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Volume 78, No. 152 ©SS 2019 CONTINGENCY EDITION FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2019 stripes.com Free to Deployed Areas Drills and diplomacy North Korea raises stakes after Esper says US could ‘adjust’ military exercises

BY KIM GAMEL South Korean officials on Friday. previously known as Vigilant Ace. U.S. Air Force F-15C Stars and Stripes Washington already has canceled or reduced “We will adjust our exercise posture either Eagles taxi to the runway the scope of several annual exercises after Pres- more or less depending on what diplomacy may for takeoff in December SEOUL, South Korea — The United States ident Donald Trump announced he was “stop- require,” Esper said, while stressing the need to 2017 at Gwangju Air might adjust military exercises in South Korea ping the war games” after his first summit with maintain readiness. Base, South Korea, for the sake of diplomacy with the North, the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un last year. Any decision on “dialing up or dialing down during Exercise Vigilant defense secretary said, as the communist state But the North considers all allied military ac- exercises and training stuff like that” would be Ace-18. The U.S. warned that it’s running out of patience for the tivity on the divided peninsula a rehearsal for made in close collaboration with the South Ko- and South Korea have U.S. to soften its denuclearization demands. an invasion and was not appeased when training reans, Esper said, according to a transcript pro- said they plan to hold Defense Secretary Mark Esper made his com- continued. vided by the Pentagon. a joint air force exercise ments to reporters traveling with him to Seoul, The allies have said they plan to hold a joint air next month. where he is due to hold alliance talks with senior force exercise next month to replace the drills SEE DRILLS ON PAGE 3 KRISTEN A. HELLER/U.S. Air Force Key takeaways from start of House impeachment hearings BY ERIC TUCKER, MICHAEL BALSAMO Democrats’ investigation. Trump pushed for about investigations. AND MARY CLARE JALONICK In several hours of testimony, punctu- Taylor said some of his staff members Associated Press ated by occasional bickering among law- Biden investigation were at a restaurant with Gordon Sondland, makers, some memorable moments have Hearings like this one can be scripted ambassador to the European Union, on the WASHINGTON — The start of public emerged. affairs. But on Wednesday, there was one day after the July 25 call between Presi- impeachment hearings unfolding in Con- Here are some key takeaways from early surprise. Taylor, the top diplomat in dent Donald Trump and Ukraine’s newly gress marks the first time the American Wednesday’s hearing featuring the first Ukraine, revealed for the first time that elected president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy. public can watch and listen to the witness- public witnesses, George Kent and Wil- his staff members overheard the president es whose testimony is at the center of the liam Taylor. speaking on the phone to another diplomat SEE HEARINGS ON PAGE 8 PAGE 2 •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, November 15, 2019 MILITARY Airman’s actions offer a window on bigger issue Ex-Army employee

BY MARCUS KLOECKNER U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz com- AND JENNIFER H. SVAN mander, called the meeting after going on Stars and Stripes a late-night foot patrol in Kaiserslautern admits taking bribes with military police. KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany — An “There’s a need for us to address the con- BY WYATT OLSON than $723,000 in kickbacks from a local airman might have been trying to do the duct of our military members downtown. Stars and Stripes subcontractor. right thing last weekend by sleeping off a We don’t want our people causing prob- Winslett paid more than $100,000 in night of drinking instead of driving home. lems,” Edwards told the meeting, according FORT SHAFTER, Hawaii — A former bribes to Garo and Franklin Raby, a for- But the car, on which the 25-year-old to a statement released by Army Installa- Army employee pleaded guilty Tuesday to punched out the window before climbing tion Management Command-Europe. taking bribes while serving as director of mer range operations manager at Scho- in and passing out, doesn’t belong to him, Edwards and Col. Robert Thompson, the range at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii, field Barracks. according to German police, who woke up 86th Mission Support Group commander the third person to plead guilty in the ongo- Raby, of Greeneville, Tenn., pleaded the airman after several tries and handed at Ramstein, who also attended the meet- ing corruption investigation. guilty in May in a federal court in Tennes- him over to American military police. ing, said increasing the off-base presence Victor Garo, of Mililani, Hawaii, pleaded see to accepting bribes and disclosing sen- The incident is just one of a number of of U.S. security forces on weekend nights in guilty in District of Hawaii federal court sitive Army procurement information. recent cases of young U.S. service mem- places popular with service members and to conspiracy to accept over $100,000 in Raby retired as an Army sergeant major bers in Germany getting in trouble after having captains and first sergeants accom- bribes, the U.S. Department of Justice said in 2004, according to court documents. He drinking too much. The issue, which has pany military police on foot patrols might in a statement Wednesday. served as a range operations manager for caught the attention of U.S. military lead- help reduce the number of alcohol-related Garo, 67, also pleaded guilty to one count the U.S. Army Hawaii Range Division at ers in Kaiserslautern, may lead to a change incidents involving service members. of illegally transporting firearms across in the way American military police and “At this time, there’s no increase on the state lines. Schofield Barracks from May 2006 to May German law enforcement officers conduct patrols themselves, just flexing the ability He is scheduled to be sentenced in March 2018, according to the Army. joint patrols in areas such as downtown to increase when a need is projected for before Chief Judge J. Michael Seabright in Among the bribes Raby received from Kaiserslautern or Landstuhl, which are certain events,” garrison spokesman Ste- District of Hawaii court. Winslett were a classic 1969 Ford Galaxie popular with American service members. fan Alford said. In his plea agreement, Garo admitted sent to his son’s home in Greeneville, a cus- German police in Landstuhl found the A U.S. staff sergeant was recently re- that while employed as training range di- tom H&H .375-caliber rifle and diamond sleeping airman in a Ford Mondeo with a ferred to a court-martial on assault charges rector at the Army’s Schofield Barracks earrings valued at $2,300. broken window early Saturday morning after he was involved in a fight in the park- from 2011 through 2018 he accepted U.S. Army Hawaii said in a statement after the car’s owner called the police to ing lot of a Kaiserslautern club, Edwards bribes in the form of cash, automobiles and Wednesday that it will continue to support report, “There is a stranger in my car,” said. And, in the past 60 days, the Army firearms from an employee of a federal the ongoing investigation by the Army Landstuhl police said in a statement. has issued seven reprimands for incidents, contractor. Criminal Investigation Command, the U.S. The car was parked on Am Berg, a street including driving under the influence and As the most senior Defense Department close to one of Landstuhl’s main roads and traffic accidents, after leaving clubs in the employee on the range, Garo supervised Defense Criminal Investigative Service, near several bars and restaurants. Kaiserslautern, Landstuhl and Baumhold- employees and used his position to benefit the FBI and the Justice Department. A spokesman for the 86th Airlift Wing er areas, the IMCOM statement said. the contractor in securing Army contracts, “U.S. Army Hawaii is committed to at Ramstein confirmed the airman was as- German law enforcement officials said according to court documents. upholding the highest ethical standards signed to the wing but did not name him. although alcohol-related disorderliness is That contractor employee, John Wins- and fully supports the thorough investiga- The airman “will repay the local national, common in downtown Kaiserslautern and lett, 65, of Bristol, R.I., pleaded guilty in tion and prosecution of suspected cases of in full, for the cost of the damages and Landstuhl, especially on weekends and September to one count of conspiracy to fraud, waste or abuse,” the statement said. repairs to the vehicle,” wing spokesman around American holidays, there hasn’t commit wire fraud and another count of “We continue to emphasize to our person- Kilian Bluemlein said in an email. been a spike in incidents involving U.S. conspiracy to accept kickbacks in connec- nel that, as federal employees, they play a The incident, which is under investiga- service members . Such incidents are com- tion with a U.S. government contract, the critical role in ensuring the legal, ethical tion, happened days after a meeting, aimed mon, said Bernhard Christian Erfort, a Justice Department said in a statement at at reducing the number of drinking-related Kaiserslautern police spokesman. “But we the time of the plea. and appropriate use of resources entrusted incidents involving U.S. service members, cannot say there’s been an increase.” Winslett had steered federal contracts to us.” last month between U.S. military officials [email protected] worth at least $19 million to his employ- [email protected] and local bar owners. Col. Jason Edwards, [email protected] er, and he admitted to accepting more Twitter: @WyattWOlson T O D A Y IN STRIPES

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BY COREY DICKSTEIN of these veterans and those that their plan as an opportunity to Stars and Stripes care for them,” A.T. Johnston, the strengthen the commissary sys- deputy assistant secretary of de- tems, which have suffered in re- WASHINGTON — The Pen- fense for military community and cent years amid fewer shoppers. tagon will expand access to dis- family policy, said in a prepared Last year, the Defense Commis- counted, on-post stores for some statement. sary Agency announced its sales 4.1 million veterans and some of For years, eligibility to shop had slumped 20% during the pre- their caregivers at the beginning at on-base commissaries and ex- vious five years. The agency re- of 2020, the Defense Department changes in the United States has sponded by increasing operating announced Wednesday. been largely limited to active- hours, adding new products and The expansion, which begins duty troops, members of the Na- launching new promotions aimed JOHN ZOUBRA/Defense Commissary Agency Jan. 1, will grant veterans with tional Guard and reserves, and at driving customers back into a documented service-related The McGuire Commissary at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., disability, Purple Heart recipi- military retirees and their family the stores. is shown in December 2014. ents, former prisoners of war and members. In 2017, the Pentagon Defense Department officials certain Department of Veterans opened online versions of mili- said Wednesday that the expan- ment announcing the changes. not specified by Pentagon offi- Affairs-approved designated vet- tary exchanges to some 20 million sion of access, however, is not Officials are still finalizing some cials, will be in addition to the 5% eran caregivers access to com- honorably discharged veterans. designed to “boost retail store details, primarily with regard to surcharge that the commissaries missaries, military exchanges, Sens. John Boozman, R-Ark., profits,” but only to honor the in- installation access for people now charge all customers to pay for and some morale, welfare and and Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, dividuals who lawmakers have allowed on military bases by law, improvements within the stores. recreation services on bases spearheaded efforts in recent deemed worthy of receiving the the department said Wednesday. “Even with the surcharge, within the United States, the Pen- years to open the services to more benefits. The Pentagon also warned patrons receive an average tagon announced. The expansion veterans, especially ones injured Veterans newly eligible to shop newly eligible shoppers of com- worldwide savings of 23.7% over of access was required in the in combat or held prisoner. at commissaries and exchanges missaries will be charged a small commercial grocery stores,” ac- 2019 National Defense Authori- “If you have the Purple Heart, must possess a VA-issued Vet- “user fee” designed to offset new cording to a Pentagon fact sheet zation Act named for the late Sen. you should also have access to eran Health Identification Card costs to the Treasury Department detailing the newly granted John McCain. the commissary. It’s as simple as in order to be granted access to for processing additional com- access. “These new privileges recog- that,” Schatz said last year. installations and prove their eligi- mercial credit and debit cards. [email protected] nize the service and sacrifice The senators also touted bility, according to a DOD state- That fee, the amount of which was Twitter: @CDicksteinDC Drills: North Korea says ‘ball is in the US court’ on chance of renewed talks

FROM FRONT PAGE The North has conducted a se- Esper also insisted the deci- ries of short-range missile and sion would not be “a concession rocket launches this year but so to North Korea or anything, but far refrained from long-range again, as a means to keep the door missile and nuclear tests. open to diplomacy.” “I think they’re making it very clear they’re willing to escalate North Korean warnings this if the U.S. and (South Korea) are going to continue with these North Korea responded by military exercises,” Kazianis said raising the stakes on Thursday in a telephone interview. with separate statements in quick Esper, who is making his sec- succession rebuffing what it said ond trip to South Korea since was a U.S. offer to hold talks next taking office, also reiterated that month and calling on Esper to he will press Seoul to reverse its cancel upcoming drills. decision to terminate a military Former nuclear negotiator Kim intelligence sharing agreement Yong Chol noted that Esper’s with Japan, which expires on comments came after another Nov. 23. North Korean official warned the South Korea gave notice in country would retaliate against August that it would cancel the the drills in a statement on the General Security of Military In- state-run Korean Central News AHN YOUNG-JOON/AP formation Agreement, known as Agency. GSOMIA, due to a dispute with “I would like to understand it Protesters stage a rally to oppose a planned visit by U.S. Secretary for Defense Mark Esper in front of Japan over trade and historical as the U.S. intention to drop out the Defense Ministry in Seoul, South Korea, on Thursday. issues. of the joint military drill or com- “The GSOMI agreement must sent a request via a third party to nuclear tests if the United States a day after North Korea lashed plete stop it,” Kim said of Esper’s be maintained,” Esper said. “It’s out at a planned exercise and comment. hold negotiations next month. doesn’t come up with a more flex- critical to sharing intelligence, warned that Washington will face Kim Yong Chol, the chairman Kim Myong Gil, a roving am- ible approach by the end of the particularly in a timely manner a “greater threat” if it ignores the of the Korea Asia-Pacific Peace bassador with the North Korean year. with regard to any type of North end-of-year deadline. Committee, said he hoped Esper’s Foreign Ministry, said the North “The ball is in the U.S. court,” Korean actions.” remarks reflected President Don- is ready to meet with the Ameri- the foreign ministry official said. “The only folks who are bene- ald Trump’s intentions to main- cans “at any place and any time” Kim Myong Gil also dismissed Possible escalation fiting from this dispute right now but only if the United States is the idea of the United States offer- tain momentum in the U.S.-North Experts said the North could are North Korea and China,” he willing to change its negotiating ing a declaration to formally end Korean nuclear negotiations. be trying to take advantage of added. “However, if this ends up with stance. the 1950-53 Korean War, which Trump’s domestic political woes Esper will travel to Thailand, our naive interpretation and the Talks aimed at persuading was concluded with an armistice by ramping up demands for sanc- the Philippines and Vietnam after hostile provocation is committed the North to give up its nuclear instead of a peace treaty, or the tions relief and security guaran- his visit to South Korea ends this … we will be compelled to answer weapons program have faltered establishment of a liaison office. tees as the impeachment hearings weekend. with shocking punishment that after the two sides failed to reach “I intuitively feel that the U.S. are underway in Washington. “The broader message is that would be difficult for the U.S. to an agreement during the second is not ready to give a satisfactory Harry Kazianis, of the Wash- we are postured to deal with cope with,” he said. Trump-Kim summit in February answer to us and its proposal for ington-based Center for the Na- China in the long run,” he said. The response to Esper ap- and subsequent working-level dialogue with us is a trick to earn tional Interest, noted that Trump “China is our number one prior- peared on KCNA shortly after an- talks. time,” he said. “Explicitly speak- wouldn’t likely risk losing support ity in this new era of global — of other North Korean official said Kim Jong Un has warned the ing once again, I am not interest- from hawkish Republican sena- great power competition.” that the U.S. special envoy for North may abandon talks and ed in such a meeting.” tors and predicted more missile [email protected] North Korea Stephen Biegun had resume long-range missile and The flurry of statements came tests in coming days. Twitter: @kimgamel PAGE 4 •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, November 15, 2019 PACIFIC Stars and Stripes librarian retires Preserver of history after 40 years among the archives

BY SETH ROBSON Purpose of preservation Stars and Stripes Muroi vividly remembers the TOKYO — Thousands of library shaking during the mas- newspapers dating back to 1945, sive magnitude 9.0 earthquake countless clippings of old stories that devastated Japan in March and half a million priceless pho- 2011. tographs fill a room that Norio One of Stars and Stripes’ initial Muroi has tended for the past reports on the disaster says the four decades. shaking tipped over a television, Stars and Stripes’ library in knocked a clock off the wall and Tokyo preserves the stories and scattered the contents of filing heroics of countless service cabinets in the newsroom. members from World War II and The quake triggered a tsunami the Korean and Vietnam wars that caused a meltdown at the Fu- alongside records of newsworthy kushima Daiichi nuclear power events on American bases in the plant and claimed nearly 16,000 Far East over the past 75 years. lives. At the library, the quake Muroi, 65, who retires Friday, caused water leaks but no dam- has worked in the newspaper’s age to the archives. However, library for more than half of that the building still has cracks in its time span. walls. A tailor’s son from Otawara Preserving Stars and Stripes’ in Tochigi prefecture, Muroi in archives and other documents in 1977 was studying economics at the building is important, Muroi Hosei University in Tokyo when said. he started as a Stars and Stripes “No matter how digital tech- copyboy, he recalled during a re- nology expands in the future the cent tour of the library at Hardy original is coming from here,” he /Stars and Stripes Barracks, the newspaper’s Pacif- PHOTOS BY THERON GODBOLD said. ic headquarters in the Japanese Norio Muroi began working for Stars and Stripes’ Tokyo office as a copyboy in 1977 and began working Muroi plans to stay in Tokyo capital. in the library in 1979. after retirement and spend time “It was rare to see American hiking with his wife, Yoshiko. people so much in those days and Full-time librarian after a Japan Air Lines pilot in- the library’s namesake, longtime The couple’s first trip will be to a to have an opportunity to talk tentionally crashed a DC-8 air- librarian Toshi Cooper. Japanese hot spring, he said. with native speakers,” he said of In 1979, he started full time in liner at Haneda Airport, killing One of those photos shows a Muroi said what he’ll miss most his first days on the job, when he the library, which had a chief and 24 people, he said. wounded soldier getting aid from after leaving the library is access was eager to practice the English four Japanese employees. Two Another memorable linguist a couple of buddies on the battle- to the old newspapers. he’d learned at school. kept track of photographs and two assignment involved a ride in a field. The print, like hundreds “When I’m retired it will be Just steps from the nightlife were assigned to cut up 10 news- Kodak blimp over Tokyo. of thousands of others in the li- hard to see the newspapers page hub of Roppongi, Hardy Bar- papers each day and sort the clip- “I even got to sit in the pilot’s brary, is coded to allow librarians by page,” he said. “That’s the part racks was a hive of activity. Doz- pings into categories that could seat,” he said. “That’s a rare to track negatives stored at the I’ll miss the most.” ens of U.S. military and civilian be researched for future stories. experience.” Stars and Stripes Europe library [email protected] staff members and 180 Japanese Known today as the Toshi Plenty of famous faces, in- in Kaiserslautern, Germany. The Twitter: @SethRobson1 worked to publish hundreds of Cooper Library, it holds at least cluding Michael Jackson, Billy libraries are gradually digitizing thousands of newspapers each 250,000 clippings that are stored Joel and Rihanna, have passed those negatives for posterity. day for service members on the in envelopes and filed so they can through Hardy Barracks during The library isn’t just a valuable main islands of Japan, Okinawa, be searched by subject, such as Muroi’s tenure. resource for working journal- Korea and other parts of the Pa- notable figures, military units Two of the most memorable ists. Muroi’s work also involves cific such as the Philippines, Viet- and campaigns. stars he met on the job were folk tracking down old stories and nam, Taiwan and Guam. But Muroi didn’t spend his en- musician John Denver and base- photographs for veterans or those It was an era before online tire career among the archives. ball Hall of Famer Joe DiMaggio, whose friends or relatives have news or Google searches, when Some of his most memorable ex- Muroi said, proudly showing off appeared in Stars and Stripes printed newspapers provided a periences involved serving as an photographs of his 1992 encoun- over the years. vital link to home for troops sta- interpreter for journalists in the ter with Joltin’ Joe. He met the For example, his research tioned overseas. field. Yankee legend while helping a skills came in handy when a “We were like tennis ball boys,” In February 1982, he and the sports reporter cover the U.S.- woman contacted the newspa- Muroi said of the copyboys, who other librarians acting as tem- Japan baseball series at the now- per in December 2017 looking spent mornings rushing about the porary linguists joined reporters demolished Korakuen Stadium. for old photographs of her father, newsroom carrying story drafts rushing to a fire at the Hotel New Gordon Windhorn, who played and messages to editors. The Japan that, ultimately, claimed Valuable resources professional baseball in Japan in youngsters burned plenty of calo- 32 lives not far from the Sanno the 1960s. The family’s own pho- ries and looked forward to a free Hotel, a U.S. military property. The library that he’s handing off to his successor, Akiko Taka- tographs from that time were de- Coke from the sports editor at the The following day, Muroi was stroyed in a fire, Muroi said. end of each shift, he recalled. back in the field as an interpreter mizawa, is a recently renovated, state-of-the-art facility that fea- He tracked down images of tures constant temperature and Windhorn in the library along humidity control. with other photos held by the It stores hundreds of large, red Foreign Correspondents’ Club of volumes that contain original Japan and the Baseball Hall of Stars and Stripes newspapers Fame Museum in Tokyo and sent sorted by month all the way back them to the family. to 1945 and countless clippings Muroi said he’s had plenty of and old photographs preserved in useful advice over the years from hundreds of white boxes on metal Toshi Cooper, who served as li- racks. brarian from 1948 to 1971. Now The library has about 500,000 chairwoman emeritus of the Stars photographs taken by Stars and and Stripes Association, which Stripes staff or sourced from organizes reunions of former em- news agencies or U.S. military ployees, Cooper described Muroi service branches over the years, as the ideal newspaper librarian. Muroi said. “He has everything it takes to He opened a box of photographs be the perfect research librar- and found black-and-white prints ian,” she said. “He is studious, of images taken during the Viet- calm and steady, curious, patient, This photo taken during the Vietnam War by former Stars and nam War by Gary Cooper, an selfless, a good listener, devoted Stripes photographer Gary Cooper is among the thousands stored enlisted Stars and Stripes re- and, above all that, he loves Stars inside the newspaper’s library at Hardy Barracks in Tokyo. porter who eventually married and Stripes.” Friday, November 15, 2019 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 5 VETERANS Veterans a key target in 2020 election fraud BY STEVE BEYNON tent during the 2016 election. But Stars and Stripes those accounts are fewer than 0.02% of total accounts on Twitter WASHINGTON — Veterans at the time, according to the com- are a key target for online fraud pany’s data. At the same time, and attempts to meddle in U.S. these malicious accounts sent out elections, with bogus web pages 2.12 million tweets. and charities aimed at the mili- Social media giants such as tary community pushing propa- Facebook and Twitter have made ganda and disinformation to gin efforts to squash foreign interfer- up political discord, tech indus- ence, they said. But in general, try leaders and lawmakers said lawmakers on Capitol Hill have Wednesday. not been satisfied with the tech “Veterans wield consider- industry’s progress, though so- able influence and credibility in cial media companies contend it their communities,” Rep. Mark can be challenging picking out Takano, D-Calif., chairman of propaganda outlets. the House Committee on Vet- “We certainly want to avoid a erans’ Affairs, said at a hearing whack-a-mole situation,” Kevin about the issue. “That esteemed Kane, public policy manager of trust in our veterans is now being Twitter, said Wednesday about hijacked by foreign imposters on- being careful over who gets line and used to spread harmful banned from the social media disinformation, political propa- platform. “Twitter engages in ganda and fake news. Foreign ac- intensive efforts to identify and tors are stealing veterans’ voices combat state-sponsored and non- and images in order to influence state-sponsored hostile attempts political opinions heading into an to abuse our platforms. Our work election year.” on this issue is not done, nor will In September, Vietnam Veter- it ever be.” ans of America, a nonprofit vet- Concerns in Washington go be- erans advocacy group, released yond Russian meddling in U.S. a report that found veterans are elections. According to the VVA’s a big target of foreign agents who findings, Russians have posed spread disinformation, s ow po- as Islamic State terrorists to in- litical division, attempt financial timidate journalists and veteran scams through bogus charities advocates. and recruit spies. “It’s important to note that the Election meddling and disin- military families were not chosen formation campaigns online have at random,” Kristofer Goldsmith, increased since 2016, represen- chief investigator and associate tatives from some social media director for policy and govern- giants said Wednesday at the ment affairs for the VVA, said House hearing. Most fraudulent at the House hearing. “One was accounts are terminated via auto- a reporter at Military.com, the matic tools employed by Facebook others were prominent members and Twitter before any user has a of the community of military chance to see them, according to and veteran advocates. I want to representatives from both com- emphasize this point: Russian panies. However, foreign agents hackers who were pretending to are able to operate accounts un- be ISIS sent terroristic threats to detected and potentially interact advocates and reporters.” with hundreds of thousands of The VVA had found a foreign- people online , sometimes misrep- backed social media page with resenting themselves as legiti- twice the number of followers of mate organizations. its own page using the veterans’ “Some bad actors create mul- group’s logo and name. tiple pages, some of which may The foreign page posted a pla- represent veterans organiza- giarized Stars and Stripes story tions,” said Nathanial Gleicher, reporting a proposal from Presi- head of security policy for Face- dent Donald Trump to cut veter- book. “Others might impersonate ans’ benefits to expand access to organizations that focus on politi- private health care. The article cally sensitive issues.” was basically true, but when for- The social media representa- eign agents posted it four months tives told lawmakers that their later, the date was altered and the companies don’t have a good way original reporter’s byline was re- to judge the scope of scams on moved to make it look more im- their platforms or nefarious for- mediate and urgent, in hopes of eign agents looking to rattle the stirring aging veterans into a false cages of voters. However, Twitter panic, according to the VVA. identified 50,258 Russia-linked [email protected] accounts tweeting political con- Twitter: @StevenBeynon PAGE 6 •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, November 15, 2019 WAR/MILITARY US: Countries must take back, try ISIS fighters

