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FACES MILITARY VIRUS OUTBREAK Crowe film will Army to resume Air Force band covers test waters with large-scale drills ‘Cowboy Bebop’ theme July release in Europe to help lift spirits Page 17 Page 3 Page 6 Pandemic could change landscape of minor league sports » Back page stripes.com Volume 79, No. 19 ©SS 2020 THURSDAY, MAY 14, 2020 50¢/Free to Deployed Areas VIRUS OUTBREAK After attacks, Afghan forces resume effort against Taliban BY J.P. LAWRENCE Stars and Stripes KABUL, Afghanistan — Af- ghan security forces resumed operations against the Taliban on Wednesday, a day after attacks against a hospital in Kabul and a funeral in Nangarhar province claimed the lives of at least 40 people, officials said. “Our offensive operations are started today all over Afghani- stan, based on President [Ashraf] Ghani’s order,” Afghan Defense Ministry deputy spokesman Fawad Aman said. Ghani ordered the military to resume operations against the Taliban in a televised speech Tuesday night, citing increased levels of violence by the insurgent group. NATO’s Resolute Support com- mand said Wednesday that inter- national forces would continue “defensive strikes” against the Taliban if they attack Afghan forces but will not shift to an of- MATTHEW KEELER/Stars and Stripes fensive posture. Ghani’s order came the same Spc. Jacob Kincer and Spc. Nicholas Woznick, investigators with the 557th Military Police Company, patrol outside the gates of Camp day Secretary of State Mike Humphreys, South Korea, on May 1 . Pompeo called for the Afghan government and Taliban to work together to find the perpetrators of two deadly attacks Tuesday in different parts of Afghanistan. Hitting the hotspots SEE ATTACKS ON PAGE 4 Virus forces US military police to expand off-base patrols of Korean establishments BY MATTHEW KEELER Itaewon. Anyone who visited clubs and bars Stars and Stripes Online: Get the latest there between April 30 and May 6 is likely to have been exposed to the virus, according CAMP HUMPHREYS, South Korea on the virus outbreak to the Korean Centers for Disease Control — Routine U.S. military police patrols into stripes.com/coronavirus and Prevention website. the entertainment district outside Camp Courtesy patrols by military police have Humphreys took on new meaning when been standard practice for years. Police coronavirus cases, seemingly curbed in routinely visit drinking establishments out- RAHMAT GUL/AP South Korea, resurfaced with the loosening ported in the single digits. That number has of social-distancing measures. grown nearly eight-fold following an out- side the gates of nearly every U.S. military A man is consoled after an Just a week ago, new cases were being re- break in Seoul’s popular nightlife district in SEE PATROLS ON PAGE 5 attack in a maternity hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Tuesday. PAGE 2 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Thursday, May 14, 2020 BUSINESS/WEATHER EXCHANGE RATES Dispute over Tesla reopening coming to an end Military rates Switzerland (Franc) .............................. 0.9690 Euro costs (May 14) ..............................$1.06 Thailand (Baht) ......................................... 32.05 Dollar buys (May 14) ........................€0.8963 Turkey (New Lira) ................................... 6.9759 British pound (May 14) ........................$1.20 (Military exchange rates are those BY TOM KRISHER vehicles next Monday — as long State law allows a fine of up to Japanese yen (May 14) ......................105.00 available to customers at military banking Associated Press as it delivers on the worker safety $1,000 a day or up to 90 days in South Korean won (May 14) ..........1,196.00 facilities in the country of issuance Commercial rates for Japan, South Korea, Germany, the precautions that it agreed to. jail for operating in violation of Bahrain (Dinar) ....................................... 0.3774 Netherlands and the United Kingdom. For DETROIT — It appears the It wasn’t clear from a press re- health orders. British pound ........................................ $1.2271 nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e., dispute between Tesla and San Canada (Dollar) ...................................... 1.4054 purchasing British pounds in Germany), lease whether Tesla would face The plant in Fremont, a city of China (Yuan) ............................................ 7.0904 check with your local military banking Francisco Bay Area authorities any punishment for reopening in more than 230,000 people south Denmark (Krone) ................................... 6.8645 facility. Commercial rates are interbank rates provided for reference when buying Egypt (Pound)........................................ 