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MILITARY VIDEO GAMES MLB NATO demands Black Ops Cold War set San Diego rookie Russia explain to be the most explosive Jake Cronenworth Navalny attack campaign yet for COD continues to impress Page 4 Page 13 Back page Nation: Officers fatally shoot suspect in Portland protest killing » Page 7 Volume 79, No. 100A ©SS 2020 CONTINGENCY EDITION SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2020 stripes.com Free to Deployed Areas Trump denies report that he called US war dead ‘losers’ From wire reports President Donald Trump strongly denied that he called Marines killed in World War I “losers” and “suck- ers,” after published reports al- leged he made disparaging remarks about service members who had been killed, wounded or captured in combat. Trump has made support for the military a signature feature of his administration. On Thursday, he and top White ‘ House officials If people pushed back really strongly against exist that the report, which first ap- would have peared in The said that, Atlantic Maga- they’re zine and later in The Associated lowlifes Press. and they’re The reports said Trump de- A help wanted sign liars. ’ cided in 2018 not hangs on the door President to visit a French of a Target store in Donald Trump cemetery for Uniontown, Pa., on Marines killed Wednesday. The U.S. US regains jobs in August in the Battle of economy gained 1.4 Belleau Wood because he thought million jobs in August, the rain would mess up his hair and according to data Unemployment rate drops more than expected to 8.4% the men buried there were losers. released Friday. “If people really exist that would GENE J. PUSKAR/AP have said that, they’re lowlifes and BY CHRISTOPHER RUGABER After an epic collapse in they’re liars,” Trump told White Associated Press House reporters. “And I would be the spring, growth has been willing to swear on anything that I WASHINGTON — The U.S. unemployment rate never said that about our fallen he- fell sharply in August to 8.4% from 10.2% even as rebounding as states have roes. There is nobody that respects hiring slowed, with employers adding the fewest reopened at least parts of them more.” jobs since the pandemic began. White House chief of staff Mark Employers added 1.4 million jobs, the Labor De- their economies. Meadows said, “It’s sad the depths partment said, down from 1.7 million in July. The that people will go to during a lead- U.S. economy has recovered about half of the 22 mil- up to a presidential campaign to try lion jobs lost to the pandemic. to smear somebody.” Friday’s report added to evidence that nearly six parts of their economies. Yet the recovery remains months after the coronavirus paralyzed the country, far from complete. Democratic presidential candi- the economy is mounting only a fitful recovery. From Many economists think significant hiring may date Joe Biden said Thursday, “If small businesses to hotels, restaurants, airlines and be hard to sustain because employers are operating the revelations in today’s Atlantic entertainment venues, a wide spectrum of compa- under a cloud of uncertainty about the virus. Daily article are true, then they are yet nies are struggling to survive the loss of customers confirmed case counts have fallen from 70,000 in another marker of how deeply Presi- with confirmed viral cases still high. June to about 40,000. The decline has leveled off in dent Trump and I disagree about the After an epic collapse in the spring, when the econ- the past week and the viral caseload remains higher role of the President of the United omy shrank at a roughly 30% annual rate, growth than it was in May and June. States.” has been rebounding as states have reopened at least SEE JOBS ON PAGE 8 SEE TRUMP ON PAGE 3 PAGE 2 •STARS AND STRIPES• Saturday, September 5, 2020 BUSINESS/WEATHER EXCHANGE RATES Facebook curbs political ads before US election Military rates Switzerland (Franc) ........................... 0.9149 Euro costs (Sept. 7) ..............................$1.16 Thailand (Baht) .................................... 31.41 Dollar buys (Sept. 7) ............................€0.82 Turkey (Lira) ........................................7.4521 British pound (Sept. 7) ........................$1.30 (Military exchange rates are those Associated Press the week before the election and tion will work, and taking steps Japanese yen (Sept. 7) ......................104.00 available to customers at military banking South Korean won (Sept. 7) ..........1,160.00 remove posts that convey misin- to reduce the chances of violence Commercial rates facilities in the country of issuance for Japan, South Korea, Germany, the Bracing for a contentious elec- Bahrain (Dinar) ...................................0.3770 formation about COVID-19 and and unrest.” Netherlands and the United Kingdom. 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T O D A Y IN STRIPES American Roundup ..... 11 Comics/Crossword ...... 15 Health and Fitness ..... 14 Movies ...................... 12 Opinion .................16-17 Sports .................. 18-24 Video Games ..............13 Saturday, September 5, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 3 MILITARY New Fort Hood chief vows improved trust BY ROSE L. THAYER month from a deployment to the “It didn’t make sense for us to len, who was killed April 22 in an Speaking with soldiers, Garrett Stars and Stripes Middle East. put him into command, only if arms room by a fellow soldier. It said they seem clear on when to Richardson’s predecessor, Maj. something were to come out of took Army criminal investigators intervene in a situation that ap- FORT HOOD, Texas — As Maj. Gen. Scott Efflandt, served as the the investigation and we’d have to more than two months to locate pears to be sexual assault, it gets Gen. John Richardson formally base commander during the past pull him out,” Garrett said. Guillen’s body in a shallow grave more difficult with other issues. stepped into the role of acting year as White served overseas. The day before the ceremony, about 20 miles from the base. During the next two weeks, Fort Hood commander Wednes- Efflandt was Garrett announced Gen. John Guillen had told her family that Richardson, who last served at day evening, he vowed to rebuild announced Murray, commander of Army she