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Volume 78, No. 137A ©SS 2019 CONTINGENCY EDITION SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2019 stripes.com Free to Deployed Areas US may deploy tanks to guard Syrian oil fields Move reverses Trump’s decision to pull troops

BY JOHN VANDIVER M1A2 Abrams Stars and Stripes tanks — like this one at Fort Irwin, The U.S. will send armored reinforcements to guard oil Calif., earlier this fields in Syria that President Donald Trump said also could month — are one serve as a safe area for Kurds who aided the Americans of the options before Turkey’s incursion into formerly Kurdish-held for mechanized Syrian territory. forces the U.S. can Defense Secretary Mark Esper, speaking in Brussels deploy to the oil on Friday, confirmed that “mechanized” forces would be fields in Syria. moving into the Deir al-Zour region, but declined to detail the NATHAN FRANCO/U.S. Army composition of the units. “We are reinforcing that position, it will include some mechanized forces,” Esper said. Esper also urged Ankara to investigate allegations of war crimes committed by Turkish-supported militias, which have carried out attacks against the Kurds during Turkey’s incursion into Syria against Kurdish forces. SEE TANKS ON PAGE 4 Deaths reported across Iraq as police fire shots, tear gas into protesting crowds

BY QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA The confrontations began early in the After a week of violence in the capital leaderless and spontaneous against a sec- Associated Press morning after anti-government demon- and the country’s southern provinces, a tarian-based system and a corrupt political strations resumed, following a three-week government-appointed inquiry into the class that has ruled for decades and driven BAGHDAD — Iraqi police fired live hiatus. The protests began Oct. 1 over cor- protests determined that security forces the two countries to the brink of economic shots into the air as well as rubber bullets ruption, unemployment and lack of basic had used excessive force, killing 149 peo- disaster. and dozens of tear gas canisters Friday services but quickly turned deadly as se- The protests in Iraq threaten to plunge to disperse thousands of anti-government ple and wounding over 3,000. It also rec- curity forces cracked down, using live am- the country into a new cycle of instability protesters, sending young demonstrators ommended the firing of security chiefs in munition for days. that potentially could be the most danger- running for cover and enveloping a main The protests then spread to several, Baghdad and the south. Eight members of ous this conflict-scarred nation has faced, bridge in the capital Baghdad with thick mainly Shiite-populated southern provinc- the security forces were also killed. barely two years after declaring victory white smoke. Twenty-three protesters es and authorities imposed a curfew and The protests are similar to those that over Islamic State. were killed and dozens were injured, secu- shut down the internet for days in an effort have engulfed Lebanon in recent days in rity officials said. to quell the unrest. that they are economically driven, largely SEE PROTESTERS ON PAGE 2 PAGE 2 •STARS AND STRIPES• Saturday, October 26, 2019 MIDEAST Protesters: Thousands in Baghdad call for change, reform 2 bombs in

FROM FRONT PAGE Afghanistan “They (leaders) have eaten away at the country like cancer,” kill at least 7 said Abu Ali al-Majidi, 55, point- ing in the direction of the Green Associated Press Zone. “They are all corrupt KABUL, Afghanistan — A thieves,” he added, surrounded Taliban suicide attack on Friday by his four sons who had come targeted a convoy carrying offi- along for the protest. cials from Afghanistan’s intelli- Subsequently, Iraqi security gence service, killing five people forces and government officials including a child in eastern Nan- vowed to avoid further deadly garhar province, the provincial violence and deployed heavily on governor’s spokesman said. the streets of Baghdad in antici- The Taliban claimed respon- pation of Friday’s protests. sibility for the explosion in the Thousands of people began center of the provincial capital converging to Baghdad’s central Jalalabad. The powerful blast Tahrir Square early Friday, car- wounded 21 people, including six rying Iraqi flags and posters call- security personnel, said Attaul- ing for change and reform. lah Khogyani. However, after thousands of Hours later, a second explo- protesters removed metal se- curity barriers and crossed the sion targeted a checkpoint at the Jumhuriyya Bridge leading congested entrance to Jalalabad to Baghdad’s heavily fortified killing two security personnel. Six people were wounded, said Green Zone, home to the U.S. HADI MIZBAN/AP Embassy and Iraqi government Khogyani. The explosion hap- offices, soldiers fired tear gas to An injured protestor is rushed to a hospital during a demonstration in central Baghdad on Friday. pened near a bus stand crowded disperse them. After they tried with people heading to the capital to remove concrete barriers near The officials spoke on condi- program. on social media, started from the of Kabul. the entrance of the Green Zone, tion of anonymity in line with However, powerful Iran- central Tahrir Square. The dem- The attacks are the latest in they fired live rounds to push the regulations. backed Shiite militias have stood onstrators, mostly young, unem- near daily attacks carried out by protesters back. Hundreds of people were taken by the government and suggested ployed men, carried Iraqi flags insurgents. “Baghdad hurra hurra, fasad to hospitals, many with shortness the demonstrations were a “con- and chanted anti-government Nangarhar has become in- barra barra!” the demonstrators of breath from the tear gas. spiracy” from the outside. protests, demanding jobs, water creasingly violent in recent years chanted, Arabic for “Baghdad is Protests spread to the southern Iraq’s most senior Shiite spiri- and electricity. as both the Taliban and Islamic free, corruption is out.” provinces later Friday, including tual leader, Grand Ayatollah “I want my country back, I State are active there. Riot police in full gear and the flashpoint city of Basra where Ali al-Sistani, appealed on the want Iraq back,” said Ban Sou- Last week, more than 60 people armed soldiers lined the bridge. some 4,000 people gathered protesters and security forces maydai, 50, an employee at the were killed in a brutal attack on a Ambulances and tuk-tuks zipped near the provincial government to avoid violence and urged the Iraqi Education Ministry, who mosque in the province, and more back and forth, ferrying the in- building. demonstrators to abstain from at- wore black jeans, a white T-shirt than 100 were wounded. No one jured to hospitals. A reporter for The current round of protests tacking security forces or public and carried an Iraqi flag with claimed responsibility for that at- Iraq’s Sumariyya TV channel has been endorsed by Iraq’s na- property. In his Friday prayers the hashtag #We want a country, tack, and the Taliban condemned was among the injured. tionalist Shiite cleric, Muqtada sermon, he also criticized the printed on it. it, denying involvement. Security and hospital officials al-Sadr, who has a popular Shi- government-appointed commit- Prime Minister Adel Abdul- The United Nations has con- said the dead included eight pro- ite support base and the largest tee investigating the crackdown Mahdi has struggled to deal with demned the growing number of testers who were killed in Bagh- number of seats in parliament. in the previous protests, saying it the protests. civilian casualties, with more dad. The remaining deaths were He has called on the government did not achieve its goals or uncov- He gave an address to the nation than 8,000 killed and wounded so distributed across the provinces to resign and suspended his bloc’s er who was behind the violence. in the early hours Friday, promis- far this year. The U.N. called on of Basra, Nasiriyah, Misan and participation in the government As in the protests earlier this ing a government reshuffle next all sides in the conflict to protect Muthanna in southern Iraq. until it comes up with a reform month, the protesters, organized week and pledging reforms. civilians. T O D A Y IN STRIPES American Roundup ...... 14 Business ...... 13 Comics/Crossword ...... 22 Health & Fitness ...... 19 Movies ...... 16-17 Opinion ...... 20 Sports ...... 24-32 Video Games ...... 15 Weather ...... 13 Saturday, October 26, 2019 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 3 MILITARY AAFES lifts uniform purchase restrictions

BY SETH ROBSON est brick-and-mortar military clothing stores — the only source uled to be issued two sets of sage Wednesday. AND JAMES BOLINGER clothing store, AAFES spokes- for government-certified, authen- OCPs starting around December That way, service members can Stars and Stripes man Chris Ward said in an email tic uniforms — are owned by the or January and four sets by the have their new uniforms deliv- Friday. various service branches and mandatory wear date in April ered to their homes or pick them Soldiers and airmen in the Re- However, after review and subject to separate wear and pur- 2021, Senior Master Sgt. Stephen up at their drill locations, he said. serve and National Guard are discussions with the Army and chase restrictions, he added. Schester, an Air Force Reserve The Navy Exchange carries now authorized to buy uniforms Air Force, AAFES has lifted on- “Each branch of service pro- Command spokesman, said in an the camouflage uniforms for online regardless of their ac- line purchase restrictions for all vides funding to establish and email Friday. other services only in its stores on tive status or rank, the Army & Guard and Reserve members, he operate MCS facilities to service Online uniform sales will be joint bases but is working to also Air Force Exchange Service an- said. their active duty personnel,” he particularly useful for airmen sell them online, spokeswoman nounced this month. Soldiers can already buy the said. who live far away from bases Courtney Williams said in an To ensure compliance with new Operational Camouflage However, Ward said, Guard where they drill, said Air Force email Thursday. purchase restrictions, custom- Pattern online but airmen won’t and Reserve personnel may shop Reserve 2nd Lt. Daniel Phelps, a ers with temporary authorization be able to do so until December, at those facilities while they are public affairs officer for the 349th [email protected] Twitter: @SethRobson1 to buy uniforms and other items Ward said. on active-duty status. Air Mobility Wing at Travis Air [email protected] had been directed to the near- Exchange-operated military Enlisted reservists are sched- Force Base, Calif., in a text mes- Twitter: @bolingerj2004 Audio system to warn A-10 pilots of threats

BY CHRISTOPHER DENNIS pit and cabin area,” according to Stars and Stripes Terma’s website. Studies have shown that the A Danish company has been audio system’s tones allow a pilot awarded a contract to provide to hear which direction a mis- an improved audio system that sile is coming from 1.5 seconds warns A-10 pilots about incoming faster than using the traditional threats. display panel, Terma said. It fea- The North American branch tures different cues for missile of Terma Inc., in Warner Rob- threats, radar detection and ter- ins, Ga., has been awarded a $60 rain obstructions. million contract to provide a 3D The new equipment doesn’t sound system for the Air Force’s replace the Warthog’s current vi- fleet of A-10 Thunderbolt IIs, a sual warning systems. Defense Department statement Delivery of the 328 new audio said. systems is expected to be com- The new audio system works pleted by February 2024, accord- like a stereo headset to give the ing to the Defense Department pilot “sounds from a given direc- statement. tion that will give real time infor- The Air Force recently com- mation,” Terma’s website said. pleted installing new wings for The system, which is already 173 of its 281 A-10 aircraft. The in operational use on Danish and 40-year-old jets are expected to Belgian F-16s, also includes “ac- continue flying in a close air sup- RUSS SCALF/U.S. Air Force tive noise reduction technology port role well into the 2030s. A pair of U.S. A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft conduct a combat air patrol mission over an undisclosed that is capable of attenuating the [email protected] location in Southwest Asia in September. low-frequent noise in the cock- Twitter: @chrisbdennis USS Indianapolis, a new $450M litoral combat ship, set to enter service

BY CAROLE CARLSON About 11,000 people are ex- men enjoyed lunch and shared Post-Tribune (Merrillville, Ind.) pected for the invitation-only Sat- stories with sailors and the USS urday event. Jill Donnelly, wife Indianapolis’s new commander Some 74 years ago, Richard of former Indiana U.S. Sen. Joe Colin Kane, a Columbus, Ohio Thelen, a then-18-year-old gun- Donnelly, is the ship’s sponsor. native. ner’s mate on the cruiser India- She will follow the Navy tradition Kane said the newest 388-foot napolis, vaulted into the air when of giving the first order to “man Indianapolis arrived in Burns a Japanese tornado sank the ship our ship and bring her to life!” Harbor from a shipyard in Mari- on July 30, 1945. Standing with a walker on the nette, Wis. Its lower level contains “I remember mostly how future Indianapolis on Thursday, steel plate made at the nearby Ar- quickly it sunk. I had to stay alive Thelen, 92, of Lansing, Mich., re- celor Mittal plant in Burns Har- out there. Every time I was ready counted the horror of spending bor. Kane said it’s powered by two to give up, I felt my dad’s grip, and five days in the Pacific in shark- gas turbines, two main propulsion saw his face,” said Thelen. infested waters. diesel engines and four waterjets, Only 317 of the ship’s 1,196 sail- Thelen is one of a handful of similar to jet skis. It can reach ors survived after five days afloat survivors who remain from the speeds of up to 40 knots. in the Pacific. Some died from World War II cruiser, which Kane will command a crew of CAMILO FERNAN/U.S. Navy dehydration; others were killed earned 10 battle stars. 70 officers and enlisted sailors. by sharks. It was the biggest loss The ship sank just four days The future littoral combat ship USS Indianapolis will be Kane described the ship as a new of life in the Navy’s history. after delivering components of commissioned Saturday in Burns Harbor, Ind. generation of fast, agile combat Now, a new Indianapolis is the nuclear bomb “Little Boy” ships. ready for service. that was dropped on Hiroshima torpedoes. The tragedy haunted liked the smell. “I saw one man It’s equipped with a platform Navy officials say the new $450 Aug. 6, 1945. McVay and he killed himself taken by a shark 15 feet away. I designed to hunt and neutralize million litoral combat ship, to Its captain, Charles B. McVay in 1968. In 2000, President Bill felt one bumping my legs and my mines. be commissioned at 10 a.m. Sat- III, survived but was court-mar- Clinton signed a bill exonerating life jacket.” About 20 crew members will urday at the Port of Indiana in tialed soon after the war. Au- McVay. Thelen was joined by another be dedicated to mine warfare op- Burns Harbor, will carry on the thorities said he was guilty of Thelen thinks he survived be- sailor, Jim Jarvis, of Zanesville, erations, others will focus on he- legacy. It’s the fourth ship to bear endangering his vessel by failing cause he was saturated with die- Ohio, who served as a 3rd class licopters for aviation operations, the USS Indianapolis name. to steer a zigzag course to avoid sel fuel and he didn’t think sharks aviation metal smith. The two Kane said. PAGE 4 •STARS AND STRIPES• Saturday, October 26, 2019 MIDEAST Russia sends additional troops to Syria

BY VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Syrian Kurdish fighters, doing Associated Press a “delicate job” of coordinating their pullout from the border MOSCOW — Russia has sent areas. He noted that the Kurds hundreds of additional troops to have pledged to abide by the deal, Syria to help patrol the country’s adding that the failure to do so Turkey-Syria border after a deal would put them in trouble. between Moscow and Ankara, “If the Kurdish units with their the Russian Defense Ministry weapons aren’t pulled back from said Friday. that zone, they will regrettably be The ministry said about 300 left face to face with the Turkish military police have arrived in military because (Syrian) bor- Syria to patrol the northeast- der guards and Russian military ern areas along the border with police wouldn’t stand between Turkey and oversee the pullout them,” Peskov said in a confer- of Syrian Kurdish fighters from ence call with reporters. there. Military cargo planes also A large wedge of eastern Syria airlifted 20 armored vehicles for remains in the hands of the Kurd- the mission, it added. ish-led fighters. That includes the After Turkey invaded north- bulk of Syria’s oil fields, which de- eastern Syria this month, an of- prives Damascus of control over fensive enabled by President a crucial resource and gives the Donald Trump’s abrupt pullout of Syrian Kurds a major bargaining U.S. troops, Moscow and Ankara chip. Trump has said some U.S. struck a deal splitting control of troops will remain there to help northeastern Syria. Kurds “secure” the oil fields. The new Russian troops sent in The Kurdish fighters cap- — as American soldiers pull out tured the main fields from ISIS — further underscore how the BADERKHAN AHMAD/AP and since then have helped fi- situation on the ground in Syria nance their self-rule by selling has dramatically changed with Russian forces patrol near the city of Qamishli, north Syria, on Thursday. the crude, mainly to the Syrian Turkey’s invasion and subsequent government. developments. from Chechnya, a Russian region will be involved in the patrol mis- Turkey border. They are to en- Moscow has argued that the Turkey has now been allowed that saw two devastating sepa- sion on the Turkish border. sure that Syrian Kurdish fighters, U.S. troops’ presence in Syria is to keep control over a significant ratist wars in the late 1990s and Under the Moscow-Ankara who were U.S. allies in the fight illegitimate as they lack Damas- chunk of northeastern Syria, a the early 2000s before Moscow deal, Turkey is to keep sole con- against the Islamic State and cus’ permission to stay. Deputy belt of land on its border in the regained control. Troops from trol of a large section in the cen- who freed most of the region of Foreign Minister Sergey Ryab- northeast that it invaded on Oct. Chechnya, known for their fierce ter of the border area, most of ISIS, pull 19 miles away from the kov said Moscow is “concerned 9, along with a larger piece of the warrior spirit, have regularly which was captured in its inva- frontier. After that, Russia and by frequently changing signals border in the northwest that Tur- been sent to Syria on rotation sion this month, aimed at driving Turkey are to begin joint patrols from Washington about its plans key already holds, captured in bases in recent years. the U.S.-allied Kurdish forces out along a narrower strip directly on and intentions toward Syria.” previous incursions. The Russian military does not of a “safe zone” along the border. the Turkish-Syrian border. Ryabkov charged that the U.S. Russia said Friday the addi- release the total number of its Syrian government and Rus- Kremlin spokesman Dmitry may use its troops’ presence near tional battalion of military po- contingent in Syria, and it did not sian military police are to control Peskov said the Russian military oil fields to continue to exert pres- lice dispatched to Syria comes say on Friday how many troops the rest of the 273-mile Syria- has been in close contact with the sure on Damascus. Tanks: US troops head to area attacked by Syrians, Russian mercenaries last year

FROM FRONT PAGE “The U.S. is committed to re- other heavy equipment, such as The oil-rich area where U.S. inforcing our position, in coordi- Bradley Fighting Vehicles. troops are headed is also where nation with our SDF partners, in However, CNN reported that U.S. forces in 2018 were involved northeast Syria with additional more troops are expected to move in a deadly clash with Russian military assets to prevent those into Syria’s oil area relatively mercenaries. oil fields from falling back into soon and that in addition to safe- Up to 200 pro-Syrian regime the hands of ISIS or other desta- guarding oil fields they will fight forces, including some mercenar- bilizing actors,” a U.S. defense of- remnants of the Islamic State in ficial told reporters Thursday. coordination with the SDF. ies, were killed after mounting The comments came after Positioning armored forces in a failed attack on a base held by troops convoyed out of Syria ear- Syria could be designed to send U.S. troops near the town of Deir lier this week, bound for Iraq. a signal to Russian forces operat- al-Zour. A report by Newsweek, citing ing in the region to stay clear of After a conversation with Syr- an unnamed senior U.S. official, oil fields. But the move also runs ian Democratic Forces Gen. Ma- said the Pentagon has drafted the risk of escalating tensions zloum Abdi on Thursday, Trump plans to deploy half of an Army with both Moscow and Ankara. tweeted that “perhaps it is time armored battalion, which could On Tuesday, Turkish President for the Kurds to start heading to include as many as 30 Abrams Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Pres- the Oil Region!” tanks, to guard the oil fields. ident Vladimir Putin reached a Trump’s comments, along with It’s not clear whether the White deal to conduct joint patrols in the reports that the U.S. military House has signed off on the pro- border region of Syria vacated by Esper on Thursday said Erdo- a small U.S. presence would have is considering sending in tanks posal or plans a smaller force. U.S. troops. gan was intent on invading, re- been enough to prevent Turkey and other armored vehicles into The Washington Post, citing Earlier this month, the White gardless of the U.S. presence. from risking a direct confronta- Syria to protect oil fields, serve as unnamed U.S. officials, said sev- House ordered U.S. troops to pull “I think President Erdogan tion with the U.S. and would have the latest twist in a changing re- eral options were under discus- back from their positions on the was fixated on making this incur- prevented subsequent bloodshed. sponse to the crisis in Syria. sion. One option could involve Turkish border, which critics say sion for one reason or another and In Brussels, NATO Secretary- It was unclear what Trump a company of American troops, served as a green light for the General Jens Stoltenberg de- meant when he suggested the a handful of Abrams tanks and Turkish military to invade and there was not a possibility that we Kurds head to Syria’s eastern oil support equipment, the newspa- attack Kurdish forces that helped were going to start a war with a clined to comment on Friday on region — whether that referred to per said. Dispatching tanks might defeat ISIS. NATO ally,” Esper said during the possibility of the U.S. sending military forces the U.S. is aligned require extra troops for support Esper has condemned Turkey’s a speech in Brussels, where he armored vehicles and troops into with or the Kurdish population and security. invasion but also has defended is taking part in talks at NATO Syria. as a whole, which numbers in the The Post said discussions also Washington’s decision to step headquarters. [email protected] millions. included the possibly sending back. Critics have countered that even Twitter: @john_vandiver Saturday, October 26, 2019 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 5 NATION DOJ’s review of Russia probe now a criminal inquiry

BY MICHAEL BALSAMO litical revenge. Associated Press “If the Department of Justice may be used as a tool of political WASHINGTON — The Justice retribution, or to help the Presi- Department has shifted its review dent with a political narrative for of the Russia probe to a criminal the next election, the rule of law investigation, a person familiar will suffer new and irreparable with the matter says. It’s a move damage,” Democratic Reps. Jerr- that is likely to raise concerns that old Nadler and Adam Schiff said. President Donald Trump and his Mueller’s investigation shad- allies may be using the powers of owed Trump’s presidency for near- PATRICK SEMANSKY/AP the government to go after their ly two years. Mueller determined opponents. that the Russian government Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Laura Cooper arrives for a closed door meeting to testify as part The revelation comes as Trump of the House impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump on Wednesday in Washington. interfered in the 2016 election, is already facing scrutiny about but his investigation didn’t find a potential abuse of power, in- sufficient evidence to establish cluding a House impeachment a criminal inquiry examining whether he conspiracy Pentagon instructed witness not withheld military aid to pres- between sure the president of Ukraine to Trump’s launch an investigation of former campaign to testify in impeachment inquiry Vice President Joe Biden and his and Russia. son Hunter. Mueller also The person who confirmed the BY ERIC TUCKER lawyers from being present for the interviews. Ex- examined criminal investigation Thursday Associated Press cluding department lawyers, the letter says, “vio- 10 possible was not authorized to discuss the lates settled practice and may jeopardize future instances of matter publicly and spoke to The WASHINGTON — A Defense Department official accommodation.” obstruction Associated Press on the condition who testified in the impeachment inquiry against “To reiterate, the Department respects the over- of justice and of anonymity. Barr President Donald Trump did so in defiance of the sight role of Congress and stands ready to work with has point- It is unclear what potential Pentagon, which told her not to cooperate. the Committees should there be an appropriate res- edly said he could not exonerate crimes are being investigated or A letter to Laura Cooper’s attorney obtained by olution of outstanding legal issues,” reads the De- the president. what prompted the change. But The Associated Press on Thursday cites an admin- fense Department letter to Cooper’s lawyer, Daniel The New York Times first re- the designation as a formal crim- istration-wide policy against participating in the im- Levin. ported that Durham’s inquiry had inal investigation gives prosecu- peachment probe. But, it adds, “Any such resolution would have to become a criminal investigation. The directive underscores Trump administra- consider the constitutional prerogatives and con- tors the ability to issue subpoenas, potentially empanel a grand jury The FBI’s counterintelligence tion efforts to discourage or prevent some executive fidentiality interests of the co-equal Executive investigation — which later be- branch employees from cooperating with House Branch … and ensure fundamental fairness to any and compel witnesses to give tes- timony and bring federal crimi- came the Mueller probe — was Democrats, who are investigating Trump’s prod- Executive Branch employees involved in this pro- triggered, in part, from a tip from ding of his Ukrainian counterpart to investigate cess, including Ms. Cooper.” nal charges. The Justice Department had an Australian diplomat, Alexan- Democratic rival Joe Biden. The administration this Several witnesses, including Cooper, have ap- der Downer. George Papadopou- month blocked Gordon Sondland, the ambassador to peared for closed-door interviews after receiving previously considered it to be an administrative review, and At- los, a former Trump campaign the European Union, from testifying, though he ul- subpoenas from the House. adviser, had told Downer in May timately did so under subpoena. Cooper, who oversees Ukraine policy at the De- torney General William Barr ap- pointed John Durham, the U.S. 2016 that Russia had thousands The letter cites concerns about whether the fense Department, had to wait hours for her in- of stolen emails that would be House is authorized to conduct an impeachment in- terview to begin on Wednesday after Republicans attorney in Connecticut, to lead the inquiry into the origins of potentially damaging to Hillary quiry without a formal vote and about what it says is stormed the secure room being used for depositions. Clinton. a “blanket refusal” to permit Defense Department The act of protest brought the proceedings to a halt. special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian interference Papadopoulos, who served as a in the 2016 election. foreign policy adviser to Trump’s It’s unclear when Durham’s campaign, had learned from a inquiry shifted to a criminal Maltese professor that Russia Gabbard turns focus to presidential bid investigation. had “dirt” on Clinton in the form Durham is examining what of stolen emails. Associated Press The squabble seemed to give led the U.S. to open a counterin- The FBI’s investigation into Gabbard renewed energy on the telligence investigation into the potential coordination between WASHINGTON — Democratic campaign trail. Trump campaign and the roles Russia and the Trump campaign presidential candidate Tulsi Gab- Gabbard noted in her early that various countries played later morphed into part of Muel- bard says she will focus on her ler’s probe. morning announcement that the in the U.S. probe. He is also in- White House bid and not run for Mifsud and Papadopoulos first threats of war, international ten- vestigating whether the surveil- reelection to her congressional met in Italy in 2016. sions and the threats of a new cold lance methods and intelligence seat. The congresswoman from The Justice Department has war convinced her she should gathering methods used during Hawaii made the announcement the investigation were legal and said Trump recently made sev- early Friday. focus on the presidential race. eral calls at Barr’s request to for- “I believe I can best serve the appropriate. While lagging behind in a Trump has long slammed the eign leaders, including Australian people of Hawaii and our coun- crowded Democratic presiden- investigation, saying there was Prime Minister Scott Morrison, try as your President and Com- tial field, Gabbard has gotten political bias at the FBI and the to help the attorney general with renewed attention lately after a mander-in-Chief,” she said in her the Durham investigation. JOHN MINCHILLO/AP probe was all part of a “witch heated argument with former statement. hunt” to discredit him and his Barr also traveled with Dur- Democratic presidential nominee Democratic presidential Gabbard, who launched her presidency. ham to Italy in August and Sep- Hillary Clinton. candidate Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, presidential bid in January, has The chairmen of the House tember, and the two met with The Hawaii congresswoman D-Hawaii, participates in a emphasized her background Judiciary and Intelligence com- Italian intelligence officials to fought back after Clinton said in a debate at Otterbein University in as a combat veteran. Currently mittees, which are leading the seek information about the activi- recent interview that she believes Westerville, Ohio, on Oct. 15. a major in the Army National impeachment inquiry, said in a ties of FBI agents assigned there, Republicans have “got their eye Guard, she has served for more statement late Thursday that the Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte on somebody who’s currently in former senator, U.S. secretary of than 16 years and deployed twice reports “raise profound new con- said Wednesday. the Democratic primary and are state and 2016 Democratic presi- to the Middle East, according to cerns” that Barr’s DOJ “has lost The White House did not im- grooming her to be the third- dential candidate, did not name her announcement. She was first its independence and become a mediately respond to a request party candidate.” Clinton, the Gabbard directly. elected to Congress in 2012. vehicle for President Trump’s po- for comment Thursday. PAGE 6 •STARS AND STRIPES• Saturday, October 26, 2019 NATION Calif. utility says it may have ignited fire

