthew Macfadyen star in scenes from “Quiz,” about a couple accused of cheating their way to the top prize on the British version of TV’s “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.” The three-part series debuts June 5 at 9 p.m. on AFN-Spectrum. AMC, ITV/AP PAGE 20 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, June 5, 2020 WEEKEND: ENTERTAINMENT REVIEWS ‘The High Note’ Musical ride makes for pleasant escapist fare

BY ANN HORNADAY moments by meandering away The Washington Post from them, especially in a third act whose twist is no less pre- “The High Note” is a music- posterous for being so glaringly centered comedy that evokes obvious from the get-go. deep-comfort dives such as Thankfully, “The High Note” “Beyond the Lights” and “A Star is full of funny, charming and Is Born.” It’s a movie drenched diverting supporting perfor- in catchy pop hooks and aspira- mances, especially Ice Cube as tional romance. If this iteration Davis’ perpetually grumpy man- doesn’t quite achieve the full lift- ager, Jack; June Diane Raphael off of the best of the form, it still manages to hit more than a few as Grace’s catty house manager; pleasure centers as a summery and Kelvin Harrison Jr., who slice of light escapism. delivers an impressive and ut- One of “The High Note’s” chief terly persuasive turn as a gifted strengths is the radiant Tracee singer . (Eddie Izzard and Diplo Ellis Ross, who for so long also pop up in cameos, the latter has been the best thing about doing an amusing burlesque of a anything she’s in. Here, she pompous synth-happy producer.) claims center stage with tough- Throw in some fun songs, sun- FOCUS FEATURES/AP ness, humor and almost feral kissed Los Angeles locations, unpredictability. She plays Grace Dakota Johnson, left, and Tracee Ellis Ross star in “The High Note.” stunning wardrobe changes Davis, an R&B diva who’s been and an overall vibe of gener- in coast mode for several years; nurses a secret dream to be a jacket. She’s lovely to look at and involving an attractive singer, ous-hearted fun, and “The High as the fi lm opens, she’s being record producer. can never be accused of overact- “The High Note” is essentially a Note” makes for a welcome offered a residency in Las Vegas Maggie, in other words, is ing, but in terms of conveying love story between two women digression from real-life irrita- that will offer the perfect glide young, hungry and ambitious, single-minded drive, Johnson whose interpersonal politics tions. It may not soar, necessar- path to wealthy obsolescence. which makes Dakota Johnson’s is no match for Ross’ carefully are complex and ever shifting. ily, but it hums along pleasantly It will also put her out to pas- performance so curious: Languid calibrated tonal swings between It should be “The Devil Wears enough. ture creatively. The only mem- and doe-eyed, Johnson’s breathy imperiousness, self-awareness, Prada” with sicker beats. But “The High Note” is rated PG-13 for some ber of her entourage who still delivery and recessive persona isolation and down-to-earth director Nisha Ganatra (“Late strong language and suggestive refer- believes Grace hasn’t long since never suggest higher stakes than intimacy. Night”), working from a script by ences. Running time: 112 minutes. peaked is her personal assistant achieving the right style points That’s a shame, because even Flora Greeson, keeps undercut- Available on demand via various Maggie, an adoring acolyte who with her vintage-fringed suede though there’s a low-key subplot ting the story’s most promising streaming platforms. ‘Space Force’ lifts off, but TV satire can’t stay in orbit

BY ROBERT LLOYD human. who look at space like it’s where Los Angeles Times These more sensitive scenes we’re all going to go when we are often interrupted by some trash this planet. There is no sub- o-created by Steve crazy emergency, killing a mood. stitute in space for this planet,” Carell and Greg Daniels, Even among actors with a rela- Mark tells a congressional panel. “Space Force,” which tively generous amount of screen In the same scene, as if to Claunched last weekend time, few get the opportunity to ensure the appearance of bal- on Netfl ix, reunites the star of build their character s. And so it ance, we get both an ancient “The Offi ce” with the man who becomes diffi cult to care what Southern congressman declar- developed it from the U.K. origi- becomes of any of them — or the ing, “I feel safer knowing that nal. Daniels went on to co-create fate of the Space Force itself, for we have satellites that can rain the great “Parks and Recre- that matter. “The Offi ce” and God’s holy hellfi re upon our ation” and create the really good “Parks and Recreation” man- enemies on this majestic, fl at “Upload,” now streaming on aged to be both absurd and mov- Earth of ours,” and a liberal New Amazon Prime; Carell became ing because the characters were York congresswoman, named a movie star. Yet “Space Force,” always showing you who they Anabela Ysidro-Campos — if you for all the talent it enlists, is less were and how they fi t together. can’t decode that, drop me a line a guided missile than a splatter- Netflix “Space Force” remains opaque — whose question about the high ing of buckshot. Some of it hits and obvious and unconvincing. cost of sending a single orange the target. More of it goes astray. Steve Carell co-created and stars in the comedy series “Space It is a contraption, and just what to the space station allows Mark Carell plays Gen. Mark Naird, Force,” now streaming on Netfl ix. it is meant to produce is never to respond with an inspirational newly promoted from three to quite clear. Its tones never mesh; speech about money and people four stars and expecting to com- parody is self-service.) made her, Phoebe was always its personality remains split. and honor and dedication. mand the Air Force. Instead, The assignment plops Mark, the most believable character on Carell and Daniels have tried Lashings of technobabble to satisfy the whim of a never- his unhappy teenage daughter, “Friends.”) to be satirical without being aside, none of the practical or named president who is clearly Erin (Diana Silvers), and his Carell has opted to play Mark insulting, mostly to the disad- scientifi c material in the show Donald Trump, he is put in wife, Maggie (Lisa Kudrow), in a partially with a gruff military vantage of the satire, which is seems remotely true or plausible, charge of creating a Space Force, remote corner of Colorado. In a voice : Words seem to escape him rarely more biting than the fi rst especially the speed at which a job at which he fi rst snorts, sprawling, not-very-secret secret in bursts of air, as if to symbol- lady proposing ridiculous new things are supposed to happen. then embraces. base, scientists huddle over con- ize his psychological repression. designs for the Space Force The crew hastily assembled to “POTUS wants boots on the soles and troops march by chant- (“I know you’re not the most uniforms. (“We wanted to make put U.S. boots back on the moon moon by 2024,” says the secre- ing, “I don’t know, but I’ve been fl exible person,” Maggie says. “I sure that we were being accu- (“Can’t be certain where the tary of defense. (“Actually, he told / Outer space is very cold.” can be fl exible if I’m ordered to rate and more than respectful boots will actually be made,” said ‘boobs on the moon,’ but we John Malkovich, muttering be,” Mark responds.) He sings — I would say complimentary says Mark, “maybe Mexico, believe that to be a typo.”) The like John Malkovich, plays Dr. old pop songs to calm his nerves — of the military virtues that maybe Portugal — we’re get- president also wants to go to Adrian Mallory, in charge of the — it’s a character quirk or maybe Steve’s character holds,” Dan- ting bids on the boots”) is made space to protect the internet and science portion of the program an insight — and his taste is not iels has said.) Still, the creators up largely of dunderheads and Twitter — a little ironic, given and almost always at loggerheads necessarily good. (Then again, do regularly insert meaningful weirdos. (It is nice to see Chris recent developments. (To return with Mark. we may disagree on “Kokomo.”) statements about war and peace Gethard among them, though.) to the unreal real world for When Kudrow does appear, At other times, as when help- and the poor old Earth, signaling Here, as throughout the series, another second, Trump recently which is not often enough, she ing his daughter with her math that they understand the times things will go wrong on the way unveiled his actual Space Force creates a little sphere of real- homework, or in scenes with demand something more than to going improbably right. As fl ag and touted the development ity that humanizes whomever Kudrow, or whenever he’s out of silliness. for “Space Force” itself, not so of a “super-duper missile.” The she’s with. (As eccentric as they uniform, his tone becomes more “I see billionaires in the news much. Friday, June 5, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 21 WEEKEND: TELEVISION & DVD NEW ON DVD

“The Hunt”: Director Craig Zobel’s horror thriller following a group of “elites” hunting down “deplorables” has been cursed with bad timing. It was originally slated for theatrical release in September 2019, but Universal pulled it after mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio. It didn’t see the light of day until March 13, just before gov- ernors began shutdowns amid the coronavirus pandemic. Its DVD release comes in the midst of nationwide protests and violence following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Despite the controversy that has surrounded the fi lm, what resonates most after watching it is general confusion. And creating confusion is the fi lm’s biggest accomplishment, for better and worse. The story takes wild turns once arriving at the “manor,” where the “elite” co-workers commence their human hunting spree, faking out the audience with false starts several times. The message appears to be that no one can be trusted, not even the camera. SONY PICTURES TELEVISION/AP This leads us to the movie’s one saving grace: Betty Gilpin’s The producers of the NBC drama series “The Blacklist” proved as daring as the show’s hero, Red Reddington, in deciding to animate captivating performance as the part of the season fi nale. The combination live-action and animated episode of “The Blacklist” airs June 6 on AFN-Prime. mysterious Crystal. She handles weapons and her captors with a smirk, coolly alternating between taking and causing destruction, even through a de- Saved by a sketch ranged retelling of “The Tortoise and the Hare.” Otherwise though, the con- fusion works against the fi lm, Animation allowed ‘Blacklist’ to salvage episode No. 19 amid the virus largely due to the script and tone. It doesn’t work as satire; what BY LYNN ELBER kamp and Eisendrath called about salvag- production takes place in Los Angeles, with the commentary is aimed toward Associated Press ing the 19th episode — shy of the seventh oversight by LA-based Eisendrath and remains unclear. The clunky season’s 22-episode order, Spader said, but Bokenkamp in his native Nebraska. Adding dialogue does it no favors (see: aymond “Red” Reddington, a man a potentially more satisfying ad hoc fi nale animation required equipment to be shipped “Climate change is real!” “She’s who relishes a challenge, likely than the completed No. 18. to housebound actors to record voice-over unarmed, so have fun with it!”), would admire how TV’s “The “I was intrigued,” the actor said. “I dialogue. eliciting as many cringes as its RBlacklist” took a creative gamble, thought that it seemed like the right thing to For Spader, that meant doing his best in a graphic violence. amid the industry’s coronavirus-forced do, to try and fi nish the episode in any way noise-prone 1850s farmhouse that also chal- Also available on DVD: production shutdown, to end the season with that we could, and not only the episode, but lenged what he called “the poor sound guy” “Doctor Who: The Complete a bang, not a whimper. to end the season.” ultimately tasked with making the audio Twelfth Series”: The Doctor The makers of the NBC drama, which The process began with a handful of pass muster. (Jodie Whittaker) continues her stars James Spader as dashing antihero script revisions to make the episode “feel a “I hadn’t yet played Raymond Reddington TARDIS time and space travels. Red, decided to add animation to a partially little more like it had a forward throw, driv- with my son tiptoeing into the kitchen to get “Lost in America”: This taped episode, prompting a far-fl ung col- ing us into next season,” Bokenkamp said. snacks, ” he said. “But you do what you do. documentary follows the lives of laboration that stretched from Los Angeles Animation helped with the plot tinkering, You turn the heat off so it wouldn’t cycle; teenagers experiencing home- to London and included the Spader family and provided something else on the side. you try to remember not to run the dish- lessness in the United States. house as a challenging recording studio. “A scene that had taken place with Red washer.” “Outback”: A couple fi ghts The idea for the episode, which airs June and Liz (series star Megan Boone) sitting He drolly recounted “rudimentary” to survive in the rough Austra- 6 on AFN-Prime, emerged from a brain- in a room, because that’s what we could efforts at insulation, including place mats storming session with executive producers lian wilderness. Kym Cramp, afford in live action, suddenly becomes a tucked under the microphone and closing Jon Bokenkamp and John Eisendrath in Brendan Donoghue and Lauren scene between Red and Liz walking on the window shades “so the lashing rain outside mid-March, after their New York-based Lofberg star. Washington Mall with the Capitol in the wasn’t quite so loud.” series halted fi lming along with other movie “Think Like a Dog”: An background,” Eisendrath said. “You can With the animation by Proof Inc. created and TV projects as part of widespread ef- make it somewhat more cinematic ... make it primarily in Atlanta and London in long-dis- experimental mishap results in forts to contain the virus. feel more like a graphic novel.” tance coordination with the show’s produc- a 12-year-old boy discovering a “It started sort of as a joke, talking about As series creator Bokenkamp describes ers, a nonstop effort was required — and psychic connection with his dog. how we should do it (the episode) as an it, illustrated novels and comics share DNA it was still in motion in early May, as the Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel and old-school radio broadcast where we put the with “The Blacklist” and add to the case for episode’s stateside air date approached. Gabriel Bateman star. image of a crackling fi re or a radio up on TV an excursion into animation for the Sony “It’s sort of a 24-hour process,” Boken- “Power: Season 6”: James St. and the actors could voice it,” Bokenkamp Pictures Television and Universal Televi- kamp said last month. “While we’re sleep- Patrick (Omari Hardwick) is on said. That segued into a discussion of the sion production. ing, London is working, and we’ll watch a quest for vengeance in the fi nal comic books and a graphic novel already The series is “sort of a big, wild slightly what they sent at night. Then we give them season of the Starz crime drama. spun off “The Blacklist” and then — bingo! heightened show that feels like a comic our notes and they quickly start turning “We Summon the Dark- — Eisendrath broached the hybrid episode. book. ... A bad guy in a fedora is our hero. them around, so there’s people in many dif- ness”: Three heavy metal-loving “It’s possible that if we knew how much It’s rather violent ; at times it’s incredibly ferent time zones working around the clock women (Alexandra Daddario, work it took to do an animated half of this emotional,” he said. Add a veritable “rogue’s to get it done on time.” Maddie Hasson and Amy For- episode, we might well have not come up gallery” of villains, and there are stretches While an ideal hybrid episode would syth) face a killing spree after with the idea,” he said, ruefully. that feel “like we’re telling an old-school have been done from scratch and animated bringing musicians to an isolated Spader, who’s also an executive producer Batman story, with a good, juicy bad guy of scenes determined before taping, the pro- house. Also stars Johnny Knox- on “The Blacklist,” had planned a quick trip the week.” ducers hope the audience is understanding. ville, Keean Johnson and Logan with his family from New York to their Mas- Making “The Blacklist” routinely comes “We felt that it was important to do our Miller. sachusetts home when taping looked to be with geographical complications. After it’s best in a diffi cult situation to try and get the — Katie Foran-McHale/TNS on pause. It was at a full stop when Boken- shot in New York, editing and other post- episode completed,” Eisendrath said. PAGE 22 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, June 5, 2020 WEEKEND: BOOKS Thrillers, mysteries An ode to oddballs offer summer escape P.D. James said, “Crime fi ction confi rms our belief, despite some ‘Weird’ an entertaining examination of unique individuals evidence to the contrary, that we live in a rational, comprehen- sible, and moral universe.’ ” BY ANNIE MURPHY PAUL raked the toilet paper into a bound community to a more Ready for some escape into a Special to The Washington Post garbage bag and put it in his liberal and accepting milieu. rational universe? A few new top- bathroom for future use. ‘Free “It’s easier to be weird in a loose notch mysteries and thrillers are eird” is a dis- toilet paper!’ he said happily culture than in a tight one,” she here to help out. tinctly odd cre- over dinner.” observes. ation. A medley Now a successful magazine This is Khazan’s own journey, The Delightful Life ‘Wof social science writer, Khazan nonetheless of course, and the book is driven of a Suicide Pilot reporting, autobiographical acknowledges that “having been by her search for answers to confession and in-depth inter- weird for so long still haunts her eternal questions: Why Colin Cotterill views with an array of “weird” me in so many ways.” It’s a are some people made to feel It’s too bad that this 15th people, it is held together — just status that others seem to sense weird? How do such “weirdos” installment in the Siri Paiboun barely — by the singular voice immediately. “Sometimes,” she come to feel more comfortable mystery series is the fi nal one. In of its author, Atlantic magazine writes, “strangers ask me if I’m in their skin? Khazan trains her details begin to blur. 1981, Dr. Paiboun is retired from writer Olga Khazan . By turns lost.” attention outward, on a cast of It’s not clear, either, if there is his job as the national coroner in insouciantly candid, calmly “Weird” is Khazan’s attempt real-life outsiders and misfi ts. any essential quality that unites corrupt, Communist Laos. He’s authoritative and poignantly to fi nd herself — in the psycho- The fi rst of these is Michael Ain, this motley group; as Khazan helping out in his wife’s noodle insightful, Khazan’s persona logical and sociological litera- a professor of orthopedic sur- herself hastens to acknowledge, shop when an anonymous party has a startling freshness that ture she regularly covers for the gery at Johns Hopkins Hospital she doesn’t intend “to imply that sends him a Japanese soldier’s ultimately wins over the reader, Atlantic, and in the narratives in Baltimore. Ain’s difference I consider the low-level unease World War II-era bilingual diary. though not without inspiring of other people who feel they from others is immediately ap- of, say, a white immigrant to be While tracking down a present- some head-scratching and eye- don’t fi t. On her wide-ranging parent: He has achondroplasia, equivalent to the obstacles faced day perilous connection to the brow-raising along the way. tour of the former realm, she or dwarfi sm, and stands only 4 by people of color or those living relic, the good doctor is assisted Khazan, she tells us, has examines research on norms, feet 3 inches tall. When he fi rst with rare medical conditions.” by, among others, Auntie Bpoo, evoked such bewildered reac- conformity, ostracism, preju- interviewed for admission to Yet Khazan is looking for com- Dr. Paiboun’s recently deceased tions all her life. She has always dice, loneliness and “impostor medical school, Khazan reports, monalities, and she fi nds them, “transvestite spirit guide.” It’s a felt weird, not like others — a syndrome” — a voluminous “some admissions offi cers making connections among her wonderful farewell to a bound- painful and seemingly perma- catalogue of the ways humans would go through the motions. many sketches and drawing ary-breaking series. nent state that she traces back create groups that include some Others stared awkwardly, then parallels to her own story. to her childhood as a Russian and exclude others. One frame- dismissed him from the meet- Toward the end of the book, The Mist immigrant transplanted to Mid- work to which Khazan returns ing. ‘Patients won’t respect you,’ the author experiments with Ragnar Jonasson land, Texas. Her experiences repeatedly concerns tight vs. one said. ‘They want tall doctors trying to become less weird, If you’re looking for a fi ctional growing up in this Bible Belt loose cultures. “Tight cultures with long, white coats.’ He was while also advancing the notion good fright to distract you from oil town are a mix of baffl e- are those in which social norms rejected from every school.” that being odd is actually an the real ones, look no further ment, biting mockery and rueful are strict and formal, and the More oddballs follow: a male advantage. Both of these efforts than this third entry in the humor — often featuring her punishments for breaking them preschool teacher, a female feel a bit halfhearted. “Weird” Hidden Iceland series , featur- father, a larger-than-life per- are severe,” she explains. Loose racecar driver, a Mormon mis- is at its strongest when Khazan ing brainy, glum police inspec- sonality notable for his strong cultures, by contrast, “permit sionary who doubts his faith, a allows herself to explore, with tor Hulda Hermannsdottir. It’s opinions and gleeful penny- a wider range of behaviors.” rebellious teenager in an Amish bracing candor and unexpected midwinter with blowing snow pinching. “One day, someone This distinction appears in a order, a liberal professor in humor, what it feels like to be and little daylight when three toilet-papered our house, and less academic form in many a conservative small town, a weird — a state that is “at once bodies are found in and near a I had to explain to my parents of the weird-people stories transgender city council mem- energizing and maddening, like remote farmhouse. The talented that this is what American kids Khazan proceeds to tell. Most ber in another small town — so trying to squeeze into a space Jonasson backs up two months do to losers,” Khazan recounts. of these narratives trace a path many purportedly weird people, where you might plausibly fi t, to portray — with the precision “Undeterred, my dad eagerly of liberation from a rigidly rule- in fact, that their biographical but don’t quite.” of Harold Pinter — two complex marriages whose outcomes are not at all ambiguous, this being a ‘Hunger Games’ prequel fills in villain’s backstory crime novel. The Silence BY KARIN TANABE show that has been on for a decade, it could the Games until the end of the book, much Susan Allott Special to The Washington Post use new bells and whistles. It is decided of “Songbirds and Snakes” is rooted in the that for the fi rst time, Academy students idea that what is past is prologue. Although Australia’s ugly history of f you know Suzanne Collins’ dys- will mentor the tributes forced to compete. the Games are inspired by the theatrics and forcibly removing Aboriginal topian Hunger Games trilogy, you Coriolanus is chosen as a mentor and is as- violence of ancient Rome, the TV viewers children from their families is know Coriolanus Snow. He’s Katniss signed Lucy Gray Baird, the District 12 girl. aren’t materializing. The ratings need a central to the plot of this fi rst IEverdeen’s nemesis and the tyrannical “Could there be boost, and it’s up to the mentors to increase novel, a wrenching melodrama president of Panem, where every year 24 a bigger slap in the them. Shall they execute those who don’t about a Sydney seaside neighbor- kids from the districts are selected to fi ght face?” Coriolanus watch? Or let viewers feed the tributes as if hood that’s rife with alcoholism, to a televised death. He’s a sadist who smells wonders. “District they were zoo animals? Oh, the possibilities. marital discord, thwarted good of roses and has a talent for crushing both 12, the smallest The scenes during the Games are sharply intentions and possibly murder. spirits and heartbeats. district, the joke plotted and move with the same super- Londoner Isla Green, intent on Do you need to know more? With the district, with its speed readers will remember from the sobering up and staying that publishing odds ever in her favor (the Hun- stunted, joint-swol- series. But it is the third part of the book, way, fl ies to Sydney to help her ger Games trilogy has sold more than 100 len kids that always which takes the action to District 12, that is ever-tipsy father, a suspect in the million copies), Collins believes you do. In died in the fi rst fi ve the most revelatory in terms of the gradual disappearance 30 years earlier her new book, “The Ballad of Songbirds and minutes, and not chipping away of Coryo’s humanity. of a neighborhood woman. Snakes,” a prequel to “The Hunger Games,” only that ... but the One of the delicious qualities of a prequel The Streel she looks at the man (OK, the teenager) who girl?” Turns out is that it fi lls in the blanks. For those who became the monster. Coriolanus has no lapped up the trilogy and have been waiting Mary Logue To do that, Collins takes readers back need to panic. 10 long years for answers — to questions The author of the Deputy Sher- 64 years before Katniss competed in the Hunger Games like “Which unhinged savage came up with iff Claire Watkins series is off Games, to a Capitol that is still rebuilding fans know that District 12 was Katniss’ kids killing kids?” or “What’s the mean- on a winning new tangent with after the districts’ unsuccessful rebellion. district, and that she was anything but ing behind the song ‘The Hanging Tree’? Brigid Reardon, an immigrant Eighteen-year-old Coriolanus, Coryo to stunted. The same can be said of Lucy Gray — Collins has them. Irish housemaid who lands in the his friends, is a student at the prestigious Baird. Though lacking that killing-machine As soon as news of the book broke, this Dakota Territory of the 1870s Academy, desperately in need of a fi nancial vibe, she’s a singer with charisma to spare, was the question: In a series with so many and sets out to clear her gold- scholarship. Heavy on lineage but short on crooning her way into hearts and making likable characters, why did Collins choose miner brother in the murder of a food, Coryo is living with his cousin Tigris pronouncements such as, “I’ve got a song the most sadistic as the protagonist? In the “streel,” a Deadwood prostitute. and his grandmother in a luxury apartment that was made for this whiskey voice.” She’s fi rst third of the book, head gamemaker Dr. Reardon is a prayerful Catholic stripped of all luxuries. He is the son of a basically the Stevie Nicks of the Hunger Gaul reminds her Academy students that girl who is also appealingly droll dead war hero, and his singular goal is to Games, and Coriolanus, who has survived “wars are won with heads, not hearts.” It’s and self-possessed. Brigid also bring glory back to the House of Snow. on smiles, knows what a powerful weapon the pull between Coryo’s head and heart learns to swoon on cue and aim That’s a tall order for someone surviving charm can be. For the populace placing bets — and the realization that he actually has a a derringer in this vibrant new off beans and cabbage, but the Games prove on the tributes, she is an easy girl to fall in beating heart, not just a rose-scented lump series. to be a game-changer. It’s been 10 years love with — and she is for Coryo, too. of coal — that makes the future President — Richard Lipez since their inception, and like any reality Though we won’t fi nd out the origin of Snow very worthy of a 517-page prequel. The Washington Post Friday, June 5, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 23 WEEKEND: QUICK TRIPS Europe

PHOTOS BY NORMAN LLAMAS/Stars and Stripes Views of the country of San Marino are plentiful from San Marino City, which was built on Mount Titano, one of the peaks of the Apennine Mountains. San Marino was founded in 301 A.D. Most serene views Beautiful San Marino is one of the world’s smallest countries

