Bounties Volume 79, No. 50B ©SS 2020 CONTINGENCY placed EDITION SUNDAY on, JUNE 28, 2020coalition stripes.com troopsFree to Deployed Areas Russian operation targeted US, British forces in Afghanistan, intelligence finds

BY ELLEN NAKASHIMA, MISSY RYAN, The Russian operation, first reported ers learned of reported bounties in recent geting Americans, if confirmed, is likely to JOHN HUDSON AND SHANE HARRIS by the New York Times, has generated an months from U.S. intelligence agencies, lead to outrage on Capitol Hill and ques- The Washington Post intense debate within the Trump adminis- prompting a series of internal discussions tions about why the administration has not tration about how best to respond to a trou- including a large interagency meeting that responded to it. A Russian military spy unit offered bling new tactic by a nation that most U.S. was held in late March. According to one Spokesmen for the National Security bounties to Taliban-linked militants to officials regard as a potential foe but that person familiar with the matter, the re- Council, the Pentagon, and the CIA de- attack coalition forces in Afghanistan, in- President Donald Trump has frequently sponses discussed at that meeting included clined to comment. cluding U.S. and British troops, in a strik- embraced as a friend, said the officials, sending a diplomatic communication to It was not immediately clear whether ing escalation of the Kremlin’s hostility who spoke on the condition of anonymity to relay disapproval and authorizing new the militants approached by Russia as part toward the United States, American intel- discuss a sensitive intelligence matter. sanctions. ligence has found. The officials said administration lead- Russian involvement in operations tar- SEE BOUNTIES ON PAGE 4

VIRUS OUTBREAK Afghan security forces hit hard by coronavirus

BY SUSANNAH GEORGE, AZIZ TASSAL AND SHARIF HASSAN The Washington Post KABUL, Afghanistan — The corona- virus is sweeping through Afghanistan’s security forces, according to senior Af- ghan security officials from four provinces who report suspected infection rates of 60 to 90% among their units — reducing the number of forces available to conduct op- erations or take up duty at outposts. Few have died, the officials say, but little to no testing capacity has forced many into weeks of isolation, leaving deployable forc- es stretched thin at a time when the country is under pressure from both increased Tal- iban violence and from the United States, where officials are eager to see the govern- ment and militants begin direct talks. Afghanistan has extremely low coronavi- rus testing rates: Less than 0.2% of its pop- ulation — 64,900 people out of an estimated 37.6 million Afghans — have been tested.

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Afghan National Army Commandos stand in Kabul, Afghanistan, on April 28. Senior Afghan security officials have reported suspected coronavirus infection rates of 60 to 90% among their units.

JEFFERY J. HARRIS/U.S. Army Reserve

MIDEAST MILITARY MUSIC Iraq arrests IG: US dining facility Haim’s latest album may militants for didn’t charge foreign be band’s most revealing base attacks troops for meals yet – but it’s no downer Page 3 Page 3 Page 12

League-worst Red Wings losers in chaotic NHL Draft lottery » Back page PAGE 2 •STARS AND STRIPES• Sunday, June 28, 2020 BUSINESS/WEATHER Stocks sink as virus forces states to backtrack EXCHANGE RATES Military rates Switzerland (Franc)...... 0.9486 Euro costs (June 29) ...... $1.10 Thailand (Baht) ...... 30.93 Dollar buys (June 29) ...... € 0.868 Turkey (Lira) ...... 6.8564 Associated Press again. their economies on hold because British pound (June 29) ...... $ 1.21 (Military exchange rates are those The S&P 500 dropped 2.4%, of a resurgence of the virus. Japanese yen (June 29) ...... 104.00 available to customers at military banking Stocks on Wall Street fell sharp- South Korean won (June 29) ...... 1168.00 facilities in the country of issuance giving up all of its gains after a “That certainly calls into ques- Commercial rates for Japan, South Korea, Germany, the ly Friday as confirmed new coro- Bahrain (Dinar) ...... 0.3776 Netherlands and the United Kingdom. For navirus infections in the U.S. hit rally the day before. The sell-off tion how vigorous this recovery British pound ...... $1.2357 nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e., capped a choppy week of trad- will be,” said Bill Northey, senior Canada (Dollar) ...... 1.3695 purchasing British pounds in Germany), an all-time high, prompting Texas China (Yuan) ...... 7.0784 check with your local military banking and Florida to reverse course on ing that erased the benchmark investment director at U.S. Bank Denmark (Krone) ...... 6.6509 facility. Commercial rates are interbank index’s gains for the month. Wealth Management. Egypt (Pound) ...... 16.1594 rates provided for reference when buying the reopening of businesses. Euro ...... $1.1207/0.8923 currency. All figures are foreign currencies The combination injected new The surge in the number of The S&P 500 fell 74.71 points to Hong Kong (Dollar) ...... 7.7504 to one dollar, except for the British pound, Hungary (Forint) ...... 317.46 which is represented in dollars-to-pound, jitters into a market that’s been confirmed new coronavirus cases 3,009.05. The Dow Jones Indus- and the euro, which is dollars-to-euro.) Israel (Shekel) ...... 3.4311 mostly riding high since April prompted Texas and Florida to trial Average had its worst day in Japan (Yen) ...... 107.16 on hopes that the economy will reverse course and clamp down two weeks, losing 730.05 points, Kuwait (Dinar) ...... 0.3078 INTEREST RATES Norway (Krone) ...... 9.7090 recover from a deep recession as on bars again. The two states join or 2.8%, to 25,015.55. The Nasdaq, Philippines (Peso)...... 50.00 Prime rate ...... 3.25 businesses open doors and Amer- a small but growing list of those which hit an all-time high earlier Poland (Zloty) ...... 3.99 Discount rate ...... 0.25 Saudi Arabia (Riyal) ...... 3.7511 Federal funds market rate ...... 0.08 icans begin to feel more confident that are either backtracking or this week, dropped 259.78 points, Singapore (Dollar) ...... 1.3932 3-month bill ...... 0.14 that they can leave their homes putting any further reopenings of or 2.6%, to 9,757.22. South Korea (Won) ...... 1201.50 30-year bond ...... 1.42 WEATHER OUTLOOK SUNDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST SUNDAY IN EUROPE MONDAY IN THE PACIFIC

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T O D A Y IN STRIPES American Roundup ..... 17 Books ...... 14 Comics/Crossword ...... 15 Movies ...... 11 Music ...... 12-13 Opinion ...... 18 Sports ...... 20-24 Sunday, June 28, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 3 WAR ON TERRORISM Iraq arrests men in rocket attacks on military bases

Associated Press include the Interior Ministry and other Iraqi security forces to fol- BAGHDAD — Iraqi security forces arrested over a dozen men low up on the case. suspected of a spate of rocket at- It was unclear who was holding tacks against the U.S. presence the men, with one Iraqi official Resolute Support in Iraq, the Iraqi military said saying it was the Popular Mobili- Resolute Support service members and civilians wait for lunch at a dining facility in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday — the strongest action to zation Forces, an umbrella group on April 10. date by the new government in of paramilitary groups, while an- Baghdad against perpetrators other said they were being held suspected of ties to Iran. by the Interior Ministry. The arrests marked a bold move “It looks like Mustafa al-Kad- IG: NATO coalition troops got free by the government to crack down himi is continuing to try and put on groups that have long been a actions to words,” said Renad source of tension for U.S.-Iraq re- Mansour, a senior research fel- meals because of billing mix-up lations. Two senior Iraqi officials, low at Chatham House. speaking on condition of anonym- Officials and experts speculat- BY PHILLIP WELLMAN meaning the DOD was short by services, develops training spe- ity in line with regulations, said ed whether the move was part of a Stars and Stripes more than $9 million during the cific to Afghanistan and performs the 14 men who were arrested broader negotiation strategy with period examined, the report said. oversight, the DOD will continue had ties to an Iran-backed militia the Popular Mobilization Forces, group. KABUL, Afghanistan — For The report only looked at the situ- to not initiate bills for the full re- an umbrella group of Iraqi para- more than three years, coalition A series of rockets have struck ation at NATO’s Resolute Support imbursable amount for dining military groups, some of which partners in Afghanistan got free close to U.S. installations inside headquarters in Kabul, not other facility services,” the Inspector are Iran-backed. Al-Kadhimi, meals at U.S. expense because the Green Zone and an Iraqi bases in Afghanistan. General said. who was the head of Iraq’s intel- of billing mistakes made by the U.S. Forces-Afghanistan Mul- Fifteen Western European army base near to the airport in military, a new report says. the Iraqi capital since Baghdad ligence prior to being named the tinational Logistics is primarily countries, Australia and New The problem was discovered at embarked on strategic talks with prime minister, had a meeting responsible for dealing with the Zealand reimburse the DOD for NATO’s Afghanistan headquar- Washington on June 11. with various leaders of the um- reimbursement agreements with dining services at NATO’s Reso- ters in Kabul, where the U.S. pro- The U.S. has blamed Iran- brella group on Thursday. coalition partners at the Kabul lute Support headquarters. The vides dining facility services for backed militia group Kataib He- There was no immediate com- base. DOD covers the costs for more the coalition with the intention of zbollah for orchestrating attacks ment from Kataib Hezbollah. The Inspector General blamed than 20 other coalition countries getting reimbursed by 17 mem- against its embassy and Ameri- The next test for al-Kadhimi personnel for failing to establish who would be unable to assist the ber countries each month. can troops inside Iraqi bases and rests on the ability of the courts terms and conditions — including mission without financial help. However, the military only criticized the Iraqi government The Inspector General encour- to prosecute the men. Mansour’s billed those countries for about rates and calculation method — for not identifying and arresting aged USFOR-A to collect the research suggests Kataib Hezbol- half of the months between Janu- with each partner country before the culprits. dining services were provided. missing payments, develop agree- lah wields some influence over ary 2016 and September 2019, re- The recent attacks posed a Iraq’s judiciary through key po- sulting in a deficit of more than $6 This came after the manager in ments with each coalition partner challenge for Prime Minister litical officials. “This will be dif- million, according to the report charge of the agreements failed and update personnel training. Mustafa al-Kadhimi, who was ficult,” he said. released Friday by the Defense to develop a training program for USFOR-A was complying with sworn in last month. His admin- Department Inspector General. personnel. the recommendations, the In- Another militia in the group, istration pledged to crack down the Iran-backed Harakat al-Nuja- Further mistakes in the bills “Unless USFOR-A establishes spector General said. on the groups behind the attacks ba, warned in a statement against that were delivered undercharged terms and conditions with coali- [email protected] at the start of strategic talks, ac- “any attempt to target them and recipients by nearly $3 million, tion partners before providing Twitter: @pwwellman cording to senior U.S. officials. The raid carried out by Iraq’s draw the parties into internal elite Counter-Terrorism Service strife.” late Thursday in Baghdad’s Dora Following the arrests, armed US report: Pakistan not doing enough neighborhood was a step toward groups in government vehicles en- this promise. A military state- tered the heavily fortified Green ment following the arrests did not Zone “without official approval” to counter terrorism, may be blacklisted explicitly state the 14 arrested had and surrounded the headquarters militia ties. It said a special inves- of the counter-terrorism agency, Associated Press that it needs to do more to target a statement late Thursday called tigative committee was formed to the military statement said. terrorist financing and dismantle the report disappointing. ISLAMABAD — Washington’s terrorist networks if it wants to Pakistan has arrested some annual terrorism report said Pak- avoid being blacklisted by the high profile terrorist group lead- istan was doing too little to coun- Financial Action Task Force, the ers, such as Hafiz Saeed, chief of ter terrorist groups, particularly global money laundering and ter- those taking aim at rival India the outlawed Lashkar-e-Taiba. rorist financing watchdog based However, the whereabouts of and the dreaded Haqqani net- in Paris. work operating in Afghanistan. others, such as Maulana Masood Pakistan, which was put on Azhar, the head of Jaish-e-Mo- Islamabad bristled at the criti- a so-called grey list by the task cism in the U.S. State Department hammad, is still unknown, said force in 2018, was given a further Rana. That group took respon- report, saying it has been relent- reprieve this month to avoid the sibility for the devastating 2019 less in its assistance to Washing- blacklist by meeting a series of attack on Indian troops in Indian- ton as the United States brokered benchmarks set by the task force. a peace deal with the Taliban, If Pakistan is put on a blacklist, ruled Kashmir. which it signed in February. At its international borrowing would More than a dozen al-Qaida in the time, the deal was touted as be severely restricted. the Asian Subcontinent opera- Afghanistan’s best chance in “The tone of the report this tives have been arrested in Pak- four decades of finding a lasting year was more critical than the istan’s Punjab province in recent peace. previous year’s,” said Rana. months and this week several Amir Rana, executive direc- “This is a warning that it needs to were sentenced to lengthy prison tor of the Pakistan Institute for do more to stay off the blacklist, terms, said Rana. That would in- HADI MIZBAN/AP Peace Studies, which tracks to dismantle terrorist groups still dicate Pakistan’s willingness to militant groups, said Friday the operating in Pakistan.” tackle some of the militant groups A poster showing a killed militia fighter is seen in Baghdad, Iraq, on report is a warning to Pakistan Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry in in Pakistan. Friday. PAGE 4 •STARS AND STRIPES• Sunday, June 28, 2020 MILITARY Bounties: Threat comes as US begins Afghan exit

FROM FRONT PAGE throwing a stick in that.” of the initiative had succeeded in During the Soviet war in Af- killing Americans or allied forc- ghanistan, which ended in 1989, es. News of the murky initiative the U.S. government provided comes as American diplomats at- weaponry and funds to Afghan tempt to kindle political talks that mujahideen rebels fighting could put end to America’s lon- against Soviet forces. gest war, now in its 19th year. The unit that officials identi- Earlier this year, the admin- fied as responsible for allegedly istration struck an initial peace offering the bounties has also deal with the Taliban. The agree- been linked to the poisoning and ment, which outlined the full attempted murder of former Rus- withdrawal of the U.S. military sian military spy Sergei Skripal within 14 months, was supposed in Britain in 2018. to lead to a prompt start to talks While that attack — along with between militant representatives Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and and the Afghan government. its role in the war in Syria — has But the Afghan parties have generated strong criticism in Eu- failed to reach agreement on in- rope and from many of Trump’s terim steps, and with the coro- most senior advisers, the presi- navirus crisis taking hold in dent himself has frequently Afghanistan, those talks have yet appeared to have a chummy rela- RAHMAT GUL/AP to materialize. Hanging over the tionship with Putin, downplaying Afghan security personnel wear a protective face mask to help curb the spread of the coronavirus in process is Trump’s oft-stated de- Russian interference in the 2016 Kabul, Afghanistan, in April. sire to remove U.S. forces from U.S. election and other Russian the country, where local forces transgressions. have been unable to secure an Russia is one of a number of is- edge over the Taliban despite two sues on which Trump’s instincts Security: decades of foreign funding and have appeared to differ from Afghan government says advising. those of his senior advisers. The The attempt to stoke violence United States has imposed sanc- against Americans, if confirmed, tions on Russia over a number of issues, including its invasion of virus contained, sick troops isolated would also represent a significant departure from Moscow’s earlier Ukraine, cyberattacks, and elec- position toward Islamist militants tion meddling, while the Pen- FROM FRONT PAGE In Herat, one of the epicenters ghanistan’s security forces could in Afghanistan. Previously, U.S. tagon has identified Russia as As of Wednesday, nearly 30,000 of the virus’s outbreak in Af- impact war-fighting capacity and officials had cited what they char- second only to China in terms of people were confirmed to have ghanistan, Police Chief Obaidul- morale, but “I think the bigger acterized as sporadic, low-level its “great power” rivals. contracted the coronavirus and lah Noorzai said only 36 positive issue is that it could further em- Russian support for the Taliban, Military officials this month more than 600 had died. But the cases were registered among the bolden the Taliban,” he said. including the supply of small spoke out in unusually harsh Health Ministry warns the true thousands of police under his Taliban fighters are probably arms via Afghanistan’s northern terms over what they said was numbers are much higher and command. He also said he has re- also suffering coronavirus infec- neighbors. Russia’s decision to provide that as many as 26 million people ceived ample support from Kabul tions, Kugelman said, but that After the Soviet Union’s own fourth-generation jet fighters to a in the country could be infected and U.S. forces in Afghanistan to won’t stop the group from at- punishing insurgent war in Af- rogue general in Libya, adding to with the virus in coming months contain the virus. tempting to use the outbreak of ghanistan in the 1980s, Moscow a spiraling proxy conflict there. and the death toll could top But other commanders on the the virus to “take advantage tac- remained largely in the back- News of the cloaked operation 100,000. ground say those numbers are tically, and to strengthen its bar- ground in the years after U.S. and comes as the Pentagon confirms The Afghan government re- skewed by extremely limited test- gaining position in future talks.” NATO forces entered the country that it has completed an initial fuses to release data on the num- ing. At some bases, commanders The virus has not only spread in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, drawdown of American forces to ber of coronavirus cases within reported not receiving any coro- among the Afghan forces’ lower attacks. But as America’s anxious- about 8,600 servicemembers from the security forces. Spokesmen navirus testing kits at all and no ranks but has also killed senior ness to depart has fueled greater Afghanistan, a first step toward a from the Afghan ministries of additional medical supplies. figures, including the chief of po- uncertainty, Russia has appeared full withdrawal. Officials have defense and the interior acknowl- “The M inistr y of Defense didn’t lice in Kunduz, a district-level po- to attempt to wield greater influ- said the full withdrawal remains edge there are cases within the give us anything,” said an Afghan lice chief in Balkh province and a ence in recent years. “conditions-based,” suggesting security forces but say the virus’s military commander stationed in mid-level police officer in Kabul. While Moscow’s motives for they will seek to keep a sizable spread has been contained be- Ghazni province. “No one assist- The Afghan ministries of de- alleged bounties were not im- force there if the Taliban does not cause troops displaying symp- ed us; there was no medication; fense and the interior say they mediately clear, officials said make a political deal with the Af- toms are quickly isolated, masks no one gave us even the simplest have taken measures to prevent they might include retaliation ghanistan government. have been made mandatory, and medicine.” The commander said the spread of the virus in bases for the U.S. military’s 2018 kill- While Taliban forces have medical supplies have been dis- nearly all the troops under his and outposts, such as closing din- ing of Russian mercenary troops halted attacks against the United tributed to bases nationwide. command showed symptoms of ing facilities and requiring the working for Yevgeniy Prigozhin, States as part of that deal, the Security officials from Nangar- the coronavirus at one point over wearing of masks. The ministries an oligarch with links to Rus- militants have continued to as- har, Ghazni, Logar and Kunduz the past month. also said they have begun serving sian President Vladimir Putin, sault Afghan troops, making for provinces — all hotly contested Without any testing kits, he troops food with more vitamins, in Syria, or simply, as one official what one senior Afghan official by the Taliban — spoke to The said he had no choice but to quar- although this is not a measure put it, an attempt to “muddy the described this week as the most Washington Post about infection antine most of his forces. generally recommended to com- negotiations on Afghanistan by deadly conditions in 19 years. rates within their ranks on the Over the past month, Taliban bat the coronavirus. condition of anonymity because attacks have also ratcheted up as But no lockdown measures they were not authorized to speak the militants looked to pressure have been put in place, and se- to the media. the Afghan government to release curity forces are continuing to Compounding concerns about more prisoners ahead of expect- take regular leave to visit their Russians intercept US flight an effective security force is the ed direct talks between the two families, potentially circulating diminished presence of U.S. mili- sides. The Afghan government, the virus between the communi- Stars and Stripes the past month. tary support. The United States normally reluctant to release ties they are from and the bases The American planes were in has withdrawn thousands of security force casualty figures, where they serve. A Russian fighter jet inter- international airspace “at a con- cepted two U.S. reconnaissance troops in recent months as part said last week was the deadliest The United Nations estimates siderable distance from the state for its forces in 19 years, with Afghanistan could have one of the aircraft and a refueling tanker as of a peace deal with the Taliban. border of the Russian Federa- And worries early in the pan- 550 wounded and 291 killed, ac- highest rates of coronavirus in- they flew in “neutral” airspace tion” when they were intercepted demic about the vulnerability cording to the National Security fection in the world. The country over the Black Sea, the Rus- by a Su-30 from Russia’s South- of Afghanistan’s security forces Council. extended a nationwide lockdown sian defense ministry said in a ern Military District, the defense to the virus caused American “We’re looking at beleaguered this month, but the measures statement. ministry said in a statement that troops to halt joint ground opera- forces under the best of circum- have been poorly enforced. In The intercept was at least the accompanied a video shot by the tions, suspend in-person training stances,” said Michael Kugelman, both Herat and the capital Kabul, 12th this year involving U.S. and Russian aircrew. The Southern and restrict movement between an Afghanistan researcher at the the two cities with the highest Russian aircraft worldwide, ac- Military district ensures security Afghan and American bases, ac- Wilson Center in Washington. rates of infection, roads remained cording to a tally by Stars and in the Black Sea region. cording to a quarterly inspector Potential outbreaks of the coro- congested and markets are full of Stripes. Most have occurred in [email protected] general report. navirus within the ranks of Af- shoppers. Sunday, June 28, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 5 VIRUS OUTBREAK Bars shut down after business booms too much

