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Facebook board upholds Trump ban, just not indefinitely

President Donald Trump speaks to crowd before boarding Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., in this Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021, file photo. Associated Press Page 2 A2 Thursday 6 May 2021 UP FRONT

Facebook board upholds Trump ban, just not indefinitely

From Front only “kicks the can down press support or praise of the road,” said Jonathan these people or groups. By MATT O’BRIEN and BAR- Greenblatt, the head of the But it insisted that the com- BARA ORTUTAY Anti-Defamation League, pany needed to take re- AP Technology Writer who said it highlighted the sponsibility for its decision. Former President Donald need for greater govern- “Facebook should ei- Trump won’t return to Face- ment oversight of social ther permanently disable book — at least not yet. platforms. The board ruled Trump’s account or impose Four months after Face- that Facebook was correct a suspension for a specific book suspended Trump’s to suspend Trump’s ac- period of time,” said board accounts, having conclud- count four months ago. But co-chair Helle Thorning- ed that he incited violence it said the company erred Schmidt, a former Danish leading to the deadly Jan. by applying a vague pen- prime minister. 6 Capitol riot, the com- alty and then passing the The board said that if Face- pany’s quasi-independent question of whether to ban book decides to restore oversight board upheld In this March 29, 2018, file photo, the logo for Facebook appears Trump permanently to the Trump’s accounts, it must the bans. But it told Face- on screens at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York's Times Square. board. “Indefinite penalties be able to promptly ad- book to specify how long Associated Press of this sort do not pass the dress further violations. they would last, saying international smell test,” Among other recommen- that its “indefinite” ban on and puts the onus for that over the bans, his critics oversight board co-chair dations, it advised against the former president was decision squarely back on pushing for broader so- Michael McConnell said in drawing a firm distinction unreasonable. The ruling, the company. That could cial-media regulation and a conference call with re- between political leaders which gives Facebook six leave Facebook in the the company stuck with a porters. “We are not cops, and other influential us- months to comply, effec- worst of all possible worlds momentous issue it clearly reigning over the realm of ers because anyone with tively postpones any pos- — one in which Trump’s hoped the oversight board social media.” a big audience can po- sible Trump reinstatement supporters remain enraged would resolve. The decision In a statement, Trump did tentially cause serious risks not address the decision of harm. There was some directly, but said that ac- dissent within the board, tions by Facebook, Twitter, according to its report on and Google are “a total the decision. A minority of disgrace and an embar- board members sought to rassment to our Country.” characterize Trump’s state- He added: “These corrupt ments about the election social media companies being stolen, coupled with must pay a political price.” praise for the rioters, as a The board agreed with violation of Facebook’s Facebook that that two rules against inciting vio- of Trump’s Jan. 6 posts lence through calls for ac- “severely violated” the tion or by spreading misin- content standards of both formation and unverifiable Facebook and Instagram. rumors. But the board said “We love you. You’re very that adding that as a viola- special,” Trump said to the tion wouldn’t have affect- rioters in the first post. In the ed its final ruling. second, he called them Facebook has long strad- “great patriots” and told dled that issue, granting them to “remember this political figures greater lee- day forever.” way than it allows ordinary Those violated Facebook’s users because, it argued, rules against praising or sup- even their rule-breaking porting people engaged in statements were important violence, the board said, for citizens to hear. warranting the suspension. “The same rules should Specifically, the board apply to all users on Face- cited Facebook’s rules book, no matter how influ- against “dangerous indi- ential they are,” said board viduals and organizations,” spokesman Dex Hunter-Tor- which prohibit anyone who ricke, a former speechwrit- proclaims a violent mission er for Facebook CEO Mark and bans posts that ex- Zuckerberg.q A3 U.S. NEWS Thursday 6 May 2021 U.S. parents excited over prospect of virus shots for children By HEATHER HOLLING- SWORTH and TODD RICH- MOND Associated Press MISSION, Kan. (AP) — After more than a year of fretting over her 13-year son with a rare liver disease, Heather Ousley broke into tears when she learned that he and millions of other young- sters could soon be eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine. “This day is the best day in the history of days!!! I love this day!!!” she texted, join- ing other parents and edu- cators in welcoming the news that the Food and Drug Administration is ex- pected to authorize Pfizer’s vaccine by next week for children ages 12 to 15. Ousley, president of the school board for the 27,000-student Shawnee Mission School District in Heather Ousley sits with her older children Elliannah, 15, right, and Samuel, 13, in front of their home in Merriam, Kan, Tuesday, May Kansas, plans to get her 13- 4, 2021. and 15-year-olds promptly Associated Press vaccinated and then cele- brate with ice cream. They in November, in what his Dan Domenech, execu- things.” Keri Rodrigues, a the country and directly to have been learning from mother described as a “ter- tive director of AASA, the co-founder of the educa- pediatricians. home with their younger rifying” time for the family. School Superintendents As- tion advocacy group the Coy Marquardt, associ- brother since the start of The disease spread to the sociation, said vaccinating National Parents Union, ate executive director of the outbreak. rest of the family. younger students should said she rushed out to get Iowa’s teachers union, said Pfizer is also anticipating They all pulled through, and help parents feel more vaccinated after becom- his 14-year-old son is excit- the FDA will endorse use of Cooper and his parents comfortable about send- ing eligible but has more ed to get vaccinated and its vaccine in even younger have all since been vacci- ing their children back to trepidation about immuniz- has been asking for months children sometime this fall. nated. But his mother can’t classrooms and ease con- ing her oldest son, who is when he would be eligible. And results are expected wait for her 15-year-old, cerns among some teach- 13. She plans to go ahead Marquardt said that be- by the middle of this year Reece, and 12-year-old, ers. with it, though, in part be- cause of vaccine hesitan- from a U.S. study of Moder- Tucker, to get their shots so “Say you have a class cause he is demanding it. cy, it doesn’t look as if herd na’s shots in 12- to 17-year- their brother is as protected where every student is “He has cabin fever and immunity is going to be olds. as possible. vaccinated and so is the he wants to get out,” ex- achieved anytime soon. Officials are hoping that “It feels like more secu- teacher. That becomes plained Rodrigues, who “That makes it even more extending vaccinations to rity around Cooper with a a very different environ- lives near Boston. important to expand the children will drive down the compromised immune sys- ment,” Domenech said. The group’s newly released use to 12- to 15-year-olds, nation’s caseload even fur- tem,” Robin Perry said. “It’s He added: “Schools were survey from April of 1,151 including my son, just to ther and allow schools to just being part of the solu- very pleased when the parents around the country protect him,” he said. reopen with minimal disrup- tion. That’s what excites CDC came out with the found that others are also Tom Rosenberg, president tion this fall. me the most. It’s an added 3-foot spacing as opposed conflicted. Forty percent and CEO of the American It could also reassure par- level of protection. Maybe to the 6-foot spacing, be- planned to get their chil- Camp Association, which ents and teachers alike. you can take a deeper cause that immediately al- dren vaccinated immedi- accredits 3,200 camps and While children rarely get breath.” lowed them to have more ately, 22% eventually and works with about 12,000 seriously ill from the corona- Educators have already students in school at one 23% never, and the remain- others, said he has ben del- virus, then can still get sick embraced vaccines for time. This will have a similar ing 15% were unsure. uged with messages since and spread it to others. students 16 and up, with effect.” “Obviously parents are torn the news broke. Pfizer in March released some scheduling vaccine Seventy-four-year-old Pat right now because you are Last year, 40% of day preliminary results from a clinics during school hours Shepard, a retired Spanish watching your kids really camps and 82% of over- study of 2,260 U.S. volun- and dangling prize draw- teacher from Lincoln, Ne- go through an emotional night camps didn’t oper- teers ages 12 to 15, show- ings and other incentives. braska, who has worked struggle, especially our ate, but many were gear- ing there were no cases In New York’s Erie County, as a substitute during the teens,” she said. “I think ing up to reopen this sum- of COVID-19 among fully prom-themed vaccination outbreak, is eager to see we are all taking a leap of mer, with masks and social- vaccinated children com- clinics were held this past eligibility expand, saying faith, but I think what we ly distancing, he said. He pared with 18 among those weekend, including one students are increasingly have to do is trust science said the vaccine would of- given dummy shots. with a tropical feel where resisting wearing masks. in this moment.”President fer another layer of protec- That is welcome news for health care workers wore “You are starting to see Joe Biden said Tuesday tion and might persuade Robin and Aaron Perry of grass skirts and 16- and more and more of them that if the FDA authorizes some hesitant parents to Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, who 17-year-olds went home wearing them down below the use of Pfizer’s vac- sign up their children. have five boys, ages 5 to with gift bags of masks and their nose because they cine in children as young “It could be a game 17. Their oldest, Cooper, hand sanitizer. Similar ef- are