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AFGHANISTAN Taliban take last holdout province Families flee as thousands of fighters reportedly overrun remaining resistance forces in Panjshir BY KATHY GANNON ment, saying Panjshir was now dent, Amrullah Saleh, and also the Associated Press INSIDE under control of Taliban fighters. son of the iconic anti-Taliban KABUL, Afghanistan — The Afghan family separated during chaotic “We tried our best to solve the fighter Ahmad Shah Massoud who Taliban said on Monday that they problem through negotiations, was killed just days before the 9/11 have taken control of Panjshir evacuation reunited at Ramstein Page 3 and they rejected talks and then terrorist attacks in the United province north of Kabul, the last we had to send our forces to fight,” States. holdout of anti-Taliban forces in month. from the area who spoke on condi- Mujahid told a press conference in Meanwhile in northern Balkh the country and the only province Thousands of Taliban fighters tion of anonymity, fearing for their Kabul later Monday. province, at least four planes char- the Taliban had not seized during overran eight districts of Panjshir safety. Taliban spokesman Zabi- The anti-Taliban forces had their blitz across Afghanistan last overnight, according to witnesses hullah Mujahid issued a state- been led by the former vice presi- SEE OVERRUN ON PAGE 4 Surviving 9/11 was ‘just the first piece of the journey’ BY JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK — Trapped deep in the wreckage of the World Trade Center, Will Jimeno lived through the unthinkable. Twenty years lat- er, he’s still living with it. A brace and a quarter-sized di- vot on his left leg reflect the inju- ries that ended his police career, a lifetime dream. He has post-trau- matic stress disorder. He keeps shelves of mementoes, including a cross and miniature twin towers fashioned from trade center steel. He was portrayed in a movie and wrote two books about enduring the ordeal.

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Désirée Bouchat, a survivor of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, looks at photos of those who perished, in a display at the 9/11 Tribute Museum on Aug. 6 in New York. MARK LENNIHAN/AP PAGE 2 • STARS AND STRIPES • Tuesday, September 7, 2021 BUSINESS/WEATHER Industry group backs carbon price for big ships EXCHANGE RATES Military rates South Korea (Won) 1,158.08 Associated Press mercial shipowners and operators clear. Switzerland (Franc) .9162 Euro costs (Sept. 7) $1.16 Thailand (Baht) 32.47 BERLIN — A major maritime covering over 80% of the world “We will know they are serious Dollar buys (Sept. 7) 0.8189 Turkey (New Lira) 8.2870 British pound (Sept. 7) $1.42 industry association on Monday merchant fleet, didn’t specify what about real progress when they em- Japanese yen (Sept. 7) 107.00 (Military exchange rates are those available backed plans for a global sur- carbon price it would support. brace a level of ambition consistent South Korean won (Sept. 7) 1,127.00 to customers at military banking facilities in the Commercial rates country of issuance for Japan, South Korea, Ger­ charge on carbon emissions from The shipping industry is esti- with what climate vulnerable is- many, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Bahrain (Dinar) .3768 For nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e., pur­ shipping to help fund the sector’s mated to account for nearly 3% of land nations have already pro- Britain (Pound) 1.3833 chasing British pounds in Germany), check with Canada (Dollar) 1.2524 your local military banking facility. Commercial shift toward climate-friendly fuels. the greenhouse gas emissions that posed,” said Aoife O’Leary, direc- China (Yuan) 6.4593 rates are interbank rates provided for reference are driving global warming and tor of global transportation at the Denmark (Krone) 6.2660 The International Chamber of Egypt (Pound) 15.7171 when buying currency. All figures are foreign Shipping said it’s proposing to the projected to rise significantly in the Environmental Defense Fund. Euro .8427 currencies to one dollar, except for the British Hong Kong (Dollar) 7.7738 pound, which is represented in dollars­to­ United Nations that all vessels coming decades. The Marshall Islands and the So- Hungary (Forint) 293.04 pound, and the euro, which is dollars­to­euro.) Israel (Shekel) 3.1988 trading globally above a certain Environmental campaigners lomon Islands, two nations with Japan (Yen) 109.85 INTEREST RATES size should pay a set amount per welcomed the ICS submission to large shipping fleets that are se- Kuwait (Dinar) .3005 Norway (Krone) 8.6646 Prime rate 3.25 metric ton of carbon dioxide they the International Maritime Orga- verely threatened by climate Philippines (Peso) 49.95 Interest Rates Discount rate 0.75 Poland (Zloty) 3.81 Federal funds market rate 0.09 emit. nization, but cautioned that the ex- change, have already proposed a Saudi Arabia (Riyal) 3.7505 3­month bill 0.05 The group, representing com- tent of its ambition remains un- carbon levy starting at $100 per ton. Singapore (Dollar) 1.3424 30­year bond 1.94 WEATHER OUTLOOK TUESDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST TUESDAY IN EUROPE WEDNESDAY IN THE PACIFIC

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Most Afghans evacuated by the The boy arrived by himself at U.S. military transit through bases Ramstein earlier last week, and in Qatar and Germany before fly- was connected to the rest of his ing to bases in America for further family a few hours after they flew processing. in from Qatar on Friday, a State The task of reuniting families is Department official familiar with expected to be easier once every- the case said Saturday. one is on bases in America, instead “Reunifications of families are of in countries that can only host happening every day,” said John them for a certain number of days. Stubbs, another State Department “We’re basically in the middle official and a spokesman at Ram- of a hurricane,” a State Depart- stein. “The State Department is ment official said Sunday. “We are fielding hundreds of inquiries and working hard to reunite families PHOTOS BY J.P. LAWRENCE/Stars and Stripes working hard to reunite everyone when we can and some reunifica- Hafizullah, a relative of U.S. Embassy staff in Kabul, Afghanistan, holds his 4­year­old son Mohammad possible.” tions have already been facilitat- Salah before taking a flight to the U.S. in a hangar at Ramstein Air Base in Germany, on Wednesday. The U.S. military evacuation of ed, but others will begin once we more than 122,000 Afghans after get them safely back to the United the fall of the country to the Tali- States.” ban in mid-August left an un- At Ramstein, unaccompanied known number of families sepa- minors are placed in supervised rated along their journey. “youth pods” where they’re given The U.S. believes there are “ve- access to mental health services ry few” Afghan children arriving as well as clean clothing and blan- to the United States without an kets, a State Department official adult family member or friend, said. State Department spokesman Ned The base has hosted more than Price said Thursday. 25,000 Afghans and has become These unaccompanied minors the largest reception point for eva- are identified before they come to cuees among U.S. bases in Europe the U.S., Price said, with the help since Aug. 20, a statement from of non-governmental organiza- the 86th Airlift Wing said last week. tions such as UNICEF and Inter- An Afghan evacuee, Worahmina, holds her 15­day­old son national Organization for Migra- [email protected] Afghan evacuees wait for flights to the U.S. in a hangar at Ramstein tion. Twitter: @jplawrence3   Air Base in Germany, on Wednesday. Mustafa, while waiting for a flight. Embassy workers, contractors among those left behind BY SUSANNAH GEORGE State Department spokesperson. Among the tens of thousands ity because he was not authorized ban, an engineer who worked for The Washington Post One person familiar with the mat- who managed to reach the airport to speak to the media. the U.S. Army was scheduled to KABUL, Afghanistan — The day ter said they included about 2,000 and get on planes out of the country The airlift is now complete, Sec- have his final interview at the U.S. Afghanistan’s capital fell, a con- U.S. Embassy contractors and im- were 5,500 Americans, thousands retary of State Antony Blinken said, Embassy for an expedited visa. tractor who had worked at the U.S. mediate family members, some of of citizens and diplomats of U.S. al- but other evacuation efforts are on- The interview was set for 10:45 Embassy for six years was dismis- whom had worked at the embassy lies, and thousands of Afghans who going. “We’ve gotten many out, but a.m., but the embassy had begun sed from work early. for more than a decade. The State worked for the United States as in- many are still there,” he said. “We dismissing staff an hour before, as Embassy staff had collected his Department declined to comment terpreters, translators or other will keep working to help them. news broke that the militants had family’s information weeks before on that number. roles, according to Biden. Our commitment to them has no reached the city’s gates. in preparation for a possible evac- For those who were not evacuat- Planning for the evacuation be- deadline.” The engineer, in the final stages uation. But after he was told on ed, Undersecretary of State Victo- gan weeks before Kabul fell to the When the last U.S. evacuation of processing for a Special Immi- Aug. 15 to leave the embassy’s ria Nuland said at a recent news Taliban in mid-August, but the ef- plane left Afghanistan, Azada said, grant Visa, should have been eligi- grounds, “nobody called, nobody conference, “we’re looking at all fort began to stumble almost as she became a prisoner in her own ble for an evacuation flight. He emailed.” possible options, but we’re also soon as it started. home. managed to reach the airport gates “Everyone knows where I conveying to them that their safety U.S. officials did not expect Af- The 23-year-old had recently twice but was turned away both worked, that I worked with the and security is of paramount con- ghan President Ashraf Ghani to graduated from the American Uni- times. Taliban leaders had barred Americans,” said the contractor, cern to us.” flee the country so quickly and for versity of Afghanistan in Kabul, a Afghans who didn’t hold foreign who ran a shop at the embassy and Biden described the operation as Kabul’s security forces to collapse, distinction she fears has placed her passports or green cards from leav- who, like others in this report, an “extraordinary success,” but leaving the civilian side of the air- name is on a Taliban “kill list.” ing the country. spoke on the condition of anonym- thousands of Afghans considered port unguarded. Now, she’s too afraid to walk down “It felt like after all that time (the ity out of fear of reprisals. He even- vulnerable and eligible for evacua- Ghani’s departure as the Taliban the street. United States) just doesn’t care tually fled to the home of a relative tion fell through the cracks. They entered Kabul on Aug. 15 is “really Over the past two weeks she held about us,” he said. in a neighboring province. “I gave include American University of Af- what threw a wrench into the whole out hope as her university repeat- “After 20 years of investment in my mother my embassy badges ghanistan students and graduates, thing,” said a person familiar with edly emailed advisories for an Afghanistan, this was a very large and told her to put them in a box applicants for Special Immigrant evacuation planning. evacuation that never came. pool of people,” a State Department and bury it in the garden.” Visas and members of Afghanis- “We made every effort to know But those connected to the uni- spokesman said. U.S. troops and Roughly 2,500 U.S. Embassy em- tan’s Special Forces who fought who we were dealing with and what versity were not prioritized as others on the ground “did the best ployees were among the 120,000 closely with the United States. the numbers were, making sure we “high risk,” meaning it was up to they could, working around-the- people the U.S. evacuated by air With the departure of U.S. forces had proper resources on the the school to navigate Taliban clock to evacuate as many people from Afghanistan, according to from Afghanistan, many Afghans ground to try to assist them. But the checkpoints without U.S. or NATO as possible,” despite “many con- President Joe Biden. But the oper- who felt threatened by the Taliban whole situation kind of spiraled in- help and make it into the military straints” including the threat of Is- ation left “many of our longtime takeover now say they are in grea- to chaos,” said the person, who side of the airport, the person said. lamic State attacks to the Kabul air- partners” behind, according to a ter danger. spoke on the condition of anonym- On the day Kabul fell to the Tali- port. PAGE 4 • STARS AND STRIPES • Tuesday, September 7, 2021 AFGHANISTAN Overrun: Conflicting reports on US citizens being stuck at airport FROM PAGE 1 Taliban’s history of repression, tered to evacuate several hundred particularly of women. When the people seeking to escape the Tali- last American troops pulled out on ban’s takeover of Afghanistan Aug. 30, though, many were left have been unable to leave the behind. country for days, officials said The U.S. promised to continue Sunday, with conflicting accounts working with the new Taliban rul- emerging about why the flights ers to get those who want to leave weren’t able to take off as pressure out, and the militants pledged to ramps up on the U.S. to help those allow anyone with the proper legal left behind to leave. documents to leave. An Afghan official at the airport Experts had doubted that resist- in the city of Mazar-e-Sharif, the ance to the Taliban in Panjshir, the provincial capital, said that the last holdout province, could suc- would-be passengers were Af- ceed long-term despite the area’s ghans, many of whom did not have geographical advantage. passports or visas, and thus were Nestled in the towering Hindu unable to leave the country. Kush mountains, the Panjshir Val- Speaking on condition of anonym- ley has a single narrow entrance. WALI SABAWOON/AP ity because he was not authorized Local fighters held off the Soviets A Taliban soldier stands guard at the gate of Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, on to talk to reporters, he said they there in the 1980s and also, for a Sunday. had left the airport while the situa- brief time, the Taliban a decade tion was being sorted out. later under the leadership of Mas- ached the gates of the capital. The their assault on Panjshir on Sun- claim. The top Republican on the U.S. soud. He was one of several for- Taliban subsequently entered the day, tweeting that their forces Mujahid also told reporters that House Foreign Affairs Commit- mer mujahedeen leaders who had presidency building that day. overran Rokha district, one of the the Taliban would announce a tee, however, said that the group ruled Kabul between 1992-96 but The Taliban’s lightning blitz largest in the province. Several new government “within days” — included Americans and that they turned their guns on each other, across the country took less than a Taliban delegations have attempt- one that would be inclusive, he had boarded planes but the Tali- leading to the 1996 arrival of the week to overrun some 300,000 Af- ed negotiations with the holdouts, said, without elaborating. Once ban were not letting them take off, Taliban. ghan government troops, most of but talks failed. the government is formed, mem- effectively “holding them hos- Massoud’s son Ahmad, in a whom surrendered or fled. Fahim Dashti, the spokesman bers of the former Afghan army tage.” Rep. Michael McCaul of statement Sunday called for an The whereabouts of Saleh and for the anti-Taliban group and a and security forces would be Texas told “Fox News Sunday” end to the fighting. The young the young Massoud were not im- prominent media personality dur- asked to return to work, he added. that American citizens and Af- British-schooled Massoud said his mediately known Monday. ing previous governments, was “We need their expertise,” he ghan interpreters were being kept forces were ready to lay down Mujahid, the Taliban spokes- killed in battle Sunday, according said. Members of the previous Af- on six planes. He did not say their weapons, but only if the Tali- man, sought to assure residents of to the group’s Twitter account. He ghan security forces would then where that information came ban agreed to end their assault. Panjshir that they would be safe — was also the nephew of Abdullah join with Taliban fighters to form a from and it was not immediately Late on Sunday, dozens of vehicles even as scores of families report- Abdullah, a senior Kabul official single army, Mujahid added. Tali- possible to reconcile the two ac- loaded with Taliban fighters were edly fled into the mountains ahead of the former government in- ban fighters in civilian clothes rid- counts. seen swarming into the Panjshir of the Taliban’s arrival. volved in negotiations with the Ta- ing in pickup trucks through Ka- The final days of America’s 20- Valley. “There is no need for any more liban on the future of Afghanistan. bul would be replaced with Tali- year war in Afghanistan were There has been no statement fighting,” Mujahid said at the Mujahid denied Dashti died in ban men in uniform. marked by a harrowing airlift at from Saleh, Afghanistan’s former press conference. “All Panjshir battle with the Taliban, and Asked what rights women Kabul’s airport to evacuate tens of vice president who had declared people and those who live in Panj- claimed he was killed in an “inter- would have under the Taliban, thousands of people — Americans himself the acting president after shir are our brothers and they are nal dispute among two command- Mujahid promised all women and their allies — who feared what President Ashraf Ghani fled the part of our country.” ers in Panjshir,” without offering would eventually be “asked to re- the future would hold, given the country Aug. 15 as the Taliban re- The Taliban had stepped up any evidence to support that turn” to their jobs.