Associated Press with it her mother’s ashes, other belongings and possibly a pen full LOS ANGELES — California’s of pet sheep. biggest utility admitted its elec- “I’m literally seeing sticks and trical equipment may have ig- fire of what used to be our home,” nited a wildfire burning in wine she told KCBS-TV. country Friday, despite blackouts “Everything in the house is imposed across the region to pre- gone,” Corrales said. “The pan- vent blazes. Meanwhile, a wind- els on one of the pens where we whipped fire destroyed homes have some rescued sheep was too near Los Angeles. hot for my daughter to open, and More than 50,000 people were so she couldn’t let them out. … under evacuation orders in the So I’m probably sure that we lost Santa Clarita area north of Los them, too.” Angeles as hot, dry Santa Ana Some residents tried to fight winds howling at up to 50 mph the blaze with garden hoses. drove the flames into neighbor- People rushed to rescue dozens of hoods. At least six homes were horses, donkeys, goats, a pig and burned. No immediate injuries an emu. were reported. Officials said a firefighting he- In Northern California, a blaze licopter was grounded after its near the Sonoma County wine windshield was damaged by a country town of Geyserville collision with a bird. burned 49 buildings and prompt- High winds were expected to ed evacuation orders for some continue through the morning and 2,000 people. taper off by late afternoon. South- The fire burned at least 25 ern California Edison, which shut square miles , whipped up by the off electricity to more than 31,000 strong winds that had prompted customers on Thursday, was con- MARCIO JOSE SANCHEZ/AP Pacific Gas & Electric to impose sidering additional power cuts to sweeping blackouts affecting a Brandon Mani covers his face from wildfire smoke Thursday in Santa Clarita, Calif. more than 386,000. half-million people in Northern The huge Los Angeles school and Central California. Power volt transmission line near and appeared to have been in ex- the wind-driven fire there grew district closed all its schools in was restored to most people by Geyserville that malfunctioned cellent condition. to 4,300 acres. the San Fernando Valley, citing Thursday evening, PG&E said. minutes before the fire erupted. In shutting off the electricity, In some places, they failed. poor air quality and other safety The power shut-offs were im- The company reported finding a PG&E cut power to the distribu- As hot embers flew, subdivision concerns. posed after PG&E electrical “broken jumper” wire on a trans- tion lines that supply homes, but homes and rural ranch properties While the high winds in North- equipment was blamed for several mission tower Wednesday night. not to its long-distance transmis- were damaged or destroyed in ern California had died down by blazes in recent years that killed PG&E CEO Bill Johnson said it sion lines. the Canyon Country area of Santa Friday, they were expected to scores of people and burned thou- was too soon to know if the faulty In Southern California, fire- Clarita and in nearby Castaic. pick up over the weekend, with sands of homes. equipment ignited the fire. He fighters on the ground and in the Alejandro Corrales tearfully gusts of 40 to 60 mph in many However, PG&E said Thursday said the tower had been inspected air struggled to protect homes watched her home burn on a places, and PG&E warned it may it didn’t de-energize a 230,000- four times in the past two years surrounded by trees and brush as ridge in Canyon Country, taking black out an even larger region. Cummings remembered as ‘fierce champion’ at funeral

BY REGINA GARCIA CANO Obama and Bill Clinton and came the first African American AND MICHAEL KUNZELMAN House Speaker Nancy Pelosi lawmaker to lie in state in the U.S. Associated Press were also among the scheduled Capitol. speakers at the 4,000-seat New Among those waiting to get BALTIMORE — Congress- Psalmist Baptist Church. Demo- into the church was LaGreta man and civil rights leader Eli- cratic presidential candidate Sen. Williams, 68, of New York, who jah Cummings was remembered Elizabeth Warren was set to de- met Cummings when they were Friday as a “fierce champion of liver a reading of scripture. college students in Baltimore in truth, justice and kindness” at a At dawn, several hundred peo- 1969. She said the teenage Cum- funeral that brought Washington ple were lined up outside, waiting mings was a natural leader who politicians and ordinary people for the doors to open so they could aspired to become Maryland’s alike to the Baltimore church pay their final respects to the first black governor. She recalled where he worshipped for nearly Baltimore Democrat who died his deep roar of a laugh. four decades. Oct. 17 at age 68 of longstanding Williams said they remained “It is no coincidence — is it? health problems. friends for 50 years and often — that Elijah Cummings shared “I felt like it was my civic duty, had lunch when she visited a name with an Old Testament my responsibility to come and Baltimore. prophet,” said former Secretary pay respects to a man who has “I think his legacy is that he of State Hillary Clinton, the first done so much for Baltimore city, was an honest person,” she said. in a series of dignitaries sched- so much for the people, trying to “He wanted everyone to have an uled to deliver remarks. “Like keep us together,” said the Rev. the prophet, our Elijah could call Jacqueline Williams, 67, of Balti- equal opportunity so that people down fire from heaven. But he more, as she waited in line. could make better decisions for also prayed and worked for heal- Cummings’ casket arrived at themselves, better choices.” ing. He weathered storms and the church before daybreak and Bobby Trotter, 67, a Baltimore earthquakes but never lost his was placed, open, in front of the resident who lives just outside faith.” sanctuary. Cummings’ district, recalled how Clinton, who took the stage to The sharecropper’s son rose the congressman helped quell rousing applause, added: “Our to power in Washington, where tensions in the city after the riot- Elijah was a fierce champion of he was first elected in 1996. He ing that erupted in 2015 over the truth, justice and kindness in led investigations of President death of Freddie Gray, a black every part of his life.” Donald Trump and recently pro- man who suffered a fatal spinal Gospel and R&B singer BeBe voked the president’s anger, who injury during a jolting ride in a Winans, a favorite of Cummings, lashed out at Cummings’ district police van. performed “Stand” as mourners as a “disgusting, rat- and rodent- Cummings “believed in helping JULIO CORTEZ, POOL/AP sang along, stood and raised their infested mess” where “no human people, particularly people that hands. Many wiped away tears. being would want to live.” were downtrodden. He stood up. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi speaks during funeral services Former Presidents Barack On Thursday, Cummings be- He spoke for them,” Trotter said. for Rep. Elijah Cummings om Friday in Baltimore. Saturday, October 26, 2019 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 7 NATION Number of Pence scolds US children in foster care firms for bowing dropped

BY DAVID CRARY Associated Press to China’s rules NEW YORK — The number of children in the U.S. foster care BY DAVID NAKAMURA “seeking to export censorship, system has dropped for the first The Washington Post the hallmark of its regime. time since 2012, stemming from “By exploiting corporate greed, a surge that was linked to sub- WASHINGTON — Vice Presi- Beijing is attempting to influence stance abuse by parents, accord- dent Mike Pence on Thursday American public opinion in an at- ing to new federal data released sharply criticized U.S. compa- tempt to influence public opinion, on Thursday. nies for “kowtowing” to China’s coercing corporate America,” The annual report from the De- restrictions on free speech, tak- Pence said. Those corporations partment of Health and Human ing special aim at Nike and the follow the “lure of China’s money Services counted 437,283 chil- National Basketball Association by muzzling not only criticism for “losing their voices” in a dis- dren in foster care as of Sept. 30, of China’s Communist Party but pute with Beijing this month over 2018, down from about 441,000 a even affirmative expression of pro-democracy protests in Hong /AP year earlier. American values.” JACQUELYN MARTIN Kong. The peak was 524,000 children Turning an eye toward Nike In remarks at the Wilson Cen- Vice President Mike Pence discusses U.S. and China relations on in foster care in 2002. The num- and the NBA, he chastised their ter presidential memorial, Pence Thursday, at the Wilson Center’s inaugural Frederic V. Malek Public ber dropped steadily to about response to Chinese pressure issued a wide-ranging set of criti- Service Leadership Lecture, in Washington. 396,000 in 2012 before rising to denounce a tweet this month cisms of Beijing’s predatory trade again as the opioid epidemic and from Houston Rockets General pulled Rockets’ merchandise demn China for its pressure on practices, jailing of Muslim mi- other forms of drug abuse began Manager Daryl Morey express- from stores in China. the league. norities and military expansion- to worsen across the U.S. ing support for the demonstrators Of the NBA, he said some of the In his remarks, Pence empha- ism. In far stronger terms than The new data also showed that in Hong Kong. Trump has feuded “biggest players and owners, who sized that while the administra- President Donald Trump has a record 63,100 children were ad- with former National Football routinely exercise their freedom tion — which elevated China to a done so far, Pence also expressed opted out of the U.S. child welfare League player Colin Kaepernick, to criticize this country, lose their “strategic and economic competi- solidarity with the protesters in system in the 2018 fiscal year, up a Nike pitchman, and with NBA voices when it comes to the free- tor” in its 2017 national security Hong Kong, declaring that they from 59,500 in 2017. superstars Lebron James and dom and rights of the people of strategy — does not aim to “de- “have the prayers and admiration However, the number of chil- Stephen Curry over racial issues, China. In siding with the Chinese couple” the U.S. economy from of millions of Americans.” dren in foster care waiting to be to which Pence appeared to al- communist party and silencing China’s market, the second-larg- But Pence also took time to adopted also increased, rising upbraid U.S. businesses for com- lude obliquely. free speech, the NBA is acting est in the world. from 123,754 to 125,400. promising American values as a “Nike promotes itself as a so- like a wholly-owned subsidiary of Rather, he said, the United HHS officials said they were cost of doing business in China by cial justice champion, but when that authoritarian regime.” States seeks to engage Beijing “in encouraged by the slight decrease acceding to Beijing’s demand that it comes to Hong Kong, it prefers This month, Trump also criti- a manner of fairness.” On trade, in the number of children in foster they refrain from speaking out on checking its social conscience cized the NBA for its handling he said, the president “remains political and social issues. at the door,” Pence said, noting of the controversy, though the optimistic an agreement can be care. They credited the expansion In doing so, he said, China is reports that the company had president notably did not con- reached.” of prevention programs aimed at supporting families before a need arises to remove a child from their home. “We hope to see a continued Doctor who kept fetuses vilified in life, death indication that child welfare sys- tems are relying less on foster care and serving more children BY MICHAEL TARM gress promptly introduced the ately brought up the 1945 raids on profiles. Not Klopfer. and families in their home and Associated Press Dignity for Aborted Children Act, Dresden, in which some 25,000 During protests at his clinics in communities,” said Jerry Milner, which would require burial of people died. 1993, police admonished him for CHICAGO — Dr. Ulrich Klop- associate commissioner of HHS’s aborted fetuses nationwide. The “How is the suffering from the shoving protesters. Children’s Bureau. fer competed so avidly in the White House weighed in, calling bombing by the Americans in Protesters once hacked holes in The biggest decreases in the 1970s to perform the most abor- for thorough investigations. Dresden any different than the the roof of the South Bend clinic foster care population occurred tions each day at a Chicago clinic There is no indication Klopfer suffering of women by unwanted and poked a water hose through a in Arizona and Indiana, which that it was said he would set his told others about his grim col- babies?” Cly recalled Klopfer mail slot, flooding an entry room. were among the states where the coffee aside, jump to his feet in lection, in- saying. They sometimes convened out- numbers had soared earlier in the break room and rush to the cluding his Cly added: “I thought his abor- side Klopfer’s home in Crete, a this decade. operating table whenever his wife. Inves- tions, how he kept the fetuses, mile from the Indiana line. Parental neglect was the most chief rival in the macabre derby tigators and might be unconscious revenge for One night in 1995, someone shot walked by. others have the bombings.” at his car in Indiana as he drove common reason for children to That early emphasis on speed been scru- News reports about Klopfer home, he told police. An armed be removed from their homes in helped him go on to perform at tinizing his going back decades portray him guard started accompanying him 2018 — a factor in placing about least 50,000 abortions over the past for clues as a combative figure, quick to to and from his clinics. 163,500 children into foster care. next 40 years, making him one and have give the finger to protesters. He “Am I concerned? Yes. Am I About 94,400 children were re- of the Midwest’s most prolific been left to spoke emphatically about ensur- going to change? No,” Klopfer told moved because of parental sub- abortion doctors and a target of speculate. ing women had access to abortion The Associated Press. stance abuse, up from 92,100 in weekly protests at his primary Some who 2017. Klopfer in Indiana, which has some of the He was in continuous legal clinics in Gary, South Bend and knew him nation’s toughest restrictions on battles, sometimes with the back- About 10% of foster children Fort Wayne, Ind. recall the German-born Klop- the procedure. ing of abortion rights advocates, were residing in institutions or The rancor he generated in life fer as a lonely, enigmatic figure. He once told a reporter about including the ACLU. group homes at the close of the only deepened after his death at Unprompted, he would often tell the abortion debate: “If men got Cly speculated that keeping the 2018 fiscal year — down from 79 last month, when 2,246 sets of how he took shelter as a 4-year- pregnant and women didn’t, this fetal remains and knowing they 14% in 2015 and reflecting new preserved fetal remains were dis- old when Allied planes bombed wouldn’t be a discussion.” would be discovered after his policies aimed at reducing the covered stacked floor to ceiling in his hometown of Dresden during For long stretches, Klopfer was death might have been Klopfer’s use of so-called congregate care. a garage at his suburban Chicago World War II. He would describe the only abortion doctor in the In- way of irritating his critics one About 17,000 youths in their home. emerging three days later with diana cities where he had clinics. last time. late teens aged out of the system Days later, 165 more sets were buildings smoldering around Klopfer began performing His foes may get the last word. in 2018 without being placed with found in the trunk of a Mercedes- him, bodies in the rubble. abortions months after the land- The fetuses from the garage have permanent families. Benz at a business where Klopfer When anti-abortion physician mark Roe v. Wade ruling legaliz- been returned to Indiana, where During the surge in the foster kept several cars. Geoffrey Cly met Klopfer in 2008 ing abortion. He was doing 3,500 state officials promised they will care population, many state child One Indiana lawmaker pro- to discuss concerns that Klopfer’s annually by 1993, he told the Chi- receive what anti-abortion groups welfare agencies struggled to re- nounced Klopfer a “monster.” procedures were endangering cago Tribune that year. said they deserved all along: a cruit an adequate number of fos- Anti-abortion legislators in Con- patients’ health, Klopfer immedi- Other abortion doctors kept low proper burial. ter parents. PAGE 8 •STARS AND STRIPES• Saturday, October 26, 2019 NATION Poll: Majority oppose slavery reparations

BY COREY WILLIAMS Not everyone realizes how horrible slav- and off since the moment slavery in the AND NOREEN NASIR ery was to black Americans, said 63-year- U.S. officially ended in 1865. Associated Press old Nathan Jordan, adding that the federal After the Civil War, Union Army Gen. government should apologize for slavery William Tecumseh Sherman promised DETROIT — Few Americans are in “because it was wrong.” compensation to freed slaves in the form favor of giving reparations to descendants While he supports reparations, Jordan, of land and mules to farm it — hence the of enslaved black people in the United who is black and lives in Vienna, Ga., can’t phrase “40 acres and a mule.” But Presi- States, a new poll shows, even as the idea put a dollar figure on what would be fair. dent Andrew Johnson took away the offer. has gained momentum among Democratic “I don’t think the government could even More than 120 years later, then-Rep. presidential contenders. afford that,” he said. “I don’t know what John Conyers, a Detroit Democrat, intro- Only 29% of Americans say the govern- the value would be. There are still a lot of duced legislation to establish a commission ment should pay cash reparations, accord- (black) people trying to catch up. I’m not to develop reparations proposals. He rein- ing to the Associated Press-NORC Center sure if they’ll ever catch up.” troduced it in every congressional session for Public Affairs Research poll. Alicia Cheek, 56, of Asheboro, N.C., who until he resigned in 2017, and it was rein- But the poll reveals a large divide be- COREY WILLIAMS/AP is black, opposes both reparations and a tween Americans of different racial and government apology, saying white people troduced last year by Rep. Sheila Jackson ethnic backgrounds. Reparations Labor Union founder Anita today “can’t be liable for what their an- Lee, a Texas Democrat. Presidential can- Most black Americans, 74%, favor Belle talks about slave reparations during cestors did.” She also questions how a fair didate and Democratic Sen. Cory Booker reparations, compared with 15% of white an interview in April in Detroit. amount could be determined. of New Jersey filed a Senate companion Americans. Among Hispanics, 44% favor The nation is marking 400 years since bill this year. reparations. worked hard to become Americans and the first slave ship sailed to what would be- Other Democratic candidates have come Lori Statzer, 79, of West Palm Beach, never asked for anything.” come the United States, bringing about 20 out in support of reparations or at least a Fla., opposes cash reparations and an of- Poll respondents also were sharply divid- slaves to the British colony at Jamestown, commission to study it. ficial government apology. ed by race on whether the U.S. government Va., in 1619. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon- “None of the black people in America should issue an apology for slavery: 64% Over the next two centuries, more than nell, a Republican, has publicly opposed today are under the slavery issue,” said of white Americans oppose a government 300,000 men, women and children were the idea of a national reparations policy. Statzer, who is white. “It’s over with.” apology, while 77% of black Americans and forcibly brought to what is now the U.S. Anita Belle, founder of the Reparations Using taxpayers’ money to pay repara- 64% of Hispanics believe an apology is due. from Africa, according to the Trans-Atlan- Labor Union in Detroit, says “doing the tions “would be unfair to me,” she added. Overall, 46% of Americans favor and 52% tic Slave Trade Database. right thing means making amends for what “My ancestors came to this country, oppose a national apology. The debate on reparations has flared on a nation did wrong.” Scrutiny Meth is most common grows with drug in overdose deaths Buttigieg’s in most of western US Associated Press Most of the meth in the U.S. is made in Mexico and smuggled NEW YORK — Fentanyl is success across the border — U.S. produc- driving drug overdose deaths tion has actually been declining BY THOMAS BEAUMONT in the U.S. overall, but in nearly Associated Press in recent years, according to the half of the country, it’s a different U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency. NASHUA, N.H. — For much story. Meth is the bigger killer, a Its availability has held at high of the year, Pete Buttigieg has new government report shows. levels in recent years in areas of glided through the Democratic Nationwide, most deaths still the Southwest, and has increased presidential campaign, rais- involve opioid drugs like fentanyl in some areas of the Midwest, the MARY SCHWALM/AP ing stunning amounts of money, and heroin. But in 2017, the stim- agency’s field offices report. impressing many with his calm Democratic presidential candidate South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete ulant meth was the drug most Final 2018 data has not yet been eloquence and gaining ground in Buttigieg listens to a question Thursday in Nashua, N.H. frequently involved in deaths in released, but preliminary figures early voting Iowa. four regions that include 19 states suggest that overdose deaths in- Now he is starting to pay the shire on Thursday. possible issues, according to a west of the Mississippi. volving meth increased. price of success. Within days of his last debate Buttigieg campaign adviser. The report released Friday by The CDC report is based on a New to national politics, the 37- performance, the attacks began. For his part, Buttigieg declined the Centers for Disease Control search of overdose death certifi- year-old mayor of South Bend, Buttigieg and his senior aides to address how he had prepared and Prevention is the agency’s cates for the name of drugs. In Ind ., is facing much sharper scru- quickly convened to discuss how for more scrutiny. first geographic breakdown of many cases, a person was taking tiny after last week’s presidential a former Chicago city attorney “Like any campaign, we make deaths by drug. It’s based on 2017 multiple drugs. debate when he pointedly chal- who tried blocking the release of sure that we anticipate any at- figures when there were more Since the report is the first of lenged Massachusetts Sen. Eliz- footage of the fatal police shoot- tacks that might come our way,” than 70,000 overdose deaths in its kind, how meth factored into abeth Warren and struck clear ing of a black teenager, Laquan Buttigieg said Thursday. the U.S., two-thirds of them in- overdose deaths regionally in the contrasts with others. McDonald, ended up on the host His political opponents have volving opioids. past isn’t known. In the days since, Buttigieg has committee for a Buttigieg fund- also begun circulating opposi- Fentanyl was involved in 39% New Mexico has seen a shift. come under criticism for being raiser in Chicago last week. tion research about him, includ- of the deaths that year, followed For years, black tar heroin was too cozy with powerful tech in- The death stirred months of ing the leaked results of a South by heroin, 23%, and cocaine, 21%. the biggest problem, then pre- dustry giant Mark Zuckerberg, a protest and ended in an officer’s Carolina focus group conducted Those drugs top the list in the scription painkillers, said Dr. Mi- classmate at Harvard, and faced conviction for second-degree in June by Buttigieg’s campaign, eastern part of the country. chael Landen of the state’s health renewed questions about his abil- murder. which showed Buttigieg’s sexual- Methamphetamine was No. 4 department. State meth deaths ity to attract African American But the failure by Buttigieg’s ity — he is the first openly gay, nationwide, cited in 13% of over- went from 150 in 2017 to 194 last voters, a vital bloc of the Demo- team to screen more closely was serious contender for his party’s dose deaths. But in the four west- year, vaulting meth to the top. cratic base. an untimely reminder of the presidential nomination — to be ern regions, it was No. 1, at 21% “It’s really been the first time Just as Warren’s recent ascent officer-involved shooting of a a deterrent to his support among to 38%. we’ve seen that,” said Landen. was met by confrontation dur- black man in South Bend, which African Americans, a key con- Previous CDC reports have He attributed the surge in ing last week’s debate in Ohio, it raised anew questions about his stituency in the first Southern charted meth’s increasing toll, meth to its wide availability and may be Buttigieg’s turn. With two light support among African primary next year. noting that it rose from eighth to low cost, and said he worried it city election victories and one Americans. And Monday, Bloomberg News fourth in just four years. could get worse. While there are spectacular statewide defeat in Buttigieg removed the lawyer, published a story stating that The new report found dramatic programs to deal with fentanyl Indiana to his name, he is in for Steve Patton, from the event’s co- Zuckerberg, the Facebook found- differences in the 10 regions. For and heroin overdoses, there’s not an examination like he has never sponsor list and was returning his er and CEO who has come under example, In New England, fen- much in place to prevent meth faced. campaign contributions. bipartisan criticism on the plat- tanyl had the highest adjusted deaths, he said. “I guess we’re doing well be- Mike Schmuhl, his campaign form’s political speech policy and overdose death rate and meth was “I think we’re potentially going cause it seems like there’s a little manager, was asked to establish a handling of private information, a distant 10th on the list. In the to be caught off guard with meth- more heat coming toward us,” more thorough protocol to review and his wife had recommended region that includes the mountain amphetamine deaths, and we Buttigieg told reporters after a contributions and the donor list Buttigieg staff hires to the cam- states and the Dakotas, meth was have to get our act together,” he campaign stop in New Hamp- — of roughly 600,000 — for other paign’s digital analytics. No. 1 and fentanyl was sixth. said. Saturday, October 26, 2019 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 9 NATION Kids separated from families at border top 5K

BY ELLIOT SPAGAT mala and Honduras. Associated Press Of those separated during the 12-month period, 207 were under SAN DIEGO — U.S. immigra- 5, said attorney Lee Gelernt of the GREGORY BULL/AP tion authorities separated more ACLU, which sued to stop fam- A boy from Central America runs down a hall after arriving from an immigration detention center at than 1,500 children from their ily separation. Five were under a shelter in San Diego last December. The American Civil Liberties Union said on Thursday that U.S. parents at the Mexico border a year old, 26 were a year old, 40 immigration authorities have separated more than 5,400 children from their parents since July 2017. early in the Trump administra- were 2 years old, 76 were 3, and tion, the American Civil Liberties 60 were 4. The U.S. Health and Human have abused their discretion by children. Union said Thursday, bringing “It is shocking that 1,556 more Services Department’s internal separating families over dubious Poor tracking before the spring the total number of children sep- families, including babies and watchdog said in January that allegations and minor transgres- of 2018 complicates the task of arated since July 2017 to more toddlers, join the thousands of potentially thousands more had sions including traffic offenses. accounting for children who were than 5,400. others already torn apart by this been separated since July 2017, It has asked Sabraw to more nar- separated early on. As of Oct. The ACLU said the administra- inhumane and illegal policy,” prompting U.S. District Judge rowly define circumstances that 16, the ACLU said, volunteers tion told its attorneys that 1,556 said Gelernt. “Families have suf- Dana Sabraw to give the admin- would justify separation, which couldn’t reach 362 families by children were separated from fered tremendously, and some istration six months to identify the administration has opposed. phone because numbers didn’t July 1, 2017, to June 26, 2018, may never recover.” them. The ACLU said it received With Thursday’s disclosure, work or the sponsor who took when a federal judge in San Diego The Justice Department de- the last batch of 1,556 names one the number of children separated custody was unable or unwilling ordered that children in govern- clined to comment. day ahead of Friday’s deadline. since July 2017 reached 5,460. to provide contact information ment custody be reunited with The count is a milestone in ac- The administration has also The government lacked track- for the parent, prompting the their parents. counting for families who have separated 1,090 children since ing systems when the adminis- door-to-door searches in Central Children from that period can been touched by Trump’s widely the judge ordered a halt to the tration formally launched a “zero America. be difficult to find because the maligned effort against illegal practice in June 2018 except tolerance” policy in the spring Since retreating on family sep- government had inadequate track- immigration. The government in limited circumstances, like of 2018 to criminally prosecute aration, the administration has ing systems. Volunteers working identified 2,814 separated chil- threats to child safety or doubts every adult who entered the tried other ways to reverse a with the ACLU are searching for dren who were in government about whether the adult is really country illegally from Mexico, major surge in asylum seekers, some of them and their parents custody on June 26, 2018, nearly the parent. sparking an international outcry many of them Central American by going door-to-door in Guate- all of whom have been reunited. The ACLU said the authorities when parents couldn’t find their families. Victim of Texas GOP leaders enter Slender battle over child’s gender

BY JAMIE STENGLE tective Services were looking into Man attack AND CLARICE SILBER “the matter” of the child. And on Associated Press Thursday, Attorney General Ken Paxton said he was asking Fam- speaks out DALLAS — Top Republi- ily and Protective Services to in- can leaders in Texas this week vestigate the mother for possible Associated Press weighed in on two parents’ battle child abuse, citing “public re- over their 7-year-old child’s gen- MILWAUKEE — A Wiscon- ports” in a letter that alleges she der identity after the case was sin girl who was lured into the is “forcing” the child to transition woods by two friends and stabbed shared widely on social media to a girl. 19 times in an effort to please a and conservative news sites. However, Judge Kim Cooks in fictional horror character called Former spouses Anne Geor- Dallas said Thursday during a Slender Man said she’s come to gulas and Jeffrey Younger, who hearing that the court noted no terms with aspects of the attack live in the Dallas area, have been abuse, neglect or family violence but still sleeps with broken scis- embroiled in a legal dispute over in the case. Cooks ruled that the ABC NEWS/AP sors “just in case.” their divorce and the care of their parents would make joint deci- In her first interview about the Payton Leutner is interviewed by ABC’s David Muir in August. children since 2015. Georgulas sions about the child. 2014 attack, which was set to air Leutner survived a stabbing attack in 2014 by two young friends says the couple’s 7-year-old who The judge scolded the father, Friday, Payton Leutner told ABC wanting to please a fictional horror character called Slender Man. was born a boy now identifies as who she noted was unemployed, News that despite her lingering a girl and prefers to be called a for seeking publicity on the case trauma, she has “come to accept said. guilty, with Geyser receiving a female name. Younger, who says and raising money on his website, all of the scars that I have.” With Leutner on the ground, harsher sentence because she the child acts like a boy around but she also pointed out how the “It’s just a part of me,” she Geyser stabbed her 19 times be- was the one who did the actual him, asked to be the sole decision- mother testified that her encour- said. fore she and Weier left Leutner stabbing, according to prosecu- maker and launched a website in agement of the child being trans- Leutner was 12 when two of for dead. Leutner said she even- tors. Geyser was ordered to spend which he pleads for help to “save” gender may have been excessive. her 12-year-old friends, Morgan tually got up, grabbed trees for 40 years in a mental institution. his child. Much of the public reaction Geyser and Anissa Weier, lured support, and made her way to a Weier was committed to a mental Inaccurate and misleading to the case has focused on back- her from a sleepover to a nearby nearby road where a bicyclist health facility for 25 years. stories about the 7-year-old have ing the narrative laid out on the wooded park in the Milwaukee found her and called for help. Leutner told ABC News that since circulated on blogs, Face- father’s website, which features suburb of Waukesha, investiga- The case drew widespread at- charging her attackers as adults book posts, YouTube videos and a headline saying he’s fighting tors said. In the ABC interview, tention because of how young was the right decision. petitions, bringing attention to a “chemical castration and sex- Leutner recalled how, before the the girls were, how vicious the “If they had stolen a candy bar, usually private matter. change of his son.” stabbing, Weier told her to lay attack was and because the two sure that’s a child. But you tried The Associated Press is not Cooks said Thursday that no down on the ground and cover her- attackers said they did it because to kill somebody. That’s an adult naming the 7-year-old to protect Texas court or judge has ordered self with sticks and leaves to hide, they believed Slender Man would crime,” she said. the child’s privacy. “the chemical castration, puberty as part of what Leutner believed otherwise hurt them and their Leutner said she doesn’t want Gov. Greg Abbott tweeted blockers, hormone blockers or to be a game of hide-and-seek. families. to see or talk to Geyser and Weier Wednesday evening that the at- any transgender reassignment “But it was really just a trick Geyser and Weier were charged again, and that what Geyser did torney general’s office and Texas surgery on this child to become a to get me down there,” Leutner as adults and eventually pleaded was “probably unforgivable.” Department of Family and Pro- female.” PAGE 10 •STARS AND STRIPES• Saturday, October 26, 2019 NATION Massive mall set to open, but will shoppers come?

