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Volume 79, No. 22 ©SS 2020 TUESDAY, MAY 19, 2020 50¢/Free to Deployed Areas CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK FBI ties Pensacola gunman to al-Qaida

BY ERIC TUCKER Associated Press The gunman in a deadly rampage late last year at a military base in Florida communicated with al- Qaida operatives about the attacks in the months leading up to it, U.S. officials said Monday as they laid out new details of a shooting that killed three American sailors. The FBI learned of the contacts between Mohammed Saeed Alsham- rani and operatives of al-Qaida after breaking the encryption on cellphones that CONNER D. BLAKE/U.S. Navy had previously U.S. sailors assigned to the USS Theodore Roosevelt inspect an M2HB machine gun during a gun quarters drill on Saturday. been locked The aircraft carrier’s COVID-negative crew is making preparations to return to sea. and that the shooter, a Saudi Air Force of- ficer, had tried to destroy USS Roosevelt begins at-sea simulation before being Alshamrani killed by law enforcement. in preparation for returning to operations “We now have a clearer under- standing of Alshamrani’s associa- tions in the years, months and days BY CAITLIN DOORNBOS nity to integrate all of that together leading up to his attack,” Attorney Stars and Stripes and show that Theodore Roosevelt is General William Barr said at a news ready and able to go back to sea.” conference in which he sharply After spending six weeks sidelined The carrier had been deployed to chastised Apple for not providing in Guam to battle a coronavirus out- the Western Pacific when it diverted to help in unlocking the phones. break on board, the USS Theodore Guam on March 26 after several of its Roosevelt took a step toward re-de- Once unlocked by the FBI, the sailors tested positive for the coronavi- phones revealed contact between ploying over the weekend, the Navy rus. Since then, more than 1,150 Roos- said Monday. Alshamrani and “dangerous” op- evelt sailors have tested positive, one eratives from al-Qaida in the Arabian Sailors aboard the aircraft carrier of whom died, according to the Navy. Pensinsula, or AQAP, and also showed on Sunday began an at-sea simulation As many as 13 sailors from the how he had been radicalized overseas called a “fast cruise” while moored Roosevelt have tested positive for the U.S. Navy for at least the last five years, offi- at Naval Base Guam, according to virus a second time, according to The a statement. During a fast cruise — The aircraft carrier is moored at Associated Press. Those sailors and a cials said. He also was meticulous in typically one of the final steps before Naval Base Guam on Friday . number of others who had contact with his planning, including saving a will a Navy vessel deploys — crews “sim- them were removed from the ship. on his phone that sought to explain ulate normal underway conditions  USFK set to lift most Most of the 4,800-person crew dis- himself — the same document AQAP while testing the critical systems re- embarked and were isolated last month later released in taking responsibility quired to sustain the ship during its anti-virus restrictions for as the carrier was sanitized. The Navy for the attack. upcoming underway operations,” the began moving sailors back aboard the “It is certainly more than just statement said. military bases Page 5 Roosevelt on April 29 after all crew inspired,” FBI Director Chris Wray “Fast cruise is a major milestone for members were tested for the virus. said of Alshamrani’s contacts with the ship and for the crew,” Roosevelt  As of Sunday, 2,900 sailors had re- al-Qaida. “We know, for example, commander Capt. Carlos Sardiello Online: Get the latest turned to the carrier, according to that he was sharing plans and tac- said in the statement. “Our Sailors on the virus outbreak have tested all of the ship’s systems Monday’s statement. tics with them. 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BY SETH ROBSON executive director of the Na- Stars and Stripes tional Veterans Legal Services Wikimedia Commons Program, in a statement issued Veterans who served on Guam with the report on May 11. U.S. Army Huey helicopter sprays Agent Orange herbicide and defoliant in this undated photo from the between 1962 and 1975 were like- The standard of proof is wheth- Vietnam War. ly exposed to Agent Orange and er it is “as likely as not” that vet- other herbicides containing di- erans were exposed to herbicide for U.S. air power during the Viet- from 1974-76 and leads the group these meritorious claims,” he oxins and may have valid claims agents, according to the report. nam War. At the height of bomb- Agent Orange Survivors of Guam, said. to service-related disabilities as “It is time that the VA acknowl- ing operations during Vietnam, said in the statement. VA officials on Guam did not a result, according to a recent edges the strong evidence of toxic three-quarters of all U.S. B-52 “So many of us were exposed respond to emails last week or a report by the National Veterans herbicide exposure in Guam and aircraft available for operations and, sadly, many have already telephone call Monday. Legal Services Program and the care for veterans exposed,” Stich- in Southeast Asia were based on passed away with no recognition The report — titled “NVLSP Veterans Legal Services Clinic at man said in the statement. the island. from the VA,” he said. And VLSC White Paper Confirm- Yale Law School The VA believes Agent Orange The rapid U.S. airpower build- Like many whose Agent Or- ing That Veterans Who Served The veterans meet the legal up on Guam created a pressing ange claims were dismissed in the causes several cancers, includ- in Guam from 1962-1975 Were standard for exposure, said the ing leukemia, Hodgkin’s disease, need to control fire risks and 1970s and 1980s, Guam veterans Likely Exposed to Dioxin-Con- review of government, private, multiple myeloma, non-Hodgkin’s tropical growth with heavy her- have been fighting for recognition taining Herbicide Agents Includ- archival and oral history evi- lymphoma and others, according bicide usage, according to the of their in-service disabilities, dence of herbicide use on Guam to its website. The department researchers. John Rowan, National President ing Agent Orange — is available during the Vietnam era. also recognizes the herbicide as “Service members have said of Vietnam Veterans for America, online R www.nvlsp.org/images/ Past claims based on service a cause in some cases of diabetes for years that they sprayed Agent said in the statement. uploads/2020.05.08_-_NVLSP- on the island have been rejected and diseases of the nervous sys- Orange and other toxic herbicides “Guam veterans now have an VLSC_White_Paper.pdf by the Department of Veterans tem, skin and heart. all across Guam,” Brian Moyer, a overwhelming case that will re- [email protected] Affairs, said Bart Stichman, Guam served as a major base Marine veteran who served there quire the VA to finally recognize Twitter: @SethRobson1 Battle of Okinawa anniversary scaled back amid concerns

BY MATTHEW M. BURKE sembly, a spokeswoman for Ta- main open during the ceremony, milestone ceremony for World the fighting. AND AYA ICHIHASHI maki said Friday. the spokeswoman said. To dis- War II’s major Pacific battles to The battle rendered large Stars and Stripes Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, courage people from attending, be scaled back or canceled al- swaths of Okinawa a scorched government ministers, the gov- Okinawa will not be offering a together due to coronavirus. In hellscape, more closely resem- CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — ernors for Hiroshima and Naga- free shuttle bus to the site as it March, Iwo Jima’s Reunion of bling the surface of the moon The more than 5,000 annual at- saki as well as American officials has in previous years. There will Honor commemorating the 75th than the idyllic tropical paradise tendees of Okinawa prefecture’s like Robert Koepcke, the consul also be limited parking. anniversary of that battle was it is today. Echoes of the battle re- Irei no Hi ceremony to mark the general to Naha, and III Marine If people still feel they must canceled. verberate in the island’s passion- anniversary of the Battle of Oki- Expeditionary Force commander visit the park and its zig-zagging As of Sunday, Okinawa had 146 ate anti-war movement. nawa have been told to pray from Lt. Gen. H. Stacy Clardy III were Cornerstone of Peace memorial positive cases, the prefectural For the Allies, the battle was home this year due to concerns not invited. that lists the names of all the war website said. The prefecture has pivotal. With airfields near the over the coronavirus. “Due to the coronavirus con- dead on both sides, they are being reported six deaths; another four Japanese mainland, troops could The 75th anniversary ceremo- cerns and health risks, we did not asked to observe social distanc- people remain in critical condi- begin their final assault on the ny, which was slated for June 23 ask guests from outside of Okina- ing and proper hygiene protocols, tion. The last new positive case on Japanese homeland that would at the Okinawa Peace Memorial wa to attend this year,” the spokes- the spokeswoman said. Okinawa was reported April 30. end World War II. The war ended Park in Itoman city, is not being woman said. “We would like ask “If the coronavirus situation The Battle of Okinawa began on several months after the Battle of canceled but only 16 prefectural everyone to pray at home.” changes, we may have to close April 1, 1945, and lasted 82 days. Okinawa. officials are expected to attend, Some government officials in the park once again,” the spokes- More than 14,000 Americans, [email protected] among them Okinawa Gov. Denny Japan customarily speak on con- woman said. about 110,000 Japanese troops Twitter: @MatthewMBurke1 Tamaki, his vice governors and dition of anonymity. The 75th anniversary of the and at least 140,000 Okinawan ci- [email protected] the chief of the prefectural as- Peace Memorial Park will re- Battle of Okinawa is the second vilians were killed during or after Twitter: @AyaIchihashi Airman assigned to 31st Security Forces Squadron dies in car crash

Stars and Stripes then crashed into a the 31st Security Forces at Aviano is deeply Facebook page said. home’s perimeter saddened by his passing. Our thoughts are One of Abrams’ last Facebook posts was AVIANO AIR BASE, Italy — An air- a Mother’s Day tribute to his mother and man assigned to the 31st Security Forces wall, according to the with Fred’s family, friends and co-workers. grandmother, who he called “beautiful Squadron died following a single-car acci- Italian news site fan- We are doing everything possible to sup- and tremendous creations of God that have dent in the town of Roveredo in Piano, just page.it. port them while we navigate this difficult south of the base. “Fred’s death is a time together.” made my life worth to live.” Airman 1st Class Fred D. Abrams IV, tragic loss,” Lt. Col. Abrams joined the Air Force in April The page has since been turned into a 21, was pronounced dead at the scene by Jesse Goens, the 2019, the wing statement said. memorial, with friends and family shar- Italian rescue workers at about 11:30 p.m. squadron commander, Italian police are investigating the cause ing their memories and some well-wishers Thursday, according to multiple Italian said in a 31st Fighter of the accident, the wing said. who never knew Abrams thanking him for media reports. His car struck telephone Wing statement. “Our Abrams was from Columbus, Ga., and his service. and light poles after leaving the road and Abrams Defender Family with a graduate of Hardaway High School, his [email protected] PAGE 4 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Tuesday, May 19, 2020 WAR/MILITARY Taliban car bomb kills at least 9 at intelligence base

BY J.P. LAWRENCE that it carried out the attack in Stars and Stripes response to Ghani‘s “war declara- tion” — a reference to his order KABUL, Afghanistan — At last week for the military to re- least nine people died and 40 were sume offensive operations against wounded in a Taliban attack on a the militant group. WAHIDULLAH JUMAZADA/AP government base Monday, which In a separate attack in Kabul, Afghan forces launched an operation in mid-April to clear Taliban-held territory near Ghazni, a city about the insurgents said that they at least two people were wounded launched in response to President 100 miles southwest of Kabul. A Taliban attack Monday on a government base in Ghazni killed at least when a magnetic bomb blew up a Ashraf Ghani’s order for troops to nine people and wounded 40. vehicle. go back on the offensive against None of the militant groups ac- them. signed a deal with the insurgents same day as dozens died, includ- given, while the militant group has Taliban fighters blew up a sto- tive in the capital immediately in late February. ing mothers and their newborns, killed nearly 300 people, National len Humvee at around 5 a.m. in- claimed responsibility for the The deal was supposed to lead to in an attack on a maternity ward Security Council spokesman Javid side the main compound of a base mid-afternoon attack, which hap- a negotiated end to Afghanistan’s in Kabul. Dozens more died in an Faisal said Sunday on Twitter. in Ghazni used by the country’s pened about two miles north of the latest war and to the full with- attack at the funeral in Nangarhar NATO’s Resolute Support com- intelligence agency, the National U.S. Embassy. The attack followed drawal of American and interna- province for a pro-government mand said last week that inter- Directorate of Security, said Wa- an assassination attempt by men tional troops by next year. But in warlord. national forces would not shift to hidullah Jumazada, a spokesman on a motorcycle against a defense the nearly two months since it was The Taliban denied having an offensive posture, but would for the provincial governor. official Saturday in Kabul, which signed, the Taliban have launched anything to do with the attack on continue to conduct “defensive The explosion shattered win- killed one Afghan soldier. more than 3,700 attacks while gov- the maternity ward. The U.S. has strikes” against the Taliban if dows more than a mile away in In giving the order to attack ernment forces have conducted blamed it and the assault in Nan- they attack Afghan forces. the city of Ghazni, about 100 miles the Taliban, Ghani cited a sharp almost 1,600 defensive operations, garhar on Islamic State . southwest of Kabul, Jumazada rise in attacks against Afghan the Afghan Ministry of Interior Afghan forces have killed at Zubair Babakarkhail contributed to this report. said. forces and an increase in violence said last week. least 249 Taliban fighters since the [email protected] The Taliban said on Twitter around the country since the U.S. Ghani’s order came on the order to resume the offensive was Twitter: @jplawrence3 Airmen call guardsman who died in Iraq selfless, devoted