Taliban takeover inspires religious militants in Pakistan, creating dilemma

The Washington Post border. The Taliban’s dramatic In a park in Karachi, Maulana the Taliban’s takeover in neighbor- 1,800 attacks on Pakistani state and In the two weeks since Kabul fell victory has not only galvanized ter- Fazl-Ur Rehman, a political oppo- ing Afghanistan is already affect- civilian targets in the past decade. to the Taliban on Aug. 15, Pakis- rorist groups waging a bloody in- sition leader who supports the Tali- ing Pakistan in far-reaching ways. After hailing the Taliban’s “blessed tan’s typically fractious political surgency inside Pakistan, but it has ban but disavows violent struggle “With the Taliban taking over, victory” in Afghanistan, the TTP voices joined in something rare: also buoyed hard-line religious inside Pakistan, cited the Taliban anti-Pakistan terrorist groups will claimed another attack last week in unison. parties that seek to reshape Pakis- victory as he called for an electoral be emboldened, but it doesn’t end which gunmen crossed from Af- Imran Khan, Pakistan’s prime tan in a more fundamentalist Isla- “revolution” to oust Khan. On there,” Rana said. “There could be ghanistan and killed two soldiers in minister, applauded Afghans for mist image. Thursday, an even more conserva- an emergence of a new war of nar- northern Pakistan’s tribal region. tearing free of the “shackles of slav- The result, say analysts and cur- tive politician, Maulana Hamid ul ratives in the country, which will AU.N. Security Council report in ery.” His political opponents, in- rent and former Pakistani and U.S. Haq — the son of a Sunni cleric transform ongoing debates about July estimated the TTP had 6,000 cluding leaders of Islamist parties, officials, is a renewed dilemma for known as the “father of the Tali- state and society and the role that trained fighters on the Afghan side congratulated the Taliban for its a Pakistani military establishment ban” — told his followers that the religion plays.” of the border. A June report said “historic victory” over American that has sought since the late 1970s Taliban had established “un- Extremist and nonviolent groups the Taliban and TTP have main- imperialism. A half-dozen retired to strategically harness — but also matched peace and security in Af- alike, he added, “will think, ‘If Is- tained their relationship. As it Pakistani army generals publicly carefully contain — the combusti- ghanistan,” proved the shortcom- lamic rule could happen in Afghan- swept across Afghanistan last celebrated. So did extremist ble rise of religious fervor in the ings of democracy and should in- istan, why can’t it happen here?’” month, the Taliban released groups that are sworn enemies of country. spire a similar “hard struggle to Pakistani officials say their most hundred of militants, including se- Pakistan’s generals and govern- From a sprawling southern city have a true Islamic system in Pa- immediate concern is the resur- nior TTP leaders, from prisons. ment. to a northwestern seminary known kistan,” according to a statement gence of a coalition of militant Mushahid Hussain Syed, chair- But beneath the widespread ju- for its ties to militant groups, con- distributed by Haq’s group. groups known as Tehrik-e-Taliban man of Pakistan’s Senate Defense bilation, Pakistan is beginning to servative religious and political Muhammad Amir Rana, direc- Pakistan, or the Pakistani Taliban, Committee, said Pakistan had laid reckon with the destabilizing ef- leaders were bullish about the Tali- tor of the Pakistani Institute for which is allied with the Afghan Ta- down “red lines” to the Taliban to fects washing across the Afghan ban’s return. Peace Studies in Islamabad, said liban and has conducted nearly warn it against harboring the TTP. Tuesday, September 7, 2021 • STARS AND STRIPES • PAGE 5 MILITARY Army vet stops suicidal man on Okinawa bridge BY MATTHEW M. BURKE the outer side of the bridge’s rail- Stars and Stripes ing, standing on rickety aluminum CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — A scaffolding, looking down at a con- 52-year-old Okinawan man may crete surface 90 feet below. have jumped to his death late last Ornauer said he thought the month had Marine Corps contrac- man was a construction worker at tor Joe Ornauer not come along first but knew something wasn’t the bridge that day. right after noticing his attire: T- The man lost his job due to CO- shirt, sweatpants and flip flops. VID-19, then his house and finally Ornauer, who has a Japanese his family, Ornauer, 36, recalled mother and an American father, Wednesday from his office at spoke to the man in Japanese. His MATTHEW M. BURKE/Stars and Stripes Camp Kinser, where he serves as father is longtime Stars and an instructor for 3rd Marine Lo- Stripes sports reporter Dave Or- Marine Corps contractor Joe Ornauer works at his office on Camp Kinser, Okinawa, on Wednesday. gistics Group’s indoor marksman- nauer. ship simulator. said. The man tried to get up twice, “I pray for the guy every day,” “I rolled the window down and I Ornauer said he, too, has expe- “I told him, ‘Come over; let’s but Ornauer pressured him to stay Ornauer said. “I hope everything asked him, ‘What are you doing?’ “ rienced homelessness and em- talk,’ “ Ornauer recalled. “He was seated. turns out OK for him.” Ornauer recalled. “He said he was pathized with the man. The for- saying he doesn’t have anybody Police arrived not long after and The Marines whom Ornauer going to jump. I said, ‘No, you’re mer soldier and New York para- that would listen to him, what his took over, Ornauer said. supports called him a “trusted not.’ “ medic was also trained to save the problems are. I said, ‘I’ll listen to A spokesman from the Urasoe member of the team” and “well re- man’s life. Ornauer’s suicide response you.’ “ police station confirmed Or- spected” by all. “He just wanted someone to lis- training from being a paramedic Meanwhile, people below nauer’s account in a call with Stars “These actions were very in line ten to him,” Ornauer said. “He kicked in. He exited his vehicle shouted for the man not to jump. and Stripes on Thursday. The with his character,” Capt. Adam was pretty distraught.” and approached the man, being “I said, ‘Let’s sit here and talk homeless man has since been see- Barrett wrote to Stars and Stripes. Aug. 24 started like any other careful not to get too close. and we’ll figure out what’s going ing a doctor for his mental health He is the tactical readiness and day for Ornauer, who was driving “I started talking to him, mak- on,’ ” Ornauer recalled. The man issues. training assistant officer in charge to work on the Route 58 bypass in ing eye contact, trying to get him then climbed back over the railing “He is now under the care of his and works closely with Ornauer. Urasoe around 7:30 a.m. when he to stop looking down at the con- from the scaffolding, and the two family,” the spokesman said. It’s “I was not surprised to hear that saw a motorcycle parked on the crete area he was about to jump in- sat on the bridge together. customary in Japan for some gov- he had done something like this,” bridge, packed with someone’s to,” Ornauer said. Ornauer said he called Okinawa ernment spokespeople to speak to Barrett said. worldly possessions. The man told him about every- police after getting control of the the media without giving their Instinct told him to stop, Or- thing he’d lost. He had been crying situation. He stayed on the phone names. Stars and Stripes reporter Mari Higa contributed for a while and had “a lot of stuff to this report. nauer said. As traffic began to pile with them while continuing to chat Ornauer said he thinks of the [email protected] up behind his car, he saw a man on built up around his eyes,” Ornauer with the man. man often. Twitter: @MatthewMBurke1 DC’s push to control own National Guard moves forward The Washington Post D.C. government could have called out its WASHINGTON — Democratic Del. “The insurrection would have ended hours before it own National Guard.” Eleanor Holmes Norton had been trying did if the D.C. government could have called out its Both Jan. 6, 2021, and June 1, 2020 — in Congress for 28 years to transfer con- the day federal police, reinforced by the trol of the D.C. National Guard from the own National Guard.” D.C. National Guard, violently cleared U.S. president to the D.C. mayor — one of peaceful racial justice demonstrators the city’s most ardent pleas for local au- Eleanor Holmes Norton from Lafayette Square — have added un- tonomy in the absence of outright state- Democratic Delegate precedented urgency to D.C.’s push for hood. control of its National Guard. Without approval from the Pentagon, National Defense Authorization Act — ate Democrats in the evenly divided Despite D.C. officials’ arguments that the D.C. government can’t deploy its own the must-pass defense budget package. It chamber. having control of the National Guard National Guard for any task, as a state marks the first time Norton’s D.C. Na- Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., who would have simplified the Guard’s chain can. Not during a catastrophic flood, or tional Guard Home Rule Act has ad- along with Sen. Thomas Carper, D-Del., of command, Republicans on the House during a pandemic. Not for crowd control vanced through committee, in what she is leading the D.C. National Guard Home Armed Services Committee argued the or traffic control during major events. says represents the measure’s best shot Rule Act in the Senate, said he planned to opposite during a debate on Wednesday. Not on Jan. 6, when a mob of supporters at becoming law. A Republican effort to offer the provision as an amendment to Rep. Trent Kelly, R-Miss., who intro- of President Donald Trump over- strike it from the NDAA failed. the NDAA before it goes up for a vote. He duced an amendment to strike the D.C. whelmed D.C. and Capitol police at the Beverly Perry, a special adviser to said he would also be pressing for its in- National Guard provision from the U.S. Capitol — and it took the Pentagon Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser, said clusion when the House and Senate nego- NDAA, said he believed that the authority more than three hours to send the D.C. that the proposal is another step toward tiate the final version of the bill. A spokes- should remain with the president and National Guard for backup. the District gaining full independence on man for Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., who sits that giving the mayor the ultimate say Now, nearly three decades after Norton the path to statehood and that she is opti- on the Senate Armed Services Commit- made things more complicated, not less. began her efforts, that infamous day has mistic about its passage. tee, said he also supports the D.C. Nation- “I think all that will do is take away a provided the impetus to bring the District The main hurdle, however, is that the al Guard provision. capability and an opportunity for the D.C. of Columbia closer than it has been be- Senate’s version of the NDAA does not in- Still, regardless of the hurdles, Norton Guard to respond quickly and without too fore to obtaining control of its own Na- clude the D.C. National Guard provision. called the progress a “milestone.” many bosses, too many people who are in tional Guard. And it remains to be seen whether an “The reason it’s so important is under- charge of one problem,” Kelly said. “It On Thursday, the House Armed Servic- amendment to add it to the package could stood by Jan. 6,” she said. “The insurrec- will cause them to be unable to respond as es Committee passed a measure giving withstand Republican resistance and tion would have ended hours before it did, quickly as they need to, as we witnessed D.C. control of the Guard as part of the garner enough enthusiasm from moder- saving lives, not to mention injuries, if the on Jan. 6.” PAGE 6 • STARS AND STRIPES • Tuesday, September 7, 2021 VIRUS OUTBREAK Low vaccination rate in Miss. brings Fauci: Boosters high anxiety for health workers

BY LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press/Report for America likely to start JACKSON, Miss. — As patients stream into Mississippi hospitals one after another, doctors and nurs- es have become all too accustomed to the rampant denial and misinfor- with Pfizer only mation about COVID-19 in the na- tion’s least vaccinated state. BY IAN FISHER weeks — if any,” he said. People in denial about the severi- Bloomberg The company said Friday it had ty of their own illness or the virus it- President Joe Biden’s chief completed its submission to U.S. self, with visitors frequently trying medical adviser said U.S. booster regulators. to enter hospitals without masks. shots against COVID-19 are likely Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, a The painful look of recognition on to start only with the vaccine by Republican, criticized the Biden patients’ faces when they realize Pfizer and BioNTech, while the administration for “mixed mess- they made a mistake not getting vac- ROGELIO V. SOLIS/AP Moderna shot may be delayed. aging.” cinated. The constant misinforma- Kelly Sites, a nurse and team leader with the Samaritan’s Purse “The bottom line is very likely at “We need clear guidance on tion about the coronavirus that they International Relief medical team in Jackson, Miss., speaks of the least part of the plan will be imple- these booster shots because it un- discuss with medical staff. group’s medical missions and how it has affected her, on Wednesday. mented, but ultimately the entire dermines the credibility of it,” Ho- “There’s no point in being judg- plan will be,” Dr. Anthony Fauci gan said on NBC’s “Meet the mental in that situation. There’s no treated in triage rooms. Paramedics children.” said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Press.” “I guess they slipped and point in telling them, ‘You should are delayed in responding to new To deal with overflow COVID pa- Nation.” pre-leaked an announcement have gotten the vaccine or you calls because they have to wait with tients, Christian relief charity Sa- Fauci’s comments may lead to about booster shots with all three wouldn’t be here,’ ” said Dr. Risa patients who need care. maritan’s Purse set up an emergen- more clarity on the administra- vaccines and then had to back- Moriarity, executive vice chair of During a recent news conference, cy field hospital in the parking ga- tion’s stance after Biden ran into track it and say you can only use the University of Mississippi Medi- UMMC’s head, Dr. LouAnn Wood- rage of UMMC’s children’s hospital. resistance by medical experts Pfizer.” cal Center’s emergency depart- ward, fought back tears as she de- Nurse Kelly Sites, who has also who advise U.S. regulators over White House chief of staff Ron ment. “We don’t do that. We try not scribed the toll on health care work- treated COVID patients in hot spots what they view as political interfe- Klain pushed back against criti- to preach and lecture them. Some of ers. like California and Italy, said it’s rence in the review process. cism that the Biden administra- them are so sick they can barely “We as a state, as a collective, heart-wrenching to know that some While Biden has set a Sept. 20 tion is rushing booster shots ahead even speak to us.” have failed to respond in a unified of the severe cases could have been target for kicking off the booster of the scientific evidence. Mississippi’s low vaccinated rate, way to a common threat,” Wood- prevented with the vaccine. Nurses campaign, safety and efficacy da- CDC and FDA officials were in- with about 38% of the state’s 3 mil- ward said. walk around with Scripture verses ta require signoff by the U.S. Cen- volved in setting the week of Sept. lion people fully inoculated against In the medical center’s children’s on duct tape on their scrubs and will ters for Disease Control and Pre- 20 target date for booster clear- COVID-19, is driving a surge in hospital, emergency room nurse recite them to their patients. vention and the Food and Drug ance, he said on CNN’s “State of cases and hospitalizations that is Anne Sinclair said she is tired of the Samaritan’s Purse is an interna- Administration. the Union.” overwhelming medical workers. constant misinformation she hears, tional disaster relief organization Top medical officials, including “We are ready to go as soon as The workers are angry and exhaust- namely that children can’t get very with missions spanning multiple CDC head Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the approval for the boosters ed over the workload and refusal by ill from COVID. continents. Sites has responded to warned the White House last comes from the FDA and from the residents to embrace the vaccine. “I’ve seen children die in my unit 20 missions, in Haiti, the Philip- week that regulators may only be CDC,” Klain said. Physicians at the University of of COVID, complications of COVID, pines, Liberia, the Democratic Re- able to act on the Pfizer shot, and Fauci said plans for boosters in- Mississippi Medical Center, the and that’s just not something you public of Congo and other places. possibly for just some groups of volve using with the same brand state’s only level one trauma center, can ever forget,” she said. “To respond to the United States people, in the coming weeks, The as the original vaccination, but are caring for the sickest patients. “It’s very sobering,” continued is quite surreal for us,” she said. “It’s New York Times has reported. that mix-and-match studies are The emergency room and intensive Sinclair, who is the parent of a 2- a challenge because usually, home Fauci said Moderna “is getting being done to determine of people care unit are beyond capacity, al- year-old and a 5-year-old and wor- is stable. And so when we deploy, their data together” and may have who got one shot as the primary most all with COVID patients. Mo- ries for their safety. “I just wish peo- we’re just going to the disaster. This submitted it by now. Any delay for vaccine could take another as a riarity said it’s like a “logjam” with ple could look past the politics and is the first time where home is a di- Moderna would be “a couple of booster. beds in hallways, patients being think about their families and their saster.” Volunteers’ efforts help poorest survive Thailand’s worst COVID surge

Associated Press ters of delta-variant infections heavily on social media to spread BANGKOK — For two months, spread among the workers living in the word and solicit help. Donations carpenter Tun Nye hasn’t been able the close quarters. Many lost all in- come from corporations, individu- to send any money home to his par- come, and while employers were als and even governments. ents in Myanmar to help them care supposed to ensure all had enough The country has confirmed 1.2 for his 11-year-old son, after author- food and water, many didn’t. million COVID-19 cases and more ities in Thailand shut down his con- “You would have one camp that than 12,800 deaths. The government struction site over coronavirus con- had a lot of supplies, they were pro- hopes the country is now on its way cerns. vided for, and you’d walk 30 meters out of this deadliest wave of the pan- No work has meant no income for to another and they hadn’t seen their demic, which has accounted for 97% him or his wife, who have been con- boss in two weeks and were told to of Thailand’s total cases and more fined to one of more than 600 work- go fish for food,” said Greg Lange, than 99% of its deaths. ers’ camps dotted around Bangkok, one of the co-founders of Bangkok A recent outbreak in Tun Nye’s living in a small room in a ram- Community Help, which delivers camp meant that it had to stay shut shackle building with boards and SAKCHAI LALIT/AP about 3,000 hot meals a day and up to longer than most but the worksite blankets to cover missing windows. People wait for food supplies distributed from Bangkok Community 600 “survival bags” like the one Tun was approved for reopening last In Thailand’s worst virus surge Help Foundation in the Thai capital on Aug. 31. Coronavirus lockdown Nye got. week. He and his wife both had the yet, lockdown measures have re- measures have reduced what little Bangkok’s have­nots had to zero. Founded early in the pandemic virus, but without serious symp- duced what little Bangkok’s have- last year, the organization has toms and a negative test about a nots had to zero. Volunteer groups Help volunteers meant not having to ing his supplies. “And there’s no op- grown to more than 400 Thai and week ago means he can now get are working to ensure they survive. go hungry that week. tion to go home to Myanmar, it’s foreign volunteers like Lange, a 62- back on the job. For Tun Nye, 31, the bag of rice, “It’s been three or four months worse there.” year-old native of Florida in the res- “Everyone’s looking forward to canned fish and other staples drop- with no money and we don’t have The government shut down the taurant business who has lived in it,” he said. “We’ve been without an ped off by Bangkok Community enough to eat,” he said after collect- camps at the end of June after clus- Thailand for two decades, and relies income for so long.” Tuesday, September 7, 2021 • STARS AND STRIPES • PAGE 7 NATION Police: Ex-Marine surrenders after killing 4, gunfight BY KELLI KENNEDY call police if he didn’t leave, Judd Associated Press said. He referred to the person as a A man wearing full body armor victim but did not clarify which one. fatally shot four people, including a Authorities responded to the mother and the 3-month-old baby scene but never found Riley. she was cradling, and engaged in a About nine hours later, around massive gunfight with police and 4:30 a.m., Riley returned to the deputies before he was wounded home, laying out glowsticks to cre- and surrendered, a Florida sheriff ate a path leading to the house to JAE C. HONG/AP said Sunday. An 11-year-old girl who draw officers “into an ambush,” A truck drives along Highway 50 in South Lake Tahoe, Calif., on Thursday. was shot seven times survived. Judd said. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd Randomly, a lieutenant far in the said during a press conference that distance heard popping noises and Evacuations lifted for thousands even after 33-year-old Bryan Riley immediately put the agency on ac- was arrested Sunday morning, he tive-shooter mode, bringing all state was so aggressive that he tried to and local law enforcement in the ar- in Tahoe as Calif. wildfire stalls wrestle a gun from police as he lay ea to the scene. on his hospital gurney. Following the sounds of gunfire, Associated Press who wish could return to their Law enforcement was still pa- Judd said Riley, a former Marine authorities arrived at the home and SOUTH LAKE TAHOE — Tens homes in what had been a smoke- trolling, so “your home will still be who served as a sharpshooter in found Riley’s white truck ablaze and of thousands of people who fled choked ghost town instead of a safe,” Savacool said. both Iraq and Afghanistan, seemed an unarmed Riley outside, dressed South Lake Tahoe in the teeth of a thriving Labor Day getaway loca- Authorities also warned that in to have targeted his victims at ran- in camouflage. wildfire were returning home as tion. the absence of humans, however, dom and appeared to be suffering Riley immediately ran inside, crews finally managed to stall the “So far it hasn’t been a mad rush bears had gone to town, spreading from mental health issues. Judd said where authorities heard another advance of flames scant miles from of cars,” South Lake Tahoe Fire trash everywhere that must be Riley’s girlfriend told authorities he round of gunfire, “a woman scream the resort. Chief Clive Savacool said at an eve- picked up. had been unraveling for weeks and and a baby whimper,” Judd said. But authorities warned that resi- ning briefing. “We’re happy to see “The delicate balance between repeatedly told her that he could Officers tried to enter the front of dents of the scenic forest area on that people are slowly trickling in, humans and bears has been upset,” communicate directly with God. the house, but it was barricaded. the California-Nevada state line just because the city does need and anyone who thinks a bear may “They begged for their lives and I When they circled to the back, they weren’t out of the woods yet, with time to get ready.” have entered their home should killed them anyway,” Judd said he encountered Riley, who appeared to risks ranging from smoky, foul air Savacool said officials hoped to call law enforcement, El Dorado told them during an interrogation. have put on full body armor includ- to belligerent bears. have the local hospital emergency County sheriff’s Sgt. Simon Brown Investigators said preliminary ing head and knee coverings and a Evacuation orders for South room open within 24 hours and said said. evidence shows 40-year-old Justice bulletproof vest. Lake Tahoe and other lakeside ar- paramedics were staffing fire en- The lifting of mandatory evacua- Gleason happened to be an unlucky Authorities exchanged heavy eas were downgraded to warnings gines for emergency medical care. tion orders for the Tahoe area stranger out mowing his lawn Satur- gunfire, with dozens “if not hun- Sunday afternoon and California He said people with health prob- marked a milestone in the fight day night when Riley drove by his dreds of rounds” fired, before Riley Highway Patrol officers began re- lems, however, might want to con- against the fire, which erupted on home in Lakeland, about 30 miles retreated back into the home, ac- moving roadblocks along State sider staying away because of the Aug. 14 and spread across nearly east of Tampa, saying God told him cording to the sheriff. Highway 50 from Nevada to the smoky air. 340 square miles of dense national to stop because Gleason’s daughter Everything fell silent, Judd said, city limits. People who do return should parks and forests, tree-dotted gran- was going to commit suicide. until a helicopter unit alerted au- The threat from the Caldor Fire have enough medication and gro- ite cliffs and scattered cabins and A second, unidentified person thorities on the ground that Riley hasn’t entirely vanished, but down- ceries and a full gas tank in order to hamlets in the northern Sierra Ne- confronted Riley, telling him that was coming out. He had been shot grading to a warning meant those be self-sufficient, Savacool said. vada. story wasn’t true and warned they’d once and was ready to surrender. PAGE 8 • STARS AND STRIPES • Tuesday, September 7, 2021 NATION Journey: Victims speak of resilience after terrifying day