just tired of it,” she said. as 12, the administration is changer,” said Rosenberg, has been battling leukemia forts are expected to draw “And then, too, they want prepared to ship doses to who plans to get his own and contracted COVID-19 in 12- to 15-year-olds. to get out and do more 20,000 pharmacies around 13-year-old vaccinated.q A4 Thursday 6 May 2021 U.S. NEWS Families, advocates mark day of awareness for Native victims By FELICIA FONSECA and public records and request- SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN ing data from nearly two Associated Press dozen law enforcement ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — agencies to better under- From Washington to Indig- stand the scope of the enous communities across problem. Only five agen- the American Southwest, cies responded. top government officials, Even with such limited family members and advo- data, they pointed to an cates gathered Wednes- estimated 660 cases in- day as part of a call to volving missing Indigenous action to address the on- people between 2014 and going problem of violence 2019 in the state’s largest against Indigenous women urban center, putting Albu- and children. querque among U.S. cities U.S. Interior Secretary Deb with the highest number of Haaland and other federal cases. officials commemorated New Mexico’s task force the annual day of aware- will be expanded and its ness as a caravan of fe- work extended into 2022, male motorcycle riders with the goal of recom- planned to hit the streets mending policy changes in Phoenix, advocates took and legislation. to social media, and fami- In this Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020, file photo, Jeannie Hovland, the deputy assistant secretary Other states also have es- lies prepared for a night of for Native American Affairs for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, poses with tablished task forces or a Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women mask, in Anchorage, Alaska, while attending the candlelight and prayer vig- opening of a Lady Justice Task Force cold case office in Anchorage, which will investigate missing commissions to focus on the ils. In Washington, an event and murdered Indigenous women. problem, with Hawaii be- hosted by federal officials Associated Press coming the latest through started with a prayer asking legislation that points to for guidance and grace land dispossession, incar- for the Indigenous fami- mer Democratic U.S. repre- dered Indigenous peoples ishing rates, with federal ceration and harmful ste- lies who have lost relatives sentative from New Mexi- crisis is one that Native figures showing that they reotypes as reasons for Na- and those who have been co, recalled hearing fami- communities have faced — along with non-Hispanic tive Hawaiians’ increased victims of violence. Before lies testify about searching since the dawn of coloniza- Black women — have ex- vulnerability to violence. and after a moment of si- for loved ones on their own tion,” she said as she joined perienced the highest ho- President Joe Biden issued lence, officials from various and bringing a red ribbon the ceremony virtually. “For micide rates. a proclamation Tuesday agencies vowed to con- skirt to a congressional too long, this issue has been Yet an Associated Press in- on Missing and Murdered tinue working with tribes to hearing that represented swept under the rug with vestigation in 2018 found Indigenous Persons Aware- address the crisis. missing and slain Native the lack of urgency, atten- that nobody knows the ness Day. He has promised As part of the ceremony, Americans. tion and funding.” precise number of cases of to bolster resources to ad- a red memorial shawl with Haaland displayed the red U.S. Attorney General Mer- missing and murdered Na- dress the crisis and better the names of missing and shawl in her office Wednes- rick Garland also issued a tive Americans nationwide consult with tribes to hold slain Indigenous women day to symbolize those statement, saying the Jus- because many go unre- perpetrators accountable was draped across a long who have disappeared tice Department is “com- ported, others aren’t well and keep communities table to remember the and honor the move- mitted to finding lasting so- documented, and no gov- safe. lives behind what Haaland ment that rang the alarm. lutions to the public safety ernment database specifi- Haaland said that includes called alarming and unac- She believes the nation challenges tribal commu- cally tracks them. more staffing in a U.S. Bu- ceptable statistics. More has reached an inflection nities encounter and to In New Mexico, members reau of Indian Affairs unit names were added to the point, saying it’s time to protecting them from vio- of the state’s task force on dedicated to solving cold shawl Wednesday. solve the crisis. lence, abuse and exploita- Wednesday shared some cases and coordinating Haaland, the first Native “Everyone deserves to feel tion.” of the findings of their work with Mexico and Canada American to lead a U.S. safe in their communities, Indigenous women have over the past year, which to combat human traffick- cabinet agency and a for- but the missing and mur- been victimized at aston- included combing through ing. q Four people killed when plane crashes into Mississippi home HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) — of Jackson, to investigate Hattiesburg police were A small plane crashed into the crash of the Mitsubishi called to the scene of the a house in Mississippi late MU-2B-60, the agency said crash just before 11:30 p.m. Tuesday, killing a man in- Wednesday. Tuesday, police spokes- side as well as a toddler Police and the coroner’s man Ryan Moore said. and two adults from Texas office identified the dead Police initially said two peo- who were on board, au- as Gerry Standley, 55, of ple died; later Wednesday thorities said. Hattiesburg; and three morning, they raised the Two National Transporta- people from Wichita Falls, toll to four. Hattiesburg police surround a burned automobile and a tion Safety Board investi- Texas: Louis Provenza, 67; The plane can hold a damaged home after a small plane crashed late Tuesday gators were on the way to Harper Provenza, 2; and crew of two, plus six night in Hattiesburg, Miss., Wednesday May 5, 2021. q Associated Press Hattiesburg, about 90 miles Anna Calhoun, 23, news passengers. (145 kilometers) southeast agencies reported. A5 WORLD NEWS Thursday 6 May 2021 Israeli opposition leader tapped to form new goverment By JOSEF FEDERMAN Elections held March 23 Associated Press ended in deadlock for the JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s fourth consecutive time president on Wednesday in the past two years. De- tapped opposition leader spite repeated meetings Yair Lapid to form a new with many of his rivals and government — a step that unprecedented outreach could lead to the end of to the leader of a small Is- the lengthy rule of Prime lamist Arab party, Netan- Minister Benjamin Netan- yahu was unable to close yahu. a deal. Rivlin, whose post President Reuven Rivlin an- is mostly ceremonial, is re- nounced his decision on sponsible for designating live television a day after a party leader to form a Netanyahu failed to cob- government after each ble together a governing election. He gave Netan- coalition by a midnight yahu the first chance after deadline. 52 members of parliament Rivlin spent the day con- endorsed him as prime min- sulting with all of the par- ister last month. That was ties elected to Israel’s par- short of a 61-seat majority, liament and announced but the highest number for late Wednesday that he any party leader. believes Lapid has the best In this March 14, 2021 file photo, people stand in front of an election campaign billboard for the During Wednesday’s con- chance of forming a coali- Likud party showing a portrait of its leader Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and opposition sultations, the 52-member tion. Rivlin said that based party leader Yair Lapid, in Ramat Gan, Israel. pro-Netanyahu bloc asked Associated Press on the recommendations, Rivlin not to choose anoth- “it is clear that Knesset “We need a government total of 15 years, including paper columnist, TV anchor er candidate and instead member Yair Lapid has a that will reflect the fact the past 12. and author. His new Yesh ask parliament to decide chance to form a govern- that we don’t hate one an- “It looks like, perhaps within Atid party ran a successful upon a prime minister. In a ment that will earn the other,” he said. “A govern- a few days or a few weeks, rookie campaign, landing statement, Netanyahu’s Li- confidence of the Knesset, ment in which left, right and we might have a function- Lapid the powerful post of kud party said such a move even if the difficulties are center will work together to ing coalition that will not finance minister. “will save another period of many.”Lapid, whose late tackle the economic and include Mr. Netanyahu. But he and Netanyahu did uncertainty for the state of father was a Cabinet min- security challenges we This will be a groundbreak- not get along, and the co- Israel.” Lapid, who received ister and who himself is a face. A government that ing change,” said Yohanan alition quickly crumbled. the backing of some 56 veteran journalist and poli- will show that our differenc- Plesner, president of the Is- Yesh Atid has been in the lawmakers on Wednesday, tician, now has four weeks es are a source of strength, rael Democracy Institute, opposition since 2015 elec- already has offered a pow- to reach a deal with po- not weakness.” an independent think tank. tions. The party is popular er-sharing deal to Naftali tential partners. In a state- While Lapid faces a dif- He acknowledged, howev- with secular, middle-class Bennett, leader of the right- ment, Lapid said he would ficult task, he now has the er, that “a fifth consecutive voters and has been critical wing Yamina party. Under move quickly to form a chance to make history by election is still, unfortunate- of Netanyahu’s close ties the proposal, the two men broadbased unity govern- ending the reign of Netan- ly, a real possibility.” with ultra-Orthodox parties would share the prime min- ment “as soon as possible, yahu, Israel’s longest-serv- Lapid, 57, entered parlia- and said the prime minister ister’s job in a rotation, with so we can get to work for ing prime minister. Netan- ment in 2013 after a suc- should step down while on Bennett holding the post the people of Israel.” yahu has held the post for a cessful career as a news- trial for corruption charges. first.q Row settled: UK grants EU ambassador full diplomatic status