BY NORMAN LLAMAS walled old town, sits atop the characters, the Minions, an of- Cesta tower, also known as De La Fratta, is located on the highest of Stars and Stripes mountain and is the country’s fi cial San Marino duck, even a the three peaks of Monte Titano, in San Marino’s capital city. It was most visited tourist attraction. President Donald Trump duck. constructed in the 13th century on the remains of a Roman fort. an Marino is full of super- Three fortresses dating from As of late May, the Duck Shop latives. medieval times look from Mount was welcoming customers again, It’s one of the world’s Titano toward Rimini and the but only if they wear face masks Ssmallest countries — a Adriatic coast. A footpath con- and follow other anti-coronavirus microstate covering around 24 nects all three. guidelines like social distancing. square miles, or less than half The best way to get to the You’re only allowed into the shop the area of Washington, D.C. city center — which, together one at a time, unless those with — and is completely surrounded with the mountain it sits on, you are family members. by Italy. was named a UNESCO World If you like collecting passport Founded in the year 301, it’s Heritage site in 2008 — is by stamps, San Marino has a very said to be the oldest country in cable car. You’ll fi nd it about nice one that you can buy for the world, and has the oldest con- halfway up the mountain, with about 5 euros at the tourist offi ce stitution, dating from 1600. parking available in several lots. by the cable car stop at the top of Also called the Most Serene A roundtrip ticket is 4.50 euros, Mount Titano. Republic of San Marino, it’s one except for children under 4 feet Expect to do a lot of hill walk- of the most spectacular destina- tall and muzzled dogs, who ride ing in the city. If you’re used to tions for anyone living in Italy for free. hiking, you’ll be fi ne, but make who’s looking for a day trip or Bring a camera because when sure to take frequent breaks, weekend getaway, when corona- you get to the top, you’ll be wear the right shoes and have virus restrictions make that pos- greeted by one of the most mag- plenty to drink. Also note that the sible. It’s about four hours by car nifi cent views you’ve ever seen. city center gets very crowded on from Aviano, which is where we There are also nonmedieval weekends, holidays and during set out from one day before the attractions in San Marino, and the summer months, and some In January, before the coronavirus, people gathered outside the pandemic made traveling impos- one that we particularly liked attractions may not be open, or Basilica Di San Marino, also called La Pieve, in San Marino City. sible for people living in Italy. is a small store on Via Eugippo, may be operating on a limited Mount Titano dominates San in the city center at the top of schedule, because of coronavirus Marino’s landscape. The capital, Mount Titano, that sells noth- restrictions. also called San Marino, with its ing but rubber ducks. There [email protected] ON THE QT cobblestone streets and medieval are ducks depicting Star Wars Twitter: @normanllamas DIRECTIONS etc. — and some unusual ones, like museums of creatures of San Marino is about 220 miles the night, of old weapons, new south of Aviano, or roughly weapons, or instruments of four hours by car. Once you’re torture. Entry fees are very off the highway, follow signs to reasonable. the capital city and cable car. FOOD COSTS There are restaurants Parking lots have meters and throughout the city, and stands the cost varies depending on offering fast food can be found how long you stay. We paid on the footpath connecting the about $15 for around 4 hours three fortresses. of parking in the city of San Marino. Be careful not to park INFORMATION in areas reserved for resi- dents, typically marked by yel- San Marino Duck Store: Via low lines. You will get a ticket Eugippo 22, San Marino. and your car could be towed. Phone: +378 (0549) 964177 San Marino has the usual se- Online: sanmarinoduckstore. lection of museums — contem- net Guaita tower, also known as La Rocca, is one of porary art, history of the city, — Norman Llamas The Duck Store sells nothing but rubber ducks. three towers in the city of San Marino. PAGE 24 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, June 5, 2020 WEEKEND: TRAVEL Europe A welcome return Some of Europe’s most famed museums reopen doors

BY RAF CASERT AND PETER DEJONG return to the normality.” Associated Press Some 1,600 people reserved tickets in advance to see the Sistine Chapel and its sublime walls In the Netherlands, the intimate gaze of the Girl and ceilings on the fi rst day the Vatican Museums with the Pearl Earring can once again startle and opened to the public after a three-month coronavi- entice visitors. Down in Spain, the rusty maze of rus shutdown. steel sheets by Richard Serra is a wonderland anew During peak summer months, the Vatican Muse- for art lovers. And at the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel, ums routinely would have an hourslong line of tour- Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam can drop jaws ists waiting to enter since there was no advance like it has done for ages. reservation system to schedule visit times. As Europe slowly emerges from the coronavirus In so many museums now, the phenomenon of pandemic that has killed well over 150,000 on the over-tourism is making space for cultural tourism, continent and crippled some of the world’s big- especially since so few foreign visitors can come in. gest economies, Monday let a brilliant ray shine Now, instead of standing shoulder to shoulder, through the gloom as several of the top museums only able to gaze upwards at Michelangelo’s ceiling, globally reopened to fl aunt their riches. visitors had space to move and explore the exqui- The Netherlands rejoiced in a relaxing of lock- site details of the high Renaissance master. down measures that have kept people away from Where suffocating throngs once forced everyone bars, restaurants and cinemas — as well as some of along in a sweaty shuffl e, the only sensory impedi- the greatest cultural institutions in the world. ment was a protective mask. “Welcome back,” said Rijksmuseum General In Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum there were, for Director Taco Dibbits as the fi rst visitors fi led into once, more people depicted in Rembrandt’s Night the vast museum in central Amsterdam Watch itself than visitors looking at them. At the adjacent Van Gogh Museum the welcome At the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao, Spain, the came with — what else? — sunfl owers. Any visitor price of one ticket bought this month will include a leaving the museum was given one of the yellow 3-month museum membership. fl owers famously depicted by the Dutch painter’s Steadily, ever more of Europe’s main museums brush to celebrate the reopening. will reopen. Across the continent, museum offi cials rejoiced In Madrid, the Prado and Reina Sofi a open again as visitors were let in again. on Saturday. ALESSANDRA TARANTINO/AP “Today is a day to celebrate, a day of great joy,” In Paris, the Impressionist palace that is the said director Barbara Jatta, as her Vatican Muse- Musee d’Orsay will open from June 23 and the Visitors wearing masks to prevent the spread of coronavirus admire ums reopened Monday. “The signifi cance of this Louvre, home of the Mona Lisa, will welcome visi- “The School of Athens” fresco by Italian Renaissance artist Raphael reopening is hope. It is a great hope that we can tors again on July 6. inside the Vatican Museum in Rome after it reopened Monday . Dreaming of sunlit adventures in Europe’s far north

As summer approaches, cabin in Lapland. For a touch of an amazing fi sh that’s born in a Europeans would normally be pure Finn-ness, opt for a smoke riverbed, spends its life in the fl ocking to southern destinations sauna, in which wood is burned sea and returns to the waters to tank up on a commodity that in a sauna without a chimney. of its birth to spawn. Norway’s for many is in short supply the When the room approaches rivers, “discovered” by British rest of the year: a blazing sum- optimal temperature, the smoke anglers some 200 years ago, mer sun. Greece, Italy, Portugal is let out, but the heat remains. A remain popular destinations with and Spain attract the ray- and possible place to experience this sportsmen to date. The waters of warmth-starved masses from would be just outside Rovaniemi, the Alta, Gaula, Orkla and Reisa Scandinavia, Great Britain and Finnish Lapland’s wilderness Rivers are among those held in Ireland, and the travel-loving surrounded highest esteem. Dutch and Germans eagerly capital. Self-organized trips are pos- join the throngs. But this year, (Online: sible, but you’ll have to take care throngs are exactly what the tinyurl.com/ of procuring a fi shing license, continent doesn’t need. Although y78bt5hj) paying the fi shing fee and secur- travel anywhere these days is Those only ing lodging. Many lodges offer something perhaps best avoided venturing as the services of local guides. The for now, there do remain, even in far north as season runs June 1 through Aug. densely-packed Europe, places Helsinki can 31. For an overview of fi shing less trodden. experience a online: tinyurl.com/y9yc2qc2 A place that delivers on light, if smoke sauna iStock Meeting the Sami: The indig- not the heat, and a mesmerizing, Karen Bradbury at Loyly, a enous reindeer herders known sparsely-peopled landscape on seaside fa- The Solovetsky Monastery was once a Soviet prison and labor camp. as the Sami make their homes in top, is the legendary “Land of the cility offering a variety of sauna Scandinavia and northern Rus- Midnight Sun.” The term applies experiences. Online: loylyhel- Vuollerim Gastgiveri, owned Following the collapse of com- to the areas approaching, if not sinki.fi /en and managed by an association munism, a small band of monks sia. The rhythm of their lives is actually above, the Arctic Circle, Berry picking: The cloudberry made up of the villagers and established themselves here, largely dictated by the reindeer, where, around the time of the is a tart, golden yellow berry local businesses. Each room here and today the UNESCO World meaning spring is the time for summer solstice, the sun does revered as a delicacy in north- is decorated by a local resident. Heritage site welcomes visitors, birth, and summer is the time for not set, or barely dips below the ern climes. The Swedish village The tour is certifi ed by Nature’s many of whom come to the area the calves to grow big. horizon over a 24-hour period. of Vuollerim, just south of the Best, the fi rst national quality on river cruises. Kola Travel is A Sami family residing in the From this time of year and into Arctic Circle, is surrounded by label for nature tours in Europe. one local company offering short small village of Breivik on the August, Europe’s northernmost marshes and bogs in which these Online: tinyurl.com/yal6fse2 tours of these six islands located island of Soroya demonstrates cities, towns and wide-open tasty, vitamin C-rich berries Monastery visit: The So- 100 miles south of the Arctic their way of life to their guests spaces beckon with a range of thrive. The local tourism agency lovetsky Monastery, located on Circle. Following a transfer by on select dates between June unique pursuits. Add to that the offers a two-day package coincid- islands in the White Sea in north- boat from Kem or Belomorsk, and August. A visit to this idyllic fact that they can be practiced at ing with the cloudberry festival ern Russia, has a checkered past. various three-hour excursions island would include the chance almost any hour of the day, and held on the fi rst weekend of Au- Founded in 1436, for centuries it take visitors to ancient laby- to see the deer, hike and go sea you’re really on to something gust. Guided picking along with thrived on commercial activities rinths, burial grounds, pagan fi shing. At night, the family special. a handful of other participants, including trapping, fi shing, iron- sanctuaries or other mystical pitches a traditional lavvu tent Sauna experiences: The Finn- full board in a double room in a works and the production of salt. destinations. Online: kolatravel. and entertains by a campfi re ish sauna experience is enjoyed hotel, a dinner including many Long a place of exile, in the com/solovetsky.htm with stories and traditional song. not only in winter but throughout locally foraged ingredients, 1920s, it was converted into a Salmon fi shing: Norway is A four-day, three-night package the year, with the most magical breakfast and a wilderness lunch Soviet prison and labor camp known as home to some of the goes for about $2,650 per person. place to indulge in this ritual are included in the offer. Accom- which served as a prototype for world’s most iconic rivers for Online: visitnatives.com/sum- quite possibly a rustic lakeside modation is provided at the Hotel the camps of the Gulag system. pursuit of the Atlantic salmon, merexperience Friday, June 5, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 25 WEEKEND: FOOD & DINING Europe Freshen up that tuna melt

BY KATE KRADER Bloomberg American home kitchens are in an unprecedented moment, where the most pedestrian supermarket staples can be as valuable as fi nicky homemade products. A household’s most prized possessions can include a jar of sourdough starter just as easily as a can of Chef Boyardee KATE KRADER/Bloomberg SpaghettiOs. Tuna melt two ways: with Which makes this the perfect cheddar and with jalapeno Jack. time to celebrate the tuna melt, one of the most supermarket- driven of sandwiches. It’s made less conventional options such from canned tuna, mayonnaise as mackerel. “Tinned seafood is and sliced cheese from the considered secondary to fresh. dairy aisle — not dependent on But people should think of it as decent produce, like, say, a BLT. a way of preserving — that’s a What makes it shine now is the technique that’s so popular now increasing availability of high- and leaves you with a fantastic quality tinned fi sh. product,” says van Olphen. He, of The dish has been having a course, advises buying sustain- bit of a moment since March 1. ably harvested tinned fi sh, espe- According to a Reddit spokes- cially for tuna, which is heavily person, there’s been an increase overfi shed. Pole- and line-caught of more than 30% in mentions of is especially good. tuna melts across the platform, Van Olphen has a soft spot for PHOTOS BY JOHN VANDIVER/Stars and Stripes which includes an 18.7 mil- the tuna melt, which combines lion-member food community, creamy tuna salad with melty During the coronavirus pandemic, OhJulia at Stuttgart’s Killesberg Park has begun offering takeout compared with the same time cheese within the crunchiness options. The Italian sausage pizza is especially good. period in 2019. of fried bread. He notes you can The sandwich is also a high- substitute your favorite cheese light of the new “The Tinned for cheddar. But it’s hard to Fish Cookbook: Easy-to-Make argue with a cheese that melts Skip the lines, avoid crowds Meals From Ocean to Plate” by all over the tuna salad as it toasts Bart van Olphen, who was once in the skillet. (He also says you a chef at the 2-Michelin-star res- can switch out the canned fi sh taurant Lucas Carton in Paris. in the sandwich, but who would He’s gone on to become a pas- want to do that?) No hype, just good food at OhJulia in Stuttgart sionate sustainable seafood advo- The former chef in van Olphen cate: He advises British food star hacks the classic by making a Jamie Oliver on the subject and homemade ketchup to serve as a BY JOHN VANDIVER has written cookbooks in both dipping sauce for the tuna melt. Stars and Stripes English and his native Dutch. In It’s a good, tangy, sweet tomato his 2010 award-winning “Fish mix. But if you love a ketchup in hJulia, you aren’t a hyped burger joint, Tales,” he chronicles stories and a bottle, use that. Whether you and that’s just perfect right now. recipes from sustainable fi sher- want to go the extra step of mak- There’s a lot to be said for restaurants ies around the world. ing homemade sourdough bread like OhJulia that aren’t the hot new O His new book includes 45 for the sandwich is up to you. thing and don’t draw excessive crowds at a time recipes for different kinds of The following recipe is when eating in a small indoor area still carries a canned and tinned seafood, adapted from “The Tinned Fish coronavirus risk. from anchovies and sardines to Cookbook.” Just a couple of weeks before everything locked down, the Five Guys burger franchise opened in TUNA MELT WITH KETCHUP downtown Stuttgart. I’d been anxious to give the place a try while holed up in quarantine. Ingredients: turning once, until the bread is Masked, I hopped on a U-Bahn and walked to 6-oz. can of oil-packed tuna, crusty and the cheese is melted, Stuttgart’s downtown for the fi rst time in months. drained about 3 minutes per side. Serve But upon reaching Five Guys, I got cold feet. ¼ cup diced red onion hot with ketchup. There was a line of questionable social distance OhJulia at Stuttgart’s Killesberg Park offers 1 scallion, white and light curling down a busier-than-expected Konig- KETCHUP a wide range of food including pasta dishes, green parts, fi nely chopped strasse. Ingredients: burgers and pizzas. It’s located at the entrance 3 tbsp. coarsely chopped fl at- 2 tbsp. olive oil So I went home. We ordered pizza, taking to the park and has spacious indoor seating as leaf parsley comfort in the knowledge that the pie slides from 1 garlic clove, minced well as outdoor seating. 3 tbsp. mayonnaise ½ cup chopped red onion a germ-killing oven to a box. Hot sauce, such as Tabasco OhJulia is a local Italian chain with a fairly new One 14-oz. can peeled whole Salt and freshly ground pepper tomatoes restaurant located at Stuttgart’s Killesberg Park. 4 slices of rustic bread 1½ tbsp. tomato puree It’s worth trying for eating out or takeout. OHJULIA 2 tbsp. unsalted butter 1 tbsp. dark brown sugar, plus For those tired of pizza — likely a staple for 4 slices of sharp cheddar more to taste many during lockdown — OhJulia has a full menu Location: Am Hoehenpark 2, Stuttgart cheese 1 tbsp. red wine vinegar that includes pasta dishes, interesting salads, Hours: Monday-Friday, 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Ketchup (recipe follows, or just Salt and freshly ground pepper risottos and more. Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. use your favorite store-bought Directions: People are dining out more these days, and on Prices: From 8-13 euros for pasta, pizza and bottle) In a medium saucepan, heat many walks past OhJulia I’ve looked with envy at burgers; up to 25 euros for a 24-inch pizza Directions: the olive oil. Add the garlic and those seated outside, drinking an adult beverage Information: Phone: +49 (0)711 253 77220, In a medium bowl, mix the red onion and cook over mod- and having a tasty dish while looking out at one of Online: ohjulia.de/stuttgart/were-open.html tuna, red onion, scallion, parsley, erately high heat, stirring, until Stuttgart’s prettiest parks. English menu: Yes mayonnaise, and a few dashes of softened but not browned, about But now eating out is about risk calculation, and — John Vandiver hot sauce. Season with salt and 5 minutes. Add the tomatoes, the answer is always personal. Does it make sense pepper. tomato puree, sugar and vinegar to order a risotto, even for takeout, knowing that Butter each slice of bread and cook over low heat, break- a cook spent an extended time hovering over the range, and topping choices are plentiful. on one side. Divide the tuna ing up the tomatoes, until thick, thing with a steady stir? The service is also generally friendly and at- mixture on the unbuttered side about 8 minutes. Let cool, then Pizza, for the aforementioned reason, seems tentive, which isn’t a given in a lot of places in of 2 bread slices and top with transfer to a small blender and safest to me. And in the case of OhJulia, it’s quite Stuttgart. the cheddar and then the other puree. Season the ketchup with good. The salsiccia with gorgonzola pie is a per- As for Five Guys, the long wait continues, but 2 bread slices, buttered sides salt and pepper, and more brown sonal favorite. In Germany, a lot of pizza places hopefully not forever. up. Warm a griddle or cast-iron sugar, if desired. don’t seem to offer Italian sausage, but this res- [email protected] skillet over moderate heat and Makes about 2 cups taurant does. The pizzas are mostly in the 12-euro Twitter: @john_vandiver fry the sandwiches, carefully Serves 2 PAGE 26 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, June 5, 2020 WEEKEND: TRAVEL

Pour a glass and be whisked away to faraway destinations

BY LIZA WEISSTUCH Special to The Washington Post ivilization, as William Faulkner once said, begins with distillation. Long before our age of international commerce, each culture around the world made drinks with its own indigenous ingredients and techniques. Hundreds — if not thousands — of years later, some Cspirits have gone on to play a starring role on the international drinks scene while others remain far more popular in their place of origin. But one thing’s for sure: Wherever you go, there are drinking traditions that go back generations.

Here are a few suggestions for how to drink like a local in far-off Mastiha spirit, an ancient drink destinations, even when you can’t be there. for modern times Amaro, the bittersweet love of Italy Any Greek restaurant in the United States would likely have a One of Francesca Nonino’s most vivid childhood memories was choice of ouzo, the anise-fl avored liquor that Greece’s older genera- that moment when, after a meal, her grandfather would pour a gener- tions down with fried sardines as commonly as executives pair Bor- ous helping of the family’s amaro over ice, add an orange slice and deaux with fi let mignon. But it’s hardly the only spirit of the nation. offer her a deep whiff from the glass. In the cafes of the Greek islands, glasses have long been fi lled with That remembrance of taking in what she calls “alchemic perfection” a mastiha spirit. Mastiha, a resin that’s recognized as a superfood, — a medley of bitter-orange, lemon, mint, burnt sugar, saffron and comes from trees that only grow on one Greek island (Chios). It’s been sundry alpine herb and spices — drives her today as she learns how used in alcoholic drinks since Aristotle’s time and even served as the to distill her family’s Quintessentia Amaro Nonino, a modifi ed version ancient world’s chewing gum. (It provides the linguistic root for the of the recipe created by Antonio, her great-grandfather, who took over verb “masticate.”) the family’s grappa distillery in Fruili, Italy, from his father, the Shown to aid digestion, the drink is traditionally served before founder. (Francesca’s mother Cristina is the lead distiller or after meals. Effi e Panagopoulos calls the spirit Greece’s today.) best-kept secret. Or it was, at least, until she gave The Noninos are just one example of many Ital- the game away in March 2018 when she launched ian families whose generations-old amaro is still Kleos, the fi rst super-premium brand of the being produced. A century-plus ago, these bitter traditional liqueur. Fresh and vegetal with a hint liqueurs were made for medicinal purposes, of sweet mint, you can drink it as a functional primarily to aid digestion, but since they also digestif or mix it 50/50 with any base spirit. happen to be delicious, it’s little surprise they’ve found a place in recreational con- Baijiu, the star of the Far East, sumption. It’s always good to have a bottle rises in the U.S. around the house for a post-feast punctuation What Bollywood is to the entertainment mark. Francesca also recommends it just as industry, Baijiu is to spirits: ubiquitous to the her grandfather still drinks it — over a rock point that it’s unavoidable in an Asian nation of ice with an orange slice. but barely a blip on the radar stateside. The Cachaca, the soul of Brazil numbers tell it best: Consider the popularity of vodka and combine that with the popularity Back in the 1990s, Americans thought of whiskey — all whiskies. That doesn’t even of tequila as bottom-shelf hooch. Typically begin to compare with consumption of baijiu adulterated with additives, the Mexican spirit in China. showed up in margaritas or a shot glass, the According to research group IWSR Drinks latter of which easily prompted a cringe. Market Analysis, in 2018 (the last year for Then the category saw a glorious reawaken- which fi gures are available) global sales of ing. Its natural beauty came shining through, baijiu clocked in at 14.6 billion bottles, almost and now tequila is celebrated, sipped and all of which was consumed in China, typically savored far beyond the local cantina. And so it goes with cachaca, Brazil’s nation- as a shot. Global sales of vodka, meanwhile, al spirit. Made from sugar cane juice, early were a meager 5.1 billion bottles, and global producers date to the early 1500s, preceding whiskey was 5.3 billion. rum — which is most often made from molas- It’s important to note that, like whiskey, ses, a sugar byproduct — by at least 100 years. baijiu is a big category. It encompasses drinks Even when you consider that cachaca has distilled from an array of grains. Sorghum is a long history in a giant, densely populated the most popular, but you can fi nd products country, it’s nevertheless astonishing to learn made from rice, millet, corn and more. The there are upward of 4,000 brands in Brazil. fermentation agent, qu, a medley of yeast, Entrepreneurs are making strides these mold and bacteria, is what makes a spirit days, developing brands with long-standing baijiu. The variable base-grains and produc- producers to showcase the fi ner side of cacha- tion techniques lend themselves to a wide ca, once known as a harsh spirit reserved for spectrum of products, ranging from lemony the caipirinha in lively settings and bracing toasted rice to herbaceous and sweet to earthy shots in more casual ones. and savory. Working with a nearly century-old fam- Derek Sandhaus would like to see a little ily-run distillery, Nate Whitehouse and Peter CONTINUED ON PAGE 27 Nevenglosky developed Avua, which comes in several expressions, including some aged in various woods, a common practice among tra- Quintessentia Amaro Nonino is ditional producers. Sip it neat or swap it in for a modifi ed version of the recipe created the base spirit in your favorite rum drink for by Antonio Nonino, who took over the family’s an earthier, grassier take on the drink. Nate grappa distillery in Fruili, Italy, from his father. favors it in an El Presidente. Nonino Friday, June 5, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 27 WEEKEND: TRAVEL

FROM PAGE 26 It was the most-exported spirit category more American love for the spirit. The in the world for decades, until after the author, most recently, of “Drunk in China: 1900s. In 1852, the ships in New York’s Baijiu and the World’s Oldest Drinking harbor brought over 450 bottles of genev- Culture,” and leading English-speaking er for every bottle of English gin. expert on the stuff was part of the team To prepare a kopstootje, a Pilsener or a that collaborated with Luzhou Laojiao, saison makes the fi nest match for genever. China’s oldest continuously operating bai- The shot is famously served in a tulip- jiu distillery, to create Ming River Sichuan shaped glass fi lled to the absolute brim. baijiu. It’s a Western-friendly style that Tradition calls on you to lean over and, delivers bright tropical and fl oral notes without hands, slurp off the top of the shot that tame the “fi rewater.” While typi- (i.e. the “head butt”). Then proceed as cally consumed as a shot, Sandhaus says usual, if you haven’t spilled the contents of this one has plenty of uses in cocktails or, the glass. better yet, as accompaniment to a spicy For a drink with a bit less risk, Duff Sichuan meal. suggests swapping it in for the Old Tom gin in a Martinez, an antecedent of the Genever, or how to go Dutch martini. (Stir 1 ½ ounces genever, 1 ½ In Holland, the bar call is for a kop- ounces sweet vermouth, ¼ ounce Lux- stootje, which translates as “head butt.” ardo maraschino cherry liqueur and two If that sounds daunting, chalk it up to the dashes Angostura bitters over ice, and infamous Dutch blunt humor. This seem- strain.) ingly brutal drink is nothing more than a Aquavit, king of Scandinavia boilermaker — the classic shot-and-beer combo. The spirit here is genever, a Dutch Nordic countries are easily defi ned by botanical drink commonly thought of as their extremes — extreme weather, scen- the precursor to gin. It’s actually more ery, minimalism. That applies to much of the native fare, too: intense rye bread, akin to what whiskey was centuries ago, DANGUOLE LEKAVICIUTE/Krogstad Aquavit which is to say a distillate of malted barley piquant pickled herring, and the ever- with a small bit of botanicals added, a polarizing lutefi sk, which is lye-treated Krogstad Aquavit delivers a lively loop-de-loop effect of caraway and star anise fl avors trick whiskey-makers used to soften their whitefi sh. The regional drink, accordingly, that comes into stark relief when you drink it as a freezing-cold shot. fi ery liquor before they started using is an acquired taste for some. wood barrels to do the job. Aquavit, a grain distillate fl avored with other stipulations, you can still make non- spirit delivers a lively loop-de-loop effect “Genever is a parent of whiskey,” dill and/or caraway and a host of other bo- regional-specifi c aquavit anywhere. of caraway and star anise fl avors that explains Philip Duff, founder and owner tanicals, seeds and spices, is traditionally Like Portland, Ore., for example, where comes into stark relief when you drink it of Old Duff Genever, which he produces made throughout Sweden, Denmark and Christian Krogstad, founder of House as a freezing-cold shot. at one of the few remaining family-owned Norway, but it’s the latter that, in Febru- Spirits Distillery, has been distilling The unique fl avors of aquavit allow for distilleries in Holland. “Think of it like ary, received a European Union geograph- Krogstad Aquavit since 2007. A whiskey- some startling and intriguing cocktail this: Normally you only see the descen- ical indication, a legally enforced product maker by trade, his father’s family came opportunities and a versatility you might dant of a dinosaur, how things transmog- identity such as Champagne or Kalamata from Norway and lived in Minnesota, so not have expected. Krogstad mixes just as rifi ed over time. But if you drink real olives. So while Norwegian aquavit is now he’s known of the Scandinavian drink well in a highball with root beer as it does genever, you’re drinking exactly what formally defi ned as being made in Norway — and all the hearty Viking food ways when you switch it up for the gin in a clas- ruled the world in the 1600s,” he says. with at least 95% native potatoes, among that go with it — since childhood. His sic Bee’s Knees. Will adventure travel point the way back? Adventure travel specialists discern a silver lining to the cur- rent pause in travel. Theirs may be one of the fi rst tourism sectors to rebound — and some of their practices could be adopted more widely when the world opens to travel again. Adventure trips tend to bring people to out-of-the-way destina- tions. They also often require travelers to be self-reliant, from carrying their own food and gear, to hiking or paddling them- selves to a destination. Some pop- ular stops , such as the Galapagos Islands and Peru’s Inca Trail, have quotas that limit visitors. These approaches could help travelers stay healthy by allow- ing space for social distancing. “The outdoors is where people are turning right now,” said Greg Lais, founder of Wilderness Inquiry, a nonprofi t organization that makes outdoor adventures accessible to people of all abili- ties. “In a post-COVID world, we’ll be seeking purpose and growth and connection more than ever, and travel is about connection at a basic human level,” said Jordan Harvey, co-founder of Minneapo- lis-based Knowmad Adventures. Harvey is currently estab- lishing safety protocols for his customers and their in-country guides and hosts, even as trips have ceased. But he sees a bright future. The current pause in travel — and the fears of contagion — will make people “really open to what is less known and less traveled,” Harvey said. — Star Tribune (Minneapolis) PAGE 28 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, June 5, 2020 WEEKEND: TRAVEL

A man and a woman demonstrate dining under a plastic shield at a restaurant in Paris on May 27. As restaurants in food-loving France prepare to reopen, some are investing in lampshade-like plastic shields to protect diners from the virus. The strange-looking contraptions are among experiments restaurants are trying around the world as they try to lure back clientele while keeping them virus-free.

