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BY JULIE WATSON Associated Press SAN DIEGO — The battle to save the USS Bonhomme Rich- ard from a ravaging fire entered a third day in San Diego Bay on Tuesday with indications that the situation aboard the amphibious assault ship was improving. The U.S. Navy said in a state- ment late Monday that firefight- ers were making significant progress with the assistance of water drops by helicopters. The ship was emitting much less smoke than the previous two days, when acrid billows poured out and blanketed parts of the region. The Navy, meanwhile, has taken precautions in case the warship sinks and potentially re- leases 1 million gallons of oil on A Navy aviator flies over board into the harbor. the South China Sea The U.S. Coast Guard has in an F/A-18E Super hired an oil clean-up crew to put Hornet last week. a containment boom in place that U.S. Navy photo SEE FIRE ON PAGE 4 Challenging Beijing’s claims State Department rejects China’s South China Sea assertions as unlawful

BY WYATT OLSON said in the policy statement, which most of the South China Sea, claims Stars and Stripes aligns America’s position with a 2016 disputed to various degrees by the international court ruling. “[China] neighboring nations of the Philip- China’s claims to natural resourc- has no legal grounds to unilaterally pines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indone- es across most of the South China impose its will on the region. sia and Brunei. Sea “are completely unlawful, as is “Beijing uses intimidation to un- its campaign of bullying to control In 2016, the Hague’s Permanent dermine the sovereign rights of Court of Arbitration determined them,” Secretary of State Mike Pom- Southeast Asian coastal states in the that, under the 1982 Law of the Sea peo said Monday in the State Depart- South China Sea, bully them out of Convention, China’s claims over ment’s most vigorous pushback to offshore resources, assert unilateral GREGORY BULL/AP date on the disputed sea. dominion, and replace international isles and reefs in the Spratly Islands “The United States champions a law with ‘might makes right.’ ” near the Philippines were baseless. A helicopter drops water on the free and open Indo-Pacific,” Pompeo Pompeo China asserts sovereignty over SEE CLAIMS ON PAGE 3 USS Bonhomme Richard on Monday in San Diego. PAGE 2 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Wednesday, July 15, 2020 BUSINESS/WEATHER EXCHANGE RATES Military rates Switzerland (Franc)...... 0.9392 Campaign urges jobless to ‘find something new’ Euro costs (July 15) ...... $1.11 Thailand (Baht) ...... 31.60 Dollar buys (July 15) ...... €0.8569 Turkey (Lira) ...... 6.8659 British pound (July 15) ...... $1.22 (Military exchange rates are those BY DARLENE SUPERVILLE long emphasized skills-based job Trump created in 2018. The board Japanese yen (July 15) ...... 104.00 available to customers at military banking South Korean won (July 15) ...... 1,176.00 facilities in the country of issuance Associated Press and vocational training as an al- is co-chaired by Trump’s daugh- Commercial rates for Japan, South Korea, Germany, the Bahrain (Dinar) ...... 0.3770 ternative to college degree pro- ter and White House adviser, Netherlands and the United Kingdom. For British pound ...... $1.2509 WASHINGTON — A new White nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e., grams, arguing that college isn’t Ivanka Trump, and Commerce Canada (Dollar) ...... 1.3606 purchasing British pounds in Germany), House-backed ad campaign aims for everyone and that many jobs Secretary Wilbur Ross. China (Yuan) ...... 6.9956 check with your local military banking Denmark (Krone) ...... 6.5358 to encourage people who are un- don’t require a degree. “There has never been a more facility. Commercial rates are interbank Egypt (Pound) ...... 15.9495 employed or unhappy in their jobs But the long-in-the-works ef- critical time for Americans of all Euro ...... $1.1390/0.8779 rates provided for reference when buying to go and “find something new.” Hong Kong (Dollar) ...... 7.7514 currency. All figures are foreign currencies fort has taken on a new urgency ages and backgrounds to be aware to one dollar, except for the British pound, The opening ad in the “Find Hungary (Forint) ...... 312.16 after the coronavirus outbreak of the multiple pathways to career Israel (Shekel) ...... 3.4401 which is represented in dollars-to-pound, Something New” campaign that wiped out millions of jobs, many success and gain the vocational Japan (Yen) ...... 107.30 and the euro, which is dollars-to-euro.) began Tuesday features people of which may be lost forever. training and skills they need to Kuwait (Dinar) ...... 0.3076 INTEREST RATES Norway (Krone) ...... 9.4218 sharing their stories. A com- The campaign is a product fill jobs in a changing economy,” Philippines (Peso)...... 49.52 Prime rate ...... 3.25 panion website provides links to of the White House’s Ameri- said Ivanka Trump, who gradu- Poland (Zloty) ...... 3.93 Discount rate ...... 0.25 Saudi Arabia (Riyal) ...... 3.7508 Federal funds market rate ...... 0.03 training and other resources. can Workforce Policy Advisory ated from the University of Penn- Singapore (Dollar) ...... 1.3935 3-month bill ...... 0.12 The Trump administration has Board, which President Donald sylvania’s Wharton School. South Korea (Won) ...... 1,206.85 30-year bond ...... 1.33 WEATHER OUTLOOK WEDNESDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST WEDNESDAY IN EUROPE THURSDAY IN THE PACIFIC

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FROM FRONT PAGE nations’ so-called exclusive eco- China has ignored the ruling, nomic zones. and in recent years built and mil- China’s embassy in Washington itarized artificial islands in the issued a statement Monday saying area. the U.S. State Department “delib- “Today we are aligning the U.S. erately distorts the facts and in- position on [China’s] maritime ternational law” and attempts to claims in the [South China Sea] “sow discord between China and with the Tribunal’s decision,” the other littoral countries.” statement said. “Under the pretext of uphold- It specifically rejected China’s ing freedom of navigation and claims over Scarborough Shoal overflight, it is recklessly infring- and the Spratly Islands near the ing on other countries’ territorial Philippines; waters surround- sea and airspace and throwing its ing Vanguard Bank off Vietnam, weight around in every sea of the Luconia Shoals off Malaysia, Na- world,” the statement said. “We tuna Besar off Indonesia; waters advise the U.S. side to earnestly in Brunei’s exclusive economic honor its commitment of not tak- zone; and James Shoal, an entire- ing sides on the issue of territo- ly submerged reef off the coast of rial sovereignty, respect regional Malaysia. countries’ efforts for a peaceful The policy made no change in and stable South China Sea and the United States’ long-held posi- stop its attempts to disrupt and sabotage regional peace and tion of taking no sides in the sov- ERICA BECHARD/ U.S. Navy ereignty disputes. stability.” The change coincides with a far Pompeo’s statement “makes Petty Officer 1st Class Daniel Bannish, right, and Airman Joseph Lorenzo adjust the pitch control rods more robust presence by the U.S. explicit a U.S. policy which was on an MH-60S Sea Hawk on the flight deck of the USS Ronald Reagan last week in the South China military in the sea, where the U.S. already implicit,” Peter Dut- Sea . The Ronald Reagan and USS Nimitz conducted joint operations in the sea as China was concluding Navy has stepped up the pace and ton, director of the China Mari- its own maritime exercise near the Paracel Islands, an archipelago that Vietnam also claims as its own. visibility of operations in recent time Studies Institute at the U.S. months. Naval War College, told Stars and right policy, since it explicitly South China Sea. China, Cordesman said. Last week, the aircraft carriers Stripes in an email Monday. aligns U.S. policy with interna- “So, what you’re really doing Pompeo’s statement comes USS Nimitz and USS Ronald Rea- “So in my view the statement tional law.” is reinforcing U.S. pressure and just two days after The New York gan conducted joint operations in primarily marks a political shift,” Anthony Cordesman, a China tension with China, not setting Times reported that Iran and the South China Sea and were he said. “The Chinese will not be expert at the Center for Strate- the preface for any kind of mili- China are working on a potential joined by a B-52 bomber. pleased that we have explicitly gic and International Studies, a tary action or legal action,” he military partnership that would That show of force came as confronted their claims. Washington, D.C.-based think said. give China a foothold in the Mid- China was concluding its own “And the Chinese will especial- tank, said the policy statement On a grander scale, the more dle East, a region where the U.S. maritime exercise near the Para- ly not be pleased that we sided ex- coming at a time of “considerably explicit position “covers a great has long held sway. cel Islands, an archipelago that plicitly with the Southeast Asians more acute tension with China” deal more than the South China “This works in two directions,” Vietnam also claims as its own. against them and did it with two was more a signal of U.S. resolve Sea” because it is part of Amer- Cordesman said. China routinely encroaches aircraft carriers currently in the than an expectation China would ica’s steadily accelerating stra- [email protected] on waters within neighboring [South China Sea]. But this is the drop its actions to dominate the tegic global competition with Twitter: @WyattWOlson Japan report warns of virus threat, aggressive competitors