By PAN PYLAS the EU Delegation to the though other countries Associated Press U.K., the EU’s ambassador give it equivalent creden- LONDON (AP) — The U.K. to London will now have a tials. has granted full diplomat- status consistent with those Many thought the U.K.’s ic status to the European from states around the stance was petty and Union’s ambassador to world. aimed purely at helping the country, in a reversal The EU’s staff will also have Prime Minister Boris John- of policy that settles one the same privileges and son to draw as many con- of the disputes that have immunities that other del- cessions as possible from strained relations between egations have in the U.K. the EU during their post- the two sides since Brexit. The changes bring an end Brexit discussions last year. In a joint statement to one of the rows that Though a trade deal was Wednesday, British Foreign have soured relations since eventually sealed on Secretary Dominic Raab the U.K. left the EU in early Christmas Eve, there are and the EU’s top diplomat, 2020. The U.K. had sought many lingering tensions Josep Borrell, said they had to justify its decision not to between the U.K. and the reached an agreement grant full diplomatic status EU, not least over Northern High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell, that was “based on good- to João Vale de Almeida, Ireland, which is the only right, and Dominic Raab Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs will and pragmatism.” the bloc’s first ambassador land border between the meet ahead of bi-lateral talks during the G7 foreign ministers’ Under the so-called Estab- to London, on the grounds two.q meeting in London, Wednesday, May 5, 2021. lishment Agreement for the EU is not a state even Associated Press A6 Thursday 6 May 2021 WORLD NEWS Macron commemorates 200th anniversary of Napoleon’s death

By ELAINE GANLEY Macron voiced his oppo- Associated Press sition last year to bringing PARIS (AP) — President down statues of figures Emmanuel Macron, in linked to slavery in former an unusual gesture on French colonies, on the Wednesday, marked the grounds that history can’t bicentenary of the death be erased and the past of Napoleon, the warrior- must be acknowledged. emperor who famously be- Napoleon, a celebrated queathed France its civil military genius, became code, among other major an integral part of France’s reforms, but whose legacy legacy. But in today’s era, remains tarnished in the his image is tarnished by a eyes of many. decision to reestablish slav- Macron said Napoleon ery in French colonies in Bonaparte’s reinstatement 1802, after it was abolished of slavery was a “betrayal in 1784. He was also respon- of the spirit of the Enlight- sible for years of carnage enment.” But in his speech and destruction in wars under the dome of the Insti- fought across much of the tute of France, he said that European continent and as “Napoleon is part of us” far away as Egypt. and France “must look our Ruler from 1799, he be- history straight in the eyes.” French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron stand by the tomb of Napoleon came emperor in 1804 for With such distinctions, Bonaparte during a ceremony to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Napoleon Bonaparte’s a decade, then again for Macron refused to cede death, at the Invalides monument in Paris, Wednesday, May 5, 2021. three months in 1815. He to those who would re- Associated Press was exiled to the Mediter- fuse any honor to Napo- and site of a military hos- civil code and penal code, best,” Macron said. “Com- ranean island of Elba, es- leon, who is among the pital. He was greeted by established the system of memorating this bicente- caped and miraculously most important figures of Prince Jean-Christophe prefects, representatives nary, it’s saying just that, raised a new army, only French history and adored Napoleon, pretender to of the state in each French simply, serenely,” without to meet defeat on June by some members of the the long-abolished throne territory, and lycees, or “judging the past with laws 18, 2015, at the hands of a right. The timing works for of the emperor. The presi- high schools, among other of the present.” British-led military coalition Macron, who is expected dent’s speech was meant things. But even the Institut For Macron, commemo- in the crucial battle of Wa- to try to renew his presi- to commemorate not cel- of France refers to Napo- rating Napoleon was fol- terloo. He was sent in 1815 dential mandate in elec- ebrate the larger-than-life leon “a major figure of his- lowing through with his op- to the British outpost of St. tions next year. Macron figure who died in exile on tory since always contest- tics of facing the past and Helena, where he died af- later laid a wreath at the the remote volcanic island ed.” “From the empire, we moving forward with les- ter falling ill. foot of Napoleon’s grandi- of St. Helena exactly 200 have renounced the worst sons learned and offering Napoleon’s body was later ose tomb at Les Invalides, years ago, on May 5, 1821. and from the emperor “neither denial nor repen- exhumed and entombed a gold-domed monument Napoleon gave France its we have embellished the tance.” at Les Invalides in Paris.q