Associated Press The big question is: Who will can Dream is looking to draw 40 come? million visitors in its first year, EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. In today’s retail landscape, con- with entertainment accounting — More than two decades ago sumers are glued to their iPhones for more than half of its space. when a mega entertainment and shopping complex was being con- and smartphones, where they can Attractions include a bunny field ceived on a vast swath of swamp do their shopping without ever and an aviary. There will also be land in New Jersey, the iPhone leaving their couch. Amazon has such amenities as a doggy day JULIO CORTEZ/AP didn’t exist, Amazon was only morphed into the biggest online care and a luxury wing, where selling books online and malls retailer in the world. And overall shoppers can sip champagne The exterior of the construction site of the American Dream mall in were where you went for all your traffic at malls, which had been and sample caviar as they wait East Rutherford, N.J., is seen in April. shopping needs. on the rise in the late 1990s, has to have their designer handbags Now, after endless fits and declined 10% since, according to wrapped. Two hotels with a total different events and trends. A checkerboard exterior — since starts and billions of dollars Coresight Research. of 3,500 rooms are being planned grand court’s fountain can con- removed — drawing derision, spent, American Dream is of- A report from Credit Suisse next to the complex. vert into a catwalk for a runway including from then-New Jersey ficially opening its doors to the published two years ago pre- “You can make it your back- show. The ice rink can be trans- Gov. Chris Christie who called it public as the second largest mall dicted that up to a quarter of the yard playground if you live in formed into a concert venue. “an offense to the eyes” and “the in the country, and third largest shopping malls will close by 2022 Manhattan or even if you’re in Canada-based mall and enter- ugliest damn building in New in North America. given the increasing popularity New Jersey,” said Ken Downing, tainment conglomerate Triple Jersey and maybe America.” It will showcase 3 million of online shopping and a rash of chief creative officer for Triple Five in 2011 took over the mas- The project was suspended in square feet of leasable space store closings. Since 2015, only Five Group, the mall’s developer. sive project originally dubbed 2009 during the financial crisis dedicated to more than a dozen nine malls have been built, a dra- “It’s a staycation. So, it’s a little bit Xanadu from two developers, after a Lehmann Bros. affiliate entertainment attractions like a matic fall from their peak con- of competing with mindset and whose plans included building failed to fund its share of the con- 16-story indoor ski slope, roller- struction in 1973 of 43, according emotion, far more than a prop- the world’s largest Ferris wheel. struction. Creditors seized the coaster, waterpark and eventu- to CoStar Group, a real estate re- erty or even Disneyland.” The project broke ground in 2004 project in 2010, and Triple Five ally 450 retail, food and specialty search firm. Downing says American but it languished during the early came on board a year later, re- shops. Amid that new reality, Ameri- Dream was designed to adapt to years, with its multi-colored, naming it American Dream. Facebook launches a news section – and it will pay publishers

Associated Press is getting paid and how much, saying only that it will be paying Over the course of its 15 year “a range of publishers for access history, Facebook has variously to all of their content.” Just last ignored news organizations while year, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said eating their advertising revenue, he wasn’t sure it “makes sense” courted them for video projects to pay news outlets for their it subsequently abandoned, and material. then largely cut their stories out But now, as Zuckerberg told The of its newsfeeds. Associated Press in an interview, Now it plans to pay them for “there’s an opportunity to set up news headlines — reportedly mil- new long term, stable financial lions of dollars in some cases. relationships with publishers.” Enter the “News Tab,” a new News executives have long section in the Facebook mobile been unhappy about the extent app that will display headlines — to which digital giants like Face- and nothing else — from the Wall book make use of their stories Street Journal, the Washington — mostly by displaying headlines BRYNN ANDERSON/AP Post, BuzzFeed News, Business and short summaries when users Insider, NBC, USA Today and the post news links. A bipartisan bill A guitar shaped hotel is seen at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino on Thursday in Hollywood, Fla. Los Angeles Times, among oth- introduced in Congress this year ers. Local stories from several would grant an antitrust exemp- of the largest U.S. cities will also tion to news companies, letting Guitar-shaped hotel opens in Florida make the grade; headlines from them band together to negoti- smaller towns are on their way, ate payments from the big tech Facebook says. platforms. Associated Press the 2020 Super Bowl will be a refurbished venue for concerts Tapping on those headlines “It’s a good direction that played. and other events, starting with HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — It looks will take you directly to publish- they’re willing for the first time to “It really is special,” said Maroon 5 on Friday and continu- er websites or apps, if you have value and pay for news content,” like a rock ‘n’ roll guitar that Led Mitchell Cypress, vice chairman ing with artists such as Sting and any installed. Which is more or said David Chavern, head of the Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page would of the Seminole tribal council. Billy Joel. less what publishers have been News Media Alliance, a publisher have played. But this one is 450 “The Seminoles now are known It has a giant pool and lagoon, requesting from Facebook for trade group. “The trouble is that feet tall and is a light-beam hotel throughout the world.” retail shops, restaurants, and of years. most publishers aren’t included.” that the Seminole Tribe wants It’s a unique addition to South course gambling. It’s potentially a big step for a Zuckerberg said Facebook to become South Florida’s latest Florida’s tourist landscape and Jim Allen, CEO of Hard Rock platform that has long struggled aims to set up partnerships with a tourist destination. no hotel is like it in the world. It International, said the brand al- with both stamping out misin- “wide range” of publishers. The Guitar Hotel had its grand has more than 600 rooms and at ready is filled with guitars, so formation and making nice with “We think that this is an oppor- opening Thursday on the tribe’s night, beams of light will mimic why not a hotel? struggling purveyors of news. tunity to build something quite land in Hollywood, once only the strings of the guitar. “Wouldn’t it be really cool if we Though media watchers remain meaningful here,” he said. “We’re a trailer park and some smoke Locally, people stop along the could design a hotel shaped like a skeptical that Facebook is really going to have journalists curat- shops. It’s the latest step in the roadsides to take photos. It’s vis- guitar?” Allen remembers saying. committed to helping sustain the ing this, we are really focused Seminole Hard Rock empire, ible to travelers on airliners head- “Before, we were more of a locals news industry. on provenance and branding and which includes naming rights on ed into Fort Lauderdale. facility. Now, we have the ability Facebook declined to say who where the stories come from.” the Miami-area stadium where The $1.5 billion project also has to market this internationally.” Saturday, October 26, 2019 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 11 WORLD 3 more arrested in deaths inside truck container

BY DANICA KIRKA and container took separate jour- AND CHRISTOPHER BODEEN neys befor e end i ng up at t he i ndus - /AP Associated Press trial park. They say the container NG HAN GUAN LONDON — A fourth person traveled by ferry from Zeebrugge Chinese migrant workers eat their lunch outside a construction site in Beijing. The discovery in England was arrested in connection with to Purfleet, England, where it ar- of the bodies of 39 people believed to be from China lays bare some sometimes-overlooked facts about the deaths of 39 people found in rived early Wednesday and was China’s development as a rising global power. the back of a container truck in picked up by the truck driver and southeastern England, British driven the few miles to Grays. police said Friday as the inves- The truck cab, which is regis- Vast income gap drives many in China tigation into one of the country’s tered in Bulgaria to a company worst human smuggling cases owned by an Irish woman, is to seek better life abroad, despite claims geared up. believed to have traveled from Police said a 48-year-old man Northern Ireland to Dublin, Associated Press from Northern Ireland was ar- munist Party, which is intensely gal migration, and human smug- where it caught a ferry to Wales, sensitive about the country’s in- gling has fallen of “drastically” in rested Friday at England’s BEIJING — Weeks prior to then drove across Britain to pick ternational image and has staked recent years, said Chu Yin, pro- Stansted Airport on suspicion of the discovery in England of the up the container. much of its legitimacy on improv- fessor at Department of Public manslaughter and conspiracy to bodies of 39 people believed to traffic people. The arrest came Global Trailer Rentals Ltd told ing living standards for the bulk Administration of Renmin Uni- be from China, Beijing was hold- of the 1.4 billion people. after police arrested a man and a Ireland’s national broadcaster ing lavish National Day celebra- versity. Still, some are drawn by woman, both 38 and from north- RTE the trailer it owns was leased The timing of the incident is the possibility of striking it rich tions congratulating itself on its particularly awkward for the western England, earlier Friday Oct. 15 in County Monaghan, abroad, said Chu. rise from an impoverished Asian party made rich use of the occa- on the same charges. The 25- “We often say if you are middle in Ireland, at a rate of 275 euros giant to the world’s second-larg- sion of the 70th anniversary of year-old driver of the truck re- class, you will have more oppor- ($299) per week. The Dublin- est economy. the founding of the People’s Re- mains in custody on suspicion of tunities in cities such as Beijing, based company said it will make The tragedy lays bare some public on Oct. 1 to highlight eco- murder. but if you are from a lower class, the data from its tracking system crucial but sometimes overlooked nomic improvements it says have The new arrests came as police facts about China’s development you can earn more money in available to investigators. lifted hundreds of millions out of European and North American began the grim process Friday of as it revels in its new-found sta- poverty . The company’s directors told countries,” said Chu. conducting post-mortem exami- tus as a global power that has el- Yet millions of Chinese still RTE it was “shell-shocked” at the At the same time, people-smug- nations of the dead. The remains evated hundreds of millions of its work in factories far from home news. gling networks have grown much of 11 people from the truck were citizens to the middle classes. and are forced by internal resi- Groups of migrants have re- more sophisticated from the days transported Thursday by ambu- Despite the flashy wealth of dency rules to leave their chil- lance from the Port of Tilbury to peatedly landed on English metropolises such as Beijing and dren behind. when would-be migrants often a mortuary under police escort. shores using small boats to make Shanghai, much of China remains Hourly wages have risen but traveled in the holds of rusty Essex Police said 31 men and the risky Channel crossing, and relatively poor and economic remain low by Western stan- freighters. Migrants will often eight women were found dead in migrants are sometimes found growth has created vast wealth dards, just a few hundred dollars now travel first to a third country the truck early Wednesday at an in the back of cars and trucks disparities, especially between a month depending on the region. before moving on to their final destinations in North America or industrial park in Grays, a town that disembark from the mas- cities and the rural hinterland. While an aging population and 25 miles east of London. Europe. sive ferries that link France and The income gap has fueled the move to higher technology in- Although U.K. police said they the desire among many to seek a Even so, this week’s tragedy England. dustries is boosting demand for believed the dead were Chinese better life abroad — some out of workers, those without the skills harkens back to previous deaths But Wednesday’s macabre find citizens, Chinese officials told choice, others coerced or manip- to compete for more demanding of Chinese migrants, mainly from reporters in Beijing the nationali- in an industrial park was a re- ulated into undertaking a hazard- jobs often find themselves shut Fujian, including 58 people who ties and identities of the victims minder that criminal gangs are ous journey. out of the labor market. suffocated in a truck in Dover, had not yet been confirmed. still profiting from large-scale The issue is a difficult one to China’s appetite for labor England, in 2000, after a perilous, British police believe the truck trafficking. confront for China’s ruling Com- should eliminate the need for ille- monthslong journey from Fujian. Heavy rains flood areas of Japan recovering from typhoons

BY LEE JIN-MAN ied underneath them died. Rescu- land of Honshu that headed north Associated Press ers were searching for the other later Friday. two. Mudslides also hit at least More than 9,000 homes, includ- NARITA, Japan — Torrential two homes in nearby cities, but ing 6,000 in Chiba prefecture and rain caused flooding and mud- residents were all safely rescued, 2,500 in nearby Ibaraki prefec- slides Friday in towns east of Chiba disaster management offi- ture, were without electricity, ac- Tokyo, leaving one dead and two cials said. cording to Tokyo Electric Power missing and expanding damage Heavy rain also washed out the Co. in areas still recovering from re- second round of the PGA Tour’s Chiba city issued an evacuation cent typhoons. first tournament held in Japan, advisory to residents of several Muddy waters spilled from the Zozo Championship in Inzai districts because of a growing several rivers in Chiba, south- City, where Tiger Woods was tied risk of flooding or mudslides. east of Tokyo, where pedestrians with Gary Woodland at 64 after waded through waist-deep floods. Thursday’s opening round. Strong rain also fell in Tokyo but A highway toll gate near Narita The Meteorological Agency on subsided by late Friday. International Airport was tem- Friday morning predicted up to Many areas in Chiba are still porarily closed for safety. Many 7 inches of rain over the next 24 recovering from a typhoon last passengers who landed at the hours. NHK public television said month and another earlier this airport were stuck because trains the average rainfall for the entire month. Typhoon Hagibis this there were suspended. month had fallen in just a half day month caused widespread flood- ing farther north and left more LEE JIN-MAN/AP Mudslides crushed three hous- Friday. The downpour was com- es in Midori district in Chiba, and ing from a low-pressure system than 80 people dead or presumed A street is flooded by heavy rain on Friday, in Narita, east of Tokyo. one of three people who were bur- hovering above Japan’s main is- dead across Japan. PAGE 12 •STARS AND STRIPES• Saturday, October 26, 2019 WORLD EU envoys Lion Air crash agree to extension due to flaws in for Brexit

BY DANICA KIRKA AND SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press design, training LONDON — European Union ambassadors agreed Friday that the bloc should grant Britain’s re- BY NINIEK KARMINI under intense pressure to explain quest for another extension to the MARGIE MASON AND problems associated with the Brexit deadline but have not yet Associated Press flight control system, known as figured out how long that delay MCAS. The aircraft still has not JAKARTA, Indonesia — An should be. resumed flying. Speaking Friday in Brussels Indonesian investigation found The troubles with the Max jets a Lion Air flight that crashed after EU ambassadors met with have also raised questions about the EU Brexit chief negotiator and killed 189 people a year ago the safety certification process in was doomed by a combination Michel Barnier, European Com- the U.S. mission spokeswoman Mina An- of aircraft design flaws, inad- Indonesia’s National Transpor- equate training and maintenance dreeva said ambassadors from tation Safety Committee said the the EU’s 27 other nations accept- problems. MCAS on the Lion Air flight re- A summary of the final accident ed the terms of an extension and lied on a single “angle of attack” their “work will continue in the report released Friday said Lion sensor that gave erroneous infor- Air flight 610, from Indonesia’s TATAN SYUFLANA/AP coming days.” mation, automatically shoving the Two European diplomats said capital Jakarta to the island of nose of the Max jet down. National Transportation Safety Committee investigator Nurcahyo Sumatra, crashed partly because the ambassadors would meet “The investigation considered Utomo holds a model of an airplane during a press conference in again early next week. Andre- the pilots were never told how to that the design and certification Jakarta, Indonesia, on Friday. quickly respond to malfunctions eva hinted that the EU would not of this feature was inadequate,” hold a special summit on Brexit of the Boeing 737 Max 8 jet’s au- according to a statement issued into problems shortly after take- pilot were unaware of the en- tomated flight-control system. to approve the extension, saying by the head of the committee, So- off. Airspeed and altitude warn- tire situation because a warning the decision will be made in a But during a press conference, erjanto Tjahjono. “The aircraft ings went off and the captain’s function that should have told the statement. investigators highlighted nine flight manual and flight crew stick shaker activated, signaling pilots the two angle of attack sen- Britain is scheduled to leave critical points that they said com- training did not include informa- an impending stall. The captain sors were out of sync was not in- the 28-nation bloc on Oct. 31 but bined to bring on the tragedy. tion about MCAS.” and co-pilot regained control of stalled on the aircraft. has asked for a three-month ex- “If one of the nine hadn’t oc- So far, Indonesia has not re- the aircraft with help from a third “How Boeing could allow the tension to that deadline as British curred, maybe the accident leased the full report. Lion Air pilot who was hitching a MCAS to rely on a single source Prime Minister Boris Johnson wouldn’t have happened,” chief The press release Friday out- ride in the cockpit jump seat, by of data and act upon that single struggles to get lawmakers to investigator Nurcahyo Utomo lined various missteps. The air- manually overriding the automat- source without cross checking pass his Brexit divorce deal. told reporters. craft, only in use for two months, ed system. Economists say a no-deal depar- The Lion Air jet vanished from the other angle of attack indica- began having problems on Oct. Instead of turning around, the ture would hurt both the U.K. and radar after air traffic control was tor is anyone’s guess,” Indonesian 26. A new angle of attack sensor plane continued to Jakarta and the EU economies. informed the plane had altitude aviation expert Gerry Soejatman was installed the day before the landed safely. The pilot did not France, among other EU na- and air speed troubles. It plunged crash, but it was miscalibrated said in an interview. report fully about the problems tions, has been reluctant to ap- into the Java Sea just 13 minutes during an earlier repair, leaving Boeing issued a statement including the activation of the prove a long Brexit extension, after takeoff on Oct. 29, 2018. it 21 degrees out of alignment. Friday saying it was working to stick shaker, the summary said. saying Britain must present “a Five months after the Indone- The problem was missed when it address all the safety recommen- This oversight kept maintenance clear scenario” for progress sian accident, a similar malfunc- was installed. The investigators dations to prevent similar flight crews from investigating, and before another Brexit delay is tion caused a Max jet to crash in said they were unable to find out control problems from recurring. the information was not shared granted. Ethiopia, killing all 157 people on if the new sensor was properly Boeing said it has redesigned with the pilots of the flight that “Our position is that simply board. tested. the flight control system to acti- crashed. giving more time, without politi- That led to the grounding of On a flight later that day from Investigators said the Indian vate only with input from both cal change, without ratification, all 737 Max jets and put Boeing Bali to Jakarta, the aircraft ran captain and the Indonesian co- angle of attack sensors. without an election, would be useless,” Amelie de Montchalin, France’s European Affairs min- ister, told RTL radio Thursday Australia’s iconic rock Uluru scaled by final climbers night. Those comments followed Associated Press Johnson’s decision Thursday to Kata Tjuta National Park Board of Manage- push for an early election to break ment. But it’s an outcome that has divided ULURU, Australia — Nature seemed to be the stalemate in Parliament that both indigenous Australians as well as the siding with indigenous Australians’ demand has blocked a Brexit deal. John- wider world. for Uluru to be respected as a sacred site on son said he would ask lawmakers Friday when high winds threatened to pre- The polarity of opinions has been high- to vote Monday on calling a gen- maturely end the generations-old tradition of lighted in recent months as thousands of eral election on Dec. 12. climbing the sandstone monolith. visitors converged on one of Australia’s most To call an election, Johnson, Rangers warned hundreds of anxious tour- famous landmarks to make a final trek to the who leads a minority government, ists who gathered at the base of the iconic rock top. Tourists have been illegally camping on must win support from two-thirds before dawn that they would miss their last roadsides for miles because the local camping of the House of Commons. But opportunity to ever scale its 1,140-foot sum- ground and accommodation were booked. opposition parties say they won’t mit unless blustery conditions subsided. Sammy Wilson, who chaired the board that vote for an early election until the But the winds calmed and the first of ROB GRIFFITH/AP banned the climb, described the prohibition government secures an extension around 1,000 climbers began their ascent at as a cause for celebration. Wilson is a mem- of the Brexit deadline. a chain handhold up the steep western face A climbing ban began late Friday on the ber of the Anangu tribe who are Uluru’s tra- Britain’s biggest opposition three hours later than scheduled. An indig- sandstone monolith called Uluru that ditional owners. party has gone a step further, enous onlooker booed them. dominates Australia’s arid center . “If I travel to another country and there is saying it will block plans for an The ascent was permanently closed to a sacred site, an area of restricted access, I early election unless Johnson climbers late in the afternoon, while those al- peak, which protesters consider sacred. don’t enter or climb it, I respect it,” Wilson eliminates the possibility of leav- ready on the rock had until sunset to find their “It’s a total overreaction. All of a sudden said. “It is the same here for Anangu. We wel- ing the EU without a deal. way down. they want to take ownership of all this stuff,” come tourists here. We are not stopping tour- Diane Abbott of Labour Party Janet Ishikawa flew from her Hawaiian Ishikawa said. “They say you shouldn’t climb ism, just this activity.” told the BBC her party wants home to central Australia to make the climb because of all this sacred stuff. I can still re- There has long been tension within the in- an “explicit commitment” that on the final possible day. She likened the spect it and climb it.” digenous population around the money that there won’t be a no-deal Brexit, Uluru controversy to a furor over plans to The ban was a unanimous decision made climbers bring and the rock’s significance as “because we don’t trust Boris build a giant telescope on Hawaii’s highest two years ago by 12 members of the Uluru- a sacred site. Johnson.” Saturday, October 26, 2019 •STARS AND STRIPES•PAGE 13 BUSINESS/WEATHER Amazon profits pinched by fast shipping push

BY JAY GREENE startled investors Thursday, as (Amazon chief executive Jeff has 750,000 full-time employees, Pinterest, jumped 9% from the The Washington Post the company reported its third- Bezos owns The Washington up 22% from a year ago, another same period a year ago to $2.3 quarter results. Amazon said it Post.) added cost. billion. Sales rose 35% to $9 bil- The holiday season has gotten plans to spend about $1.5 billion Because of those additional Amazon has endured peri- lion. Just three months ago, the particularly expensive for Ama- more in the current quarter to get costs, the company told investors ods of significant spending in its unit’s operating income climbed zon this year. packages from its warehouses to to expect fourth-quarter operat- quarter-century as a company, 29% as sales rose 37%. The e-commerce giant pio- its top customers in one day, rath- ing income of $1.2 billion to $2.9 a strategy that distanced it from Amazon’s digital advertising neered speedy shipping with er than two. That’s on top of mas- billion, compared with $3.8 bil- retail rivals that haven’t dared business, which sells space to its Prime subscription program sive spending to boost shipping lion a year ago. run up such expenditures. In re- big brands as well as merchants more than a decade ago, which speeds in the second and third The increased costs paid off in cent quarters, Amazon has been hawking wares on its retail site, now counts more than 100 mil- quarters as well. customers buying more items, Ol- able to offset such lavish spend- posted big gains, too. In the pe- lion members. The company an- riod, Amazon’s “other” category, nounced plans earlier this year to “There’s a lot of cost in the savsky said. “We see a lot of trac- ing with gains from its lucrative short run,” Amazon finance chief tion with customers,” Olsavsky cloud-computing and advertising which is primarily derived from get packages to customers in one- advertising, grew 45% year over Brian Olsavsky said during a con- said. businesses. day, rather than the two that has year to $3.6 billion. long been its standard for Prime ference call with journalists. Three months ago, Olsavsky While the cloud business, Ama- members. The payoff, Olsavsky said, will noted that the company blew past zon Web Services, continues to But that’s come at a cost, as be worth it. Faster shipping will plans to invest $800 million in the be the company’s most profitable EXCHANGE RATES Amazon spends more on trans- translate into high sales and more second quarter to speed up its division, it’s growth and margins Military rates portation as well as pushing more loyal customers. Still, the contin- shipping. At the time, he said the are slowing. Euro costs (Oct. 28) ...... $1.1404 Dollar buys (Oct. 28)...... €0.8769 products out to its warehouses ued cost of speeding up delivery company also adjusted its third- Operating income at AWS, British pound (Oct. 28) ...... $1.32 to get inventory closer to its disappointed investors, who ham- quarter guidance to account for whose services are used to run Japanese yen (Oct. 28) ...... 106.00 South Korean won (Oct. 28) ...... 1,146.00 customers. mered the company’s stock in higher-than-anticipated costs. technical infrastructure at com- Commercial rates The price tag for those moves after-hours trading. Amazon also noted that it now panies including Unilever and Bahrain (Dinar) ...... 0.3770 British pound ...... $1.2817 Canada (Dollar) ...... 1.3065 China (Yuan) ...... 7.0680 Denmark (Krone) ...... 6.7338 Egypt (Pound) ...... 16.1378 Euro ...... $1.1094/0.9014 Google tries to improve accuracy in search results Hong Kong (Dollar) ...... 7.8371 Hungary (Forint) ...... 296.52 Israel (Shekel) ...... 3.5346 BY RACHEL LERMAN Japan (Yen) ...... 108.60 show more useful results. But this trains the system by using a “fill- So will you notice that Google Kuwait (Dinar) ...... 0.3038 Associated Press one is the biggest the company in-the-blank” practice, having understands your questions bet- Norway (Krone) ...... 9.1802 ter? Well, maybe. Search has got- Philippines (Peso)...... 51.32 has released in at least five years, the machines guess which word is Poland (Zloty) ...... 3.86 MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. said Pandu Nayak, Google’s vice missing in a sentence until it gets ten much more nuanced since it Saudi Arabia (Riyal) ...... 3.7559 — Google is paying more atten- president of Search. better at finding the right answer first launched more than 20 years Singapore (Dollar) ...... 1.3630 South Korea (Won) ...... 1,174.61 tion to the small words in your “It looks at the whole context of all the time. ago. But changes by themselves Switzerland (Franc)...... 0.9930 searches. Want to figure out how words to try to understand what’s Google has long focused on the are subtle. Thailand (Baht) ...... 30.16 Turkey (Lira) ...... 5.7699 to park on a hill with no curb? going on,” he said. keywords in your search term, (Military exchange rates are those Google now takes that “no” into T he cha nge is rooted i n G oogle’s but this method helps it take into MARKET WATCH available to customers at military banking facilities in the country of issuance account, and shows top results natural language processing account every word in the sen- for Japan, South Korea, Germany, the that include parking instructions research, which studies how to tence in order to better under- Netherlands and the United Kingdom. For nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e., without curbs. teach computers to understand stand meaning and, hopefully, purchasing British pounds in Germany), The company is rolling out the nuance of speech and com- show more relevant results first. check with your local military banking facility. Commercial rates are interbank the change to English language munication. This newest update BERT brings more, better re- rates provided for reference when buying searches in the U.S. starting this is based on a training technique sults, Nayak said the company currency. All figures are foreign currencies to one dollar, except for the British pound, week. Google said it expects the called Bidirectional Encoder has found through testing this which is represented in dollars-to-pound, shift will give better results for Representation from Transform- year. But it’s not perfect, and the and the euro, which is dollars-to-euro.) every one in 10 searches. ers, or BERT. change means some results will INTEREST RATES