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Patrons under plastic As virus restrictions are relaxed, restaurant owners are seeking to welcome back safe, in-person dining

BY THOMAS ADAMSON local fashion designers. “There is a bit of a panic,” AND OLEG CETINIC “We want to fi ll the space with Manzoni said. Associated Press fun things,” said owner Patrikas Makers of the Plex’eat say they have received more than Ribas. PETER DEJONG/AP ining at a table where Vilnius Mayor Remigijus 200 preorders around the world, each person is enclosed Simasius called the initiative including from France, the U.S. Staff at the Mediamatic restaurant in Amsterdam serve food to by a clear plastic shield a “perfect match of communal and Japan. volunteers seated in small glass houses as they test a setup that Dmight look and sound spirit and creativity working side Designer Christophe Gernigon respects social distancing on May 5. futuristic, but it could be one way by side.” said he got the idea after visiting for some restaurants to reopen. It In Hofheim, Germany, the a store in Bangkok “with three also might help in the event that Beef’n Beer is using large teddy individual domes with chairs your companion orders escar- bears seated at some tables to where people would sit and listen gots, heavy on the garlic. keep diners properly spaced to music.” The prototype plastic shields apart. They also ensure a cozy, He merged the idea with the are known as the “Plex’eat,” less-sterile atmosphere. large face shields that have and they resemble big clear At Amsterdam’s Mediamatic proliferated since the pandemic lampshades suspended from the restaurant, the owners have began, although there is no fi ltra- ceiling. They are being show- erected small glass houses that tion system to keep any viruses cased temporarily at H.A.N.D., from spreading. surround each table, served by a Parisian restaurant seeking a Being French, there’s a ver- waiters in protective shields. way to reopen its dining room sion for more intimate dining, of While many restaurants as coronavirus restrictions are course: a dome that cocoons its offered takeout and delivery relaxed. occupants in romantic isolation As restaurateurs around the during the health crisis to keep from the rest of the room. world seek to resume in-person generating at least some income, Among other revamped res- dining amid the pandemic, they such practices are less common taurants across Europe: want to adhere to social distanc- in France, although Michelin  At El Salamanca, a Barcelo- ing rules while also trying to starred chefs such as Alain Du- na beachfront restaurant , menus serve as many customers as casse have started doing takeout are gone and customers use their ARNE DEDERT, DPA/AP health and safety measures will service. smart phones to scan a QR code allow. Owners are seeking solutions to consult what is on offer. Beef’n Beer manager Musa Gezer places teddy bears at the tables Some are putting manne- that will coax back customers  Greek restaurants are using of his Hofheim, Germany, restaurant on May 25 to ensure the quins at every other table to put while also easing their anxiety salt and pepper sachets inside of ordered minimum distance between guests. some space between the actual about catching the virus. shakers, and menus are either customers, like at Augustas and Mathieu Manzoni, the direc- thrown away after each meal or ers has set up 20 plastic huts for ahead of time and owners are Barbora, a restaurant in the tor of H.A.N.D, said he thinks are laminated and wiped down couples. It is awaiting approval keeping their contact informa- Lithuanian capital of Vilnius. the plastic shields are a “pretty, regularly. Some tavernas have from authorities to open if it tion: If someone subsequently Some of its faux diners are more poetic” solution for res- staff in matching face masks. meets safety standards. reports testing positive, the dressed casually, while others taurateurs who fear that social  In the Russian city of Nizhny  Italian restaurants are restaurant can quickly identify look as though they are at a ball. distancing could cut their capac- Novgorod, a restaurant on the using contact tracing. Diners and contact those who ate there The clothes showcase the work of ity by half or more. banks of the Volga and Oka riv- are supposed to reserve tables at the same time. Friday, June 5, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 29 WEEKEND: TRAVEL With eyes on the future How the coronavirus pandemic is changing entertainment in Japan

BY SHOKO ODA AND NAO SANO Bloomberg inging your heart out at karaoke boxes may never feel the same in Japan in Sthe coronavirus era. To encourage customers to return following the lifting of the state of emergency, the Japan Karaoke Box Association has drafted a set of guidelines detail- ing recommendations on how the industry can safely resume. They call for a limit on how many people can be in one box — typically a booth smaller than a motel room — and for people to wear masks “and/or other protective gear that covers the eyes and face” while belting out the latest hits. A national pastime and cultural export, karaoke un- fortunately ticks every box in the government’s guidelines of environments to avoid: crowded, cramped and potentially laden with virus-carrying droplets. But that didn’t stop customers from lining up outside outlets of Manekineko, Japan’s largest karaoke chain, as they reopened for business on Wednesday in Kanagawa, south of Tokyo. “We’re asking for everyone ex- cept the person singing to wear masks,” said Hitomi Baba, a spokeswoman for chain operator Koshidaka Holdings Co. “We’re also giving out a mask to each customer where possible, and where we can’t, giving disinfec- tant sheets instead.” About half of the chain’s 527 outlets across iStock the country have resumed busi- ness. The Shibuya shopping street district, a major fashion and nightlife center in Tokyo, was crowded in this 2017 photo. How the coronavirus Japan lifted its state of emer- changes the landscape of such hot spots remains to be seen as restrictions are slowly lifted and businesses once again open their doors. gency nationwide on May 25, as new infections and overall hospi- people live with the virus as care of their customers will be name-and-shame campaign casual bars where young women talizations dropped to fractions part of their everyday lives and subject to fi erce criticism if it against outlets that defi ed calls chat to customers to prostitution, of the peak. The government has try to reduce risk of infection, comes to light,” said Tomoki to voluntarily close, such as which is in large parts legal. warned people they must adjust instead of sheltering at home to Inoue, chief analyst at NLI Re- pachinko parlors, was highly Hostess bars, where female to a “new lifestyle,” with recom- avoid it. Japan’s approach to the search Institute. “That’s a risk, successful in securing coopera- escorts pour drinks and chat mendations covering everything pandemic has assumed that the so everyone will be looking to tion. Karaoke booths can resume with multiple tables of men from how to commute and shop virus won’t be wiped out, with turn behavior into daily habits.” in stage three, while gyms may throughout an evening, have to the right way to enjoy leisure small clusters already spreading Japanese TV shows will begin be reopened in stage two of been particularly singled out as and hobbies. days after the emergency was fi lming again, with one widely the plan, which began in some a source of multiple infection Some recommendations may declared over. reported book of guidelines from regions last weekend. clusters. The government has be easier to obey than others, Amid lingering questions over Nippon TV calling for kissing High-end fi tness gym operator continued to urge people to avoid however. An organization repre- why Japan hasn’t seen anywhere and action scenes to be avoided Rizap Group Inc., which saw its them, with several of the recent senting theme parks, including near the level of cases and deaths to the extent possible, no meet- shares drop as much as 59% this cases identifi ed in Tokyo linked the operators of Tokyo Disney from the virus as other coun- ings over lunch, and for actors year during the pandemic as it to such outlets, according to an Resort and Universal Studios tries, the nation’s experts have to dress and microphone them- closed outlets, has gone as far as NTV report. Japan, unveiled a set of mea- credited advice given early in selves. announcing that it will provide With no end to the situation sures to reduce risk at the parks. the pandemic to avoid what they “Japanese organizations like to coronavirus antibody tests to in sight, some have resorted to Among the recommendations term the “Three Cs” — closed create rules,” said Rochelle Kopp more than 6,000 employees and opening hostess bars online to was one calling on customers to spaces, crowded places and of Japan Intercultural Consult- trainers, and in principle test all alleviate the fi nancial hit. Cus- refrain from screaming on roller close-contact settings where the ing, who advises and trains new clients. tomers can choose a bar of their coasters and attractions and, of virus is thought to spread most Japanese fi rms. “And Japanese “We have established our own choice, and chat and virtually course, to wear masks while on easily. individuals like to have rules so safety and security standard drink with a hostess or other cus- the rides. The seven-week loose lock- they know what’s appropriate or protocol, ‘Rizap Standard With tomers in a webcam “nomikai,” Countries around the world down — which requested not. Going along with what the Corona,’ as a new normal, de- or drinking session. are cautiously reopening their some fi rms to close and urged rule is, what has been deter- veloped under the guidance of in- Whether it’s a small bar or a economies as people try to re- residents to stay home, albeit mined, is very important.” fectious disease control doctors,” fairly large one, you can’t avoid sume a sense of normality while no penalties for disobedience In Tokyo, the metropolitan the company said in a statement. close-contact settings with these mindful that the virus could re- — has pushed many businesses government has laid out a three- One sector that has yet to get places as hostesses need to turn in second waves until there to the brink, and left industries stage reopening road map for guidance from the authorities is socialize with customers, said is a vaccine for widespread use. scrambling to create environ- when businesses can resume Japan’s nighttime entertainment Mayuko Igarashi, who started an People in Japan have begun ments where customers will feel operations. While the govern- sector, known as “mizu shobai,” online bar. “We launched it May to speak of the “With Corona” safe spending. ment can’t force businesses to meaning “the water trade,” 14 and it’s been full house the era, meaning a time in which “Companies that don’t take close during the pandemic, a which spans everything from past four, fi ve days,” she said. PAGE 30 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, June 5, 2020 WEEKEND: LIFESTYLE

Dilemmas of distanced decorum To be polite, considerate now means something much different than it used to

BY JANE C. HU normal, but that very sense of complacency may lead us restroom? Special to The Washington Post to do things that increase the risk in otherwise low-risk To preempt awkward moments in person, it may help situations. We need to abandon our old norms of interact- to have explicit conversations with people in advance of ne day last month, a line of cars crept down my ing, but that means we’re all going to have to talk with meeting so you can talk about your shared expectations. Seattle street, past my neighbor’s house, honk- each other a lot more openly as we work to establish new This helps all parties acknowledge that things will be dif- ing and holding happy birthday signs. After one ones. ferent and can bring any mismatched boundaries to the Ooccupant rolled down a window to talk with the To get things started, we’ll all need to be much clearer forefront. You might ask about where you’ll interact — for birthday neighbor, the rest of the brigade parked their on what we are comfortable with. In the Beforetimes, instance, in the backyard, in chairs 15 feet apart — or cars and got out, turning the drive-by parade into a so- plenty of people hated hugs but grudgingly accepted other details, like whether guests are allowed to pet your cially distant street party. As I left to walk my dog, about them, grimacing only when their face was safely over dog or use your bathroom. a dozen friends stood chatting the hugger’s shoulder. Moving ahead, we’ll all need You might also share what you’ve been up to — who 10 feet apart. When I returned COMMENTARY to take our cues from the brave, blunt few who voiced you’ve seen, or whether you’ve been going into the offi ce 15 minutes later, they had bro- their boundaries, even if it created social friction. More — and ask the same of your friends and family. That ken off into pairs, catching up importantly, we’ll have to accept without question that might feel forward and strange, but it could start con- an arm’s length away, as we all did in the Great Before. some people will be stricter than we are. People have versations about risks and boundaries. Family physician That urge to inch toward one another, to interact as we different tolerances for risk, and there’s little agreement Evelin Dacker posted a risk tolerance chart on Facebook, would normally, is something I feel, too. A few weeks ago, about what’s “safe.” There have been endless discussions which some people are using as shorthand for their I was in my yard when a mail carrier arrived. I walked of how many feet are safe, whether it’s okay to see friends over, and it wasn’t until after she handed me my mail that attitudes toward virus risk. The chart lists patterns of outside, and whether people should wear masks while behaviors and categorizes them on a scale of 0 (very I realized I may have committed a faux pas. I wanted to running. The uncertainty is diffi cult to grapple with, and strict) to 5 (very open): Someone who’s a 1 (strict) leaves be helpful and save her a few steps, but perhaps it would after two months of isolation in the United States, people their home only for essentials and does not socialize have been more considerate to step away so she could put are making up their own rules as they go. Until we get with people they don’t live with, whereas a 3 (somewhat my mail in the box without interacting with me. It was, more collectively established standards, we’ll have to ac- open) leaves multiple times a week and socializes with no in other words, precisely my desire to be respectful and cept that others are likely to land elsewhere. considerate that led me to cross a line. But we’ll also need to fi gure out how to uphold our own more than 10 people. Saying “I’m a 2” could show what I suspect I’m not the only one who has grappled with boundaries around others, lest we simply go with the you’re comfortable with and give others an opportunity to that dilemma, and I certainly won’t be the last to real- fl ow. express their habits using the same scale. ize belatedly that I may have gone wrong by trying to do “It’s human nature to agree with people, to compro- These conversations might become uncomfortable as right. As we relearn how to share space, we’ll probably mise and calm down a situation,” says Kathleen Smith, they expose mismatches between your boundaries and fi nd that what was once polite may be rude, and what was a licensed therapist and author of “Everything Isn’t Ter- those of your friends and family. With heightened stress once rude may be polite. My friends and family are full of rible.” “If you make the decision in the moment, you’re and so much pandemic shaming, people may feel at- stories about their diffi culties navigating this new world, going to lean toward appeasement.” tacked about their beliefs. It may be smart to anticipate too. One friend told me about a man holding open a door Imagine a dear friend swinging by with fresh-baked that, too, and express your personal rules without judging for her for an awkwardly long time. She felt the usual bread. It’s easy to imagine allowing her inside for a bit; or prescribing others’ choices. Smith recommends taking pull to accept his gesture and follow him into the building after all, it’s your friend, and it feels awful to turn her an “I” position: While something like “you’re not allowed but ended up asking him to please stop holding the door down. But feeling bad does not decrease the objective to come into the house” or “people shouldn’t be going — and felt strange about it afterward. risk to either of you; if you feel strongly about her not into each other’s houses” might come off as defensive As the world reopens, it’s going to be tempting to slip coming into your home, anticipating that scenario and or preachy, a statement like “I’m not having guests in back into the easy decorous norms of our old ways of re- thinking about what you’ll say gives you an option in the the house right now” focuses on your actions. Just as lating, like my neighbor’s friends gravitating toward one moment that enforces your boundaries rather than acqui- mask-wearing is a sign of being considerate of others, another. But to borrow Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear’s escing to hers. Will you chat outside? How far from each establishing expectations can be a way to show we care catchphrase: “We can’t be doin’ that.” Seeing our loved other should you stand? What will you say if she wants to about others. It may feel strange to say “I won’t hug you ones — and even our casual acquaintances — may feel move the conversation indoors, or if she needs to use the because I love you,” but these are strange times. Friday, June 5, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 31 WEEKEND: LIFESTYLE

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Some couples wish they were quarantined with their ‘work spouse.’ Experts say that’s OK, but do be careful with that relationship

BY CHRISTEN A. JOHNSON Chicago Tribune uarantine, a global pandemic and the overall state of the world right now have been major bummers, to say the very least. Q Well, here’s another to add to the list: 38% of Illinoisans reported missing their work spouse more than they would miss their real partners (if they were to actually get some space from them right now), according to a recent survey. Ouch. The social element of someone’s in right now, and I think the work rela- time with, and they understand me in Two in three Illinois couples said they are not as job can play a large role in missing a tionships can remind us of that part of a different way,” then setting bound- productive since working under the stay-at-home order work spouse, too, Westring said. ourselves that we’re not really seeing.” aries may become necessary, Burke alongside their partners, according to the survey data. “If you’re married and work a full- Elizabeth Burke, owner and said. “They’re getting more into an Similarly, 63% of all those surveyed said their work time job, the people that you spend founder of Empowered Therapy in intimacy thing.” productivity would be higher if they were quarantined the most time with, besides your part- Chicago, says couples need to seek Couples should also examine their with their “work wife” or “work husband,” instead of ner, are your work colleagues — that understanding around why a partner own relationship, too, asking questions their actual wives or husbands. is your social circle as well,” she said. calls a colleague a “work spouse.” centered around trust and communi- The survey questioned 3,500 people, who are cur- “So there’s a friendship level, too, that “It’s important that people are clear cation like, “Are there issues within rently working remotely while in quarantine with their I think people are for sure missing.” about what that means to both the our relationship that make it more partners, “about their relationship with their work While missing out on those so- person who has the work spouse, and diffi cult for me to trust them?” and “Is spouse vs. their actual partner.” cial connections is a valid concern, to their partner,” said Burke. “Be re- my partner trying to keep their work Alyssa Westring, a work-family expert and associate Westring also thinks being without ally open and honest and communica- life secretive, or changing work habits professor of management at the Driehaus College of certain work relationships can make tive about that, so that the person who to align with this colleague?” Business at DePaul University, thinks these fi ndings may be more about how people think about the things people miss parts of themselves, has the work spouse can recognize Burke doesn’t think the term “work they have versus the things they don’t have, as opposed specifi cally the parts that are put their own blind spots before (those spouse” is negative, but she does urge to a “who would I pick” mindset. She says not to put too together and professional, and not blind spots) become issues in their couples to be careful. much weight into people’s perceptions about who they frazzled in sweatpants, she said. relationship.” “We spend so much time at our would miss more. “When we’re with our partner, Burke said asking your partner offi ces working with people who “Frankly, we’re all kind of getting sick of the people we’re playing that partner role, but questions like, “What does the term understand our stressors in maybe a we’re quarantined with. I’m sure that if we had a day there are aspects of our personalities mean to you?” and “Do you trust them different way than our spouses, and apart from them, we’d miss them, too, but it’s been that may come out in the workplace in a different way than your other who are really there with us so many months for many of us without even an hour break,” that we don’t really get to express colleagues?” can be helpful ways to hours of the week,” she said. “I think she said. “I think it’s more about the fantasy of things when we’re home all the time,” said gain clarity. If responses to these it can draw two people together in a being different, than it is really about the intimacy of Westring. “There’s parts of our questions sound like, “I see them as way that then can be a little bit dan- those relationships.” identity that we’re not getting to live someone who I want to spend a lot of gerous in their personal lives.” PAGE 32 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, June 5, 2020 WEEKEND: MUSIC

around their kitchen table. On “Fire and Flame,” which builds like a U2 “Joshua Tree”-era arena rock song, Moore addresses his tendency to sometimes neglect his faith. In ‘Wild World,’ “When I am taking the time to pray and meditate and stay grounded in that, I am so much more in peace,” Kip Moore turns Moore said. “But yet, I still push it away and I’ll walk away from it for mirror on himself a long time. I still hold onto it, but I don’t spend time nurturing it. And that’s when I get really dark and lost feeling.” Moore tends to put the most impor- tant song at the end of record, which are also the album cuts that fans Moore made his name in 2011 with gravitate toward the most, whether his multiplatinum hit “Somethin’ they are played on radio or not. On ’Bout a Truck,” but to lump him into this album’s closer, “Payin’ Hard,” he the truck- and beer-focused bro-coun- shares his remorse of not spending try set that has dominated country more time with his father, who died in radio over the past decade would be 2011 just as his career was starting. BY KRISTIN M. HALL selling him short. When programmed “ ‘Payin’ Hard’ was the single most Associated Press beats and pop-infl uenced country is personal song I’ve ever written,” the sound of the moment, Moore’s Moore said. “Those are deep-rooted, hen country singer Kip Moore wasn’t performing, heartland country-rock songs with dark-kept things I’ve had in the closet his growling voice feel muscular, for a long time with regret.” he was traveling the world to places like Iceland and nostalgic and honest. Moore didn’t expect to be trying Costa Rica looking for the next great wave to surf, “He’s probably one of the most to promote his album remotely from or a cliff to climb or a remote trail to hike. But when refl ective, introspective humans I a lodge in Kentucky, but he’s trying know,” said Cindy Mabe, president of to make the most of the situation by the coronavirus pandemic hit, the Georgia-born Universal Music Group Nashville. focusing on the simple things, globetrotter W found himself pretty well suited to isolation as well. “And that’s not necessar- like writing songs and rock “I’ve always kind of been an introvert at heart that’s forced to be an ily common DNA in the climbing in the nearby extrovert because of what I do,” said Moore, from his rock-climbing entertainment indus- sandstone cliffs. try. He really is soul “This has given me a lodge near the Red River Gorge in eastern Kentucky. searching every day.” chance to take a little When other artists have decided to postpone releasing albums The album’s title breath, sleep in the during the pandemic, Moore put out on May 29 “Wild World,” his track isn’t just an apt same bed every night description of today’s for a little bit,” he fourth album and one of his most soul-searching releases. uncertain times. In said. “I’m ready “This is a time of need for people,” Moore said. “I think there’s so the lyrics of “Wild to get back out many messages on this album that it will help people dig up those World,” he’s thinking and play now, back to the life lessons but I needed bones of what they’ve suppressed and analyze them and process his mother and his a little bit of them.” father taught him this pause.”

The Green Room Friday, June 5, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 33 WEEKEND: MUSIC REVIEWS ‘Chromatica’: A star is reborn on the dance floor

BY MIKAEL WOOD (“Shallow,” one of Gaga’s rootsy and Skrillex; it also contains In a recent interview with Los Angeles Times power ballads from the movie much-hyped features by Ariana Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, Lady musical, won an Academy Award Grande (“Rain on Me”), K-pop Gaga described the album as ady Gaga released for best original song.) girl group Blackpink (“Sour being about healing and per- “Chromatica” on May The new record — whose Candy”) and 73-year-old Elton severance — about “dancing 28, marking a return original April 10 release date the John, who duets with the singer through pain,” as she put it, to the sleek dance-pop L singer planned to celebrate with on “Sine From Above,” about while detailing her struggles sound that made her a star more a surprise appearance at the feeling immortal when you’re with mental health. But “Chro- than a decade ago. Her fi rst studio album since since-delayed Coachella festival young. matica” arrives, of course, just the classic-rock-inspired — goes long on the throbbing “I’ll keep on looking for Won- as the COVID-19 pandemic has “Joanne” in 2016, “Chromatica” beats and synthetic textures that derland,” Gaga sings in “Alice,” shut down the very festivals follows Lady Gaga’s Oscar-nomi- Gaga was drawn to for early hits which carries echoes of Crys- and clubs in which the singer nated acting turn in director such as “Just Dance,” “Poker tal Waters’ 1991 dance staple might’ve envisioned her new Bradley Cooper’s 2018 remake Face” and “Bad Romance.” “Gypsy Woman”; “911,” with a music coming to life. of “A Star Is Born,” in which she Lady Gaga Her studio collaborators on the lyric regarding mood-stabilizing “I can’t wait to dance with played the showbiz-ingenue role Chromatica (Interscope) 16-track “Chromatica” include drugs, has the singer processing people to this music,” she told previously portrayed by Barbra rave-circuit regulars such as her voice with an android-like Lowe, “to show them how much I Streisand and Judy Garland. BloodPop, Axwell, Madeon effect. love them.”