BY CHAD GARLAND ing our deployment made the days Stars and Stripes better and brighter,” she wrote. His last words were a testament An Oklahoma community hon- to his selflessness, Command ored an airman killed in a rocket Master Sgt. Derrick Hildebrant strike in Iraq more than two told the crowd at the expo cen- months ago, after coronavirus restrictions postponed memorial ter, in comments captured in a services. livestream on YouTube. Staff Sgt. Marshal D. Roberts, As the rockets hit, Marshal Rob- 28, was one of three coalition erts and a friend discussed wheth- troops killed in a March 11 attack er they could make it to a bunker, on Camp Taji, which the U.S. has and he told the friend, “Go, put blamed on an Iran-backed militia your armor on,” Hildebrant said. group. Roberts’ remains were re- Just after the friend left, the fatal turned home later that month, as rocket struck, he said. the pandemic upended life around More than a month after his the country. death, Kristie Roberts feared that “We have spent the last two he would be forgotten, she said in months in a season of unresolved a late-April post on the Facebook mourning,” his family said in a group “I love Claremore.” She statement last week to the Tulsa thanked the town for displaying World newspaper. “While we can- a banner on a light pole on Main not offer resolution, we are happy knowing that we can finally honor Street to honor his memory. the life of a great man, a hero and She also recently received a someone we all love.” plaque from a veterans group in- scribed with a message that “no Army Spc. Juan Miguel Men- REBECCA IMWALLE/Oklahoma Air National Guard dez Covarrubias, 27, of Hanford, hero ever truly dies till the last Calif., and British combat medic A memorial service postponed by the pandemic was held for Tech. Sgt. Marshal Roberts, 138th Fighter time someone speaks their name,” Lance Cpl. Brodie Gillon, 26, a Wing, in Claremore, Okla., on Saturday. Hildebrant said. reservist with the Scottish and Pate, who shared a story of the North Irish Yeomanry, were also remont Expo Center, northwest they received a promotion war- Some loved ones wore blue time he caught his friend sitting killed in the attack. of Tulsa. “He was most proud of rant from wing vice commander T-shirts with a line of scripture in the dark, dog on his lap, with a Roberts, the first member of the being a husband and father.” Col. Robin Cavanaugh, posthu- printed on the back: “Greater love gallon of ice cream and a bottle of Oklahoma Air National Guard to Pate recalled how his friend had mously advancing Marshal Rob- has no one than this, that he lay wine, watching a Hallmark movie, be killed in combat, is survived by been both excited and terrified to erts to technical sergeant. down his life for his friends.” said that he could share countless his wife and fellow member of the propose and went on an extensive Outside the expo center, guards- Marshal Roberts was one of the more memories. Tulsa-based 138th Fighter Wing, hunt for the perfect engagement men presented the family with most selfless people, said Tech Sgt. “Just remember one thing,” he Kristie Roberts, and their 8-year- ring, though Pate said he knew American flags, fired a three- Ariel White, an Oklahoma Air Na- said. “You had the privilege of old daughter, Paityn. that the two were “perfect for each round volley, played taps and con- tional Guardsman wounded in the “He was a lot of things to a lot other” and the ring wouldn’t have ducted a flyover with the wing’s attack. He was “THE best friend,” calling him a real brother, and of people — he was a husband, mattered. F-16s in a missing man formation. she said in a Facebook post in no one and nothing can take that father, son, brother and friend,” Later, Kristie Roberts appeared Family members hugged the flags late March after being medically away.” said Staff Sgt. Taylor Pate, during on stage with Paityn — who to their chests, a video of the event evacuated to the United States. [email protected] the ceremony Saturday at the Cla- clutched a stuffed animal — as showed. “Sharing an office with him dur- Twitter: @chadgarland Tuesday, May 19, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 5 MILITARY Iranian tankers head to Venezuela amid US tensions

BY JON GAMBRELL Trump has pursued maximalist Associated Press campaigns against both nations. But the strategy invites the DUBA I, United Arab Emirates) chance of a renewed confronta- — Five Iranian tankers likely car- tion between the Islamic Re- rying at least $45.5 million worth public and America both in the of gasoline and similar products Persian Gulf, which saw a series are now sailing to Venezuela, of escalating incidents often in- part of a wider deal between the volving the oil industry last year, two U.S.-sanctioned nations amid and wider afield. heightened tensions between “This is like a new one for ev- Tehran and Washington. eryone,” said Capt. Ranjith Raja, The tankers’ voyage come after an analyst who tracks oil ship- Venezuela’s socialist leader Nico- ments by sea at the data firm Re- las Maduro already turned to Iran finitiv, of the gasoline shipments. for help in flying in chemicals “We haven’t seen anything like needed at an aging refinery amid this before.” a gasoline shortage, a symptom of Since a pressure campaign the wider economic and political on Iranian vessels began, nota- chaos gripping Latin America’s MATTHEW KEELER/Stars and Stripes bly with the temporary seizure one-time largest oil producer. of an Iranian tanker last year A 2nd Infantry Division soldier checks for a temperature at Camp Humphreys, South Korea, on Feb. 26. For Iran, the tankers repre- by Gibraltar, the country’s ships sent a way to bring money into its have been unable to fly flags of cash-starved Shiite theocracy and convenience of other nations, a put its own pressure on the U.S., common practice in international US Forces Korea set to lift which under President Donald shipping. most anti-virus restrictions Bases, except those in Seoul area, will lower risk level to moderate

BY KIM GAMEL Stars and Stripes ‘ Based on South Korea’s current COVID- SEOUL, South Korea — The 19 conditions … USFK decided to lower

U.S. military said Monday it will MELISSA NELSON/AP lower its health risk level to mod- its current health protection condition from erate and lift most anti-coronavi- ‘Charlie’ to ‘Bravo’ effective Wednesday. The entrance to the Naval Air Base Station in Pensacola, Fla. The rus restrictions for bases except FBI has found a link between the gunman in a deadly attack at the U.S. Forces Korea’ those in the Seoul area beginning base last December and an al-Qaida operative. Wednesday, citing “favorable” press release on the change in coronavirus restrictions conditions in South Korea. However, U.S. Forces Korea Pensacola: FBI extracted said bars, clubs and other adults- Peters said that means Yongsan and establishments that restrict only establishments will remain Garrison in Seoul and the nearby entrance to adults only are off- off-limits on the peninsula follow- K-16 base remain under HPCON limits pen-wide to all USFK-af- ing a recent outbreak in the popu- Charlie. filiated personnel until further data from shooter’s phones lar Itaewon district. Yongsan, which is in the pro- notice.” USFK implemented the higher cess of being permanently closed USFK said that despite the FROM FRONT PAGE alert level, known as HPCON- but still has a population of about recent outbreak it had assessed ing he visited a New York City memorial to the attacks of Sept. Charlie, in late February as the 2,000, sits on the edge of Itaewon. that South Korea’s current condi- coordinating with them and pro- 11, 2001, over the Thanksgiving coronavirus began to ravage Nonessential travel to bases tions favorable enough to lower its viding an opportunity for them to holiday weekend and posted anti- South Korea, which for weeks in the Seoul area was banned HPCON status to “moderate.” take credit for the attack.” American and anti-Israeli mes- had the highest number of cases until further notice, but person- South Korean officials “have Alshamrani was killed by a sages on social media just two outside China, where the virus nel from Yongsan and K-16 were done an exceptional job in effec- sheriff’s deputy during the Dec. 6 hours before the shooting. authorized to go to other bases for tively suppressing the spread of rampage at a classroom building first appeared late last year. Separately, al-Qaida’s branch in approved activities, USFK said. COVID-19,” Abrams said. “I have at Pensacola Naval Air Station. He South Korea reported 15 new Yemen released a video claiming The public health emergency, complete confidence that the re- had been undergoing flight train- coronavirus cases on Monday, the attack. The branch, AQAP, has cent outbreak will be quickly ing at Pensacola, where members and the Itaewon outbreak ap- which gives USFK commander long been considered the global contained and suppressed due of foreign militaries routinely re- peared to ebb following a massive Gen. Robert Abrams expanded network’s most dangerous branch to their proactive and aggres- testing and tracing campaign. authorities to enforce the anti- ceive instruction. In addition to and has attempted to carry out at- USFK has reported 28 cases of coronavirus regulations, also was sive measures taken so far. Our the three sailors who died, eight tacks on the U.S. mainland. the virus, including four active- to remain in effect through Satur- combined efforts to effectively other people were injured. In January, U.S. officials an- duty service members, but most day when it is due to expire. combat this virus have been out- The Justice Department had nounced that they were sending have recovered. Abrams will decide whether to standing and the time is right to previously asked Apple to help home 21 Saudi military students “Based on South Korea’s cur- let it lapse, renew it or terminate lower our HPCON level.” extract data from two iPhones after an investigation revealed rent COVID-19 conditions re- it before then, Peters said. The command, which oversees that belonged to the gunman, that they had had jihadi or anti- maining favorable to their newly The decision will allow people some 28,500 service members on including one that authorities American sentiments on social implemented social distanc- in approved areas to dine out at the divided peninsula, warned say Alshamrani damaged with a media pages or had “contact with ing and preventive measures, restaurants, shop and conduct “it will immediately snap back bullet after being confronted by child pornography.” USFK decided to lower its cur- outdoor activities in local com- to a heightened HPCON posture law enforcement. Wray said FBI Barr said at the time that Saudi rent health protection condition munities “while maintaining without hesitation if a resurgence agents were able to break the Arabia had agreed to review the from ‘Charlie’ to ‘Bravo’ effective social awareness and wearing a of the threat appears outside encryption without the help of conduct of all 21 to see if they Wednesday, May 20 at 6 a.m. for mask when 1-2 meters (3-7 feet) our installation or within our Apple. should face military discipline areas except Area II (+),” USFK separation cannot be achieved,” formations.” Law enforcement officials left and to send back anyone the U.S. said in a press release. USFK said. [email protected] no doubt that Alshamrani was later determines should face USFK spokesman Col. Lee It added that “all bars, clubs Twitter: @kimgamel motivated by jihadi ideology, say- charges. PAGE 6 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Tuesday, May 19, 2020 VIRUS OUTBREAK Firm says early vaccine results promising

BY MARILYNN MARCHIONE recovered from COVID-19. said, but much more extensive testing is didates are in the first stages of testing or Associated Press In the next phase of the study, led by needed to see if it remains so. A high dose nearing it. Health officials have said that the U.S. National Institutes of Health, re- version is being dropped after spurring if all goes well, studies of a potential vac- An experimental vaccine against the searchers will try to determine which dose some short-term side effects. cine might wrap up by very late this year coronavirus showed encouraging results is best for a definitive experiment that they The results have not been published and or early next year. in very early testing, triggering hoped-for aim to start in July. More than 4.7 million infections and are only from the first of three stages of immune responses in eight healthy, mid- In all, 45 people have received one or 315,000 deaths from the coronavirus testing that vaccines and drugs normally dle-aged volunteers, its maker announced two shots of the vaccine, which was being have been confirmed worldwide since it Monday. tested at three different doses. The kind of undergo. U.S. government officials have emerged in China late last year. There are Study volunteers given either a low or detailed antibody results needed to assess launched a project called “Operation Warp no specific approved treatments, although medium dose of the vaccine by Cambridge, responses are only available on eight vol- Speed” to develop a vaccine and hopefully several are being used on an emergency Mass.-based Moderna Inc. had antibodies unteers so far. have 300 million doses by January. basis after showing some promise in pre- similar to those seen in people who have The vaccine seems safe, the company Worldwide, about a dozen vaccine can- liminary testing. S. Korea to provide 10K face masks to Navajo vets

BY KIM GAMEL opposing forces. Around 130 of Stars and Stripes the Navajo veterans are still alive, the ministry said. SEOUL, South Korea — South The 70th Anniversary of the Korea will provide 10,000 masks Korean War Commemoration and hand sanitizer to help Navajo Committee will deliver the masks veterans of the 1950-53 Korean and hand sanitizer to the veter- War fight the coronavirus, the ans and their loved ones as an government said Monday. expression of gratitude for their It was the latest in a series of contribution, according to a press humanitarian shipments from release. South Korea to foreign veterans The items were originally sup- ahead of the 70th anniversary of posed to be delivered Monday, but the June 25 start of the war that the date has been delayed. Offi- pitted the United States and the cials said they plan to hand them South against the communist- over sometime this week with the backed North. assistance of the South Korean The Navajo Nation has been one Consulate in Los Angeles, the Ko- of the hardest-hit communities in rean community in Arizona and the United States, with coronavi- the Korean Missionary Associa- MASS COMMUNICATION SPECIALIST SEAMAN ALEXANDER WILLIAMS/U.S. Navy rus infection rates rivaling those of New York City. tion in America. From right, U.S. Navy Information Systems Technician 3rd Class Jacob Torgerson, Information Systems Health authorities have report- “We hope our small gifts will Technician 3rd Class Donnie Bun, and Interior Communications Electrician Seaman Apprentice Ryan ed 3,912 positive cases and 140 console the veterans in the midst McIntyre, practice hose handling techniques in the hangar bay of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore deaths on the desert reservation, of the COVID-10 crisis,” said com- Roosevelt on Friday. which covers parts of New Mexi- mittee co-chairman Kim Eun-gi. co, Arizona and Utah, and has a “The government remembers population of 175,000. those who made a noble sacrifice Roosevelt: Sailors implement new system South Korea’s Ministry of Pa- to defend a strange country 70 triots and Veterans Affairs said it years ago, and we hope they will was “sending protective items in- proudly tell their posterity about to prevent spread, prepare to return to sea cluding 10,000 masks to the hid- the choice they made so many den heroes of the Korean War in years ago.” the Navajo Nation for the people Earlier this month, the com- FROM FRONT PAGE support sailors still in quarantine criticizing Crozier and calling who are hit especially hard by mittee sent 1 million masks to benefit all foreign veterans of the During the fast cruise, sailors and isolation, the Navy said. him “stupid” was leaked to the COVID-19,” the respiratory dis- war, including 500,000 to the De- will also be “implementing new After the air wing conducts its public. ease caused by the coronavirus. partment of Veterans Affairs for measures to protect the crew carrier qualification flights, the Crozier’s removal prompted a About 800 Navajo men served American vets. from possible exposure to the remainder of the crew will re- preliminary inquiry into the han- in the war, many as Code Talkers novel coronavirus,” the statement embark, according to Monday’s dling of the Roosevelt outbreak. who used their native language as [email protected] said. For the past month, sailors statement. After receiving the inquiry’s re- an unbreakable code to confound Twitter: @kimgamel have been wearing masks and The ship will not wait for all sults, Chief of Naval Operations maintaining social distance. crew members to clear quar- Adm. Mike Gilday on April 30 “Safely navigating an aircraft antine before returning to sea, ordered a follow-on command carrier is a complex process that Sardiello told CBS News on May investigation. involves teams of Sailors through- 5. Those who remain in isolation Gilday and new acting Navy out the ship,” Roosevelt naviga- at the point of re-deployment will secretary James McPherson on tion officer Cmdr. Christopher stay behind. April 21 recommended Crozier be Brown said in the statement. “We Sardiello took over for Capt. returned to the Roosevelt’s helm, are setting the normal underway Brett Crozier when then-acting the New York Times reported watches and running through Navy Secretary Thomas Modly May 1. That decision was delayed, various navigation scenarios so removed him as commander after however, with the announcement that the bridge watch teams can a letter he wrote pleading for help of the follow-on investigation. learn how to effectively commu- for his crew was leaked to the San The results, due to Gilday by nicate with one another while still Francisco Chronicle and picked May 27, will “provide a more ro- protecting themselves and each up by worldwide media. bust documentation of events and other.” “The spread of the disease is give a fuller consideration of the After the fast cruise, the Roos- ongoing and accelerating,” Cro- circumstances surrounding the evelt will begin underway train- zier wrote March 30. “We are matter,” Gilday’s spokesman, ing and carrier qualifications “to not at war. Sailors do not need to Cmdr. Nate Christensen, said in a support the air wing’s return to die.” statement last month. operational readiness.” Modly received backlash from The Roosevelt has been away Not all Roosevelt sailors will sailors and lawmakers for remov- from its San Diego homeport JASON JIMENEZ/U.S. Marine Corps attend, though. Those who are ing Crozier and resigned about since it left for patrol on Jan. 17. not required for the underway a week later after a recording of [email protected] Navajo code talker Thomas Begay visits Marine Corps Air Station training will remain pierside to his speech to the Roosevelt’s crew Twitter: @CaitlinDoornbos Cherry Point, N.C., on Jan. 17, 2017. Tuesday, May 19, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 7 VIRUS OUTBREAK Leader: Restrictions helped streamline survival training