BY MATTHEW LEE to justice is critical to preventing Associated Press ISIS from resurrecting its caliph- ate and exporting its ideology. WASHINGTON — European “That work begins with car- and other members of the inter- rying out justice against those national coalition fighting Islamic who deserve it,” he said. “Coali- State must take back and pros- tion members must take back SUSAN WALSH/AP ecute their nationals detained in the thousands of foreign terrorist Iraq and Syria to help keep ISIS fighters in custody and impose Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, second from right, meets with Syria Small Group Ministerial from regaining territory, Secre- accountability for the atrocities participants in Washington on Thursday . Pompeo is boosting pressure on the European members of the tary of State Mike Pompeo said they have perpetrated.” anti-ISIS coalition to take back and prosecute their nationals detained in Iraq and Syria. Thursday. A meeting Thursday in Wash- Pompeo told foreign ministers ington of members of the coali- ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Bagh- militants had once used to bring panding its reach to other areas, and senior officials from some tion came amid concerns about dadi and his deputy. in significant revenue. notably the Sahel region in west 30 coalition members that it’s the U.S. commitment to the fight “Ask them if there’s a deficit Pompeo also urged coalition Africa where he said the group “is imperative that they hold thou- against ISIS remnants. Those of American leadership in fight- participants to step up funding outpacing the ability of regional sands of detained foreign fighters concerns have increased as Pres- ing ISIS,” he said, pointing out for U.N. relief and reconstruc- governments and international accountable for atrocities com- ident Donald Trump has pressed that the U.S. still has forces in tion projects in Iraq and Syria to partners to address the threat.” mitted while ISIS held swaths of to withdraw American troops Syria despite the recent Turkish allow for the return of millions “The fight against ISIS is a territory in the two countries. from Syria. invasion. of civilians displaced by years of long-term test of will, a test of civ- Many detained foreign fighters Pompeo dismissed those con- Those troops, he said, will conflict. ilization against barbarism,” he are from Europe, but countries cerns and said the U.S. would allow the U.S. to retain the ability As the effort in Iraq and Syria said. “We know where we stand. have been reluctant to take them continue to lead the coalition. He to launch airstrikes on ISIS tar- goes on, Pompeo said it will also Let’s work together to make sure back. Pompeo said bringing them noted that U.S. forces had killed gets and protect oil fields that the be critical to keep ISIS from ex- our enemy does too.” Syrian troops begin deploying along border with Turkey

BY ALBERT AJI began joint patrols along a nar- founder and CEO of Mayday Res- Associated Press rower strip directly on the Turk- cue, which founded and trained ish-Syrian border. the White Helmets, also known as DAMASCUS, Syria — Syr- Turkey began a major military the Syria Civil Defense, a group ian government forces started offensive against Kurdish fight- of local humanitarian volunteers. deploying Thursday in areas ers in northern Syria last month, He was 48 and had moved to close to the Turkish border in capturing dozens of towns and Turkey with his wife four years the country’s northeast as part of villages. ago, according to Turkey’s of- an agreement reached between SANA reported that since Tur- ficial Anadolu news agency. Le Russia and Turkey, state media key began its invasion of northern Mesurier’s body was found near reported. Syria on Oct. 9, some 19,776 fami- his home in the Beyoglu district News agency SANA said troops lies have been displaced from the by worshippers on their way to a were deploying between the northern countryside of Hasakeh mosque, the agency reported. towns of Jawadiyeh and Malki- province. It added that services “Maybe the founder of the yeh, also known as Derik, while are being provided to the dis- state-run TV said Syrian border placed in 48 housing shelters. White Helmets was planning to guards will be positioned at six Also Thursday, President write a book about his life. This points near to the frontier. Bashar Assad said there are pos- is unacceptable,” Assad said in The deployment is part of a sibilities that a former British an interview with Russia’s state- cease-fire deal brokered by Mos- army officer who helped found owned Russia 24. “These are cow last month along much of the the White Helmets volunteer or- possibilities, but they are big possibilities.” northeastern border that seeks ganization in Syria was killed in AP to clear the area of the Kurdish Turkey. Assad added that “there is a fighters who were key U.S. allies Turkish officials had said that big possibility that Turkish intel- Emma Hedvig Christina Winberg, the widow of British army officer in the fight against Islamic State. the death of James Le Mesurier ligence carried out this act at the James Le Mesurier leaves after being questioned by Turkish Since the agreement was in Istanbul this week is under in- orders of foreign agencies. I re- police in Istanbul on Wednesday . Syrian President Bashar Assad reached, Russia and Turkey vestigation. Le Mesurier was the peat these are possibilities.” speculated Thursday that Le Mesurier may have been killed. Italian law mandating child seat alarms exempts most GIs

BY NORMAN LLAMAS are registered “through their with alarms while transporting added to their license. forgot them in hot cars. Stars and Stripes installation with Armed Forces children until they reach 4 years A second offense within two Nearly 1,000 young children in Italy plates” are exempt from old. years could result in a suspended in the U.S. have died after being A new law in Italy that requires the law, which came into force The law applies to “vehicles license. car seats to be fitted with an last week, Maj. Sarah Babcock, registered in Italy or to vehicles Car seats with integrated mo- left alone in cars since 1990, ad- alarm that sounds when a child spokeswoman for the 31st Fighter registered abroad but driven by a tion sensors that set off alarms vocacy group Kids and Cars says is left alone in a vehicle doesn’t Wing at Aviano Air Base, said in resident of Italy,” Babcock said. and flashing lights if a child is on its website. Last year, 52 chil- apply to most U.S. service mem- a statement. Failure to abide by the new left in a car are also available. dren died in hot cars in the U.S., bers but could affect others at But dependents with Italian law and install one of the alarms The alarms can be linked to a most of them during the summer bases in Italy. residency, U.S. military retirees — estimated to cost between 50 cellphone. months. Service members, family mem- and others who have a car regis- and 100 euros — could result in The new law was enacted in re- bers and civilians who work for tered through the Italian system the driver being fined up to 326 sponse to the spate of deaths of in- [email protected] the U.S. military whose vehicles could be required to use seats euros and having penalty points fants and toddlers whose parents Twitter: @normanllamas Friday, November 15, 2019 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 7 MILITARY Ukraine gets 2 US patrol boats

BY JOHN VANDIVER hold security assistance during Stars and Stripes the summer in the hope of get- ting Ukraine to investigate po- STUTTGART, Germany — The litical rival Joe Biden and his son, U.S. has transferred two Island- Hunter. class patrol boats to Ukraine and “To withhold that assistance plans to send three more to help for no good reason other than boost the country’s navy, which help with a political campaign is heavily outgunned by Russian made no sense,” William B. Tay- forces. lor Jr. told the House Intelligence The two retired Coast Guard Committee during Wednesday’s vessels were formally handed impeachment hearing. “It was over to Ukraine at a ceremony in counterproductive to all of what the port of Odessa on Wednesday we had been trying to do. It was il- — the same day that U.S. diplo- logical. It could not be explained. mats testifying in an impeach- It was crazy.” ment hearing in Washington George Kent, a senior State said delays in American military Department official and Ukraine aid have raised doubts about the expert, raised similar con- Trump administration’s commit- cerns during the impeachment ment to Ukraine. hearing. The boats represent a portion “I think the signal that there is of the $1.6 billion in security as- controversy and question about sistance provided to Ukraine the U.S. support of Ukraine sends since 2014. While Ukraine didn’t the signal to (Russian President) pay for the former Coast Guard Vladimir Putin that he can lever- cutters, which it received under age that as he seeks to negotiate the Excess Defense Articles pro- with not only Ukraine but other gram, it did pay for the boats’ countries,” Kent said. transfer and for Ukrainian crews to be trained, the U.S. Embassy in The House impeachment hear- Kyiv said. ings center on an allegation by Three additional Island-class Democrats that President Donald patrol boats will be handed over Trump withheld $391 million in in the near future, the embassy military aid to Ukraine, and used said. the funds as leverage to try to Joseph Pennington, acting U.S. persuade the government in Kyiv ambassador in Ukraine, said dur- to investigate Biden. The funds ing the ceremony in Odessa that were released after the issue the high-speed vessels will bolster came to light last summer. the Ukrainian navy’s ability to House Republicans have de- “defend the nation’s sovereignty nounced the proceedings as po- and territorial integrity,” accord- litically motivated. ing to a statement Wednesday. Ukraine has pushed for more Island-class patrol boats are U.S. military support as it fights equipped with an automatic Mk Russia -backed separatists in the 38 Mod 0 Bushmaster 25 mm ar- east of the country. Moscow’s 2014 tillery unit, two 12.7 mm machine military intervention in Ukraine guns and a radar station. culminated in the annexation of “The boats will also provide the Crimean Peninsula, which greater situational awareness in Russia now regards as part of its the Black Sea, increasing the se- territory. curity of Ukraine’s coastline and “We do not and will not recog- shipping lanes, and they will help nize Russia’s purported annexa- Ukraine to prevent smuggling tion of Crimea,” Pennington said through its waters,” Pennington during the ceremony in Odessa, said. adding that Washington will con- But as Pennington talked tinue to provide security assis- up America’s solidarity with tance to Ukraine “in the face of Ukraine, the top U.S. envoy in Russian aggression.” the country blasted a Trump [email protected] administration decision to with- Twitter: @john_vandiver

U.S. Embassy in Ukraine Acting U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Joseph Pennington speaks in the port of Odessa during the official transfer of two island-class patrol boats to that country’s navy on Wednesday . PAGE 8 •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, November 15, 2019 NATION Source: 2nd US official heard call with Sondland

BY DESMOND BUTLER, security. MICHAEL BIESECKER Jayanti is an attorney who AND MATTHEW LEE joined the State Department in Associated Press 2012 and was previously posted at the U.S. Embassy in Iraq. She WASHINGTON — A second has been stationed since Sep- U.S. Embassy staffer in Kyiv tember 2018 at the embassy in overheard a key cellphone call be- Kyiv where she helps coordinate tween President Donald Trump and his ambassador to the Euro- U.S. business interests with the pean Union discussing the need former Soviet republic’s energy for Ukrainian officials to pursue industry. “investigations,” The Associated Jayanti was in Washington last SUSAN WALSH/AP Press has learned. month and scheduled for a closed- The July 26 call between Trump door interview with impeachment The top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, William Taylor, left, and career Foreign Service officer George Kent and Gordon Sondland was first investigators. But the deposition prepare to testify before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday. described was canceled because of the fu- during tes- neral for former House Oversight timony Chair Elijah Cummings and has Wednesday not yet been rescheduled. Hearings: Dems pivot from ‘quid pro quo’ by William Holmes, a career diplomat, B. Taylor joined the Foreign Service in FROM FRONT PAGE Schiff asked in his opening For his part, Kent singled out Jr., the act- 2002 and has served in Afghani- statement: “If we find that the by first name and even nickname ing U.S. stan, Colombia, India, Kosovo Sondland used his cellphone to President of the United States the impeachment witnesses ambassador and Russia as well as on the call Trump from the restaurant, abused his power … or if he who were born abroad, likening to Ukraine. White House National Security and the staff members could hear Trump on the phone asking about sought to condition, coerce, extort them to 20th-century national Taylor said Council staff. He won an award “the investigations.” Taylor took or bribe an ally into conducting security policy: Henry Kissinger one of his Sondland for constructive dissent from the that to mean investigations into investigations to aid his reelection and Zbigniew Brzezinski, both staffers American Foreign Service Asso- overheard the call while Sond- former Vice President Joe Biden campaign and did so by withhold- immigrants. ciation in 2014 for complaining land was in a restaurant the day and his son and the Burisma ing official acts — a White House “Masha, Alex and Fiona were about problems that an alternate after Trump’s July 25 phone call Group, the Ukrainian firm that meeting or hundreds of millions born abroad before their families diplomatic channel had caused with Ukrainian President Volody- had hired Hunter Biden as a direc- of dollars of needed military aid or they themselves personally in South Asia and recommend- myr Zelenskiy that triggered the tor in 2014, he told lawmakers. — must we simply ‘get over it?’ ” chose to immigrate to the United ing organizational changes to the A Democratic staff lawyer, House impeachment inquiry. Sondland told the president States. They all made the profes- Daniel Goldman, also talked of The second diplomatic staffer State Department’s bureaucratic that the Ukrainians were ready sional choice to serve the United possible “extortion and bribery” also at the table was Suriya Jay- structure for the region. to move forward, and after the States as public officials, helping anti, a foreign service officer U.S. diplomats and other call one of Taylor’s staffers asked — a gradual change in wording that could preview Democrats’ shape our national security poli- based in Kyiv. A person briefed government employees are in- Sondland what Trump thought cy, towards Russia in particular. about Ukraine, he said. approach going forward. on what Jayanti overheard spoke structed not to use cellphones for And we and our national security “Ambassador Sondland re- to AP on condition of anonymity sensitive official matters while are the better for it,” Kent said. to discuss a sensitive matter cur- traveling anywhere abroad but sponded that President Trump Lofty language cares more about the investiga- rently under investigation. notably in countries known to be The credibility of witnesses is ‘It was illogical’ Trump on Wednesday said he targeted for surveillance by intel- tions of Biden, which Giuliani was pressing for,” Taylor said in in part a function of their biogra- did not recall the July 26 call. ligence agencies such as Russia, phies, and Democrats chose the Taylor was unsparing, and col- “No, not at all, not even a little China and Israel. his opening statement. orful, in his characterization of “I take it the import of that is Taylor and Kent for theirs. bit,” Trump said. Ukraine has long been among making military aid to Ukraine that he cares more about that than One a Vietnam War veteran The staffer Taylor testified the countries of concern, par- contingent on the country an- he does about Ukraine?” House and West Point graduate, the about is David Holmes, the politi- ticularly since a 2014 incident in Intelligence Committee Chair- other a career foreign service of- nouncing investigations into the cal counselor at the embassy in which the U.S. accused Russian ficer whose family has served the 2016 U.S. election and into Trump’s Kyiv, according to an official fa- man Adam Schiff asked Taylor. intelligence of eavesdropping on “Yes, sir,” he responded. country for generations — nodded political rival, Biden. miliar with the matter who spoke and then leaking a recording of a to the history of the moment with He was presented with over- on condition of anonymity. Taylor said he learned about conversation between two senior the call Nov. 8 and didn’t know language both lofty and personal. sized images of a September text Holmes is scheduled to testify U.S. officials in Kyiv that led to about it when he appeared for Their phrasing laid bare the message exchange with two other Friday before House investiga- great embarrassment and strains a closed-door deposition with stakes of the proceedings even as envoys in which he said it would tors in a closed session. between the U.S. and its Europe- House investigators conducting some Republicans sought to mini- be “crazy” to not provide military Taylor was one of the first wit- an allies. the impeachment inquiry. mize them, and their intentional assistance to the former Soviet re- nesses called Wednesday during In that recording, then-Assis- references to serving under pres- public for domestic political gain. the impeachment inquiry’s initial tant Secretary of State for Eu- idents of both parties were aimed Those text messages were among open hearing. He testified that Framing the narrative ropean Affairs Victoria Nuland at preempting Republican attacks the first documentary pieces of his staffer could hear Trump on is heard telling former U.S. Am- The impeachment inquiry in on them as political partisans. evidence to become public as the phone asking Sondland about bassador to Ukraine Geoff Pyatt many respects is about control- That didn’t stop Rep. Devin part of the House impeachment “the investigations.” Nunes, the top Republican on the “F-ck the EU,” because of the ling the narrative. On Wednes- inquiry, and established not only The accounts of Holmes and House intelligence committee, European Union’s slowness to re- day, Democrats seemed to begin the possible contours of a quid Jayanti could tie Trump closer to to pivot, framing the actions of from deriding the witnesses as spond to the political crisis in the pro quo but also laid bare diplo- alleged efforts to hold up military Trump as possible “bribery” and being part of a smear campaign country. matic concerns about the Trump aid to Ukraine in exchange for “extortion” rather than empha- “star chamber” from within the “That phone call was also a investigations into political rival sizing a “quid pro quo.” civil service. administration’s dealings with Joe Biden and his son Hunter’s mistake the way it was conducted Schiff introduced the notion of Taylor capped his opening Ukraine. business dealings. and it had huge implications for bribery into the debate when he statement with an ode to how Asked to elaborate, Taylor said, Current and former U.S. of- our foreign policy,” said Michael criticized acting White House Americans feel in their best mo- “It was counterproductive to all ficials say Sondland’s use of a McFaul, a former U.S. ambassa- chief of staff Mick Mulvaney for ments about their country: “less of what we had been trying to do. cellphone in a public place in dor to Russia who is now at Stan- saying that people concerned concerned about what language It was illogical, it could not be ex- Ukraine to speak with anyone in ford University. “Particularly about Trump’s requests that we speak, what religion if any we plained, it was crazy.” the U.S. government back home after that, anybody should under- Ukraine do political investiga- practice, where our parents and Security assistance to Ukraine, about sensitive matters, let alone stand how dangerous it is to make tions should “get over it,” and that grandparents came from; more he said, was not only critical to the president, would be a signifi- an unsecured call in Kyiv, or any- there is political influence in all concerned about building a new that country but also to America’s cant breach of communications where else for that matter.” foreign policy. country.” own national interests. Friday, November 15, 2019 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 9 NATION Shooting at Southern California high school

Los Angeles Times The teen, who was not immedi- ately after the shooting. ately identified, is being treated at Some students remained locked LOS ANGELES — One person a hospital in unknown condition, in classrooms for more than an was killed and at least four others said Los Angeles County Sheriff were injured in a shooting at Sau- hour as authorities searched for Alex Villanueva. the assailant. Eventually, they gus High School in Santa Clarita Four people from the school early Thursday, authorities said. were led off the campus by depu- were transported to Henry Mayo ties. Some were in tears. As they The shooting was reported at Hospital for treatment. One pa- the campus at 21900 Centurion walked, one student asked aloud tient, a female, died at the hos- a question on the minds of many Way about 7:40 a.m., prompting pital. Two male patients are in others across the state: “What a massive law enforcement re- critical condition and one male kind of a world is this?” sponse. Paramedics swarmed the is in good condition, according to KTTV-TV/AP campus, treating the wounded Patrick Moody, a spokesman for Denzel Abesamis, a senior at while authorities combed through the hospital. Their specific inju- Saugus, was driving to school People are lead out of Saugus High School after reports of a nearby neighborhoods searching ries and ages were not immedi- and about to turn onto campus shooting on Thursday, in Santa Clarita, Calif. for a 15-year-old boy suspected in ately provided. when he saw classmates run- the shooting. The scene at the high school ning out and turned around. He students. “there is a shooter, call 911.” After roughly an hour, authori- was chaotic with teenagers walk- called a friend who he knew was Michael Harrison, 26, said he “I can’t even describe it, man,” ties said that the suspect, who ing in a line behind armed law on campus. She told him there first became aware of the shoot- Harrison said with a panicked is believed to be a student at the enforcement officials with their was a shooter and she was hid- ing when his younger sister, a laugh. “Imagine getting that school, had been apprehended. arms raised in the air immedi- ing in a classroom with five other 17-year-old senior, texted him: text.” Ex-Mass. governor Deval Patrick joins crowded 2020 presidential race

BY JENNIFER EPSTEIN Trump. iar with his plans. ing an unpopular and divisive leader, as AND TYLER PAGER Patrick, currently a managing director “I admire and respect the candidates in important as that is, but about delivering Bloomberg at Bain Capital, said in a video that he is the Democratic field. They bring a rich- instead for you,” Patrick said. running “to build a better, more sustain- ness of ideas and experience and a depth Patrick, 63, would appeal to moderate Former Massachusetts governor Deval able, more inclusive American dream for of character that makes me proud to be a voters who worry whether former Vice Patrick joined the crowded 2020 Demo- the next generation.” cratic presidential campaign Thursday He’s expected to travel to New Hamp- Democrat,” Patrick said. But instead of the President Joe Biden is up to the task of fac- amid growing concerns in the party that shire either Thursday or Friday before the character of the candidates, this election ing Trump head-on, and worry that South the existing field won’t produce a nominee filing deadline to get on the primary ballot “is about the character of the country.” Bend, Ind. , Mayor Pete Buttigieg lacks the strong enough to beat President Donald there, according to two Democrats famil- “This time is about more than remov- proper experience. PAGE 10 • S TARS AND STRIPES• Friday, November 15, 2019 NATION Washington in 1969 hosted largest Signs of the times anti-war protest in American history

BY NIKKI WENTLING Stars and Stripes WASHINGTON — While hun- dreds of thousands of demonstra- tors converged on Washington in November 1969 to show their growing disdain for America’s involvement in Vietnam, Sgt. Grant Coates was bunkered in the Commerce Department with his fellow soldiers, peeking out windows to catch glimpses at the activity outside. Coates was a squad leader with A look at 1969: Hamburger the 6th Armored Cavalry Regi- Hill, Jimi Hendrix and ‘peace ment out of Fort Meade, Md., one with honor’ of the units assigned to riot duty stripes.com/vietnam50 during the weekend of Nov. 15, 1969, when about 500,000 people gathered in the capitol for what’s ‘Don’t yell it at me’ believed to be the largest antiwar protest in U.S. history, called the Early Nov. 16, when most of the Moratorium March. crowd had dispersed, his squad The protests in Washington, and left the Commerce Department. around the country, were build- “I remember it was a clear day ing as the Vietnam War ground the morning we left,” Coates said. on. Students for a Democratic So- “We could still feel the tear gas. ciety staged the first major anti- Anytime there was a breeze, the war rally in Washington on April crystals would blow off buildings 17, 1965, with about 20,000 people and streets, burning our eyes.” attending the orderly event. Coates was 20 at the time, fresh Fast-forward to 1969, and the off a combat tour in Vietnam, historic November rallies were where he was part of the 76th In- part of a string of demonstrations fantry Detach Combat Tracker that took place around the world, Team. With a dog in tow, the team with groups from San Francisco was tasked with establishing con- to Boston and London petitioning tact with enemy combatants. for peace. Thousands of others in- Other service members on riot volved in the antiwar movement duty did not have combat expe- joined affiliated protests in cities rience, some were part of Spe- and on college campuses across cial Services, the entertainment the country, including a march branch of the military that in- through San Francisco that at- cluded bands and baseball teams. tracted 30,000. In their off-time, many wore The weekend of the march, peace paraphernalia and aligned Coates was one of the only ser- themselves with the antiwar vice members on riot duty who movement, Coates said. Before had served in Vietnam. rolling into Washington, they had Coates volunteered for the to be trained not to break ranks. Army, having felt an obligation “I remember a lot of them say- to the country. When he returned AP photos ing, ‘I agree with the demonstra- to the U.S. from Vietnam in Sep- tors. I’m not for the war, and I tember 1969, he was reassigned Above: The Moratorium Day peace parade passes along Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol building on Nov. 15, 1969. Below: Police release tear gas during the demonstration in Washington. don’t want to go to Vietnam,’ ” to Fort Meade. Coates said. “On the ride down, I told my reaffirmed that its Vietnam Asleep in combat boots squad, ‘You got to remember what policy would not be determined you’re doing and protect yourself. Fifty years later, Coates, now by marchers on the streets and 70 and living in upstate New York, These people don’t care that you asserted its course continues to like them. They see you as the recalls that Moratorium March have the support of most Ameri- weekend in detail. His squad re- government.’ ” cans,” the AP reported. Coates witnessed the change mained inside the Commerce Coates also remained inside Department, adjacent to the Na- in his squad as they traveled past — his squad was never called tional Mall, waiting to be called protest ers, some of whom shouted to help local police if the protest into action. The demonstration at them and threw things at their got violent. was mostly peaceful except for vehicles. “We had observers on the tops a small section of the crowd that “They got hit abruptly with of the buildings reporting in on violently protested near the Jus- counterculture in their face, and what they were seeing,” Coates tice Department on the evening they didn’t have much patience said. “Those of us not on the roof of Nov. 15. after that,” Coates recalled. were stretched out in the hallways, Demonstrators threw rocks, “After about an hour on the road, sleeping in our combat boots with bottles and paint bombs, smash- these guys were yelling stuff out our gear next to us so we could be ward, police conservatively es- Press reported at the time. Many ing windows and splattering the window back at them.” ready to get into formation.” timated 250,000 had joined the of them carried placards with the the building with red paint. Reflecting on the attitudes at t he t i me, C oates sa id people hadn’t A security force of 40,000 po- protest. Based on that number, names of service members who UPI described the protest ers as yet separated individual service lice and troops guarded Wash- newspapers dubbed it the “big- were killed in action in Vietnam, “Yippies” and “shouting, paint- gest peace demonstration in the or the names of Vietnamese vil- members from the government. ington that weekend, and almost throwing extremists.” The clash all of them — like Coates — were nation’s history.” lages that had been destroyed. “Service members represented resulted in police using tear gas hidden from public view, United Later, the estimate would climb Demonstrators heard speeches the government, and the agitation, on the crowd. Press International reported. to 500,000. The Washington pro- from antiwar politicians and per- the irritation — it was taken out Police were expecting a crowd test was the focal point of the formances by Arlo Guthrie, Pete From the windows of the Com- on the service member,” Coates of 100,000 for the demonstration. weekend. Seeger and the group Peter, Paul merce Department, Coates in- said. “My feeling was, carry your It was planned by the Vietnam About 1,000 protesters an hour and Mary. termittently spotted clouds of sign. Yell what you want, but don’t Moratorium Committee, which moved from Arlington National Throughout it all, President tear gas. His squad slept in their yell it at me. I’m not the one mak- had held other massive dem- Cemetery to the White House and Richard Nixon remained in the masks because gas had filtered ing the decisions.” onstrations against America’s then onto the Capitol “in a march White House. into the building through the air- [email protected] involvement in Vietnam. After- against death,” The Associated “The Nixon administration conditioning system, he said. Twitter: @nikkiwentling Friday, November 15, 2019 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 11 NATION Trump voices optimism after meeting with Turkish leader