FROM PAGE 1 Only after his roughly hourlong “It never goes away, for those of walk down the crowded stairs did us that were there that day,” he Stephan learn that another plane says. had hit the south tower — the Nearly 3,000 people were killed building where his wife, Joan, also when hijackers in Osama bin La- an attorney, worked on the 91st den’s al-Qaida terror network floor. Above the impact zone. rammed four commercial jets into Unable to reach her by cell- the trade center, the Pentagon and phone, Bruce Stephan dashed to a a Pennsylvania field on Sept. 11, payphone and called her relatives, 2001. Yet an estimated 33,000 or who told him she’d gotten out. more people successfully evac- Then the south tower fell, and uated the stricken buildings. Stephan’s fear spiked anew. Had They navigated mountains of Joan been caught in the collapse? smoky stairs in the World Trade Hours later, he finally learned that Center’s twin towers or streamed she was OK. (At least one other out of a flaming Pentagon. Some couple, elevator operators Arturo fled an otherworldly dust cloud at and Carmen Griffith, also sur- ground zero. Others willed their vived; their story inspired a recent way out of pitch-dark rubble. film, “Lovebirds of the Twin Tow- Sept. 11 survivors bear scars ers.”) MARK LENNIHAN/AP and the weight of unanswerable “My experience from the first Désirée Bouchat poses for a photo at the World Trade Center, on Friday, in New York. questions. Some grapple with disaster was that it’s a strangely their place in a tragedy defined by happy moment when you know functioning, but through a fog that an enormous loss of life. They get that you’ve survived,” Bruce Ste- "One of the things that I learned is took more than a year to lift. told to “get over” 9/11. But they al- phan says. “It’s almost like you’re Bouchat eventually felt that she so say they have gained resilience, reborn... to know that you’re alive to never give up." needed to talk about 9/11. The purpose, appreciation and re- and that you still have a shot at life, Will Jimeno Springfield, N.J., resident has now solve. and here’s your chance to do led about 500 tours for the 9/11 “One of the things that I something.” former Port Authority police officer Tribute Museum (it’s separate learned,” Jimeno says, “is to never “When it happened a second from the larger National Septem- give up.” time, it’s just like, ‘Oh, my God.’” lives again. crash at the north tower was acci- ber 11 Memorial & Museum). After the earthquake, the New “One of the things that we dis- dental. There was no immediate Bruce Powers has traveled ‘It’s almost like you’re York City natives resolved to covered as a result of the disasters evacuation order for the south from Alexandria, Va., to lead Trib- change their workaholic lives. Af- was that being in a community ... is tower. But Berger ushered Bou- ute Museum tours, too. And every reborn’ ter 9/11, they did. maybe the biggest reward you can chat and other Aon Corp. col- Sept. 11, the 82-year-old repeats It wasn’t Bruce Stephan’s first Within two months, the couple have,” Stephan, 65, says from leagues to the elevators, then turn- his seven-mile walk home from incredibly close call. moved to Essex, a northern New their front porch in Essex. They ed back to check for more people. the Pentagon after the attack that In 1989, his car got perilously York town of roughly 700 people. moved back last year. Just as Bouchat exited the south killed 184 people, 10 of whom he wedged on the San Francisco- While telecommuting and some- tower, another plane slammed in- knew. Oakland Bay Bridge when the Lo- times actually commuting, they ‘I was a walking zombie’ to it. Nearly 180 Aon workers per- The walk, the tours and hearing ma Prieta earthquake hit and the made time for other things — ished, including Berger. other guides’ personal stories upper deck collapsed while he was church, a book club, amateur the- Désirée Bouchat pauses by one For a while, Bouchat told every- “serve well in helping me deal driving across. ater, gardening, zoning meetings, of the inscribed names on the 9/11 one, including herself: “I’m fine. with what happened,” says Pow- Twelve years later, the engineer a local newsletter. They cherished memorial: James Patrick Berger. I’m alive.” ers, a now-retired Navy aviation and lawyer was settling into his a newfound sense of community. She last saw him on the 101st floor But “I was a walking zombie,” planner. workday on the 65th floor of the But a work opportunity pulled of the trade center’s south tower. she says now. The public hasn’t fully recog- trade center’s north tower when them back to San Francisco in “Some days, it feels like it hap- She couldn’t multitask any- nized the losses survivors felt, one of the planes crashed about 30 2009. They loved it, until the pan- pened yesterday,” she says. more. Remarks that used to both- says Mary Fetchet, a social work- stories above . demic made them rethink their At first, people figured the plane er her stirred no reaction. She was er who lost her son Brad on 9/11 and founded Voices Center for Re- silience, a support and advocacy group for victims’ families, first responders and survivors. “Al- though they are still living, they’re living in a very different way.” ‘I couldn’t figure out how I got out of there alive’ For a time after 9/11, Police De- partment Officer Mark DeMarco replayed the what-ifs in his mind. If he’d gone right instead of left. A bit earlier. Or later. “I couldn’t figure out how I got out of there alive,” he says. After helping evacuate the north tower, the Emergency Ser- PHOTOS BY WONG MAYE­E/AP vice Unit officer was surrounded Retired NYPD Officer Mark DeMarco, left, poses for a portrait in his home in the Staten Island borough of New York on Tuesday. DeMarco wears a wristband, right, with the names of the 14 ESU members killed on Sept. 11, 2001. SEE ATTACKS ON PAGE 9 Tuesday, September 7, 2021 • STARS AND STRIPES • PAGE 9 NATION Attacks: Survivors stress importance of remembering

FROM PAGE 8 ‘It motivates me to live a by a maze of debris when parts of better life’ the skyscraper tumbled onto a smaller building where he’d been Buried in darkness and 20 feet directed. Some officers with him or more of rubble from both tow- were killed. ers, Will Jimeno was ready to die. Barely able to see his own boots The Port Authority of New York with a small flashlight, DeMarco and New Jersey Police Depart- inched through the ruins with two ment rookie was in searing pain officers behind him. from a fallen wall pinning his left Then he took a step and felt side. Fellow officer Dominick Pez- nothing underfoot. He looked be- zulo had died next to him. Flaming low and saw utter darkness. debris had fallen on Jimeno’s arm Only later — after the officers and heated the cramped area turned around and eventually enough that Pezzulo’s gun fired, clambered through shattered win- sending a flurry of bullets past Ji- dows to safety — did DeMarco re- meno’s head. He had yelled for alize he’d nearly tumbled into a help for hours. He was terribly crater carved by the collapse. thirsty. Now 68 and retired, DeMarco “If I die today,” he remembers still wears a wristband with the thinking, “at least I died trying to names of the 14 ESU members help people.” killed that day. He worries that the Then Jimeno, who is Catholic, public memory of the attacks is had what he describes as a vision fading, that the passage of time of a robed man walking toward has created a false sense of securi- him, a bottle of water in his hand. ty. We’re going to get out, he told “Have fun with life. Don’t be Sgt. John McLoughlin, who was afraid,” he says. “But be mindful.” trapped with him. ‘It’s not something to be It was hours — of pushing back gotten over’ pain, thinking of rescues in past disasters, talking to keep alert — A tsunami of dust washed over before they were found and gruel- emergency medical technician ingly extricated by former U.S. Guy Sanders, so thick that it clogged his surgical mask. Marines, NYPD officers, a one- The 47-story building at 7 World time paramedic and firefighters Trade Center had just collapsed, RICHARD DREW/AP as blazes flared and debris shifted about seven hours after the burn- Will Jimeno, the former Port Authority police officer who was rescued from the rubble of the attacks at theand fell. ing towers fell and debris ignited World Trader Center, shows how he crossed his arms with the signs for “I Love You,” during an interview “If you wanted to picture what fires in the smaller high-rise. in his home in Chester, N.J., on Aug. 2. It was to be a sign to his family if he died in the rubble. hell looked like, this was probably A part-time EMS supervisor for it,” recalls then-NYPD Officer a private ambulance company in Ken Winkler. the city, Sanders had scrambled to Jimeno was freed around 11 respond from his day job at a Long p.m., McLoughlin the next morn- Island collections agency. ing. Jimeno underwent surgeries He was en route when the tow- and lengthy rehabilitation. ers collapsed, killing eight EMA But he says his psychological workers, including his colleague recovery was harder. Trivial Yamel Merino. things made him lose his temper Sanders went to funeral after — fueled, he now realizes, by an- funeral for EMTs, firefighters and ger about the deaths of colleagues police. and people rescuers couldn’t help. Yet 9/11 only deepened his com- At times, he says, he thought of su- mitment to EMS. Though it was icide. It took three years and mul- tricky financially, he soon went tiple therapists before he mas- full-time. tered warding off the outbursts. “I never wanted to be in a situa- It has helped to tell his story in tion where people needed me and talks, in the 2006 Oliver Stone mo- I couldn’t immediately respond,” vie “World Trade Center,” and in WONG MAYE­E/AP he says. Jimeno’s two newly released SEAN RAYFORD/AP Retired NYPD Officer Ken Winkler holds a broken piece of glass that He still doesn’t. books — the illustrated “Immi- But health problems — includ- Guy Sanders was responding to he kept from the fallen World Trade Center skyscrapers, which he grant, American, Survivor” for ing a rare cancer that the federal the city when the towers fell. keeps in his office, Aug. 3, in New York. children, and “Sunrise Through government has linked to trade the Darkness,” about coping with center dust exposure — forced his Breathing through an oxygen you more resilient,” says Lanski, nosed in 2006 with sarcoidosis, trauma. 2011 retirement, says Sanders, 62, mask in a hospital bed, Wendy who was hospitalized with the cor- she said; the federal government The Colombian-born U.S. Navy now living near Orangeburg, S.C. Lanski told herself: “If Osama bin onavirus — as was her husband — has concluded the inflammatory veteran hopes that people see in “You get people telling you, Laden didn’t kill me, I’m not dying for two touch-and-go-weeks in disease may be linked to trade ‘Well, (9/11) happened so long ago. of COVID.” spring 2020. center dust. And she has asked his story “the resiliency of the hu- Get over it.’ But it is a trauma,” Nearly two decades earlier, the But “surviving is only the first herself: “Why am I here and 3,000 man soul, the American spirit,” says Sanders, who joined a first re- health insurance manager escap- piece of the journey,” says Lanski, people are not?” and the power of good people step- sponders’ and survivors’ support ed the north tower’s 29th floor and 51, of West Orange, N.J. Over time, she accepted not ping up in bad times. group. ran, barefoot, through the dust She has the twin towers, “9/11/ knowing. Sept. 11 “motivates me to live a “It’s not something to be gotten cloud from the south tower’s col- 01” and “survivor” tattooed on her “But while I’m here, I’ve got to better life,” says Jimeno, 53, of over. It’s something to be ad- lapse. Eleven of her Empire Blue ankle. But the attacks also left oth- make it count,” says Lanski, who Chester, N.J. “The way I can hon- dressed.” Cross Blue Shield colleagues died. er marks, ones she didn’t choose. has spoken at schools and traveled or those we lost and those that ‘Surviving is only the first “The only good thing about sur- Images and sounds of falling to conferences about terror vic- were injured is to live a fruitful viving a tragedy or a catastrophe people and panes of glass lodged tims. “I’ve got to make up for 3,000 life. To be an example to others piece of the journey’ of any kind is: It definitely makes in her memory. She was diag- people who lost their voice.” that Sept. 11 did not destroy us.” PAGE 10 • STARS AND STRIPES • Tuesday, September 7, 2021 NATION Lawmakers vow action after Ida flooding

Associated Press two record rainfalls in a week (in change things on our streets across WASHINGTON — Shaken by New York City), it’s not just coinci- the country.” haunting images of surging rivers, dence. When you get all the changes The plan includes $110 billion to flooded roads and subways and oth- that we have seen in weather, that’s build and repair roads and bridges er damage caused by the remnants not a coincidence. ... It’s going to get and $66 billion to upgrade railroads. of Hurricane Ida, lawmakers from worse and worse and worse, unless It also includes about $60 billion to both parties are vowing to upgrade we do something about it.” upgrade the electric grid and build the nation’s aging infrastructure Schumer and other lawmakers thousands of miles of transmission network. said the catastrophe is the latest ex- lines to expand use of renewable en- As the deadly storm moved from ample of why the nation needs the ergy and nearly $47 billion to adapt the Gulf Coast through the North- nearly trillion-dollar bipartisan in- and rebuild roads, ports and bridges east, members of Congress said the frastructure bill passed by the Sen- to help withstand damage from deluge offered irrefutable evidence ate last month. He and other Demo- stronger storms as well as wildfires that power lines, roads, bridges and crats also are calling for passage of and drought. other infrastructure are deteriorat- President Joe Biden’s $3.5 trillion, “If we’re going to make our coun- ing even as storms and other ex- partisan rebuilding plan aimed at try more resilient to natural disas- treme weather are strengthening. helping families and combating cli- ters, whatever they are, we have to At least 50 people from Virginia to mate change. start preparing now,” said Sen. Bill Connecticut died as storm water “It’s so imperative to pass the two Cassidy, R-La. MAXAR TECHNOLOGIES/AP from Ida’s remnants cascaded into bills,” Schumer said. Cassidy, a lead negotiator on the Homes are surrounded by floodwaters from the Raritan River in people’s homes and engulfed auto- Democrats hope to pass both bills bipartisan bill, has touted the infras- Manville, N.J., on Thursday, the day after remnants of Hurricane Ida mobiles, overwhelming urban by the end of this month, but action tructure legislation as a boon to hur- swept through the area. drainage systems unable to handle on the bipartisan bill may be diffi- ricane-prone states such as his. “I’m so much rain in such a short time. cult until the larger package is sure hoping that Republicans look Ultimately, repair and replace- providing major investments in “fu- At least 16 deaths were blamed on ready. Progressives have said they around my state, see this damage ment of roads, bridges and other in- ture-proofing” infrastructure the storm in Louisiana, Mississippi won’t support a bipartisan bill with- and say, ‘If there’s money for resil- frastructure damaged by Hurri- against climate change and ex- and Alabama. out strong companion legislation to iency, money to harden the grid, cane Ida and other natural disasters treme weather such as Ida, accord- “Global warming is upon us,” advance their priorities. money to help sewer and water, are likely to be funded by Congress ing to Jeff Davis, a senior fellow at said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Biden made a pitch Friday for the then maybe this is something we as emergency relief money. But the the Eno Center for Transportation, a Schumer, D-N.Y. “When you get bipartisan bill, saying it “is going to should be for,’ ” he told CNN. bipartisan bill will be valuable in Washington think tank. Parts issues Crews complete final cut of to keep auto Ga. shipwreck demolition Associated Press Crews spent the past 10 months prices high ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. — using a towering crane straddling Salvage crews have finished cut- the shipwreck to cut it into eight ting apart the last two sections of a giant sections — using anchor until 2023 cargo ship that overturned along chain to tear through the hull like a Associated Press the Georgia coast two years ago, blunt-edged saw. Progress was TOLEDO, Ohio — Back in the officials said Sunday. slowed several times, most nota- spring, a shortage of computer The multiagency command bly when the shipwreck caught chips that had sent auto prices soar- overseeing demolition of the fire in May and at the end of July ing appeared, finally, to be easing. South Korean freighter Golden when large amounts of oil gushed Some relief for consumers seemed Ray said in a news release that the from the vessel’s remnants and to be in sight. final cut was completed Saturday. fouled the shoreline. That hope has now dimmed. A Both massive chunks are awaiting Even after the last big pieces surge in COVID-19 cases from the TOM KRISHER/AP removal by barge from the waters are gone, there’s still extensive delta variant in several Asian coun- The new car lot at Jim White Toyota just outside of Toledo, Ohio, is off St. Simons Island about 70 cleanup to be done of debris that tries that are the main producers of depleted on Aug. 27, with only a few new vehicles available for sale. miles south of Savannah. fell into the water during cutting auto-grade chips is worsening the The coronavirus delta variant is causing shortages of vehicle parts. The Golden Ray capsized soon and lifting of the larger sections. supply shortage. It is further delay- after leaving the Port of Brun- All cutaway segments of the ing a return to normal auto produc- trucks. Late last month, shortages SUVs, for example — thereby driv- swick with 4,200 vehicles in its ship have been loaded onto barges tion and keeping the supply of vehi- of semiconductors and other parts ing up their average prices. cargo decks on Sept. 8, 2019. The for transport to a scrapyard in cles artificially low. grew so acute that Toyota felt com- In August, new vehicle sales in entire crew was rescued safely. Louisiana. And that means, analysts say, pelled to announce it would slash the U.S. tumbled nearly 18%, main- that record-high consumer prices production by at least 40% in Japan ly because of supply shortages. Au- for vehicles — new and used, as and North America for two months. tomakers reported that U.S. deal- well as rental cars — will extend in- The cuts meant a reduction of ers had fewer than 1 million new ve- US supports releasing 2 Canadians held in China to next year and might not fall back 360,000 vehicles worldwide in Sep- hicles on their lots in August — 72% toward earth until 2023. tember. lower than in August 2019. U.S. Secretary of State Antony retaliation. Both have since been The global parts shortage in- The result is that vehicle buyers Even if auto production were Blinken said Sunday that “people convicted of spying in closed Chi- volves not just computer chips. Au- are facing persistent and once-un- somehow to immediately regain its are not bargaining chips,” adding nese courts. tomakers are starting to see short- thinkable price spikes. The average highest-ever level for vehicles sold the U.S. stands with Canada in call- “Today marks the 1,000th day of ages of wiring harnesses, plastics price of a new vehicle sold in the in the U.S., it would take more than ing for the release of two Canadians the arbitrary detention of Canadian and glass, too. U.S. in August hit a record of just ayear to achieve a more normal 60- detained in China for 1,000 days. citizens Michael Spavor and Mi- “It appears it’s going to get a little above $41,000 — nearly $8,200 day supply of vehicles and for pric- Canadians Michael Kovrig and chael Kovrig by the People’s Repub- tougher before it gets easier,” said more than it was just two years ago, es to head down, the consulting firm Michael Spavor were detained in lic of China (PRC),” Blinken said in a Glenn Mears, who runs four auto J.D. Power estimated. Alix Partners has calculated. China in what many countries label statement. “We stand shoulder-to- dealerships around Canton, Ohio. With consumer demand still “Under that scenario,” said Dan “hostage politics” after Canada ar- shoulder with Canada and the inter- Squeezed by the parts shortfall, high, automakers feel little pres- Hearsch, an Alix Partners manag- rested an executive of Chinese tech national community in calling for General Motors and Ford have an- sure to discount their vehicles. ing director, “it’s not until early giant Huawei in 2018 on a U.S. extra- the PRC to release, immediately nounced one- or two-week closures Forced to conserve their scarce 2023 before they even could over- dition request. Kovrig, a Canadian and unconditionally, Michael Spa- at multiple North American facto- computer chips, the automakers come a backlog of sales, expected diplomat on leave to an international vor and Michael Kovrig.” ries, some of which produce their have routed them to higher-priced demand and build up the invento- organization, and Spavor, an entre- hugely popular full-size pickup models — pickup trucks and large ry.” preneur, were arrested in apparent From The Associated Press Tuesday, September 7, 2021 • STARS AND STRIPES • PAGE 11 AMERICAN ROUNDUP

Abraham Lincoln Museum digitizing rare images SPRINGFIELD— The IL Abraham Lincoln Presi- dential Library and Museum is digitizing nearly 8,000 rare imag- es, including a Lincoln family pho- to album and a poster that offered a reward for the capture of the 16th president’s assassin. The “Picturing Lincoln” project will allow people around the world to access material from the mu- seum in Springfield, the State Journal-Register reported. It’s be- ing funded with a $100,000 grant from the Illinois State Library. They include the posters issued days after Lincoln’s fatal 1865 shooting seeking a reward for the apprehension of John Wilkes Booth. Other images are a sched- ule for the funeral train carrying Lincoln’s body back to Springfield for burial and the only surviving photograph of Lincoln’s body ly- ing in state. Court accepts appeal of ex-senator’s conviction CONCORD — The NH New Hampshire Su- preme Court has accepted the ap- peal of a former state senator who seeks to overturn his convictions JACQUELINE DORMER, REPUBLICAN­HERALD/AP on misdemeanor charges of do- mestic violence, criminal mis- chief and simple assault. Burger boy Jeff Woodburn, 56, of White- field, was convicted of four charg- Ian Shellenberger, of State College, Pa., walks with his mother Pam Shellenberger, left, and Susan Spayd, right, on S. Third Street during the es in Coos County and sentenced Taste of Hamburger Festival in Hamburg, Pa., on Saturday. The 2020 event was canceled due to the pandemic. to 60 days in jail. 150,000 to 250,000 people a day when he entered the house Woodburn was accused of slap- THE CENSUS during normal times. But when through a rear door and ignored ping a woman and punching her in they’re all gone, restaurants and The number of guns seized four years ago from a hunting cabin the homeowner’s demands that he the stomach, as well as biting her other service businesses can’t 13 in Saginaw County, Mich., that two men are trying to sue to leave, police said. Vazquez died at once on the hand, and on another make it on carryout only.” recover. The sheriff’s office took the guns after responding to a dispute between a hospital. occasion, on the forearm. a man and a woman who were using the cabin in 2017. The man grabbed a The St. Louis Post-Dispatch In his notice of appeal, Wood- Wrong-way crash in shotgun and was subsequently charged with domestic violence. The case end- reported that Vazquez was staying burn asks whether the trial judge ed in 2019, but the sheriff’s office has refused to release the firearms, accord- with friends about six houses from tunnel critically injures 1 ing to a lawsuit recently filed in federal court. “The 13 guns we’re trying to get was wrong or violated his consti- where he was shot and his friends back have nothing to do” with the incident, attorney Philip Ellison told tutional rights when it failed to PITTSBURGH — A MLive.com. believe he entered the home by give the jury a self-defense in- PA wrong-way driver col- mistake. struction and didn’t allow evi- lided head-on with another car in a dence of prior aggression on the western Pennsylvania tunnel, The bill would set statewide draft a ballot article, the Rutland Restored art deco theatre part of the alleged victim, among critically injuring the other driver, standards for using the weapons Herald reported. reopens as music venue other questions. police said. that advocates said sometimes “I really think that the town State police in Pittsburgh said harmed peaceful protesters. Po- should get in front of this in terms DES PLAINES — A for- City considers future of the vehicle entered Route 1376 lice said they are needed to pre- of benefits to the taxpayers that IL mer vaudeville theatre 28-story office tower traveling west in the eastbound vent violence and are often better this type of authorization would will reopen this fall after a $6.6 lanes. than the alternatives. provide,” said Selectman John million renovation partially INDIANAPOLIS — Indi- The car entered the Fort Pitt The bill by Assemblywoman Paul Faignant. backed by the city of Des Plaines IN anapolis officials will be tunnel under Mount Washington, Lorena Gonzalez would bar law “There has been plenty of expe- in hopes it will drive more devel- asking developers for potential still traveling in the wrong direc- enforcement agencies from using rience from our neighbors now opment in the area. new uses for the 28-story City- tion, and collided head-on with an- kinetic projectiles, chemical down in Massachusetts and The Des Plaines Theatre has County Building as about half of it other car, police said. The 36- agents or tear gas to break up Maine, we know that retail estab- been closed since 2014. The Pio- will be vacated in the coming year-old driver of the other car peaceful demonstrations, and pro- lishments don’t bring out the neer Press reported that the city months with the opening of a new was taken to a local hospital and hibit police from aiming rubber worst in everybody like everybo- bought it for $1.2 million in 2018 criminal justice complex. listed in critical condition with bullets, beanbags and foam dy feared,” he added. and signed an agreement with an City officials want proposals multiple injuries. The other 21- rounds at anyone’s head, neck or outside operator to manage it, in- that include housing for the 59- year-old driver was uninjured, po- other vital areas. Homeowner won’t be cluding live music bookings. year-old tower as much office lice said. charged in killing intruder The theatre’s 100-year-old inte- space has become available in City likely to vote on rior has been restored to highlight downtown Indianapolis since the State aims to restrict retail marijuana sales CLAYTON — A its art deco style and reveal a stage beginning of the COVID-19 pan- rubber bullets at protests MO homeowner who fa- that was covered by movie demic. RUTLAND — Voters in tally shot an intruder in Webster screens. The renovation also add- Deputy Mayor Jeff Bennett said SACRAMENTO — Cal- VT Rutland will likely de- Groves will not be charged, St. ed a restaurant space and a speak- converting at least part of the CA ifornia would restrict cide at Town Meeting next March Louis County Prosecutor Wesley easy-themed bar. building to residential use could the use of rubber bullets and whether to allow retail marijuana Bell said. Ron Onesti, owner of the new make the city’s downtown a more chemical irritants during protests sales in their community when Bell said in a statement that the operating firm Onesti Entertain- “resilient” area. under legislation advanced in the such sales become legal in Ver- shooting was “clearly” a case of a ment said the first show is sched- “We’re over-reliant upon work- wake of last year’s widespread mont next year. person protecting his home and uled for Oct. 1. force and convention visitors, public demonstrations over racial The Select Board voted 4-0 this family from an intruder. tourists,” Bennett said. “That’s injustice. week to have the town attorney Brian Vazquez, 43, was shot From The Associated Press PAGE 12 • STARS AND STRIPES • Tuesday, September 7, 2021 WORLD Guinea’s new junta leaders seek to tighten grip on power