BY JAMES BOLINGER The group runs the U.S. Air Stars and Stripes Force Survival School, where 6,000 pilots, special operators, The Air Force survival school linguists and other personnel in Washington state used corona- who face a risk of capture train virus restrictions to its advantage annually, Brown said. The school RYAN LACKEY/U.S. Air Force to customize the training regi- teaches them SERE skills: to sur- NASA astronauts sit in with a class of survival school students being briefed on life raft procedures at men and trim nearly a week off vive, evade, resist and escape if the program, the training group Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash., in 2017. The school used coronavirus restrictions to customize training their aircraft crashes into a re- commander said recently. and trim nearly a week off the program. mote wilderness or is shot down “The COVID-19 crisis has been in combat. a silver lining for my organization that were provided to students have them available online by for example, those aboard stra- A March 13 stop movement in particular,” Col. Carlos Brown upon their arrival. October. order imposed by the Defense tegic intelligence, surveillance of the 336th Training Group at Several times a week, instruc- After the new curriculum is ap- Department required a 14-day or reconnaissance aircraft or Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash., tors would host conference calls proved later this year, students quarantine period of all new ar- Air Force One, will take the B-1 told Stars and Stripes in a phone so that they could answer stu- will attend one of three practical course of four to five days. interview Tuesday. “It forced us rivals at Fairchild, Brown said. dents’ questions. courses instead of the one-size- The school was already under So far, student feedback on to find a way to condense and Instructors condensed more fits-all concept now in use, Brown end-of-course surveys has been modernize a 26-day course.” an order from 19th Air Force than a week of traditional class- said. positive, Brown said. Although Under pandemic restrictions, commander Maj. Gen. Craig room academics into a distance- Airmen with the highest risk the classes are half of the usual the training group not only short- Wills to trim seven days off the learning course that future of capture — fighter and bomber size to adhere to social distanc- ened the course, but also devel- course, Brown said. students will complete before pilots and aircrew and special op- oped three separate tracks to So the survival school instruc- traveling to Fairchild AFB for the erations troops — will take a 19- ing guidelines, students have said accommodate airmen at the high- tors turned those 14 days, when practical field exercises, Brown day Level C course, Brown said. that they are grasping the course est risk of capture down to those students were stuck in their dorm said. Tactical airlift crews will take material better than if they were with the lowest. The curriculum rooms, into instructional time, he The new course materials have the 12-day B-2 course. in a traditional classroom. is awaiting Air Force approval said. They created workbooks, been used for every class since Aircrew with a low probabil- [email protected] and could be in use this fall. study guides and video lectures April 13, and Brown intends to ity of being downed in combat, Twitter: @bolingerj2004 PAGE 8 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Tuesday, May 19, 2020 VIRUS OUTBREAK Europe reopens widely; China to give $2B

Associated Press restricted. Authorities are keen to reopen ATHENS, Greece — Europe Greece’s vital tourism sector, fol- reopened more widely on Mon- lowing a warning that the country day, allowing people into the is likely to suffer the worst reces- Acropolis in Athens, high-fashion sion in the 27-nation European boutiques in Italy, museums in Union this year. Belgium, golf courses in Ireland and beer gardens in Bavaria. In Belgium, more students re- China announced it will give $2 turned to school, hairdressers billion to the fight against the began clipping locks again, and coronavirus. museums and zoos reopened, all As nations carved out a new with strict reservation systems to avoid overcrowding. Hoping to normal amid the pandemic, Chi- VAGGELIS KOUSIORAS/AP nese President Xi Jinping told the make the most of the sunny weath- World Health Organization’s an- Medical workers conduct er, open-air markets started sell- nual meeting that the money will testing for COVID-19 at a ing spring fruit and vegetables. be paid out over two years to help Roma neighborhood in Larissa, Golf courses and garden stores respond to COVID-19, which has Greece, on Monday. reopened in Ireland, but Health killed hundreds of thousands and Minister Simon Harris said he is NANCY MONTGOMERY/Stars and Stripes devastated national economies. easing lockdowns a month ago. nervous because the virus hasn’t He said the funds will especial- Many nations are preparing to gone away. Italians in Vicenza celebrate the end of coronavirus-related ly support efforts in developing open their borders next month, Moscow health officials said restrictions on cafes and visiting with friends Monday . U.S. countries. trying to sketch out the rules for 77 people died of the virus in the Army Garrison Italy is maintaining more stringent restrictions. Xi’s address came amid sharp a highly unusual summer tourist Russian capital in the past 24 tensions between Beijing and season. hours, the highest daily total so President Donald Trump, who Germany’s foreign minister far. With over 290,000 infections, US Army holds back as has suspended U.S. funding to was discussing the options with Russia is second only to the U.S. WHO and accused it of failing colleagues from 10 largely south- in the number of cases, but inter- to stop the virus from spreading ern European countries. national health officials question Italy eases restrictions when it first surfaced in China. “This vacation this year won’t Russia’s low official death toll of be like the ones we know from about 2,700. WHO announced it will evalu- BY NANCY MONTGOMERY prohibited from riding in per- In India, people trickled out- ate the response to the outbreak the past,“ Heiko Maas told ZDF sonally owned cars or taking doors after the government ex- Stars and Stripes “at the earliest appropriate mo- television. “The pandemic is still public transit, and they must tended a nationwide lockdown ment,” after a watchdog body there, and we must at least have VICENZA, Italy — Italians be back at their posts by 8 to May 31 but eased many re- found possible shortcomings in safety precautions for the worst resumed visiting hair salons p.m. strictions. Small shops and other the U.N. agency’s handling of the case that the figures get worse and having drinks out with Service members living businesses reopened in places, crisis. again.” friends Monday. off-post are allowed to use Germany and France jointly More than 4.7 million people including the capital, New Delhi. But soldiers with U.S. Army personal vehicles within 15 proposed a $543 billion recovery worldwide have tested positive for At the same time, India recorded Garrison Italy still aren’t al- kilometers of their homes for fund to boost European econo- the coronavirus and over 315,000 its biggest single-day coronavirus lowed to do those things, fol- food, banking and medical mies hit by the pandemic. deaths have been reported, ac- surge with over 5,200 new cases, lowing updated orders meant needs, and go anywhere with- In a joint statement, German cording to a tally by Johns Hop- along with 157 deaths. to prevent the spread of the in the Veneto region to hike or Chancellor Angela Merkel and kins University. In Brazil, President Jair Bol- coronavirus. for other exercise. French President Emmanuel Greece reopened the Acropolis sonaro greeted hundreds of sup- Army officials are moving Socializing is restricted to Macron said the fund would see and other ancient sites, along with porters — and joined some in cautiously as Italy lifts re- one visitor at a time in a bar- European Union budget money high schools, shopping malls and performing push-ups — who strictions ordered months ago, racks room and only mission- used to help sectors and regions mainland travel. Paving stick- gathered to back his open-the- when it became the European essential visitors are allowed that are particularly affected by ers were used to keep visitors economy drive. Bolsonaro has epicenter of the virus. on post. the outbreak . apart. Tourists were local, for the played down the virus even as it “We’re going to be very, “Parties or other social New infections and deaths have country still has a 14-day quar- has swept through Latin Ameri- very careful and deliberate,” gatherings are strictly prohib- slowed considerably in Europe, antine for arrivals, and travel to ca’s most populous country, leav- Maj. Gen. Roger Cloutier said ited,” according to the order. where some countries started Greek islands remains broadly ing over 16,000 dead. Friday at the garrison’s vir- “Regardless of any changes to tual town hall, its 12th in as host-nation laws, these activi- many weeks since the viral ties will remain prohibited.” pandemic began. “We are cau- Service members living on- tiously optimistic but we have or off-post must be in their res- WHO bows to calls from countries to maintain our discipline as idences from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m., we move forward.” the order said. The Italian government Family members and civil- for independent probe of response Monday also announced that ians are not subject to punitive self-declaration travel forms actions for violating the order, are no longer required for re- Associated Press virus originated in a lab in China and that failure cost many lives,” gional travel and is expected but are “highly encouraged to while the scientific community Azar said. Speaking hours after follow my additional restric- GENEVA — The World Health June 3 to allow travel through- has insisted all evidence to date Chinese President Xi Jinping an- tions and are strongly discour- Organization bowed to calls Mon- out the country. shows the virus likely jumped nounced China would provide $2 aged from participating in day from most of its member Cloutier, commander of U.S. into humans from an animal. billion to help respond to the out- Army Africa, has repeatedly activities that may jeopardize states to launch an independent the health and safety of our WHO’s normally bureaucratic break and its economic fallout, said that he might apply more evaluation of how it managed community,” the order said. annual assembly this week has Azar said the U.S. had allocated stringent measures than the the international response to been overshadowed by mutual Italians, whose lockdown was Cloutier said at the town hall the coronavirus, which has been $9 billion to coronavirus contain- meeting that he’ll reduce re- recriminations and political snip- ment efforts around the world. among Europe’s most severe, clouded by finger-pointing be- ing between the U.S. and China. in order to protect the force, strictions only when the data, tween the U.S. and China over Tedros said he would launch which he said would include Trump has repeatedly attacked an independent evaluation of slow the spread of the virus a pandemic that has killed over WHO, claiming that it helped and maintain readiness. He more expansive testing, indi- WHO’s response “at the earliest 300,000 people and leveled the China conceal the extent of the issued a general order late last cates that it can be done with- appropriate moment” — alluding global economy. coronavirus pandemic in its early week that does that. out risking a new infection to findings published Monday in The “comprehensive evalu- stages. Several Republican law- Troops who live in the bar- spike. History shows pandem- ation,“ sought by a coalition of makers have called on WHO Di- a first report by an oversight ad- racks and have been restricted ics often have second and third African, European and other rector-General Tedros Adhanom visory body commissioned to look to post since early March are waves of infection, he said. countries, is intended to review Ghebreyesus to resign. into WHO’s response. still generally restricted to Rules and restrictions vary “lessons learned” from WHO’s co- U.S. Health and Human Ser- The 11-page report raised ques- post under the order. between regions and services ordination of the global response vices Secretary Alex Azar said tions such as whether WHO’s During the duty week, they in Italy, which also hosts Avi- to COVID-19, but would stop Monday it was time to be frank warning system for alerting the can leave only to travel to an- ano Air Base in the northeast short of looking into contentious about why COVID-19 has “spun world to outbreaks is adequate, other post, get gas or for medi- and a large U.S. Navy base in issues such as the origins of the out of control.“ and suggested member states cal reasons. On weekends, Naples. new coronavirus. U.S. President “There was a failure by this might need to “reassess” WHO’s they can leave to exercise or [email protected] Donald Trump has claimed he organization to obtain the infor- role in providing travel advice to get takeout food. But they’re Twitter: @montgomerynance has proof suggesting the corona- mation that the world needed countries. Tuesday, May 19, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 9 VIRUS OUTBREAK Some traffic returns, businesses reopen as India eases lockdown

BY SHEIKH SAALIQ the nature of the lockdown and AND EMILY SCHMALL the power to classify areas as Associated Press certain types of COVID-19 zones based on the spread and severity NEW DELHI — People trick- of cases. led outdoors and thin traffic re- In New Delhi, cyclists and pri- turned to roads in some Indian vate cars whizzed through thor- states Monday, a day after the oughfares that had been almost federal government extended entirely deserted a day earlier. the nationwide coronavirus lock- Late Monday, authorities in the down to May 31 but eased many capital announced they will allow restrictions to restore economic auto rickshaws, cabs and buses R S IYER/AP activity. with no more than 20 passengers. Small shops and other busi- The capital’s top elected leader, A cyclist wearing a mask pedals past other vehicles during extended lockdown in Kochi, southern Kerala nesses were reopened in several Arvind Kejriwal, said private state, India, on Monday . states, including the capital, New offices can also open fully, but Delhi, where the movement of “should try that most of the staff Market, said travel magazines above the 170s, considered un- gle-day coronavirus surge Mon- private transport led to some works from home.” and books were particularly pop- healthy, according to the gov- day with 5,242 new cases along traffic snarls. E-commerce com- In Khan Market, one of New ular among buyers since book- ernment’s air quality monitoring with 157 deaths. India has con- panies started to deliver goods, Delhi’s poshest marketplaces, sellers were allowed to reopen in system. firmed a total of more than 96,000 including those considered non- produce shops, hardware stores, the previous phase of the easing New Delhi, known along with cases, the most in Asia, including essential, to places outside con- booksellers and stationers were of India’s lockdown. other Indian cities for its poor air 3,029 deaths. tainment zones. open, but cafes, boutiques and “They need the escape,” Rajni quality, had enjoyed clean air after Most of the cases have been in Metro service, flights, schools, salons remained closed under the said. India announced the lockdown in major cities, with Mumbai regis- shopping malls, colleges, hotels government guidelines. The easing of the lockdown, late March. But the reopening of tering almost 20% . and restaurants, however, remain Instead, two long, single-file however, has had a downside. factories in the capital’s outskirts But rural villages across India shuttered nationwide. lines of mainly men stood waiting The air quality in New Delhi has led to a deterioration of air are also seeing an increase in The ease in restrictions comes for food donations. remained in the “moderate” cat- quality in one of the world’s most cases as migrant workers contin- as the federal government gives Rajni Malhotra, an owner of egory on Monday, with the Air polluted cities. ue to swell the numbers in eastern states more control in deciding the Bahri Sons bookstore in Khan Quality Index hovering a touch India recorded its biggest sin- states such as Bihar and Odisha. PAGE 10 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Tuesday, May 19, 2020 VIRUS OUTBREAK As general public moves to masks, crooks blend in

