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WEDNESDAY,JUNE 22, 2016 ‘Brexit’ risk Identifying is a problem future killers of Cameron’s out of a sea own making of suspects

LONDON MAGNANVILLE, FRANCE Devised as fix for dispute From Paris to Orlando, within Tory party, vote the struggle to single out could prove his downfall terrorists before they act

BY STEVEN ERLANGER BY RUKMINI CALLIMACHI AND STEPHEN CASTLE The first time Larossi Abballa appeared David Cameron, the British prime min- on the radar of French terrorism inves- ister, has no one to blame but himself. tigators, the only act of violence they In 2013, besieged by the increasingly could pin on him was killing bunnies. assertive anti-European Union wing of Then 19,he joined a smallgroup of his Conservative Party, Mr. Cameron men, allbent on waging jihad, on atrip made apromise intended to keep a to asnowy forest in northern France short-term peace among the Tories five yearsago. There, they videotaped ahead of the 2015 general election: If re- themselves slaughtering the rabbits, elected, he would hold an in-or-out ref- bought so that the men could get used to erendum on continued British member- the feel of killing. ship in the bloc. When he and seven otherswerelater But what seemed then like arelative- arrested, the authorities found that sev- ly low-risk ploy to deal with a short- eral of them had savedthe video of the term political problem has metastasized slaughter on their cellphones, alongside into an issue that could badly damage footage of soldiersbeing beheaded, ac- Britain’s economy, influence the coun- cording to French court records. Mr. Ab- try’s direction for generations —and balla waseventually convicted on ater- determine Mr. Cameron’s political fate. rorism charge, spending morethan two As the country prepares to vote on years in prison. Thursday, the betting markets are sig- In hindsight, it is not hard to see that naling that Britain will choose to remain that first act of brutality foreshadowed DANIEL BEREHULAK FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES in Europe, but polls suggest that the out- what happened last week: Armed with a A smuggler taking Palestinian workers over the West Bank separation barrier into Israel. The 400-mile wall has unfinished segments and gaps in the concertina wire that tops it. come is too close to call. knife, Mr.Abballa attacked acouple in On Tuesday, speaking in front of northern France and left them to bleed to Downing Street with the outcome in the death in the name of the Islamic State. balance, Mr. Cameron warned that a de- But at the time of his initial arrest in cision to leave would be an ‘‘irrevers- 2011, investigatorswere not able to def- ible’’ choice. Appealing to older voters, initely showthat he wasapermanent A way to slip into Israel, to work or fight manyof whom tend to favorleaving threat to the homeland. After his jail Europe, Mr.Cameron urged that they stint, he was placed under surveillance. DAHIYAT AL BARID, WEST BANK climbed up, hoisting himself the last six out of the car, climbed the 13-rung ladder, This furtive predawn crossing is part think about what they would bequeath The wiretaps stopped just months be- feet because the ladder was too short. and slid down a rope on the other side. of a thriving smuggling industry that al- to the next generation. fore he committed last week’s double The wall, which Israel began building Within minutes, another car was lows untold numbers of people to pass ‘‘Above all it is about our economy,’’ murder. Thriving industry allows more than a decade ago to thwart sui- speeding the men to construction sites over, under,through or around what Is- he said. AcrossEurope and the United States, West Bank residents to cide bombers, is supposed to prevent in Israel, wherethey did not have per- raelis call the securitybarrier —for a Mr.Cameron is famously lucky,hav- law enforcement officials are struggling Palestinian residents of the occupied mits to work, and the man with the lad- price. ing pulled out last-minute victories in to reckon with attackerslike Mr.Ab- get past security barrier West Bank from entering into Israel der was leaving to look for more job The industry offerseconomic benefits numerous other scrapes. But in this balla and Omar Mateen, who killed 49 in outside military checkpoints where seekers willing to pay to scale the wall. for everyone involved: Palestinian case, many analysts say, he is damaged agay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., this BY JAMES GLANZ AND RAMI NAZZAL their papers can be examined. ‘‘In the West Bank, you have hustlers,’’ workers earn double or quadruple the goods even if he wins, with rivals cir- month. They are men who clearly But the Palestinian man perched in a said the man, who, like more than two wages they can in the West Bank; Israeli CAMERON, PAGE 5 seemed to be building toward violent At 4:15 a.m. on adead-end street, a33- gapinthe concertina wirethat tops dozen other Palestinians interviewed for contractors and restaurant owners pay acts, and whose names had surfaced in year-old Palestinian man came running much of the snaking 400-mile route of this article, spoke on the condition of an- less for illegal labor than for Palestinians terrorism investigations, but who had from the shadows between buildings the wall. He motioned to a white Daewoo onymity because he was breaking the with permits; and the smugglerscollect crossed no existing legal boundary al- with a rickety wooden ladder. He slapped sedan that had lurched to astop below, law. ‘‘You caneither call them hustlers, $65 to $200 for each person who passes. lowing them to be permanently locked it against the hulking concrete wall and and one by one, four young men stepped or you can call them brokers.’’ ISRAEL, PAGE 8 away until it was too late. With thousands of terrorism surveil- lance files running at any given time, the European authorities say they are swamped and put in the difficult posi- tion of trying to head off attackswhere Crash of U.S. bomber in 1966 the only forewarning is often in the form of what someone thinks, or what they left scars on a Spanish village are overheard saying. ‘‘A man is in a shop and thinks about PALOMARES, SPAIN aparachute. He cut offthe straps of the FACUNDO ARRIZABALAGA/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY stealing an object. What do you do? You parachute and took them home, along Prime Minister David Cameron on Tuesday put him in jail?’’ said Georges Sauveur, BY RAPHAEL MINDER with some work tools and bolts that he urged voters to stay in the European Union. a Paris lawyer who has defended sever- found scattered on the ground. al terrorism suspects, including one of José Manuel González Navarro, ame- ‘‘I was just thinking about what objects ‘BREXIT’ THREAT PUTS DEALS ON HOLD the men who accompanied Mr.Abballa chanic, headed out of this seaside vil- might prove useful,’’he said. ‘‘I liked fish- Investors are reluctant to invest in new to the forest in 2011 to slaughter rabbits, lage on his motorbikeone morning 50 ing,and those parachute straps, thin but stocks, and companies have delayed part of their preparation for carrying years ago when he heard explosions very solid, were clearly perfect to be I.P.O.plans until after the vote. PAGE 17 out jihad. ‘‘You can’t put him in jail un- overhead and looked up to see a ball of turned into a weight belt for diving.’’ less he takes the next step and attempts fire in the sky. Debris started to shower Likemanyin Palomares, Mr.Gonzá- STAY OR GO? REFERENDUM SPLITS BRITAIN to steal something,’’ down, some ‘‘falling very slowly, like if a lez Navarro, now 71, figured he had wit- The coming ‘‘Brexit’’ vote has prompted In late 2010, France’s domestic intelli- giant tree wasshedding shinymetal nessed a military air crash. But he was deep, sometimes bitter, divisions, even gence agency began watching Mo- leaves,’’ he recalled. unaware that aUnited States Air Force between parents and children. PAGE 5 hamed Niaz Abdul Raseed, a33-year- Mr.González Navarroturned around bomber and a refueling jet had collided, old living in the Vald’Oise region of and sped home to check that his house accidentally sending four hydrogen THE UNION’S FLAWS, LAID BARE northern France, whom they suspected IAN WILLMS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES had not been hit. He later drove back to bombs hurtling toward Palomares. Europe’s leaders must find ways to wasarecruiter for Al Qaeda. Theinves- José Manuel González Navarro at a tainted area near Palomares, Spain. He recalls the day 50 where he had seen debris land and Though no warheads detonated, two of overcome the national interests that tigation revealed that he had lured sev- years ago when four undetonated hydrogen bombs fell on the village after a midair collision. found an undetonated bomb attached to SPAIN, PAGE 4 hobble it, Eduardo Porter writes. PAGE 15 TERROR, PAGE 4

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IN YOUR WORDS California Venezuelans turn to pillaging The socialist government of Chávez and Maduro has completely lost the ability of has a lesson ruling the country and delivering basic public services, and it also completely ruined the private sector. That’s why for Trump there’s no education, no health services, no security and no food in Venezuela today. WOLFGANG SCHANNER, SAO JOSE DO RIO CLARO, BRAZIL

