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CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK AFGHANISTAN US-led coalition restricts release of violence data, watchdog says

BY PHILLIP WALTER WELLMAN Stars and Stripes KABUL, Afghanistan — The U.S.- led coalition in Afghanistan is for the first time withholding information about enemy attacks in Afghanistan from the public, as violence rises in the country and the U.S. begins drawing down its troops, a U.S. gov- ernment watchdog said Friday. Casualty figures among U.S.- trained and funded Afghan security forces have also been classi- fied, adding to a growing list of data that’s been restricted or is no longer tracked, the Special Inspec- ALEX CORONA/U.S. Navy tor General for Lt. Cmdr. Andrew Sullivan, center, addresses the medical team while preparing for sailors aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Afghanistan Kidd to arrive April 28 as part of the Navy’s aggressive response to the COVID-19 outbreak on board the ship. Reconstruction Sopko John Sopko said in a quarterly report to Congress. Enemy attack information, which was used to measure security in Afghanistan, “was one of the last remaining metrics” provided to Lessons learned SIGAR for public release, the watch- dog said in the report. The U.S.-led NATO Resolute Support mission Information derived from USS Roosevelt outbreak helped USS Kidd told SIGAR it is withholding the information because it’s become a critical part of discussions in ongo- BY ROBERT BURNS lessons learned from the outbreak aboard INSIDE ing negotiations between the U.S. Associated Press the aircraft carrier, the USS Roosevelt, Roosevelt cases has allowed the Kidd to avoid a similar and Taliban, the report said. WASHINGTON — The Navy destroyer spectacle of crisis. The Defense Department may re- USS Kidd was heading east across the Pa- exceed 1K; Navy The Kidd’s circumstance is not com- lease the data once those discussions cific from Pearl Harbor when it added an pletely comparable to that of the nuclear- end, according to the report. unusual twist to its transit — a quarantine- launches probe powered Roosevelt, whose crew of 4,900 Instead of providing SIGAR with and-isolation drill. The practice was part is far larger and whose presence in the enemy attack information, including of a new protocol built on lessons from a Page 5 Pacific is a bigger symbol of American successful attacks, Resolute Sup- coronavirus outbreak aboard an aircraft power. But Wemett says his ship benefited port said that in the month follow- carrier soon to be sidelined with sickness. from information and guidance derived ing the signing of the U.S.-Taliban “That ... actually helped us quite a bit to Get the latest on from the unfolding and unforeseen disas- deal, attacks by the insurgents on prepare for what was to come,” the Kidd’s the virus outbreak ter aboard the aircraft carrier. coalition forces decreased but those commanding officer, Cmdr. Nathan For example, on April 20, the Kidd on Afghan security forces were at Wemett, said in a telephone interview stripes.com/coronavirus received new medical guidance on ad- levels beyond “seasonal norms,” the Thursday from aboard the ship. ditional symptoms to be watching for as report said. What was coming a few weeks later indicators of possible coronavirus. The U.S. has begun withdrawing for Wemett and his crew of about 330 was a COVID-19 “That drove us to report our first case” that same day, its forces as part of the deal signed outbreak that is just the second aboard a Navy ship at sea. Wemett said. with the Taliban, which would see Nearly one-quarter of the Kidd’s crew has the virus. Still, SEE KIDD ON PAGE 5 SEE WATCHDOG ON PAGE 4 PAGE 2 •STARS AND STRIPES• Saturday, May 2, 2020 BUSINESS/WEATHER EXCHANGE RATES

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BY COREY DICKSTEIN thwart the virus’ spread, result- Stars and Stripes ing in the cancelation of planned rotations for four brigades. The WASHINGTON — The Army senior Army official said those believes many of the service’s brigades were expected to make large fighting formations can up those rotations in the future, return to critical, high-level and the next training rotations training exercises in the com- set to begin in June are expected ing weeks at their home stations to be held. and the service’s combat training The official played down the centers, senior service officials impact on the Army’s overall said Thursday. combat readiness caused by the The Army has developed pause in large training operations a rough framework meant to at JRTC, NTC and other locations guide commanders through the throughout the world. Small unit processes of safely returning to tactical training has continued at field training operations across home stations in many places, the the force, Army Secretary Ryan official said. McCarthy said Thursday in a “Things did slow down,” the of- news briefing from the Pentagon. ficial said. “But there are varying Defense Secretary Mark Esper states of training going on across was recently briefed about the the Army. The Army never framework for his approval and stopped.” the plan could soon be finalized, Among the units set for a June McCarthy said. rotation to a combat training “The Army continues to need center is the 4th Security Forces a manned and ready force,” he Assistance Brigade from Fort said. Carson, Colo., which is to train Ultimately, the decisions to at JRTC to prepare for a deploy- return to large-scale training ment to Afghanistan in the sum- exercises for battalion- and bri- mer. The JRTC rotation is critical gade-sized units at their home JOSE RODRIGUEZ/U.S. Army for that new unit of 800 soldiers stations will be left to those for- specially trained to advise and mations’ commanders, accord- A soldier looks out of the loading ramp of a C-27 aircraft while he and his fellow soldiers wear face assist Afghan forces. ing to a senior Army official. The masks and maintain social distance. It was unclear Thursday wheth- official spoke on condition of an- er the unit could be certified for onymity to describe the plan be- officials have with recruits at ply wait out the pandemic or ing to the Army. One soldier, a deployment without completing fore it is finalized and announced basic training locations — iso- continue halting most training New Jersey National Guard of- that training. publicly. lating units together to move in until all its soldiers can be tested. ficer, died of complication of the But top Army officials do The Army wants local com- and out of training exercises, Soldiers must still deploy to com- coronavirus. not believe that will become an manders to understand the risks implementing social distancing bat zones in places such as Iraq McConville visited Fort Polk, issue. McConville on Thursday of coronavirus infections to their measures when possible, and and Afghanistan and continue La., this week to meet with of- noted while areas in Louisiana, troops and have plans in place to mandating the use of face masks, preparations for the Pentagon’s ficials who run that post’s Joint including New Orleans, had ex- monitor soldiers’ health before the official said. primary mission to deter hostility Readiness Training Center, one perienced large outbreaks of the beginning any training exercis- The Army has varying test- from competitors such as China of the Army’s two major training virus, the areas around Fort Polk es. Commanders must also have ing capacities at its installations. and Russia. locations in the continental Unit- had not. plans to procure testing supplies While all major installations have “Getting back to collective ed States, where brigade-sized The post, about 220 miles north- quickly and test widely in units if some ability to test for the virus, training is crucial,” McConville units rotate in and out of every west of New Orleans, is located in outbreaks are suspected, the of- those range from the capacity to said. “It’s not going to be a one- month to test their combat skills. a largely rural area near the town ficial said. Commanders should conduct about one dozen per day size-fits-all solution. We’re look- Those rotations to JRTC and the of Alexandria. have an understanding of the to other bases that can conduct ing at the long game. We’re not service’s National Training Cen- “We’re going to live in the virus’ impact on their installa- nearly 1,000 per day, such as Fort waiting for [the coronavirus] to ter at Fort Irwin, Calif., often [coronavirus] world for a while,” tions and neighboring communi- Jackson, S.C., the service’s larg- go away.” serve as mission rehearsals for the general said. “We have to ties within about 60 miles of their est initial entrance training site, As of Thursday, 1,646 soldiers combat or deployments to areas train, and that’s why we’re put- posts before returning large units officials have said. across the active-duty, Reserve such as Europe or Africa. ting these safety procedures in to the field. Gen. James McConville, the and National Guard had tested Those two training ranges place.” Commanders are expected to Army chief of staff, said Thurs- positive for the virus, including were closed down in March as [email protected] take similar precautions as Army day that the service cannot sim- 525 who have recovered, accord- part of the military’s efforts to Twitter: @CDicksteinDC Air Force bombers continue US show of force in South China Sea

BY WYATT OLSON namic force employment model,” to challenge assertions by China Stars and Stripes which is intended to make its and other claimant nations that global bomber presence less pre- military passing near the islands The U.S. military continued dictable, the Air Force said. must first receive authorization. its weeklong show of force in the China has claimed sovereignty The U.S. contends that inter- South China Sea with a sortie over over much of the South China Sea, national law allows for direct the contested waters on Thursday an assertion disputed by other passage through the contested by two Air Force bombers. nations with competing claims, archipelagos. The B-1B Lancers from the such as Vietnam, the Philippines, On Tuesday, the guided-missile 28th Bomb Wing at Ellsworth Malaysia and Brunei. destroyer USS Barry sailed near Air Force Base, S.D., flew a 32- During the past week, Navy the Paracel Islands. hour round trip to conduct op- warships operated near the Sprat- The Air Force sortie on Thurs- erations over the sea as part of ly and Paracel islands, two of the day follows a similar B-1 bomber a joint bomber task force by the archipelagos China has claimed round trip April 22 from Ells- U.S. Indo-Pacific Command and most vehemently. worth to Japan, where a B-1B U.S. Strategic Command, the The guided-missile cruiser Lancer joined 15 Japanese fight- U.S. Air Force Air Force said in news release USS Bunker Hill sailed near the ers for training near Misawa Air Thursday. Spratlys on Wednesday as part of Base. An Air Force B-1B Lancer from the 28th Bomb Wing at Ellsworth The mission further demon- its so-called freedom-of-naviga- [email protected] Air Force Base, S.D., prepares to refuel during a 34-hour round-trip strated the service’s new “dy- tion operations. They are intended Twitter: @WyattWOlson sortie to the Indo-Pacific region Thursday. PAGE 4 •STARS AND STRIPES• Saturday, May 2, 2020 WAR/MILITARY Coalition strikes pound ISIS caves in Iraq

BY CHAD GARLAND cial operations joint task force, using an the Muslim holy month. the Iraqi government has said. Stars and Stripes Arabic acronym for ISIS. The northern Iraqi mountain range The militants have also taken refuge in Initial estimates of the death toll were has for years been a safe haven for the the country’s sprawling western desert in The U.S.-led coalition in Iraq destroyed expected to be revised later, based on a militants. It’s “one of their last remain- Anbar province, officials have told Stars caves sheltering Islamic State militants in ground search still being conducted by ing operating areas in Iraq,” where they and Stripes in recent months. a series of airstrikes this week, as Iraqi se- Iraq’s 14th Army Division and security use “intricate tunnel and cave systems” to Iraqi air assault infantry crisscrossed curity forces ended April with nearly 100 forces, the statement said. Though much of smuggle weapons, move senior leaders and that desert searching for ISIS hideouts operations against the group. the cave complex was “inaccessible” after plot operations, the earlier coalition state- this week, coalition spokesman Col. Myles On Thursday, Operation Inherent Re- the strike, Iraqi forces had already discov- ment said. B. Caggins III said Friday on Twitter. solve released strike video and a statement ered ISIS documents, electronic devices The militants have continued to carry Iraqi security forces conducted a total saying the raid a day earlier took out 10 and weapons fragments, it said. out insurgent attacks in the region since of 99 anti-ISIS operations in April, the co- caves in northern Iraq’s Hamrin Moun- New estimates were not available early losing the last of the territory they once alition said in a social media post also on tains, killing an estimated five to 10 ISIS Friday, a coalition military official told claimed in Iraq in late 2017. Friday. fighters. Stars and Stripes via text message, add- On Tuesday, about 60 miles to the “The presence of Daesh in Iraq contin- “Strikes like these help our Iraqi part- ing that more strikes had been conducted northeast of where the cave system was ues to diminish, thanks to the efforts and ners maintain relentless pressure on the Thursday night, killing an estimated five destroyed, an attacker blew himself up sacrifices of our Iraqi partner forces,” Hill Daesh scourge, no matter where these more fighters. outside the Intelligence and Counter-Ter- said. terrorists hide,” said Maj. Gen. Eric Hill, “Operations will continue throughout rorism Directorate in Kirkuk, wounding [email protected] commanding general of the coalition’s spe- Ramadan,” the official said, referring to at least two security personnel in the blast, Twitter: @chadgarland Navy awards contract for next generation of guided-missile frigates

B Y CAITLIN M. KENNEY littoral combat ships. The frig- Stars and Stripes ates will be capable of conducting multiple missions, including anti- WASHINGTON — The Navy has agreed to spend an initial submarine warfare, surface war- $800 million on the newest class fare and electronic warfare. of guided-missile frigates as the The new ships will be part of service looks to develop a more the Navy’s ongoing effort to grow flexible surface fleet to take on their battle force fleet to 355 ships other naval powers around the by 2030. globe, the service announced The ship will be constructed by Thursday. Marinette Marine Corporation “The Navy’s guided-missile of Marinette, Wisc. The design is frigate will be an important part by Fincantieri based on a frigate of our future fleet,” Adm. Mike design used by the French and Gilday, the chief of naval opera- Italian navies, according to U.S. tions, said in a prepared state- Naval Institute News. The com- ment. “[The guided-missile pany owns the shipyard in Wis- frigate] is the evolution of the consin where it will be built. Navy’s small surface combatant “This is going to be a real work- with increased lethality, surviv- horse for the United States Navy, ability, and improved capability supporting distributed maritime to support the National Defense operations in the future. So, we U.S. Navy graphic Strategy across the full range of are super excited about this ship,” military operations.” said Vice Adm. Jim Kilby, the An artist rendering of the guided-missile frigate FFG(X). The new small surface combatant will have The Pentagon’s 2018 National deputy chief of naval operations multi-mission capability to conduct air warfare, anti-submarine warfare, surface warfare, electronic Defense Strategy shifted the mil- for warfighting, requirements, warfare and information operations. itary’s focus from counterterror- and capabilities. ism operations to “great-power The initial contract for $795 cluding training equipment and despite the coronavirus pan- class will start no later than April competition” with China and million to Marinette Marine post-delivery availability support. demic, said James Geurts, the 2022, with its delivery to the Navy Russia. The Navy has aligned its Corp. is for the design and pro- The total cost for the first ship is assistant secretary of the Navy in 2026, according to Geurts. The budget, ship building, and train- duction of the first ship in the $1.281 billion, which includes the for research, development and ship is expected to reach full op- ing with the strategy. class. The contract has the option $795 million for the shipbuilder acquisition. erational capability between 2031 The new ship is the next gener- to allow for production of up to 9 for design and construction Detailed design for the ship and 2032. ation of frigates for the Navy, im- additional ships as well as provide The contract is being awarded will start in May and construc- [email protected] proving on the capabilities of the several supplies and services in- three months ahead of schedule tion on the first frigate for the Twitter: @caitlinmkenney Watchdog: Taliban increased attacks on Afghan forces immediately after deal

FROM FRONT PAGE report. ground operations during the first three will bury or ignore information that might all international troops out of Afghanistan “Although not all such attacks are ex- months of 2020, SIGAR said. jeopardize the pact. In a Foreign Affairs by late spring 2021, provided the Taliban pressly prohibited by the text, U.S. officials Within days of the Feb. 29 deal being magazine article last month critiquing had said they expected the level of violence inked, U.S. aircraft bombed the insur- meets all of its obligations under the agree- the agreement and highlighting difficulty to remain low after the agreement came gents in defense of Afghan forces, but it ment. Those include beginning negotiations Washington will likely face in enforcing into effect,” Sopko wrote. remains unclear whether the U.S. has car- it, former Afghanistan commander and with the Kabul government, disavowing Under the deal, the U.S. began drawing ried out further strikes. NATO officials in CIA director David Petraeus wrote that terror groups like al-Qaida and preventing down from about 13,000 troops to 8,600. Kabul have declined to discuss the matter U.S. decision-makers have a tendency “to any groups on Afghan soil from threaten- But despite more than $86 billion in U.S. with Stars and Stripes. They also have not ing the security of the United States and its security assistance funding, Afghan se- published a tally of U.S. airstrikes for the downplay or disregard information that allies. curity forces remain deeply dependent on month of March. threatens to upend” a favored relationship But the Taliban ramped up attacks on U.S. and coalition forces. Even elite special U.S. officials have declined to discuss or policy. Afghan forces immediately after signing operations troops needed support from in- what would constitute a violation of the [email protected] the deal on Feb. 29, Sopko wrote in the ternational forces on about half of their deal, and some observers fear the U.S. Twitter: @pwwellman Saturday, May 2, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 5 VIRUS OUTBREAK Navy: More than 1,150 Roosevelt sailors infected