BY CAITLIN DOORNBOS carrier, but it has not crippled that China may be using the pan- The two countries dispute sov- Budget boost Stars and Stripes military activity by Japan’s chief demic to its advantage, creating ereignty over the five small, un- ally or its competitors, accord- propaganda and sending medical inhabited islands and three rocks Japan’s defense budget this year YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, ing to the white paper. In Rus- professionals and equipment to southwest of Japan and east of includes money for F-35 Light- Japan — The coronavirus pan- sia, “even amid the spread of the other nations to gain favor and at- Taiwan; the surrounding seabed ning II multirole stealth fighters. demic made the list of primary COVID-19 pandemic within the tack U.S. credibility. is thought to contain large oil The jets’ “superior electronic pro- security concerns for Japan this forces, military activities have China is spreading disinfor- and natural gas reserves. The tection capability” should work to year, alongside familiar names remained active,” the report said. mation about the virus on social U.S. considers itself bound by its “minimize electromagnetic jam- like China, Russia and North COVID-19 is the respiratory dis- media, saying U.S. armed forces mutual-defense treaty to defend ming from opponents who intend Korea, according to a Ministry ease caused by the coronavirus. introduced it to China and that Japan if a conflict with China to invade Japan,” according to the of Defense white paper released The Japan Self-Defense Forces Chinese herbal medicine is hav- Tuesday. contributed significant efforts ing a therapeutic effect against arises over the Senkakus. report. The ministry releases a report against the coronavirus, the COVID-19, according to the China is “suspected of intend- The budget funds a new F-35A on its guiding philosophies, goals white paper states. About 2,700 ministry. ing to regularize” its presence Lightning II fighter squadron at and challenges each summer. JSDF personnel worked aboard in region with its patrols, rep- Misawa Air Base and refurbish- This year’s document outlines the Diamond Princess cruise ship Territorial disputes resenting “coercion to create a ment of its JS Izumo helicopter security trends similar to those that in February quarantined its fait accompli,” according to the carrier to withstand the heat of highlighted in 2019, including 3,700 passengers and crew in Yo- Beijing remains one of Tokyo’s document. F-35B takeoffs and landings, ac- China’s “relentless” militariza- kohama Bay. primary security concerns, ac- The Japan Air Self-Defense cording to the white paper. tion and coercion in the South Japan’s service members also cording to the document. Last Force scrambled jets 947 times The overall budget, about China Sea and North Korea’s nu- year, a record 1,097 Chinese ves- administered nearly half of all last year in response to foreign $47.35 billion, is up 1.2% from clear weapons program. coronavirus tests given at Tokyo’s sels were spotted in Japan’s con- aircraft. China was behind 675 last year “to adapt to increasingly “Such military trends in North Narita and Haneda international tiguous zone, the 12-mile-wide of the intrusions, up from 638 in Korea pose grave and imminent rapid changes in the security en- airports between March 28 and belt between a nation’s territorial 2018. Russia was responsible for threats to Japan’s security,” the waters and international waters. vironment,” the document states. May 31. 268. document said. JSDF hospitals and the Nation- In 2018, 607 Chinese vessels Other planned expenses include Moscow continues to station The defense ministry paper ad- al Defense Medical College Hos- were spotted in Japan’s contigu- underwater drones for underwa- vises the government to “keep an pital have accepted coronavirus ous zone. troops on the islands of Etorofu, ter defense, and construction of eye on” the coronavirus’ spread patients and conducted a clinical “China has relentlessly contin- Kunashiri, Shikotan and Ha- two guided-missile destroyers, a as it brings “diverse impacts and trial to see if Avigan could treat ued unilateral attempts to change bomai, the white paper states. submarine and a minesweeping restrictions to military activities coronavirus, according to the the status quo by coercion in the Russia has illegally occupied the vessel. of respective countries.” white paper. The drug ultimately sea area around the Senkaku Is- northern territories since the Stars and Stripes reporter Hana The virus reached global pan- failed to provide such benefits, lands, leading to a grave matter of end of World War II, according Kusumoto contributed to this report. demic status in March and tem- Kyodo News reported on Friday. concern,” the ministry said in the to the Japan Ministry of Foreign [email protected] porarily sidelined a U.S. aircraft The ministry document warned document. Affairs. Twitter: @CaitlinDoornbos PAGE 4 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Wednesday, July 15, 2020 MILITARY Bonhomme Richard’s fate remains uncertain

That’s easier done if the ship If ship can’t be saved, is fully staffed. The Bonhomme Richard has about 1,000 sailors it would be one of the assigned to it. When it caught fire Sunday morning at Naval Base largest Navy has lost San Diego, about 160 people were on board. BY JOHN WILKENS Sixty-one people — 38 sailors The San Diego Union-Tribune and 23 civilians — were treated for minor injuries, including heat For as long as the Navy has exhaustion and smoke inhalation, had ships, there have been fires, the Navy said . and some have been deadly. That An investigation will be “ex- the Bonhomme Richard appears haustive,” McGrath said, and to have escaped without fatali- probably last months. ties also explains why the fire has Also to be determined is the fate been so hard to put out. of the ship, which cost $761 mil- Hardly anyone was on board lion, according to estimates by the when it started. Federation of American Scientists, “As counterintuitive as this and was at the tail-end of a two- sounds, I would much rather fight year, $250 million upgrade. Navy a fire at sea with a whole crew than officials said they are hopeful it fight it dockside,” said Bryan Mc- will sail again, but some military Grath, a retired Navy commander. observers — noting the extensive “The ability to act quickly with a damage so far, including the col- massive response and inhibit the lapse of the forward mast — be- spread is aided when you have all lieve it will have to be scrapped. your people.” If the ship can’t be saved, it CHRISTINA ROSS, U.S. NAVY/AP Some military experts believe would be one of the largest losses, the Bonhomme Richard can’t be Port of San Diego Harbor Police boats fight a fire aboard the USS Bonhomme Richard at Naval Base in terms of size and tonnage, in saved, and if that’s the case, the San Diego on Sunday . The fate of the ship has yet to be determined though some experts believe it can’t Navy history. It’s 844 feet long and mini-aircraft carrier — it was be saved. weighs about 40,000 tons. The car- being retrofitted to deploy the lat- rier Lexington, sunk during the est-generation fighter jets — would ing 65 sailors. In 1944, 322 people gers in the industrial environment missile destroyer, said crews at World War II battle of the Coral be among the largest Navy ships died when an ammunition ship are well-understood,” McGrath sea are trained to set smoke and Sea, was 888 feet and 47,000 tons. ever lost. exploded at a port north of San said. “Crews are grinding, weld- flame boundaries when a fire Even if the ship is saved, it will It’s already joined the ranks of Francisco. Fifty people perished ing, chipping — all those activities breaks out, limiting its spread to be out of action for an extended significant noncombat fires and in 1960 when the carrier Con- have the capacity to start a fire, adjacent spaces. period of time, and that will limit explosions that have occurred stellation caught fire during the and a ship is full of flammable “It’s not like a structural fire; what the Navy can do in deploying while ships have been at a state- final stages of construction at the materials.” you can’t just pour water on it from its forces. side pier or anchored nearby. Brooklyn Naval Yard. McGrath, who spent 21 years in the outside,” he said. “You have to “Losing that ship, even if it’s In 1905, the gunboat Benning- “We obviously don’t know yet the Navy, including a stint as com- be inside where the fire is, get to just for a while — it’s a big deal,” ton blew up in San Diego Bay, kill- what happened here, but the dan- mander of the Bulkeley, a guided- the source of it.” McGrath said. Community donates to sailors who lost possessions in blaze