One of the problems with their government is it was set up with no checks and balances to favor Chávez’s party. The John legislature’s reform laws keep getting Harwood vetoed by Maduro’s supreme court at midnight sessions. MIKE, CHILE LETTER FROM AMERICA Venezuela is what happens when your entire economy is based on one commodity This is the nightmare that has Republi- —oil in this case. During the booms, you cans bolting upright: Donald J. Trump damages their party’s reputation so are fat and happy. But during the busts, you severely that its national competitive- are starving and desperate. Maybe what we ness is crippled —not just in 2016, but all need to learn, yet again, is that, during for years. the booms, plan for the busts. Anti-Trump sentiment among Latino, TJJ, ALBUQUERQUE Asian and African-American voters flashes clear warning signs. Because Shattering a sanctuary in Orlando nonwhite voters keep growing as a The bottom line is that the U.S. collectively share of the electorate, lingering im- pressions could haunt a generation of is O.K. with mass shootings. How else to Republican candidates. explain something horrific that happens The Sacramento-based strategist year after year, decade after decade, with Rob Stutzman warns Republicans else- no policy changes, no nothing, ever. where about what he calls the ‘‘soft Collectively, we’ve decided it’s no biggie. A racism’’ of Mr. Trump’s campaign: very sorry statement about this country. ‘‘Stand up against it now, or pay the MBS, INTERIOR ALASKA price for decades.’’ That’s precisely what has happened to CONOR ASHLEIGH FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES the party in California for 22 years, since It does not bode well that our supposedly From left, Timbo Molyneux, Ian Woodcock and Ormie Molyneux, all volunteers, with the coffin of Valerie Van Emmerik on the dance floor at a bowling club in Lightning Ridge, Australia. a landmark race for governor in 1994. representative Senate is completely The Republican incumbent, Pete unresponsive to its constituents, turns a Wilson, seeking a second term, faced blind eye to mass slaughter, and fails to Kathleen Brown, the daughter and sis- pass even one law to improve our safety. It ter of former Democratic governors. is exhausting to be on this roller coaster Amid rising anxiety and anger about pleading for a tiny bit of sanity such as Latino immigrants, Mr. Wilson em- Undertakers of the outback braced a ballot measure denying some closing the terrorist loophole, only to have taxpayer-financed services to those the effort fizzle and die on the Senate floor. LIGHTNING RIDGE, AUSTRALIA Mr.Molyneux pulled asoft ragfrom en, 79,aminer attending Mrs. VanEm- in 1996 raised $33,000 to build amorgue, who crossed the border illegally. SHERRY JONES, WASHINGTON the pocket of his miner’s shorts and pol- merik’s funeral. a sparse three-room building with a lino- A television ad dramatized his stance ished faint fingerprints from the coffin’s There are 900 houses in the township leum floor, where a dozen silver-handled with grainy footage of immigrants See what readers are talking about and In a dusty mining town glossy surface. ‘‘Ninety-nine percent of of Lightning Ridge, but an additional coffins stand upright in two rows. dashing into the U.S. as a narrator in- leave your own comments at inyt.com. with no funeral home, the people we bury, we know,’’ he said. 1,750 camps on the opal fields, where There is an air-conditioner, a shower, toned, ‘‘They keep coming.’’ ‘‘It’s not easy. Val was a good woman.’’ miners often live alone in tents or trail- three narrow steel trolleys to carry bod- It worked in the short run. Mr. amateurs do the honors ‘‘Everyone knew Val,’’ said Ian Wood- ers, unconnected to the town’s water ies, and a refrigerator that once stored Wilson won re-election handily. IN OUR PAGES cock, 78, the Funeral Advisory Service’s and electricity supply. beer for the local Lions Club. Nowit Yet California Republicans have BY MICHELLE INNIS manager. ‘‘She had a hard life. Her They often die alone, and sometimes sometimes holds club members. struggled ever since. The signal Mr. International HeraldTribune second husband wore her out.’’ penniless, another reason undertakers Mr. Woodcock learned the trade from Wilson and his party sent in 1994 alien- An opal miner with abushy beardand Mrs. Van Emmerik was loaded into from the town of Walgett refused to afriend who ranafuneral home closer ated Latino and other nonwhite voters 1891 Zola Passes on Parliament muddy boots, Ormie Molyneux lifted the the back of a black hearse and delivered come to Lightning Ridge. to Sydney. as their political clout was swelling. PARIS M. Emile Zola, the great moral dead woman’s thick body and placed it to the Lightning Ridge Bowling Club, Thevolunteers collect bodies from ‘‘I did a beautician’s course and can Before 1994, Republican nominees had regenerator of society, has declined an gently in a satin-lined coffin. His son, whereher coffinwas wheeled to the cottages in town, from canvas tents on do hair and makeup,’’ he said. ‘‘That carried California in six of seven presi- invitation to be a candidate for Parlia- Timbo, helped. Then they picked up the center of the faux parquetry dance floor. the dusty pink opal fields and from trail- was important for one burial. The chil- dential contests. Since then, they’ve lost polished lid and carefully pressed it shut. With the cemetery a mud pit, the lawn ersparked beside pebbly mine shafts. dren wanted their mother to look nice.’’ all five, averaging 40 percent of the vote. ment as representative of the Fifth Cir- bowling clubhouse would have to suffice Sometimes they retrieve bodies from There is no embalming service. Before 1994, Republicans had won cumscription of Paris. His reason, ex- LIGHTNING RIDGE JOURNAL for the funeral service. the scrubbysaltbush brush, where out- If a minister cannot officiate, some- three consecutive elections for gov- pressed in writing, is that his literary Mrs. VanEmmerik and her thirdhus- of-luck miners retreat to end their lives. times Mr. Woodcock’swife, Yvonne, 73, ernor. Since then, they’ve lost four of labors take up too much of his time to al- Mr. Molyneux was not one to com- band, Peter, ran a rough miners’ pub, ‘‘Summer is the worst,’’ Mr. Moly- does. five regularly scheduled contests. low him to do justice to a constituency. plain. But there were problems on the sardonically named the Glengarry neux said. Temperatures rise above 112 One of the town’s doctors or police of- In the meantime, Republicans have His modesty is worthy of commenda- horizon for the all-volunteer Lightning Hilton, near a cluster of opal mines. degrees and stay there for days. ‘‘It ficers certifies the death. When there is lost all six Senate elections. In four of tion. He would feel irresistibly impelled Ridge Funeral Advisory Service, the ‘‘Peter wasthe love of her life,’’ said her doesn’t take long for a body to fall apart doubt overthe cause, the body is sent to those races, Republican candidates town’s only undertakers. son Garry Horley, 61. The eldest of her six in that heat,’’ he said, recalling a dead a coroner in Newcastle, 420 miles to the failed to muster 40 percent of the vote. to defend with his tongue the principles The firstwas the woman beforehim, children, he had flown across the country miner whose arm fell offas he tried to southeast. The surge by Democrats in the na- that he has upheld with his pen, but is Valerie Van Emmerik, a thrice-married, from Western Australia for the funeral. pick up the body. The undertakerscharge about $2,600 tion’s largest state is not difficult to ex- doubtful whether he possesses the gift of rabbit-hunting miners’ cook who had ‘‘Val was aterrific painter,’’ said Mr. Woodcock has buried a murderer for a complete service, including $600 for plain. Mr. Wilson won in 1994 by domin- eloquence, and he is as much opposed to once knocked a man down in a fistfight. Paddy Ellis, 67,aminer.‘‘And she was and miners killed in collapsed shafts. the cemetery plot and the gravedigger. ating among white voters, who exit reading a speech as the staunchest She had to be buried, but heavy rains great at making pies.’’ But mostly,‘‘it’s about heart disease ‘‘It costs a lot of money to set up the polls conducted by the Voter News Ser- Scotchman. had turned the cemetery to mud and ‘‘She married a lot of people,’’ said and heat up here,’’ said SandraKuehn, infrastructuretorun afuneral busi- vice showed represented 78 percent of left her grave two-thirds full of water. BarbaraMoritz, the manager of the who manages the local doctors’ office. ness,’’ said Gillian Manson, a divisional the electorate. Latinos were 9 percent, 1941 Damascus Falls to Allies And aveterans’ club is kicking the Lightning Ridge Historical Society. ‘‘It’s the smokes and drink that kill executive officer from the Australian blacks 7 percent and Asians and other group out of a propertyitused to house ‘‘She was a slow learner.’’ them.’’ Funeral Directors Association, in Mel- minorities 6 percent. LONDON Capture of Damascus, the capi- its two hearses, ashed needed to keep Nine days earlier, Mrs. VanEmmerik As the service for Mrs. Van Emmerik bourne. ‘‘What they’vegot in Lightning By the 2014 election, whites had de- tal of French-mandated Syria, was an- them in good condition in the extreme was felled by a heart attack at age 79. began, mourners started to fill the bowl- Ridge is rare. It’s unlikely to be repli- clined to 59 percent of the vote, accord- nounced officially by British head- temperatures here. This was Mr.Molyneux’s 15th funeral ing club. The Rev. Neville Parish, a re- cated elsewhere.’’ ing to exit polls conducted by Edison quarters at Cairo tonight [June 21] ‘‘It was akick in the guts,’’ Mr. Moly- in five months. At 57, he is a third-gener- tired minister who had been called back ‘‘Time to SayGoodbye’’ played over Research. Latinos swelled to 18 per- thirteen days after British imperial and neux said. ation opal miner and the second Moly- for the funeral, asked whether anyone the club’s loudspeakersas Mr.Horley cent, Asians and other minorities to 14 Free French forces invaded the country Lightning Ridge, an opal-mining town neux to work as a volunteer undertaker, wanted to speak. and other pallbearers carried Mrs. Van percent, and blacks edged up to 8 per- to forestall its occupation by German on the edge of Australia’s outback, has a service his late uncle Bob founded. No Mr.Horley talked about his mother’s Emmerik’scoffin back to the black cent. Those nonwhite constituencies never had a professional undertaker. one is exactly sure when. love for Lightning Ridge. Jerry Lomax, a hearse to be driven to the mortuary. Her disproportionately backed the incum- troops. An official statement issued at The nearest one, an hour’s drive away, Lightning Ridge, with its small-scale, former president of the Lightning Ridge body would be returned to the refriger- bent governor, the Democrat Jerry Beirut on behalf of Gen. Henri Dentz, sometimes refused to come, and hauling high-stakes opal mining, attracts acer- Miners’Association, told the story of the ator until the ground dried out. Brown, Ms. Brown’s brother. Vichy High Commissioner for Syria and abody in a vanasitbounced along tain type —loners who come to escape time he had been punched to the floor at By 9 p.m., some 10 hours after the ser- ‘‘Republican leaders and candidates the head of the defending forces, said potholed roads and swerved to avoid society and find their fortune. Miners a miners’ meeting in a dispute over min- vice began, only asmall cluster of fam- were just too slow to understand what evacuation of Damascus had been kangaroos was a dicey proposition. peg and register claims, stipulated by ing rights. Mrs. VanEmmerik, the ily and friends remained. Television their demographic destiny was,’’ said ordered ‘‘in face of enemy pressure and So morethan 20 yearsago, agroup of law at 160 feet by 160 feet, and fiercely group’s secretary,had leapt to her feet sets above the bar blared out weekend Mr. Stutzman. in order to avoid street fighting.’’ locals decided to do the job themselves, guard those claims against thieves. ‘‘and taken the miner out’’ who hit him. sports news. Lately, California Republicans have becoming amateur undertakers. Since ‘‘Youcan have the arse out of your ‘‘She was a marvelous woman,’’ he Mr.Molyneux made his wayinto the worked to lure back Asian-American Find a retrospective of news from 1887 to then, they have buried 450 of their pants in the morning and be a million- said. cold night air and smiled. Mrs. VanEm- voters, who at one time were attracted 2013 at iht-retrospective.blogs.nytimes.com. friends and neighbors. aire by the afternoon,’’ said Tony O’Bri- Mr. Woodcock, known as Woody, had merik had been given a good send-off. to the Republicans’ economic and na- tional security policies. And they have seen an increasing number of younger Latinos register with no party prefer- ence, rather than as Democrats. Enter Mr. Trump, with his call for a Desmond Heeley, ‘alchemist’ of theater design, dies at 85 temporary ban on entry of Muslims in- to the United States, his description of BY BRUCE WEBER visual presentation, tinkering to the very cluded Bellini’s‘‘Norma’’ (1970), which nearby ShakespeareMemorial Theater some Mexican immigrants as ‘‘crimin- end. Those who worked with him said he starred Joan Sutherland and Marilyn (now the Royal Shakespeare Company). als’’ and ‘‘rapists,’’ and his remarks Desmond Heeley, acelebrated designer had apreternatural sense of what an Horne; Donizetti’s‘‘Don Pasquale’’ ‘‘My formative years were at Royal about the ‘‘Mexican heritage’’ of a fed- for the theater, the opera and the ballet, audience sees; he wasfrequently de- (1978), with Ms.Sills; and Puccini’s Shakespeare Company,’’ Mr. Heeley eral judge who was born in Indiana. whose costumes dressed the likes of scribed as an alchemist or magician be- ‘‘Manon Lescaut’’ (1980), directed by said in 2011 in an interview with Light & Now Mr. Stutzman fears Mr. Trump Laurence Olivier, Beverly Sills and Mar- cause his constructions —seemingly un- Gian Carlo Menotti and starring Renata Sound America, an entertainment tech- may set Republicans back just as the got Fonteyn, and whose sets were used in refined on close examination —dazzled Scotto. nology magazine. ‘‘I wasahandyman in Wilson campaign did in 1994, in Califor- major productions throughout the world, from a spectator’s perspective. His ballet work included ‘‘The Merry the theater, because Icould makethings nia and elsewhere. Santo Loquasto, the Tony Award-win- Widow,’’ a dance adaptation of the oper- —the odd sculpture, the odd prop. I don’t The demographic shifts that have un- OBITUARY ning designer, said that a Heeley design etta by Franz Lehar,for the Australian think I was very good, but I was quick.’’ dercut California Republicans are re- ‘‘often had a beautiful lushnessto it’’ Ballet (which featured Margot Fonteyn Mr. Heeley has no immediate survi- shaping the nation, too. Nationally, died on June 10 in Manhattan. He was 85. and revealed ‘‘a sculptural way of view- in the title role when it appeared in New vors.His partner,Lance Mulcahy, a presidential exit polls showed the share Thecause wascancer, said Philip ing things.’’ York Cityin 1976), and aTchaikovsky composer, died in 1998. of white voters in 2012 fell to 72 percent, Caggiano, a friend. Duane Schuler,alighting designer buffet: a ‘‘Sleeping Beauty’’ for the MAURICE BUTLER In an online interview with Playbillin from 87 percent 20 years earlier. With a painterly eye for beauty and the who was his frequent collaborator, re- Stuttgart Ballet, a‘‘Nutcracker’’ for the Mr. Heeley in 2006. His work spanned more 2011, Mr. Heeley recalled his first brush The Census Bureau projects that resourcefulness to create the impression called atwinkling tree that Mr.Heeley Houston Ballet and a‘‘Theme and Vari- than 50 years and earned him three Tonys. with the theater, and perhaps the seeds whites will become a minority of Amer- of elegance from the most mundane ma- made from shards of old CDs, and a ations’’ for the American Ballet Theater. of his life’s work. ica’s population by 2044. The Republican terials —aglittering chandelier for a 1993 whole shimmering ocean suggested by Of Mr. Heeley’s three Tonys, the first ‘‘At the age of 5, Iwas taken to see a National Committee itself, following its production of ‘‘La Traviata’’ at the Lyric clear plastic and clear tape. two were in 1968, for both costume and Ontario, where their ‘‘Earnest’’ was first pantomime, which I think was called 2012 presidential defeat, called expand- Operaof Chicago wasmade from plastic ‘‘He had a great sense of color and set design, for ‘‘Rosencrantz and produced. Mr. Bedford died in January. ‘Goldilocksand the Three Bears,’’’ he ing Hispanic support ‘‘imperative.’’ spoons —Mr. Heeley was a designer of proportion and asense of how to find Guildenstern Are Dead,’’ Tom Stop- At Stratford, Mr.Heeley designed said. ‘‘And for some reason, in it, there Mr. Trump, who flourished in Repub- both grandeur and witty panache. light,’’ Mr. Schuler said. ‘‘He’d build sets pard’s existential twist on ‘‘Hamlet.’’ It nearly 40 productions, beginning in 1957 was a spooky toy shop, which I thought lican primaries by appealing to work- His long career —on Broadway alone out of masking tape and water putty, wasthe firsttime anyone wonboth with ‘‘Hamlet,’’ starring Christopher wasrather good at 5, but out of this ceil- ing-class whites, has not changed it coveredmore than half acentury and and the texture would be rough, and up those design awards for the same show. Plummer, and concluding with ‘‘Earn- ing came this cardboardskeleton dan- course since securing the party’s nomi- three Tony Awards —began when he close they wouldn’t look like much; they His third Tony was for costume est’’ in 2009. cing about, and I canremember it nation. He insists he can compete even was a teenager in England, and early on were a mess. You’dtake20 steps back, design in his last work on Broadway, the Mr. Heeley was born in London on plainly, and thinking, ‘That’s not very in Democratic strongholds such as he worked with the innovative director and it was magical.’’ 2011 production of ‘‘The Importance of June 1, 1931, but details about his early good. It’s just an old cardboard thing.’ California, where Mitt Romney in 2012 Peter Brook. Mr.Heeley designed for Glynde- Being Earnest,’’ directed by and star- life remain obscure. ‘‘But at the same time, in the toyshop, drew just 37 percent of the vote. Mr.Heeley wasaskilled painter and a bourne, the operahouse in East Sussex, ring, as Lady Bracknell, Brian Bedford. He grew up near Stratford-upon-Avon there were these life-sized dolls in boxes, ‘‘It’s an absurdity,’’ Mr. Stutzman hands-on designer who concerned him- England, and La Scala in Milan. His Thetwo men had worked together and went to school on a smallscholar- and do you know what? They came alive. said. ‘‘Republicans will do better in self with every detail of aproduction’s work at the Metropolitan Opera in- manytimes at the StratfordFestivalin ship. Aheadmaster pointed him to the I was amazed. These dolls were alive!’’ California if he stays out.’’