BY CAITLIN DOORNBOS email Tuesday. Stars and Stripes An undisclosed number of sail- ors assigned to the carrier USS YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Ronald Reagan showed no coro- Japan — More than a fourth navirus symptoms but tested pos- of the 4,000 crewmembers as- itive in pre-boarding tests. The signed to the aircraft carrier USS Reagan, in port at Yokosuka, is Theodore Roosevelt have tested preparing for a deployment. positive for the coronavirus, ac- Brophy said catching the posi- cording to the Navy’s latest up- tive cases among sailors who oth- date Thursday. erwise appear healthy “highlights After more than a month of iso- how our measures are working as lating sailors, sanitizing the ship they were designed to.” and testing every crew member, As of Thursday, the Navy re- there are 1,102 active cases of ported 1,822 cases of coronavirus coronavirus among Roosevelt service-wide, according to a De- sailors, three of whom are hos- fense Department daily update. pitalized at U.S. Naval Hospital That means about two-thirds of Guam, the Navy said. An addi- all coronavirus cases among ac- tional 53 sailors have recovered tive-duty sailors are associated MACADAM WEISSMAN/U.S. Navy and one has died. with the Roosevelt. The numbers have been in- Officials began moving sailors Essential watch standers and a cleaning team conduct a crew swap aboard the aircraft carrier USS creasing as previously negative who have tested negative three Theodore Roosevelt at Apra Harbor, Guam, on Wednesday . sailors test positive for corona- times for the virus back onto the virus in “exit tests” before leav- carrier Wednesday, according to tensen said in a statement Friday. the circumstances surrounding tive tests before returning to the ing isolation despite not having a statement this week from the He said the investigation will the matter,” Christensen said. ship,” the Navy said in its update. symptoms, the service said. Joint Region Marianas Public Af- expand on a recently completed In San Diego, the guided-mis- Because all sailors on the Roos- The aircraft carrier was patrol- fairs Office in Guam. preliminary inquiry prompted sile destroyer USS Kidd contin- evelt and Kidd have been tested, ling the Western Pacific when it On Friday, chief of naval opera- by the removal of the Roosevelt’s ues to battle an outbreak among the Navy will no longer provide diverted to Guam on March 26 tions Adm. Mike Gilday directed commanding officer after a let- its sailors. There were 78 active daily tallies, instead reporting after several of its sailors tested vice chief of naval operations ter he sent pleading for additional cases among its crewmembers only “significant changes on positive. Adm. Robert Burke to “conduct a help for his ship was leaked to the as of Thursday, according to the The prevalence of asymptom- follow-on command investigation public. Navy. None were hospitalized. these vessels and new cases on atic sailors with coronavirus has into the events surrounding the The investigation, due to Gilday Kidd sailors have disembarked other deployed vessels,” accord- emphasized the importance of [coronavirus] outbreak aboard by May 27, will “provide a more and will be required to spend “at ing to its Thursday update. testing, Task Force 70 spokesman USS Theodore Roosevelt,” Gilday robust documentation of events least 14 days in quarantine or [email protected] Lt. Cmdr. Sean Brophy said in an spokesman Cmdr. Nate Chris- and give a fuller consideration of isolation and achieve two nega- Twitter: @CaitlinDoornbos Kidd: Navy destroyer directed to nearest US port after virus found aboard

FROM FRONT PAGE As of Thursday, 78 members of with active COVID-19 cases.” The ill sailor was medically the Kidd’s crew had tested posi- In contrast, the Kidd ended its evacuated to a medical facility tive. None is hospitalized. Central America mission shortly in San Antonio two days later for Not all aspects of the medical after getting its first coronavirus testing, and the following day a and operational response taken case, based on a plan made in ad- positive result was reported. By aboard the Roosevelt are known vance by the U.S. Navy 4th Fleet this time the ship was putting publicly, and that entire episode is organizers of the counterdrug op- its at-sea drills to use by placing now under investigation, includ- eration. Once a ship had a certain some crew members in isolation. ing questions about how the virus number of symptomatic sailors, it Even before the first test result got aboard in the first place. Just was to head for the nearest appro- was known, the Navy assembled a over 1,100 members of the Roos- priate U.S. port. Wemett declined medical team in the United States evelt crew have tested positive, to be more specific than to say the and dispatched it to the Kidd. and one died of complications triggering number was less than The team leader, Cmdr. Michael from the disease. The Roosevelt’s 10. Kaplan, the director of medical skipper, Capt. Brett E. Crozier, The Kidd headed for San Diego, services at Naval Hospital Jack- was fired for distributing a let- where it arrived Tuesday and sonville in Florida, said he was ter pleading for faster Navy ac- moved most of the crew ashore to not standing by in anticipation of tion to protect his crew, and the off-base housing. such a mission. official who ordered his removal The paths of the Kidd and the /U.S. Navy “We had no heads up whatso- MASS COMMUNICATION SPECIALIST 2ND CLASS ALEX CORONA from command, Thomas Modly, Roosevelt diverged in a more lit- ever,” Kaplan said. Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Shane Miller, left, and Hospital resigned a few days later as the eral sense. They initially deployed But the team was on its way in Corpsman 2nd Class Austin Kelly, both assigned to Fleet Surgical acting Navy secretary. together on Jan. 17 after the Kidd, a few hours and arrived aboard Team 9, draw blood from a sailor assigned to the guided-missile At the outset of the Roosevelt’s home ported at Everett, Wash. , the Kidd by helicopter the same destroyer USS Kidd in San Diego on Wednesday. problem, senior Navy officials joined up with the Roosevelt and day. By evening the doctors had appeared to underestimate their the rest of its strike group in San tested about 25 people, and with- including an intensive care unit. transmitters of the virus. Kaplan ability to contain it and keep the Diego. But the Kidd made it no in 24 hours nearly a quarter of the Kapan’ said his team also made had the asymptomatic cases iso- warship from being sidelined. further than Hawaii, ordered to crew had been tested. The Navy a point of testing sailors without lated on board. Touting the Navy’s response, break off from the strike group also diverted an amphibious as- coronavirus symptoms, draw- “We didn’t know how long it Modly told reporters on March and head east again to participate sault ship, the USS Makin Island, ing on the Roosevelt experience, would take to get back on land, 24, two days after the first case in the Central America counter- to provide additional support to which initially tested only those and we wanted to do everything was confirmed: “This is an exam- drug operation. The Roosevelt the Kidd. The Makin Island has with symptoms, not realizing we could to try to minimize the ple of our ability to keep our ships and the rest of its strike group, fully equipped medical facilities, that asymptomatic people can be spread on the ship,” Kaplan said. deployed at sea, underway even meanwhile, headed to East Asia. PAGE 6 •STARS AND STRIPES• Saturday, May 2, 2020 VIRUS OUTBREAK Army stands by cadet ceremony at West Point

BY LOLITA C. BALDOR and build a staging base where Associated Press they will arrive. All cadets will be screened and tested for the virus WASHINGTON — The Army’s at the staging area and then sepa- top leaders on Thursday defend- rated into five groups that will eat ed their decision to bring 1,000 and live separately. They will be cadets back to the Military Acad- quarantined for 14 days. emy at West Point for graduation, Williams said Keller Army where President Donald Trump Community Hospital at the base is slated to speak, saying that now has all the needed testing despite the coronavirus risk stu- equipment and was converted to dents would have had to return be able to handle and quarantine anyway to prepare for their next virus patients. duty assignment. Asked if cadets will face disci- The announcement has been pline if they can’t or don’t want to criticized as a political move to come back because of the virus, PHOTOS BY AYA ICHIHASHI/Stars and Stripes get Trump on stage at the acad- he said commanders will decide emy, where he hasn’t yet given a Col. Vincent Ciuccoli, commander of Camps Foster and Lester on Okinawa, purchases groceries at the on a case-by-case basis. Foster commissary for people who requested items through Fidelis Rides’ new U-Shop service, Tuesday. graduation address. But Army U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth, officials said the students must D-Ill., a member of West Point’s return for final medical checks, Board of Visitors, said she ex- equipment and training. pressed her concerns about the “We can’t telecommute to com- decision to Army Secretary Ryan Marine volunteers offer free bat,” Gen. James McConville, the McCarthy in a call this week. chief of staff of the Army, told “Trump’s reckless decision Pentagon reporters when asked to gather 1,000 Cadets at West grocery shopping on Okinawa about the decision, which forces Point for a speech puts our future cadets spread out across the U.S. military leaders at increased risk BY AYA ICHIHASHI will be their personal shopper.” to travel, risking exposure on — all to stroke his own ego,” said The volunteers stay in contact public transportation, and then Duckworth, a retired Army heli- Stars and Stripes with the client via text messages land in New York, a coronavirus copter pilot . CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa to make sure they pick up the cor- hot spot. McCarthy told reporters the — Fidelis Rides, a volunteer pro- rect items, he said. Cadets have been home since Army wants to have a “small, safe gram on Okinawa that provides Fidelis Rides has its own check- spring break in March, with their graduation ceremony” for the ca- service members with free rides out line, No. 8, at the commissary. return to school delayed because dets to celebrate. after a night on the town, now of- Customers pay at the register of the outbreak. Only the seniors In contrast, the U.S. Naval fers a curbside grocery-delivery will return, and the graduation is over a phone provided by the Academy has announced it will service called U-Shop. set for June 13. volunteer. hold a virtual graduation and post- Fidelis Rides was created in Lt. Gen. Darryl Williams, “This way, we don’t have to get pone other traditional milestone March 2019 by Marine 1st Sgt. academy superintendent, said the involved in the money transac- events until large-scale gather- Jacob Karl to help Marines students must return for medi- ings are allowed. The academy’s tion,” Ciuccoli said. “As Fidelis without cars or a lot of spend- cal and other required tasks that superintendent, Vice Adm. Sean Rides, we do not touch cash, so ing money. Volunteers provide can only be done at the academy Buck, called it a difficult decision implementing the payment sys- free lifts on Friday and Saturday before they can be turned over as but necessary “to safeguard the tem was the most challenging nights to any service members new officers to the Army. health and welfare of the entire part of this program, but we were who request them. He said the school will create a Naval Academy family and local thrilled to have [the commissary So far, the program has given “safety bubble” around the cadets community.” agency’s] full support on this.” rides to over 4,500 people, ac- Fidelis Rides volunteers Gunnery Sgt. Michael Diggs and Lance Shaun Bullman, commis- cording to volunteer Cpl. Christo- Cpl. Luis Flores Gonzalez check a sary officer for Camp Foster, on pher Madero of Headquarters & shopping list from someone who Wednesday said the store is the Support Battalion, Marine Corps used the group’s new U-Shop first in the region to implement Installations Pacific. USAA to return additional service at the Camp Foster. the volunteer shopping system. Fidelis Rides started up its U- “Kadena was the second com- $280M to auto policy holders Shop program after a weeklong Cpl. Luis Flores Gonzalez of the missary, now Camp Courtney, pause of its ride service April 1 Provost Marshal Office at Camp and Kinser is a work in prog- due to coronavirus concerns. ress,” he said. “We are happy BY JAMES BOLINGER an additional 20% discount on Butler. “At first, we thought we should to work with Fidelis Rides to Stars and Stripes a third month’s worth of premi- “I always wanted to volunteer focus on single-parent house- support our military families.” ums, according to a statement and now I have so much time. I holds, dual military service Delivery is also available any- An additional $280 million wanted to help others rather than emailed Thursday to Stars and member families or families with where within 15 minutes of Camp will be returned to USAA auto Stripes. The newly announced re- wasting it,” Flores Gonzalez said. policy holders amid continued immune disorders,” said Col. Foster, including Camp Lester, bates apply to polices in effect as Vincent Ciuccoli, commander of Anyone older than 16 with com- Plaza Housing, Marine Corps coronavirus lockdowns, the com- of April 30. missary privileges can volunteer pany announced late Thursday Camp Foster and Camp Lester, Air Station Futenma and off-base The company said its members for the U-Shop program, Ciuccoli afternoon. who has been leading the group. homes. continue to drive less due to shel- said, adding “we see some high This brings the company’s total “Then we realized that we should People can use the free service ter-in-place procedures enacted school volunteers now.” rebates since the start of the pan- extend the service to help anyone as often as needed; however, the demic to $800 million. to combat the virus. who needs our help to shop.” He explained how the opera- group will monitor for abuse of The financial services and in- Policyholders should see the On Wednesday evening, Ciuc- tion works. First, the person who the system. Forty items per re- surance company, which provides rebates on their next billing state- coli and Madero waited in front wants their grocery shopping quest is the current limit with up insurance and banking services ment, which will be available at of the Camp Foster commissary. done contacts U-Shop via Mes- to a 30-minute shopping time. to more than 13 million active- the end of May. With them were three more vol- senger on Fidelis Rides’ Face- Fidelis Rides plans to keep the duty military members, veterans Members do not need to call, unteers: group coordinator Cpl. book page. U-Shop program until coronavi- and their families, returned $580 and no further action is required Derrick Ngeudeu Talla of 3rd “Then they will need to send us rus restrictions end on Okinawa, million in auto policy rebates in to receive the dividend, the state- Marine Division, Camp Foster; a shopping list with their name but it may become a permanent April totaling 20% of members’ ment said. Gunnery Sgt. Michael Diggs of and phone number. We connect service. monthly premiums. [email protected] Headquarters and Support Bat- our volunteer and the requestee,” [email protected] The most recent rebate reflects Twitter: @bolingerj2004 talion, Camp Foster; and Lance Ciuccoli said. “Our volunteers Twitter: @ayaichihashi Saturday, May 2, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 7 VIRUS OUTBREAK Jobless Americans fret as rent comes due

BY ANITA SNOW eral coworkers are still waiting Associated Press for their money after losing their jobs at Fez, a popular restaurant PHOENIX — Rent and mort- in Phoenix. gage payments are due again “I feel very fortunate based on for more than 30 million people what I’ve heard from my friends around the U.S. who have filed here and around the country,” for unemployment benefits after said Blaine, who also was inter- losing work in the coronavirus viewed by the AP a month ago. pandemic. His boyfriend, Kyle Schomer, Jason W. Still has been waiting still has his job in the tech in- six weeks for his first unemploy- dustry and is working from their ment check since losing his job as home in a trendy neighborhood of a cook at an upscale restaurant adobe homes. They have a huge in Spokane, Washington. Out-of- vegetable and flower garden out work bartender Luke Blaine in back. Phoenix got his first check three Blaine also said that he and weeks ago, but now has to pay his everyone else he knows have landlord again. received their stimulus money. And Eli Oderberg in Denver With that and the unemploy- has his mortgage due after being ment checks, which through July swept up in a later wave of layoffs include an additional $600 per as the pandemic’s effects spread payment, Blaine has made ends from restaurants to corners of meet, for now. the economy, like the oil company “We will be back,” Fez man- where he had worked on apps to agement promised on the restau- track spills and leaks. rant’s Facebook page. “We hope Federal data released this sooner rather than later.” week show the U.S. economy con- Anything but an opening soon tracted at a 4.8% annual rate last is unlikely to resolve the anxiet- quarter as the pandemic put the ies of people whose savings are nation into a recession. Econo- running out as the initial wave of mists expect January-March to service-industry layoffs sweeps be just a taste of the widespread up other hard-hit sectors, like pain being recorded for April- energy. June. And while a record num- Oderberg lost his job in Denver ber of people have applied for on April 19, as global oil futures unemployment insurance pay- plunged into negative territory ments, there are many other out- DAVID ZALUBOWSKI/AP following the shutdowns of air of-work people who don’t qualify travel, factories and commuting or couldn’t get through the states’ Eli Oderberg, center, sits with Katie Evers, left, their 4-year-old daughter, Everlee, and the couple’s around the world. overwhelmed systems. goldendoodle outside their home in southeast Denver on Thursday. Oderberg, like 30 million people He said his wife got her first More than three dozen cities around the United States who have filed for unemployment benefits after losing their jobs during the unemployment check after losing and states, including San Fran- coronavirus pandemic, is facing the specter of paying the monthly rent with the flip of the calendar. her job in retail, but he’s still wait- cisco, Los Angeles and New York ing for his. The Colorado website state, have put in place their own “It seems to be getting closer, for benefits has confirmed he is policies to halt evictions, foreclo- ‘ From my job, I’m accustomed to planning but it’s not clear to me what’s eligible, “but I haven’t been able sures and utility shutoffs out of going on at that end,” said Still. to get through to talk to anyone concern that the economic fall- everything six months in advance. So we’re “I think I’m the last person who after making about 100 calls each out from massive job losses will going to be OK, for now at least. was laid off at my restaurant who time,“ he said. push many people to the brink of ’ hasn’t gotten an unemployment In the meantime, Oderberg has Eli Oderberg homelessness at a time when they Denver resident payment yet.” been lining up job interviews in need to stay in their houses and The restaurant, Clover, re- information technology, including apartments. mains in limbo. Washington Gov. at least four this week, and hopes But all this really means is that Jay Inslee this week announced to land something quickly, before deputies won’t be knocking at has her job in the legal marijuana on-hold queue behind 83 other a partial opening May 5 of some he has to scramble for their next their doors, for now. The money industry, and his $1,200 stimulus callers to Washington state’s recreational offerings like state mortgage payment for the house is still due, and delaying the pay- check helped pay an assortment unemployment office, and after parks, fishing and golf courses, he shares with his wife, who is ments just puts off the pain. of bills. “But I’m about to hit my hours of waiting, he was trans- but restaurant dining rooms and pregnant, and their 4-year-old Still said he’s filed for unem- savings and I really don’t want to ferred to a claims specialist, but most other businesses will re- daughter. ployment every week, with noth- do that,“ he said. then the call was dropped. main closed for now. “From my job, I’m accustomed ing yet to show for it, since he was “I’ve made about 900 calls over It took him until this week to Blaine counts himself lucky: to planning everything six months first interviewed by The Associat- the last month trying to find out reach a human, who said there He started receiving unemploy- in advance,” said Oderberg. “So ed Press a month ago, just before what’s going on,” Still said. On seemed to be a minor glitch in his ment checks three weeks after we’re going to be OK, for now at he paid April rent. His wife still April 24, he finally got into an file that needs to be worked out. being laid off on March 17. Sev- least.” DEA agent accused of stealing protective gear from agency