Associated Press Junta leader Col. Mamadi transition,” he said during the brief CONAKRY, Guinea — Guinea’s Doumbouya said the military re- speech. “All your travel documents new military leaders sought to gime would not pursue vendettas and vehicles must be handed over tighten their grip on power Monday against political enemies, though to the general secretaries of your after overthrowing President Al- he also told officials from Conde’s former departments.” pha Conde, ordering the soldiers deposed government to turn over The military junta has refused to RADIO TELEVISION GUINEENNE/AP from his presidential guard to join their passports. issue a timeline for releasing Col. Mamadi Doumbouya, center, surrounded by others and draped in the junta forces and barring gov- “There will be no spirit of hatred Conde, saying the 83-year-old de- a Guinean flag, makes an address to the nation from state television ernment officials from leaving the or revenge. There will be no witch posed leader still had access to headquarters in the capital Conakry, Guinea, on Sunday. country. hunt,” said Doumbouya, who had medical care and his doctors. The After putting the West African led the Guinean army’s special West African regional bloc known third term in office last year, saying support the junta leader had within nation back under military rule for forces unit before seizing power as ECOWAS, though, called for his the term limits did not apply to him. the larger military. As the com- the first time in over a decade, the Sunday. “But justice will be the immediate release and threatened While the political opposition and mander of the army’s special forces junta already had dissolved the Na- compass that will guide every Gui- to impose sanctions if the demand the junta both sought his ouster, it unit he directed elite soldiers but it tional Assembly and the country’s nean citizen.” was not met. remained unclear Monday how was still possible that others who constitution. On Monday, regional “For former members of the gov- Conde’s removal by force Sun- united the two would be going for- remained loyal to the ousted presi- military commanders replaced ernment, travel outside our bor- day came after the president ward. dent could mount a countercoup in Guinea’s governors. ders will not be allowed during the sought and won a controversial It also was unknown how much the coming hours or days. Migrant caravan of nearly 800 broken up again in southern Mexico

Associated Press The group of about 800 — largely officials. “They began to hit me all over,” a gration agents surrounded the wom- HUIXTLA, Mexico — Mexican Central Americans, Haitians, Vene- But shortly before dawn, immigra- woman said amid tears, alleging that an, her husband and other child and border agents and police broke up a zuelans and Cubans — had spent the tion agents backed by police with an- police also beat her husband and detained them. caravan of hundreds of migrants night at a basketball court near ti-riot gear went into the crowd, push- pulled one of her daughters from her The government has insisted that Sunday who had set out from south- Huixtla, some 25 miles up the road ing many into trucks. arms. excessive force against a Haitian mi- ernmost Mexico — the fourth such from the border city of Tapachula Hundreds of the migrants escaped “Until they give me my daughter, grant caught on camera the past caravan officials have raided in re- where they had been kept awaiting running toward a river and hid in the I’m not leaving,” she told an Associ- weekend was an aberration and two cent days. processing by Mexican immigration vegetation. ated Press camera crew. But immi- immigration agents were suspended. Tuesday, September 7, 2021 • STARS AND STRIPES • PAGE 13 WORLD Extremist stayed in NZ despite immigration fraud

BY NICK PERRY of Health Ashley tus on the basis of being persecuted ter he was found with Islamic State heard. Associated Press Bloomfield said in Sri Lanka, where a civil war end- videos and knives, and the following Immigration authorities tried to WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Sunday. Police ed in 2009 with the defeat of a Tamil year, his refugee status was can- argue he should remain behind The Islamic State-inspired extre- added that the rebel group. celed after authorities found evi- bars, but in July, Samsudeen was mist who attacked shoppers in a condition of one Immigration New Zealand de- dence of fraud. set free. New Zealand supermarket had of the critically clined his application, but he won “My understanding is that in the Police trailed him around the been fighting deportation for immi- injured patients his appeal, gaining permanent resi- process of investigation into the ter- clock, fearing he would launch an gration fraud, leaving the nation’s had improved. dency in 2014. rorist, it was discovered that some attack, but unable to do more. Prime Samsudeen leader expressing frustration at the Bloomfield said a Police first noticed Samsudeen’s of the documents he had used in or- Minister Jacinda Ardern has said process. fourth person still hospitalized is in online support for terrorism in 2016, der to get his refugee status looked her government will change the The new details about the attack stable condition, while the three and by the following year, immigra- to have been fabricated,” Deputy laws this month to enhance penal- Friday in Auckland emerged as the others have been released and are tion agents knew he wanted to fly to Prime Minister Grant Robertson ties for terrorist plots. condition of some of those injured in recovering at home. Syria to join the Islamic State insur- said. Undercover officers just outside his attack improved. The attacker, Ahamed Samsu- gency. They began reviewing his But Samsudeen appealed, trig- the supermarket were able to shoot Three critically injured patients deen, 32, arrived in New Zealand 10 immigration status, fearing he gering a lengthy process that auto- and kill Samsudeen within a couple remain in intensive care but are in years ago on a student visa. A Tamil could be a threat. matically allowed him to stay in of minutes after he charged at them stable condition, Director-General Muslim, he applied for refugee sta- In 2018, Samsudeen was jailed af- New Zealand until his appeal was with the knife. Italy police stop man suspected of snatching winning game ticket Associated Press The man didn’t have the filched allegedly snatched the ticket and to verify the win. The employee To thwart anyone from illegally ROME — Border police at card worth $580,000 on his person, dashed off on his motor scooter af- then passed the card to one of the cashing in, authorities at the Ital- Rome’s main airport on Sunday but he did have a plane ticket for ter the customer on Friday had shop’s owners for a final check, ian tax office, which runs the prevented a Naples tobacco shop Fuerteventura, one of the Spain’s asked the shop in a working-class Italian news reports said. But in- “scratch and win” operation, froze owner suspected of running off Canary Islands, the LaPresse neighborhood of Naples to verify stead, he allegedly kept the card the entire block of card numbers with a customer’s winning game news agency said. the win, which is the top prize. and raced off on his motor scooter that had been distributed to the to- ticket from boarding a flight to the The man, who hasn’t been iden- The older woman had pur- through Naples. bacco shop. Canary Islands, Italian news re- tified, was wanted for investiga- chased two “scratch and win” He is now free on his own recog- Investigators are still looking ports said. tion of suspected theft. The man cards. She asked a shop employee nizance, LaPresse said. for the game card. PAGE 14 • STARS AND STRIPES • Tuesday, September 7, 2021 FACES

Disney’s ‘Shang-Chi’ breaks holiday record at box office From wire reports “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings,” the first Marvel film featuring an Asian superhero, dominated the weekend box office with an all-time record for a film opening over Labor Day. The Walt Disney Co. movie made an estimated $71.4 million in U.S. and Canadian theaters, ac- cording to data from Comscore MARVEL STUDIOS/AP Inc. The result blew past an initial Simu Liu stars in “Shang­Chi and estimate of $52 million. the Legend of the Ten Rings.” The film hit home with Asian filmgoers, who represented about mor at the base of his tongue that 17% of theater attendees over the was too big to operate on, and in- weekend, more than double the stead required high-dose radi- usual turnout for a Marvel film, ation and chemo. according to Disney. “I’d vowed I’d never do any- “Shang-Chi” had the second- thing like that, because my first highest opening weekend of the wife died of cancer, and to watch DOMENICO STINELLIS/AP pandemic, after “Black Widow.” her go through those treatments Penélope Cruz, left, and Antonio Banderas pose Sept. 4 at the Venice Film Festival in Italy. Banderas saidAll the films in theaters took in for years was horrible,” Tucci told a lot of laughter went into the production of their film, “Competencia Oficial” (“Official Competition”). $106.2 million, the best first-three Vera magazine. days of Labor Day weekend since His first wife, Kate Spath-Tucci, 2014, Comscore data showed. died of breast cancer in 2009 at the The Labor Day holiday is tradi- age of 47. tionally slow for the film industry Tucci said he had the constant Banderas skewers his craft as kids return to school and the support of his family — wife Felic- college football season starts. ity Blunt, twins Isabel and Nicolo, “Shang-Chi” is just the second 20, and Camilla, 18, from his first major movie this year Disney has marriage and 5-year-old Matteo in film ‘Official Competition’ debuted solely in cinemas, instead and 2-year-old Emilia, whom he of releasing them simultaneously shares with Blunt. BY NICOLE WINFIELD Mothers” by Pedro Almodovar. on Disney+. For six months, he was on a Associated Press The directors and actors alike insisted theirs was a The Marvel picture tells the sto- feeding tube. Now, Tucci said, the Antonio Banderas and Penelope Cruz brought respectful parody of the things actors do to get into ry of Shang-Chi, played by Simu cancer is unlikely to return, but its some laughs to the Venice Film Festival on Sept. 4 character, though Banderas didn’t hold back when Liu, who is “drawn into the myste- effects are permanent. with a comedy that skewers their own craft, and ap- asked to give an example of an unusual ritual he had rious Ten Rings organization,” ac- “(Cancer) makes you more parently was as funny to make as it was to watch. experienced. cording to a description from the afraid and less afraid at the same Audiences chuckled throughout “Official Compe- “I’m going to scream a little bit,” he warned report- studio. It has a 92% approval rat- time,” he said. “I feel much older tition,” by Argentine directors Gastón Duprat and ers before belting out a deep “Maaaah” several times. ing on Rotten Tomatoes. than I did before I was sick. But Mariano Cohn, bringing some levity to the world’s ol- “That was real,” he said. “I worked with an actor The thriller “Candyman” took you still want to get ahead and get dest film festival that is still vying with the coronavi- that did that every time that we were going to do a the No. 2 spot at the box office in its things done.” rus pandemic. The film is in the main competition at scene. The first time he did that, I thought he was a second weekend. It made $10.6 Venice, which ends Saturday. cow. And it was very annoying.” million domestically. “Free Guy” Other news “Official Competition” is about the pre-production As he looked out into the room full of entertainment made $8.7 million in its third week ■ Girls Aloud singer Sarah of a film and the exaggerated rituals, tics and exercis- reporters covering his press conference and the film for third place. Harding died Sunday morning, es that the director (Cruz) and actors (Banderas and festival, Bandera mused that it seemed that life was Stanley Tucci reveals less than a year after revealing Argentine actor Oscar Martinez) go through to pre- imitating art. that she had been diagnosed with pare for their roles. Egos, envy and competition be- “Don’t you guys have the feeling that we’re in the private battle with cancer breast cancer. She was 39. tween leads naturally come into play in this navel- movie? If we were in the movie, I would be asking Stanley Tucci has fought back — ■ Jean-Paul Belmondo, star of gazing look at the art of making, directing and pro- why I am in the corner of the table, and I am not in the and won — against cancer. the iconic French New Wave film ducing movies. center,” he said. “We should do a continuation that The 60-year-old actor revealed “Breathless,” has died. He was 88. “We laughed a LOT,” said Cruz, who was also in should include the press,” he said, laughing. “That in a new interview that he was di- No date or cause of death was giv- Venice to present the festival-opening “Parallel would be awesome.” agnosed three years ago with a tu- en. Jimmy Page presenting Led Zeppelin doc at film festival BY NICOLE WINFIELD to an Australian journalist before he died in the Bonham recording, after hearing a boot- had never before been seen. He said he Associated Press 1980. leg version of the interview on a vinyl re- went to such lengths because he wanted the Guitarist Jimmy Page says he turned The interview, concert footage and other cord. film to essentially be a musical interspersed down a lot of “pretty miserable” pitches archive material are From the sound, he knew that it had been with interviews. over the years to make a documentary spliced into contem- converted into a quarter-inch tape. He then Page said he particularly appreciated the about Led Zeppelin. But he finally bit when porary interviews “went to every Australian journalist that we focus on the music — the songs are played at he received a deeply-researched proposal with the three sur- knew from that era saying do you recognize full-length, not just snippets. And it lets the focusing almost exclusively on the music viving band mem- this voice? Because the journalist doesn’t band members tell their own story in their and chronicling the band’s birth in 1968 and bers — Page, Robert identify himself.” own words. There are no other on-camera its meteoric early rise. Plant and John Paul “Eventually I tracked down someone interviews. The result is “Becoming Led Zeppelin,” Jones — to create a who said, ‘We know who it was but he died.’” Page said he agreed to the producers’ one of the most eagerly anticipated docu- montage that maps MacMahon then drew on previous con- pitch after he received a leather-bound sto- mentaries at the Venice Film Festival. the frenetic first two tacts he had with a sound archive in Canber- ryboard mapping out the movie as they had Producers Bernard MacMahon and Alli- Page years of the band’s ra, Australia, which went through “30,000 researched it and envisaged it. son McGourty — avowed Zeppelin fans — existence and its unmarked reels” to find the one with the in- “When we first met, we were probably a obtained never-before-seen footage of early musical influences. terview. little nervous of each other. But the conduit some of the band’s early U.S. and British MacMahon, who along with McGourty He went to similar lengths to get full con- was the storyboard,” Page said. “And I concerts as well as an astonishing audio in- launched the PBS “American Epic” docu- cert recordings of the songs as performed, thought they’ve really got it, they really un- terview that drummer John Bonham gave mentary series, said it took a year to locate sometimes finding reels of uncut songs that derstand what it was about.” Tuesday, September 7, 2021 • STARS AND STRIPES • PAGE 15 OPINION

