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MILITARY MILITARY FACES Iran apparently USS Ford’s Amid unrest, songs builds fake aircraft launch system continue to voice carrier to attack fails in test the black experience Page 4 Page 6 Page 15 North Korea refuses to answer phone calls from South Korea » Page 3 stripes.com Volume 79, No. 38 ©SS 2020 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 2020 50¢/Free to Deployed Areas AMERICA PROTESTS Activists heartened, but hungry for more BY SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press ATLANTA — In the two weeks since George Floyd’s killing, po- lice departments have banned chokeholds, Confederate monu- ments have fallen and officers have been arrested and charged amid large global protests against violence by police and racism. The moves are far short of the overhaul of police, prosecutors’ offices, courts and other institu- tions that protesters seek. But some advocates and demonstra- tors say they are encouraged by the swiftness of the response to Floyd’s death — incremental as it OPEN TO may be. “Everywhere you look, you see something that gives you hope,” said Frank James Matthews, 64, an activist in Alabama. “But we have no illusions because some- CHANGE thing that’s embedded like rac- ism is hard to kill.” Matthews spent years pushing PATRICK A. ALBRIGHT/U.S. Army for the removal of a Confederate monument in Birmingham near U.S. Army Airborne School students carry their primary and reserve parachutes back to the pack shed on Fort Benning, Ga., in April. the site where four black girls died in a racist church bombing BY COREY DICKSTEIN said. Esper was McCarthy’s in 1963. The city took down the Stars and Stripes In reversal, Pentagon considers stripping predecessor as Army secretary. obelisk last week after protesters It marks a substantial change tried to remove it themselves dur- WASHINGTON — Defense names of Confederate generals from posts in the Army’s position on the ing one of the many nationwide Secretary Mark Esper and Army naming of the 10 Army posts: SEE ACTIVISTS ON PAGE 11 Secretary Ryan McCarthy are Camp Beauregard and Fort open to starting a conversation Polk in Louisiana; Fort Benning about changing the names of 10 and Fort Gordon in Georgia; of the service’s posts named for Fort Bragg in North Carolina; prominent Confederate gener- Fort A.P. Hill, Fort Lee and Fort als from the Civil War, Army of- Pickett in Virginia; Fort Rucker ficials said Monday. in Alabama, and Fort Hood in McCarthy wants to have a “bi- Texas. partisan discussion” about the The installations were named controversial issue, the official primarily during the south’s said. The official, who spoke on Jim Crow era in the 1910s and condition of anonymity, did not 1940s. provide further details, includ- As recently as February, ing what sparked McCarthy’s Army officials said the service willingness to discuss the topic. had no intentions of addressing George Floyd laid Esper also supports such a U.S. Army discussion about changing the the topic of the naming of its to rest in Houston installation names, officials Fort Bragg is one of 10 posts named for Confederate generals. SEE CHANGE ON PAGE 10 Page 11 PAGE 2 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Wednesday, June 10, 2020 BUSINESS/WEATHER EXCHANGE RATES US officially entered a recession in February Military rates Switzerland (Franc)............................0.9505 Euro costs (June 10) .............................$1.10 Thailand (Baht) ..................................... 31.32 Dollar buys (June 10)........................€0.8629 Turkey (Lira) .........................................6.7926 British pound (June 10) .......................$1.23 (Military exchange rates are those BY CHRISTOPHER RUGABER start of the downturn after nearly until December 2008, a year after Japanese yen (June 10) ..................... 107.00 available to customers at military banking South Korean won (June 10) .........1,168.00 facilities in the country of issuance Associated Press 11 full years of economic growth. it had actually begun. But in this Commercial rates for Japan, South Korea, Germany, the Bahrain (Dinar) ....................................0.3776 A committee within the Nation- case, the NBER said that the col- Netherlands and the United Kingdom. For British pound .....................................$1.2705 WASHINGTON — The U.S. nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e., al Bureau of Economic Research, lapse in employment and incomes Canada (Dollar) ...................................1.3435 purchasing British pounds in Germany), economy entered a recession a private nonprofit group, deter- was so steep, it could make a de- China (Yuan) ........................................7.0800 check with your local military banking Denmark (Krone) ................................6.5709 in February as the coronavirus mines when recessions begin and termination much more quickly. facility. Commercial rates are interbank Egypt (Pound) ....................................16.1807 struck the nation, a group of econ- end. It defines a recession as “a “The unprecedented magni- Euro ........................................