BY JOSHUA GOODMAN spoke to AP on condition of ano- swiping an array of items includ- ward County Sheriff’s Office said ment. His attorney, Louis Rob- AND JIM MUSTIAN nymity, say it was not clear exact- ing PPE, toilet paper and bat- it had no record of the allegations, bio, said it’s possible Hernandez Associated Press ly how much of the supplies the teries from storage in the early which federal authorities instead had been retaliated against for men took or what they intended to weeks of the pandemic, the of- referred to the DEA’s Office of filing an Equal Employment Op- MIAMI — A U.S. Drug En- do with them but the matter was ficials said, and the telecom- Professional Responsibility for portunity complaint involving forcement Administration agent serious enough that both were munications specialist also took an internal investigation. his earlier transfer from Puerto and a telecommunications spe- suspended and the agent was materials from the warehouse The DEA declined to com- Rico to the DEA’s tech division in cialist are accused of stealing asked to hand over his gun pend- but returned them after a su- ment on the allegations. Asked Miami. personal protective equipment, ing an internal review. pervisor confronted him about about the case in a recent inter- “Mr. Hernandez emphatically toilet paper and other supplies Special Agent Javier Hernan- a missing supply of toilet paper. view, Acting DEA Administra- from an agency warehouse in dez and the telecommunications It’s not clear whether the men are tor Uttam Dhillon told the AP denies any wrongdoing at any South Florida amid shortages specialist whose name was not accused of acting together. The he couldn’t talk about “specific time in his entire career with caused by the coronavirus pan- disclosed are just the latest em- incident raises questions about situations” but that the “DEA has DEA or as an officer in the Army,” demic, law enforcement officials ployees of the DEA’s high-profile security measures at the DEA the highest standards for its per- Robbio said in a statement. “Any told The Associated Press. Miami field division to be accused facility in Weston, about 20 miles sonnel and we intend to maintain allegations you may have been The officials, who were not au- of misconduct. west of Fort Lauderdale, and how those standards.” told about are rumors and innu- thorized to discuss the case and Hernandez is suspected of the case was handled. The Bro- Hernandez declined to com- endo and not based on facts.” PAGE 8 •STARS AND STRIPES• Saturday, May 2, 2020 VIRUS OUTBREAK May Day labor protests unfold amid lockdowns

Associated Press were permitted to walk outside for exercise, and some began re- ATHENS — No job at all, or turning to work in small batches. a job without enough virus pro- China’s ancient, majestic For- tections — millions of workers bidden City reopened on Friday around the world are marking with all tickets for the May 1-5 international labor day trapped holiday sold out, and a limit of between hunger and fear, as 5,000 visitors a day, down from more countries and states reopen the earlier maximum of 80,000. for business even though the pan- The Chinese capital reopened demic is far from vanquished. its parks and museums, with Beijing’s Forbidden City controlled entries, about three cracked open its doors and shop- months after hundreds of mil- ping malls from Texas to Indiana lions of people were ordered into were set to do the same Friday, as a near lockdown as the coronavi- world leaders try to find a way to rus outbreak erupted in the cen- salvage virus-battered economies tral city of Wuhan. without unleashing new waves of Malaysia will allow most busi- infections. ness activities to resume Monday With traditional May Day but keep schools and houses of marches curtailed by confine- worship shut. Thailand was pre- ment, Turkish protesters tried paring to reopen parks and some a wildcat protest, California ac- retailers, hair salons and res- tivists planned strikes, Czechs KIN CHEUNG/AP taurants, while keeping a night- honked car horns and French time curfew and a ban on alcohol workers sung from balconies to Riot police enter a shopping mall to disperse pro-democrcy protesters during on Labor Day in Hong sales. plead their causes: workplace Kong, Friday amid the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. In the U.S., Louisiana restau- masks, health insurance or more starting back up even though the Depression of the 1930s. ing to march to a symbolic square rants were allowed Friday to add government aid for the jobless. number of new confirmed cases Essential workers participated in defiance of a lockdown. outdoor tables, without wait staff, It’s a melancholy May Day for of a virus that has infected more in strikes around the U.S. on Fri- A special “noisy protest” was though hard-hit New Orleans will millions of garment industry than 3.2 million and killed at least day to demand safer conditions planned in the Czech Repub- remain shut. workers across southeast Asia 230,000 is continuing to rise. during the coronavirus outbreak, lic, where people were to honk The biggest U.S. mall opera- like Wiryono, a father of two in Lockdowns couldn’t extin- while other groups planned ral- horns, play drums or shout at tor, Simon Property Group Inc., Indonesia’s capital who was laid guish the May Day protest spirit lies against tight stay-at-home midday to express anger at the planned to open 49 shopping cen- off last month as retailers slashed in Greece, where demonstrators orders they say are crippling the government’s handling of the cri- ters Friday across 10 states, with orders. His side gig delivering lined up two meters apart in care- U.S. economy. sis. And hundreds of Czechs who mask-wearing workers and a lim- coffee dried up, too, amid the ful rows in Athens’ Syntagma May Day is a state holiday in commute to work in Germany ited number of shoppers. virus lockdown. So he set up a Square. many countries, and lockdowns and Austria planned to block a President Donald Trump chose clothing repair business to make May Day labor protests started mean this is the first time that border crossing to protest restric- not to extend the White House’s ends meet. in the 19th century in the U.S., Russia — whose prime minister tions imposed on them amid the social-distancing guidelines past “I don’t earn as much as I got where the number of Americans has the virus — will not hold big pandemic. their expiration Thursday. from the clothing factory. But filing for unemployment benefits demonstrations on Red Square. A holiday atmosphere enliv- The virus has killed over I have to feed my wife and kids surpassed a staggering 30 million In Turkey, police and demon- ened South Africa’s streets Fri- 230,000 worldwide, including every day,” said Wiryono, who this week. Economists say jobless- strators wearing masks and face day, as the May Day holiday was more than 61,000 in the U.S., ac- goes by only one name. ness in April may have reached guards faced off in Istanbul, and also when the country began eas- cording to a tally by Johns Hop- In Bangladesh, production is numbers not seen since the Great 15 people were detained for try- ing its strict lockdown. People kins University. Trump speculates that China released virus in laboratory

BY ZEKE MILLER pened, ” the president said. government said that any claims Scientists say the virus arose by the Wuhan lab at “a million to Associated Press “Whether they made a mistake or that the coronavirus was released naturally in bats. Even so, Sec- one,” far less likely than an infec- whether it started off as a mistake from a laboratory are “unfound- retary of State Mike Pompeo and tion in nature. But virus expert WASHINGTON — President and then they made another one, ed and purely fabricated out of others have pointed fingers at an David O’Connor of the University Donald Trump has speculated or did somebody do something on nothing.” institute that is run by the Chi- of Wisconsin-Madison said he that China could have unleashed purpose.” Foreign Ministry spokesman nese Academy of Sciences. It has thinks too little is known to rule the coronavirus on the world The intel statement said the Geng Shuang cited the institute’s done groundbreaking research out any source, except the idea due to some kind of horrible federal agencies concur “with the director, Yuan Zhiming, as saying tracing the likely origins of the the virus was man-made. Finding “mistake,” and his intelligence wide scientific consensus that the the lab strictly implements biose- SARS virus, finding new bat vi- the source is important, he said, agencies said they are still ex- COVID-19 virus was not man- curity procedures that would pre- ruses and discovering how they because it may harbor the next amining a notion put forward made or genetically modified.” vent the release of any pathogen. could jump to people. pandemic virus. by the president and aides that “The IC will continue to rig- “I would like to point out again “We know that there is the The U.S. was providing funding the pandemic may have resulted orously examine emerging in- that the origin of the virus is a Wuhan Institute of Virology just to the Wuhan lab for its research from an accident at a Chinese lab. formation and intelligence to complex scientific issue, and it a handful of miles away from on coronaviruses, Michael Mo- Trump even suggested Thursday determine whether the outbreak should be studied by scientists where the wet market was,” Pom- rell, former acting director and that the release could have been began through contact with in- and professionals,” Geng said. peo said two weeks ago. The insti- deputy director of the CIA, said intentional. fected animals or if it was the re- He also criticized those in the tute has an address 8 miles from Thursday. The Office of the Director of sult of an accident at a laboratory U.S. who say China should be held the market that is considered a He said State Department ca- National Intelligence, the clear- in Wuhan ,” the statement said. accountable for the global pan- possible source. bles indicate that there have been inghouse for the web of U.S. spy In recent days the Trump ad- demic, saying they should spend Scientists studying the virus for concerns in past years among agencies, said it had ruled out ministration has sharpened its their time on “better controlling months have made clear they be- U.S. officials about the safety pro- the virus being man-made but rhetoric on China, accusing the the epidemic situation at home.” lieve it wasn’t man-made but are tocols at that lab. If the virus did was still investigating the precise geopolitical foe and vital trading At the White House, Trump re- still working to determine a point escape from a Chinese lab, it not source of the global pandemic. partner of failing to act swiftly peatedly criticized China for re- at which it may have jumped from only reflects negatively on China Though scientists suggest the enough to sound the alarm about stricting domestic travel to slow animals to humans. but also on the United States for likeliest origin of the pandemic re- the outbreak or to stop the spread the virus but not international Early attention focused on the providing research funding to a mains natural, that it spread from of the virus that causes COVID- travel to keep it from spreading live-animal market in Wuhan lab that has safety concerns, Mo- an infected animal to a human, 19. U.S. officials have said the abroad. where the first cases were re- rell said during an online forum Trump claimed to have seen evi- Chinese government should “pay “Certainly it could have been ported in December. But the first hosted by the Michael V. Hayden dence to support the theory that a price ” for its handling of the stopped,“ Trump said during an person identified with the disease Center for Intelligence, Policy the origin was an infectious dis- pandemic. This all comes as the event in the East Room on his had no known connection to that and International Security at ease lab in Wuhan, the epicenter pace of Trump’s own original re- administration’s efforts to aid se- market. George Mason University. of the Chinese outbreak. sponse continues to come under niors during the outbreak. “They Kristian Andersen, who studies “So if it did escape, we’re all in He said the U.S. now “is finding scrutiny. either couldn’t do it from a com- the virus at Scripps Research in this together,” Morell said. “This how it came out.” Earlier Thursday, before petence standpoint, or they let it La Jolla, California, puts the odds is not a gotcha for China. This is a “It’s a terrible thing that hap- Trump’s comments, the Chinese spread.” of it being accidentally released gotcha for both of us.” Saturday, May 2, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 9 VIRUS OUTBREAK GOP lawmakers reject call to extend Michigan order

Associated Press tions to limit the spread of the coronavirus, the presidents said LANSING, Mich. — The Re- Thursday. publican-led Michigan Legisla- Michael Crow of Arizona State ture refused Thursday to extend University, Robert Robbins of the state’s coronavirus emer- University of Arizona and Rita gency declaration and voted to Cheng of Northern Arizona Uni- authorize a lawsuit challenging versity said they would follow Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whit- recommendations from state mer’s authority and actions to and local health authorities when combat the pandemic. their classes resume in August. The governor, unfazed, re- Cheng said the campus reopen- sponded with orders stating ing plan will include testing for under one law that an emergency COVID-19 and tracing the con- still exists while declaring a new tacts of people who test positive. 28-day state of emergency under The Flagstaff university will cre- another law. ate social distancing policies in The declarations are impor- public areas and classrooms, and tant because they are the founda- will implement safety and health tion for Whitmer’s stay-at-home measures in residential and din- measure, which will remain in ing facilities, she said. effect through May 15, and other /AP Crow and Robbins did not de- MATTHEW DAE SMITH, LANSING STATE JOURNAL directives aimed at slowing the tail the changes they are consid- spread of the coronavirus. The Stacy Eddy, of Lapeer, third from left, and her children came to Lansing, Mich., on Thursday , to join in ering, nor did they say whether virus that causes COVID-19 has the protest against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s stay-at-home order due to the coronavirus pandemic. infected more than 41,000 Michi- students would be invited to live gan residents and contributed to on campus. “Today, we are passing the 1 mil- make in mid-May. East Feliciana Texas the deaths of 3,789, many in the lion mark in absentee ballot re- Parish also is reopening libraries Detroit area. California quests. This is unprecedented.” and some other establishments. AUSTIN — Texas’ coronavirus Raffensperger’s office says Local officials may set restric- death toll hit a single-day high of Whitmer accused GOP law- SACRAMENTO — After state 700,000 ballots have already been tions tougher than the state’s but 50 on Thursday, just as the state makers of “putting their heads in officials signaled an intention mailed to voters. People will still cannot be less restrictive, Ed- was preparing for a slow reboot of the sand and putting more lives to close all California beaches, be able to vote in person as well, wards said at his daily news brief- one of the world’s largest econo- and livelihoods at risk. I’m not Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday both during early voting and on ing Thursday. going to let that happen.” chose instead to shutter only Or- mies by reopening retail, restau- election day June 9. “I assure you, the proclamation The legislative pushback came ange County’s coastline, a clumsy rants, malls and movies to limited was based on sound science,” he as hundreds of conservative ac- rollout that left local officials livid amounts of customers. said. tivists, including some who were and had Republicans claiming Illinois Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s openly carrying assault rifles, re- Edwards said he has extended stay-at-home order expires Fri- politics was at play. SPRINGFIELD — Illinois has turned to the Capitol to denounce his COVID-19 stay-home order Newsom has engendered strong spent tens of millions of dollars day. The state-reported death toll her stay-home order. through May 15, rejecting Re- bipartisan support for most of building makeshift field hospitals of 119 over the past three days Whitmer wanted legislators to publican calls to consider parish- his actions during the virus out- to prepare for an anticipated flood marks the deadliest stretch since extend the emergency before it by-parish or regional reopening. break. But more recently, some of coronavirus cases, but so far Texas’ first fatality in the pan- was to expire late Thursday. But He said indoor worship services of the more rural and GOP-lean- hasn’t had to use the thousands of demic was recorded March 17. at the same time, she believes remain limited to 10 people but ing areas of the state have begun extra beds. That was exactly the Thursday’s 1,033 new cases is the she has other powers to respond properly distanced larger con- chafing against what they see as plan. first time the state has been over to the crisis and does not need a gregations can attend services an overly cautious move toward The state government says 1,000 since April 10. legislatively-approved extension outdoors or under a tent “with its reopening California. prevention strategies such as so- The number of infections is — which Republicans dispute sides up” for free air flow. The divisions were laid bare by cial distancing and a statewide thought to be far higher because and appeared poised to challenge the beach announcement. stay-at-home order have worked many people have not been tested in court. The California Republican so well that a small city of beds New York and studies suggest people can be Alabama Party accused Newsom of back- proposed for McCormick Place NEW YORK — Tensions be- infected without feeling sick. pedaling. The Orange County in Chicago — the nation’s larg- tween police and members of New Abbott has pushed for the re- GOP, desperate to regain ground MONTGOMERY — Alabam- est convention center — has been York City’s Hasidic Jewish com- opening to rescue a state econ- lost to Democrats in what was ians filed onto beaches and into dramatically reduced. Beds hast- munity flared again Thursday as omy walloped by staggering once a Republican stronghold, previously shuttered retail stores ily installed at three closed hospi- officers interrupted a crowded unemployment. Labor advocates accused him of “targeted harass- Thursday evening as a state stay- tals in suburban Chicago remain funeral procession to crack down have criticized the plan as short ment” and “petty politics.” home order expired, although on standby, while the renovation on social distancing violators. on safety for workers, and ques- Newsom, a Democrat, said he salons, on-site restaurant dining of a former hospital in Springfield Video posted on social media tioned by some Democrats, no- was only reinforcing his vow to and other places remained closed has yet to begin. showed officers in protective tably the leadership of the state’s make sure California doesn’t under a new state health order. “We’ve talked a lot about stand- masks chasing a minivan through largest cities, as too soon. backslide on its progress against ing down,” Gov. J.B. Pritzker said A state stay-home order expired Brooklyn’s Borough Park neigh- the virus by allowing crowds to this week. “I don’t want to speak at 5 p.m. and retail stores and borhood as it carried the body Washington gather on beaches as they did too soon because all of these beaches could open with occu- of a deceased rabbi. The officers during the weekend in Orange identified alternate care facili- pancy limits. Beach cams showed can be heard shouting at dozens WALLULA — A Tyson Fresh County. ties need to be in a state of some people strolling along the sand in of people marching behind the Meats beef plant near the Tri-Cit- kind of readiness in the event that Gulf Shores under the late after- van to get out of the street and ies will remain closed for a while there’s a surge, either because, noon sun as beaches opened for Georgia onto the sidewalk. longer as county health officials God forbid, we reopen too fast or the first time in a month. Elective A 17-year-old boy was taken await test results on all the ap- and non-emergency medical pro- ATLANTA — More than a because there’s a surge that peo- into custody and issued a sum- proximately 1,400 workers. cedures are also being allowed to million voters have requested a ple expect in the fall.” mons for disorderly conduct after Walla Walla County health of- resume. mail-in ballot to vote in Georgia’s he was accused of pushing a po- ficials reported Wednesday after- Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on primary elections in June, an Louisiana lice official, according to a police noon the coronavirus test results Tuesday announced that some enormous increase driven by the coronavirus outbreak. NEW ORLEANS — A couple of spokeswoman, Sgt. Mary Fran- are still pending. restrictions were being lifted, but “Once the test results are re- many would remain in place. When he postponed the prima- Louisiana parishes are bucking ces O’Donnell. ry elections because of the virus the governor’s continued coro- New York has banned any gath- ceived, positive cases will be Salons, barbershops, gyms, tat- handled by the county in which too parlors, bars and on-site res- outbreak, Secretary of State Brad navirus order by letting church- erings, of any size, for any pur- the employee resides,” said the taurant dining will remain closed Raffensperger encouraged peo- es and other establishments pose as the coronavirus has been agency, according to the Tri-City until the evening of May 15, under ple to vote by mail. Election offi- open their doors to more people linked to at least 18,000 deaths in the newest “safer at home” state cials said they mailed a form that Friday. the city in just a few weeks. Herald. health order. can be used to request an absen- LaSalle Parish in central Loui- De Blasio called the large gath- As of Wednesday, 130 people — tee ballot to all 6.9 million active siana and East Feliciana Par- ering “absolutely unacceptable” both employees and others linked Arizona registered voters. ish near Baton Rouge both said in one tweet and wrote in another: to the plant outbreak — have test- “Now we can see that effort is churches and businesses may “my message to the Jewish com- ed positive. PHOENIX — Arizona’s three exceeding far past our own as- open Friday at 25% of occupancy munity, and all communities, is One Tyson worker, a 60-year- universities plan to hold classes pirations,” Raffensperger said limits — a change Gov. John Bel this simple: the time for warnings old butcher who lived in the Tri- on campus this fall with precau- at a news conference Thursday. Edwards has said he hopes to has passed.” Cities, has died. PAGE 10 •STARS AND STRIPES• Saturday, May 2, 2020 NATION Biden goes on TV to deny woman’s assault allegation