Max D. Lederer Jr., Publisher Lt. Col. Marci Hoffman, Europe commander End secrecy over the Saudis and 9/11? It’s about time. John Rodriguez, Europe chief of staff Lt. Col. Michael Kerschbaum, Pacific commander BY GEORGE F. WILL ised to “re-review” the contested material for trick Moynihan, D-N.Y., affirmed that some of Michael Ryan, Pacific chief of staff Washington Post Writers Group possible declassification. Because similar it is necessary to protect government’s delib- WASHINGTON statements have been made by past adminis- erative processes, and to conceal the sources, y keeping — belatedly and under trations, the lawyers suspected Biden’s was methods and fruits of intelligence-gathering. EDITORIAL duress — a campaign promise, stalling, hoping that after the 20th anniversary He also argued, however, that covetous and ri- President Joe Biden cauterized pressure for transparency would subside. But valrous government bureaucracies regard Terry Leonard, Editor [email protected] Bone wound from his miserable late the families’ pressure persuaded an adminis- their secrets as property, hiding them from summer. Commemorations of the 20th anni- tration averse to more bad news. other bureaucracies, with which they some- Robert H. Reid, Senior Managing Editor versary of 9/11 will occur under the cloud of The 9/11 Commission’s interestingly word- times barter secrets. The U.S. Army did not [email protected] the Afghanistan War’s last days, but not ed 2004 report found no evidence that the Sau- tell President Harry S. Truman that the Veno- Sean Moores, Managing Editor for Presentation marred by the anger of more than 2,000 family di government “as an institution” or that “se- na intercepts of 2,900 Soviet communications [email protected] members of victims and first responders. nior” Saudi officials “individually” funded the proved that Alger Hiss and Julius and Ethel They had said on Aug. 6 that Biden would be hijackers, but noted “the likelihood” that Rosenberg were spies, knowledge that would BUREAU STAFF unwelcome at the ceremonies unless he re- “charities with significant Saudi government have calmed two national controversies. leased classified material pertinent to Saudi sponsorship diverted funds to al Qaeda.” Moynihan said secrecy is regulation, but Europe/Mideast Arabia’s possible complicity with the 19 air- Since 2004, FBI investigations have found unlike most regulation, which “prescribes Erik Slavin, Europe & Mideast Bureau Chief plane hijackers, 15 of whom were Saudis. On more. what the citizen may do,” secrecy “prescribes [email protected] +49(0)631.3615.9350; DSN (314)583.9350 Friday, he took a tentative step in the right di- The 9/11 Commission knew about substan- what the citizen may know.” Excessive secre- rection. tial assistance rendered by persons directly or cy — secrecy breeds its own excess — neces- Pacific After 9/11, lawyers for the families filed indirectly funded by Saudi Arabia to the first sarily makes the citizenry and government Aaron Kidd, Pacific Bureau Chief suits against Saudi charities and individuals two hijackers to arrive in this country. Today, unnecessarily ignorant. [email protected] but could not sue Saudi Arabia until Congress much more is known. Last week, CBS News Information tending to substantiate Amer- +81.42.552.2511 ext. 88380; DSN (315)227.7380 in 2016 amended (over President Barack Oba- reported about a notebook that belonged to a icans’ suspicions that Saudi Arabia has more Washington ma’s veto) the Foreign Sovereign Immunities San Diego Saudi “student” on the Saudi pay- 9/11 blood on its hands than is already known Act. A federal court granted the lawyers limit- roll and a close associate of those two hijack- will not subtract measurably from Ameri- Joseph Cacchioli, Washington Bureau Chief [email protected] ed discovery, and they subpoenaed FBI mate- ers. CBS: “The notebook contained a hand- cans’ regard for today’s Saudi regime, which (+1)(202)886-0033 rial concerning the role of Saudi officials who written drawing of a plane and mathematical the CIA says directed, from the highest levels, Brian Bowers, Assistant Managing Editor, News supported some 9/11 hijackers when they en- equation that might be used to view a target the murder of Washington Post contributing [email protected] tered the United States. and then calculate the rate of descent to the columnist Jamal Khashoggi. The regime’s au- For years, the lawyers say, the FBI was dila- target.” dacity was perhaps encouraged by the U.S. CIRCULATION tory. When the court ordered more FBI coop- The families might succeed in prying infor- government’s pattern of protecting the re- Mideast eration, the material the lawyers received was mation from a government unused to yielding. gime with secrecy. Robert Reismann, Mideast Circulation Manager covered, at FBI insistence, by a protective or- Despite pressure, the CIA’s official history of Biden, given more than 2,000 reasons to do [email protected] der preventing them from telling their clients the 1961 Bay of Pigs debacle remained secret so, seems to have opted for transparency. Or [email protected] what they know about Saudi involvement, and until 55 years after the event. It is impossible to — skepticism is always in order — at least a DSN (314)583-9111 requiring the lawyers to file almost all court imagine that national security was jeopar- promise to revisit a campaign promise. So, if Europe submissions under seal. “We,” says one of the dized by at long last releasing the history. It is he follows through on his promise, we are go- Karen Lewis, Community Engagement Manager lawyers, “have never seen this level of secrecy easy to imagine how a government prone to ing to learn, among other things, this: National [email protected] placed on any lawsuit.” foreign policy pratfalls could have benefited security is not diminished by information that [email protected] After the families’ Aug. 6 statement, the from studying one. diminishes Saudi Arabia’s good name, which +49(0)631.3615.9090; DSN (314)583.9090 White House and Justice Department prom- In his 1998 book on secrecy, Sen. Daniel Pa- it has already forfeited. Pacific Mari Mori, [email protected] +81-3 6385.3171; DSN (315)227.7333 Space junk – long feared – is now an imminent threat CONTACT US BY ADAM MINTER debris-mitigation guidelines. Among other so the risk that collisions could be misinter- Washington Bloomberg Opinion things, it proposed that satellites be designed preted as something other than an accident. tel: (+1)202.886.0003 n March, a Chinese military satellite ap- to reenter Earth’s atmosphere within 25 years So what can be done? For one thing, some 633 3rd St. NW, Suite 116, Washington, DC 20001-3050 peared to spontaneously disintegrate in of mission completion. Other spacefaring old-fashioned bridge-building between Reader letters orbit, leaving a trail of debris high above countries and the United Nations followed spacefaring nations would help. The 1967 Out- the Earth. If China knew anything, it with their own guidelines. But urgency and er Space Treaty, negotiated during an earlier [email protected] I wasn’t saying. Did the propulsion system ex- compliance were lacking, partly because the space race with little input from China, is bad- Additional contacts plode? Was there a collision with some of the world hadn’t yet experienced a destructive ly in need of an update. In particular, provi- stripes.com/contactus space junk that’s accumulating in orbit? Or did collision between spacecraft and debris. sions that grant countries permanent proper- something a bit more conspiratorial happen? That would soon change. In 2007, China ty rights to their objects in space may compli- OMBUDSMAN The mystery persisted until last month, when launched a ballistic missile at one of its old cate efforts to clean up debris. Could China Ernie Gates an astronomer at the Center for Astrophysics weather satellites, producing the largest cloud unilaterally remove a defunct Russian satel- announced the answer. Yunhai 1-02, as the sat- of space debris ever tracked. 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PRO FOOTBALL COLLEGE FOOTBALL AUTO RACING DEALS NFL Sunday’s Transactions AP Top 25 fared Southern 500 dent, 50, 1. 37. (15) Michael McDowell, Ford, acci­  No. 1. Alabama (1­0) beat No. 14 Miami, BASEBALL AMERICAN CONFERENCE 44­13. Next: vs. Mercer, Saturday. NASCAR Cup Series dent, 30, 1. Sunday Major League Baseball East No. 2. Oklahoma (1­0) beat Tulane, 40­35. Race Statistics Next: vs. W. Carolina, Saturday. At Darlington Raceway American League Darlington, S.C. WLTPct PF PA No. 3. Clemson (0­1) lost to No. 5 Georgia, Average Speed of Race Winner: 121.278 BOSTON RED SOX —Placed RHP Nick Pi­ 10­3. Next: South Carolina St., Saturday. Lap length: 1.37 miles mph. vetta and LF Danny Santana on the re­ (Start position in parentheses) Buffalo 0 0 0 .000 0 0 No. 4. Ohio State (1­0) beat Minnesota, Time of Race: 4 hours, 8 minutes, 1 sec­ serve/COVID­19 IL. Selected the contract 1. (2) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 367 laps, 57 ond. of RHP Kutter Crawford from Worcester Miami 0 0 0 .000 0 0 45­31. Next: vs. No. 11 Oregon, Saturday. No. 5. Georgia (1­0) beat No. 3 Clemson, points. Margin of Victory: 0.212 seconds. (Triple­A East). Recalled LF Franchy Cor­ N.Y. Jets 0 0 0 .000 0 0 10­3. Next: vs. UAB, Saturday. 2. (6) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 367, 54. Caution Flags: 11 for 52 laps. dero from Worcester. 3. (23) Ross Chastain, Chevrolet, 367, 44. CHICAGO WHITE SOX —Signed 2B Ruben New England 0 0 0 .000 0 0 No. 6. Texas A&M (1­0) beat Kent St., 41­ Lead Changes: 18 among 10 drivers. 4. (10) Martin Truex Jr, Toyota, 367, 38. Lap Leaders:R.Blaney 0­14; Ku.Busch 15­ Tejada to a minor league contract. 10. Next: at Colorado, Saturday. 5. (9) Kevin Harvick, Ford, 367, 44. South No. 7. Iowa State (1­0) beat N. Iowa, 16­ 27; E.Jones 28­29; K.Harvick 30­49; J.Gase HOUSTON ASTROS — Selected the con­ 6. (3) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 367, 44. 50; D.Hamlin 51­80; R.Blaney 81­83; D.Ham­ tract of 2B Marwin Gonzalez from Sugar 10. Next: vs. No. 18 Iowa, Saturday. 7. (16) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 367, 30. WLTPct PF PA No. 8. Cincinnati (1­0) beat Miami (Ohio), lin 84­121; K.Larson 122­158; C.Bell 159­165; Land (Triple­A East). Optioned RHP Josh 8. (11) Joey Logano, Ford, 367, 34. K.Larson 166­196; C.Bell 197­199; K.Larson James to Sugar Land. 49­14. Next: Murray St., Saturday. 9. (34) Chris Buescher, Ford, 367, 28. Houston 0 0 0 .000 0 0 No. 9. Notre Dame (1­0) beat Florida St., 200­232; R.Chastain 233; K.Larson 234­269; KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Placed C Cam 10. (21) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 367, 27. D.Hamlin 270­278; M.Truex 279; K.Larson Gallagher on the 10­day IL. Recalled RHP Indianapolis 0 0 0 .000 0 0 41­38, OT. Next: vs. Toledo, Saturday. 11. (31) Cole Custer, Ford, 367, 26. Tyler Zuber from Omaha (Triple­A East). No. 10. North Carolina (0­1) lost to Virgin­ 280­298; D.Hamlin 299­367 Jacksonville 0 0 0 .000 0 0 12. (18) Ryan Preece, Chevrolet, 367, 25. Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Led, LOS ANGELES ANGELS —Placed LF Justin ia Tech, 17­10. Next: vs. Georgia St., Satur­ 13. (26) Daniel Suarez, Chevrolet, 367, 24. Tennessee 0 0 0 .000 0 0 Laps Led): K.Larson, 5 times for 156 laps; Upton on the 10­day IL. Recalled 2B Kean day. 14. (19) Ryan Newman, Ford, 367, 23. Wong from Salt Lake (Triple­A West). No. 11. Oregon (1­0) beat Fresno St., 31­ D.Hamlin, 4 times for 146 laps; K.Harvick, 1 North 15. (25) Corey Lajoie, Chevrolet, 367, 23. time for 20 laps; R.Blaney, 2 times for 17 MINNESOTA TWINS — Reinstated RHP 24. Next: at No. 4 Ohio St., Saturday. 16. (8) Aric Almirola, Ford, 366, 24. Luke Farrell from the 60­day IL. Optioned No. 12. Wisconsin (0­1) lost to No. 19 17. (29) Ricky Stenhouse Jr, Chevrolet, laps; Ku.Busch, 1 time for 13 laps; C.Bell, 2 WLTPct PF PA times for 10 laps; E.Jones, 1 time for 2 laps; LHP Andrew Albers to St. Paul (Triple­A Penn St., 16­10. Next: vs. E. Michigan, Sat­ 366, 20. East). Designated RHP Derek Law for as­ urday. 18. (7) Tyler Reddick, Chevrolet, 366, 23. R.Chastain, 1 time for 1 lap; M.Truex, 1 time Baltimore 0 0 0 .000 0 0 for 1 lap; J.Gase, 1 time for 1 lap. signment. No. 13. Florida (1­0) beat FAU, 35­14. 19. (24) Chase Briscoe, Ford, 366, 18. NEW YORK YANKEES — Placed RHP Jo­ Cincinnati 0 0 0 .000 0 0 Next: at South Florida, Saturday. 20. (13) Christopher Bell, Toyota, 366, 26. Wins: K.Larson, 5; M.Truex, 3; R.Blaney, nathan Loaisiga on the 10­day IL. Recalled Cleveland 0 0 0 .000 0 0 No. 14. Miami (0­1) lost to No. 1 Alabama, 21. (17) Bubba Wallace, Toyota, 366, 16. 3; A.Bowman, 3; C.Elliott, 2; Ky.Busch, 2; RHP Albert Abreu from Scranton/Wilkes­ 44­13. Next: vs. Appalachian St., Saturday. D.Hamlin, 1; Ku.Busch, 1; J.Logano, 1; B.Ke­ Pittsburgh 0 0 0 .000 0 0 22. (1) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 366, 24. Barre (Triple­A East). No. 15. Southern Cal (1­0) beat San Jose 23. (30) Matt DiBenedetto, Ford, 365, 14. selowski, 1; C.Bell, 1; A.Almirola, 1; W.By­ TAMPA BAY RAYS —Sent RHP Matt Wis­ ron, 1; M.McDowell, 1. West St., 30­7. Next: vs. Stanford, Saturday. 24. (32) Anthony Alfredo, Ford, 364, 13. ler to Durham (Triple­A East) on a rehab No. 16. LSU (0­1) lost to UCLA, 38­27. Next: 25. (20) Justin Haley, Chevrolet, 364, 0. Top 16 in Points: 1. K.Larson, 2106; 2. assignment. WLTPct PF PA vs. McNeese St., Saturday. 26. (5) Alex Bowman, Chevrolet, 363, 11. D.Hamlin, 2072; 3. M.Truex, 2062; 4. Ku­ National League No. 17. Indiana (0­1) lost to No. 18 Iowa, 27. (27) BJ McLeod, Ford, 359, 0. .Busch, 2052; 5. R.Blaney, 2048; 6. J.Logano, ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Selected Denver 0 0 0 .000 0 0 34­6. Next: vs. Idaho, Saturday. 28. (28) Josh Bilicki, Ford, 359, 9. 2047; 7. K.Harvick, 2046; 8. B.Keselowski, the contract of OF Henry Ramos from Reno 2038; 9. C.Bell, 2031; 10. C.Elliott, 2030; 11. Kansas City 0 0 0 .000 0 0 No. 18. Iowa (1­0) beat No. 17 Indiana, 29. (35) Joey Gase, Chevrolet, 357, 0. (Triple­A West). Optioned LF Stuart Fair­ 34­6. Next: vs. No. 7 Iowa St., Saturday. 30. (37) Quin Houff, Chevrolet, 355, 7. A.Almirola, 2029; 12. A.Bowman, 2026; 13. child to Reno. L.A. Chargers 0 0 0 .000 0 0 No. 19. Penn State (1­0) beat No. 12 Wis­ 31. (4) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, accident, T.Reddick, 2026; 14. Ky.Busch, 2024; 15. CINCINNATI REDS — Optioned 2B Alejo Las Vegas 0 0 0 .000 0 0 consin, 16­10. Next: vs. Ball St., Saturday. 327, 9. W.Byron, 2017; 16. M.McDowell, 2006. Lopez to Louisville (Triple­A East). Rein­ No. 20. Washington (0­1) lost to Monta­ 32. (22) Erik Jones, Chevrolet, engine, NASCAR Driver Rating Formula stated RHP Brad Brach from the 10­day IL. NATIONAL CONFERENCE na, 13­7. Next: at Michigan, Saturday. 264, 5. COLORADO ROCKIES — Sent RHP Peter No. 21. Texas (1­0) beat No. 23 Louisiana­ 33. (33) Cody Ware, Chevrolet, accident, A maximum of 150 points can be at­ Lambert to Hartford (Double­A Northeast) East Lafayette, 38­18. Next: at Arkansas, Satur­ 209, 0. tained in a race. on a rehab assignment. Selected the con­ The formula combines the following cat­ WLTPct PF PA day. 34. (14) William Byron, Chevrolet, acci­ tract of RHP Ryan Feltner from Hartford No. 22. Coastal Carolina (1­0) beat The dent, 199, 3. egories: Wins, Finishes, Top­15 Finishes, (Double­A Northeast). Transferred LHP Dallas 0 0 0 .000 0 0 Citadel, 52­14. Next: vs. Kansas, Friday. 35. (12) Kyle Busch, Toyota, accident, Average Running Position While on Lead Austin Gomber from the 10­day IL to the No. 23. Louisiana­Lafayette (0­1) lost to 125, 2. Lap, Average Speed Under Green, Fastest 60­day IL. Optioned RHP Antonio Santos to N.Y. Giants 0 0 0 .000 0 0 No. 21. Texas, 38­18. Next: vs. Nicholls St., 36. (36) James Davison, Chevrolet, acci­ Lap, Led Most Laps, Lead­Lap Finish. Albuquerque (Triple­A West). Philadelphia 0 0 0 .000 0 0 Saturday. LOS ANGELES DODGERS —Recalled RHP No. 24. Utah (1­0) beat Weber St., 40­17. Mitch White Rancho Cucamonga (Low­A Washington 0 0 0 .000 0 0 Next: at BYU, Saturday. TENNIS West). Placed LF A.J. Pollock on the 10­day South No. 25. Arizona State (1­0) beat S. Utah, IL. 41­14. Next: vs. UNLV, Saturday. MIAMI MARLINS — Sent RHP Austin WLTPct PF PA Pruitt outright to Jacksonville (Triple­A U.S. Open Horia Tecau, Romania, and Kevin Kra­ East). SOCCER wietz (6), Germany, def. Santiago Gonza­ Atlanta 0 0 0 .000 0 0 MILWAUKEE BREWERS —Placed SS Willy Sunday lez, Mexico, and Andres Molteni, Argenti­ Adames on the 10­day IL. Recalled 2B Tim Carolina 0 0 0 .000 0 0 MLS At USTA Billie Jean King National na, 6­2, 7­6 (5). Lopes from Nashville (Triple­A East). New Orleans 0 0 0 .000 0 0 Tennis Center Sam Querrey and Steve Johnson, United NEW YORK METS — Optioned 2B Travis States, def. Benoit Paire, France, and Ri­ Tampa Bay 0 0 0 .000 0 0 Eastern Conference New York Blankenhorn to Syracuse (Triple­A East). Surface: Hardcourt outdoor cardas Berankis, Lithuania, 6­3, 6­4. Sent RHP Robert Gsellman to St. Lucie Matthew Ebden and Max Purcell, Aus­ North WLTPts GF GA Men’s Singles (Low­A Southeast) on a rehab assign­ Fourth Round tralia, def. Evan King and Hunter Reese, ment. WLTPct PF PA New England 16 4 4 52 45 28 Botic van de Zandschulp, Netherlands, United States, 6­4, 6­4. PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Placed RHPs JT Women’s Doubles Orlando City 10 4 8 38 33 26 def. Diego Schwartzman (11), Argentina, Brubaker and Duane Underwood Jr. on the Chicago 0 0 0 .000 0 0 6­3, 6­4, 5­7, 5­7, 6­1. Second Round 10­day IL. Recalled RHPs Kyle Keller and Nashville 9 2 11 38 37 21 Daniil Medvedev (2), Russia, def. Daniel Andreja Klepac, Slovenia, and Darija Ju­ Shea Spitzbarth from Indianapolis (Tri­ Detroit 0 0 0 .000 0 0 rak (8), Croatia, def. Anett Kontaveit, Esto­ NYCFC 10 7 4 34 37 22 Evans (24), Britain, 6­3, 6­4, 6­3. ple­A East). Green Bay 0 0 0 .000 0 0 Carlos Alcaraz, Spain, def. Peter Go­ nia, and Daria Kasatkina, Russia, 6­1, 6­2. SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Optioned Philadelphia 8 7 8 32 28 24 Minnesota 0 0 0 .000 0 0 jowczyk, Germany, 5­7, 6­1, 5­7, 6­2, 6­0. Gabriela Dabrowski, Canada, and Luisa LHP Sammy Long to Sacramento (Triple­A CF Montréal 8 7 7 31 30 27 Felix Auger­Aliassime (12), Canada, def. Stefani (5), Brazil, def. Petra Martic, Croa­ West). Placed CF Austin Slater on the 7­ tia, and Shelby Rogers, United States, 6­4, West D.C. United 9 10 3 30 35 32 Frances Tiafoe, United States, 4­6, 6­2, 7­6 day IL. Recalled RHP Camilo Doval and CF (6), 6­4. 6­7 (5), 7­6 (3). Steven Duggar from Sacramento. WLTPct PF PA Columbus 7 10 6 27 27 32 Women’s Singles Raluca­Ioana Olaru, Romania, and Nadi­ WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Recalled Atlanta 6 7 9 27 25 28 Fourth Round ia Kichenok (12), Ukraine, def. Andrea Pet­ LHP Josh Rogers from Rochester (Triple­A Arizona 0 0 0 .000 0 0 kovic, Germany, and Ajla Tomljanovic, Inter Miami CF 7 9 5 26 22 31 Elina Svitolina (5), Ukraine, def. Simona East). Placed LF Gerardo Parra on the 10­ L.A. Rams 0 0 0 .000 0 0 Halep (12), Romania, 6­3, 6­3. Australia, 5­7, 6­1, 6­2. day IL. Chicago 6 11 5 23 24 33 Leylah Annie Fernandez, Canada, def. Lucie Hradecka and Marie Bouzkova FOOTBALL San Francisco 0 0 0 .000 0 0 New York 6 10 4 22 23 25 Angelique Kerber (16), Germany, 4­6, 7­6 (15), Czech Republic, def. Zarina Diyas, Ka­ National Football League Seattle 0 0 0 .000 0 0 (5), 6­2. zakhstan, and Varvara Gracheva, Russia, DALLAS COWBOYS — Re­signed P Bryan Cincinnati 3 10 8 17 21 38 Aryna Sabalenka (2), Belarus, def. Elise 7­5, 6­2. Anger. Reinstated G Connor Williams from Thursday’s games Toronto FC 3 13 6 15 26 47 Mertens (15), Belgium, 6­4, 6­1. Women’s Doubles the reserve/COVID­19 list. Placed T Bran­ Dallas at Tampa Bay Barbora Krejcikova (8), Czech Republic, Third Round don Knight and G Zack Martin on the re­ Storm Sanders, Australia, and Caroline Sunday’s games Western Conference def. Garbine Muguruza (9), Spain, 6­3, 7­6 serve/COVID­19 list. (4). Dolehide (10), United States, def. Bethanie NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Signed DL Arizona at Tennessee WLTPts GF GA Men’s Doubles Mattek­Sands, United States, and Veroni­ Daniel Ekuale to the practice squad. Jacksonville at Houston Second Round ka Kudermetova (6), Russia, 4­6, 6­3, 6­2. TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Reinstated L.A. Chargers at Washington Seattle 12 4 6 42 35 19 Dominik Koepfer, Germany, and Emil Ru­ Mixed Doubles G Earl Watford from the reserve/COVID­19 Minnesota at Cincinnati Colorado 12 4 5 41 31 20 usuvuori, Finland, def. Jack Sock, United Third Round list and placed on injured reserve. N.Y. Jets at Carolina States, and Neal Skupski, Britain, walk­ Austin Krajicek and Jessica Pegula, Unit­ Philadelphia at Atlanta Sporting KC 11 5 7 40 37 26 over. ed States, def. Ben Mclachlan and Ena Shi­ Pittsburgh at Buffalo LA Galaxy 11 8 3 36 35 35 Filip Polasek, Slovakia, and John Peers bahara (8), Japan, 7­6 (1), 6­3. GOLF San Francisco at Detroit Minnesota 8 6 7 31 24 24 (8), Australia, def. Jonathan Erlich, Israel, Marcelo Demoliner, Brazil, and Ellen Pe­ Seattle at Indianapolis and Lloyd Harris, South Africa, 7­6 (5), 6­4. rez, Australia, def. Andreja Klepac, Sloven­ Cleveland at Kansas City Portland 9 10 3 30 31 39 Men’s Doubles ia, and Joran Vliegen, Belgium, 6­7 (4), 6­4, Tour Championship Denver at N.Y. Giants Real Salt Lake 8 8 6 30 34 29 Third Round 10­5. Green Bay at New Orleans Sunday Miami at New England Vancouver 7 7 8 29 29 32 PRO BASKETBALL AP SPORTLIGHT At East Lake Golf Club Chicago at L.A. Rams LAFC 7 9 6 27 32 31 Atlanta, Ga. Monday’s games San Jose 6 8 8 26 24 30 WNBA Sept. 7 Yardage: 7,346; Par: 70 Baltimore at Las Vegas FC Dallas 6 10 7 25 32 36 Purse: $46 Million Thursday, Sept. 16 1892 — Jim Corbett knocks out John L. Starting points in parentheses Austin FC 5 13 4 19 21 31 Sullivan in the 21st round in New Orleans Final Round N.Y. Giants at Washington EASTERN CONFERENCE Houston 3 10 10 19 24 36 to win the first world heavyweight title P. Cantlay (-10), $15,000,000 67-66-67-69—269-21 Sunday, Sept. 19 WLPct GB fought with gloves under the Marquis of Jon Rahm (-6), $5,000,000 65-65-68-68—266-20 Note: Three points for victory, one point Queensberry rules. Buffalo at Miami Kevin Na (-2), $4,000,000 66-67-66-67—266-16 Cincinnati at Chicago for tie. x­Connecticut 21 6 .778 — 1941 —Bobby Riggs wins his second U.S. Justin Thomas (-4), $3,000,000 67-67-65-70—269-15 Denver at Jacksonville Friday’s games x­Chicago 15 14 .517 7 men’s national title by beating Frank Ko­ Houston at Cleveland vacs, 5­7, 6­1, 6­3, 6­3. X. Schauffele (-2), $2,200,000 68-69-67-64—268-14 L.A. Rams at Indianapolis Orlando City at Atlanta New York 11 18 .379 11 1953 — Maureen Connolly becomes the Portland at Vancouver V. Hovland (-3), $2,200,000 66-68-70-65—269-14 Las Vegas at Pittsburgh Washington 10 17 .370 11 first woman to complete the Grand Slam B. DeChambu (-7), $1,300,000 69-67-72-66—274-13 New England at N.Y. Jets NWSL Atlanta 7 20 .259 14 when she beats Doris Hart, 6­2, 6­4, in the New Orleans at Carolina U.S. Open women’s singles final. D. Johnson (-3), $1,100,000 68-69-68-67—272-11 San Francisco at Philadelphia WLTPts GF GA Indiana 6 20 .231 14½ 1969 — Margaret Court beats Nancy Ri­ Abraham Ancer (-4), $890,000 69-70-65-70—274-10 Atlanta at Tampa Bay chey, 6­2, 6­2 to capture the U.S. Open Billy Horschel (E), $890,000 65-68-67-70—270-10 Minnesota at Arizona Portland 10 4 2 32 24 11 WESTERN CONFERENCE women’s singles title. Daniel Berger (E), $705,000 72-69-67-64—272 -8 Dallas at L.A. Chargers North Carolina 8 4 5 29 22 9 1970 — Jockey Willie Shoemaker rides Tony Finau (-8), $705,000 72-67-73-68—280 -8 Tennessee at Seattle WLPct GB Dares J to a 1½­length victory at Del Mar to Kansas City at Baltimore Reign FC 9 7 2 29 24 19 become the winningest jockey. Shoemak­ Jason Kokrak (-2), $705,000 67-68-72-67—274 -8 Monday, Sept. 20 Orlando 6 5 7 25 21 20 x­Las Vegas 20 8 .714 — er’s win breaks the all­time record of 6,033. Rory McIlroy (-2), $583,750 68-66-74-67—275 -7 Detroit at Green Bay Chicago 7 7 4 25 19 22 x­Minnesota 18 9 .667 1½ 1980 —John McEnroe beats Bjorn Borg of Sergio Garcia (E), $583,750 68-70-66-69—273 -7 Sweden 7­6, 6­1, 6­7, 5­7, 6­4 to win his sec­ Cameron Smith (-5), $583,750 68-68-73-69—278 -7 Washington 6 5 5 23 19 18 x­Seattle 19 10 .655 1½ ond straight U.S. Open men’s title. L. Oosthuizen (-3), $583,750 68-67-71-70—276 -7 Gotham FC 5 5 7 22 17 15 x­Phoenix 17 10 .630 2½ 1991 — Seventeen­year­old Monica NFL calendar Dallas 12 16 .429 8 Seles beats 34­year­old Martina Navratilo­ Harris English (-4), $527,500 66-69-75-68—278 -6 Houston 6 7 4 22 19 22 Sam Burns (-4), $527,500 71-70-69-68—278 -6 Sept. 5 —Final day of preseason training Los Angeles 10 18 .357 10 va, 7­6 (1), 6­1, to win her first U.S. Open camp for all clubs Louisville 4 8 5 17 14 24 women’s singles title. Sungjae Im (-3), $497,500 71-70-70-68—279 -4 1993 — Mark Whiten of the St. Louis Car­ Oct.10 — NFL London Series, New York Kansas City 2 11 5 11 9 28 Sunday’s games Jordan Spieth (-4), $497,500 69-67-70-74—280 -4 Jets vs. Atlanta Falcons, Tottenham Hot­ Note: Three points for victory, one point dinals has the greatest game at the plate Erik van Rooyen (E), $466,666 69-73-68-67—277 -3 Chicago 92, Las Vegas 84 in major league history in the nightcap of a spur Stadium. for tie. Corey Conners (-1), $466,666 67-72-70-69—278 -3 Oct. 12­13 — Fall League Meeting Atlanta 69, Dallas 64 doubleheader against Cincinnati. In the Sunday’s games 15­2 win, Whiten hits four home runs and S. Scheffler (-1), $466,666 67-72-68-71—278 -3 Oct. 17 — NFL London Series, Miami Dol­ Monday’s game phins vs. Jacksonville Jaguars, Tottenham Houston 1, Orlando 1, tie drives in 12 runs. Patrick Reed (E), $445,000 72-69-66-71—278 -2 Hotspur Stadium. North Carolina 0, Kansas City 0, tie Phoenix at Indiana 1997 — In the new Arthur Ashe Stadium H. Matsuyama (-1), $425,000 77-65-69-70—281 E Nov. 2 — Trade deadline court, 16­year­old Martina Hingis and 17­ Stewart Cink (-1), $425,000 72-68-71-70—281 E Nov. 16 — Signing period ends for Fran­ Friday’s games Tuesday’s games year­old Venus Williams play the young­ chise Players. Gotham FC at Kansas City Connecticut at Dallas est Grand Slam final in the Open Era. Hin­ C. Morikawa (-3), $425,000 70-73-68-72—283 E Jan. 15­16 — Wild Card Playoffs. Chicago at Houston Washington at Seattle gis wins her first U.S. Open title 6­0, 6­4. J. Niemann (-1), $405,000 72-71-70-72—285 +4 PAGE 18 • STARS AND STRIPES • Tuesday, September 7, 2021 GOLF/SOCCER/WTNTER SPORTS ‘Patty Ice’ keeps his composure, wins FedEx Cup Cantlay holds off Rahm for his second straight victory BY DOUG FERGUSON It seems to suit his game, too. Associated Press Rahm couldn’t get enough putts ATLANTA — Patrick Cantlay to fall. The U.S. Open champion was on the verge of losing his two- stayed close all day, and his shot shot lead on one hole, with noth- into the 18th was equally special. ing less than the FedEx Cup, the It landed right next to the hole on $15 million prize and his new- its second bounce, rolling through found reputation as “Patty Ice” on to light rough just off the green. the line. Cantlay expected him to chip in He was clutch as ever in his big- for eagle “because that’s what he MARK HUMPHREY/AP gest moment Sunday in the Tour does.” Rahm narrowly missed United States forward Christian Pulisic (10) reacts to missing a shot against Canada during the second half Championship. and shot 68, allowing Cantlay a of a World Cup qualifier Sunday in Nashville, Tenn. Cantlay made a nervy 6-foot bo- safe two-putt for the win. gey putt on the 17th hole to stay The victory was worth $15 mil- one shot ahead of Jon Rahm going lion — $14 million in cash, $1 mil- to the par-5 18th hole at East Lake. lion deferred — for the 29-year- Pulisic returns, but US only Then, he hit his longest drive of old Californian whose rise in golf the week — 361 yards down the was slowed by a back injury that middle — with Rahm already in kept him out for three years and ties Canada in Cup qualifier the fairway. nearly ended his career. The final shot was a 6-iron from Now he has stamped himself BY RONALD BLUM We need to start winning games,” on the sidelines. 218 yards to 12 feet — the closest among the elite in golf, boosted by Associated Press said U.S star Christian Pulisic, who Coach Gregg Berhalter said it of anyone all day — that all but the FedEx Cup postseason. NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Two returned after missing the 0-0 draw was too early to announce whether clinched the one-shot victory, the Rahm, who started the tourna- games into World Cup qualifying, a at El Salvador on Thursday while McKennie would return for FedEx Cup and perhaps even ment four shots behind and went rebuilt U.S. soccer team is in trou- regaining fitness following a posi- Wednesday’s game at Honduras. PGA Tour player of the year. into the final day two back, never ble. tive COVID-19 test. Steffen and Reyna won’t make the “It was the best shot I hit all caught Cantlay. He never let him Three starters are hurt. Key mid- Brenden Aaronson scored in the trip. Pulisic was dynamic, putting a week,” Cantlay said. breathe easily, either. fielder Weston McKennie didn’t 55th minute off a flowing passing se- shot off a post in the 40th minute of Cantlay outlasted Bryson De- Cantlay took a two-shot lead dress because he violated team CO- quence capped by a cross from An- his first match since Chelsea’s Chambeau in a six-hole playoff at with an approach to 6 feet for VID protocols. tonee Robinson, but an unmarked opener against Crystal Palace on the BMW Championship. One birdie on the 17th hole, and then Unable to break down a Canadian Cyle Larin tied it seven minutes lat- Aug. 14. The Americans had 72% week later, he held off the No. 1 nearly lost it all. team that sat back with five defend- er after Canadian star Alphonso Da- possession, outshot Canada 12-6 player in the world with his one- He drove to the right on the ers, the Americans wasted a sec- vies smoked past DeAndre Yedlin and little to show for it. shot victory over Rahm in the 17th, clipping a tree and dropping ond-half lead in a 1-1 draw Sunday down the left flank. Mexico (2-0) leads the North and Tour Championship. down into deep rough, and then night that left them with two points Yedlin had entered in the 44th Central American and Caribbean The nickname only surfaced hit a flyer over the green and the after two games. minute after right back Sergiño region with six points, followed by last week, and it’s starting to stick. gallery. His pitch back to the The failure to qualify for the 2018 Dest sprained an anke, joining mid- Panama (1-0-1) with four. Canada “To me, it just means cool un- green came up short and into World Cup hangs over players and fielder Gio Reyna (strained right (0-0-2) is third with two points, der pressure, and I think that more deep rough, and he had to the American fan base like a never- hamstring at El Salvador) and No, 1 ahead of the U.S. and Honduras on suits my personality really well,” make a 6-footer to save bogey and ending storm. goalkeeper Zack Steffen (positive total goals, with El Salvador farther said Cantlay, who never changed stay ahead. “We have to really turn it around. COVID test following back spasms) back. his expression until a big smile That set up the final hole, where when he tapped in for birdie and a he could only match birdies with 1-under 69, waving his cap to Cantlay. thousands of fans around the “I gave it my all,” Rahm said. Humphries, Jones lead US bobsled team green. “It wasn’t enough.” BY TIM REYNOLDS morning in Lake Placid, N.Y. Sylvia Hoffman, Lake Kwaza and Associated Press Humphries will compete in Kaysha Love. Reigning world champion Kail- World Cup races this season and The men’s team has drivers lie Humphries was announced as be part of the U.S. contingent trav- Hunter Church and Codie Bascue, part of this season’s USA Bobsled eling to China next month for the and push athletes Hakeem Abdul- national team on Monday, even first race of the season on the new- Saboor, Kris Horn, Blaine McCon- with her status for this winter’s ly built track that will play host to nell, Jimmy Reed, Nic Taylor, Beijing Olympics remaining un- the Olympics in February. Carlo Valdes, Charlie Volker and clear. But her Olympic status remains Josh Williamson. Humphries was a lock to make murky because she has yet to re- The USA Skeleton national the team after winning gold med- ceive a U.S. passport and has team was also announced Mon- als in both the traditional two-per- asked the International Olympic day, led by Katie Uhlaender — son and the new women’s mono- Committee to grant her permis- who is seeking to compete in her bob event at last season’s world sion to race at the games — where fifth Olympics in what will be her championships. she would be a gold-medal favor- final season — and fellow Olympic Lolo Jones, the Olympic hur- ite in two events. veteran John Daly. dler-turned-bobsledder who Joining Humphries as drivers Megan Henry and Kelly Curtis pushed Humphries’ two-person on the women’s team this season will join Uhlaender on the wom- sled on the way to that world are Elana Meyers Taylor and Brit- en’s World Cup team. Daly will be BRYNN ANDERSON/AP championship last winter, also tany Reinbolt. And joining Jones joined by Austin Florian on the Patrick Cantlay kisses the trophy after the Tour Championship and was selected for the national team. in the pool of women’s push ath- men’s team for World Cup races to FedEx Cup victory at East Lake Golf Club, Sunday, in Atlanta. The teams were revealed Monday letes are Aja Evans, Lauren Gibbs, open the season. Tuesday, September 7, 2021 • STARS AND STRIPES • PAGE 19 AUTO RACING/NFL Hamlin opens playoffs with first win of year BY PETE IACOBELLI Hamlin’s personal life became a Associated Press topic earlier this week, with the DARLINGTON, S.C. — Denny mother of his two daughters seem- Hamlin shook off a difficult week ing to use social media this week to in the best way possible — ending end their relationship. Her account his season-long winless drought has since been deactivated. with a victory at the Southern 500 Hamlin, when asked about any to open the NASCAR Cup Series distractions, said, “I’m a profes- playoffs. sional and do my job the best I can The week’s problems included and today I thought we did as good some personal issues and contin- as we could.” ued at the track Saturday when Hamlin came out second to Joe Hamlin was in line to win the Xfin- Gibbs Racing teammate Martin ity event until a pit penalty dropped Truex Jr. during a caution with 45 him back. laps to go, and moved in front when This time Hamlin had to hold off Truex was penalized for going too the season’s top playoff seed in fast in the pits. Kyle Larson, who closed to Ham- Hamlin broke out ahead of Lar- NOAH K. MURRAY/AP lin’s bumper racing to the finish son on the restart 36 laps from the line Sunday night. end. Sources close to the situation reported Monday that New York running back Saquon Barkley will likely be ready to play in the Giants season opener against the Denver Broncos on Sunday. “It’s certainly significant,” The win was Hamlin’s fourth at Hamlin said. “This one’s big for us Darlington Raceway and moved and our team and our momentum.” him into the round of 12 in the And it moved him into the sec- knockout format in a grueling race Comeback: Healthy ond round without having to scrape in which several playoff conten- for points with close finishes as he ders struggled. did to qualify seventh for the play- The past two series champions, stars ready to shine offs this season. Kyle Busch in 2019 and Chase El- FROM PAGE 24 “It wasn’t a perfect night,” Ham- liott last year, were in the garage lin’s crew chief Chris Gabehart before the race ended. didn’t play in the preseason but should be set for the said. “It is hard to be perfect at the The fourth-seeded Busch was Sept. 9 opener at Super Bowl winner Tampa Bay and Southern 500. But it was good racing close with Austin Dillon seven-time champ Tom Brady. enough.” when he hit the outside wall in turn Doctors told Wentz the roots of the former Phila- Hamlin won for the first time two. Busch slammed the wall — to delphia QB’s foot issue probably went back to high this season after entering the week the delight of large crowd— and school. He had surgery to remove a bone fragment seeded seventh in the 16-driver drove straight to his hauler. He fin- Aug. 2 and returned after three weeks when the ini- postseason field and vowing if he ished 35th. tial diagnosis was as many as 12. kept running strongly up front, Elliott was caught in a three- After Philip Rivers retired, the Colts traded for he’d reach Victory Lane before the wide sandwich where he was next Wentz, who struggled in his final season with the Ea- year ended. to the wall. He came away with tire gles and wanted a fresh start elsewhere. The foot is- “It’s as good a time as any right?” and brake problems and finished sue might keep him out of the opener Sept. 12. Hamlin said . “My favorite race of 31st. “Unfortunately, I’ve been here before with limited the year.” Earlier, Daytona 500 winner reps and had to go play,” said Wentz, who injured a He looked like a comfortable Mike McDowell hit the wall on the knee when he was in the MVP conversation in 2017 winner before the top-seeded Lar- backstretch on lap 30 and was done and the Eagles went on to win the Super Bowl without son charged up on his back bumper for the day. McDowell came in him. “It wasn’t one of those injuries where you go re- on the final turn, smoke pouring seeded 13th and finished last in hab and you’re away for a while.” out of Larson’s car. But Hamlin 37th. Knee injuries ended the 2020 season for Barkley held firm up near the wall to take On the 199th lap, William Byron, and Bosa in Week 2, Beckham in Week 7 and Burrow D. ROSS CAMERON/AP the checkered flag the eighth seed, slammed hard into in Week 11. Burrow was the only one of the four to San Francisco 49ers defensive lineman Nick Bosa “He was going to have to go the wall entering turn one and end- play in this preseason — for 90 seconds in the finale wasn’t cleared for team drills until the final week of through me,” Hamlin said. ed his run. Byron was 34th. Sunday. camp, but appears on track to start the season. “There’s a lot of things I have to continue to do be- cause it’s truly a nine-month recovery process, mini- that limited him to three games. He was full go from mum,” Burrow said in late July, at the 7½-month the start of camp but didn’t play in the preseason. mark. “There’s still a lot of maintenance I need to do.” “He will take a lot of hits during the season, more so Barkley appears to be the only one with any doubt than anyone else out there on the field,” coach Matt about being available for the Sept. 12 opener, though Rhule said. “So we will save his hits for the season.” NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport reported Mon- New York Jets linebacker C.J. Mosley hasn’t day that Barkley is close to being fully cleared and played close to a full season since the last of his five gearing up to play Sunday versus the Denver Bron- with Baltimore in 2018. He was limited to two games cos. He still had a noncontact jersey in practice last with a groin injury in his New York debut two years week. ago before opting out over COVID-19 last season. Bosa wasn’t cleared for team drills until the final “You can never take this game for granted,” Mos- week of camp, but appears on track to start the sea- ley said. “Whether it’s the preseason or anything like son. The 2019 NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year that.” helped the 49ers reach the Super Bowl that season, Star pass rusher Von Miller of Denver sustained a then had 12 pressures of Patrick Mahomes. Kansas season-ending ankle injury in practice just six days City rallied to win in the fourth quarter. before the opener last year. The 32-year-old, who “The biggest thing always coming off of an injury is missed almost half of the 2013 season with a torn just the mental hurdle of taking a hit and hitting the ACL, is entering the final year of a six-year contract ground and getting up and dusting yourself off and he signed after winning Super Bowl 50 MVP honors. understanding that, ‘Oh, everything is still intact. I’m “It’ll definitely be emotional,” Miller said when JOHN AMIS / AP still OK,’ ” defensive coordinator DeMeco Ryans asked about finally getting back in a game. “Whenev- Denny Hamlin celebrates after winning NASCAR Cup Series race on said. “I see him just continuing to progress.” er you can fight through a season-ending injury like Sunday in Darlington, S.C. It was Hamlin’s first win of the year and Carolina running back Christian McCaffrey fol- that — twice, for me — it’s definitely a milestone that secured him a spot in the next round of the playoffs. lowed an All-Pro year in 2019 with a series of injuries you appreciate and look back on.” PAGE 20 • STARS AND STRIPES • Tuesday, September 7, 2021 NFL Dallas has best shot in NFC East Capsules Dallas Cowboys (6-10) New faces: LB Micah Parsons, LB Keanu Neal, DT Osa Odighizuwa, S Damontae Kazee, CB Kelvin Joseph, CB Healthy Prescott should make a Nahshon Wright, DT Carlos Watkins, S Jayron Kearse, DT Brett Urban. Key losses: QB Andy Dalton, CB Chidobe Awuzie, S difference for Cowboys in what Xavier Woods, LB Sean Lee, DL Tyrone Crawford, C Joe Looney, DE Aldon Smith. Strengths: The offense, when healthy, has already was a woebegone division in ’20 shown it can be among the best in the NFL with QB Dak Prescott, who just signed a club-record $160 million, BY ROB MAADDI four-year deal, RB Ezekiel Elliott and the receiving Associated Press threesome of Amari Cooper, CeeDee Lamb and Mi- chael Gallup. The offensive line is back intact with the The NFC East nearly crowned a 6-10 return from injuries of RG Zack Martin, LT Tyron Smith and RT La’el Collins. champion last year. With Dak Prescott back Weaknesses: Last year’s defense gave up the most points in franchise history, and coordinator Mike No- from injury in Dallas, there’s hope at least lan was replaced by Dan Quinn after just one season. one team will having a winning record. The Cowboys set a club record in the seven-round era with eight defensive draft picks. The first-rounder The Cowboys lead the division in offen- was LB Micah Parsons, who is lining up all over the place and has shown star potential in training camp. sive firepower with Prescott, Ezekiel El- There still isn’t a proven playmaker at safety, which liott, Amari Cooper, CeeDee Lamb, Mi- could continue to be a trouble spot. Camp Development: Prescott sat out competitive chael Gallup and the return of three top li- drills almost the entire preseason after straining his right shoulder warming up for practice July 28. Two neman. But reigning division champion weeks before the Sept. 9 opener at Tom Brady and Su- Washington has the toughest defense in the per Bowl champion Tampa Bay, Prescott was finally getting regular work in practice. East. Washington (7-10) Washington secured the division with a New faces: QB Ryan Fitzpatrick, CB William Jackson, victory at Philadelphia in Week 17 after the WR Curtis Samuel, WR Adam Humphries, TE Sammis Reyes, LB Jamin Davis, OT Sam Cosmi, WR Dyami Eagles pulled Jalen Hurts and played for Brown, G Ereck Flowers, OT Charles Leno, EDGE Shaka draft positioning. Otherwise, a Philly victo- Toney, DB Benjamin St-Juste, LS Camaron Cheese- man. ry would have meant the New York Giants Key losses: QB Alex Smith, OT Morgan Moses, LB Ke- vin Pierre-Louis, CB Fabian Moreau, CB Jimmy More- clinching it with six wins. land, EDGE Ryan Kerrigan, LB Ryan Anderson, OL Ge- The Giants finished strong under rookie ron Christian, WR Dontrelle Inman, TE Jeremy Sprin- kle, LS Nick Sundberg. coach Joe Judge after an 0-5 start and losing Strengths: The defense, led by AP Defensive Rookie of the Year Chase Young, could be just as good as last seven of the first eight. They’ll open the sea- season after ranking second in the NFL. Young, fellow son dealing with injuries, including Saquon edge rusher Montez Sweat and stalwart defensive li- nemen Jonathan Allen and Daron Payne should tor- Barkley’s recovery from knee surgery. ment opposing quarterbacks, and the linebacking corps is better with the addition of first-round pick Ja- The Philadelphia Eagles turned to Nick min Davis. The return of veteran safety Landon Collins and some other secondary changes could pay big di- Sirianni, firing Doug Pederson just three vidends for defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio’s unit. years after he led the team to the franchise’s Weaknesses: The offense is still a major question mark now with 38-year-old Ryan Fitzpatrick running only Super Bowl title. Carson Wentz was the show as the undisputed starting quarterback. Coach Ron Rivera is expecting Fitzpatrick, running traded to Indianapolis, paving the way for back Antonio Gibson, top receiver Terry McLaurin and Hurts to get a shot at proving he can be the tight end Logan Thomas to help Washington have at least an average offense after being among the worst team’s starting quarterback. in the league on that side of the ball last season. Camp Development: The most impressive develop- Prescott’s return gets most of the atten- ment is actually a majority of unvaccinated players tion in Dallas, which has only four playoff getting inoculated against the virus after Washington went into camp with one of the lowest rates in the wins since capturing its fifth Super Bowl ti- league. Rivera has tried to stress the importance of vaccination not only because of his health as a cancer tle in 1996. He’s the most accomplished survivor but the potential impacts on player availabil- quarterback in the division but the Cow- ity this season. boys were 2-3 with him last season because New York Giants (6-10) of an awful defense. New faces: WR Kenny Golladay, WR Kadarius Toney, WR John Ross, TE Kyle Rudolph, CB Adoree Jackson, RB Prescott points to the trio up front of line- Devontae Booker, QB Mike Glennon, DT Danny Shel- BRANDON WADE/AP ton, LB Azeez Ojulari, C Billy Price, G Ben Bredeson. men Tyron Smith, Zack Martin, and La’el Key losses: DT Dalvin Tomlinson, RB Wayne Gall- Collins as the key to the offense’s success. Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott, back from an ankle injury, has plenty of man, G Kevin Zeitler, WR Golden Tate T Cam Fleming, LB Kyler Fackrell, LB David Mayo, CB Isaac Yiadom. His first action since suffering that grue- weapons to throw or hand off to this season. Strengths: Pat Graham’s defense surprised oppo- nents last season with its multi-faceted looks. While some ankle injury will come in the season the line lost Tomlinson in the middle of the 3-4 front, opener at Tampa Bay because he missed nebacker Micah Parsons, the 12th overall wideout Kadarius Toney in the first round. DL Leonard Williams returns from a career-best sea- son. Blake Martinez is a tackling machine among the much of the preseason with a shoulder in- draft pick. Parsons will play an integral role But all three didn’t play in the preseason be- linebackers, while the rest are fast and young. The secondary is deep and added Jackson to play oppo- jury. along with Leighton Vander Esch and for- cause of injuries and Barkley still hasn’t site Pro Bowler James Bradberry. “They’re the most important if you ask mer Falcons safety/linebacker Keanu Neal. practiced at 100% as he continues his come- Weaknesses: The offensive line was weak last sea- son and it remains a question mark. Three of the five me. From the time that I got drafted until Veteran ends DeMarcus Lawrence and back from ACL surgery. starters return: left tackle Andrew Thomas, left guard Shane Lemieux and center Nick Gates. Will Hernan- now, this offense is built off of those guys,” Randy Gregory will anchor the line. If The Giants’ defense was vastly improved dez, who lost his job at LG after a bout with COVID-19, he said. “They’re the three most veteran Quinn can turn the defense around and last season under coordinator Pat Graham, has replaced Zeitler at right guard. Veteran Nate Sol- der, back after opting out last season, and second- guys on this team and that’s for a reason. Prescott stays healthy, the Cowboys should and the team re-signed DT Leonard Wil- year pro Matt Peart, are competing for the job at right tackle. Those guys are walk-in Pro Bowl guys end up on top. liams after his breakthrough year. Camp Development: RB Saquon Barkey (knee), Ru- when they’re healthy. Future Hall of Fam- dolph (foot surgery), Toney (COVID-19 issues), third- round pick CB Aaron Robinson (core muscle) and ers. Just to have those three guys lead the Call them champs Quarterback factory fourth-round choice LB Elerson Smith (hamstring) have missed most of training camp. Lemieux tweaked five guys up front, everything starts with Washington remains nameless but the General manager Howie Roseman re- a knee early and did not play in a preseason game. TE them. The run game, then that allows the franchise was a division winner despite a grets saying the Eagles are a “quarterback Levine Toilolo is out with an Achilles tendon injury. pass game to open up. When you have those 2020 losing record. Ron Rivera’s team has factory” after drafting Hurts in the second Philadelphia Eagles (4-11-1) guys back healthy, energized, it’s special. higher expectations this season. Journey- round in 2020. Hurts’ arrival led to Wentz’s New faces: Coach Nick Sirianni, WR DeVonta Smith, QBs Joe Flacco and Gardner Minshew, DE Ryan Kerri- That just allows us to feed off of them, and man Ryan Fitzpatrick takes over at quar- precipitous decline and departure. Though gan, RB Kenny Gainwell, LB Eric Wilson, CB Steven Nel- son, S Anthony Harris, P Arryn Siposs. all of our athletes just go out there and make terback and has weapons in top receiver Philadelphia considered other QBs and is Key losses: Coach Doug Pederson, QB Carson Wentz, S Jalen Mills, LT Jason Peters, WRs Alshon Jef- plays and make their job easier.” Terry McLaurin and second-year back An- consistently linked to trade rumors regard- fery and DeSean Jackson, P Cameron Johnston. Here’s a look at a wide-open division that tonio Gibson. But Washington’s strength is ing Deshaun Watson, Hurts is the guy for Strengths: If healthy, the offensive line led by three- time All-Pro center Jason Kelce, three-time Pro Bowl hasn’t had a repeat champion since the Ea- its ferocious defense led by reigning Defen- now. If not, the factory signed Joe Flacco, right tackle Lane Johnson and three-time Pro Bowl right guard Brandon Brooks is among the best in the gles won four straight titles from 2001-04: sive Rookie of the Year Chase Young and Super Bowl MVP when the Ravens won the NFL. Brooks missed last season, Johnson only played interior linemen Jonathan Allen and Daron 2012 title, and acquired Gardner Minshew seven games and Kelce was the only lineman who started every game. Injuries along the line allowed the No ‘D’ in Dallas Payne. Washington faces a first-place from Jacksonville last week. Eagles to develop younger players, giving them more depth. The defensive line is also strong. Six-time Pro The Cowboys were on pace to allow the schedule, so it’ll rely heavily on its defense. The Eagles added veterans to bolster Bowl defensive tackle Fletcher Cox anchors a unit that most points in league history a month into their linebacker corps and secondary and features Brandon Graham, Kerrigan, Josh Sweat, De- rek Barnett and Javon Hargrave. last season before improving slightly. They Make or break their strength on defense remains a line led Weaknesses: Quarterback Jalen Hurts is unproven. He showed flashes of potential along with inconsis- still allowed a franchise-record 473 points. Third-year quarterback Daniel Jones’ fu- by six-time Pro Bowl defensive tackle tency in four starts. The Eagles haven’t had a wideout Second-year coach Mike McCarthy, who ture with the Giants may depend greatly on Fletcher Cox. reach 1,000 yards receiving since Jeremy Maclin in 2014 but have invested consecutive first-round picks could be on the hot seat if the team strug- his success this season. The Giants gave at the position in Smith and Jalen Reagor. Predicted order of finish Camp Development: Jordan Mailata, an Australian gles, hired former Falcons coach Dan Jones more help, signing wide receiver rugby player who hadn’t played football before the Ea- Quinn as defensive coordinator. Quinn got a Kenny Golladay and tight end Kyle Ru- Dallas, Washington, New York, Philadel- gles drafted him in the seventh round in 2018, beat out 2019 first-round pick Andre Dillard for the starting spot talented and versatile addition in rookie li- dolph in free agency and drafting speedy phia at left tackle. Tuesday, September 7, 2021 • STARS AND STRIPES • PAGE 21 NFL