BY JUAN A. LOZANO with some shutting down again Associated Press after workers became infected or closing as a precaution because of HOUSTON — The din of con- rising cases in their areas. versation and music that nor- In a nearly eight-minute video mally fills The Cottonmouth Club he posted online earlier this in downtown Houston fell silent month, Neff vented his frustra- last Friday when the owners shut tion, beginning with a message it down for a second time during directed at Abbott: “You’re lead- the coronavirus pandemic — a ing us to die.” week before the Texas governor An email seeking comment ordered all bars to follow suit from a spokesman for Abbott was amid a surge in infections. not immediately returned Fri- Co-owner Michael Neff — ques- day. During a news conference PHOTOS BY DAVID J. PHILLIP/AP tioning what he saw as a rush to Monday, Abbott said the goal has reopen by the state and wonder- always been to reduce cases and Bartender Katie McGranahan pours a beer at the Saint Arnold Brewing Company, on Friday, in Houston. ing if his industry was making keep people out of hospitals. things worse as some bars flouted “Texans have already shown ing Company, which has a popular rules on occupancy limits — said that we don’t have to choose beer garden that remained mostly he felt he could no longer provide between jobs and health,” he closed even before Friday’s order, a safe environment for his staff added. “We can protect Texans’ has also had difficulty navigat- or customers at the neighborhood lives while also restoring their ing what it sees as inconsistent bar with a rock ‘n’ roll vibe. livelihoods.” messaging on how to operate, He and his staff had started From the time bars and clubs said company spokesman Lennie hearing of workers at other bars in Texas could reopen on May 22 Ambrose. getting sick. with indoor service, social media “We’re going to follow the “Texas was a terrible, terrible has been filled with photos and laws or the ordinances. But even experiment because it experi- videos showing packed business- if something is allowed, maybe mented with people’s lives and es that were obviously not follow- that’s not the right thing for Saint this is where we are,” Neff said. ing rules on capacity and social Arnold to do from a public health That ended Friday, with Gov. distancing. But the first operation standpoint,” Ambrose said. Greg Abbott’s announcement that by the state to suspend the alcohol That feeling of uncertainty is bars would again be shuttered, a permits of establishments that ig- echoed elsewhere. Sean Kenne- day after the state reported a nored rules didn’t happen until a dy, a spokesman for the National record high of nearly 6,000 con- week ago. Restaurant Association, said his firmed cases and on the day that In closing bars again on Friday, organization has told officials that Texas surpassed 5,000 hospital- Abbott said the rise in confirmed the hospitality industry is “just izations for the first time. cases was “largely driven by cer- looking for consistency, transpar- Neff said while he faulted bars tain types of activities, including ency and forward-looking rules.” that ignored the rules, he also Texans congregating in bars.” Hostess Carla Alexander waits behind a sign that ask customers to lays blame on local and state of- Abbott also ordered restaurants wear masks at the Saint Arnold Brewing Company . The association has pressed local ficials for what he says was a lack to scale back to half capacity governments to increase efforts of guidance and support, a lack of starting Monday. A similar clampdown is hap- exceeding the required protocols to educate customers on their a statewide mask order and, until He added that “every Texan pening in several states where and with very little federal or responsibilities when going out, recently, a lack of enforcement. has a responsibility to themselves confirmed infections are spiking. state guidance, that more needs Kennedy said. It’s a sentiment shared by other and their loved ones to wear a In some places, owners are doing to be done,” Daniel Wright, the Neff said he is worried about bar and restaurant owners across mask” — but he has not mandated it voluntarily, as Neff did. On Fri- owner of five Cincinnati restau- losing his bar and has worked to the state and beyond who have their use statewide. Last week, he day, Florida banned alcohol con- rants and bars that he shut down find other revenue streams, in- been deeply hurt financially by did say cities and counties could sumption at bars after confirmed as a precaution, said in a Face- cluding selling cocktails to go, anti-virus measures and are also order businesses to require that coronavirus cases neared 9,000. book post this week. starting a podcast and holding a struggling with tough decisions, their customers wear masks. “What we realize is that despite Houston’s Saint Arnold Brew- nightly virtual bar livestream. Trump administration to give Congress full loan data

Associated Press ers who had pushed for the loan data from close details on which businesses received cy is needed to get an accurate picture of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and loans under the program. Up to now, SBA who was helped and who was left out. Re- WASHINGTON — After prodding from SBA Administrator Jovita Carranza. has only provided summary information cipients of smaller loans could be part of a Democratic lawmakers, the Trump ad- ministration has agreed to give Congress The administration’s concession is “a about the beneficiaries of its loans, such as bigger subsidiary that would be hidden, for — but not the public — complete data on step in the right direction,” Neal spokes- the industry the businesses are in and the example, and it wouldn’t provide a clear the millions of small businesses that re- person Erin Hatch said Friday, though state in which they are located. picture of what percentage of loans went to ceived loans from a $600 billion-plus coro- Neal believes the names of all recipients But it will be only a partial disclosure: minority-owned businesses. navirus aid program. should be made public. For loans of less than $150,000, the agen- Under the new agreement, the agencies Senior administration officials told law- Rep. Nydia Velazquez, D-N.Y., told The cies will not publicly name the recipients, will provide the complete data on loans makers they will provide full details on the Associated Press in an email that while it’s revealing only loan amounts and summary of all sizes to the congressional oversight roughly 4.7 million taxpayer-funded loans unfortunate it took so much pressure from information broken down by ZIP code, in- panels. Data on loans under $150,000 will worth $515 billion awarded under the Congress, “this is a valuable step, and we dustry and demographics, and the number only be provided to Congress, not the pub- Small Business Administration’s Paycheck will be carefully reviewing the data to en- of jobs they helped protect. lic. And Mnuchin and Carranza told Neal, Protection Program. Their concession sure that taxpayers and small businesses The SBA has processed 4.7 million loans Velazquez and Rep. Maxine Waters, D- came with a warning to lawmakers not to are being properly served by the program.” worth about $515 billion. Nearly 75% of the Calif., head of the House Financial Ser- divulge “confidential” loan information to Velazquez heads the House Small Business total money approved so far has gone to vices Committee, in a letter that it will be the wider public. Committee. businesses borrowing more than $150,000. given “with the understanding that non- Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., chair of the Last week, the Treasury Department and But 86% of the loans have gone to business- public, personally identifiable and com- House Ways and Means Committee, was SBA relented to pressure from lawmakers es borrowing less than $150,000. mercially sensitive business information one of the congressional oversight lead- and watchdogs and agreed to publicly dis- Ethics watchdogs say more transparen- will be treated as confidential.” PAGE 6 •STARS AND STRIPES• Sunday, June 28, 2020 VIRUS OUTBREAK Task force holds briefing for first time since April

BY DARLENE SUPERVILLE ed questions about the apparent AND DEB RIECHMANN dissonance between the adminis- Associated Press tration’s admonitions that Ameri- cans heed the guidance of local WASHINGTON — There was officials and President Donald no presidential appearance and Trump’s decision to hold a politi- no White House backdrop when cal rally last week in Tulsa, Okla., the government’s coronavirus over the objection of health offi- task force briefed the public for cials. And during a Trump event the first time since April — in in Arizona on Tuesday, thou- keeping with an administration sands of young attendees violated effort to show it is paying atten- Phoenix’s mandate to wear face tion to the latest spike in cases but masks. is not on a wartime footing that Insisting that Trump was “tak- should keep the country from re- ing proper steps,” Pence invoked opening the economy. the constitutional protection of The Friday briefing at the De- free speech, saying, “we still want partment of Health and Human to give people the freedom to par- Services was held as the number ticipate in the political process.” of confirmed new coronavirus in- Pence announced that 16 states fections per day in the U.S. soared were seeing worrisome increases to an all-time high of 40,000 — — up from 12 states on Wednes- higher even than during the dead- day. He said there still is work to SUSAN WALSH/AP liest stretch in April and May. In do, but that it was important to light of the new surge, task force Vice President Mike Pence, second from right, walks off of the stage following the conclusion of a reflect on how much the federal briefers chose their words care- briefing with the Coronavirus Task Force, the first since April, at the Department of Health and Human and state governments and health fully to update the public about Services in Washington Thursday. Dr. Deborah Birx, left, Dr. Anthony Fauci, second from left, and Health care workers have done to re- COVID-19, which has become and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, right, follow Pence. spond to the pandemic. both a public health and political “This moment in the coronavi- issue. reelection. ple, ” Pence said. “As you can see, we are fac- rus pandemic is different” from Vice President Mike Pence had “As we see new cases rising, But the vice president also took ing a serious problem in certain the grim days when New York, the most delicate line to walk. and we’re tracking them very note of positive job numbers and areas,” Fauci said. But he also New Jersey, Connecticut and He acknowledged a surge in new carefully, there may be a tenden- added: “The reality is we’re in a was careful not to blame the re- New Orleans struggled under the cases across the South and West, cy among the American people to much better place.” cent spike on gatherings where weight of the outbreak, he said. while backing the president’s de- think that we are back to the place Unbound by politics, Dr. An- people haven’t worn face masks America has since accelerated sire to get the economy up and that we were two months ago — in thony Fauci, the nation’s top in- or adhered to social distancing testing to 500,000 a day, which running, without mentioning that a time of great losses and a great fectious disease expert, sounded guidelines. has contributed to the increase in it will also help the prospects for hardship on the American peo- a more cautionary tone. Pence deftly sidestepped point- reported new cases, Pence said. Merkel, other leaders urge caution as cases rise

Associated Press close to a half-million lives with opening cafes, clubs, gyms and nearly 10 million cases. theaters after more than three BERLIN — German Chan- Texas Gov. Greg Abbott or- cellor Angela Merkel cautioned months of closure, despite a dered all bars closed, and Florida Saturday that the coronavirus continued upward trend in new banned alcohol at such establish- pandemic is far from over, as re- infections. ments. They joined a small but gional outbreaks gave rise to fears Authorities in other countries of a second wave. In the U.S., two growing number of states that are were taking a more cautious ap- of the largest states reversed either backtracking or putting proach, with the Indian city of course and reinstated some coro- any further reopening of their Gauhati, the capital of Assam navirus restrictions amid a surge economies on hold because of a state, announcing a new two- in new infections. comeback by the virus, mostly in week lockdown starting Monday, India reported more than the country’s South and West. with night curfews and weekend 18,000 new cases, pushing its Abbott, who had pursued one lockdowns in the rest of the state. cumulative total over the half- of the most aggressive reopening India added 18,552 cases in the million mark, the fourth highest schedules of any state, also scaled past 24 hours, raising its total to globally behind the U.S., Brazil back restaurant capacity and said 508,953. The death toll reached and Russia. Elsewhere, Egypt outdoor gatherings of more than 15,685. and Britain said they would ease 100 people would need approval LEO CORREA/AP China saw an uptick in cases, virus controls, while China and from local officials. one day after authorities said Mayor Carlos Gimenez in South Korea battled smaller out- Welington Goncalves, right, sits next to his colleague as they wait to they expect an outbreak in Bei- Florida’s Miami-Dade County breaks in their capitals. refill their disinfection tanks to help contain the spread of the new jing to be brought under control announced Friday night that he Merkel said in her weekly coronavirus in an area occupied by squatters in a poor region of Rio in the near future. The National would close beaches over the video podcast that getting Eu- de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday . Health Commission reported 17 Fourth of July weekend. He said rope’s economy back on track is new cases in the nation’s capital, her primary goal as Germany with more than 177,000 recover- on average about 60% over the cracking down on recreational activities is prudent given the the most in a week, among 21 takes over the rotating European ies, according to a Johns Hopkins past two weeks, according to an nationwide. University tally. Associated Press analysis. growing number of infections Union presidency next week, but Xu Hejian, the deputy chief of stressed that everyone shared a “The risk posed by the virus is While the rise partly reflects among young adults. Beijing’s publicity department, “joint responsibility” in follow- still serious,” Merkel said. “It’s expanded testing, experts say Elsewhere, Britain was expect- said the situation is severe and ing social distancing, mask and easy to forget because Germany there is ample evidence the ed to scrap a 14-day quarantine hygiene rules as lockdown rules has gotten through the crisis well scourge is making a comeback, requirement for people return- complex. are relaxed. so far, but that doesn’t mean we including rising deaths and hospi- ing from abroad in a bid to make “We must not, in the slight- German authorities renewed a are protected, that the risk has talizations in parts of the country summer vacation travel pos- est degree, lower our guard,” he lockdown in a western region of been averted; that is not the case, and higher percentages of virus sible. Only travelers from “red” said. about 500,000 people in the past as is demonstrated by these re- tests coming back positive. zones, places with a high level of South Korea, where a resur- week after about 1,300 slaughter- gional outbreaks.” The virus is blamed for about COVID-19, will be told to self-iso- gence in the past month threat- house workers tested positive for In the U.S., the daily number 125,000 deaths and nearly 2.5 late. A full list of countries, due to ens to erase the country’s earlier COVID-19, in an attempt to pre- of confirmed infections surged to million confirmed infections na- be published next week, is likely success, reported 51 new cases, vent the outbreak from spreading an all-time high of 45,300 on Fri- tionwide in the U.S., by Johns to give Spain, Greece and France including 35 in the Seoul metro- across the area. day, eclipsing the previous high Hopkins’ count. But health offi- a green light. politan area. Officials, worried Germany has recorded nearly of 40,000 set the previous day, ac- cials believe the true number of Egypt on Saturday lifted many about the fragile economy, have 195,000 coronavirus infections cording to Johns Hopkins. Newly infections is about 10 times higher. restrictions put in place against resisted calls to reimpose restric- and only around 9,000 deaths, reported cases per day have risen Worldwide, the virus has claimed the coronavirus pandemic, re- tions eased in April. Sunday, June 28, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 7 VIRUS OUTBREAK ROUNDUP Hard-hit tribe takes strict steps amid surges in Ariz.