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Trump enters the general Orange Avenue offersatableau of election campaign laboring under the American déjà vu, asprawl of Subways worst financial and organizational dis- and 7-Elevens so common in communi- advantage of any major partynominee ties across the continent. This one just in recent history, placing both his candi- happens to include agay nightclub pop- dacy and his party in political peril. ular with Latinos called Pulse, where Mr.Trump began June with just $1.3 gaping holes in the gray-painted exteri- million in cash on hand, afigure more or now reflect the infliction of anational typical for a campaign for the House of traumatic injury. Representatives than the White House, It’s easy to see Orlando as aplace and trailed Hillary Clinton by more than apart, our sanctuary of fantasy and es- $41 million, according to reports filed cape, where fun trumps work and late Monday with the Federal Election mouse ears are an accepted fashion ac- Commission. cessory.But when a deeply aggrieved, He has astaff of around 70 people — heavily armed man burst into this unre- compared with nearly 700 for Mrs. Clin- markable nightclub planted beside a ton —suggesting only the barest effort carwash, the ensuing mayhem did not toward preparing to contest swing seem to occur in some distant, discon- states this fall. And he firedhis cam- nected place. Instead, it became a paign manager, Corey Lewandowski, on sobering mash-up of so much that is Monday, after concerns among allies contentious in American life. and donorsabout his ability to run a Guns. Gayrights. Islamic extremism. competitive race. Immigration. Latinos. Guns. Playing out TheTrump campaign has not aired a just 20 miles from where George television advertisement since he effec- Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin, in a tively secured the nomination in May state slowly receding into the rising and has not booked anyadvertising for seas, it felt like Disney Dystopia —just the summer or fall. Mrs. Clinton and her in time for Election 2016. Orlando is more allies spent nearly $26 million on adver- than the country’s preferred family va- tising in June alone, according to the cation destination. Orlando is these frac- Campaign Media Analysis Group, pum- tured United States. meling Mr. Trump over his tempera- Past tragedies tended to unify Ameri- ment, his statements and his mocking of cans, said Gary R. Mormino, aretired a disabled reporter. The only sustained historian at the University of South Flor- reply, aside from Mr.Trump’s gibes at ida with a particular expertise in his rallies and on Twitter, has come from a state’s experience. Here in Florida — pair of groups that spent lessthan $2 ‘‘whereroots are as shallowasAustrali- PHOTOGRAPHS BY TODD HEISLER/THE NEW YORK TIMES million combined. an pines,’’ he wrote in an email —some A vigil for victims of the mass shooting in Orlando, Fla. The attack has stirred up much that is contentious in American life and doesn’t seem to have had a unifying effect. During an interview on Monday on people willrecall how, after Pearl Har- CNN, Mr.Lewandowski defended the bor,President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s candidate’s bare-bones approach. calm but assertive radio talks bonded ‘‘We’rean all-American town, but —except, say, South Carolina’s vote to ‘‘We are leaner, meaner, more effi- the country, elevating hopes. Many more we’re the new America,’’ he said. ‘‘We remove the Confederate flag from the cient, more effective.Get bigger crowds. will remember the feeling of shared grief have people from allbackgrounds and State House grounds after the Charles- Get better coverage,’’ Mr. Lewandowski as the newscaster Walter Cronkite walks of life.’’ ton shooting. said. ‘‘If this wasthe business world, wiped atear while reporting the assassi- That diversity includes gay men like It took a15-hour filibuster by Senator people would be commending Mr. Trump nation of President John F. Kennedy. Eric Rollings, 47, chairman of the Orange Chris Murphy, a Democrat from Con- for the way he’s run this campaign.’’ ‘‘But 2016 brings together the toxic County Soil and Water Conservation Dis- necticut with searing memories of the But the shortfall is leaving Mr.Trump elements of an election year, presiden- trict. He recalled moving to Orlando from slaughter of 26 schoolchildren and edu- extraordinarily dependent on the Re- tial candidates who polarize the elector- Michigan in 1989 and finding asmall, cators in Newtown, to get modest gun- publican National Committee, which ate, voterswho areafraid and angry, sleepy-town L.G.B.T. community still control measures to the Senate floor. Yet has seen record fund-raising this cam- and a press eager to exploit the spec- reeling from the AIDS epidemic. At the they had no moresuccess Mondaythan paign cycle and, long beforeMr. Trump tacle of division and disaster,’’ Mr. city’s firstgay pride parade, aquarter- similar proposals did after Newtown, even declared his upstart candidacy, Mormino wrote. century ago, he said, Ku Klux Klan mem- with the Senate, largely along party had begun investing heavily in a long- ‘‘Alas,’’ he added, ‘‘welive in a bers gathered at the corner of Magnolia lines, failing to advance bills that called range plan to bolster the party’s techni- Balkanized state and nation.’’ and Pine to ‘‘greet’’ the marchers. for an expansion of background checks cal and organizational capacity. On some level, there’sachaotic, only- Now, he said, the gay pride festivalis a for all gun sales and a delayin selling In afirst for a major-partynominee, in-Florida quality to the calamity at popular signatureevent in the city. And guns to suspected terrorists (consider Mr. Trump has suggested he will leave Pulse. On the previous Friday night, a on the January daythat same-sex mar- that phrase, by the way). the crucial task of field organizing in young singer named Christina Grimmie riage became legal in Florida last year, he Add to that the profound displays of swing states to the Republican National —famous for having appeared on ‘‘The noted, Mayor Buddy Dyer of Orlando of- support for the grieving L.G.B.T.com- Committee, which typically relies on the Voice’’ —was shot dead by astalker as munity here, offset by flashes of intoler- party’s nominee to help fund, direct and she signed autographs. On the following The nightmare unleashed by ance —apastor in Sacramento lament- staff national Republican political ef- Tuesday, an alligator killed a toddler at a Omar Mateen is a continuation ing that more hadn’t died —and forts. His decision threatens to leave the Disney resort. statements by morethan a few politi- At the ‘‘American Adventure’’ attraction at Disney’s Epcot theme park, animatronic like- party with significant shortfalls of But when Omar Seddique Mateen, 29, of the shared nightmare cians that somehow managed not to nesses of Benjamin Franklin and Mark Twain waved from the torch of the Statue of Liberty. money and manpower: On Monday, the a security guardwith thwarted law-en- Americans keep reliving. mention that many of the victims were party reported raising $13 million dur- forcement ambitions, entered the gay, or Latino, or both. ing May, about a thirdof the money it nightclub with ahandgun and amili- Finally, the Pulse massacre provided cuse to display our grievances and divi- Soon, an animatronic Benjamin Frank- raised in May 2012, when Mitt Romney tary-style rifle —both legally and ficiated the marriages of dozens of same- more rhetorical fodder for Donald J. sions. So respite wassought at one of lin and Mark Twain were leading ahalf- led the ticket. swiftly purchased —he was not coming sex couples on the steps of City Hall. Trump. He suggested that President the manyOrlando-area theme parks: hour tour of American history,beginning Mr. Trump’s cash crunch is a stark re- from some foreign land. He was a first- Mr. Rollings recalled much of this Barack Obama wastoblame. He trum- Epcot. The $121.41 cost of admission was with the Mayflower and ending with a versal from the 2012 presidential cam- generation American, born to Afghan while decompressing in a local restau- peted the positive aspects of racial pro- paid, as well as the $20 for parking. montage of famous American faces and paign, which seemed to inaugurate a Muslim parents in NewYork and edu- rant called Santiago’s Bodega. He wore a filing and reiterated his call for a tempo- Then began a slog in 90-degree heat moments: Marilyn Monroe and Magic cated in the public schools of Florida. T-shirt with slogans of determination — rary ban on Muslims entering the through this permanent world’s fair. Past Johnson, Elvis Presley and Albert Ein- Donald J. Trump began June And the community he was about to #OneOrlando, #OneHeart, #OnePulse United States. the margarita stands of fake Mexico, the stein, Walt Disney and Sally Ride, the ‘‘I with just $1.3 million in cash on devastate was not some foreign place — —and an expression that changed by the Mr.Trump also said the massacre pastries of fake Norway,the orange Have a Dream’’ speech of the Rev.Dr. not some stereotypical city of rednecks, minute. Nowgrief, nowexhaustion, now showed the need for more guns, not few- chicken with rice of fake China, the brat- Martin Luther King Jr., and firefighters hand, trailing Hillary Clinton snowbirds and Disney-besotted hordes. disbelief, now hope, now grief again. er, and imagined a scene in which some in wurst of fake Germany, the tiramisù of raising the American flag at ground zero. by more than $41 million. It was Tomorrowland today, abooming Thenightmare unleashed by Mr. the nightclub had been armed. ‘‘And this fakeItaly. On to the air-conditioned com- Themusic swelled, asinger urged and diversecityof 250,000, in which the Mateen is a continuation of the shared son of a bitch comes out and starts shoot- fort of a colonial building featuring the Americato ‘‘spread your golden Hispanic share of the population has nightmare Americans keep reliving — ing,and one of the people in that room ‘‘American Adventure’’ attraction. wings,’’ and the lights came on. With the new era of virtually unlimited money in grown to 25 percent. from Virginia Tech to Newtown to Au- happened to have it, and goes boom, An acappella group called the Voices showover, the audience wasdirected to American politics, buoyed by the Su- ‘‘I don’t even know that I’d character- rora to Charleston. Thenames of the boom —you knowwhat, that would have of Liberty serenaded visitors with a exit to the left, past white doors and into preme Court’s Citizens United decision ize it as aSouthern city anymore,’’ said victims maychange, but the Greek been a beautiful, beautiful sight, folks,’’ song that gave ashout-out to every the hot glareof what seemed likeanoth- two years earlier. By the same point that State Senator Darren M. Soto, aDemo- Chorus reaction is all too familiar. Shock said Mr. Trump, the presumptive Repub- American state. Then guests were di- er country entirely. year, President Obama and Mr. Romney crat who was born to Italian-American and grief,candlelight vigils and callsfor lican candidate for the presidency. rected to some closed white doors and were raising tens of millions of dollars and Puerto Rican parents in NewJer- unity, vows for change and legislative It was too much, all this death and instructed to remain on the blue carpet- Campbell Robertson contributed report- per month with their parties. And while sey. ‘‘It’s much more of a transplant, paralysis, finger-pointing and vitriol, grief and discord, as if the horrors un- ing and off the gold —at least until these ing from New Orleans, and Nick Mr. Romney faced a larger deficit over Hispanic kind of vibe in the city.’’ and, in the end, nothing much different leashed at the club were just another ex- doors opened to the auditorium. Madigan from Orlando. allagainst Mr.Obama in June 2012, he wasraising far moremoney than Mr. Trump is now, with big donorsflocking to his cause. ‘‘Thecampaign has got to be the en- tity that’s out theredriving the fund- Another impasse on gun bills, another win for hyperpolitics raising car,’’ said Austin Barbour,alob- byist who served as national finance co- WASHINGTON about to make it easy for Republicans, December 2012. It wasarecipe for fail- ism. Senator Mitch McConnell, Republi- to avoid serious political trouble on the chairman of the Romney campaign. pushing broader legislation on back- ure, leaving a sense of disappointment canofKentucky and the majoritylead- issue. Mr. Reid compared her position to ‘‘And it better be a big old Cadillac.’’ BY CARL HULSE ground checks, along with the central and anger among both lawmakersand er, accused Democrats of jumping on doing yoga on the Senate floor. Mr. Trump has defied conventional proposal that would have made it tough- survivors of those lost in an epidemic of the Orlando tragedy as ‘‘an opportunity Ms. Ayotte is part of a bipartisan wisdom before, clinching the Republi- This week’sfailed gun control votes in er for terrorism suspects to buy guns. mass killings —another instance of to push apartisan agenda or craft the group trying to negotiate an agreement can nomination with a small organiza- the Senate encapsulate much of what is ‘‘We arenot going to be a cheap date dashed hopes that the latest unimagin- next 30-second campaign ad.’’ on a new alternative first offered by Sen- tion and modest outlays on television. wrong with and most frustrating about on this one,’’ Senator Harry Reid of able slaughter would be the one to fi- Thepolitics were palpable. Demo- ator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine. And Republican officials believethey Congress. Nevada, the Democratic leader, said in nally provoke a compromise. crats believethat the gun issue could be That proposal would prevent those on are well prepared to compensate for Mr. Notone senator in either partybe- an interview last week. ‘‘What am Igoing to tell49grieving employed effectively against Republi- the federal no-fly list, and on a second list Trump’slate start. TheRepublican Na- lieves that someone who presents ase- Republicans, with much on the line in families?’’ an emotional Senator Bill can candidates in swing states likeNew for added airport screening,from buy- tional Committee has more than 500 this election year,werenot willing to Nelson, Democrat of Florida, asked Hampshire, Ohio and Pennsylvania that ing guns, but would allow for an appeal. field staff members on the ground in NEWS ANALYSIS cross the National Rifle Association, after the votes. ‘‘I am going to tellthem willdecide control of the Senate in No- Thefederal government would be ac- swing states, far more than in 2012, and which endorsed aRepublican alterna- the N.R.A. won again.’’ vember. Minutes before the votes, the countable for court costs for people who a robust digital and data operation. rious terrorism risk should be able to tive that Democrats branded unwork- The impasse has gotten to the point successfully contest the federal action. Allies of Mr. Trump say they believe waltz into a gun shop and legally buy able and phony. Democrats saythey whereit wasseen as something of avic- ‘‘What am I going to tell Ms. Collins and other Republican the tide is already turning.OnTuesday, powerful firearms. Yet partisanship, a cannot see themselves voting for any tory —one that took concerted efforts 49 grieving families? backers hope they canget avote on the Mr. Trump will appear at a high-dollar reluctance to compromise and the influ- proposal blessed by the gun lobby. by Democrats in last week’s filibuster — Senate floor.But they would need to at- fund-raiser in New York Cityhosted by ence of powerful special interests again Republicans, as the majority partyin to merely force votes on what most I am going to tell them tract substantial Republican support some of the most prominent names on prevented lawmakers from achieving a the Senate, were not about to cede too agreed would have been amainly sym- the N.R.A. won again.’’ even if every Democrat backed the Wall Street. consensus objective,as four separate much authorityto Democrats and allow bolic step toward tighter gun laws. measure, and that was in doubt. Lead- Fund-raisersfor Mr.Trump, who plans went down on Monday to an en- them to set the legislative agenda. Re- ‘‘We are at least going to get to see ing Democrats said they had not yet asked for anonymity to speak about in- tirely predictable defeat. publicans were not amused by a 15-hour where people stand on some pretty Democratic Senatorial Campaign Com- seen the proposal, and noted that Ms. ternal discussions, said they were now It was just the latest instance in which Democratic filibuster last week, a ma- simple concepts,’’ said Senator Chris- mittee issued anews release attacking Collins herself often clashes with her hoping to raise up to $500 million in joint lawmakers agreed that something neuver that essentially let the minority topher S. Murphy, Democrat of Connecti- Republican arguments against the leg- party on gun control and other issues. efforts with the Republican National needed to be done on an issue of nation- party take over the floor for the day. cut, who led the filibuster and has been a islation. Minutes after it failed, the or- ‘‘It doesn’t have to be this way,’’ Sen- Committee, or an average of $100 million al importance, but were unable to find a To top it alloff,the two parties agreed determined advocate of new gun laws ganization issued statements harshly ator Patrick J. Toomey, Republican of a month from June through October. He way to do it in Washington’s hyper- to afilibuster-proof, 60-vote threshold since the school shooting in Newtown. criticizing the votes of Republican con- Pennsylvania, said about the legislative is now reliably raising between $5 mil- political atmosphere. on the gun control proposals, one that To Republicans, acentral reason for tenders in Ohio and New Hampshire. futility represented in Monday’s lion and $7 million in each citywherehe Democrats, holding new political Democrats themselves couldn’t meet the Democratic push wastogain cam- Senator Kelly Ayotte of NewHamp- tableau. ‘‘That is what is so maddening raises money, those donors said. leverage after the killings of 49 people by when they controlled the Senate during paign fodder against vulnerable Repub- shire, one of the embattled Republicans, about this.’’ a gunman in Orlando, Fla., were eager to the failure of around of gun votes after licans, and to shift attention away from voted for both Democratic and Republi- It doesn’t have to be that way. But it Agustin Armendariz and Nick Cor- press their advantage and were not the shooting in Newtown, Conn., in Democratic policy on fighting terror- canplans on terrorist screening,trying always seems to be. asaniti contributed reporting. .... 4 | WEDNESDAY,JUNE 22, 2016 INTERNATIONAL NEW YORK TIMES world news europe