Sparks Willie Nile A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip (BMG) New York at Night (River House Records) Sparks, that most European of Ameri- Not for the fi rst time in his career of can bands, has released one of their more than 40 years, Willie Nile fi nds his best albums nearly 50 years after their muse nearby with “New York At Night,” debut. an album inspired by his adopted city. “A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip” shows His 13th studio effort has plenty of brothers Ron and Russell Mael as rockers and a few refl ective ballads and eclectic, extravagant, inventive, melodic is as sharp and guitar-driven as ever, and theatrical as ever, preoccupying with Nile and his long-serving live band themselves with lawnmowers, the en- radiating energy and commitment. vironment and life on their native West Opener “New York Is Rockin’ ” is Coast, all while envisioning how an enthusiastic even if it feels a bit like iPhone would disrupt Eden or the Get- a commission from Madison Avenue, tysburg Address and fantasizing about listing a catalog of NYC neighborhoods, Igor Stravinsky’s life as a pop star. personalities, sports teams and land- The album follows in a similar vein to marks. both its immediate predecessor — “Hip- It also mentions the Giants and the popotamus,” surely the best, if likely Jets, even though their shared stadium only, record of 2017 to tip its hat to both is in New Jersey. It’s OK, though, be- Mrs. Lincoln and Taylor Swift — and cause despite Nile’s Big Apple identity, to many of the 22 studio albums before he recorded this album, like several that one. No two tracks are alike, even of its predecessors, at Hobo Sounds in when the subject matter is related. Weehawken, N.J. That is the case with “I’m Toast” and Even better is the metropolitan “Existential Threat,” which are both Atlantic Records boogie of “The Backstreet Slide,” one understandably anxious, but the fi rst of several songs showing how the fi re alternates power chords with sweet within Nile, once a peer of bands like vocal harmonies, while the other sounds Charli XCX — itching to start a party at a time that it The Replacements and The Clash, con- like a klezmer band with a saxophone wouldn’t be prudent to do so. tinues to light a similar torch. how i’m feeling now (Atlantic) instead of a clarinet. “Lip gloss on, and I’m looking like a Other high points: The furious “The “All That,” on the other hand, is about The title of Charli XCX’s fourth album star,” she sings on the hard-edged “Pink Fool Who Drank the Ocean”; the anthe- as earnest as Sparks gets, a paean to is lowercase, e.e. cummings-style, to Diamond.” “Gonna give you good views.” mic “A Little Bit of Love,” inspired by a lasting love with a catchy melody that, express the disconnection and dissatis- But those views will be virtual only: She’s visit to his 102-year-old father in his na- if it went on just a little longer, could be faction of leading a life in limbo during turning herself out in anticipation of tive Buffalo; and “Surrender the Moon,” the band’s “Hey Jude.” lockdown. going “on a video chat.” with some fi nely intertwined guitars. Sometimes, music and lyrics show a The empathy and security offered The British electro pop star and song- “How i’m feelin” explores the impact natural affi nity, like the angularity of on “Under This Roof,” a truly fi ne song writer — who has penned hits for Icona of living in isolation with one you love: the music of “Stravinsky’s Only Hit” that builds up from an acoustic intro, Pop, Iggy Azalea and Camila Cabello “Building walls,” Charli sings in the com- or the youth choir on the album closer, feels custom-made for these challenging — conceived, wrote and recorded the bustible “Detonate.” “Close myself off in which asks people to, ahem, not mess up entirety of the glitchy, uneasy “how i’m times, and closer “Run Free” deserves new ways.” our world. feeling now” during the coronavirus to be a big hit. But in the end, the strange new world “A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip” enhances pandemic. Nile once sang that “MTV rock ’n’ Sparks’ position as the Picassos of art Quarantining in Los Angeles with breeds optimism. “Anthems” longs for an rollers will lose all their hair.” While rock, their current resurgence proof boyfriend Huck Kwong, she announced epic night out on the town but hopes that limited exposure on the video channel of their irrepressible creativity and the project in early April and give herself the forced intimacy of lockdown might may have helped preserve his locks, curiosity with no visible signs of slowing a May 15 deadline, keeping fans up to lead to a connection that lasts: “Finally, albums like “New York at Night” show down, even as the brothers unsettle into speed on her progress on Instagram Live. when it’s over,” she sings, “we might even that Nile still has all it takes to be a their 70s. The resulting music, made in collabo- be closer.” radio star, and more. — Pablo Gorondi ration with producers like A.G. Cook — Dan DeLuca — Pablo Gorondi Associated Press and Dylan Brady of 100 gecs, is restless The Philadelphia Inquirer Associated Press PAGE 34 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, June 5, 2020 WEEKEND: VIDEO GAMES Learning from a video game? Players fl ock to download Minecraft’s Education Edition, offered for free since March

BY TODD MARTENS their campus, and passionate MIT students can build across multiple platforms. For high-end PC users, the Los Angeles Times their campus, that’s where the magic happens. It is not studio is also tinkering with graphical enhancements for that we do all of these things.” Minecraft. ith schools closed and many a parent thrust While no one knows yet how the gaming audience will But the studio is also having to adjust to a work-from- into the diffi cult role of managing a job, a shift when the world begins to emerge from the grips of home lifestyle. While complications related to the cur- household and a child’s education, here’s one COVID-19, it’s become clear that interactive entertain- rent health crisis caused a brief delay in the release of Wunexpected bit of positive news to emerge ment is uniquely positioned for this moment. Almost Minecraft Dungeons, Chiang is optimistic that there are from the coronavirus outbreak: Video games are good for daily we discover inventive tactics that users are wield- lessons to be learned from the remote-work environment your brain. Well, some games, at least. ing — not just via Minecraft or Fortnite but also Animal that can translate to the offi ce. Minecraft, the Microsoft-owned game known for its Crossing, Nintendo’s friendly, task-fi lled game that has For instance, Chiang says, while offi ce life may provide user-driven content, creative use of blocks and mon- become a coronavirus-era phenomenon. many effi ciencies for large companies, remote work has sters that come out at night, has been at the forefront of Minecraft, which is turning 11 and is considered by also allowed for some democratization. Online tools can mainstream games that utilize educational content. The many to be the top-selling game of all time, has now sold provide participatory options for those who may not feel studio’s Minecraft: Education Edition has for the past few more than 200 million copies, says Chiang, and boasts comfortable raising their hand in a meeting room. years played host to virtual curricula that have allowed 126 million active monthly players. In April alone, the “One of the things I love seeing is how much more students to visit and learn about global monuments, game saw a 25% increase in new users over the previous inclusive a lot of the conversations can be. I think when sharpen math skills, understand coding or take puzzle- month. People are also playing together — Minecraft’s you’re in the offi ce and you try to fi t into a conference fi lled explorations to places as varied as the human body multiplayer sessions surged 40% in April. room there are different confi gurations of teams that or a NASA-approved jaunt into the International Space While Minecraft’s popularity has never been in doubt, come in for the conversation,” Chiang says. “But one of Station. as Mojang Studios gets deeper into the game’s second our big teams did a planning exercise where they took Much of this content, which was at fi rst fueled by decade, the company has been looking to expand the the entire team virtually off site to plan for the next year. educators in the Minecraft community before Microsoft Minecraft brand. Mojang recently released the augment- That’s something that would have actually been pretty brought it in-house in 2016, had previously been avail- ed-reality mobile game Minecraft Earth and on May 26 diffi cult to do in person because it’s hard to hear 100 dif- able only to schools and teachers and worked in tandem issued the hack-and-slash game Minecraft Dungeons ferent voices when you’re in the room together. But them with Microsoft educational accounts. In March, however, doing that planning exercise Microsoft made an assortment of Minecraft’s popular together online in a remote educational tools available for free, with easier access for situation was actually all players via the Minecraft Marketplace. more productive. You can And players have fl ocked to it. hear more voices in that Microsoft reports that there have been more than 50 situation.” million downloads globally of educational content since Looking ahead, it was made available for free March 24. It’s further Minecraft has pledged evidence that virtual worlds are not just places to play or to keep its educational escape, but vessels to learning, connecting or even taking assets free and available part in digital events. Last month, for instance, Minecraft to non-educators at least was home to a mock commencement ceremony for UC through June 30. Chiang Berkeley, which featured remarks from Chancellor Carol also sees the company T. Christ alongside musical performances. It was one of many Minecraft graduation ceremonies happening continuing to experiment around the globe. with bringing Minecraft The UC Berkeley event, said Helen Chiang, the studio to players outside of the head at Minecraft developer Mojang Studios, happened core game, as witnessed organically. When viewed alongside more commercially- by Minecraft Earth and minded endeavors, such as rapper Travis Scott unleash- Minecraft Dungeons. ing a single in Fortnite via an interactive experience “That is defi nitely that attracted more than 27 million participants, this something we’re very pandemic moment is arguably accelerating an entertain- deliberate and focused ment and cultural landscape in which persistent and on,” Chiang says. “Our evolving virtual worlds don’t just live alongside content players have been tell- crafted by traditional media gatekeepers but become ing us for years that equally as vital. they want more ver- How it all evolves is something of an unknown, as sions of Minecraft. The evidenced by the fact that Minecraft’s own educational most popular question suite was birthed via the game-playing community is, ‘Where is Minecraft rather than with the company behind it. 2?’ There really isn’t a “The example right now of universities and college Minecraft 2, but options campuses,” says Chiang, discussing Minecraft gradu- like Minecraft Earth and ations at schools around the globe, “it actually would Minecraft Dungeons are have been really diffi cult for us to re-create all ways we can continue to these colleges. The fact that we have a tool that build out the Minecraft passionate Berkeley students can go build franchise.”

Minecraft, which offers several variations on the game including its Education Edition, has been at the forefront of mainstream games that utilize educational content.

DREAMSTIME/TNS Friday, June 5, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 35 WEEKEND: VIDEO GAMES Igniting interest in role-playing games The 3D remake of Trials of Mana helps novices get acquainted with the basics of RPG gameplay

BY GENE PARK importers praised the game as The Washington Post a celebration of all things that were great about the 16-bit era ole-playing games of role-playing games. The game can be intimidat- attained near-mythical status ing. They involve all for collectors and retro gamers, this math, stats and becoming a 16-bit milestone. different mechanics Last year, Seiken Densetsu 3 Rto memorize and track. Enemies was fi nally released in the West might explode into a treasure as Trials of Mana under the trove of new items with benefi ts Collections of Mana. And now, in harder to read than your insur- 2020, here is a full-bore 3D re- ance policy. make of that same game for the Photos by Square Enix Meanwhile, every new town in PlayStation 4, PC and Nintendo Trials of Mana keeps RPG gameplay simple, offering clear rules and obvious rewards. Trials of Mana offers you exactly Switch. one new weapon. No need for Trials of Mana is perfect for this system for years, and it’s a spreadsheets on the “loot grind” two types of players. First, there neat visual trick to implement in and decoding cryptic algorithms. are folks like me who grew up real-time combat. Just get the one sword, which you with the 16-bit classics, and It’s almost impossible to get know is stronger because it has would love for a chance to dive lost in this game. There are no bigger numbers than your last back into that charming world of side quests to distract you, and sword. simple and immediate rewards. The brilliance of Trials of But then, it’s also a great primer every quest is a simple matter of Mana is how it distills several for anyone who’s been intimi- getting from Point A to B, anoth- core gameplay features to their dated by role-playing games, or er example of this game’s ability truest sense. The “loot grind” even more action-heavy games to distill gameplay concepts to to gain more like the Devil May Cry series. their core. equipment Yes, this is a 2020 remake, All of this is introduced pretty really comes but don’t expect anything as slowly, but certainly not more down to com- luxurious or literally game- slowly than some of the tutori- paring smaller changing like the Final Fantasy als in today’s most complicated and bigger VII Remake. This Japanese games. And the game is easy, numbers. role-playing remake is far more even on its “hard” diffi culty. Players who want high-octane Trials of Mana offers six heroes to choose from, all with their own Sometimes faithful, at least in spirit, to its stories, abilities to learn and weapons to gain. towns really classic roots. Super Nintendo engagement need not apply, but don’t function role-playing stories were often what if those new to the genre as much else mere outlines of grand epics, and suddenly get bored halfway and wish it was more excit- meanwhile, allows players to run besides places Trials of Mana makes little to no through the game? ing? You’ve got an entire genre through the story again (with to stock up on things and maybe effort to update its dialogue and Well good news, it just means of character action games to different lead characters if you get some loose context for the writing. you’re probably primed for explore, from the fi ve Devil May want) with all your items and world. Sometimes, a simple clas- What’s different, then, is how something more complex and Cry games that created and stats intact. sic like Trials of Mana is all you it implements modern action challenging! Did you think the innovated the genre, to 2018’s The graphics are pretty but really need. role-playing design concepts dungeons were too straight- award-winning God of War for rely mostly on the strength of This game is mythical. It’s into an old but classic formula. forward? Maybe it’s time you the PlayStation 4. their colorful character designs. the direct sequel to the Super The combat is now fully 3D and fi nally checked out one of the 17 If you enjoyed the character Good art direction goes a long Nintendo classic Secret of Mana, moves in real time like an action phenomenal The Legend of Zelda customization and “loot grind,” way to hide any technical issues, a name whispered with just a game. There’s one button for games. Mana offers similar you’re probably ready for Diablo and Square Enix’s designers little less reverence than for basic attacks, another for slower gameplay, movement and combat 3, another simple action role- were on fi re during the ’90s. Chrono Trigger or Final Fantasy attacks that hit harder, a jump (complete with a lock-on target- playing adventure. Its “loot Some characters look a bit out- VI. Known as Seiken Densetsu button and a dodge button. Big ing system for enemies). But the grind” is infi nitely more com- dated (notably the huge busts on 3, it was only ever released in enemy attacks will be tele- Zelda dungeons also have puzzles plicated, but Trials teaches you the warrior princesses), and one Japan in 1995, at the tail end of graphed by red fl ashing lights to solve and enemies to beat that basic concepts like “strength” character’s voice acting is irre- the Super Nintendo console’s life. on the fl oor, which is the player’s require a bit more thought than a and “magic strength,” more than deemably terrible in English. Despite this lack of attention, signal to move. Massive multi- simple button press. enough information to tackle But Trials of Mana was never Japanese gamers and intrepid player online RPGs have used Maybe you liked the combat anything Diablo throws at you. meant to wow anyone with That’s not to say Trials of fi reworks. It’s a simple, updated Mana offers little. On a “nor- remake of a legendary game. mal” diffi culty, it offers at least Time has humbled its legacy, as 20 hours of gameplay, includ- developers and studios iterated ing a new chapter. And like the formula of the 16-bit adven- the original game, it offers you ture. Modern classics like The six heroes to choose from, all Witcher 3 and Skyrim have done with their own stories, abilities wonders to build believable char- to learn and weapons to gain. acters, settings and compelling You can take up to three of the contexts for adventure. characters through the whole Trials of Mana reminds us of game. And each character comes why we fell in love with these with at least six different classes, games in the fi rst place. The only widening the combat pos- rules are simple; the rewards are sibilities. The game’s combat immediate and obvious. There’s is basically a simple Streets of no better formula for escapist Rage-type brawler with RPG fantasy. mechanics, but the combat and Platforms: PC, Switch, PS4 class variety spices things up Online: trialsofmana.square- Trials of Mana doesn’t update much in the way of dialogue or story, but it makes gameplay simpler. considerably. New Game Plus, enix-games.com PAGE 36 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, June 5, 2020 WEEKEND: HEALTH & FITNESS

BY PAM MOORE Special to The Washington Post f your motivation to exercise during the pandemic is as elusive as fl our and antibacterial wipes, that’s not WILLPOWER Isurprising — and you’re not alone. “It’s totally fi ne and totally normal to have your motivation wane,” says Steve Mag- ness, a Houston-based running coach who has seen athletes at all levels lose initia- tive as the pandemic wears on. Here’s why TO WORK OUT you may be feeling this way and what you can do about it. “One of the best things to keep people Fitness gurus offer tips for fi nding the motivated is staying in a routine. You take workouts served to prepare him for rac- that away, you throw it for a loop, and it’s motivation to exercise during the pandemic ing; now the goal is time to himself and a really hard to establish new routines,” welcome escape from Zoom calls. says Magness, author of “Peak Perfor- “It provides this nice little anchor to the mance.” “All of a sudden, our offi ces and day,” he says. our homes have become the same thing.” Emmerman advises asking yourself Pre-pandemic, it might have been what you can do to make yourself feel bet- second nature to hit the gym en route to ter as you select fi tness goals right now. If, or from the offi ce. Now, if you work from for example, you struggle with back pain, home, and particularly if you’re a parent, your goal could be to experience no more the pull toward work or family can easily than two days per week of pain greater derail you from your workout. than three out of 10 on the pain scale. Meanwhile, the competitions that Achieving the goal might mean complet- provide a “carrot” for many athletes have ing three 20-minute mat Pilates sessions been canceled or are up in the air. per week with a YouTube instructor or “According to research, people quit engaging in yoga or a stretching routine when they have no goal,” Magness says. for 15 minutes per day, if those activities Jennifer Harrison, a Chicago-area tri- tend to be helpful. athlon coach who describes her clientele as “Type A,” says even they are fl ounder- Stay accountable ing as race directors announce cancella- Once you select a goal, being account- tions. able, even if only to yourself, can help you While the pandemic may have drained achieve it. Harrison suggests keeping a some of your desire to work out, it’s also simple chart on your phone or your fridge the reason you shouldn’t ditch your rou- where you can check a box for every day tine. you work out. “Nothing is more important right now Friends and family members can also than everyone’s health,” Harrison says. help you stay on track. If you live in a part Julie Emmerman, a Boulder, Colo., of the country where it’s allowed, Har- sports psychologist, says we need to take rison suggests getting some fresh air with responsibility for our own physical and a friend. emotional well-being, and “exercise is one “Put a mask on and go for a walk with of the best portals to do that.” your best friend and laugh for 30 min- One of the many benefi ts of exercise is utes,” she says. that it keeps our immune system function- You could also compete against or ing optimally. Emmerman says more is collaborate with others, whether it’s over not necessarily better: Working out too Zoom, or in person with roommates or intensely or for too long may increase family. For example, you and your work- your risk of getting sick. out buddies could challenge one another to Exercise is also an excellent tool for increase your maximum pushup repeti- stress management. For many of Har- tions by a certain percentage each week rison’s clients, it provides an important or compete to see who can do more on any outlet. She coaches an infectious-disease given day, Emmerman says. Even if your doctor who hops on her treadmill for 30 workout buddy slacks off, the temptation minutes at 10 p.m. to decompress after to test yourself can still be motivating, she work. says. Front-line workers aren’t the only ones Since the coronavirus took hold, Harri- feeling pressure : Adapting to a virtual son has been offering free group challeng- work environment comes with its own es each month that are open to anyone; challenges. the goal is to accrue as many points as “It is stressful sitting at your screen all possible. May’s participants earned points day and having all these meetings and for doing 15 minutes of yoga, completing having zero [in-person] communication,” iStock photos a bike or run workout without music, or Magness says. “We’ve shifted to being an completing 15 minutes of dryland swim indoor society, on screens. Especially now, drills, to name a few. [exercise] is a nice relief.” Be kind to yourself himself permission to walk instead of run. Look forward Emmerman suggests going outside, if Magness says staying home has been possible: “Nature is a wonderful equalizer First, don’t beat yourself up or attempt especially challenging for his clients with If you’re feeling too tired to exercise, to all the stressors.” to power through if your drive is low right young children. Instead of struggling to Emmerman suggests focusing not on how And while it won’t help to worry about now. squeeze in challenging workouts, they’re low you feel now but on how energized the future, maintaining a base level of fi t- “Give yourself time to get through going for walks with their kids “and you’ll be when you’re done, or how you ness will help prepare you for it. almost what I call the grieving moment,” maybe doing a few random exercises” might feel if you skip it. “You want to set yourself up to be fi ring Magness says. He says it’s important to —which he says is absolutely fi ne. “A body at rest wants to stay at rest, on as many cylinders as you can as things allow yourself to “wallow” or do “what- and a body in movement wants to stay Harrison says that “the most important move forward,” Emmerman says. ever you need to do.” moving,” she says. Changing clothes and thing is continuing to move,” even if it’s But how do you get moving when the Harrison agrees. She says if you can’t starting can be the biggest hurdles. only a 20-minute walk. bed or couch beckon? Here are strategies muster the energy to work out for a day or The promise of a post-workout treat for staying motivated. even a week, “Give yourself some grace.” Set new goals can also entice you to lace up your tennis But that doesn’t mean throwing in the shoes, Emmerman says. A reward might towel indefi nitely. With our lives upended, many of our be a dessert or a meal you’ve been looking “At some point, you have to set some pre-coronavirus fi tness goals no longer forward to or anything else you enjoy, sort of expectation or set some sort of make sense. If that’s your situation, select such as a show, a hot bath or a scented bar,” Magness says. “And that bar can be a new goal that accounts for your circum- candle. really low.” As a distance runner, he was stances and priorities. The more mean- Finally, it’s important to stay optimistic, running six to seven days a week with a ingful your target, Magness says, the Harrison says. Believing the future will focus on becoming “super fi t for my next more committed you’ll be to it, so choose bring races, events and workouts among race” before the pandemic. Now, he’s wisely. friends is vital. focusing on staying happy, healthy and Right now, he’s encouraging his athletes “Hope is not a plan, and hope is not a suffi ciently fi t to compete again when the to focus on outcomes that are unrelated to strategy,” she says, “but it sure as heck is opportunity arises. These days, he gives performance. Before the coronavirus, his a motivating factor for people.” Friday, June 5, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 37 WEEKEND: FAMILY

THE MEAT AND When work and home collide POTATOES OF LIFE Pandemic exposes kids to different aspects of parents’ career Lisa Smith Molinari