Associated Press hospitals were prepared to deal with patients. FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — People The emotional appeal came as in the deserts of Arizona flee to Newsom was pressed repeatedly the White Mountains when the on whether California’s messages triple-digit heat is too much to about the virus were clear. While bear, cooling off in the forest a California has allowed most coun- few hours away. That worries a ties to open everything from res- Native American tribe that calls taurants to gyms, Newsom and the area home, as coronavirus other officials have warned about infections and temperatures have the risks of private gatherings, both spiked in one of the hardest- particularly inside. As caseloads hit states. and hospitalizations rise, New- The White Mountain Apache som has stated that a broad shut- Tribe is taking some of the most down isn’t necessary because of drastic actions in Arizona to pro- hospital capacity. tect its 13,500 residents, more than one-eighth of whom have al- Idaho ready tested positive for COVID- 19. It’s taking cues from severe BOISE — Hospitals are pre- measures imposed by other tribes paring for a potential influx of GREG WOHLFORD, ERIE (PA.) TIMES-NEWS/AP nationwide, including the Navajo older patients after a recent spike Dawn Dickinson, 60, from Willoughby, Ohio, plays a slot machine at Presque Isle Downs & Casino on Nation, which has curtailed an in coronavirus infections among the first day of reopening under the green phase Friday, in Summit Township, Pa. The casino has been outbreak that once made it a na- young people visiting bars who closed for three months due to the coronavirus pandemic. tional hot spot. are likely bringing the illness Those living on the White home to their parents and grand- portant for us to identify people assess this rapidly-changing situ- bags should cut down on the pos- Mountain Apache Tribe’s reser- parents, a health expert said who’ve been exposed to a disease, ation and adapt our response to sible spread of the coronavirus. vation in northeastern Arizona Friday. to test them and, if need be, quar- slow the spread,” Reeves said in The ban on plastic bags and face the risk of fines and other Barton Hill, vice president and antine them until the results are a statement. Styrofoam containers took effect penalties if they venture beyond chief quality officer of St. Luke’s back, and if necessary, put them Reeves said he needs Mis- in unincorporated areas of the their own yards this weekend. A Health System, said most of the sissippians to increase their ef- two-week shelter-in-place order in isolation if the result is posi- county on Jan 1. people testing positive recently forts to follow health and safety will follow. The tribe’s Fort tive,” said Patricia Kissinger, an The city of Albuquerque, which have been in their 20s and 30s. epidemiology professor at Tu- guidelines. has its own ban on plastic bags, Apache Reservation also is closed Most aren’t “sick enough to need to the summertime visitors who lane University’s School of Public is also temporarily allowing for hospitalization,” he said but noted Health and Tropical Medicine. Nevada their use. flock to the area to fish, hike and several people in their 20s did camp among ponderosa pines. Gov. John Bel Edwards’ admin- Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham need to be hospitalized. “I think istration has signed $20 million CARSON CITY — A labor raised concerns Thursday about The tribe’s confirmed infec- probably it’s going to be the fami- in federally financed contracts union representing more than a recent uptick in COVID-19 in- tions and 20 deaths as of Friday ly units where it’s going to spread with call centers for the tracking. 6,000 Nevada state workers an- fections in the state, and the state make the reservation one of the to more at-risk populations.” Nearly 400 people are trained nounced Friday it had filed a for- fair has been canceled. hardest-hit places in a state that’s Young adults working in senior and making calls. mal complaint to the state’s labor recording over 3,000 cases a day living facilities also have the po- But people don’t always answer relations board against Gov. Steve Utah and running short on hospital tential to bring the illness into unknown callers. Some don’t Sisolak. space. that vulnerable population, Hill want to share information, fear- In the complaint, the American SALT LAKE CITY — A rural “COVID has just turned our said. Federation of State County Mu- county commissioner apologized world upside down,” White Moun- ful of how it will be used. Others “The older patients are going to nicipal Employees (AFSCME) after comparing Utah Gov. Gary tain Apache Chairwoman Gwen- don’t want to give phone num- be the ones who are really going Nevada branch claims that Siso- Herbert to Hitler in a social dena Lee-Gatewood said. bers and names of contacts, said to put the pinch on our health lak violated a collective bargain- media post after the Republican The tribe also is ordering Theresa Sokol, Louisiana’s acting care,“ Hill said. ing statute he signed into law in governor gave approval to two homeless people who test positive state epidemiologist, who over- Idaho’s daily confirmed coro- 2019 by refusing to negotiate the counties to mandate masks in an for the virus to quarantine at the sees contact tracing efforts. navirus cases jumped by about furloughs and salary freezes en- effort to slow the spread of the tribe’s casino-hotel — now closed 10% to nearly 5,000 on Friday, ac- acted to cut spending amid the coronavirus. to visitors — and is banning the Mississippi cording to a tally by Johns Hop- coronavirus pandemic. Piute County Commissioner sale and use of alcohol for the rest kins University that included 90 JACKSON — The Mississippi In a June 11 letter to state Darin Bushman tweeted Thurs- of the year. Lee-Gatewood hopes deaths. And the percentage of Department of Health announced employees announcing the fur- day night: “Hang on friends, it it will help keep people safe if people testing positive jumped an additional 550 confirmed loughs, Sisolak lamented how won’t be long before you are re- they get lax about social distanc- from 2.8% to 7.8% over the last cases of the new coronavirus Fri- the revenue shortfalls would pre- quired to do a Sieg Heil Salute to ing and other measures when two weeks, according to the day after record-high numbers vent Nevada from using funds to Herbert. Welcome to Utah now they’re drinking. COVID Tracking Project. reported the day before. enact policies he and the Demo- extend your right arm straight After the department reported crat-controlled Legislature have at 45 degrees keeping your hand California Louisiana passed since 2018. 1,092 new cases of coronavirus parallel to your arm and offer “The economic crisis caused Thursday, State Health Officer your ‘Heil Herbert.’ ” SACRAMENTO — California BATON ROUGE — Seeing a by the COVID-19 pandemic has Dr. Thomas Dobbs warned of He added the hashtags “Nazi” Gov. Gavin Newsom issued his new surge in coronavirus infec- forced us to take a different di- continuing increases if people and “Masks” above a picture of sharpest warning yet on the ris- tions, Louisiana is struggling rection with our state budget to do not take social distancing and Nazi followers saluting leaders. ing coronavirus threat, announc- with the critical tracking work respond to this new economic re- mask-wearing seriously. Bushman later deleted the post ing for the first time the state needed to combat the spread, as ality,” Sisolak wrote. “If we’re not careful, Mississip- and tweeted: “Sorry if you found wanted a county to shut down contact tracers face unanswered In the complaint, AFSCME at- pi is going to look like New York my tweet offensive. I have re- again, pleading with residents to calls, privacy concerns and dis- torney Fernando R. Colon writes wear masks and reminding them trust from elected officials. at the height of the pandemic,” that Sisolak “unilaterally deter- moved it so as not to further of- that dozens of people are dying Only 59% of those who have Dobbs said at a press briefing. mined” state workers would be fend. My apologies.” each day — 79 more reported tested positive for COVID-19 On Friday evening, Gov. Tate subject to salary freezes and one- He rejected calls by critics who Friday. since mid-May have responded to Reeves announced the exten- day-per-month furloughs. tweeted that he should resign. “Please, even if you don’t feel phone calls from contact tracers, sion of his Safe Return Executive Herbert has resisted calls to sick, you may be transmitting this according to the latest data from Order, which limits the number of New Mexico make face coverings mandatory disease,” he said. “Please, please, Louisiana’s health department, people who can gather in groups, statewide, instead giving counties practice common sense, common and only one-third answered and recommends retail stores, ALBUQUERQUE — Bernalillo the opportunity to ask his permis- decency. Protect yourself, but within the crucial first 24 hours bars and restaurants limit ca- County will continue to allow for sion to enact the requirements in also protect others. ... What more after the test results. pacity to 50%. The Safe Return the use of single-use plastic bags their areas. He approved requests evidence do we need?” As more of Louisiana’s busi- Order is extended through July 6. amid the ongoing coronavirus in Utah’s most populated county, His tone marked a shift from nesses have reopened and new Reeves also extended all unem- pandemic. Salt Lake County, and in Summit his policy-wonk style on display virus cases have spiked, infec- ployment benefits to those out of The county manager first sus- County, home to the ski town of at three press conferences ear- tious disease experts describe a work due to the coronavirus until pended the ban on plastic bags Park City. lier in the week, where he talked robust contact tracing program the end of July. during a March 10 emergency Herbert said in a statement about data modeling and deliv- as essential. “The threat is far from over. meeting. Friday that Bushman’s comment ered a trove of statistics, but of- “Contact tracing’s a basic Extending our Safe Return order County Manager Julie Morgas lacked civility needed no matter fered assurances that the state’s public health tool. It’s really im- will give us much-needed time to Baca said the use of single-use how strongly people disagree. PAGE 8 •STARS AND STRIPES• Sunday, June 28, 2020 NATION Trump signs order to protect monuments

Associated Press est extent of the law any person Earlier in the day, the president sey home to stay in Washington tests against the death of George or group that destroys or vandal- used Twitter to call for the arrest “to make sure LAW & ORDER is Floyd at police hands in Minneso- WASHINGTON — President izes a monument, memorial or of protesters involved with the at- enforced.” ta. On Tuesday, police cleared out Donald Trump signed an execu- statue. Federal law authorizes a tempt to bring down the Jackson “These arsonists, anarchists, the entire area around the cor- tive order Friday to protect mon- penalty of up to 10 years in prison statue from Lafayette Park. looters, and agitators have been ner of 16th and H streets — and uments, memorials and statues for the “willful injury” of federal He retweeted an FBI wanted largely stopped,“ Trump tweeted. pushed demonstrators away from facing new scrutiny amid fresh property. poster showing pictures of 15 pro- “I am doing what is necessary to the intersection, which had re- debate over the nation’s racist The order also calls for maxi- testers who are wanted for “van- keep our communities safe — and cently been renamed Black Lives beginnings. mum prosecution for anyone who dalization of federal property.“ these people will be brought to Matter Plaza by the city. Trump had promised to take incites violence and illegal activi- Trump wrote, “MANY people Justice!“ Statistics released by the Met- action earlier this week after po- ty, and it threatens state and local in custody, with many others Protesters on Monday night at- ropolitan Police Department lice thwarted an attempt by pro- law enforcement agencies that being sought for Vandalization tempted to drag the Jackson stat- show that nine people were ar- testers to pull down a statue of fail to protect monuments with of Federal Property in Lafayette ue down with ropes and chains. rested Tuesday night and a total Andrew Jackson in a park across the loss of federal funding. Park. 10 year prison sentences!” Police repelled the protesters and of 12 arrested between Monday from the White House. Trump announced earlier Fri- He also said on Twitter that he sealed off Lafayette Park, which and Wednesday. There were no The order calls on the attorney day on Twitter that he had signed had scrapped plans to spend the had been reopened to the public protest-related arrests Thursday, general to prosecute to the full- the order and called it “strong.” weekend at his central New Jer- for more than a week after pro- according to the MPD data. Seattle mayor meets with protesters over dismantling zone

Associated Press return this weekend to a nearby precinct that was abandoned fol- SEATTLE — Seattle Mayor lowing clashes with demonstra- Jenny Durkan met with demon- tors, Durkan’s spokesperson said. strators Friday after some lay in The collective of protesters, the street or sat on barricades to thwart the city’s effort to disman- activists, educators and volun- tle an “occupied” protest zone teers in the CHOP was formed that has drawn scorn from Presi- after clashes with police who dent Donald Trump and a lawsuit tear-gassed people protesting the from nearby businesses. police killing of George Floyd in Crews arrived with heavy Minneapolis. equipment early Friday morning Durkan has expressed support at the Capitol Hill Occupied Pro- for the protest, calling it “a peace- test, an occupied protest zone in ful expression of our community’s Seattle, ready to dismantle barri- collective grief and their desire to ers set up after protesters seized build a better world.” the area June 8 following clashes But following several shootings with police. But by mid-morning, in the area, Durkan earlier this TED S. WARREN/AP they appeared to have backed off week said the city would wind Seattle Fire Chief Harold Scoggins, right, walks with Stephanie Formas, left, communications director rather than risk conflict. down the protest zone, at first by for Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan, on Friday inside the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest zone in Seattle. Omari Salisbury, a local jour- encouraging demonstrators to nalist who attended the afternoon leave. In addition, she had said meeting between protesters and police would return to the nearby But they said they had limited Workers were preserving art- the other barriers are removed the mayor, told reporters after- precinct. access to their businesses, and work that had been painted on the Sunday, according to Salisbury. ward that the mayor had agreed Nearby businesses and proper- sometimes have been threatened wooden barricades, Zimbabwe The city has not given a timeline to wait until Sunday morning to ty owners filed a federal lawsuit for photographing protesters in said, adding that the department for officers’ return to the building remove most of the barricades. against the city on Wednesday public areas or for cleaning graf- would work to return it to the peo- except to say it would be in the A spokesperson said late Friday for its tolerance of the zone, say- fiti off their storefronts. ple who created it. near future. the mayor met with Black minis- ing officials had been complicit in The work crews had intended “We’re not trying to have con- Protesters want the removal of ters and some of the organizers depriving them of their rights to to remove the barricades, not the flict,” he said. legal protections known as “qual- and suggested “steps that she be- their property. remaining protesters, on Friday. A number of protesters re- ified immunity” for police who lieves can be taken in the coming The businesses said they did Sam Zimbabwe, city transpor- mained camped in tents outside violate rights of members of the days, including the removal of the not intend to undermine the anti- tation director, told Salisbury, the East Precinct; Durkan said public — an issue that would need barriers to create more access.” police-brutality or Black Lives who has been live-streaming the barricades protecting them from to be addressed in state law, not Seattle police had no plans to Matter messaging of the protest. protest. traffic would remain even after by the city. Wisconsin man who triggered protest is charged with extortion

Associated Press Johnson faces up to 40 years in prison if man unidentified in the affidavit sitting at two other men. He shouted allegations of convicted on two counts of extortion. On- a table and playing music from a portable racism through a megaphone and swung a MADISON, Wis. — Federal prosecu- line court records did not list the case or stereo. bat, according to the affidavit. One of the tors on Friday charged a Black man whose an attorney for Johnson as of late Friday The owner told him that he supports the men had a bat with “Black Lives Matter” arrest triggered a violent protest in Wis- afternoon. U.S. Attorney Scott Blader said Black Lives Matter movement to which written on it. consin’s capital city with extorting local in a statement that Johnson’s initial ap- Johnson replied, according to court docu- “Just give us some free food and beer businesses. pearance hasn’t been set. ments, “What have you done locally?” He and we can end this now,” Johnson said, Police arrested Devonere Johnson, 28, According to court documents, Johnson said he’d start breaking windows if he according to the affidavit. “You don’t want in Madison on Tuesday after he walked and an unnamed man had been trying to didn’t get money and accused the owner 600 people to come here and destroy your into Cooper’s Tavern near the state Capitol extort business owners around the Capitol and his employees of being members of business and burn it down. The cops are building with a megaphone and a bat. The for beer, food and money for two days be- the Ku Klux Klan. The owner told police on our side. You notice that when you call arrest sparked a protest later that night fore Johnson was arrested. he was afraid protesters would target his them, nothing happens to us.” that saw demonstrators tear down two FBI Agent Beth Boxwell wrote in an af- business because he didn’t give Johnson Demonstrators have protested regularly statues outside the Capitol building and fidavit that the owner of Cooper’s Tavern what he wanted. in Madison since George Floyd, a hand- assault state Sen. Tim Carpenter on the came up from the bar’s basement on Mon- Johnson allegedly returned twice to the cuffed Black man, died in police custody in Capitol lawn. day afternoon to find Johnson and another tavern on Tuesday, at one point joined by Minneapolis on May 25. Sunday, June 28, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 9 NATION Court finds Trump wrongly transferred money for wall