BY DAVID NAKAMURA, tion to House hearings in the im- zone at least 20 miles deep inside KAREN DEYOUNG peachment inquiry over Ukraine Syria. AND SEUNG MIN KIM that was taking place at the other Widespread reports of war The Washington Post end of Pennsylvania Avenue. crimes committed by Turkey- “I hear it’s a joke,” he said. “I controlled Syrian militias that WASHINGTON — President haven’t watched for one minute, are part of the invasion force are Donald Trump expressed opti- because I’ve been with the presi- being investigated by the Penta- mism that the United States and dent, which is much more impor- gon. At the same time, Turkey’s Turkey are on their way to resolv- tant as far as I’m concerned.” military operations have dis- EVAN VUCCI/AP ing the many differences between The most immediate tensions placed an estimated 100,000 peo- them but provided few details at surrounding Erdogan’s visit ple from their homes in northern President Donald Trump shakes hands with Turkish President Recep a news conference with Turkish came with Turkey’s military of- Syria, according to the United Tayyip Erdogan after a news conference in the East Room of the President Recep Tayyip Erdo- fensive against Kurdish fighters Nations. White House on Wednesday . gan after a day of White House in neighboring Syria, begun last Erdogan shared Trump’s as- meetings. information with him, he said, Turkey considers the Kurdish Trump said a tentative cease- month after Trump announced he sessment of their talks as produc- would withdraw U.S. troops from tive, but he also took the news and “in light of these documents, fighters allied with the United fire is holding in northeastern I think they will appreciate the States to be terrorists who threat- Syria and thanked Erdogan for the area. The withdrawal engen- conference as an opportunity to situation.” en Turkey’s security. “his cooperation.” He said the dered sharp bipartisan criticism list outstanding grievances. Chief on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers among them is the U.S. failure to Erdogan also criticized the Sanctions on Turkey were two leaders “made tremendous House’s passage last month of a of both parties accused Trump extradite Turkish cleric Fethul- mandated under U.S. law when it progress” toward more than qua- resolution officially designating drupling bilateral trade — to $100 of abandoning the U.S.-allied lah Gulen, a permanent U.S. resi- purchased Russia’s S-400 missile the 1915 Turkish slaughter of an defense system, although Trump billion — and “hopefully will be Kurds, who had borne the brunt dent, who Erdogan’s government estimated 1.5 million Armenians has delayed imposing them. able to resolve” a conflict over of the fight against Islamic State claims masterminded a 2016 as genocide, something Turkey Trump said Wednesday that Turkey’s purchase of a sophis- in Syria. coup attempt. had strenuously and unsuccess- ticated Russian missile defense Trump rebuffed lawmakers So far, the Justice Department fully lobbied against for years. the S-400 issue “creates some system. who had called on him to cancel has deemed evidence Turkey has At the news conference, Trump very serious challenges for us” Calling Turkey a “great NATO the invitation, saying Erdogan submitted for Gulen’s extradition said, “the U.S.-Turkey alliance but that “we’ve asked our secre- ally and a strategic partner of the has lived up to an Oct. 17 agree- to be insufficient. can be a powerful alliance for tary of state and ministry of for- United States around the world,” ment negotiated with Vice Presi- “We are not getting the best of security and stability, not only in eign affairs and our respective Trump described their talks as dent Mike Pence to limit Turkey’s news out of the United States,” the Middle East but beyond.” national security advisers to im- “wonderful and productive.” incursion into Syria and allow it Erdogan said. That alliance has been sorely mediately work on resolving” the He said he was paying no atten- to create a long-coveted buffer But he had brought additional tested in recent years. In Syria, problem. PAGE 12 •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, November 15, 2019 NATION Teen activist hitches ride to Europe on catamaran

BY BEN FINLEY Before departing, Thunberg Labrador. Associated Press reflected on her time in North “Of course I miss my family America during an Associated and dogs, and especially to have HAMPTON, Va. — Swedish Press interview in the cabin of one place to stay, to not travel all teen climate activist Greta Thun- the catamaran. Some people in the time,” she said. “Just to have berg hitched a renewable-energy power, she said, simply lack a routines.” ride back to Europe on Wednes- sense of urgency when it comes The boat taking her across the /AP day, sailing into the Atlantic on a to global warming. Atlantic, named La Vagabonde, ROB OSTERMAIER, THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT trip she hopes will get her to Ma- “The situation in Canada and leaves little to no carbon footprint Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg waves from the drid in time for another climate the U.S. is basically the same as to when its sails are in use, counting catamaran La Vagabonde as it departs Hampton, Va., on Wednesday. conference and then home for the where I come from. It is the same on solar panels and hydro-gen- holidays. arguments that are being used to erators for electricity. It also has lian couple who travel the world the Atlantic. As Thunberg spoke Thunberg, 16, tweeted as she delay action. It is the same meth- a toilet, unlike the boat on which with their 11-month-old baby, Tuesday, the temperature had took to the sea on the 48-foot ods that are being used to mis- she sailed from the United King- Lenny. The family, which has a dipped into the 30s, with sleet catamaran of an Australian fam- lead people,” she said Tuesday as dom to New York in August. That large online following, responded turning to light snow. ily that answered her urgent ap- they prepared to leave Hampton, one had only a bucket. to Thunberg’s call on social media But Thunberg, who refuses to peal for a low-carbon way back Va., near the mouth of the Chesa- “There are countless people for a carbon-free ride to Europe. fly because of the carbon price home after the United Nations peake Bay. around the world who don’t have An expert sailor, Nikki Hender- of plane travel, didn’t seem climate meeting she had planned After her work in Spain, Thun- access to a toilet, ” she said about son, also is coming along. bothered. to attend in Chile was moved due berg hopes she’ll make it home the upgrade. “It’s not that impor- The trip could take two to four “I’m looking forward to it, just to political unrest there. She en- for Christmas and to be with her tant. But it’s nice to have.” weeks in conditions that could be to be able to get away and recap couraged followers to track their family and her dogs, Moses and Her hosts are Riley Whitelum challenging. November is consid- everything and to just be discon- journey online. Roxy, a golden retriever and a and Elayna Carausu, an Austra- ered offseason for sailing across nected, ” she said. Utility to pay $360M for major Most distant space object Southern California wildfires seen up close gets a name The Washington Post a sea of black. Associated Press But just after midnight on New The bundle of ice and rock was Year’s Day, when NASA’s New Ho- LOS ANGELES — Southern discovered using a telescope op- rizons spacecraft swooshed past California Edison has agreed erated in Maryland. It was stud- the object, Arrokoth became the to pay $360 million to local gov- ied up close by a spacecraft built most distant object humans have ernments to settle lawsuits over in the same state. So when NASA seen up close. Images streamed deadly wildfires sparked by its scientists had to choose an official down to the Johns Hopkins Uni- equipment during the last two name for the most distant object years, including one blamed for a they had ever explored, they bor- versity Applied Physics Labora- mudslide that killed more than 20 rowed a word from the original tory in Laurel, Md., revealed a people, the utility and attorneys inhabitants of this region: Arro- reddish, snowman-shape world. announced Wednesday. koth, the Powhatan/Algonquian Alan Stern, the principal inves- The sum will reimburse coun- term for “sky.” tigator for the New Horizons mis- ties, cities and other public agen- “Bestowing the name Arrokoth sion, initially defended the Ultima cies for firefighting costs and signifies the strength and endur- Thule nickname. “Just because repairing damage from two of ance of the indigenous Algon- some bad guys once liked that the region’s worst blazes. The fig- quian people of the Chesapeake term, we’re not going to let them ure will not fully repay taxpayer region,” Lori Glaze, the director hijack it,” he told reporters short- costs, but it will help pay the of NASA’s planetary science divi- ly after the January flyby. bills to rebuild roads, other in- MIKE ELIASON, SANTA BARBARA COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT/AP sion, said at a naming ceremony But new names for space ob- frastructure and clean up debris, Wednesday. “Their heritage con- jects have to be approved by A Santa Barbara County Fire Search dog looks for victims in the International Astronomical among other things, said attorney Montecito, Calif., in January 2018. The fire was among those for tinues to be a guiding light for all John Fiske, who represents local who search for meaning and un- Union, which has strict guide- which Southern California Edison has agreed to a settlement to lines for identifying objects in governments. cover costs from fires sparked by its equipment. derstanding of the origins of the “While this is not 100%, it’s not universe and the celestial con- the sky. Ultimately, NASA opted pennies on the dollar,” Fiske said. nection of humanity.” to put forward the name “Arro- a landscape desiccated from ny’s recent quarterly earnings re- koth,” which honors the Native “A lot of these communities … drought and climate change. port. It destroyed more than 1,600 The name also replaces a nick- name with an unintended white American nation whose land the were hit very hard. In the after- The Thomas Fire that broke out homes and killed three people. math of these wildfires, all sorts supremacist connection: “Ultima discovery was made on. in dry brush in Ventura County The settlement does not include of public resources and taxpayer Thule,” a medieval term used to The space agency approached was sparked when the utility’s private lawsuits for deaths and resources are lost.” describe the lands beyond the artist Phoebe Farris, a professor power lines slapped together in homes destroyed. The settlement The group of nearly two dozen edges of maps. Nazis used it to emeritus at Purdue University public entities that includes small high winds on Dec. 4, 2017, inves- is the most comprehensive in refer to a mythical homeland of who is of Powhatan/Pamunkey fire, water and park agencies had tigators said. Two people were state history because it involves the Aryan people, as was report- heritage, to seek permission from sued Southern California Edison killed and 440 square miles were 23 public entities, Fiske said. ed in Newsweek, and it remains in Powhatan elders to use “Arro- for negligence and improper op- burned. But the overall figure is dwarfed use by modern far-right groups. koth.” The tribe endorsed the eration of power lines and equip- The burn zone included a by the $1 billion settlement Pa- Arrokoth is a Kuiper Belt ob- choice, and it was accepted by the ment, failure to clear vegetation mountainside above the seaside cific Gas & Electric reached with ject, one of millions of icy bodies IAU’s Minor Planet Center last around electric lines and for not city of Montecito, where a deluge local governments in Northern that exist beyond the orbit of Nep- week. shutting down circuits when high a month later in fire-scarred ter- California for fires its equipment tune. As a frozen fragment of the Farris presented the new name winds created fire danger. rain triggered a devastating mud- caused in recent years. The dam- material that formed the planets, at the ceremony at NASA head- SoCal Edison said it admitted slide that killed at least 21 people. age from those fires, however, scientists say, it holds clues to the quarters Tuesday. no wrongdoing or liability in the Two others were never found. was much greater, with more earliest days of the solar system. “Since we are the original in- settlement. The Woolsey Fire started with than 20,000 homes destroyed. It was discovered in 2014 with habitants of what is now called Utilities have increasingly the company’s equipment a year The payout will be split among the Hubble Space Telescope, North America, known to us as come under fire for causing dev- ago just outside Los Angeles and the counties of Santa Barbara, which is operated by the Space Turtle Island, it is fitting that astating wildland blazes in recent quickly spread to the coast, jump- Ventura and Los Angeles and in- Telescope Science Institute in ‘discoveries’ over our skies, on years. Tinder-dry vegetation has ing a highway and crossing the cludes the cities of Santa Barba- Baltimore. Viewed through Hub- our land and in our waters should blown into power lines, sparking Santa Monica Mountains into ra, Malibu, Calabasas, Thousand ble’s lens, it appeared as little be given indigenous names,” she fires fanned by high winds across Malibu, according to the compa- Oaks and Westlake Village. more than a faint pixel of light in told the AFP news service. Friday, November 15, 2019 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 13 PAGE 14 •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, November 15, 2019 NATION New program aims to combat US gun violence

BY ADRIAN SAINZ marshals. AND MICHAEL BALSAMO “We are going forward with all Associated Press the operational steps that we can take that do not require legisla- MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Attorney General William Barr announced tive action,” Barr said. a new initiative Wednesday that The initiative requires agents would better enforce the U.S. gun in charge of ATF offices across background check system, coor- the country to either create new /AP dinate state and federal gun cases guidelines or review the protocols MARK LAMBIE, THE EL PASO TIMES and ensure prosecutors quickly already in place to bring federal An employee crosses into the crime scene after a shooting in August at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas. The update databases to show when a charges against people who lie in store has hired off-duty police officers to provide security after its scheduled reopening on Thursday. defendant can’t possess a firearm order to obtain a gun from a fire- because of mental health issues. arms dealer. The push, known as Project Prosecutors will particularly Guardian, was unveiled at a news focus on offenders who have vio- Walmart hires off-duty officers conference in Memphis, Tenn. , lent backgrounds, are gang mem- alongside officials from the Bu- reau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Fire- bers or who have faced domestic arms and Explosives. violence charges. ahead of El Paso reopening As part of the program, U.S. U.S. attorney’s offices would prosecutors will coordinate with also be required to quickly input BY CEDAR ATTANASIO meeting, council members discussed possibly man- state and local law enforcement information about people who Associated Press dating that off-duty officers be hired at large stores. officials to consider potential fed- can’t own guns for mental health The idea hadn’t been implemented. eral charges when a suspect is reason into federal databases. EL PASO, Texas — Walmart has quietly hired off- Instead, Walmart quietly started hiring off-duty arrested for weapons possession, The attorney general is also en- duty police officers at its stores in El Paso , where a officers at their stores across the city, from Super- is believed to have used a gun to couraging U.S. attorneys across gunman police say targeted Mexicans opened fire centers to “neighborhood markets,” the retail giant’s commit a violent crime or drug- the country to adopt programs in a store in August and killed 22 people. smaller grocery stores. Walmart planned Thursday to reopen the store trafficking offense or is suspected that could help disrupt poten- “We’re covering Walmarts; we’re also covering of being a violent gang member. where the attack happened and amid ongoing law- tial threats and consider recom- Sam’s (Club),” said El Paso police union president “Gun crime remains a perva- suits over safety. Walmart didn’t have a guard in the Ron Martin. “Even the neighborhood Walmarts are mending court-ordered mental sive problem in too many com- store the day of the mass shooting. being covered. Some of them are being covered by munities across America,” Barr health treatment, in some cases, The reopening was to happen unceremoniously, sheriff’s deputies; some of them are being covered said in a statement. for defendants found to be ineli- Walmart spokeswoman Delia Garcia said, and will by our guys. I mean, I have seen some constables The program “will strengthen gible to own firearms for mental follow a brief meeting with employees. She declined working it.” our efforts to reduce gun violence health reasons. to comment on security measures. Martin said it’s unclear how long Walmart will by allowing the federal govern- The federal government has Police say Patrick Crusius drove more than 10 continue to staff every location. ment and our state and local part- come under scrutiny in recent hours from his grandparents’ house where he lived Pay for the off-duty officers is about $50 per hour ners to better target offenders years for failing to prevent some in a Dallas suburb to carry out the attack. Crusius, depending on their rank, or about double their hour- who use guns in crimes and those mass shooters from buying guns 21, has pleaded not guilty. ly wage. who try to buy guns illegally,” because of lapses in the back- More than 3,000 people from largely Latino El Walmart declined to discuss the hiring of police Paso and neighboring Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, were Barr said. ground check system. officers, the costs, or if they are taking similar steps During the news conference, at the store when the attack happened. in other cities. In 2018, there were more than Barr said discussions about any “There was a time that Walmart hired off-duty of- “We typically do not share our security measures new legislation tied to the project 26 million background checks ficers and for some time prior (to) August 3rd that publicly because it could make them less effective, have been sidetracked due to the conducted and fewer than 100,000 ceased,” El Paso police spokesman Enrique Car- but they may include hiring additional security, add- impeachment process on Capitol people failed. The vast majority rillo said in an email. He declined to provide more ing cameras in store and using ‘lot cops’ in the park- Hill. He said Congress has been were for a criminal conviction details. ing lot,” said Walmart spokeswoman Delia Garcia, asked for more resources, includ- and just over 6,000 were rejected When El Paso Police Chief Greg Allen first re- referring to security cameras placed in parking ing more ATF agents and U.S. for a mental health issue. vealed the phasing out of officers in a city council lots. Probe offers no clear answers for Virginia mass shooting

Associated Press city of nearly 500,000 had pro- reporters after presenting a 262- plex to get a permit. lice. He said no real independent posed as a possible factor. page report to Virginia Beach’s Craddock had submitted his digging was done. VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — A What the investigation did re- City Council. resignation earlier in the day, cit- “Family members are beyond months long independent probe into the Virginia Beach mass veal was a man who experienced “What we can tell you is that ing “personal reasons.” upset,” he said. shooting has concluded, but it of- the kind of pressures and life in 2016 his life started chang- The independent probe’s re- Nixon said his wife wrote up fers no clear answers as to why a challenges that many people do. ing,” Heintze said. “We can tell port will likely do little for family Craddock for having a poor at- city engineer killed 12 people in DeWayne Craddock, 40, had you that he started acquiring members of the victims who have titude. But he said such details his workplace, according to find- gone through a divorce and was firearms, body armor and silenc- been grasping for answers and were glossed over. ings released Wednesday. having trouble at work. He wrote ers. He starts visiting [newspaper critical of the investigations. Nixon said he plans to ask The investigation, conducted emails on his work computer that websites that are reporting] on A police investigation into the state police to conduct an by Chicago-based security com- went unsent but claimed he was mass shootings.” massacre is ongoing. An update in investigation. pany Hillard Heintze, found no unjustly disciplined. Craddock had worked in the September from police investiga- Meanwhile, the probe offered warning signs by the shooter that But independent investigators city’s public utilities depart- tors did not offer a clear motive. several recommendations to the could have helped the city pre- were at a loss to explain how such ment. He used two semi-auto- Jason Nixon, whose wife, Kate city. They included suggestions vent the May 31 tragedy. “stressors” could have translated matic handguns, a silencer and Nixon, was killed by Craddock, that Virginia Beach improve The firm also said that the long- into violence. extended ammunition magazines said the independent investiga- its workplace violence preven- time city employee did not work “The information is just not to kill 11 of his co-workers and a tion was a “dog and pony show” tion programs, human resources in a systemically toxic workplace, there,” the independent security contractor who had stopped at the that “regurgitated” information functions and mass-notification which some people in this coastal firm’s CEO, Arnette Heintze, told city’s sprawling municipal com- provided by Virginia Beach po- alerting systems. Friday, November 15, 2019 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 15 WORLD Election Israel-Islamic Jihad results held up again in truce intact despite Afghanistan

Associated Press barrage of rockets KABUL, Afghanistan — An Afghan official says the results KHALIL HAMRA/AP BY FARES AKRAM Israel had hailed the Gaza op- of the country’s presidential elec- AND TIA GOLDENBERG eration as a victory, defending The bodies of seven members of the Abu Malhous family, who were tion held nearly two months ago Associated Press its policy of targeting militants killed in an overnight Israeli missile strike , lay on the floor during are being delayed once again. in their homes despite civilian their funeral in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, on Thursday . A spokesman for the Indepen- GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — A deaths, and vowed to continue dent Election Commission, Zabi cease-fire between Israel and Ga- the tactic. Islamic Jihad said it did not immediately respond, an officials said the only unwritten Sadat, didn’t explain the new postponement. The results were za’s Islamic Jihad militant group had succeeded in getting Israel indication the cease-fire deal was agreement was that Israel would supposed to be announced Thurs- appeared to be holding Thurs- to agree to a cease-fire based on intact. hold fire so long as Islamic Jihad day in Kabul. day despite an earlier barrage of several demands, including a halt The fighting first erupted did. Military spokesmen listed a There was no new date set for rocket fire that briefly disrupted to Israeli targeted killings of the early Tuesday after Israel killed series of accomplishments after a truce to end two days of intense the results. group’s leaders. a senior commander of the Iran- the two-day spasm of violence, fighting that killed at least 34 Pal- backed militant group who was including the killing of some 25 The Sept. 28 election has been Islamic Jihad spokesman estinians, including three women said to be behind a string of rock- militants in targeted strikes. mired in controversy. Both Presi- Musab al-Berim said the Egyp- and eight children, and paralyzed et attacks and who Israel said was Israeli Foreign Minister Israel dent Ashraf Ghani and his chief tian-brokered deal went into parts of Israel. believed to be planning a cross- Katz said the policy had “proved executive and co-head in the cur- Before the truce was an- effect at 5:30 a.m. An Israeli mili- border infiltration. itself” and would continue. rent unity government, Abdul- nounced, a pre-dawn Israeli air- tary spokesman tweeted that the The rare targeted killing by “Everyone who was a top mili- lah Abdullah, were running for strike killed eight members of Gaza operation “is over.” Some Israel sparked the heaviest fight- tary official, who was set to carry president. the same family in Gaza. Among restrictions were lifted on resi- ing with Gaza militants since out and was involved in terror or Abdullah last week said he them were five children, the dents of southern Israel, and traf- May. Islamic Jihad fired some rocket firing against Israel was was withdrawing his election ob- youngest being 7 years old. fic returned to the streets of the 450 rockets toward Israel, while eliminated,” he told Israeli Army servers from the ballot counting It was the deadliest single at- Palestinian coastal territory. Israel responded with scores of Radio. “And we intend to continue process. Sadat, the commission tack since a bruising 2014 war But after hours of calm, a bar- airstrikes. with this.” spokesman, said vote recounts between Israel and Hamas, the rage of five rockets blasted out of However, Gaza’s ruling Hamas Israeli Defense Minister Naftali were immediately suspended larger militant group that rules the territory, setting off air raid stayed out of the latest escalation Bennett warned Gaza militants after Abdullah withdrew his Gaza. Islamic Jihad claimed no sirens in southern Israel and test- — an indication it would be brief. they were not safe anywhere, observers. link to the family and the Israeli ing the fragile truce. No group Israel typically does not pub- saying, “A terrorist who tries to Sadat said the commission is military offered no details on the claimed responsibility for the licly acknowledge deals with harm Israeli citizens will not be holding emergency meetings to strike. new wave of rockets, but Israel militant groups, and on Thursday able to sleep soundly.” find a way out of the impasse. PAGE 16 •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, November 15, 2019 WORLD Hong Kong police condemn protests, deny curfew plan

Associated Press lies with Hong Kong’s leader, puses were to catch fire. Chief Executive Carrie Lam, and He said violence that broke HONG KONG — Hong Kong “that’s why police are not in a po- out this week at Chinese Univer- police warned protesters on Thursday that they were moving sition to comment.” sity of Hong Kong is spreading “one step closer to terrorism” by “The force is certainly capable to other campuses “like a cancer NG HAN GUAN/AP sinking the city into chaos as riot and determined to control Hong cell,” mentioning specifically squads skirmished with militant Kong’s social unrest at the mo- Hong Kong University and Bap- Pro-democracy protesters set fire to the toll gates to the Cross- students at major universities. ment. We welcome any new mea- tist University. Harbour Tunnel with Molotov cocktails in Hong Kong on Thursday. Police spokesman Tse Chun- sures that can help us to achieve “It’s time to wake up. No soci- chung denied his department had the goal of restoring the public ety can tolerate this much sense- premises. transit disruptions as protesters been asked to enforce a possible safety and order in Hong Kong,” less violence,” he said. “The ongoing riots over the past closed some main roads and rail curfew this weekend. A Chinese Tse added. With no end to the protests in few months, with their massive networks. state media outlet later removed In unusually harsh language, sight, the beleaguered police force scale, simultaneous occurrence Protesters have hurled gaso- its tweet saying authorities were he said students were turning is appointing a group of prison in various districts and grave se- line bombs and thrown objects considering a weekend curfew university campuses into “weap- guards as special constables. verity of violence, make it neces- off bridges onto roads below that cited unidentified sources. ons factories” and a “hotbed” of Up to 100 officers from the Cor- sary to strengthen the support for during clashes at campuses this “We are aware of the relevant crime. rectional Services Department the police’s front-line officers,” a week. The Chinese University of report circulating online,” Tse “Their acts are another step who are already familiar with statement from the police spokes- Hong Kong suspended classes for said at a daily briefing, referring closer to terrorism,” Tse said, anti-riot equipment will be given man’s office said. the rest of the year, and others to the report as “false.” He said warning of a major disaster if additional training and deployed Residents endured a fourth asked students to switch to online the authority to order a curfew gasoline bombs stored on cam- mainly to guard government day of traffic snarls and mass learning. Brexit Party rejects tactical voting pact with ruling Conservatives