Tweaking its massive search The technique involves teach- miss the mark more than they do Prime rate ...... 5.00 engine is nothing new for Google. ing the systems to better under- now. Discount rate ...... 2.50 Federal funds market rate ...... 1.85 The company makes regular stand the order and context in “We’re really playing a statisti- 3-month bill ...... 1.62 changes to be more accurate and which a word appears. Google cal game here,” Nayak said. 30-year bond ...... 2.26 WEATHER OUTLOOK SATURDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST SATURDAY IN EUROPE SUNDAY IN THE PACIFIC

Misawa 59/54 Kabul 64/42 Seoul 58/39 Baghdad 84/65 Kandahar 77/48 Osan Tokyo Mildenhall/ Drawsko 59/41 66/57 Lakenheath Pomorskie Busan 59/51 58/50 60/47 Iwakuni 67/62 Kuwait Bahrain Zagan Sasebo City 90/85 Brussels 64/51 Guam 86/78 64/56 Ramstein 63/58 85/81 Lajes, 62/48 Riyadh Doha Azores Stuttgart Pápa 94/67 91/77 71/67 64/45 65/49 Aviano/ Vicenza 67/51

Naples 72/59 Okinawa Morón 78/74 79/50 Sigonella Rota 66/60 The weather is provided by the Djibouti Souda Bay American Forces Network Weather Center, 90/72 74/55 70/66 2nd Weather Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. PAGE 14 •STARS AND STRIPES• Saturday, October 26, 2019 AMERICAN ROUNDUP Painting stolen by Nazis recovered from museum

CANAJOHARIE — A NY painting that was stolen by the Nazis has been recovered from an upstate New York mu- seum by the FBI. The painting “Winter” by American artist Gari Melchers was part of the collection at the Arkell Museum in Canajoharie before it was recovered Sept. 10. Court documents say German publisher and philanthropist Ru- dolf Mosse acquired the painting from the Great Berlin Art Exhibi- tion in 1900. The state seized con- trol of the family’s art collection after Mosse’s family members fled Germany in 1933. The painting was to remain at the FBI’s Albany office until it is reunited with the Mosse family. Student lab experiment prompts evacuation

MORGANTOWN — A WV spokesman for West Virginia University says a cam- pus building was evacuated after a student’s chemical lab experi- ment went awry and created an explosive. WVU spokesman John Bolt said students, faculty and staff in the engineering research build- ing on the Evansdale campus were ordered out Tuesday. No in- juries were reported. Bolt told The Charleston Ga- zette-Mail that he believed the ROBERT COHEN, ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH/AP experiment was conducted Mon- day night, and when the analysis came back Tuesday, it showed an explosive was created. He said po- Pups and pumpkin lice and fire crews helped remove some materials from the research St. Bernard puppies Bentley and Ryker shop with owners Paul and Haydee Reed at Roger’s Produce in Webster Groves, Mo., on Tuesday. building as a precaution . Fresh pumpkins from Amish and Mennonite farmers in Vandalia, Ill., attracted shoppers as they were unloaded by owner Roger Krull. New tech tools helping Police began investigating on THE CENSUS casion, the Natchez Democrat count secretive cougars Oct. 3 when a hidden camera was reported that lead singer Tra- found inside an employee bath- The number of new books a Louisiana elementary vis McCready and guitarist Drew room at St. Mary’s Medical Cen- school has added to its library thanks to a $10,000 do- Smithers played a guitar and LINCOLN NATION- ter. Investigators found more than harmonica from the air. Then, NM AL FOREST — New nation. The Advertiser reports J.W. Faulk Elementary in a million still and video images. 765 Lafayette hosted a ceremony Wednesday to celebrate the they joined band members Burne Mexico wildlife officials said new Perez was a technician who new books and the people who made it possible. Librar- Sharpe and Ben Lewis to play a technology is allowing the state took CT scans at the hospital and full concert to a packed crowd on to estimate its cougar population ian Violet Smith says the elementary school can often only order $800 of books PET scans at medical facilities in the festival site Saturday night . more accurately. each year, an amount that covers maybe 60 books. She said the donation added Delray Beach and Boca Raton. new titles to the library and allowed the school to replace older books. The Santa Fe New Mexican re- ported the state’s Department of Volunteers plant trees Game and Fish is using long-last- Woman bitten by wild to aid salmon ing motion-capture wildlife cam- animal after feedings WLEX-TV reported the piece The Caledonian-Record re- eras, mathematical models and is called “The Devil is in the ported a metal box was discov- MOUNT VERNON GPS collaring devices to count its TUCSON — Arizona Details” and appears to show ered chiseled into the cornerstone WA — Eighty volunteers elusive cougars. AZ wildlife authorities four women and a snake emerg- of St. Matthew’s Chapel in Sugar showed up to an ocean shoreline The big cat is secretive, has a have urged people against feed- ing from a spray paint can, but a Hill on Monday. in northern Washington to plant broad range of movement, and ing wild animals after a woman closer look also finds an expletive The chapel is being temporari- trees that will enhance salmon often doesn’t live close to its kind . who regularly feeds javelina in followed by the word “Trump.” ly relocated a few dozen feet away habitat. Officials said having an ac- Tucson was bitten by one. The artist, known as ELLE, so its foundation can be stabilized. The Skagit Valley Herald re- curate count informs the New The Arizona Game & Fish De- told the station the phrase is hid- The team tasked with moving the ported the volunteers last Sat- Mexico Department of Game and partment in Tucson said they den in the piece, which was paint- building found the box. urday planted 1,400 native Sitka Fish’s quota on hunting and trap- believe the woman was attacked ed on a building in Lexington. In Inside the box, chapel members spruce, crabapple and shore pine ping of cougars. The department’s Sunday because she got to close to a statement, the artist said the found a newspaper clipping from on a 3-acre strip on March Point quota is 17% of the population. a female javelina and its young. message is an expression of anger August 1893, when the church southeast of Anacortes. The event Authorities believe the javelina, about “this delusional sexist, rac- was built, as well as five coins and was hosted by the Skagit Conser- Police: Hospital video a medium-sized animal that looks ist man.” a prayer book or small Bible. vation District as part of the sec- voyeur had 1M images similar to a wild boar, would not A city spokeswoman acknowl- ond annual Orca Recovery Day. have been there if she wasn’t rou- edged that using vulgarity is of- Band plays impromptu The planting site was along a tinely feeding them. The woman fensive but said no city dollars pocket estuary. Young salmon WEST PALM BEACH said she was taking out her trash were spent on the mural and that show in hot air balloon — Authorities have ar- migrating from rivers use the FL and turned around, quickly scar- it qualified as free speech. area as a safe place to feed before rested a man who they say hid ing the javelina . NATCHEZ — A Mis- a small camera in bathrooms at MS sissippi band playing reaching saltwater. three Florida medical facilities. Time capsule is found at Natchez’s annual hot air bal- Volunteer Jim Johnson said West Palm Beach police Mural contains hidden in chapel’s foundation loon festival played an impromp- trees provide shade to help keep spokeswoman Molly Anderson expletive about Trump tu concert from a balloon soaring the water cool and filter pollut- said Tuesday that Department SUGAR HILL — Mem- above the festival site. ants. Leaf debris feeds insects of Homeland Security agents ar- LEXINGTON — A Ken- NH bers of a New Hamp- Two members of hometown eaten by fish. rested Rudelmiro Santizo Perez, KY tucky mural includes a shire chapel said they discovered band Bishop Gunn went for their The land is owned by Shell 41, on Monday in Houston as he hidden message about President a time capsule from 1893 in the first ride in a hot air balloon last Puget Sound Refinery. tried to flee to Guatemala. Donald Trump. church’s foundation. Saturday. To celebrate the oc- From wire reports Saturday, October 26, 2019 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 15 VIDEO GAMES

A personal journey Concrete Genie is a children’s game about agonies of bullying, joys of art

BY CHRISTOPHER BYRD Special to The Washington Post oncrete Genie’s optimistic storyline, akin to an old after-school television special, offers a lesson in empathy. C It’s is a bit too straightforward and unironic for a sourpuss like me, but I’d like to think that it may help some kids come to terms with the fact that children can be cruel to each other for reasons that aren’t immedi- ately obvious. Since Concrete Genie is a chil- dren’s game (and it’s not made by Nintendo) I wasn’t betting I’d play through it, but I was disarmed by its novel gameplay which, for the most part, is oriented more around creation and problem-solving than confrontation. Concrete Genie follows the At the beginning of the game we are intro- journey of a bullied teen duced to Ash, an artistic kid who loves draw- named Ash, who escapes ing fanciful-looking creatures with horns his troubles by bringing his and plumage in his notebook. Ignoring his colorful imagination to life mom’s wishes, Ash elects to while away a day in his sketchbook, while in Denska, a young ghost town. The small exploring his hometown of island’s economy collapsed after a tanker guiding Ash’s brush using the DualShock’s from being interrupted by those with nothing Denska — a once bright and spill polluted its coastal waters. motion-control sensors. You can quickly better to do. Over the course of the game, bustling seaside town now Exacerbating the once-thriving fi shing and easily make fetching murals by mixing Ash comes to understand that his tormen- polluted by the “darkness.” town’s woes are gnarled vines that have different designs. In turn, these murals can infested the area, blanketing walls and tors all suffer from their own inner confl icts, Sony Interactive Entertainment photos activate darkened strings of lightbulbs hang- which lead them to lash out. The plotline un- clogging up machinery. This mysterious ing overhead, which causes the surrounding substance, which is colloquially referred to ambiguously sides with a nurture, as opposed area to light up. By the time Luna’s tutorial is to nature, reading of human failings. as the “darkness,” is a byproduct of negative complete, it’s clear that she would like for you mental energy. Admittedly, at no point did I Because of its unusual mechanics, I don’t to revive Denska by painting throughout it. think Concrete Genie is a game that one can become interested in the story. Ash is helped with his task by different Ash’s day is upset after a group of unruly easily get a feel for from watching a trailer. I genies, like Luna, who have special abilities. never would have guessed that I’d in any way kids snatch his notebook and scatter its Fire genies, electric genies and the like can pages. The kids then push Ash onto a tram enjoy creating murals and watching funny- move across Ash’s artwork and burn away looking creatures scamper about them, but that goes to a tiny island guarded by a pur- obstacles or power up junction boxes. Genies, I did because I found it all mostly relaxing. portedly spooky lighthouse. however, recoil at the darkness. Though a VR mode is available that allows Ash doesn’t let the kids’ warnings get to To clear away those tangly tendrils of solid him. Without much ado, he sets about explor- mental anguish, Ash must use super paint. you to paint different designs using the Play- ing. Inside the lighthouse, Ash discovers Super paint can be acquired by fulfi lling a Station Move controllers and to watch one of one of the pages of his notebook on the fl oor. genie’s request for a particular mural design. Ash’s genies to delight in them, it’s a bite- Dejected, he hangs his head in despair when You spend much of the game painting the sized offering that makes for little more than Luna, the creature from his notebook, mirac- walls of the town, lighting up all the bulbs in a pleasant, if not particularly memorable, ulously comes to life on the wall. Projecting each area and using super paint to remove diversion. her power from the wall, Luna mends Ash’s the darkness. (Toward the end, Ash’s brush Concrete Genie’s wide-eyed appreciation torn notebook and gives him a magic brush. can be used as a projectile weapon to hurl for creativity and offbeat gameplay make it Luna signals that she’d like Ash to paint elemental attacks at nefarious genies.) easy to recommend to parents looking for a few specifi c designs from his notebook As Ash goes about his task, he must avoid something for elementary or middle school on the wall. Pressing the right trigger will the bullies who roam around the area to kids. Though it lacks three-dimensional char- cause Ash to take out his brush and open avoid being thrown into a dumpster. Con- acters, it doesn’t lack for joie de vivre. his notebook. Using the control pad, you can crete Genie excels at capturing the feeling of Platforms: PlayStation 4, PlayStation VR select a design from the notebook and paint what it’s like to be a kid happily engaged in Online: playstation.com/en-us/games/ it on a wall by pressing the right trigger and his own thing and the annoyance that comes concrete-genie-ps4 PAGE 16 •STARS AND STRIPES• Saturday, October 26, 2019 MOVIES Here’s scary New Line Home Entertainment With Halloween almost upon us, one critic weighs in on the most terrifying horror fi lms of all time

BY RAFER GUZMAN Newsday orror movies have changed dramatically over the decades to keep up with ever-evolving audiences. Some of the old classics, while still art- ful and entertaining, no longer have the power to shock. Others, how- Hever, have stood the test of time. What makes a movie scary? Some would say it’s the jump-scare . Others might point to a particularly ghastly monster or a preponderance of gore. And who’s to say what’s more terrifying — a ghost, a creature or a plain old murderer? Much of what jangles your nerves depends on the fears you bring into the theater. The best horror movies fi nd a sweet spot: A primal, universal terror made vivid by skillful fi lmmaking. That formula will surely never age. WARNER BROTHERS, GETTY IMAGES/TNS Here, just in time for Halloween, are 20 of the scariest movies of all time: Above: Jack Nicholson A24 in “The Shining” 20. PARANORMAL ACTIVITY (2009) 9. THE THING (1982) Toni Collette in “Hereditary” Upper right: Robert Englund This no-budget indie about a possessed McMansion John Carpenter’s remake of the 1951 classic about plays Freddy Krueger in “A helped kick off the current horror craze. Slamming a creature discovered in Antarctica is a scream- Nightmare on Elm Street.” doors and fl ickering lights — and not much else. ingly great horror fl ick, full of gore, goo and 19. A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (1984) fl amethrowers. The ace cast includes Kurt Russell, The movie that gave us the blade-fi ngered Freddy Wilford Brimley and Keith David. Krueger (and the fi lm debut of Johnny Depp) looks 8. AUDITION (1999) a little dated, but director Wes Craven’s blend of This sneak attack of a movie begins straightfor- dreams and reality still has the power to unsettle. wardly enough with a Japanese widower looking 18. NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968) for a younger lover. The harrowing second half The zombie genre starts with George Romero’s — no spoilers — must be seen to believed. Directed ghoulish, gory classic. by Takashi Miike. 17. ROSEMARY’S BABY (1968) 7. HER EDITA RY (2018) Roman Polanski’s fi lm about a pregnant woman Ari Aster’s story of an artist (Toni Collette) en- Artisan Entertainment (Mia Farrow) who gets snookered into Satanism is snared by a cult may be too intense for some. Crit- a slow-building chiller, but the climactic payoff is ics raved, but freaked-out audiences gave it a rare “The Blair Witch Project” one of the best you’ll ever see. D+ CinemaScore. You’ve been warned. 16. GET OUT (2017) 6. THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991) Jordan Peele’s story of a young black man (Daniel Jonathan Demme’s modern classic is still the only Kaluuya) meeting his white girlfriend’s parents horror fi lm to win the Oscar for best picture. An- works best as satirical commentary, but its wig-out thony Hopkins’ sinister and highly quotable Han- moments earn a place on this list. nibal Lecter is the cinematic serial killer by which 15. THE EVIL DEAD (1981) all others are now judged. Five college kids fi nd an audiotape that releases 5. PSYCHO (1960) demons in this feature from Sam Raimi. It’s freaky Alfred Hitchcock’s most famous fi lm may not jolt great fun thanks to clever camerawork, a sly sense audiences the way it once did. But it’s still a terrifi c of humor and a star turn from Bruce Campbell. shocker, from Anthony Perkins’ unnerving perfor- 14. THE OMEN (1976) mance as the ultimate mama’s boy to the lightbulb- This knockoff of “The Exorcist” met with mixed swinging climax. reviews but is now considered an iconic horror fi lm 4. HALLOWEEN (1978) in its own right. Harvey Stevens is unforgettable as John Carpenter terrorized middle America with Damien, a literal demon child, while several top- this simple but effective tale about a serial killer shelf actors (Gregory Peck, Lee Remick) play the stalking suburban teenagers. Even today, “Hal- unfortunate adults around him. loween” feels like your worst nightmare: a home 13. THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (1999) invasion perpetrated by a semi-supernatural being. 20TH CENTURY FOX/TNS Three fi lmmakers enter a Maryland forest to inves- Jamie Lee Curtis makes her big-screen debut as tigate a local myth. Assembled from their “found” terrorized babysitter Laurie Strode. Sigourney Weaver and Carrie 3. ALIEN (1979) Henn in “Aliens,” a sequel to “Jaws” footage, “The Blair Witch Project” uses virtually nothing but weird noises and shaky camerawork to Director Ridley Scott admitted that “Alien” was “Alien,” third on this list. NEWS-JOURNAL TNS create an atmosphere of deep-reaching terror. basically “Jaws in space.” Nevertheless, thanks 12. THE TEXAS CHAINSAW to a groundbreakingly hideous space creature MASSACRE (1974) (designed by illustrator H.R. Geiger) and a tough- Tobe Hooper’s low-budget shocker about as-nails Sigourney Weaver as the last survivor on a cannibals preying on hippies was the per- doomed craft, Scott’s movie remains the fi rst word fect mid-’70s horror fi lm, a grisly stew of in modern sci-fi horror. Manson mythology and redneckphobia. 2. THE EXORCIST (1973) 11. POLTERGEIST (1982) Audiences reportedly fainted and vomited during One of two Hooper fi lms on this list, screenings of William Friedkin’s fi lm about a little “Poltergeist” has been almost as girl possessed by a demon (Linda Blair, in a head- widely imitated as “Psycho” or spinning, Oscar-nominated turn). Hype aside, this “Halloween.” It made an entire is still an absolute hair-raiser, especially the later generation afraid to watch TV. editions that restored the eye-popping “spider- 10. JAWS (1975) walk” scene. Warner Bros. Steven Spielberg’s master- 1. THE SHINING (1980) “The Exorcist” piece about an outsize shark When it comes to imitators, Stanley Kubrick’s “The may not pack the scares- Shining,” based on Stephen King’s 1977 novel, per-minute of other fi lms stands alone. Nobody has ever re-created a hotel on this list. But for white- quite like the Overlook, nor has anyone equaled knuckle suspense — plus sev- Jack Nicholson’s unhinged performance as a father eral nasty surprises — “Jaws” gone mad. It’s a monolith of terror, undiminished is tough to beat. even after nearly 40 years. Saturday, October 26, 2019 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 17 MOVIES Noah Hawley goes beyond tabloid headlines DEEP EXPLORATION for fi lm inspired by a former NASA astronaut

BY AMY KAUFMAN far is too far?” How do we shape this char- Los Angeles Times acter in a way where she’s really at sea and swimming, looking for some kind of f there’s one thing people associate grounding, and the only other person who with Lisa Nowak, it’s diapers. understands that is another astronaut? After returning home from her There was a danger that this movie Ifi rst space mission, the astronaut becomes “Fatal Attraction.” It’s a diffi cult went on a 950-mile drive from Houston to story to tell, on some level, because audi- Orlando. She had gone to confront a U.S. ences tend to have an intrinsic dislike of Air Force engineer who was sleeping someone who cheats on their spouse. The with the man Nowak had an affair with. fact that she wants to get back (to space) In February 2007, when she was cap- so desperately begins to make her push tured by Florida authorities, she told the away from the more logical choices she police she’d brought a slew of question- might make. She probably knows this is able items on her journey: a buck knife, not a love story she is in, but she wants to feel that feeling. latex gloves, a BB gun, pepper spray. She Why do you think Nowak’s story also had in her possession government-is- turned into such a tabloid sensation? sued diapers, which she used to minimize I think in many societies — not just our pit stops on her long drive. own — there’s an attraction to stories about Not only was the then-43-year-old characters brought low, on some level, by the fi rst active-duty astronaut believed their own success. A schadenfreude attrac- to have ever been arrested on felony tion — I think that’s what tabloid stories charges, the diapers became infamous, are. A judgment on people we feel who turning Nowak into a tabloid headline, NASA/TNS (left); Fox Searchlight (right) have hubris and end up in situations that a “Saturday Night Live” reference and are really degrading. the butt of the joke in the 2017 comedy “Lucy in the Sky,” starring Natalie Portman, right, is inspired by the life of former Would you be interested in meeting “Rough Night.” NASA astronaut Lisa Nowak, pictured at left in 2006. Nowak, or having her see the Of course, Nowak’s actual story was fi lm? far more layered than the punchlines A big part of Lucy’s journey is how Swan” is an example of a very high- I’m not sure how people suggested . diffi cult it can be for astronauts to re- strung, perfectionist character survive the things they “Lucy in the Sky” is inspired — loosely turn to everyday life after experiencing that’s really compelling to watch survive and come back — by that story. The fi lm, directed by space. How much research did you do and very humanizing. from them afterward. television veteran Noah Hawley, is not di- into that emotional experience? One of the things that was re- So on a human level, I rectly based on Nowak’s life. The former When you start reading about astro- ally exciting to me ... is that she would be interested to know what the journey NASA employee had no involvement in nauts — and this is not to say all astro- actually is a very charismatic woman. She has a real positive was for her. But I re- the Fox Searchlight project, and the lead nauts — but many go up and have an existential crisis and are changed by it in energy to her ... she’s very calm, spect her privacy. She character, played by Natalie Portman, is some dramatic way. A few have become but also has a very confi dent has had so much un- named Lucy. really vehement environmentalists. swagger to her that’s very “The wanted attention that But just how much of the fi lm is based There is a certain amount of lib- Right Stuff.” that’s not a conversation on real life? We spoke with Hawley over erty that I took in terms of following this Lucy’s hairstyle is pretty distinc- I’m asking her for. the phone from his home in Austin, character’s story and where I needed it to tive. How did you and Natalie settle Texas, to discuss the similarities and go. But, I mean, we don’t send poets into on the look? differences between his fi lm and Nowak’s space. We send these left-brain, engi- I just had this Dorothy Hamill case. neer types. They see a problem and they image in my head, and luckily Los Angeles Times: How familiar were solve it — very linear, literal thinkers. Natalie was game. The movie you with Lisa Nowak before signing onto To expose them to a celestial experience had to be a period piece, be- the movie? that can’t be articulated ... What happens cause we don’t fl y the space Hawley: I had a memory of a moment in when you take that left-brain, never-met- shuttle anymore. A lot of time when the real story made headlines. a-problem-she-couldn’t-solve person and the fashion was informed But I didn’t know a lot of it, other than introduce a question bigger than anyone by that. She’s not someone the tabloid details. What was interesting can answer? who cares much about to me, as I thought about taking this on, Why did you decide to have the fi lm clothes, so the goal was was what’s really behind a tabloid story? A “inspired by” Nowak’s story instead of to make her Midwestern human being with dignity who made some based on it? on some level. Make her feel like she shops at the bad choices and ended up in a story that is It never really occurred to me to liter- ally tell the story, on one hand. On the stores that people shop at. now smaller than it should be. Her human other hand, when Fox Searchlight came to She’s not up on the latest experience has been reduced to a joke, me with this fi lm, there weren’t life rights trends, and has a very on some level. I wanted to try to tell that that had been optioned. So the mission practical haircut. story, and allow her to retain her dignity was never to tell the actual story. The fact In exploring Lucy’s — but you now understand what she did, that I was interested in a more fi ctional- feelings, the fi lm and now it’s a tragedy and not a farce. As ized version of it was helpful, on some comments on women a tragedy, she can fi nd some redemption. level, because you can get into legal issues who are perceived This is your fi rst fi lm, following the in telling someone’s life story. as “too emotional.” creation of the FX shows “Fargo” and Spoiler alert: The diapers are not Why was that “Legion.” Why this project as your actually a part of the movie. Why didn’t a question you directorial debut? you want to include them? wanted to explore? I’ve never made anything you can Given that it’s not a documentary, part I believe that gen- watch in one sitting before, which was a of the work I did was trying to create a der played a role in really interesting challenge. The question character journey that you could really re- this story, and to became: If I was going to make a movie, late to and stay with, even when she went not comment on it it should give you an experience you can to places you didn’t want her to go. That would be to ignore only have in the theater. Therefore, it detail just didn’t fi t into the story. something really should be something immersive — some- When you fi rst signed onto the movie, important. This is not a movie thing you can use that big room and Reese Witherspoon was attached to star. How did Portman end up with the about a woman screen for that wasn’t an action movie. part instead? who falls apart The script that I read ... was a story of Reese Witherspoon had set the project because she is a psychological decline that had these up at Searchlight as a producer with the too emotional elements of magical realism in it. It was a idea that she might star in it. I came on about a man, and fi lm about trying to understand decisions while we were still having those conversa- the calibration someone made that aren’t understandable. tions. But Reese got busy — “Big Little of that was really She had everything and was at the top of Lies” had come out, and she was doing this important to me. the world, literally, but then things unrav- Apple show, so she was no longer available. The affair she has is eled. Especially after “Legion,” I was And my fi rst thought was Natalie. I fi nd symptomatic of a larger Noah interested in something subjective that that she has a really compelling ability to crisis she has. And we Hawley immerses you in her point of view. play characters under pressure. “Black thought a lot about, “How SIPA USA/TNS PAGE 18 • S TARS AND STRIPES• Saturday, October 26, 2019 TELEVISION