U.S. envoy in Egypt for talks on Ethiopia’s dam dispute

By SAMY MAGDY part of Washington’s new The U.S. envoy, Jeffrey Felt- dam as “existential” to his ro and Khartoum have Associated Press push to find a resolution to man, arrived in Cairo on country, urging the U.S. to called for the U.S., the U.N, CAIRO (AP) — The U.S. en- a regional decade-long Tuesday on the first leg of play “an effective role” to and European Union to fa- voy for the Horn of Africa dispute over Ethiopia’s his tour of the region that settle the dispute.Feltman, cilitate reaching a legally on Wednesday met with massive dam on the Nile includes stops in Eritrea, who also met with Egypt’s binding deal on the dam’s the Egyptian president as River’s main tributary. Ethiopia and Sudan amid foreign and irrigation minis- the filling and operating. growing concerns the dis- ters, was quoted as saying Ethiopia rejected the call. pute could escalate into a that the Biden administra- In March, el-Sissi warned of military conflict, threaten- tion is “serious in settling regional “instability that no ing the entire Horn of Af- such a sensitive issue.” one can imagine” without rica. The dispute now centers a legally binding agree- On Wednesday, Feltman on how quickly Ethiopia fills ment on operating the met with Egyptian Presi- and replenishes the reser- dam, based on interna- dent President Abdel Fat- voir and how much water tional law and norms gov- tah el-Sissi, who reiterated it releases downstream erning cross-border rivers. his warnings that Cairo will in case of a multi-year Egypt, which relies on the not tolerate any moves by drought. The latest round Nile for more than 90% of Addis Ababa that could of African Union-brokered its water supplies, fears a reduce Egypt’s share of negotiations in April failed devastating impact if the water from the Nile be- to make progress. dam is operated without cause of the Grand Ethio- Egypt and Sudan argue taking its needs into ac- pia Renaissance Dam. that Ethiopia’s plan to add count. Ethiopia says the $5 U.S. Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa Jeffrey Feltman, left, meets with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, third El-Sissi said Egypt would not 13.5 billion cubic meters of billion dam is essential, ar- right, and their delegations, at the foreign ministry in Cairo, accept anyone “harm- water in 2021 to the dam’s guing the vast majority of Egypt, Wednesday, May 5, 2021. ing its water interests” and reservoir on the Blue Nile its population lacks elec- Associated Press described the issue of the is a threat to them. Cai- tricity. q A7 WORLD NEWS Thursday 6 May 2021 In Ethiopia camp, displaced Tigrayans live with hunger, fear

Associated Press displaced people or even MEKELE, Ethiopia (AP) — reach many rural commu- The memories are so pain- nities where some fear the ful that Birhanu Haile some- real toll of the fighting is yet times forgets to eat. to be known. He is one of thousands of Food for the camp is in ethnic Tigrayans clinging to short supply. The commu- a marginal existence after nity relies heavily on dona- fleeing their homes amid a tions from aid workers and conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray well-wishers in Mekele who region that has left count- give everything from flour less dead. to the rare gift of a slaugh- Birhanu lost his land. His tered cow. house in western Tigray has For months, the internation- been occupied by ethnic al community has worried Amhara who now claim about the fate of Tigray’s the area as their own. His estimated 6 million people. wife and two children are Now, the United Nations now refugees in Sudan. and others warn, hunger is Two nephews were killed. the next crisis. The planting Now he is the coordinator season looms, and farmers of this camp of some 7,000 have reported being intimi- people that has overflowed An organizer raises his hands to ask displaced Tigrayans to queue in an orderly way as they dated from preparing their a secondary school in the wait to receive food at the Hadnet General Secondary School which has become a makeshift land. Others, desperate, Tigray capital, Mekele. Life home to thousands displaced by the conflict, in Mekele, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia have eaten their seeds. is grim even here. Weary Wednesday, May 5, 2021. “Ethiopia has only one families line up for pieces Associated Press planting season. of flatbread and gravy, a of the six-month-old con- she said. “I could not tell ing Eritrea, pursue fighters So if they are unable to ac- meal that will be their lunch flict’s first known massacre. whether they were my rela- loyal to the Tigray regional cess their land because and dinner, then return to She recalled stepping on tives or not.” party whose leaders long of the ongoing fighting filthy classrooms where they dead bodies there as her No one knows just how dominated the national and plant the crops, we sleep. Many came with al- family hid in a maize field many hundreds of thou- government before being can expect extreme food most nothing. And yet, “I and then walked hundreds sands of Tigrayans have sidelined by Prime Minister shortage in the months to don’t want to think of go- of kilometers (miles) to fled their homes during the Abiy Ahmed. come,” said Alyona Syn- ing back,” said 21-year-old reach Mekele. war as Ethiopian troops The fighting remains in- enko, a spokeswoman with Wegahta Weldie, a student “Many people had been and allied forces, includ- tense in some areas, com- the International Commit- from Mai Kadra, the scene killed and it was very dark,” ing soldiers from neighbor- plicating efforts to help the tee for the Red Cross. q

U.N. alarmed over police violence in Colombia protests

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) people Monday night. Rights Ombudsman, 16 — The United Nations hu- The statement from the protesters and one po- man rights office said it U.N. High Commissioner liceman have been killed was “deeply alarmed” for Human Rights comes in the demonstrations over violence against as antigovernment pro- since last Wednesday. protesters in the Colombi- tests sparked by proposed But that figure doesn’t in- an city of Cali, where “po- tax increase enter their clude reports of deaths lice opened fire on dem- sixth day and show few in Cali on Monday, which onstrators” and allegedly signs of stopping.Accord- the U.N. said it is still trying killed and injured several ing to Colombia’s Human to confirm. The protests began after Colombia’s government proposed a tax plan aimed at raising $6.7 bil- lion to pay the country’s debts and maintain a ba- sic income scheme for 3 million low-income peo- ple that started during the pandemic. President Iván Duque withdrew the tax plan on Sunday amid the protests and his finance minister resigned the fol- A police officer winds up to throw a stun grenade at protesters lowing day, but large during a national strike against tax reform in Cali, Colombia, demonstrations and road- Monday, May 3, 2021. q Associated Press blocks have continued. A8 Thursday 6 May 2021 local Because mom deserves the best PALM BEACH — The Ritz- Carlton, Aruba stands out in many aspects, not only in capturing the eye but also in creating experienc- es. The resort encompasses the values and philosophy on which they operate an un-wavering commitment to service. Cherish mom with an elegant Mother’s Day Brunch and indulge in a culinary delight in Solanio at The Ritz-Carlton, Aruba.