BY LAUREN PARKER Special to The Washington Post Clean freaks now ewelry designer Lisa Zam- polin was beading charm jewelry during quarantine in good company Jwhen her 13-year-old son had an idea. “Mom, we should give your angel bracelets to all t the outset of the coronavirus pandemic, people the nurses and doctors who follow everywhere ran frantically to the stores, clear- you on Instagram!” Next thing she ing the shelves of disinfectant, bleach and clean- knew, Zampolin’s followers were Aing supplies. Other than a smidge of toilet paper messaging names and addresses of panic, I never felt an urgency to stockpile to prepare for health-care workers from across the the crisis. Why? Because I’ve been a clean freak all my country, and her sons packaged and life. mailed 200 guardian angel bracelets I’ve always felt the need to clean and organize my sur- from her business, Love, Lisa. “I roundings. As a child, I categorized my toys and trinkets, have teenage boys. They never paid sorting and storing them in boxes and bins. Everything attention to my jewelry,” Zampolin had its place, and if anything was out of place, I didn’t feel said, laughing. “But now that I’m right until it was returned to its place. By the time I had working from home instead of at my own kids and a house to take care of, I had developed the showroom, they’re seeing me a routine that kept everything and everyone shipshape. in a whole new light: as a business- To me, cleanliness represented control. woman.” Which is why, every morning at about 8 a.m., a little ray It’s 9 a.m. Do you know where of sunshine comes through the window in my front door your parents work? and threatens to ruin my life. It taunts me, mocks me and Under various shelter-at-home points a gleaming spotlight directly on my fl aws, expos- orders, every day is now Take Your iStock ing them to the world. It shines right on what I thought Child to Work Day as millions of was my clean fl oor, magnifying remnants of dog hair, dirt With parents working from home because of the coronavirus pandemic, parents are working alongside and dust, making me feel like I’m losing control. every day is Take Your Child to Work Day. remote-schooling children. Chal- Each time this truth is revealed, I grimace and run to lenges are considerable, as the the laundry room to grab my cleaning supplies. On the the more mundane ins and outs of ing CEOs work through plans to many work-from-home memes will way, I poke the button on my Roomba, grateful for its the business, from website and ad survive, often including decisions attest, but experts see a silver lin- faithful assistance in managing the ever-present dog hair analytics to shipping. They’re see- to reduce head count,” said Mike ing. Now kids can learn what their that drops from our yellow lab’s follicles year-round. As parents actually do for a living, see ing how hard we work.” Troiano, partner in Boston-based the shaft of sunlight moves around the house, I follow it, how hard they work at doing it and Often left at the offi ce, the work- venture capital fi rm G20 Ventures. frantically spraying, wiping and sweeping up any newly possibly gain a whole new apprecia- load is now laid bare for all to see. He rarely discussed work with his discovered fi lth. tion for them. “Witnessing their parent’s energy three children (11, 14 and 18) living Sometimes, the urge to clean strikes randomly. After “In my work as a family and child output during the day is stagger- at home before, but now with an 18- brushing my teeth, I have been known to suddenly spend therapist, I ask a lot of questions, ing to kids, and many are fi nding a stair commute to the dinner table, time scrubbing my husband’s stubble from the sink, but the one that stumps almost new appreciation for this day-to-day he’s arriving without the buffer of which will often inspire me to Swiffer the tumbleweeds all kids is, ‘What do your parents lived experience,” said Pasadena, a podcast or Springsteen tunes and on the bathroom fl oor, wipe up unmentionable substances do for a living?’ ” said San Diego Calif., therapist John Sovec, who is more eager to share. “Now the behind toilet seats, extract gloppy hairballs from shower psychologist Ron Stolberg, professor specializes in adolescents. “I’m see- kids are getting a more complete drains and wipe down the mirrors. at Alliant International University ing teens taking on increased tasks picture of what it means to lead, and Before I know it, I fi nd myself on my hands and knees and co-author of “Teaching Kids to to support parents in keeping the the emotional costs of doing what’s with the Shop Vac crevice tool, sucking up dehydrated Think.” “I get blank stares, overly house running smoothly and not just required.” peas and carrots under the fridge, candy wrappers under broad answers like ‘business’ and a looking for money in exchange for The pandemic also offers kids my kids’ beds and peanuts between the couch cushions. look of amazement when they real- chores.” a crash course in the professional In the past, I thought my cleaning habits were some- ize they have no idea.” When parents toil away at home, pivot, as working parents scramble thing to be ashamed of. I hid my tendencies from my Seeing a parent’s professional small children also get the mes- to adapt to this virtual new normal. friends, afraid of being judged for being fastidious. “Do a identity — skillfully leading a Zoom sage that life doesn’t revolve around Natasha Augoustopoulos always few crumbs really matter in the whole scheme of things?” meeting, getting treated respectful- them, and that work comes before taught yoga on-site at New York’s I wondered. “Is there something wrong with me because ly by coworkers and being impor- play. Independent educational con- Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School I want my house to be neat, tidy and clean?” tant in the corporate context — can sultant Colleen Paparella Ganjian in of Music & Art and Performing Arts Over the years, philosophies on hygiene and orderli- have a profound impact. “Children Vienna, V a., models this by setting but has since started creating You- ness have changed. “Cleanliness is next to godliness” are getting glimpses into [their par- up her 7-year-old daughter with a Tube video sessions for students in was a long-running standard that has fallen out of favor ents’] professional lives right now in daily planning board similar to the her apartment-turned-yoga studio. in modern times, when society began to attach negative a way that we’ve never seen before, one she uses. “Once she fi nishes her “I didn’t have a tripod, any fi lming stigmas to people who are extraordinarily clean and or- and there’s a huge opportunity here work, she gets free time. Just like I equipment or anything,” she said. ganized. Refrigerator magnets proclaimed, “Immaculate for learning, sharing, growth and do.” Augoustopoulos enlisted her 9-year- homes are run by dull women.” Paperweights and coffee connectedness — both for kids and Working at home with two young old daughter to act as iPhone direc- cups suggested, “An untidy desk is a sign of genius.” for parents,” said Neha Chaudhary, children, Bolanle Williams-Olley, tor and video cinematographer, and Psychological terms such as “anal retentive” and “OCD” psychiatrist at Harvard Medical chief fi nancial offi cer of New York- as a participant in partner yoga became pop-culture insults used against people like me, School and Massachusetts General based Mancini Duffy architectural videos. “My daughter says she loves who thrive on order and control. Hospital, and co-founder of Brain- fi rm, tries to set a good example. my job because it’s helping people, Prior to the current global coronavirus pandemic, I storm, the Stanford Lab for Mental “My daughter and I were in my and she beams with pride when worried that dusting the knickknacks might brand me as Health Innovation. bed the other day trying to get in I tell her she’s an integral part of dull and boring. Reorganizing the junk drawer could be a Fred and Maureen Schmidt, own- 30 minutes of productive time,” she it,” she said. The duo has recorded clear sign that I was “anal retentive.” Washing my hands ers of Florida swimsuit company said of her 6-year-old. “I had my more than 30 videos together. too much might mean I had “OCD.” Shade Critters, have long involved laptop and she had her coding class. “Interestingly, this time at home But now, the trendsetters who once rolled their eyes at their kids, 12 and 14, in their busi- Watching me focus, she’s learning has allowed for a different kind of “clean freaks” like me for vacuuming out utensil draw- ness, but in “fun ways,” such as to be disciplined to get through her learning for children,” said Har- ers are the same ones elbowing each other at Walmart to putting them in a photo shoot. “Now schoolwork.” vard Medical School’s Chaudhary, grab the last canister of bleach wipes. that we’ve got swimsuits laid out all Older children can learn from who believes that helping a parent Welcome to my world, neophytes. You may have only over our home, our daughter tries the pandemic’s emotional toll can be quite empowering for kids. recently realized that transferring microscopic germs on fi t samples between pre-algebra on businesses, too. “Most of our “While book learning was the star between surfaces can be dangerous, but this is the eter- classes, and our son helps design portfolio companies have struggled of the show up until now, practical, nal truth that is illuminated every day by that pesky little textile prints,” Maureen Schmidt through this thing, and a lot of hands-on learning has come into the ray of sunlight that comes through my window. Now that said. “Plus, they overhear us discuss my day is spent on Zoom help- picture.” the world knows what I have known for years, I no longer need to be ashamed of being a good housekeeper. Call it godliness or OCD, but as long as the sun contin- Seeing a parent’s professional identity — skillfully leading a Zoom ues to shine, so will I. meeting, getting treated respectfully by coworkers and being Read more of Lisa Smith Molinari’s columns at: themeatandpotatoesoflife.com important in the corporate context — can have a profound impact. Email: [email protected] PAGE 38 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, June 5, 2020 WEEKEND: CROSSWORD AND COMICS NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

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EGERVILSCIMINO I M I C LES I REV LEAGUE TAKRCRSTAMEN RACER ATTACK Friday, June 5, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 39 FACES CMT special focuses on everyday heroes Country stars highlighted the How caged heroic work of citizens and com- munities around the country who were coming together to help each other in the middle of the coronavirus epidemic during the “CMT Celebrates Our Heroes” TV special. birds sing But Wednesday’s show largely didn’t address the protesting and rallies for racial justice that have gripped the country in the previ- Music producer David Jassy HAMED BAHREMANDI/AP ous week following the death of Music producer David Jassy crafted the album “San Quentin George Floyd . helps inmates find their voice Mixtape, Vol. 1,” featuring work from 17 incarcerated rappers. CMT started the show with a Below are several of the inmates featured on the album. simple text introduction: “As so- cial unrest grips the nation, we want to say thank you to those BY MESFIN FEKADU it’s not an easy thing to do.” taking action against injustice. Associated Press He even had members of rival gangs rap on There are heroes all around us.” the same song. “All of a sudden people that nor- The special aired in place of the avid Jassy was a successful music mally wouldn’t say ‘hi’ to each other was saying CMT Music Awards, which were producer who had worked with Brit- ‘hi’ to each other on the yard,” he said. postponed until October. The spe- ney Spears and others before he was Jassy transferred to San Quentin in 2013. In cial, which appeared to be mostly sent to prison for killing a man dur- 2010, he was convicted of murder, assault with D pre-recorded performances and ing an altercation. While serving his time, he a deadly weapon and aggravated battery, and dedications from artists like Car- would hear talented young inmates rapping in acquitted of charges of hit-and-run and a sec- rie Underwood, Luke Combs and the yards at San Quentin State Prison with skill ond assault with a deadly weapon. Earlier this Darius Rucker, focused on good and power. In his cell, where Jassy used his year his sentence was commuted by Califor- news stories of healthcare work- Daniel “Dinero” keyboard to make beats, he invited the men to nia Gov. Gavin Newsom, who said Jassy had Tylor “Flock” ers, educators, first responders Gutierrez perform rap freestyles and taught them about “demonstrated a genuine commitment to his Johnson and more. songwriting and music production. rehabilitation.” In the jail’s media center, Jassy uploaded Jassy said in prison he took advantage of the each sound from his keyboard to a computer so various programs offered, including classes Amy Grant undergoes he could produce music digitally. Word spread on nonviolent communication. He said he also open-heart surgery about Jassy’s music-led initiative as part of the earned his degree in jail. prison’s Youthful Offenders Program, and do- “There’s nothing I can do to turn the time A publicist for Amy Grant nors contributed audio equipment, transform- back, but what I can do is choose what I do with says the contemporary Christian ing the media lab into a full-blown production my days now. I can choose to only put out posi- singer had open heart surgery on studio. tive things and try to help others as much as Wednesday to fix a heart condi- Celebrities even got involved, including J. possible,” Jassy said. He’s still sending beats to tion she has had since birth. Cole, Kim Kardashian West, Common and MC the young rappers and will stay involved. Doctors discovered Grant had Hammer — all who visited San Quentin to see All proceeds from sales of “San Quentin Mix- a heart condition called partial Jassy’s efforts and encourage the inmates to tape, Vol. 1” will benefit the National Center anomalous pulmonary venous Brooks “Le Joe” keep pushing through. for Victims of Crime, The Boys & Girls Club of Deonte “Dope” return (PAPVR) during a rou- Legend An album of those songs was released to Oakland and Potrero Hill Neighborhood House. Pope tine checkup. Velvet Kelm, her streaming platforms on May 29 on Equity Dis- Jassy said the budding rappers were extremely publicist, said Grant’s doctor said tribution, Roc Nation’s in-house music distribu- encouraged when they heard the album’s intro, the surgery “couldn’t have gone tion platform. “San Quentin Mixtape, Vol. 1,” which features shout-outs from J. Cole, DJ better.” produced by Jassy, features 17 young rappers Khaled, Meek Mill, Common, T.I., Russell Sim- telling their stories. mons, Maxwell, Talib Kweli, Snoh Aalegra and Teen hurt by gunfire at “It’s so beautiful when you see the transi- Nick Cannon. YFN Lucci video shoot tion from youngsters coming in because a lot of “When they heard celebrities saying like, them really act out because they’re either hurt ‘Hey, we’re backing you up, we’re willing to give A teenager was injured or scared — because you have to keep up a cer- you a second chance’ — some of them actually Wednesday night after gunfire tain facade in prison; you don’t want to show that started crying,” he said. “It’s given them light in rang out during the filming of a you soft,” Jassy, who is Swedish, said in an in- a very dark environment.” music video in Atlanta, the city’s terview with The Associated Press from Stock- Grammy-nominated rapper Fat Joe, who is police said. Kameron “Kam” holm. “For them to basically be vulnerable on a also on the album’s opening track, called the Mekhi “FlyKhi” Police said the 15-year-old boy’s Wilson mixtape in prison and really speak their truth, album “a testament to the power of music.” Williams thumb was grazed after some 21 bullets were fired, with at least one striking YFN Lucci’s Bentley. The teen was not identified and it was not immediately known if he Cannes reveals the lineup that could have been has been hospitalized. YFN Lucci left the apartment complex without his luxury car BY JAKE COYLE Fremaux announced 56 movies that were Spike Lee, whose previous film “BlacK- before authorities arrived at the Associated Press selected from a record 2,067 submissions that KKlansman” premiered at Cannes, had been scene, police said. Police are poured in despite the health crisis. “I can see set to preside over the jury that would select searching for suspects in the From an empty movie theater in Paris, that film is alive and kicking,” said Fremaux, Cannes’ top prize. Last year, it went to Bong shooting. organizers of the Cannes Film Festival on sitting on the stage of the UGC Normandie Joon Ho’s “Parasite,” which went on to win Wednesday announced the films that would cinema in Paris alongside Cannes’ president, best picture at the Academy Awards. have played there in May had it not been can- Pierre Lescure. “This time, everyone will be able to give Other news celed by the pandemic. The selection announcement, usually made his or her own Palme d’Or,” Fremaux said. Just two days before it was to The selections were an exercise in what in an April press conference before teeming Also among the selections: Francois Ozon’s begin streaming, “We Are Free- might have been for Cannes, the internation- throngs of international journalists, was in- “Summer of 85”; Naomi Kawase’s “True style Love Supreme,” a documen- al French festival that for the past 73 years stead presented during a TV interview that Mothers”; Hong Sang-soo’s “Heaven”; Thom- tary about the hip-hop improv has been one the most prestigious and glitzy streamed online and aired on Canal Plus. as Vinterberg’s “Another Round”; Maiwenn’s group with Lin-Manuel Miranda annual gatherings of cinema. Cannes, origi- Fremaux didn’t distinguish between which “DNA”; and Sang-ho Yeon’s “Peninsula.” and friends, has postponed its nally slated for mid-May, initially considered films had been slated for its main selection, The films will be able to brand themselves release out of solidarity with pro- postponing to July but ultimately gave up on in which some 20-25 films compete for the as part of the official 2020 Cannes Film Fes- testers. The group announced the a 2020 edition. Palme d’Or, the Un Certain Regard sidebar tival selection. If accepted elsewhere, the postponement Wednesday, citing Hearing what would have premiered on the or out-of-competition premieres. Some films, films can still have their premieres at other that our “collective attention” Croisette this year offered a tantalizing pic- he noted, opted to wait until next year’s fall festivals — should they happen — like is turned toward more pressing ture of a canceled Cannes. Two films by “12 Cannes. those in Toronto, Telluride, New York and concerns. Years a Slave” filmmaker Steve McQueen The announced selection included 16 films San Sebastian. The Cannes label will be par- Pop star Chris Trousdale, a — “Mangrove” and “Lover’s Rock” — had directed by women, an increase of two from ticularly helpful for films from lesser-known former member of the boy band been headed to Cannes, said festival director 2019. Cannes, where only one female film- filmmakers; 15 of the films announced Dream Street, has reportedly Thierry Fremaux, as was Wes Anderson’s maker (Jane Campion) has ever won the Wednesday were directorial debuts. died of complications from coro- “The French Dispatch” and Pete Docter’s Palme, has often come under criticism for not “We will support them,” said Fremaux. navirus. He was 34. Pixar film “Soul.” selecting more movies directed by women. “Their names are on the map now.” From wire reports PAGE 40 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, June 5, 2020 AMERICAN ROUNDUP W WII flag stolen from THE CENSUS City Hall is returned The reward offered for RENO — A flag from a information NV World War II battleship $6K about who- stolen from its display Saturday ever killed after people broke into Reno City a Louisiana black bear last month, Hall amid protests over the death of George Floyd was anonymous- Louisiana’s Department of Wildlife and ly returned Tuesday. Fisheries said Tuesday. Agents were City spokesman Jon Humbert told about the bear and collected its confirmed the glass display case body May 17 from St. Mary Parish, ac- that held the USS Reno flag was cording to a news release. A necropsy smashed during demonstrations found that it had been shot with a rifle protesting the death of Floyd, a a few days earlier. The reward will be black man who died in Minneap- paid for information that leads to the olis after a white officer pressed bear-killer’s arrest and conviction. his knee into Floyd’s neck for sev- eral minutes . KRNV reported that the flag morial Park in 2008 for the 200th was inside a package anonymous- birthday of Jefferson Davis, pres- ly delivered to the station Tues- ident of the Confederate States day and addressed to journalist of America. The group typically Kenzie Margiott with a note in only removes it when hurricanes Sharpie that read: “Needed pro- threaten the area . tecting. Looters were flag burn- ing. R.I.P George Floyd.” First US gold coin set The flag was donated to the city for private sale in 1946 . The men of the USS Reno were credited with shooting down LOS ANGELES — One five enemy airplanes and assisted of the world’s most in the downing of at least two CA coveted coins is coming to the more at Iwo Jima. market. The Brasher Doubloon, the Pipeline worker mauled first gold coin struck in the U.S., by black bear is being offered privately at a $15 million asking price, according JUNEAU — A con- to numismatic adviser Jeff Sher- AK tract worker for the id. His firm, Los Angeles-based trans-Alaska pipeline system PCAG, is marketing the coin on was mauled by a bear and seri- behalf of a collector he would ously injured while running on a only identify as a former Wall public road near a pump station, Street executive. a spokesperson for the pipeline The doubloon is dated 1787 — operator said Tuesday. five years before the federal mint The incident occurred Friday opened in Philadelphia. Metal- evening on a route used for rec- smith Ephraim Brasher, George reation by employees based at the Washington’s next-door neighbor remote Interior Pump Station 5, on New York’s Cherry Street, pri- which is on the south side of the vately minted a small batch of the Brooks Range, said Katie Pesz- coins and punched this unique necker with Alyeska Pipeline version with his hallmark “EB” Service Co. on the eagle’s breast. The soon- She said security personnel K.C. ALFRED, SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE/TNS to-be president almost certainly went to look for the worker, iden- handled it, according to longtime tified by Alaska State Troopers as numismatist John Albanese, Michael Becwar, 53, of Wasilla, A wild ride founder of Certified Acceptance, when they noticed he had been a coin-grade verification service. gone for about 80 minutes. They Stuffed animals ride Belmont Park’s Giant Dipper roller coaster in Mission Beach, Calif., on Monday. Uncertainty surrounding the found Becwar on the side of the The park has been running the coaster to keep it from tightening up during the coronavirus closures. coin’s original purpose adds to road with serious injuries, she its mystique. Historians believe said. He was taken to a hospital in ficials provided a description of crab traps. 80. His reputation for being tough it may have been intended for Fairbanks, which is about 160 air the vehicle to police, which led Lionfish are invasive to Florida on crime was coupled with com- circulation, though some theorize miles south, she said. Pesznecker officers to the suspect with the and harm native fish that are im- plaints of racial discrimination . it could have been a prototype or said he’s expected to recover. help of the Williamstown, Mass., portant to maintaining healthy souvenir. Troopers, in an online dispatch, police department. reefs . said a necropsy performed by the Confederate flag taken Christoph Herrmannsdoerfer, down due to protests Regulators fine firm for Department of Fish and Game 34, of Williamstown, was cited Statue of divisive mayor oil meter violations confirmed an adult male black to appear in court in Bennington bear killed by pipeline security BRANDON — A huge next month to answer to a charge is removed, stored personnel Sunday was “very Confederate battle flag ANCHORAGE — Alas- of simple assault. FL likely” the animal involved in the PHILADELPHIA — A has been lowered from its tower- AK ka regulators have mauling . PA crane lifted a long-po- ing pole near Interstates 4 and fined Hilcorp Energy Co. $30,000 Lionfish Challenge to larizing statue of former Phila- 75 outside Tampa after threats for meter-related violations at an Man charged after run through Labor Day delphia Mayor Frank Rizzo from appeared on social media to set oil and gas field on the Kenai Pen- pickle hits road worker its home outside a public building it on fire during protests of the insula, citing the company’s his- MIAMI — Florida’s in the wee hours of Wednesday, killings of black people by white tory of violations as a factor for FL Lionfish Challenge is whisking it away after recent pro- authorities. the penalty. POWNAL — A Massa- The Alaska Oil and Gas Con- chusetts man is facing open and will run through the tests against police brutality has- David R. McCallister, who VT summer. tened its removal. leads the local chapter of the Sons servation Commission said in a an assault charge after he alleg- May 14 order that Hilcorp failed edly threw a large pickle from a The annual contest began May As National Guard troops de- of Confederate Veterans, wants 22 and will end on Labor Day , ployed for the protests watched, people to know that removing to submit required meter per- moving vehicle that hit a Vermont formance reports for the Beaver highway worker, police said. according to a Florida Fish and the crane lifted the 10-foot bronze the 30-foot by 60-foot battle flag Wildlife Conservation Commis- statue and workers shook it from wasn’t a decision made in fear. Creek unit in the Kenai National The incident occurred just be- Wildlife Refuge, Alaska’s Energy fore 6 p.m. Monday on U.S. Route sion news release. Winners will its stand outside the Municipal “The decision was we would be announced a week later at the Services Building, across from temp take down the flag in the Desk reported. 7 in Pownal near the border The reports detail how accu- crossing into Massachusetts. Lionfish Removal and Awareness City Hall. It was loaded onto a bests interests of preserving the Festival in Destin . truck and was put in storage until park overall,” he told the Tampa rately meters measure the vol- A passenger in a southbound ume of oil or gas leaving a field. vehicle threw an object “later The most common methods a permanent plan for its fate can Bay Times. “We don’t want the The state uses the readings to determined to be a large pickle” of harvesting lionfish are spear- be determined, officials said. flag to be an excuse for anyone to calculate royalties owed to the that hit the highway worker and ing and using a hand-held net. Rizzo, who died in 1991, was po- do illegal acts.” government. “caused him pain,” police said. They are also caught as bycatch lice commissioner from 1968-71 The flag flies on a 139-foot flag Agency of Transportation of- in commercial lobster and stone and served as mayor from 1972- pole, erected in Confederate Me- From wire reports Friday, June 5, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 41 PAGE 42 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, June 5, 2020 Friday, June 5, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 43 PAGE 44 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, June 5, 2020 OPINION Max D. Lederer Jr., Publisher Lt. Col. Marci Hoffman, Europe commander Not all endorse political moves by retired brass Lt. Col. Richard McClintic, Pacific commander Caroline E. Miller, Europe Business Operations BY MICHAEL J. STRICOF retired generals and admirals, allowing Joshua M. Lashbrook, Pacific Chief of Staff Special to The Washington Post Crowe to position his ongoing endorsement as a reflection of broader, confirmed opin- EDITORIAL ithout saying anything about ion. This push also started the trend of the the presidential campaign, numbers count, in which each presiden- Terry Leonard, Editor retired Adm. Mike Mullen, tial campaign jockeyed to see who could [email protected] Wformer chairman of the Joint secure more endorsements from retired Robert H. Reid, Senior Managing Editor Chiefs of Staff, and former defense sec- military leaders. [email protected] retary and retired Marine Corps Gen. A perfect storm produced Crowe’s en- Jim Mattis became the center of the po- dorsement: the precedent set by Kelley Tina Croley, Managing Editor for Content litical conversation this week when they [email protected] in 1988, Crowe’s desire for a renewed and denounced President Donald Trump. more positive public role and Clinton’s Sean Moores, Managing Editor for Presentation Although Trump has courted military men needs as a candidate. But it was also the [email protected] and placed them in his Cabinet, his disre- result of two significant longer trends in gard for the law, his divisiveness and his Joe Gromelski, Managing Editor for Digital U.S. history, the beginning of a widening [email protected] erratic nature rub many, like Mattis, the gap between civil society and the military wrong way. after the end of the Vietnam War and the On Wednesday, the general wrote: end of the Cold War, which created the op- BUREAU STAFF “When I joined the military, some 50 years portunity for an inexperienced candidate Europe/Mideast ago, I swore an oath to support and defend like Clinton. That Clinton was successful, Erik Slavin, Europe & Mideast Bureau Chief the Constitution. Never did I dream that and that this success could in part be cred- [email protected] troops taking that same oath would be or- ited to Crowe’s vouching for his toughness, +49(0)631.3615.9350; DSN (314)583.9350 dered under any circumstance to violate made military endorsements an important Pacific the constitutional rights of their fellow element of presidential campaign strategy. Aaron Kidd, Pacific Bureau Chief citizens — much less to provide a bizarre Not surprisingly, once this habit was es- [email protected] photo op for the elected commander in tablished, such endorsements skyrocketed, +81.42.552.2511 ext. 88380; DSN (315)227.7380 chief, with military leadership standing peaking with the 500-plus retired military alongside.” He lamented that Trump was AP officers who backed Mitt Romney’s unsuc- Washington the first president in his life “who does not Joseph Cacchioli, Washington Bureau Chief cessful 2012 campaign. [email protected] try to unite the American people.” Instead, Retired Marine Gen. Jim Mattis once Such endorsements became pivotal be- (+1)(202)886-0033 “he tries to divide us.” served as President Donald Trump’s cause of broader currents in American Brian Bowers, Assistant Managing Editor, News Trump responded by calling Mattis “the secretary of defense. On Wednesday, history: While every president from World [email protected] world’s most overrated General” and not- Mattis lamented that Trump was the first War II until Clinton had served in the ing that he was happy that the general “is president in his life “who does not try to military, no recent president has had sig- CIRCULATION gone.” unite the American people.” nificant military experience (George W. Mideast This back and forth reflected the key Bush served in the Air National Guard and Robert Reismann, Mideast Circulation Manager role the military has come to play in poli- chairman of the House Armed Services saw no combat). And that matters because [email protected] tics, campaigns and elections today — and Committee, argued that any Democrat American civil society has grown increas- [email protected] likely will play as 2020 continues. needed to pass through “a gate in the elec- DSN (314)583-9111 ingly distant from its soldiers, requiring But that obscures how new this role is. torate’s mind labeled commander in chief,” candidates to reach across this divide, Europe Retired military officers have regularly which could be accomplished by dem- especially since the military is the public Karen Lewis, Community Engagement Manager offered presidential endorsements over the onstrating “knowledge and toughness.” institution that garners the most respect. [email protected] last three decades, but the first in the wave [email protected] Clinton adviser Richard Holbrooke was Candidates seek out military endorse- +49(0)631.3615.9090; DSN (314)583.9090 of such endorsements didn’t come until particularly insistent that the American ments as a way to attach the well-respected 1988 when retired Marine Corps com- electorate would back the candidate that military brand to themselves, as well as to Pacific mandant P.X. Kelley came out in favor of they felt was “toughest” in a general elec- use such endorsements as a bridge to the Mari Mori, [email protected] George H.W. Bush. As mundane as it feels tion. But this was a high bar for Clinton, military. +81-3 6385.3171; DSN (315)227.7333 today, this practice reflects something who had not served in the military, was ac- Trump — obsessed with toughness and CONTACT US quite dangerous — the increased politici- cused of being a draft dodger and faced off lacking a military record — gravitated to- zation of the military and the reliance of against Bush, a war hero. ward this practice, going even further than Washington civilian politicians on the armed services Crowe’s presence was designed to signal Clinton, as evidenced by his decision to put tel: (+1)202.886.0003 for credibility. that a distinguished military officer be- two retired generals in his Cabinet and ap- 633 3rd St. NW, Suite 116, Washington, DC 20001-3050 The most interesting and significant lieved Clinton had what it took to be com- point a third as national security adviser. endorsement of a candidate by a retired mander in chief. By the summer of 1992, He’s seeing that potentially backfire as Reader letters military officer occurred in 1992 when the admiral was serving as a campaign Mattis now blasts his handling of the up- [email protected] a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of adviser, helping to formulate Clinton’s na- risings in the wake of the police killing of Additional contacts Staff, retired Adm. William Crowe, en- scent defense policy and trying to provide George Floyd. Joe Biden, in turn, will un- stripes.com/contactus dorsed Bill Clinton and served as an advis- guidance on the potentially explosive issue doubtedly chase such endorsements, see- er to his campaign. Crowe’s endorsement of allowing gay people to serve openly in ing them as a symbol of Trump’s failing on OMBUDSMAN was highly controversial: Some saw it as the military (resulting in the “don’t ask, foreign policy and national security, and Ernie Gates a way for him to generate news coverage don’t tell” half-measure). a sign of the Democratic Party’s ability to about something other than the Iran-con- The sense that Clinton was fighting an keep Americans safe. The Stars and Stripes ombudsman protects the free flow tra scandal in which he had been impli- uphill battle to demonstrate his fitness to But national security experts worry that of news and information, reporting any attempts by the cated. For the Clinton campaign, however, lead the military led to Crowe taking on a these endorsements may make the military military or other authorities to undermine the newspaper’s Crowe’s involvement was a long-lasting major role in the campaign in a way that no less independent and trusted, potentially independence. The ombudsman also responds to concerns and questions from readers, and monitors coverage for fair- project that served multiple functions. former top military official had in recent even preventing the military from acting ness, accuracy, timeliness and balance. The ombudsman The Republican Party had succeeded in American politics. (While former generals efficiently because politicians worry about welcomes comments from readers, and can be contacted the 1980s in branding itself as the defender from George Washington down to Dwight generals’ political motivation. The very di- by email at [email protected], or by phone at 202.886.0003. of the military and painting Democrats as Eisenhower had entered politics them- vide between those who see endorsements peaceniks. The culturally divisive Viet- selves, they had not usually backed others as appropriate, maybe even necessary in