BY SETH ROBSON crewmates. en sailors, Domagalski added. Station location. Donations are already Stars and Stripes The sailors who fled the vessel have “Sailors from other ships have rallied flowing in and there have been many calls lost all their possessions, Domagalski told around and even the local community fire- from people seeking to donate, she said. Donations for displaced sailors who lost Stars and Stripes in a telephone interview fighters are helping,” he said. Those who want to help can drop off toi- possessions in the fire on the USS Bon- Monday. The Fleet and Family Support Center letries, gift cards to replace lost uniforms, homme Richard are flowing in from the “All they have are the clothes on their San Diego on its Facebook page Monday food items or monetary donations there community, according to relief organiza- seven days a week. tions in San Diego. backs,” he said. warned people to avoid scammers seeking Naval Base Point Loma is providing Despite the trauma, the sailors are still donations for the sailors. It listed USO San “The USO can be the vetted resource emergency accommodation for 84 sailors putting in 12-hour shifts fighting the fire Diego, the Navy-Marine Corps Relief So- for them to have a positive impact on these who fled the vessel after a devastating or providing support to the effort, he said. ciety and the Support the Enlisted Project service members,” Camay said. fire, believed to have started in the ship’s “I’m right next to [the Bonhomme Rich- as legitimate organizations seeking to help People can also donate online at https:// cargo hold, broke out Sunday morning, ac- ard],” he said. “They have helicopters them. sandiego.uso.org and https://www.nmcrs. cording to Senior Chief Petty Officer Jer- going back and forth with the water trying USO San Diego executive director Ash- org. emy Domagalski, a Bonhomme Richard to put the fire out.” ley Camay said by phone Monday that [email protected] sailor who is helping care for his displaced The community is supporting the strick- people can drop donations off at its Liberty Twitter: @SethRobson1 Fire: Suppression system was turned off as part of ongoing maintenance

FROM FRONT PAGE peratures had reached up to 1,000 degrees, cargo area where seafaring tanks and warned that concentrations of fine par- could be ready if any oil is spilled. It also causing the mast of the ship to collapse landing craft are parked. It appears to have ticulate matter could reach unhealthful halted boat and air traffic within a nautical and threatening the central control island started where cardboard boxes, rags and levels in some areas and that people should mile of the vessel. where the captain operates the vessel. He other maintenance supplies were being avoid exercising outdoors and stay indoors On Monday, health officials warned peo- said there were about two decks between stored, Sobeck said. if possible to limit exposure. ple to stay indoors as acrid smoke wafted the fire and the fuel supplies. A fire suppression system had been Retired Navy Capt. Lawrence B. Bren- across San Diego from one of the Navy’s Water being dumped on the vessel was turned off because it was being worked nan, a professor of international maritime worst shipyard fires in recent years. At causing the 840-foot ship to list to one side, on as part of the ongoing maintenance. law at Fordham University in New York, but crews were pumping off the water. The system uses Halon, a liquefied, com- least 61 people, including 38 sailors and said there is a risk of the hull rupturing, Sobeck said it was too soon to give up on pressed gas that disrupts a fire and stops 23 civilians, have been treated for heat ex- which could cause the ship to spill its oil. haustion, smoke inhalation and minor inju- saving the 23-year-old amphibious assault its spread by cutting off its oxygen. “If this is a million gallons of oil that ries. Five people who had been in a hospital ship, which has been undergoing mainte- Sobeck said there was no ordnance on under observation were released. nance since 2018. board the ship and he did not believe there ends up settling on the bottom of the San Some 400 sailors along with Navy he- “I feel absolutely hopeful because we was anything toxic. Diego Harbor and can’t be removed safely, licopters and local and federal firefight- have sailors giving it their all,” said So- However, the flames were burning plas- we’re talking about billions of dollars of en- ers poured water on the carrier-like ship, beck, commander of Expeditionary Strike tic, cabling and other materials, sending vironmental damage,” said Brennan, who which erupted in flames Sunday morning. Group 3. a haze over downtown San Diego. The has investigated and litigated hundreds of Rear Adm. Philip Sobeck said fire tem- The fire was first reported in a lower San Diego Air Pollution Control District maritime cases. Wednesday, July 15, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 5 MILITARY Sailors, Marines must don formal uniforms around DC

BY WYATT OLSON Department of State and all mon- thorized for a Joint Task Force Stars and Stripes uments and memorials, the Navy National Capital Region mis- said. sion, the Navy said. Exemptions The U.S. Navy and Marine A Marine Corps directive is- are also made for Navy person- Corps have ordered service mem- sued last month required its nel on watch-standing duty in bers to wear more formal uni- service members to wear the sea- the National Military Command forms while at the Pentagon and sonal “B” or “C” uniforms while Center, Navy Operations Center other sites in the National Capital at the Pentagon. That uniform and DiLorenzo Tricare Health Region to project a more profes- consists of olive-green trousers Clinic. sional look. or skirt and a khaki shirt. Sailors wearing the Type III As of July 6, the Navy has re- working uniform may stop out- stricted sailors from wearing “We aligned the Navy-Marine side Defense Department bases Navy Working Uniform Type III Corps uniform policies in the /Fort Knox (Ky.) News ERIC PILGRIM and flight suits inside the Penta- National Capital Region and the or installations for emergencies Pentagon Reservation to dem- only. A Fort Knox, Ky., AAFES employee checks the fit of a new Army gon and Pentagon Library and onstrate a unified, professional “The NWU Type III may be Green Service Uniform coat on a student recruiter on July 8. The Conference Hall, the Navy said in worn as the alternate uniform of students, soon to graduate from the Army Recruiter Course at Fort a message this month. The green- image of our integrated Naval the day per commanding officer Knox, are among the first to receive the World War II-style uniforms. ish-brown Type III uniform is the Force,” Ed Zeigler, a spokesman Navy’s standard working attire. for Naval District Washington, or officer-in-charge permission Sailors may not wear them in told Military.com. on D OD installations, commands the National Mall area that is The district made the change in and facilities within the [National bounded by Capitol Hill and the coordination with Navy and Ma- Capital Region] other than the re- Future recruiters surrounding Senate and House rine Corps leadership, he said. stricted areas,” the Navy said. Staff offices, the White House Sailors are exempted from [email protected] 1st to get Army’s and Executive Office Building, the requirement if they are au- Twitter: @WyattWOlson ‘pinks and greens’ Marine Raiders earn Silver Star, Bronze Stars for heroism in Afghanistan mission BY DAVID EDGE setting, the Army said. Stars and Stripes Soldiers will continue to wear BY CHAD GARLAND the master sergeant critical skills lowing his team to engage the their blue dress uniform for for- Stars and Stripes operator, his face blurred, receiv- barricaded fighters with frag- Soldiers training to become mal occasions, the Army said. ing the military’s third-highest mentation grenades,” the state- recruiters at Fort Knox, Ky., Before the rollout at Fort Knox, A special operations Marine personal award for combat hero- ment said. were the first to receive the stan- some 850 service green uniforms was awarded the Silver Star for ism Friday at Marine Corps Base Other team members attacked dard-issue Army Green Service had been tried out for feedback by assaulting a bunker and recov- Camp Lejeune, N.C. with small-arms fire, grenades Uniform, inspired by the pinkish- senior leaders, the Army Band, ering a wounded Afghan soldier “During a heliborne raid into and shoulder-fired rockets to sup- brown trousers and dark olive recruiters and the Old Guard cer- during a four-hour gun battle difficult enemy-controlled ter- press or destroy the enemy posi- jackets worn by troops in World emonial infantry unit. with more than a dozen Taliban rain in southern Afghanistan, he tions, it said. War II. Sgt. Rochelle Walsingham, a fighters in Afghanistan last year. led his team of Marine Raiders Another critical skills operator, Students at Fort Knox’s Re- soldier at Fort Knox who received The Marine master sergeant, and partner nation forces in four a special operations capability cruiting and Retention College the retro-style polyester and wool whose name was withheld, was hours of close combat with more specialist and a special opera- received the uniform, sometimes mix uniform, said the new jackets a team chief with 2nd Marine than a dozen Taliban fighters oc- tions officer each earned Bronze called “pinks and greens,” early are “a lot heavier and more du- Raider Battalion during the cupying defensive strongholds,” Star Medals with Valor devices. this month, the Army said in a rable than other jackets.” battle, Marine Forces Special the statement said, citing the “The combined efforts of this statement. The AGSUs are also “more Operations Command said in a award’s narrative. Marine Raider team resulted in “This is kind of cool, especially form-fitting” for women, she said statement Tuesday. He took fire to lead the assault the complete destruction of a de- for the students, because they’re in the statement. Three other team members across 30 meters of open terrain, termined enemy, including three going to be the face of the Army “That was a big problem for the earned Bronze Stars for valor attacking Taliban fighters in a high-value enemy commanders,” when they go out there,” Sgt. 1st ASU for the females,” Walsing- during the operation, in which bunker with his rifle and hand MARSOC said. Class Wesley Wills, a recruiter ham said. three enemy commanders were grenades, before again braving The statement did not identify course instructor, was quoted as Drill sergeants are expected to killed. accurate enemy fire to climb atop the location of the battle. But the saying in the statement. “To put be the next group to receive the “The entire team remained a building and set a roof charge Marines have a long history in them in the new uniform makes uniforms, the Army said. The calm, concise over the radios,” the in order to recover the wounded Helmand province, the Taliban’s sense to me because they’re going uniform will be issued to new unnamed team leader was quoted Afghan. heartland and the deadliest prov- to be engaging the public.” recruits in the fall and to other as saying. “They were controlled, “With enemy fighters barri- ince for coalition forces in the The service greens offer a more installations later this year, the efficient, synchronized and ulti- caded just a few feet away, he he- history of the war, now in its 19th casual alternative to the Army statement said. mately brutally lethal to end that roically pulled the wounded man year . Service Uniform and are consid- [email protected] fight.” to a covered position in a valiant [email protected] ered a better option for an office Twitter: @DavidEd96798393 Marine Corps photos showed attempt to save his life, while al- Twitter: @chadgarland US troops in Germany warned about potential for DUIs on e-scooters