BY ALEXANDRA JAFFE woman as a running mate, and Associated Press the allegation has left those thought to be in contention in a WASHINGTON — Joe Biden tough spot. denied a former Senate staffer’s Stacey Abrams, the former allegation of sexual assault on Georgia Democratic governor Friday, saying the accusation is candidate, said, “I believe Joe BROWN-FORMAN/AP “not true.” Biden,” citing a New York Times The Kentucky Turtle Derby, which airs Saturday at 7 p.m. on YouTube , is promoted in an ad. “This never happened,” Biden investigation that she said exon- said in a statement. erated him. It’s Biden’s first public com- “Women deserve to be heard, ” ment on an accusation of sexual she said, “but I also believe that assault by his former Senate those allegations have to be inves- Turtles to race on traditional staffer, Tara Reade. He later ap- tigated by credible sources.” peared on MSNBC’s “Morning That echoed talking points is- Joe” to discuss the allegation for sued by the Biden campaign to the first time on television. Kentucky Derby date in May surrogates last week that were Biden said he will also ask the obtained by The Associated National Archives to determine Press. They pointed to investi- BY DAN GELSTON virus pandemic. The sounds may be familiar whether there is any record of gations by The New York Times, Associated Press The Derby, America’s longest for Derby fans: Triple Crown an- such a complaint claiming that he The Washington Post and the AP continuously held sports event, nouncer Larry Collmus is calling assaulted Reade in the basement that found no other allegation of Losing the Kentucky Derby has had been scheduled for May 2. It the race and bugler Steve Buttle- of a Capitol Hill office building in sexual assault and no pattern of left race fans shell-shocked. will now be run Sept. 5, kicking man will serenade viewers prior the 1990s. His campaign issued sexual misconduct. The first Saturday in May has off Labor Day weekend. It’s the to the turtles taking off. a statement in early April deny- On Thursday, House Speak- yielded to the legs of a bunch of ing the allegation, and a number first time the Derby won’t be held The turtle race will actually er Nancy Pelosi also defended slowpokes: Seattle Slow headlines of former Biden staffers have de- on its traditional first Saturday be pre-taped in Chicago with Biden. Speaking on CNN, she a field of turtles — yes, turtles fended their boss in interviews. in May since 1945, when it was the likes of Sir-Hides-A-Bunch, said she was “satisfied with how — that will race in the Kentucky The accusation, took on fresh run June 9. The federal govern- American Toruga and Galapa- he has responded,” even as she Turtle Derby. attention this week , however, after ment suspended horse racing GO! in the field. acknowledged “it’s a matter that Call it the slowest eight minutes two of Reade’s associates said she nationwide for most of the first “It is weird, but there’s been he has to deal with.” in sports. previously told them about ele- The race is more methodical half of the year before World War a lot of weird going on the last Some Democratic donors and ments of her allegations. marathon that mad dash to the II ended in early May, but not in couple of months in this country,” fundraisers say the issue has not Republicans worried about finish — though the victor can time to hold the first leg of the Collmus said. “It will be like the come up in calls with party finan- President Donald Trump’s in- win at the line by a turtleneck Triple Crown that month. Look- Derby broadcast. Just turtles ciers. Others worry that it could creasingly precarious political rather than a nose — and is just ing for a slower substitute, the instead.” be used against Biden, much as standing are seizing on the al- one more offbeat sport that has first Kentucky Turtle Derby was And one big shell-abration at Hillary Clinton’s private email legation to portray Democrats had a moment during the corona- hatched. the end. as hypocrites who only defend server and the activities of the women who allege wrongdoing Clinton Foundation were wielded against conservatives. They are against her by Trump. digging in despite the fact that it Some, most notably women, say could renew attention on the mul- they are paying close attention to Hearings for ‘Remain in Mexico’ tiple sexual assault allegations the allegations, which gave them lodged against Trump. pause. Democrats, meanwhile, are Alex Sink, a donor and former asylum seekers delayed until June 1 in an awkward position of vig- Democratic nominee for gover- nor of Florida, said she was “not orously validating women who BY ELLIOT SPAGAT A woman who fled Nicara- nerve-wracking,” said Mileidy, happy” to read about the allega- come forward with their stories Associated Press gua with her 9-year-old son said who ran out of epilepsy medicine while defending the man who will tions against Biden. While she still plans to vote for Thursday that the delays mean for her son and has been unable to be their standard-bearer in what SAN DIEGO — The Trump more time locked down in a Ti- get a new supply. many in the party consider the him, she worried his campaign administration on Thursday sus- was too quick to categorically juana shelter, which, like many in More than 60,000 asylum-seek- most important election of their pended immigration court hear- the Mexican border city, stopped ers have been returned to Mex- lifetimes. deny Reade’s story. ings for asylum-seekers waiting “They put themselves immedi- accepting new migrants and won’t ico to wait for hearings in U.S. The November contest be- in Mexico through June 1, bow- let anyone already there leave to court since January 2019, when tween Biden and Trump will be ately out on a limb by saying, ‘It ing to public health concerns work or shop to prevent the virus the U.S. introduced its “Migrant the first presidential race of the didn’t happen, we categorically while extending a state of limbo from spreading. She moved to the Protection Protocols” policy, #MeToo era, which has led nu- deny it, it’s not true,’” Sink said. to those locked down in Mexican shelter in March after a family known informally as “Remain in merous women to come forward Some female Democratic op- migrant shelters. that subsidized her rent ended Mexico.” It became a key pillar of with allegations of sexual assault. eratives expressed concerns the With an order suspending their support due to a job loss. the administration’s response to Trump has been accused of as- allegation is particularly dam- hearings through Friday set to sault and unwanted touching by aging because it’s an indictment expire, the Homeland Security Mileidy, the woman’s middle an unprecedented surge of asy- numerous women, allegations he of Biden’s central campaign ra- and Justice departments said that name, said she showed up at a lum-seeking families at the bor- denies. tionale: that he provides a moral asylum-seekers with hearings San Diego crossing for her fifth der, drawing criticism for having Women are a core constituency counter to Trump and that the through June 1 should appear at a hearing under heavy rain at 3 people wait in highly dangerous for Democrats, and Biden has a election is a “battle for the soul of border crossing when instructed, a.m. on April 7, an hour ahead of Mexican cities. mixed history. America.” to get new dates. They said in a the appointed time. She said she The future of “Remain in Mex- While he wrote the Violence “The stakes could not be higher joint statement that authorities was unable to reach U.S. officials ico” has become less certain after Against Women Act as a senator, for defeating Donald Trump — but will review conditions related to for a new date but learned online the administration temporar- he also came under heavy criti- at the same time, I think we have the coronavirus and proceed “as that her next hearing was May 7. ily suspended immigration laws cism for his handling of Anita to apply a consistent standard for expeditiously as possible,” raising About a week ago, Mileidy’s at- using a 1944 public-health law, Hill’s Senate testimony in the how we treat allegations of sexual the prospect of additional delays. torney got notice that her hearing whisking Mexicans and Central 1990s. Just before he launched assault, and also be clear-eyed While it is difficult to know pre- was delayed again, this time to Americans to the nearest border his 2020 campaign, several about how Donald Trump will cisely, the Justice Department June 16. She spoke on condition to be returned to Mexico without women accused him of unwanted use these allegations in the gener- estimated in late February that that her full name not be pub- a chance to seek asylum. Nearly touching, behavior for which he al election campaign,” said Claire there were 25,000 people wait- lished due to fears for her per- 10,000 people were “expelled” in apologized. Sandberg, who worked as Bernie ing in Mexico for hearings in U.S. sonal safety. less than three weeks after it took Biden has pledged to pick a Sanders’ organizing director. court. “All of this time in Mexico is effect March 21. Saturday, May 2, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES•PAGE 11 VIDEO GAMES Switch consoles in high demand, shorter supply

BY AUSTIN CARR Bloomberg I was late to the whole Ani- mal Crossing thing, but a few days ago I, too, decamped for a virtual island utopia, where I can breathe fresh digital air, chase butterfl ies, plant bright tulips and fi sh for sea bass (so many sea bass). Thanks to best-selling (and surprisingly therapeutic) games like Animal Crossing: New Horizons, the Nintendo Switch has become a massive hit during the pandemic. There’s just one problem for Nintendo: It can’t make them fast enough. The inventory crunch serves as a reminder of how crucial supply chain management is in the COVID-19 era. From PCs and smartphones to tablets and wearables, the current batch of winners and losers of the hardware market will likely be decided by which companies can build enough products to meet demand. screenshots Nintendo was unprepared for Wastelanders takes place one year after Fallout 76 and breathes new life into the game with a new story quest and unique companions. the sales surge and is now said to be scrambling to ramp up production and procure key elec- tronic parts. The big question: Will the Japanese company be able to fi x its supply chain woes before demand wanes? In February, as the coronavi- rus was spreading around the New signs of life globe, Nintendo started to see early indications of supply con- straints. Component shortages in China were reportedly affect- Wastelanders propels Fallout 76 with addition of NPCs, more activities ing factory output in Vietnam. Switch shipments to Nintendo’s home country of Japan were de- BY BRIAN BOWERS controlled by other players. layed due to supplier bottlenecks, Stars and Stripes Wastelanders is set about a year later. By Overall grade: – an alarming prospect for the that time, you have found an inoculation A hits-driven business, which had ith the advent of COVID-19, the for the plague, which makes the area safe postapocalyptic world of Fallout potential blockbuster games like for new settlers. But resettlement is actu- Animal Crossing and Minecraft 76 seems much less alien. either, but it was fun and opened a new door ally propelled by rumors of an immense Dungeons coming out in the As I don a hazmat suit to to trade and upgrades. W treasure hidden beneath the Appalachian spring. wander the depopulated landscape of West Wastelanders also introduces nonplayer hills. As a result, the area is crawling with By the following month, the Virginia to search for essential supplies prospectors, farmers, companions to Fallout 76. Traditionally, hardware shortages followed and deal with unexpected creatures, I get a merchants, raiders and Fallout companions are at your side to the virus’ spread around the feeling of deja vu. Only a day before, I was weird cultists who wor- deliver additional quests, provide extra world. The Switch was nowhere wearing a face mask while scouring the ship Mothman. fi repower, carry extra gear and — perhaps to be found in North America depopulated shopping centers of Northern Wastelanders offers — offer the chance at romance. Things are at Amazon, Best Buy, Target or Virginia for toilet paper and removing a two primary story- a bit different this time around. They simply Walmart. snake from our front steps. The only differ- lines. One appears to hang around at your homestead and wave Nintendo is now purportedly ences: Fallout features more gunplay — and be aimed at new play- goodbye as you tackle the missions they aiming to boost its production to more available toilet paper. ers. It’s relatively brief assign. I was very disappointed when I fi n- 22 million units this fi scal year, When Bethesda Softworks released Fall- and involves simple ished the former astronaut’s quests and she a remarkable uptick considering out 76 about a year and a half ago, it fea- missions originating didn’t leap to my side to face the mutants the Switch is already three years tured a world where all the game’s humans in a tavern near your and marauders. I guess Bethesda fi gures old. That’s more than Nintendo were the avatars of other players. There home vault. It also that’s the job of other Fallout players. Unfor- sold in the U.S., its biggest mar- were robots, mutants and ghouls shriveled offers only a few hints about the mysteri- tunately, my previous Fallout 76 companions ket, from the console’s debut in by radiation, but no “living” humans other ous treasure. The real search unfolds in the refused to join the action again. 2017 to last year. However, one than other players. Since interaction with second storyline. As I returned to the Appalachian action, I analyst suggested retail stock nonplayer characters was one of the vital Among the area’s new residents are two noticed that the game has improved in many might not catch up to demand elements in previous Fallout games, Fallout opposing groups that can be of assistance ways over the past year. There are more until June. 76 seemed somewhat hollow. in fi nding the treasure. One is a hardy band activities, better options for building your While sold-out inventory is a That changed in mid-April with the of settlers who are building a town on a hill homestead, fewer visual glitches and greater good problem for Nintendo to release of the massive update Fallout 76: in the southern end of the game’s sprawl- stability for the servers. have, it could fail to fully capital- Wastelanders. Bethesda dropped hundreds ing map. The other is a rapacious gang of The game is rated M for violence — ex- ize on the moment. Many people of new characters into the hills of West Vir- raiders who have commandeered a crashed pect to see heads and arms laying around bored at home may opt instead ginia and breathed new life into the game. space station far to the north. after a nasty fi refi ght. to purchase a PlayStation from Fallout 76 is set in the early 2100s, three For a while, you can work with both Wastelanders marks a major step for- Sony or Xbox from Microsoft, decades after nuclear war has devastated groups, performing missions and gaining ward for Fallout 76. However, it does more which said it has managed to re- America. As the game opens, you climb out status with each. However, you’ll eventually to whet the appetite than to satisfy it. I’m solve its supply chain challenges. of your protective vault to rebuild America need to choose a side. I joined the settlers, eager to see a more robust set of missions Meanwhile, I’ll be living a sun- — or at least Appalachia. You quickly dis- but I’m sure both tracks lead in the same and characters — most like those offered kissed life in Animal Crossing, cover that a plague has decimated West Vir- general direction. My allies offered advice in Bethesda’s other online adventure, Elder where, incidentally, I was just ginia’s survivors, killing most and turning and assistance as I assembled a crew and Scrolls Online. gifted a virtual Nintendo Switch. the rest into zombie-like creatures known gathered the equipment needed to accom- Bottom line: A- Apparently, it’s far easier to get as the scorched. The only humans around plish the ultimate mission. Platforms: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC one on my digital island paradise are your follow vault-dwellers — who are This storyline wasn’t particularly long Online: fallout.bethesda.net than it is in real life. PAGE 12 •STARS AND STRIPES• Saturday, May 2, 2020 MOVIES