nam War and George McGovern’s unsuc- as military advisers.) trying political times like ours, and the Stars and Stripes (USPS 0417900) is published week- cessful 1972 challenge to Richard Nixon Crowe came out publicly in favor of Clin- military leadership fighting to retain an days (except Dec. 25 and Jan. 1) for 50 cents Monday image of nonpartisanship creates unneces- through Thursday and for $1 on Friday by Pacific Stars and had begun splitting the parties along these ton at a carefully crafted media event on Stripes, Unit 45002, APO AP 96301-5002. Periodicals lines. Jimmy Carter’s lackluster foreign Sept. 19, 1992. Crowe’s statement included sary tension within the armed services. postage paid at San Francisco, CA, Postmaster: Send policy, culminating like his presidency in a number of now-familiar themes, notably A politicized military, or even a military address changes to Pacific Stars and Stripes, Unit 45002, APO AP 96301-5002. a sense of impotence over the Iran hostage his emphasis on the idea of “leadership.” perceived as having partisan political in- This newspaper is authorized by the Department of crisis, fed into Ronald Reagan’s bellicose Crowe explicitly tackled the question of terests, could be sidelined if its advice is no Defense for members of the military services overseas. Cold War saber rattling and bolstered mili- Clinton’s lack of military service, saying longer seen as neutral — something that However, the contents of Stars and Stripes are unofficial, and are not to be considered as the official views of, or tary spending. that it was not the uniform that deter- seems an even greater risk after Trump’s endorsed by, the U.S. government. As a DOD newspaper, The divide only grew as Republican mined one’s capacity for leadership. Crowe use of the military this week. Even the hint Stars and Stripes may be distributed through official chan- nels and use appropriated funds for distribution to remote campaigns presented Democratic candi- became an integral part of the campaign, that the military is politicized in a partisan locations where overseas DOD personnel are located. dates as liberal, intellectual and, above all, something more significant and unprec- way could also create more cynicism about The appearance of advertising in this publication does soft. In 1984, Walter Mondale ran against edented than other military endorsements, decisions of war and peace in an already not constitute endorsement by the Department of Defense or Stars and Stripes of the products or services advertised. Reagan on a platform that included support except perhaps for Colin Powell’s endorse- skeptical public. Products or services advertised shall be made available for for a nuclear freeze. Perhaps the nadir: Mi- ment of Barack Obama in 2008 (which was So as much as Trump opponents cheered purchase, use or patronage without regard to race, color, Mattis’s statement, and retired military of- religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, physical chael Dukakis in 1988 infamously tried to different because Powell was a former Re- handicap, political affiliation or any other nonmerit factor demonstrate his commander in chief chops publican secretary of state as well). ficers will probably play a further role in of the purchaser, user or patron. and shed his party’s “soft” label by riding Crowe’s endorsement signaled to other the 2020 campaign going forward, it could © Stars and Stripes 2020 in a tank and instead ending up looking military officers that it was OK to hop on do more damage than good. ridiculous. board. Over the next month, Clinton ac- Michael J. Stricof is a doctoral candidate studying stripes.com In 1992, Les Aspin, the Democratic cumulated the endorsements of 21 other American history at Aix-Marseille University. Friday, June 5, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 45 OPINION

exploited by ideological provocateurs or What newspapers antifa agitators. The lockdowns also mean that the streets are emptier. The broken-windows theory are saying at home of policing argued, among other things, that crime flourishes in places law-abiding The following editorial excerpts are se- citizens avoid. With commercial districts lected from a cross section of newspapers in places like New York frequented less by throughout the United States. The editori- those trying to honor social distancing, it is als are provided by The Associated Press easier for criminals to congregate. and other stateside syndicates. Add to that the jail releases, pressed early on in the crisis by criminal-justice NC governor wisely chose reformers. About 1,500 New York City in- mates were released. In Hennepin County, safety over GOP convention Minn. — the site of Floyd’s killing and early The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer protests — the jail population fell by more For those who’ve long wanted Charlotte than 350 from March to April. Philadel- to rid itself of the 2020 Republican Nation- phia implemented a delayed-arrest policy. al Convention, Donald Trump’s tweets on It’s a good bet that at least some of those it Tuesday were a strong reminder why. burning down buildings had previous run- The president packed a lot of wrong into ins with the law. a handful of words. He said North Carolina Virus-fighting measures were necessary Gov. Roy Cooper refused to guarantee Re- to stem the loss of life, and the human toll publicans “use of the Spectrum Arena,” of coronavirus — which hit African-Amer- which was untrue. He said the governor icans hardest — has no doubt contributed was “still in Shelter-In-Place Mode,” which to the unrest. But as Americans continue isn’t accurate. He said, finally, that he was to debate the wisdom of the lockdown ex- forced to seek another home for his con- periment, more than economic damage vention “because of @NC_Governor.” ought to go in the cost ledger. There has tions — other than the nominee, of course If you’re waving the Confederate flag or That’s wrong. also been damage to the social fabric and — in history. But of all the uncertainties spray-painting swastikas, you’re no patriot, Charlotte losing the convention — or the rule of law. at least the big events associated with it surrounding August, one mattered most you’re a menace to society. — is not about a Republican president vs. a — the health of Charlotte and the people If you haven’t ever really talked to black “Democrat governor,” as Trump has called who were coming to North Carolina. Roy friends or colleagues about their challeng- The best of America shows Cooper more than once. It isn’t about any Cooper cared about that more than Donald es and fears, then you’re a coward. Ask itself in times of conflict of the ideological things the president and Trump. them, and listen. Remember, it’s not about you. And don’t — do not — tell them to “get The Washington Post his supporters might like it to be about. Even amid the tear gas, the rubber bul- It’s about public health. That’s it. Roy over it.” Let Floyd’s death lead to frank If your kid calls a classmate the n-word, lets, the sirens, the fires, the standoffs, Cooper wanted to protect the health of the looting, the “vicious dogs” and “omi- North Carolinians. Donald Trump was realizations on race relations don’t shrug it off. You’re raising a little rac- Miami Herald ist. Not good. nous weapons,” the best of America has thinking about himself. been visible. People who were angry and After a week of trying to get the other to If you have awakened from a comfort- If you’re shocked that police officers, scared have acted with peace and compas- say “no,” the governor and the president able sleep wondering how we as a nation and even police chiefs, have breached the sion, defusing situations by protecting and landed in a place that seemed inevitable all got here, it is clearly time for deeper reflec- code, stepped out of the thin blue line and embracing — sometimes literally — those along. The president made the governor an tion. With the video documenting George decried how Floyd was killed, kneeling in whom others in their position might have offer he couldn’t accept — guarantee a full Floyd’s death after more than eight min- support of protesters — as happened in feared. convention, a packed Spectrum arena with utes beneath a Minneapolis police officer’s Coral Gables over the weekend — well, so These peacemakers sought no praise no requirements to wear masks or practice knee, the veil has at least for now been lift- are we. But it’s an opportunity for reform. or recognition. A black protest leader in distancing. In other words, pretend that ed from the plague of police violence that Use it, people. COVID-19 wasn’t too big of a deal, just as too many Americans still deny. If you are asking, “What’s next?” demand Pennsylvania approached a menacing bat- the president has so often tried to do. While Floyd’s tragic, needless death was the county revisit creating a community talion of police in riot gear to offer them To guarantee Trump his triumphant only the latest of many fatal attacks on oversight board; hold electeds accountable bottled water. “I know you guys are doing final-night convention moment three black men and women, America, like a sick and ask why they are so beholden to po- your jobs. I’m not mad at you,” he said. The months before it happens, while COVID- patient, is now feeling something, where lice unions; collaborate with social-justice Washington Post’s Isaac Stanley-Becker 19 metrics are still rising in our state and earlier it was seemingly numb to news of groups that are actually accomplishing reported that “from Baltimore to Sacra- with little sense of the landscape in Au- yet another extrajudicial death. something you believe in. mento, black protesters also were filmed gust, would have been a dereliction of duty We’ve been here before: injustice, pro- We all must be willing to start looking protecting storefronts and placing their for Cooper. tests, riots. Yet nothing changes. inward to determine if — just maybe — we bodies before police barricades to preserve It’s true, as this editorial board has said, The question is what are we personally are perpetuating attitudes and environ- principles of nonviolence.” George Floyd’s that the president and his party were in willing to do? ments that give cover, breath and life to the brother, Terrence Floyd, called Monday a pinch. They understandably didn’t like If you think it’s black people’s job to fix Derek Chauvins of the world. for peaceful protest after visiting the site the thought of making plans and invest- racism — and no one else’s — you’ve got of his brother’s death. “Let’s switch it up. ing millions only to have the governor lock work to do. Coronavirus lockdowns’ effect Do this peacefully, please,” he said. the doors because COVID-19 was spiking If you fled an autocratic regime for our Washington Episcopal clergy, who could in August. We wish the RNC and Trump freedoms, but are OK with a democratical- seen in out-of-control protests have been upset about damage to a his- chose the responsible wait-and-see ap- ly elected American president unleashing The Wall Street Journal toric church near the White House, instead proach Democrats are taking with their the U.S. military on his own citizens — who Those who doubted the wisdom of se- sought on Monday to refocus attention on August convention in Milwaukee, but if the are exercising their freedom of expression, vere coronavirus lockdown measures racism and protester mistreatment. president is insistent on his convention- by the way — you’re a hypocrite. were often accused of valuing economics In Fayetteville, N.C., a line of 60 officers goers partying like it’s 2019, he needs to If black looters are the biggest problem more than public health. That charge was on Monday knelt before a group of protest- find a city and state where leaders care as you see, watch video of the white ones, so always a caricature, and the riots and law- ers “as a show of understanding the pain little as he does about the risks. you’re fully informed. lessness engulfing America’s cities ought that is in our community and our nation It’s also true that even if some RNC If you are more outraged over lost prop- to discredit it. The consequences of the regarding equality,” the police department meetings stay here, the loss of the full erty than lost lives, check your heart. lockdown also include social dislocation. said. Protesters, once riled by the show of convention will sting for Charlotte. While If even peaceful black demonstrations The majority of those gathering to pro- force, cried and hugged and shook hands the coronavirus might have dampened the rattle you, then you should really be fright- test are peaceful and legitimately outraged with officers, witnesses said. $100-200 million estimated economic im- ened by the left-wing anarchists and white by the brutality against George Floyd in In Genesee County, Mich., home of Flint, pact of RNC 2020, big money was coming supremacists — including those in police Minneapolis. Yet the wave of police pro- Sheriff Christopher Swanson on Saturday here. Businesses big and small, along with uniforms — who have hijacked legitimate tests associated with the Black Lives Mat- took off his helmet and had his officers put their employees, would have seen a much- protests against police violence. ter movement after 2014 never devolved down their batons. “We want to be with needed boost to the bottom line. Even if If you’re cool with former police officer into the wanton looting and property de- you all for real,” he said to protesters. “I you believe that public health is more im- Derek Chauvin kneeling on George Floyd’s struction now taking place nationwide. It want to make this a parade, not a protest.” portant than potential revenue, it’s hard to neck, but outraged that Colin Kaepernick doesn’t take a sociology Ph.D. to suspect He agreed to walk with the crowd, giving see those dollars go away. knelt on a football field, you’re delusional that the unprecedented conditions the na- them high-fives along the way. It might, however, be a bit of a relief. — and want to be. tion has been living under for more than Officers taking a knee or walking with The convention presented an additional If you’re bothered by the violence in two months have contributed to the anger the aggrieved will not give George Floyd safety issue with this spring of discontent the streets, but shrug off police violence, apparent in the riots and violence. his life back, and they cannot wash away possibly bleeding into summer. Given the you’re complicit. More than 40 million Americans, espe- the legacy of racist policing. Some officers president’s growing combativeness with If you are appalled by police violence, cially in low-wage occupations, have filed have used excessive force in the past few protests, it’s not hard to imagine a heav- then organize — but not in the streets this for unemployment. We don’t believe in the days. But these gestures prevented tense ily militarized police force clashing with time — and demand meetings with police economic determinist school of social pa- situations from escalating further. They angry demonstrators in August. The presi- chiefs to discover their anti-racist policies, thology. But there’s no doubt that millions undermined President Donald Trump’s dent is spoiling for a fight. Charlotte could that is, if they have any. And take along of people have been idle and cooped up view that the country is engaged in an have been the battleground. video of their officers acting badly. for months. Closures of pools, basketball implacable zero-sum battle among its fac- Instead, it appears that another city will If you’re not black and feel compelled to courts and parks have made recreation tions, in which the goal is for one side to reap the revenue and take on the risks of call the police on a black person for sim- more difficult and exacerbated isolation. “dominate.” They represent the hard work Donald Trump’s big week. RNC 2020 is ply breathing the same air as you, back off. Some rioters may be acting out of bore- of pluralistic democracy that Trump has among the more unpredictable conven- Who the hell are you? dom and a sense of impunity that can be left to others. PAGE 46 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, June 5, 2020 Friday, June 5, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 47 PAGE 48 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, June 5, 2020 SCOREBOARD/OLYMPICS/COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Sports on AFN Tokyo Games could be downsized

Go to the American Forces BY STEPHEN WADE Network website for the most Associated Press up-to-date TV schedules. myafn.net TOKYO — The Japanese public is being prepared for the reality of next year’s postponed Olym- Deals pics, where athletes are likely to face quarantines, spectators will Wednesday’s transactions be fewer, and the delay will cost taxpayers billions of dollars. FOOTBALL National Football League In the last several weeks, In- CAROLINA PANTHERS — Released TE Seth DeValve with a non-football injury ternational Olympic Committee designation. President Thomas Bach has given MIAMI DOLPHINS — Signed RB Mal- colm Perry. selected interviews outside Japan HOCKEY and hinted at empty stadiums, National Hockey League LOS ANGELES KINGS — Signed LW Ar- quarantines and virus testing. thur Kaliyev and D Jordan Spence to en- IOC member John Coates, who try-level contracts. COLLEGE oversees Tokyo preparations, said BUTLER — Announced men’s basket- a few weeks ago in Australia that ball G Bo Hodges has transferred from ETSU. the Tokyo Olympics face “real problems,” partially because of the numbers involved: 15,400 Auto racing Olympic and Paralympic athletes to start with, and then staff, of- NASCAR Cup Series ficials, media and up to 80,000 schedule and winners volunteers. Feb. 9 — x-Busch Clash at DAYTONA The stark message about a (Erik Jones) Feb. 13 — x-Bluegreen Vacations Duel very different, reduced Olympics EUGENE HOSHIKO/AP 1 at DAYTONA (Joey Logano) is now being floated in Japan by Feb. 13 — x-Bluegreen Vacations Duel 2 at DAYTONA (William Byron) politicians, and in unsourced The Olympic rings float in the water at sunset in the Odaiba section in Tokyo on June 3. The Japanese Feb. 16 — DAYTONA 500 (Denny Ham- news stories. The themes include lin) public is being prepared for the reality of next year’s postponed Olympics, where athletes are likely to Feb. 23 — Pennzoil 400 presented by the possibility of reduced seating face quarantines, spectators will be fewer, and the delay will cost taxpayers billions of dollars. Jiffy Lube (Joey Logano) at the Olympics — if any fans at March 1 — Auto Club 400 (Alex Bow- man) all — tests for all athletes, fans in Thursday newscasts, sounded him. mittee has budgeted income of March 8 — FanShield 500 (Joey Lo- gano) and staff, and a quarantine-like the same tune. One typical report said Olym- at least $800 million from ticket March 15 — Folds of Honor QuikTrip situation at the Athletes Village. “We will move ahead with the pic seating could be reduced, sales, and may be reluctant to re- 500, Hampton, Ga. (ppd.) March 22 — Dixie Vodka 400, Home- In the hours before an online items that should be streamlined leaving in limbo the disposition of turn it. The tickets carry a “force stead, Fla. (ppd.) news conference on Thursday and simplified,” she said, giving millions of tickets already sold. majeure” clause, which may per- March 29 — O’Reilly Auto Parts 500, Fort Worth, Texas (ppd.) with Tokyo Olympics spokesman no details on the downsizing and “We want to brush away these mit organizers to avoid refunds. April 5 — Food City 500, Bristol, Tenn. Masa Takaya, Japanese media adding that the public would be concerns,” Takaya said, speaking “We understand that counter- (ppd.) April 19 — Toyota Owners 400, Rich- published several versions of consulted. to worried ticket holders. measures for COVID-19 next mond, Va. (ppd.) virtually the same story citing “First of all we need to gain the However, he offered nothing year, particularly during games April 26 — GEICO 500, Talladega, Ala. (ppd.) unnamed sources: Next year’s understanding of Tokyo residents concrete accept to say that “coun- time, is one of the biggest things May 3 — NASCAR Cup Series Race at Olympics will be “downsized,” and the Japanese people,” she termeasures” against COVID-19 to address in preparing for the Dover, Dover, Del. (ppd.) May 9 — Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Re- “simplified,” or “very different.” said. will not be determined until this games next year,” Takaya said. lief 500, Martinsville, Va. (ppd.) Tokyo CEO Toshiro Muto has But in the news conference, fall. That would include plans for “But once again these counter- May 16 — x-NASCAR Open, Concord, N.C. (ccd.) been open about slashing costs Takaya did not substantiate any fans, quarantines and so forth. measures will be discussed in May 16 — x-NASCAR All-Star Race, Concord, N.C. (ccd.) and “reducing service levels.” of the leaked information and Tickets are going to be a battle more depth from this autumn May 17 — The Real Heroes 400 (Kevin Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, said it did not come directly from ground. The organizing com- onward.” Harvick) (ppd.) May 20 — Toyota 500 (Denny Hamlin) May 24 — Coca-Cola 600 (Brad Kesel- owski) May 28 — Alsco Uniforms 500 (Chase Elliott) May 31 — Food City presents the Su- 2 more Oklahoma State players test positive permarket Heroes 500 (Brad Keselowski) June 7 — Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500, Hampton, Ga. June 10 — Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Associated Press Oklahoma.” Relief 500, Martinsville, Va. June 14 — Toyota/Save Mart 350, So- Gundy apologized four days later, saying he STILLWATER, Okla. — Two more Okla- noma, Calif. understood his comments offended some peo- June 14 — Dixie Vodka 400, Home- homa State football players have tested posi- stead, Fla. ple and that his first priority is the well-being tive for COVID-19 since returning to campus June 21 — Chicagoland 400, Joliet, Ill. of student-athletes. June 21 — GEICO 500, Talladega, Ala. for voluntary workouts, bringing the total to June 27 — Kids Free 325, Long Pond, The Big 12 is allowing schools to bring foot- Pa. three. June 28 — Worry-Free Weather Guar- Senior associate athletic director Kevin ball players to campus for voluntary workouts antee 350, Long Pond, Pa. beginning June 15. June 30 — Kansas 400, Kansas City, Klintworth wrote on his Twitter account Kan. Oklahoma State this week announced a June 30 — FireKeepers Casino 400, Wednesday that of the 150 staff, administra- Brooklyn, Mich. tors and athletes tested, three athletes had as- phased approach for the return of its players. July 5 — Big Machine Vodka 400 at the Under the plan, players who test positive are Brickyard Powered By Florida Georgia ymptomatic positives. Line, Speedway, Ind. Linebacker Amen Ogbongbemiga an- quarantined in separate housing and treated July 11 — Quaker State 400 Presented nounced Tuesday he tested positive after he by medical staff. Contact tracing is done, and by Walmart, Sparta, Ky. /AP July 19 — Foxwoods Resort Casino 301, attended a protest in Tulsa, Okla. The other SUE OGROCKI all that have been in contact will be instructed Loudon, N.H. to quarantine and have symptoms monitored Aug. 9 — Consumers Energy 400, two players were not identified. Oklahoma State linebacker Amen Brooklyn, Mich. “Positives were expected and the plan for Ogbongbemiga announced Tuesday on for a period determined by health and medi- Aug. 16 — Go Bowling at The Glen, cal officials. Watkins Glen, N.Y. that scenario has been activated,” Klintworth Twitter he tested positive for COVID-19 after Aug. 23 — Drydene 400, Dover, Del. wrote. “We will be as forthcoming as possible After the determined quarantine time, if Aug. 29 — Coke Zero Sugar 400, Day- he attended a protest in Tulsa. tona Beach, Fla. on the covid issues.” the traced contact group is not showing symp- Sept. 6 — Southern 500, Darlington, toms, the affected player will be retested for S.C. OSU spokesman Gavin Lang said there pandemic. He referenced the financial impact Sept. 12 — Federated Auto Parts 400, would be no additional comment. of football while suggesting players should re- COVID-19 prior to resuming activities. Upon Richmond, Va. receiving a negative test, they will await spe- Sept. 19 — Bass Pro Shops NRA Night Marshall University in West Virginia an- turn to campus as early as May 1. Race, Bristol, Tenn. nounced Monday two of its football players “They’re in good shape, they’re all 18, 19, cific instructions from the team physician Sept. 27 — South Point 400, Las Vegas, Nev. and one staff member tested positive. Iowa 20, 21, 22 years old, they’re healthy,” Gundy and/or the athletic training staff regarding a Oct. 4 — YellaWood 500, Talladega, State said Wednesday a student worker in its said April 7. “A lot of them can fight it off with return to activities. Ala. Oct. 11 — Bank of America ROVAL 400, athletic department tested positive and that their natural body, the antibodies and build For most people, the coronavirus causes Concord, N.C. four athletes were showing symptoms and that they have. There’s some people that are mild or moderate symptoms that clear up Oct. 18 — Hollywood Casino 400, Kan- sas City, Kan. awaiting test results. asymptomatic. within weeks. But for others, especially older Oct. 25 — Texas 500, Fort Worth, Tex- The three positives at Oklahoma State “If that’s true, then yeah, we sequester adults and people with existing health prob- as Nov. 1 — Xfinity 500, Martinsville, Va. come two months after Cowboys coach Mike them. And people say, ‘That’s crazy.’ No, it’s lems, the highly contagious virus can cause Nov. 8 — NASCAR Cup Series Champi- onship, Avondale, Ariz. Gundy was criticized for being insensitive in not crazy, because we need to continue to severe symptoms and be fatal. The vast ma- x-non-points race comments about the nation’s response to the budget and run money through the state of jority of people recover. Friday, June 5, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 49 NFL Colts hope big bet on Rivers pays off Indianapolis confident that poor 2019 season was an anomaly for 38-year-old quarterback