BY IMMANUEL JOHNSON rison policy, DUI on a motorized been two cases of soldiers in the Uniform Code of Military Justice, impaired is against the law, Am- Stars and Stripes scooter is the same as in a vehi- Rheinland-Pfalz area who have Tudor said. belang said. Under German law, cle,” said Jason S. Tudor, spokes- been charged with DUIs while “Punishment for DUI is levied a blood alcohol level of 0.05% is GRAFENWOEHR, Germany man for U.S. Army Garrison operating one, Tudor said. There by the soldier’s command, which considered DUI for most people . — As coronavirus restrictions Rheinland-Pfalz, home to Kaiser- was also an e-scooter incident in can include a wide range of ac- While the military has not re- are eased in Germany and people slautern and the biggest overseas 2019 involving excessive alcohol tions,” Tudor said. “Commanders, stricted troops’ use of e-scooters, venture back into bars and res- U.S. military community. consumption and “a couple” of supervisors and leaders across service members are repeatedly taurants, U.S. troops are being E-scooters that can be rented soldiers from the 2nd Cavalry the garrison provide continuous told that “operating these devices warned against driving under with a smartphone app began Regiment, based in Vilseck in Ba- emphasis about the responsible while under the influence is ille- the influence — including on the appearing in Kaiserslautern varia, regiment spokesman Maj. use of alcohol and safe operation gal,” Ambelang said. rentable electric scooters that in January, a few weeks before John Ambelang said. of any vehicle.” Stars and Stripes reporters Chad have become ubiquitous in some coronavirus restrictions forced The soldiers in Rheinland- In Vilseck, the regiment “im- Garland and Marcus Kloeckner contrib- uted to this article. cities. many people to stay home. Since Pfalz were charged under Ger- mediately reinforced to everyone” [email protected] “Under host-nation law and gar- the y were introduced, there have man laws and punished under the that operating an e-scooter while Twitter: Manny_Stripes PAGE 6 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Wednesday, July 15, 2020 WAR/MILITARY New commander takes over 48th Fighter Wing

BY BRIAN FERGUSON arrival of our first F-35A Lightning II late Stars and Stripes next year,” Camilletti said in an Air Force statement. Col. Jason Camilletti took command of Camilletti takes over from Col. Will the 48th Fighter Wing at RAF Lakenheath, Marshall, who will become the 3rd Air where he will help oversee the arrival of Force vice commander at Ramstein Air the first U.S. F-35 fighter jets to be based Base, Germany. in Europe. “If you empower your people and have Camilletti, the former 48th Operations good people working for you, they will do Group commander, called operating the F-35A Lightning II out of England “a game tremendous things,” Marshall said, ac- changer” for Europe during a ceremony cording to the statement. “It’s been an Friday. honor of a lifetime. We will miss you all.” “We will continue to ensure that the air- Marshall’s command saw the wing gen- men from RAF Lakenheath are always erate more than 21,000 sorties, 46,000 fly- CHRISTOPHER S. SPARKS/U.S. Air Force ready to own the skies, we will prioritize ing hours and deploy about 5,600 personnel surety and conventional readiness with to 26 countries, the statement said. Col. Jason Camilletti, the new 48th Fighter Wing commander, addresses the Liberty an emphasis on the high-end fight, and we [email protected] Wing for the first time during a change of command ceremony at RAF Lakenheath, will continue to make preparations for the Twitter: @BrianFerg57 England, on Friday.

Army officer dies in Missing US airman returns to Osan base noncombat incident WASHINGTON — An Army From staff reports search for Staff Sgt. Tristin Blake day, the 51st Fighter Wing said in to U.S. security forces teams, officer from Fort Campbell, Ky., Jarvis, 26, of the 51st Force Sup- a press release. The airman was died Sunday in a noncombat- SEOUL, South Korea — A U.S. South Korean police, commu- port Squadron on July 9, saying reported absent from his unit on related incident in Kandahar, airman who went missing last nity partners and people on base he was last seen in the vicinity July 9. Afghanistan, according to the week returned safely to Osan Air of the Osan Fitness Center the “Team Osan is grateful to “for quickly coming together and Defense Department. Base on Tuesday nearly a week day before, according to the 51st have Staff Sgt. Jarvis return to helping us locate him safely.” 1st Lt. Joseph Trent Allbaugh, after he was reported absent from Fighter Wing. his Mustang family,” wing com- 24, from Folsom, Calif., was as- More details were not immedi- his unit, the military said. Jarvis “safely reported to Osan mander Col. John Gonzales said. signed to 2nd Battalion, 44th The Air Force launched a Air Base” at about 4:15 p.m. Tues- He also expressed gratitude ately provided. Air Defense Artillery Regiment, 108th ADA Brigade. The fatal in- cident is under investigation. Allbaugh attended Vanguard University of Southern Califor- Marine who drowned nia and graduated in 2018 with a bachelor’s degree in psychology. He was commissioned through in Hawaii remembered the ROTC as an Army air defense artillery officer and married his BY CHAD GARLAND On the East Coast, Lance Cpl. wife, Ashley Allbaugh. Stars and Stripes David W. Hollinger, 20, was recov- ered unresponsive June 24, hours Allbaugh’s awards include the Dozens of loved ones gathered after he disappeared while swim- Afghanistan Campaign Medal, in North Carolina late last week ming near the French Creek boat National Defense Service Medal, for a candlelight vigil in memory dock on Camp Lejeune, N.C. He Global War on Terrorism Service of a Marine who drowned in Ha- was later declared dead. Medal and the Army Service waii last month. On July 2, Sgt. Tyler M. Rankin, Ribbon. Sgt. James Jayqon Parker, 26, 24, of Kansas City, Mo., disap- of Rocky Mount, N.C., died two peared off the coast of Japan. The Pilot injured in F-16 weeks ago, but funeral arrange- Marine assigned to Marine Corps /Facebook crash in New Mexico ments had not yet been finalized, Air Station Iwakuni apparently JAMES PARKER a brief obituary on the website of drowned while going to the aid of Sgt. James Jayqon Parker was promoted to sergeant in this image The pilot of an F-16 Flying the H.D. Pope Funeral Home in two other swimmers who’d been posted May 7. Parker drowned off Marine Corps Base Hawaii’s Falcon ejected safely before the his hometown said. swept offshore. His body was re- Pyramid Rock Beach on June 28. fighter jet crashed during land- “James was a brother that could covered July 7. ing at Holloman Air Force Base, never be replaced — he was a The Marine Corps is investi- Parker had deployed to Okinawa, masks printed with Parker’s name N.M., the 49th Wing said in a friend that could never be re- gating to determine the facts sur- Japan, for six months in 2019. and rank, which some friends also statement late Monday. placed. We started out as friends rounding Parker’s death, Kennard Fellow Marines in Hawaii and wore. Emergency responders were on and we ended as brothers,” said said. North Carolina expressed their After remembering Parker’s the scene after the crash, which Darrius Epps, before being over- “Our thoughts and prayers are grief in online posts. Marines sense of humor and sharing happened at about 6 p.m., and come with emotion during the me- with the family and friends of the from Camp Hansen in Okinawa memories, the friends and family the pilot — the only one aboard morial, which was livestreamed Marine as we all grieve this tre- donated money via the funeral released blue and black balloons — was being treated for minor in- Friday on Facebook. mendous loss,” Kennard said. home website to have a tree plant- into the sky, a video streamed live juries, the statement said. An infantryman with 3rd Battal- Parker joined the service in De- ed in his memory. on Facebook by user Cynthia A. The wing, located at the base ion, 3rd Marine Regiment, Parker cember 2015. About two months Harold Hyman, a former Ma- Brewer showed. less than 10 miles southwest of was pulled unresponsive from before his death, he posted photos rine who said Parker was his cous- “This is going to be something Alamogordo, trains F-16 pilots. that’s going to take a long time to the water at Marine Corps Base from his promotion to sergeant. in, posted the news to a Facebook It was the second incident get used to,” said Epps, his close Hawaii’s Pyramid Rock Beach on “Walked in to my promotion group for Marine veterans shortly since October in which a pilot June 28, said 1st Lt. Colin B. Ken- and I didn’t even know,” he wrote after the family was notified. friend, who talked about their safely ejected from a Flying Fal- nard, a III Marine Expeditionary in the May post. “But I’m thankful “Brothers and Sisters please days together on the high school con from the base during a night Force spokesman, in an emailed and glad I’m a Sgt now!” say a prayer for James Parker and marching band. “I stay strong as I training sortie. statement Monday. His awards and decorations in- his family today,” Hyman wrote. can because of the simple fact that An investigation was underway Parker was pronounced dead cluded the Global War On Terror- “I love you Cuz! Semper Fi.” I know that if James was beside after being transported to Castle ism Service Medal, Marine Corps Parker was the father of a young me, James would be telling me, to determine the crash’s cause, Medical Center in Kailua. Good Conduct Medal and Sea Ser- son who attended the memorial ‘We’re in this together.’ ” the 49th Wing said. No other de- tails were immediately available. His death was one of three re- vice Deployment Ribbon, said a Friday with Parker’s mother. His [email protected] cent Marine drownings. service history Kennard provided. friends presented them with face Twitter: @chadgarland From staff reports Wednesday, July 15, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 7 MILITARY Marines to house new arrivals on base in Okinawa