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Buffalo Bills (15-4) Bills look to maintain control New faces: WR Emmanuel Sanders, QB Mitch Tru- bisky, RB Matt Breida, DEs Efe Obada, Greg Rousseau, P Matt Haack. Key losses: WR John Brown, QB Matt Barkley, RB T.J. Yeldon, CB Josh Norman, DEs Trent Murphy and Darryl Johnson, DT Quinten Jefferson, S Dean Marlowe, P Co- Allen, Buffalo have loftier rey Bojorquez. Strengths: A Josh Allen-led passing attack that set numerous single-season records last year, and fea- goals than just winning tured All-Pro receiver Stefon Diggs, who became Buf- falo’s first player to lead the NFL in yards receiving and catches. Cole Beasley and Gabriel Davis also re- turn, with the Bills filling Brown’s departure by signing the AFC East title again 12-year veteran Sanders. On defense, Buffalo features an established secondary made up of safeties Micah Hyde and Jordan Poyer and cornerback Tre’Davious BY DENNIS WASZAK JR. White, who enter their fifth season playing together, and all under coordinator Leslie Frazier. Associated Press Weaknesses: A running attack made up of Devin Singletary and Zack Moss, which was inconsistent in NEW YORK — Josh Allen and the Buffa- failing to take advantage of defenses honoring the pass. On defense, run-stuffing tackle Star Lotulelei’s lo Bills stormed to the top of the AFC East — return after opting out for COVID-19 reasons should unfamiliar territory for anyone other than bulk up a defensive front, which got pushed around last year. The Bills are also counting on first-round the New England Patriots — and kept going pick Greg Rousseau, free-agent addition Efe Obada and A.J. Epenesa, coming off his rookie season, to im- last season. prove their pass rush. Nearly all the way to the Super Bowl. Camp Development: The Bills, featuring one of the NFL’s least vaccinated rosters, received a stark re- Now comes the encore, and the expecta- minder of how quickly COVID-19 can derail their plans. Beasley and Davis and defensive tackles Lotulelei and tions remain just as lofty. Vernon Butler were all required to self-isolate for five “If the team’s not looking to win the Super days after having contact with a team trainer who tested positive. All four players are unvaccinated. Bowl,” Allen said, “they’re doing it wrong.” Miami Dolphins (10-6) The Bills lost to Patrick Mahomes and the New faces: WR Will Fuller, WR Jaylen Waddle, DE Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC champion- Jaelan Phillips, S Jevon Holland, QB Jacoby Brissett, DT Adam Butler, DB Jason McCourty, RB Malcolm Brown, ship game last season, falling just short of T Liam Eichenberg, TE Hunter Long, CB Justin Cole- man, LB Brennan Scarlett, P Michael Palardy. reaching the Super Bowl. And the first step Key losses: QB Ryan Fitzpatrick, S Bobby McCain, LB in that journey was winning the AFC East, Kyle Van Noy, C Ted Karras, DE Shaq Lawson, DT Da- von Godchaux, RB Matt Breida, T Julien Davenport, G which had been locked down by New En- Ereck Flowers, LB Kamu Grugier-Hill, P Matt Haack. Strengths: The Dolphins led the NFL with 29 take- gland for most of the last two decades. aways last year, and All-Pro CB Xavien Howard had 10, the most in the league since 2007. The versatile Hol- Buffalo’s division title was its first since land makes a talented secondary even better, and the the 1995 season — a few months before Al- pass rush could be improved with the addition of Phil- lips. With newcomers Fuller and Waddle, and the re- len was born. It also snapped the Patriots’ turn of Albert Wilson after he opted out in 2020, the WR corps becomes the deepest position on the team. 11-season division winning streak, and end- Weaknesses: OL has been a perennial problem, ed a stretch during which Bill Belichick’s which is one reason the Dolphins have no playoff vic- tories during that span, and there are again doubts bunch had won 17 of the last 18 division about how well they'll block. Settling on a RT — QB Tua Tagovailoa's blind side — and improvement by sec- crowns. ond-year LT Austin Jackson are vital. “I think our guys understand, and we’ve Camp Developments: A contract dispute with Ho- ward had a peaceful ending: He asked to be traded stressed that all year and all offseason, is but then agreed to a restructured deal. Tagovailoa, now nearly two years removed from the hip injury what we did last year was really good but it that ended his Alabama career, showed more deci- siveness and a stronger arm than in his rookie season. means nothing,” Bills general manager Injuries were an issue at WR and raised anew doubts Brandon Beane said. “We’re 0-0.” about top pass catcher DeVante Parker's durability. New England Patriots (7-9) Just like every other team. But Buffalo has some history to conquer just to win the New faces: QB Mac Jones, TE Jonnu Smith, TE Hunter Henry, WR Nelson Agholor, WR Kendrick Bourne, DT division again. JOSHUA BESSEX/AP Davon Godchaux, LB Matt Judon, DB Jalen Mills, DL Henry Anderson, LB Kyle Van Noy, DL Christian Bar- The last time a non-Belichick coached Bills quarterback Josh Allen led Buffalo to the AFC championship game last year. At 25 more, DE Ronnie Perkins, special assistant Matt Patri- cia. team won consecutive AFC East titles was and entering his fourth year, Allen is the veteran of among the division’s quarterbacks. Key losses: QB Cam Newton (released), RB Sony Mi- when the Patriots did it under Bill Parcells chel (trade), WR Julian Edelman (retired), S Patrick Chung (retired), LG Joe Thuney, RT Marcus Cannon (1996) and Pete Carroll (’97). And the last Belichick and Brady partnered on what and accentuate what he does well, the (trade), DL Adam Butler. Strengths: The Patriots are vastly improved on the time a team other than New England fin- became one of the league’s most successful things that he does well,” said co-offensive defensive line and at linebacker. The most impressive ished first in the AFC East in back-to-back addition by far this preseason was Judon. Along with runs, winning six Super Bowls together coordinator/running backs coach Eric Stu- Godchaux, Kyle Van Noy and Dont’a Hightower it seasons: the 1988-91 Bills. over the next 19 years. desville. “He throws the ball really well. should help New England be a faster and more phys- ical defense. The offensive line is equally stout. Tackle “The ultimate goal is to make the playoffs New England believes it found its next He’s a smart guy. He can handle it and ev- Isaiah Wynn and guard Mike Onwenu are imposing on and give yourself a chance for a world title,” the left side of the line. franchise quarterback and gave Jones erything that goes into that position, which Weaknesses: CB Stephon Gilmore didn’t participate Allen said, “and that’s what we’ve got to do.” some weapons in tight ends Jonnu Smith is an all-encompassing position.” in training camp and will begin the season on the physically unable to perform list as he recovers from Old man Allen and Hunter Henry and wide receivers Nel- Taking flight quadriceps surgery. There also isn’t any resolution on son Agholor and WR Kendrick Bourne. the additional compensation Gilmore wants on top of Entering his fourth NFL season, the 25- The Jets have the league’s longest playoff the $7 million base salary he’s slated to make this sea- “I think any time you take a team like we son. It leaves J.C. Jackson as the secondary’s top one- year-old Allen is the dean of the AFC East drought at 10 seasons, and it figures to con- on-one defender at the position. had last year — we all spoke about it at the Camp Development: The offense’s depth at running starting quarterbacks. And he’s getting tinue through what is very much a rebuild- back stood out. Damien Harris displayed his readin- end of the year — things were going to be paid like it, too, signing a six-year, $258 mil- ing year. ess to be the primary backfield option. J.J. Taylor and different. And they’ve been different,” safe- rookie Rhamondre Stevenson also showed off their lion contract last month. New coach Robert Saleh has the fran- explosiveness. And James White showed he is still a ty Devin McCourty said. “We got new play- capable pass catcher on third down. Tua Tagovailoa, the No. 5 overall pick last chise thinking optimistically about its fu- ers in here and we’ve just got to continue to New York Jets (2-14) year, will be under center for Miami. Mean- ture, and Wilson gives New York an excit- build. I like what we have.” New Faces: Coach Robert Saleh, QB Zach Wilson while, Zach Wilson, the No. 2 pick this year, (No. 2 overall draft pick), offensive coordinator Mike ing playmaker it hopes can be a long-term LaFleur, defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich, G Alijah is the guy for the New York Jets. And with answer at quarterback. Vera-Tucker (No. 14 overall pick), WR Corey Davis, RT Tua’s team New England stunningly cutting Cam New- But Saleh is preaching patience for the Morgan Moses, WR Elijah Moore (second-round pick), A10-6 finish last season had Brian Flores RB Tevin Coleman, RB Michael Carter (fourth-round ton, the starting gig goes to Mac Jones, who long-suffering fans of one of the NFL’s pick), WR Keelan Cole, DT Sheldon Rankins, LB Jarrad and the Dolphins feeling pretty good about Davis, LB Jamien Sherwood (fifth-rounder), LB Ham- went 15th overall in April. youngest teams. sah Nasirildeen (sixth-rounder), S LaMarcus Joyner, their future. But suddenly the person who’d DE Shaq Lawson, DE Carl Lawson (out for season). They’ll all be aiming for Allen and the “We embrace the urgency at which ev- be leading them at quarterback became un- Key Losses: coach Adam Gase, QB Sam Darnold, TE Bills. But get this: With all four of the pro- erybody wants to win, but at the same time Chris Herndon, CB Bless Austin, WR Breshad Perri- clear. man, RB Frank Gore, LB Jordan Jenkins, LB Neville He- jected starting QBs 25 or younger, it marks that can’t affect your decision making for witt, DE Henry Anderson, LB Tarell Basham, LB Harvey Tagovailoa was 6-3 as a starter as a rookie Langi, LB Frankie Luvu, CB Brian Poole, S Bradley the first time there have been that many in the long haul of the goal of winning cham- McDougald, QB Joe Flacco. after replacing Ryan Fitzpatrick as the any division since 1985 — when the AFC pionships for extended periods of time,” Sa- Strengths: The hiring of Saleh created a wave of op- starter after six games. But he also ranked timism throughout the facility. Now those good vibes East had Dan Marino (Dolphins), Ken leh said. “That urgency in the past has led to need to transfer to the field. The defensive line should 26th or lower in several key categories, and still be a force despite losing Carl Lawson for the sea- O’Brien (Jets), Tony Eason (Patriots) and spurts of success and lengths of failure. son with a ruptured Achilles tendon. The push up front was pulled in favor of Fitzpatrick in two from Quinnen Williams, Folorunso Fatukasi, John Art Schlichter (Colts). We’re trying to get that reversed, to where Franklin-Myers and Rankins should be solid. games. we have long, long runs of success.” Weaknesses: The Jets have a rookie quarterback Changing of the guard still learning life in the NFL, and the offensive line has Rumors about Miami’s potential interest struggled the past few years. The Jets have a young New England’s 7-9 finish was its worst in Houston’s Deshaun Watson didn’t help Predicted order of finish and inexperienced group of cornerbacks. That could make for some long days if the D-line can't buy the since 2000, when the Patriots went 5-11. quash thoughts that Miami was not fully Bills, Patriots, Dolphins, Jets secondary some time with pressure. Linebacker is a spot to watch with Jarrad Davis out until Week 6. That was Belichick’s first year as coach and sold on Tagovailoa. Camp Development: The injury to Carl Lawson, the the rookie season for Tom Brady, who ap- “We are always trying to improve on ev- Jets’ biggest free agent signing of the offseason, was AP Pro Football Writer Josh Dubow and AP Sports Writers Kyle a gut punch. peared in only one game. erything to get better from where they are Hightower, John Wawrow and Steven Wine contributed. PAGE 22 • STARS AND STRIPES • Tuesday, September 7, 2021 MLB