BY MICHAEL MAROT Pro Football Hall of Famer. Riv- Associated Press ers has even outlasted Eli Man- ning, the guy he was swapped for INDIANAPOLIS — Frank during the 2004 draft in a move Reich jumped right into research that defined the Chargers and Gi- mode when he knew Philip Riv- ants franchises for more than a ers would hit free agency. decade. The Indianapolis Colts coach But the Colts didn’t make this studied tapes of Rivers’ throws move because of Rivers’ past. from an uncharacteristically They made it for the future. poor 2019 season to compare “This guy is a fighter and he’s with those he made earlier in his never going to quit. That’s what career. Reich saw no difference. makes him special,” Sirianni DON WRIGHT/AP When offensive coordina- said. “I get excited about our run- tor Nick Sirianni and tight ends ning attack combined with how Pittsburgh Steelers running back James Conner stressed he’s not concerned about his future as he coach Jason Michael concurred good Philip is in the play-action enters the final year of his contract. The team declined to offer him an extension after three seasons. with Reich’s opinion, general game.” manager Chris Ballard went all Still, there are questions. in on a 38-year-old quarterback Rivers readily acknowledges the Colts believe can make them his 17th NFL season could be a title contender. Running in place: Steelers’ his last. He’s already accepted a “I really think he’s the same post-career head coaching job at player he was five years ago phys- St. Michael Catholic High School ically and he’s taken good care of Conner utilizes shutdown his body,” Reich said recently. “I in Fairhope, Ala. And the Colts in- think he’s at a stage in his career vested $25 million for one season BY WILL GRAVES where this is the right thing, this on a guy critics contend is rapidly Associated Press ‘ I’m working every day hard as possible to is a great move for him. He’s a declining. great fit for us.” Hall of Fame executive Bill Po- PITTSBURGH — James Con- be in the best shape ever, to be the best There’s plenty to like about lian doesn’t see it the same way. ner didn’t treat the quarantine Rivers. The architect of Indy’s most caused by the COVID-19 pan- football player I can be. ’ He has a reputation as the con- successful decade believes the demic as an obstacle, but an James Conner Colts followed the formula he opportunity. Pittsburgh Steelers running back summate pro and as a family man, active in the community. He un- implemented when bringing the While the shutdown forced the then 34-year-old Reich to Caro- Pittsburgh Steelers running back derstands the offense and the phi- losophy of Indy’s offensive brain lina for its inaugural 1995 season, to cancel a couple of planned va- plays out. ... I’m just going to ball valuable in pass protection. and again in 2011 when he signed cations, it also gave him time — a trust after spending three sea- out.” While the Steelers have pro- sons in San Diego working with the then 39-year-old Kerry Col- lot of time — to filter out the noise Conner, who won a battle with fessed faith in him, they’ve also Reich, Sirianni and Michael. lins to replace the injured Peyton heading into the most important lymphoma during his college hedged their bets. They took a He even has a résumé to back Manning. season of his career. days at Pittsburgh, isn’t con- running back in the draft for the up his trash talk. “What you’re looking for is a “(It) helped me get away from cerned about his health being at fourth straight year when they The eight-time Pro Bowler quarterback who can play at a all distractions,” Conner said risk whenever he and his team- selected Anthony McFarland out needs 60 completions, 2,091 reasonably high level, and when Tuesday. “I’m not saying they’re mates get back to work in person. of Maryland in the fourth round. yards and 24 TD passes to move a quarterback reaches a certain all distractions, but not going out, He called himself “100%” ready McFarland joins a group that past Dan Marino for No. 5 in each age, it starts to get a little wor- to stay home and cook at home, to play under whatever safety includes Conner, Benny Snell, category. Rivers needs 729 yards risome,” Polian said. “Philip and not be able to maybe go out on guidelines are enacted to help Trey Edmunds and Jaylen Samu- and three TD passes to become has played well, has been pretty weekends. It forces people to stay combat the spread of the novel els. That’s a lot of bodies and only the sixth player in league history healthy throughout his career. home, so with that time at home I coronavirus. one football at their disposal. to throw for 60,000 yards and 400 The final piece of it is familiarity was just trying to get better.” “We’re going to play it safe, of “If I’m the guy, or however TDs. with a player. You don’t want to A process that included an ag- course,” Conner said. “I’m not this year works, the goal is to He shattered Chargers career start over with someone you don’t gressive workout plan designed going to ignore it, but as far as win,” Conner said. “We’ve got to passing marks, previously held know. That’s risky. They know to help Conner avoid the injuries me being scared or taking extra be ready at all times. You can’t by Dan Fouts, while throwing him, he knows them, it’s the per- that have dogged him since the precautions because of my health warm up to it. That’s been our 44 fewer interceptions than the fect marriage.” Steelers took him in the third history. That was four years ago. slogan, ‘We can’t warm up to it.’ round of the 2017 draft. My body’s healed. When we fol- So I’m not paying attention to how While the 25-year-old has low the protocols and health many carries I need.” shown flashes at times and guidelines, I’ll be just fine.” Conner believes the return reached the Pro Bowl in 2018 Or, he hopes, better than that. of quarterback Ben Roethlis- thanks to an electric first half, He’s developed a rigorous work- berger from elbow surgery puts he’s missed 10 games over the out regimen that he’s documented the Steelers back into the mix in past two seasons and has topped heavily on social media. the AFC. Pittsburgh still found a 100 total yards just three times in He raised eyebrows last week way to finish 8-8 last season with his past 15 starts. when he posted a series of pic- Roethlisberger playing all of six While general manager Kevin tures that included a look at his quarters. Colbert has repeatedly stressed hulking back. The 6-foot-1, 233- Conner was effective in spurts the organization still believes in pounder joked it was “just the but had just 18 touches over the Conner, the club also declined to angle” and that “lots of people final eight games because of a approach him with a new deal. look like that.” right shoulder injury sustained Conner insists he didn’t take the Not exactly. Conner arrived in in the final seconds of a win over decision personally. the NFL off a record-setting ca- Miami. “That’s the game,” he said. “I reer at Pitt, where he developed “There’s nothing I can do to want to do a lot more so I can give a reputation as a bruising runner get last year back,” Conner said. a lot more to this organization. I who would just as soon run over a “I’m working every day hard as trust the Lord’s timing. I’m not defender as he would run by one. possible to be in the best shape MARCIO JOSE SANCHEZ/AP concerned about the extension. He’s become leaner and more ever, to be the best football player I know I’ve got another year left versatile with the Steelers. He’s I can be. I’m going to give it ev- Quarterback Philip Rivers, an 8-time Pro Bowl player, needs 60 on my contract. I’ll give it all I got caught 89 passes over the past erything I have. That’s just where completions, 2,091 yards and 24 touchdown passes to move past for one more year and see how it two years and has proven to be my mindset is. ” Dan Marino for No. 5 in each category. PAGE 50 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, June 5, 2020 COLLEGE HOCKEY/COLLEGE BASKETBALL Commentary Worth saving Hockey program in Deep South now threatened by budget cuts

BY PAUL NEWBERRY squad at Old Dominion. Associated Press Each of these blows is devastat- ing in its own right. hey’ve always been an But the UAH hockey program outlier, a major college has meant so much to the sport’s hockey program in the development across the South — TDeep South. and, by extension, in every place As with most pioneers, they’ve where ice is used primarily to teetered on the brink of failure, keep the drinks cold. shouldered through plenty of “I don’t know if I really un- skepticism and ridicule. derstood what they did to grow That only made it more im- hockey in the South until I was perative to save the Chargers removed from it a little bit,” said of the University of Alabama in Talbot, the Calgary Flames goal- ADAM BIRD/AP Huntsville. ie who played for the Chargers a When the word came down last decade ago. “Alabama-Huntsville Alabama-Huntsville’s Shaun Arvai, left, kneels on the ice after a 3-2 loss to Notre Dame in a Midwest week in one of those end-of-the- has been instrumental in growing Regional semifinal on March 23, 2007 in Grand Rapids, Mich. Alabama-Huntsville announced last week news dumps that UAH was the game of hockey down south. It week it was dropping its men’s hockey team due to budget constraints, but supporters of the program whacking its men’s hockey team, would be a shame to take it away stepped up and kicked in enough money for it to continue for another year. it hit especially hard. from them.” “Complete shock,” said Tony In 1988, I first wrote about this it became home. in 2010, UAH was shunned by time. We were like, ‘OK, we’re Guzzo, a Michigan native who one-of-a-kind program, the only Dozens of other hockey alumni the remaining conferences and good, we’re back.’ This has been a played for the Chargers from NCAA-sanctioned team south of put down roots as well. trudged on as the nation’s only real wake-up call for us.” 1993-97 and now lives in Hunts- the Mason-Dixon line. In just four The Chargers would go on to independent program. It looked Talbot quickly signed on to ville. “It came out of nowhere. No short years, the Chargers had win Division II national titles in like the 2011-12 season would be campaign to save the Chargers, one was expecting it.” gone from a club squad offering both 1996 and ’98, then moved up its last, but the alumni rallied and helping publicize a GoFundMe Thankfully, an impromptu no scholarships to a bona fide Di- to the big time. They joined Col- a new university president over- page titled “UAH Hockey — Keep fundraising campaign that got a vision II team. I still have a sou- lege Hockey America, earning turned the decision to shutter the The Dream and Tradition Alive.” boost from NHL goalie and UAH venir puck on my bookshelf that bids to the NCAA Tournament in program. Organizers set a goal of raising alum Cam Talbot raised more proclaims Huntsville to be the 2007 and 2010 (both times, they When the Chargers were final- $500,000, which seemed like a than $1 million, bringing word “Hockey Capital of the South.” were eliminated by one-goal de- ly accepted into the Western Col- pipe dream. Amazingly, they sur- Friday that the Chargers will Not that they had a lot of com- feats in the regional semifinals, legiate Hockey Association, the passed that total on Friday, with return to the ice for at least one petition in those days. including a wrenching, double- future looked much brighter. donations coming in from many more season. “I didn’t even know Alabama overtime loss to Notre Dame). In fact, the program finally of Talbot’s fellow NHL players as UAH also eliminated its men’s had a hockey team,” Guzzo said, Talbot, a native of Ontario, gained some Sun Belt compa- well as people around the world. and women’s tennis teams at the remembering the recruiting pitch jumped at the chance to play for ny when a Division I team was With two major boosters pitch- same time it announced hockey’s he got from the Chargers. “But the Chargers when they offered launched at Arizona State. There ing in $125,000 each, the im- demise — all in the name of bal- it was an amazing opportunity. him a full scholarship. had been talk about other schools promptu fundraising campaign ancing a bottom line that has Obviously, growing up in Michi- Though it was a bit of a culture starting teams in non-traditional led the university to say it had taken a huge hit during the coro- gan, the winters are not very shock at first. markets, following the lead set by enough money to bring the pro- navirus pandemic. nice. When you can walk out of “Their accents are a bit thick. UAH. gram back in 2020-21 (assuming Across the country, scores of the (arena) in January and it’s It took some time to get the hang Then came the pandemic. there is a season). lesser-known college teams have 60 degrees — and you get to play of the dialect,” he quipped Friday “I can’t just point a finger at Let’s hope the Chargers have been eliminated in the past couple hockey — that’s a pretty good in a telephone interview. “But I the university,” Guzzo said. “We pulled out a last-second victory of months, from the baseball team situation.” fell in love with it down there.” kind of took our foot off the gas as that stands for the long haul. at Bowling Green to the wrestling He adored the city so much that After the CHA disbanded alumni when we saved it the first They deserve it. Arizona’s Miller adds international flavor to roster

BY JOHN MARSHALL program. Miller and his staff bounced foot-9 forward Azuolas Tubelis, who signed Associated Press back in 2019, landing another highly touted along with his twin brother, 6-6 Tautvilas. class that included point guard Nico Man- The class also includes Estonian point Sean Miller has reeled in some of the na- nion, guard Josh Green and forward Zeke guard Kerr Kriisa, French center Daniel tion’s best recruiting classes during his 11- Nnaji. Batcho, Canadian small forward Benne- year stint at Arizona, players who starred All three freshmen declared early for dict Mathurin and Turkish forward Tibet in college, won multiple NCAA Tourna- the NBA, leaving the Wildcats with some Gorener, who played for Orange Lutheran ment games, went on to the NBA, big holes to fill. High School in Southern California last His latest group has a distinctly interna- Arizona filled one in the fall with Dalen season. tional flavor to it. Terry, a four-star shooting forward from Though the class doesn’t have one sure- Filling the gaps left by three potential Phoenix. The Wildcats still had more work fire one-and-done player like in years first-round NBA picks, Miller signed a to do to replace the freshman trio, along past, the depth and overall talent landed 2020 class that features six international with seniors Chase Jeter, Dylan Smith, Arizona at No. 5 overall in the 247 Sports and one U.S.-born player. Max Hazzard and Stone Gettings out of composite. “We set out as far back as a couple of eligibility. “The one thing about all of our guys that years to mix it in and make it a part of what Miller began putting an emphasis on are coming in from the international game, we do,” Miller said during a video call this finding top-tier international recruits and they’ve been battle-tested in FIBA,” Miller week. “Each year is different. At the end turned to associate head coach Jack Mur- said. “They played for their country. They of the day, I think the class will be very a /AP phy, the former head coach at Northern played against some great competition good one. It’s just that it’s a little heavy to- RICK SCUTERI Arizona, to spearhead it. in Europe, they’ve traveled to the United ward international.” Head coach Sean Miller has reeled in The shift paid dividends this year with States, almost all of them. Arizona has consistently had top-10 re- some of nation’s best recruiting classes several top U.S. recruits opting to play for “And I think they have a good feel for cruiting classes under Miller, except for during his 11-year stint at Arizona. His other programs or electing to skip college. the game, so they’re not going to be a deer 2018, when an FBI investigation into shady latest group has a distinctly international The top-rated recruit among Arizona’s in headlights when it comes to college recruiting practices swirled around the flavor to it. new international players is Lithuanian 6- basketball.” Friday, June 5, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 51 VIRUS OUTBREAK Stadiums may look different post-quarantine

Expect plenty of empty seats whenever fans welcomed back

BY DAVE SKRETTA Associated Press LAWRENCE, Kan. — Empty seats have been the norm the past few years at the University of Kansas, where a succession of football coaches has failed to turn around the flailing fortunes of the Jayhawks. Now, all those open seats — and short lines and quiet concourses — will be the norm in stadiums just about everywhere. The coronavirus pandemic has forced universities, leagues and franchises to evaluate how they might someday wel- come back fans. While opinions vary from sport to sport, nation to nation and even state to state, one thing seems clear: Social distancing is a sure bet when fans return. So don’t expect 100,000-plus fans packed into Michigan Stadium for a football game this fall or 16,300 seated inside Kansas’ storied Allen Fieldhouse ‘ We’ve modeled when college basketball Allen Fieldhouse, season rolls and I can’t bring around. myself to look at “We don’t know how it because I know we’ll be com- how few people it ing back,” Jayhawks ath- will be and that’s letic director upsetting. ’ Jeff Long ac- Jeff Long knowledged. Kansas athletic director “We’ve mod- eled 15 to 16,000 in Memorial Stadium, and to be honest with you, we’ve modeled Allen Fieldhouse, and I can’t bring myself to look at it because I /AP know how few people it will be and that’s PHOTOS BY LM OTERO upsetting.” Baseball fans Mark Southard, center left, and his wife Janelle Southard pose for a photo taken by their son Grayson, 16, during a Most colleges rely heavily on ticket sales, tour of Globe Life Field, home of the Texas Rangers, during the first day of public tours in Arlington, Texas, on Monday. souvenirs and concessions in football and basketball to raise the bottom line to the can do,” said R.J. Orr, whose Arizona-based point that non-revenue sports can be fully firm Bluemedia specializes in such “seat funded. But smaller crowds are going to kills” and temporary structures. They al- be necessary to ensure proper social dis- ready have worked with Arizona State and tancing — in pro sports around the globe, other schools on similar projects. too. Forbes estimates the NFL would lose The next challenge is keeping fans so- $5.5 billion in stadium revenue if all games cially distant when they do leave their are played without fans, and the fallout for seats. A company called WaitTime has other leagues without lucrative TV deals software applications tied to security cam- could be catastrophic. eras that allow fans and stadium operators The virus that causes COVID-19 is most to know on monitors or apps just how busy easily spread when an infected person certain areas might be. A motion analyt- coughs, sneezes or talks and the drop- ics company, iinside, uses lidar sensors to lets spread to people nearby. That’s why detect unsafe crowding. guidelines from the Centers for Disease “We’re working on tools to overlay crowd Control and World Health Organization density on top of stadium maps,” iinside preach separation in public as an effective CEO Sam Kamel said. “These maps would safeguard. then tell fans where to avoid, or when it’s In a stadium, though, creating that kind ‘safe’ to get a hot dog or Coke and when the of buffer is no easy task. food court isn’t too crowded.” Most fans tend to file through the gates There is little dispute that the game-day at the same time, creating a bottleneck in experience will be vastly different. which thousands could be in close proxim- At baseball games in Taiwan, up to 1,000 ity. They gather in concourses to chat or spectators have been allowed into the ball- buy food, drinks and merchandise. They A member of the media uses a long microphone boom to interview Texas Rangers park, but they were barred from bringing stand in lines at restrooms. They surge to- fans during tours at Globe Life Field on Monday. The coronavirus pandemic has forced food, concession stands are closed and they ward the exits at the end of the game. sports teams and their leagues to evaluate how they will welcome back fans. are told to sit three seats apart. During a Most teams and leagues have not pub- recent Fubon Guardians game in New Tai- licly revealed their plans for fall sports, by row like a church service and using mate settings for concerts or other events, pei City, about 900 people showed up at its though some are up front about what to ex- technology to minimize person-to-person and Bristol Motor Speedway had some of 12,500-seat stadium, leaning across empty pect. Iowa State is looking at selling only contact. them strung up for last weekend’s NAS- seats to talk with friends and moving on enough tickets to fill up half of Jack Trice Once fans return, partitioning off seats CAR race in Tennessee. their own to cues from cheerleaders and Stadium for football games and Notre will become crucial. And those won’t just Another idea is to turn sections of 20 or mascots. Dame has warned of fewer fans and limits be empty seats. Teams and leagues are in- more individual or bench seats into tem- “There’s plenty of social distance here,” to tailgating. vestigating the use of temporary banners porary suites, where a group of 10 friends said Guardians fan Sun Ming, who works The Miami Dolphins released a num- spread across entire sections that can then and family members can be socially dis- in finance in New Taipei City. ber of ideas under consideration: using be sold for sponsorship, helping to bridge tant from other groups — and potentially It could be that way for quite a while. every other turnstile, calling fans into the the gap caused by unsold tickets. Such ban- selling them for a higher price. AP sports writers Dave Campbell, Larry Lage and stadium in sections, letting them out row ners are already used to create more inti- “There are a lot of different things you John Pye contributed to this report. PAGE 52 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, June 5, 2020 VIRUS OUTBREAK Diner up! Pawtucket turns infield into eatery

BY JIMMY GOLEN The ballpark seats 10,031, but Associated Press it’s a start. “I think people are just excited PAWTUCKET, R.I. — The Paw- to come out to a ballpark. They’re tucket Red Sox are going from excited to socialize under the cor- “Play Ball” to “Bon Appetit.” rect conditions,” PawSox Vice With the minor league baseball President Dan Rea said. “This is season on hold due to the corona- an opportunity for us to do some- virus pandemic, the Triple-A af- thing a little bit unique, a little bit filiate of the Boston Red Sox has different, but something special.” found another use for its home For a media preview last week, field. Starting this weekend, reporters were first directed to “Dining on the Diamond” will park in a lot with every other MARK DUNCAN/AP allow PawSox fans and others just space blocked off. Before enter- In this Dec. 25, 2008, photo, fans toss confetti, mimicking LeBron James’s pre-game chalk toss. longing for a taste of baseball to ing the ballpark, there was a self- Billions have been spent on state-of-the-art sports facilities over the last quarter-century, but there is sample typical ballpark fare on screening to verify that they don’t no way to prevent the potential spread of a virus through coughing or sneezing. Officials are working on the McCoy Stadium infield. have a fever or any other poten- safety protocols and looking at new technology to make stadiums and arenas as safe as they can. “For a baseball romantic, this is tial COVID-19 symptoms. After the best restaurant in the world,” checking in at what could pass for team President Charles Steinberg a regular restaurant host stand, said. “It was an emotional, senti- they are taken to their table. mental experience for those who The entire full-time staff of the have tried it so far.” Virus-proofing facilities PawSox was participating, from Minor league ballparks have preparing the food to serving. At long been a laboratory for some of the media preview, Rea was over- the wackiest promotions in sports, seeing the screening, and play- giving away everything from toi- by-play man Josh Maurer helped presents a big challenge let seat cushions to vasectomies to bring reporters their food. funerals. During the coronavirus “It’s really an ‘all hands on deck’ BY DAVE CAMPBELL Hand washing by now has be- es, but dust, pollen, mold and bac- shutdown, other teams have rent- endeavor,” Rea said. “People have Associated Press come a societal norm, but dis- teria. Most experts recommend a ed out their stadiums on Airbnb just said, ‘Sign me up for what- or offered them for high school infectant arsenals need to be MERV rating of 13 or higher, the ever. If you need me to cook food, MINNEAPOLIS — The jersey- brought up to speed, too. minimum standard for Leader- graduations. if you need me to distribute food, wearing camaraderie. The scent “I can’t really find good hand ship in Energy and Environmen- PawSox promotions beyond the if you need me to carry drinks.’ I of sizzling sausages. The buzz be- sanitizer easily in stores. So think tal Design (LEED) certification. usual cap and bobblehead nights think people are just excited to be fore a big game. about trying to scale that up, so An emerging technology in this often involve playfully stoking the back working with fans, talking The distinctive atmosphere Red Sox-Yankees rivalry. everybody who comes into U.S. area is called bipolar ionization. to people and being here at the of live sports, that feeling in the But the team is taking this Bank Stadium gets a little bottle Connecticut-based AtmosAir has ballpark.” air, will return in time as pan- seriously. of Purel. Things like that can be a bipolar ionization air treatment The PawSox also have a take- demic restrictions are eased. Twenty picnic-style tables have modestly helpful,” Demmer said. system in about 40 sports venues. out option, with curbside pickup But will that very air be safe in been spread out across the infield There is much work to be Staples Center in Los Angeles so fans don’t have to leave their a closed arena with other fans in dirt, from first base to third, a done. Vigilant sanitizing of the was one of the first major sports cars. Steinberg said the team is attendance? minimum of 14 feet apart (exceed- frequent-touch surfaces will be customers. TD Garden in Boston thinking of other ways to improve The billions of dollars spent ing the state requirement). Reser- a must. Ramped-up rapid test- and Bridgestone Arena in Nash- the experience, like having for- on state-of-the-art sports facili- vations are required and all food ing capability during pre-entry ville are among the others who’ve mer Red Sox players who came ties over the last quarter-century must be ordered and paid for in screening could become com- signed on. up through Pawtucket video chat have made high-efficiency air advance. There are two seatings mon for fans. Minimizing con- The Minnesota Sports Facili- with fans on the center field score- filtration systems more common, per night, with a half hour in be- course and entry bottlenecks, ties Authority approved last year board, or perhaps even appear in thanks in part to the pursuit of tween for trash to be emptied and and maintaining space between a 10-year contract for a little more person. green and healthy building cer- the tables to be cleaned and disin- non-familial attendees, could be than $1 million with AtmosAir to Still, he’ll be happy when base- tifications. Upgrades will likely fected. Diners will be required to mandatory. Mask-wearing re- install its system in U.S. Bank ball returns. increase in the post-coronavirus wear masks, except when eating. quirements? Maybe. Stadium, home of the Vikings and “You’re happy to take a bow era, too. The seatings scheduled for Fri- Most experts, including those the first indoor NFL stadium to and let baseball resume at center The problem is that even the day and Saturday sold out in 88 stage,” Steinberg said. “But you cleanest of air can’t keep this at the Center for Disease Con- use it. The building, which mea- minutes; a third date was added may have created something that particular virus from spreading; trol and Prevention, believe the sures 1.8 million square feet, has for Sunday. With five people per you just may be able to do when if someone coughs or sneezes, primary mode of transmission 53 air handling units with Atmo- table — limited to families or the team’s on the road. It has a those droplets are in the air. That for COVID-19 is close person-to- sAir tubes installed, including 30 groups isolating together — the al chance to become a positive inno- means outdoor ballparks have person contact through breath- in the seating bowl. fresco eatery will serve as many vation in baseball that arises from high contaminant potential, too. ing, coughing or sneezing but The ions act like fresh air, re- as 200 diners per night. this difficult time.” “Most of the real risk is going there’s no consensus on some of ducing the amount of outside air to be short-distance transmission, the details. needed to be introduced for the people sitting within two, three “There’s still widespread dis- cleansing process. The protein or four seats of each other,” said agreement between experts on spikes in the coronavirus par- Ryan Demmer, an epidemiologist which mode of transmission ticles make them easier to catch at the University of Minnesota’s dominates for influenza. So the and kill, said Philip Tierno, a New School of Public Health. “It’s not likelihood of us figuring this out York University School of Medi- really about the virus spreading soon for this virus is low,” said cine professor of microbiology up, getting into the ventilation Joe Allen, director of the Healthy and pathology. system and then getting blown Buildings Program and an as- Said AtmosAir founder and out to the entire stadium because sistant professor at Harvard’s CEO Steve Levine: “We’re never this virus doesn’t seem to trans- School of Public Health. “We may going to create a mountaintop, but mit that way. It doesn’t aerosolize never figure it out, but I also think we’re going to put in maybe three that well.” it’s irrelevant because it’s a pan- to four times the ions over the am- The three hours spent in prox- demic and we should be guarding bient air and then let those ions imity to thousands of others is against all of them.” attack different pollutants in the part of the fan experience. It’s also Including, of course, the air. air. The ions grab onto particles why major sports leagues have The American Society of Heat- and spores and make them big- been discussing plans to reopen ing, Refrigeration and Air Condi- ger and heavier, so they’re much in empty venues, for now. High- tioning Engineers designed the easier to filter out of the air.” touch areas with the potential to Minimum Efficiency Reporting The next time fans do pass JIMMY GOLEN/AP spread the virus — called fomite Value (MERV) scale to measure through the turnstiles, in a few A worker prepares for guests to dine on the field at McCoy Stadium, transmission — are plentiful at a filtration system’s effectiveness weeks or a few months, in most home of the Pawtucket Red Sox, in Pawtucket, R.I., last week. the ballgame, of course. Door (from 1-16) at capturing micro- cases they will probably encoun- Starting this weekend, “Dining on the Diamond” will allow fans to handles. Stair rails. Restroom scopic airborne particles that can ter an unprecedented level of sample typical ballpark fare on the stadium infield. fixtures. Concession stands. make people sick. Not just virus- cleanliness. Friday, June 5, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 53 MLB/NHL Players’ proposal rejected