BY DAVE ORNAUER camps are restricted. AND AYA ICHIHASHI Tracing the affected individu- Stars and Stripes al’s contacts found no exposure to anyone in the local community, CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa according to a post late Monday — New arrivals to Marine Corps on the official base Facebook bases in Okinawa will no longer page. Health authorities are con- stay in local hotels during their tinuing to look for additional ex- 14-day coronavirus quarantine posures, the post states. but will instead be lodging on At the Marines’ Camp Foster, Camp Foster, the Marines an- personnel waiting in base lodging nounced Tuesday. to leave the island will be moved The Marine Corps on Okina- to the DoubleTree by Hilton Oki- wa was struck with a cluster of nawa Chatan Resort to make way coronavirus cases last week that for inbound personnel, Kunze has created several dozen infec- said. tions at three bases so far: Ma- At no time will the two popula- rine Corps Air Station Futenma, tions be allowed to mix, he said. Camp Hansen and Camp Kinser. “It’s a decision we thought was Marines and their families ar- prudent … between base officials riving for permanent changes of and the Okinawa prefectural gov- station have been quarantined in ernment” Kunze said. “It eases recent weeks on Marine bases concerns, knowing [inbound and at the DoubleTree by Hilton personnel and their families] are LUIS A. DEYA/U.S. Army Okinawa Chatan Resort. Com- coming on base and staying on U.S. Army critical care nurses work alongside Baptist Hospital medical staff to provide medical care to a plaints of their presence in town base.” COVID-19 patient in San Antonio, Texas, on Friday, July 10. have surfaced in local and nation- A lso T uesday, t he hea lt h officia l al Japanese media. said 130 Japanese bar and night- The new cases are another com- club employees in Chatan village, plication in a sometimes-tense a popular nightlife district, were Military personnel deployed to relationship between Okinawa tested en masse on Sunday by and the U.S. military. Okinawa the prefectural government. All Gov. Denny Tamaki said it was came back negative. help medical facilities fight virus “extremely regrettable” that so It’s customary in Japan for many cases had surged among some government officials to U.S. personnel in just a week. speak to the media on condition BY ROSE L. THAYER Texas have died from the virus. person Rapid Rural Response The “decision was made that of anonymity. Stars and Stripes About 160 military medical and Teams from the Navy were also all new inbound personnel will be Local authorities were con- support personnel from the Air activated for statewide efforts in AUSTIN, Texas — Texas and housed on base,” after represen- cerned about a possible outbreak Force will deploy to California Texas. in Chatan due to exposure to California will receive about 740 to support FEMA and the state, tatives of Marine Corps Installa- military medical and support “It’s an honor to be in San An- tion Command met with Okinawa military personnel there over the where 8,460 new coronavirus tonio, Texas, providing care to personnel as part of ongoing coro- cases were reported Sunday, ac- prefectural government officials Fourth of July weekend, the offi- patients alongside local hospital cial said. Bars and clubs in town navirus operations as the number cording to the California Depart- Tuesday, Marine spokesman staff,” said Army Capt. Sarah have been off-limits to service of infected people in those states ment of Public Health. The state Maj. Ken Kunze said in an email continues to climb, U.S. Army Kopaciewicz, a critical care members since coronavirus re- now has a total of 320,804 positive to Stars and Stripes on Tuesday. North announced Monday. strictions were imposed March cases and a total of 7,017 deaths. nurse embedded with Christus “It’s about being gracious to Troops from the Army, Navy 27. Texas’s first troops, an 85- Westover Hills Medical Cen- our hosts and making them feel and Air Force were sent Mon- “Currently, we receive many member enhanced Urban Aug- ter. “I was doing similar work, comfortable,” he added during a day at the request of the Federal phone calls from employees who mentation Medical Task Force treating [coronavirus] patients, follow-up phone call that day. Emergency Management Agency from the 627th Hospital Center, at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in The Kadena cases are the first work on base with some symp- and state officials and will pri- Fort Carson, Colo., arrived in there since three were reported toms,” the health official said. marily help civilian medical staff Washington State before being San Antonio on July 6 and began in late March. The air base has Anyone with coronavirus symp- in their facilities. employed here.” treating patients at five San Anto- imposed restrictions on use of toms or who had possible contact “We are committed to assisting In addition to Christus Westo- nio area hospitals three days later. some of its facilities and off-base with those who test positive have those in need as part of the ongo- ver Hills Medical Center, criti- Its soldiers come from several lo- dining and entertainment. testing priority, the official said. ing whole-of-America response cal care nurses, emergency room cations, including Brooke Army Also, Air Force personnel from The prefecture is working on to [coronavirus],” said Lt. Gen. nurses, medical surgical nurses, plans to hold another mass test Medical Center in San Antonio. Kadena may travel to MCAS Laura J. Richardson, commander and respiratory specialists from for Japanese base employees ex- Texas Gov. Greg Abbott an- Futenma and Camps Hansen of U.S. Army North, which will the 627th Hospital Center are hibiting symptoms, the health of- nounced Friday that a second 85- and Kinser only on official busi- oversee operations. “At the same ficial said. member team will arrive Monday serving at Baptist Health Cen- ness. They have also been urged time, we remain flexible and ca- ter, Christus Santa Rosa Medical [email protected] pable of providing other defense in Houston. to limit their travel to and from Center, Methodist Metropolitan Twitter: @DaveOrnauer support to civil authorities as “Texas is grateful to the U.S. other Marine bases on the island. [email protected] Department of Defense for pro- and University Hospital. Activity and movement on those Twitter: @AyaIchihashi necessary.” Texas will receive the bulk of viding these additional resources “Our soldiers train daily to the support, about 580 military to Houston and San Antonio as maintain clinical skills so we can ‘ It’s a decision we thought was prudent medical and support personnel we work to slow the spread of save and sustain lives wherever from the Army and Navy, which [coronavirus] and care for our and whenever the nation calls,” … between base officials and the Okinawa will be focused on Houston and fellow Texans,” Abbott said in a said Army Lt. Col. Jason Hughes, San Antonio, according to the statement. “We will continue to commander of the 627th’s team in prefectural government. It eases concerns work with our local and federal news release. San Antonio. “We’re proud to be partners to help ensure that all knowing [inbound personnel and their The state reported 5,655 new here to support FEMA and Texas, coronavirus cases Monday and medical needs are met in Hous- and will work side by side with families] are … staying on base has seen more than 264,000 posi- ton, San Antonio, and throughout ’ hospital workers to help commu- Maj. Ken Kunze tive cases total since the pandem- the state.” Marine spokesman ic began, according to the Texas Four more 85-person Army nities as long as we are needed.” Department of State Health Ser- teams, along with a 44-person [email protected] vices. A reported 3,235 people in Acute Care Team and four seven- Twitter: @Rose_Lori PAGE 8 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Wednesday, July 15, 2020 MILITARY At West Point, it’s ‘Ten-hut, mask on’ Naval Academy BY MICHAEL HILL Associated Press mids set WEST POINT, N.Y. — New cadet candidates arriving at the U.S. Military Academy on Mon- day were promptly tested for to return COVID-19, stood at attention in face masks and were given shout- Associated Press ed orders to wash their hands. The transition from civilian to ANNAPOLIS, Md. — First West Point cadet is different for and second class midshipmen the Class of 2024 as the academy will begin to return to the Naval adapts to the pandemic, starting with Reception Day, or R-Day. Academy in Annapolis in about a Reception Day still ushers week under a staggered plan. in an intense period of training The midshipmen’s return will that introduces new arrivals to start on or about July 20, Naval the rigors of cadet life. But this Academy spokeswoman Cmdr. year, older cadets barked orders through face masks. New cadets Alana Garas told the Capital Ga- will still have to endure the weeks zette on Friday. of drills, marches and exertions The fall semester will feature of Cadet Basic Training, unof- in-person and online classes. ficially known as “Beast Bar- Students will be tested for the racks.” But that training will be coronavirus when they return to two weeks shorter this year. “I know that it’s shorter, but I campus. Their movements will be re- trust it will be the same experi- PHOTOS BY MARK LENNIHAN/AP ence overall. I’ll still get to know stricted for 14 days, and they will all my classmates,” said Jus- A cadet leads a formation of new cadets Monday at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y. undergo another test at the end of Candidates will be COVID-19 tested upon arrival, wear masks and practice social distancing. tin Suess of Batavia, Ill. “I am that period. prepared. I’ve been exercising hard.” prevent transit from one person Garas said midshipmen will The more than 1,220 new ca- to the next by adhering to strict, be six feet apart and wear masks dets this year are arriving over non-pharmaceutical interven- during classes. three days, from Sunday through tions,” said Lt. Col. Robert Kin- Tents will soon be set up on Tuesday, instead of one Recep- ney, who is in charge of R-Day campus to expand the space operations. tion Day, as usual. where students can eat their New arrivals dropped off by All new cadets will be moni- their parents Monday morning tored and spend most of their meals. took a moment for goodbye hugs time in cohorts of 35 to 40, said Students completed the last se- before being tested for COVID- Brig. Gen. Curtis A. Buzzard, mester with online learning from 19. Results come back in an hour commandant of cadets. their homes around the nation or so. Those who test positive — Though this year’s Cadet Basic due to the coronavirus pandemic. as four did Sunday — will be iso- Training has been shortened In May, the academy held its lated for weeks but will still take from six weeks to four, Buzzard part in training. said he’s confident they will be first-ever virtual graduation and Hundreds of new cadets spent well trained. commissioning ceremony. Monday being hustled around in They will still shoot, rappel, But last month, Vice Adm. Sean groups for the traditional round march, drill, navigate, spend four A West Point cadet reads the New Cadet Handbook on Monday, his Buck, the superintendent, told the nights in field training and throw first day at the U.S. Military Academy . of uniform fittings, buzz cuts and academy’s Board of Visitors that lining up. They were ordered to a live hand grenade, he said, “Hurry Up!” and “Move With a though some training will be de- tored and initially have limited especially pleased that the Class while academics can be done on- Purpose!” but also “Wash Your ferred until next summer. contact with others for 14 days as of 2024 includes Dylan Ammons, line, the other two pillars of the Hands!” at an outdoor water sta- “I still think we have a very they focus on academic training. her younger sister, who arrived school’s mission statement — de- tion. At another station, older good plan to acculturate them to Members of the smaller cadres Sunday for training. veloping midshipmen morally cadets shouted orders to the West Point and the Army,” Buz- then join the rest of the train- “I think it will be a little more and physically — require hands- new arrivals from behind a see- zard said. ees for the remaining weeks of challenging,” said the elder Am- on experiences on campus. through plastic sheet. New ca- The changes in training mirror training. dets marched in socially distant those made by the other service At West Point, new cadets will mons. “They’re still doing all the “We cannot develop leaders for intervals. academies this summer, as well be formally accepted into the things that are required of them our nation’s military services on- “We can mitigate exposure as as by the military in general. Corps of Cadets after training. in the six weeks in four weeks. line,” Buck said at the time. much as possible, but we can’t Army soldiers undergoing Class of 2021 Cadet Morgan So it will be a little more fast Freshmen, known as plebes, eliminate it. What we can do is Basic Combat Training are moni- Ammons of Fort Knox, Ky., is paced.” already arrived at the academy. The Navy asked them to show up with their hair already cut to Fort Sill teen, who tested positive for virus, dies in hospital regulation and each received a temperature check and coronavi- rus test before being allowed onto BY ROSE L. THAYER “Our entire Lawton-Fort Sill tinue to support the county in No further information will Stars and Stripes community is deeply saddened. tracing where contact with others be released about the dependent campus. Our greatest condolences go out on the base might have occurred to respect the family and com- The academy notified plebes’ AUSTIN, Texas — The 13- to the family. Our thoughts and and will notify those individuals ply with Defense Department parents Friday that a yearly event year-old child of a Fort Sill, Okla., prayers are with them in this dif- who might have been impacted guidance. for families originally scheduled service member had tested posi- ficult and sad time,” Maj. Gen. and who fall under the guidelines Fort Sill is home to the Fires for August has been indefinitely tive for coronavirus and died Fri- Center of Excellence, which con- Ken Kamper, commander of Fort for additional monitoring and postponed. day in an area hospital, according Sill, said in a statement. testing — an effort lead off base ducts training for field artillery to base officials. The family members received by the Comanche County Health soldiers and officers, as well as “After thorough consideration Officials for the base did not say notification of a positive corona- Department. Marines. About 7,800 service and consultation with my entire whether contracting coronavirus virus test result and are isolat- “We will continue to work members are permanently sta- leadership team, including US- resulted in the teenager’s death ing in their on-base residence in alongside our local health part- tioned at Fort Sill, while it sup- NA’s health professionals, I be- at Comanche County Memorial Comanche County, according to ners to fight coronavirus,” ac- ports about 9,000 trainees daily, lieve this is a necessary decision Hospital, located in Lawton, the base officials. The family is also cording to a base news release. according to the base information in order to safeguard the health city just outside the gates of Fort following all protective measures “The health and safety of our guide. It has more than 81,000 and welfare of the entire Naval Sill. However, Oklahoma classi- outlined by the Centers for Dis- service members, families, work acres divided into three ranges fied the teen as the state’s first ease Control and Prevention. force and the entire Lawton-Fort for training. Academy family and local com- person younger than 17 years old Reynolds Army Health Clinic, Sill community remains our top [email protected] munity,” Buck wrote in a letter to to die from the coronavirus. the hospital at Fort Sill, will con- priority.” Twitter: @Rose_Lori parents. Wednesday, July 15, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 9 VIRUS OUTBREAK Task force official: Control virus before returning to school