Mother’s Day honors the day and therefore invite welcome you between 11 mother of the family, as her to a delectable dining a.m. and 2 p.m. for a won- well as motherhood, ma- experience. In Solanio, at derful ternal bonds and the influ- The Ritz-Carlton, Aruba you Mother’s Day Brunch with ence of mothers in society. guarantee mom that she unlimited mimosas. We wish to make her feel only deserves the best. The amazing buffet will be festive and special on this On Sunday, May 9, we offering you a breakfast station with build your own omelet, eggs any style and a waffle station. Pastries will salad or choose for some mixed greens with lemon vin- tempt you and will be de- aigrette. Do not skip the carving station inviting you to livered to your table by the try beef tenderloin in red wine demi-glace and the re- server. Fresh fruits fulfill the nowned mini popover. Continue your cravings with some healthy needs and yogurt seafood chowder before you dive into main courses like parfait or yogurt assorted grilled salmon, grilled chicken Caribbean jerk, crispy pork gladly accompany along. belly with Caribbean rice. Do you enjoy fresh Italian dish- International charcuterie es? Indulge in mushroom ravioli in truffle cream sauce, tickles the taste buds to- ossobuco ravioli or gnocchi with Pomodoro sauce. For gether with smoked salm- the kids we have some special tender chicken with fries on, oysters and poached or mac & cheese. Kiss a sweet goodbye to this heav- shrimps. Add a little local enly journey with some sweets including Aruban quesillo, touch with Aruban potato strawberry opera and chocolate mousse. Mom, mother, mama … you are invited to celebrate love and delectable dining in Solanio.q

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Email us at [email protected] before noon Friday May 7th, 2021 A9 LOCAL Thursday 6 May 2021 Medlab Aruba ‘fit-2-fly’: Covid-19 testing on the island

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Ap- at $50 and the PCR at $100. heading back home to has been assigned as one available testing centers. pointment is also made Payment method is card present with a negative test of the private laboratories Guests will receive a confir- online at WWW.COVIDA- (preferred), cash (hygiene result for PCR or Antigen 72 authorized to perform “Fit- mation email with QR-code RUBA.COM. measures). hours prior to departure. 2-Fly” testing for departing that will be requested upon The COVID Test is not cov- passengers. day of testing to facilitate a The participating hotels ered by the Aruba Visitor’s MEDLAB Aruba is an ac- faster turn-around time for with testing facilities are Insurance, but you are able credited ISO 15189:2012 Hassle free scheduling – your results. 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Testing Option 3: Airbnb/ us at [email protected] Testing Option 1: Walk- Other hotel location. We In service at our location come to you for the test in Noord Medical Center together with our vehicular (NMC), Noord 63 or at Su- Mobile Health Test Unit. We perfood COVID Testing require a minimum of six Center. You may also book people for this service. Re- online at WWW.COVIDA- quest/ Book appointment The Aruba Tourism Authority honor loyal visitors on the island PALM BEACH — Recently, Kim- stated that they love the is- berley Richardson of the Aruba land very much, especially for Tourism Authority had the great its year-round sunny weather, pleasure to honor Aruba’s loyal nice sandy beaches and pictur- and friendly visitors as Goodwill esque sunsets, delicious variety Ambassadors of Aruba. The sym- of foods, its safety and Aruba’s bolic honorary Goodwill Ambas- warm and friendly people who sador certificate is presented on have become like family to behalf of the Minister of Tourism, them. as a token of appreciation to guests who visit Aruba 20 years Richardson together with the and more consecutively. representatives of the Playa Linda Beach Resort presented The honorees were the couple the certificate to the honorees, Mr. Jim and Mrs. Cathie Gancio, handed over some presents and whom have been visiting Aruba also thanked them for choosing for over 25 years consecutively. Aruba as their favorite vacation destination and as their home- The lovely couple Gancio away-from-home.q A10 Thursday 6 May 2021 LOCAL Healthy Pregnancy By: Carlos M Viana, Number one in my Pre-natal Pack is a natural Board Certified Clinical Nutritionist multi-nutrient that is specifically formulated for ORANJESTAD — In the best of all worlds the pregnant and breastfeeding mothers. Since preparation for the birth of your child would we know that food today does not contain all start many years in advance in detoxifying your the necessary life supporting nutrients, supple- body from toxic heavy metals, and fat-soluble mentation is recommended. A good Pre-natal toxins from insecticides, pesticides and the multi-nutrient needs to contain Folic Acid to countless petroleum-based chemicals. In our prevent birth defects of the baby’s spine. Folic clinic we have more than three thousand hair acid is a water-soluble vitamin belonging to the tests that show the body burden of toxic heavy B-complex group of vitamins. Taken together metals that have crossed the placenta into the with the other B vitamins, these help the body growing baby. If you plan to have children some break down complex carbohydrates into sim- day, here's important information for a healthier ple sugars to be used for energy. If you were baby. Avoid alcohol and other drugs, including taking birth control pills prior to becoming preg- pharmaceuticals except under medical care. nant, they can cause higher loss of B vitamins. Excess B vitamins are excreted from the body Cigarette smoking and secondhand smoke rather than stored for later use. Therefore, it’s a during pregnancy cause a higher risk of having good idea to take a quality B complex or multi- babies of lower birth weight. This can cause a nutrient with all B vitamins daily. Always be sure host of health problems for the baby, such as to check with a clinical nutritionist for proper us- 6 and Omega 3. These indispensable fats are cerebral palsy or learning disabilities. Women age of any supplement if you are pregnant or necessary to build healthy bodies and provide who actively smoke during pregnancy expose nursing. energy. The secret is to take three in relation to their developing baby to passive smoke; the So many pregnant women become anemic each other. For one part meat or butter, you chemicals pass through the placenta and put during their pregnancy that doctors often pre- want to eat two parts vegetable oils and nuts, the baby at risk of lower birth weight. scribe iron supplements. Most maternal supple- and include three parts fish in your diet. If you An infant who was exposed to secondhand ments may contain 30 mg or more of iron per are allergic to fish oils, Flaxseed oil is a vegetar- smoke as a developing fetus may be at in- dose, in combination with vitamins or other ian option. An omega 6 that can convert to an creased risk of sudden infant death syndrome minerals. While it is true that iron is a basic re- omega 3 as needed. Poor quality fish oils are (SIDS). Post-birth exposure to secondhand quirement for the survival and growth of cells not recommended as they may contain toxic smoke from the mother, father or others in the of all types, including bacteria, parasites, and metals. Be sure to always use a high-quality oil household also increases the risk of SIDS. Sec- cancer, as a certified clinical nutritionist, sup- and keep away from light and heat. Ideally, a ondhand smoke may cause asthma in children. plementing with synthetic iron concerns me. A dietary supplement that provides all three in the In children who already have asthma, second- natural food-based source of iron is much more specific ratio is ideal. hand smoke can make episodes more frequent absorbable, will not upset the stomach of new It is not advisable to have dental work done and more severe. Secondhand smoke is also mothers and will not cause constipation. Foods while pregnant. Even a simple procedure like tied to infections of the lower respiratory tract, containing natural iron are spinach and other the annual teeth hygiene cleaning has been such as bronchitis and pneumonia, especially dark leafy greens. shown to release mercury from amalgam (sil- in those younger than 6. It's also associated Benefiting both mother and baby, Lecithin is ver) fillings. If there is a tooth problem, make with irritation of the upper respiratory tract and a great addition to the pregnancy package. sure you consult a Biocompatible (natural) den- a small reduction in lung function. Children liv- Lecithin helps a growing baby’s brain get all tist to avoid toxic materials when possible. ing in households with smokers are more likely to the nutrients and support. We have verified, ba- There are several acupuncture points that are develop ear infections. bies whose mother’s supplemented with leci- contraindicated, called “forbidden points” dur- Nutrition is an important part of a healthy preg- thin are born with bigger brains and do better ing pregnancy that every trained acupuncturist nancy and baby. And the best way to insure in school. Meanwhile, lecithin taken by breast- knows well. Yet, many problems encountered you are getting the best for mom and baby is to feeding mothers helps convert their baby fat during pregnancy including “morning sickness”, take high quality, natural. food-based supple- into healthy breast milk. especially that lasts all day, overly active ba- ments. I recommend a pregnancy package The third supplement in a pregnancy pack- bies, low back pain, high blood pressure dur- that includes a gentle multi-nutrient, Lecithin, age should include the essential fatty acids. ing pregnancy all show positive effects with and safe, essential fatty acids. Each supple- Omega oils/acids are essential for everyone’s acupuncture treatments done by a qualified, ment provides distinct benefits. health. They include fats Omega 9, Omega experienced professional. Other safe, natural solutions are available for an unexpected cold, flu, stress, or mild allergy attack. Get The Point! A healthy pregnancy has a much better chance of producing healthy chil- dren. If we invest as much time in preparing and maintaining our health as we spend getting the house ready for the newborn, we will have healthier children. With a little guidance your pregnancy can be a naturally joyous event.q