Crash of U.S. bomber left scars in Spain Identifying killers

SPAIN, FROM PAGE 1 the bombs shattered, spreading plutoni- um over the village. in sea of suspects Whereas American service members are complaining that the hurried TERROR, FROM PAGE 1 every single person youknow, it would cleanup effort carried out by the mili- en adherents, the youngest of whom be unmanageable’’ to try to wish them tary jeopardized their health, many in was Mr. Abballa. all a happy birthday, Mr. Bauer said. Palomares lament the damage the acci- Under the older man’s instruction, the ‘‘You need to make a selection. We don’t dent has done to their community. young men met in a public park to do know how to do that with the profiles of ‘‘Living in aradioactive site that calisthenics, they enrolled in a kung fu these people.’’ nobody really has wanted to clean has classand they gathered for lessons on Those kinds of suspects have created brought us a lot of bad publicity and has extreme Islam. They also took their day an awkwardmiddle ground for the been something hanging overour head trip to the forest in Cormeilles en Parisis French authorities, and the urgencyto like a sword of Damocles,’’said Juan José with the rabbits they had pooled their find new legal tools has rapidly in- Pérez Celdrán, a former mayor of Palo- money to buy. creased after the series of Islamic State mares. For years after the crash, local to- By the spring of 2011, two membersof attacks in recent months. matoes, lettuce and watermelons did not the group went to Pakistan, where they After Mr. Abballa killed the couple in carry any Palomares label because of the were housed by the same Al Qaeda facil- Magnanville, France, last week, a stigma associated with the place. itator who had provided refuge to the deputyin the French Parliament, Éric And the cleanup effort continues half Bali bomber, according to French court Ciotti, introduced abill creating the a century later. records obtained by The New York status of ‘‘administrative detention’’ for In 1966, American troops removed Times. those representing a security threat. He about 5,000 barrels of contaminated soil As the most junior member of the explained that it would be aimed at im- after the accident and called the cleanup group, Mr. Abballa was not chosen to go, mediately detaining hundreds of the complete. But about a decade ago, the and that frustrated him. ‘‘I’m thirsty for most severe cases on the S List, placing Spanish authorities found elevated blood, Allah is my witness,’’ he said in them either under house arrest or else levels of plutonium over 99 acres. Some one email intercepted by authorities. In in a detention facility in France. of the areas of elevated radioactivityal- another, he begged: ‘‘Please let me go, He called the measure necessary, spe- most touched private homes, as well as pls, pls, pls.’’ cifically because the penal code is based fields and greenhouses. Scientists from When it appeared that he would not on proving that an individual is not just Ciemat, the Spanish nuclear agency, be sent, he turned his rage toward talking or thinking about committing an fenced off the most hazardous sections France, writing on Feb. 19, 2011:‘‘With act of terrorism, but has actually taken and began pressuring the United States Allah’s will, we willfind away to raise steps to carry out the act. to remove about 65,000 cubic yards of the flag here.’’ Aweek later,he wrote ‘‘These people are known to us,’’ he radioactive soil —far morethan wasre- that they would ‘‘wipe away the infi- said. ‘‘I want to be able to take prevent- moved right after the accident. dels.’’ ive action.’’ In 2009, Foreign Minister Miguel Án- He wasarrested on May14, 2011. Like On June 14, Prime Minister Manuel gel Moratinos of Spain sent a confiden- the other members of the cell, he was Vallssaid that he would consider the tial note to Secretary of State Hillary proposal, but that therewould be ‘‘no Clinton warning that Spanish public PHOTOGRAPHS BY IAN WILLMS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES ‘‘It’s very easy retrospectively, Guantánamo’’ in France, the French opinion could turn anti-American if Tomato fields in Palomares, Spain. For years after the crash, local tomatoes did not carry a Palomares label because of the stigma. with hindsight, to say that law newspaper Libération reported. Spain disclosed aPalomares contami- Jean-Charles Brisard, head of the nation study,according to a note con- enforcement, or government, French Center for the Analysis of Ter- tained in the WikiLeaksdocuments and should have known about rorism in Paris, categorized the idea as published at the time by the newspaper someone’s intent.’’ ‘‘absurd,’’ and said that the country El País. In early 2011, Spain’s foreign could not jettison civil liberties. minister at the time, Trinidad Jiménez, He also said that putting everyone on told the Spanish Senate that cleaning up charged with belonging to a criminal or the SList under surveillance wasim- Palomares was a priority. terrorist organization, carrying amaxi- possible, given that there are over 10,000 In October, Secretary of State John mum sentence of 10 years, said Sébas- names and fewer than 5,000 agents. It Kerry signed a memorandum of under- tien Bono, the lawyer representing the takes 20 agents per suspect to provide standing in Madrid promising to finally ringleader of the group. 24-hour surveillance, he said, meaning return Palomares to its pre-1966 state. Considered the group’s least influen- France could at most provide round-the- Spain and the United States agree tial member, Mr. Abballa spent over two clock surveillance to only one-quarter of that about half akilogram, or about 1.1 years in jail and was out in 2013. He was the people deemed radicalized. pounds, of plutonium remains in the kept under surveillance until the end of ‘‘Myprofound conviction is that un- area —asignificant amount since less 2015. fortunately we need to get used to living than a microgram cancause cancer — ‘‘It’s very easy retrospectively,with with this new threat,’’ Mr. Brisardsaid. hindsight, to saythat law enforcement, ‘‘It’s permanent, it’s diffuse and it can ‘‘Living in a radioactive site or government, should have known erupt at any moment.’’ that nobody really has wanted about someone’s intent. But obviously there’s a big difference between motiva- JIHAD AND VENGEANCE to clean has brought us a lot of tion —someone being radicalized — The streets in the town of Magnanville, bad publicity.’’ and then going out and actually acting a community of 5,586 people less than 40 on that,’’ said Cmdr. Richard Walton, miles from Paris, are lined with neatly who wasthe head of counterterrorism trimmed hedges. It washere that Mr. and the American Energy Department for the London Metropolitan Police dur- Abballa waited for an off-duty police of- has agreed to remove the soil and take it ing the 2012 Olympics. ‘‘At any one time, ficer,Jean-Baptiste Salvaing,tocome to a nuclear storage facility in the in anycountry, there will be many hun- home last week. As neighborswatched United States. A formal agreement on dreds if not several thousand suspects in horror, he stabbed Mr. Salvaing in the the size of the cleanup, when it will start that fit this profile.’’ street and left him bleeding in the drive- and who will pay is still in the works. Among the difficulties for authorities way, then forced his wayinside the The long-term health consequences in 2011 was that Mr. Abballa aggressive- house. There he stabbed to death Jes- of the accident for Palomares residents ly denied any connection to terrorism. remain murky. He told investigators that he was an Many inhabitants consider the warn- atheist. He denied having taken part in ings of radiation overblown, but others the practice-beheadings of rabbits —he take a cynical view of why the American was not one of the men seen on the video and Spanish authorities have let them —eventhough the seven other men in live in a contaminated area for decades. the cell all said he had participated. And ‘‘They’re just using us as guinea pigs, to the members of the group contradicted see what happens to people who live in a each other. When pushed, one of Mr. Ab- contaminated area,’’ Francisco Sabiote, balla’saccomplices explained that they a plumber, said. ‘‘They tell us all is fine, Francisco Sadaño herding his sheep near the Zone 6 contaminated area. He remembers the crash, which happened when he was 10. had slaughtered the animals in order to but also that more soil needs to be taken have halal meat to eat during the Islam- away.Soifthat is really needed, whyall ic holiday Eid al-Adha. this waiting?’’ spared a direct hit. And once American oughly, but of course nobody here could struggling to get accessto the relevant It took investigatorstime to spot the Theday of the crash, another bomb service members took charge in Palo- afford to throw away clothing,’’ Mr. data, Pedro Antonio Martínez Pinilla, an hole in that claim: The forest slaughter FACEBOOK PAGE OF LAROSSI ABBALLA/AFP was found by Martín Moreno, now 81, mares, sharing their cigarettes and González Navarro said. epidemiologist, published a study in was in January, and Eid had already A photo taken from Facebook on June 14 who headed toward the cemetery with a beerswith the villagers, ‘‘this almost Since the crash, asample of the 1,700 2005 that found higher incidences of been celebrated two months before, in showed an undated image of Larossi Abballa. friend after seeing the collision over- became a partyatmosphere,’’ Mr. residents of Palomares has been checked cancer, but he concluded because of the November. head. They first spotted an American pi- González Navarro said. each year for radioactivity in Madrid, un- smallsample size that no correlation lot apparently sitting on the ground. American officials feared that evacu- der the supervision of the federal nuclear could be drawn between living in Palo- NEEDLES IN A HAYSTACK When they got closer,however, the pilot ating the area would create what the agency. Maribel Alarcón, a town hall offi- mares and incidences of cancer. While the legal systems may be differ- turned out to be dead. lead Atomic Energy Commission scien- cial, said that the recommendation from José Herrera Plaza, a Spanish journa- ent, the United States faced manyof the Mr. Moreno then climbed on top of the tist on the ground at the time called a Madrid wasthat each resident be tested list who recently published a book about same issues in their interactions with bomb to figure out what it was. ‘‘It ‘‘psychological monument’’ to the acci- every three years. She last got checked Palomares, said the accident had a pro- Mr. Mateen, who when questioned by looked like a strange and yellowish cas- dent, so they let villagers stay, assuring three years ago, testing negative. found psychological ‘‘hibakusha im- authorities about earlier threats to com- ket, with a gash on the side,’’ he said. Us- them that no radiation had been re- Many residents, however, said they pact,’’ the term used to refer to survi- mit violence insisted he had said those ing a screwdriver, he tried to cut it open, leased. They issued vague instructions had stopped getting tested over a decade vors of the American nuclear bombs things because he was angry after fac- to no avail. ‘‘We wanted to take out a and warnings to residents while offer- ago. Mr. Sabiote, 27,said he last traveled dropped on Japan in 1945. ing discrimination. chunk, but it was just too hard to break ing words of reassurance and financial to Madrid for amedical examination ‘‘All the communities that deal with After Mr. Mateen’s massacre, the di- off,’’ said Mr. Moreno, who added that compensation to farmers for their lost when he was 12 and had no plans to re- contamination, independent of whether rector of the Federal Bureau of Investi- he was in good health. harvests. The villagers, in any case, turn. ‘‘We all have to die one day of some- we canprove actual health problems or gation, James Comey, said that the ex- Of the 11 crew members on the two were just too poor to prioritize health thing,’’ he said, shrugging his shoulders. not, suffer and live with a permanent isting file on Mr.Mateen was one of American planes, seven were killed. But concerns over economic issues. Some Spanish scientists have carried paranoia,’’ he said. ‘‘hundreds and hundreds of cases all POOL PHOTO BY KAMIL ZIHNIOGLU for most villagers, what prevailed was ‘‘We were told that we should per- out their own studies on the Palomares acrossthe country,’’ and compared the Jessica Schneider and Jean-Baptiste Sal- not a sense of tragedy but a mix of bewil- haps get rid of what we had been wear- population, but also without finding evi- Dave Philipps contributed reporting task of weeding out those who are vaing were killed at their home on June 13. derment and relief at having been ing that day, or at least wash it thor- dence that should raise the alarm. After from New York. simply expressing extremist ideas from those who may act on those ideas to ‘‘looking for needles in anationwide sica Schneider, the officer’s longtime haystack.’’ partner, while the couple’s 3-year-old For France, a nation that has one of son watched. the largest numbers of citizens fighting In the time it took for police to close in Sweden toughens rules for refugees seeking asylum in the ranks of the Islamic State, the and shoot him dead, he paused to upload haystack is at least as big, and some say aFacebook Live video. He had taken BY DAN BILEFSKY seekers under the age of 25 would be re- could undermine stretched welfare sys- Sweden introduced new identity the caseload has become unmanage- time to prepare a speech running sever- stricted to those who have completed tems, national integration and quality of checksfor travelersarriving from Den- able. al pages long, and the sound of flipping Sweden, once one of the most welcoming high school and can support themselves. life. The issue has become acute ahead mark, prompting the Danes, who were ‘‘We are in fact drowning in intelli- pages can be heard while he speaks. countries for refugees, introduced tough People who are formally granted of Britain’s vote this week on whether to concerned about the potential for a gence,’’ says Alain Bauer,professor of ‘‘First of all, Ipledge allegiance to new restrictions on asylum seekerson refugee status would be able to bring leave the European Union, with those in bottleneck of migrants seeking to travel criminology at the National Conservat- Emir al-Mumineem Abu Bakr al- Tuesday, including rules that would limit overfamily membersfrom abroad, but favor of an exit from the bloc arguing through their country, to impose new ory of Arts and Crafts in Paris. Badghadi,’’ he begins, uttering the the number of people granted permanent the legislation would circumscribe the that membership has left the country controls on migrants traveling via its He and others saythat thereare pledge of allegiance to the leader of the residencyand make it moredifficult for family members who are eligible. unable to control its borders and defend border with Germany. Denmark also structural problems, including the fact Islamic State, using a similar formula to parents to reunite with their children. As elsewhere in Europe, the far right itself against an immigrant influx. passed a lawrequiring newly arrived that France’s so-called S List, a data- that uttered by Mr.Mateen, who called The government said the legislation, in Sweden has been railing against im- The proposed legislation in Sweden asylum seekersto hand over valuables, base of radicalized individuals, contains 911 from inside the nightclub to dedicate proposed by the Social Democrat migration, a stance that is increasingly quickly came under criticism from hu- including jewelry and gold, to help pay over 10,000 names, and is not ranked ac- his violence to the terrorist group. minority government and enacted by a resonating with voters. The Sweden man rights groups, which accused the for their stay in the country. cording to threat level. In along rant on the video, Mr.Ab- vote of 240 to 45, was necessary to pre- Democrats, a far-right anti-immigrant The United Nations refugee agency Though most on the list never commit balla’s thoughts returned to the frustra- vent the country from becoming over- party, wonalmost 13 percent of the vote The country’s far right has has previously warned that restrictions violence, othersturn out to be the worst tion he felt in 2011, when he begged to be stretched by the huge surge of migra- in a 2014 general election, and recent railed against immigration. on residencypermits in Sweden could of the worst. Eight of the 10 men who allowed to go abroad to wage jihad. tion to Europe that began last year. polls show it gaining in strength. undermine unaccompanied migrant staged the deadliest European terror at- ‘‘I address this also to the French infi- The country,which has a population Morgan Johansson, Sweden’s justice children in the country and that sepa- tack in over a decade —the Nov. 13 Paris del authorities. This is the result of your of 9.5 million people, took in 160,000 and migration minister, said in aheated country of passing rules harmful to chil- rating families for extended periods killings —were on the SList. Another work. You closed the door to my Hijrah,’’ asylum-seekers last year. parliamentary debate on the issue on dren as a way to deter refugees. could also have a ‘‘detrimental effect.’’ suspect on the list, Amedy Coulibaly, he said, using an Arabic term for apil- The government said that under the Mondaythat the country’s ‘‘system ‘‘Long a leader in promoting the Resentment toward migrants in had also spent time in prison on a terror- grimage that for some ISIS devotees new rules, individuals who want to bring would completely collapse’’ if 200,000 rights of asylum seekers and refugees, Sweden was heightened over the sum- ism conviction. His electronic bracelet has come to mean traveling to Syria and overfamily membersbut do not apply to asylum-seekers came to Sweden this Sweden is now joining the race to the mer when a woman and her son were was removedby the French authorities Iraq to join the group. ‘‘You closed the do so within three months of arriving in year, according to Radio Sweden. bottom,’’ said Rebecca Riddell, Europe stabbed to death at an Ikea in Vasteras. eight months before he opened fire in- door toward the lands of the Caliphate? Sweden, would have to prove they can fi- Wealthycountries acrossNorthern and Central Asia fellowatHuman An Eritrean who had been denied side akosher supermarket in Paris in Well,good then, we have opened the nancially support them; current regula- Europe, including Sweden, Denmark, Rights Watch. ‘‘Sweden should not sac- asylum was charged with the crime. 2015, killing five people in the Islamic door of jihad onto your territory.’’ tions require sponsors to demonstrate Finland and Britain, areincreasingly rifice the well-being of vulnerable chil- State’s name. only that they can support themselves. pushing back against callsto accept dren in an effort to make the country Christina Anderson contributed report- ‘‘If you take your daily agenda, and Alissa J. Rubin, Adam Nossiter and Lilia Permanent residency for asylum- morerefugees amid fears that they less attractive for asylum seekers.’’ ing. youwere to note down the birthdayof Blaise contributed reporting from Paris. .... 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Congolese gets 18-year Stay or go? E.U. vote splits British families sentence for LONDON BY KIMIKO DE FREYTAS-TAMURA Members of the Driscoll family tend not war crimes to fight. If they do, it’s over whose turn it is to vacuum. PARIS Leslie Driscoll, 55, sells hot cross buns in abakery in London and addresses her customers with ‘‘love’’ or Former vice president ‘‘darling’’; her husband, Peter, 54, led militia that stormed worksasafloor layer; their daughter, Louise, a19-year-old with dyed blue Central African Republic hair, is a barista in a hip coffee shop. But last week, the Driscolls fell out. BY MARLISE SIMONS Badly.They had an argument so big they did not speak to one another for Aformer vice president of the Demo- days, Ms. Driscollsaid. Shortly after- cratic Republic of Congo, Jean-Pierre ward,her husband went offinahuffto Bemba, wassentenced on Tuesdayto 18 see friends up north, in Derby. yearsin prison for crimes against hu- The source of the family drama: manity and war crimes committed by whether Britain should leave the Euro- militiamen under his command during a pean Union, a processoften called four-month rampage of looting, rape and ‘‘Brexit.’’ murder in the Central African Republic. With only days to go until the referen- Thesentence, handed down by an in- dum on Thursday on membership in the ternational panel of judges in The bloc, polls suggest that the country is Hague, is considered significant for a deeply split along socioeconomic and number of reasons. Notably,Mr. Bemba regional lines, with many older and was convicted even though he was far working-class votersin England favor- away from the militia fighting under his ing leaving, and younger and better- ordersand wasnot present during any educated Britons, and a majority of of the war crimes; the court said he was those in Scotland and Northern Ireland, culpable because of his command re- favoring staying. sponsibility. He should have halted or As the consequences of the choice prevented the crimes, the judges said. come into focus for voters, tensions are Mr. Bemba, who is now 53, was a busi- bubbling. In the case of the Driscoll fam- nessman and scion of a prominent Con- ily, they are boiling over. golese family beforerising to the vice ‘‘I completely disagree with her,’’ presidency —successful, rich and be- Louise said on arecent afternoon, look- lieved to be untouchable. ing at her mother squarely in the face as In 2002, he sent an expeditionary force they sat in a cafe. ‘‘We shouldn’t be leav- of his political party, the Congolese Lib- ing, like, an organization that has helped eration Movement, into the Central Afri- us more than we could ever help can Republic to help put down a military ourselves if we were to go it alone.’’ coup there. Though Mr. Bemba rarely Louise is the only one in her family who TOM JAMIESON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES visited the troops, the judges at the In- wants Britain to remain. Her parents and Leslie Driscoll, 55, right, argued with her daughter Louise, 19, at a cafe in London. Louise says the union ‘‘has helped us more than we could ever help ourselves if we were to go it alone.’’ ternational Criminal Court in The Hague her 80-year-old grandfather want out. found that he closely monitored their ac- ‘‘This is a little island,’’ her mother tivities, and convicted him in March. said matter-of-factly,lighting up a ciga- attempt was unsuccessful.) social welfare system. But Britain’s wel- Almost inevitably, the debate over im- Sylvia Steiner, the presiding judge in rette and letting the ash fall on her glit- In Islington, the neighborhood in Lon- fare system is not as generous as those With only days to go before the migration veered into an argument the case, read out a summary of the tery sneakers. ‘‘We should look after don where members of the Driscoll fam- of many other European nations, and referendum, polls suggest the about terrorism. Britain’s porous bor- court’s reasoning at the sentencing on our own first. Charity begins at home.’’ ily have lived for eight generations, res- fewer than 7 percent of immigrants re- country is torn along regional ders were letting terrorists slip through, Tuesday, saying that Mr. Bemba’s ‘‘But we are allpeople!’’ Louise said. idents are increasingly going public ceive benefits. and socioeconomic lines. Ms.Driscoll said, repeating amessage ‘‘knowledge of the crimes wasunques- ‘‘We should help each other.’’ with their voting intentions, which is a In Ms. Driscoll’s case, she remembers the camp to leave the European Union tionable.’’ He did morethan tolerate ‘‘It don’t work that way, darling,’’ her rarity in Britain. her grandfather pawning and re-pawn- has pushed on voters. them —he deliberately ‘‘encouraged at- mother replied, shaking her head. ‘‘If Rows of houses on some streets have ing his suit to get by. That memory was Louise grew up in the same area but Louise asked why she wanted to shut tacks on civilians,’’ the judge said. you’re born here, youpass as English. I ‘‘Remain’’ posters in their windows. On revived, she said, with the discovery a in amore prosperous, multicultural immigrants out of England. The force, comprising about 1,500 mi- don’t care whether you’re black, white, a thoroughfarefilled with butchers, few years ago that anewly arrivedPol- Britain than earlier generations had. In ‘‘It ain’t the nice ones I’m worried litiamen, rampaged through towns on green or blue, or purple with pink spots bakeries and fish-and-chip shops, ish family in her neighborhood had re- school, she wasone of only two white about,’’ her mother replied. ‘‘It’s the its path; the militiamen claimed after- on —you’re English.’’ tradespeople nodded their head vigor- ceived money to buy a car and move in- students. Her friends are Eritrean, Ni- nasty ones.’’ ward that they had been poorly paid and Those born abroad, Ms. Driscoll said, ously when asked whether they were to a four-bedroom house. gerian and South African. ‘‘To have opened the floodgates, it’s that they were rewarding themselves ‘‘have got their own governments, their planning to vote out. ‘‘Years ago, we never had social secu- Louise voted for the Green Party in like saying, ‘Come, and come and kill by raping and pillaging. own parliaments, whatever.’’ The debate over Britain’s membership rity or anything likethat,’’ Ms. Driscoll last year’s general election and was ap- us,’ ’’ she said. ‘‘We can get on abus to- The sentence given to Mr. Bemba Acrossthe country,the debate over in Europe has touched on issues as var- said. ‘‘You sold your own.’’ palled that her mother,traditionally a morrow with a blokewith abackpack, heavily emphasized the militia’s unre- Europe is pitting husband against wife, ied as immigration, terrorism, the econo- Hergrandmother would get her Labour voter,had opted for the anti- and bye-bye, boom,’’ Ms. Driscoll lenting campaign of rape, ‘‘committed children against parents, sisters against my, London’s housing shortage and the ‘‘granddad’s suit out of pawn when he Europe, anti-immigration U.K. Indepen- added. ‘‘Yeah? Nothing to do with what throughout the operation,’’ against brothers, divisions unlikely to be healed fate of the National Health Service. got paid on Friday, put it back in pawn dence Party. (‘‘Sorry, Iknow I’m a bit they call their beliefs.’’ women and men, adults and children. easily after the referendum is decided. Some of these issues, like immigration, on Monday,’’ Ms. Driscoll said. ‘‘That’s antiquated —can’thelp it, love,’’ Ms. Louise rolled her eyes. In what sound- The judges cited instances of gang rape Even the family of Boris Johnson, the are directly related to the European Un- how they lived.’’ Driscoll replied, somewhat sheepishly, ed like a final plea, she said: ‘‘The E.U. is and took note of the lasting physical and former mayorof London and the most ion. Others, like the shortage of afford- Having different cultures and com- after Louise uttered an expletive.) going to affect my generation more than social harm that rape victims suffered, prominent face of the campaign for able housing, have little to do with it. munities is ‘‘fantastic,’’ she said, ‘‘but Louise said she understood the pres- it willaffect your generation. So including stigmatization, ostracism and leaving the bloc, has not been immune Yet those distinctions areblurring. what I don’t like is the fact that, through sures that immigration placed on shouldn’titbedown to us to decide disease. to disputes: His father,Stanley; sister, Formany, the referendum is as much a having that, we’ve nowleft ourselves schools and hospitals. But leaving the whether or not to stay?’’ Because of the large number of rapes Rachel; and brother Jo,who is amem- chance to register displeasurewith the open. Ifeel likeasecond-classcitizen in European Union worried her, she said, Hermother fell silent and was and what the judges called their partic- ber of Parliament and who worked country’s direction as it is an opportuni- my own country.’’ because it risked wrecking the economy thoughtful. closely with Prime Minister David ty to reject or embrace Europe. The Ms. Driscoll is proudly English (not, and making it hard for young people to ‘‘I am 55 yearsof age,’’ she said Cameron, favorremaining in the union. stance of some votersis being shaped in her mind, British —she crossed out secure employment. It took her eight slowly. ‘‘I know —Iappreciate that in 50 Boris Johnson’s mother, Charlotte John- by personal experience and anecdote. the word on her passport and replaced it months to find work as a barista, she years’time, you’ll be hereand Iwon’t, son Wahl, wants to leave.(Rachel John- There is, for example, a widespread with ‘‘English’’). Her father fought in said. and you’ll have to put up with son reportedly tried to dissuade the perception that European citizens are World War II, and her grandfather in ‘‘If I wanted to work abroad, it would whatever’s happened.’’ former mayorfrom backing a British flocking to Britain, especially from World WarI. She has lived all her life in be a lot easier if England was in the She paused. ‘‘But I still want out,’’ she exit over a soggy game of tennis, but the Eastern Europe, to take advantage of its this area of London. E.U.,’’ Louise said. said. ‘‘Sorry.’’