Bleecker Street Julia Garner stars in “The Assistant,” inspired by the Harvey Weinstein scandal.

fi nding their audiences? worth seeing and remembering. I haven’t a clue, and I suspect that One ground rule: I am excluding anyone who claims they do is being 2019 movies that were re-released either naive or disingenuous. The earlier this year . old industry maxim beloved by the late screenwriter William Goldman Best picture — “Nobody knows anything” — has Under the circumstances, it rarely seemed more apropos. wouldn’t be unreasonable to cap One thing I do know: You could, in this category at fi ve, going back to theory, hold the Oscars (on Zoom) next decades of historic academy practice. month, restricting voters only to mov- But why impose limits when the year ies newly released in U.S. theaters in has already given us more than fi ve the fi rst three months of 2020, and still terrifi c movies? In keeping with the emerge with a solid, even commend- academy’s preferred number of late, able, slate of nominees. The simple let’s go with eight. reason for this is that the Hollywood “The Assistant,” Kitty Green’s studios have never cornered the riveting sidelong view of sexual abuse market on cinematic quality, and well in the entertainment industry, is as before the awards-season grind kicks essential a #MeToo movie as Leigh A24 Films in, every month brings brilliant work Whannell’s expertly crafted thriller from fi lmmakers who rarely land on “The Invisible Man”; in both movies, John Magaro appears with the title character in Kelly Reichardt’s “First Cow.” the academy’s radar — and are no less the bullying enemy is both unseen deserving of attention for it. and inescapable. Yes, you have to look harder for “Bacurau,” Kleber Mendonca Filho these movies, using a fi ner-toothed and Juliano Dornelles’ rich, strange comb than you might in November or December. You have to put anti-genre genre mashup set in a futuristic snobbery aside and be comfortable Brazilian backwater, deservedly won with subtitles (horrors!) and actors a major prize at Cannes last year, as with unfamiliar names and faces. did “Beanpole,” a shattering drama It takes discernment to fi nd worth- of postwar reckoning from the scarily while achievements, to look beyond the gifted 28-year-old Russian director scope of the obvious and the over- Kantemir Balagov. hyped. And discernment too often goes If forced to pick a winner at this missing when the industry’s annual point, I’d have a hard time choosing gala-hopping, screener-cramming between two new American indie popularity contest gets underway. classics: “First Cow,” Kelly Reich- I have my own means of combating ardt’s tale of two friends on a mission the Hollywood bias that often sets in in 19th-century Oregon, and “Never during those fall months. Every Janu- Rarely Sometimes Always,” Eliza A critic’s guide to the next awards show ary, I start a fresh list of every good Hittman’s tale of two friends on a and great new movie I see, logging mission in contemporary Pennsylva- if movie theaters don’t reopen this year performances, screenplays and direc- nia and New York. torial achievements that I think may And fi nally, two masterly medita- tions on grief from Europe: “I Was at BY JUSTIN CHANG That assumed two unfortunate be worth remembering at year’s end. Home, But ...,” from German direc- Los Angeles Times outcomes: First, that movie theaters I do this not because I want to think don’t reopen this year at all. Second, about awards season year-round , but tor Angela Schanelec, and “Vitalina ix weeks and an eternity that the Academy of Motion Picture because I don’t want anything to slip Varela,” from Portuguese auteur ago, when movie theaters Arts & Sciences, which requires fea- through the cracks when it fi nally Pedro Costa. were about to shut down due tures to play in theaters to qualify for arrives. Director to the coronavirus outbreak, Oscar consideration, wouldn’t adjust So, let’s take a look at my 2020 list a few industry observers its rules, dates and deadlines accord- as it currently stands. The academy didn’t nominate Squipped that Elisabeth Moss was any women for best director in its ingly. On this latter front, the acade- Note that while the New York/ clearly now a shoo-in to win the Acad- my has shown fl exibility: On Tuesday, Vulture writer Nate Jones recently most recent edition, despite hav- emy Award for lead actress. the group’s 54-member board of conducted his own thought experi- ing no shortage of opportunities to It wasn’t an entirely facetious sugges- governors voted on a series of rule ment in this vein — a smart, amus- do so. This year, even with a tight tion: Moss is unsurprisingly superb in changes in response to the global ingly exhaustive speculation on how three-month window, it could make “The Invisible Man,” an above-aver- pandemic that will temporarily relax the 2020-21 awards season would considerable amends by nominat- age studio genre fi lm that, in a more the normally strict requirements for play out if no more theatrical releases ing an established American master straightforward year, might be a long Oscar consideration, including the were to emerge for the rest of the year like Kelly Reichardt (“First Cow”); shot for awards consideration. requirement for a theatrical release. — my version of this exercise has zero an out-of-the-box talent like Angela But in a moviegoing season that was What will this year in fi lm look predictive value. It’s simply what I Schanelec (“I Was at Home, But ...”), cut abruptly short in March, the joke like, with major studio titles pushed would personally single out in the top who hails from the rigorous Berlin goes, “The Invisible Man” is suddenly back to fall and winter release dates eight feature categories: best picture, School; and gifted up-and-comers not a long shot but a potential front- (for now), major festivals like Cannes directing, acting and writing. It is also like Kitty Green (“The Assistant”) runner. Not just one of the year’s early eyeing postponement or cancellation, my early memo to myself and others: and Eliza Hittman (“Never Rarely critical and commercial standouts, it and innumerable independent fi lms in No matter what the future holds, these Sometimes Always”). may also be one of the only ones. even worse danger than usual of not fi lms and performances will still be CONTINUED ON PAGE 13 Saturday, May 2, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 13 MOVIES

Kino Lorber Columbia Pictures Two young women (Vasilisa Perelygina, left, and Viktoria Miroshnichenko) search for meaning and hope in “Beanpole.” Will Smith and Martin Lawrence in “Bad Boys for Life.” FROM PAGE 12 ferocious action showcases of Betty Gilpin Supporting actress role in “Bad Boys for Life,” but the joy of That leaves one fi nal slot, and while (“The Hunt”) and Blake Lively (“The his performance this time is that he fully Rhythm Section”); Miroshnichenko’s All hail the Brazilian legend Sonia embraces his second-banana role — and Kantemir Balagov (“Beanpole”) and Braga and her fi erce turn as a small Pedro Costa (“Vitalina Varela”) both “Beanpole” co-star, Vasilisa Perelygina; steals the movie. town’s mean, boozy conscience in “Ba- beckon, I’d give that spot to Leigh Whan- Maren Eggert’s ferocious depiction of curau.” Andrea Riseborough, one of the nell for making the most of what could grief in “I Was at Home, But ...”; and Les- Original screenplay medium’s great chameleons, brings her have been a routine Hollywood reboot in ley Manville’s affecting exploration of a The gonzo B-movie bravura of Men- signature ferocity to bear on her role as a “The Invisible Man.” (Between Whan- woman’s battle with cancer in the British- donca Filho and Dornelles’ screenplay woman rejecting a community’s racism nell and Green, it’s been quite a year for Irish drama “Ordinary Love.” for “Bacurau” deserves recognition here, in “Burden,” while Talia Ryder, using Australian talent already.) as does the spare, incisive, observational Lead actor just a few words and a lot of expressive storytelling in Green’s “The Assistant” silence, etches an indelible portrait of a Lead actress I recently caught up with Ben Affl eck’s and Hittman’s “Never Rarely Sometimes friend indeed out of a few words and silent If there’s something all fi ve of my bruising turn as a high school basketball gestures in “Never Rarely Sometimes Always.” This would also be a welcome choices here excel at, it’s the ability to coach battling grief and alcoholism in Always.” opportunity to salute the playful, inven- hold a close-up. That’s true of the remark- “The Way Back” and have nothing to add I was equally impressed with Mia tive play with genres and languages in able newcomer Sidney Flanigan, whose to the general praise; it stands alongside Corneliu Porumboiu’s heist thriller “The his career-best performances in “Gone Goth’s exquisite vulnerability and Mi- every downward glance is a quiet revela- Whistlers,” as well as the hyper-eloquent, Girl” and “Hollywoodland.” He’s easily randa Hart’s delightful comic dithering in tion in “Never Rarely Sometimes Al- mile-a-minute dialogue of James Swee- the biggest star name here, followed by “Emma,” in which both actresses remind ways,” as well as Julia Garner, an “Ozark” ney’s winsome romantic comedy “Straight Lakeith Stanfi eld, as effortlessly charm- us that Jane Austen’s characters are at Emmy winner who gives an exquisite Up.” silent scream of a performance as the title ing a romantic lead in “The Photograph” once familiar and inexhaustible. character in “The Assistant.” as you always suspected he’d be. Supporting actor Adapted screenplay And speaking of silent screams: The John Magaro is wonderful in “First Here’s where my experiment admit- very fi rst shot of “Beanpole” is a slow Cow” as an Oregon Trail chef trying to get I didn’t much care for “The Gentle- tedly crashes to earth. The year has zoom-out from the face of Russian actress by the only way he can (because bakers men,” but I loved Colin Farrell’s perfor- already given us three solid possibilities Viktoria Miroshnichenko, stunning as a can’t be choosers). And fi nally, two ter- mance (a shade more than Hugh Grant’s) woman who embodies the shellshock of a rifi c actors from overseas: Pierfrancesco as one of the many men caught up in Guy in Eleanor Catton’s sparkling adapta- war-torn nation. Vitalina Varela won the Favino for his gripping performance as Ritchie’s warmed-over Cockney caper. tion of “Emma”; Kelly Reichardt and actress prize at last year’s Locarno Inter- the Sicilian mobster turned whistleblower I also loved Josh O’Connor’s hilarious Jon Raymond’s “First Cow,” based on national Film Festival for enacting a ver- Tommaso Buscetta in “The Traitor,” and work in “Emma” — he’s like Gumby in a Raymond’s novel “The Half Life”; and sion of her own life story in the aptly titled Levan Gelbakhiani, as a Georgian dancer priest’s collar — and Udo Kier doing what Leigh Whannell’s extensive reimagining “Vitalina Varela”; her every close-up is a who falls for a member of his troupe in the only Udo Kier can as a gunman with the of “The Invisible Man” from H.G. Wells’ tour de force of expressive stillness. gay romance “And Then We Danced.” small town of “Bacurau” in his sights. science-fi ction classic. Not a bad start, And of course, Moss is as marvelous in Right behind them all: Kris Hitchen, As the wilier, more calculating of two but the pickings are otherwise slim. I’ll “The Invisible Man” as she was in 2019’s persuasively burning the candle at both friends seeking their fortune in the Old leave the other two slots blank for now, in “Her Smell” (a movie that also came out ends in Ken Loach’s bleak drama “Sorry West, Orion Lee complements Magaro symbolic recognition that — as much fun early in the year). We Missed You,” and Garrett Hedlund, beautifully in “First Cow,” to the point as it’s been to speculate about an alterna- That still barely scratches the surface breathing unexpected fury and pathos where he almost qualifi es as a lead. I Oscars — we can’t wait for theaters to of this astonishingly rich fi eld. Eliminate into the cliche of the reformed Klansman suppose you could say the same thing of reopen, and for the movies to return with these fi ve and you’re still left with the in “Burden.” Martin Lawrence reprising a decades-old a vengeance.

Focus Features Focus Features Universal Pictures Sidney Flanigan in “Never Rarely Sometimes Always.” Anya Taylor-Joy and Johnny Flynn in a scene in “Emma.” Betty Gilpin leads the cast of “The Hunt.” PAGE 14 •STARS AND STRIPES• Saturday, May 2, 2020 MOVIES

Jaiswal) for reasons he’s not even himself sure of. The cast is an exceedingly international one, including the Bollywood stars Randeep Teeming with violence Hooda and Manoj Bajpayee. Since launch- ing in India in 2016, Netfl ix has increasingly prioritized reaching the subcontinent’s 1.3 billion people. Reed Hastings, Netfl ix’s chief ‘Extraction’ belongs, in many ways, to another world executive, has previously forecast that the company’s next 100 million subscribers will BY JAKE COYLE but it benefi ts greatly from the atmosphere come from India, and it has poured some Associated Press of an exotic, lesser seen and overwhelming $400 million over 2019 and 2020 into expand- locale. And, right now, “Extraction” is easily ing India-specifi c content. (Netfl ix declined to xtraction’ is set in the Bangla- the biggest new spectacle arriving on any say how much “Extraction” cost to make.) desh capital of Dhaka, one of the screen anytime soon. For the Russos, they see “Extraction” as most densely populated cities in The fi lm re-teams Hemsworth with the an extension of the globe-spanning scale of ‘Ethe world. It’s in this urban sea Russos, a year after “Endgame,” in a script Marvel, brought to a different genre and a of people and traffi c that Chris Hemsworth’s penned by Joe Russo a decade ago. He smaller-screen platform. battle-scarred mercenary engages in a tor- adapted it from the graphic novel “Ciudad,” “Joe and I got to see not just the fandom but rent of gun fi ghts, car chases and hand-to- which is set in Paraguay’s Ciudad del Este. the fi lmmaking community around the world,” hand combat. But a couple of years ago, when the Russos said Anthony Russo. “Having opportunities to Produced with the Marvel-trained muscle tapped Hargrave to direct, they went looking tie into talented fi lmmakers from every corner of Joe and Anthony Russo (“Avengers End- for a new city. of the globe is very exciting to us.” game,” “Captain America”), “Extraction” “There were a few projects that were The Russo brothers are currently editing wasn’t shot in Dhaka but in Thailand and circling Ciudad del Este as a location, one in their next fi lm, the crime drama “Cherry,” Ahmedabad, India. In India, it was one of the particular at Netfl ix. When we came up with remotely. They say they are, like much of largest Hollywood productions to set down on the idea to fl ip it to Sam, we started looking the industry, trying to conceive and plan the subcontinent. The throngs there doubled for another, fresh location,” said Joe Russo. for how productions of any kind — let alone for Dhaka and populated “Extraction,” a “We had spent some time in Mumbai on a huge, rough-and-tumble fi lms like “Extrac- teeming movie made very obviously before promotional tour, and that’s where we got the tion” — can resume in the months ahead. The the pandemic era of social distancing. idea to do it in Bangladesh.” Directors Guild recently formed a committee “There were thousands of people watch- Hargrave fi rst scouted Dhaka in 2017, in led by Steven Soderbergh to examine possible ing each day and erupting at the end of each between the shoots for “Infi nity War” and on-set solutions. take. It was like being in the Colosseum,” “Endgame.” That makes the visceral, peopled realm of Hemsworth said in an interview by video “It’s very densely populated but it has an “Extraction” a vision of a recent but, at least conference from his home in Australia. “It’s energy and vibrancy that’s unique,” said temporarily, vanished movie world. To Hems- interesting now to go: Would you be able to Hargrave. “You couldn’t look in any direction worth, it was a thrilling one. pull that off post-this? It would be very differ- that’s not unique to the Western eye.” “It ratcheted up the pressure of shooting ent.” Films set in far-fl ung locations with a white within those places being so densely populat- “Extraction,” which is currently stream- protagonist have sometimes been criticized ed,” said the actor, recalling elaborate action ing on Netfl ix, is the directorial debut of Sam for relying on “white savior” tropes, a charge scenes with hundreds of people. “Sam threw Hargrave, the stunt coordinator on “End- that has been lobbed by some at “Extraction.” us in a location that added to it tenfold.” game” and other fi lms and the former stunt Hemsworth plays Tyler Rake, a mercenary double of Chris Evans’ Captain America. It’s hired to rescue the son of an Indian drug lord. The action-thriller “Extraction,” starring Chris a familiar kind of kinetic action movie featur- He soon fi nds himself double-crossed and Hemsworth, left, is now streaming on Netflix. ing lengthy takes and violent choreography, fi ghting legions to shield a boy (Rudhraksh NETFLIX/AP Saturday, May 2, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 15 MOVIES Hemsworth finds a worthy action pic in ‘Extraction’