CARLOS VIANA, Ph. D. is an Oriental Medi- cal Doctor (O.M.D.) having studied in Chi- na; a US Board Cert. Clinical Nutritionist (C.C.N.), an Addiction Professional (C.Ad.), Chairperson of the Latin American Commit- tee of the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology (IAOMT), a Reju- venating Cell Therapist specializing in Age Management, has a weekly radio program, writes and lectures extensively. For informa- tion: VIANA HEALING CENTER, Kibaima 7, St Cruz TEL: 585-1270 A11 business Thursday 6 May 2021 Treasury warns of need to deal with national debt limit

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER II. Borrowing has soared AP Economics Writer in recent years to finance WASHINGTON (AP) — The huge budget deficits that Treasury Department says reflected increased spend- it will employ measures to ing on domestic and mili- avoid an unprecedented tary programs in budget default on the national deals then-President Don- debt this summer, but of- ald Trump reached with ficials say those measures Congress and also to cover could be exhausted “much the costs of Trump’s $1.5 more quickly” than normal trillion tax cut approved given the unusual circum- by Congress in December stances of the global pan- 2017. demic. Treasury officials on Over the past year, the Wednesday urged Con- higher deficits have reflect- gress to pass either a new ed the trillions of dollars the borrowing limit or another government has spent to suspension of the debt be- provide support during the fore a July 31 deadline. The pandemic-triggered reces- Treasury will continue to sion. In the latest package, initiate the types of book- President Joe Biden got keeping maneuvers it has Congress to approve $1.9 used in the past to keep the trillion in March to provide government from breach- This June 6, 2019, file photo shows the U.S. Treasury Department building at dusk in Washington. $1,400 payments to indi- ing a level that would trig- Associated Press viduals and other types of ger a default on the mas- sistant secretary for federal But after July 31, the limit government trust funds. The support for individuals and sive national debt. finance said in a prepared will return to whatever debt amount of the debt that small businesses. “In light of the substantial statement. level exists at that time. is held by the public cur- Treasury officials did not COVID-related uncertainty The government has been The national debt subject rently totals $22.1 trillion, an specify what measures it about receipts and out- able to borrow enormous to the limit now stands at amount slightly higher than will employ if Congress has lays in the coming month, sums of money to finance a record $28.1 trillion. That 100% of the entire econo- not acted by the July 31 it is very difficult to predict trillions of dollars of support amount covers debt the my and heights not seen deadline to either raise the how long extraordinary during the pandemic be- government owes to itself since the huge borrowing borrowing limit or simply measures might last,” Brian cause the limit on borrow- in the form of commitments the government did in the suspend the limit for a pe- Smith, Treasury’s deputy as- ing has been suspended. to Social Security and other 1940s to finance World War riod of time.q Peloton recalls treadmills, halts sales, after a child dies

By JOSEPH PISANI rate and misleading” and after the recall was an- the safety commission so who suffered injuries, in- AP Retail Writer that there was no reason nounced Wednesday, its that “companies like Pelo- cluding broken bones and NEW YORK (AP) — Peloton to stop using the machines. second biggest percent- ton no longer get to call cuts. One child, who was 6 is recalling about 125,000 CEO John Foley also said age decline. the shots on consumer years old, died. of its treadmills, less than a he had “no intention” of Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a safety.”Under current laws, Joseph Martyak, a spokes- month after denying they recalling the treadmills. Democrat from Connecti- the Consumer Product man at the Consumer were dangerous and say- In a statement Wednes- cut who is chair of the con- Safety Commission has to Product Safety Commis- ing it would not pull them day, Foley apologized and sumer safety committee, negotiate with companies sion, said the agency is still from the market, even said the company “made said the recall was dan- in order to release warn- testing the treadmills, but it though they were linked to a mistake” in its initial re- gerously delayed. ings about a product’s appears the design of the the death of a child and sponse to the safety com- “Peloton unacceptably hazards. Peloton Tread+, including injuries of 29 others. mission. put consumers at risk,” Peloton is best known for its belt and its height off The company said Shares of New York-based Blumenthal said in a state- its stationary bikes, but it in- the floor, could make it Wednesday that it will Peloton Interactive Inc. ment, adding that he troduced treadmills about more likely to pull people now offer full refunds for sunk nearly 14% to $83.39 would work to strengthen three years ago. Sales of people, pets and items the Peloton Tread+ tread- Peloton equipment have under the machine than mills, which cost more than soared during the pan- other brands of treadmills. $4,200. It will also stop sell- demic as virus-weary peo- Those who own the Tread+ ing them. ple avoid gyms and work- treadmill have until Nov. 6, The recall comes after out at home. In the last 2022, to get a full refund the U.S. Consumer Prod- three months of 2020, the from Peloton. The safety uct Safety Commission company brought in $1 bil- commission still recom- warned on April 17 that lion in revenue, more than mends that people stop people with children and double what it made the using the treadmill, but for pets should immediate- year before. those that want to keep it, ly stop using the Tread+ In all, Peloton said it re- Peloton said it will move it treadmill after a child was ceived 72 reports of adults, free of charge to a room pulled under it and died. kids, pets or other items, where children or pets At the time, Peloton such as exercise balls, be- cannot access it and up- pushed back against the ing pulled under the rear date the software so a This Nov. 19, 2019 file photo shows a Peloton logo on the safety commission saying of the treadmill. Of those passcode is required to un- company’s stationary bicycle in San Francisco. the warning was “inaccu- Associated Press reports, 29 were of children lock it.q A12 Thursday 6 May 2021 SCIENCE 60 years since 1st American in space: Tourists lining up