Owners threaten season of roughly 50 games after nixing 114-game plan

BY RONALD BLUM Associated Press ‘ Despite what it sounds like with some NEW YORK — If Major of the Twitter bickering back and forth League Baseball and its players and some of the posturing back and take the field for a coronanvirus- delayed 2020 season, it will be forth, I am optimistic that we are going after acrimonious negotiations that resemble their labor war of to play baseball this year. a generation ago. ’ David Stearns MLB rejected the players’ Milwaukee president of baseball operations proposal for a 114-game regular season with no additional salary cuts, and will turn its attention to a shortened slate of perhaps 50 schedule a full slate of games in games or fewer. Owners last week DID YOU KNOW ? late October, we will be plagued proposed an 82-game schedule by cancellations.” starting in early July. Last week, MLB owners proposed As part of the March 26 deal, “We do not have any reason to an 82-game schedule starting players got $170 million in sal- believe that a negotiated solution in early July. After rejecting the ary advances — ranging from for an 82-game season is possi- players’ counteroffer of 114 games $16,500 to $286,500 — and a NICK WASS/AP ble,” Deputy Commissioner Dan on Wednesday, MLB will turn its guarantee that if the season is scrapped each player would get Capitals left wing Alex Ovechkin follows through on a shot during Halem wrote in a letter Wednes- attention to a shortened slate of a playoff game last season. Washington general manager Brian 2020 service time matching what day to chief union negotiator perhaps 50 games — or fewer. MacLellan isn’t concerned with players’ ability to quickly get back the player accrued in 2019. Bruce Meyer that was obtained There has not been a schedule into form. “I think players adapt,” MacLellan said. “Timing and MLB’s proposal on May 26 by The Associated Press. averaging fewer than 82 games speed and systems play usually takes a few weeks. It’s no different would lower 2020 salaries from MLB’s plan included a sliding per team since 1879. than a training camp coming in, except it’ll be ramped up — the scale of pay decreases that would about $4 billion to approximately intensity part — quicker. I think players will adapt to it.” leave players at the $563,500 SOURCE: Associated Press $1.2 billion, not including signing minimum with 47% of their origi- bonuses, termination pay or op- nal salaries and top stars Mike Halem ended his letter by tell- tion buyouts. There would be a Trout and Gerrit Cole at less than ing Meyer “we stand ready to $200 million bonus if the postsea- Test: discuss any ideas you may have Teams will require 22% of the $36 million they had son is completed. been set to earn. that might lead to an agreement The union’s offer would have Players insisted they receive on resuming play without regular salaries total about $2.8 billion, the prorated salaries agreed to fan access in our stadiums.” leaving each player with about time to find rhythm on ice in a March 26 deal, which would MLB wants to start the season 70% of his original salary. in early July, and Halem wrote give them 70% pay at 114 games. Halem said coronavirus test- FROM BACK PAGE cLellan said. “Timing and speed an agreement would have had That agreement called for the ing would cost the teams $40 mil- and systems play usually takes a to be reached by June 1 in order Some players have expressed sides to “discuss in good faith the lion to $50 million. He claimed few weeks. It’s no different than a to reopen training camps by concerns about their individual economic feasibility of playing “clubs would fare even worse training camp coming in, except June 10. That would leave three game skills, like Winnipeg winger games in the absence of specta- economically if we were to play it’ll be ramped up — the intensity to four weeks of preparation, Patrik Laine expecting himself to tors.” The union has said no ad- a significant number of double- part — quicker. I think players which Halem said is the “wide be “terrible” after so much time ditional cuts are acceptable. headers, as your counter-propos- off. Many goaltenders don’t even will adapt to it. I think it might be There has not been a schedule consensus.” al contemplates.” scrambly at first, but it’ll be ac- “We are opposed to rushing have their gear with them, and averaging fewer than 82 games Players proposed that $100 getting back into a groove will celerated because of the serious- per team since 1879. to begin the season and then million in salaries be deferred to ness and what’s at stake if you’re subjecting players to a grueling take some time. “Despite what it sounds like 2021 and 2022 if the postseason Pittsburgh’s Kris Letang playing for a championship.” with some of the Twitter bicker- schedule,” he said. is canceled. Even though teams are ex- Players made their proposal thinks informal workouts limited ing back and forth and some of “Deferring salaries, with inter- to six players on the ice at a given pected to play a couple of exhi- the posturing back and forth, I Sunday, five days after manage- est, is the economic equivalent bitions before games that count, ment’s initial economic plan. time should be about all that and am optimistic that we are going of assuming more debt,” Halem building up conditioning levels. rediscovering chemistry quickly Opening day would be June 30 to play baseball this year,” Mil- said. “Clubs already have as- He sees training camp as the could make all the difference, es- and the regular season would waukee president of baseball op- sumed $2 billion in additional time for coaches and players to pecially for those in best-of-five end Oct. 31, nearly five weeks erations David Stearns said. “I’m debt that must be serviced and do some team rebuilding. qualifying round series to get to after the Sept. 27 conclusion that optimistic that both sides genu- do not have the financial capac- “The skating and everything the final 16. MLB’s proposal stuck to from the inely want to play baseball this ity to push more 2020 financial comes back pretty quick,” Colum- “We’re going to have to find a season’s original schedule. year, that there’s a path to doing obligations into future years bus captain Nick Foligno said. way to feel good but also get to MLB does not want to play past so, even if it’s a shorter season, without impacting their financial “It’s the team mindset, the system our team game, get the funda- October because it fears a second even if it’s 50 games.” stability.” play again, where you need to be mentals down that way again,” wave of the coronavirus could Ballparks without fans appear Both sides have proposed ex- — that feel. That’s the only stuff said Foligno, whose Blue Jackets disrupt the postseason and jeop- certain due to the pandemic. panding the playoffs from 10 you can really get when you’re would play Tavares’ Maple Leafs. ardize $787 million in broadcast MLB claims large losses due to teams to 14, and the union has of- doing the reps over and over and “The team that can get to their revenue. Halem cited MLB’s in- the virus, which the union dis- fered to guarantee the expansion over again.” game quickest is going to have fectious disease consultant, Dr. putes, and teams want additional through 2021. Both sides also are Knowing full well he won’t success.” Ali Khan, Dean of the College of salary reductions. Halem said 27 willing to widen use of the des- have a month to work with play- Florida GM Dale Tallon consid- Public Health at the University of of the 30 teams would lose money ignated hitter to all games this ers before games resume, Ed- ers it a benefit to have all teams Nebraska. with each additional game. year. monton coach Dave Tippett dug on a level playing field going into A 50-game schedule would re- “It is not in the collective inter- a 24-team playoff. But the new- The union proposed high-risk up his notes from the abbreviated sult in players receiving about est of clubs or players to begin a ness of the situation adds a layer players, or players who live with training camp he oversaw with 30% of their full salaries under 2020 season and subsequently of unpredictability and could a high-risk individual, be able to the Coyotes going into the 2013 the March 26 deal. be forced to suspend or cancel it make this one of the most com- opt out of playing, and MLB has lockout-shortened season. “You confirmed for us on Sun- before the completion of the post- petitive chases for the Stanley said it is willing to discuss the “It’s different because you know day that players are unified in season,” Halem wrote. Cup in history. topic. MLB, however, says other the players already,” Tippett said. their view that they will not ac- “Dr. Khan and his team have “There’s going to be some players who opt out would get “It’ll be a little bit like the start of cept less than 100% of their pro- advised us that to minimize the a season where you’ve got to get teams that are going to disappoint neither salary nor service time, rated salaries, and we have no risk of a subsequent delay or can- up and going pretty quick.” because they lost their momen- which is key to eligibility for choice but to accept that repre- cellation of the 2020 season we Absent the usual drills to prac- tum, there could be injuries in free agency and arbitration. The sentation,” Halem wrote. should endeavor to complete the tice rushes, the power play or pen- the training camp period of time union proposed that group not get “Nonetheless, the commis- season and postseason as early in alty kill for months, players will if we rush too fast to get these sioner is committed to playing the fall as possible,” he wrote. “In paid but receive service time. have no choice but to acclimate to guys up to speed,” Nashville GM baseball in 2020,” Halem added. addition, your proposal ignores AP sports writer Steve Megargee con- each other quickly. Washington David Poile said. “It’s going to be “He has started discussions with the realities of the weather in tributed to this report. general manager Brian MacLel- like nothing we’ve done before.” More AP MLB: https://apnews. ownership about staging a short- many parts of the country during com/MLB and https://twitter. lan said he isn’t worried. For more AP NHL coverage: https://ap- er season without fans.” the second half of October. If we com/AP_Sports “I think players adapt,” Ma- news.com/NHL PAGE 54 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, June 5, 2020 AUTO RACING Commentary With NASCAR back, are fans far behind?

BY JENNA FRYER we’ll go home,” runner-up Clint Associated Press Bowyer said of the anticlimactic post-race dramatics. “I’m ready CHARLOTTE, N.C. — There to have fans back. I think it’s is finally a break in this weird, time.” new world of NASCAR after nine Local tracks around the coun- races over 16 days in three differ- try have allowed spectators for at ent states. least the last two weekends. NAS- Brad Keselowski lucked into CAR, when it announced its sec- a pair of wins, new favorite son ond stretch of races through June Chase Elliott lost three races (but 21 in Alabama, said the events won one), and Kyle Busch ticked would be without fans. off his haters simply by being The pressure will grow to get himself. fans back in the stands, particu- Some rain interruptions aside, larly as more and more local the racing has been good. The se- tracks open the gates with their ries is starting to find a rhythm governors’ OK. If fans can at- and the story lines are strong. tend South Alabama Speedway Even seven-time NASCAR cham- in Ozark, why can’t they go to pion Jimmie Johnson has come the big show at Talladega Super- GERRY BROOME/AP close to winning his first race in speedway in three weeks? more than three years. NASCAR has touted a health Chase Elliott celebrates after winning the NASCAR Cup Series race on May 28 in Concord, N.C. But all is not entirely well. plan it was confident could get the A sport that prides itself on teams back to the track and so far the access to its drivers is rac- it has worked. No driver has failed ing at empty tracks, most evi- the temperature checks required dent Sunday at cavernous Bristol to enter the facilities so far. But it Motor Speedway. The Tennes- has been barely two weeks since see bullring known as “The Last Darlington Raceway hosted the Agonizingly close Great Colosseum” can hold about first race back, so it’s far too early 140,000 fans and once boasted a to know if the plan is perfect. 55-race sellout streak spanning Masks are still required and 28 years. teams have been good sports It was jarringly empty on a about following the rules. But it’s Elliott challenging to win nearly every race spectacular day for racing Sun- going to get hotter and the days day. When Elliott and Joey Loga- are long and the masks are going BY JOHN ZENOR was again in contention for a vic- no tangled on the track with just to become a nuisance. Social dis- Associated Press NASCAR Cup tory. But he and Joey Logano tan- over a lap remaining — and when tancing is for the most part fol- points leaders gled on the track with just over a Logano gave Elliott a long stare lowed, but awareness is fading hase Elliott has been lap remaining that caused both on pit road — it was eerily silent. and teams were in clusters along Through May 31 tantalizingly close to 1. Kevin Harvick ...... 370 to crash. Logano gave Elliott a In the old days, before the pan- pit road waiting for the Bristol winning NASCAR races 2. Joey Logano ...... 346 long stare on pit road that lacked demic, the crowd would have race to start. so many times it’s hard 3. Chase Elliott ...... 325 C 4. Brad Keselowski ...... 315 some of the drama with no fans been hysterical. In the new nor- NASCAR already made a huge for him not to be disappointed. 5. Alex Bowman ...... 289 on scene to react. mal, the two drivers put on their decision to get back to business Sure, Elliott understands he 6. Martin Truex Jr ...... 280 “I talked to Joey after the race mandatory face masks and had after postponing eight Cup Series 7. Denny Hamlin ...... 276 can’t win them all, but he has 8. Ryan Blaney ...... 274 face-to-face like it should be,” El- a peaceful discussion in front of 9. Kyle Busch ...... 256 races. Now it will face another in flirted with victory in four of the liott said. dreary, gray grandstands. deciding if the comeback is com- 10. Kurt Busch ...... 253 five Cup races since NASCAR 11. Aric Almirola ...... 240 Regardless of the missed op- “It’s kind of like, well, I guess plete and fans can return. resumed competition May 17 fol- 12. Clint Bowyer ...... 232 13. Matt DiBenedetto ...... 230 portunities or bad breaks, he’s lowing a 10-week shutdown for 14. Erik Jones ...... 228 third in the Cup series standings the coronavirus pandemic. 15. Jimmie Johnson ...... 223 with four top-five finishes through 16. Austin Dillon ...... 221 His return has been a roller- 17. William Byron ...... 216 nine races. Elliott is keeping that coaster ride that saw him drive 18. Tyler Reddick ...... 186 fast start in perspective, but still 19. Chris Buescher ...... 179 off with just one victory, a Thurs- 20. John H. Nemechek ...... 165 feels like he can contend for a se- day night race at Charlotte Motor 21. Ricky Stenhouse Jr ...... 157 ries championship. Speedway last week, to break up 22. Bubba Wallace ...... 154 23. Michael McDowell ...... 148 “This is a 38-race season, and the string of close calls. 24. Cole Custer ...... 140 we have to keep that up to really “There’s a handful of drivers 25. Christopher Bell ...... 139 26. Ryan Newman ...... 136 be a contender,” he said. I think and teams who we know have a 27. Ty Dillon ...... 127 we can do it, but until you go out shot to win every single week,” 28. Corey Lajoie ...... 124 there and achieve that it really 29. Kyle Larson ...... 121 Elliott said Tuesday in a Zoom 30. Ryan Preece ...... 101 doesn’t matter.” call with reporters. “And there’s 31. Daniel Suarez ...... 91 It’s been anything but a normal 32. Matt Kenseth ...... 82 no reason why we can’t be among 33. Brennan Poole ...... 72 season so far amid the pandemic. that group. That’s our goal and 34. Quin Houff ...... 40 Races have been held without 35. David Ragan ...... 33 I think if you’re in that position 36. Reed Sorenson ...... 25 fans and with condensed one- enough, it’ll go your way plenty 37. Gray Gaulding ...... 25 day schedules. Elliott likes the and you’ll get your fair share.” new itinerary, saying “over time Elliott’s Hendrick Motorsports we’ve overcomplicated weekend team expects to be in conten- Cup race. schedules and practiced entirely tion every race and believes that The near-misses haven’t shak- too much. shouldn’t change Sunday at At- en the confidence for Elliott or “I know a lot of that’s money lanta Motor Speedway. crew chief Alan Gustafson. driven, and I get it,” he said. “As He was pushing for the lead “I think you have to be a little our popularity grew over a period at Darlington Raceway when bit hard-headed to do this job, of time, tracks and things tried to Kyle Busch wrecked him. He and you have to find a way to im- get all they could get. I understand was about to win the Coca-Cola prove, and just you have to kind of that, but I think a lot of us... we’ve 600 until a caution with two laps shake it off,” Gustafson said after got to get back to our roots.” remaining jumbled the finish. Elliott won at Charlotte. “Profes- He’s not alone in that sentiment. Elliott pitted from the lead, took sional sports are super fickle, and Brad Keselowski, winner of two four tires and couldn’t get back to one day you’re good and one day of the races Elliott lost, said this the front in the two-lap overtime you’re terrible, and you just get schedule cuts costs and benefits sprint. He did win a $100,000 used to that.” the more experienced drivers. MARK HUMPHREY/AP bounty by beating Kyle Busch in Elliott took the momentum Added Logano: “We are race Drivers make their way around the track past empty stands during a a Truck Series race at Charlotte from his Charlotte win to Bristol car drivers, not practice car NASCAR Xfinity Series race Monday in Bristol, Tenn. and followed it with a win in the Motor Speedway on Sunday and drivers.” Friday, June 5, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 55 FLOYD PROTESTS Brees’ anthem comments draw backlash

Associated Press who served in the armed forces during World War II. “In many cases, it brings me NEW ORLEANS — Drew Brees was sharply criticized by fellow high-profile to tears thinking about all that has been athletes, including some of his own team- sacrificed, and not just in the military, but mates, on Wednesday after the Saints for that matter, those throughout the civil quarterback reiterated his opposition to rights movements of the ’60s, and all that kneeling dur- has been endured by so many people up ing the national until this point.” anthem. ‘ I will never Critical responses to Brees’ statements In an in- agree with appeared on social media from a couple of terview with major professional athletes, including the Yahoo, Brees anybody Los Angeles Lakers’ LeBron James and was asked to disrespecting Saints safety Malcolm Jenkins. revisit former the fl ag of the Jenkins was Brees’ teammate when the NFL quar- Saints won the Super Bowl in the 2009 sea- terback Colin . United States ’ son, but spent the past six seasons with the Kaepernick’s Drew Brees Philadelphia Eagles before returning to 2016 protest of Saints QB police brutality New Orleans this offseason. against minori- Brees has said he supports those protest- ties, in which Kaepernick knelt during the ing police brutality but that he does not see national anthem before games. the national anthem as the proper forum /A “I will never agree with anybody dis- for that. In 2017, Brees participated with D. ROSS CAMERON respecting the flag of the United States,” teammates who knelt before the national New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees, left, greets Colin Kaepernick at the end Brees began, adding that the national an- anthem, but then stood in unison when the of a Nov. 6, 2016 game. Brees drew criticism after he reiterated his opposition to them reminds him of his grandfathers, anthem was played. Kaepernick’s kneeling during the national anthem in 2016. Berry ‘disappointed’ Seahawks’ Wilson: with USOPC for her raised-fist probation ‘I don’t even want to

BY EDDIE PELLS AND PAT GRAHAM talk about football’ Associated Press BY TIM BOOTH As it turns out, the hard part for U.S. Olympian Gwen Berry hasn’t started yet. Associated Press The raised fist at the Pan-Am Games last summer, RENTON, Wash. — Speaking along with the public shaming she received from to the media for the first time Olympic authorities afterward, and the wondering since the end of last season, Seat- what might happen if she were to use her platform SHIZUO KAMBAYASHI/AP tle Seahawks quarterback Russell at the now-postponed Tokyo Games to protest racial Wilson didn’t care to talk about injustice — all that seems easy now. Hammer thrower Gwen Berry of the United States the game that’s helped make him “I feel like, right now, my body and my mind, it’s captured headlines last year when she used her famous. like I’m going to war,” Berry told The Associated turn on the gold-medal podium at the Pan-Am “To be honest with you, I don’t Press in an interview Wednesday. “I’m trying so Games to raise her fist as a show of her frustration even want to talk about football hard to protect something that is near and dear to with America’s treatment of blacks. right now,” Wilson said during MATT ROURKE/AP me.” a video conference Wednesday. Berry is the African American hammer thrower “You know, that’s a thing that I Seattle Seahawks quarterback — the mother of a 16-year-old son — who captured ‘ I feel like, right now, my body don’t even know what that looks Russell Wilson said with what’s headlines last year when she used her turn on the and my mind, it’s like I’m going like down the road or anything going on now in the black gold-medal podium at the Pan-Am Games to raise else. I think that none of that mat- community, he didn’t care to talk her fist as a show of her frustration with America’s to war. ters. I can’t compare football to about the game that’s helped treatment of blacks. ’ life and what the black commu- make him famous. Her gesture, to say nothing of the punishment Gwen Berry U.S. hammer thrower nity is going through right now.” that came afterward, are all being seen in a new Wilson’s 35-minute session was their case against the officers light these days, in the wake of the killing of George as emotional as he’s been in any who were at the scene of Floyd’s Floyd — a tragedy that has sparked protests across formal media setting during his death, charging three of the of- America while also compelling hundreds of com- She said she was disappointed with the USOPC: “I eight previous seasons in Seattle. ficers with aiding and abetting a missioners, leagues and players in the sports world feel like for them to post something like that without He relayed stories from his youth murder and upgrading the charg- to respond. first apologizing ... it takes away their sincerity to in Richmond, Va., and about rais- es against the officer who pressed To Berry, the statement from the U.S. Olympic the situation at hand,” Berry said. ing two kids now with a third on his knee on Floyd’s neck. and Paralympic Committee — that the federation And yet, in Berry’s view, the back and forth with the way. “A guy was murdered last “stands with those who demand equality” — was the USOPC is the least of the problems facing her or At times in the past, the con- week. There needs to be a change. galling. It came less than a year after the USOPC her country, as the U.S. heads into the second week versation with Wilson may have There needs to be a change. It’s not overly complicated,” Wilson put Berry on a 12-month probation for her ges- of protests in reaction to Floyd’s death. A white po- centered on offseason changes ture at the Pan-Am Games. The letter CEO Sarah said. lice officer, Derek Chauvin, has been charged with to Seattle’s offense and whether Hirshland sent Berry that day said that while she On his “Flying Coach,” pod- second-degree murder in the death of Floyd, a black Wilson has enough weapons for respected Berry’s perspective “I disagree with the cast released late Tuesday night, man who was handcuffed as the officer pressed his the Seahawks to contend in a moment and manner in which you chose to express challenging NFC West. coach Pete Carroll said he felt knee on Floyd’s neck for several minutes. your views.” But Wilson didn’t want to talk he has not done enough to create She says the endless stream of stories of police “I want an apology letter .. mailed .. just like you Xs and Os, personnel changes or change. brutality leveled against blacks in America keep and the IOC MAILED ME WHEN YOU PUT ME even the strange virtual offsea- “We’re trying to interact as ON PROBATION,” Berry tweeted shortly after her in a constant state of worry about her son and son. His tone was similar to how much as we can with our guys the USOPC sent out its letter this week. Later, she her brothers. Seattle has run its team meet- and hear from them and listen amended her demand and said she wanted a public “I have a child who is a black man, who does not ings since last week following the and learn and grow, and find a apology. look like a child,” she said. “I have siblings who are death of George Floyd in Minne- place where we can act and do The USOPC has not yet responded publicly to black men who do not look like children. They’re apolis and the nationwide protests something really positive,” Car- Berry’s requests; nor did officials there immediate- big. They can be intimidating. I’m in fear for their that have followed. roll said. “Our club has done that ly answer emails seeking comment. Berry had been lives right now. I feel like I’m fighting for them .” A white police officer has been over the years, but we need to do scheduled to meet with USOPC leadership Wednes- She’s been inspired by former San Francisco 49ers charged with second-degree mur- more — we’re never done.” day night. The episode comes against the backdrop quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who ultimately lost der in the death of Floyd, a black Earlier this week, linebacker of the IOC statement earlier this year that reiterated his job after kneeling during the national anthem in man who was handcuffed. Pros- Bobby Wagner said he attended rules forbidding the types of protests Berry made. 2016 to protest police brutality and racial injustice. ecutors on Wednesday expanded protests in Seattle. S TARS AND STRIPES Friday, June 5, 2020 F3HIJKLM Backlash to Brees Anthem comments from Saints QB SPORTS draws rebuke from players » Page 55

NHL Chemistry test Recapturing team dynamic could pose challenge post-quarantine

BY STEPHEN WHYNO Associated Press laude Giroux’s Philadelphia Flyers were the hottest team in the NHL back when hockey was still being played. That was more than two months ago and their next game could be two more months away. He can’t predict how things might go if the season resumes. “I don’t know,” Giroux said. “Right now, everything’s unknown.” Among the unknowns about the NHL returning amid the coronavirus pandemic is what the on-ice product might look like. In a team sport that demands rhythm and chemistry, players will ‘ I don’t know. have to quickly adapt after so much Right now, time apart to recapture what it takes to jump right into the playoffs and everything’s compete for the Stanley Cup. unknown. “We want to see great hockey ’ played,” Toronto captain John Tava- Claude Giroux res said. “It’s not an exact science. Philadelphia Flyers captain, It’s something we’ve never dealt with on how quickly his team before, and we want to make the best might be able to get back and most conscious decision we pos- to the form it showed prior sibly can to obviously make sure not to the season being halted only guys stay safe, but that the qual- ity of hockey is extremely high.” Unlike basketball, where one player can dominate a game and carry a team, hockey is predicated on players being in sync, knowing where teammates are — and will be going next — for tape-to-tape passes. Timing as a unit is an essential ingredient to success, and it’s that timing that could be missing early be- cause of so much time off the ice. With the exception of a handful of players who were rehab- bing injuries, living in Sweden or somehow able to find an open rink, most haven’t skated since the season was halted in mid- March. Recapturing that skating stride and building back up to avoid injuries will be a big part of voluntary workouts before the anticipated start of training camps in July.

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Philadelphia Flyers captain Claude Giroux

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