BRIEFLY ‘Brexit’ vote is a problem of Cameron’s own making International

MICHAEL KOOREN/REUTERS CAMERON, FROM PAGE 1 worse.’’ ter who organized the last such referen- Jean-Pierre Bemba in The Hague on Tues- cling to succeed him and Conservatives Tim Bale, professor of politics at dum in 1975, Mr.Cameron’s referendum day at the International Criminal Court. more divided than ever. Queen Mary University of London, is began as an exercise in ‘‘internal party If he loses, he will come under pressure slightly less harsh. ‘‘It’s really a binary discipline,’’ called ‘‘for party reasons to resign, and even if he were to hang on legacy’’ for Mr. Cameron, he said. ‘‘It is more than national ones,’’ Mr. Travers for some portion of the four yearsleft in either one that ends in almost complete said. He did more than tolerate the his government’s term, whatever sub- failure or one that seems pretty respect- Nicholas Soames, Winston CAIRO crimes —he deliberately stantive legacyhe might have built will able in electoral and policy terms. I Churchill’sgrandson, aCameron friend Egyptian court voids transfer ‘‘encouraged attacks on be lost to what manyconsider to be a can’tthink of another prime minister and Tory legislator,was morescathing of 2 islands to Saudi Arabia civilians,’’ the judge said. wholly unnecessary roll of the dice. who had so much riding on one de- about the failure of several Conserva- Martin Wolf, the economic columnist cision.’’ tive leaders to confront, rather than ap- An Egyptian court on Tuesday nullified of The Financial Times, said that ‘‘this If the Remain campaign loses, ‘‘the pease, the hard-line Tory euroskeptics. a government decision to transfer sov- ular brutality, rape as awar crime and a referendum is, arguably, the most irre- chances of him staying on are pretty re- ‘‘If youhave an Alsatian sitting in ereignty of two strategic Red Sea is- crime against humanity receivedmore sponsible act by a British government mote,’’ Mr.Bale said. ‘‘He will go down LUKE MACGREGOR/BLOOMBERG NEWS front of you, and it growls at youand lands to Saudi Arabia, delivering a sur- weight in sentencing even than murder in my lifetime.’’Summarizing the nearly as the person who miscalculated, taking The chancellor of the Exchequer, George Os- bares its teeth, there aretwo ways of prising setback to President Abdel —18years for the rape-related charges, unanimous opinion of economists that a us out of Europe almost by mistake, and borne, has cited the financial risk of quitting. dealing with it,’’ Mr.Soames said. ‘‘You Fattah el-Sisi. with concurrent sentences of 16 years ‘‘Brexit’’ would be followedby a major then shuffled off the stage’’ in ‘‘a pretty can pat it on the head, in which case it’ll Saudi Arabia had placed the islands for murder and pillaging. shock and permanent loss of growth, he ignominious exit.’’ bite you, or youcan kick it really hard’’ under Egyptian control in 1950 amid Prosecutors had asked for a 25-year concluded: ‘‘The outcome might well Even if Remain wins, givenMr. to force it away. fears that Israel might seize them. In sentence, and mayappeal the sentence prove devastating.’’ Cameron’ssmall parliamentary major- If Britain opts to leave, ‘‘Successive prime ministers, and it’s April, Mr. Sisi returned custody of Tir- as too lenient, experts following the Mr. Cameron argues that the referen- ity and ‘‘the number of hard-line euro- Mr. Cameron ‘‘will go down as not the present prime minister alone, an and Sanafir —arid and uninhabited case said. Victims’ groups had asked for dum had to be called to resolve the fester- skeptics and Cameron-haters, he’ll be the person who miscalculated, have never understood that they have islands at the mouth of the Gulf of Mr. Bemba to be sentenced to the max- ing debate over Britain and the European subject to defeats and blackmail until he taking us out of Europe almost to take these people on,’’ Mr. Soames Aqaba —to Saudi Arabia during a visit imum possible penalty, without citing a Union and that, as in the Scottish referen- steps down,’’ Mr. Bale said. ‘‘It is not go- said. by the Saudi monarch, King Salman. specific figure. dum on independence in 2014, this vote ing to be a lap of honor for the next two by mistake.’’ If Remain loses, both Mr.Cameron Tuesday’s ruling was largely unex- Mr. Bemba had already been detained represents a ‘‘great festival of democra- or three years, it is going to be about get- and his right-hand man, George Os- pected, because the Egyptian judiciary for eight years before and during his tri- cy’’ on a very difficult and divisive topic. ting overthe finishing line with some ger margin than expected. borne, the chancellor of the Exchequer, has long been considered to be deferen- al, so he would presumably now have 10 But if the Scottish referendum turned dignity intact.’’ Even before the election, some, like are likely to be gone within months, Mr. tial to —and critics would say, compli- years left in his sentence if it stands at 18 nasty, and kept the United Kingdom to- There arethose who support the con- Robin Niblett, director of Chatham Lewington said. Even if Remain wins, cit with —the country’s leadership. In years. It has been customary at interna- gether,this one has become poisonous, tention that Mr. Cameron had to call this House, an international affairs institute, Mr.Cameron is likely to move Mr.Os- recent years, Egyptian judges have tional tribunals to deduct one-third of with Mr. Cameron’s owncabinet col- referendum in the face of Tory division and asupporter of Remain, argued that borne out of the treasury to another sentenced hundreds of government the total sentence, so Mr. Bemba may be leagues and supposed friends claiming and the rise of the U.K. Independence areferendum would come at some post, like foreign secretary. critics to lengthy prison sentences or eligible for early release in as little as that he has eroded trust in politics, por- Party, or UKIP, and its voluble leader, point, and that it would be more easily While all denyany ambition to re- even death. four years. traying him as a liar.It has been a cam- Nigel Farage. UKIP was cutting into the won under Mr. Cameron and the Tories. place Mr. Cameron, the sharks are in the Largely because of pressurefromhu- paign punctuated by numerous claims Conservative vote by arguing,as the Charles Lewington, aformer director water.They areled by Boris Johnson, AMMAN, JORDAN man rights advocates and women’s that have little relationship to the facts, Leavecampaign does now, that Britain of communications for the Conserva- the former mayorofLondon and a Car bomb near Syrian border groups, organized or massrape is in- with sharp tones of xenophobia, racism, could only limit immigration and control tives, said there had to be a referen- prominent campaigner for leaving the creasingly being recognized and prose- nativism and Islamophobia, and it was its own borders by leaving the Euro- dum. European Union. But the winner of such kills 6, including 4 soldiers cuted as a weapon of war rather than as marked tragically last Thursday with the pean Union. The bloc requires that cit- By 2013, he said, ‘‘there was tremen- contests in the Tory party is rarely the Four Jordanian soldiers, a police of- a byproduct of war. Other international assassination of a young Labour mem- izens of member nations be free to live dous pressure for an in-out referendum one who wields the knife, and while Mr. ficer and a civil defense officer were courts have convicted defendants of ber of Parliament and mother of two, who and work anywhereinthe single mar- and not just from the old guard,’’he said, Johnson would seem to be in a good po- killed on Tuesday after a car bomb ex- rape as a warcrime and a crime against fiercely backed the Remain campaign. ket. citing growing concern from Conserva- sition, his success is far from assured. ploded on the Jordanian border with humanity, but Mr. Bemba’s was the first ‘‘Who put Britain in this situation if Mr. Cameron, who had repeatedly tive members of Parliament that they Mr. Osborne’s prospects have faded and Syria, according to a statement by the such conviction by the International we leave?’’ asked Steven Fielding,pro- pledged to get immigration down to the were at risk of losing their seats in dis- he has become atarget of Tories who Jordanian Armed Forces. Criminal Court. In two earlier cases in- fessor of political history at Nottingham ‘‘tens of thousands’’ — even though last tricts where UKIP was strong.Given want to leave. But he cannot be ruled The attack took place on the Syrian volving Congolese warlords, incidents University. ‘‘Cameron has made the year net migration was about 330,000 the panic in the party, he said, ‘‘I don’t out if Remain wins big and he has time side of the border near a camp for of rape were widely reported but not case against himself, and he’s damaged people —never had a persuasive an- think he could have avoided making an to recover his reputation. refugees in Rukban, Jordan, where an prosecuted. either way.’’ swer to the immigration question. To in-out manifesto commitment.’’ Other possible successorsinclude estimated 60,000 people are living in More than 5,000 civilian victims par- Mr. Cameron presumably thought it pacify the growing number of anti- But Tony Travers, professor of gov- Theresa May, the home secretary. ‘‘Or it harsh conditions. ticipated in the court proceedings and would be an easy win for Remain, Mr. European Tories, keep his leadership ernment at the London School of Eco- could be someone unknown, asafe pair No group claimed responsibility for may be awarded reparations payments. Fielding said. ‘‘But it’s far tighter than position and undermine UKIP, he prom- nomics, is lesssure. ‘‘Cameron didn’t of hands,’’ Mr. Traverssaid. ‘‘After all, the attack, which prompted the author- Judge Steiner said the court would deal anyone thought, and rather than a salve ised this in-or-out referendum if he won need to do it,’’ Mr.Travers said. Like no one thought John Major or Margaret ities in Jordan to close the northern and with reparations in a separate ruling. on the Tory party it’s made the fever the 2015 election, which he did by a lar- Harold Wilson, the Labour prime minis- Thatcher would become leader.’’ northeastern borders with Syria. .... 6 | WEDNESDAY,JUNE 22, 2016 INTERNATIONAL NEW YORK TIMES Opinion How Britain’s media went pro-Brexit ARTHUR OCHS SULZBERGER JR., Publisher

DEAN BAQUET, Executive Editor STEPHEN DUNBAR-JOHNSON, President, International other newspapers, particularly but not ly small circulations and preach largely short years by this relentlessly expand- Martin Fletcher exclusively the tabloids, started press- to the converted. The Times has been ing German-dominated federal state.’’ TOM BODKIN, Creative Director PHILIPPE MONTJOLIN, Senior V.P., International Operations ing their own correspondents to match evenhanded, though it finally declared Loughborough University’s Center JOSEPH KAHN, Assistant Editor JEAN-CHRISTOPHE DEMARTA, Senior V.P., Global Advertising Mr. Johnson’s imaginative reports. on June 18 that it favored staying in the for Research in Communication and RICHARD W. STEVENSON, Editor, Europe ACHILLES TSALTAS, V.P., International Conferences By the time I arrived in Brussels, ed- European Union. But the biggest broad- Culture has calculated that 82 percent of PHILIP P. PAN, Editor, Asia CHANTAL BONETTI, V.P., International Human Resources LONDON No one should be surprised itors wanted only reports about face- sheet (The Telegraph), the biggest mid- newspaper articles about the referen- V.P., International Consumer Marketing CHARLOTTE GORDON, that Britain could vote to leave the less Eurocrats dictating the shape of market paper (The Daily Mail) and the dum favor Brexit when circulation and JAMES BENNET, Editorial Page Editor PATRICE MONTI, V.P., International Circulation European Union on Thursday. For de- the cucumbers that could be sold in biggest tabloid (The Sun) have thrown ‘‘strength of papers’ endorsements’’ are JAMES DAO, Deputy Editorial Page Editor HELENA PHUA, Executive V.P., Asia-Pacific cades, British newspapers have offered Britain, or plots to impose a European themselves shamelessly behind Brexit. taken into account. InFacts, a pro-Re- TERRY TANG, Deputy Editorial Page Editor SUZANNE YVERNÈS, International Chief Financial Officer their readers an endless stream of superstate, or British prime ministers They have peddled the myths that main group that campaigns for accurate biased, misleading and downright falla- fighting plucky rear-guard actions Britain pays 350 million pounds a week journalism, has filed 19 complaints with MARK THOMPSON, Chief Executive Officer, The New Yo rk Times Company cious stories about Brussels. And the against a hostile Continent. Much of the (about $500 million) to the European the Independent Press Standards Or- STEPHEN DUNBAR-JOHNSON, Président et Directeur de la Publication journalist who helped set the tone — British press seemed unable to view Union; that millions ganization, Britain’s print media watch- long before he became the mayor of the European Union through any other Led by Boris of Turks will invade dog, leading to five corrections, includ- London or the face of the pro-Brexit prism. These narratives reflected and Johnson, the Britain because Tur- ing one against a headline in The Sun campaign —was Boris Johnson. exploited the innate nationalism, his- key is about to be that proclaimed, ‘‘Queen Backs Brexit.’’ I know this because I was appointed torical sense of superiority and disdain country’s offered European The watchdog has yet to rule on the rest. Brussels correspondent for The Times for Johnny Foreigner of many readers. news media Union membership; It is often said that newspapers no LET THE GAMES BEGIN CLEAN of London in 1999, a few years after Mr. Articles that did not bash Brussels, have been that immigrants are longer matter. But they do matter when Johnson reported from there for anoth- that acknowledged the European Un- smearing the destroying our social the contest is so close and shoppers see In a perverse way, Russia has done a favor to international er London newspaper, The Telegraph. I ion’s achievements, that recognized European services; and that headlines like ‘‘BeLeave in Britain’’ The Inter- sport. For too long now, as the stench of scandal has wafted had to live with the consequences. that Britain had many natural allies in Union for de- post-Brexit, Britain emblazoned across the front pages of national Mr. Johnson, fired from The Times in Europe and often won important argu- will enjoy continued tabloids whenever they visit their su- through the Olympic Games, international soccer and cades. Olympic 1988 for fabricating a quotation, made ments on, say, the creation of the single access to Europe’s permarket. They matter if they have other global sports, governing bodies have reacted timidly, his name in Brussels not with honest market, were almost invariably killed. single market with- collectively and individually misled Commit- throwing out a bad egg or two but little else. reporting but with extreme euroskepti- The European Union can be meddle- out automatically allowing in European their readers for decades. cism, tirelessly attacking, mocking and some, arrogant and incompetent, but Union workers. The upshot is that Mr. Johnson and tee’s de- The scale and organization of Russian cheating, cision to denigrating the European Union. He seldom if ever was the ordinary British Some samples from recent Daily Mail his fellow Brexit proponents are now however, made any halfway measures impossible: The wrote about European Union plans to reader told how it had secured peace on headlines give the flavor: ‘‘We’re from campaigning against the caricature of bar Rus- International Association of Athletics Federations and the take over Europe, ban Britain’s favorite the Continent, embraced the former Europe: Let Us In!’’; ‘‘Ten Bombshells the European Union that he himself potato chips, standardize condom sizes Communist countries of Central the E.U.’s Keeping Secret Until After helped create. They are asking the Brit- sia’s track International Olympic Committee were entirely right to and field and blow up its own asbestos-filled Europe, broken up cartels or forced You’ve Voted’’; ‘‘Greediest Snouts in ish people to part with a monster about bar Russia’s track and field team from participating in the headquarters. These articles were un- member states to clean up their rivers the E.U. Trough.’’ These are from The as real as the one in Loch Ness. Mr. team could Rio Games. Russia, of course, blamed everybody else. doubtedly colorful but they bore scant and beaches. Sun: ‘‘We’ll Get Stuffed by Turkey’’; Johnson may be witty and amusing, but relation to the truth. British newspapers’ portrayal of the ‘‘Checkpoint Charlies: Euro Judges he is extremely dangerous. What began ultimately ‘‘Only people who are lazy don’t kick Russia in sports lead to a Mr. Johnson’s dispatches galvanized European Union in the lead-up to the Open Floodgates to Illegals’’; ‘‘Eur All as a bit of a joke could inflict terrible these days,’’ complained Dmitry Svishchev, chairman of the rest of Britain’s highly competitive referendum on June 23 has likewise Invited.’’ Formally endorsing Brexit on damage on his country. level play- the Russian parliamentary committee on sports. and partisan newspaper industry. They been negative. The Financial Times June 13, The Sun, a mainstay of the ing field in It may be that he and other Russians really don’t get why were far more fun than the usual dry, and The Guardian have backed the Re- xenophobic press, declared: ‘‘If we MARTIN FLETCHER is a former foreign and policy-driven Brussels fare. Editors at main campaign, but they have relative- stay, Britain will be engulfed in a few associate editor of The Times of London. sports. they’ve been sanctioned. Once their doping program was outed, senior sports officials seemed to believe that a bit of public contrition coupled with some superficial corrective measures would be enough. It had before —aTimes investigation, for example, found that the World Anti-Doping Agency mishandled multiple warnings about Russia. But whether the Russians get it or not, the reason for this extraordinary step is quite simple: Vladimir Putin’s Russia took doping to a level far beyond where it had ever been, at least since East Germany’s elaborate doping program collapsed with the country. To followers of sport who thought they had seen it all — from Lance Armstrong’s years of denial to the corruption at the helm of FIFA —the string of revelations in recent months of Russian behavior was mindboggling: The systematic swapping out of urine samples in the middle of the night was the stuff of spy thrillers. It represented a deliberate, state-sponsored assault to trash the notion of a level playing field in favor of extracting every drop of propaganda from medal counts. Russian athletes are certain to fight through the courts, creating suspense as Rio approaches. But a relentless spotlight may be exactly what world sport needs. Already many of the world’s best athletes are rising up and demanding investigations of doping in their disciplines, and other sports federations are under pressure to act decisively and sternly. A level playing field may be within reach.