BY DON BABWIN this is a perfect opportunity for wearing the same kind of surgi- AND STEFANIE DAZIO them to conceal themselves and cal masks as many racing fans Associated Press blend right in,” said Richard Bell, there and, at gunpoint, robbed police chief in the tiny Pennsyl- three workers of a quarter-mil- CHICAGO — The way the FBI vania community of Frackville. lion dollars they were moving tells it, William Rosario Lopez put He said he knows of seven re- from gaming machines to a safe. on a surgical mask and walked cent armed robberies in the re- Other robberies involving sus- into the Connecticut convenience gion where every suspect wore a pects wearing surgical masks U.S. DISTRICT COURT OF CONNECTICUT/AP store looking to the world like a mask. have occurred in North Carolina, typical pandemic-era shopper as Across the United States, and Washington, D.C., and else- This image from surveillance video shows a man, believed to be he picked up plastic wrap, fruit masks have become more and where in recent weeks. William Rosario Lopez wearing a mask, with a gun in a Connecticut snacks and a few other items. more prevalent, first as a vol- The problem isn’t limited to convenience store, March 26. Then, when the only other cus- untary precaution and then as a robberies. In the troubled Cook tomer left, he went to the counter, Scott made it out, though he if we are unable to see a face,” requirement imposed by govern- County Jail in Chicago, the virus pulled out a small pistol, pointed was captured a week later. said Carlos Marquez, a detective mental agencies and businesses. has led to at least nine deaths and it at the clerk and demanded that In addition to rare jailbreaks, And people with masks — as well sickened hundreds of inmates division commander in the Los he open the cash register. the prevalence of masks in soci- Angeles County Sheriff’s Depart- The scene, the FBI contends in as latex gloves — have found their and correctional officers. Staff- ety has created other problems way into more and more crime ers must wear masks and inmates ment, in an email. a court document, was repeated for law enforcement. Before life It’s leaving law enforcement by Lopez in four other gas station reports. are issued a new one every day in a pandemic, masked maraud- Just how many criminals are — a policy that helped one inmate without a crucial crime-solving stores over eight days before his ers had to free their faces im- tool. April 9 arrest. It underscores a taking advantage of the pandemic escape on May 2. mediately after leaving a bank With everyone basically incog- troubling new reality for law en- to commit crimes is impossible to Jahquez Scott, jailed on a gun or store to avoid suspicion once nito, would-be witnesses might forcement: Masks that have made estimate, but law enforcement of- charge and for violating his bond in the general public. But it came criminals stand apart long be- ficials have no doubt the numbers in a drug case, has tattoos of a with the risk of being photo- not notice someone acting dif- fore bandanna-wearing robbers are climbing. Reports are start- small heart on one cheek and graphed and identified through ferently, and that would make knocked over stagecoaches in the ing to pop up across the United what looks like a blood-dripping omnipresent surveillance cam- it harder to get a good descrip- Old West and ski-masked bandits States and in other parts of the scar on the other. But when he eras and cellphones. tion or identification of the sus- held up banks now allow them to world of crimes pulled off in no wore a mask, he posed as Quintin These days, they can keep the pect, said Eric Nunez, chief of blend in like concerned accoun- small part because so many of us Henderson — who doesn’t have masks on and blend in easily with the Los Alamitos Police Depart- tants, nurses and store clerks try- are now wearing masks. tattoos on his face and was sched- or without being “captured” in ment in Southern California and ing to avoid a deadly virus. In March, two men walked into uled to be released, authorities images. president of the California Police “Criminals, they’re smart and Aqueduct Racetrack in New York said. “The video is much less useful Chiefs Association. Rival gang members deliver food in poor Cape Town area

BY GERALD IMRAY trafficking in drugs and guns, Associated Press protection rackets and corrupting police and judges, noting there CAPE TOWN, South Africa were 900 gang-related killings in — Preston’s new face mask is the Cape Town area last year. emblazoned with the stars and “None of that goes away be- stripes of the U.S. flag. cause the gangsters suddenly While protecting him from the pretend to do something nice,” coronavirus, it would normally Smith said. “The trauma they’ve also put him in danger in Manen- inflicted on communities for de- berg, one of a number of violent cades won’t be forgotten for a and poor neighborhoods on the couple of loaves of bread.” outskirts of Cape Town known as Manenberg resident Cristal the Cape Flats. The mask’s colors van Rensburg says two cousins identify Preston as a member of were killed by gang members, the Americans, a criminal gang with one shot 30 times in the face usually unwelcome on the turf of and chest. Her brother and other the rival Hard Livings gang. relatives also are in gangs, and “They’d shoot me,” the 35-year- old says with what appears to be a she says she often sees her cous- smile, his eyes crinkling. ins’ killers on the street. But today, he’s working side- “In the beginning it was dif- by-side with other notorious gang ficult,” she said. “It’s not a good members to deliver bread, flour feeling to lose someone and know and vegetables to poor families that person who hurt your fam- who are struggling during South ily is walking past you every day. Africa’s coronavirus lockdown, You see in Manenberg, that’s part which has closed industries and of life.” left many in Manenberg without Despite its beauty, Cape Town work. NARDUS ENGELBRECHT/AP was ranked last year as the 11th most-dangerous city in the world. Preston stands in a courtyard Danny, a senior member of the Hard Livings gang, helps distribute food with rival gang members earlier with the other gang members this month in the Manenberg neighborhood in Cape Town, South Africa . According to the Mexico City- amid an unlikely truce, bowing based Citizen Council for Pub- his head as Danny, a senior mem- The project was started by they grabbed the opportunity with of them have tattoos that iden- lic Safety and Criminal Justice, ber of the Hard Livings, says a Andie Steele-Smith, an Austra- both hands and are just wringing tify them as members of prison which compiled the list, Cape prayer. Caps are removed and lian known as the “gang pastor.” it for everything they can.” “Numbers” gangs, which experts Town had 2,868 homicides in tattooed arms are held behind They ride in the back of his pick- The gangs also benefit, getting say are far more violent. 2018, the second-most on the list backs. up truck and trailer, leaping off some food as well as the chance One who doesn’t think much behind Caracas, Venezuela. “We (the gangs) did decide to to carry items to homes and soup to stay relevant in tough times. of their good deeds is J.P. Smith, An attempted truce has accom- work together to help,” Danny kitchens. They also seem to enjoy the role who works in the mayor’s office panied the food distribution, and said. “And we have got no prob- Steele-Smith said that “as soon of modern-day Robin Hoods. of Cape Town in charge of safety Smith said police have reported a lem (with each other), you see. No as these guys were given an op- Still, these men are drug deal- and security. He says their real decrease in trouble in Manenberg problem.” portunity to do something good, ers and many are killers. A lot business is murder, extortion, in recent weeks. Tuesday, May 19, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 11 VIRUS OUTBREAK Italy opens churches, with prayer protocols

BY NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ‘ We came to be VATICAN CITY — Italy and close to the tomb, but the Vatican opened a new phase we got a Mass! It’s a in the virus crisis Monday, with churches resuming public Mass- great sensation to be es after a sharp confrontation back. between the Italian church and ’ state over limits on worshipping Lucina Wodzisz in the era of COVID-19. Catholic visiting Vatican from Poland Guards in hazmat suits took the temperature of the faithful enter- ing St. Peter’s Basilica, where worship and commerce, with Pope Francis celebrated an early some of the most intricate proto- morning Mass for a handful of cols reserved for the resumption people in a side chapel to com- of public religious observance in memorate the centenary of the the Roman Catholic country. birth of St. John Paul II. Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Bud- Across town, the Rev. Jose dhists, Orthodox and Sikhs have Maria Galvan snapped on a latex their own protocols, with at the glove and face mask before dis- very least masks required for the tributing Communion to the dozen faithful and a one-meter distance parishioners attending the 7:20 kept at all times. a.m. Mass at his Sant’Eugenio The fear is that the elderly, parish. among the most devout and also “Before I became a priest I the most at-risk of infection, could ALESSANDRA TARANTINO/AP was a surgeon, so for me gloves be exposed to the virus with re- are normal,” he joked afterward. Nuns of St. Elisabeth wearing face masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19, leave St. Peter’s Square sumed religious observance in after visiting St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican on Monday, the day of its reopening. “I’m dexterous (with gloves) so the onetime European epicenter the hosts don’t get away from of the pandemic. of restrictions on access and even protocol. It goes without saying masks but the priest didn’t. And me.” The first such protocol was the administration of the sacra- that the priest doesn’t place the he didn’t use a latex glove when It was all part of Italy’s next inked with the country’s Catholic ments: At Sant’Eugenio, the Sun- Eucharistic host on the tongue step in emerging from the West’s bishops, after they issued a blis- distributing Communion, either. day 11 a.m. Mass usually exceeds of the faithful, as is the Vatican’s first coronavirus lockdown, with tering public critique of Premier But Wodzisz was thrilled any- commercial shops and restau- Giuseppe Conte’s government 500. Now only 150 can attend. preferred way. way to be able to celebrate the rants reopening and barbers when it refused to allow public Everyone must wear a face mask The Vatican has its own norms, centenary of John Paul’s birth by going back to work for the first Masses two weeks ago, during and sit 1-meter apart. and as a sovereign state, is not visiting his tomb. The Polish fam- There’s no holy water or choir, beholden to the Italian govern- time since March 10. the first easing of restrictions. ily is particularly devoted to the and unused pews for the morning ment measures. But in some But with several hundred new The bishops cried their free- former Karol Wojtyla (the eldest Mass were roped off with tape to cases it goes beyond them, with infections being recorded every dom to worship was being tram- Wodzisz son is named Karol) and day, the reopening is hardly a keep them sanitized for when the the guards bearing thermo-scan- pled on, suggesting they believed had only hoped to pray before his free-for-all, with strict virus-con- the state was violating the terms bigger crowds come later in the ners in St. Peter’s Square taking tomb on the first day St. Peter’s taining measures regulating ev- of the Lateran Treaty, the 1929 day. the temperatures of anyone who erything from how you get your document that regulates the re- Priests must wear gloves dur- wants to enter the basilica. reopened to the public. coffee to the way you pray. lationship between the Italian ing Communion and “take care During a Mass later Monday “We came to be close to the The government has published church, state and Vatican. to offer the host without com- in front of John Paul II’s tomb in tomb, but we got a Mass!“ she 120 pages of detailed norms for Eventually an accord was ing into contact with the hands the basilica, Lucina Wodzisz, her marveled. “It’s a great sensation the resumption of work, play, reached, but it imposes a series of the faithful,“ according to the husband and two boys wore face to be back.“ Priest uses Calif. pastor addresses squirt gun service that defied rules Los Angeles Times understand that for our church it is essential to be together in for Easter A Butte County, Calif., pastor who defied public health officials fellowship.” and held an in-person Mother’s Reached by phone Sunday blessings Day service that potentially ex- night, Jacobsen confirmed that posed 180 congregants to the his church was the site of possible Associated Press coronavirus has spoken out about contagion, but declined to imme- diately comment on the situation, DETROIT — A Roman Catho- his decision on social media. saying he needed some time to lic priest in the Detroit area has In a Facebook post on Friday, think about it before making a taken aim at his parishioners in pastor Mike Jacobsen of Palermo Bible Family Church said that an a bid to maintain social distanc- statement. asymptomatic congregant who Without naming the church, ing during the coronavirus pan- NATALIE WHITE/AP attended the May 11 service woke demic, using a squirt gun to shoot Butte County health officials on The Rev. Timothy Pelc sprays holy water from a squirt gun instead up the next morning “needing holy water. Friday issued a warning to resi- of blessing Easter baskets inside St. Ambrose Church in Grosse medical attention” and was tested Photos posted on social media dents, asking them to not speed Pointe Park, Mich., on April 11. Pelc changed his Easter practices in for the coronavirus that day. The through the reopening process. by the St. Ambrose Church show response to the coronavirus pandemic. congregant received positive test the Rev. Tim Pelc shooting water The officials said it had come to results for COVID-19 two days their attention that nearly 200 into a car window as it stopped by later. Pelc told BuzzFeed News for an standing behind a car with its people could have been exposed the steps of the church on Eas- article over the weekend that he hatchback door up, shooting water Jacobsen, who with his wife ter. He wore a mask, face shield to the coronavirus through the was a little concerned about how at a basket of flowers. has led the Pentecostal church and rubber gloves as further pre- Mother’s Day service. the Vatican might react when The church and surrounding since 2008, said in the post that cautions against spreading the Local health officials are at- the photos of him squirting holy communities have taken the pan- he would “never with knowledge coronavirus. water began circulating widely put anyone in harms (sic) way.” tempting to notify every person demic seriously, Pelc said. Pa- The photos of the priest at the on the internet. But, he said, “I “For 7 weeks we have been who attended the service and church in Grosse Pointe Park haven’t heard anything yet.” rishioners have tied blue ribbons kept out of our church and away instruct them to self-quaran- have inspired memes online. One The idea was to find a way to on trees at the church for each from our church family,” Jacob- tine. They also are working with shows the 70-year-old priest amid continue a tradition of blessing person who has died of COVID-19 sen wrote in the post, which has health care partners to obtain the fires of hell directing the Easter baskets despite the pan- in Michigan. That number is now since been deleted. “I am fully testing for all attendees, the news squirt gun at devil-like figures. demic. One photo shows Pelc approaching 5,000. aware that some people may not release said. PAGE 12 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Tuesday, May 19, 2020 NATION Ga. shooting case impeded by delays, law enforcement ties