Love and affection

PHOTOS BY AMAZON/TNS Anne Hathaway talked extensively to the woman on whom her bipolar character is based for Amazon Prime’s “Modern Love.” In another episode, Catherine Keener plays a New York Times Magazine writer opposite Dev Patel’s tech guru (below). Star-studded ‘Modern Love’ series covers a wide swath of stories, as did the column it’s based on

BY RICK BENTLEY Milioti and John Slattery. The fi rst Tribune News Service episode, “When the Doorman Is Your Main Man,” stars Milioti and he popular New York Times Laurentiu Possa. It’s based on the weekly column “Modern column about a woman who gets Love” has featured stories pregnant unexpectedly and the only Tabout love and redemption person who’s there for her is her for the past 15 years. Eight of the building’s doorman. The relation- stories, penned by both fi rst-time ship is full of love and goes beyond writers and established authors, have normal boundaries. been turned into a half-hour TV se- What Milioti liked best about the ries that debuted Oct. 18 on Amazon column and script was it is not a Prime Video. traditional love story. Daniel Jones, editor of the column, “The relationship between her and explains the decision was made at the the doorman is so beautifully nu- beginning that the stories could not anced. They both get something from to the real story, but by creating her an honest look at themselves, they just be two people falling in love but each other that lifts their spirits, that, own version it gave her more free- will realize everyone is worth being had to cover a wide gambit of looks at like, helps them through their lives. dom to play the role. loved. romance and relationships. I think if you ask either character, Hathaway stars in “Take Me as “I think that’s a journey a lot of “We even had titles to the column they wouldn’t quite be able to label I Am, Whoever I Am” with Carr. people go on whether or not you have that would’ve limited it to romantic or name it, but they make these huge The episode was handled carefully bipolar disorder. I imagine having love. Part of choosing ‘Modern Love’ impacts on each other,” Milioti says. because it follows a woman who bipolar disorder makes it that much was to have it be contemporary but “So much of it is unspoken, too, which is learning how to fi nd love while more diffi cult to imagine that some- broad,” Jones says. “Love is about I think makes it so beautiful. It’s just also learning how to accept that she one wants to take you on. And it’s vulnerability. Human relationships sort of an energy between the two of has bipolar disorder. Jones wanted this huge block in Lexi’s life, and she are the most important things in our them. to make sure the fi lmed version talks about that. She talks about just remained true to the original essay lives and one thing that people sort of “This, like, father-daughter-friend needing one person, just one person without crossing any lines. hold on to, but they’re complicated. type energy. And it’s very uplifting to accept all of her,” Hathaway says. “I’m most interested in the sort Hathaway spoke in great length and heartbreaking because you don’t “That’s really what we all, I think, of offbeat love story. I mean, to me know sometimes how to explain what with the woman in the essay. That want. And she gets it. these stories are successful when someone does to you or the impact gave her a clear understanding of “She doesn’t get it from the person the person understands themselves they have on you, but it is love.” details like the cadence of her voice better at the end, not when they get Milioti read the original column or what happens when she’s having a that, I think, any of us expect her to the person they’re going after. When and loved it, but she opted not to seek manic episode. get it from in the beginning of the they understand something deep out the original author. She decided The key to this look at love and episode. But that one person giving about themselves.” to work with what the information relationships for Hathaway was while her the space, being patient, being The all-star cast for the anthol- provided through the writing to cre- the essay looks at how one person compassionate and being a true ogy series includes Anne Hathaway, ate the backstory for the character deals with their mental illness, the loving person in her life changes Jane Alexander, Sofi a Boutella, Gary she needed to play the part. Milioti theme has a much broader reach. everything for her. It gives her hope Carr, Tina Fey, Andy Garcia, Cristin has no idea if her backstory is similar She’s certain that when viewers take and gives her a future.” Saturday, October 26, 2019 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 19 HEALTH & FITNESS

Lunge toward

Fitness trainer Sam Orah, above and at left, shows healthy living residents of Hyattsville, Md., how to use the city’s new free fitness court. Available fitness equipment includes pullup Free outdoor fi tness courts provide full bars, squat boxes and a lunge workouts for adults of all ability levels step course. RAPHAEL TALISMAN Photos for The Washington Post BY MORGAN VOIGT helped install more than 10,000 Special to The Washington Post of them in about 4,000 commu- nities in the U .S., Canada and woman Trisha Hall said. Love- petite woman in a Australia over roughly three land received a grant of $30,000 bright pink shirt decades. After Menaged decided and split the remaining $123,000 jumped up and grasped to modernize the setup, the NFC cost 60/40 with UCHealth, said A a pullup bar in a subur- began to redesign the courts Molly Elder, the business man- ban park. She shifted her grip. in 2012. The rollout across the ager for the parks department. Then she began to knock out pul- country began last year, and In Hyattsville, there has been lups — one, two, three. Onlookers Matthias expects to have more a lot of support for the project, burst out in applause, cheering than 100 of the new courts open said Lesley Riddle, the city’s her on. They had gathered on a by the end of this year. director of public works and one cool Saturday morning to learn Each new 32- by 35-square- of several offi cials on hand Sat- how to use the new gym at the foot court is made of 30 pieces urday to introduce residents to 38th Avenue Neighborhood Park of weather-resistant equipment the fi tness court. Mayor Candace in Hyattsville, Md. divided into seven stations. At nity like it on that side of town,” California and Baylor University Hollingsworth “has a lot of pas- “It’s great to see people out each station, users can focus said Tracey Anderson, the city’s in Waco, Texas, are among the sion for bringing accessibility for and being active,” said Sam on one area — core, squatting, director of parks and recreation. campuses that have installed health and wellness and exer- Orah, a fi tness trainer. He pushing, lunging, pulling, agility The city also installed a light courts. An expansion to high walked the crowd of about 13 cise,” Riddle said. “We took that and bending — by performing so the facility could be used at schools is in the works. “We’re through a circuit workout, show- and ran with it.” such body-weight exercises as night, and the court has become developing programs for teens ing them how to use suspension Plans to install a shade cloth box jumps, lunges or situps. A full a popular workout spot since to get involved in a constructive rings, plyo boxes (for jumping on circuit takes about seven minutes. over the structure are in the it opened about a year ago. way outdoors,” Matthias said. and off) and pullup bars. Acquiring a court is a pro- works, Riddle said, and the city “There’s always people there,” (Fitness courts are designed for The sleek blue-and-silver setup cess that can take eight or nine is hoping to add Wi-Fi there as Anderson said. It’s become such ages 14 and up, he said; national is the latest version of what the months. Communities submit an well. The court’s app comes with San Francisco-based National application online, and NFC staff a hit that council members have regulations determine the mini- the potential for communities to Fitness Campaign calls a fi tness works with applicants to analyze even asked if they can install mum age.) gather user statistics and other court. The free-to-use facilities locations where the court would another one on the city’s east The cost of a fi tness court var- data, but Hyattsville currently are one way that communities create the most impact, such side, she said. ies, depending on how the chosen doesn’t plan to do so, Rollow said. such as Hyattsville are helping as an undeveloped fi eld along a In an era when there’s an app location needs to be developed. “We just want to see folks use it their citizens squat, pushup and park trail or a tennis court that for nearly everything, the free The NFC offers grants to juris- and enjoy it,” he said. lunge toward healthier living. has seen better days. “It really Fitness Court app (available on dictions funded by corporate The court opened earlier this The NFC is a public-private depends on the community and Android and iOS) teaches users sponsors, and money is awarded summer and has already seen partnership that was founded by what’s available,” Matthias said. to create a circuit workout on on a rolling basis annually. plenty of use. “If you build it, developer and fi tness enthusiast Installing a court takes about a their own. “There can be a mind- Hyattsville received about they will come,” Riddle said. Mitch Menaged in 1979 to fi ll month. set of ‘I don’t know how to use it, $10,000 toward the cost of its Carole Plato, 57, rode her bike a need for “healthy infrastruc- Offi cials in Maryland Heights, so I’m not going to,’ ” Anderson facility. The city paid the rest over to check out the fi tness ture,” according to its director M o., a suburb of St. Louis, said. “But what’s great is that you of the bill, about $100,000, ac- court, which is next to a trail, of partnerships, Trent Matth- thought a fi tness court would can tell people, ‘There’s an app! cording to city spokesman Jake making it convenient for run- ias. The original fi tness courts be the ideal use for a tiny plot You have a smartphone; you can Rollow. Maryland Heights also ners and cyclists. “We’re really were wooden structures with of land — less than half an acre learn how.’ ” received a grant of about $10,000 lucky to have this,” she said after such features as pullup bars — where nothing else could re- Colleges are also getting on and spent at least $80,000 more fi nishing the orientation workout. and benches; the organization ally go. “There is no other ame- board: Stanford University in to develop the property, spokes- “And it’s free!” PAGE 20 •STARS AND STRIPES• Saturday, October 26, 2019 OPINION Max D. Lederer Jr., Publisher Lt. Col. Sean Klimek, Europe commander Lt. Col. Richard McClintic, Pacific commander Trump’s Mid east results a boon to Russia Caroline E. Miller, Europe Business Operations BY DAVID IGNATIUS Sanctions are often a that brings together Turkey, Iran and vari- Washington Post Writers Group ous Syrian groups to discuss rebuilding EDITORIAL reflexive substitute for the country. The U.S. alternative of Geneva Terry Leonard, Editor WASHINGTON a more serious policy to talks has been moribund. [email protected] t’s heretical to say so, but Russia Russian diplomacy is partly a game to has earned its current success in advance American interests. maintain Syrian President Bashar Assad’s Robert H. Reid, Senior Managing Editor the Middle East. It’s using the same [email protected] regime. But Russian specialists have also Imix of military and diplomatic tools reached out to the Kurds, as in a 2017 Tina Croley, Managing Editor for Content that made the United States dominant in draft constitution for Syria that promises [email protected] the region for so many decades. America Middle East. Moscow has friendly rela- a “Kurdish cultural autonomy” region didn’t lose this battle for influence; it tions with Iran, but also with Israel. Russia Managing Editor for Presentation and proposes to remove “Arab” from the Sean Moores, surrendered. talks to the Turks and also to their mortal [email protected] country’s official name, the Syrian Arab President Donald Trump’s efforts to enemies, the Kurds. Ambiguity is part of Republic. Joe Gromelski, Managing Editor for Digital dress up his retreat from Syria as a vic- Putin’s tool kit. He doesn’t exclude himself For Russia, it’s about interest, not ideol- [email protected] tory are an embarrassment. He squan- from the bargaining table. ogy. “Russia intervened in 2015 to prevent dered America’s leverage, abandoned our America, not so long ago, was a similar state collapse and restore stability,” says BUREAU STAFF Kurdish allies to a Turkish invasion, and interlocutor. It was the essential partner a Western nongovernmental organization thereby reopened the door for a defeated because it talked with all sides. The U.S. representative who has been dealing with Europe/Mideast enemy, Islamic State, to resume attacks on was Israel’s faithful ally, but it also had a Russian officials closely for five years in Erik Slavin, Europe & Mideast Bureau Chief the West. deep relationship (initially in secret) with Syria. “The Russians are not trying to re- [email protected] Trump’s performance shames the Unit- the Palestinian guerrilla groups. It bro- make the region. … They want stability and +49(0)631.3615.9350; DSN (314)583.9350 ed States, especially the military. Imagine kered deals among parties that couldn’t business.” By contrast, he argues, Ameri- Pacific what it felt like for U.S. special operations talk directly. can interventions are driven by “ideologi- Aaron Kidd, Pacific Bureau Chief forces as they withdrew this month from America’s addiction to sanctions is part cal fantasies,” and have led to instability. [email protected] the Syrian battlefield pelted by tomatoes of our self-neutering process. These eco- I’d counter that American values remain +81.42.552.2511 ext. 88380; DSN (315)227.7380 thrown by their irate former Kurdish al- nomic penalties are often a reflexive sub- one of our strengths, but the interventionist stitute for a more serious policy to advance Washington lies. A bitter end to what had been a hugely impulse has certainly gotten us in trouble. Joseph Cacchioli, Washington Bureau Chief successful campaign against ISIS. American interests. We sanction Russia, Putin’s biggest weakness in Syria has [email protected] Now Russia steps into this space of Syria, Iran, China, North Korea, Cuba, been the same as at home — corrup- (+1)(202)886-0033 northeast Syria. And it’s useful to examine, Venezuela ... and after Trump foolishly tion. Moscow’s crass strategy for seizing Brian Bowers, Assistant Managing Editor, News without blinders, some reasons President encouraged Turkey’s invasion of Syria, oil fields in Kurdish regions protected [email protected] Vladimir Putin has achieved so much. The the instant reaction was — sanctions! by U.S. forces was to employ mercenar- CIRCULATION first, dark fact is that he has been a cynical This tool is so overused that it’s becoming ies who would get a percentage of any oil and brutal partner for an even more brutal counterproductive. they seized. That’s thuggery, not state- Mideast Syrian regime. But it’s more complicated America (for several decades) has used craft. Similarly, notes the NGO official who Robert Reismann, Mideast Circulation Manager than that. sanctions when it wants to be seen as tak- worked closely with them, the Russians [email protected] Putin has triumphed partly because he ing action, as opposed to actually doing so. “could not train a single professional Syr- [email protected] has used the instruments of power effec- That’s not a mistake Russia makes. It in- ian unit, unlike the U.S. success in creating DSN (314)583-9111 tively. He intervened in Syria in 2015 with tervenes with low visibility but punishing elite special forces” among Kurds, Iraqis Europe limited force, but decisively. Frustrated by impact. and Afghans. Karen Lewis, Community Engagement Manager Syrian dependency and mismanagement, Russia also owes its recent gains in the Russia has dreamed for centuries of hav- [email protected] he pulled some forces back after the ini- Middle East to well-trained diplomats who ing the influence in the Middle East that [email protected] tial campaign and threatened to withdraw speak good Arabic and foster multilateral it’s now gaining. This is part of the original +49(0)631.3615.9090; DSN (314)583.9090 more. negotiations in a way the U.S. once did. “Great Game,” after all. How bizarre that Pacific Russia has leverage partly because Since 2017, Russia has been sponsoring a in the end, what Russia has so desperately Mari Mori, [email protected] it talks to all the warring nations in the dialogue (known as the “Astana process”) wanted, Trump is giving them for free. +81-3 6385.3171; DSN (315)229.3171 CONTACT US Washington Warren won’t improve schools by limiting choice tel: (+1)202.886.0003 633 3rd St. NW, Suite 116, Washington, DC 20001-3050 BY KARL W. SMITH decades. variation in income and race within both Reader letters Bloomberg News The relationship between well-funded rich and poor districts such that increas- [email protected] school districts and strong educational out- ing funding for poorer districts has little lizabeth Warren’s $800 billion Additional contacts comes is clear to every parent. Less clear impact on achievement gaps due to income stripes.com/contactus plan to improve public education, is whether lack of funding causes weak and race. This explanation is plausible, but like many of her plans, is admira- outcomes. it undercuts the argument that residential OMBUDSMAN Eble in its ambitions but misguided In 1965 the federal government com- segregation is trapping poor and minority in its approach. If the federal government missioned the sociologist James Coleman students in underfunded schools. Ernie Gates is going to spend more money on schools, to conduct one of the largest social-sci- The second study also concludes that in- then Americans should be allowed more ence studies ever. 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The ombudsman money is spent may be important.” welcomes comments from readers, and can be contacted increases residential segregation, leading factors: the educational background of by email at [email protected], or by phone at not only to greater disparities in student his parents, and the socioeconomic back- Warren says that her plan will encour- 202.886.0003. performance, but also to runaway housing ground of his peers. age districts to use federal money in ways costs in preferred districts. The ideal so- Since the Coleman report, legions of re- that benefit the schools and students who lution would be to sever the link between searchers have tried to tease out exactly need it most. 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Her plan low-income students, as well as the gap be- good way to provide it. of the purchaser, user or patron. relies on more money and a shifting port- tween white and black students, remains. folio of mandates to improve performance The authors speculate that this is be- Karl W. Smith is a former assistant professor of © Stars and Stripes 2019 economics at the University of North Carolina’s at low-income schools. This approach has cause not all disadvantaged students are school of government and founder of the blog stripes.com failed countless times over the last several in poor districts. That is, there is enough Modeled Behavior. Saturday, October 26, 2019 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 21 PAGE 22 • S TARS AND STRIPES• Saturday, October 26, 2019 Saturday, October 26, 2019 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 23 PAGE 24 • S TARS AND STRIPES• Saturday, October 26, 2019 SCOREBOARD