BY DANICA KIRKA of Commons are up for grabs. the Conservative Party, they do the election than having a Leave could prevent them from winning Associated Press Johnson has reached a Brexit not want the Brexit Party to get majority, a Leave alliance.“ some closely contested seats, rob- deal with the EU but has not per- seats in Parliament,” Farage said. The Conservatives fear that bing the party of an overall ma- LONDON — Britain’s Brexit suaded enough British lawmak- “They’d rather risk not winning voter support for Farage’s party jority in the House of Commons. Party has rejected an electoral ers to pass it. The single-issue pact with the ruling Conserva- Brexit Party, meanwhile, prefers tives, saying it will field 300 can- to leave the EU without a deal. didates in next month’s election The Brexit Party earlier this to force Prime Minister Boris week agreed not to run candi- Johnson to deliver on promises of dates for 317 parliamentary seats a clean break with the European currently held by Conservative Union. lawmakers after Johnson pledged Brexit Party leader Nigel Far- there would be no further exten- age said Thursday the party had sion of the Brexit deadline. But to contest the seats to keep pres- the Daily Telegraph reported sure on Johnson, rebuffing Con- servative arguments that doing so Thursday that Farage rejected a risks splitting the pro-Brexit vote last-minute strategic offer from and helping parties that want to the Conservatives to put up only remain in the EU. His comments token opposition in 40 key seats came on the final day for candi- if the Brexit Party would stand dates to register for the Dec. 12 aside in other constituencies. election. Currently, the Conservatives “What we’ve got so far in this have 298 seats and the opposition campaign is for Boris to prom- Labour Party has 243. Analysts ise to change direction. What we say to get a majority the Conser- now have to do is to hold him to vatives need to flip Labour seats account to make sure we get a in the north and east. proper Brexit, and that’s my job,” Farage noted that “there are Farage said. very clearly seats in which we Britain is holding a national are the lead challenger and there election on Dec. 12 because John- are other seats in which they (the son wants to secure a majority so Conservatives) are the lead chal- he can take the U.K. out of the lenger to Labour.” bloc by the next Brexit deadline of “We could have done a deal Jan. 31. All 650 seats in the House on that basis, but the priority for

Pope calls on tech firms ogy is fast outpacing regulation. Rather, he demanded that to keep porn from kids companies themselves assume a moral responsibility to protect VATICAN CITY — Pope Fran- young people from what he said cis is demanding that Facebook, were the ruinous effects of por- Apple, Google and other tech com- nography on their emotional and panies urgently take measures to sexual development. remove child porn from the web He said, “There is a need to en- and to prevent children from ac- sure that investors and managers cessing pornography online. remain accountable so that the Francis told a Vatican confer- good of minors and society is not ence of religious leaders and high- sacrificed to profit.” tech representatives Thursday Francis was addressing partici- that it’s no longer acceptable to pants at the conference “Promot- merely follow the law in monitor- ing Digital Child Dignity.” ing online content since technol- From The Associated Press Friday, November 15, 2019 •STARS AND STRIPES•PAGE 17 FACES Brooks crashes ladies’ night CMAs honor female acts as entertainer of the year goes to man

BY MESFIN FEKADU Musgraves, joined by Willie Nel- Associated Press son, gave a wonderful performance of “Rainbow Connection” from “The The Country Music Association Muppet Movie,” even weaving in Awards almost fully honored and some of her own song “Rainbow.” highlighted the women of country Morris performed “GIRL,” which music — whose songs have been heav- was also nominated for single of the ily dismissed on country radio over year and song of the year, but it lost the years — until two words were ut- in both categories (the winners were tered when they named its entertain- Blake Shelton’s “God’s Country” and er of the year: Garth Brooks. Combs’ “Beautiful Crazy”). Morris Wednesday night’s show kicked off also lost musical event of the year to with a performance featuring coun- Kacey Musgraves, left, and Willie Nelson perform “The Rainbow Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus’ ubiq- try female acts across generations, uitous No. 1 hit, “Old Town Road.” included three female hosts and had Connection” at the CMAs. Combs, who has dominated the Maren Morris as its top nominee. But country charts and streaming ser- in the final moments, Brooks won the Morris also marked the big night vices with his songs and albums, also top prize over Carrie Underwood, for female country acts by taking won male vocalist of the year, beating who many had hoped would be the home album of the year for “GIRL.” out Stapleton, Keith Urban, Thomas first female to win entertainer of the The award also went to her producer year since 2011. busbee, who died in September at age Rhett and Dierks Bentley. Brooks did highlight female acts 43 from brain cancer. “I remember sitting on my parents’ during his acceptance speech at the “I would be really remiss if I didn’t porch as a little kid and watching Bridgestone Arena in Nashville. mention a huge facet of why this Vince Gill win this same award,” he “If they gave this award for this album sounds the way it does, and said. “Country music means every- show tonight, I’d have to give it to we miss him so dearly ,” a teary-eyed thing to me.” Reba McEntire’s performance,” Morris said onstage. The three-hour CMA Awards Brooks said, while also praising Kel- Kacey Musgraves, who won four kicked off with a dose of girl power: sea Ballerini and Luke Combs, who Grammys this year, picked up female Parton, Underwood and McEntire won two honors. vocalist of the year and music video of were joined by Tanya Tucker, Terri All eyes seemed to be on Under- the year for “Rainbow.” Clark, Crystal Gayle, Sara Evans, wood, who had a successful year “The female creative spirit, the Little Big Town’s Karen Fairchild with her album “Cry Pretty” and an female energy is really needed right and Kimberly Schlapman, Maren all-female tour, for an entertainer of now. It’s really important, and I feel Morris, Brandi Carlile, Gretchen the year win. The last woman to win like it’s something that Earth needs. Wilson, Martina McBride and more, the prize was Taylor Swift, and Un- So whether it’s me that’s up here or singing classic country songs across derwood was this year’s sole female any of the other women in this cat- two stages. nominee. egory, I just think that it’s a beauti- After the performance Parton Underwood hosted the show along- ful thing and I’m very appreciative,” asked, “What do you call three women side McEntire and Dolly Parton, and Musgraves said. hosting the CMAs?” though she didn’t win any awards, Un- Other women who won Wednesday “Your lucky night,” she screamed. included Ashley McBryde, who won Kris Kristofferson was also hon- PHOTOS BY MARK J. TERRILL/AP derwood did win over the audience: She was a vocal beast, hitting all the new artist of the year, and fiddle play- ored with a performance featuring Garth Brooks accepts the award for entertainer of the right notes and more during a smoky er Jenee Fleenor, named musician of Sheryl Crow, Bentley, John Osborne year Wednesday at the CMA Awards in Nashville. performance of “Drinking Alone.” the year. and Chris Janson.

Disney Plus warns of films’ ‘outdated cultural depictions’ AP

From wire reports the monkeys portray black people as foolish ney could include discussion questions online and criminal. The churlish hyenas in “The to accompany the movies, Baran said. Disney’s much-anticipated streaming ser- Lion King,” released in 1994, could repre- Some films that reportedly do not contain vice has tacked warnings onto the beginnings sent racial minorities who live on the wrong warning notices, like “Aladdin,” should have of some movies indicating that they might in- side of the tracks. The list of movies with ele- them added, Baran said, and the warnings clude racist or otherwise offensive elements ments criticized as racist continues. should also apply to films with problematic — a move that experts say begins to address Disney Plus’ warning that elements of cer- representations of gender and sexuality. the problem but fails to go far enough. tain films may be “outdated” is an apolitical Representatives for Walt Disney Co. did Bautista guardian of A message that airs before classic films in- and passive way of acknowledging society’s not respond to a request for comment on why cluding “Dumbo” and “Peter Pan” on Disney cultural dialog about racism and diversity, the company decided to add content warn- abandoned pit bulls Plus says the movie is shown as it originally and that some movies are bound to be criti- ings and how their language was chosen. was made and “may contain outdated cul- A Florida animal shelter sent cized, said Shilpa Dave, a professor of media out a desperate plea after some- tural depictions.” studies and American studies at the Univer- Other news one had abandoned two pit bull The decision to attach this message to sity of Virginia. dogs. But volunteers never ex- some animated films was met with both “They are accounting for the fact that,  Actor Charles Levin, who played nu- pected the post would catch the praise from people who viewed it as an ac- ‘yes, this is the company that we once were, merous roles on television comedies such attention of “Guardians of the countability measure and criticism from but we’re moving in a new direction,’ ” Dave as “Seinfeld” and “Night Court,” has been Galaxy” actor Dave Bautista. those who thought its wording was dismis- said. “It’s a safe way of saying they under- identified as the man whose body was found The 6-year-old pit bulls, Mag- sive. The mixed response, experts say, high- stand the moment in which their company last summer in an Oregon ravine, authori- gie and Ollie, were handed over to lights the fact that Disney has just begun exists and in which we are in now.” ties said. The death was ruled accidental, the county after their owner had to take responsibility for the problematic Others have criticized Disney Plus for not the Oregonian/OregonLive reported Tues- a baby. Volunteers from Rescue representations. being direct about what the content warnings day. Jesse Levin reported his father missing Me Tampa sought someone who “It really feels like a first step,” said Mi- are referring to, especially when compared on July 8, police said. The 70-year-old actor, chael Baran, a senior partner at the Illinois- with language used by the entertainment who had been living in Grants Pass, Ore., would take both dogs, who had based diversity and inclusion consulting company Warner Bros. Entertainment be- was last seen June 27. been together all their lives. firm InQUEST Consulting. “I think that they fore some of its Looney Tunes cartoons.  Rapper Kodak Black was sentenced That was last month. A week could be so much more forceful in not only “The cartoons you are about to see are Wednesday to more than three years in fed- later, the group posted a picture what they are saying, in the warning, but products of their time,” the Warner Bros.’ eral prison after pleading guilty to weapons of the star hugging the two pups also in what they’re doing.” disclaimer reads. “They may depict some charges stemming from his arrest just before and announcing he had adopted Disney frequently has come under fire for of the ethnic and racial prejudices that were a scheduled concert performance in May. them. The rescuers said Bautista characters that promote racist stereotypes. commonplace in American society. These Black, 22, admitted in August that he falsi- is spoiling the rescue dogs with The crows in “Dumbo,” released in 1941, en- depictions were wrong then and are wrong fied information on federal forms to buy four Tempur-Pedic dog beds, a large capsulate stereotypes of African Americans. today.” firearms from a Miami-area gun shop. Black gated property and doggy doors One of the birds was named “Jim Crow.” Baran said he would like to see Disney use also faces drug, weapons and sexual assault everywhere. In 1967’s “The Jungle Book,” critics say more specific language in its warnings. Dis- charges in other states that remain pending. From The Associated Press PAGE 18 •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, November 15, 2019 WORLD Iranian hard-liner calls for end to nuclear deal

BY NASSER KARIMI approved the nuclear deal, which Republic of Iran chose a halfway Associated Press saw Iran limit its enrichment of method to protect the deal while uranium in exchange for the lift- reducing its commitments.” TEHRAN, Iran — A promi- ing of economic sanctions. Irani- Kadkhodaei, however, said nent member of Iran’s powerful ans celebrated in the streets of pulling away from the deal Guardian Council has told The Tehran, hopeful the deal between would punish the U.S. “because Associated Press that the Islamic their relatively moderate Presi- they damaged others and their Republic should stop honoring dent Hassan Rouhani and then- interests.” all terms of the collapsing 2015 President Barack Obama meant “The Islamic Republic of Iran nuclear deal with world powers Iran might normalize relations has shown a lot of patience so far amid tensions with the United with the West after decades of and it remained in the framework States. enmity. of its commitments,” Kadkhodaei The comments by Abbas Ali But President Donald Trump said. “In recent months, it has Kadkhodaei show an increasing withdrew from the accord in May taken some actions in direction of willingness among Iran’s hard- 2018, saying the deal didn’t go vindication of its rights.” liners to use the country’s atomic far enough to stop Iran’s ballistic Those recent actions are what program to pressure Western missile program and what he de- Tehran calls its “four steps” away powers. scribed as Tehran’s malign influ- from the accord. Nonproliferation experts are ence across the wider Mideast. VAHID SALEMI/AP Iran now enriches uranium up already concerned that steps Kadkhodaei says Iran should to 4.5%, beyond the 3.67% allowed Tehran has taken over the past Abbas Ali Kadkhodaei, a member of Iran’s Guardian Council, says no longer honor its commit- months away from the accord nar- Iran should stop honoring the terms of its collapsing 2015 nuclear ments in the deal, calling it “very by the deal. Iranian officials say row the estimated year it would deal with world powers amid tensions with the U.S. natural, logical and based on the their stockpile of low-enriched need to build a nuclear bomb if it agreement’s framework.” uranium is over 1,100 pounds , be- chose to pursue one. “I think those who disrupted all parliamentary and presiden- That directly contradicts Rou- yond the accord’s 661-pound limit. Yet Iran still allows United the game should be punished tial candidates and must agree to hani’s position, who earlier this It also began using advanced cen- Nations inspectors to monitor its since they damaged other parties’ all legislation passed by parlia- week declared Iran was “proud” trifuges prohibited by the agree- nuclear sites and hasn’t pushed interests,” Kadkhodaei said in an ment before it becomes law. of the deal. He tried to lobby ment and resumed enrichment at its enrichment anywhere near interview with the AP in Tehran That grants the body, which hard-liners to back Iran’s stay- its underground Fordo facility. weapons-grade levels of 90%. on Saturday. Kadkhodaei has served on in- ing in the deal by saying that next The U.S. pullout from the nu- Completely abandoning the deal Kadkhodaei serves on the 12- termittently since 2001, tremen- year, the country would be able clear deal sent Iran’s economy as Kadkhodaei suggests could member Guardian Council, a dous power in the political life of to sell and purchase weapons into freefall. Nationwide eco- lead to an immediate confronta- panel of six clerics appointed by the Islamic Republic. It has also abroad — something the U.S. al- nomic protests roiled Iran at the tion. Israel, which has bombed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali never allowed a woman to run for ready fears. end of 2017. Kadkhodaei said the Iraq and Syria in the past to stop Khamenei and six jurists nomi- president and blocks candidates “We have to think and see where Iranian people would likely have their atomic programs, repeated- nated by Iran’s hard-line judi- calling for dramatic changes to the country’s interests are,” Rou- those hardships in mind when ly has warned it won’t allow Iran ciary approved by its parliament. the Islamic Republic. hani said. “Since remaining in they vote in parliamentary elec- to build a nuclear weapon. The Guardian Council approves The Guardian Council in 2015 the deal benefits us, the Islamic tions scheduled for February. Friday, November 15, 2019 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 19 AMERICAN ROUNDUP Cows cast away by hurricane found alive

CAPE LOOKOUT NC — A trio of castaway cows was discovered on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, where they apparently washed up after swimming for miles to escape Hurricane Dorian’s storm surge. Cape Lookout National Sea- shore officials think the stranded cows swam up to 5 miles dur- ing the September storm before being found near Cape Lookout this month. The cows belong to a herd that roams freely on Cedar Island, across the sound. Seashore spokesman B.G. Hor- vat told McClatchy news group the cows are grazing peacefully after a harrowing feat of surviv- al, but they need to go home. He thinks they’ll have to be sedated for the boat trip. Principal indicted on child porn charges

WINCHESTER — A KY Kentucky principal who once made headlines for trying to ban books with what he deemed inappropriate content was indict- ed on child pornography charges. News outlets reported that a grand jury charged Phillip Todd Wilson, 54, principal of the Clark County Area Technology Center, with 17 child pornography pos- session and distribution charges. WKYT-TV reported the edu- cation department no longer em- WARREN RUDA, THE HAZELTON (PA.) STANDARD-SPEAKER/AP ploys Wilson. The Lexington Herald-Leader says that when Wilson was the principal of Montgomery County Early Thanksgiving feast High School in 2009, he fought to ban books with what he labeled Third graders Jake Bechtel, Logan Cora and Cole Benninger enjoy the annual Thanksgiving Feast at Fairview Elementary School in Fairview, “homosexual” or otherwise inap- Pa., on Tuesday . The children wore costumes and sang songs before enjoying a meal of traditional Thanksgiving foods and desserts. The propriate material, including sex, students’ parents provided food for the event, and the leftovers were delivered to the Catherine McAuley House in Plymouth, which provides abuse and drugs. housing and services for homeless women and children. Sheriff: Man threw nails they saw each other at lunch. THE CENSUS following the beating of a 15-year- into neighbor’s driveway LA schools police Officer Rudy old female high school student in Perez said one officer was hit with The weight in pounds of a green sea turtle that was res- an incident captured on video. a bottle but not seriously hurt. cued off the Florida coast. News outlets reported the turtle Tiffani Shadell Lankford was MONROE — A Louisi- Eight students were detained had a gash in its shell and is being cared for at the Log- free on $10,000 bond. Video of ana man who had nails LA and later released to their 144 gerhead Marinelife Center in Juno Beach. Center spokes- the incident in a foreign-language and screws thrown onto his drive- parents. woman Lauren Eissey said a boat strike appears to have class at Lehman High School in way said it’s not the first time the left Blaze with nerve damage, but the center’s rehab team said there’s a strong Kyle went viral. suspect accused of doing it tossed Former lawmaker takes chance it can be returned to the wild. Paul Batrice, an attorney for debris into a road. picture of 3-antler deer the girl’s family, said the students The Monroe News Star report- in the class were being loud and ed that Prentice Lamar Tedeton lic safety. the situation escalated when the MARQUETTE — A Police: Child stolen in Jr., 60, was booked at Ouachita State shark researcher Gregory teacher cursed at them. former state lawmaker Correctional Center on three MI Skomal told the Cape Cod Times running car found safe One video shows the teacher said he took a picture of an un- counts of stalking and four counts swinging several times at the usual deer: a buck with three ant- the primary focus is where and of criminal mischief. how white sharks kill seals, which MEMPHIS — Police student before stomping on her A neighbor told Ouachita Par- lers in the Upper Peninsula. will be used to determine when TN in Tennessee said a head. ish deputies it wasn’t the first Steve Lindberg posted the and where sharks are more likely suspect accused of stealing a time he and Tedeton had argued. photo to his Facebook page where to be present. running car with a child inside The neighbor accused Tedeton of he regularly shares pictures from dropped the child off at a fire sta- Camera, tripwire device putting hazardous debris into a the outdoors. tion unharmed. found near monument road in 2018 and later showing up A veterinarian, Steve Edwards Police: Someone threw The child’s mother told investi- at his workplace to accuse him of said the deer is normal and kittens from moving car gators her car was stolen from a CHARLOTTESVILLE stealing an air hose. healthy. Edwards, who said it’s gas station where she briefly left VA — Police have removed possible that something happened PINELLAS PARK it running with the child inside. an unauthorized camera and ap- Police quell brawl when the deer was an embryo, FL — Police in Florida said Police said the child was found parent tripwire device from the at high school told the Detroit Free Press that they responded to an unsettling safe after being dropped off by vicinity of a Confederate monu- the three-antler deer is probably call about someone throwing kit- the suspect, who remained on the ment in Charlottesville. a “one-in-a-million thing.” loose. Charlottesville police spokes- LOS ANGELES — tens out of a moving car. Pinellas Park police spokes- News outlets report the mother man Tyler Hawn said that neither CA Dozens of police offi- was cited for leaving her car run- cers had to be called onto a Los Researchers tag 50 woman Roxanne Pohl said offi- the camera nor the “self-made” sharks off Cape Cod cers found one kitten dead along a ning, and police alerted the De- device belonged to police. He said Angeles high school campus after partment of Child Services. a fight between two female stu- road Monday. officers removed them soon after dents turned into a bottle-throw- BARNSTABLE She said they don’t have a de- citizens reported their presence. ing brawl involving scores of MA — Researchers fit- scription of the suspect or the ve- Substitute teacher fired Social media posts showed people. ted 50 great white sharks found hicle. They’re not sure how many after beating student what looked like a tripwire at- KCBS-TV reported the brawl in Cape Cod waters this season kittens were thrown into the road. tached to a bell by the base of the broke out after “bad blood” be- with tracking and data-logging Pohl said investigators want to KYLE — A substitute statue of Confederate Gen. Thom- tween the students at John C. Fre- devices to study how the species talk to anyone who may have wit- TX teacher was fired and as “Stonewall” Jackson. mont High School erupted when kills seals, in order to benefit pub- nessed the incident. charged with aggravated assault From wire reports PAGE 20 • S TARS AND STRIPES• Friday, November 15, 2019 BUSINESS/WEATHER Motorola flips for its futuristic foldable phone Fed to pause rate NEW YORK — Motorola is bracing for the future by return- ing to the past. The company is adapting its historical flip-phone design for a smartphone with a cuts amid steady foldable screen. Samsung, Huawei and others have phones that fold like a book and offer a double-sized display when unfolded. Motorola’s new Razr phone, on economic growth the other hand, will be smaller