BY KATE BRUMBACK Law enforcement in Brunswick AND COLLEEN LONG has a checkered history, and over Associated Press the past decade, police have faced numerous lawsuits and increas- ATLANTA — There was an ing scrutiny. abundance of evidence when of- In 2010, two officers fired eight ficers arrived at the scene on a bullets into an unarmed woman’s February afternoon in coastal car after a chase, killing her. An Georgia: A man, apparently un- investigation found that neither of armed, lying on the street, soaked the officers checked on her con- in blood. The suspected shooter, a dition afterward — instead, their shotgun, eyewitnesses. And video in-car cameras caught them com- of the incident. DENNIS M. RIVERA PICHARDO/AP paring their shooting skills. But no arrests were made in One of those officers later Puerto Rico Gov. Wanda Vazquez said she will hold a referendum in Noember to decide whether Puerto the death of Ahmaud Arbery, Rico should become a U.S. state. killed his estranged wife and her 25, for more than two months, friend before dying in a standoff not until after video of the shoot- with police. ing in Brunswick surfaced and stoked a national uproar over Just days after Arbery’s killing, Glynn County Police Chief John Puerto Rico to hold statehood race relations. Local prosecutors are now Powell and three former high- under investigation for their han- ranking officers were indicted in dling of the case. And a newly what investigators described as a referendum amid disillusion appointed investigative agency cover-up of an officer’s sexual re- and prosecutor must untangle the lationship with an informant. BY DANICA COTO a string of recent strong earth- would award Puerto Rico two criminal investigation, build a A November 2019 memo from Associated Press quakes and the coronavirus pan- senators and five representatives, case and make up for lost time. the county manager described demic amid growing complaints but it’s unlikely that a Republi- SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Among the questions: Did how Powell had “inherited a cul- that the island does not receive can-controlled Congress would ture of cronyism, outdated poli- Gov. Wanda Vazquez announced shooting suspect Travis McMi- fair and equal treatment. acknowledge the referendum be- cies, lack of appropriate training Saturday that she will hold a chael and his father, Gregory, “Everything important in life cause Puerto Rico tends to favor both white, get special treatment and loss of State certification.” nonbinding referendum in No- carries some risk,” said former Democrats. because the elder McMichael had The memo also described how vember to decide whether Puerto Puerto Rico governor Carlos Roberto Prats, a former Puerto been a longtime investigator at supervisors had failed to docu- Rico should become a U.S. state, Romero Barcelo, a member of the a move that comes amid growing the Brunswick Circuit District ment or investigate misconduct Progressive New Party. Rico senator and member of the disillusion with the island’s U.S. Attorney’s office? Did investiga- allegations and detailed a “cul- Previous referendums have Popular Democratic Party, said territorial status. tors treat the shooting as a po- ture of cover-ups, failure to su- presented voters with more than in a phone interview that the up- For the first time in the island’s tential murder, or as a justifiable pervise, abuse of power and lack coming referendum will be an history, the referendum will ask one question or various options, homicide? And might the outcome of accountability within the Glynn exercise in futility like the five a single, simple question: Should including independence or up- have been different if Arbery County Police Department” be- Puerto Rico be immediately ad- holding the current territorial previous ones. weren’t black? fore Powell arrived. mitted as a U.S. state? status, but none have been so di- “The only thing they’ve done It’s an answer that requires ap- rect as the one scheduled to be is take away credibility from the proval from U.S. Congress and a held during the Nov. 3 general statehood movement,” he said, question that outraged the island’s elections. adding that Puerto Rico has erod- small group of independence sup- “Our people will have the op- ed the federal government’s trust 13 hurt, none killed portunity once and for all to de- porters and members of the main with its decades of corruption fine our future,” Vazquez said. opposition Popular Democratic and mismanagement, and that Party, which supports the status “It’s never too late to be treated any referendum should first have in memorial service quo. But it’s a gamble that mem- as equals.” bers of the governor’s pro-state- Congress would have to ac- support from U.S. Congress. “If hood party are confident will pay cept the referendum results for we’re going to make a decision re- shooting in Louisiana off given that Puerto Rico has it to move forward, and it has garding our relationship with the struggled to obtain federal funds never acted on the island’s previ- U.S., the U.S. has to be involved in Associated Press ter description of the shooting for hurricanes Irma and Maria, ous five referendums. Statehood that discussion.” and have made no arrests, Terva- BOGALUSA, La. — Thirteen lon said. people were shot Saturday night James’ family had asked Bo- as a large group gathered in a galusa officials if they could have Louisiana city for an impromp- a regular memorial service for Tropical storm hits NC coast with rain tu memorial service for a man James, but were turned down be- whose body was found earlier cause of stay-at-home orders with Associated Press Havelock recorded more than 4 fall was expected for much of the this month, authorities said. COVID-19, Tervalon said. inches of rain Monday morning eastern part of the state, said Mi- MIAMI — Tropical Storm No one was killed, but one per- The gathering of at least 150 as others approached that num- chael Lee, a meteorologist with Arthur brought heavy rain to son was in critical condition after people Saturday night were most- ber, according to the National North Carolina’s coast Monday as the National Weather Service in the 9:15 p.m. shooting in Boga- ly friends, Tervalon said. Weather Service. Wind gusts of Newport, N.C. lusa, police said. forecasters warned that the first The scene was so chaotic, with at least 40 mph (were recorded “The main threat that we’re re- The crowd was gathered in a named storm of the Atlantic hur- wounded people being taken to in at least two places on the Outer ally trying to get out there is that vacant lot to remember Domi- ricane season could also spread several different hospitals, that Banks, the weather service said. there is enhanced risk for dan- nique James, who was missing for life-threatening surf and rip cur- investigators haven’t been able to The Hurricane Center said gerous rip currents both today several days before being found find and interview all the wound- rents along U.S. East coast beach- Arthur was moving north-north- and tomorrow. So, any folks who dead May 8 inside his vehicle in ed people, Tervalon said. es in the days ahead. east at 16 mph Monday on a path want to try to go to the beach and woods by officers in a helicopter, James was last heard from It’s another early start for the expected to take its center away investigators said. heading to an unknown location Atlantic hurricane season: Ar- from the North Carolina coast, as get in the water, we have a high “The best we can tell is a car to pick up an all-terrain vehicle thur formed Saturday in waters it takes a more eastward path into risk out for most of our beaches,” drove by, shots were fired and it on May 2, police said. off Florida, marking the sixth Tuesday. Lee said. was pure chaos from there,” Bo- His death is considered a ho- straight year that a named storm A tropical storm warning was The weather service said east- galusa Police Maj. Troy Tervalon micide, but Tervalon said that has developed before June 1. issued for parts of North Car- ern North Carolina should pre- told The Associated Press. he didn’t want to release any ad- With Arthur’s center passing olina’s coast, from Surf City to pare for some localized flooding Police haven’t had a witness ditional details. No arrests have off North Carolina, towns near Duck, including Pamlico and Al- and dangerous marine conditions come forward to give them a bet- been made in that case. the coast including Newport and bemarle Sounds, and heavy rain- along the coast. Tuesday, May 19, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 13 WORLD Canadian aerobatic Lawmakers in jet crashes into house Hong Kong clash

Associated Press Associated Press Starry Lee winning easily. Her election will likely speed HONG KONG — Clashes broke KAMLOOPS, British Colum- up the passing of a controversial out in Hong Kong’s legislature bia — A Canadian aerobatic jet bill that would criminalize abuse Monday for a second time this crashed into a British Columbia month, as a pro-Beijing lawmaker of the Chinese national anthem. neighborhood during a flyover in- was elected as chair of a key com- Hong Kong’s leader, Carrie Lam, tended to boost morale during the mittee that scrutinizes bills, end- said last week that passing the bill pandemic, killing one crew mem- ing a lengthy struggle for control was a priority for the government, ber, seriously injuring another with the pro-democracy camp. and the bill will be presented to and setting a house on fire. Video The legislature’s House Com- the committee on May 27. appeared to show the plane’s crew JONATHAN HAYWARD, THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP mittee, which vets bills and de- At Monday’s meeting, pro-de- ejecting. mocracy lawmakers held up plac- Canadian Forces Snowbird Captain Joel Wilson surveys the crash cides when to present them for The crash left debris scattered ards that read “Abuse of Power” scene of a Canadian Forces Snowbird plane in Kamloops, British a final vote, had been without a across the neighborhood in the and “CCP tramples HK legisla- Columbia, on Sunday. chairperson for more than six city of Kamloops, 260 miles north- months. The central govern- ture,” referring to China’s ruling east of Vancouver, on Sunday. ment in Beijing criticized deputy Communist Party. Within min- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau across the country to lift up Ca- video appears to show at least one chairperson and pro-democracy utes, at least five lawmakers were said that he was “deeply sad- nadians during these difficult person ejecting from the plane lawmaker Dennis Kwok for de- ejected for disorderly behavior, dened” by the death of Capt. times,” Trudeau said in a state- before it disappeared behind a liberately delaying matters and and the meeting was briefly Jennifer Casey, who served as a ment. “Their flyovers across the stand of trees as an explosion was causing a backlog of bills that af- suspended. spokesperson for the Snowbirds country put a smile on the faces heard. fect public interest. Also Monday, 15 pro-democ- — Canada’s equivalent of the U.S. of Canadians everywhere and “I saw what looked like a para- Kwok was replaced Friday by racy figures appeared in court to Air Force Thunderbirds or U.S. make us proud.” chute about, say, 20 feet over the Chan Kin-por, who was appoint- face charges relating to months Navy’s Blue Angels — and the Video posted to Twitter appears house, and it disappeared from ed by the legislature’s president of anti-government protests last injuring of Capt. Richard Mac- to show two Snowbirds taking off sight, and the parachute hadn’t to preside over Monday’s elec- year sparked by an extradition bill Dougall, one of the team’s coordi- from Kamloops Airport. One of fully deployed yet — it was still tion. After scuffles led to Chan that has since been withdrawn. nators and pilot of the aircraft. the aircraft subsequently climbed sort of straight up and down,” said ejecting most of the pro-democ- The bill would have allowed resi- “For the past two weeks, the into the sky before rolling over Kenny Hinds , who lives seven racy lawmakers, the election took dents of Hong Kong, to be sent to Snowbirds have been flying and plunging to the ground. The houses from the crash site . place, with pro-Beijing lawmaker mainland to stand trial. PAGE 14 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Tuesday, May 19, 2020 AMERICAN ROUNDUP Troopers help deliver woman’s baby on road

CRANBURY — Offi- NJ cials said two New Jer- sey state troopers helped deliver a baby girl for a Tennessee woman on the New Jersey Turnpike. Col. Patrick Callahan, the state police superintendent, said that the Memphis woman was driving cross country with her husband when she went into labor. The woman pulled over on the turnpike and called for help, and troopers Robert Murray and Pierre Noel from the Cranbury station arrived and delivered the baby girl with the help of Monroe Township emergency medical personnel, Callahan said. Board approves park’s geese charity harvest

URBANA — The Urbana IL Park District board has unanimously approved a plan for a charity harvest of geese at Crystal Lake to help bring the population from about 100 geese down to 10. “We want some geese to re- main,” said Derek Liebert, the park district’s superintendent of planning and operations. “Our goal is to manage them at a sus- tainable level.” Under the proposal, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Division will collect the geese and take them to a facility to be killed, where the meat will SCOTT P. YATES. ROCKFORD (ILL.) REGISTER STAR/AP then be donated to a food bank, according to The News-Gazette. “We never wanted to be here,” Liebert said, noting that the park Rock formation district has been trying to man- age the Canada geese population People walk past the Rock Men Guardians sculpture along the Rock River Recreation Path over the weekend in Rockford, Ill. since at least 2012. Janelle Saneishi said the area was THE CENSUS the broomstick and taking his Man brings smiles by treated with citric acid and no money. gifting free Chick-fil-A plants were sold from the nursery The number of Iowa hens being sent to California after being The victim suffered a small area in the Home Depot store, the rescued by a farm animal sanctuary. Workers affiliated with injury to his head but declined Maui News reported. medical treatment, Norris said. WILMINGTON — the sanctuary Animal Place loaded chickens onto two cargo The source of the infestation 1K planes at the Fort Dodge, Iowa, airport. The organizations’ di- DE Mike Miller knows that has not yet been determined. The Woman charged with for many right now, times are rector, Kim Sturla, said the hens came from a nearby egg farm Agriculture Department is work- that is going out of business. The farm planned to kill the chickens but agreed hard and bits of kindness from fire over missing towel ing to pinpoint which plants the instead to give them to the California rescue, which will rehabilitate the hens and strangers can mean the world. frogs came to the store on, Sanei- adopt them out to people throughout California. The Wilmington native said shi said. HAWTHORNE — A that’s why every Friday, at ex- FL Florida woman set fire actly 3:02 p.m. to commemorate Arson charge filed in to a converted woodshed that an- the 302 area code, he tries to give of an endangered pygmy hippo- which is 304 years old and is con- other woman was living in follow- back to his Delaware community teepee burning at school potamus at the zoo in more than sidered the oldest staffed light- ing an argument over a missing with a small, but simple gesture: three decades. house in the country, according towel, authorities said. A free meal from Chick-fil-A. LAWRENCE — A Mabel, a 4-year-old pygmy to the Coast Guard. Robin Hamilton, 57, was ar- Every Friday , the music pro- KS Kansas man was hippo at the zoo, gave birth to a Boston Light sits on Little rested shortly after the fire be- moter who lives in Atlanta but has charged in connection with a 12-pound male calf . The zoo an- Brewster Island, roughly 9 miles hind a Hawthorne trailer home, come back to Wilmington due to fire that damaged a ceremonial nounced the birth in recognition from downtown Boston. the Gainesville Sun reported. the coronavirus pandemic, posts teepee at Haskell Indian Nations of Endangered Species Day and The original lighthouse was A woman told Alachua County on Twitter — where he goes by University. because the calf has been deemed built by the British in 1716 but deputies that she was renting @DirtyDelaware — and Insta- Ryan Adam Sekayouma Simp- healthy by animal experts at the was destroyed during the Ameri- the shed from Hamilton and liv- gram that he is giving two people son, 32, of Lawrence was charged zoo. can Revolutionary War. It was re- ing there with her two dogs. The meals from the popular chicken with arson, a felony, and two The calf, which has not been built by Massachusetts after the woman said Hamilton had been sandwich chain. counts of misdemeanor criminal named, is meeting and surpass- war ended. drunk and threatened to “burn He then takes all the people trespassing, the Lawrence Jour- ing milestones, including the abil- her out” because of a missing who reply and puts their Twit- nal-World reported. ity to go underwater, the zoo said. Man hit with broom, towel that had sentimental value ter and Instagram handles into The teepee, which was built to robbed of about $5 to Hamilton. a fishbowl and selects two for honor the 2020 graduating class at Coast Guard seeks new About 20 minutes after the whom he provides meals. Haskell, was destroyed by fire at ANNAPOLIS — A fight, the tenant said she smelled the school’s campus in Lawrence. steward for lighthouse Maryland man was something burning and then saw A fundraiser to replace the tee- MD State investigates after BOSTON — Wanted: hit in the head with a broomstick smoke. The woman said she got pee, worth an estimated $2,500 new steward for one then robbed of about $5, police out of the shed, but her puppy 3 invasive frogs found to $3,000, raised more than MA of the nation’s oldest lighthouses. said. fled under the furniture and died $15,000. WAILUKU — The Ha- The U.S. Coast Guard an- Annapolis Police spokeswoman in the fire. HI waii Department of nounced it will begin the process Patti Norris told the Capital Ga- Hamilton told detectives she Agriculture has launched an in- First pygmy hippo born to transfer control of Light Sta- zette the robbery happened after didn’t know how the fire started. vestigation to determine where at zoo in about 30 years tion Boston, commonly known as an unknown assailant approached A neighbor’s surveillance showed three coqui frogs came from after Boston Light, to another entity. the victim on the street. Hamilton crouching next to the they were captured in a hardware SAN DIEGO — The The decision will “ensure the Norris said the assailant asked shed several times, just before store in Maui . CA San Diego Zoo has an- future historic preservation and the victim “for a dollar for the the building caught fire. Department spokeswoman nounced the first successful birth public access” to the facility, bus” before striking him with From wire reports Tuesday, May 19, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 15 FACES Comedic actor Willard dies