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Michigan (5-3) at Buffalo (3-4) Oklahoma St. (4-3) at Iowa St. (5-2) Denver 2 5 0 .286 112 136 Eastern Conference Bucknell (1-6) at Lafayette (0-7) Miami (Ohio) (3-4) at Kent St. (3-4) dox (concussion/neck), T Jason Peters Atlanta 1, New England 0 L.A. Chargers 2 5 0 .286 140 141 (knee), RB Darren Sproles (quadricep). Tulane (5-2) at Navy (5-1) Penn St. (7-0) at Michigan St. (4-3) National Conference Toronto 5, D.C. 1, ET UConn (1-6) at UMass (1-6) Maryland (3-4) at Minnesota (7-0) BILLS: DNP: LB Lorenzo Alexander (not Western Conference Stony Brook (4-3) at Villanova (6-1) Akron (0-7) at N. Illinois (2-5) East injury related-resting veteran), WR John Seattle 4, Dallas 3 UCF (5-2) at Temple (5-2) Indiana (5-2) at Nebraska (4-3) W L T Pct PF PA Brown (not injury related-resting vet- Salt Lake 2, Portland 1 SOUTH E. Michigan (4-3) at Toledo (4-3) Dallas 4 3 0 .571 190 124 eran), S Kurt Coleman (hamstring), RB Sunday, Oct. 20 Appalachian St. (6-0) at So. Alabama (1-6) S. Illinois (3-4) at South Dakota (3-4) Philadelphia 3 4 0 .429 171 186 Patrick DiMarco (ankle), T Ty Nsekhe Eastern Conference Marist (1-5) at Davidson (5-2) Texas Tech (3-4) at Kansas (2-5) N.Y. Giants 2 5 0 .286 132 187 (not injury related-resting veteran), G Philadelphia 4, NY Red Bulls 3, ET Howard (1-6) at NC A&T (4-1) Notre Dame (5-1) at Michigan (5-2) Washington 1 7 0 .125 99 195 Quinton Spain (foot). LIMITED: CB Kevin Western Conference ETSU (2-5) at Samford (3-4) SOUTHWEST South Johnson (neck), LB Matt Milano (ham- LA Galaxy 2, Minnesota 1 Campbell (5-1) at Gardner-Webb (3-4) Mississippi St. (3-4) at Texas A&M (4-3) New Orleans 6 1 0 .857 164 147 string), LB Corey Thompson (ankle), WR Conference Semifinals Chattanooga (4-3) at Wofford (4-2) Southern Miss. (4-3) at Rice (0-7) Carolina 4 2 0 .667 166 133 Duke Williams (shoulder). Eastern Conference Delaware St. (1-6) at NC Central (2-5) SE Louisiana (3-3) at Ho. Baptist (4-4) Tampa Bay 2 4 0 .333 173 185 NEW YORK JETS at JACKSONVILLE Wednesday’s game Mercer (3-4) at The Citadel (4-4) Texas (5-2) at TCU (3-3) Atlanta 1 6 0 .143 145 223 JAGUARS — JETS: DNP: T Kelvin Beachum Toronto 2, New York City FC 1 W. Kentucky (5-2) at Marshall (4-3) Texas St. (2-4) at Arkansas St. (3-4) North (ankle), RB Trenton Cannon (foot/ankle), Thursday’s game Austin Peay (4-3) at Tenn. Tech (4-3) Sam Houston St. (5-3) at Cent. Arkan- Green Bay 6 1 0 .857 184 139 QB Sam Darnold (toe), C Ryan Kalil (el- Atlanta 2, Philadelphia 0 Southern U. (4-3) at Alcorn St. (5-2) sas (5-2) Minnesota 6 2 0 .750 211 132 bow/shoulder), LB Albert McClellan (con- Western Conference New Mexico St. (0-7) at Ga. Southern (3- Memphis (6-1) at Tulsa (2-5) Chicago 3 3 0 .500 112 105 Detroit 2 3 1 .417 149 160 cussion), LB C.J. Mosley (groin), G Kelechi Wednesday’s game 3) Louisiana Tech (6-1) at UTEP (1-5) Osemele (shoulder). LIMITED: DE Henry Seattle 2, Salt Lake 0 N. Alabama (2-5) at Kennesaw St. (6-1) FAR WEST West Anderson (shoulder), WR Braxton Berri- Thursday’s game Texas Southern (0-6) at MVSU (1-6) Nevada (4-3) at Wyoming (5-2) San Francisco 6 0 0 1.000 156 64 Seattle 5 2 0 .714 181 176 os (hamstring), TE Christopher Herndon Los Angeles 5, LA Galaxy 3 North Texas (3-4) at Charlotte (2-5) E. Washington (3-4) at Montana (5-2) (hamstring), LB Neville Hewitt (neck/ Conference Championships Syracuse (3-4) at Florida St. (3-4) Arizona (4-3) at Stanford (3-4) L.A. Rams 4 3 0 .571 190 164 Arizona 3 3 1 .500 161 192 knee), DT Steve McLendon (hamstring), Tuesday, Oct. 29 Towson (4-3) at James Madison (7-1) Hawaii (4-3) at New Mexico (2-5) WR Demaryius Thomas (hamstring), G Auburn (6-1) at LSU (7-0) Thursday’s game Seattle at Los Angeles, 10 p.m. Idaho St. (3-4) at S. Utah (1-7) Brian Winters (shoulder/knee). FULL: Virginia (5-2) at Louisville (4-3) Portland St. (5-3) at N. Arizona (3-4) Minnesota 19, Washington 9 Wednesday, Oct. 30 WR Josh Bellamy (shoulder), LB Blake Toronto at Atlanta, 8 p.m. FIU (4-3) at Middle Tennessee (2-5) Weber St. (5-2) at UC Davis (4-4) Sunday’s games FAU (4-3) at Old Dominion (1-6) Colorado St. (2-5) at Fresno St. (3-3) Arizona at New Orleans Cashman (knee/Achilles), LB Brandon Furman (4-3) at W. Carolina (1-6) Arizona St. (5-2) at UCLA (2-5) Tampa Bay at Tennessee Copeland (thumb), G Alex Lewis (neck). Thursday S. Florida (3-4) at East Carolina (3-4) California (4-3) at Utah (6-1) N.Y. Giants at Detroit JAGUARS: DNP: CB A.J. Bouye (not injury Murray St. (4-4) at Jacksonville St. (5-3) Utah St. (4-2) at Air Force (5-2) Cincinnati vs L.A. Rams at London related), DE Calais Campbell (not injury Los Angeles FC 5, LA Galaxy 3 Abilene Christian (4-4) at Nicholls (4-3) Washington St. (4-3) at Oregon (6-1) Denver at Indianapolis related), DE Marcell Dareus (core muscle Los Angeles Galaxy 1 2—3 Duke (4-3) at North Carolina (3-4) San Diego St. (6-1) at UNLV (2-5) Philadelphia at Buffalo injury), LB Najee Goode (toe), LB Leon Ja- Los Angeles FC 2 3—5 N.Y. Jets at Jacksonville cobs (hamstring), C Brandon Linder (not First half—1, Los Angeles FC, Vela, 35 Seattle at Atlanta injury related), T Cam Robinson (toe), (Rossi), 16th minute; 2, Los Angeles FC, L.A. Chargers at Chicago WR Dede Westbrook (neck/shoulder), LB Vela, 36 (Rodriguez), 40th; 3, Los Angeles Tennis Golf Carolina at San Francisco Quincy Williams (hamstring). LIMITED: Galaxy, Pavon, 4 (Ibrahimovic), 41st. Oakland at Houston WR Marqise Lee (ankle), G Andrew Nor- Second half—4, Los Angeles Galaxy, Cleveland at New England well (ankle). Ibrahimovic, 31, 55th; 5, Los Angeles FC, Swiss Open PGA-Zozo Championship Green Bay at Kansas City SEATTLE SEAHAWKS at ATLANTA FAL- Rossi, 17 (Vela), 66th; 6, Los Angeles FC, Open: Dallas, Baltimore CONS — SEAHAWKS: Practice not com- Diomande, 9 (Rossi), 68th; 7, Los Angeles Thursday Thursday Monday’s game plete. FALCONS: DNP: DT Grady Jarrett Galaxy, Feltscher, 2 (Alessandrini), 77th; At St. Jakobshalle At Accordia Golf Narashino CC Miami at Pittsburgh (abdomen), QB Matt Ryan (ankle), RB Ito 8, Los Angeles FC, Diomande, 10 (Segu- Basel, Switzerland Chiba, Japan Thursday, Oct. 31 Smith (concussion/neck), CB Desmond San Francisco at Arizona ra), 80th. Purse: $2,082,655 Purse: $9.75 million Trufant (toe). LIMITED: G James Carpen- Sunday, Nov. 3 Goalies—Los Angeles Galaxy, David Surface: Hardcourt indoor Yardage: 7,041; Par: 70 (34-36) ter (knee). (seedings in parentheses): First Round Houston vs Jacksonville at London LOS ANGELES CHARGERS at CHICAGO Bingham, Matt Lampson; Los Angeles N.Y. Jets at Miami FC, Tyler Miller, Pablo Sisniega. Men’s Singles Tiger Woods 29-35—64 -6 BEARS — CHARGERS: Practice not com- Round Of 16 Gary Woodland 30-34—64 -6 Washington at Buffalo plete. BEARS: DNP: CB Sherrick McManis Yellow Cards—Kitchen, Los Angeles Tennessee at Carolina Galaxy, 27th; Ibrahimovic, Los Angeles Reilly Opelka, United States, def. Hideki Matsuyama 31-34—65 -5 (concussion). David Goffin (6), Belgium, 6-7 (4), 7-6 Daniel Berger 31-36—67 -3 Minnesota at Kansas City CAROLINA PANTHERS at SAN FRAN- Galaxy, 86th; Alessandrini, Los Angeles Chicago at Philadelphia Galaxy, 89th. (4), 7-5. Sung Kang 31-36—67 -3 CISCO 49ERS — PANTHERS: DNP: LB Brian Roberto Bautista-Agut (4), Spain, Ryan Palmer 33-34—67 -3 Indianapolis at Pittsburgh Burns (wrist), G Dennis Daley (groin), T def. Richard Gasquet, France, 6-2, 4-6, Andrew Putnam 34-34—68 -2 Tampa Bay at Seattle Greg Little (concussion), LB Christian Atlanta United FC 2, 6-3. Ryo Ishikawa 33-35—68 -2 Detroit at Oakland Miller (ankle), QB Cam Newton (foot). Stefanos Tsitsipas (3), Greece, def. C.T. Pan 31-37—68 -2 Green Bay at L.A. Chargers LIMITED: DT Gerald McCoy (knee), LB Philadelphia 0 Ricardas Berankis, Lithuania, 6-7 (4), Billy Horschel 33-35—68 -2 Cleveland at Denver Shaq Thompson (ankle). FULL: LB Ma- Philadelphia 0 0—0 6-2, 6-4. Joaquin Niemann 33-35—68 -2 New England at Baltimore rio Addison (knee), CB Donte Jackson L.A. Rams, New Orleans, Atlan- Stan Wawrinka (7), Switzerland, Xander Schauffele 31-37—68 -2 Open: (groin), C Tyler Larsen (back), TE Greg Atlanta 1 1—2 ta, Cincinnati First half—1, Atlanta, Gressel, 7 (Mar- def. Frances Tiafoe, United States, 6- Rikuya Hoshino 32-36—68 -2 Olsen (finger), S Eric Reid (ankle), G Trai 3, 3-6, 7-5. Paul Casey 34-35—69 -1 Monday, Nov. 4 tinez), 10th minute. Dallas at N.Y. Giants Turner (ankle). 49ERS: Practice not com- Second half—2, Atlanta, Martinez, 28 Filip Krajinovic, Serbia, def. Fabio Matthew Wolff 33-36—69 -1 plete. (Gressel), 80th. Fognini (5), Italy, 6-2, 6-4. Corey Conners 32-37—69 -1 NFL injury report OAKLAND RAIDERS at HOUSTON TEX- Goalies—Philadelphia, Andre Blake, Men’s Doubles Bubba Watson 34-35—69 -1 — Practice not complete. Satoshi Kodaira 32-37—69 -1 ANS RAIDERS: Joe Bendik; Atlanta, Brad Guzan, Alec Quarterfinal NEW YORK — The National Football TEXANS: DNP: WR Will Fuller (ham- Horia Tecau, Romania, and Jean-Ju- Emiliano Grillo 34-35—69 -1 League injury report, as provided by the Kann. lien Rojer (4), Netherlands, def. Jamie Keegan Bradley 35-34—69 -1 string), T Tytus Howard (knee), C Greg Yellow Cards—Bedoya, Philadelphia, league (OUT - definitely will not play; Mancz (concussion). LIMITED: LB Dylan Murray and Neal Skupski, Britain, 7-6 Keith Mitchell 32-37—69 -1 DNP - did not practice; LIMITED - limited 34th; Gressel, Atlanta, 38th; Wagner, Phil- (7), 7-5. Kevin Tway 34-35—69 -1 Cole (hamstring/knee), S Tashaun Gip- adelphia, 74th; Escobar, Atlanta, 88th. participation in practice; FULL - full par- son (back/hamstring/wrist), T Roderick Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi, Pakistan, Louis Oosthuizen 33-36—69 -1 ticipation in practice): and Santiago Gonzalez, Mexico, def. Adam Schenk 36-33—69 -1 Johnson (neck), RB Taiwan Jones (hip), Marcel Granollers, Spain, and Horacio Tomoharu Otsuki 33-37—70 E Sunday’s games CB Johnathan Joseph (hamstring/neck), Zeballos (1), Argentina, 1-6, 6-2, 18-16. Charles Howell III 34-36—70 E ARIZONA CARDINALS at NEW OR- CB Bradley Roby (hamstring), LS Jona- Deals Reilly Opelka and Taylor Fritz, Unit- Sergio Garcia 35-35—70 E LEANS SAINTS — CARDINALS: Practice than Weeks (ankle). FULL: S A.J. Moore ed States, def. Fabrice Martin and Jer- Danny Lee 33-37—70 E not complete. SAINTS: DNP: TE Jared (knee), S Justin Reid (shoulder), WR Ken- emy Chardy, France, 6-4, 6-4. Vaughn Taylor 33-37—70 E Cook (ankle), S J.T. Gray (ankle), RB Alvin ny Stills (ankle/hamstring). Thursday’s Transactions Byeong Hun An 35-35—70 E Kamara (ankle/knee), CB Patrick Rob- CLEVELAND BROWNS at NEW ENGLAND inson (hamstring), WR Tre’Quan Smith BASEBALL Justin Thomas 33-37—70 E PATRIOTS — BROWNS: DNP: S Damarious Vienna Open J.T. Poston 33-37—70 E (ankle). LIMITED: CB Eli Apple (knee), QB Randall (hamstring). LIMITED: OT Kendall National League Drew Brees (right thumb). FULL: DE Trey CHICAGO CUBS — Named David Ross Wednesday Lamm (knee). FULL: WR Odell Beckham manager and signed him to a three-year At Wiener Stadthalle LPGA-BMW Championship Hendrickson (neck). (groin), DT Daniel Ekuale (concussion), contract through the 2022 season. Vienna, Austria TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS at TENNES- QB Baker Mayfield (hip), CB Denzel Ward CINCINNATI REDS — Named Alan Zint- Purse: $2,296,490 Thursday SEE TITANS — BUCCANEERS: DNP: G Alex (hamstring), CB Greedy Williams (ham- er hitting coach. Promoted Donnie Ecker Surface: Hardcourt indoor At LPGA International Busan Cappa (forearm), LB Jack Cichy (elbow). string). PATRIOTS: DNP: WR Josh Gordon to assistant hitting coach and director of Men’s Singles Busan, South Korea LIMITED: T Demar Dotson (hamstring), (knee/ankle), TE Ryan Izzo (concussion), hitting. Round Of 16 Purse: $2 million TE O.J. Howard (hamstring). FULL: WR TE Matt LaCosse (knee), G Shaq Ma- HOUSTON ASTROS — Fired assistant Diego Schwartzman (5), Argentina, Yardage: 6,726; Par: 72 (36-36) Breshad Perriman (hamstring). TITANS: son (ankle). LIMITED: RB Rex Burkhead general manager Brandon Taubman for def. Sam Querrey, United States, 6-7 First Round DNP: WR Corey Davis (illness), CB Ado- (foot), S Patrick Chung (heel/chest), WR directing inappropriate comments at (5), 6-4, 7-6 (5). Minjee Lee 33-33—66 -6 ree’ Jackson (foot), CB Chris Milton (calf), Phillip Dorsett (hamstring), WR Julian female reporters during clubhouse inci- Pablo Carreno Busta, Spain, def. Danielle Kang 34-33—67 -5 TE Delanie Walker (ankle). LIMITED: LB Edelman (chest), WR Gunner Olszewski dent following Houston’s pennant-win- Mikhail Kukushkin, Kazakhstan, 6-7 Jin Young Ko 35-32—67 -5 Jayon Brown (groin), DT Jurrell Casey (ankle/hamstring). ning victory over the New York Yankees. (3), 6-4, 6-1. Jeongeun Lee6 34-33—67 -5 (shoulder), T Jack Conklin (quadricep), GREEN BAY PACKERS at KANSAS CITY Named PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Andrey Rublev, Russia, def. Chung Seung Yeon Lee 35-32—67 -5 G Nate Davis (rib), LB Rashaan Evans CHIEFS — PACKERS: Practice not com- Joe Girardi manager and signed him to Hyeon, South Korea, 6-4, 6-2. Sei Young Kim 35-33—68 -4 (shoulder), LB Sharif Finch (shoulder), a three-year contract through the 2022 plete. CHIEFS: Practice not complete. Aljaz Bedene, Slovenia, def. Gilles Su Oh 35-33—68 -4 LB Wesley Woodyard (ankle). season. Simon, France, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3. Somi Lee 35-33—68 -4 BASKETBALL NEW YORK GIANTS at DETROIT LIONS Dominic Thiem (1), Austria, def. Fer- HeeJeong Lim 34-34—68 -4 — GIANTS: DNP: CB Corey Ballentine Calendar National Basketball Association nando Verdasco, Spain, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2. Yu Liu 33-35—68 -4 NBA — Suspended Phoenix Suns De- (concussion). LIMITED: RB Saquon Bar- Oct. 29 — All trading ends for 2019 at Gael Monfils (4), France, def. Jannik Shanshan Feng 34-34—68 -4 kley (ankle), WR Sterling Shepard (con- 4 p.m. (ET). andre Ayton without pay for twenty-five Sinner, Italy, 6-3, 7-6 (8). Hee Won Na 33-35—68 -4 games for violating the terms of the cussion-non-contact). FULL: LB Lorenzo Dec. 12 — League meeting, Las Coli- Men’s Doubles Ha Na Jang 35-34—69 -3 Carter (ankle), WR Cody Latimer (quad). NBA/NBPA Anti-Drug Program. Quarterfinal Amy Yang 36-33—69 -3 nas, Texas. FOOTBALL LIONS: DNP: FB Nick Bawden (foot), DT Jan. 4-5, 2020 — Wild-card playoffs. National Football League Rajeev Ram, United States, and Joe Marina Alex 33-36—69 -3 Salisbury (4), Britain, def. Luke Bam- Jung Min Lee 34-35—69 -3 Mike Daniels (foot), CB Darius Slay (ham- Jan. 11-12 — Divisional playoffs. CLEVELAND BROWNS — Activated OL string). LIMITED: CB Amani Oruwariye Jan. 19 — AFC and NFC championship Drew Forbes from IR. bridge, Britain, and Ben Mclachlan, Nelly Korda 35-34—69 -3 Japan, 7-5, 6-4. So Yeon Ryu 34-35—69 -3 (knee). FULL: DL Da’Shawn Hand (elbow), games. DETROIT LIONS — Signed S Marcus DT Damon Harrison Sr. (groin), QB Mat- Jan. 26 — NFL Pro Bowl. Gilchrist. Nicolas Mahut and Pierre-Hugues In-Kyung Kim 33-36—69 -3 Herbert (3), France, def. Andres Mol- Min Sun5 Kim 35-34—69 -3 thew Stafford (hip). Feb. 2 — Super Bowl, Hard Rock Sta- MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Signed WR Da- CINCINNATI BENGALS at LOS ANGELES dium, Miami Gardens, Fla. vion Davis from the practice squad. teni and Diego Schwartzman, Argen- Lydia Ko 36-33—69 -3 HOCKEY tina, 6-3, 6-2. Hye-Jin Choi 33-37—70 -2 RAMS — BENGALS: DNP: CB Darqueze Feb. 24-March 2 — NFL scouting com- National Hockey League Lukasz Kubot, Poland, and Marcelo Hyun Kyung Park 36-34—70 -2 Dennard (hamstring), TE Tyler Eifert bine, Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis. DALLAS STARS — Recalled D Joel Han- Melo (1), Brazil, def. Rohan Bopanna, Kristen Gillman 35-35—70 -2 (not injury related), CB Dre Kirkpatrick Feb. 25 — First day for clubs to desig- ley from Texas (AHL). India, and Denis Shapovalov, Canada, Ye Rim Choi 35-35—70 -2 (knee), DE Carl Lawson (hamstring). nate franchise or transition players. NEW YORK ISLANDERS — Reassigned 6-0, 6-4. Azahara Munoz 37-33—70 -2 LIMITED: DE Carlos Dunlap (knee), WR March 10 — Deadline for clubs to des- G Jakub Skarek to Bridgeport (AHL) from Philipp Oswald, Austria, and Mar- Nanna Koerstz Madsen 37-33—70 -2 A.J. Green (ankle), G John Miller (groin), ignate franchise or transition players be- Worcester (ECHL) and G Linus Soder- cus Daniell, New Zealand, def. Henri Mi Jung Hur 34-36—70 -2 T Andre Smith (ankle). FULL: DE Andrew fore 4 p.m. (ET) strom to Worcester from Bridgeport Kontinen, Finland, and John Peers, Bo Ah Kim 34-36—70 -2 Brown (ankle), T Cordy Glenn (concus- March 18 — Free agency and trading (AHL). Australia, 7-6 (2), 7-6 (5). In Gee Chun 35-35—70 -2 sion), CB William Jackson (shoulder), CB periods begin at 4 p.m. (ET) Saturday, October 26, 2019 •STARS AND STRIPES•PAGE 25 MLS PLAYOFFS/SPORTS BRIEFS Briefl y Suns center Ayton suspended 25 games after positive test

Associated Press PHOENIX — The Phoenix Suns plans for a big turnaround season hit an unexpected snag. Center Deandre Ayton was sus- pended 25 games without pay by the NBA on Thursday night for KENT NISHIMURA/Los Angeles Times violating the terms of the NBA/ Los Angeles FC forward Adama Diomande celebrates his goal during NBPA Anti-Drug Program by Thursday’s game against the Los Angeles Galaxy. Los Angeles FC testing positive for a diuretic. defeated the Galaxy 5-3. The first overall pick last year out of Arizona, Ayton averaged 16.3 points and 10.3 rebounds as Roundup a rookie and was hoping to have a jump in production in his second season. LAFC beats Galaxy He had 18 points, 11 rebounds and four blocks Wednesday night in the Suns’ season-opening home victory over Sacramento. for first playoff win Ayton was especially proud of the blocks, telling media after the game that new coach Monty Wil- Associated Press is a big moment,” Vela said. “We liams had put a huge emphasis on work for that kind of game. We defense and rim protection. LOS ANGELES — Amid every want to be the best team with But the good vibes from that unprecedented feat during Los the best season in history. To victory have quickly evaporated. Angeles FC’s stellar season, one hit that target, that’s maximum “On behalf of the Phoenix Suns deficiency glared. inspiration.” organization, Monty Williams and Carlos Vela and his teammates Zlatan Ibrahimovic had a goal I are disappointed in the actions had never managed to beat the and an assist in perhaps his final by Deandre Ayton that led to his LA Galaxy in a rivalry series that game for the Galaxy while both testing positive for a banned di- has been sizzling for its entire teams put on a dazzling offensive uretic and subsequent suspension two-year history. show in front of a raucous sell- by the NBA. This does not uphold With LAFC’s season riding on out crowd near downtown Los the standards and principles we the end of that streak in the clubs’ Angeles. have set for the team,” Suns gen- first playoff meeting, Vela teamed While this chapter was played eral manager James Jones said in up with Diego Rossi and Adama mostly respectfully between the a statement released by the team. Diomande to make another bit of whistles, it got rowdy afterward. “Deandre has expressed his MLS history — and to move one Ibrahimovic grabbed his groin in deepest remorse. While he is su- step closer to a championship. response to LAFC fans’ taunts on pended, we remain committed to Vela scored two goals in the his way off the field, while Brad- his growth and development on first half and set up Rossi’s tie- ley tersely cut short his postgame and off the court. His actions are breaking goal in the second half, television interview after a ques- not taken lightly, and we are com- and LAFC advanced to the West- mitted to ensuring that Deandre tion about Vela. RICK SCUTERI/AP ern Conference final with a wild “There was a lot of goals,” understands the profound impact 5-3 victory over the Galaxy on Zlatan said. “That’s always excit- it has had on the team, organiza- Suns center Deandre Ayton — the first overall pick last year out of Thursday night. ing and fun, but no one wants to tion, and Suns community.” Arizona — will miss the next 25 games of the season after being Ayton won’t be eligible to return Diomande added two goals in lose. The whole season has been, suspended on Thursday for violating the terms of the NBA/NBPA until a road game against the Los the second half as top-seeded we score a couple of goals and Anti-Drug Program by testing positive for a diuretic. Angeles Clippers on Dec. 17. LAFC earned the young fran- we concede much more than we In other NBA news: chise’s first postseason victory. score. We should be sad and dis-  Sacramento Kings forward De La Hoya: Allegations No spectators Saturday And after the best regular sea- appointed. We made mistakes Marvin Bagley III will miss four are ‘completely false’ at Zozo Championship son in MLS history, LAFC fi- and they punished us.” nally beat the Galaxy for the first to six weeks after injuring his The 38-year-old Swedish su- thumb in the season opener. LOS ANGELES — Boxing pro- INZAI CITY, Japan — Orga- time in the sixth chapter of the perstar claimed he hasn’t decided moter Oscar De La Hoya denies nizers of the PGA Tour’s first lively crosstown derby dubbed El The Kings said Thursday that whether he will return to the Gal- an MRI showed Bagley has a accusations of sexual assault con- tournament in Japan have taken Trafico. axy next season. tained in a lawsuit filed against the unusual step of closing the “More is written about it than non-displaced fracture in his “If I don’t play in MLS, who right thumb after getting hurt in him this week. course to spectators for Satur- the time that we spend talk- will you talk to?” he playfully a 124-95 loss at Phoenix. De La Hoya’s company, Golden day’s second round and extend- ing about it,” LAFC coach Bob asked the media. The Kings are counting on a big Boy Promotions, issued a state- ing the tournament until Monday Bradley said of their 0-2-3 record Atlanta United 2, Union 0: Ju- season for Bagley after he had a ment Tuesday describing the ac- because of torrential rainfall and against the Galaxy before this lian Gressel scored in the 10th promising rookie campaign. The tion as a “frivolous lawsuit” and breakthrough. “But obviously flooding in the area. minute, Josef Martinez added a No. 2 overall pick in 2018 aver- calling the allegations “complete- Rain washed out the second somewhere along the line, you late goal and defending cham- aged 14.9 points and 7.6 rebounds ly false.” round of the Zozo Championship just need to do it. We all knew it pion Atlanta United beat visiting The lawsuit filed Monday in per game in his first season in the on Friday after more than six was our time. It was that simple.” Philadelphia to advance to the Los Angeles County Superior NBA. inches of rain was recorded at the LAFC advanced to face the Se- Eastern Conference final.  Cedi Osman and the Cavs Court alleges that the unnamed attle Sounders on Tuesday night United will host Toronto FC on woman had a consensual sexual Accordia Golf Narashino Coun- have agreed to terms on a four- try Club. at Banc of California Stadium. Wednesday night. Toronto beat year, $30.8 million contract ex- relationship with De La Hoya “Due to safety concerns, PGA The winner faces Toronto FC or top-seed New York City FC 2-1 on tension, a person familiar with until he assaulted her at his home Tour officials have announced Atlanta United for the MLS Cup the road Wednesday night. the negotiations told The Associ- in Pasadena in November 2017. on Nov. 10. Pity Martinez came on a ball in ated Press. Golden Boy Promotions’ state- the course will unfortunately LAFC was carried early by about 35 yards in front of goal and The 24-year-old Osman has ment suggests De La Hoya is be closed to all spectators and Vela, who scored his first two sent a diagonal pass right ahead continued to improve for the Cavs, being extorted. ticket holders on Saturday as the career MLS playoff goals after of Gressel. The ball entered the who began scouting the Turkish “Oscar is a very successful well-being of our fans is para- setting the league record with 34 box ahead of Gressel, but he got to player as a teenager. The team businessman, running one of the mount,” the PGA Tour said in a goals in the regular season. The it before Philadelphia goalkeeper sees him as part of their young country’s leading sports and en- statement. Mexican star has scored in all six Andre Blake and touched it left nucleus, along with guards Collin tertainment companies — thus The second round is now sched- editions of El Trafico. around him to the far post for the Sexton, Darius Garland and for- a prime target,” the statement uled to run between 9:30-11:30 “After all the work we did, this score. ward Larry Nance Jr. reads. a.m. on Saturday. PAGE 26 •STARS AND STRIPES• Saturday, October 26, 2019 NHL Roundup Scoreboard