Associated Press retary for Health at the U.S. De- partment of Health and Human WASHINGTON — A top mem- Services, said that is unlikely ber of the White House corona- “unless we take active steps to virus task force said Tuesday make it disappear.” He appealed that “none of us lie” to the public, to people to wear masks, practice an accusation President Don- ald Trump had retweeted, and social distancing and to avoid that while kids need to be back bars and other tightly packed in school as Trump has insisted, areas. “we have to get the virus under With virus cases spiking in control.” the United States and the death toll mounting, the White House MARCIO JOSE SANCHEZ/AP Adm. Brett Giroir’s comment came a day after Trump shared a has worked to undercut its most A bartender mixes a drink while wearing a mask and face shield at Slater’s 50/50 in Santa Clarita, Calif. Twitter post from a former game trusted coronavirus expert, play- show host who, without evidence, ing down the danger as Trump accused government medical ex- pushes to get the economy mov- perts at the Centers for Disease ing before he faces voters in Governor shuts down bars, Control and Prevention, among November. others, of “lying.” The U.S. has become a cau- Trump himself has at times tionary tale across the globe, dining as California hit hard disregarded the advice of his with once-falling cases now spi- medical experts on the task force raling. Trump has suggested, and continues to play down the however, that the severity of the BY ADAM BEAM “COVID-19 is not going away customers indoors and told bars, threat from the virus as it spikes pandemic which has killed more anytime soon, until there is a vac- wineries, movie theaters, zoos, Associated Press across the country, forcing some than 135,000 Americans is being cine and/or an effective therapy,” museums, cardrooms and other overstated by critics to damage SACRAMENTO, Calif. — As Newsom said. indoor entertainment venues to states to slow or reverse steps to his reelection chances. the coronavirus swept California Meanwhile, the Los Angeles shut down. reopen their economies. Trump on Monday retweeted with renewed ferocity, the gover- and San Diego school districts, Shutdowns went even further Asked on NBC’s “Today,” a post by Chuck Woolery, one- nor once again closed bars, inside the two largest in California with in some of the 30 counties on a whether the CDC and other doc- dining and, for much of the state, a combined K-12 student popula- state watch list because of worry- tors are lying, Giroir allowed that time host of TV’s “Love Connec- gyms, indoor church services and tion of about 720,000, announced ing rises in disease transmission, mistakes have been made and tion,” claiming that “Everyone hair and nail salons in an effort to Monday they won’t bring stu- especially from people mingling that public guidance is updated is lying” about COVID-19. Wool- prevent COVID-19 cases from dents back to classrooms next without heeding safety guide- when more is learned about the ery’s tweet attacked not just the swamping hospitals. month because of rising corona- lines. The listed counties account virus, “but none of us lie. We are media and Democrats, but also Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a virus hospitalizations and infec- for roughly 80% of California’s completely transparent with the the CDC and most doctors “that sweeping set of closures Monday tion rates. population. American people.” we are told to trust. I think it’s all as the state recorded more than Earlier in the pandemic Califor- Those that have been on the list Trump has said on several oc- about the election and keeping 329,000 cases and deaths topped nia closed beaches, campgrounds for three days now must restrict casion that the virus will “just the economy from coming back, 7,0 0 0. Hospitalizations have and state parks as it sought to indoor operations for hair and disappear.” Giroir, Assistant Sec- which is about the election.“ surged by 28% in the past two limit interactions of people from nail salons, tattoo parlors, gyms, weeks, including a 20% increase different households. But as data shopping malls and houses of in patients requiring intensive showed the virus was most likely worship. care. to be transmitted indoors, the In Los Angeles, Mayor Eric That was lower than a 50% hike Newsom administration began Garcetti immediately implement- Fla. reports highest seen about a week ago, but New- modifying public health orders, ed the shutdowns and warned som said he was concerned about including ordering people to wear that the city was “on the verge” the future and implored people face coverings and leaving out- of raising its COVID-19 threat one-day death total to maintain social distance, wear door activities alone. level from orange to red — the masks in public and stay home On Monday, the governor or- highest level — and resorting to BY MARC FREEMAN positivity rate, a key figure to when possible. dered restaurants to stop serving shutting down all but essential Sun Sentinel indicate the prevalence of the disease, increased again. The FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — rate Tuesday was 15%, up from Florida’s COVID-19 emergency Monday’s 11.51% but still off last Trump administration to recommend the had equal measures of hope and despair Tuesday, with a record Wednesday’s peak of 18.4%. number of new deaths but a drop- In May, Florida’s positivity rate National Guard as option to help hospitals off in new cases. hovered around 5%. The state Department of Health Public health experts have said BY LENA H. SUN Guard to help hospitals with daily meeting by Deborah Birx, the reported that 4,514 people have that a positivity rate of 10% or less AND AMY GOLDSTEIN data submissions. It now includes White House coronavirus task died since the pandemic began, is optimal. The World Health Or- The Washington Post the National Guard among states’ force response coordinator, ac- an increase of 132 since Monday’s ganization has recommended a options for improving the data cording to two hospital industry report. It’s the latest in a two-week positivity rate of 5% before coun- WASHINGTON — The Trump flow, according to two senior ad- officials who attended and spoke trend of a rising death rate. tries start to reopen. administration is poised to ask ministration officials and one in- on the condition of anonymity to But Tuesday’s report of 9,194 South Florida, which accounts governors to consider sending in dustry official who was informed describe private discussions. new cases of the highly infectious for 29% of Florida’s population, the National Guard to hospitals Monday about the final version. “Given our track record of disease was the lowest number reported 3,893 new cases in the to help improve data collection Still, even the possibility of being cooperative to evolving data since Thursday. past day, or 42.3% of the total. about coronavirus patients, sup- National Guard involvement requests, it’s perplexing that the The state has been down this The number of people being plies and capacity, according to has infuriated hospital industry possibility of using the National bumpy path before with days of draft letters, internal emails and leaders, who say any data collec- Guard has been suggested,” said declining cases only to veer back treated for COVID-19 at hospitals hospital industry officials famil- tion problems lie primarily with Rick Pollack, president of the into record-setting territory. continued to increase. The total iar with the plans. the Department of Health and American Hospital Association. The previous two days brought is 8,253 patients statewide, as of A letter, to be sent to governors Human Services and repeatedly “It makes no sense. Certainly the a U.S. record with 15,300 cases on midday Tuesday. It’s an increase imminently, backs away from ear- changing federal instructions. expertise of the National Guard Sunday, followed by 12,624 cases of 181 since Monday, according lier drafts that had directed state The idea of bringing in the Guard can be used in a more productive on Monday. to the Florida Agency for Health- leaders to deploy the National was first broached at a late June way.” In another troubling sign, the care Administration. PAGE 10 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Wednesday, July 15, 2020 VIRUS OUTBREAK Concerns stimulate renewed efforts in fighting outbreaks