BY LINDSEY BAHR tion-hero physique. But many of Associated Press his leading man roles that don’t have anything to do with the yler Rake sounds like God of Thunder have come and a Mad-Libs action hero gone without much fanfare. So it name. When you add makes a certain amount of sense Tto the mix that this that “Extraction” is Marvel-ad- character actually, literally kills jacent. It’s written by Joe Russo someone with a rake, it starts to (one half of the Russo brothers veer into parody territory. That’s who have directed a handful why it’s somewhat surprising of Marvel movies, including that the fi lm built around that “Avengers: Endgame”), directed wonderfully silly name, “Extrac- by Marvel stunt coordinator Sam tion,” is entirely sincere and also Hargrave and based on a graphic pretty fun. novel (“Ciudad”). “Extraction” is a straightfor- The graphic novel origins ward shoot-’em-up about a jaded NETFLIX/AP help explain “Tyler Rake,” but mercenary, Mr. Rake, played by that name is about the extent A hardened mercenary’s mission becomes a soul-searching race to survive when he’s sent to Bangladesh Chris Hemsworth, who’s hired to rescue a drug lord’s kidnapped son in “Extraction,” with Chris Hemsworth, left, and Rudhraksh Jaiswal. to save the 14-year-old son of of the comic book elements in a drug lord from another drug the actual fi lm. And, to be fair, they’re just part of the fun). police and an overall vibe of kill any of them, though. He just lord in Bangladesh. It doesn’t “Extraction” even knows it’s It won’t shock you to learn instability populating the streets. kind of injures and disables the do anything to push the genre ridiculous, hence the rake and “Goonies from hell.” forward, but it’s better than you the fact that the 14-year-old asset that Tyler Rake is a bit of a loner Tyler Rake fi nds the kid easily The word “distraction” has might think, existing comfort- Ovi (Rudhraksh Jaiswal) walks who keeps his living quarters in enough, but then things start to started to lose all meaning this ably somewhere on the action up to the line of making fun of it shambles, but you get the sense get more complicated when he deep into our home lockdowns, fl ick spectrum between Tony at one point. that he always knows where discovers that he’s not the only but there is a certain comfort in Scott and Peter Berg. The fi lm begins at the end, the bottle of Oxy is. A woman one looking for Ovi (and ready to showing Tyler Rake (it just (Golshifteh Farahani) comes to kill to get him). curling up with a big, silly action Much of that rests on Hems- pic like “Extraction.” It reminds worth’s (very large) shoulders. feels more right to say his full him with the job to save the kid, But don’t despair; Tyler Rake name) bloodied, battered and whose father is in prison, and has about two hours of nonstop you of something you might have The Australian actor hasn’t had spent money on to see in an ice- near-death on a bridge, having Tyler Rake sets off to Dhaka fi ght in him before he gets to that the easiest job fi nding solid roles cold theater on a hot summer day. outside of Thor. He’s always blurry fl ashbacks to some feet to track him down. There, the bridge and the blurry fl ashbacks. good even when the movie isn’t, in the sand before cutting to two criminal underworld plays out He’ll fi ght, and win, against “Extraction” is rated R for strong bloody violence throughout, language and obviously has some tricks days earlier in Mumbai. (Don’t in broad daylight, with crime anyone who comes in his way — and brief drug use. Running time: 118 up his sleeves that belie his ac- hate “Extraction” for its cliches; bosses, child soldiers, corrupt even a group of kids. He doesn’t minutes. Stuntmen are increasingly Hollywood’s go-to action directors

BY JAKE COYLE the Mohicans,” “The Crow” and “Lethal Associated Press Weapon 2.” He transitioned to directing in 2001’s “In the Shadows,” and followed that Some of today’s top action directors up with “Snitch,” with Dwayne Johnson, were fi rst doubles for Brad Pitt, Neo and and last year’s “Angel Has Fallen.” Wolverine. Chad Stahelski and David Leitch: A Increasingly, fi lmmakers are coming chiseled duo with martial arts skills and from the ranks of stuntmen and stunt stunt expertise, Stahelski and Leitch have coordinators, whose years of accomplish- done more than anyone else to raise the ing complicated shots, managing the risks profi le of stunt coordinators. They’ve been of cast and crew and working intimately leaders in the fi eld since founding the with stars have given them a foundation action design company 87Eleven in 1997. for the task of directing — especially in Leitch was Pitt’s stunt double in “Fight action movies. Club” and doubled for Keanu Reeves in “Extraction” is the directorial debut “The Matrix.” Stahelski choreographed of Sam Hargrave. Before Hargrave got behind the camera, he doubled for Chris fi ghts in “300” and coordinated stunts in Evans on “Captain America” and Hugh “The Expendables.” Jackman on “Wolverine,” and coordinated They stepped into fi lmmaking with the stunts on blockbusters like “Avengers: slickly stylized and hyper-violent “John Endgame” and the “Hunger Games: Wick” franchise (Stahelski directed, Mockingjay” movies. Leitch produced). Leitch, himself, helmed Hargrave is the latest in a lineage “Atomic Blonde,” with Charlize Theron, of stuntmen who have gone from step- and “Deadpool 2.” ping in for actors to directing them. It’s Nash Edgerton: The brother of actor a fairly recent career pathway thanks NETFLIX/AP Joel Edgerton, Nash has been a longtime largely to the success of Chad Stahelski Actors David Harbour, left, and Chris Hemsworth being directed by Sam Hargrave, stuntman, doubling for Ewan McGregor’s (“John Wick”) and David Leitch (“Atomic center, for a scene in “Extraction.” Hargrave is the latest in a lineage of stuntmen who Obi-Wan Kenobi, and doing stunt work Blonde”). have gone from stepping in for actors to directing them. in “The Thin Red Line,” “Superman A brief history of notable stuntmen Returns” and “Zero Dark Thirty.” But turned directors: “Smokey and the Bandit.” He convinced as saying: “Screw the dialogue; let’s Edgerton also continually made short Hal Needham: A trailblazer for stunt- Burt Reynolds, for whom he had doubled, wreck some cars.” fi lms, some with his brother, and eventu- men-fi lmmakers, Needham performed to let him direct. They remained a regular Ric Roman Waugh: The son of stunt- ally made his feature directing debut with stunts on fi lms including “The French team, with Needham directing Reynolds man Fred Waugh, one of the founding the 2008 neo-noir “The Square.” In 2018, Connection” and “How the West Was in “Hooper,” “The Cannonball Run” and members of Stunts Unlimited, Waugh he directed the comedy “Gringo,” with Won” before he penned the script to “Stroker Ace.” Needham has been quoted performed stunt work in “The Last of David Oyelowo and Theron. PAGE 16 •STARS AND STRIPES• Saturday, May 2, 2020 AMERICAN ROUNDUP Police: Kids stole $1M in cars from dealerships

WINSTON-SALEM NC — Police in North Carolina have accused a group of teenagers and children as young as 9 of stealing more than $1.1 million in vehicles from car dealerships. Investigators think 19 suspects ranging in age from 9 to 16 were responsible for taking nearly 50 cars from auto sellers in Winston- Salem and Kernersville during a monthlong string of break-ins, Winston-Salem police told news outlets. Some of the children accused of involvement had stolen mul- tiple cars before, The Winston- Salem Journal quoted Lt. Amy Gauldin as saying. Police alleged the suspects stole the keys of new cars or vehicles being serviced at the dealerships and took them on joy rides. Police: Woman drove car with child on hood

ROCK HILL — A SC woman who allegedly recorded a video of herself driv- ing a car while her 5-year-old child was sitting on the hood of the vehicle was arrested in South

Carolina. CHRIS PIZZELLO/AP Thrista Miquisha Johnson turned herself in Tuesday after Rock Hill police learned about On with the show the video and issued a warrant for her arrest, news outlets reported. Artist Dania Strong adjusts prints of larger works on her front-yard fence as her dog Theo looks on Wednesday in the Koreatown section Lt. Michael Chavis told the Rock of Los Angeles. “Road Through Life,” marks the second show that Strong has mounted on her fence since mid-April, as galleries and Hill Herald the video was taken museums remain closed due to California’s coronavirus-related stay-at-home orders. near an apartment building in the city just two day earlier. allegedly broke into the school ment. The adult in the buggy Chavis said police don’t know THE CENSUS Wednesday and set it on fire, made it to the bank of the stream how fast the car was moving in KCPQ-TV reported. and called for help, police said. the video, but noted the child was The number of times a Florida man has been arrested in a week Deputies responded to calls of The four siblings were found not injured. an alarm activation at Marcus for driving under the influence of alcohol, arrest reports show. The Florida Highway Patrol arrested Henry Francis Davis, 23, on April 22, and pronounced dead by a coro- Whitman Middle School. No one Man admits fatally 2 after he got into a fight with another driver in Clearwater. Six days later, ner’s office on Wednesday. Ken- was injured. he was arrested again when officers saw him driving into oncoming tucky State Police Trooper Scott South Kitsap Fire and Rescue, shooting therapy dog traffic, an arrest report said. Davis has a third DUI arrest in his past from about Ferrell said authorities from the Bremerton Fire Department five years ago in California, according to affidavits. various agencies were continuing MAPLE SHADE — A and others helped put out the fire, to search Thursday for the last NJ man who fatally shot his authorities said. missing child. neighbor’s therapy dog last year The fire caused “substantial has pleaded guilty to animal cru- damage” and the Port Orchard City councilman is About 30 large potted plants Reward offered after elty, authorities said. teenager is being interviewed at and additional smaller ones have William Stroemel, 64, of a juvenile detention center, depu- accused of beef theft been taken, gardens director Jodie pets, wildlife poisoned Maple Shade, also pleaded guilty ties said. The boy faces first-de- Holt told The Press-Enterprise. Wednesday to a weapons posses- gree arson and second-degree FRANKLIN — A About a third of the stolen CRANDON — The U.S. sion count as part of a plea deal burglary charges, authorities GA Georgia city council- plants were part of the gardens’ WI Fish and Wildlife Ser- with Burlington County prosecu- said. man was charged after he alleg- collection and the remainder vice is offering a $1,000 reward tors. They will recommend that edly stole a beef tenderloin from would have been sold. for information that leads to the he receive a five-year state prison Chain reaction crash a grocery store. The gardens closed in mid- arrest of someone who is poison- term when he’s sentenced July on I-44 leaves 1 dead Georgia Bureau of Investiga- March due to the pandemic and ing pets and wildlife in northern 29. tion spokeswoman Nelly Miles the thefts were first noticed Wisconsin. Stroemel used an air rifle to told the Atlanta Journal-Constitu- around April 16-17. Four dogs have died in the past ST. CLAIR — A shoot Toby, a 9-year-old Pomera- tion Clifford Henry Jiles was ac- The thief or thieves cut through month in Forest County. Test- chain reaction crash nian-poodle mix, after the dog MO cused of swapping the price tag of chain-link fencing that surrounds ing on two of the pets, a 4-year- on Interstate 44 in eastern Mis- escaped from his owner’s home a beef tenderloin with a cheaper the 40-acre gardens and an ad- old yellow Labrador retriever souri left one man dead, authori- Sept. 17. The dog’s owner is a pork tenderloin at a Piggly Wig- joining 3-acre orchard on the UC that died April 24 and a 3-year- ties said. Vietnam War veteran, and fam- gly grocery store in Franklin on Riverside campus and even used old German shepherd that died The crash happened Wednes- ily members have said the animal Sunday. Miles said the beef re- the facility’s wheelbarrows to April 1, confirmed that they died day morning near St. Clair, the helped relieve his post-traumatic tailed for over $83, while the pork carry the loot. from poisoning. Tests are pend- St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. stress disorder. was about $12. ing after two more dogs died last The Missouri Highway Patrol The dog, who was shot in the The case was given to the bu- weekend. said the crash occurred around Police: Buggy accident head, had to be euthanized a day reau by Franklin police after Officials believe the deaths are 10 a.m. when a sport utility ve- after the shooting. police learned about the alleged kills 4 Amish children related to the ongoing poisonings hicle driven by Kevin Broshous, swapping on Monday.. in Florence, Forest and Marinet- Deputies: Middle school 67, of Sullivan, lost control, hit a BATH COUNTY — Au- te counties that have been investi- guardrail and veered back into KY thorities in Kentucky gated for about a year, WLUK-TV Gardens struck by said four children died and one is fire caused by arson the interstate’s westbound lanes. reported. So far, seven pet dogs Broshous’ SUV was then hit by missing after a buggy carrying an thefts amid shutdown have died. a semitrailer, which jackknifed Amish family was swept away in PORT ORCHARD — Investigators also found dead A teenager was taken across the westbound lanes, RIVERSIDE — The the current while trying to cross WA coyotes, weasels and wolves, and into custody after a fire damaged causing two more semitrailers to University of Califor- a low-water bridge. CA lab tests confirmed the animals property at a middle school in crash into it. nia, Riverside, Botanic Gardens Six people were in the horse were also poisoned, WSAW-TV Kitsap County, deputies said. Broshous died at the scene. The have been struck by plant thefts and buggy that overturned on reported. Kitsap County sheriff’s depu- patrol said no one else involved in during the lengthening coronavi- Wednesday in Bath County, Ken- ties believe a 15-year-old boy the crash was hurt. rus shutdown. tucky State Police said in a state- From wire reports Saturday, May 2, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES•PAGE 17 OPINION Max D. Lederer Jr., Publisher Lt. Col. Sean Klimek, Europe commander Lt. Col. Richard McClintic, Pacific commander Coronavirus is the great unequalizer Caroline E. Miller, Europe Business Operations Joshua M. Lashbrook, Pacific Chief of Staff BY DOYLE MCMANUS Will this be a moment for Americans to Sawhill says that means more spend- Los Angeles Times take a searching look at our society’s in- ing on the Paycheck Protection Program, EDITORIAL equalities, and decide to raise the incomes which is intended to help small business- e live in an unequal society, of the working poor? Or will we choose to es, and extended unemployment insur- Terry Leonard, Editor and the coronavirus is making muddle through the Pandemic Recession ance plus more help for state and local [email protected] it worse. and try to forget everything we’re sudden- governments. The pandemic has struck Robert H. Reid, Senior Managing Editor W ly seeing in stark relief? But the relief packages need several new disproportionately at poor people in cities, [email protected] So far, federal and state governments elements to soften the pandemic’s impact almost as if it were deliberately targeting have been in crisis mode, scrambling to on the no-longer-working poor. Tina Croley, Managing Editor for Content minorities. In New York, the death rate quell the pandemic and halt the economy’s Sawhill recommends expanding the low- [email protected] among African Americans and Latinos free fall. Congress has passed four eco- income safety net with emergency funding has been roughly twice as high as among nomic relief bills with more than $3 tril- for food stamps and Temporary Assistance Sean Moores, Managing Editor for Presentation white people. [email protected] lion in emergency spending, an emergency for Needy Families, two programs that got The economic impact has been unequal effort of unprecedented size. similar boosts during the Great Recession Joe Gromelski, Managing Editor for Digital too. A survey released Tuesday by the But the measures have been short term a decade ago. [email protected] Robert Wood Johnson Foundation report- and top-down. They began with bailouts But Congress needs to put automatic ed that more than half of the workers who for airlines and other big businesses, then triggers on all these programs, so that have lost income because of the pandemic added a massive program of loans for small funding rises along with job losses. That BUREAU STAFF were already below the federal poverty businesses, direct payments to taxpayers way, the newly unemployed won’t have to line. Higher-income workers, by contrast, Europe/Mideast and expanded unemployment benefits. depend on Congress voting for round after have mostly kept their jobs. Erik Slavin, Europe & Mideast Bureau Chief Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve has round of new funding amid the polarized [email protected] Now add a third, cruel form of inequal- +49(0)631.3615.9350; DSN (314)583.9350 ity: unequal risk. buoyed the stock markets by lending tril- debates of an election year. lions to banks, businesses, states and Want to think bigger? Gene Sperling, a Pacific Knowledge workers who can work at home are riding out the pandemic in rela- counties. former economic adviser to Bill Clinton, Aaron Kidd, Pacific Bureau Chief The rollout has been plagued with more is proposing a $20 “living wage” package [email protected] tive safety. First responders, health care +81.42.552.2511 ext. 88380; DSN (315)227.7380 workers, bus drivers, grocery store clerks than its share of problems. The small-busi- that would begin with a $15 minimum and delivery workers don’t have that ness loan program started in chaos, and wage and add child care subsidies and tax Washington luxury. funneled much of its money to big busi- credits. Other Democrats hope this will be Joseph Cacchioli, Washington Bureau Chief To keep their paychecks coming, they nesses instead. The second round, which the moment when voters coalesce around [email protected] began Monday, led to widespread frustra- their demands for universal health insur- (+1)(202)886-0033 have to go out in public and risk infection Brian Bowers, Assistant Managing Editor, News — even though they generally aren’t as tion as the Small Business Administration’s ance, so workers don’t lose access to medi- [email protected] well paid as the managers (and journalists) website repeatedly crashed and bankers cal care if they lose their jobs. who work at home. couldn’t file applications for clients. Those proposals will remain stretch- CIRCULATION Those are the new facts of American in- States have been swamped by applica- es unless Democrats win a landslide in equality. They’ll persist as long as the coro- tions for unemployment insurance; Florida November. Mideast reported last week that it had managed to But we ought to reach a bipartisan con- Robert Reismann, Mideast Circulation Manager navirus is at large. The economic impact is [email protected] likely to continue even longer. approve only 20% of incoming requests. sensus that the “essential workers” we [email protected] “We had a lot of inequality before the President Donald Trump hopes for a claim to admire as heroic — including gro- DSN (314)583-9111 pandemic, and we’re going to have a lot sharp economic recovery before the No- cery store clerks, delivery service drivers more before it’s over,” Isabel V. Sawhill vember election. But the International and meat packers — deserve a living wage. Europe Monetary Fund warns the recession could Karen Lewis, Community Engagement Manager of the Brookings Institution, a leading They’re risking their lives on our behalf. [email protected] scholar on poverty and class, told me. “It’s last more than a year. The bounce-back For their sake, it would be a terrible thing [email protected] quite scary to think about what will be- could stall if the pandemic recurs or if wary to let this crisis go to waste. +49(0)631.3615.9090; DSN (314)583.9090 come of the country when the effects are consumers stay away from public places Doyle McManus is a Washington columnist for the and continue to trim their spending. Pacific so uneven.” Los Angeles Times and director of the journalism program at Georgetown University. Mari Mori, [email protected] The question is: What do we do about it? So we need to plan for a longer ordeal. +81-3 6385.3171; DSN (315)227.7333 CONTACT US Washington Small-business loan program really is working tel: (+1)202.886.0003 633 3rd St. NW, Suite 116, Washington, DC 20001-3050 BY ANDY PUZDER businesses as intended. Loans for less than One looming problem: the lack of cer- Reader letters Special to The Washington Post $150,000 account for 74% of total loans — tainty about how businesses can qualify [email protected] and 96% were for less than $1 million. The for loan forgiveness. For example, how edia coverage of the federal average loan was $206,000. much of the loan proceeds must employers Additional contacts government’s efforts to help But is the money helping? As the for- spend on payroll, and over what period of stripes.com/contactus small businesses has focused mer chief executive of CKE Restaurants, time? But there is a sense that the Trump OMBUDSMAN Mlately on big companies’ grab- with about 200 franchisees, and a former administration recognizes the problem bing loans that were meant to help smaller director of the International Franchise As- and will soon issue regulatory guidance to Ernie Gates ones weather the new coronavirus eco- sociation, I’ve been hearing from a lot of clarify the requirements. nomic shutdown. But the numbers from the nervous small-business owners since the With the PPP loans made so far, and with The Stars and Stripes ombudsman protects the free flow Cares Act’s Paycheck Protection Program beginning of the economic shutdown. more money being disbursed, thousands of news and information, reporting any attempts by the of small businesses that would otherwise military or other authorities to undermine the newspaper’s are coming in, and they’re impressive. While the Cares Act was pending in Con- independence. The ombudsman also responds to concerns On April 3, the Small Business Admin- gress, most were concerned about whether have closed permanently will remain and questions from readers, and monitors coverage for fair- istration launched the PPP with $349 bil- open, their employees either still at work ness, accuracy, timeliness and balance. The ombudsman their business would qualify for the loans. welcomes comments from readers, and can be contacted lion. The SBA’s most recent report says Once it passed, covering a broad swath of or more confident that their employer will by email at [email protected], or by phone at that through April 16, the agency approved small businesses, you could almost hear be in business and rehiring once the cri- 202.886.0003. nearly 1.7 million loans through 4,975 the collective sigh of relief. But something sis abates. According to Mnuchin, the PPP lenders, depleting the entire fund. Accord- close to panic set in when many business- has already benefited 30 million workers, and the administration expects “it will be Stars and Stripes (USPS 0417900) is published week- ing to SBA Administrator Jovita Carranza, es were unable to find a lender willing to days (except Dec. 25 and Jan. 1) for 50 cents Monday the agency “processed more than 14 years’ make a PPP loan. It seemed that the bigger another 30 million workers by the time we through Thursday and for $1 on Friday by Pacific Stars and worth of loans in less than 14 days.” By any get done with this, so close to 50% of the Stripes, Unit 45002, APO AP 96301-5002. Periodicals the bank, the more difficult the process. postage paid at San Francisco, CA, Postmaster: Send measure, that’s lightning speed. 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After an inexcusable delay by handicap, political affiliation or any other nonmerit factor to be working. of the purchaser, user or patron. criminal liability.” A number of companies House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., already have repaid their loans. the Trump administration and Congress Andy Puzder is the former chief executive of © Stars and Stripes 2020 CKE Restaurants, a senior fellow at Pepperdine For the most part, these PPP loans ap- added $310 billion to the PPP to address University’s School of Public Policy and the author stripes.com pear to be actually reaching the small the demand. of “Getting America Back to Work.” PAGE 18 • S TARS AND STRIPES• Saturday, May 2, 2020 Saturday, May 2, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 19 PAGE 20 • S TARS AND STRIPES• Saturday, May 2, 2020 SCOREBOARD/SPORTS BRIEFS/SOCCER Briefl y Sports on AFN