JOSE LUIS MAGANA/AP than a regular smartphone until BY CHRISTOPHER RUGABER Committee. unfolded to its full 6.2-inch size. Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell testifies on the Associated Press Fed policymakers are unlikely The phone will launch in to cut rates, Powell said, unless economic outlook on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday. the U.S. in January starting at WASHINGTON — Federal the economy slows enough to $1,500. cuts, by lowering borrowing costs tacular. The economy expanded Reserve Chairman Jerome Pow- cause them to make a “material on mortgages and other loans, at a 1.9% annual rate in the July- From The Associated Press ell said Wednesday that the Fed reassessment” of their outlook. have spurred home sales and September quarter, down from is likely to keep its benchmark The Fed cut short-term rates EXCHANGE RATES short-term interest rate un- boosted the economy. 3.1% in the first three months of last month for the third time this Powell was asked about nega- Military rates changed in the coming months year, to a range of 1.5% to 1.75%. the year. 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South Korean won (Nov. 15) ...... 1,140.00 sidelines for an extended period,” tainly not be appropriate in the Commercial rates fore a congressional panel, Pow- said Andrew Hunter, an econo- Inflation, according to the Fed’s Bahrain (Dinar) ...... 0.3770 current environment.” preferred gauge, is just 1.3%, British pound ...... $1.2840 ell expressed optimism about mist at Capital Economics, a fore- Negative rates occur “at times Canada (Dollar) ...... 1.3262 though it has been held down in the U.S. economy and said he ex- casting firm. when growth is quite low, and in- China (Yuan) ...... 7.0203 recent months by lower energy Denmark (Krone) ...... 6.7920 pects it will grow at a solid pace, Still, when asked if he expected flation is quite low, and you really Egypt (Pound) ...... 16.1234 though it still faces risks from rates to remain unchanged over don’t see that here,” Powell said. costs and most Fed officials ex- Euro ...... $1.1001/0.9090 pect it to move higher in the com- Hong Kong (Dollar) ...... 7.8307 slower growth overseas and trade the next year, Powell said, “I Other Fed officials have also Hungary (Forint) ...... 303.63 tensions. wouldn’t say that at all.” questioned whether cutting rates ing months. 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Naples 65/57 Okinawa Morón 75/72 53/45 Sigonella Rota 66/48 The weather is provided by the Djibouti Souda Bay American Forces Network Weather Center, 86/75 57/53 69/64 2nd Weather Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. Friday, November 15, 2019 •STARS AND STRIPES•PAGE 21 PAGE 22 •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, November 15, 2019 OPINION Max D. Lederer Jr., Publisher Lt. Col. Sean Klimek, Europe commander Lt. Col. Richard McClintic, Pacific commander Why does US still believe in ‘good coups’? Caroline E. Miller, Europe Business Operations BY ERICA DE BRUIN President Nicolas Maduro from power, on nongovernmental organizations and re- Special to The Washington Post Secretary of State Mike Pompeo suggested pression of political opposition. The same EDITORIAL Guaido’s proposed coup would result in “a misplaced optimism followed the 2006 .S. officials have developed a bad Editor peaceful democratic transition.” coup in Thailand. Terry Leonard, habit of endorsing military med- [email protected] Similarly, in 2013, when Egypt’s military What makes “good coups” lead to bad dling in global politics — ironi- leaders ousted Mohamed Morsi, the coun- outcomes? The basic answer is that letting Robert H. Reid, Senior Managing Editor cally, in the name of democracy. try’s first democratically elected ruler, military elites’ interference in the political [email protected] U Some heralded the resignation of Boliv- from power, Obama administration offi- process go unchecked undermines norms Tina Croley, Managing Editor for Content ian President Evo Morales this week after cials portrayed it as an expression of the of civilian control of the military that are a [email protected] nearly 14 years in power as a victory for popular will, rather than a coup attempt. prerequisite for stable, democratic rule. It democracy. Although his regime remained Secretary of State John Kerry claimed that encourages military officers to see them- Sean Moores, Managing Editor for Presentation popular, Morales’ increasingly brazen ef- in ousting Morsi, the military was “restor- selves as above the law. Hence, when civil- [email protected] forts to serve a fourth term in office had ing democracy” rather than seizing power. ian elites invite military officers to weigh Joe Gromelski, Managing Editor for Digital sparked violent protests. Though Morales The temptation to endorse the domestic in on politics, it is difficult to get them to [email protected] initially appeared determined to hold on to political maneuverings of military lead- stop. Morales himself learned this the hard power, the turning point appears to have ers against unfriendly regimes is clearly way. When the current crisis began to un- been the defection of Bolivia’s military and strong for U.S. policymakers. In recent fold, he appealed directly to the military BUREAU STAFF security forces. On Sunday, the command- years, moreover, a number of observers to help him remain in power, only to see it Europe/Mideast er of the armed forces publicly pressured have suggested that coups might be the throw its weight behind his opponents. Erik Slavin, Europe & Mideast Bureau Chief him to step down. only way to remove entrenched dictators It is a matter of long-standing U.S. [email protected] While there is some debate about from power. 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Those that involve generals and other 1991 and Guinea-Bissau in 2003, both of principles by successive presidential ad- Joseph Cacchioli, Washington Bureau Chief high-ranking officers are frequently ac- which preceded free and fair elections. ministrations only undermine such com- [email protected] complished without the use of violence. But faith in the military to restore de- mitments while achieving little in the way (+1)(202)886-0033 Instead, they can take the form of public mocracy is misplaced. There is, in fact, of real democracy promotion. Brian Bowers, Assistant Managing Editor, News [email protected] pressure to resign. scant evidence that coups and other forms A response to the crisis in Bolivia consis- President Donald Trump applauded of military intervention result in more tent with promoting democratic rule would CIRCULATION Bolivia’s military for pressuring Morales. democratic rule. Notwithstanding the re- involve simultaneously condemning the The developments in that country, he cent uptick in the number of “good coups,” alleged electoral fraud that triggered the Mideast claimed, brought the world “one step clos- coups still more often than not simply re- recent crisis a nd the military’s response Robert Reismann, Mideast Circulation Manager er to a completely democratic, prosperous place one dictator with another. to it. The temptation to rely on the mili- [email protected] and free Western Hemisphere.” Just as importantly, those military tary to check would-be authoritarians will [email protected] DSN (314)583-9111 This is hardly the first time U.S. offi- interventions that are followed by elec- continue to crop up in the context of mass cials have implied that military interven- tions rarely bring about lasting change. protests. But the longer-term survival of Europe tion in politics might help countries usher In Egypt, for instance, human rights or- democratic rule depends on resisting it. Karen Lewis, Community Engagement Manager in more democratic rule. Last April, when ganizations documented mass, arbitrary Erica De Bruin is an assistant professor of [email protected] Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido arrests, the detention of protesters and [email protected] government at Hamilton College and the author of called upon soldiers to join him in ousting human rights workers, new restrictions the forthcoming “How to Prevent Coups d’état.” +49(0)631.3615.9090; DSN (314)583.9090 Pacific Mari Mori, [email protected] +81-3 6385.3171; DSN (315)229.3171 Neighborliness gets a little harder in Trump Country CONTACT US BY GARY ABERNATHY don’t seem to care.” and minorities. 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some Americans right out of the parks. To What newspapers jack up revenue, for example, the commit- tee has proposed eliminating senior dis- counts during the peak summer camping are saying at home season. It’s hard to buy the committee’s argu- The following editorial excerpts are se- ment that the parks are “underused” — lected from a cross section of newspapers one of Bernhardt’s favorite words — when throughout the United States. The editori- there were 318 million visits last year and als are provided by The Associated Press a record-high 330,882,751 visits the year and other stateside syndicates. before. “I have a room all to myself,” Henry Make vapor, tobacco products David Thoreau once wrote. “It is nature.” illegal for all buyers under 21 Leave the national parks alone. The Seattle Times Federal lawmakers should follow the DACA is a fair fix that should lead of Washington and at least 17 other be written into law, not axed states in raising the age of legal sale for Los Angeles Times vapor and tobacco products to age 21. Predicting how the U.S. Supreme Court Doing so will make it more difficult for will decide a case based on the questions high school students to access these po- the justices raise during oral arguments is tentially harmful products while helping a fraught endeavor, but the tenor of those keep them out of the hands of even younger exchanges Tuesday morning did not bode teens. well for supporters of the Deferred Action Although it is often pitched as a safer JACQUELYN MARTIN/AP for Childhood Arrivals program. Chief alternative to cigarettes for existing adult Justice John Roberts, a potential swing smokers, vaping has been devastatingly Supporters of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, including David vote, at times seemed to give credence popular with young people. In a recent Castro, 14, center, and Anahi Andino, 17, right, both of Baltimore, rally outside the to the Trump administration’s argument survey, one third of the state’s high school U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday as oral arguments were heard in the DACA case . that President Barack Obama lacked the seniors reported using e-cigarettes in legal authority to create DACA in the first 2018. According to national data, 5 million tice, lets stand a groundbreaking ruling low-tax states attracts migrants who often place. children use e-cigarettes, compared with 8 from the Connecticut Supreme Court that carry the bad political habits of their for- If the court ultimately finds that Presi- million adults. found an exception in federal law allowing mer homes. dent Donald Trump has the authority to Trump administration officials are said the manufacturer to be sued and poten- The citizens of California, New York, end the program regardless of his spuri- to be considering increasing the legal age tially held liable under state law regarding Connecticut and other states have learned ous rationale, the damage to the so-called of purchase and banning flavored e-ciga- unfair trade practices. the hard way that once an income tax is Dreamers receiving protections, and to the rette products. Vape juices flavored to The case against Remington Arms, imposed, spending balloons and the march communities in which they live, could be taste like candy, fruit or sweet deserts are brought by relatives of nine victims who to ever-higher taxes is on. Democrats in Il- disastrous. It would give the court’s impri- popular with young users, who also say died and a survivor of the shooting, fo- linois, prodded by public unions, are now matur to one of the harshest approaches to they appreciate small, discreet vape pens cused on how the AR-15-style Bushmaster trying to rewrite their state constitution to immigration in modern American history. over traditional tobacco cigarettes. used in the attack was marketed with mili- kill its requirement for a flat income tax. DACA, for those who don’t remember, is But nicotine can harm developing brains taristic and hypermasculine advertising Taxpayers need every procedural forti- the process Obama crafted in 2012 to defer regardless of how it is ingested — through and used product placement in videos to fication they can get from the relentless deportations for people who have lived in smoke, water vapor or chew. And as this appeal to younger, at-risk males. The suit forces of tax and spend. the U.S. illegally since they were children, summer’s rash of vaping-related lung inju- alleges it was no accident that the troubled provided that they are employed or attend- ries so clearly demonstrates, additives may 20-year-old Sandy Hook gunman chose Parks eschew commercial ing school and have not been convicted of present other unknown dangers. As of last this particular weapon — promoted under serious crimes, among other criteria. It week, 2,051 cases of vaping-related lung slogans like “Consider your man card reis- amenities. Preserve that. goes without argument that the 700,000 or injuries had been reported in 49 states sued” — to carry out a murderous rampage Chicago Sun-Times so people currently receiving protection — every state except Alaska. Thirty-nine that took less than five minutes. Just as the Indiana Dunes finally has from deportation were living here without deaths had been confirmed. At least 14 The families still must go to trial and achieved national park status, Washing- permission prior to gaining DACA status. cases of vaping associated lung injury have convince a jury that Remington is liable ton insiders are trying to cash in on all But it makes no sense to oust the Dreamers been reported in Washington since April. for the deaths of their loved ones. But by the parks by commercializing them to the from the only country they have ever real- The apparent link between the injuries bringing the case to trial, they hope to get max. ly known, and to deport them to countries and the additive vitamin E acetate has the access to information long kept private by Their noxious notions include opening that are not only foreign to them, but where Centers for Disease Control and Prevention the gun industry that will provide insights the parks to food trucks, expanded WiFi, in many case they don’t even speak the urging people to avoid e-cigarette prod- into how the industry operates. mobile camp stores and even Amazon language. Remember, most of the Dream- ucts containing THC, particularly from deliveries to campsites. Please make this ers bear little to no responsibility for their informal sources or online merchants. The Some states rightly see value wretched scheme go away. predicament. Washington State Department of Health When we go to the Indiana Dunes, we The Trump administration argues that has asked the state’s vapor product proces- in not imposing income taxes want peaceful windswept shores and tran- Obama stretched federal immigration sors to stop using vitamin E acetate or dis- The Wall Street Journal quil forest paths, not a tailgate party. When law past its breaking point with the DACA tributing products containing the additive Texas has become one of America’s fast- we go to Great Smoky Mountains National order, and in 2017 it sought to kill the pro- as health officials review the evidence. est-growing states, thanks in part to its lack Park in North Carolina, we want the spray gram as legally indefensible. This gets into For years, e-cigarettes have largely of a state income tax. So it was encourag- of a waterfall and a quiet campfire. We get arcane areas of authority, but DACA’s de- been given a pass by regulators, based on ing last week when Lone Star State voters all the crowding and clamor we want — or fenders argue that the president can’t scrap the lack of evidence of actual harm. Those made it even more difficult to impose such can stand — in our daily lives. a program because he thinks it’s illegal; days are definitively over. A federal ban a tax. Evidently, the people on the Trump that’s a decision for the courts. A president on underage sales and tighter restrictions The Texas constitution since 1993 has administration’s Outdoor Recreation Ad- can end or reverse a predecessor’s order on flavorings and additives are needed to barred the Legislature from imposing an visory Committee disagree . In a new pro- because he thinks it’s bad policy, if he sets safeguard public health. income tax without the approval of voters posal, the committee, which is a part of out a well-reasoned argument explaining in a statewide referendum. But with pro- the Department of the Interior, argues for why. With DACA, the Trump administra- Sandy Hook ruling could gressives working hard to turn Texas into making way for those food trucks, Amazon tion failed to do so. another California, voters decided to raise deliveries and other amenities more appro- Whatever the court decides — and we also help future cases the bar. Proposition 4 changes the state priate to daily city life. fervently hope it comes down on the side of The Washington Post constitution to require income-tax legisla- Nobody should be surprised. The com- the Dreamers — this issue is best resolved Gun-makers and sellers have never re- tion to win two-thirds support in both leg- mittee has been lambasted since it was for the long term by Congress. To its cred- ally had to account for the deadly conse- islative chambers and majority approval formed early last year by former Interior it, Congress has tried, sort of, to craft a quences of their products because of an in a referendum. It passed with 74% of the Secretary Ryan Zinke as nothing but a shill permanent solution. Even Trump has pre- unusual federal law enacted in 2005 that vote. for commercial interests. The committee viously said he would support legislation gives them immunity from most lawsuits. Nine states have no personal income tax, largely is made up of representatives from helping the Dreamers. But then he erected So the Supreme Court’s decision not to and Texas is the latest to protect a politi- the tourism, manufacturing, hospitality a roadblock by insisting that in return for block a lawsuit brought in the Sandy Hook cal model that leads to higher GDP growth, and recreation industries. his support Congress must also approve Elementary School shooting is a significant employment and wages. Tennessee vot- Last year, The Washington Post obtained unrelated measures to fund his wall along — and welcome — development. It may ers in 2014 backed 2-to-1 a constitutional documents showing that private industry the U.S.-Mexico border and make other give the families of the victims their day amendment banning its Legislature from pushed for the creation of the committee changes to border security. in court while providing a road map for introducing taxes on payroll or earned per- for the sole purpose of getting a foothold in Congress should push through a clean victims of other mass shootings who seek sonal income. Last year a super-majority the parks. bill offering legal standing and a path to answers and some measure of justice. of Florida voters supported a constitutional The committee’s priorities fit like a citizenship to qualified Dreamers . A pro- The Supreme Court announced Tuesday amendment that requires a two-thirds vote glove with those of the Trump adminis- DACA decision by the Supreme Court it would not consider an appeal from the of each chamber of the Legislature to raise tration and new Interior Secretary David would be welcome, but it is not a long-term manufacturer of the assault weapon used current taxes or enact new ones. Bernhardt, who in September gave the go- solution since the Trump administration in the Dec. 14, 2012, massacre in Newtown, These measures are important obstacles ahead to electric-powered bicycles on for- — or any future anti-immigrant regime Conn., that took the lives of 20 first grad- to future narrow majorities that might merly quiet nature trails. — could simply go through the correct bu- ers and six educators. The decision, issued seek to impose an income tax. They’re This kind of commercialization — to the reaucratic process and end the protections. without comment from any individual jus- all the more important as the success of fattest wallet goes the spoils — could price A legislative solution is years overdue. PAGE 24 •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, November 15, 2019 Friday, November 15, 2019 •STARS AND STRIPES•PAGE 25 SCOREBOARD