Eastern Conference Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Oilers rally, top Buffalo 11 8 2 1 17 40 30 Boston 9 6 1 2 14 26 20 Florida 10 4 2 4 12 35 39 Toronto 11 5 4 2 12 40 39 Tampa Bay 9 5 3 1 11 32 29 Montreal 10 4 4 2 10 36 34 Detroit 10 3 7 0 6 23 38 Ottawa 9 2 6 1 5 22 31 Metropolitan Division Washington 12 7 2 3 17 44 38 Capitals in OT Carolina 10 6 3 1 13 33 29 N.Y. Islanders 9 6 3 0 12 25 22 Columbus 10 5 3 2 12 26 32 Pittsburgh 11 6 5 0 12 36 30 Philadelphia 8 4 3 1 9 25 22 Associated Press past Carolina. N.Y. Rangers 8 3 4 1 7 25 27 Atkinson tapped in a pass from New Jersey 8 2 4 2 6 19 31 EDMONTON, Alberta — Leon Pierre-Luc Dubois to give the Draisaitl scored two goals, includ- Western Conference Blue Jackets a second straight ing one in overtime, and the Ed- Central Division victory in a fourth consecutive GP W L OT Pts GF GA monton Oilers erased a two-goal Colorado 9 7 1 1 15 36 24 overtime game. Ryan Murray, deficit to beat the Washington Nashville 10 6 3 1 13 42 32 Alexander Texier and Sonny Mi- St. Louis 10 5 2 3 13 32 32 Capitals 4-3 on Thursday night. Winnipeg 11 5 6 0 10 30 36 lano also scored, and Joonas Kor- Dallas 12 4 7 1 9 25 33 The Oilers got a 3-on-1 in extra pisalo stopped 21 shots. Chicago 8 2 4 2 6 20 26 time and Connor McDavid set up Minnesota 10 3 7 0 6 21 36 Dougie Hamilton, Ryan Dzin- Pacific Division Draisaitl for a goal 1:18 in, giving gel and Sebastian Aho scored for Edmonton 11 8 2 1 17 35 27 the Oilers a 5-0 record at home Vegas 11 7 4 0 14 36 28 Carolina, and Petr Mrazek made Calgary 12 6 5 1 13 35 37 this season. Vancouver 9 6 3 0 12 30 19 Draisaitl added an assist in 27 saves. Anaheim 11 6 5 0 12 25 24 Islanders 4, Coyotes 2: An- Arizona 9 5 3 1 11 26 19 regulation and McDavid had San Jose 10 4 5 1 9 28 34 ders Lee scored the winner and Los Angeles 10 4 6 0 8 29 39 a goal and two assists. Darnell JASON FRANSON, THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP Semyon Varlamov made 21 saves Note: Two points for a win, one point Nurse also scored for the Oilers for overtime loss. Top three teams in each division and two wild cards per The Edmonton Oilers’ Leon Draisaitl, left, scores the first of his two (8-2-1), who snapped a two-game to help host New York beat Arizo- conference advance to playoffs. goals Thursday on Washington Capitals goalie Braden Holtby. losing skid. na for its fifth straight victory. Wednesday’s games Derick Brassard, Josh Bailey Ottawa 5, Detroit 2 Alex Ovechkin had two goals Tampa Bay 3, Pittsburgh 2 and Scott Mayfield also scored Thursday’s games Flyers 4, Blackhawks 1 Islanders 4, Coyotes 2 and Jakub Vrana also scored for N.Y. Rangers 6, Buffalo 2 the Capitals (7-2-3), who saw a for the Islanders. San Jose 4, Montreal 2 Philadelphia 1 1 2—4 Arizona 1 0 1—2 Michael Grabner and Conor Columbus 4, Carolina 3, OT Chicago 0 0 1—1 N.Y. Islanders 1 1 2—4 four-game winning streak come N.Y. Islanders 4, Arizona 2 First Period—1, Philadelphia, Lindb- First Period—1, N.Y. Islanders, Bras- to an end. Garland scored for the Coyotes, St. Louis 5, Los Angeles 2 lom 5 (Konecny), 13:05. sard 1 (Pulock, Nelson), 1:25. 2, Arizona, who had won four in a row. Nashville 4, Minnesota 0 Second Period—2, Philadelphia, Gir- Grabner 2 (Chychrun), 10:20. The Oilers ended a lengthy Philadelphia 4, Chicago 1 oux 1 (van Riemsdyk, Sanheim), 0:59. Second Period—3, N.Y. Islanders, Bai- scoring drought which had seen Flyers 4, Blackhawks 1: Dallas 2, Anaheim 1 Third Period—3, Chicago, Saad 3 ley 4 (Nelson, Leddy), 14:03. Kevin Hayes scored after he lost Edmonton 4, Washington 3, OT (Dach, Shaw), 1:00. 4, Philadelphia, Hayes Third Period—4, N.Y. Islanders, Lee 3 them go two straight games with- Calgary 6, Florida 5, SO 3 (Farabee, Laughton), 5:03. 5, Philadel- (Toews, Bailey), 8:00. 5, Arizona, Garland a goal because of an offsides chal- Friday’s games phia, van Riemsdyk 1, 16:44. 5 (Chychrun, Kessel), 18:55. 6, N.Y. Island- out a goal. The 165:58 streak Colorado at Vegas Shots on Goal—Philadelphia 5-13-5— San Jose at Toronto ers, Mayfield 1 (Boychuk), 19:48. lenge in Philadelphia’s victory at 23. Chicago 7-1-16—24. Shots on Goal—Arizona 7-7-9—23. N.Y. ended when they found the back Arizona at New Jersey Power-play opportunities—Philadel- of the net with 6:40 left in the first Chicago. N.Y. Islanders at Ottawa phia 0 of 2; Chicago 0 of 4. Islanders 7-8-7—22. Claude Giroux, James van Buffalo at Detroit Goalies—Philadelphia, Elliott 2-1-0 (24 Power-play opportunities—Arizona 0 period. Nurse’s shot ticked off Washington at Vancouver shots-23 saves). Chicago, Lehner 1-1-2 of 3; N.Y. Islanders 0 of 1. the stick of Washington defender Riemsdyk and Oskar Lindb- Saturday’s games (23-19). Goalies—Arizona, Kuemper 4-3-0 (21 Chicago at Carolina A—21,315 (19,717). T—2:24. shots-18 saves). N.Y. Islanders, Varlamov Dmitry Orlov and past Capitals lom also scored for the Flyers, Toronto at Montreal 3-2-0 (23-21). who beat the Blackhawks 4-3 Nashville at Tampa Bay A—10,752 (13,917). T—2:27.. goalie Braden Holtby. St. Louis at Boston Blues 5, Kings 2 The Capitals tied the game in Prague in the season opener Columbus at Philadelphia Los Angeles at Minnesota Los Angeles 1 1 0—2 Stars 2, Ducks 1 on Oct. 4. Brian Elliott made 23 St. Louis 1 2 2—5 six minutes into the second pe- Pittsburgh at Dallas Anaheim 0 1 0—1 saves in his second straight start. Anaheim at Colorado First Period—1, Los Angeles, Carter riod as Vrana tucked a shot under Calgary vs. Winnipeg at Regina, Sas- 2 (Lizotte, Doughty), 14:49. 2, St. Louis, Dallas 2 0 0—2 the arm of Oilers goalie Mikko Brandon Saad scored for katchewan Dunn 2 (Parayko, Schwartz), 18:23 (pp). First Period—1, Dallas, Gurianov 1 (Co- Chicago. Sunday’s games Second Period—3, Los Angeles, Iafallo gliano), 2:42. 2, Dallas, Gurianov 2 (Fedun, Koskinen. Florida at Edmonton 2 (Kopitar, Walker), 3:07. 4, St. Louis, Pi- Oleksiak), 17:37. Washington took a 2-1 lead Rangers 6, Sabres 2: Ryan St. Louis at Detroit etrangelo 4 (Perron, O’Reilly), 10:16 (pp). Second Period—3, Anaheim, Comtois Los Angeles at Chicago 5, St. Louis, Thomas 1 (Bozak, Sanford), 1 (Steel, Ritchie), 4:31 (pp). just 47 seconds later as Ovech- Strome scored his first two goals San Jose at Ottawa 11:56. Third Period—None. this season, Henrik Lundqvist Boston at N.Y. Rangers Third Period—6, St. Louis, Schenn 7 Shots on Goal—Anaheim 8-11-11—30. kin tipped in Jonas Siegenhal- Philadelphia at N.Y. Islanders (Parayko, Schwartz), 7:29 (pp). 7, St. Lou- Dallas 10-10-9—29. er’s shot. Ovechkin extended made 31 saves and host New York Anaheim at Vegas is, Schenn 8 (Steen), 19:01. Power-play opportunities—Anaheim 1 his points scoring streak to nine beat Buffalo to snap a five-game Shots on Goal—Los Angeles 12-12-11— of 2; Dallas 0 of 2. Thursday 35. St. Louis 16-7-12—35. Goalies—Anaheim, Gibson 4-5-0 (29 games on the goal. losing streak. Power-play opportunities—Los Ange- shots-27 saves). Dallas, Bishop 3-4-1 (30- Artemi Panarin, Brett Howden, Oilers 4, Capitals 3 (OT) les 0 of 3; St. Louis 3 of 4. 29). Sharks 4, Canadiens 2: Goalies—Los Angeles, Quick 2-4-0 (34 A—17,754 (18,532). T—2:29. Tony DeAngelo and Chris Kre- Washington 0 3 0 0—3 shots-30 saves). St. Louis, Binnington 4- Evander Kane scored two power- Edmonton 1 0 2 1—4 1-3 (35-33). play goals and San Jose snapped ider also scored for the Rangers. First Period—1, Edmonton, Nurse 2 A—18,096 (19,150). T—2:24. Predators 4, Wild 0 (Draisaitl, Kassian), 13:20. a two-game losing streak with a Marco Scandella and Vladimir Second Period—2, Washington, Vra- Minnesota 0 0 0—0 Sobotka scored for the Sabres. na 4, 5:40. 3, Washington, Ovechkin 8 Blue Jackets 4, Canes 3 (OT) Nashville 0 2 2—4 win at Montreal. (Siegenthaler, Carlson), 6:27. 4, Wash- Second Period—1, Nashville, Salomaki Predators 4, Wild 0: Pekka ington, Ovechkin 9 (Wilson, Vrana), 13:40 Carolina 3 0 0 0—3 Kevin Labanc and Melker Columbus 1 2 0 1—4 1 (Josi, Sissons), 0:37. 2, Nashville, Jarnk- (pp). rok 2 (Johansen, Arvidsson), 19:31. Karlsson also scored for the Rinne made 26 saves, Colton Sis- Third Period—5, Edmonton, Draisaitl First Period—1, Columbus, Texier 2 (Nash, Bemstrom), 3:21. 2, Carolina, Ham- Third Period—3, Nashville, Smith 1 Sharks, playing the first game of sons had a goal and an assist and 7 (McDavid, Kassian), 4:25. 6, Edmonton, (Grimaldi, Bonino), 6:58. 4, Nashville, Sis- McDavid 6 (Chiasson, Neal), 18:22. ilton 6 (Slavin, Foegele), 4:32. 3, Carolina, host Nashville beat Minnesota. Dzingel 3 (Necas), 11:43. 4, Carolina, Aho sons 4 (Ekholm), 16:53 (sh). a back-to-back set. Tomas Hertl Overtime—7, Edmonton, Draisaitl 8 Minnesota 13-5-8—26. Rinne improved to 6-0-1 with (McDavid), 1:18. 3 (Pesce, Wallmark), 12:32. Shots on Goal— had three assists. Shots on Goal—Washington 8-11-9— Second Period—5, Columbus, Murray Nashville 4-9-8—21. his first shutout of the season and 28. Edmonton 11-14-14-1—40. 1 (Savard, Jenner), 12:57. 6, Columbus, Power-play opportunities—Minnesota San Jose has won nine straight 0 of 2; Nashville 0 of 1. 56th overall. Power-play opportunities—Washing- Milano 2 (Savard, Murray), 17:23. games against the Canadiens dat- ton 1 of 2; Edmonton 0 of 2. Overtime—7, Columbus, Atkinson 3 Goalies—Minnesota, Stalock 1-2-0 (21 ing to March 21, 2015. Miikka Salomaki, Calle Jarnk- Goalies—Washington, Holtby 4-1-3 (40 (Jones, Dubois), 3:28. shots-17 saves). Nashville, Rinne 6-0-1 shots-36 saves). Edmonton, Koskinen 5- Shots on Goal—Carolina 9-3-12—24. (26-26). Flames 6, Panthers 5 (SO): rok and Craig Smith also scored 0-0 (28-25). Columbus 8-15-4-4—31. A—17,386 (17,113). T—2:21. Matthew Tkachuk scored twice for the Predators. A—17,144 (18,641). T—2:45. Power-play opportunities—Carolina 0 Blues 5, Kings 2: Alex Pi- of 3; Columbus 0 of 2. Sharks 4, Canadiens 2 in regulation and again in the Flames 6, Panthers 5 (SO) Goalies—Carolina, Mrazek 4-1-1 (31 shootout in host Calgary’s victory etrangelo and Robert Thomas shots-27 saves). Columbus, Korpisalo 5- San Jose 1 3 0—4 Florida 0 2 3 0—5 2-1 (24-21). Montreal 1 1 0—2 over Florida. scored in a two-minute span Calgary 1 1 3 0—6 A—15,398 (18,500). T—2:26. First Period—1, Montreal, Cousins 1 of the second period in host St. Calgary won shootout 2-0. (Thompson), 16:36. 2, San Jose, Kane 5 Sean Monahan also scored First Period—1, Calgary, Czarnik 2 (Lu- (Couture, Hertl), 19:05 (pp). Louis’ victory over Los Angeles. cic, Brodie), 11:43 (pp). Rangers 6, Sabres 2 Second Period—3, San Jose, Kane 6 in the shootout for the Flames, Second Period—2, Florida, Huberdeau who converted both tiebreaking Brayden Schenn scored twice, 5 (Barkov), 4:28. 3, Calgary, Tkachuk 3 Buffalo 0 2 0—2 (Hertl, Burns), 4:54 (pp). 4, San Jose, La- (Brodie, Frolik), 11:59. 4, Florida, Weegar N.Y. Rangers 3 1 2—6 banc 3 (Kane, Hertl), 8:08. 5, San Jose, attempts on Sergei Bobrovsky. including an empty-netter, Vince 3 (Barkov), 15:15. First Period—1, N.Y. Rangers, Panarin M.Karlsson 1 (Thornton, Marleau), 19:24. David Rittich thwarted Jonathan Dunn also scored, and Jordan Third Period—5, Calgary, Tkachuk 4 5, 11:41. 2, N.Y. Rangers, Howden 2 (Fast, 6, Montreal, Armia 5 (Weber, Domi), (Giordano, Frolik), 0:32. 6, Calgary, Gior- Lemieux), 14:32. 3, N.Y. Rangers, Strome 1 19:46. Huberdeau and Aleksander Bar- Binnington made 33 saves. Jeff dano 3 (Lindholm, Monahan), 5:16. 7, (Skjei, DeAngelo), 19:22. Shots on Goal—San Jose 8-6-9—23. kov to secure the victory. Carter and Alex Iafallo scored for Florida, Brown 1 (Barkov, Yandle), 6:20. 8, Second Period—4, Buffalo, Scandella Montreal 13-16-8—37. Florida, Dadonov 5 (Barkov, Huberdeau), 2, 4:17. 5, N.Y. Rangers, DeAngelo 4 (Skjei, Power-play opportunities—San Jose 2 Austin Czarnik, Mark Giordano the Kings. 8:41. 9, Florida, Pysyk 1 (Vatrano, Mal- Buchnevich), 13:20. 6, Buffalo, Sobotka 1 of 3; Montreal 0 of 3. and Sam Bennett scored in regu- Stars 2, Ducks 1: Denis Gu- gin), 14:59. 10, Calgary, Bennett 2 (Man- (Johansson, Okposo), 19:11. Goalies—San Jose, Dell 2-1-0 (37 shots- giapane, Hamonic), 17:17. Third Period—7, N.Y. Rangers, Strome 35 saves). Montreal, Price 4-3-1 (23-19). rianov ended a personal scoring Shootout—Florida 0 (Huberdeau NG, A—21,052 (21,288). T—2:36. lation for Calgary. Huberdeau, Barkov NG), Calgary 2 (Monahan G, Tka- 2 (Howden), 7:57. 8, N.Y. Rangers, Kreider MacKenzie Weegar, Josh Brown, drought with two first-period chuk G). 1 (Fox, Fast), 18:44. Shots on Goal—Florida 5-7-8-3—23. Shots on Goal—Buffalo 7-15-11—33. Scoring leaders Evgenii Dadonov and Mark Pysyk goals, and Ben Bishop made 29 Calgary 8-4-9-3—24. N.Y. Rangers 10-4-10—24. scored for the Panthers. saves to help host Dallas beat Power-play opportunities—Florida 0 Power-play opportunities—Buffalo 0 Through Thursday of 2; Calgary 1 of 3. of 3; N.Y. Rangers 0 of 4. GP G A PTS Blue Jackets 4, Canes 3 (OT): Anaheim. Gurianov hadn’t scored Goalies—Florida, Bobrovsky 3-2-3 (24 Goalies—Buffalo, Hutton 6-1-0 (24 John Carlson, WAS 12 5 16 21 shots-19 saves). Calgary, Rittich 5-3-1 shots-18 saves). N.Y. Rangers, Lundqvist Connor McDavid, EDM 11 6 14 20 Cam Atkinson scored 3:28 into in 26 games since his first NHL (23-18). 2-3-0 (33-31). Leon Draisaitl, EDM 11 8 11 19 overtime to lift host Columbus goal on Nov. 18, 2018. A—18,011 (19,289). T—2:39. A—16,913 (18,006). T—2:19. David Pastrnak, BOS 9 10 7 17 Saturday, October 26, 2019 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 27 NBA Scoreboard

Eastern Conference Thursday Atlantic Division Clippers 141, Warriors 122 W L Pct GB Philadelphia 1 0 1.000 — L.A. CLIPPERS — Leonard 9-17 2-4 21, Pat- Toronto 1 0 1.000 — terson 7-13 0-0 20, Zubac 4-5 8-9 16, Bev- Brooklyn 0 1 .000 1 erley 2-4 0-0 5, Shamet 4-5 0-0 11, Hark- New York 0 1 .000 1 less 5-7 0-0 10, Mann 0-0 0-0 0, Motley 1-1 Boston 0 1 .000 1 0-0 3, Kabengele 1-1 0-0 3, Harrell 8-9 2-5 Southeast Division 18, J.Green 3-4 0-1 9, Robinson 1-3 0-0 3, Atlanta 1 0 1.000 — Williams 5-11 11-11 22. Totals 50-80 23-30 Orlando 1 0 1.000 — 141. Charlotte 1 0 1.000 — GOLDEN STATE — Robinson III 5-10 2-2 13, Miami 1 0 1.000 — D.Green 3-6 4-4 11, Looney 1-4 0-0 3, Curry Washington 0 1 .000 1 8-20 5-5 23, Russell 6-16 4-4 20, Spellman Central Division 2-6 3-3 8, Paschall 6-13 2-3 14, Chriss 1- Milwaukee 1 0 1.000 — 2 6-6 8, Bowman 0-0 0-0 0, Lee 0-0 3-3 3, Detroit 1 1 .500 A Evans 5-9 0-0 14, Poole 2-13 0-0 5. Totals Chicago 0 1 .000 1 39-99 29-30 122. Cleveland 0 1 .000 1 L.A. Clippers 35 30 46 30—141 Indiana 0 1 .000 1 Golden State 29 25 33 35—122 Three-Point Goals—L.A. Clippers 18-32 Western Conference (Patterson 6-10, Shamet 3-4, J.Green 3-4, Robinson 1-1, Motley 1-1, Kabengele 1-1, Southwest Division Beverley 1-3, Williams 1-3, Leonard 1-3, W L Pct GB Harkless 0-2), Golden State 15-42 (Evans San Antonio 1 0 1.000 — 4-6, Russell 4-8, Curry 2-11, Looney 1-1, Dallas 1 0 1.000 — Spellman 1-2, D.Green 1-2, Robinson III Houston 0 1 .000 1 1-4, Poole 1-7, Paschall 0-1). Fouled Out— New Orleans 0 1 .000 1 None. Rebounds—L.A. Clippers 39 (Zubac Memphis 0 1 .000 1 10), Golden State 42 (Looney 9). Assists— Northwest Division L.A. Clippers 33 (Leonard 9), Golden State Denver 1 0 1.000 — 27 (Russell 8). Total Fouls—L.A. Clippers Utah 1 0 1.000 — 24, Golden State 21. Technicals—Golden Minnesota 1 0 1.000 — State coach Warriors (Excess timeout). Oklahoma City 0 1 .000 1 A—18,064 (18,064). Portland 0 1 .000 1 Pacific Division L.A. Clippers 2 0 1.000 — Bucks 117, Rockets 111 Phoenix 1 0 1.000 A MILWAUKEE — Middleton 4-16 0-0 11, L.A. Lakers 0 1 .000 1A G.Antetokounmpo 11-17 6-11 30, B.Lopez Golden State 0 1 .000 1A 4-9 2-2 11, Bledsoe 4-12 1-1 11, Matthews Sacramento 0 1 .000 1A 6-12 0-0 14, Ilyasova 6-8 0-1 13, R.Lopez Thursday’s games 1-3 0-3 2, Hill 3-7 0-0 8, Korver 2-4 0-0 5, ERIC CHRISTIAN SMITH/AP Atlanta 117, Detroit 100 Connaughton 4-8 0-0 10, Brown 1-3 0-0 2. Milwaukee 117, Houston 111 Totals 46-99 9-18 117. L.A. Clippers 141, Golden State 122 HOUSTON — House Jr. 2-6 2-2 8, Tucker 6- Rockets guard Russell Westbrook celebrates his dunk during the second half of Thursday’s game Friday’s games 10 0-0 17, Capela 5-10 3-6 13, Westbrook against the Milwaukee Bucks in Houston. Westbrook had 24 points in the Rockets’ 117-111 loss. Minnesota at Charlotte 7-17 7-11 24, Harden 2-13 14-14 19, Sefolo- Toronto at Boston sha 0-1 0-0 0, Chandler 5-6 0-1 10, Rivers New York at Brooklyn 0-3 3-4 3, Gordon 4-19 0-1 11, McLemore Chicago at Memphis 2-5 0-0 6. Totals 33-90 29-39 111. Roundup Dallas at New Orleans Milwaukee 23 27 28 39—117 Washington at Oklahoma City Houston 30 36 21 24—111 Phoenix at Denver Portland at Sacramento Three-Point Goals—Milwaukee 16-46 Utah at L.A. Lakers (Middleton 3-9, Bledsoe 2-4, Hill 2-4, Con- Saturday’s games naughton 2-5, G.Antetokounmpo 2-5, Mat- Miami at Milwaukee thews 2-8, Ilyasova 1-2, Korver 1-3, B.Lopez 1-3, Brown 0-1, R.Lopez 0-2), Houston 16- Bucks spoil debut of Rockets’ duo Philadelphia at Detroit Boston at New York 48 (Tucker 5-8, Westbrook 3-7, Gordon 3- Orlando at Atlanta 12, House Jr. 2-4, McLemore 2-5, Harden Indiana at Cleveland 1-8, Sefolosha 0-1, Rivers 0-3). Fouled New Orleans at Houston Out—G.Antetokounmpo. Rebounds—Mil- Associated Press fans heading to the exits. NBA, even giving up a 46-point Toronto at Chicago waukee 53 (G.Antetokounmpo 13), Hous- ton 57 (Westbrook 16). Assists—Milwau- Westbrook had 24 points, 16 re- third quarter. Washington at San Antonio HOUSTON — Giannis Antetok- Sacramento at Utah kee 31 (G.Antetokounmpo 11), Houston bounds and seven assists, Harden, Curry, who at 31 is the oldest L.A. Clippers at Phoenix 25 (Harden 14). Total Fouls—Milwaukee ounmpo scored 30 points and had Sunday’s games 27, Houston 25. A—18,055 (18,500). the 2018 MVP, added 19 points, Warriors player, was 2 of 11 on Golden State at Oklahoma City a triple-double before fouling out 14 assists and seven rebounds. threes as Golden State went 15- Brooklyn at Memphis Hawks 117, Pistons 100 and his supporting cast held on Miami at Minnesota He was 2 of 13 from the field, 1 for-42 from deep. Portland at Dallas ATLANTA — Hunter 5-8 2-2 14, Collins 8- to lead the Milwaukee Bucks to of 8 on threes and made 14 free Hawks 117, Pistons 100: Charlotte at L.A. Lakers 15 1-1 18, Len 1-5 2-2 4, Young 11-21 10-12 a 117-111 victory over the Hous- Monday’s games 38, Reddish 0-6 1-2 1, Fernando 3-6 0-0 7, throws without a miss. Trae Young had 38 points and Chicago at New York Parker 8-11 1-1 18, Turner 4-4 1-1 9, Carter ton Rockets on Thursday night in Indiana at Detroit 0-2 0-0 0, Huerter 0-3 0-0 0, Bembry 4-5 0-0 Clippers 141, Warriors 122: nine assists and Atlanta opened Orlando at Toronto 8. Totals 44-86 18-21 117. a star-studded opener featuring Kawhi Leonard spoiled the War- the season with a victory over Philadelphia at Atlanta DETROIT — Snell 3-8 0-0 9, Morris 3-11 0-0 the last three MVPs. Cleveland at Milwaukee 7, Drummond 8-12 5-6 21, Jackson 2-8 1-1 riors’ first game at Chase Center host Detroit. Golden State at New Orleans 5, Brown 1-3 0-0 2, Maker 0-1 1-2 1, Gal- Antetokounmpo, the MVP last just as he did their farewell at Or- John Collins added 20 points Oklahoma City at Houston loway 2-9 2-2 8, Rose 11-16 5-5 27, Frazier season, fouled out with about five Portland at San Antonio 2-5 2-2 7, Kennard 3-12 4-4 13. Totals 35-85 acle Arena four months ago, scor- and 10 rebounds, and Jabari Park- Denver at Sacramento 20-22 100. minutes remaining. He had 13 re- ing 21 points in three quarters er had 18 points. Vince Carter Utah at Phoenix Atlanta 38 22 31 26—117 bounds and 11 assists. Charlotte at L.A. Clippers Detroit 32 31 18 19—100 to lead Los Angeles to the win at checked in for Atlanta with 6:52 Three-Point Goals—Atlanta 11-31 Brook Lopez made two free Golden State’s snazzy new arena. left in the first quarter, becoming Calendar (Young 6-10, Hunter 2-3, Fernando 1- 1, Parker 1-2, Collins 1-3, Bembry 0-1, throws with about a minute left Reigning NBA Finals MVP the first player to see action in 22 Jan. 5, 2020 — 10-day contracts can be Carter 0-2, Huerter 0-2, Len 0-2, Reddish before a layup by Russell West- Leonard shot 9-for-17 and also NBA seasons. signed. 0-5), Detroit 10-37 (Snell 3-7, Kennard 3- Jan. 10 — All contracts guaranteed for 9, Galloway 2-7, Morris 1-4, Frazier 1-4, brook. But Lopez made a fade- dished out nine assists in his sec- Derrick Rose led Detroit with rest of season. Maker 0-1, Brown 0-1, Rose 0-1, Jackson away shot to leave Milwaukee up ond game with L.A. 27 points, and Andre Drummond Feb. 6 — Trade deadline (3 p.m. EST) 0-3). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—At- Feb. 14-16 — All-Star weekend, Chi- lanta 42 (Collins 10), Detroit 39 (Drum- 115-109 with 39 seconds remain- Stephen Curry scored 23 points had 21 points and 12 rebounds. cago. mond 12). Assists—Atlanta 27 (Young 9), ing. James Harden added a pair and D’Angelo Russell added 20 in On Wednesday night in Indiana, April 15 — Regular season ends. Detroit 20 (Kennard, Jackson, Galloway, April 18 — Playoffs begin. Rose 3). Total Fouls—Atlanta 15, Detroit of free throws before Ersan Ilyas- his Golden State debut, but the Drummond had 32 points and May 19 — Draft lottery, Chicago. 20. Technicals—Atlanta coach Hawks ova made a jump shot with about June 4 — NBA Finals begin. (Defensive three second), Morris. A— Warriors got beat up the way they 23 rebounds in Detroit’s season- June 25 — NBA draft. 20,332 (20,491). 15 seconds to go that sent many used to do it against the entire opening victory. Impact: Number of female assistant coaches around league continues to grow

FROM BACK PAGE first full-time assistant in 2014; current always expected to benefit from Cash and your voice and what you’ve learned,” Toli- not be a fad, it is a recent trend. Mavericks’ coach Rick Carlisle (he hired Teresa Weatherspoon, who was hired as a ver said. “Doing that has helped me com- Lieberman remembers a time when the Jenny Boucek as assistant in 2017) and the New Orleans assistant this season. municate with my guys.” presence of women was hard to spot, or at Sacramento Kings organization, which has “They were ballers,” Jackson said. “They Richard Lapchick, who tracks racial and best found only behind the scenes. been responsible for hiring three women as were good at their craft and I’ve taken a lot gender hiring numbers for the NBA, NFL, The 61-year-old — who has broken bar- assistants (Lieberman, Boucek and Lind- from both of them. ... I’ve always had open NHL and MLB, has long lauded the NBA riers as a player, as a coach in the WNBA, say Harding). Even the BIG3, spearhead- eyes and open ears to anyone who plays as being the leader in gender hiring prac- head coach in NBA G League and in the ed by founder and entertainer Ice Cube, is this game.” tices. Along with the record number of fe- NBA as assistant — learned quickly that helping normalize the idea of women lead- Earlier this month, Wizards assistant male assistants, five women referees will building relationships was the skeleton key ing men, Lieberman said. Kristi Toliver was on the court helping the be working NBA games this season. to erasing gender hurdles and opening op- “I remember Donnie did an interview Mystics win their first WNBA champion- Lapchick also believes the NBA will portunities in the league. That, along with and he said, ‘Maybe the best man for the ship. On the sideline, Washington NBA soon have its female head coach. Whether an occasional assist from forward thinking job isn’t a man at all.’ He had a list of crite- All-Stars John Wall and Bradley Beal were that is Hammon in San Antonio remains to men like former coach Don Nelson, who ria he wanted to hit for his head coach. And wearing the Wizard assistant’s WNBA jer- be seen. But whoever it is, Lapchick said in 2009 hired her as the head coach of the I hit those,” Lieberman said. sey and dancing from the stands . the move would go a long way in putting Texas Legends, the Dallas Mavericks’ G The women who have broken into the NBA players are treating the feedback even more women in position to make bas- League affiliate. NBA ranks are garnering respect from from Toliver and the other women in the ketball decisions. Several have continued Nelson’s vision, players for their experience and basketball league with the same reverence they give “I’d be surprised if it doesn’t happen be- including San Antonio Spurs Greg Popov- knowledge. their male counterparts. fore the next season,” he said, “or during ich, who made Becky Hammon the NBA’s Pelicans guard Frank Jackson said he “The biggest thing I learned is to share the next season.” PAGE 28 •STARS AND STRIPES• Saturday, October 26, 2019 COLLEGE FOOTBALL All-America watch Delpit’s unselfishness catching on at LSU Junior safety passes up draft for chance at College Football Playoff

BY BRETT MARTEL Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. — Grant Delpit’s numbers are down this season compared to the big-play bonanza he produced during his 2018 All-America campaign — and that makes perfect sense to fellow LSU safety Jacoby Stevens. “He’s a unanimous All-Ameri- can, so a lot of people aren’t going to test him,” Stevens said. “Stats don’t tell the whole game. He can shut down a whole side of the field,” Stevens added, noting that opposing teams apparently weren’t fooled by Delpit’s jersey switch this year from No. 9 to No. 7. “You can see it on film some- times. Quarterbacks kind of look and they see 7 and they just go the other way. He can’t get a stat on that. He’s a good ball player. He hasn’t changed.” While a big year statistically would help Delpit’s already con- siderable NFL draft credentials next spring, he can appreciate that having a big year individual- ly can still be unsatisfying if team GERALD HERBERT/AP goals aren’t met. Delpit dominated as a sopho- LSU safety Grant Delpit (7) pulls in an interception against Utah State wide receiver Savon Scarver. After his All-America season last year, more last season, when he had opposing quarterbacks are often throwing away from him this season. five interceptions, five sacks, and missed a couple tackles that Tagovailoa to be healthy enough 9½ tackles for loss, 14 passes we shouldn’t miss,” Delpit con- defended, a forced fumble and a to play — and play effectively — fumble recovery, making him an ceded. “But the last few weeks, against No. 2 LSU on Nov. 9. easy pick for the AP All-America we’ve been playing pretty well Tagovailoa has been excellent team . The Tigers won 10 games as a defense as a whole, and we’ll this season (27 touchdowns, two in 2018, but missed out on the try to carry that into this SEC run interceptions, 11.2 yards per pass) College Football Playoff. that we have going on.” and was near perfect against This season, Delpit has one in- The Tigers host No. 9 Auburn Tennessee before getting injured. terception, one fumble recovery, on Saturday and visit No. 1 Ala- With so many good quarterbacks, no sacks, 1½ tackles for loss and bama on Nov. 9, with a bye in though, the competition to be All- four passes defended through between. American or the Heisman Trophy seven games. But LSU is unbeat- “We had big expectations be- winner will be fierce. en, ranked second in the Top 25 fore the season started,” Del- poll and very much in the CFP pit said. “We’re getting into the On the line conversation. toughest part of our schedule “I’m pretty tough on myself to coming up. So we’re just going to (SEC Network analyst Cole make a lot of plays. But I kind of try to go 1-0 every week and take Cubelic, a former guard for Au- understand you can’t make all it from there.” burn, breaks down an offensive the plays, all the tackles and all lineman playing at an All-Amer- the interceptions,” Delpit said. Who’s hot ica level) “Just as long as I’m doing my job, Kevin Dotson, OG, AJ Dillon, RB, Boston College Louisiana-Lafayette as long as we’re playing great as Dillon’s performance fell off The 315-pound senior helped a defense, it doesn’t matter who /AP last season after a huge freshman RICK BOWMER the Ragin’ Cajuns run for 315 makes the play or anything like year. Healthy and running strong yards last week against Arkansas that — just as long as we win.” Utah running back Zack Moss scores on a 32-yard run against again, Dillon is on a streak of five While the 6-foot-3, 203-pound Arizona State last week. Next up is California, led by standout straight 100-yard rushing games, State. Delpit has proved last season linebacker Evan Weaver, on Saturday. including 223 against North Car- “His physicality has been on that he can be as menacing rush- olina State last week. display all season as the Cajuns ing the passer as in coverage, the finding ways to “get Grant closer- started high school before finish- With 75 yards this week against have the fourth-best rushing of- Tigers have largely had him pro- to the ball, blitzing, using him in a ing at IMG Academy in Braden- Clemson — no given — Dillon can fense in the country,” Cubelic tecting against the deep ball this fashion where we’re rushing the ton, Fla. break the school career record of said. season. quarterback,” Orgeron said. “But Delpit is about on pace to match 3,739 held by former Heisman LSU coach Ed Orgeron calls wherever we need him, he’s going last season’s total of 74 solo and Trophy finalist Andre Williams. All-America matchup Delpit “very unselfish.” to play and he’s basically effec- assisted tackles with 38 so far in “If we put him back in the post tive wherever we put him.” 2019. It speaks in part to Delpit’s Who’s not Evan Weaver, LB, California all day, he’ll say, ‘Coach, I’ll play Delpit knows all about adapt- ability to react quickly to plays vs. Zack Moss, RB, Utah in the post. Whatever it takes for ing to change. His family was even outside of his coverage area, Tua Tagovailoa, QB, Alabama Weaver is tackling machine, the team,” Orgeron said, alluding among those displaced from New but it also shows how LSU strug- The Heisman runner-up will leading the nation with an aver- to Delpit’s regular assignment Orleans by Hurricane Katrina in gled with tackling and getting miss at least Saturday’s game age of 15 per game. Moss is one of covering the deep-middle part of August 2005, less than a month third-down stops during the first against Arkansas with a sprained the hardest runners in the coun- the field against the pass. before his seventh birthday. They half of the season. ankle and then Crimson Tide fans try and averaging 6.59 yards per Coaches remain interested in settled in Houston, where Delpit “We’ve given up a couple plays will hope and probably pray for carry. Saturday, October 26, 2019 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 29 COLLEGE FOOTBALL