Associated Press court action. men and women in uniform, as The administration has already well as their families,” said House SAN FRANCISCO — A federal awarded much of the money, in- Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Califor- appeals court on Friday ruled cluding a $1.3-billion job in Ari- nia Democrat. against the Trump administra- tion in its transfer of $2.5 billion zona that was announced last The 9th Circuit ruled that the month. Trump visited Yuma, Trump administration not only from military construction proj- RANDY HOEFT, YUMA SUN/AP ects to build sections of the U.S. Ariz., on Tuesday to mark com- lacked the authority to authorize border wall with Mexico, ruling pletion of the 200th mile of border the transfer of funds, “but also President Donald Trump smiles moments before putting his it illegally sidestepped Congress, wall during his administration, violated an express constitutional signature on a plaque commemorating the completion of 200 miles which gets to decide how to use much of it with the transferred prohibition designed to protect of the border wall Tuesday outside of San Luis, Ariz. the funds. military funds that the 9th Cir- individual liberties.” In two opinions, the 9th U.S. cuit panel found illegal. The vote on both rulings was government failed to show that conclusion,” the majority wrote. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed After the $2.5 billion transfer 2-1 with judges appointed by for- construction would halt the flow The White House said the de- with a coalition of border states of military funds, the Pentagon mer President Bill Clinton in the of illegal drugs. It said the ad- cisions won’t interfere with its and environmental groups that diverted another $3.6 billion that majority and a Trump nominee ministration had cited drug sta- ability to continue building the contended the money transfer an appeals court in New Orleans dissenting. tistics but didn’t address how the wall and noted that the Supreme was unlawful and that building ruled in January could be spent. The panel said the government wall would have an impact on the Court has overturned many of the wall would pose environmen- Still, critics of Trump’s wall was proceeding with border wall problem. the court’s rulings. tal threats. praised the rulings on Friday for construction without ensuring “The executive branch’s failure After the Supreme Court gave The rulings were the latest upholding the Constitution, which compliance with any environmen- to show, in concrete terms, that the green light last year to begin twist in the legal battle that has grants Congress the power of the tal regulations, thereby harming the public’s interest favors a bor- work on the wall using Defense largely gone Trump’s way. Last purse. the interests of Sierra Club mem- der wall is particularly significant Department money, the Justice July, the Supreme Court allowed “The funds that he is pilfer- bers who visit the border region given that Congress determined Department vowed to continue the $2.5 billion to be spent while ing, which were appropriated by for hiking, bird watching and fencing to be a lower budgetary to defend the administration’s the litigation continued, blunting Congress, are vital to support the other recreational activities. priority and the Department of efforts to protect the southern the impact of the latest appeals safety and well-being of the brave The panel also held that the Justice’s data points to a contrary border. House OKs Judge says US must bill to make free migrant children DC a state from family detention Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Demo- Associated Press court settlement governing the U.S. government’s treatment of cratic-controlled House approved HOUSTON — A federal judge immigrant children known as the a bill Friday to make the District on Friday ordered the release of Flores agreement. Her order does of Columbia the 51st state, saying children held with their parents not directly apply to the parents Congress has both the moral obli- in U.S. immigration jails and detained with their children. gation and constitutional authori- denounced the Trump adminis- ty to ensure that the city’s 700,000 tration’s prolonged detention of Gee’s order says ICE can de- residents are allowed full voting families during the coronavirus cline to release a child if there is rights, no longer subject to “taxa- not a suitable sponsor, the child’s CAROLYN KASTER/AP pandemic. tion without representation.” U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee’s parent waives rights under the Lawmakers approved the bill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., points to District of Columbia order applies to children held for Flores agreement, or if there is a 232-180, largely along party Mayor Muriel Bowser’s mask during a news conference on Capitol more than 20 days at three fam- “prior unexplained failure to ap- lines, marking the first time a Hill in Washington on Thursday about D.C. statehood. ily detention centers in Texas and pear at a scheduled hearing.” chamber of Congress has passed Pennsylvania operated by U.S. ICE did not respond to a re- a D.C. statehood bill. Minnesota mistake about it,” said Rep. Chip Virginia-born first president and Immigration and Customs En- quest for comment Friday. Rep. Collin Peterson was the sole Roy, R-Texas. The bill would the Maryland-born abolitionist forcement. Some have been de- But most parents last month Democrat to oppose the bill. No “fundamentally alter what D.C. and former slave. tained since last year. refused to designate a sponsor Republican voted for it. is,” he added. The bill also would reduce the Citing the recent spread of the when ICE officials unexpectedly The legislation now goes to the Norton, who has served as D.C. size of the federal district to a virus in two of the three facili- asked them who could take their Republican-controlled Senate, delegate since 1991, said the issue tourist-friendly area that includes ties, Gee set a deadline of July 17 children if the adults remained where it faces insurmountable is deeply personal for her and the White House, the Capitol, the for children to either be released detained, according to lawyers opposition from GOP leaders. thousands of other city residents Supreme Court, federal monu- with their parents or sent to fam- for the families. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, who have long been disenfran- ments and the federal executive, ily sponsors. The agency said then it was the district’s non-voting repre- chised. Her great-grandfather legislative and judicial office The family detention centers conducting a “routine parole re- sentative in Congress, sponsored Richard Holmes escaped slav- buildings adjacent to the National “are ‘on fire’ and there is no more view consistent with the law” and the bill, saying it has both the ery at a Virginia plantation and Mall and the Capitol. Congress time for half measures,” she Gee’s previous orders. facts and Constitution on its side. “made it as far as D.C., a walk to would retain control of that 2- wrote. Advocates contend that ICE D.C.’s population is larger than freedom but not to equal citizen- square-mile area. Gee’s order said ICE was de- should release all families from those of Wyoming and Vermont, ship,” she said. Washington Mayor Muriel taining 124 children in its cen- detention especially as the coro- and the new state would be one of Congress has two choices, she Bowser invoked Douglass as she ters, which are separate from navirus has spread rapidly seven with populations under one added. “It can continue to exer- hailed the “historic vote” bring- U.S. Department of Health and through immigration detention. million, she said. The city’s $15.5 cise undemocratic, autocratic ing the city closer than ever to Human Services facilities for un- In court filings revealed Thurs- billion annual budget is larger authority over the 705,000 Ameri- becoming the 51st state. accompanied children that were day, ICE said 11 children and than those of 12 states, and D.C.’s can citizens, treating them, in the “More than 160 years ago, holding around 1,000 children parents have tested positive for triple-A bond rating is higher than words of Frederick Douglass, as Washingtonian Frederick Doug- in early June. The numbers in COVID-19 at the family detention those of 35 states, Norton said. ‘aliens, not citizens, but subjects.’ lass told us: Power concedes noth- both systems have fallen signifi- center in Karnes City, Texas. Opponents, mostly Republi- Or Congress can live up to this ing without a demand,” Bowser cantly since earlier in the Trump At the detention center in near- cans, called the bill a power grab nation’s promise and ideals, end said. “As Washingtonians and as administration because the U.S. by Dilley, at least three parents for the firmly Democratic city, taxation without representation taxpaying American citizens, we is expelling most people trying and children — including a child and said the nation’s founding and pass” the statehood bill. are demanding what is owed to to cross the border or requiring who turned 2 this week — were fathers intended the capital to be The bill would create a new us — the rights guaranteed to us them to wait for their immigra- placed in isolation after two pri- separate from the other states. state of Washington, Douglass by the U.S. Constitution. It is past tion cases in Mexico. vate contractors and an ICE offi- “This is about power. Make no Commonwealth, in honor of the time to fix this injustice.” Gee oversees a long-running cial tested positive for the virus. PAGE 10 •STARS AND STRIPES• Sunday, June 28, 2020 WORLD Polish president to fight for 2nd term Sunday

BY VANESSA GERA race late after an election origi- Associated Press nally scheduled for May 10 was scrapped due to the pandemic. WARSAW, Poland — Poland’s Duda’s strong support, bolstered right-wing president, Andrzej by adulatory coverage in public Duda, is fighting for a second term media, began to slip once restric- in an election Sunday that will test tions were lifted and other candi- whether he was helped by a cam- dates could campaign. paign that depicted LGBT rights As he appeared to be losing as a dangerous “ideology” as well support, Duda seized on family as an unconventional last-minute values, vowing to protect Polish reception by President Donald families from the propagation Trump at the White House. of “LGBT ideology” in public It will be another electoral test institutions. for populist leaders in Europe LGBT activists held street amid the coronavirus pandemic. protests after Duda accused the Last weekend, Serbia’s autocratic LGBT rights movement of pro- right-wing president, Aleksandar moting a viewpoint more danger- Vucic, strengthened his hold on ous than communism and saying power there in a parliamentary he agreed with another conserva- election that was boycotted by op- position parties. tive politician who said “LGBT is The Polish election is widely not people; it’s an ideology.” seen as an important test for de- Some Polish veterans of World CZAREK SOKOLOWSKI/AP mocracy, in this case in the fifth War II who resisted a Nazi Ger- most populous country in the 27- Polish President Andrzej Duda waves to supporters as he campaigns for a second term in Serock, man occupation that consid- member European Union. Poland June 17. Duda is the frontrunner ahead of the election on Sunday, but polls show him unlikely to ered Poles subhuman strongly A crowded field of 11 candi- achieve the majority needed to win outright. That will require a runoff two weeks later. denounced Duda’s targeting of dates — all men — could make it LGBT people as a new form of dehumanization. harder for anyone to reach the re- both in power since 2015, have downgraded Poland in its rank- pro-EU and pro-business Civic quired 50% of votes on Sunday, in also triggered tensions with the ing from “consolidated democ- Platform party. Duda dropped that language in which case a runoff will be held EU and provoked repeated street racy ” to “semi-consolidated That par ty governed from 20 07- recent days, saying at a rally Fri- July 12. protests at home for controversial democracy.” 15, with Donald Tusk as prime day that “in Poland there is place Duda is backed by Law and Jus- laws giving the party control over “The destruction of the demo- minister until 2014, when he left for everyone.” tice, a nationalist, conservative the top courts and other key judi- cratic state of law is close to Poland to take on a top leadership The election will take place party that is popular with many cial bodies. completion,” said Jaroslaw Kur- role as president of the European four days after Duda was hosted for introducing welfare spending Duda, 48, who trained as a ski, the editor of the liberal daily Council. at the White House by Trump, programs. Those policies have lawyer, has signed most of those newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, in Civic Platform oversaw strong who praised Poland for its “rule eased hardships for older Poles changes into law and has been an appeal this week for readers to economic growth but is now of law. ” and others left behind in the dra- derided by his critics as a “No- choose a democratic candidate. blamed by many for pro-market “He’s doing a terrific job. The matic economic transformation tary” or “The Pen” for approv- “If we, citizens, democrats, do policies that helped businesses, people of Poland think the world since communism fell in 1989. ing changes that some legal not mobilize, the next elections but allowed poverty to fester and of him,” Trump said Wednesday “Poland has changed. It has experts say violate Poland’s own will be as ‘democratic’ as in Be- economic inequalities to grow. at a joint news conference with changed for the better,” Duda said constitution. larus, Russia or Hungary,” Kur- On the campaign trail, Trzas- Duda. at a rally on Friday, while promis- The European Union has ski wrote. kowski, 48, has promised to keep However, the visit to Washing- ing to keep working to make sure strongly condemned the judicial According to polls, Duda’s Law and Justice’s popular spend- ton appeared to bring no break- Poles achieve Western European laws as violations of democratic biggest challenge comes from ing programs while vowing to re- throughs, and it is not clear if living standards. standards. This year the U.S.- the liberal Warsaw Mayor Rafal store constitutional norms. Trump’s apparent endorsement Duda and Law and Justice, based group Freedom House Trzaskowski, who belongs to the Trzaskowski entered the will win over undecided voters . South Korean police raid office Police discover bodies of anti-North Korean activist dumped in 2 different states in northern Mexico Associated Press for alleged fraud, embezzlement and other charges over their do- SEOUL, South Korea — South nation activities. Associated Press happened to be driving by. Korea police on Friday raided the A day earlier in the Pacific Park said Monday that his leaf- MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s office of an activist whose anti- coast state of Sinaloa, state police leting was only aimed at inform- organized crime violence burst North Korea leafleting campaign said they had found the bodies ing North Korean residents of the into full view Friday, as police in has intensified tensions on the of seven men wearing military- Korean Peninsula. truth about their government and the north-central state of Zacate- that he would keep sending bal- cas reported finding 14 bodies style clothing in a pickup truck Police said officers visited the in a rural area near the city of Seoul office of Park Sang-hak to loons to them. dumped on a roadside near the Culiacan. In another area nearby, confiscate leaflets, account books The pressure on activists has city of Fresnillo while gunmen police found nine more bodies, at and other related materials. The led to criticism that the liberal shot up an armored vehicle car- least one of whom had an assault Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency government of President Moon rying Mexico City’s police chief. said that Park will be summoned Jae-in is sacrificing democratic Zacatecas state police gave no rifle. Two bullet-riddled vehicles soon for an investigation. principles to salvage its falter- further details, but photos of the were found nearby. There had Park, a North Korean refugee ing efforts for reconciliation with dirt road where the bodies were been a series of shootouts there YANG JI-WOONG, YONHAP/AP who has launched balloons car- North Korea. The governor of found showed the corpses dumped Wednesday. rying propaganda leaflets toward A balloon carrying a banner with Gyeonggi province is affiliated in a pile, wrapped in blankets and Sinaloa is home the cartel of North Korea for years, has been images of North Korean leader with Moon’s ruling party. bound with tape. the same name, and the dead men in the spotlight after North Korea Kim Jong Un, his grandfather A police agency official in- The report came as two dozen appeared to have been involved abruptly used his campaign as a and sister is seen in Hongcheon, volved in the case said officers gunmen ambushed the Mexico in turf battles between factions of justification for a series of pro- South Korea, Tuesday . also raided the office of Park’s City police chief on the capital’s the cartel. vocative steps against South brother, Park Jung-oh, who has most iconic boulevard, firing “Clearly there is a fight be- Korea. Among them was blowing with North Korea and potential- floated plastic bottles filled with on his vehicle with .50-caliber tween organized crime groups up an empty liaison office built ly endangering residents living rice toward North Korea across sniper rifles and grenades. The in this area,” said state police by South Korea on the North’s near the border. Authorities in the sea boundary. The official, ambush left chief Omar Garcia chief Cristobal Castaneda, noting territory. Gyeonggi province, which bor- who requested anonymity be- Harfuch wounded with three bul- that in the last month police have South Korean officials later de- ders North Korea, requested a cause the investigation is ongo- let impacts and shrapnel. Two seized five belt-fed machine guns, manded police investigate Park separate investigation of several ing, said police plan to summon members of his security detail two .50-caliber sniper rifles and for allegedly raising animosities activist groups, including Park’s, Park Jung-oh too. were killed, as was a woman who about 35,000 bullets in the area. Sunday, June 28, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 11 MOVIES Black filmmakers, executives detail Hollywood experiences

BY RYAN FAUGHNDER nal memos called for refl ection on The Times interviewed Black en- AND STACY PERMAN the industry’s poor record of inclu- tertainment industry professionals, Los Angeles Times sion and diversity. spanning directors, producers, writ- fter George Floyd’s killing Still, the entertainment industry’s ers, designers, agents and executives. in the custody of Minne- long history of failures when it comes They discussed systemic racism in apolis police last month, to race continues to weigh on the Hollywood, what needs to change A Hollywood entertainment minds of many of the Black fi lmmak- and their frustration with years of ers, executives and others inter- talk and little action. companies sent out a fl urry of state- Ava DuVernay ments supporting the Black Lives viewed by The Times. Many note the “This conversation needed to hap- Matter movement’s fi ght against stark absence of Black executives in pen for a long time about racism and police brutality and systemic racism. studios’ ranks. The Writers Guild of race in our industry,” said Cynthia Studios, music labels and stream- America West’s Committee of Black Erivo, the actor, singer and songwrit- ing services promised donations to Writers recently published an open er who was nominated for two Oscars antiracist nonprofi ts and declared letter to studios demanding that ac- for 2019’s “Harriet.” “It feels like for their commitment to diversity. Inter- tions follow words. the fi rst time people are listening.” How the attention to racism and police brutality is challenging Hollywood

Ava DuVernay, director (“When They See Us,” “Selma”): You wood portrays of Black men and women in demeaning positions, have certain people who are really reaching in, in a way that’s being violent and so forth, it contributes to the dehumanization. active and progressive, and you have folks that are going through Kasi Lemmons, director, writer, “Harriet,” “Eve’s Bayou”: the motions. And in this moment, there are no more motions. That I’ve had some time to think about these diversity reports that kind of empty exercise is being duly noted by me and others. came out last year. Looking back 12 to 13 years, the numbers are DeVon Franklin, chief executive, Franklin Entertainment: How so bleak, especially in terms of what I am doing — writing and can what happened to Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, Breonna directing — and especially for directors of color and underrepre- Taylor, or so many other countless Black men and women who’ve sented women, they made less than 1% of the studio movies. That lost their lives, happen? Because there’s a dehumanization. That gave me pause. Because you expect or hope what seems obvious dehumanization is by no means completely at the doorstep of Hol- in an industry that deals with aspirations and inspiration, it feels lywood. However, when you see the persistent images that Holly- like a perfect place for us to be our better selves. What actions can create meaningful change in the industry? Problem of white gatekeepers DeVon Franklin

Darrell D. Miller, lawyer, entertainment the moment is defi nitely here, and I just Robin Thede, creator and star, “A Black department Chair, Fox Rothschild: What get tired when people of good hearts and Lady Sketch Show”: We don’t want a Hollywood can do, I think, is to actually right minds say, “I’m going to donate.” handout; we want to do the work. There’s act upon some of the changes that have But what are you doing? In terms of staff- a reason why you have an Ava DuVernay literally been talked about for years: ing showrunners, did you even interview and an Issa Rae and a Lena Waithe, who Bring more images, more voices, more a person of color for that position, or did are performing at a super high level. talent, more producers in the rooms to you hire them because they were some- These people have worked their asses off. create content more representative of our one’s friend? So no one is asking for the studios to just greenlight everything Black. That’s going society. Jeff Clanagan, chief executive, Code- to be awful. We want to be vetted just like Lorrie Bartlett, co-head of talent de- black Films: You can recruit at certain everyone else. The problem is, Hollywood partment, partner and board member, colleges. Try recruiting at the HBCUs doesn’t see us. ICM Partners: First of all, it’s [about] (historically Black colleges and universi- Lemmons: I have witnessed people educating people and shining a light on ties). This conversation has to stay rel- overlooking young Black people; just not unconscious bias, antiracism and anti- evant in the same way that the #MeToo seeing them. If there’s not a Black person hate. It’s not enough to say, “Oh, but I’m movement stayed relevant. in the room, or a woman or Indigenous not a racist.” There needs to be a real Melina Matsoukas, director, “Queen & person, are they seeing talent? Or are they sense of understanding, by omission and Slim”: I want to make these stories on my seeing talent that looks like them? silence contributing to a problem that ex- sets. But the burden of diversity shouldn’t ists. That is the fi rst step. just be on Black fi lmmakers, it should be Profiling in the industry John Ridley, screenwriter, “12 Years on everyone. Do you ask your white coun- a Slave”: This is not charity, it’s not do- terparts to open their sets and demand Miller: I went to my fi rst Vanity Fair good work. These are amazing individu- that they hire people of color on sets or Oscar party, and after going through fi ve als. The talent is here, the will is here, the writers room? Is that happening? checkpoints, I walked in and fi nally got to Kasi Lemmons the door, and I was told the chauffeurs are around the corner. I’ve come to Holly- Final thoughts The burden on Black executives and creators wood and I’m at the top of my game. But I DuVernay: What I’ve found is the folks on Jermaine Johnson, manager, 3 Arts for ourselves. haven’t escaped the external reality. Deirdra Govan, costume designer: the ground doing the work are not getting Entertainment: I do think that people, George Tillman Jr., director, “The Hate I went into a high-end store, I was shopping the infl ux of money from studios, net- especially white people in positions of U Give”: When I go to pitch at different for an A-list celebrity for a studio show. works and agencies, because those checks power, need to get comfortable with studios, if you have an African Ameri- We had an account with the store. I spent are going to the [high profi le, legacy social being uncomfortable; it is monumentally can lead, you’re going to get less money. $50,000, but from start to fi nish I was justice organizations] you know. That tells important to the change we need to make. You’ve got to jump up and down to con- profi led and questioned. When I went to me it’s performative. Performance doesn’t At the top, so long as equality feels like vince them that this is something that’s pick up the clothes, I was sequestered by fi x systems and structures. I don’t think oppression, then we need a reality check universal. security with the receipt in my hand. It it’s coming from a place of malice, it’s was humiliating. The celebrity called the coming from a place of ignorance. People How to fix Hollywood’s pipeline problem? president of the store to say how inappro- just don’t know what to do. priate the behavior was. Matsoukas: Racism in Hollywood is a Tina Perry, president, OWN: I think industry. There’s something about the Lena Waithe, creator, “The Chi”; writer, pandemic born from over a century of era- it starts even earlier, with fi guring out exposure at an early age that’s really “Queen & Slim”: In our workplace, we’ve sure, segregation, white nepotism, redlin- how to tell high school students what important. got to be nice to people, we’ve got to have ing, the rewriting of history and pushing this industry is, what opportunities exist Franklin: No studio would outsource their dinner with them and sit next to them at false narratives, cultural looting, and and the types of jobs that are available. fi lm slate to human resources. So the idea premieres, you know what I’m saying? It ostracism. The only way forward is to dis- I’ve had interns come to us from LA and that most diversity initiatives are run is a truly traumatic thing for a lot of Black mantle these practices within these institu- South LA, and they didn’t know all the through human resource departments is artists because you’re constantly having tions in an effort to bring true diversity to potential ways they could work in the one of the reasons why they don’t work. to rub shoulders with your oppressors. the entertainment and media industry. PAGE 12 •STARS AND STRIPES• Sunday,Friday, June 28,26, 2020 MUSIC