Sports College basketball College football Pro football Wednesday’s men’s scores Wednesday’s scores NFL Josh Norman (hamstring), RB Adrian Pe- on AFN terson (toe). EAST MIDWEST AMERICAN CONFERENCE NEW ORLEANS SAINTS at TAMPA BAY Albany (NY) 83, Canisius 57 E. Michigan 42, Akron 14 East BUCCANEERS — SAINTS: DNP: WR De- Boston College 59, High Point 33 Miami (Ohio) 44, Bowling Green 3 W L T Pct PF PA onte Harris (hamstring), CB Marshon Brown 70, Quinnipiac 68 N. Illinois 31, Toledo 28 New England 8 1 0 .889 270 98 Lattimore (hamstring), G Andrus Peat Go to the American Forces Bryant 69, St. Peter’s 44 W. Michigan 37, Ohio 34, OT Buffalo 6 3 0 .667 174 150 (forearm). LIMITED: LB Demario Davis Bucknell 86, Hofstra 71 Miami 2 7 0 .222 119 268 (hamstring), RB Zach Line (knee). FULL: Network website for the most Columbia 75, Binghamton 63 Schedule N.Y. Jets 2 7 0 .222 130 238 CB Patrick Robinson (hamstring). BUC- up-to-date TV schedules. Farmingdale 93, New Paltz 90 South CANEERS: DNP: CB Carlton Davis (hip), Fordham 53, Fairleigh Dickinson 50 Friday, Nov. 15 Houston 6 3 0 .667 238 191 OT Demar Dotson (not injury related), myafn.net Hobart 80, NYU 76 EAST Indianapolis 5 4 0 .556 194 193 LB Anthony Nelson (hamstring), CB M.J. Lafayette 72, Princeton 65 LIU (0-8) at Villanova (7-3) Tennessee 5 5 0 .500 203 197 Stewart (knee). LIMITED: G Ali Marpet (ankle), DE Carl Nassib (groin). NJIT 59, Cornell 58 SOUTH Jacksonville 4 5 0 .444 176 189 Ohio 81, Iona 72 Louisiana Tech (8-1) at Marshall (6-3) North DENVER BRONCOS at MINNESOTA VI- Baltimore 7 2 0 .778 300 189 KINGS — BRONCOS: Practice not com- Tennis Penn 75, La Salle 59 FAR WEST Rutgers 62, Drexel 57 Pittsburgh 5 4 0 .556 193 181 plete. VIKINGS: DNP: DT Linval Joseph Fresno St. (4-5) at San Diego St. (7-2) Cleveland 3 6 0 .333 171 221 (knee), G Josh Kline (concussion), DT Saint Joseph’s 96, UConn 87 Saturday, Nov. 16 Syracuse 70, Colgate 54 Cincinnati 0 9 0 .000 137 259 Shamar Stephen (knee), WR Adam Thiel- ATP World Tour Finals EAST West en (hamstring). LIMITED: CB Macken- UMBC 79, St. Mary’s (Md.) 57 VMI (4-6) at Army (4-6) Vermont 62, Boston U. 47 Kansas City 6 4 0 .600 284 239 sie Alexander (groin), S Anthony Harris Tuesday Robert Morris (6-4) at CCSU (9-1) SOUTH Oakland 5 4 0 .556 208 240 (groin), C Brett Jones (knee), S Andrew At The O2 Arena Penn (4-4) at Harvard (4-4) London George Mason 80, LIU Brooklyn 74 L.A. Chargers 4 6 0 .400 207 194 Sendejo (groin), CB Trae Waynes (ankle). Grambling St. 81, SE Louisiana 70 Rhode Island (2-8) at Maine (5-5) Denver 3 6 0 .333 149 170 FULL: RB C.J. Ham (ankle), LB Eric Ken- Purse: $9,000,000 Jacksonville (2-8) at Marist (3-6) Surface: Hardcourt indoor IUPUI 70, South Florida 53 NATIONAL CONFERENCE dricks (hip), DE Ifeadi Odenigbo (shoul- Men’s Singles James Madison 96, Shenandoah 48 Indiana (7-2) at Penn St. (8-1) East der), CB Xavier Rhodes (elbow), DT Ar- Group 2 Louisville 91, Indiana St. 62 Lehigh (4-5) at Sacred Heart (6-4) W L T Pct PF PA mon Watts (elbow). Roger Federer (3), Switzerland, def. Middle Tennessee 96, Mars Hill 82 Wagner (1-9) at St. Francis (Pa.) (4-6) Dallas 5 4 0 .556 251 170 HOUSTON TEXANS at BALTIMORE RA- Matteo Berrettini (8), Italy, 7-6 (2), 6-3. NC State 86, FIU 77 Tulane (6-3) at Temple (6-3) Philadelphia 5 4 0 .556 224 213 VENS — TEXANS: LIMITED: LB Dylan Cole Dominic Thiem (5), Austria, def. Novak Nicholls 81, Paul Quinn 66 Colgate (3-8) at Lafayette (3-7) N.Y. Giants 2 8 0 .200 203 289 (knee), WR Will Fuller (hamstring), S Djokovic (2), Serbia, 6-7 (5), 6-3, 7-6 (5). Oklahoma St. 73, College of Charleston 54 New Hampshire (5-4) at Albany (NY) (6-4) Washington 1 8 0 .111 108 219 Tashaun Gipson (back/wrist), OT Tytus Men’s Doubles Old Dominion 62, Loyola (Md.) 53 Duquesne (6-3) at Bryant (2-8) South Howard (knee), CB Bradley Roby (ham- Group 2 Samford 102, Virginia-Wise 64 Georgetown (5-4) at Bucknell (2-7 New Orleans 7 2 0 .778 204 182 string), OT Laremy Tunsil (shoulder). Rajeev Ram, United States, and Joe St. Francis (Pa.) 71, Morgan St. 65 Brown (1-7) at Columbia (3-5) Carolina 5 4 0 .556 225 228 RAVENS: DNP: CB Brandon Carr (not in- Salisbury (4), Britain, def. Ivan Dodig, VCU 84, LSU 82 Stony Brook (5-5) at Delaware (4-6) Tampa Bay 3 6 0 .333 260 279 jury related), RB Mark Ingram (not injury Croatia, and Filip Polasek (8), Slovakia, Virginia Tech 80, SC-Upstate 57 Holy Cross (5-5) at Fordham (3-7) Atlanta 2 7 0 .222 191 259 related), DT Michael Pierce (ankle), CB 3-6, 6-3, 10-6. Wake Forest 98, UNC Asheville 79 Franklin Pierce (1-9) at Merrimack (4-5) North Jimmy Smith (not injury related), S Earl Michael Venus, New Zealand, and MIDWEST Va. Lynchburg (0-8) at Morgan St. (2-8) Green Bay 8 2 0 .800 250 205 Thomas (not injury related/knee). LIM- Raven Klaasen (5), South Africa, def. Lu- Ball St. 67, UIC 48 Yale (7-1) at Princeton (7-1) Minnesota 7 3 0 .700 262 182 ITED: WR Marquise Brown (ankle), WR kasz Kubot, Poland, and Marcelo Melo Drake 76, UMKC 58 Cornell (2-6) at Dartmouth (8-0 Chicago 4 5 0 .444 162 157 Chris Moore (thumb). (2), Brazil, 6-3, 6-4. Kansas St. 73, Monmouth (NJ) 54 Norfolk St. (4-6) at Delaware St. (2-8) Detroit 3 5 1 .389 217 237 BUFFALO BILLS at MIAMI DOLPHINS Marquette 65, Purdue 55 Ohio St. (9-0) at Rutgers (2-7) West — BILLS: DNP: LB Lorenzo Alexander San Francisco 8 1 0 .889 259 129 (not injury related-resting veteran), OT Miami (Ohio) 84, Purdue Fort Wayne 80 SOUTH N. Iowa 67, CS Bakersfield 55 Seattle 8 2 0 .800 275 254 Ty Nsekhe (not injury related-resting Alabama St. (5-4) at Florida St. (5-5) L.A. Rams 5 4 0 .556 226 191 veteran). DOLPHINS: DNP: CB Ken Web- Deals Northwestern 72, Providence 63 Alabama (8-1) at Mississippi St. (4-5) Ohio St. 76, Villanova 51 Arizona 3 6 1 .350 222 281 ster (ankle). LIMITED: DE Taco Charlton Davidson (7-3) at Stetson (6-3) Thursday’s game (elbow), DT Davon Godchaux (shoulder), Saint Louis 82, E. Washington 60 Monmouth (NJ) (8-2) at Campbell (6-3) Wednesday’s transactions UT Martin 98, W. Illinois 91 Pittsburgh at Cleveland S Reshad Jones (chest), LB Raekwon Mc- Tennessee Tech (6-4) at E. Kentucky (5-5) Millan (knee), DE Avery Moss (ankle), TE Wisconsin 83, McNeese St. 63 Sunday’s games Mercer (4-6) at ETSU (2-8) Dallas at Detroit, 1 p.m. Durham Smythe (knee/elbow). FULL: RB BASEBALL SOUTHWEST American League Kennesaw St. (8-2) at Hampton (5-5) N.Y. Jets at Washington Kalen Ballage (neck), OT Jesse Davis (el- Stephen F. Austin 87, Niagara 78 Austin Peay (7-3) at Murray St. (4-6) New Orleans at Tampa Bay bow), QB Ryan Fitzpatrick (right shoul- BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Released RHP Texas Tech 103, Houston Baptist 74 Aaron Brooks. Bethune-Cookman (6-3) at NC A&T (6-3) Denver at Minnesota der), WR Jakeem Grant (toe/Achilles), FAR WEST Charleston Southern (4-6) at Presby- Houston at Baltimore LB Trent Harris (foot), C Daniel Kilgore TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Named Ken BYU 68, S. Utah 63 Huckaby manager of Buffalo (IL). terian (1-9) Buffalo at Miami (knee), CB Chris Lammons (ankle/toe), Cal St.-Fullerton 60, Wyoming 53 UTEP (1-8) at UAB (6-3) Jacksonville at Indianapolis S Bobby McCain (shoulder), WR DeVante National League Colorado St. 80, Omaha 65 COLORADO ROCKIES — Signed SS Eric Towson (6-4) at William & Mary (4-6) Atlanta at Carolina Parker (calf), DE Christian Wilkins (toe), New Mexico 93, Green Bay 78 North Alabama (3-7) at Gardner-Webb Arizona at San Francisco WR Albert Wilson (hip/ankle). Stamets to a minor league contract. San Diego St. 86, Grand Canyon 61 FOOTBALL (3-7) New England at Philadelphia JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS at INDIA- National Football League Furman (7-3) at Wofford (6-3) Cincinnati at Oakland NAPOLIS COLTS — JAGUARS: LIMITED: ARIZONA CARDINALS — Placed DL Wednesday’s women’s scores The Citadel (6-4) at Chattanooga (5-5) Chicago at L.A. Rams DE Calais Campbell (back), C Brandon Zach Allen on IR. Signed DL Miles Brown Open: N.Y. Giants, Seattle, Tennessee, Linder (shoulder), OT Cam Robinson EAST Grambling St. (5-4) at MVSU (2-7) from the practice squad and LB Vontar- SC State (6-3) at NC Central (4-6) Green Bay (knee). FULL: CB D.J. Hayden (neck/ rius Dora, CB Sojourn Shelton and OL Ian Bucknell 68, St. Bonaventure 60 Monday’s game shoulder), LB Leon Jacobs (hamstring), Dartmouth 57, Merrimack 52 Samford (4-6) at W. Carolina (3-7) Silberman to the practice squad. Alabama A&M (6-4) at Alcorn St. (6-3) Kansas City vs L.A. Chargers at Mex- WR Dede Westbrook (neck/shoulder), ATLANTA FALCONS — Signed RB Craig Fairfield 53, LIU Brooklyn 51 ico City LB Quincy Williams (hamstring). COLTS: Holy Cross 80, Boston College 71 Louisiana-Monroe (4-5) at Georgia Reynolds to the practice squad. Southern (5-4) Thursday, Nov. 21 DNP: TE Mo Alie-Cox (hip), WR Parris BALTIMORE RAVENS — Placed DT Day- Lehigh 59, George Washington 53 Indianapolis at Houston Campbell (hand), CB Pierre Desir (ham- Loyola (Md.) 75, Fairleigh Dickinson 46 Southern U. (6-4) at Jackson St. (4-6) lon Mack on IR. Signed DT Domata Peko. Tennessee St. (2-8) at UT Martin (6-4) Sunday, Nov. 24 string), TE Jack Doyle (shoulder), WR T.Y. Marist 76, Albany (NY) 52 Hilton (calf), RB Jordan Wilkins (ankle). CAROLINA PANTHERS — Released WR Georgia (8-1) at Auburn (7-2) Tampa Bay at Atlanta Quadree Henderson from the practice Penn 85, NJIT 51 Miami at Cleveland LIMITED: S Clayton Geathers (not injury Penn St. 72, Fordham 59 Wake Forest (7-2) at Clemson (10-0) Seattle at Philadelphia related), LB Darius Leonard (abdomen). squad. Signed WR Greg Dortch to the Virginia Tech (6-3) at Georgia Tech (2-7) practice squad. Providence 75, Hartford 57 N.Y. Giants at Chicago FULL: QB Jacoby Brissett (knee). Robert Morris 58, Youngstown St. 43 Richmond (5-5) at James Madison (9-1) Carolina at New Orleans ATLANTA FALCONS at CAROLINA PAN- CHICAGO BEARS — Signed LB James Kentucky (4-5) at Vanderbilt (2-7) Vaughters to the practice squad. Rutgers 87, Niagara 37 Denver at Buffalo THERS — FALCONS: DNP: RB Devonta Syracuse (3-6) at Duke (4-5) CINCINNATI BENGALS — Waived LB St. John’s 76, Lafayette 44 Detroit at Washington Freeman (foot), TE Austin Hooper (knee), Preston Brown. Stony Brook 81, Hofstra 38 Howard (1-9) at Florida A&M (8-1 Oakland at N.Y. Jets S Kemal Ishmael (concussion), QB Matt CLEVELAND BROWNS — Waived LB UMBC 71, Coppin St. 48 McNeese St. (6-4) at Nicholls (6-4) Pittsburgh at Cincinnati Ryan (ankle), C Wes Schweitzer (con- Malik Jefferson. Signed DE Bryan Cox. Wagner 90, St. Peter’s 89 Rice (0-9) at Middle Tennessee (3-6) Jacksonville at Tennessee cussion). LIMITED: P Ryan Allen (right DENVER BRONCOS — Signed LB Malik Yale 63, Quinnipiac 59 Louisiana-Lafayette (7-2) at South Dallas at New England ankle), DE John Cominsky (ankle), S Carney and S Tyvis Powell to the practice SOUTH Alabama (1-8) Green Bay at San Francisco Sharrod Neasman (hamstring), TE Luke squad. Coastal Carolina 63, UNC-Greensboro 54 LSU (9-0) at Mississippi (4-6) Open: Arizona, Minnesota, Kansas Stocker (knee), CB Desmond Trufant INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Placed RB Elon 67, Appalachian St. 66 Cincinnati (8-1) at South Florida (4-5) City, L.A. Chargers (toe). FULL: S Damontae Kazee (shoul- Bruce Anderson III on the practice squad Florida Gulf Coast 72, UCF 50 Appalachian St. (8-1) at Georgia St. (6-3) Monday, Nov. 25 der). PANTHERS: DNP: CB Ross Cockrell IR. Signed OT Gerhard de Beer and RB Florida St. 75, Jacksonville 41 Louisville (5-4) at NC State (4-5) Baltimore at L.A. Rams (quadricep), G Dennis Daley (groin), CB Darius Jackson to the practice squad. Furman 88, North Greenville 51 MIDWEST Donte Jackson (hip), DT Kyle Love (shoul- LOS ANGELES RAMS — Placed C Brian Georgia 72, NC A&T 54 Valparaiso (1-9) at Butler (2-8) NFL injury report der), RB Christian McCaffrey (foot), DT Allen and LB Bryce Hager on IR. Signed Jackson St. 66, Northwestern St. 49 Michigan St. (4-5) at Michigan (7-2) Gerald McCoy (knee). LIMITED: CB James OT Chandler Brewer and DB Donte Deay- Kennesaw St. 92, Mercer 64 Florida (8-2) at Missouri (5-4) NEW YORK — The National Football Bradberry (groin), OT Greg Little (con- on from the practice squad and C Nate Kentucky 67, Stetson 48 Wisconsin (7-2) at Nebraska (4-5) League injury report, as provided by cussion). FULL: LB Brian Burns (wrist). Trewyn to the practice squad. Longwood 59, UNC Wilmington 58 UMass (1-9) at Northwestern (1-8) the league (OUT-definitely will not play; ARIZONA CARDINALS at SAN FRAN- SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Placed DL Louisiana Tech 83, Memphis 74 SE Missouri (7-3) at E. Illinois (1-9) DNP-did not practice; LIMITED-LIMITED; CISCO 49ERS — CARDINALS: Practice not Ronald Blair III on IR. Signed DL Damon- MVSU 72, Murray St. 66 Missouri St. (1-8) at Illinois St. (7-3) FULL-full participation in practice): complete. 49ERS: Practice not complete. tre Moore to a one-year contract. Maryland 70, James Madison 68 Youngstown St. (5-5) at Indiana St. (3-7) Sunday NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS at PHILADEL- TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Signed Miami 78, North Florida 55 Dayton (6-3) at Drake (5-3) DALLAS COWBOYS at DETROIT LIONS PHIA EAGLES — PATRIOTS: DNP: S Nate CB Mazzi Wilkins from the practice Presbyterian 72, William Peace 35 N. Colorado (2-8) at North Dakota (5-4) — COWBOYS: DNP: DE Michael Bennett Ebner (ankle/back). LIMITED: S Patrick squad and CB John Franklin to the prac- Southern Miss. 62, SE Louisiana 54 S. Illinois (6-4) at W. Illinois (1-9) (not injury related), OT La’el Collins Chung (heel/chest), TE Matt LaCosse (knee), DT Danny Shelton (ankle). EA- tice squad. Southern U. 100, Tougaloo 39 Navy (7-1) at Notre Dame (7-2) (knee/back), WR Amari Cooper (knee/ UConn 64, Vanderbilt 51 GLES: DNP: LB Nigel Bradham (ankle), TENNESSEE TITANS — Signed FB/RB N. Iowa (7-3) at S. Dakota St. (6-3) ankle), CB C.J. Goodwin (knee), G Zack UNC Asheville 68, Lenoir-Rhyne 48 Martin (back/ankle), G Connor Williams WR Alshon Jeffery (ankle). LIMITED: RB Khari Blasingame from Minnesota’s Cent. Michigan (6-4) at Ball St. (4-5) practice squad. W. Kentucky 77, Belmont 46 (knee). LIMITED: T Cameron Fleming Jordan Howard (shoulder), OT Jason Pe- MIDWEST Texas (6-3) at Iowa St. (5-4) (calf), S Jeff Heath (shoulder/shoulder), ters (knee). HOCKEY West Virginia (3-6) at Kansas St. (6-3) National Hockey League Butler 82, Detroit 60 DE Demarcus Lawrence (neck), DT Ant- CINCINNATI BENGALS at OAKLAND Cleveland St. 110, Davis & Elkins 41 South Dakota (4-6) at N. Dakota St. (10-0) waun Woods (shoulder). FULL: WR Mi- RAIDERS — BENGALS: DNP: TE Tyler Eif- BUFFALO SABRES — Recalled F Curtis Minnesota (9-0) at Iowa (6-3) Lazar from Rochester (AHL). Illinois 76, Austin Peay 62 chael Gallup (knee), LB Sean Lee (pecto- ert (not injury related), WR Alex Erickson DETROIT RED WINGS — Recalled D Jon- Kansas 63, Omaha 48 SOUTHWEST ral), OT Tyron Smith (ankle). LIONS: DNP: (back), WR A.J. Green (ankle), CB Dre athan Ericsson from Grand Rapids (AHL). Loyola of Chicago 67, E. Illinois 51 Kansas (3-6) at Oklahoma St. (6-3) DE Da’Shawn Hand (ankle), RB Ty John- Kirkpatrick (knee), TE Drew Sample (an- Placed D Patrik Nemeth and LW Justin N. Iowa 78, Missouri 73 TCU (4-5) at Texas Tech (4-5) son (concussion), DE Romeo Okwara kle). LIMITED: T Bobby Hart (shoulder), Abdelkader on IR, retroactive to Nov. 10. Ohio 67, Marshall 51 Northwestern St. (2-8) at Sam Hous- (groin), QB Matthew Stafford (hip/back), G Alex Redmond (knee/ankle). RAIDERS: ST. LOUIS BLUES — Recalled F Klim Ohio St. 78, Cincinnati 73 ton St. (6-4) OT Rick Wagner (concussion), S Tracy Practice not complete. Kostin from San Antonio (AHL). SIU-Edwardsville 85, Evansville 74 SE Louisiana (6-3) at Abilene Christian (5-5) Walker (knee). LIMITED: DT John Atkins CHICAGO BEARS at LOS ANGELES SOCCER South Carolina 75, Dayton 49 Coastal Carolina (4-5) at Arkansas St. (5-4) (wrist), S Miles Killebrew (concussion), P RAMS — BEARS: DNP: TE Trey Burton Major League Soccer South Dakota 102, Drake 94 Lamar (4-6) at Houston Baptist (4-6) Sam Martin (abdomen). FULL: WR Danny (calf), LB Isaiah Irving (quadricep), LB ATLANTA UNITED — Traded M Darling- SOUTHWEST Edward Waters (1-9) at Prairie View (4-5) Amendola (hand), DT Mike Daniels (foot), Danny Trevathan (elbow). LIMITED: RB ton Nagbe to Columbus for allocation LSU 65, UALR 50 Troy (4-5) at Texas St. (3-6) DT Damon Harrison (groin), DT A’Shawn David Montgomery (ankle). RAMS: Prac- money and an international roster spot. Oklahoma St. 78, Tulsa 48 Memphis (8-1) at Houston (3-6) Robinson (ankle/thumb). tice not complete. NEW YORK CITY FC — Reached agree- SE Missouri 79, Arkansas St. 67 Stephen F. Austin (2-8) at Cent. Arkan- NEW YORK JETS at WASHINGTON ment to transfer D Joe Scally to Borussia SMU 55, Rice 43 sas (7-3) REDSKINS — JETS: DNP: RB Josh Ad- NFL calendar Moenchengladbach (Bundesliga-Germa- FAR WEST Southern Miss. (6-3) at UTSA (4-5) ams (illness), RB Le’Veon Bell (illness/ ny), effective January, 2021. Army 68, Air Force 66 Oklahoma (8-1) at Baylor (9-0) ribs/knee), LB Brandon Copeland (hip/ Dec. 12 — League meeting, Las Coli- COLLEGE Idaho 61, Colorado St. 54 South Carolina (4-6) at Texas A&M (6-3) thumb), S Matthias Farley (quadricep), nas, Texas. MANHATTANVILLE — Named Julene Loyola Marymount 65, Hawaii 51 FAR WEST LB C.J. Mosley (groin), CB Darryl Rob- Jan. 4-5 — Wild-card playoffs. Caulfield director of athletics and rec- Oregon 109, Utah St. 52 Idaho St. (3-7) at BYU (5-4) erts (calf). LIMITED: DE Henry Anderson Jan. 11—12 — Divisional playoffs. reation. Portland 78, Warner Pacific 36 Weber St. (8-2) at Montana (8-2) (shoulder), WR Robby Anderson (back/ Jan. 19 — AFC, NFC championship NYU — Named Taysha Pye and Emiko Sacramento St. 86, Cal Maritime 55 Incarnate Word (5-5) at New Mexico shoulder), OT Kelvin Beachum (ankle), LB games. Smith women’s assistant basketball UTEP 63, New Mexico St. 57 St. (0-9) Neville Hewitt (neck/knee), C Ryan Kalil Jan. 26 — Pro Bowl. coaches. Washington 94, Weber St. 41 (knee), G Alex Lewis (elbow), DT Steve Feb. 2 — Super Bowl, Miami Gardens, Hawaii (6-4) at UNLV (2-7) McLendon (neck), WR Demaryius Thom- Fla. Wyoming (6-3) at Utah St. (5-4) as (knee/hamstring). FULL: CB Blessuan Feb. 24-March 2 — NFL scouting com- N. Arizona (4-6) at S. Utah (2-8) Austin (knee), WR Braxton Berrios (ham- bine, Indianapolis. AP sportlight Stanford (4-5) at Washington St. (4-5) string/hip), G Tom Compton (back), WR Feb. 25 — First day for clubs to desig- Sacramento St. (7-3) at Idaho (4-6) Jamison Crowder (knee/quadricep), QB nate franchise or transition players. Morehead St. (5-5) at San Diego (7-2) Sam Darnold (left thumb), TE Ryan Griffin March 10 — Deadline for clubs to des- Nov. 15 2004 — Barry Bonds wins his record Air Force (7-2) at Colorado St. (4-5) (ankle), CB Nate Hairston (thumb/knee), ignate franchise or transition players be- 1998 — Green Bay’s Brett Favre be- seventh NL MVP award, becoming the Montana St. (7-3) at UC Davis (5-5) LB Jordan Jenkins (calf). REDSKINS: fore 4 p.m. EDT comes the second-fastest — behind Dan oldest player to win the MVP of a major Arizona St. (5-4) at Oregon St. (4-5) DNP: WR Paul Richardson (hamstring), March 18 — Free agency, trading peri- Marino — to reach 200 career touchdown North American professional league. The E. Washington (5-5) at Cal Poly (2-7) DT Tim Settle (hamstring), RB Wendell ods begin, 4 p.m. EDT passes and 25,000 yards. Favre com- 40-year-old is the only baseball player UCLA (4-5) at Utah (8-1) Smallwood (not injury related), RB Chris March 29-April 1 — Annual league pletes 21 of 33 passes for 267 yards and with more than three MVP awards and New Mexico (2-7) at Boise St. (8-1) Thompson (toe). LIMITED: TE Vernon meeting, Palm Beach, Fla. two touchdowns in a 37-3 rout of the New the only one to win more than two in a Arizona (4-5) at Oregon (8-1) Davis (concussion), S Deshazor Everett April 17 — Deadline for restricted free York Giants. row. Southern Cal (6-4) at California (5-4) (ankle), S Montae Nicholson (ankle), CB agents to sign offer sheets. PAGE 26 •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, November 15, 2019 NHL/COLLEGE BASKETBALL NHL roundup Top 25 roundup Capitals sneak past Louisville rolls over Flyers in shootout, Indiana St. Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Jordan extend point streak Nwora scored 21 points, Dwayne Sutton added 14 and No. 4 Lou- isville shot 59% from the field to run past Indiana State 91-62 on Associated Press two assists, and streaking New Wednesday night. York held off visiting Toronto. PHILADELPHIA — The MATT SLOCUM/AP The Cardinals (3-0) made 14 of Semyon Varlamov made 23 Washington Capitals have a calm their first 17 shots for a 16-point saves and the Islanders earned a Washington Capitals forward Brendan Leipsic, right, celebrates confidence in the game’s most lead through 11 minutes on the scoring a goal during his team’s 2-1 shootout win in Philadelphia. tense moments. point for the 13th straight game way to a 47-26 advantage at the T.J. Oshie and Evgeny (12-0-1). Mathew Barzal had a break. Nwora’s 14 points, includ- Kuznetsov scored in a shootout to goal and an assist. NHL scoreboard ing a pair of threes, got Louisville lift Washington over the Philadel- Kasperi Kapanen, William Nyl- going, and Sutton had 10 before phia Flyers 2-1 Wednesday night. ander, Justin Holl and John Tava- the break. Brendan Leipsic had a goal in res scored for the Maple Leafs in Eastern Conference Stars 3, Flames 1 Nwora, a junior forward, fin- the first period and Braden Holt- their third straight loss. Frederik ished 5-for-10 shooting for his Andersen had 25 saves in To- Atlantic Division Dallas 0 1 2—3 by made 30 saves for the Capitals, GP W L OT Pts GF GA Calgary 0 0 1—1 third consecutive game of 20 who extended their point streak to ronto’s second game since losing Boston 18 11 3 4 26 64 48 Second Period—1, Dallas, Pavelski 4 points or more. Montreal 18 10 5 3 23 64 56 (Gurianov, Heiskanen), 3:22 (pp). 13 games (11-0-2) and increased Mitchell Marner for at least four Florida 18 9 4 5 23 67 67 Third Period—2, Dallas, Dowling 1, Tyreke Key led the Sycamores their NHL-best total to 32 points. weeks due to a high ankle sprain. Toronto 20 9 7 4 22 68 67 6:38. 3, Calgary, Monahan 5 (Gaudreau, Buffalo 17 9 6 2 20 50 48 Tkachuk), 9:57 (pp). 4, Dallas, Pavelski 5 (0-2) with 20 points, including “The talk on our bench is, Senators 4, Devils 2: Jean-Ga- Tampa Bay 15 8 5 2 18 52 52 (Faksa), 18:27. four three-pointers. ‘Who’s going to get the next goal? briel Pageau scored a hat track, Ottawa 18 7 10 1 15 51 61 Shots on Goal—Dallas 8-18-6—32. Cal- Detroit 20 7 12 1 15 46 75 gary 8-6-11—25. No. 18 Ohio State 76, No. 10 Let’s see who’s going to do it,’ ” including the go-ahead goal with Metropolitan Division Power-play opportunities—Dallas 1 of Villanova 51: Duane Washington Washington coach Todd Reirden Washington 20 14 2 4 32 79 60 3; Calgary 1 of 4. 2:01 to play, and Ottawa rallied N.Y. Islanders 17 13 3 1 27 54 39 Goalies—Dallas, Bishop 6-5-1 (25 Jr. had 14 points and four other said. “No one slams doors. No one in the third period to win at New Philadelphia 18 10 5 3 23 57 54 shots-24 saves). Calgary, Talbot 1-4-0 players scored in double figures Pittsburgh 18 10 6 2 22 60 47 (31-29). breaks sticks. We believe in our Jersey. Carolina 18 10 7 1 21 61 52 A—18,257 (19,289). T—2:25. as the host Buckeyes started hot system.” N.Y. Rangers 16 8 6 2 18 54 53 Mark Borowiechi tied the game Columbus 18 6 8 4 16 42 61 and ran over the Wildcats. Claude Giroux scored for the with 6:30 to go, and Pageau got the New Jersey 17 5 8 4 14 44 65 Senators 4, Devils 2 Washington opened the game Flyers (10-5-3), who had won four winner when he put the rebound Western Conference Ottawa 1 0 3—4 with a pair of three-pointers to set straight. Philadelphia has earned New Jersey 2 0 0—2 of a shot off the post by Nick Paul Central Division First Period—1, New Jersey, Simmonds the tone as Ohio State moved to 3- at least one point in seven consec- GP W L OT Pts GF GA 3 (Hischier, Wood), 4:19. 2, Ottawa, into an open net. Pageau finished St. Louis 19 12 3 4 28 59 54 Pageau 9 (Brown), 14:54. 3, New Jersey, 0 with a significant early season utive games (5-0-2). off his first regular-season hat Colorado 18 11 5 2 24 66 49 Butcher 2 (Coleman, Gusev), 17:52. victory. Third Period—4, Ottawa, Borowiecki Carter Hart made 35 saves in trick with 26 seconds left on a Nashville 18 9 6 3 21 68 59 D.J. Carton and Luther Mu- regulation and overtime, includ- Winnipeg 19 10 8 1 21 51 58 2 (Zaitsev, Chlapik), 13:30. 5, Ottawa, shot into an empty net. He has Dallas 19 9 8 2 20 46 46 Pageau 10 (Paul, Brown), 17:59. 6, Otta- hammad each had 11 points, and ing several late highlight-reel Chicago 18 7 7 4 18 50 56 wa, Pageau 11, 19:34. eight goals in his last six games. Minnesota 18 6 11 1 13 47 63 Shots on Goal—Ottawa 7-9-9—25. New CJ Walker and Kaleb Wesson stops, but the 21-year-old net- Craig Anderson made 21 saves Pacific Division Jersey 11-7-5—23. added 10 apiece. minder couldn’t stop either Wash- Edmonton 20 12 6 2 26 61 54 Power-play opportunities—Ottawa 0 for the Senators, including a Arizona 19 11 6 2 24 56 46 of 1; New Jersey 0 of 3. Jermaine Samuels had 14 ington attempt in the shootout. Vancouver 19 10 6 3 23 63 50 Goalies—Ottawa, Anderson 3-6-0 (23 points and Cole Swider had 11 for After Jakub Voracek missed breakaway stop on Taylor Hall Calgary 21 10 8 3 23 60 61 shots-21 saves). New Jersey, Blackwood midway through the third period Vegas 20 9 8 3 21 59 61 5-4-3 (24-21). Villanova (1-1). high with a backhand, Oshie beat Anaheim 19 9 8 2 20 50 53 A—13,438 (16,514). T—2:55. No. 11 Texas Tech 103, Hart through the legs. Giroux with the Devils ahead 2-1. San Jose 19 8 10 1 17 54 67 Los Angeles 18 6 11 1 13 46 67 Houston Baptist 74: At Mid- scored over Holtby’s left shoulder Will Butcher and Wayne Sim- Note: Two points for a win, one point Capitals 2, Flyers 1 (SO) land, Texas, freshman Jahmi’us to tie it, but Kuznetsov followed monds scored for New Jersey, for overtime loss. Top three teams in Washington 1 0 0 0—2 each division and two wild cards per Philadelphia 0 0 1 0—1 Ramsey scored 25 points on 10- with a forehand high into the net which returned from a five-game conference advance to playoffs. Washington won shootout 2-1 Tuesday’s games for-13 shooting, TJ Holyfield had and the Capitals celebrated when road trip. Mackenzie Blackwood First Period—1, Washington, Leipsic 2 Florida 5, Boston 4, SO (Dowd, Carlson), 6:13. 21 points on 9 of 10 field goals Sean Couturier couldn’t convert stopped 21 shots. Montreal 3, Columbus 2, SO Third Period—2, Philadelphia, Giroux 5 N.Y. Rangers 3, Pittsburgh 2, OT (Voracek, Provorov), 6:38 (pp). and the Red Raiders beat the in the third round for the Flyers. Blackhawks 5, Golden Knights Colorado 4, Winnipeg 0 Shootout—Washington 2 (Oshie G, Huskies. “We’re finding ways to gather 3: Erik Gustafsson scored his Arizona 3, St. Louis 2, SO Kuznetsov G), Philadelphia 1 (Voracek Detroit 4, Anaheim 3, OT NG, Giroux G, Couturier NG). Texas Tech (3-0) had four play- points,” Reirden said. “It felt like first goal of the season, Corey Vancouver 5, Nashville 3 Shots on Goal—Washington 16-6-11- we deserved the two points.” Crawford made 39 saves and Los Angeles 3, Minnesota 1 3—36. Philadelphia 5-12-10-4—31. ers score in double figures while San Jose 6, Edmonton 3 Power-play opportunities—Washing- shooting 60% overall from the Giroux tied the game with Chicago won at Las Vegas for the Wednesday’s games ton 0 of 3; Philadelphia 1 of 4. 13:22 left in the third period on first time. Ottawa 4, New Jersey 2 Goalies—Washington, Holtby 9-1-3 (31 field (40-for-67). N.Y. Islanders 5, Toronto 4 shots-30 saves). Philadelphia, Hart 6-3-2 Jalon Gates had 21 points with the power play after a nifty pass Patrick Kane, Calvin de Haan, Washington 2, Philadelphia 1, SO (36-35). Dallas 3, Calgary 1 A—18,159 (19,543). T—2:40. five three-pointers to lead Hous- from Voracek in front of the net. Kirby Dach and Dylan Strome Chicago 5, Vegas 3 ton Baptist (0-3), which jumped The Capitals had several also scored for the Blackhawks. Thursday’s games Winnipeg at Florida Islanders 5, Maple Leafs 4 out to a 9-0 lead before the Red chances to take the lead late, but Crawford, who improved to 2-0- N.Y. Rangers at Tampa Bay Toronto 0 2 2—4 Raiders took over. Hart denied one quality chance 2 in his last four games, entered Carolina at Buffalo N.Y. Islanders 2 1 2—5 Arizona at Minnesota First Period—1, N.Y. Islanders, Barzal 8 VCU 84, No. 23 LSU 82: after another. 0-3-0 versus the Golden Knights Colorado at Edmonton (Eberle), 14:23. 2, N.Y. Islanders, Beauvil- San Jose at Anaheim Marcus Santos-Silva had 17 “You need some saves and we with a 5.38 goals-against average lier 3 (Brassard, Pulock), 19:21 (pp). Dallas at Vancouver Second Period—3, Toronto, Kapanen points and 11 rebounds and the got some saves,” Flyers coach and .859 save percentage. Detroit at Los Angeles 5 (Tavares, Dermott), 0:43. 4, Toronto, Alain Vigneault said. “He’s doing Friday’s games Nylander 8 (Johnsson, Muzzin), 11:22. 5, host Rams turned 26 turnovers William Carrier, William Pittsburgh at New Jersey N.Y. Islanders, Beauvillier 4 (Brassard, by the Tigers into 37 points. a good job for us and helping give Karlsson and Nate Schmidt Boston at Toronto Nelson), 16:43. us a chance to be in games and St. Louis at Columbus Third Period—6, N.Y. Islanders, Bras- VCU (3-0), whose contract with scored for Vegas against a team Montreal at Washington sard 6 (Pulock, Barzal), 8:07 (pp). 7, N.Y. win games, and that’s what you Philadelphia at Ottawa former coach Will Wade man- they’d dominated since entering Islanders, Cizikas 3 (Bailey, Clutterbuck), want from your goaltender.” 17:32. 8, Toronto, Holl 1 (Gauthier, Shore), dated he bring his new team to the NHL in 2017. Marc-Andre Wednesday 18:13. 9, Toronto, Tavares 6 (Matthews, The Flyers goalie twice stopped Rielly), 19:22. the Siegel Center in Richmond or Fleury stopped 21 shots. John Carlson from close range Blackhawks 5, Knights 3 Shots on Goal—Toronto 5-13-9—27. have his school pay $250,000, im- Stars 3, Flames 1: Joe Pav- Chicago 1 2 2—5 N.Y. Islanders 9-6-15—30. proved to 5-2 against ranked op- with just under four minutes left Vegas 2 0 1—3 Power-play opportunities—Toronto 0 elski scored twice, including an of 2; N.Y. Islanders 2 of 3. in the third, denying both the First Period—1, Vegas, Carrier 3 ponents on their home court. empty-net goal, and resurgent (Hague, Roy), 2:58. 2, Vegas, Karlsson 5 Goalies—Toronto, Andersen 9-3-3 (29 initial shot and the rebound try. (Marchessault, Tuch), 6:29 (pp). 3, Chi- shots-25 saves). N.Y. Islanders, Varlamov LSU (1-1) had a chance after Tom Wilson had a great chance Dallas won on the road. cago, Kane 9 (Strome, DeBrincat), 6:45. 6-2-1 (27-23). Santos-Silva made one of two free Second Period—4, Chicago, de Haan A—13,293 (13,917). T—2:17. for Washington 43 seconds later, Calgary native Justin Dowling’s 1 (Z.Smith, Dach), 4:09. 5, Chicago, Gus- throws with 4.9 seconds left, but first NHL goal was the winner tafsson 1 (Strome, Kane), 4:54. Scoring leaders Tigers point guard Skylar Mays but Hart turned aside his back- Third Period—6, Chicago, Dach 3 hand follow attempt from in front. for the Stars, which is 8-1-1 after (Z.Smith, Carpenter), 3:57. 7, Chicago, Through Tuesday raced up court and lost control of stumbling to a 1-7-1 start this sea- Strome 4 (DeBrincat, Kane), 16:39. 8, GP G A PTS Wilson had another high-quality Vegas, Schmidt 2 (McNabb, Karlsson), Leon Draisaitl, EDM 20 15 21 36 the ball. chance with 35 seconds left in the son. Ben Bishop made 24 saves. 19:00. David Pastrnak, BOS 18 16 15 31 De’Riante Jenkins and Marcus Shots on Goal—Chicago 8-9-9—26. Ve- Connor McDavid, EDM 20 11 20 31 third, but couldn’t beat Hart with Sean Monahan scored for the gas 16-15-11—42. Brad Marchand, BOS 18 11 19 30 Evans added 15 points each for a forehand. Flames (10-8-3), who lost in regu- Power-play opportunities—Chicago 0 John Carlson, WAS 20 8 22 30 the Rams. of 1; Vegas 1 of 2. Auston Matthews, TOR 20 13 13 26 Islanders 5, Maple Leafs 4: lation for just the second time at Goalies—Chicago, Crawford 3-4-2 (42 Nathan MacKinnon, COL 18 11 15 26 Mays led the Tigers with home (6-2-2). Cam Talbot turned shots-39 saves). Vegas, Fleury 9-5-1 (26- Jonathan Huberdeau, FLA 18 9 15 24 Anthony Beauvillier scored twice, 21). Aleksander Barkov, FLA 18 5 19 24 23 points, but also had seven Derick Brassard had a goal and aside 29 shots. A—18,324 (17,367). T—2:32. Alex Ovechkin, WAS 20 13 10 23 turnovers. Friday, November 15, 2019 •STARS AND STRIPES•PAGE 27 NBA Scoreboard