VENEZUELA’S DESCENT INTO CHAOS As growing lawlessness, looting and hunger threaten to Confront- plunge Venezuela into a state of anarchy, its neighbors ing the na- remain reluctant to confront President Nicolás Maduro. tion’s crisis There have been unabashed enablers, a resolute camp of will require left-wing governments that have served as apologists for leadership the despotic president. There are the co-opted, a pack of from re- CHRISTOPHER FURLONG/GETTY IMAGES Caribbean and Central American nations that have turned a Boris Johnson, the former mayor of London and the face of the pro-Brexit campaign, at a rally last month in Stafford, England. gional lead- blind eye to Mr. Maduro’s abuses in exchange for subsidized ers who oil. And there are the ambivalent, a large and powerful have been group of nations that only gently criticize the government of strikingly Venezuela, if at all, for its mounting human rights violations. passive. On Thursday, diplomats from across the hemisphere are Pension holders don’t need stock tips scheduled to convene in Washington at the request of Luis Almagro, the secretary general of the Organization of in 2013 had just $111,000 in 401(k)’s and allocate their assets, evaluate mutual employees totaling at least 10 percent of American States, to discuss Venezuela’s descent into Steven Rattner I.R.A.s, a fraction of the six to 11 times funds and even select individual stocks. wages annually. Those funds should be annual earnings needed to be financial- It ain’t working. In the first quarter of professionally managed by independ- chaos. Key members of this organization, including Contributing Writer ly secure, according to calculations by 2016, domestic mutual funds —afavor- ent, multiemployer entities created for Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru Alicia Munnell, an economist and re- ite investment vehicle for these retire- this purpose and structured to avoid the and the United States, should demand that the Venezuelan Having long fretted over the state of tirement expert at Boston College. ment accounts despite their chronic un- conflicts of interest inherent in the cur- government start allowing the delivery of humanitarian America’s retirement system, I was de- More important, the move to defined- derperformance —had their poorest rent system. (To minimize the burden lighted that the Department of Labor is contribution plans turned every Ameri- showing in nearly two decades. on Americans who are already strug- aid and permit the opposition to hold a referendum on vigorously defending its new rule re- can with a retirement account into an Through June 15, the 20 most popular gling, the program would be phased in.) whether Mr. Maduro’s term should end early. quiring brokers to recommend only in- investment manager —atough busi- funds for 401(k) assets were up 0.6 per- Until we fix the broader mess, indi- Clearly, the Maduro government has failed to govern vestments that are in the best interests ness for even the savviest professionals. cent so far in 2016, compared with 2.4 viduals should follow a few simple of holders of retirement accounts. Last November, Goldman Sachs — percent for the Standard & Poor’s index. rules: democratically, a commitment required of all O.A.S. Hats off to the Obama administration an exceptional firm Then there’s the folly of trying to • Try to save as much as possible of member nations. Mr. Maduro has packed crucial state for forcefully addressing the very real Because of a —issued six invest- time markets, a practice that smart in- your income, ideally 10 percent to 15 institutions with loyalists and has stymied the opposition- conflict between commission-based fi- dysfunctional ment recommenda- vestors like Warren Buffett eschew. percent. nancial advisers and their clients. But tions for 2016: buy Back in early February, when markets • Never, ever pick a stock or an actively run Parliament at every turn. His government has kept the country’s retirement problems are retirement stocks in large banks, were plummeting, a friend told me she managed mutual fund. Use only low- political opponents arbitrarily jailed for years. vast and require much more reform. In system, too sell yen and so forth. had moved a large account from stocks cost index funds. The calamity in Venezuela won’t be solved without fact, we need a complete revamping of many Ameri- In early February, to a money-market fund. Sure enough, • Emphasize equities when you are comprehensive reforms, which the Maduro regime has our pension arrangements. cans haven’t Goldman abandoned just a few days later, the market turned young; fixed income as you get older. Once upon a time, many Americans saved enough. five of them, after upward and recovered all its losses — Better yet, consider target-date funds, been unwilling to even contemplate. The government has enjoyed an employer-based, defined- We need a huge losses in just a while she recouped none of hers. which do this rebalancing for you. • been refusing offers of humanitarian aid, even as benefit system in which they could de- better way. few short weeks. Finally, even with reforms like the If you have a good 401(k) plan and you Venezuelans perish in growing numbers because hospitals pend on a no-hassle pension of a spe- Nor are the Wall new Labor Department rule, the sys- change jobs, either leave it where it is or cified amount. Street firms’ records tem is rigged against most individuals: move it to your new employer; I.R.A.s have run out of medicine, and food has grown scarce. But about two decades ago, faced with individual stocks anything to brag As small investors, they pay higher should be your last choice. They often In the long run, Venezuela will most likely need help from with mounting costs and increased reg- about. In this year’s first quarter, the fees and don’t have access to the come with higher fees and at least until international financial institutions to start addressing its ulatory burdens, employers began re- stocks rated highest by analysts fell smartest advisers. As a professional in- the new rule takes effect, bad advice. placing traditional plans with ‘‘defined and the stocks rated lowest rose. • runaway inflation, avoid defaulting on its loans and diversify vestment manager, I’m appalled at Don’t cash out early. contribution’’ plans like 401(k)’s. If highly paid professionals often fail what I see happening to many friends. As a nation, we Americans indisput- an economy that has been perilously dependent on oil. None That created two immense problems. to deliver, the notion of amateurs trying While we can’t simply blow up the ably face a retirement crisis. The one of this is likely to happen unless the opposition succeeds in First, only about 10 percent of partic- to play the game is nuts. What sane per- current system, we should take the advantage of our current system is that its push to oust Mr. Maduro through constitutional means. ipants have been contributing the max- son would try to rewire his house or take smaller step of requiring companies we each have the ability not to make it imum amount allowable. out her own appendix? And yet under (other than small businesses) to offer worse. But without firm international pressure, Mr. Maduro, whose As a consequence, the average Amer- our supposedly improved retirement revamped 401(k)’s, including mandat- term ends in 2019, may find a way to sabotage the recall vote. ican household approaching retirement system, Americans are encouraged to ory contributions from employers and STEVEN RATTNER is a Wall Street executive.

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Trump’s playground humor

Lisa Lampanelli, the Queen of Mean The only constructive edits Mr. Trump Emma Roller herself, has roasted Mr. Trump twice, did give the writers, according to Mr. Contributing Writer and appeared on Season 5 of ‘‘Celebrity Joyce, were in service of making himself Apprentice.’’ Now, she likes to say that look better, richer, even larger than life. he stole his comments about Mexican One joke’s premise was that Donald The legendary insult comic Don Rickles immigrants from her own act. Ms. Lam- Trump lived in a 150,000-square-foot supposedly has one nagging fear in the panelli said he was a ‘‘good sport’’ dur- marble penthouse orbiting the earth. back of his head when he goes out on ing his 2011 Comedy Central roast, but ‘‘He crossed out ‘150,000’ and he put onstage. may not have fully processed the jokes ‘300,000,’ ’’ Mr. Joyce said. ‘‘He needed ‘‘I’m always afraid that somewhere being made at his expense. people to know that his fictitious space out there, there is one person in the ‘‘ I have the impression he didn’t station was bigger.’’ audience that I’m not going to offend,’’ even hear half the jokes we said about Mr. Trump’s jabs may represent a de- he once said. him. He just knew he should laugh,’’ parture in American politics —or at Donald J. Trump seems to approach she said. ‘‘If his name was on it, he was least, a departure from how we think politics in the same way. His opponents happy. It was kind of a Charlie Brown politicians are supposed to act. all get schoolyard nicknames — ‘‘Lyin’ teacher all the time, like, ‘Womp, ‘‘It is a performative way of flipping Ted,’’ ‘‘Little Marco,’’ ‘‘Crooked Hil- womp, womp, womp, Donald Trump.’ off the establishment: ‘I don’t have to lary.’’ And then he would laugh.’’ play by your rules. I can make my own And on Twitter, his favorite rapid re- Mr. Trump’s sense of humor is about rules,’ ’’ said Mary E. Stuckey, a profes- sponse platform, canine comparisons as sharp as a soup spoon. But for his sor of communication and political sci- run amok: Mitt Romney ‘‘choked like a fans, that’s part of the appeal. ence at Georgia State University. dog’’; Glenn Beck ‘‘got fired like a ‘‘I think people confuse being blunt That is part of why his insults reson- dog’’; Kristen Stewart ‘‘cheated on’’ and forceful as the truth,’’ Mr. Kond- ate with voters. But most of the comedi- Robert Pattinson ‘‘like a dog.’’ (It abolu said. ‘‘People assume that if ans I talked to were very clear in saying makes you wonder if Mr. Trump knows someone says something with confi- he’s not actually a funny guy —not on A nation of healers what dogs do on a day-to-day basis, or if dence and makes you laugh and is say- purpose, at least. he thinks they are constantly getting ing something that might be in your ‘‘It’s the difference between a drunk he pulls in 100 possible hires, most of who is going to die next. They don’t fired from their dog-jobs between enga- head, that it’s the truth.’’ uncle telling a knock-knock joke about them either fail the drug test or don’t really understand what death is and ging in extra-doggital affairs.) The same politically incorrect style Mexicans at Thanksgiving versus show up for it because they know they wonder if their loved one is going to be Talk to Mr. Trump’s supporters after that has earned Mr. Trump a cadre of Mark Twain,’’ Mr. Joyce said. ‘‘One of will fail. wet and cold if it’s raining on his grave. one of his rallies, and they sound like loyal fans has also them is being funny on purpose, and But this kind of tour is mostly uplift- The older kids are sometimes fans exiting a raunchy comedy club What do alienated much of the the other one is just an arrogant ba- ing, not depressing. Let me just de- trapped in magical thinking: Maybe if show: He’s not afraid of being ‘‘politi- insult comics nonwhite male popu- boon.’’ scribe two people I met on Saturday in I’d gotten better grades, he wouldn’t be cally incorrect.’’ He takes no prisoners. lation. A recent ABC Todd Barry, another New York stand- David Albuquerque. gone. Sometimes they will start dress- He ‘‘goes there.’’ think of Don- News/Washington up comic, has appeared on the FX show At the New Day Youth and Family ing, talking and acting like the de- So what do actual insult comedians ald Trump's Post poll found that ‘‘Louie’’ and performed in Comedy Brooks Services program I was introduced to ceased. make of his insults? barbs? 94 percent of African- Central’s roast of Chevy Chase. He said an 18-year-old woman who’d been born Many teenagers don’t want the other The comedians and rhetorical wizards Americans dislike Mr. Trump was ‘‘occasionally funny,’’ to heroin and meth addicts. She’d spent kids in school to know, so they go I talked to compared Mr. Trump’s sense the presumptive Re- but that doesn’t make him an insult her early girlhood riding along as they through life as if nothing is wrong. Then of humor to that of a teenage boy sitting publican nominee, along with 89 per- comic. I’ve been traveling around to the most trafficked drugs from Mexico. When three years later when they suffer at the back of the classroom, insulting cent of Hispanics and 77 percent of ‘‘I can’t say he’s good at insulting economically stressed parts of the they were unable to take care of her, some breakup or setback, it all comes the teacher when her back is turned — women of all races. people, but he does insult people,’’ he United States. she cycled through other homes where barreling out because it hasn’t been playing Bart Simpson to an uptight, po- Jesse Joyce, a stand-up comic, has said. ‘‘There’s times I’ve reluctantly You see a lot of dislocation on a trip she was physically abused. She fell into processed up until now. litically correct Edna Krabappel. written jokes for 10 Comedy Central laughed at things he’s said. That like this. In New Mexico, for example, I relationships with men who mistreated Along with a hundred other volun- Hari Kondabolu, a stand-up comic in roasts, including the 2011 Trump roast. doesn’t mean I’m voting for him.’’ met some kids who lost their parents — her, was hounded in school for being teers and staff members, Bock gets New York, said that Mr. Trump rein- He says a good roast joke lies in near Jake Weisman, a comedian in Los to drugs, death, deportation or some- (supposedly) obese these kids to process their grief. She forced his ‘‘hateful, negative’’ rhetoric obsessive research about the guest of Angeles, compared Donald Trump’s thing else. The more and was sent to sits with them in group after group, with humor, and that that’s what made honor, combined with razor-sharp writ- public persona to that of lewd-and- They get run through a bunch of sys- time you psych wards for de- tender but in a realistic no-nonsense it effective. But it doesn’t make him a ing. ‘‘A roast joke is like a samurai crude ‘‘shock jocks’’ like the radio host tems, including homeless shelter, foster pression. sort of way. She’ll cry and be present, comedian. sword,’’ he said. Howard Stern. That makes sense, con- care, mental health and often juvenile spend in the Yet this woman but she won’t let you escape the task of ‘‘Calling Donald Trump an insult So how did Donald Trump wield that sidering that Mr. Trump has been a fre- justice. They’re like any kids —they hardest glows with joy and moving through it. If it’s mentionable comic is giving him way too much cred- sword at his own roast? quent guest on Mr. Stern’s program. turn hungrily to any beam of friend- places, the good cheer. She’d it’s manageable. Pain that is not trans- it,’’ he said. ‘‘It’s also insulting to com- ‘‘He is the worst person I’ve ever had ‘‘Saying something insane is funny ship. But for these kids, life has been a more amazed built a family out of formed is transmitted. edy.’’ to deal with, as far as writing jokes go,’’ because society says not to say insane series of temporary stops at impersonal you become. her friendships. The social fabric is tearing across But Mr. Trump’s style of playground Mr. Joyce said. ‘‘He’s kind of anti-com- things,’’ Mr. Weisman said. ‘‘When you places. They sometimes have only the She’d completed high this country, but everywhere it seems humor is appealing to people (specifi- edy.’’ say, ‘Ban all Muslims,’that’s shocking, vaguest idea where they are going next school, learned to ex- healers are rising up to repair their cally, white men) who are feeling that At roasts, the ‘‘guest of honor’’ gets to but it’s not a joke.’’ month. ‘‘I’m going back into the foster press her moods through poetry and small piece of it. They are going into they aren’t in on the joke. give a rebuttal —written by professional A lesson Mr. Trump could learn is care system,’’ one teenager told me, novellas, found a place to live through hollow places and creating community, ‘‘A lot of these people feel like they’re comedians —to the people who have that sometimes, the funniest jokes without affect either way. New Day’s Transitional Living Pro- building intimate relationships that losing out, and what Trump performs spent the past hour raking him over the aren’t the most shocking, but ones that You meet people who are uncomfort- gram, found a job and had plans to go to change lives one by one. on an everyday basis is winning,’’ said coals. While most guests of honor will be seem the most accurate. able with the basics of the modern community college. I know everybody’s in a bad mood John Murphy, an associate professor of good-natured about poking fun at them- At the 2011 Trump roast, the rapper economy. I have no idea how a person this about the country. But the more time communication at the University of selves, Mr. Trump was not, according to Snoop Dogg delivered the best joke of I met a woman in West Virginia who beautiful can emerge from a past that you spend in the hardest places, the Illinois. ‘‘The insults, I think, are part of Mr. Joyce. He said the writing team the night: ‘‘Donald said he wants to run had just learned, to great relief, that she hard, and yet you meet people like this more amazed you become. There’s winning: ‘I can say these awful things would send potential jokes to Mr. Trump, for president and move on into the didn’t have to give an anticipated all the time. Their portion of good luck some movement arising that is suspi- and somehow get away with it.’’’ and the script would come back with the White House. Why not? It wouldn’t be speech at church. ‘‘We’re not word may have been small, but their capacity cious of consumerism but is not social- What Donald Trump does on Twitter, punch lines blacked out with marker. the first time he pushed a black family people,’’ she explained. Those words for gratitude is infinite. ist. It’s suspicious of impersonal state on cable news and at his rallies is not ‘‘He would literally send it back re- out of their home.’’ hang in the air. A lot of wonderful Earlier in the day I’d met Jade Bock. systems but is not libertarian. It be- roast humor, but it serves a similar pur- dacted, like a real estate contract. I’ve people speak through acts of service, When she was 17, Bock lost her father to lieves in the small moments of connec- pose: bringing the audience over to his never seen anybody do this before,’’ EMMA ROLLER is a former reporter for Na- but it’s hard to thrive in the information a workplace accident. Now she’s found tion. side by taunting everyone else. Mr. Joyce said. tional Journal. age if you don’t feel comfortable with her calling directing the Children’s I remember watching an after- verbal communication. Grief Center. school counselor in Texas sitting in a You see the ravages of drugs every- This is a center for kids who, given circle of little girls who had nowhere where. I ran into a guy in Pittsburgh the stress and poverty all around, have else to go. She offered them a tongue who hires people for his small plant. He often lost their fathers to suicide, drugs twister: ‘‘O.K.,’’ she said chirpily, has to give them drug tests because or accidents. ‘‘who can say ‘Unique New York’ six they’re operating heavy equipment. If The young kids are anxious about times fast?’’ A home after prison