BY DANICA KIRKA The city of Melbourne in Vic- AND DENNIS PASSA toria recorded 270 new corona- Associated Press virus infections overnight, with more than 4,000 cases now active LONDON — Britain and across the state. Melbourne is one France announced Tuesday they week into a six-week lockdown in will require people to wear face an attempt to stop a spike in new masks in public indoor spaces cases there. and an Australian state threat- In China, Disney officials an- CHRISTOPHE ENA/AP ened to jail anyone caught vio- nounced that Hong Kong Disney- lating quarantines, amid rising land Park is closing Wednesday Soldiers wearing face masks adjust their bayonets, prior to the Bastille Day parade Tuesday on the global fears about a resurgence until further notice following Champs Elysees avenue in Paris. of the pandemic. the city’s decision to ban public “We are not out of the woods gatherings of more than four peo- yet, so let us all do our utmost ple to combat newly spreading to keep this virus cornered and infections. France celebrates virus heroes enjoy summer safely,” British Hong Kong’s leader, Carrie Health Secretary Matt Hancock Lam, announced new corona- told lawmakers in the House of virus-related restrictions on on newly redesigned Bastille Day Commons. Monday after 41 out of 52 newly British officials announced the reported infections were locally BY ANGELA CHARLTON With tears in their eyes or lengthy military parade was trun- requirement after weeks of dis- transmitted cases. Hong Kong has Associated Press smiles on their faces, medical cated into a smaller affair closed missing the value of masks, and reported 250 new cases since July workers stood silently as lengthy to the public to prevent new virus said it will take effect July 24. 6. Lam urged the private sector to PARIS — Medics in white applause in their honor rang out infections. In France, President Emmanuel put in place work-from-home ar- coats replaced uniformed sol- over the Place de la Concorde in In eastern Paris, meanwhile, Macron said masks will be re- rangements for employees. diers as stars of France’s Bastille central Paris from Macron, the medical workers’ unions marched quired by Aug. 1, after recent rave In Thailand, where there have Day ceremonies Tuesday, as the head of the World Health Orga- to decry years of cost cuts that left parties in France and widespread been no reports of locally trans- usual grandiose military parade nization and 2,000 other guests. A public hospitals ill-prepared when backsliding on social distancing mitted cases for seven weeks, in Paris was recalibrated to honor military choir sang the Marseil- the virus raced across France. raised concerns about the virus authorities have revised rules medics who died fighting COVID- laise national anthem, and troops “We are enormously short of may be starting to rebound. governing visitors from abroad 19, supermarket cashiers, postal unfurled an enormous French tri- personnel,” said protester Sylvie Meanwhile, officials in the after a breakdown in screening workers and other heroes of the Australian state of Queensland color flag across the plaza. Pecard, a nurse at the Saint-Louis led to two infected foreigners pandemic. said those breaking quarantine The battle against the virus was Hospital in Paris who described posing a possible risk to public Yet for thousands of partici- rules could face up to six months health. the main focus, as Macron sought colleagues falling ill with the pants in a protest across town, the in jail. The government said Tuesday to highlight France’s successes in virus as COVID-19 patients national homage wasn’t nearly combating its worst crisis since The current set of fines for that diplomats will be asked to filled its wards. “It’s because we enough to make up for missteps World War II. Mirage and Rafale breaking a mandatory 14-day stay in state-supervised quaran- haven’t recruited nurses. I came by French President Emmanuel fighter jets painted the sky with hotel quarantine for some visitors tine for 14 days, instead of self- here 20 years ago and there were Macron and his government be- blue-white-and-red smoke, and or lying about their whereabouts isolating. And it is postponing the fore and during the coronavirus were joined by helicopters that no empty positions. Now all the “appears not to be enough” in recently allowed entry of some pandemic. Riot police sprayed had transported COVID-19 pa- services are short of personnel, some cases, Queensland Deputy foreign visitors so procedures tear gas and unruly demonstra- tients in distress. and it’s worse and worse.” Premier Steven Miles said. can be changed. tors hurled smoke bombs as the The guests included nurses, Other protesters chanted slo- With higher fines and a threat “I am angry because this largely peaceful demonstrators doctors, supermarket and nurs- gans against police violence, of six months’ imprisonment, “I shouldn’t happen. They should marched to Bastille plaza, where ing home workers, mask makers, spoke out against racial injustice, hope that will demonstrate to the have been quarantined, same as the French Revolution was born lab technicians, undertakers and or against Macron policies seen public just how serious we are Thais who travel back have to on July 14, 1789. others who kept France going as favoring the wealthy, or against about enforcing these measures,” be quarantined for 14 days. Why The contrasting scenes marked during its strict nationwide lock- his decision to appoint a man ac- Miles said. should this group of people get a Bastille Day unlike any other, down. Families of medical work- cused of rape to oversee French Queensland shut its state bor- the privilege to skip quarantine?” overshadowed by fears of re- ers who died with the virus also police forces. Some protesters ders to successfully contain the said Panpen Sakulkru, a com- surgent infections in a country had a place in the stands. wore yellow vests, representing coronavirus outbreak, but re- pany manager who was among where more than 30,000 people Medics in jeans or sandals their movement against econom- opened to all but residents of Vic- hundreds who lined up for virus have already lost their lives to the strolled onto the plaza for the ic injustice — or face masks in the toria, Australia’s worst affected tests in the Thai city of Rayong on coronavirus. climax of the ceremony, and the same neon yellow shade. region, two weeks ago. Tuesday. VA’s post-pandemic plan: Expand health care services at Walmart