Eastern Conference Celtics 140, Wizards 133 Lakers 120, Warriors 94 Atlantic Division WASHINGTON — Brown Jr. 3-4 0-0 7, GOLDEN STATE — Robinson III 4-7 0-0 W L Pct GB Hachimura 9-12 3-4 21, Bryant 5-13 4-5 9, Dr.Green 4-10 0-0 10, Cauley-Stein 5-7 Boston 9 1 .900 — 14, Thomas 7-14 1-1 18, Beal 17-27 6-8 44, 0-0 10, Russell 6-13 9-10 21, Poole 4-15 0- Toronto 8 3 .727 1A Miles 0-4 0-0 0, Bertans 3-9 0-0 9, Wagner 0 11, Spellman 2-7 0-0 4, Chriss 0-5 0-0 0, Philadelphia 7 4 .636 2A 2-6 8-9 12, Smith 2-5 0-0 4, McRae 2-2 0-0 Paschall 7-15 1-2 15, Bowman 2-3 0-0 5, Brooklyn 4 6 .400 5 4. Totals 50-96 22-27 133. Burks 2-7 3-5 9. Totals 36-89 13-17 94. New York 2 9 .182 7A BOSTON — Brown 9-19 4-4 22, Tatum L.A. LAKERS — James 11-21 0-1 23, Kuz- Southeast Division 9-20 4-4 23, Kanter 4-5 5-6 13, Walker 8-17 ma 7-12 5-6 22, McGee 8-12 2-2 18, Brad- Miami 7 3 .700 — 3-3 25, Smart 6-12 1-2 17, Ojeleye 2-4 0-0 ley 2-5 2-2 6, Da.Green 2-2 0-0 6, Dudley Atlanta 4 6 .400 3 5, Williams 0-1 2-2 2, Poirier 1-1 1-2 3, Wa- 2-3 0-0 6, Howard 5-7 5-6 15, Caruso 3-7 A Charlotte 4 7 .364 3 namaker 2-3 6-6 10, Edwards 7-12 0-0 18, 1-1 8, Cook 5-11 0-0 10, Caldwell-Pope 3-9 Orlando 4 7 .364 3A A Green 1-2 0-0 2. Totals 49-96 26-29 140. 0-0 6. Totals 48-89 15-18 120. Washington 2 7 .222 4 Washington 34 32 30 37—133 Golden State 26 29 27 12— 94 Central Division Milwaukee 7 3 .700 — Boston 34 34 34 38—140 L.A. Lakers 38 29 31 22—120 Indiana 7 4 .636 A Three-Point Goals—Washington 11-29 Three-Point Goals—Golden State 9- Cleveland 4 6 .400 3 (Beal 4-6, Thomas 3-6, Bertans 3-8, Brown 35 (Poole 3-12, Dr.Green 2-4, Burks 2-4, Chicago 4 7 .364 3A Jr. 1-2, Hachimura 0-1, Wagner 0-1, Bry- Bowman 1-1, Robinson III 1-3, Chriss 0-1, Detroit 4 8 .333 4 ant 0-2, Miles 0-3), Boston 16-36 (Walker Spellman 0-2, Paschall 0-4, Russell 0-4), 6-12, Edwards 4-5, Smart 4-8, Ojeleye 1- L.A. Lakers 9-20 (Kuzma 3-6, Da.Green 2-2, 1, Tatum 1-5, Wanamaker 0-1, Williams Dudley 2-2, Caruso 1-2, James 1-5, Bradley Western Conference 0-1, Brown 0-3). Fouled Out—None. Re- 0-1, Cook 0-1, Caldwell-Pope 0-1). Fouled Southwest Division bounds—Washington 36 (Bertans 10), Out—None. Rebounds—Golden State 33 W L Pct GB Boston 44 (Kanter 9). Assists—Washing- (Spellman 7), L.A. Lakers 51 (McGee 17). Houston 8 3 .727 — ton 28 (Thomas 7), Boston 32 (Wanamak- Assists—Golden State 29 (Russell 8), L.A. Dallas 6 4 .600 1A er, Smart, Walker 5). Total Fouls—Wash- Lakers 31 (James 12). Total Fouls—Golden San Antonio 5 6 .455 3 ington 23, Boston 26. A—19,156 (18,624). State 14, L.A. Lakers 18. Technicals—L.A. Memphis 4 7 .364 4 Lakers coach Lakers (Defensive three New Orleans 2 8 .200 5A second), James. A—18,997 (18,997). Northwest Division Rockets 102, Clippers 93 Utah 8 3 .727 — L.A. CLIPPERS — Leonard 10-24 3-5 26, Denver 7 3 .700 A Patterson 0-0 0-0 0, Zubac 3-7 1-2 7, Bev- Timberwolves 129, Spurs 114 Minnesota 7 4 .636 1 erley 3-10 0-2 6, Harkless 4-6 0-0 9, J.Green SAN ANTONIO — DeRozan 12-18 3-4 Oklahoma City 4 7 .364 4 5-11 0-0 14, Harrell 2-12 0-0 4, Mann 1-1 0- 27, Aldridge 10-16 3-4 23, Lyles 0-2 0-0 0, A Portland 4 8 .333 4 0 2, McGruder 2-4 0-2 5, Robinson 0-1 0-0 Murray 2-6 7-7 11, Forbes 5-10 1-1 13, Gay Pacific Division 0, Williams 8-22 3-3 20. Totals 38-98 7-14 3-8 4-4 10, Metu 3-3 0-0 6, Poeltl 3-4 1-3 7, L.A. Lakers 9 2 .818 — 93. White 2-7 1-3 5, Mills 3-10 3-3 10, Belinelli L.A. Clippers 7 4 .636 2 HOUSTON — McLemore 3-9 0-0 8, Tuck- 1-5 0-0 2, Walker IV 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 44-90 Phoenix 6 4 .600 2A er 2-5 0-0 6, Capela 6-7 0-2 12, Westbrook 23-29 114. Sacramento 4 6 .400 4A Golden State 2 10 .167 7A 6-20 3-4 17, Harden 12-26 16-17 47, Sefolo- MINNESOTA — Graham 1-4 0-1 2, Cov- Tuesday’s games sha 0-4 0-0 0, Chandler 1-1 3-4 5, Clemons ington 3-6 2-2 10, Towns 7-15 11-13 28, Indiana 111, Oklahoma City 85 0-2 0-0 0, Rivers 3-12 0-0 7. Totals 33-86 Culver 6-10 0-0 12, Wiggins 12-23 2-2 30, Philadelphia 98, Cleveland 97 22-27 102. Layman 7-9 1-2 16, Vonleh 2-3 3-4 7, Dieng Miami 117, Detroit 108 L.A. Clippers 15 22 31 25— 93 0-3 0-0 0, Teague 6-10 5-6 18, Okogie 1-8 Chicago 120, New York 102 Houston 31 18 25 28—102 4-4 6. Totals 45-91 28-34 129. Atlanta 125, Denver 121 Three-Point Goals—L.A. Clippers 10-33 San Antonio 24 35 36 19—114 L.A. Lakers 123, Phoenix 115 (J.Green 4-7, Leonard 3-9, Harkless 1-1, Minnesota 26 40 40 23—129 Utah 119, Brooklyn 114 McGruder 1-2, Williams 1-5, Harrell 0-1, Three-Point Goals—San Antonio 3-17 Sacramento 107, Portland 99 Robinson 0-1, Beverley 0-7), Houston 14- (Forbes 2-7, Mills 1-4, Lyles 0-1, Gay 0-1, Wednesday’s games 42 (Harden 7-13, Tucker 2-3, Westbrook Aldridge 0-1, Belinelli 0-3), Minnesota DAVID J. PHILLIP/AP Memphis 119, Charlotte 117 2-7, McLemore 2-8, Rivers 1-8, Sefolosha 11-34 (Wiggins 4-7, Towns 3-9, Coving- Orlando 112, Philadelphia 97 0-1, Clemons 0-2). Fouled Out—Beverley. ton 2-4, Layman 1-3, Teague 1-4, Dieng Boston 140, Washington 133 Rebounds—L.A. Clippers 53 (J.Green 14), 0-1, Okogie 0-2, Graham 0-2, Culver 0-2). The Clippers’ Patrick Beverley shoots as the Rockets’ James Harden Houston 102, L.A. Clippers 93 Houston 53 (Capela 20). Assists—L.A. Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—San An- defends during the first half of Wednesday’s game in Houston. Minnesota 129, San Antonio 114 Clippers 17 (Leonard 7), Houston 12 tonio 44 (Lyles 11), Minnesota 50 (Towns Harden’s 47 points led all scorers in the Rockets’ 102-93 victory. L.A. Lakers 120, Golden State 94 (Harden 7). Total Fouls—L.A. Clippers 21, 11). Assists—San Antonio 24 (DeRozan, Toronto 114, Portland 106 Houston 17. Technicals—Beverley, L.A. White 4), Minnesota 25 (Wiggins 7). To- Thursday’s games Clippers coach Doc Rivers 2, Westbrook, tal Fouls—San Antonio 23, Minnesota 25. Miami at Cleveland Houston coach Rockets (Defensive three Technicals—Gay, DeRozan, Towns, Gra- Chicago at Milwaukee Roundup second), Tucker. A—18,055 (18,500). ham. A—11,581 (19,356). Dallas at New York L.A. Clippers at New Orleans Atlanta at Phoenix Raptors 114, Trail Blazers 106 Grizzlies 119, Hornets 117 Brooklyn at Denver Friday’s games TORONTO — Miller 0-1 0-0 0, Siakam MEMPHIS — Crowder 1-5 0-0 3, Jack- Detroit at Charlotte 15-28 2-3 36, M.Gasol 3-10 0-0 9, VanVleet son Jr. 5-9 2-2 16, Valanciunas 9-14 0-0 18, San Antonio at Orlando 10-16 6-6 30, Powell 0-6 2-2 2, Hollis-Jeffer- Morant 10-15 2-3 23, Brooks 6-13 0-0 15, son 6-8 4-4 16, Johnson 1-3 0-0 2, Boucher Anderson 2-5 1-3 5, Hill 3-8 0-0 9, Clarke Harden, Rockets Indiana at Houston Philadelphia at Oklahoma City 1-4 0-0 2, Davis 5-10 2-2 15, Thomas 1-6 6-9 0-0 13, Jones 0-3 0-0 0, Guduric 6-9 1-1 Utah at Memphis 0-0 2. Totals 42-92 16-17 114. 17. Totals 48-90 6-9 119. Washington at Minnesota PORTLAND — Hood 9-15 2-2 25, Little 3- CHARLOTTE — Bridges 5-11 2-2 14, Boston at Golden State 10 0-0 7, Whiteside 6-12 0-0 12, Lillard 2-12 Washington 2-7 0-0 5, Zeller 6-8 3-4 16, Sacramento at L.A. Lakers 3-3 9, McCollum 8-18 0-1 19, Hezonja 2-5 Rozier 13-21 0-0 33, Graham 7-19 1-1 19, Saturday’s games 5-6 10, Labissiere 0-3 0-0 0, Simons 6-11 Williams 0-2 2-4 2, Biyombo 1-2 0-0 2, Brooklyn at Chicago 2-2 17, Bazemore 2-10 1-2 7. Totals 38-96 Co.Martin 1-5 4-4 6, Monk 8-13 3-4 20. To- Milwaukee at Indiana 13-16 106. tals 43-88 15-19 117. outlast Clippers Charlotte at New York Toronto 23 31 33 27—114 Memphis 26 37 31 25—119 Houston at Minnesota Portland 30 23 25 28—106 Charlotte 29 35 32 21—117 New Orleans at Miami Three-Point Goals—Toronto 14-32 Three-Point Goals—Memphis 17-35 Portland at San Antonio (VanVleet 4-6, Siakam 4-7, M.Gasol 3-5, (Guduric 4-6, Jackson Jr. 4-6, Brooks 3-6, Associated Press Toronto at Dallas Davis 3-6, Miller 0-1, Boucher 0-2, Powell Hill 3-6, Clarke 1-2, Morant 1-2, Crowder Lakers 120, Warriors 94: Atlanta at L.A. Clippers 0-2, Thomas 0-3), Portland 17-48 (Hood 1-5, Anderson 0-1, Jones 0-1), Charlotte LeBron James had 23 points and 5-10, McCollum 3-7, Simons 3-8, Lillard 2- 16-37 (Rozier 7-12, Graham 4-10, Bridges HOUSTON — James Harden 12 assists in three quarters, Kyle Calendar 7, Bazemore 2-8, Hezonja 1-3, Little 1-5). 2-2, Zeller 1-2, Monk 1-2, Washington 1- scored 47 points and the Hous- Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Toronto 4, Williams 0-1, Co.Martin 0-4). Fouled Kuzma added 22 points starting Jan. 5 — 10-day contracts can be ton Rockets outlasted the Clip- signed. 50 (Hollis-Jefferson 11), Portland 43 (Wh- Out—None. Rebounds—Memphis 45 (Va- for Anthony Davis, and host Los iteside, Labissiere 9). Assists—Toronto lanciunas 13), Charlotte 35 (Zeller, Monk Jan. 10 — All contracts guaranteed for pers 102-93 in a wild game that Angeles rolled past Golden State. rest of season. 20 (VanVleet 7), Portland 24 (Lillard 10). 8). Assists—Memphis 32 (Morant 11), saw Los Angeles coach Doc Riv- Feb. 6 — Trade deadline (3 p.m. EST) Total Fouls—Toronto 20, Portland 16. Charlotte 27 (Bridges 7). Total Fouls— Davis sat out because of a Feb. 14-16 — All-Star weekend, Technicals—Toronto coach Nick Nurse. Memphis 21, Charlotte 12. A—13,155 ers ejected in the fourth quarter sore right shoulder after playing Chicago. A—19,544 (19,393). (19,077). Wednesday night. April 15 — Regular season ends. the night before in a victory at April 18 — Playoffs begin. Houston was up by two with Phoenix. May 19 — Draft lottery, Chicago. about two minutes left when for- May 21-24 — Draft combine, Chicago. Celtics 140, Wizards 133: June 4 — NBA Finals begin. mer Rocket Patrick Beverley Kemba Walker scored 25 points June 25 — NBA draft. fouled out. Harden made both and Boston won its ninth straight, Wednesday free throws before grabbing a overcoming 44 points from rebound on the other end and hit- Magic 112, 76ers 97 Bradley Beal to beat visitnig ting a three to make it 95-88. Washington. PHILADELPHIA — Korkmaz 4-11 0-0 9, Harris 4-13 0-0 8, Horford 5-18 2-4 14, Beverley was given a technical Raptors 114, Trail Blazers Simmons 9-12 0-0 18, Richardson 7-14 3- foul during a timeout after the 106: Pascal Siakam scored 36 5 19, Ennis III 4-6 1-1 10, Thybulle 1-1 0-0 2, Scott 1-3 0-0 3, O’Quinn 2-5 0-0 5, Neto play and Harden hit the two free points, Fred VanVleet had 30 and 2-3 2-2 6, Milton 1-5 1-1 3. Totals 40-91 9- throws. Toronto beat host Portland. 13 97. ORLANDO — Isaac 5-9 2-2 12, Gordon Rivers was then given two Timberwolves 129, Spurs 4-12 7-9 18, Vucevic 11-18 1-2 25, Fultz 2-6 technical fouls and ejected to the 114: Andrew Wiggins had 30 4-6 8, Fournier 5-10 2-3 13, Aminu 0-1 0-0 0, Bamba 0-1 0-0 0, Augustin 4-13 3-3 12, delight of son Austin Rivers, the points on 12-for-23 shooting and Carter-Williams 3-5 5-7 11, Ross 4-11 2-2 Houston guard who laughed and Minnesota handed visiting San 13. Totals 38-86 26-34 112. signaled for the officials to T-up Philadelphia 30 23 29 15— 97 Antonio its third straight loss. Orlando 31 22 27 32—112 his father. Doc Rivers spent sev- Magic 112, 76ers 97: Niko- Three-Point Goals—Philadelphia 8-30 eral more seconds screaming at la Vucevic had 25 points and (Richardson 2-4, Horford 2-8, Scott 1-2, Ennis III 1-2, O’Quinn 1-2, Korkmaz 1-6, the referees before slowly walk- 12 rebounds and host Orlando Harris 0-3, Milton 0-3), Orlando 10-32 ing to the locker room. used a big fourth quarter to beat (Gordon 3-5, Ross 3-8, Vucevic 2-4, Augus- Russell Westbrook added 17 Philadelphia. tin 1-4, Fournier 1-5, Bamba 0-1, Aminu 0- NELL REDMOND/AP 1, Fultz 0-2, Isaac 0-2). Fouled Out—None. points to help the Rockets win Grizzlies 119, Hornets 117: Rebounds—Philadelphia 47 (Harris 10), Orlando 48 (Gordon 13). Assists—Phila- Memphis’ Ja Morant flexes after being fouled during Wednesday’s their fifth straight game. Kawhi Rookie Ja Morant scored on a delphia 25 (Harris 6), Orlando 27 (Au- game against the Hornets. Morant finished with 23 points, including Leonard led Los Angeles with driving left-handed layup with gustin 8). Total Fouls—Philadelphia 27, Orlando 22. Technicals—Simmons, Rich- a left-handed game-winning layup with 0.7 seconds remaining, 26 points, 12 rebounds and seven 0.7 seconds left to lift visiting ardson. A—15,113 (18,846). leading the Grizzlies to a 119-117 victory in Charlotte, N.C. assists. Memphis. PAGE 28 •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, November 15, 2019 COLLEGE FOOTBALL No. 7 Gophers make strides adapting to Ciarrocca’s offense

BY DAVE CAMPBELL Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS — With no game on the schedule the week before Minnesota played Penn State, most of the Gophers coach- es hit the road for recruiting. Kirk Ciarrocca hung back and crafted the game plan to beat a Nittany Lions defense that en- tered with the second-fewest points allowed in the FBS. “Kirk loves to be by himself. He got more work done than anybody in the entire building,” coach P.J. Fleck said after the 31-26 victory on Saturday, adding: “He loves sitting in his hole, watching film, and it showed.” RON JENKINS/AP The Gophers ran the ball 40 times and attempted 20 passes, Baylor cornerback Jameson Houston, left, knocks down TCU running back Darius Anderson. The STACY BENGS/AP averaging a robust 7.7 yards per undefeated No. 12 Bears have only given up more than 20 points once this season in regulation. play. They had 24 points in the Minnesota wide receiver Rashod first half, more than the Nittany Bateman runs in a touchdown Lions had allowed in any of their during his team’s win Saturday No. 12 Baylor hopes vaunted defense previous eight games, taking only over Penn State. The Gophers two sacks for 10 yards and pro- (9-0) have scored at least 28 ducing just one turnover, a fum- points in every game. can bear No. 10 Oklahoma’s offense ble near midfield. “The kids played great. It al- BY STEPHEN HAWKINS least 27 tackles. Fourteen play- ways comes down to them,” said Associated Press ers have contributed to the Bears’ Ciarrocca, who was announced league-leading 29 sacks. Wednesday as one of 41 nominees There was a moment when TCU didn’t score in the second for the Broyles Award, given an- Baylor coach Matt Rhule saw his half last Saturday, and the Bears nually to an outstanding assistant No. 12 Bears start to fracture just won 29-23 in triple overtime. coach in the FBS. a little bit for the first time in this Redshirt freshman John Mayers Fleck has given Ciarrocca full No. 7 Minnesota (9-0) undefeated season. Understand- No. 10 Oklahoma (8-1) kicked a 51-yard field goal in the responsibility for the play-calling, at No. 23 Iowa (6-3) ably frustrated, defensive players at No. 12 Baylor (9-0) final minute of regulation for a so he can focus on game manage- AFN-Atlantic were yelling at some of the offen- AFN-Sports 9-9 tie before Charlie Brewer ac- ment and other responsibilities of 10 p.m. Saturday CET sive guys. being the head coach. Ciarrocca, 1:30 a.m. Sunday CET counted for three OT touchdowns 6 a.m. Sunday JKT That was during halftime of — a run and two passes to Denzel who has been Fleck’s offensive their last game, down 9-0 after 9:30 a.m. Sunday JKT coordinator for the entirety of his Mims. Baylor’s defense held the TCU had kicked two field goals Horned Frogs out of the end zone career as a head coach — four in the final half-minute before in the third overtime even after years at Western Michigan and the break. It was nine days after out in the last two games of the they had first down from the 1. the last three seasons with Min- the Bears had won their previous our back, the pressure, the mo- 2017 season, a predictably rocky “I just think at the end of the nesota — said Wednesday that all game when scoring fewer than 20 mentum, all that, so we can go win first year for Fleck and his staff. game, they all came together, and the praise for shrewd play calls points — the first time they had the game,” said senior linebacker Ciarrocca, who first worked I think they learned something as made him “giggle a little bit.” done that in 13 years. Jordan Williams. “It’s been crazy with Fleck at Rutgers in 2010 a team,” Rhule said. “Just keep He pinned the progress and “We’re a family, and families to see how the defense has come when he was the co-offensive co- playing.” success for the Gophers on of- fight,” linebacker Terrel Bernard out there when our backs are ordinator and quarterbacks coach against the wall, all odds against Defensive tackle Bravvion Roy, fense on the players, with quar- and Fleck was the wide receiv- said. “I don’t think it was that we terback Tanner Morgan, running were cracking. We wanted them us, and we just play.” who blocked a late field-goal at- ers coach, almost left Minnesota The Bears lead the Big 12, al- tempt by West Virginia in a 17-14 back Rodney Smith and wide last winter for West Virginia to to move the ball and wanted them receivers Rashod Bateman and lowing only 19 points a game, win , has been limited with nag- join Neal Brown’s staff, another to score so bad. … But, I mean, Tyler Johnson being the highest- and are second at 337 total yards ging issues. Grayland Arnold, still under-40 former colleague of his. you see in the second half that we profile members of a group that a game — drastically improved not 100% after missing a game Ciarrocca, whose first 23 years came together and played com- is second in the Big Ten with an after giving up 32 points and 426 last month, had the clinching in- as a coach were on the East Coast plementary football. That’s what average of 37.6 points per game, it takes to win.” yards a game last season. terception against the Frogs. Se- until he joined Fleck at Western behind only Ohio State. Baylor (9-0, 6-0 Big 12, No. 13 “They’re an old defense. I nior starting safety Chris Miller, Michigan, decided to stay with a That extra time to strategize for CFP) has certainly gotten defen- mean they have a lot of guys that an NFL prospect, missed the late-night call to Fleck. Penn State, though, sure helped. sive and just in time: The Bears have played a lot of snaps,” Okla- TCU game because of an auto- “I love the bye week. Geez, can “Kirk and I couldn’t be more host four-time defending league homa coach Lincoln Riley said. matic one-game suspension for a we get a six-game schedule? That opposites. I’m talking north pole, champion Oklahoma (8-1, 5-1, “And they’ve moved a few pieces third targeting penalty. would be tremendous,” Ciarrocca south pole, and we’re standing No. 10 CFP) in a potential Big around, and those look like things “We don’t want to be one of said. “It’s not like I do the whole right in the middle of it, and the 12 championship game preview have gone well for them.” those programs that make excus- game plan myself, even when only way we can kind of con- Saturday night. The No. 10 Soon- Bernard switched from outside es, we don’t want to talk about, they’re on the road. I’m not let- nect is by looking straight down ers lead the nation with 587 total to middle linebacker after senior ‘Oh well we would’ve played well ting them off that easy. They’re through the core of the earth. But yards and are second with 48.4 Clay Johnston suffered a season- except we lost this guy or that working.” we complement each other really points per game. ending knee injury when making guy,’ ” Rhule said. “We expect ev- The Gophers (9-0, 6-0) rose all well. He taught me so much when Known for high-scoring, big- an interception against Texas eryone to go out there and play at the way to seventh in the Associ- I worked for him. Not only just play offenses — especially during Tech a month ago. Johnston had a high level. I think it comes from ated Press poll and eighth in the the football, but how to work for the 2011 Heisman Trophy-win- 58 tackles, 28 more than any other our players, the way we practice, College Football Playoff rankings someone.” ning season by Robert Griffin III Bears player at the time. we practice the 1s and 2s, equal this week. They have scored at Ciarrocca clearly has no re- and then when winning their only After 19 tackles against TCU, reps. We have high standards. least 28 points in all nine games, a grets about staying in Minnesota. two Big 12 titles in 2013 and 2014 Bernard is now the leading tack- We practice the 3s. ... You can be feat never before accomplished in “I don’t think I’ve ever not seen — the Bears now have one of the ler with 68. He is still the only a guy pretty far down the depth the history of a program that first him in the offensive staff room league’s top defenses. player with more than Johnston, chart early in the season, and launched in 1882. They were shut watching film,” said Morgan. “We love to have the thing on but nine other players have at then we can be counting on you.” Friday, November 15, 2019 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 29 COLLEGE FOOTBALL ACC teams Young to miss racking up the sacks one more game

