Volume 78, No. 260B ©SS 2020 CONTINGENCY EDITION SUNDAY, APRIL 19, 2020 stripes.com Free to Deployed Areas ANALYSIS CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK Reinstatement among possible outcomes for fired captain BY LOLITA C. BALDOR AND ROBERT BURNS Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Navy’s top admiral will soon decide the fate of the ship captain who was fired after pleading for command- ers to move faster to safeguard his coronavirus-infected crew on the USS Theodore Roosevelt. In the glare of a public spotlight, Adm. Mike Gilday will decide whether Navy Capt. Brett Crozier stepped out of line when he went around his chain of command and sent an email pushing for ac- tion to stem the outbreak. As of Friday, 660 sailors on the aircraft carrier, now docked at Guam, had tested positive for the virus and seven were hospitalized. One sail- or has died, and more than 4,000 of the ship’s 5,000 crew members have been moved onto the island for quarantine. Gilday’s review won’t be lim- ited to Crozier. It will also look at the command climate on the ship Virus resistance and higher up within the Pacific- based fleet, to determine if there are broader leadership problems in a region critical to America’s Conservative organizers ramp up protest efforts amid lockdown unrest national security interests. BY TOLUSE OLORUNNIPA, SHAWN BOBURG Gilday has many options as ‘ It looks a lot like the tea party. It almost seems like an excuse he reviews what was an extraor- AND ARELIS R. HERNÁNDEZ dinarily rapid investigation by The Washington Post for getting out and rallying against politicians they oppose. Adm. Robert Burke, the vice ’ Protesters at state capitols across the Nicole Hemmer chief of naval operations. Burke Columbia University scholar, on the anti-government, pro-personal liberty signage at lockdown protests and his staff finished the review country this week expressed their deep in about a week, conducting inter- frustration with the stay-at-home orders views almost entirely online and that are meant to stem the spread of the by phone between Washington novel coronavirus, pushing a message that ald Trump encouraged protesters in Michi- tweeted. “LIBERATE MINNESOTA,” he and Guam. is rapidly coalescing among the nation’s gan, Minnesota and Virginia, who this week continued. “LIBERATE VIRGINIA, and A look at some of Gilday’s op- conservatives: reopen the country. violated stay-at-home orders and social dis- save your great 2nd Amendment. It is under tions, and their benefits and Groups rallied in at least six states this tancing guidelines to march against Demo- siege!” week, and protests are planned in four more cratic governors. SEE FIRED ON PAGE 4 in coming days. On Friday, President Don- “LIBERATE MICHIGAN!” Trump SEE PROTEST ON PAGE 6 RELATED Above: Protesters demonstrate Friday against stay-at-home orders put in place due to the virus outbreak in Huntington Beach, Calif. France reports over MARK J. TERRILL/AP 1,000 virus cases Go online to read all the latest news on the virus outbreak on aircraft carrier stripes.com/coronavirus Page 5 SPORTS MUSIC VIRUS OUTBREAK 10-part documentary Death of best friend Travel ban for military series looks back on Mac Miller still painful personnel, families Jordan’s ‘Last Dance’ for virtuoso Thundercat through end of June Back page Page 12 Page 6 Hard-hit nations wrestle with when to ease restrictions » Virus outbreak, Page 7 PAGE 2 •STARS AND STRIPES• Sunday, April 19, 2020 BUSINESS/WEATHER EXCHANGE RATES Hope takes reins as stocks rally worldwide Military rates Switzerland (Franc)............................0.9662 Euro costs (April 20)............................. $1.06 Thailand (Baht) .....................................32.50 Dollar buys (April 20) .......................€0.8965 Turkey (Lira) .........................................6.9271 British pound (April 20) .......................$1.22 Associated Press Investors latched onto several piles higher showing the severe Japanese yen (April 20) .....................105.00 (Military exchange rates are those South Korean won (April 20) .........1,187.00 available to customers at military banking strands of hope about progress economic and human toll of the Commercial rates facilities in the country of issuance NEW YORK — In Wall Street’s in the fight against the corona- outbreak. Bahrain (Dinar) ....................................0.3778 for Japan, South Korea, Germany, the tug of war between hope and pes- British pound .....................................$1.2506 Netherlands and the United Kingdom. For virus. They included the White The virus has killed more than Canada (Dollar) ...................................1.4027 nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e., simism about the coronavirus House’s release of guidelines for China (Yuan) ........................................ 