By MARCIA DUNN white, although NASA’s tory professor Alex Roland AP Aerospace Writer crews have been more di- acknowledges the emer- CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. verse in recent decades. gence of spaceflight com- (AP) — Sixty years after A Black community col- panies might be “the most Alan Shepard became the lege educator from Tem- significant change in the first American in space, ev- pe, Arizona, sees her spot last 60 years.” Yet he won- eryday people are on the on SpaceX’s upcoming ders whether there will be verge of following in his private flight as a symbol. much interest once the cosmic footsteps. Sian Proctor uses the acro- novelty wears off and the Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin used nym J.E.D.I. for “a just, equi- inevitable fatalities occur. Wednesday’s anniversary table, diverse and inclusive Then there’s the high price to kick off an auction for a space.” of admission. seat on the company’s first NASA wasn’t always on The U.S., Canadian and Is- crew spaceflight a short board with space tourism, raeli entrepreneurs flying Shepard-like hop launched but is today. SpaceX early next year are by a rocket named New “Our goal is one day that ev- paying $55 million each Shepard. The Texas liftoff eryone’s a space person,” for their 1 1/2-week mission. is targeted for July 20, the NASA’s human spaceflight Virgin Galactic’s tickets date of the Apollo 11 moon chief, Kathy Lueders said cost considerably less for landing. following Sunday’s splash- minutes versus days of Richard Branson’s Virgin down of a SpaceX capsule weightlessness. Initially Galactic aims to kick off with four astronauts. “We’re $250,000, the price is ex- tourist flights next year, just very excited to see it start- pected to go up once as soon as he straps into ing to take off.” Branson’s company starts his space-skimming, plane- Twenty years ago, NASA accepting reservations launched rocketship for a clashed with Russian space again. test run from the New Mex- officials over the flight of Blue Origin declined ico base. the world’s first space tour- Wednesday to give a And Elon Musk’s SpaceX ist. ticket price for future sales will launch a billionaire and In this May 5, 1961 file photo, astronaut Alan Shepard sits in his California businessman and would not comment his sweepstakes winners in capsule at Cape Canaveral, Fla., aboard a Mercury-Redstone Dennis Tito paid $20 mil- on who else besides the September. That will be fol- rocket. Freedom 7 was the first American manned suborbital lion to visit the space sta- auction winner will be on space flight, making Shepard the first American in space. lowed by a flight by three tion, launching atop a board the capsule in July. Associated Press businessmen to the Inter- Russian rocket. Virginia- A couple more crew flights, national Space Station in 15-minute flight on May 5, in the predawn darkness at based Space Adventures each lasting minutes, January. 1961. Cape Canaveral, looking arranged Tito’s weeklong would follow by year’s end. “We’ve always enjoyed Shepard was actually the up at his Redstone rocket. trip, which ended May 6, As for SpaceX’s private this incredible thing called second person in space Impatient with all the de- 2001, as well as seven more flight on a fully automated space, but we always want the Soviet Union launched lays, including another tourist flights that followed. Dragon capsule, tech en- more people to be able cosmonaut Yuri Gaga- hold in the countdown just “By opening up his check- trepreneur Jared Isaac- to experience it as well,” rin three weeks earlier, to minutes before launch, book, he kicked off an in- man won’t say what he’s NASA astronaut Shane Shepard’s everlasting dis- he famously growled into dustry 20 yrs ago,” Space paying. He considers his Kimbrough said from the may. his mic: “Why don’t you fix Adventures co-founder three-day flight a “great space station Wednesday. The 37-year-old Mercury as- your little problem and light Eric Anderson tweeted responsibility” and is taking “So I think this is a great step tronaut and Navy test pilot this candle?” last week. “Space is open- no shortcuts in training; he in the right direction.” cut a slick sci-fi figure in his His capsule, Freedom 7, ing up more than it ever took his crewmates hiking It’s all rooted in Shepard’s silver spacesuit as he stood soared to an altitude of 116 has, and for all.” There’s up Mount Rainier last week- miles (186 kilometers) be- already a line. A Russian end to toughen them up. fore parachuting into the actress and movie direc- “If something does go By Dave Green Atlantic. tor are supposed to launch wrong, it will set back every Twenty days later, President from Kazakhstan in the fall. other person’s ambition to 8 7 4 John F. Kennedy commit- They’ll be followed in De- go and become a com- ted to landing a man on cember by Space Adven- mercial astronaut,” Isaac- the moon and returning him tures’ two newest clients, man said recently. 1 3 safely by decade’s end, also launching on a Russian John Logsdon, professor a promise made good in Soyuz rocket. SpaceX will emeritus at George Wash- 7 5 8 July 1969 by Apollo 11’s Neil be next up in January with ington University, where he Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. the three businessmen; the founded the Space Policy 5 9 1 Shepard, who died in 1998, flight from Florida’s Ken- Institute, has mixed feelings went on to command nedy Space Center was about this shift from space Apollo 14 in 1971, becom- arranged by Axiom Space, exploration to adventure 3 7 ing the fifth moonwalker a Houston company run tourism. and lone lunar golfer. by former NASA employ- “It takes the romance and 2 4 9 Since Gagarin and Shepa- ees. And as early as 2023, excitement out of going to rd’s pioneering flights, 579 SpaceX is supposed to take space,” Logsdon said in an 1 5 4 people have rocketed a Japanese entrepreneur email this week. Instead of into space or reached its and his guests around the the dawn of a new era like 1 2 fringes, according to NASA. moon and back. so many have proclaimed, Nearly two-thirds are Amer- While no fan of human it’s “more like the end of