Go to the American Forces NFL planning to play full season Network website for the most up-to-date TV schedules. myafn.net Associated Press round choice in 2021. A defensive end from Missouri, The NFL is planning to play a Harris was the 22nd overall pick full season though it’s uncertain Deals in 2017, but he totaled only 3 ½ what that will look like. sacks with Miami. That included League spokesman Brian Mc- Thursday’s transactions half a sack last year, even though Carthy said Thursday that since he started a career-high five FOOTBALL January the 2020 schedule was National Football League games for rookie coach Brian ARIZONA CARDINALS — Released LB intended for release after the Keishawn Bierria and DL Lyndon John- Flores. son. draft. It is planned for release BALTIMORE RAVENS — Signed C by the end of next week, with the Trystan Colon-Castillo, QB Tyler Huntley US sprinter Stevens and K Nick Vogel. date for the kickoff game Thurs- CINCINNATI BENGALS — Released QB day, Sept. 10, concluding with the provisionally suspended Andy Dalton. LAS VEGAS RAIDERS — Re-signed WR Super Bowl on Feb. 7 in Tampa. De’Mornay Pierson-El. MONACO — American sprint- MIAMI DOLPHINS — Released DE Taco But the league is planning sev- Charlton. eral contingencies because of the er Deajah Stevens was provi- NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Signed sionally suspended Friday for free agents; DL Beau Allen, WR’s Dam- coronavirus pandemic that could iere Byrd and Marqise Lee, LB Brandon lead to everything from a delayed repeatedly being unavailable for Copeland, DB’s Cody Davis and Adrian doping tests. Phillips, QB Brian Hoyer and FB Dan Vi- start to a late-winter Super Bowl. tale. “The schedule will come out as The Athletics Integrity Unit NEW YORK GIANTS — Signed undraft- said Stevens amassed three ed free agents; TE Rysen John and DE normal, but we’re doing reason- Dana Levine. Released DE Kevin Wilkins. able and responsible planning as whereabouts violations in a year. TENNESSEE TITANS — Agreed to terms with RB Senorise Perry on a one-year we always do, inside of game op- Athletes are required to pro- contract. erations,” league executive Troy vide regular updates on their HOCKEY National Hockey League Vincent told The Associated Press whereabouts to make it possible NEW YORK ISLANDERS — Agreed to on Thursday. “Based off of what for anti-doping authorities to terms with D Samuel Bolduc on a three- year entry-level contract. we are learning from the medical carry out surprise testing outside SOCCER of competition. A violation means Major League Soccer community and how people are TORONTO FC — Agreed to terms with handling this domestically and an athlete either did not fill out M Marky Delgado on a long-term con- forms telling authorities where tract. abroad, we are being deliberate COLLEGE with reasonable and responsible they could be found, or that they CREIGHTON — Signed men’s basket- ball F Modestas Kancleris. planning about what can work in weren’t where they said they NEW MEXICO — Announced football our environment and what we can would be when testers arrived. DE Jake Saltonstill has transferred from Foothill JC. incorporate to protect the health Stevens won the U.S. national SETON HALL — Announced women’s and safety of all involved.” title in the 200 meters in 2017 and basketball G Mya Bembry has trans- ferred from Penn State and G Curtessa Empty stadiums, neutral sites was a finalist in the 200 at the Dean has transferred from Trinity Valley and no bye weeks are among sev- 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics. CC. WAKE FOREST — Named Steve Forbes eral alternatives being discussed. The AIU said similar suspen- men’s head basketball coach. “We have to look at it in the sions were imposed on American current environment based off sprinter Gabrielle Thomas and Pro basketball what we’re learning through the Kenyan distance runner Alex science and through the medical Korio Oliotiptip. It didn’t specify community,” said Vincent, who when or where the violations NBA DAVID J. PHILLIP/AP oversees football operations for occurred. EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division the NFL. United States sprinter Deajah Stevens was suspended Friday for World champion sprinter W L Pct GB Toronto 46 18 .719 — If the season needs to be pushed repeatedly being unavailable for doping tests. Christian Coleman was cleared of Boston 43 21 .672 3 back or the regular season has a whereabouts charge last year. Philadelphia 39 26 .600 7½ Brooklyn 30 34 .469 16 to be adjusted, the NFL players’ agreement in March that carries pick Charles Harris was traded One of the American’s alleged vi- New York 21 45 .318 26 Southeast Division union would have to approve. through the 2030 season. Friday after three unproductive olations was backdated, putting it Miami 41 24 .631 — The league and the players’ as- In other NFL news: seasons by the Miami Dolphins to outside of the required 12-month Orlando 30 35 .462 11 Washington 24 40 .375 16½ sociation reached a new labor  Former first-round draft the Atlanta Falcons for a seventh- window for three strikes. Charlotte 23 42 .354 18 Atlanta 20 47 .299 22 Central Division Milwaukee 53 12 .815 — Indiana 39 26 .600 14 Chicago 22 43 .338 31 Detroit 20 46 .303 33½ Cleveland 19 46 .292 34 Banks agree to pay fines in FIFA scandal WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB Houston 40 24 .625 — BY RONALD BLUM Uruguay’s federation, was among “This announcement illustrates Traffic Sports, a Brazilian com- Dallas 40 27 .597 1½ Memphis 32 33 .492 8½ Associated Press those accused of receiving the another aspect in the spider web pany, held the rights from 1987- New Orleans 28 36 .438 12 San Antonio 27 36 .429 12½ bribes, along with Luis Bedoya, of bribery, corruption and back- 2011. Traffic Sports and Traffic Northwest Division NEW YORK — An Israeli bank a former president of Colombia’s room deals going on behind the Sports USA reached guilty pleas Denver 43 22 .662 — and its Swiss subsidiary agreed Utah 41 23 .641 1½ federation and like Figueredo a scenes as soccer games were and were fined a total of $1 mil- Oklahoma City 40 24 .625 2½ to pay over $30 million for their onetime member of FIFA’s ex- played on the field,” William F. lion last year. Portland 29 37 .439 14½ role in conspiring to launder Minnesota 19 45 .297 23½ ecutive committee. Sweeney, assistant director in Full Play is controlled by Hugo Pacific Division more than $20 million in kick- Former federation presidents charge of the FBI’s New York Jinkis and son Mariano, who L.A. Lakers 49 14 .778 — backs to soccer officials, becom- L.A. Clippers 44 20 .688 5½ Sergio Jadue of Chile and Ra- field office, said in a statement. were first indicted in 2015 and Sacramento 28 36 .438 21½ ing the first financial institutions Phoenix 26 39 .400 24 fael Esquivel of Venezuela also “Bank Hapoalim admits execu- have been charged with rack- Golden State 15 50 .231 35 implicated in the FIFA scandal were implicated by the U.S. Jus- tives looked the other way, and eteering conspiracy, wire fraud, to reach a resolution with U.S. tice Department, along with Jose allowed illicit activity to continue wire fraud conspiracy and money prosecutors. AP sportlight Bank Hapoalim BM in Israel Luis Chiriboga, whose father, even when employees discovered laundering conspiracy. and its wholly owned Swiss com- Luis, was president of Ecuador’s the scheme and reported it.” Full Play had accounts at the May 2 federation. In a weave of bribes that in- banks in the names of subsidiar- 1904 — Mrs. Charles Durnell becomes pany Hapoalim Ltd. agreed to the first woman to own a Kentucky Der- forfeit $20.73 million and pay a Bank Hapoalim (BHMB) and cluded details from wiretaps and ies Bayan Group, Cross Trad- by starter and winner when long shot Hapoalim Ltd. (BHS) reached a unidentified individuals referred ing and Yorkfields, and the two Elwood wins the 30th Run for the Roses. fine of $9.33 million as part of a Elwood is also the first Derby winner to non-prosecution agreement, the deal with the Justice Department to as Relationship Manager 1, Jinkises used those accounts to be bred by a woman, Mrs. J.B. Prather. 1917 — Fred Toney of the Cincinnati U.S. attorney’s office in Brooklyn and the U.S. attorney’s office in Compliance Employees 1 and make at least 53 bribe payments Reds and James “Hippo” Vaughn of the said Thursday. The scheme took which they and BHMB subsidiary 2 and Co-Conspirators 1 and 2, totaling more than $14.02 million Chicago Cubs pitch a double no-hitter for nine innings, but the Reds win 1-0 place through the banks’ Miami Hapoalim (Latin America) SA prosecutors detailed the actions from 2010-14 to Bedoya, Chiri- with two hits in the 10th. branch from 2010-15, with many will not be subject to prosecution by Full Play Group, the Argen- boga, Esquivel and Figueredo as 1939 — Lou Gehrig of the New York Yankees does not play against the De- of the payments tied to marketing for any of the crimes admitted in tine company that won rights to part of Full Play’s deal to acquire troit Tigers at Briggs Stadium, ending the deal, except for criminal tax sell media and marketing for the marketing rights to the 2015, his streak of 2,130 consecutive games rights for the Copa America. played. Eugenio Figueredo, a former violations. No bank employees 2015, 2016, 2019 and 2023 Copa 2016, 2019 and 2023 Copa Ameri- 1967 — The Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Montreal Canadiens 3-1 to win the president of the South American involved in the illegal activities Americas, South America’s na- cas, prosecutors said in a state- Stanley Cup in six games. governing body CONMEBOL and were identified by name. tional team championship. ment of facts. Saturday, May 2, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES•PAGE 21 GOLF/BOXING Joshua’s first title defense may take place without fans