7.0724 purchasing British pounds in Germany), pandemic, hope is fighting back. 150,000 worldwide and forced Denmark (Krone) ................................6.8524 check with your local military banking states to reopen their economies Egypt (Pound) ....................................15.7516 facility. Commercial rates are interbank the formerly high-flying Chinese rates provided for reference when buying U.S. stocks joined a worldwide and a very early but encouraging Euro ........................................$1.0886/0.9186 economy to shrink a crunching currency. All figures are foreign currencies rally Friday and closed out their report on a possible treatment for Hong Kong (Dollar) ............................ 7.7505 to one dollar, except for the British pound, 6.8% last quarter. Hungary (Forint) .................................323.52 which is represented in dollars-to-pound, first back-to-back weekly gain COVID-19. Those events dove- Israel (Shekel) .....................................3.5892 and the euro, which is dollars-to-euro.) since the market began selling tailed with recent numbers that The S&P 500 rose 75.01 points Japan (Yen) ........................................... 107.33 Kuwait (Dinar) ..................................... 0.3119 INTEREST RATES off two months ago. The S&P 500 raised hopes for a leveling off of to 2,874.56. The Dow Jones Indus- Norway (Krone) ................................ 10.3228 jumped 2.7% for the day, follow- infections in some of the world’s trial Average jumped 704.81, or Philippines (Peso).................................50.92 Prime rate ................................................3.25 Poland (Zloty) ..........................................4.16 Discount rate ..........................................0.25 ing up on even bigger gains in Eu- hotspots. 3%, to 24,242.49, and the Nasdaq Saudi Arabia (Riyal) ...........................3.7574 Federal funds market rate ...................0.05 rope and Asia. The gains came even as data added 117.78, or 1.4%, to 8,650.14. Singapore (Dollar) ..............................1.4218 3-month bill ............................................. 0.14 South Korea (Won) ...........................1216.57 30-year bond ...........................................1.21 WEATHER OUTLOOK SUNDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST SUNDAY IN EUROPE MONDAY IN THE PACIFIC Misawa 47/43 Kabul 60/39 Seoul 57/46 Baghdad 90/62 Kandahar 72/50 Osan Tokyo Mildenhall/ Drawsko 57/47 50/44 Lakenheath Pomorskie Busan 57/46 50/32 58/50 Iwakuni 59/52 Kuwait Bahrain Zagan Sasebo City 77/72 Brussels 51/39 Guam 82/70 57/50 Ramstein 59/55 83/79 Lajes, 61/37 Riyadh Doha Azores Stuttgart Pápa 91/70 87/73 63/60 64/49 58/54 Aviano/ Vicenza 68/45 Naples 66/57 Okinawa Morón 70/67 72/55 Sigonella Rota 76/50 The weather is provided by the Djibouti Souda Bay American Forces Network Weather Center, 85/80 66/53 63/55 2nd Weather Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. T O D A Y IN STRIPES American Roundup ..... 18 Books ....................... 11 Comics/Crossword ...... 14 Music ....................12-13 Opinion ..................... 19 Sports ...................21-24 Travel ........................ 16 Sunday, April 19, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 3 MILITARY US: Naval buildup in Caribbean not to oust Maduro BY JOSHUA GOODMAN lance aircraft and on-ground spe- Associated Press cial forces seldom seen before in /U.S. Air Force RICHARD EBENSBERGER the region. MIAMI — The top U.S. mili- An Air Force B-52 Stratofortress bomber lands at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, in 2018. The Air Faller said the coronavirus tary commander for Latin Amer- Force has nixed its regular bomber presences in favor of a less predictable global deployment. did force some in the Pentagon ica said Friday that the Trump to rethink the timing of the de- administration isn’t looking to use ployment out of concern for the military force to remove Nicolas safety of service members. While USAF changing up Guam bomber Maduro even as it expands coun- ternarcotics operations in the controls to protect the workforce Caribbean. have been enhanced, it was deter- rotation for less predictable plan Adm. Craig Faller, head of U.S. mined that over the long term, the Southern Command, said in an U.S. is positioned to take advan- interview that the recent decision tage of the disruption in narcot- BY WYATT OLSON Atanasoff, a spokesperson for port the Pentagon’s strategy of to double anti-narcotics assets in ics supply chains caused by the Stars and Stripes U.S. Strategic Command, said in “operational unpredictability” Latin America was months in the virus as drug cartels scramble to a statement. by using a mix of aircraft that making and not directly tied to source precursor chemical and Just days after showing