Associated Press Fred Willard, the comedic actor whose improv style kept him rel- evant for more than 50 years in films like “This Is Spinal Tap,” “Best In Show” and “Anchor- man,” has died. He was 86. Willard’s daughter, Hope Mul- barger, said in a statement that her father died peacefully May 15. The cause of his death has not been released. Willard was rarely a leading man or even a major supporting ch a r ac t er. He s p e c i a l i z e d i n s m a l l , scene-stealing appearances. As an arrogantly clueless sports announcer on “Best In Show,” his Fall season character seemed to clearly know nothing about the dogs. He asks his partner on-air: “How much do you think I can bench?” He also in jeopardy played Frank Dunphy, the goofy father of Phil in the ABC series “Modern Family.” amid virus Willard was a four-time Emmy nominee for his roles in “What’s Hot, What’s Not,” “Everybody shutdown Loves Raymond,” “Modern Family” and “The Bold and the Beautiful.” In Pixar’s 2008 hit “WALL- FOX/AP E,” he voiced the character of John Slattery stars in “NeXt.” FOX bumped the drama’s premiere up from fall to spring because it’s one of the few shows ready to air. Shelby Forthright, the CEO of a ubiquitous big-box chain called Buy’n’Large. BY LYNN ELBER tu “think tanks” to find solutions. would have spotlighted their upcoming sea- Associated Press “Some have attorneys and doctors in- sons in elaborate presentations to ad buyers volved. I do a weekly panel that a cinema- packed into Carnegie Hall or other New York Rosanne Cash wins he first new TV season of the coro- tographer put together, and we keep adding City venues. prestigious arts medal navirus era is facing an understand- people who run production companies, sound The studios that make CW’s series are tar- ably shaky start that comes with a stages,” said Matt Birch, co-head of physical geting a September production start to allow Rosanne Cash’s latest honor is a Ttacit disclaimer: The comedy and production for the multinational talent agen- for the January debuts, said the network’s medal previously awarded to Toni drama series being trumpeted for fall 2020 cy APA. chairman and CEO, Mark Pedowitz. His Morrison, Stephen Sondheim and and beyond will air — if they get made. Visual effects supervisors and producers reply when asked if the timeline is realis- Georgia O’Keeffe, among others. Studios, guilds and trade groups are hud- are in high demand, Birch said, to create tic: “As realistic as anything else is at this The singer-songwriter is this dling to find ways to ease a near-complete what can’t be filmed. Among the steps indus- point.” year’s winner of the Edward Mac- production shutdown among the nationwide try members say are being mulled: scenes Movie and TV mogul Tyler Perry may Dowell Medal, presented by the efforts to curb the pandemic. While stream- with fewer actors and shorter production be showing the way. His studio in Georgia, MacDowell artist colony, which ing services parcel out series year-round, schedules, and more ani- among the states relaxing virus-related re- announced the prize Sunday. In broadcast TV still relies heavily on a Sep- mated projects. strictions, plans to re-open for production a statement , Cash said she was tember filled with fanfare and high-profile A critical issue is the in- in July with two series for BET. Protective “profoundly humbled” to receive scripted shows. surance that covers losses measures will include testing and isolation at an award that Morrison and oth- How that will happen is a cliffhanger only due to production delays the Atlanta studio lot for cast and crew. ers had been given. “I do not place myself in any a masochistic screenwriter would envision. or budget overruns, said There are other options, if further afield. way equal, but I accept this honor Gabrielle Union, who with Jessica Alba Carolyn Hunt, a veteran Iceland plans to ease its travel restrictions in with deepest gratitude, as an en- stars in and produces Spectrum cable’s entertainment lawyer in mid-June and is preparing taping guidelines, couragement to do my best work, “L.A.’s Finest,” is among those awaiting Los Angeles who handles said producer Leifur Dagfinnsson, whose and in the service of future inspi- guidance on how actors and crews can safely film and TV financing credits include two Star Wars films and the ration. My heart is full with this return to work. The police drama combines deals. She said virtually shows “Sense8” and “His Dark Materials.” Baer precious recognition,” she said. shoot-’em-up action with more intimate all policies are excluding He touts the country’s dramatic landscapes, Cash, who turns 65 this month, scenes, both a test of how social distancing coverage of COVID-19-related issues. the London studios that are a three-hour has won four Grammys and is and story demands will co-exist. “That makes things very tricky, so a lot flight from Reykjavik — and Iceland’s em- known for such albums as “In- “When we all are given the green light to of people are waiting to see what happens phasis on coronavirus testing. teriors,” “Seven Year Ache” and go back, we just have to be flexible and open there,” Hunt said. There are also alternatives to traditional, “The River and the Thread.” to this new normal, whatever that’s going to Meanwhile, networks are cobbling togeth- highly produced series. CBS aired a socially- look like,” Union said. er schedules and, in true Hollywood fashion, distanced episode of its drama “All Rise” Just four months before the Sept. 20 Emmy hoping for a happy ending. made using digital technology, and late-night Other news Awards kick off the season’s traditional start When Fox announced its fall schedule, it hosts are drawing kudos for their homespun  Lynn Shelton, an indepen- for networks including ABC, CBS, Fox and included a recycled season-one run of “L.A.’s shows with family as supporting players. dent filmmaker who directed NBC, the uncertainties swirling around Finest,” along with two series that the net- That’s not the future envisioned by Laura “Humpday” and “Little Fires COVID-19 are daunting. Even well-stocked work originally intended to debut this spring, Kennedy, CEO of Avalon, a U.K. and U.S.- Everywhere,” died May 15 in Netflix or premium cable channels like HBO “Filthy Rich” starring Kim Cattrall and tech based management and TV production Los Angeles from an unidentified with fully produced new series in hand must thriller “NeXt” with John Slattery. company whose shows include HBO’s “Last blood disorder. She was 54. keep a wary eye on prolonged disruption. The reason the trio of series earned a cov- Week Tonight with John Oliver” and the FX  Guitarist Jorge Santana, the Neal Baer, a physician and a veteran TV eted spot on a network’s fall schedule: They comedy “Breeders.” younger brother of Carlos San- writer and producer (“ER,” “Designated were in the can and ready to air. “It really is an industry that begs team ef- tana and whose guitar riffs on Survivor”), had a succinct reply when asked The same holds true for several upcom- fort and personal reaction, including writers’ the band Malo’s 1972 hit “Suave- if he would start a production given the unan- ing CW shows, including “Swamp Thing,” rooms where people riff off each other,” Ken- cito” transformed the song into a swered questions about the disease, includ- canceled after one streamed season, and nedy said. Chicano anthem, died May 14 of ing whether coronavirus antibodies confer imports from Britain and Canada. But those A secure return to work is something ex- natural causes. Carlos Santana immunity. are merely fall placeholders for CW, which citing to look forward to, said “This Is Us” announced his brother’s death “No way,” Baer said. “I’m not going to put announced it’s moving the start of the new star Mandy Moore. She and others in the May 15 on Facebook. He was 68. people potentially in harm’s way” given the season to January 2021, quickly dubbed “the NBC drama’s cast reconnected with a Zoom  Astrid Kirchherr, the Ger- unknowns. new fall.” call recently as they await word on when sea- man photographer who shot some While the Alliance of Motion Picture and ABC and NBC haven’t disclosed their son-five production will begin. of the earliest and most striking Television Producers spearheads the broad plans, while CBS said a handful of new series “It’s the opportunity of all our lifetimes to images of the Beatles and helped industry effort to work with health and gov- will join its long-running series including be a part of this show and to do work we’re all shape their trend-setting visual ernment officials on safety protocols, there “NCIS” but has yet to release a schedule. In so proud of, but we also understand there are style, died May 12 in her native are also what one executive called impromp- an ordinary year, by now all of the networks bigger issues in the world,” Moore said. Hamburg. She was 81. PAGE 16 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Tuesday, May 19, 2020 OPINION Max D. Lederer Jr., Publisher Lt. Col. Sean Klimek, Europe commander How to stop a perfect-storm cyberattack Lt. Col. Richard McClintic, Pacific commander Caroline E. Miller, Europe Business Operations Joshua M. Lashbrook, Pacific Chief of Staff BY JANE HOLL LUTE First, greater clarity is critical regarding ing key personnel with reliable cellphone AND PETER J. BESHAR who would lead the government’s response numbers and backup email addresses for Special to The Washington Post to a major cyberattack. The pandemic re- all senior executives — in paper form. The EDITORIAL vealed serious fault lines, not only within 2014 cyberattack against Sony (widely at- illions of corporate employees, the federal government and its agencies tributed to North Korea) ground the com- Terry Leonard, Editor scattered across this country [email protected] (the Department of Health and Human pany to a virtual halt. Communication and around the world, are try- Services, the Centers for Disease Control among thousands of employees was effec- Robert H. Reid, Senior Managing Editor ing to work from kitchen ta- and Prevention, the Federal Emergency [email protected] M tively cut off, and the management team re- bles, bedrooms, basements and even cars. Management Agency, the Food and Drug lied on in-person meetings, office landlines Tina Croley, Managing Editor for Content Sensitive financial and operational data Administration, the White House, etc.) but and, eventually, a stash of old BlackBerrys. flies, in unprecedented volumes, across [email protected] also among the federal government and A similar attack during quarantine could VPN networks, personal routers, sketchy the states, and between government and isolate executives for days. More broadly, Sean Moores, Managing Editor for Presentation home WiFi systems and wireless printers. the private sector. businesses should know what’s connected [email protected] Beyond the threat that COVID-19 poses The White House lacks a clear cyber to and running on their networks, aggres- to public health, the new-coronavirus pan- leader. The bipartisan Cyberspace Solar- Joe Gromelski, Managing Editor for Digital sively manage administrative privileges [email protected] demic has exposed a massive new risk for ium Commission recommended in March global corporations: a debilitating cyber- that there should be a Senate-confirmed and continuously patch vulnerabilities. attack. In this moment, a powerful attack national cyber director in the White House Third, employees working from home BUREAU STAFF could be the one-two punch that brings (or “cyber czar”) to coordinate interagen- need to also follow basic cyber hygiene. corporations to their knees. cy matters and interact with the business Personal and home-office routers typi- Europe/Mideast cally lack the level of security installed on Erik Slavin, Europe & Mideast Bureau Chief Employees are fatigued, stressed and community. 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All private sector as well as with state and fic. When work devices are being used Washington the while, our data sits on loosely protected local governments. to access proprietary business data — as Joseph Cacchioli, Washington Bureau Chief networks, creating vastly expanded attack Industry interaction is especially im- well as for personal Zoom calls, TikTok [email protected] (+1)(202)886-0033 surfaces for threat actors. portant around cybersecurity. More than videos, yoga classes and more — each em- Brian Bowers, Assistant Managing Editor, News And this is the situation among employ- 85% of our nation’s critical infrastructure ployee has a role to play not just in their [email protected] ees who have not been fired or furloughed. is owned or operated by the private sec- company’s cyber resilience but also in the Beyond these ranks, millions of others tor. This infrastructure includes electri- nation’s cyberdefense. CIRCULATION have lost jobs. Their frustration could fer- cal grids, telecommunication networks, Our main cyber adversaries and other tilize the ground for retaliation against for- financial markets, nuclear plants, health malevolent actors are acutely aware that Mideast mer colleagues or companies — a kind of care systems and transportation systems. Robert Reismann, Mideast Circulation Manager our country is consumed by unprece- [email protected] “insider” attack from the newly outside. Securing these operations will necessarily dented health and economic crises. This [email protected] So, how do people and companies protect be a distributed responsibility, but clear- is a critical moment for government and DSN (314)583-9111 against these risks? As President Dwight eyed, decisive federal leadership would corporate America to come together to Eisenhower advised, plans are useless but help establish the sense of control that is protect U.S. cyber resources and critical Europe planning is indispensable. 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BY BERNIE WILSON matter what, and feels that CSU Associated Press Chancellor Timothy White’s an- nouncement was misconstrued SAN DIEGO — The California by some people who thought fall State University system’s plan sports would be canceled. for a mostly virtual fall semester “We’re going to have students due to the coronavirus pandemic on campus,” Wicker said. doesn’t necessarily close the door July 7 is the target date for on football at its three schools bringing back football players be- that play in the far-flung Moun- cause it is the start of the second tain West Conference. summer session. San Diego State is looking at SDSU is scheduled to open the having football players return to season at home against FCS Sac- campus no earlier than July 7 and ramento State on Sept. 5. JOHN ZSIRAY/Herald Journal (Logan, Utah)/AP is making plans to play the season “We’re going to plan that we are as scheduled, athletic director going to play our football opener Fresno State’s Dontel James is tackled by Utah State’s Chase Christiansen during a 2016 Mountain John David Wicker said. as scheduled,” Wicker said. “I West Conference game in Logan, Utah. Some of California’s MWC schools envision a fall schedule that SDSU is proceeding because it don’t think anyone will be able to includes a hybrid model of classes, with students on campus for in-person instruction. envisions a fall schedule that in- answer that question with 100% cludes a hybrid model of classes, certainty, but we’re going to plan. force to figure out how it could a big parking lot.” seasons will almost certainly be in which some students will be on “Again, I think we’re going to house and feed athletes while Wicker and his counterpart at modified, Wicker said. campus for in-person instruction play our schedule. We have con- meeting all safety parameters, Mountain West rival Fresno State, Fresno State’s Tumey, who was such as labs while other classes tracts. One of the hard things is, with the hope of having a plan by Terry Tumey, say every school in a defensive lineman at UCLA will be held online. 41 states have an FBS team in the end of this month. the country has to plan for what it in the mid-1980s, said it’s too NCAA President Mark Em- their state. Are all 41 states going The school also has begun thinks it can do in the fall. early to determine when athletes mert said recently that campuses to be in the same place Aug. 29 looking at how it could safely “No one knows for sure what could return to campus. He said must be open “in one fashion or or Sept. 5? Those are the types host fans within social distancing the fall will hold,” Wicker said. the safety of the community, another” in order to have sports of questions that will have to be guidelines, if fans will be allowed “We have to make the best fact- the players and support staff is to attend games at 70,000-seat based decisions we can. Every paramount. this fall. addressed as we get closer to the SDCCU Stadium. He mentioned FBS school will have to try to Tumey has been speaking with Wicker said SDSU had been season.” the Miami Dolphins are making figure out, ‘When can I bring his counterparts within the state planning for a hybrid model, no SDSU has assembled a task plans to allow perhaps 15,000 students back, when can we start and MWC, as well as at noncon- fans at 65,000-seat Hard Rock training, when can we start con- ference schools on the football Stadium, if fans are allowed to at- tact, when can we actually play schedule. tend NFL games. games, when can we have fans in “There’s not been a sentiment Wicker doesn’t know yet how the stadium?’ ” of, I don’t know how else to say it, many fans could be allowed. It The Mountain West includes desperation as it relates to, ‘Are could be a godsend that SDSU is 12 schools in eight states. The you going to play or not?’ We have still stuck playing in the decrepit league’s third California school, not had that type of interaction; stadium, which it plans to replace San Jose State, said in a state- more of an understanding of a with a 35,000-seat, $310 million ment that it continues to work on transparency in terms of where stadium by 2022. timelines. we are and what’s going on at “You won’t hear me say often “It’s going to be quite the chess your campus, and we’re asking that SDCCU Stadium is a benefit match as we move through this,” the same of them at theirs. The to SDSU football, but with 70,000 Wicker said. more we can share information seats and 100 suites, it could be If there is a football season, among institutions, the more ORLANDO RAMIREZ/AP beneficial for us,” Wicker said. SDSU will most likely have other conducive it is for our possible San Diego State is looking to see if it can safely practice social “We can spread people out that fall sports, as long as it is safe reentry into what a fall athletic distancing at its 70,000-seat stadium. want to come to games. We have for the athletes, although their campaign could look like.” Premier League to allow non-contact training