Sex, Bono and depression: How the sisters of Haim made their most revealing album yet

BY MIKAEL WOOD Los Angeles Times

n a normal world, the sisters of Haim Haim ventures deep into that recurring chance to experience the high before the On “Women would be looking forward to doing what post-tour malaise on “Women in Music Pt. low. in Music Pt. they love more than anything else. III,” which also closely tracks Danielle’s “The thought of not being able to play III,” Danielle, The Los Angeles trio’s new album, worries regarding her boyfriend’s recent — it’s heartbreaking,” Este said in a video Este and Alana “Women in Music Pt. III,” is set to come bout with cancer. “It was kind of all com- conference with Danielle and Alana, each Haim show out June 26, after which Danielle, Este ing down on me,” said the 31-year-old from her own home. (A type 1 diabetic, that they are and Alana Haim were planning to hit the guitarist and drummer. Este said she’s been especially serious equally fluent road as they have for years. Yet for all the heaviness of its themes, about maintaining quarantine — so much in the language “Touring for me is weirdly like a signifi- the resulting collection of “emotional so, she joked, that she’d recently “burned of millennial cant other,” said Este, 34, who plays bass bops,” as guitarist Alana, 28, described my face doing a DIY face mask.”) women and in the group that evolved out of a family them, is no downer. Full of juicy grooves, “I keep looking through old tour videos of classic L.A. band the siblings performed in with their propulsive riffs and Danielle’s coolly sen- and old photos like a total psychopath,” rock bands parents. It’s getting back home that’s sual lead vocals, Haim’s third LP seems she added. such as the tough — the sudden loss of purpose and certain to buoy listeners in this strange Eagles and identity that Este said feels every time like season when, thanks to the COVID-19 Fleetwood a breakup. pandemic, the sisters won’t even get the CONTINUED ON PAGE 13 Mac. Chuffmedia Sunday, June 28, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 13 MUSIC FROM PAGE 12 REVIEW Haim’s preoccupation with live performance — with the whatever-happens energy of being Haim Dylan’s latest is an onstage — signals the band’s status as a sort of bridge between rock ’n’ roll’s past and the Women in Music Pt. III pop present. Proudly skilled instrumentalists (Columbia) who aren’t opposed to employing the modern The group Haim studio tricks at their disposal, the women are — composed of as admired by veterans like Stevie Nicks and inspired statement U2 as they are by younger stars such as Taylor sister trio Este, Swift, who several years ago took the group on Danielle and Alana the road as an opening act. Haim — has been carving out space since 2007, but with “Women BY DAN DELUCA Indeed, the buzz around Haim’s friendship The Philadelphia Inquirer with Swift — along with the slick textures of the in Music Pt. III” they’ve found their space and are thriving within it. band’s previous album, 2017’s “Something to ob Dylan has been plenty There’s a confi dence to the album that is Tell You” — led to speculation that Haim might busy in the past decade. It be due for a Top 40 breakthrough. That never coupled with a breadth of musical infl uence took a plague to bring his quite happened, though you can hear traces of — Lou Reed vibes in “Summer Girl,” jazz and Never Ending Tour to a gospel tones in “Los Angeles,” a southern rock B the sisters’ funky rhythms and percussive vocal halt. He released three consecutive delivery in music by Swift and Selena Gomez. tinge in “The Steps” and an electronic feel in “I albums of standards, interpreting On the new record, “it feels to me that they’ve Know Alone.” Great American Songbook clas- kind of come back to the alternative world” Not surprisingly, some of their songs with sics associated with Frank Sinatra where Haim started out, said Lisa Worden, who stronger pop elements were pre-released as in a not-so-dulcet voice. But what oversees alternative programming for the radio singles ahead of the album, coalescing in the Dylan wasn’t doing is the one thing conglomerate iHeartMedia. But even within the EP “Don’t Wanna,” which features six of the 16 that the world’s been counting on alternative space, Haim’s earnest devotion to songs from the full record. And while there’s a him to do for more than half a cen- the classic-rock ethos embodied by the Eagles heavy pop presence on the album, the EP could tury: put out new Bob Dylan songs. and Fleetwood Mac makes it an outlier: the rare not have prepared audiences for the well-round- The drought ends with “Rough Bob Dylan ed track list that plays out on “Women in Music act capable of speaking to millennial women in and Rowdy Ways” (Columbia), Rough and Rowdy Ways (Columbia) language comprehensible by aging dads. Pt. III.” Dylan’s playful, profound and ter- Songs like “Man From the Magazine” and For “Women in Music Pt. III,” which Danielle rifi cally inspired fi rst album of new can bring it to St. Peter, you can co-produced with longtime collaborators Ariel “Up From a Dream” lean into the rock sphere material since “Tempest” in 2012. with the former reminiscent of Joni Mitchell. bring it to Jerome / Bring it all Rechtshaid (with whom she lives) and Rostam It’s his best recorded work since the way over, bring it all the way Batmanglij (formerly of Vampire Weekend), “Hallelujah” meanwhile reminds audiences at least “Love and Theft” in 2001, of HAIM’s raw talent with a stripped-down home,” he’s excavating the past Haim set out to capture a distinct live-in-a- if not going back even further to of another illustrious poet: Bob room vibe that partly represented a pendulum arrangement carried by tight harmonies. “Time Out of Mind” in 1997. Dylan. swing back from the busier arrangements on Throughout, HAIM balances upbeat tunes with “Rough and Rowdy Ways” bor- “Rough and Rowdy Ways” works “Something to Tell You.” emotionally mature lyrics. rows a title from Jimmie Rodgers, so well because it’s both gently “But also, we’re a girl band in rock ’n’ roll, “I Know Alone” is apropos for 2020. “I know the blue-yodeling Father of Coun- contemplative and bellicose. All and we haven’t always been taken seriously,” alone like no one else does,” the trio sing. In try Music, and the album is chock the hours Dylan spent on the road Danielle said. In April, she was asked by the the choreographed music video for the song, full of allusions to cultural and singing Sinatra songs might not BBC to record a guitar tutorial for “The Steps,” the three make a swiping motion as if scrolling historical touchstones that Dylan have struck many as the best use of a deliciously fuzzed-out rock tune from the through social media. After months of quaran- pieces together in his own irascible his time. But turning himself into a new album with echoes of Thin Lizzy. “And the tining and social distancing from the coronavi- vision. hushed whisperer of saloon songs first thing I thought about — because it’s a very rus pandemic, the song, like most of the album, The fi rst signal that Dylan was has aided him in tenderly render- simple riff — were all the comments: ‘This is will easily fi nd an audience. creating again came in March ing his own compositions, like the guitar for 5-year-olds,’ ” she said, imagining the — Ragan Clark with the release of “Murder Most delicate “I’ve Made Up My Mind to condescending remarks with a put-on sneer. Associated Press Foul,” the 17-minute marathon that Give Myself to You.” “Why do I go there?” She laughed. “I did the uses the assassination of John F. Backed by his stellar road band tutorial anyway. But that’s why we named the Kennedy to explore the mythology and auxiliary musicians includ- album ‘Women in Music Pt. III’ ” — to goof of the 1960s that Dylan remains life sleeping by my side / But I’m still down.” ing Fiona Apple, Dylan is almost on anyone still getting accustomed to such an “What she’s saying in that song — I mean, I central to, despite fi ve decades try- idea — “and why we have sausages around our ing to shake off being labeled the always at the forefront as the music know her so well, so I’m like, ‘Wow, you nailed shadows him. Of course, his voice heads” on the album’s cover, which has the sis- it,’ ” said Rechtshaid, who’s now cancer-free. voice of his generation. ters posing behind the counter at Canter’s Deli, When it was released — and has never been pretty and has “I’ve never heard Danielle connect so well diminished over the years, but his where they played their first show with their lyrically.” topped Billboard’s digital rock parents in 2000. sales chart, making it the fi rst No. 1 “Rough and Rowdy” singing is When widespread stay-at-home orders came neither mannered nor corrosive. Some of their lodestars on the new album down in March, Haim pushed the album from hit in Dylan’s career — one obses- were the Beatles’ “White Album,” Fleetwood sive fan compiled a Spotify playlist Nearing 80, he sounds better than an initial April 24 release to later in the summer he has in years. Mac’s “Tusk” and David Bowie’s “Low” — “al- before finally settling on June 26. With concerts of all the songs it referenced. There bums that seemed maybe a little underdone at Songs like “Black Rider” see the off the table, they’ve been building toward the are 57 total, from the Beatles’ the time,” Rechtshaid said. “We were being less end of the road ahead. “Flowers release with remote performances on late-night “I Want To Hold Your Hand” to precious to deliver the journey that Danielle the Montgomery Improvement are dying, like all things do,” he TV and weekly dance classes the sisters are was going through.” Association’s gospel hymn “We Are sings in “I Contain Multitudes,” teaching on Zoom. Having finished touring behind “Something Soldiers in the Army.” going on to confi de, “I sleep with Danielle, once known as the trio’s most retir- to Tell You” — including gigs at Coachella and Not all of “Rough and Rowdy life and death in the same bed.” ing member, seems to be stepping into a newly New York’s Radio City Music Hall — Danielle Ways” is as overstuffed with nods But throughout “Rough and forward role as the band’s frontwoman: Several said she felt “disconnected from what was going to the 79-year-old singer’s jukebox Rowdy Ways,” Dylan is also boast- on with my friends” in LA; Rechtshaid’s diag- times in our talk, Este and Alana deferred to favorites, but the album does have ful and combative. He’s ready to nosis with testicular cancer only added to her their sister in answering a question, and on the the air of a late-night rumination rumble, in battle-rap mode. In distress. Her first reaction, she recalled, was to album, Danielle owns her sexuality in a way that draws from a lifetime of ac- “Multitudes,” he declares “I sing check out until the depression passed. that feels fresh for her. crued cultural touchstones. the songs of experience like Wil- “But then my therapist was like, ‘You need to “You and I don’t have to meet / But it’s fun “Goodbye Jimmy Reed” is a liam Blake / I have no apologies to keep working — that’s what makes you happy.’ ” to think we could / On the screen and in my celebration of the great bluesman, make.” So she began writing about what she was feel- jeans / Just make me feel good,” she sings over in the tradition of Dylan showing He really gets his dander up ing, beginning with “Summer Girl,” a tender a throbbing R&B beat in “3 A.M.” Then there’s respect for his forebears — as he when stomping the blues. In “False but anxious pledge of support to Rechtshaid the video for “The Steps,” in which she saunters did with previous masterworks like Prophet,” he declares himself that quotes the saxophone lick and the doo-doo- into a bathroom in her underwear. “Blind Willie McTell” and “High “First among equals, second to doo vocal refrain from Lou Reed’s “Walk on the “This is where I get off the call,” Este said Water (for Charley Patton).” none,” and a soldier in a battle Wild Side.” Batmanglij said the bulk of the song with a laugh when the women were asked about Never one to be able to resist a worth fi ghting: “The enemy of came together faster than anything he’d previ- the clip. “Hmm, I don’t know,” Danielle added. rhyme, Dylan lets loose with some treason, an enemy of strife / the ously worked on with Haim, although they were “Maybe I was more shy about that stuff in the goofy, amusing ones here. On “My enemy of the unlived meaningless briefly stymied by the bridge; they sent it to past. But I think in general everyone’s like, Own Version of You,” he imag- life.” Bono, who’d previously expressed an interest in ‘Free the nipple.’ ” ines creating a Frankenstein-like “Rough and Rowdy Ways” feels working with Haim, to see if he had any ideas. “Why not?” Este asked. “But can I say that monster to replace a departed soul timely. “What are these dark days The U2 frontman didn’t end up contribut- the bigger news is that Danielle is actually talk- mate: “I’ll take the Scarface Pacino I see in this world so badly bent?” ing to “Summer Girl,” Batmanglij said, but ing on this record cycle?” and Godfather Brando, mix it up Dylan asks in “Crossing the Rubi- his enthusiastic response inspired the group “It just comes down to us being the most in a tank and create a robot com- con.” to finish it, which then triggered a dozen other confident we’ve ever been with our music,” said mando.” I suspect, however, that Dylan’s songs to “start spilling out,” as Rechtshaid put Danielle. “And about how we look.” That sort of stream-of-conscious 39th album would seem pertinent it. They included “Los Angeles,” a scrappy ska Has that sense of liberation helped ease the silliness mingles with profundity. to the world it entered if it arrived tune about speeding aimlessly down Crescent disquiet that led Danielle to Haim’s new songs In the same song, Dylan draws 10 years ago or 20 years hence. It Heights Boulevard, and the strutting “I’ve Been — and which the pandemic threatens to extend on Shakespeare’s Richard III and speaks to us in this moment, and Down,” in which Danielle sings, “I’m waking up as it keeps the band offstage? Hamlet, and asks “What would will continue to as time passes. at night/ Tick-tock killing time / A little moon- “Not necessarily,” she replied. “But this Julius Caesar do?” That’s what great art, and Bob light coming through the blinds / The love of my album is an embrace of the chaos.” And in a verse that begins, “You Dylan, does. PAGE 14 • S TARS AND STRIPES• Sunday, June 28, 2020 BOOKS

Adviser turns adversary Bolton’s memoir the most damaging account written about President Donald Trump yet

BY DAVID IGNATIUS ‘ adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner was Prize. Discussing Trump’s ever-vacil- The Washington Post Trump was not following a meddler who was “doing international lating views about China, Bolton says, any international grand negotiations he shouldn’t have been doing “This was policy by personal whim and engeance is mine; I will (along with the never-quite-ready Middle impulse.” repay, says the Lord,” strategy, or even a consistent East peace plan)”; and Secretary of State As Bolton describes his running conver- reads a famous passage trajectory. His thinking was Mike Pompeo was secretive, too willing sation with the president, it’s a series of “Vfrom St. Paul’s Letter to the like an archipelago of dots to make concessions that Trump wanted broken records. Trump rambles through Romans. John Bolton has provided a secu- and so overly subservient to the boss that repeated tirades about Europeans who lar version of that cosmic payback in his (like individual real estate a pushback on arms control was “a rare don’t pay enough for defense, the perfi dy account of Donald Trump’s presidency, deals), leaving the rest of us to occasion of Pompeo’s being explicitly of Mattis who’s trying to box him in and “The Room Where It Happened.” critical of something Trump did.” One the need to indict Chief of Staff John F. As much as you think you know about discern — or create — policy.’ intriguing note is how often Pompeo (like Kerry for alleged Logan Act violations the arrogance, vanity and sheer incom- John Bolton Bolton) talked of resigning. for interfering with Trump’s “maximum petence of Trump’s years in the White Author, ‘The Room Where It Happened’ But it’s Jim Mattis who’s Bolton’s pressure” campaign against Iran. And House, Bolton’s account will still astonish favorite punching bag. Every dozen pages most especially, the need to withdraw you. He narrates his there’s another shot at the former secre- American troops from Syria, Afghanistan, 17 months as national tary of defense. He’s “looking for excuses Germany and South Korea. security adviser in pressed to identify any signifi cant Trump not to do much of anything” in retaliating The abiding problem, says Bolton, was remarkable detail. He decision during my tenure that wasn’t against Syrian chemical weapons use; he Trump’s lack of a clear vision of what he seems to have col- driven by re-election calculations.” would “predict gloom and doom when he wanted to accomplish, beyond dominating lated every Trump Perhaps the most startling new disclo- didn’t get his way” on policy; and he used the news cycle. This was foreign policy by rant, reckless phone sure is that Trump sought political help “spite” as a common tactic, prompting disruption, conditioned on Trump’s view call and muttered from China’s Xi Jinping, just as he had ex- Bolton to observe “they didn’t call him that he could charm or intimidate anyone aside. No wonder the pressed support for a Russian email dump ‘Chaos’ for nothing.” (seemingly unaware that he was being White House was so in 2016 and Ukrainian political favors in Mattis’ resignation in December played by the toughest and most ruthless determined to block his famous July 25, 2019 phone call with 2018 appears to have gratifi ed Bolton. people in the world). this book: It eviscer- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. He quotes Trump’s parting line: “He’s “Trump was not following any interna- ates Trump’s foreign policy record and According to Bolton, in a June 18, 2019, leaving ... I never really liked him.” And tional grand strategy, or even a consistent exposes him, in Bolton’s words, as “stun- phone call with Xi about trade matters, Trump’s bizarre claim: “He’s a liberal trajectory,” Bolton observes. “His think- ningly uninformed.” Trump “then, stunningly, turned the con- Democrat, you know that, don’t you?” ing was like an archipelago of dots (like Bolton offers new tidbits about Ukraine, versation to the coming US presidential Bolton is the hero of nearly every an- individual real estate deals), leaving the the issue on which Trump was impeached election ... pleading with Xi to ensure he’d ecdote in the book. Indeed, for a memoir rest of us to discern — or create — policy.” and where Democrats desperately sought win.” Bolton also notes that North Korean that is startlingly candid about many Bolton comments at another point: “He Bolton’s testimony. He confi rms an aide’s dictator Kim Jong Un at the February things, Bolton’s utter lack of self-criticism opposed ‘endless wars’ in the Middle East account that Bolton viewed Trump’s 2019 summit in Hanoi said that “he didn’t is one of the book’s signifi cant shortcom- but had no coherent plan for what followed Ukraine machinations as a “drug deal” want Trump to do anything that would ings. Nearly every policy discussion is withdrawing US forces.” and provides new evidence that “Ukraine harm him politically,” to which Bolton an opportunity for Bolton to say that he Perhaps the most damning comment security assistance was at risk of being adds in his text, “Oh great,” one of the was right ; people should have listened Bolton offers, in the end, isn’t about for- swallowed by the Ukraine fantasy con- snarky literary asides scattered through- to him; he knew it would never work; or eign policy but Trump’s response to the spiracy theories.” In sum, he says, “the out the book. he was vindicated. Given how long and coronavirus pandemic : “Trump’s refl ex whole affair was bad policy, questionable Bolton offers a damning review of near- disastrously Bolton enabled this president, effort to talk his way out of anything ... legally, and unacceptable as presidential ly every theater of Trump’s foreign policy: his self-satisfaction becomes annoying. even a public-health crisis, only undercut behavior.” This account should deeply em- His coddling of Kim “made me ill”; his So does Bolton’s trademark disdain for his and the nation’s credibility, with his barrass Republican senators who offered last-minute reversal of a retaliatory strike the foreign policy establishment (whom statements looking more like political unblinking defenses of Trump’s Ukraine against Iran after the shoot-down of a he likes to deride as the “High-Minded”). damage control than responsible public- actions during the impeachment trial. U.S. drone was “the most irrational thing Sometimes, his antagonism toward health advice.” The great achievement of this book is I ever witnessed any President do”; his negotiations is so refl exive, you almost John F. Kelly, Trump’s harassed chief of that it links the Ukraine fi asco to Trump’s withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria was sympathize with Trump’s desire to talk staff, mutters to Bolton at one point, “Has other foreign policy misdeeds. Indeed, a “huge mistake”; and the “slowness and with forbidden adversaries, such as North there ever been a presidency like this?” Bolton argues that the Democrats com- lack of agility” of his Venezuela policy was Korea and Iran. To which Bolton replies tartly: “I assured mitted “impeachment malpractice” “painful to watch.” Many previous books have revealed him there had not.” because the Ukraine focus “provided no A veteran bureaucratic infi ghter, Bolton Trump’s bizarre machinations and mus- This book ought to be a wake-up call, opportunity to explore Trump’s ham- dishes dirt about everyone he doesn’t like, ings, but none so damagingly as this one fi nally, to Republicans who have slavishly handed involvement in other matters ... and it’s a very long list. Former U.N. am- by a conservative former supporter. At defended Trump and belittled his critics. that should not properly be subject to bassador Nikki Haley was “untethered” times, Trump rambles during a long fl ight Bolton took his time in telling us the truth, manipulation by a President for personal and a “free electron”; former national to Iraq about how he may drop Mike and he should have done more during the reasons.” security adviser Michael Flynn was Pence for Haley as vice president in 2020, impeachment inquiry. But it’s all here. In Bolton’s takeaway line: “I am hard- “inadequate” and “self-destructed”; senior and whether he’ll win the Nobel Peace boxing, you’d call it a knockout punch.