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By MESFIN FEKADU the request of Close and Ted didn’t know whether the human condition, dis- ally well, I think that would AP Music Writer Emmy-winning entertainer he could get through it, ac- sonance, harmony — all of be fun.” NEW YORK (AP) — Glenn Wayne Brady guest stars tually. these different instruments Linking up with Nash al- Close recently made mu- on three tracks and even But when you put your soul playing off each other. In lowed Close to fulfill an- sic-related headlines for other dream: release a full- her playful performance of length album about the “Da Butt” at the Academy real world. And Nash has Awards, but the revered big hopes for their collab- actor has some real music orative project — he wants news: she’s releasing an al- it to spark change around bum with Grammy-winning the globe. jazz saxophonist-composer “You can take away what- Ted Nash on Friday. ever it is you want from this “I learned about Go-go project, whether it’s just (music) and certainly about you enjoy Wayne Brady the Washington (D.C.) mu- and how he talks or wheth- sic scene from those years; er you think that what he’s I was able to do that little saying is deep enough to piece of ‘Da Butt’ because move you to some kind I had looked at Spike’s mu- of action, or somewhere sic video. Around the Os- in between. My goal is to cars and afterward, I was move people to some kind doing this wonderful char- of thoughtful action, but acter for Gore Verbinski it’s maybe a lofty goal.” and his animated featured Another goal: winning a — it’s not going to come Grammy, especially since it out for a couple of years — brings Close closer to EGOT but ... it was all funk (music). status. And now I’m back to jazz. Glenn Close, nominated for an Oscar for best actress for her role in “The Wife,” poses at the 91st “Accolades should never So, yeah, mix it up! It’s really Academy Awards Nominees Luncheon in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Feb. 4, 2019, left, and musician be the reason for doing fun and interesting.” Ted Nash poses for a portrait in New York on May 4, 2021. anything ... but I do think The Emmy and Tony winner Associated Press for Glenn — this is just a per- is used to her movies and sonal thing — I would love TV shows premiering but wrote an original called “A into your instrument, into a good world, everybody to see her get a Grammy having an album release Piece by the Angriest Black your music, I think it was a gets a turn to stand up and Award because then she’s is a first: “I’m very, very ex- Man in America (or, How I very healing experience play their bit.” got three out of the four cited for it to be out in the Learned to Forgive Myself for him,” Close said. “A Though Close, 74, is more EGOTs,” Nash said. world, especially now.” for Being a Black Man in very transformative experi- known for film roles and Close is no stranger to the Close worked with Nash on America).” ence.” eight Oscar nominations, Grammys. She’s been his previous albums, but the “I feel like every time “When (my son) started as well as three Emmys for nominated three times in two are co-stars on “Trans- there’s a new project, it’s reading the piece, I didn’t TV performances, she’s al- the ‘80s, though she ad- formation: Personal Stories an opportunity to grow as expect to kind of feel the ways had ties to music. mits: “I forgot, actually, of Change, Acceptance, an artist and embrace new things that I felt,” Nash ex- One of her three Tony that I had been nominated and Evolution,” an 11-track ideas. I think that’s some- plained. Awards was for the musical for a Grammy.” spoken word jazz album thing that as I get older, I “All of a sudden it hits me “Sunset Boulevard” and At one point she even that tackles heavy topics realize is more important to that everyone else is hear- she also earned a nomina- competed with John Len- like race, politics, identity me. It’s not just, ‘Oh, I want ing this. They’re hearing this tion for her performance non, Yoko Ono and Jesse and more. Nash, a member to write some hip (exple- personal piece that was a in “Barnum.” She even Jackson. Who won over of the Jazz at Lincoln Cen- tive),’” Nash said. letter to me, and I’m play- scored a best original song her? Jack Nicholson, Ben ter Orchestra, was tasked The musician added that ing (music) along with it. nod at the Golden Globes Kingsley and Robin Wil- with composing music to his job was to help the al- And I got very full. But, if for co-writing “Lay Your liams, who died in 2014. match the words — both bum’s speakers deliver with anything, that just helped Head Down” from “Albert “Awww,” she said, putting newly written lyrics along authenticity and “be abso- me to have a more pro- Nobbs,” a 2011 film Close her hand on her heart. “I’m with hand-picked selec- lutely supportive of some- found opportunity of ex- produced, co-wrote and very proud to lose to Robin tions by Glenn from poets body who’s spilling their pression.” starred in. Williams.” Ted Hughes and Conrad guts and support that in a Close, Nash, the orchestra When asked if she’s ever “Well, gosh, I’d be thrilled if Aiken, biologist E.O. Wilson way that helps it emotion- and the special guests re- picked up an instrument, this got a (Grammy), even and playwright Tony Kush- ally and gives them a safe corded the album at Jazz she replied with a laugh: “I to be nominated would be ner. space to do that.” at Lincoln Center in New pick ‘em up. I don’t neces- incredible,” she added.q Close, who offers her voice Nash plays several roles on York City early last year be- sarily play them. on three songs, called the album, from composer fore the coronavirus pan- “My great dream is to learn friends to help round out to instrumentalist to pro- demic hit. how to play the electric the album, including es- ducer and conductor. But Close said before making bass. I want to sit in the 9 3 8 5 7 4 1 6 2 teemed jazz musician and he also became a subject: the album, jazz somewhat background with a cool 5 6 2 8 1 3 7 4 9 Jazz at Lincoln Center Ar- His son Eli speaks about his intimidated her. hat on. I actually have a 7 1 4 2 6 9 5 3 8 tistic Director Wynton Mar- experience coming out to “I thought you had to kind really cool Gibson electric 8 7 6 3 5 2 4 9 1 salis, along with the epic him as a transgender man of know what you were bass and I started lessons 3 5 9 6 4 1 8 2 7 players in the JLCO. Oscar- on “Dear Dad/Letter.” His hearing. But now I’m just in- here. But then I go off and 2 4 1 7 9 8 3 5 6 nominated actor Amy Ir- father responds — through spired by it because I think work and everything falls 1 2 5 9 3 7 6 8 4 ving reads “One Among instrumental music — on it’s deeply American and apart and I forget stuff,” she 4 8 3 1 2 6 9 7 5 Many,” written by former “Dear Dad/Response.” it’s also deeply human,” she said. “But if I can learn like 6 9 7 4 8 5 2 1 3 2021 Conceptis Puzzles, Dist. by King Features Syndicate, Inc. radical Judith Clark at “It was very moving, and said. “It is an expression of six songs and do them re- 5/06 Difficulty Level A15 COMICS Thursday 6 May 2021 Baseball’s sweetest song: Willie Mays, forever young, is 90 By FRED LIEF New York during the 1950s. kids in Harlem not far from AP Sports Writer Cashman’s vote is clear: the old Polo Grounds. Or Willie Mays is turning 90, “And me, I always loved the gentle tap of his glove and no mistaking that Willie Mays/Those were the before a basket catch and number. It strikes with the days!” Mays also gets top his run back to the infield clarity of a line drive. Mays billing in the title and when after an inning, carrying the played in a sport measured the names of the trio are ball as if it were a wounded by milestones — 3,000 hits, sung in the refrain. And the bird. Or maybe the sheer 500 homers, signposts he song ends this way: “… (Say joyful lyricism of the name passed and then some — hey, say hey, say hey).” “Willie Mays.” and now here’s one more. Even Snider wasn’t about Those running the playl- On Thursday, when base- to argue. In 1979, Mays was ist on Mays’ birthday have ball’s oldest living Hall of only player elected to the options apart from Fogerty Famer is serenaded with Hall of Fame by the base- and Cashman. renditions of “Happy Birth- ball writers, with Snider fin- Certainly, Chuck Prophet’s Baseball legend Willie Mays smiles prior to a game between the day to You,” it might be ishing second. Snider said “Willie Mays is Up at Bat” New York Mets and the San Francisco Giants in San Francisco, in time to expand the playlist. at the time, “Willie more or deserves a listen. The song this Friday, Aug. 19, 2016, file photo. On Thursday, May 6, 2021, A player of such infinite va- less really deserves to be is from the 2012 “Temple Mays turns 90. riety deserves as much. in by himself.” The Duke Beautiful” album honor- Associated Press There’s plenty to choose joined Mays in Cooper- ing San Francisco, the city back that assertion. But into the right field corner. from. References to the stown the next year. Prophet calls home. It be- Game 7 of the 1962 World Alou, wary of Roger Maris’ Giants center fielder cut Just about everyone saw gins as a kind of hymn: “I Series will do. Giants at arm in right, screeches to a across the years and the something in Mays. Maybe hear the church bells ring, bat and trailing the Yan- stop at third. That sets up a genres — rock, pop, folk, it was the dash around the Willie Mays is up at bat/I kees 1-0 in the ninth. Matty wrenching finish for the Gi- country, rap, hip hop. bases, his cap flying. Or the hear the crowd go wild, all Alou is on first with two out. ants when Willie McCovey The two most frequent slashing hits to all fields. Or he did was touch his hat.” Mays, hardly swinging for lines out to second base- mentions come in what those stickball games with So many ways to brush the fence, laces a double man Bobby Richardson.q have become ballpark anthems: John Fogerty’s “Centerfield” and Terry Cashman’s “Talkin’ Base- ball (Willie, Mickey & The Duke).” Fogerty grew up in San Francisco, his father a Joe DiMaggio fan. His song, released in 1985, is one of hope on a day when all seems possible: “We’re born again, there’s new grass on the field/A-roun- din’ third, I’m headed for home/It’s a brown-eyed handsome man.” The “brown-eyed handsome man” streaking to the plate is a tribute to the 1956 song of the same name by Chuck Berry but may well be the Say Hey Kid himself. Fogerty goes on to sing of a player riding the bench and dying to get into the game. He summons a pan- theon of outfielders: “So say, ‘Hey Willie, tell Ty Cobb and Joe DiMaggio/Don’t say it ain’t so you know the time is now.” Finally, there is the plea and the heart of the song: “So put me in coach, I’m ready to play today/Look at me, I can be centerfield.” Mays, no doubt, would understand. “Talkin’ Baseball” came out during the major league strike of 1981. It’s anchored around talk — fierce argu- ments across boroughs and barstools — about whether Mays, Mantle or Snider was the better center fielder in