BY WILL GRAVES Associated Press Star DE will return for Ohio State’s PITTSBURGH — Each week, the showdowns with Penn St., Michigan Pittsburgh coaching staff jots down a number representing the amount of BY MITCH STACY sacks they’d like the Panthers to have during a given game. Sophomore de- Associated Press fensive lineman Jaylen Twyman would COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State star defensive end prefer to keep the number a secret. Chase Young will be held out of one more game as punish- Not because it’s so ambitious it’s ment for breaking NCAA rules by accepting a personal almost impossible to reach. Quite the KEITH SRAKOCIC/AP loan. opposite. Pittsburgh defensive lineman Jaylen Twyman, right, sacks Ohio quarterback The penalty was announced by Ohio State in a statement “It’s too low,” Twyman said. “We Wednesday. The school had sought immediate reinstate- aim for the stars. Me, myself, I don’t Nathan Rourke. Twyman has seven sacks for the Panthers, who are one of six ACC teams in the top 20 nationally in sacks. ment from the NCAA. set goals because I’m trying to break The situation worked out as well as it could have for the bank.” It’s also a necessity in a league that’s an effort to refine during Narduzzi’s the second-ranked Buckeyes. Young, a preseason All- No team in the Atlantic Coast Con- American and the nation’s leader in ference cashes in more than the Pan- spent the better part of a decade try- four-plus seasons on the job. Pitt rode sacks, was held out of the 73-14 rout thers. Pitt is averaging 4.44 sacks per ing to find ways to keep pace with a tireless running game and a solid if of Maryland last week and will miss game, second in the country only to Clemson. not spectacular defense to its first ACC Saturday’s game against 50-point un- Ohio State. The Panthers are quick, For all the high-profile offensive tal- Coastal Division title last year. The derdog Rutgers. belligerent and relentless. They’re ent the defending national champion Panthers remain a threat to repeat He’ll return for showdowns with hardly the only ones in the sack-happy Tigers have produced during their — a rarity in the wide-open Coastal No. 9 Penn State and No. 14 Michigan ACC, where six teams rank in the top rise to prominence, they’ve become a — thanks in large part to a defensive 20 nationally in taking down the quar- factory for NFL-ready pass rushers, front that has become dominant de- to end the regular season. terback, the most of any Power Five players who cut their teeth by devour- spite losing starters Rashad Weaver Ohio State announced the day be- conference. ing ACC quarterbacks at an alarm- and Keyshon Camp to season-ending fore its game with Maryland that The defense-oriented Big Ten has ing rate. Clemson sent four defensive injuries. Weaver went down in August Young would be held out amid con- linemen — Clelin Ferrell, Christian and Camp followed after getting hurt cerns he violated NCAA rules by tak- four schools in the top 20. The Big 12 Yo u n g and SEC just one a piece. The pass- Wilkins, Dexter Lawrence and Austin during a loss to Virginia on Aug. 31. ing a loan last year from someone he centric Pac 12? None. Bryant — to the pros just last spring, Yet Pitt has kept on coming thanks describes as a “family friend” for liv- “We throw the ball a lot in this with Ferrell, Wilkins and Lawrence all to the rapid maturity of a group that in- ing expenses. Young explained his “mistake” in a tweet league,” North Carolina coach Mack going in the top 17 picks of the draft. cludes Patrick Jones II and Twyman, and said the loan had been paid back. Brown said. “And I think there’s a lot The unbeaten Tigers have dropped players who hardly look like backups. Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith said the viola- better teams in this league than per- off a bit this season — they’re 20th They’ve combined for 14 sacks (seven tion was reported to the university on Oct. 27, the day after ceived because a lot of us are so much nationally but only sixth in the confer- each) while playing with a tenacity the Buckeyes beat Wisconsin and Young’s dynamic four- alike that so many games are coming ence after leading the country with 54 that belies their even-keeled personas. sack performance inserted him into the Heisman Trophy down to the end.” in 2018 — but remain the gold stan- Twyman always believed this level of conversation. Asked if the common thread in the dard. Regularly landing some of the production was coming. It’s why he Young was confronted with the report and cooperated ACC is great coaching, Pitt’s Pat Nar- most talented high school players in the asked to switch from No. 55 to No. 97 with the university’s investigation. Smith declined to com- duzzi — who developed a reputation as country helps, but Clemson defensive last spring, the same number worn by ment on whether Chase knew at the time that borrowing one of the most aggressive defensive coordinator Brent Venables stressed former Pitt star and two-time NFL the money was an NCAA violation. coordinators in the country during his success doesn’t just stem from having defensive player of the year Aaron Ohio State submitted its report on Tuesday . The univer- tenure Michigan State before becom- good raw material to work with. Donald of the Los Angeles Rams. sity had asked for a single-game suspension but decided ing the head coach at Pitt nearly five “Hey, man, getting there is really “A lot of people back at home, my not to appeal the NCAA’s ruling that Young sit out two years ago — shook his head. hard,” Venables aid. “Finishing, that’s coaches ask me, ‘That’s a lot of pres- games. “It takes players,” Narduzzi said. even harder. Too many guys, they take sure,’” said Twyman, a native of Wash- Young tweeted in response to the decision on Wednes- “It takes a secondary. It takes (every- one hand off the wheel. You’ve done all ington, D.C. “I was like, ‘Pressure day: “Excited to be back on the field next week! Thank you body). There’s coverage sacks. We’ve the hard work, now finish. There’s cer- only busts pipes or makes diamonds.’ Buckeye Nation for all the love and support.” talked every week. It’s a combination tainly an art to the finish as well.” And that’s what our whole defense Young has been practicing with the team all week and of whatever.” An art the Panthers have made lives on. We love the pressure.” will continue to do so. After ending Top 25 drought, Indiana chasing new goals

BY MICHAEL MAROT They’ve won seven games for dently explaining to players they successes we’ve had this year and Associated Press the first time since 2007. They’ve could make it this year. keep growing and getting better, won four straight conference “I told our team in fall camp I realizing we have a lot of hard Coach Tom Allen walked into games for the first time since thought they were a Top 25 team,” work ahead of us.” Indiana’s team meeting Monday 1993. They won at Nebraska for Allen said. “I’m sure nobody else Indiana also understands his- and congratulated his players for the first time since 1958. And would even have said that but we tory is not on its side. ending one streak. now they’ve shed the dubious dis- said that in the privacy of our The Hoosiers are 0-10 all-time He quickly urged them to start tinction of going the longest time No. 24 Indiana (7-2) meetings. I told them that. I be- at State College and have lost 37 a new one. between rankings among Power at No. 9 Penn State (8-1) lieved it. I just said, ‘Guys, you’re consecutive games against top One day after No. 24 Indiana Five conference schools. AFN-Sports doing what I expected you to do.’ ” 10 foes since a 31-10 victory at cracked the Top 25 for the first Indiana last appeared in the Top 6 p.m. Saturday CET Now the goals must be adjusted No. 9 Ohio State in October 1987. time in more than a quarter-cen- 25 on Sept. 20, 1994. That week- again. But few expected the Hoosiers tury, the Hoosiers spent some end, the 25th-ranked Hoosiers 2 a.m. Sunday JKT Allen expects his team to prove to be here, snapping their Top 25 time talking about what needs to lost 62-13 at No. 16 Wisconsin and it’s earned its ranking and can drought, after they were 3-2 in be done so they can stick around didn’t return to the rankings until climb even higher as the Hoosiers late September. a while. Sunday; the longest stint between Allen was promoted to head coach try to add other achievements this And now, while others around “This is something we live for,” rankings now belongs to rival before the 2016 bowl game, he told season. campus talk about bowl position- senior receiver Donovan Hale Purdue, which hasn’t been in the everyone he believed the Hoosiers Suddenly, reaching the top 20 ing and the possibility of playing said. “This is why we came to Top 25 since 2007. should be a Top 25 program. for the first time since November in a January bowl game for only Indiana, to try to change the pro- Allen never doubted it was pos- But after finishing 5-7 in each of 1993 or the top 15 for the first time the third time in school history, gram. We’ve got players that are sible but he needed to set smaller his first two seasons as head coach since October 1988 seems realis- the Hoosiers are focused on just super hungry and want to create goals, first. then losing starting quarterback tic — if the Hoosiers upset No. 9 winning. change.” After taking over as the Hoo- Michael Penix Jr. to a series of Penn State (8-1, 5-1) on Saturday. “We’ve got a lot more things we Clearly, the Hoosiers (7-2, 4-2 siers’ defensive coordinator in injuries this season, the doubters “Just because you get ranked want to do, a lot more things for Big Ten) have gone a long way to- 2016, Allen set a seemingly un- figured the breakthrough year one week, doesn’t mean all of a this football team to accomplish,” ward doing that with this season’s thinkable goal for the program — would be put on hold. sudden you’ve arrived,” Allen Allen said. “Our head is down. resume. creating a top-tier defense. When Allen never wavered, confi- said. “We want to build off the We’re working every single day.” PAGE 30 • S TARS AND STRIPES• Friday, November 15, 2019 MLB Crisis mode Sign stealing charges latest to tarnish Astros’ reputation

BY KRISTIE RIEKEN ers in their famed 1951 pennant Associated Press race, to the Boston Red Sox being fined two years ago for a high- HOUSTON — Not too long ago, tech ploy using an Apple Watch the Houston Astros were the feel- to pilfer catcher’s signals by the good story of baseball. Led by their Yankees, cheating is engrained in diminutive Venezuelan dynamo the game’s lore going back to the and featuring smart play on the day of spitballs. field and in the front office, they Getting close to the line, or emerged from a morass of awful even crossing it, has long been seasons that got them mocked as a part of sports — witness the the ’Lastros and ascended to the suspicions that have followed the top of the big league galaxy as New England Patriots during World Series champions. their dynasty. That picture of the sheer joy as But the Astros are under scru- the Astros celebrated their 2017 tiny for how they’re said to have crown at Dodger Stadium sure gotten around the rules. And it’s looks different now. just one of many ways the team Fresh off a bitter Game 7 loss has landed in the news for the MATT YORK/AP in its bid for another title, and wrong reasons in recent years. tarnished by an executive’s club- The negative backlash includes Houston Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow speaks during a media availability Tuesday during the house rant at female reporters sign-stealing clouds in the past Major League Baseball general managers annual meetings in Scottsdale, Ariz. and the failed attempt to smear and an episode this season when the journalist who wrote about the team improperly barred a re- quoted pitcher Mike Fiers, who On Tuesday, Houston general swer that question directly.” the scene, the franchise is now porter from the clubhouse. It led, played for the Astros that season, manager Jeff Luhnow refused to This comes after the team was embroiled in a new scandal: al- too, to some fans taking to social and three other unidentified peo- discuss any specifics. already under investigation by legations with on-the-record media this October to say they’d ple with the club. “We take the allegation seri- MLB for the clubhouse incident. comments from a former player turned against rooting for the The Astros won the World Se- ously and we’re going to look into Assistant general manager Bran- the Astros turned to technology Astros. ries that year — two sources told it,” he said at the GM meetings in don Taubman was fired for di- to devise a sign-stealing scheme Major League Baseball is now The Athletic that Houston used Arizona. “If you’re not following recting inappropriate comments during their greatest season. investigating the Astros after the system into the playoffs while the rules, it’s a serious matter. I’m at female reporters, including Sign stealing may be as old The Athletic website reported another source said the system not going to get into exactly what one wearing a domestic violence as baseball. From a clandestine the team stole signs during home ended before the postseason. I knew or anybody knew at this bracelet, during a locker room buzzer-and-spyglass system games in 2017 by using a camera Using cameras and technology point. So I’m just going to have to celebration after the team beat the New York Giants invented positioned in center field at Min- to swipe signs is prohibited by wait and see. But I’m sure there the New York Yankees to win the to overtake the Brooklyn Dodg- ute Maid Park. Tuesday’s report MLB . will be an appropriate time to an- AL pennant on Oct. 19. Second: Verlander’s teammate Cole made great case for Cy Young

FROM BACK PAGE fastball. He’s thinking about using weight- AL Cy Young voting ed balls and other new-age throwing Total points on a 7-4-3-2-1 basis techniques. Player 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th Tot Verlander, Astros 17 13 — — — 171 “I will always try to push the boundar- Cole, Astros 13 17 — — — 159 ies of what I can do,” Verlander said. “If Morton, Rays — — 18 10 1 75 Bieber, Indians — — 11 13 5 64 my body says, ‘Hold on, you can’t do that Lynn, Rangers — — — 3 12 18 anymore,’ then I’ll pull back.” Rodriguez, Red Sox — — — 3 2 8 Giolito, White Sox — — — — 8 8 The case between Verlander and Cole Minor, Rangers — — 1 1 2 7 was tight. Cole had more strikeouts (326) and a lower ERA (2.50), but Verlander NL Cy Young voting 2 threw 10 ⁄3 more innings and won more Total points on a 7-4-3-2-1 basis Player 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th Tot games. deGrom, Mets 29 1 — — — 207 They are the first set of teammates to Ryu, Dodgers 1 10 8 7 3 72 Scherzer, Nationals — 8 8 6 4 72 finish 1-2 in AL voting — it’s happened five Flaherty, Cardinals — 5 11 6 4 69 times in the NL. Strasburg, Nationals — 6 1 9 8 53 Soroka, Braves — — 1 — 6 9 Verlander and Cole pitched Houston to Gray, Reds — — — — 4 4 the World Series, where Cole continued Kershaw, Dodgers — — 1 — — 3 Buehler, Dodgers — — — 1 — 2 to dominate while Verlander faltered. The Yates, Padres — — — 1 — 2 right-hander lost twice to the champion Corbin, Nationals — — — — 1 1 Washington Nationals — a letdown not fac- tored in voting that concluded before the postseason began. in April and May, even allowing seven He’s hoping to take another run at a title runs in an outing against the last-place MATT SLOCUM/AP — with Cole — next season. Marlins. “I know that Gerrit had a great time Astros starter Gerrit Cole, above, had more strikeouts (326) than AL Cy Young Award The embarrassment in Miami was a playing here and I know he would like to winner Justin Verlander and a lower ERA (2.50) in finishing second to his teammate. wake-up call for the gritty deGrom. Follow- return, if possible,” Verlander said. “But ing that loss, he went 8-3 with a 1.89 ERA that is now on Gerrit and his family and a dream to win one Cy Young,” deGrom finished third. over his final 23 starts. DeGrom wrapped people above me.” said. “To win back to back was a goal. It’s A year after taking the award despite up the season with 23 consecutive score- Tampa Bay Rays righty Charlie Morton hard to explain. You set these goals, but it just 10 victories — fewest ever by a start- less innings. finished third a year after leaving Houston almost doesn’t feel real yet.” ing pitcher — deGrom earned 11 wins with “I feel like I was trying to better what I in free agency. The 31-year-old led the NL with 255 a Mets team that’s struggled to support did in 2018,” he said, adding “I think that DeGrom is in special company as a re- strikeouts and posted a 2.43 ERA. His him. was something I struggled with to start peat NL winner, joining Koufax, Greg résumé was bolstered by his durability After signing a $137.5 million, five-year this year, was kind of dwelling on what Maddux, Randy Johnson, Tim Lincecum, — deGrom totaled 204 innings, compared deal to remain with New York shortly be- happened last year. Kind of not focusing 2 Clayton Kershaw and Max Scherzer. to 182 ⁄3 for runner-up Hyun-Jin Ryu and fore opening day, deGrom wasn’t so domi- on the task ahead as much as I probably 1 “It was a dream to play this game and 172 ⁄3 for Scherzer, the Nationals ace who nant early in the season. He got hit around should have.” Friday, November 15, 2019 •STARS AND STRIPES•PAGE 31 NFL Injuries slow once-reliable Rams O-line

BY GREG BEACHAM Associated Press THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — The Los Angeles Rams scored nearly 33 points per game last season during one of the most impressive 16-game offensive performanc- es in NFL history with a stout, durable line leading the way. When the defending NFC champions returned this year, their only significant personnel changes happened on the line, Minnesota RB’s blend of which had been a model of stability and consistency during coach Sean McVay’s speed, power, and vision first two seasons. Nothing has been the same this fall for McVay and the Rams is a recipe for success (5-4). They are outsid- ers in the playoff pic- ture after losing four BY BRIAN HALL of their past six games, Associated Press and most observers EAGAN, Minn. think a mediocre of- ackling Dalvin Cook has fensive line has been been a challenge this sea- the biggest reason for son. The Minnesota Vi- the downturn. kings running back has And after adding T two new starting line- vaulted to the top of the league’s McVay rushing list while leaving behind men in the offseason a trail of defenders who have ei- and losing both to in- ther bounced off his 5-foot-10, juries in recent weeks, the line is undergo- 210-pound frame or simply ing major changes again this week before a been left in his wake. visit from the Chicago Bears (4-5). How has Cook made so “It’s a little bit of a roller coaster with many defenders miss? It’s everybody going down and getting banged due as up,” said Austin Blythe, the Rams’ new much to starting center. “Juggling positions is part ‘ He just his mind as of the league, part of being a professional, his unusual blend of speed and especially on the offensive line. We’ll has that and strength. try to handle it to the best of our ability.” extra gear. ’ “I just take a picture before With center Brian Allen out for the year and right tackle Rob Havenstein down for Mike Zimmer I get the ball in my hands and kind of see what type of le- at least two weeks after getting hurt last Vikings coach, verage he’s giving me,” Cook week in Pittsburgh, the Rams will block on RB Dalvin Cook said. “ I kind of put myself in for Todd Gurley and protect Jared Goff place to break those tackles with four starters in new or almost-new before I even get the ball in my hand.” positions on the line. The Vikings (7-3) have relied on a balanced of- Blythe is moving from right guard to fense to win five of their past six games head- center, where he has practiced regularly, ing into Sunday, when they host Denver. Cook but barely played since college. Untested leads the NFL in rushing yards and total rookie Bobby Evans is likely to start at yards from scrimmage, putting himself in right tackle after getting three offensive the conversation about the MVP award. snaps of action in the Rams’ first nine This is the type of productivity the Vi- games. kings envisioned when they made Cook The Rams’ starting guards probably will their second-round draft pick in 2017. be rookie David Edwards, who has three Healthy now and enjoying a heavy work- games of experience, and Austin Cor- load to go with it, Cook has finally been bett, who made his debut for the team last able to showcase his talent. week. After Sunday’s 183 yards against Dallas, Edwards played left guard for the Rams Cook now has a league-leading total of 1,415 in his first two games, but switched to right yards. He leads the NFL with 991 rushing yards and guard last week in Pittsburgh — only to is tied for second in total touchdowns with 10. He is move to right tackle after Havenstein in- one of only four players since 1948 to accumulate at jured his knee during the game. least 950 rushing yards, 400 receiving yards and 10 He still has more NFL experience than rushing touchdowns through the first 10 games of Corbett, who only arrived in a trade with the season, along with Todd Gurley (2018), LaDai- Cleveland a few weeks ago when Joe Note- nian Tomlinson (2006) and Priest Holmes (2002). boom went down with a knee injury. Even Tomlinson was the NFL MVP in 2006. after playing in last week’s injury emer- Cook has been perfect for former Broncos coach gency, Corbett has just 78 offensive snaps. Gary Kubiak’s system, who serves as an adviser “It’s tough sometimes when you don’t for offensive coordinator Kevin Stefanski. Since have guys that have game experience,” left Stefanski took over the play calling in the third- tackle Andrew Whitworth said. “There’s to-last game last season, Cook has a league-high going to be some growing pains there in 1,746 scrimmage yards, 1,239 rushing yards and 12 general.” touchdowns in 13 games. The Rams’ line wasn’t really impressing “I always knew that he was a terrific runner,” Vi- anybody even before it lost three Week 1 kings coach Mike Zimmer said. “ He just has that starters to injuries. Gurley is having an un- extra gear.” productive season, while Goff’s time in the pocket has appeared to shrink in recent Minnesota Vikings running back Dalvin Cook weeks — but neither skill-position star has complained. MICHAEL AINSWORTH/AP “It’s not always going to be perfect back there,” Goff said. “And if it’s not, I’ll be just fine. It’s part of the job description.” S TARS AND STRIPES Friday, November 15, 2019 One more game Ohio State’s Young must sit this SPORTS week, too » College football, Page 29 2-timerMLB s Verlander, deGrom score second Cy Young Awards

BY JAKE SEINER “The adversity I went through Associated Press puts a new perspective on ev- erything,” he said. “I mean, still NEW YORK — Justin Ver- would’ve liked to have won a cou- lander has a second AL Cy Young ple of them.” Award — and a clear path paved Verlander continued a mar- toward Cooperstown. velous second act to his career Verlander beat out Houston since a 2017 trade from Detroit Astros teammate Gerrit Cole in to Houston. He led the majors balloting by the Baseball Writers’ with 21 victories and padded his Association of America revealed Hall of Fame résumé by getting Wednesday night. Verlander got his 3,000th strikeout in his final 17 first-place votes to 13 for Cole, start of the regular season. He who became a free agent after the also reached 300 punchouts in a season. season for the first time. Mets ace Jacob deGrom won the Verlander no-hit Toronto NL prize for the second straight on Sept. 1, becoming the sixth year. He received 29 of 30 first- pitcher with three no-hitters in place votes, becoming the 11th a career. He joined a group that pitcher to win Cy Youngs in con- includes Hall of Famers Nolan secutive years. He and Verlander Ryan, Sandy Koufax, Bob Feller are the 20th and 21st players to and Cy Young, along with 1880s win the award multiple times. pitcher Larry Corcoran. The 36-year-old Verlander won Forget about slowing down his first Cy Young in 2011 with — Verlander’s goal this offseason Detroit, when he was also named is to add velocity to his top-end MVP. Since then, he’d been a run- ner-up three times. SEE SECOND ON PAGE 30

Inside: Sign-stealing scandal further tarnishing Astros’ success of past three years, Page 30

MATT SLOCUM, ABOVE, AND KATHY WILLENS, RIGHT/AP Above: Houston Astros starting pitcher Justin Verlander led the majors with 21 victories this season and reached 3,000 career strikeouts in his final start of the regular season. He also threw a no-hitter, his third, and reached 300 strikeouts in a season for the first time, earning his second AL Cy Young Award. Right: New York Mets starter Jacob deGrom won the NL Cy Young Award for the second straight year.

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