U.S. President Donald Trump, left, and then-national security adviser John Bolton, right, attend a 2018 briefing in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, D.C.

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“Gunston Street” is drawn by Basil Zaviski. Email him at [email protected], and online at gunstonstreet.com. PAGE 16 •STARS AND STRIPES• Sunday, June 28, 2020 GADGETS & TECHNOLOGY GADGET WATCH ‘Crime of opportunity’ A perfect time for a waterproof speaker

Rodents cause engine damage amid coronavirus BY GREGG ELLMAN Tribune News Service BY JAMIE L. LAREAU Detroit Free Press t’s the perfect time for price-friendly Anker’s updated Soundcore Flare 2 por- here was once a little mouse table waterproof wireless speaker. that caused a big problem. I The sound just rocks with a 360-degree The critter crawled up in design pumping 20 watts of sound in all direc- Tthe wheel well of a parked car, tions from the cylinder-shaped speaker. A cloth made his way over the brakes and up grille covers the outside of the speaker, allow- into the engine. Most rodents would ing the sound from dual drivers and passive stop there; it’s a nice nesting spot. But radiators to pass through. this fella had other plans. The sound of a single Flare 2 is great, so go He kept going until he was inside the ahead and get 100 more of them. I’m serious! dashboard and couldn’t get out. There, The Flare 2 is built with PartyCast Technology he died (I didn’t say it would be a happy allowing for 100 Flare 2s to be synced off of a story). The rancid and revolting odor single smartphone for an incredible-sounding compelled the car owner to bring it to socially distant party atmosphere. Add Anker’s Avis Ford in Southfi eld, Mich., where BassUp technology, and the bass-driven audio service technicians made the unsavory is even better. discovery. Syncing 100 speakers is simple. Just pair one “Usually you fi nd a wiring harness speaker via Bluetooth to your music source and for the engine or the fuel injection the others take 3 seconds each with the press of system that is all chewed up,” said Avis a button to sync with the fi rst speaker. With any Ford’s Service Manager Larry Sirgany. numbers of speakers you choose to sync, make “We’ll fi nd a car that’s been sitting for the main one as centered in an area as possible a couple weeks and it will have a big to reach the others effi ciently. nasty nest in there too.” Once you have the audio set, with the free Over the years, Sirgany has found Soundcore companion app the rainbow light plenty of fl ora and fauna in car engines. show begins with light rings built into the top There are grass and twig nests and iStock and bottom of the speaker. The rings create an unmatched Bluetooth speaker atmosphere, dead — sometimes alive — vermin and Your next round of car trouble could have a surprising source: vermin. lots of chewed wires. The resulting pulsing and shining to the beat of your music damage is costly to fi x. from the app’s six lighting modes. mouse makes a grass nest, typically the A 5,200 mAh Li-ion battery recharges with But this spring, amid the stay-home size of a baseball or a golf ball, it could order during the coronavirus pandem- Pest-proof your car the included USB-C cable for up to 12 hours of possibly start on fi re, some experts use. The number of hours before a charge will ic, the rodent ruination to engines has warn. Now that you know everything you ever been exceptionally high in some places. depend on the BassUp technology, volume and (or never) wanted to know about the light shows. “I’ve seen a solid dozen to 15 cars ‘Staring right at me’ rodent lifestyle, there are many ways to with damage in the last six weeks,” The speaker is built with an IXP7 waterproof The good news is that usually by the pest-proof your car. Sirgany said. “Typically, I would have rating, so splashes and even being submerged time spring rolls around, rodents stay The most obvious is to drive it daily, two per month this time of year.” in shallow water of 3.3 feet for up to 30 minutes away from cars because there’s more because unlike our mouse or Sirgany’s won’t hurt. If water is in the area, make sure Hundreds in repairs activity with people outdoors. woodchuck, most rodents will jump out the USB-C charging port is closed. “This year, with COVID, that’s not of the engine and not return once the Anker has an entertaining video on their site, In fact, an April 30 report in The the case,” Sirgany said. “The cars car is regularly in motion. setting up 100 Flare 2 speakers with placement New York Times said a dealership have been so quiet, they’re parked, Here are some other suggestions from of eight in each room of a house — all synced out East had fi ve people call in one they don’t smell like people and they the experts: with music and a light show. As they mention, week to complain of rats living in their  become pretty attractive to rodents.” Spray commercially approved rodent 100 isn’t really practical, but a half dozen might car engine. One couple got an alert Most customers will be alerted to an repellent around the lower perimeter of be. of engine trouble while driving and issue from a warning light signaling an the vehicle and wheel wells. One of the best parts might be getting all this remembered seeing a rat scurry across  Peppermint oil sprayed around the engine problem. The rodent’s damage for just $69.99 each. their driveway as they left. The couple car works too. Some automakers make will interrupt the car’s wiring system, Online: soundcore.com; $69 returned home and opened the hood a tape with chili oil on it. It wraps but it does not usually paralyze the car, to fi nd animal feces and urine all over around wiring and has a repelling taste Sirgany said. Lump me in the same group of smartwatch the engine, as well as sticks, leaves and to rodents. The customer will bring the car to fans who primarily use the device for time and small bones.  Keep bird feeders far away because, the dealer and that’s when Sirgany’s fi tness tracking. For the most part, every one Last month, the Centers for Dis- “Bird feeders aren’t just feeding birds; team opens the hood to diagnose the I’ve tried works great for these features but ease Control and Prevention warned they’re feeding rats,” Dantzer said. problem. He will usually fi nd the clues, they are not what you would consider fashion- of unusual or aggressive rat behavior  Cats and dogs are predators, so you maybe twigs or leaves, sometimes fol- able. caused, in part, by many restaurants can leave them in the garage for awhile, Motorola Moto 360 lowed by a surprise. Enter the (3rd genera- shutting down during the pandemic. if the temperature is safe for them. tion) premium smartwatch, developed and Rodents depend a lot on the tossed out “Every now and then you fi nd the critter still living in the car,” Sirgany distributed by eBuyNow and powered by Wear food scraps from restaurants. OS by Google, making it perfect for features Now the varmints are searching else- said. “The last one was four years ago. In his years of studying rodents cap- It was a woodchuck staring right at me such as fi tness, music, ride hailing, dating and where for food, and your engine could tured from the wild, Dantzer is certain mapping apps. and he wasn’t even interested in leav- be it. Some car brands, such as Toyota, of one thing: They have great smiles. I’m not a hard-core fi tness person, but I do ing.” use soy-coated wiring, which can be a In the wild, rodents consistently keep in shape, eat somewhat healthy, count Sirgany gently shut the hood and delicious treat to a rodent. chew on rocks and trees to keep their my daily steps and take daily bike rides. So called wildlife experts to safely remove Also, in cold weather, a car is a teeth worn down and sharp, Dantzer getting instant, accurate information, including the woodchuck, also called a ground- source of heat for mice, rats, squirrels, said. If they did not do that, they could tracking my heart rate from the built-in sensors woodchucks and opossums. That’s usu- hog. die from overgrown teeth locking their with Google Fit during and immediately after ally the time of year when Sirgany sees Polish the pearly whites jaws. workouts, is critical and was delivered. the most engine damage. The creatures “So underneath the hood of a car, The watch has a classic look with an ambient crawl in the engine to keep warm But even in vehicles that use petro- it’s a nice place to sleep and you’ve got mode to have the 1.2-inch circular display made and chew on the car’s wiring while in leum-based wiring, cars attract rodents all these wires around and you need to with crystal clear and durable Corning Gorilla there, wreaking havoc on the electrical simply because they are dark, provide chew and grind your teeth down so you Glass 3. system. shelter and offer the chance for dental chew on those,” Dantzer said. “Then, it It’s loaded with features including customiz- “Typically, they can get fairly time hygiene, said a rat expert at University ends up shorting out the car’s wiring.” able action button and extended battery life consuming to do a repair — at least of Michigan. He is not surprised at an increase of (355mAh) for up to three days of charge. Inside two to four hours putting it all back “All rodents have these ever-growing rodents nesting in car engines during is Bluetooth 4.2 for pairing with a smartphone, together,” Sirgany said. “So it’s a $400 teeth and they need to chew on things the pandemic. GPS and Wi-Fi, and it’s water resistant for to $600 repair.” to keep them from getting long,” said “It’s not a situation where we have casual swimming and splashes. The cost typically does not exceed a Ben Dantzer, professor of psychology at this burgeoning population of squirrels According to the Moto 360 site, compatibility person’s deductible, so it’s usually an the University of Michigan. He studies and rats,” Dantzer said. “It’s a crime of is listed with Android 6.0 (excluding Go edition) out-of-pocket expense, he said. mice, squirrels and rats to learn how opportunity; you have all these station- or higher and iOS 10.0 or higher. There is also a possible danger. If a they make decisions. ary vehicles.” Online: moto360.com; $299.99 Sunday, June 28, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 17 AMERICAN ROUNDUP 24 arrested in major THE CENSUS drug investigation The ap- proximate BOSTON — Two amount a MA dozen members and $6M New Jersy associates of Boston street gangs couple are facing charges in connection made in a romance scam. The couple with a nearly two-year investiga- helped run an international romance tion into drug trafficking at a city scam that used bogus profiles on dat- public housing project, federal ing websites to woo dozens of victims prosecutors said. into giving up money, federal prosecu- Federal and state law enforce- tors said. Martins Friday Inalegwu and ment executed 17 sea rch wa r ra nts Steincy Mathieu both of Maple Shade, in various city neighborhoods and N.J., were charged with conspiracy to suburbs and seized about 30 fire- commit wire and mail fraud. Authori- arms, a half kilogram of cocaine ties have identified more than 33 vic- and $350,000 in cash, according tims, who sent more than $6 million to a statement from the U.S. attor- overall to the conspirators, including ney’s office. $3.1 million that was sent directly to Operation Snowfall started as Inalegwu and Mathieu. an investigation into drug traf- ficking at the housing complex in the city’s Brighton neighborhood. Over the course of the inves- mental impact. The company has tigation, agents purchased and sold milk alternatives, such as soy seized approximately 1.7 kilo- milk and oat milk, in the U.S. and grams of cocaine and about 27 elsewhere. But the sausage is its pounds of marijuana. first plant-based food item in the U.S. Police: Suspect turned self in with bloody bat Woman files lawsuit for paternity test on goat HILO — A Hawaii ho- HI micide suspect surren- ODESSA — A Florida dered himself at a police station FL woman has filed a law- holding a bloody bat believed to suit seeking either a paternity test have been used in the killing, au- on her goats or a refund — and thorities said. she’s not kidding. Stanley Marion Cummins, 51, Kris Hedstrom filed a civil law- appeared at a Big Island police suit against her neighbor Heather station with the bat, The Hawaii Tribune-Herald reported. Dayner seeking DNA for the Cummins is charged with sec- goats she purchased. Hedstrom ond-degree murder in the death paid Dayner $900 for five Nige- of Jace Whitney Ahquin, 35. rian Dwarf goats. Cummins told police he went to According to the lawsuit, Hed- the Pahoa station to turn in evi- strom believed the goats could dence of the killing earlier that be registered with the American morning. Dairy Goat Association, a group Cummins told officers he went that records goat pedigrees. downstairs in his home to con- Registered goats have higher front Ahquin, who was a tenant in value than goats that are not the home. registered. Cummins told officers he hit Dayner said the father goat was KELSEY BRUNNER, THE ASPEN (COLO.) TIMES/AP Ahquin in the head “approxi- registered, but the Tampa Bay mately three times” with the bat Times reported the American as Ahquin lay in bed, police re- Dairy Goat Association rejected cords said. Flying sky high Hedstrom’s application to regis- ter the babies because Dayner is Man charged for ruining Aspen Paragliding’s Daniel Roland and client Alex Arndt land in Marolt Open Space, ending their tandem not an active member. Catholic cemetery flight in Apsen, Colo. This was Arndt’s first flight and she said she can’t wait to do it again. Police: Man used pit PROVIDENCE — A going missing, sheriff’s officials daughter in New Hampshire. in six months than the KKK has RI man painted swasti- said. According to court documents, in 86 years. bull to attack others kas and anti-Catholic language Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Matthew Oliver, 38, mailed the Superintendent Sandra Car- on gravestones at a cemetery at officials had yet to confirm the letter to the woman in Seabrook raway said the district is in- ANKENY — Police in Providence College and assaulted identity of the body found near in January 2017, when he was in- vestigating. She called the post IA suburban Des Moines ar- a campus safety officer who tried Jupiter Farms . But the Broward carcerated at the Onodaga Coun- “completely appalling“ and said rested a man they accused of sic- to intervene, according to the County Professional Firefight- ty Justice Center in Syracuse, sharing it on social media was cing a pit bull on people at a party school and city police. ers and Paramedics Association N.Y. , on burglary charges. That “unacceptable and inappropriate, before killing the dog himself Keveon Gomera, 26, faces 15 posted on Facebook that fire- April, he mailed another letter to especially for an educator.” after it turned on him. fighter James Von Minden, 56, the home that contained a threat counts of desecration of a grave Juan Carlos Moreno Martinez, had died. to the woman’s daughter. and an assault charge for the al- Plant-based meat item 33, of Ankeny, was arrested and Union president Jason Smith leged vandalism on the Catholic now on Starbucks’ menu charged with several counts of school’s campus . told the Palm Beach Post School athletic director that a search group made the assault, animal neglect, trespass- Gomera targeted the Domini- SEATTLE — Star- discovery . probed over KKK photo ing and probation violations, tele- can Cemetery’s central cross and bucks is adding plant- Authorities had been search- WA vision station KCCI reported. seven headstones, and was burn- EVANS — A Georgia based meat to its U.S. menu for ing for Von Minden since Friday Police said the incident hap- ing American flags at some of the high school athletic the first time. when his truck was involved in an GA pened at a party in Ankeny, when gravesites when he was spotted, director is under investigation, The Seattle coffee chain said accident. Witnesses told investi- Moreno-Martinez entered the according to a statement from his district said, after he posted a breakfast sandwich made with gators he was disoriented the last property of another person with- college President Father Brian a racially insensitive photo on imitation sausage from Redwood time they saw him. out permission and retrieved the Shanley and President-elect Fa- Facebook that trivializes violence City, Calif.