But such overly broad rules are only housing based on a conviction alone. Nicholas Turner tenuously related to public safety. The New York City Housing Author- Worse, they are counterproductive. ity and the Vera Institute of Justice, of Research shows that people who find which I am president, are helping 150 safe, affordable housing after they are people who have been out of prison for For nearly 10 years, Marcus lived in a released from prison are significantly three years or less reunite with their tiny cell in Sing Sing prison. His wife more likely to find a job and stay out of families. Participants receive help with and children were eager for him to re- trouble. In one study of people who re- employment, health and social ser- turn to their home in public housing in turned to society after completing a vices. And if they complete the pro- Harlem. After he completed his sen- sentence, 60 percent of people who gram without incident, they can join the tence for attempted armed robbery and lived on the street and 50 percent of lease. Several already have. possession of stolen property, his parole those in shelters were rearrested with- As promising as these reforms are, board said he was ready to rejoin soci- in a year, compared with 29 percent of they’re just a few bright spots in an oth- ety. But the city’s public housing au- people who had a home. erwise grim reality. thority disagreed: Because Marcus —a Such punitive policies may also be il- All local housing authorities should pseudonym —had a criminal record, he legal. The Department of Housing and follow these examples and revise their was ineligible to live with his family. Urban Development announced in No- rules to align with HUD’s guidelines. Nationwide, more than 600,000 vember that federal Many people who return from prison people return from prison each year People with housing providers often live illegally with their families or and try to rebuild their lives. The only criminal con- could not deny hous- friends in public housing, for lack of DAMON WINTER/THE NEW YORK TIMES viable option for many of them is public ing solely on the basis other options, and put those on the Donald Trump during a campaign event last week in Greensboro, N.C. housing. But local housing authorities victions, and of an arrest, which is lease at risk of eviction. It’s much bet- across the United States write their even mere insufficient proof of ter for public safety, as well as for them own rules. And they routinely bar ap- arrest re- criminal activity. It and their families, if we help people live LETTERS TO THE EDITOR plicants with criminal convictions — cords, are un- warned in April that out of the shadows. and often people with mere arrest re- fairly barred criminal background HUD should do more to encourage cords. That means these policies can af- from public screenings that ex- cities to moderate their restrictive Feminism for a new era In my school district, school buses have hausted, but there is no leave offered to fect the nearly one in three Americans housing. acerbated racial dis- policies. It should significantly shorten been eliminated except for disabled stu- me. The same when children are sick, or who have some kind of criminal record. parities might violate periods of exclusion, make local hous- Re ‘‘How to Fix Feminism,’’ by Judith dents, so children are reliant on parents it’s the school play, or soccer games, or Some people are excluded by federal the Fair Housing Act. ing authorities look at applicants on a Shulevitz (Review, June 11): to drive them if they cannot bike safely. any other of the myriad times that law, specifically certain sex offenders Local housing authorities must help case-by-case basis and mandate that So much of Ms. Shulevitz’s article res- A public focus on providing safe, reli- mothers take time off for their children. and people who have been convicted of people get back on their feet. The good only offenses suggesting future risk to onated with the women I know. Many of able transportation and after-school ac- Doesn’t anyone ever realize that all the making methamphetamine in public news is that a growing number of them the housing communitycan lead to ex- us have talked about how our mothers tivities as well as a school calendar that assistance offered to women with chil- housing. Otherwise, administrators are. clusion. The agency should also provide appeared to have an easier time build- makes sense for working parents would dren is at the expense of someone else? from the nation’s 3,300 public housing For many years, New Orleans effec- better training to officials at public ing careers with children back in the go a long way toward easing some of the I don’t care if you call it feminism or authorities, which serve 1.2 million tively kept most people with convictions housing authorities. ’70s and ’80s than we have had today. stress women face daily being both a re- something else, I would just like to see a households, are supposed to balance out of public housing. That was no small Marcus got an unexpected second The longer workweek, constant ‘‘on sponsible parent and a valuable system that works for everyone. family unity against a person’s poten- feat for a city that sends more people to chance two years after he was released call’’ status, and, for those in the service employee. LINDA PORTER, SEATTLE tial risk to society as they consider ap- jail per capita than almost any other city from prison. He was allowed to move in sector, uncertain working hours and un- ELIZABETH CONNELL NIELSEN, plications. But far too often, they divide in the country. But earlier this year, it with his family in Harlem through our affordable child care have all played a NOVATO, CALIF. I wonder if it’s time to drop the word families without cause. became the first city to comprehensively pilot program with the housing author- part in this problem. A few additional ‘‘feminism.’’ It means so many different A single arrest in the past five years, rewrite its rules on criminal background ity. He now works in construction and barriers were not mentioned, however. What does Judith Shulevitz’s brand of things to different people as to almost for instance, can jeopardize a family’s checks in public housing applications. will most likely join the lease soon. After the economic turmoil of the ’80s feminism offer to women who do not become meaningless. Far too often I’ve application to public housing in parts of New Orleans now looks at the sever- We must take a hard look at how we and beyond, many of us are left with have children? They are often the ones seen people arguing over their particu- Maine, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Oklaho- ity of the crime and the time since con- treat people who have repaid their debt school systems that offer little to no left behind in the office, taking on all the lar interpretations of what feminism ma and California. In St. Louis, anyone viction to determine if an applicant can to society. Many of them return to com- after-school enrichment or meaningful extra work that piles up when someone means rather than over any of the real who has used, sold or made drugs in the live in its public housing or should be munities that have been devastated by activities. Now we have to pay for goes on leave. I’ve had to travel more, issues that we face today. In fact, I’ve past decade is barred from public hous- further evaluated. For those who re- generations of tough-on-crime policies. someone to take our kids to sports prac- work longer hours and manage more long been of a mind that we should drop ing. quire more consideration, often for re- We should use public housing policy to tices or music rehearsals, or do so people because someone in the office all ‘‘-isms’’ whenever possible. Joining a To be sure, public housing officials cent or serious convictions, a panel will help people with convictions succeed, ourselves. Additionally, there are nu- had a baby. And, this has happened mul- school of thought, any school of thought, have a serious obligation to guarantee make a decision based on the person’s not continue their punishment. merous teacher training days and early tiple times in my career. can too easily become a shortcut around residents’safety. So it’s no surprise that criminal history, rehabilitation efforts, release days, and often the first or last It is just assumed that women like me thinking. many have ostensibly created these community ties and employment his- NICHOLAS TURNER is the president of the week of school is made up of half days will take over for the new moms. By the JONATHAN KRAUSE, policies out of an abundance of caution. tory. No one will be turned away from Vera Institute of Justice. for which child care must be obtained. time she comes back to work, I’m ex- OXFORD, ENGLAND .... 8 | WEDNESDAY,JUNE 22, 2016 INTERNATIONAL NEW YORK TIMES world news middle east asia

Smugglers open door to jobs, and violence, in Israel

ISRAEL, FROM PAGE 1 workers stay with relativesor friends, who spoke on the condition that he be Punishment for those caught is gener- and some, like Abu Khalid, camp outside. identified only as Abu Ramzi, said that he ally being sent back to the other side. At 50, he has the sign of his seniority and his colleagues alerted Palestinian se- The system punches ahole in Israel’s on the job, a walkie-talkie in his pocket. curity forces at the first hint that a client system for regulating Palestinians’ ac- Abu Khalid said that a package deal for intended to commit violence in Israel. He cess to work inside Israel, and has secu- the jump overthe wall and transporta- complained that the Israeli military had rity implications: Attackers, like the two tion to his work site cost about 800 stepped up patrols of the southern barri- Palestinian men who fatally shot four shekels for a solo trip; when three men er since the Tel Aviv shootings. people this month at aTel Aviv cafe, go in together, he said, they can cross for ‘‘Before this last attack, the army sneak through as well. perhaps 300 shekels each. ‘‘That’s a lot would act as if nothing was going on — The two men lived in Yatta, a village in of money,’’ Abu Khalid said. 30 or 40 workerswould cross into Israel the West Bank’s south, near where the Workers ‘‘punch in’’ as soon as they all at once,’’ said Abu Ramzi, 34. ‘‘This unfinished barrier consists mostly of a arrive at a job site, he added, and both last attack has temporarily complicated metal fence with numerous gaps and Israeli and Palestinian contractors our operation.’’ Still, he said, ‘‘we will al- holes. Micky Rosenfeld, an Israeli police knowthey have no permits. At day’s ways find ways to get these workers in.’’ spokesman, said they had entered Israel end, Abu Khalid continued, ‘‘we go find That resolve was tested after nightfall illegally, ‘‘most probably via one of the a water pipe to take ashower, and then on June 14, when five pickups and a areas which are open or not completed.’’ we find a nice tree and sleep under it.’’ Mazda sedan filled with workers TheShin Bet, Israel’s internal securi- Passage is not always as simple as go- massed in the center of Dahriya.With ty agency, says that from Oct. 1 to Feb. 1, ing up a ladder and down a rope. Two their lights off, the vehicles made two at- 21 Palestinians who attacked Israelis young workers —Ahmad, 19, and tempts to cross the web of rutted, rocky were in the country illegally. Bassem, 21 —sat on aterrace in their dirt roads and reach gaps in the fence, Since the Tel Aviv attack, the Israeli village, north of Ramallah, and chuckled but they turned back because spotters Defense Ministry has promised to ex- about atime when tight security forced saw Israeli ArmyHumvees converging tend a more effective form of the barrier them to go under the wall, not over it. on the same areas. to the south, an area heavily trafficked ‘‘We used to go through a water main Finally, the smugglers’ vehicles by smugglers. But the government’s like snakes,’’ Bassem said. roared toward another spot, throwing up other response to the shooting, the can- Ahmad’s father, who also spoke on the thick billows of dust and bouncing the cellation of 83,000 special permits for condition of anonymity for fear of legal Palestinians to cross during the holy repercussions, said his son provided a ‘‘Whenever you have illegal month of Ramadan, may reveal how dif- prime source of income for the family. workers, it is part of the ficult it will be to stanch the flow. But Ahmad is also a source of deep anxi- At the Qalandiya checkpoint outside ety because of how he travels to work. reality, it is part of the the city of Ramallah on the Fridayafter ‘‘When he goes and he comes, I have economy.’’ the attack, men stood at the edge of the my hand on my heart in fear of some- restive crowds no longer able to pass thing happening,’’ the father said. through, shouting ‘‘tahreeb, tahreeb’’ workers mercilessly in the beds of the —Arabic for ‘‘smuggling, smuggling.’’ STEPPING UP PATROLS trucks. At the bottom of the hill, two ‘‘We have to understand that you will DANIEL BEREHULAK FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Nowhereis passage more perilous than lookouts were talking on their cellphones never solve the problem,’’ said Nitzan Workers passing through a tunnel this month at a construction site in Israel that employs Palestinian laborers with and without permits. the West Bank’s south, wherethe Tel under an olive tree. To the west, past the Nuriel, a retired Israeli brigadier general Aviv suspects, who are cousins, most fence, nothing was visible but the distant and once the head of the prime minister’s likely crossed. lights of Israeli towns and cities. counterterrorism bureau. ‘‘Whenever search in Ramallah, are 70 to 80 shekels, iel said it was closer to 60,000, depending rogation and being dropped offata ‘‘You don’t know who you are walking Then the lights of the cars sent to pick youhave illegal workers, it is part of the or $20. Numerous Palestinians working on the time of year. Most work in con- checkpoint as far as possible from with,’’ said Mahmoud Khalil, 19, a Pales- up the workerson the Israeli side could reality, it is part of the economy.’’ illegally at Israeli construction sites struction, agriculture or restaurants. where they were picked up. tinian who wasworking at an Israeli be seen approaching on the barehills. A The challenge, said Mr. Nuriel, now a said they made $80 to $100 a day. Mr. Rosenfeld, the police spokesman, Mr. Nuriel, the counterterrorism ex- construction site but had no permit. smuggler yelled, ‘‘Yalla, yalla!’’ — ‘‘Go, counterterrorism expert at the Interdis- That is still a major bargain for Israeli said that hundreds of illegal workers pert, said that it would be too costly to Mr.Khalil is from Yatta, likethe sus- go!’’ — and workers leapt from the ciplinary Center in Herzliya, is filtering companies, which have to treat Pales- were picked up each week, but that the keep such alarge population in jail and pects, but he said he did not knowthe trucksand began running toward agap potential terrorists from ordinary work- tinians with work permits similar to Is- authorities were ‘‘focusing on arresting that widespread arrests were imprac- cousins and came to Israel only to earn in the fence that had been flimsily re- ers. ‘‘You have to decide,’’ he said, raeli workers in terms of wages and those that are attempting to bring in the tical, asking, ‘‘Who is going to interro- money for his family. He said he paid 250 paired. Someone pulled it open, and ‘‘which fish to catch and which fish you benefits, covering sick days, vacations, Palestinians illegally.’’ gate them?’’ shekels for safe passage through a large someone else carefully lifted a few can allow to swim.’’ health insurance and pensions. Thefirst time someone is caught in Is- gapin the barrier near the village of strands of razor wirethat had been Thereare currently about 55,000 Pal- rael illegally, he said, the police simply re- AN ANXIOUS ROUTINE Dahriya, southwest of Yatta, and trans- tossed in the dirt to make the passage LOW RISK, HIGH REWARD estinians with permits working legally in cord the incident and release the worker At a large construction site in Israel, an il- portation to the work site. more difficult. The economics of the smuggling busi- Israel, and an estimated 20,000 in the set- back to the West Bank. Repeat offenders legal worker in a yellow hardhat who One recent daynear Dahriya and The workers, many toting backpacks nessis straightforward—and irresist- tlements, according to the Palestinian ‘‘will appear before the courts’’ and may goes by Abu Khalid estimated that he neighboring Ramadin, pickups jammed stuffed with clothing, slid under the razor ible. Labor Ministry. That is down from a face other penalties, Mr. Rosenfeld said, had gone overthe wall dozens of times in with illegal workers playedcat-and- wire and met the cars. The last man lifted Unemployment among West Bank peak of 140,000 before the second intifada adding that anyone suspected of linksto the last year alone. Likemany othersin- mouse with Israeli military Humvees, the razor wire himself, slipped under and Palestinians is about 20 percent over all, in 2000, the ministry says (when the pop- terrorism is referred to the military. terviewed, he said his routine was to racing from gap to gap as smugglers ran toward the cars,which drove off to- and is even higher for young people. ulation was about two-thirds the size). But Palestinian workerswho have cross the wall, work inside Israel for a chattered on phones nearby. Workers ward job sites among the distant lights. Starting wages per day, according to Estimates vary widely on the number been arrested multiple times said in in- few days or weeks, and then go back to and smugglers alikeunderstand that Khalil Shikaki, the director of the Pales- of illegal workers. Mr.Shikaki said terviews that the most serious con- the West Bank for a short rest. Some em- terrorism is bad for business. Myra Noveck contributed reporting tinian Center for Policyand Survey Re- 30,000 was a reasonable guess; Mr. Nur- sequences they had faced were an inter- ployers house workers in trailers, some A driver for the smugglers in Dahriya, from Jerusalem.

Oil &MoneyConference South Korea is criticized over defections London |October 18-19 SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA the women from a tightly guarded gov- Seoul for as long as six months for de- ernment facilitysouth of the citywhere briefing and to try to ferret out spies. 2016 they have been kept since their arrival Human rights researchers and opposi- Rights advocates claim so they could speak for themselves. tion lawmakers have quoted some holding of 12 waitresses The group accused the National Intel- former inmates as saying they were ligence Service of blocking the women’s subjected to abusive language, violence from North is unlawful accessto legal services and their right and threats of deportation while they to speak freely about their trip to the were held there. BY CHOE SANG-HUN South. Lawyers for the group presented The agency has responded that it hon- the court with a powerof attorney, ors all inmates’ human rights. A tussle between the two Koreas over 12 which they said they had obtained from But three years ago, events inside the waitresses from the North who defected the women’s North Korean families. facility, once called the Joint Interroga- to the South spilled into a courtroom in Thegovernment has denied the law- tion Center, became the focal point of a Seoul on Tuesday wherehuman rights yers access to the women, saying that scandal that eventually led to the resig- lawyers accused the authorities in the the defectors do not want their services. nation of the government’s intelligence South of unlawful detention. It has also said that if the women ap- chief. In 2013, a court threw out a spy The 12 women, together with their peared in court and testified that they charge that the intelligence agency had male manager, flew to Seoul, the South had abandoned North Korea of their built against a refugee from North Korea Korean capital, in April after deserting a own accord, that would prompt the based on aconfession by the defector’s North Korean government-run restau- North to persecute their relatives in re- sister that had later been recanted. rant in the Chinese city of Ningbo. South taliation. During interviews with jour- Thousands of North Koreans have de- Korea welcomed the women and de- nalists, defectorsoften insist on an- fected to South Korea in recent years, scribed them as having defected of their onymitybecause of fears for their but the women’s defection as a group Connect with ahost of influential speakers at the world’s own free will after having grownfed up families. was highly unusual. with their totalitarian government. Theclosed-door court hearing on A typical defector takes weeks or leading oil &gas conference. North Korea immediately accused the Tuesday ended in limbo, however, as the months to flee to the South, often travel- South’s spy agency, the National Intelli- women did not show up. ing through the jungles of Southeast Join over500 of the most significant petroleum and natural gas executives for gence Service, of kidnapping the wom- Thehuman rights lawyers asked that Asia with the assistance of human traf- en. It has since arranged for their par- the case be transferred to another fickers. By contrast, the waitresses ar- unparalleled networking opportunities, candid debate, and ahead-of-the-curve ents to give interviews with the Western judge, complaining that the presiding rivedin Seoul the dayafter they fled news media, during which they have de- justice, LeeYoung-je, had not tried to their restaurant in China. Their former insight into the major issues facing the industry today. manded that South Korea allow them to summon the women again. colleagues in North Koreaclaimed that meet with their daughterstolearn their ‘‘We didn’t think the court was trying the male manager had conspired with true intentions. The South has dis- the case fairly,and we don’t think it the South Korean authorities and had missed the demands as propaganda. will,’’ one lawyer, Chae Hee-joon, told takenthe women to the South after The standoff took an unexpected turn reporters after the hearing. telling them that they were being relo- recently when a South Korean human By law, the National Intelligence Ser- cated to a restaurant in Southeast Asia. rights group, Lawyersfor aDemocratic vice can keep North Koreans who flee to South Korea has denied any improper Confirmed H.E. Khalid A. Al-Falih Patrick Pouyanné Society, asked a court in Seoul to release the South at the secluded facility outside role in the women’s defection. speakers include: Minister of Energy,Industry Chairman, C.E.O.and President CORRECTIONS and Mineral Resources and of the Executive Committee • An article on June 8 about activist in- wasinAugust 2015, as the Broadway projects handled by foreign govern- Chairman of the BoardofDirectors Total vestors who are taking an interest in production wasopening, not before the ments and international aid groups. KingdomofSaudi Arabia real estate investment trusts rendered Off Broadway production opened. • An article on Tuesday about allega- • and Saudi Aramco Fatih Birol incorrectly the name of the company An article on May23about Gaza resi- tions of conflict between Airbnb’s vow with which NewYork REIT,atarget of dents’ fearsthat the rebuilding of attack to eliminate bias in bookings and its Executive Director activist investors, plans to merge. It is tunnels to Israel puts Palestinians at risk policy of barring classactions by cus- RexW.Tillerson InternationalEnergy Agency JBG Companies, not JBP Companies. referred incompletely to Israel’s suspen- tomers misidentified, in some editions, Chairman and C.E.O. • An article in some June 11-12 editions sion of cement deliveries to Gaza for re- the university at which Jamila Jeffer- ExxonMobil Bernard Duroc-Danner about the Broadway musical construction of homes destroyedinthe son-Jones, alaw professor who com- ‘‘Hamilton’’ misstated the point at 2014 war. The suspension affected only mented on the issue, teaches. It is the Chairman of the Board, which the show’s performersbegan col- homes being rebuilt by private individu- University of Missouri, Kansas City — Ryan Lance President and C.E.O. lectively pressing for profit-sharing. It als; cement continued to flow to housing not Barry University School of Law. Chairman and C.E.O. Weatherford International ConocoPhillips

