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A Decades-Old Land Battle Flares Anew $2.00 DESIGNATED AREAS HIGHER ©2017WSCE MONDAY,AUGUST 7, 2017 latimes.com Pence shuts down 2020 speculation potential obstacles: VP falls in line with a He was 70 when he took office, the oldest first-term White House that’s president to be inaugurated, touchy at any hint has since turned 71, and would be the oldest second- that Trump might not term chief executive were he be the GOP nominee. to run again and win the 2020 election. If age is not enough of an By Laura King issue, his approval ratings are at a low that is unprece- WASHINGTON — For dented at this point in a months, President Trump’s presidential term. White House has been prone Moreover, an increas- to veering off message, ingly complex special coun- sometimes wildly so. But it sel investigation, looking at was crystal clear on one whether Trump’s campaign point Sunday: No one except cooperated with Kremlin Irfan Khan Los Angeles Times Trump should put up a hand [See Pence, A7] STEVE LOWE of Eagle Crest Energy Co. wants to build a $2-billion hydropower project in a former mine for the 2020 GOP presi- next to Joshua Tree National Park. Supporters and foes are debating whether it’s good for the environment. dential nod. Vice President Mike Pence denied that he was considering a run for the presidency the next time around, issuing a statement, the vehemence of which underscored how sensitive A decades-old land the White House is to any questioning of whether Trump will seek a second term. In what appeared to be a coordinated message, the White House also hit back Francine Orr Los Angeles Times battle flares anew Sunday at a report in the THE OLYMPIC torch at New York Times that de- the Los Angeles Memori- scribed steps Pence and al Coliseum. The fabled some GOP lawmakers have stadium opened in 1923. What happens when a national monument loses federal taken that could position themfor presidential bids. ANALYSIS protections? An ugly example is in the California desert Pence went so far as to call the newspaper’s report “disgraceful and offensive.” BY BETTINA BOXALL the gaping mine pits died in 2013 after perintendent who is retired from the “The American people Shaping years of court battles. Now, a private National Park Service. know that I could not be DESERT CENTER, Calif. — Just company wants to use the pits for a $2- In 1936, President Franklin D. more honored to be working beyond the southeast corner of billion hydropower project. Roosevelt established Joshua Tree side by side with a president Joshua Tree National Park, rows of The plant, proponents say, would National Monument on roughly who is making America up L.A. boarded-up houses, gouged moun- help boost renewable energy use in 825,000 acres of federal and railroad great again,” the vice presi- tainsides and concrete ruins are an Southern California and lower green- holdings northeast of Palm Springs, dent said, invoking Trump’s ugly reminder of the never-ending bat- house gas emissions. But park offi- capping a hard-fought campaign to 2016 campaign slogan. tle over the West’s public lands. cials fear the hydropower project conserve a singular desert landscape “Whatever fake news may for the This scarred piece of California could draw down local groundwater of Joshua trees, massive boulders and come our way,” he said, re- desert is what’s left of one of the coun- levels and harm wildlife. spectacular vistas. peating another favored try’s largest open-pit mining opera- The Eagle Mountain tract, shaped But the monument’s ban on new presidential phrase, “my en- tions and the little company town that like a handgun aimed at the park’s in- mining claims infuriated gold and sil- tire team will continue to fo- Games Kaiser Steel Corp. built after World terior, offers a lesson in what can hap- ver prospectors who’d long mined the cus all our efforts to advance War II. More than three decades after pen when federal monument protec- area. In the 1940s, Kaiser Steel bought the president’s agenda and the Eagle Mountain iron mine closed, tions are stripped from public lands — old patented claims to iron deposits in see him reelected in 2020.” As it did when it it still haunts the park that borders it as President Trump’s administration the Eagle Mountains and started dig- Trump began fundrais- on three sides. is considering doing at a number of na- ging them up. ing for a 2020 campaign hosted in 1932 and ’84, Plans to turn the site into a huge tional monuments in the West. In 19 50, Congress shrank the mon- almost immediately upon the city can use 2028 landfill and dump as much as 20,000 “It’s been a sordid history,” said ument by more than a third, chopping taking office, but a reelec- tons a day of Southland garbage into Mark Butler, a former Joshua Tree su- [See Mountain, A9] tion bid would face several as a civic barometer. By Thomas Curwen CHINA IN AFRICA When asked to explain the secret of Los Angeles on the eve of the 1984 Summer Olympics, the late poet, nov- elist and fantasist Ray Brad- Beaming into bury broke it down, captur- ing the ingenuous advan- tage the city enjoyed as it was coming of age. “L.A. is a conglomerate of Kenya homes small towns striving toward immensity and never mak- ing it, thank God,” he wrote. “We have no kings, queens, A Beijing satellite TV company or courts, no real pecking or- der, no hierarchies to pre- gets the Chinese message across vent those of us who care to lean into creativity from run- Chinese documentaryabout ning loose in the big yard.” By Jonathan Kaiman Japan’s wartime atrocities, With that creativity and most dubbed into English. freedom, he continued, “we KAJIADO, Kenya — It Gitonga was elated. His have conquered the world took the StarTimes satellite new digital TV package gave and don’t have enough sense TV salesman about 30 min- him better reception than to know it. Maybe it’s just as utes to install a pipeline for he’d once thought possible well. With such knowledge Chinese propaganda into in Kajiado, a small town on Gina Ferazzi Los Angeles Times comes arrogance. We are not Francis Gitonga’s squat, the savannah where Masai JERRY YOUNG, 68, inspects a blue sapphire at Inta Gems & Diamonds. His shop arrogant yet, although I de- cinder-block home here in tribesmen wander past rick- is the first to be owned by Cambodians in the jewelry district of downtown L.A. tect signs of it.” southern Kenya, near Afri- ety storefronts and goats More than 30 years later, ca’s Great Rift Valley. cluster in the shade. it is hard to imagine what First, he climbed onto Gi- “I didn’t know about Bradbury would make of tonga’s roof, drilled a satel- China before,” he said. “I can last week’s announcement lite dish onto the chimney, say it’s good. They have A legacy of Cambodian that Los Angeles will host and dangled some wires changed this country in a big the Olympics in 2028. The through the door frame. He way, very fast.” city today is approaching plugged it all into a Star- Although StarTimes — a the immensity that he Times set-top box, and privately owned, Beijing- genocide: Jewelry shops seemed wary of. turned it on. based media and tele- Downtown, once stag- Gitonga, 43, flipped communications firm — is nant and overlooked, is through the channels, and virtually unknown in the rides to the border of Thai- bodian descent, the largest thriving, its skyline ever- Chinese programs filled the West, it has been sweeping Precious gems helped land, where he waited days such population outside the evolving. The Dodgers and screen: an old kung fu movie, across Africa since 2002, before reuniting with his Southeast Asian nation. Dudamel are on a roll. aChinese news broadcast, a [See Kenya, A4] refugees build family in a camp. The stores are one of the George Lucas is breaking Southland businesses, “I was so scared. I ran,” legacies of the Cambodian ground on a museum in Ex- said Young, 68. “I was so genocide and the economic position Park. Two football but it’s not all glitter. lucky.” upheaval that came with it. teams compete in the city’s When they moved to the About two dozen stores backyard, and a subway sys- Transgender girl Kenya braces for U.S., those jewels — a few cut are packed into a Chinatown tem is tunneling its way sues school election violence By Frank Shyong rubies and sapphires — be- strip mall, and about 30 toward the sea. The case of 8-year-old As a presidential vote came the seed funding for a more crowd the downtown What once was a blank Nikki Brar could change looms, memories of past On a spring day in1975, as business that has become jewelry district. Cambodian slate is now crowded with — the way gender identity bloodshed set an omi- Khmer Rouge forces common in Cambodian jewelry stores line Anaheim if not inhibited by — expec- launched a coup that would American communities: the Street of Long Beach’s Cam- tations. is addressed in the class- nous tone. WORLD, A3 unleash four years of geno- jewelry store. bodia town, cluster in a Ful- Add the Olympics to the room. CALIFORNIA, B1 cide in Cambodia, Jerry There are now hundreds lerton strip mall and dot Or- mix, and it is perhaps under- Weather Young grabbed a fistful of of Cambodian-owned jew- ange County’s Little Saigon.
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