-based Impossible ther Kenneth Sicard. dog. Police said he then agitated perpetrated by the Ku Klux Klan Foods is now available at a ma- the dog, “knowing its past behav- Inmate convicted of against African Americans. jority of its U.S. restaurants. The ior when worked into a frenzy,” Firefighter’s body found sending menacing letters The post allegedly shared by sandwich comes with egg and with the intention of intimidating after 4-day search Lakeside High School Athletic Di- cheese and is served on a ciabatta CONCORD — A man rector Jody Hilley shows a Black bun. others at the party. JUPITER — A decom- NH jailed in New York state man dressed in a white hood and Starbucks said earlier this year The animal ultimately attacked FL posing body was found was sentenced to 15 months in robe, news outlets reported. that it would add plant-based meat three people, one of whom was se- in an area where a Florida fire- federal prison for mailing threat- The post claimed Black people to its menus worldwide as part of riously injured, police said. fighter crashed his vehicle before ening letters to a woman and her killed more African Americans an effort to reduce its environ- From wire reports PAGE 18 •STARS AND STRIPES• Sunday, June 28, 2020 OPINION Max D. Lederer Jr., Publisher Lt. Col. Marci Hoffman, Europe commander Lt. Col. Richard McClintic, Pacific commander Don’t tear down DC’s Freedmen’s Memorial Caroline E. Miller, Europe Business Operations BY DAVID W. BLIGHT law school dean John Mercer Langston words of the speech, Douglass said: “My Joshua M. Lashbrook, Pacific Chief of Staff Special to The Washington Post and the orator of the day, Frederick Doug- white fellow-citizens … you are the chil- lass, a resident of that neighborhood. Rep- dren of Abraham Lincoln. We are at best he Freedmen’s Memorial in resentatives of the entire U.S. government only his stepchildren; children by adop- EDITORIAL Washington is not a Confederate sat in the front rows at the ceremony; the tion, children by forces of circumstances monument. It famously exhib- Editor occasion had been declared a federal holi- and necessity.” Terry Leonard, its a standing Abraham Lincoln [email protected] T day. President Ulysses S. Grant, members Then the tone and purpose of the speech seemingly giving freedom to a kneeling of his Cabinet, members of the House and shifted. Though Lincoln had “tarried long Robert H. Reid, Senior Managing Editor black man naked from the waist up, whose Senate and justices of the Supreme Court in the mountain,” he did arrive at eman- [email protected] chains are being broken. It was and is a all attended. cipation. “The hour and the man … had Tina Croley, Managing Editor for Content racist image. This is hardly the monument The $20,000 used to build the monument somehow met.” Douglass employed a re- [email protected] our culture would create today as a memo- had been raised among black Americans, frain several times: “Under his rule,” and rial of emancipation. But none of us can ul- most of them former slaves. A former slave “in due time.” Lincoln had sought the tim- Sean Moores, Managing Editor for Presentation timately have our history or memory pure. woman, Charlotte Scott, had donated the ing of his own in relation to events, and [email protected] Memory is always about the politics of the first $5. 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BY PAT EATON-ROBB early 62. Go to the American Forces Associated Press Since winning at Pebble Beach early last Network website for the most year for his 44th PGA Tour title, Mickelson up-to-date TV schedules. CROMWELL, Conn. — Phil Mickelson fig- has mostly struggled, with far more missed myafn.net ures age might be an asset. cuts than good finishes. Playing his first tournament since turning On Friday at tree-lined TPC River High- 50 this month, the five-time major champion lands, Mickelson made a bogey on his sec- Deals shot a 7-under 63 on Friday in the Travelers ond hole before moving up the leaderboard. Championship to take a one-stroke lead into He made the first of his eight birdies from a Friday’s transactions the weekend. green-side bunker on No. 5 and shot 30 on the BASEBALL Lefty said said it was perhaps the wisdom back nine. Major League Baseball that comes with his age that made him stay While Mickelson is making his 624th PGA American League CLEVELAND INDIANS — Signed INF within himself instead of going toe-to-toe with Tour start, Gordon is in his eighth tour event Carson Tucker, LHP Logan Allen, and RHP his long-hitting playing partners, top-ranked Mason Hickman to minor league con- on a sponsor’s exemption. tracts. Rory McIlroy and Bryson DeChambeau. He had nine birdies and just missed a few NEW YORK YANKEES — Signed C Aus- “There’s some holes I can open it up and try tin Wells to a minor league contract. Re- others, including on the fourth hole, where his leased RHP Chad Bettis from his minor to hit driver, but really I just want to get it in 35-foot birdie putt came to rest on the edge of league contract after he announced his retirement. play on a lot of holes and let my wedges take the cup. SEATTLE MARINERS — Signed INF over, and I’ve hit a lot of good wedge shots The former Vanderbilt star is carrying on a Kaden Polcovich and INF Tyler Keenan to minor league contracts. this week,” said Mickelson, the 2001 and 2002 long tradition of young players who received National League tournament winner. a break at TPC River Highlands. Since 1996, COLORADO ROCKIES — Agreed to terms with RHP Chris McMahon, C Luke Two more players withdrew because of the 77 of the tournament’s 98 unrestricted spon- Leisenring, and LHP Tanner Propst to mi- coronavirus Friday — Denny McCarthy for sor invitations have gone to players with fewer nor league contracts. BASKETBALL a positive test, and Bud Cauley, who tested than 15 starts on the tour and those players Women’s National Basketball Association negative, but decided to pull out after playing have gone on to combine for 90 victories. NEW YORK LIBERTY — Signed F Joyner Holmes. alongside McCarthy on Thursday. There have “I was supposed to play in three events that WASHINGTON MYSTICS — Signed G/F been seven COVID-19-related withdrawals. got canceled over COVID, so for those guys to Essence Carson. FRANK FRANKLIN II/AP FOOTBALL Mickelson was at 13-under 127. take a chance on me and believe in me means National Football League SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Signed DL First-round leader Mackenzie Hughes fol- Phil Mickelson looks on after putting on the the world,” he said. Javon Kinlaw and WR Brandon Aiyuk to lowed an opening 60 with a 68 to drop into a 14th green Friday during the second round McIlroy followed his first-round 63 with a four-year deals. HOCKEY second-place tie with 23-year-old Will Gor- of the Travelers Championship at TPC River 68. He was tied for fourth, four strokes off the National Hockey League don, who led most of the day after shooting an Highlands in Cromwell, Conn. lead . BUFFALO SABRES — Named Jeremiah Crowe as director of scouting and Ja- son Nightingale as assistant director of scouting. SOCCER Major League Soccer Briefl y LA GALAXY — Acquired M Carlos Har- vey. Auto racing 14 more Clemson players test positive Pocono Green 225 lineup NASCAR Xfinity Series Associated Press so now, along with other important actions to Rain washed out the Truck Series race on Race Sunday advance equal opportunity and justice for all Saturday in what was already a packed sched- At Pocono Raceway CLEMSON, S.C. — Clemson said 14 more Long Pond, Pa. and in recognition that Black Lives Matter.” ule. Pocono is the site of a Cup Series twin bill, Lap length: 2.5 miles football players tested positive for the corona- (Car number in parentheses) The change comes amid ongoing protests with one race on Saturday, one on Sunday, and virus this week, bringing the team total to 37 1. (9) Noah Gragson, Chevrolet. following the death of George Floyd that have the second race comes with a twist. The field 2. (21) Myatt Snider, Chevrolet. members who have had the disease since the 3. (98) Chase Brisco, Ford. brought renewed attention to complaints of for Sunday’s race will be set by inverting the school reopened facilities for workouts earlier 4. (7) Justin Allgaier, Chevrolet. systemic racism and have created an outcry 5. (10) Ross Chastain, Chevrolet. this month. lead-lap finishers from race No. 1. 6. (11) Justin Haley, Chevrolet. to remove statues and other symbols of the The Truck Series was scheduled for Sat- 7. (19) Brandon Jones, Toyota. Clemson said Friday it has conducted 430 Confederacy. 8. (8) Daniel Hemric, Chevrolet. tests of its personnel with 47 coming up with urday and the second-tier Xfinity Series was 9. (22) Austin Cindric, Ford. Oregon athletic director Rob Mullins said scheduled for Sunday. 10. (20) Harrison Burton, Toyota. COVID-19. It said that 28 of those have com- 11. (39) Ryan Sieg, Chevrolet. former Oregon quarterback Dennis Dixon 12. (1) Michael Annett, Chevrolet. pleted a 10-day isolation period. raised the issue of the name. 13. (92) Josh Williams, Chevrolet. No one has been hospitalized for the virus, Washington cuts athletic budget 14. (4) Jesse Little, Chevrolet. “We must all recognize the power of words 15. (0) Jeffrey Earnhardt, Chevrolet. athletic spokesman Jeff Kallin said. and the symbolism associated with the Civil SEATTLE — Washington is reducing its 16. (07) Carson Ware, Chevrolet. Clemson is isolating the recent players who 17. (15) Ryan Vargas, Chevrolet. War,” Mullins said in a statement. overall athletic department operating budget 18. (02) Brett Moffitt, Chevrolet. tested positive tests for at least 10 days. Close 19. (90) Alex Labbe, Chevrolet. by 15% for the 2020-21 fiscal year and all the 20. (36) Dexter Bean, Chevrolet. contacts for those players or staffers have school’s head coaches have agreed to mini- 21. (51) Jeremy Clements, Chevrolet. Dodgers’ Toles jailed in Florida been advised to self-quarantine for at least mum 5% pay reductions. 22. (68) Brandon Brown, Chevrolet. two weeks. 23. (08) Joe Graff Jr., Chevrolet. KEY WEST, Fla. — Los Angeles Dodgers Athletic director Jennifer Cohen announced 24. (18) Riley Herbst, Toyota. There have been 43 athletes and four staff 25. (08) Joe Graff Jr., Chevrolet. outfielder Andrew Toles was in jail Saturday the moves Friday and said they will save the members among all sports who’ve tested 26. (99) Stefan Parsons, Toyota. and charged with trespassing property. school around $13 million. She reiterated that 27. (13) Chad Finchum, Toyota. positive. 28. (52) Kody Vanderwal, Chevrolet. The 28-year-old player was detained this the school intends to continue offering all 22 29. (78) Vinnie Miller, Chevrolet. Dr. Joan Duwve, Director of Public Health week at the airport in Key West, Fla., by a of its athletic programs. 30. (93) Jeff Green, Chevrolet. at the Department of Health and Environ- 31. (44) Tommy Joe Martins, Chevrolet. Monroe County sheriff deputy. The overall operating budget reduction will 32. (47) Kyle Weatherman, Chevrolet. mental Control, said South Carolina is now a The Miami Herald reported he was found 33. (5) Matt Mills, Chevrolet. save approximately $8.5 million. The school hot spot in the United States. 34. (61) Timmy Hill, Toyota. sleeping behind a Federal Express building at says an additional $5 million will be saved 35. (74) Bayley Currey, Chevrolet. On Friday, DHEC announced the second- the airport and refused to move. 36. (38) Stephen Leicht, Toyota. through cuts to the salaries of head coaches, highest amount virus cases since the outbreak Jail records show Toles appeared to be assistant coaches (minimum 3%) along with began with 1,273 cases. homeless when arrested Monday on the mis- two-to-four week furloughs for all profession- Golf demeanor charge. His bond was set at $500 al, classified and union staff members, total- but he remained jailed and is scheduled for ‘Civil War’ rivalry named dropped ing 156 employees. Travelers Championship arraignment Thursday. Cohen is also taking a 5% pay reduction. PGA Tour Oregon and Oregon State have agreed to The team said Toles never reported to All current vacant positions in the depart- Friday drop the name “Civil War” for their rivalry spring training camp in 2019 because of a At TPC River Highlands ment will remain open until June 30, 2021, Cromwell, Conn. games. personal matter. He did not play that year. Purse: $7,400,000 The move Friday was made after discus- and any mid-year vacancies in noncritical po- Yardage: 6,841; Par: 70 sitions will stay open for a minimum of three Second Round sions between officials at both schools and NASCAR set for tripleheader Phil Mickelson 64-63—127 -13 current and former student-athletes. months. Will Gordon 66-62—128 -12 Mackenzie Hughes 60-68—128 -12 Oregon State President Ed Ray said the LONG POND, Pa. — NASCAR is set for a It’s uncertain whether these will be all the Xander Schauffele 63-68—131 -9 Civil War name “represents a connection to a tripleheader of racing at Pocono Raceway cuts needed with the unknowns around the Brendan Steele 69-62—131 -9 Rory McIlroy 63-68—131 -9 war fought to perpetuate slavery.” from three national series on Sunday. college football season and what kind of rev- Brendon Todd 66-65—131 -9 “While not intended as reference to the ac- NASCAR says it’s the first time three NAS- enue losses the Huskies might face if games Marc Leishman 66-65—131 -9 Kevin Streelman 66-66—132 -8 tual Civil War, OSU sports competition should CAR National Series races will be raced on are played without fans. During a Board of Kevin Na 66-66—132 -8 not provide any misconstrued reference to this the same day at the same track. It will be the Trustees meeting in May, Cohen said the Sung Kang 65-67—132 -8 Zach Johnson 68-64—132 -8 divisive episode in American history,” Ray fifth time three NASCAR National Series impact from the COVID-19 pandemic on the Viktor Hovland 63-69—132 -8 Patton Kizzire 66-66—132 -8 said in a statement. “That we did not act be- races will be run on the same day but those Huskies’ budget ranges from “kind of man- Abraham Ancer 67-65—132 -8 fore to change the name was a mistake. We do were at different tracks. ageable to devastating.” Sunday, June 28, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 21 AUTO RACING/MLB Special feature Much to weigh deciding whether to play season