BY STEVE DOUGLAS fight nights in July before return- Associated Press ing with a bigger show, provided boxing and other sports get the Anthony Joshua’s first fight as go-ahead to return from the Brit- the restored world heavyweight ish government. champion could take place in Hearn said he wouldn’t want to front of no spectators. stage a fight in an enclosed loca- British boxing’s governing tion like a TV studio because he body told promoters on Thursday doesn’t see how it “does anything it hopes to be able to have shows for the sport.” back from July after months of “I want to build a fight camp, inactivity because of the corona- a different kind of environment, virus outbreak. more dramatic,” Hearn said in an Initially, though, Bouts are ex- interview with the BBC. “It will pected to be held without fans, look spectacular on TV. We need meaning Joshua’s fight against to dramatize it. PHELAN M. EBENHACK/AP Kubrat Pulev — the first since “It’s about taking over a hotel, Harris English started the season with conditional status from finishing between Nos. 126 and 150 the Briton regained his WBA, testing all the teams, creating a on the PGA Tour the previous season. The PGA Tour said players exempt for this season will keep the IBF and WBO belts by beat- sterile fight camp where no one same status for the 2020-21 season that is scheduled to start in September unless they earn a higher ing Andy Ruiz Jr. in December goes in until we know they’ve had ranking after this shortened season. That could help someone like English, who has posted five top 10s — would surely be switched from a negative test. It’s about creating and is No. 24 in the FedEx Cup, making his a lock to have a full card for next season. its planned venue, the stadium of changing room areas, ring walks. English soccer club Tottenham It will add to the story.” which can hold more than 60,000 The British Boxing Board of spectators. Control said if boxing was to re- The Joshua-Pulev fight had turn in July, there would be an been scheduled for June 20 be- emphasis on “minimal numbers” No one loses tour card fore being pushed back to an as- of officials and broadcast person- yet-unconfirmed date because of nel. Medical staff were required the pandemic. A rearranged date at ringside, too. of July 25 has been touted. Anyone at the events will have Joshua wanted the first de- to have been in pre-fight quaran- fense of his belts to take place in tine and had tests for COVID-19. in shorter PGA season London. There will initially be a maxi- Eddie Hearn, Joshua’s pro- mum of five fights in a show. moter, said his Matchroom Box- The BBBofC said it continues BY DOUG FERGUSON ing organization was planning to follow advice from government Associated Press Scott halves ‘Nine holes with a mate’ to stage “two or three” Saturday and medical authorities. A shorter season brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic means MALENY, Australia — Adam each shot, exchanging banter, telling no one will lose a PGA Tour card Scott’s “Nine holes with a mate” stories and giving tips and advice as this year and the Korn Ferry was authentic, if nothing else. they covered the Maleny Golf Club Tour players will have to wait a With the PGA Tour suspended on Australia’s Sunshine Coast hin- year before fully joining the big and sports generally shuttered terland on Friday morning. leagues. globally be- Scott was one down going into A memo sent to players Thurs- cause of the the last, and Perske missed a putt day to outline the changes was coronavirus that would have given him bragging another step in the tour trying pandemic, rights over one of the world’s top 10 to figure out what’s equitable in Scott is players. a season that will be without 13 back in The ever-polite Scott summed previously scheduled events. Australia up the result at the end of the live The tour said players exempt and looking stream: “We’ve halved the match. for this season will keep the same for ways Sorry for the no result.” The condi- status for the 2020-21 season that to keep tions were rugged and breezy, with is scheduled to start in September golf fans the wind playing havoc with the unless they earn a higher ranking engaged. audio. But considering other live Scott after this shortened season. The sports options — almost zero — it That could help someone like 2013 Mas- was a hit with the fans. Harris English, who started the ters Champion live streamed nine Scott grew up north of Brisbane season with conditional status holes of match play against Austra- on the Sunshine Coast, where the from finishing between Nos. 126 lian PGA professional Wayne Per- Maleny club is located. and 150 the previous season. He ske on Instagram, commentating on — Associated Press has posted five top 10s and is No. 24 in the FedEx Cup, making him a lock to have a full card for next vember and the British Open was whoever finished in the top 30 in season. canceled. the FedEx Cup gets into at least As for the developmental Korn That means six majors will be three majors in 2021, along with a Ferry Tour, no one will graduate played next season. trip to Maui. to the PGA Tour after the season. This season still offers a $15  The tournament in the Do- The tour was working on reward- million prize to the winner of minican Republic originally ing the top 10 players, such as allowing them in opposite-field the FedEx Cup. The two playoff was canceled and then moved events for next season. events outside Boston and Chi- to September, the same week as All of this is contingent on golf cago would award triple points the Ryder Cup. Because it is not resuming June 11-14 at Colonial, instead of quadruple points. opposite a World Golf Champion- the restart of a season that would In other changes: ship, the winner will receive full include only one major champi-  The field for the Sentry FedEx Cup points and a trip to HASSAN AMMAR/AP onship. The PGA Championship Tournament of Champions at Ka- the 2021 Masters. is tentatively set for Aug. 9-12 in palua will include everyone who  For the rest of this season, Britain’s Anthony Joshua celebrates after beating Andy Ruiz Jr. to San Francisco. The U.S. Open wins a PGA Tour event in 2020, Monday qualifiers that can be win their World Heavyweight Championship bout on Dec. 8 at the was pushed back to September, along with players who reach the held will only provide two spots Diriyah Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Joshua’s first fight as the the Masters was moved to No- Tour Championship. That means instead of four. restored champion could take place in front of no fans. PAGE 22 • S TARS AND STRIPES• Saturday, May 2, 2020 COLLEGE SPORTS NCAA board: Delay transfer rule change

BY RALPH D. RUSSO  Notification dates for ath- Associated Press letes who want to use a one-time exception. Those would likely The NCAA Board of Gover- need to be sports specific. nors has recommended delaying  Tampering. a change to the transfer waiver “You hear people complain process that would permit all ath- about it but at the end of the day, letes to switch schools once with- very little is done,” Steinbrecher out sitting out a season. said. “Coaches aren’t willing Now it is likely the NCAA will necessarily to point the finger at examine loosening restrictions each other. OK, what do you want on transfers through legislation. to do?” The NCAA announced the  Graduate transfers. Rules board’s recommendation Thurs- already allow athletes who have day after several days of meet- graduated to transfer without ings, but added the Division I sitting out. Would that stay the council could still a vote on mak- same? ing the waiver change in May.  Football teams can sign no The board did agree to lift a moratorium on legislative chang- more than 25 players in a year, es to the transfer rules, allowing including recruits and transfers. NCAA member schools to con- Could that be tweaked to allow sider proposals in January for a teams the ability to replace out- one-time exception for all trans- going transfers, opening up more ferring Division I athletes. spots for players looking for new Mid-American Conference schools? Commissioner Jon Steinbrecher Currently, NCAA rules require said a more comprehensive ap- football, baseball, men’s hockey proach to implementing a one- and men’s and women’s basket- time exception for all transfers is ball players to sit out a season needed. after transferring. Athletes in all “That will allow us to better other sports are allowed by rule address the issues that are all a one-time exception so they can around this,” said Steinbrecher, play right away after switching who was leading the transfer schools. waiver working group. A change to the waiver was rec- Steinbecher said those issues ommended by a working group in include: February that would mirror the  How transfers count toward one-time exception, and go into a team’s Academic Progress Rat- effect this year. That was before KEITH SRAKOCIC/AP ing. Teams can face NCAA sanc- college sports were shut down tions if they fall short of APR and thrown into disarray by the The NCAA announced recommendations Thursday from its Board of Governors to delay a change to the targets. coronavirus pandemic. transfer waiver process that would permit athletes to switch schools once without sitting out a season. NCAA faces lawsuit over violence against women

BY NOAH TRISTER in 2015, and a men’s basketball tion very seriously, and our Office Associated Press player at the America East school of Institutional Equity reviews all of rape in 2019. allegations it receives,” she said. The NCAA is facing a federal The suit includes allegations “In the last several years, MSU lawsuit accusing the organization of rape against three Michigan has taken significant steps to in- of failing to address gender-based State basketball players in 2015. crease resources for survivors, to violence by male athletes against The woman who made those al- revise and to educate the campus female students at colleges and legations spoke about them last community on our policies, as universities. year and filed a lawsuit in 2018. well as to further its prevention Plaintiffs in the suit, filed this The lawsuit against the NCAA efforts.” week in U.S. District Court in alleges that after the female track The lawsuit against the NCAA Michigan, include women who athlete at Michigan State was says the swimmer at an America have been athletes at Michigan raped by a member of the men’s East school was raped by a basket- State, Nebraska and an unidenti- team, she reported the rape ball player last year, and that the fied America East school. Other to an assistant coach, who told swimmer’s mother was told by an plaintiffs have been students at her “if she pursued any claims athletics employee that a formal Michigan State or Nebraska. against (the man), no one would Title IX investigation would re- “Defendants routinely issue like her, and that because (she) sult in an immediate suspension harsh punishments against stu- is ‘pretty,’ she would become a of the basketball player, pending dent-athletes who accept pay- DAVID J. PHILLIP/AP ‘distraction.’ ” the outcome of the investigation. ments in exchange for use of their The suit says members of the According to the complaint, likenesses, or who accept free NCAA President Mark Emmert speaks during a news conference men’s track team threatened her the employee said an informal meals, but they have no specific in San Antonio. A federal lawsuit has been filed against the NCAA if she pursued charges. The suit Title IX resolution process could penalty for student-athletes who accusing the organization of failing to address sexual violence by says the woman was removed not result in the player being sus- commit sexual assault,” the suit male athletes against female students at colleges and universities. from the sprint squad so she pended “because it ‘wouldn’t be says. “Defendants have repeated- would not be around the man she fair to other players’ and it ‘would ly and persistently failed to take was left with the NCAA seeking distress, negligent supervision, said raped her. have a negative impact on the any meaningful action to mitigate comment. fraud, breach of contract with stu- The female track athlete also community’ who attended games the severe issue of sexual miscon- A former track athlete at Mich- dent-athletes and breach of con- filed her own suit against Michi- expecting to see (him) play.” duct perpetrated by male student- igan State, a former volleyball tract with non-student athletes. gan State. The school would not The woman did not want to athletes against women at their player at Nebraska and a swim- The suit accuses a men’s track comment on the suit against initiate the formal Title IX inves- member institutions.” mer at an America East school athlete at Michigan State of rape the NCAA, while spokeswoman tigation because she feared retal- A Nebraska spokeswoman said are among the plaintiffs. in 2017, and it accuses football Emily Guerrant said it would be iation, the suit says. In January, Thursday the school received a The lawsuit accuses the defen- players at Nebraska of rape in inappropriate to comment about she learned the school was going copy of the lawsuit against the dants of negligence, intentional 2018 and 2019 and of nonconsen- the suit against MSU. to be running an ad featuring the NCAA and cannot comment on infliction of emotional distress, sual groping in 2019. It also ac- “That said, we take allegations basketball player to promote the pending litigation. A message negligent infliction of emotional cuses a Nebraska athlete of rape of sexual misconduct and retalia- athletic department. Saturday, May 2, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 23 VIRUS OUTBREAK

Year: ‘Reason A track marshall waves a yellow caution flag during a race in Watkins Glen, N.Y., in 2016. for optimism’ that MEL EVANS/AP regular season could still go on

FROM BACK PAGE the 75th playing of the tourna- ment; that milestone has been pushed back to 2022. “Let me tell folks in all those communities and all the sites where we have regional qualify- ing tournaments how disappoint- ed we are to have to do this, but it was inevitable,” Keener said. “It would be irresponsible and impossible to bring teams and thousands of people from all over the world into the community of Williamsport as well as those six other communities that have been such great friends and supporters of ours over the years.” He added that travel restric- tions would make it equally impossible to hold qualifying tournaments for international teams and to bring those teams safely to the United States. Little League has not, however, called off the 2020 regular season. Keener said there was reason for optimism that teams could play this spring and summer, depend- ing on restrictions in states and NASCAR to race – under caution localities. The annual major league game in Williamsport, which this year Season resumes with seven was to feature the Boston Red Sox and Baltimore Orioles on Aug. 23, fan-free events in 10 days has been canceled, MLB said. “While the cancellation of the BY JENNA FRYER 2020 Little League World Series Associated Press is extremely disappointing, the health and safety of all of the CHARLOTTE, N.C. — NASCAR plans to people involved must be the para- restart its engines with a flurry of races at two mount consideration. We look historic tracks. forward to our return to William- NASCAR said Thursday it is set to return sport for the 2021 MLB Little — without spectators — on May 17 with an elite Cup Series race at Darlington Raceway League Classic,” baseball Com- in South Carolina, the first of seven events in missioner Rob Manfred said in a an 11-day stretch across the top three series. statement. There will be no practice, no qualifying Little League announced in and drivers will jump into their cars for the /AP March that the season was on first time since March 8 and attempt to tackle MIKE MCCARN hold until at least May 11 because “The Track Too Tough To Tame.” Kevin Harvick (4) and Joey Logano (22) race on April 12, 2014, during a NASCAR race in of guidance from the Centers for “Events are going to look different than Darlington, S.C. NASCAR will get its season back on track May 17 at Darlington Raceway Disease Control and Prevention they have in the past,” said John Bobo, NAS- without spectators, with plans to race four times in 10 days at a pair of iconic tracks. against gatherings of 50 people or CAR vice president of racing operations. more. NASCAR has set guidelines to safely hold a Wednesday race three days later. NASCAR has completed a fully revised After that date, Keener said, the events using CDC guidelines on social dis- There also will be lower-tier Xfinity and schedule but would not reveal it Thursday as districts and leagues should look tancing and personal protective equipment. Truck series races at the two tracks. The so much relies on the pandemic and guide- to states and localities for guid- The entire venue will be used to maintain dis- North Carolina governor has said the the lines in different states. ance on when or if the season can tancing in garage stalls and where the haulers Charlotte races can be held as long as health Darlington will now have three coveted resume. He also urged districts to are parked, while drivers will have to self-iso- conditions in the area do not deteriorate. Cup races for the first time in track history. hold all-star tournaments to give late in their motorhomes as they prepare to “This has been a proactive effort to put our It is also scheduled to open the playoffs with kids at least a taste of the competi- compete. motorsports industry back to work and boost the Southern 500 on Sept. 6. Because the track tion they’ll be missing with World “Our priority right now is to try and get back the morale of sports fans around the world,” now has two additional dates, NASCAR will Series qualifying scrapped. racing in a safe way,” said Steve O’Donnell, said Marcus Smith, president and CEO of lose two Cup races from its other properties. “We will be very amenable to chief racing development officer. Speedway Motorsports. He said “sports fans The same goes for Speedway Motorsports, (changing) eligibility require- NASCAR follows the UFC as the first major around the world need this, a return to some which gained one additional race so far and ments and be very flexible to sports organizations to get back to work since sense of normalcy with live sports on TV, and will have to forfeit one at another facility. allow as many kids the opportu- the coronavirus pandemic shut down U.S. NASCAR is uniquely positioned to deliver it “For the couple tracks where we need to nity to play as possible for what- sports in mid-March. The Professional Bull from a competition standpoint.” move an event, we want to do that in the right Racing Series resumed competition last week- ever can remain of the 2020 Little NASCAR suspended its season March 13 way,” O’Donnell said. “We just want to take a end and there has been some horse racing. with only four of its 36 scheduled races com- little time here before we’re able to announce League season,” he said. NASCAR’s revised schedule goes only pleted. The stock car series, heavily reliant that.” Along with the Little League through May and has a pair of Wednesday on television money and sponsor payments, Almost all teams began returning to their World Series, which is held in Cup races, fulfilling fans’ longtime plea for has vowed to complete its full schedule. The shops this week with either a reduced initial South Williamsport, the other midweek events. The first of those races will revised schedule for now stays at tracks workforce or in split shifts. Now that NASCAR events canceled were the World be at Darlington, three days after the return within driving distance of Charlotte-based has told the teams where it will be racing this Series of Little League Softball in race at the 70-year-old, egg-shaped oval. race teams and in states that have started month, they can start preparing cars suitable Greenville, N.C.; Junior League Charlotte Motor Speedway will then host reopening. for the two tracks. Baseball in Taylor, Mich.; Junior the Coca-Cola 600 on May 24 to mark 60 con- O’Donnell said NASCAR wanted to get Although Florida and Texas invited NAS- League Softball in Kirkland, secutive years the longest race on the NAS- seven events completed within driving dis- CAR to compete in those states without spec- Wash.; Senior League Baseball in CAR schedule will be held on Memorial Day tance of North Carolina before it resumes tators, the sanctioning body is holding off on Easley, S.C.; and Senior League weekend. The track in Concord, outside NAS- competition in states that require air travel announcing races in those states because of Softball in Sussex County, Del. CAR’s home base of Charlotte, will then host and hotels. the travel required. S TARS AND STRIPES Saturday, May 2, 2020 Start your engines NASCAR to resume season SPORTS without spectators » Page 23

VIRUS OUTBREAK Not this year Little League World Series canceled for first time

Associated Press cause of the coronavirus pandemic. events amid ongoing restrictions on large WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. Little League President Stephen Keener gatherings and travel. his year’s Little League World Se- announced the cancellations in a Facebook The Little League World Series has been ries and the championship tourna- Live broadcast Thursday afternoon from held every August since 1947 and had never ments in six other Little League league headquarters in Williamsport, Penn., been canceled before. Next year was to be Tdivisions have been canceled be- saying it would be “impossible” to hold the SEE YEAR ON PAGE 23

‘ It would be irresponsible and impossible to bring teams and thousands of people from all over the world into the community of Williamsport. ’ Stephen Keener Little League President, in a Facebook Live broadcast Thursday

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