BY ROB HARRIS ers and coaches for the coronavirus, with a Newcastle manager Steve Bruce said. “We’ll Associated Press total of 1,600 weekly tests anticipated across train with eight to 10 at a time on two separate the 20 clubs in England’s top division. pitches. Everything is in place in the safety MANCHESTER, England — After watch- With Britain suffering a worse coronavirus aspect. I’ve got no issues and I can tell the ing the Bundesliga resume, English Premier outbreak than Germany, the sports shutdown supporters the players and the staff are as League clubs agreed Monday on the measures is yet to end and players would have to remain safe as we possibly can be. ” that will allow non-contact practice sessions socially distant for now in training. But the Contact training would be prohibited until to resume during the coronavirus pandemic. Premier League has government backing to approval is granted by the government, which The protocols for small group training — pursue restarting games in June if there is no has said games could resume in June — with- while maintaining social distancing — begin- new spike in COVID-19 cases . out fans in stadiums. ning Tuesday were approved unanimously in Sunday should have been the last day of the Some players and managers have expressed a vote by the clubs during a conference call season but, instead of Liverpool completing a concern about returning to training since after the government eased lockdown restric- title triumph, coronavirus testing was taking Britain has Europe’s highest virus death toll tions in England last week. place at clubs. as well as the most confirmed cases. Up to five players will be allowed to work Up to 40 players and coaches at each club “Strict medical protocols of the highest together on a pitch, according to details re- were due to be tested for the coronavirus standard will ensure everyone returns to RUI VIERA/AP leased by Newcastle. The northeast club will across Sunday and Monday. A further wave training in the safest environment possible,“ operate a rotation that will ensure only 10 of testing will take place across the 20 clubs the Premier League said in a statement. “The The English Premier League players maximum are at the training ground later in the week in a bid to detect infections. health and wellbeing of all participants is the trophy. The league will try at any one time. “A player has a quarter of a pitch to work Premier League’s priority, and the safe return Monday to agree on protocols Teams have already started checking play- within, so social distancing is not a problem,” to training is a step-by-step process.” for a return to training . Tuesday, May 19, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 21 NFL Rodgers: Packers’ decision to draft Love shocked him BY STEVE MEGARGEE start and finish with the same Associated Press organization, just as it has with many other players over the Packers star Aaron Rodgers ac- years, may not be a reality at this knowledges Green Bay drafting point. As much as I understand a quarterback in the first round the organization’s future outlook surprised him and complicated and wanting to make sure they’re his hopes of playing his entire ca- thinking about the team now and reer with the same team. down the line, and I respect that, The Packers traded up four at the same time I still believe in spots in the first round last month myself and have a strong desire to take Utah State quarterback to play into my 40s. I’m just not Jordan Love with the 26th over- sure how that all works together all pick. The move has raised at this point.” speculation about Rodgers’ long- Packers coach Matt LaFleur term future in Green Bay, no says he understands Rodgers’ re- matter how much team officials action to the Love selection. When emphasized asked whether the Packers’ draft afterward choices might motivate Rodgers, that the two- LaFleur said the veteran quar- time MVP terback doesn’t need any extra remains incentive. the clear- “He’s one of the most competi- cut starting tive people I’ve been around,” TONY AVELAR/AP quarterback LaFleur said. “You can see that for the fore- competitiveness every time we San Francisco 49ers defensive end Arik Armstead, left, and defensive tackle DeForest Buckner react to seeable step on the field. I don’t think a play against Minnesota on Jan. 11. Armstead and Buckner had been teammates for seven of the past future. it’s going to drive him any more eight seasons dating back to college at Oregon, but the 49ers traded Buckner to Indianapolis in March. “I think Rodgers than if we would have drafted the general somebody else. That’s who he is. reaction at That’s how he’s wired. That’s why first was surprise, like many peo- he’s achieved the things he’s done ple,” Rodgers said Friday in a con- throughout his career.” ference call that marked his first Rodgers also expressed con- Line-item budget crunch public comments on the Packers’ fidence in his team’s receiving draft. “Obviously I’m not going to corps after the Packers did not to say that I was, you know, thrilled draft any wideouts. 49ers DL Arik Armstead adapts without longtime teammate Buckner by the pick necessarily, but the “For them to not pick a guy organization is thinking not only early on to me says they really about the present but about the like our guys and have faith in BY JOSH DUBOW future. And I respect that.” them. ... I feel really good about Associated Press ‘ I figured there would be a way we’d be The 36-year-old Rodgers has that group and obviously the front Arik Armstead and DeForest able to continue playing together. But been with the Packers since they office did as well,” Rodgers said. Buckner were teammates on the selected him with the 24th overall Rodgers finished 12th in passer defensive line for seven of the things happened how it happened. selection in 2005. Former Pack- rating , but still threw 26 touch- ’ past eight seasons whether in col- Arik Armstead ers quarterback Brett Favre pre- down passes and only four inter- lege at Oregon or in the NFL with 49ers defensive end, on former teammate DeForest Buckner dicted on “The Rich Eisen Show” ceptions. The Packers went 13-3, the San Francisco 49ers. earlier this month that Rodgers won the NFC North title, and lost So when Armstead got reward- would finish his career some- to the San Francisco 49ers — their ed with an $85 million, five-year where other than Green Bay. third NFC championship game that his deal could have lead to first five seasons and many ques- contract from San Francisco on Rodgers, who owns the best ca- defeat in the last six years. his friend’s departure and said tioned bringing him back in 2019 the first day of free agency this reer passer rating in NFL history, Rodgers says he’s always had it will be “weird” to play with- on the fifth-year option worth offseason, the news that followed has four years remaining on his good relationships with his back- out Buckner. The only other time more than $9 million. was a little disconcerting. contract after signing a four-year, up quarterbacks and expects a he’s done it since the two arrived But that decision was validated The Niners had traded Arm- $134 million extension in August similar dynamic with Love. He at Oregon together in 2012 came when Armstead led the team with stead’s longtime running mate 2018 that included more than $100 said he’s had “some great con- during Armstead’s rookie year in 10 sacks and ranked second with to Indianapolis for a first-round million in guaranteed money. versations” with Love and noted the NFL in 2015. 35 pressures despite playing sig- pick. “There are some new factors they have something in common “I figured there would be a way nificant time on the inside. He “It was of course an interesting that are out of my control,” Rod- as players who weren’t heavily we’d be able to continue playing also was a force against the run. day to say the least,” Armstead gers said. “My sincere desire to recruited out of high school. together,” he said. “But things Armstead believes that’s only said Wednesday. “A lot of excite- happened how it happened. Los- the beginning and he expects ment of course, signing back with ing DeFo, he’s an irreplaceable even more improvement this sea- the Niners — that definitely was player, a leader, a fixture of our son when he plays on a talented what I wanted to do. Then learn- organization. There definitely line that also features defensive ing about DeFo being traded was will be a void there. That’s not end Nick Bosa, speed rusher Dee a shock to me. Trying to figure something one person will be Ford, the promising Kinlaw, 2017 out how that happened and what able to fill. It’s going to be a team first-round pick Solomon Thomas went on.” effort.” and the dependable D.J. Jones What went on was that the Nin- The fact that the Niners kept and Ronald Blair. ers decided they couldn’t afford Armstead over Buckner would “I made some strides,” Arm- to keep both their star defensive have been viewed as a surprise stead said. “I think I became linemen under the salary cap. a year ago. While Buckner had overall a better player. I got bet- With Buckner owed $12.4 mil- been a leader on the defense since ter in every facet. Still a lot to im- lion on the fifth-year option on being drafted in the first round in prove on. I want to play faster. I his rookie deal and looking for a 2016, Armstead’s career had been want to work on my get-off. I want lucrative long-term contract that a bit of a disappointment until last to continue to work on my tech- he eventually got from the Colts, season. nique and honing in on my skills. the Niners decided it made more He played only 14 games com- You can get better and better sense to keep Armstead and get bined in 2016 and ’17 before in- every year. There are definitely CHARLIE NIEBERGALL/AP a high draft pick for Buckner juries put him on season-ending some things I want to continue to Utah State quarterback Jordan Love works out in February at the that turned into his replacement, injured reserve and he made little improve on. I got a lot better last NFL football scouting combine in Indianapolis. He was drafted in the Javon Kinlaw. impact when healthy. year and I think I’m just hitting first round by the Green Bay Packers. Armstead said he never thought He had just nine sacks in his my stride getting started.” PAGE 22 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Tuesday, May 19, 2020 SPORTS BRIEFS/MLB 2019 draftees say they feel fortunate to avoid the process this year

BY JAY COHEN The 19-year-old Limoncelli, a Associated Press former prep star at Horseheads High School in New York, was CHICAGO — Ethan Hearn has selected by Seattle in the sixth some good friends who are eli- round of the 2019 draft. He was gible for baseball’s amateur draft planning to play college ball at this year. Hearn is just an inter- Coastal Carolina before he re- ested spectator this time around, ceived a $500,000 signing bonus and he feels pretty fortunate from the Mariners, nearly double about his situation. the slot value of $259,400 for the The 19-year-old catcher was No 186 pick. selected by the Chicago Cubs Signing bonus pools started with the 192nd pick of the 2019 in 2012 and limit the amount of draft. The slot value for his spot money teams can spend. Each slot was $247,000, but the Cubs gave in the first 10 rounds is assigned him a sixth round-high $950,000 a value — the range last year was signing bonus to turn pro instead RYU YOUNG-SUK, YONHAP/AP $8,415,300 down to $142,200 — of playing college ball for Missis- and each team’s values are added Cheering mannequins are installed at the empty spectators’ seats before the start of soccer match on sippi State. to a form a pool. May 17 between FC Seoul and Gwangju FC at the Seoul World Cup Stadium in Seoul, South Korea. This year, there is no sixth The players’ union turned round. Hearn’s signing bonus down a proposal that would have Briefl y would have been capped at kept rounds 6-10 in exchange for $20,000. cutting their slot values in half. “I’m very grateful I was drafted Asked what he would have done last year,” Hearn said, “because if he was part of this year’s class some of those guys this year, it’s and went undrafted, Limoncelli going to be crazy.“ said he would have played for the Major League Baseball is still Chanticleers. Same for Hearn Soccer club apologizes as finalizing the details for the June and the Bulldogs. 10 draft, but a person familiar “I think, for me, I would have with the decision told The Asso- had to go to Mississippi State,” ciated Press it plans to cut from said Hearn, who is from Mobile, 40 rounds to five this year. The Ala. “I feel like coming out of doll controversy blows up person spoke Friday on condition high school, money is a pretty big of anonymity because no decision deal. You’ve got to be able to sus- was announced. tain yourself with that, and I just Associated Press tion. Fowler, who made seven birdies, and Wolff Players passed over in the draft felt like I would be worth a little made $1.15 million for the CDC Foundation at Juno SEOUL, South Korea — A South Korean soccer are limited to signing bonuses of bit more than 20 grand. Beach, Fla. club has apologized after being accused of putting $20,000 or less. “But I mean if you’re a junior sex dolls in empty seats during a match. The changes will save teams or senior coming out of college FC Seoul expressed “sincere remorse” over the Baker, Dunbar out on bail about $30 million in a year when and this is your last year, then you the season has been delayed by controversy, but insisted in a statement that it used FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — NFL cornerbacks know you’ve got to take whatever mannequins — not sex dolls — to mimic a home the coronavirus pandemic and you can get.” DeAndre Baker and Quinton Dunbar were released the sport is trying to cut expenses crowd during Sunday’s 1-0 win over Gwangju FC at from Broward County Jail on Sunday, a day after As part of Major League Base- the Seoul World Cup Stadium. to cope with revenue loss. But it ball’s March 26 agreement with surrendering on felony charges stemming from a also could cost baseball some Following a weekslong delay because of the cookout at a Miramar home. the players’ association, teams coronavirus pandemic, the K-League returned to marketable stars in the long run have the right to cut the 2021 Baker posted a $200,000 bond after a Zoom hear- — particularly multi sport high action on May 8 without spectators, days after pro- draft to as few as 20 rounds. High ing with Broward Circuit Judge Michael Davis. school athletes. fessional baseball began under similar conditions. The New York Giants defender is charged with four school ballplayers who go to four- There will be just 160 players year colleges become eligible for The leagues plan to play in empty stadiums until the counts of armed robbery with a firearm and four drafted, by far the fewest since the draft again when they com- risks of coronavirus infections are lowered. counts of aggravated assault with a firearm in the the annual selection started in plete their junior or senior years FC Seoul said it was attempting to add “an ele- Wednesday incident. 1965. or turn 21. Junior college play- ment of fun” with the mannequins. The team said it Dunbar is charged with four felony counts of “It’s sad to see, definitely, but ers are eligible regardless of how was repeatedly reassured by Dalkom, the company armed robbery. The Seattle Seahawks player posted I mean with what’s happening many years of school they have that produced the mannequins, that they weren’t a $100,000 bond. during this virus and you know completed. sexual products. there’s no games, no money com- But when providing its products for the stadium, The NCAA limit for baseball Howe released from hospital ing in, I guess I do understand it,” programs is 11.7 scholarships . Dalkom reused some of the mannequins it previous- said Michael Limoncelli, a right- ly supplied to another company, FC Seoul said. HOUSTON — Former major league manager and hander in the Seattle Mariners’ AP Baseball Writer Ronald Blum and The club’s statement didn’t directly address criti- Associated Press journalist Rhonda infielder Art Howe was released from a Houston organization. “But I wish there Shafner in New York City contributed to cism of why it chose to work with Dalkom, which hospital Sunday after a stay in intensive care be- were more rounds.” this report. does manufacture sex dolls, according to the com- cause of the coronavirus. The 73-year-old Howe will pany’s website, or why nearly all the mannequins at be isolated at home for another week or two. the stadium were female in design. By the numbers Spanish soccer player returns McIlroy, Johnson win Skins game MADRID — The Spanish soccer player who Rory McIlroy delivered the money shot Sunday as threatened to quit his team rather than risk being live golf returned to television for a Skins game that infected by the coronavirus returned to training revealed plenty of rust and raised more than $5 mil- on Monday. Cadiz defender Fali Gimenez rejoined 40 5 20 lion for COVID-19 relief funds. his teammates at the second-division club a month McIlroy and Dustin Johnson, who had not won a after saying he wouldn’t play again unless there was Rounds in the Rounds in this Number of skin since the sixth hole, had a chance to win the a vaccine for COVID-19 or if he was assured 100% final six skins worth $1.1 million on the final hole that he wouldn’t get infected after being back on the 2019 Major year’s MLB Draft, rounds MLB is at Seminole in the TaylorMade Driving Relief exhi- field. League Baseball according to permitted to bition. Both missed and they returned to the par-3 June draft, sources, which cut to in the 17th for a closest-to-the-pin contest. Kentucky fires cheerleading coaches From a forward tee at 120 yards, Matthew Wolff meaning a total would mean 2021 draft, per was 18 feet below the hole. His partner, Rickie Fowl- The University of Kentucky announced Monday of 1,217 players roughly only 167 its agreement er, missed the green. Johnson found a bunker. Down that it has fired all four of its cheerleading coaches were selected. players will be with the players’ to the last shot, McIlroy barely stayed on the shelf after a three-month investigation found instances selected. association. left of the pin, measured at 13 feet. of “hazing activities, alcohol use and public nudity” The final carryover gave McIlroy and Johnson by the school’s cheerleading team at off-campus $1.85 million for the American Nurses Founda- events. SOURCE: Associated Press, Baseball Almanac Tuesday, May 19, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 23 AUTO RACING Scoreboard Commentary