TOP 25 SCHEDULE

Saturday’s games No. 1 Alabama vs. Arkansas No. 2 LSU vs. No. 9 Auburn No. 3 Ohio State vs. No. 13 Wisconsin No. 4 Clemson vs. Boston College No. 5 Oklahoma at Kansas State No. 6 Penn State at Michigan State No. 8 Notre Dame at No. 19 Michigan No. 11 Oregon vs. Washington State No. 12 Utah vs. California No. 15 Texas at TCU No. 17 Minnesota vs. Maryland No. 20 Iowa at Northwestern No. 21 Appalachian State at South Ala- bama No. 23 Iowa State vs. Oklahoma State No. 24 Arizona State at UCLA

SERVICE ACADEMIES

Air Force (5-2) vs. Utah State (4-2), Saturday Last week: Beat Hawaii 56-26 Army (3-4) vs. San Jose State (3-4), Saturday Last week: Lost to Georgia State 28-21 Navy (5-1) vs, Tulane (5-2), Saturday Last week: Beat South Florida 35-3

POWER FIVE STANDINGS

ACC Atlantic Division Conference Overall W L W L Clemson ...... 5 0 7 0 Wake Forest ...... 2 1 6 1 Boston College ...... 2 2 4 3 Louisville ...... 2 2 4 3 Florida State ...... 2 3 3 4 CHARLES REX ARBOGAST/AP NC State ...... 1 2 4 3 Syracuse ...... 0 3 3 4 Ohio State defensive end Chase Young, right, sacks Northwestern quarterback Aidan Smith last Friday. Young and the Buckeyes will try to Coastal Division Virginia ...... 3 1 5 2 contain Wisconsin running back and Heisman Trophy candidate Jonathan Taylor this week. Pittsburgh ...... 2 1 5 2 Virginia Tech ...... 2 2 5 2 Duke ...... 2 2 4 3 North Carolina ...... 2 2 3 4 Miami ...... 1 3 3 4 KEY POWER FIVE MATCHUPS Georgia Tech ...... 1 3 2 5 Big 12 Conference Overall W L W L No. 13 Wisconsin (6-1) No. 9 Auburn (6-1) Boston College (4-3) Baylor ...... 4 0 7 0 Oklahoma ...... 4 0 7 0 at No. 3 Ohio State (7-0) at No. 2 LSU (7-0) at No. 4 Clemson (7-0) Iowa State ...... 3 1 5 2 6 p.m. Saturday CET 9:30 p.m. Saturday CET Texas ...... 3 1 5 2 Series record — Clemson leads 17-9-2. Kansas State ...... 1 2 4 2 1 a.m. Sunday JKT 4:30 a.m. Sunday JKT What’s at stake? — Clemson’s run to a fifth straight TCU ...... 1 2 3 3 Oklahoma State ...... 1 3 4 3 AFN-Sports AFN-Sports College Football Playoff berth. The Tigers were pre- Texas Tech...... 1 3 3 4 West Virginia ...... 1 3 3 4 Series record — Ohio State leads 59-18-5. Series record — LSU leads 30-22-1. season No. 1 and held that spot most of September, Kansas ...... 0 4 2 5 What’s at stake? — Wisconsin lost to Illinois on a What’s at stake? — Auburn needs a victory to re- but have slipped three positions, sliding a spot after Big Ten main in control of its ability to win the SEC Western East late field goal last week and follows with a much more each of their past three wins. Boston College is seek- Conference Overall rigorous test this week against the surging Buckeyes. Division and stay in contention for a College Football ing the signature win that seventh-year coach Steve W L W L Playoff bid. A loss wouldn’t be catastrophic for LSU Ohio State ...... 4 0 7 0 The Badgers have to win to stay in contention in the Addazio can build on going forward. Penn State ...... 4 0 7 0 Big Ten West. A close loss would sting for Ohio State if it can rebound to win remaining games, but the Key matchup — Boston College RB AJ Dillon vs. Michigan ...... 3 2 5 2 Tigers want to remain among college football’s un- Indiana ...... 2 2 5 2 but may not be fatal, especially if there is a rematch Clemson’s defensive front. Dillon, a senior, leads the Michigan State ...... 2 2 4 3 between the teams in the Big Ten Championship. beaten teams entering their final bye week, which will ACC with 968 yards and nine touchdowns. Clemson Maryland ...... 1 3 3 4 be followed by their highly anticipated visit to No. 1 Rutgers ...... 0 5 1 6 Ohio State is rolling over opponents by ridiculous has held opponents to five TDs on the ground all sea- Alabama on Nov. 9. West scores. Two of the best running backs in the country son, giving up just 111 yards rushing a game so far. Minnesota ...... 4 0 7 0 Key matchup — Auburn’s defense against LSU QB Wisconsin ...... 3 1 6 1 — Wisconsin’s Jonathan Taylor and Ohio State’s J.K. Players to watch — Boston College: LB Max Rich- Iowa ...... 2 2 5 2 Dobbins — will be on display. Joe Burrow and a prolific offense that has averaged Nebraska ...... 2 2 4 3 50.1 points a game and has yet to score fewer than ardson leads the ACC and is 10th nationally with 73 Illinois ...... 1 3 3 4 Key matchup — Taylor vs. the Ohio State defense. tackles this season. Richardson is also tops in the Purdue ...... 1 3 2 5 Taylor is a legit Heisman Trophy candidate, averaging 36 in a single contest. Northwestern ...... 0 4 1 5 Players to watch — Auburn: DE Marlon Davidson ACC with 11 tackles for loss. 157 yards per game, with 957 total yards and 15 Pac-12 had three tackles for loss, two sacks, a forced fumble Clemson: RB Travis Etienne is right behind Dil- North touchdowns. The Buckeyes defense has been tough Conference Overall and fumble recovery in a victory over Arkansas last lon in the ACC yardage race with 781 yards and six W L W L behind new coordinators and scheme this season. week. He leads Auburn this season with 8 ½ tackles touchdowns. Etienne, the ACC’s player of the year in Oregon ...... 4 0 6 1 Second in the nation behind Wisconsin, the unit has Oregon State ...... 2 2 3 4 for loss and 5 ½ sacks, while his two forced fumbles 2018, had 192 yards and a 49-yard TD run in a 45- Washington ...... 2 3 5 3 limited opponents to 3.57 yards per play and has are tied for a team-high. 10 win at Louisville. Stanford ...... 2 3 3 4 compiled 29 sacks, including 9.5 by All-American California ...... 1 3 4 3 LSU: Burrow continues to threaten every LSU Facts & figures — Clemson is seeking its 23rd Washington State ...... 1 3 4 3 defensive end Chase Young. passing record, having already set a new mark for straight victory overall and its 19th straight (count- South Players to watch — Wisconsin: Linebackers Zack Utah ...... 3 1 6 1 touchdowns in a single season with 29. His 2,484 ing two ACC title game victories) against league Southern Cal ...... 3 1 4 3 Bahn and Chris Orr. The two have combined for 14.5 Arizona State ...... 2 2 5 2 yards passing ranks second nationally. opponents since 2017. ... Boston College has had of the team’s 27 sacks, which is eighth in the nation. Arizona ...... 2 2 4 3 Facts & figures — Auburn has lost nine straight its moments at Death Valley, winning its first-ever UCLA ...... 2 2 2 5 Ohio State: QB Justin Fields. The Georgia trans- in Baton Rouge. ...The home team has won 16 of Colorado ...... 1 3 3 4 fer is making good decisions and few mistakes. He’s league game after joining the ACC before the 2005 SEC the last 19 in the series. ... Of the last 15 meetings, season. The Eagles, led by quarterback Matt Ryan, East playing behind a fine offensive line and has Dobbins 10, including the past three, have been decided by Conference Overall also clinched the ACC Atlantic Division with a win at W L W L to carry the load on the ground but still makes things seven or fewer points. ... Auburn ranks third nation- Clemson in 2007. ... Clemson has held its first seven Florida ...... 4 1 7 1 happen with his legs when necessary. Fields is com- ally in forced fumbles with 11 and fumble recoveries Georgia ...... 3 1 6 1 opponents to less than 300 yards a game. ... Boston Missouri ...... 2 1 5 2 pleting over 70% of his passes and has thrown for 22 with 10. ... Auburn is tied for ninth nationally in TDs South Carolina...... 2 3 3 4 touchdowns with just one interception. College has lost 11 straight games to top-five oppo- Tennessee ...... 1 3 2 5 rushing with 20, just five fewer than its total for all of Vanderbilt...... 1 3 2 5 Facts & figures — Five of the past six games be- 2018. ... Auburn’s average of 239.6 yards rushing per nents since beating No. 4 Notre Dame 14-7 in 2002. Kentucky ...... 1 4 3 4 tween the teams have been decided by seven points Five of those 11 defeats have come to Clemson. ... West game ranks 11th nationally. ... LSU is 2-0 against top Alabama ...... 4 0 7 0 or fewer, including two overtime games. ... Taylor has 10 opponents this season. ... LSU has scored 35-plus The teams compete for the O’Rourke-McFadden tro- LSU ...... 3 0 7 0 5,128 yards in 34 games, joining Georgia’s Herschel phy, a replica leather helmet from when Boston Col- Auburn ...... 3 1 6 1 points in the first seven games of a season for the first Texas A&M ...... 2 2 4 3 Walker, Wisconsin’s Ron Dayne and Oregon’s LaMi- time in school history. ... Of LSU’s 44 offensive pos- lege and Clemson played in the 1940 Cotton Bowl, Mississippi ...... 2 3 3 5 won by Clemson 6-3. Mississippi St ...... 1 3 3 4 chael James as the only players to rush for 5,000 sessions that produced touchdowns, 35 lasted less Arkansas ...... 0 4 2 5 yards before the end of their junior season. than three minutes. — Associated Press PAGE 30 •STARS AND STRIPES• Saturday, October 26, 2019 COLLEGE FOOTBALL/MLB No. 16 SMU Astros fire gets slim win assistant GM over Houston for his rant Associated Press at reporters HOUSTON — SMU coach Sonny Dykes conceded that the BY RONALD BLUM Mustangs did not play well and Associated Press still managed to escape with a win. WASHINGTON — The Hous- Shane Buechele threw for 203 ton Astros fired assistant general yards and two touchdowns, Xavi- manager Brandon Taubman on er Jones ran for 133 yards and Thursday for directing inap- two touchdowns and No. 16 SMU propriate comments at female held off Houston 34-31 Thursday reporters during a clubhouse cel- night. ebration, announcing the decision “It was a struggle for most of in the middle of the World Series the night,” Dykes said. “We didn’t and putting a renewed spotlight do a good job running the ball in on domestic violence in baseball. the second half, didn’t really have Astros general manager Jeff the ball in the second half. We had Luhnow apologized for the team’s a couple short fields and made initial response Monday, which strange things happen, but again, was to accuse a Sports Illustrated any time you cannot play well and reporter of win on the road, especially on a PATRICK SEMANSKY/AP making up short week . I got to give our guys the story. a lot of credit.” Houston Astros manager AJ Hinch has been involved with Camp Hope, a Houston-based PTSD treatment “That Buechele was 20-for-38. James center which has treated more than 1,100 combat veterans since 2012. original re- Proche caught seven passes for action by 83 yards and a touchdown, and the Astros Kylen Grayson had six receptions was wrong, for 76 yards and a touchdown for Astros’ Hinch uses baseball and we own SMU (8-0, 4-0 American). it as an or- SMU improved to 8-0 for the ganization,” first time since starting 10-0 Luhnow in 1982, and improved to 4-0 in said during Taubman conference play for the first time a news con- since 1986. to steer vets to Camp Hope ference at Nationals Park, a day “It wasn’t our best perfor- before Game 3. mance really on either side of “There were many people in- the ball,” Dykes said. “We made volved in reviewing that and ap- some uncharacteristic mistakes. Organization helps combat veterans cope with life after service proving that. And I’m not going to We haven’t given up big plays like get into the details of that. ... But that on defense. We’ve executed regardless of who wrote it and at a much higher level offensive- BY KRISTIE RIEKEN me want to be involved in this organization saving who approved it, it was wrong. ly up to this point than we did Associated Press one veteran at a time,” he said this week during the It was incorrect. It should never tonight.” World Series. have been sent out. We’ve learned HOUSTON — AJ Hinch clicked open his email Jones had a career-long 62-yard It’s been a few months since that game and Mauls- a lesson about it,” he said. rushing touchdown with 10:41 left and could hardly believe the words that filled his by offered an encouraging report. Taubman had apologized Tues- in the second quarter and added screen. “I converse with him through Facebook quite a bit day for using language that was a 2-yard scoring run 47 seconds “I know this may sound a little farfetched to you,” and he seems to be doing a lot better than he was “unprofessional and inappro- into the second half after SMU the note read, “but baseball saved a young man’s life and he’s not suicidal anymore,” he said. priate” in the Astros clubhouse forced a Houston fumble and tonight.” While this man’s story following Saturday night’s pen- Richard McBryde recovered . Hinch had been involved with the Houston-based of finding the path to help nant-clinching victory over the “We’ve been preaching all week PTSD Foundation of America and its treatment cen- ‘ We need through baseball is particu- New York Yankees. ‘It might be ugly; it might be pret- ter for combat veterans called Camp Hope for some larly dramatic, the group SI reported Taubman repeated- ty, but we wanted to come down time. He knew of the good work they did. to increase often uses sporting events to ly yelled toward a group of female here and be 1-0’,” Jones said. “We But the manager of the Houston Astros was awareness reach people who are reticent reporters about closer Roberto got the job done. It was an ugly stunned by that message last summer from execu- that a to seek treatment. Osuna, who was suspended for game, but I’m proud of my team tive director David Maulsby. “These guys are all alpha 75 games last year for violating and how we fought.” He kept reading and learned that Maulsby had facility like types and they’re trained to MLB’s domestic violence policy Houston’s Clayton Tune fin- been alerted to alarming Facebook posts from this even kill. They’re not trained to say, and then was traded from Toron- ished 18 of 35 for a career-high friends of a veteran who seemed hopeless and was ‘Hey, I need help myself,’ ” to to the Astros. 407 yards and two touchdowns. “telling the world goodbye.” exists.’ Maulsby said. “So quite often Taubman shouted “Thank God Mulbah Car rushed for 136 yards Maulsby reached out to the man, who was not at AJ Hinch sporting events are a great we got Osuna!” according to SI, on 18 carries. Marquez Stevenson all open to getting help. But he liked baseball and Astros manager way to break through that which said he made similar re- had five catches for 211 yards and rooted for the Astros. So Maulsby used that as an barrier.” marks several times, punctuating two touchdowns, including a 75- opening to get him talking. From there they invit- Hinch learned of Camp them with a profanity. Taubman’s yard score. ed him to an Astros game with people from Camp Hope, which has treated more than 1,100 veterans behavior was corroborated by re- Bryson Smith added a 1- Hope. since 2012, through a friend. And after touring the porters for The Houston Chroni- yard TD run to start the second “We got him to agree to do something in the fu- facility and getting to know the people in charge, he cle and Yahoo. quarter. ture and get him through the night,” Maulsby said. knew immediately that he wanted to help. After an investigation by Major Houston (3-5, 1-3) outgained “You never know what’s inside somebody’s brain, “We need to increase awareness that a facility League Baseball and the Astros, SMU, 510-385 yards. but when someone is threatening suicide you have like this even exists,” Hinch said. “And we need to Luhnow met with Taubman on “We refused to quit,” Houston to assume that they intend to go through with it. Our learn more about a soldier’s experience, not only in Thursday and fired him before coach Dana Holgorsen said. “We tactic was to just get him talking about anything the war but after the war and the rehabilitation and the team traveled to Washington refused to give up. We refused to else.” getting them back into society, getting them a job in what Luhnow termed “a pretty not play with effort... It (stinks) So as Hinch’s team pitched, hit and ran through and getting them back into what we consider nor- tough conversation.” we are 3-5 with five close losses the nine innings of a game that hot Saturday night, mal life, when after you experience war it’s prob- Houston’s initial statement to five really good teams.” the man watched his beloved Astros and listened as ably never normal.” Monday claimed SI tried to “fab- Houston closed to 34-31 on a other veterans described Camp Hope. By the time Hinch says getting the opportunity to give back ricate a story where one does not 96-yard touchdown pass from the players trotted off the field, he was ready to get to such an important organization is inspiring. To exist” and maintained Taubman’s Tune to Stevenson and added a help. Maulsby, Hinch and the Astros are truly lifesavers. comments weren’t directed at two-point conversion with 4:47 “He went straight to Camp Hope from there and “Our No. 1 issue always has been and always will reporters. Luhnow said he was left. After Houston forced an checked immediately into our program,” Maulsby be getting in front of that combat vet before he be- among the Astros officials who SMU punt, the Mustangs forced said. “Straight from the ballpark — he didn’t even comes a statistic,” Maulsby said. “And the only way reviewed the statemen before it a turnover on downs at the Hous- go home to pack.” we can do that is sharing our story. And when AJ was issued. ton 45. Houston forced another Hinch said that result will resonate with him for Hinch and the Houston Astros stepped to the plate “There’s nothing about that SMU punt, but Tune was sacked life. to help us get that word out, it absolutely without first statement that was correct or at midfield to end the game. “It’s stories like that that inspire me and make question helps us save lives.” that’s defensible,” Luhnow said. Saturday, October 26, 2019 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 31 NFL Vikings, Cook grind way past Redskins Minnesota’s Cousins shines in first game against former team

BY DAVE CAMPBELL Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS — Near the end of this methodical victory for the Minnesota Vikings, the crowd directed a loud cheer toward a player on the visiting team. When Adrian Peterson ap- peared on the giant video screens during the 2-minute warning with an announcement of his lat- est climb up the NFL’s all-time rushing list, the Washington Red- skins running back took off his helmet, kissed two of his fingers and waved them to the fans who rooted for him in purple not that long ago. The star of the show, though, was Peterson’s successor. Dalvin Cook gave the Vikings yet anoth- er stellar performance. Cook had 171 total yards and the game’s only touchdown, help- ing Kirk Cousins beat his old team on the first try and carrying the Vikings to a 19-9 victory over the Redskins on Thursday night. “It just shows how we can pull a win out. We’ve got a team that can go out and keep battling and keep fighting,” Cook said. “That /AP shows you the toughness that’s in JIM MONE this group.” Minnesota Vikings running back Dalvin Cook (33) had 171 total yards and the game’s only touchdown in a 19-9 defeat of the Washington Cook, the NFL leader in yards Redskins Thursday night in Minneapolis. from scrimmage, rushed 23 times for 98 yards and caught five pass- Vikings 19, Redskins 9 es for 73 yards for the Vikings Chef’s special Washington 0 6 3 0— 9 (6-2) in their fourth straight win. Minnesota 3 10 3 3—19 The screen pass to Cook was Cousins went 23-for-26 for 285 First Quarter Min—FG Bailey 50, 5:20. the favored weapon, highlighted yards without a turnover against Second Quarter by a zigzagging 31-yard gain late the Redskins (1-7), who drafted Was—FG Hopkins 21, 14:00. Min—FG Bailey 29, 7:26. in the second quarter that set up him in 2012 and made him the Was—FG Hopkins 30, 1:57. Min—Cook 4 run (Bailey kick), :07. his 4-yard run for a score with full-time starter in 2015 before he Third Quarter became a free agent and signed Min—FG Bailey 27, 8:33. 11 seconds left on third down. Was—FG Hopkins 43, 5:11. Offensive coordinator Kevin Ste- with the Vikings in 2018. Fourth Quarter “We talked during the week. Min—FG Bailey 40, 10:36. fanski made a bold inside zone A—66,776. You always have a little extra Was Min call for Cook, who rewarded the motivation when you’re playing First downs 14 22 confidence by powering his way Total Net Yards 216 434 your old team. You’re always try- Rushes-yards 16-85 38-161 through safety Troy Apke and Passing 131 273 cornerback Fabian Moreau at the ing to prove that they were wrong Punt Returns 0-0 0-0 for letting you go or whatever the Kickoff Returns 2-54 0-0 goal line. Interceptions Ret. 0-0 1-5 reason was, so I thought he han- Comp-Att-Int 15-21-1 23-26-0 The Vikings ran a third-and- dled it really well,” Vikings coach Sacked-Yards Lost 4-32 3-12 15 draw play to Cook from the 25 Punts 2-53.5 0-0.0 Mike Zimmer said. “He’s playing Fumbles-Lost 2-1 1-1 early in the fourth quarter before outstanding right now.” Penalties-Yards 4-46 7-74 settling Dan Bailey’s fourth field Nobody on the Redskins lately Time of Possession 23:24 36:36 /AP INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS goal of the night, another conser- warrants that assessment. Case BRUCE KLUCKHOHN RUSHING—Washington, Peterson 14- 76, Smallwood 2-9. Minnesota, Cook 23- vative decision that even drew Keenum, the quarterback Cous- Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Stefon Diggs, left, runs from 98, Mattison 13-61, Cousins 2-2. some boos from a crowd that was ins replaced, had his return to PASSING—Washington, Keenum 12- Washington Redskins cornerback Josh Norman. Diggs caught all 16-0-130, Haskins 3-5-1-33. Minnesota, probably a bit bored at that point Minnesota spoiled by a concus- seven passes that came his way for 143 receiving yards Thursday. Cousins 23-26-0-285. by a game bogged down by penal- sion that kept him out of the RECEIVING—Washington, McLaurin 4-39, Richardson 3-34, Peterson 2-27, ties and ball-control play. second half and thrust rookie went 12-for-16 for 130 yards. yards by passing Jerome Bettis Sprinkle 2-12, Quinn 1-15, Hentges 1-13, Harmon 1-12, Smallwood 1-11. Minne- Dwayne Haskins back into action. Diggs caught all seven passes and LaDainian Tomlinson. sota, Diggs 7-143, Cook 5-73, I.Smith 3-21, Two plays after Daron Payne and Rudolph 3-17, O.Johnson 2-27, Mattison Stefon needs stick-um that came his way from Cous- “It was bittersweet because 2-3, Treadwell 1-1. Landon Collins stuffed Cous- ins, racking up 143 yards in his you come here to win a game,” MISSED FIELD GOALS—None. Diggs went without a fumble ins for no gain on a fourth-and-1 own tribute of sorts to the “Min- said Peterson, who played for the over each of the last three sea- quarterback sneak at the Minne- neapolis Miracle.” This game Vikings for 10 seasons from 2007- Cook hugged Peterson on the sons, and the Vikings recovered sota 34, Haskins overthrew Terry was for the guys in the ground 16. “Just coming back and seeing field after the game. the two he had as a rookie in 2015. McLaurin, and Anthony Harris “He was one of the guys that I intercepted. game, though. Alexander Matti- the love that they still have for me This year, he has already fumbled watched,” Cook said. “He’s a spe- Keenum’s last time in the sta- son added 61 yards on 13 rushes, and they showed, it felt good. It four times, the most in the league dium was nearly two years ago, and Minnesota more than dou- was definitely a great home wel- cial talent.” among nonquarterbacks, and the when his last-play touchdown pass bled Washington’s total yardage, come. They welcomed me with Ditto for Cook, who was drafted Vikings have lost three of them. to Stefon Diggs gave the Vikings a 434-216. open arms and just showed the in the second round in 2017. Diggs also dropped what would victory over New Orleans in a di- Peterson had 14 carries for 76 love that they have and have for “If we keep him healthy, I hope have been a touchdown pass last visional round playoff game, but yards and in the process moved over a decade. So, it was a special one day he is in the Hall of Fame week at Detroit, a catchable ball there was little reason to make up to sixth place on the NFL’s moment. I had to hold tears back, just because he’s a talented guy,” that slipped through his hands on this game a memory. Keenum career rushing list with 13,701 to be honest with you.” Diggs said. “He’s a blessing.” third down in the fourth quarter. S TARS AND STRIPES Saturday, October 26, 2019 Narrow escape No. 16 SMU struggles in win over SPORTS Houston » College football, Page 30

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Celtics assistant Opportunities for women to leave their coach Kara Lawson, above, and Wizards mark on game increase to record levels assistant Kristi Toliver, BY KYLE HIGHTOWER women serving as assistant coach- left Associated Press Trending upward es in the NBA this season. While AP photos ractice has ended, but former WNBA star Swin Cash Boston Celtics assistant and current player Sue Bird coach Kara Lawson is are working in NBA front still working. 11 offices. P “It’s not a fad,” said She stands under the basket re- bounding and giving feedback to Number of women serving Basketball Hall of rookie guard Carsen Edwards as as NBA assistant coaches Famer Nancy Li- he shoots from different spots on this season, a record. eberman. “It’s op- the court. After swishing his final portunities going to very accom- three attempts, he jogs over to her. SOURCE: Associated Press “Thanks, coach,” Edwards says plished women who before exchanging a high-five with of the game — from broadcasting have given their life Lawson. booths, to officiating, coaching on to the game.” Welcome to the new-look NBA, the sidelines, front-office execu- While it may in which women’s footprints are tives to ownership. SEE IMPACT directly impacting every aspect Lawson is one of a record 11 ON PAGE 27

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