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Clockwise from above: ‘‘La Varenne Saint-Hilaire, La Barque (The Row- boat), 1913,’’ by Albert Marquet; a photograph from the Pavillon de l’Ar- senal exhibition of a detail of an island; the Villennes beach on Île du Platais; a waterslide on Île du Platais. Below left, KAROLINA SAMBORSKA, 2016 a lithograph from around 1850 by Ju- les Arnout, showing Paris as seen from a balloon above Île Saint-Louis.

PIERRE L’EXCELLENT, 2016 COLL. DAVID LORENTÉ A river’s tales: Isles of the Seine

PARIS those islands. They form a scattered ar- chipelago of industry, culture, habita- tion and recreation that has been docu- Exhibition in Paris traces mented by artists likeMonet and Van a storied waterway’s Gogh and by novelists likeZola and Flaubert. past and present ‘‘Theislands arelikeapearl necklace of nature decorating the river,’’ said Mi- BY ELAINE SCIOLINO lena Charbit, an architect who is the cur- ator of the exhibit, which stemmed from After record rainfalland near-historic her master’s thesis. ‘‘Each pearl has its flooding this spring, life along the Seine ownlife, its own identity. Thereare is- is returning to normal. Tourist boats are lands of imagination that never existed again cruising the river. The Louvre and and islands that are no more.’’ the Musée d’Orsay have reopened. Thetwo most famous —Île de la Cité Riverside restaurants and nightclubs and the smaller ÎleSaint-Louis —are in are back in business. the center of Paris, where the city ori- So this is a moment for Paris to cele- ginated in ancient times. brate the charms and secrets of the Île Saint-Louis would become one of slow-moving waterway that both di- the first examples of urban planning in vides and unites the city. France, with elegant townhouses and On the same day early this month that mansions built in the 17th century.Ina the Seine rose to its highest level in Par- nod to modernity, some looked outward toward the Seine, rather than inward to- ward courtyards and interior streets. Most of the old neighborhoods on Île de la Cité were demolished by Baron Haussmann, the 19th-century prefect of the Seine department, as part of his re- building of Paris in the name of pro- gress. He expropriated and razed medi- eval houses to build a new headquarters for the Paris Guardand the Fire Bri- gade, a massive structure still occupied by the Paris police. (Thankfully, the Ca- thedral of Notre-Dame and the Concier- gerie were not on his list.) On the southwest edge of Paris is Île Seguin, home for most of the 20th centu- ry to the automaker Renault, which built what would become the largest fac- tory in France there, with 30,000 em- ployees. (During World WarII, it pro- duced trucks for the occupying Germans and was the target of allied bombings.) The factory was closed in 1992, and its buildings razed in 2004 and 2005 follow- WIKIMÉDIA COMMONS ing extensive soil decontamination and asbestos removal. TheFrench architect Jean Nouvelis directing asustainable is (20 feet above normal), an exhibition development project for the island that on the river’s islands opened at the Pa- will include offices, shops, transporta- villon de l’Arsenal on the Right Bank. tion and recreational activities, and will The show, which runs until Oct. 2 in feature green roofs and the reuse of this smallarchitectural center,may be rainwater. low-tech —no interactive experiences, ÎledelaGrande Jattetothe west of no multilingual audio guides —but it is Paris was the subject of Georges Seur- overflowing with stories. at’s pointillist masterpiece ‘‘A Sunday Centuries ago, more than 300 islands Afternoon on the Island of La Grande dotted the 482-mile-long Seine, from its Jatte.’’ Thepainting wasthe inspiration sources on an obscure plain in northeast for the Sondheim musical ‘‘Sunday in Burgundy to its terminus on the Nor- the Park with George;’’ Sesame Street mandy coast. Because of human inter- and The Simpsons have parodied it; vention and the forces of nature, only 117 Playboyonce featured aversion of the survive. painting on its cover. ‘‘Islands of the Seine’’ features 32 of SEINE, PAGE 11 .... 10 | WEDNESDAY,JUNE 22, 2016 INTERNATIONAL NEW YORK TIMES culture art music

A plan to spread Dada worldwide, revisited

‘‘Dadaglobe,’’ though, was never pub- tion with the Kunsthaus Zürich, where it 2016 SOPHIE TAEUBER, ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), BY JASON FARAGO NEW YORK/VG BILD-KUNST, BONN, GALERIE BERINSON, lished. Francis Picabia, its main backer, appeared this spring. (‘‘Dadaglobe Re- BERLIN, NIC ALUF It’s 1920. The Great War is over; revolu- broke with Tzara in 1921, and the mate- constructed’’ is the smaller of two collab- tion has come to Russia; a new German rials were dispersed. The plans, the am- orations between MoMA and Kunsthaus constitution has been adopted in Wei- bitions and the unrealized potential of Zürich, which has one of the world’s mar. Tristan Tzara, the Romanian poet that publication are the subject of richest Dada holdings. A major retro- and gadfly who waited out the war in ‘‘Dadaglobe Reconstructed,’’ a rigorous spective of Picabia opened this month in Switzerland, has moved to Paris. He is yet sparky exhibition at the Museum of Zurich —to good reviews from Swiss just 24, but he was at the core of Dada, Modern Art, which brings together the critics —and opens at MoMA on Nov. 20. portraits, drawings and collages Tzara In his solicitation letters, written on ART REVIEW commissioned for ‘‘Dadaglobe,’’ plus a ritzy, pseudo-corporate Dada stationery, few paintings and sculptures by some of Tzara instructed his fellow artists to the previous decade’s most eruptive its leading adherents and sympath- provide two or three reproductions of cultural phenomenon —and he is in the izers: Marcel Duchamp, Sophie their work, to be presented alongside mood for publicity. He sends letters to Taeuber-Arp and Constantin Brancusi. drawings, a book page with text and people on both sides of the Atlantic Enjoyable as the exhibition is —the photographs of themselves, ‘‘which you 2016 FRANCIS PICABIA, ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), NEW YORK/ADAGP, PARIS seeking artistic contributions to a mag- photographs, correspondence and pub- can alter freely, although it should retain Francis Picabia’s ‘‘Rastadada Painting,’’ from 1920, in ‘‘Dadaglobe Reconstructed.’’ num opus for the anti-movement that lishing ephemera will be catnip to Dada clarity.’’ The contributors, some of whom turned the senselessness of world war freaks and magazine geeks —its catalog were only tangentially Dadaist, went into something convulsive. may be the more important accomplish- wild with that last instruction. Theo van There are also a few documentary later Dada, from the end of the war to Tzara receives more than four dozen ment. Assiduously edited by the inde- Doesburg pictured himself from behind, photos mixed into the show. At one its evaporation in the early 1920s —as replies. The artists all submit images pendent curator Adrian Sudhalter, it fea- encircled his head with the high-Dada knees-up party, we see Tzara with Pica- an international network, linked by the and texts for ‘‘Dadaglobe,’’ an antho- tures a full reconstruction of this motto ‘‘I am against everything and bia and other fellow travelers wearing mail and photomechanical reproduc- logy he plans to distribute worldwide in magazine that never was, full of puns, everyone,’’ in French, and signed it with black tie, the word ‘‘Dada’’ scrawled tion. That networked approach ends up a hefty edition of 10,000 copies. The pub- poems and Duchamp’s chess notations, a pseudonym. Taeuber-Arp appears in a across his forehead. sidelining some of Dada’s lone wolves, lication, so he imagines, will be as dis- assembled with diligence and guess- cloche hat and birdcage veil, half-ob- The focus on Tzara’s unrealized pub- such as Kurt Schwitters, and revaloriz- ruptive as Dada was when it burst out work over 160 pages. It’s a substantial scured by one of her abstracted wooden lication makes ‘‘Dadaglobe Recon- ing less famous figures center to 2016 THEO VAN DOESBURG, ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), of a cabaret in sleepy Zurich in 1916. contribution to the history of interwar busts. Picabia’s chosen portrait (a recent structed’’ quite a different show from Dada’s development. Georges Ribe- NEW YORK/VG BILD-KUNST, BONN ‘‘There needs to be throughout a whirl- art, although you will need a mastery of MoMA acquisition) is a study in hipster MoMA’s 2006 Dada blowout, which di- mont-Dessaignes, designated Dada’s Top, Nic Aluf’s ‘‘Portrait of Sophie ing, dizzy, eternal, new atmosphere,’’ French, German and Dada gibberish to prodigality: a roughly sutured photocol- vided the movement’s experiments and secretary on its letterhead, contributed Taeuber With Her Dada Head’’ (1920). the poet insists. ‘‘It should look like a read it. The show has been organized by lage in which Picabia, a wealthy French- impostures by city: Zurich, Berlin, Co- spare drawings of circles, crosses and Above, Theo van Doesburg’s ‘‘Portrait of great display of new art in an open-air Ms. Sudhalter and Samantha Friedman, Cuban, tears his own face and captions logne, Hannover, New York and Paris. curves given mock-hieratic names like I.K. Bonset: I Am Against Everything and circus. Every page must explode.’’ a MoMA assistant curator, in collabora- himself as a nouveau-riche failure. This one treats Dada —specifically DADA, PAGE 11 Everyone’’ (1921). ogle Inc Go Android is a trademark of

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PEOPLE The Cure revels in its contradictions and history

For DWEEZIL ZAPPA, one name change songs so far on its current tour, which is was not enough. In April, Mr. Zappa, a Post-punk band wails a great amount for an old rock band. guitarist and one of the four children of through decades of songs (The Cure began recording in 1978 and the rock composer FRANK ZAPPA, changed hasn’t stopped since, despite lineup the name of his project Zappa Plays of joy and cynicism changes.) The number may keep grow- Zappa —atribute to his father’s music — ing. Mr. Gabrels, in an interview last to Dweezil Zappa Plays Frank Zappa. BY BEN RATLIFF year, said that the band kept 97 active Clunky, perhaps, but he said it was neces- songs in its touring pool. sary to avoid legal conflict with his broth- They work hard for it, Robert Smith & Saturday’s show had four sets of en- er, AHMET, who controls the Zappa intellec- Company. You understand Dolly Par- cores, and after the first three, Mr. Smith tual property through a trust. Now, after ton’s show business dictum, ‘‘It takes a put his hand up on his clavicle, seem- another legal tussle between the broth- lot of money to look this cheap’’? Then ingly not so much as a stagy gesture of ers, Dweezil is rechristening the show. you understand the generative contra- being overwhelmed, but as you might do His tour, starting July 1 in El Prado, N.M., dictions of the Cure: It must take a lot reflexively to collect your thoughts when you’ve got a lot on your plate; he looked MUSIC REVIEW away from the audience and briskly walked off. After the fourth, he acknowl- of optimism to look that disenchanted. edged us, modestly but with intent. But in a certain corner of the band’s The songs here traced back 37 years work, the opposite holds true, too: It — ‘‘Boys Don’t Cry’’ the oldest, ‘‘Por- has to take a lot of disenchantment to nography’’ the most transfixing, and look that optimistic. And from there you the fourth set of encores, including can spin out other noun-adjective com- ‘‘The Perfect Girl’’ and ‘‘Close to Me’’ binations, which similarly work in for- the most joyous. In that span were a lot

DWEEZIL ZAPPA, MOON ZAPPA ward or reverse: confidence/shaky. of different styles, telegraphed more Centrality/marginal. Generosity/self- through the songs’ outer layers than absorbed. Forethought/nostalgic. their cores. Which is to say it was often Hardness/tender. Severity/sweet. Mr. Gabrels’s job to signal the aesthet- will be called ‘‘50 Years of Frank: Dweezil By ‘‘look’’ I don’t only mean physical ics of 1981, or 1992 or 2008. Mr. Smith’s Zappa Plays Whatever the Heck He image, and I’m not only talking about cry could remain constant. Wants —The Cease and Desist Tour.’’ Mr. Smith, whose appearance on Satur- But there was a taut discipline here (Instead of ‘‘heck,’’ the tour uses a vul- day night at Madison Square Garden, in that made all that music cohere into garity.) The brothers, once musical part- the first of his band’s three-night run KRISTA SCHLUETER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES one long project. Part of it has to do ners, have clashed since the death of their there, was the same as usual: loose Robert Smith, with Simon Gallup on bass, at the Cure’s show on Saturday at Madison Square Garden. with the fact that Mr. Smith is adding mother, GAIL, last year. The Zappa Family black clothes, Struwwelpeter hair, black new songs to the set, and they’re good Trust has two trustees, Ahmet and DIVA eye shadow and eyeliner, red lipstick ones. One of Saturday’s was ‘‘It Can ZAPPA; Dweezil and his sister MOON are that covered slightly more than the area extra layer of echo, viscosity and ward 10 minutes; not a lot of new strains, Never Be the Same,’’ the beginning of beneficiaries. Frank Zappa died in 1993. of his lips. I mean visuals, sound and whoosh from the lead guitarist, Reeves A lot of Cure songs are either key changes and dynamics. But they are the first encore, after ‘‘Disintegration,’’ cultural meaning as one integrated and Gabrels. The atmosphere suggested simple and short or constructed with an almost classical steady and glum. (‘‘That pit that we fell Hasbro has proven to be an asset to basically globalized post-punk thing — nearly every black-walled, beer-sticky comfortably repetitive. sense of proportion and impact, and per- down,’’ Mr. Smith explained, ‘‘we’re Hollywood, thanks to the success of the unwavering and with remarkably little alternative-rock club I’ve been in since formed for even more: About two-thirds staying there for a while, till we climb ‘‘Transformers’’ franchise, which has grandstanding, for nearly three hours. the late ’80s, places of joy and cynicism. of the way through ‘‘Prayers for Rain,’’ out.’’) And the new song —its title grossed well over $3 billion worldwide. The live sound of the band amounted In retrospect, those places seem built the stage-camera work was negligible: Mr. Smith drew out a note near the top of rendered in big letters on his guitar — The American toy company now has it to an atmosphere: Simon Gallup’s for, or by, the Cure. mostly fixed in place and far away from his voice to drive home the last word of was grand, slow, fuzzy, swirly: of a sights set on Broadway, with a musical rugged, grip-tape bass lines, high up in Mr. Smith spent almost no time on Mr. Smith. It really was a club show the title. The rest of the song was about piece with what had gone before. based on the game Monopoly, The Guard- the mix; the pallid beams of Roger chat and platitudes, swapped out his writ large. Maybe it takes a strong club coming down from that moment. It seemed to be about dealing with ian reported. The stage adaptation of the O’Donnell’s keyboard melodies; Mr. own guitars rather than wait for road- band to be a strong arena band. These songs become a disposition; the death of someone close; it moved popular board game is to be the first of Smith’s vocal wail and bright, watery ies and tuned up at least once on his A lot of Cure songs are either simple you settle into them, and they keep from optimism to pessimism, from ‘‘it’s many for Hasbro, according to Variety. guitar tone; the drummer Jason own. There were background screen and short or comfortably repetitive in coming. One source, setlist.fm, has tab- not like there won’t be another one’’ to PHOTOGRAPHS: AFP Cooper’s thump at medium tempos; the visuals for very few of the 32 songs, and their middle sections when they push to- ulated that the band has played 79 ‘‘there won’t be another one.’’