$1.1348/0.8812 rates provided for reference when buying omists declared Monday, ending Hong Kong (Dollar) .............................7.7501 currency. All figures are foreign currencies decline in economic activity that tude of the decline in employment to one dollar, except for the British pound, the longest expansion on record. Hungary (Forint) .................................303.95 lasts more than a few months.” and production, and its broad Israel (Shekel) .....................................3.4460 which is represented in dollars-to-pound, The economists said that em- For that reason, the NBER reach across the entire economy, Japan (Yen) ............................................107.71 and the euro, which is dollars-to-euro.) ployment, income and spending typically waits longer before de- warrants the designation of this Kuwait (Dinar) .....................................0.3078 INTEREST RATES Norway (Krone) ...................................9.2765 peaked in February and then fell termining that the economy is in episode as a recession, even if it Philippines (Peso)................................. 50.01 Prime rate ................................................3.25 sharply afterward as the viral a downturn. In the last recession, turns out to be briefer than earli- Poland (Zloty) ..........................................3.92 Discount rate ..........................................0.25 Saudi Arabia (Riyal) ...........................3.7521 Federal funds market rate ...................0.06 outbreak shut down businesses the committee did not declare er contractions,” the NBER panel Singapore (Dollar) ..............................1.3897 3-month bill ............................................. 0.17 across the country, marking the that the economy was in recession said. South Korea (Won) ..........................1,198.68 30-year bond ...........................................1.66 WEATHER OUTLOOK WEDNESDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST WEDNESDAY IN EUROPE THURSDAY IN THE PACIFIC Misawa 65/60 Kabul 79/53 Seoul 81/69 Baghdad 115/79 Kandahar 102/75 Osan Tokyo Mildenhall/ Drawsko 80/69 81/68 Lakenheath Pomorskie Busan 54/50 62/48 71/67 Iwakuni 71/68 Kuwait Bahrain Zagan Sasebo City 100/87 Brussels 64/55 Guam 108/87 63/49 Ramstein 74/71 84/81 Lajes, 62/52 Riyadh Doha Azores Stuttgart Pápa 111/83 104/83 63/60 59/53 70/59 Aviano/ Vicenza 63/56 Naples 70/60 Okinawa Morón 80/77 82/57 Sigonella Rota 83/58 The weather is provided by the Djibouti Souda Bay American Forces Network Weather Center, 103/86 70/63 74/66 2nd Weather Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. T O D A Y IN STRIPES American Roundup ..... 14 Classified .................. 13 Comics ...................... 19 Crossword ................. 19 Faces ........................ 15 Opinion .................16-17 Sports .................. 20-24 Wednesday, June 10, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 3 PACIFIC S. Korea’s calls to North go unanswered BY KIM GAMEL AND YOO KYONG CHANG Stars and Stripes SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea refused to answer the phone Tuesday after vowing to sever communication lines with the South due to anger over the dispatch of anti-regime leaflets across the heavily fortified bor- A map of two Koreas showing der that divides the peninsula. the Demilitarized Zone is seen South Korea’s government, at the Imjingak Pavilion. which has made improving rela- tions with the North a key policy, between the two countries, which said it will continue to press for remain technically at war after peace. their 1950-53 conflict ended in The North said all lines would an armistice instead of a peace be cut after accusing the South treaty. Korean government of conniving In 2016, the North Koreans with “the riff-raff” in hostile acts, stopped picking up after South while “trying to dodge heavy re- sponsibility with nasty excuses.” Korea suspended cooperation in “This has driven the inter-Ko- a joint industrial venture at Kae- rean relations into a catastrophe,” song following a nuclear test. the state-run Korean Central However, the two sides re- News Agency said in a report sumed communication in 2018 posted Tuesday. during the peak of diplomacy as Phone calls via military lines the two Koreas held three sum- and a liaison office went unan- mits and Kim met with President LEE JIN-MAN/AP swered Tuesday, according to Donald Trump, raising hopes for officials at South Korea’s unifica- A visitor carrying a South Korean flag uses binoculars to view the northern side at the Imjingak Pavilion