15.7501 over the reopening of a factory defiance of county orders. of San Francisco, had been closed currency. All figures are foreign currencies in the face of shutdown orders is Euro ............................................ $1.0862/0.9207 to one dollar, except for the British pound, The Health Department said since March 23. It employs about Hong Kong (Dollar) ................................ 7.7507 which is represented in dollars-to-pound, coming to an end. Monday it warned the company 10,000 workers. Hungary (Forint) .................................... 326.37 and the euro, which is dollars-to-euro.) Israel (Shekel) ......................................... 3.5132 The Alameda County Public was operating in violation of the Tesla released a plan to main- Japan (Yen)............................................... 107.03 Health Department announced county health order, and hoped tain worker safety, including the Kuwait (Dinar) ........................................ 0.3091 INTEREST RATES Norway (Krone) .................................... 10.1003 on Twitter early Wednesday that Tesla will “comply without fur- wearing of gloves and masks, Philippines (Peso) .................................... 50.26 Prime rate ................................................3.25 the Fremont, Calif ., plant will be ther enforcement measures” until installing barriers between Poland (Zloty) .............................................. 4.21 Discount rate ..........................................0.25 Saudi Arabia (Riyal) .............................. 3.7580 Federal funds market rate ...................0.05 able to go beyond basic opera- the county approves a site-specif- workers and maintaining social Singapore (Dollar).................................. 1.4173 3-month bill ............................................. 0.13 tions this week and start making ic plan required by the state. distancing. South Korea (Won) ............................ 1,224.58 30-year bond ...........................................1.38 WEATHER OUTLOOK THURSDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST THURSDAY IN EUROPE FRIDAY IN THE PACIFIC Misawa 60/48 Kabul 65/55 Seoul 67/59 Baghdad 99/68 Kandahar 86/62 Osan Tokyo Mildenhall/ Drawsko 66/58 69/63 Lakenheath Pomorskie Busan 50/37 52/39 63/59 Iwakuni 62/58 Kuwait Bahrain Zagan Sasebo City 83/79 Brussels 54/44 Guam 98/75 53/38 Ramstein 67/62 85/77 Lajes, 53/35 Riyadh Doha Azores Stuttgart Pápa 97/70 96/73 60/56 53/43 63/53 Aviano/ Vicenza 68/53 Naples 77/63 Okinawa Morón 76/71 63/54 Sigonella Rota 86/59 The weather is provided by the Djibouti Souda Bay American Forces Network Weather Center, 98/79 65/55 72/63 2nd Weather Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. T O D A Y IN STRIPES American Roundup ..... 16 Classified .................. 13 Comics ...................... 15 Crossword ................. 15 Faces ........................ 15 Opinion ..................... 18 Sports .................. 20-24 Thursday, May 14, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 3 MILITARY Army to resume drills in Europe with precautions BY JOHN VANDIVER Roughly 4,000 U.S. soldiers will Stars and Stripes come from the 1st Cavalry Divi- sion Headquarters (Forward), the STUTTGART, Germany 2nd Armored Brigade Combat BRIAN K. RAGIN JR./U.S. Army — Thousands of U.S. and Polish Team and the 3rd Combat Avia- Soldiers of the 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division at Konotop Range, Drawsko- soldiers will participate in drills tion Brigade, 3rd Infantry Divi- Pomorskie Training Area, Poland, on April 18 . Soldiers from 3rd ID will be among the 6,000 troops next month, marking the first sion. Some 2,000 Polish soldiers training in Poland in the Allied Spirit exercise scheduled for next month. time since the coronavirus crisis will come from airborne, cavalry began that American troops will and mechanized units. assemble for a large-scale exer- In March, the Pentagon or- cise in Europe. dered a halt to deployments for “All COVID-19 precaution- Defender-Europe 20 because ary measures will be taken to of coronavirus concerns. Major ensure the health and protection parts of the exercise were elimi- of participating armed forces nated, including an operation that and the local population,” U.S. involved paratroops dropping into Army Europe said in a statement the Republic of Georgia and the Wednesday. Baltics. Called Allied Spirit, the drill is Defender, originally intended to connected to the scaled-down ver- include 20,000 U.S.-based troops, sion of Defender Europe-20, a se- was designed to showcase the ries of events that was intended to military’s ability to mobilize large be among the largest Army train- numbers of forces for missions in ing efforts on the Continent since Europe. Such capabilities have the Cold War. become a priority amid concerns USAREUR said Allied Spirit, about a more aggressive Russia. SAVANNAH ROY/U.S. Army which was originally