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Power surge: Cubs outslug Pirates American League East Division BY JOHN JACKSON Schwindel, who took over at first base in late WLPct GB Associated Press July after Anthony Rizzo was traded, has gone Tampa Bay 86 51 .628 _ CHICAGO — Frank Schwindel hit a go­ deep in three straight games and six of seven. It New York 78 58 .574 7½ ahead grand slam, Matt Duffy homered twice, was his first career grand slam and 10th homer Boston 79 60 .568 8 including a grand slam, and the Chicago Cubs with Chicago. He also had a game­winning sin­ Toronto 73 62 .541 12 outslugged the Pittsburgh Pirates on Sunday gle in the ninth on Saturday, which gave him Baltimore 43 92 .319 42 Central Division for an 11­8 win. some apprehension before Sunday’s game. With Chicago trailing 8­7 with two outs and “I was a little worried because I had to get a WLPct GB the bases loaded in the seventh inning, Schwin­ new jersey,” Schwindel said. “They tore the Chicago 79 58 .577 _ Cleveland 68 66 .507 9½ del hit a curveball off reliever Nick Mears to jersey off me yesterday.” Detroit 65 73 .471 14½ the bleachers in center to turn the game Bryan Reynolds hit a grand slam and had Kansas City 61 75 .449 17½ around. four hits, and Yoshi Tsutsugo also went deep Minnesota 59 77 .434 19½ Duffy also had three hits and Jason Hey­ for Pittsburgh, which has dropped sixth West Division ward also went deep as the Cubs won their straight. The three grand slams tied a major NAM Y. HUH/AP WLPct GB sixth straight. Duffy had just one homer before league record. The Chicago Cubs’ Frank Schwindel hits the Houston 79 57 .581 _ Sunday. The Cubs swept the four­game series. go­ahead grand slam in an 11­8 win Sunday. Seattle 75 62 .547 4½ Oakland 74 63 .540 5½ Los Angeles 68 69 .496 11½ ROUNDUP Texas 48 88 .353 31 National League East Division WLPct GB Vogelbach’s pinch slam lifts Brewers Atlanta 72 64 .529 _ Philadelphia 70 66 .515 2 New York 69 68 .504 3½ Associated Press Miami 57 80 .416 15½ MILWAUKEE — Daniel Vogel­ Washington 56 80 .412 16 bach hit a pinch­hit grand slam off Central Division Alex Reyes to cap a five­run rally in WLPct GB the ninth inning that gave the Mil­ Milwaukee 84 54 .609 _ waukee Brewers a 6­5 victory over Cincinnati 73 65 .529 11 the St. Louis Cardinals on Sunday. St. Louis 69 66 .511 13½ Chicago 63 75 .457 21 Reyes (5­8) entered the game af­ Pittsburgh 48 89 .350 35½ ter the Brewers had loaded the West Division bases off Giovanny Gallegos. Vogel­ WLPct GB bach hit a 1­0 pitch high above the San Francisco 87 50 .635 _ outstretched arm of right fielder Los Angeles 86 51 .628 1 Dylan Carlson. San Diego 73 64 .533 14 The NL Central­leading Brewers Colorado 63 74 .460 24 trailed 5­1 before starting their Arizona 45 93 .326 42½ Sunday’s games comeback. Detroit 4, Cincinnati 1 Giants 6, Dodgers 4: Steven Toronto 8, Oakland 0 Minnesota 6, Tampa Bay 5 Duggar hit a tiebreaking two­run Kansas City 6, Chicago White Sox 0 Baltimore 8, N.Y. Yankees 7 triple after being called up earlier in Cleveland 11, Boston 5 the day, Brandon Belt homered, and San Diego 4, Houston 3 Texas 7, L.A. Angels 3 host San Francisco wrapped up a Seattle 10, Arizona 4, 11 innings N.Y. Mets 13, Washington 6 key series against Los Angeles to Philadelphia 4, Miami 3, 10 innings Atlanta 9, Colorado 2 take the NL West lead. Milwaukee 6, St. Louis 5 Albert Pujols hit career home run Chicago Cubs 11, Pittsburgh 8 San Francisco 6, L.A. Dodgers 4 No. 678 with a pinch­hit, two­run Monday’s games drive in the ninth off Giants closer Kansas City at Baltimore Toronto at N.Y. Yankees Jake McGee. MORRY GASH/AP Tampa Bay at Boston Detroit at Pittsburgh Orioles 8, Yankees 7:Gary Sán­ The Milwaukee Brewers’ Daniel Vogelbach hits a walk­off grand slam during the ninth inning of the Minnesota at Cleveland chez hit a grand slam and a two­run Brewers’ 6­5 win over the St. Louis Cardinals Sunday in Milwaukee. Seattle at Houston Texas at L.A. Angels homer, but host New York blew a N.Y. Mets at Washington Philadelphia at Milwaukee late lead and lost again to last­place won for the seventh time in eight two and struck out three. Atlanta has Tigers 4, Reds 1:Jeimer Cande­ Cincinnati at Chicago Cubs San Francisco at Colorado Baltimore. games. a two­game lead over Philadelphia lario snapped a scoreless tie with a L.A. Dodgers at St. Louis The Yankees wasted leads of 4­1, Indians 11, Red Sox 5:Franmil in the NL East. two­run triple and five Detroit pitch­ Tuesday’s games 5­2 and 7­4 and lost for the sixth timeReyes homered over the Green Rangers 7, Angels 3:DJ Peters ers combined to win at Cincinnati. Minnesota (Gant 4-9) at Cleveland (Civale 10-2) Detroit (Peralta 3-3) at Pittsburgh (TBD) in eight games. Monster to spark a three­run third homered twice, had a career­high Twins 6, Rays 5: Nick Gordon Kansas City (Kowar 0-2) at Baltimore (Harvey 6-14) Mets 13, Nationals 6: Javier inning — a franchise­record tying four hits and drove in four runs, and had a game­tying RBI single in the Toronto (Matz 10-7) at N.Y. Yankees (Cole 14-6) Báez went 4 for 4 with a home run, 19th straight game with a home run Taylor Hearn pitched seven innings seventh inning and a go­ahead run­ Tampa Bay (Rasmussen 1-1) at Boston Kevin Pillar hit a grand slam that —and Cleveland salvaged the finale of seven­hit ball as Texas snapped a scoring hit in the ninth, leading Min­ (Rodríguez 11-7) Seattle (Gilbert 5-5) at Houston (Odorizzi 6-7) capped a game­sealing, six­run of the series with a win at COVID­ three­game skid with a win at Los nesota to a win at AL East­leading Chicago White Sox (Lambert 0-1) at Oak- land (Kaprielian 7-4) ninth inning, and New York won at impacted Boston. Angeles. Peters hit a solo shot in the Tampa Bay. Texas (Howard 0-3) at Arizona (Gallen 2-8) L.A. Angels (TBD) at San Diego (Snell 7-5) Washington. Reyes added a two­run double second and a three­run blast in the Phillies 4, Marlins 3 (10):Odúbel N.Y. Mets (Carrasco 0-2) at Miami (Cabrera 0-1) Francisco Lindor and Jonathan and went 4 for 4, and Bradley Zim­ third before adding a single and a Herrera hit an RBI single in the 10th Washington (Espino 4-4) at Atlanta (Fried 11-7) Villar also homered for the Mets, mer had a two­run single for the In­ late double. inning and Philadelphia averted a Cincinnati (Miley 11-5) at Chicago Cubs (Sampson 0-1) who squandered an early four­run dians, who matched their single­ Padres 4, Astros 3:Jake Cronen­ three­game sweep with a win at Philadelphia (Nola 7-7) at Milwaukee 2 (Lauer 4-5) lead but got 4⁄3 shutout innings from season record of homering in con­ worth hit a solo home run with one Miami. L.A. Dodgers (TBD) at St. Louis (Happ 8-7) their bullpen to win for the seventh secutive games, set in May 2000. out in the ninth inning and host San Royals 6, White Sox 0: Brady San Francisco (Webb 8-3) at Colorado (González 3-6) time in eight games. Braves 9, Rockies 2: Ozzie Al­ Diego took two of three from AL Singer tossed seven scoreless in­ Wednesday’s games Blue Jays 8, Athletics 0:Robbie bies homered on the first pitch of West­leading Houston. nings and Salvador Perez hit anoth­ Seattle at Houston Texas at Arizona Ray struck out 10 while pitching Ryan Feltner’s major league debut, Cronenworth, a first­time All­ er home run as host Kansas City Minnesota at Cleveland Detroit at Pittsburgh one­hit ball into the seventh inning, and Atlanta added three more home Star this season who has struggled at beat Chicago. Kansas City at Baltimore Marcus Semien hit his 35th home runs in a win at Colorado. the plate recently, sent a drive to Mariners 10, Diamondbacks 4 Toronto at N.Y. Yankees Tampa Bay at Boston run and host Toronto completed a Austin Riley, Adam Duvall and right­center off reliever Ryne Sta­ (11): Kyle Seager hit a go­ahead, L.A. Angels at San Diego Chicago White Sox at Oakland three­game sweep of Oakland. Travis d’Arnaud also went deep for nek for his 20th homer of the season. two­RBI double to spark an 11th­in­ San Francisco at Colorado N.Y. Mets at Miami Bo Bichette went 4­for­4, scored the Braves. Charlie Morton (13­5) It was the first walk­off home run in ning rally and lift Seattle to a win at Washington at Atlanta twice and drove in a run and Alejan­ pitched seven strong innings, allow­ his two­year career and his second Arizona to complete a three­game Cincinnati at Chicago Cubs Philadelphia at Milwaukee dro Kirk homered as the Blue Jays ing two runs on two hits. He walked game­winning hit. sweep. L.A. Dodgers at St. Louis Tuesday, September 7, 2021 • STARS AND STRIPES • PAGE 23 US OPEN/COLLEGE FOOTBALL Irish escape with OT victory Florida State rallies from 18 down but can’t finish upset BY BOB FERRANTE emotions. A job had to be done. God Associated Press is real. That’s the one thing I can TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Notre say. Nobody’s ever come back Dame survived Florida State back- from an injury like this. Thousands up quarterback McKenzie Mil- of people praying for me from the ton’s unlikely comeback on an moment I got hurt. Coaches believ- emotional night when the Semi- ing in me. I’m not here without all noles honored Bobby Bowden. the support, all the prayers.” Jonathan Doerer made a 41-yard The Seminoles started the come- field goal in overtime and the No. 9 back with Jordan Travis connect- Fighting Irish escaped with a 41-38 ing with Andrew Parchment on an victory after Florida State over- 8-yard touchdown strike. Milton JOHN MINCHILLO/AP came an 18-point deficit Sunday. entered the game when Travis’ Leylah Fernandez, of Canada, reacts as she plays Angelique Kerber, of Germany, during the fourth round Seminoles kicker Ryan Fitzger- helmet popped off, and he then of the US Open on Sunday in New York. Fernandez, who beat Naomi Osaka, beat another former champ. ald’s 37-yard attempt sailed wide found Douglas to keep things go- left on the first overtime posses- ing. sion, allowing the Irish to run a few Jack Coan completed 26 of 35 plays and set up Doerer’s kick. passes for 366 yards and four ‘Happy-go-lucky’ teen “What’s most important is going touchdowns in his Irish debut. on the road, winning the opener Coan threw touchdown passes to against a team that presented a lot Michael Mayer, Kyren Williams, of challenges,” Notre Dame coach Kevin Austin and Joe Wilkins. Fernandez upsets Kerber Brian Kelly said. “We know we got Notre Dame led 38-20 with 4:37 to work to do, but I like this team. go in the third quarter. BY HOWARD FENDRICH chocolate when you want to, and We’ll get better and we’ll make a lot Florida State has lost five Associated Press “I was telling just have fun, watch movies, go past of improvement in week 2.” straight season openers and, while NEW YORK — Leylah Fernan- your bedtime.” Bowden, the coaching great who the Seminoles rallied, they can also dez is a self-described “happy-go- myself, like, ‘If Just as against Osaka in Arthur won two national titles with Florida point to three turnovers as well as lucky girl” having the time of her Ashe Stadium two nights earlier, State, died at 91 of pancreatic can- nine penalties. life at Flushing Meadows, raising I’m tired, she Fernandez dropped the opening cer Aug. 8. Travis threw two touchdown her fists, pumping her arms and ril- set against Kerber in Louis Arm- A logo of Bowden’s trademark passes and ran for another score. ing up crowds while beating two must be strong Stadium, which was so full hat and the script “Bobby” was on But he also threw three intercep- past U.S. Open champions to reach that would-be spectators were be- the 25-yard line, and Seminoles tions — two to Irish star safety Kyle her first Grand Slam quarterfinal. exhausted.’ ” ing turned away at the doors. coaches also wore logos on their Hamilton. Notre Dame capitalized A day before her 19th birthday, And just as against Osaka, Fer- polo shirts. Florida State’s March- all three times by scoring touch- the unseeded left-hander from Leylah Fernandez nandez trailed in the second set: ing Chiefs spelled out “Bobby” on downs. Canada grabbed the last five games On defeating Angelique Kerber, 33 Kerber led by a break at 4-2. the field at halftime and played Jashaun Corbin had an 89-yard to eliminate 2016 title winner Ange- Both times, the 73rd-ranked Fer- “Amazing Grace.” touchdown run for Florida State. lique Kerber 4-6, 7-6 (5), 6-2 on like a player that is established.” nandez managed to get folks in the Milton, the UCF grad transfer Corbin finished with 15 carries for Sunday, demonstrating that an ear- The 55th-ranked Alcaraz got seats on her side, exulting with ev- quarterback who hadn’t played in a 144 yards, pacing the Seminoles’ lier upset of defending champion past No. 3 Stefanos Tsitsipas in his ery of her on-the-run, impossible- game since suffering a gruesome 264 yards on the ground. Naomi Osaka was certainly no previous match and is the youngest angle groundstrokes that added up leg injury in November 2018, fired The Irish were largely ineffec- fluke. player with two five-set Grand to a 45-28 edge in winners. a 22-yard strike to Ja’Khi Douglas tive on the ground, rushing for just With grit and guile, plus a veter- Slam wins in a row since Michael Kerber is 33 and has been play- on his first pass. 65 yards a year after they accumu- an’s poise in the face of big deficits Chang was 16 at the 1988 U.S. Open. ing well enough lately to get to the Treshaun Ward completed that lated 353 rushing yards in a 42-26 against much more accomplished There’s yet another 18-year-old in Wimbledon semifinals in July, but drive by scoring on a 2-yard run, win over Florida State. opponents, Fernandez is display- fourth-round action Monday: Em- instead of that experience paying and Fitzgerald tied it with a 43- “We got to run the ball better,” ing strokes and a demeanor that left ma Raducanu of Britain, who plays off, Fernandez figured the age dif- yard field goal with 40 seconds left. Kelly said. “Clearly that will be an Kerber offering this assessment: Shelby Rogers of the U.S. ference worked in her favor as the Milton was 5-for-7 for 48 yards emphasis here this week. We’re “She can go really far in the next Fernandez repeatedly mentions contest stretched past two hours. with three rushes for 6 yards. not here to throw the ball all over few years.” two factors. One is being sure to en- “I was honestly tired in the third “It was time to roll,” Milton said. the yard and not have a solid run- How about over the next week? joy her time on court. The other is set,” Fernandez acknowledged. “I didn’t have time to process any ning game.” There’s no time like the present support of family, because her fa- “But with that thought, I was telling for the teens in tennis: Also into the ther, who is from Ecuador, her myself, like, ‘If I’m tired, she must quarterfinals with a win Sunday mother, who is Filipino Canadian, be exhausted.’” was Carlos Alcaraz, an 18-year-old and her sisters “have definitely Still, in the last set, Kerber held a from Spain who became the young- kept the joy for me.” break point with a chance to go up est man to get that far at the U.S. She credits Dad — who coaches 3-1. Fernandez erased that chance Open since 1963 by outlasting his her and has been offering instruc- with a cross-court forehand win- 32-year-old foe, 141st-ranked qual- tions in daily phone calls while ner. ifier Peter Gojowczyk of Germany, back home, taking care of a young- When it ended, Fernandez lifted 5-7, 6-1, 5-7, 6-2, 6-0. Alcaraz now er sibling — and Mom — who is her arms, then leaned forward to plays No. 12 seed Felix Auger- leading the cheers with other fam- put her hands on her knees and Aliassime, a 21-year-old from Can- ily members and Fernandez’s fit- smiled. She stood and patted her ada who reached his second ness trainer in courtside seats — chest with her palm, while Kerber straight major quarterfinal by de- with teaching a valuable lesson that offered a clasp of hands and an arm feating Frances Tiafoe of the U.S. has nothing to do with tennis. around Fernandez’s shoulders. 4-6, 6-2, 7-6 (6), 6-4 with the help of They made sure to emphasize, Now Fernandez, who only once 24 aces. Fernandez said, that “you can’t had been as far as the third round at “At some point, age is just a num- take things too seriously, you’ve got a major tournament until now, will PHIL SEARS/AP ber,” Auger-Aliassime when asked to be mature but at the same time meet No. 5 seed Elina Svitolina in Notre Dame players react to the winning field goal by kicker Jonathan about Alcaraz. “He already feels just be a kid, let loose, have fun, eat the quarterfinals. Doerer, rear, in overtime against Florida State on Sunday. PAGE 24 • STARS AND STRIPES • Tuesday, September 7, 2021 Poor execution? SPORTS No. 9 Notre Dame holds off FSU in OT ›› College football, Page 23