NASCAR Cup Series The Real Heroes 400 Results Sunday At Darlington Raceway Darlington, S.C. Lap length: 1.37 miles NASCAR gives fans reason to cheer (Start position in parentheses) 1. (6) Kevin Harvick, Ford, 293 laps, 54 points. 2. (2) Alex Bowman, Chevrolet, 293, 52. BY PAUL NEWBERRY body from NASCAR and all the 3. (22) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 293, 39. Associated Press teams for letting us do what we 4. (11) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 293, 34. 5. (10) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 293, 43. do,” Harvick told Smith. “I didn’t 6. (15) Martin Truex Jr, Toyota, 293, 39. Finally, a reason to cheer. think it was gonna be that much 7. (29) Tyler Reddick, Chevrolet, 293, 33. We’ll take it. different. Then we won the race 8. (20) Erik Jones, Toyota, 293, 30. Even from afar. and it’s dead silent out there. We 9. (34) John H. Nemechek, Ford, 293, 28. 10. (12) Matt Kenseth, Chevrolet, 293, No doubt, it was downright eerie miss the fans.” 27. when Fox came on the air Sunday 11. (16) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 293, This was a day when everyone 26. afternoon for NASCAR’s return should call themselves a stock 12. (5) Aric Almirola, Ford, 293, 30. to racing, a camera hovering over 13. (1) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 293, 40. car fan, even those who aren’t the 14. (3) Matt DiBenedetto, Ford, 293, 23. tens of thousands of empty seats least bit interested in a bunch of 15. (21) Ryan Newman, Ford, 293, 24. at the enormous, iconic speedway 16. (7) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 293, 21. noisy cars going round and round 17. (13) Clint Bowyer, Ford, 293, 30. in the backwoods of Darlington, an egg-shaped oval for 400 miles. 18. (9) Joey Logano, Ford, 293, 22. 19. (33) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet, 293, 18. S.C. These guys who like to go fast 20. (25) Ryan Preece, Chevrolet, 293, This is the way it has to be until are setting the pace for everyone 21. 21. (17) Bubba Wallace, Chevrolet, 293, we get to a place — still difficult else in the U.S. to get back in the 16. to see in the age of coronavirus game. 22. (14) Cole Custer, Ford, 293, 15. 23. (31) Michael McDowell, Ford, 293, — when it will again be safe to For now, we’ll have to settle for 14. pack our stadiums and arenas 24. (28) Christopher Bell, Toyota, 293, these made-for-TV spectacles, 13. and racetracks. put on solely by leagues and or- 25. (37) Daniel Suarez, Toyota, 292, 12. The broadcast team of Mike 26. (4) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 292, 11. ganizations that can make it 27. (35) Brennan Poole, Chevrolet, 292, Joy and Jeff Gordon wasn’t work financially because of hefty 10. even at NASCAR’s oldest super- broadcast fees, who can get by in 28. (30) JJ Yeley, Ford, 291, 0. BRYNN ANDERSON/AP 29. (36) Reed Sorenson, Chevrolet, 291, speedway. They were watching the short term without generating 8. 30. (32) Joey Gase, Chevrolet, 289, 0. the network-televised restart of Kevin Harvick makes a pit stop during the NASCAR Cup Series race a nickel off pricey tickets or over- 31. (19) Corey Lajoie, Ford, 289, 6. American sports from the haven on Sunday in Darlington, S.C. There weren’t any fans in attendance, priced concessions or ridiculous 32. (24) Chris Buescher, Ford, 287, 5. 33. (38) Timmy Hill, Toyota, 286, 0. of a Fox studio, about 100 miles but the race gave everyone something to cheer about. parking fees. 34. (40) Josh Bilicki, Chevrolet, 286, 0. up the road in Charlotte. The PGA Tour is set to return 35. (18) William Byron, Chevrolet, 279, 12. They were essentially like the After waiting 10 weeks for the overheating, Hamlin managed to next month (and gave us a pre- 36. (27) Quin Houff, Chevrolet, electri- rest of us, settling into our reclin- cal, 137, 1. season to resume, his day lasted slide in behind another car, a nifty view Sunday with a charity skins 37. (26) Garrett Smithley, Chevrolet, ga- ers, remote controls in hand. less than a minute. bit of impromptu aerodynamics game televised by NBC). IndyCar rage, 127, 1. “All other sports are watching 38. (8) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, ac- “Pretty embarrassing for my- that caused the flapping piece of hopes to hold its first race of the cident, 89, 1. NASCAR,” said Regan Smith, self, our team, our crew guys,“ he vinyl to rip loose, though a yellow season at Texas Motor Speedway 39. (39) BJ McLeod, Chevrolet, engine, 13, 0. the lone Fox reporter who was said. “I feel awful for them. They flag was needed so workers could in a few weeks. Major League 40. (23) Ricky Stenhouse Jr, Chevrolet, actually at the track, sending dis- put a lot of hard work into getting repair the wall. Baseball is pushing a plan to get accident, 0, 1. Race Statistics patches from pit road with his face our cars ready.” Finally, in a rather anticlimac- started on an abbreviated season Average Speed of Race Winner: 115.815 covered like a Wild West bandit. Jimmie Johnson had his own tic finish, Kevin Harvick took the around the Fourth of July. The mph. Time of Race: 3 hours, 27 minutes, 21 “They’ve all been in contact with cringe-worthy moment. Looking checkered flag with no one else in NBA, NHL and Major League seconds. NASCAR to see how they’re mak- Soccer are sorting through vari- Margin of Victory: 2.154 seconds. like a rookie instead of a seven- sight for the 50th Cup victory of Caution Flags: 10 for 57 laps. ing it work.” time Cup champion, he plowed his career. ous scenarios that would allow Lead Changes: 11 among 5 drivers. Then, the green flag waved. Lap Leaders: B.Keselowski 0-44; into the back of another car like a “Great job! Great car!” Har- their safe return. A.Bowman 45-80; J.Johnson 81-89; And something strange distracted driver, ending his day vick screamed to his scaled-back NASCAR is making its return W.Byron 90-92; A.Bowman 93; K.Harvick 94-174; J.Yeley 175; B.Keselowski 176-188; happened. when he was on the verge of win- crew over the radio. “Thank you at warp speed, with Sunday’s race A.Bowman 189-192; B.Keselowski 193-215; Normality. ning the first stage. guys. Awesome job! Awesome! the first of four Cup events to be K.Harvick 216-293 Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Led, Yep, it was just another day at “Gosh, what I would do to get Awesome! Awesome!” held over 11 days at Darlington Laps Led): K.Harvick, 2 times for 159 the races. The incessant roar of that corner back to do it over Harvick celebrated with a cus- and Charlotte Motor Speedway. laps; B.Keselowski, 3 times for 80 laps; A.Bowman, 3 times for 41 laps; J.Johnson, the engines. The squeal of the again,” Johnson moaned. tomary spin of his tires at the Assuming they don’t have a 1 time for 9 laps; W.Byron, 1 time for 3 tires. The crunch of metal when a There was even a bit of unex- start-finish line, smoking up the wave of positive tests, this will laps. Wins: J.Logano, 2; K.Harvick, 1; car slammed into the wall. pected drama at the Track Too track before he climbed out out undoubtedly be the template that A.Bowman, 1; D.Hamlin, 1. If you’re a fan of the good ol’ Tough To Tame when a sponsor- his No. 4 car. others will look to follow in the Top 16 in Points: 1. K.Harvick, 218; 2. A.Bowman, 190; 3. J.Logano, 185; 4. C.Elliott, boys, it was good ol’ fun. ship sign attached to the outside It was a routine he’d done many days and weeks and months to 178; 5. B.Keselowski, 158; 6. D.Hamlin, 154; 7. A.Almirola, 151; 8. R.Blaney, 144; There were plenty of bonehead- wall was rubbed loose by Kyle times before. come. 9. M.DiBenedetto, 141; 10. C.Bowyer, ed moves, like Ricky Stenhouse Busch, shredding debris into the Until Harvick realized it wasn’t Hopefully, we’ll have more to 135; 11. M.Truex, 135; 12. J.Johnson, 132; 13. Ku.Busch, 129; 14. Ky.Busch, 122; 15. losing control of his machine on grill of Denny Hamlin’s car. routine at all. cheer about. K.Larson, 121; 16. C.Buescher, 107. the very first lap. With his Toyota on the verge of “I just want to thank every- Even if no one can hear us. Turning: Even with empty grandstands, there’s no masking excitement from sport’s return

FROM BACK PAGE mask,” O’Donnell said. “It felt a Among those to make it inside lap of the first stage, a better re- seventh at “The Track Too Tough The health care workers then little odd with the garage area be- were Ryan Newman, back for sult than poor Ricky Stenhouse To Tame.” virtually gave the command to cause it was scaled down in terms the first time since he suffered a Jr., who barely made it out of the Erik Jones, winner of the start the engines. of personnel, but all in all I think head injury three months ago in a second turn before he crashed. Southern 500 here last Septem- “Our drivers, race teams and it went really well.” wreck on the final lap of the Day- Stenhouse never finished a lap ber, was eighth and John Hunter officials have been eagerly await- Teams were required to submit tona 500. Newman missed only and finished last. Nemechek was the second rookie three races because of NASCAR’s And even without fans allowed ing the opportunity to get back to rosters in advance with only 16 inside the top-10 at one of the most shutdown and finished 15th in his on the property, a small grass fire the race track and we want to as- members allotted per car. Names technical tracks on the circuit. It return. still broke out behind a section of sure you that we have taken the were on a list at a checkpoint at was the first top-10 for Front Row Also in the field was Matt the track. Gray smoke billowed return to racing very seriously,” the end of a gravel road just off Motorsports on a track other than Harry Byrd Highway and every- Kenseth, who at 48 was the old- during a caution, which isn’t that a superspeedway in three years. NASCAR President Steve Phelps est driver at Darlington and he odd a sight at a NASCAR race. one who passed through had their It was the 50th career victory wrote in a letter to fans released raced for the first time since the Bowman, who signed a one- temperature checked and logged for Harvick, in a Ford for Stew- Sunday morning. 2018 season finale. Kenseth was year contract extension with Hen- before they could enter. art-Haas Racing. A previous win- The industry had to be ex- brought out of retirement by Chip drick Motorsports on Saturday, tremely careful because to even NASCAR did not have to turn Ganassi when Kyle Larson was was second. Kurt Busch, winner ner at Darlington, Harvick led get to the Coca-Cola 600 next anyone away, and all 40 drivers fired for using a racial slur dur- of the closest finish in Darlington 159 of the 293 laps. week at Charlotte Motor Speed- were cleared to race. NASCAR ing an iRacing event that kept history, was third for Ganassi. Harvick tied Hall of Famers way, NASCAR had to get it right has declined to do COVID-19 NASCAR occupied when racing Chase Elliott gave Hendrick Junior Johnson and Ned Jarrett at Darlington. testing to ensure those tests go was on hold. Kenseth finished two cars in the top-four. Denny for 12th on NASCAR’s career Steve O’Donnell, executive to those in need, but competi- 10th. Hamlin was the highest-finish- wins list. vice president of NASCAR, was tors are supposed to log who they The odd and empty setting ing Toyota driver at fifth for Joe NASCAR’s elite Cup Series pleased with the collective effort come into contact with, not return was the backdrop for some typi- Gibbs Racing, one spot ahead of next races Wednesday night at from the industry. to the race shop after being at the cal NASCAR mishaps. Seven- teammate Martin Truex Jr. Darlington, which is hosting “We didn’t have to tell any- track and continue to follow CDC time champion Jimmie Johnson Tyler Reddick, a rookie with three events in four days before one or remind anyone to wear a guidelines on social distancing. crashed while leading on the final Richard Childress Racing, was the sport shifts to Charlotte. S TARS AND STRIPES Tuesday, May 19, 2020 F3HIJKLM It’s complicated Rodgers: Playing entire career with Packers SPORTS ‘may not be a reality’ after QB pick » Page 21

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BY JENNA FRYER approved by officials in South Caro- Associated Press lina and North Carolina, and sched- uled seven races in the next 11 days DARLINGTON, S.C. — This was at two tracks. As other states began a 400-mile drive unlike any other in to open, the series added races to fill modern day NASCAR. the calendar with 20 events across The grandstands were empty. seven Southern states between now There wasn’t a tailgate inside the and June 21. There will be no spec- track. Everyone wore face cover- tators at least through that date. ings — some with the team logos, This first event was called the others opting for plain disposable “The Real Heroes 400” and dedi- medical masks. It was nothing close cated to health care workers fight- to the corporate sponsorship, pomp ing the coronavirus pandemic. and patriotic traveling circus that The names of health care workers symbolizes NASCAR. across the country were substitut- But when the engines fired at ed for the drivers’ name above the Darlington Raceway following a 10- door on each of the 40 cars. week layoff during the coronavirus Harvick’s car honored Dr. Josh- pandemic, it turned into a regular ua Hughes, an emergency medicine old race. physician in the Charlotte, N.C., Kevin Harvick beat Alex Bow- area. man to win NASCAR’s first race “Josh is one of my really good back, a spectacle closely watched to friends, I spend a lot of time talking see if the largest motorsports series to him through this pandemic and in the U.S. could successfully re- really have heard how those doctors turn to the track. are affected with everything they “I just want to thank everybody have going on with their personal from NASCAR and all the teams for life and whether they’re sick, not letting us do what we do,” Harvick sick, how they should treat people,” said. “I didn’t think it was going to Harvick said. “I’m just really hon- be that different, then we won and ored and really thankful for all of it’s dead silent out here. We miss the our front-line workers, not only our fans.” doctors, but grocery stores, truck It was a crucial gamble for NAS- drivers, fire fighters, police depart- CAR, which had to get back to the ments — you name it. track to stave off financial ruin. “All of you front-line workers are With races on hold, no money was the reason that we’re here today coming into the sport and the NAS- and our country is actually still CAR business model can not sus- running.” tain the lack of revenue. NASCAR developed a health plan SEE TURNING ON PAGE 23

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Kevin Harvick celebrates after winning the NASCAR Cup Series race Sunday in Darlington, S.C. Dubbed “The Real Heroes 400” in honor of health care workers, the race was NASCAR’s first after a 10-week layoff because of the coronavirus pandemic.

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