BY RYAN ZIMMERMAN For The Associated Press Ryan Zimmerman is a two-time All-Star infielder who has played I’m still deciding whether to 15 years in the majors, all with play. the Washington Nationals. He When it comes down to it, it’s holds most of the team’s career a decision not just for me, but for hitting records, and his two hom- my family, as well. ers and seven RBIs last postsea- I have a 3-week-old baby. My son helped the Nationals win their mother has multiple sclerosis and first World Series championship. is super high-risk; if I end up play- With baseball on hold because of ing, I can pretty much throw out the pandemic, Zimmerman occa- the idea of seeing her until weeks sionally will offer his thoughts — after the season is over. as told to AP sports writer Howard There’s a lot of factors that I and Fendrich — while waiting for the others have to consider. I don’t 2020 season to begin. think there’s a right or wrong an- swer; it’s everybody’s individual choice. try and from out of the country,

JOHN BAZEMORE/AP At the end of the day, does a as well. It’ll be interesting to see player feel comfortable going to just how that part of it works out, Driver Bubba Wallace leans on his car in the pits of the Talladega Superspeedway prior to the start of the field every day and — in my with so many people going from Monday’s NASCAR Cup Series race in Talladega Ala. case, more importantly — feel wherever they are and gathering comfortable coming home every together all of a sudden. day and feel like they’re not put- We haven’t seen a schedule yet, ting anyone else in danger? but I’m going to assume 30 games Wallace finds voice as activist I am by no means someone who are on the road. I don’t know how thinks we all need to hide in our long the trips are going to be, but houses until a vaccine is found. it’s a significant amount of travel That’s not feasible for anybody. and staying in hotels and going NASCAR’s lone Black driver doing ‘what feels right’ with sudden fame We just need to do things in a sen- places that are outside of where sible, smart way. we’ve been allowed to go the last BY DAN GELSTON ‘ I’m finally voicing my opinion on tough subjects I don’t want to be a pessimist few months. Associated Press about this. I hope that, whatever Once games begin in the NBA that a lot of people are afraid to touch on. I decide, the season goes off well, and NHL, they’re not going to LONG POND, Pa. — Being an ’ nothing happens, nobody gets se- travel from city to city. Once agent of change in NASCAR cuts Bubba Wallace riously sick. they’re in their places, they’re both ways for Bubba Wallace. NASCAR driver But there are a lot of moving there. He is seen as a hero to some, parts and a lot of variables we’re And I’ll tell you this about base- particularly those who have not going to be able to control. ball: The owners aren’t going to longed for a Black driver to Black driver at the top level of position,” Wallace said. “It just That’s what we need to assess. be traveling with us. I’m pretty shake things up in a predomi- NASCAR. kind of happened.” There’s a lot of talk about rule sure they’re going to be hang- nantly white sport. To others, the “It’s just what I feel in my He is grateful NASCAR re- changes for extra innings and the ing out at their houses, watching 26-year-old Wallace represents heart, what feels right,” Wallace leased the photo of the rope; DH; in my mind, what better year baseball on TV. something else entirely and he said Friday. “I’m finally voicing NASCAR President Steve Phelps to try some of this stuff out? We’re going to be the ones out has seen plenty of haters on so- my opinion on tough subjects stated “the noose was real,” With a 60-game season, there’s there, if we decide to play. We’re cial media over his career. It has that a lot of people are afraid to though it remains unknown who going to be people who think cer- the ones taking all the risk. intensified in recent days. touch on. I’m not afraid to speak tied it. Phelps said NASCAR de- tain things about this year, any- If you’re going to participate, He has brushed them off, es- my mind. I’ve done it and gotten termined the noose was not in way. So if you’re thinking about there are rules you have to follow. pecially the ones accusing Wal- in trouble and learned from it. place when the October 2019 race changing things in the game at The “bubble” is only as good as lace or his No. 43 team of being People that know me, I’m 100% weekend began but was created at some point, this is the perfect the people inside of the “bubble.” involved in a hoax, of somehow raw and real.” some point during that weekend. year to see if people in baseball It’s not like there’s going to be being behind the garage door It’s part of his appeal, and why “We can’t say it was directed and fans like it, see if they don’t. COVID police on our hotel floors. pulldown rope fashioned as a a small number of Black fans toward me, which is good,” Wal- But I’m thinking more about So it will come down to the noose that was found in their ga- rushed the fence and cheered for lace said. “But somebody still the health and safety perspective rage stall at Alabama’s Talladega Wallace after he finished 14th at knows how to tie a noose. Wheth- players and everyone involved Superspeedway last weekend. Talladega. He wants more Black er they did it as a bad joke or not, — and the toughest part for us is and what they do with each and “You quickly realize,” Wallace fans in NASCAR — he said his who knows? It was good for the going to be the travel aspect of it. every second of their day. said, “they don’t give a damn social media following has ex- public to see. It still won’t change That includes for “spring train- When you start thinking about about you and I don’t give a damn ploded and scores of famous fans some people’s minds of me being ing,” when people are going to be it like that, it starts becoming a about them.” like LeBron James have offered a hoax. But it is what it is.” flying in from all across the coun- little more complicated. It has been a remarkable and support — and said he is ready to He has received support from exhausting three weeks for Wal- lead the charge. NASCAR friends and foes, like lace since he helped spark NAS- He would also like some of his fellow driver Aric Almirola, who CAR to ban the Confederate battle newfound fame to lead to more started a text with “we’re not flag at its races and venues. That sponsorship to fund the No. 43 friends and we don’t act like we is seen as a sea change for the 72- Chevrolet for Richard Petty are” but was ready to stand next year-old stock car series with its Motorsports. He’s not going to to Wallace as a brother. Wallace core Southern fan base, but then change his approach for them. even had fun on the Talladega came the noose and a federal in- “Ever since I’ve been speaking grid after drivers pushed his car vestigation that ultimately deter- out, I haven’t been thinking about to the front, joking, “I don’t like mined Wallace had not been the my sponsors,” Wallace said. “I’ve half you guys, but I appreciate all target of a hate crime. been thinking about me being a of you guys.” He’s been besieged with media human being and standing up for NASCAR is at Pocono Raceway requests and made the rounds what’s right. I would hope that this weekend for Cup Series races on morning talk shows and chat- sponsors would see that and back on Saturday and Sunday, just one ted with late night hosts. Wal- me up on that.” more piece of a grueling schedule lace even unified the sport when But he’s tired. His free time has where all eyes are on Wallace. every one of the 40 teams on the been chewed up and life in the “Let’s get away from what hap- grid lined up with Wallace and spotlight as a national newsmak- pened at Talladega,” Wallace their series in an effort to show er has him “wore the hell out” said. “Let me go out and have they do not and will not tolerate and there are two more races this some good races, have some bad MATT SLOCUM/AP racism. weekend for a team that has been races, try and figure out what the The face of a movement is running well. hell we’re going to do to rebound Nationals first baseman Ryan Zimmerman warms up during batting a tough haul for anyone, espe- “It’s not like I wanted to be in from those bad races and get back practice before Game 1 of the World Series against the Astros on cially when he stands as the lone this position or asked to be in this to race car life.” Oct. 22 in Houston. PAGE 22 • S TARS AND STRIPES• Sunday, June 28, 2020 NBA/NHL 10 things to know as the NBA returns BY TIM REYNOLDS sured of a top-four seed. The West can still see Associated Press some shakeups, with four games separating sec- ond place from sixth place and only 2 ½ games The deals are done. The NBA is coming separating fourth place from seventh. back. The season will resume on July 30 at Disney’s ESPN Wide World of Sports com- Heat check plex in Florida. Here are 10 things to know about the re- Miami had a league-high eight games remain- started season: ing against the eight teams that didn’t qualify for the Disney restart. The race for 8 Now the Heat will have a fight on their hands just to hang onto the No. 4 spot in the East. There are six teams in the race for the No. 8 Miami plays Boston, Denver, Indiana twice, seed in the Western Conference — Memphis, Milwaukee, Oklahoma City, Toronto and Phoenix Portland, New Orleans, Sacramento, San Antonio in the seeding games. That schedule ranks harder and Phoenix. (Technically, Dallas is also in that than Indiana’s or Philadelphia’s — the Pacers and race, though the Mavericks need only one win and 76ers both will head to Disney two games behind DAVID ZALUBOWSKI/AP one Memphis loss to clinch no worse than the No. the Heat in the East standings. Milwaukee Bucks forward Thanasis Antetokounmpo, left, drives on Denver Nuggets 7 spot.) Orlando and the Lakers both saw seven games forward Paul Millsap on March 9 in Denver. Milwaukee needs a combination of two There are seven games where those six teams against the eight Disney-non-qualifiers canceled, wins or Toronto losses to clinch the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference. will go head-to-head, including four featuring the tied for second-most in the league behind Miami. Pelicans — who play Sacramento twice, Memphis Memphis had the fewest such games lost, with They will be missed (Marquette, 2009) and Kelly Olynyk (Gonzaga, once and San Antonio once. The other games: just one — a matchup against New York. 2012), Portland’s Zach Collins (Gonzaga, 2016), Sacramento vs. San Antonio, Memphis vs. San Milwaukee has the NBA’s best record, and one Washington’s Rui Hachimura (Gonzaga, 2016), Antonio and Portland vs. Memphis. Home on the road of the reasons the Bucks hold that mark right now Milwaukee’s Khris Middleton (Texas A&M, 2010), Phoenix doesn’t play any of the other five teams is because of how good they were against the Indiana’s Edmond Sumner (Xavier, 2015), Phoe- in the race for eighth. All 22 teams will be staying at the Disney cam- eight teams (Charlotte, Chicago, Detroit, Cleve- nix’s Kelly Oubre Jr. (Kansas, 2014) and Boston’s The Grizzlies start with a 3 ½-game lead over pus for the rest of their seasons. Yes, that includes land, Atlanta, New York, Minnesota and Golden Marcus Smart (Oklahoma State, 2013). Portland, New Orleans and Sacramento, along the Orlando Magic — whose home arena is about State) that didn’t qualify for the Disney restart. And lest we forget, the Lopez brothers — Mil- with a four-game edge on San Antonio. Unless 20 miles from Disney World. The Bucks were 22-0 against those eight waukee teammates Brook Lopez and Robin the Grizzlies open up space on all four of those The Magic simply see it as doing their part to teams — one of three NBA teams to go unbeaten Lopez — are huge Disney fans, and have made clubs, it seems likely that there will be a best-of- make the restart happen. against that group. Oklahoma City was 15-0 and their affinity for the place very well-known in re- two play-in series for the final spot in the West “We appreciate the leadership of NBA Com- the Lakers were 12-0. Toronto and Boston were cent weeks. playoffs and a probable first-round matchup with missioner Adam Silver, our longtime partner, Dis- both 19-1 and Utah was 15-1. LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers. ney, and our local leaders in this unprecedented Only one remaining team had a losing record Threes record The play-in games will take place if the ninth- time,” Orlando Magic CEO Alex Martins said. “We against those eight clubs: San Antonio went 7-8. place team in either conference is within four look forward to providing assistance as needed in For the first time in eight seasons, the league games of eighth when the seeding round ends. restarting the NBA season in Orlando, while using Laker break record for total three-pointers made won’t get In the East, it’s a bit simpler. No. 7 Brooklyn is our collective platform to drive meaningful social broken. six games ahead of Washington and No. 8 Orlan- impact.” The schedule means that the Lakers won’t play It was on pace to be smashed. do is 5 ½ games clear of the Wizards in the race a back-to-back-to-back after all. NBA teams have combined for 23,560 three- to clinch a berth and avoid a play-in series. None Speaking of road The Lakers would have played home games on pointers made so far this season, which is already of those teams can move past the No. 7 spot on April 7, 8 and 9 against Golden State, Chicago the fourth-most of any season in league history. the East bracket. Philadelphia was the NBA’s best home team and the Clippers — the last of those coming be- The league was on pace for 29,844 three-point- this season, going 29-2 — on pace to be the sec- cause a game that was scheduled to be played ers, which is 1,889 more than the record of Magic numbers ond-best home record in a season in franchise shortly after Kobe Bryant’s death was moved until 27,955 set last season. history. The 1949-50 Syracuse Nationals were later in the season. Milwaukee needs a combination of two wins better, going 36-2 at the State Fair Coliseum in State of basketball or Toronto losses to clinch the No. 1 seed in the the franchise’s inaugural season. Hello, again East. The Lakers need a combination of three Problem is, the 76ers won’t be playing in Philly Florida — the Sunshine State — will be the epi- wins or Los Angeles Clippers losses to clinch the again until next season. For 26 players on the rosters of the 22 teams, center of basketball this summer. No. 1 spot out West. Philadelphia went just 10-24 on the road in the Disney is going to look familiar. They played there While the NBA is headed to Disney, the WNBA Denver also has a mathematical chance at the regular season, the second-worst road mark of in college. season is also scheduled to begin next month and No. 1 seed out West — but would need to go 8-0 the 22 teams that will be playing at Disney. Only The Disney campus plays host to the Orlando be headquartered in Bradenton, Fla. That’s about and have the Lakers go 0-8 for that to happen. Washington (8-24) was worse. Invitational over Thanksgiving, and some alumni 100 miles from where the NBA will be playing. Most of the races at Disney will be for seeding. If the 76ers are going to go deep in these play- of that event are headed back there now for NBA The WNBA plan is for its players to be housed Milwaukee cannot finish lower than No. 2 in the offs, they’ll need to figure out how to win without contests. at the IMG Academy, with games to be played at East and Toronto needs only one win to be as- the raucous Wells Fargo Center advantage. Among them: Heat teammates Jimmy Butler the nearby Feld Entertainment Center. Prize: Despite a league-low 17 wins, Red Wings lose out on top selection

FROM BACK PAGE Wings GM Steve Yzerman said. “Ultimately, let’s see in a few to Ottawa, which is the first team Rangers, Jets, Islanders, Blue “It’s a little strange when they “The odds were better that the years when we see how the draft since 2000 to have two picks in Jackets, Maple Leafs, Hurri- f lip it over and you have to process first pick went to (one of) the bot- shakes out and who becomes the top five. canes, Oilers and Penguins. that there is a secondary lottery tom eight than it did to us.” a good player,” Yzerman said. “It’s a major step forward in The top four teams in each con- that’s going to take place,” Kings Detroit finished with 39 points, “We can sit here today and feel our carefully laid plan to build a ference — Boston, Tampa Bay, GM Rob Blake said. “Everything 23 points behind 30th-place Ot- sorry for ourselves if we want. perennial Stanley Cup contender Washington and Philadelphia in has kind of taken a different path tawa, and was the biggest loser It doesn’t matter. The system is — and a champion,” Senators the East and St. Louis, Colorado, since the pause and you maneu- of the night, dropping out of the what it is, and it’s the same for all owner Eugene Melnyk said. Vegas and Dallas in the West — ver your way around it.” top three. The Red Wings had a the teams. We’ll get a great pros- The Anaheim Ducks wound up got byes into the traditional “first The winning placeholder team league-low 17 wins in their 71- pect and do whatever we can to with the sixth pick, the New Jer- round” of the playoffs that could got the top pick despite a 2.5% game season. develop him. Maybe we will get sey Devils the seventh and the start as soon as late July. If hockey chance. Ottawa had the best odds Yzerman, who the Red Wings lucky.” Buffalo Sabres the eighth. No. 1 doesn’t return, the teams outside at 25% combining its pick and took fourth in 1983 and went on The Sharks are perhaps even and picks 9-15 will be decided the top eight in each conference San Jose’s, Detroit had an 18.5% to be a Hockey Hall of Famer, less fortunate after not being in later. as of March 12 by points percent- chance — and the combined eight brought up that Colorado lost the contention this season and losing The teams that could still pick age all have equal chances at No. teams that could play on this sum- 2017 draft lottery and at No. 4 out on the chance to take some- first are the Canadiens, Black- 1: the Canadiens, Blackhawks, mer added up to 24.5% took Cale Makar, a rookie of the one like center Quinton Byfield hawks, Coyotes, Wild, Canucks, Coyotes, Wild, Jets, Rangers, “I’m not really surprised,” Red year candidate. second. That opportunity belongs Predators, Panthers, Flames, Panthers and Blue Jackets. Sunday, June 28, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES•PAGE 23 NFL RB Cook in contract standoff with Vikings Pro Bowl selection logs out of team activities, refuses to report to camp without new deal

BY DAVE CAMPBELL Carolina’s Christian McCaffrey set teed over the next two seasons. There’s the franchise tag, too, that the Associated Press the position bar high two months ago While Cook could always choose to pre- Vikings could opt for, as Kenyon Drake with his four-year, $64 million extension serve his health and sit out an entire year (Arizona) and Derrick Henry (Tennes- MINNEAPOLIS — Dalvin Cook after the All-Pro selection became just like Le’Veon Bell did with Pittsburgh in see) recently received. The Vikings saw logged off last week from virtual team the third player in NFL history to reach 2018, failing to report for the first day of promise from Alexander Mattison and activities with the Minnesota Vikings, no 1,000 yards rushing and receiving in one training camp would hurt Cook. The new Mike Boone in relief of Cook last year, longer willing to participate until he has season. collective bargaining agreement keeps too, giving them cap-friendly options in secured a new contract. “I’d put McCaffrey in his own camp. such a player from receiving an accrued the worst-case scenario. Cook’s situation is the latest standoff He’s an anomaly, and he’s been paid as season toward unrestricted free agency. Melvin Gordon essentially lost his of sorts between an NFL team and a star such now,” said Mike Ginnitti, the man- He would be a restricted free agent in staredown last year with the Los Ange- running back, with the possibility of sev- aging editor of Spotrac, the website he that scenario without a new deal, severe- les Chargers, who wound up giving his eral more in the coming year in a league founded to evaluate pro sports contracts. ly limiting his market. replacement Austin Ekeler, who was un- that has steadily driven down the finan- The six-year, $90 million deal Dallas drafted in 2017, a four-year, $24.5 million cial value of the position. reached with Ezekiel Elliott, the fourth deal. Gordon took a two-year, $8 million The Vikings, though, have made no overall pick in the 2016 draft, prior to last contract with Denver. secret of their desire to make Cook the season would also be hard for the Vikings The rest of the NFL will be closely centerpiece of their offense. It’s difficult to mimic considering the amount of sal- watching what transpires with Cook and to envision them not eventually striking ary cap space they’ve devoted to quarter- the Vikings. Not only are Henry and a deal with a player they’ve frequently back Kirk Cousins and several standouts Drake still seeking longer guaran- praised for his work in the backfield, in on defense. tees, but so are these 2017 draftees the locker room and in the community. The three-year, $39 million contract beyond their rookie deals: Leonard Cook was the only player pictured on a Arizona gave David Johnson, who’s now Fournette (Jacksonville), Joe Mixon promotional graphic the team created with Houston, might be the most realis- (Cincinnati), Alvin Kamara (New earlier this spring for the release of the tic model. Spotrac pegged Cook for a deal Orleans), James Conner (Pitts- 2020 schedule. with an annual average value of around burgh), Marlon Mack (Indianapo- “I consider Dalvin as one of those core $12.5 million, perhaps lis), Aaron Jones (Green Bay) and group of players that we definitely want $25 million guaran- Chris Carson (Seattle). to try to keep,” general manager Rick Spielman said earlier this offseason. A person with direct knowledge of Cook’s decision confirmed to The Associ- ated Press that the Pro Bowl pick will not take part in the remainder of the offsea- son program or report to training camp without a new contract. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because of the confidential nature of the negotiations. If Cook were to skip part or all of camp, which remains a tentative event due to the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pan- demic, the Vikings wouldn’t worry much about the lost repetitions. “Dalvin could teach class. He’s that bright and that smart of a football play- er,” offensive coordinator Gary Kubiak said this week. “It’s part of the business, and guys like him, professionals like him, take care of themselves.” Cook had a breakout season in 2019, with 1,135 yards and 13 touchdowns rushing plus 519 yards receiving in 14 games. He had 303 total touches, a per-game average (21.6) that ranked fourth in the NFL. But Cook has missed 21 games, including play- offs, to injuries over three years in the league. The 2017 second- round draft pick tore his ACL as a rookie, had a hamstring strain in 2018, and dealt with shoulder trouble last season.

Minnesota Vikings running back Dalvin Cook is holding out of team activities until he has a new contract.

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NHL Grand prize?

Canada’s Alexis Lafreniere is expected to be the top pick in the NHL Draft. The only question is which team is going to get the first pick?

RYAN REMIORZ, THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP Play-in team wins draft lottery, shot at Lafreniere

BY STEPHEN WHYNO Oceanic in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League Associated Press who also was captain of Canada’s world junior cham- pionship gold medal-winning team. lexis Lafreniere was supposed to walk The league’s bottom seven teams that had their on stage Friday night in Montreal as the seasons ended when play was paused March 12 top pick in the NHL Draft. will be off for nine months or After the COVID-19 pandemic paused ‘ more if the start of 2020-21 is de- Athe hockey season and postponed that Still not layed until December or January. possibility, Lafreniere was supposed to find out Fri- drafted, They also won’t be able to pencil day night where he’d be going when the league held Lafreniere into their lineup of the its draft lottery. Instead, he’ll have to wait a little bit so we’ll future. longer. still have Meanwhile, Sidney Crosby’s Chaos reigned at the NHL Draft lottery, with the to wait a Pittsburgh Penguins or Con- No. 1 pick still up for grabs in a second lottery draw- nor McDavid’s Edmonton Oilers ing among the eight teams that lose in the qualifying little bit.’ could get lucky again or Taylor round of the playoffs — if play resumes. Alexis Hall could bring his lottery luck “We all knew this could happen,” Ottawa Senators Lafreniere to a third franchise. general manager Pierre Dorion said. “It definitely Top prospect The league-worst Detroit Red has been a different 2020 compared to every other heading into Wings dropped to fourth, the Los year that I’ve been on the face of this earth.” NHL Draft Angeles Kings got the second pick As part of the NHL’s 24-team playoff format if and the Senators ended up with it resumes, 16 teams will play each other in best- Nos. 3 and 5 because of the 2018 Erik Karlsson trade of-five series to move on — and the losers of those with San Jose. The drama was down to the Kings or matchups now have a major consolation prize loom- a still-to-be-determined team, and deputy commis- sioner Bill Daly unveiled a card with the NHL logo CARLOS OSORIO/AP ing: equal 12.5% odds of landing Lafreniere. on it at No. 1. “Still not drafted, so we’ll still have to wait a little Detroit general manager Steve Yzerman said he wasn’t surprised the bit,” said Lafreniere, a star left winger for Rimouski SEE PRIZE ON PAGE 22 Red Wings didn’t land the top pick. They’ll pick fourth overall.

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