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Comeback candidates Top: Indianapolis Stars coming off injuries eager for return to prominence Colts quarterback Carson Wentz. Left: Dallas Cowboys BY SCHUYLER DIXON after watching and waiting for months. quarterback Associated Press Just don’t expect them to be longing for the Comeback Dak Prescott. ak Prescott’s right shoulder and Carson Wentz’s Player of the Year award. AP PHOTOS left foot sidelined the Dallas and Indianapolis “There were so many guys that were injured, not just quarterbacks almost all of training camp when with our team but with this league, that whoever gets that, Dthe plan called for a normal ramp-up to their that will be special,” Prescott said. “I don’t think any- comebacks in the regular season. body ... is shooting for that, I guess. I want to be the Cincinnati QB Joe Burrow, New York Giants running best player I can be, and if that comes with it, then oh back Saquon Barkley, San Francisco defensive end Nick well.” Bosa and Cleveland receiver Odell Beckham Jr. knew they Prescott, whose season ended in Week 5 with a would be limited in the preseason coming off knee injuries compound fracture and dislocation of his right that cut short their 2020 seasons. ankle, strained his right shoulder warming up The rest of the NFL stars seeking redemption had some- for practice the first week of camp this year. He thing approaching normal camps, and all of them — limited ones included — are eager to get back to prominent roles SEE COMEBACK ON PAGE 19

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