BY STEVE BEYNON five telehealth centers have been however, are temporarily closed According to the VA, nearly eases the burden of long travel Stars and Stripes opened in stores in mostly rural due to coronavirus concerns. 25% of veterans live in rural times to appointments. In 2019, parts of the country and at Veter- At each Walmart telehealth areas, half of whom are older there were more than 1.3 million WASHINGTON — Veterans ans of Foreign Wars sites. site, the store donates the equip- than 65 and much more likely to video telehealth appointments Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie “When the [pandemic] winds ment and space. The VA said most be enrolled in the VA health care with more than 490,000 veterans, said the agency’s telehealth ser- down, it’s Walmart’s intent to medications can be prescribed system and have a lower income according to the department. vices at Walmarts will expand in start moving more of these facili- on-site and delivered to the veter- than veterans who live in cities. “They can do routine things, parts of the country with limited ties,” Wilkie said in a recent call an’s home. Services vary at each Veterans in rural areas could basic hearing and eye tests and access to the agency’s hospitals, with reporters. “Walmart has location but may include primary also have issues accessing high- things like that. But I see it as calling the move the “wave of the plans to move more rapidly once care, nutrition, mental health and speed internet needed for tele- the wave of the future for men- future.” this [pandemic] is over.” social work. health, which connects patients tal health. This puts veterans in Wilkie said the agency’s plan Wilkie did not say how many The VA’s VFW telehealth sites with doctors for therapy or to dis- a comfortable setting. It doesn’t to have a larger footprint in areas new sites are planned. are in Eureka, Mo., Los Banos, cuss medical treatments. In some force them or their families to where it is more difficult to get The first site was set up in Calif., Linesville, Pa., Gowana, cases, veterans outside of urban travel long distances. And it to a hospital will kick off after Asheboro, N.C., in December. N.Y., and Athens, Texas. Only areas might live hours away from doesn’t force them into what could the coronavirus pandemic starts Since then, the VA had centers set the Eureka location is open right VA hospitals or face other travel be in many cases an unfriendly, to wind down. Since the VA and up in Walmarts in Boone, N.C., now. Each location at VFWs and limitations. large clinic setting,” Wilkie said. Walmart announced their pri- Howell, Mich., Keokuk, Iowa, and Walmarts are partnered with a Telehealth options can make [email protected] vate-public partnership last year, Fond du Lac, Wis. All locations, major VA hospital in the state. VA care easier to access and Twitter: @StevenBeynon Wednesday, July 15, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 11 NATION US carries out 1st federal execution in 17 years

BY MICHAEL BALSAMO The pandemic has killed more Lee deserved a sentence of life in would be put at high risk for the Associated Press than 135,000 people in the United prison. They wanted to be present coronavirus if they had to travel States and is ravaging prisons to counter any contention that the to attend the execution. TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — The nationwide. execution was being done on their Two other federal executions federal government on Tuesday Critics argued that the govern- behalf. are scheduled for later this week, carried out its first execution in ment was creating an unneces- They noted that Lee’s co-defen- though one remains on hold in a almost two decades, killing by le- sary and manufactured urgency dant and the reputed ringleader, separate legal claim. thal injection a man convicted of for political gain. Chevie Kehoe, received a life There have been two state ex- murdering an Arkansas family in The developments are likely sentence. ecutions in the U.S. since the a 1990s plot to build a whites-only to add a new front to the national Kehoe, of Colville, Wash., re- pandemic forced shutdowns na- nation in the Pacific Northwest. conversation about criminal jus- cruited Lee in 1995 to join his tionwide in mid-March — one The execution of Daniel Lewis tice reform in the lead-up to the white supremacist organization, in Texas and one in Missouri, Lee came over the objection of 2020 elections. known as the Aryan Peoples’ Re- according to the Death Penalty the victims’ relatives and follow- The execution of Lee, who died public. Two years later, they were Information Center. Alabama ing days of legal wrangling and arrested for the killings of gun at 8:07 a.m. EDT, went off after a carried out one in early March. delays. dealer William Mueller, his wife, series of legal volleys that ended Executions on the federal level Lee, 47, of Yukon, Okla. , pro- Nancy, and her 8-year-old daugh- when the Supreme Court stepped have been rare, and the govern- fessed his innocence just before ter, Sarah Powell, in Tilly, Ark ., he was executed at the federal in early Tuesday in a 5-4 ruling about 75 miles northwest of Little ment has put to death only three prison in Terre Haute, Ind. and allowed it to move forward. Rock. defendants since restoring the “I didn’t do it,“ Lee said. “I’ve Attorney General William Barr A U.S. District Court judge put federal death penalty in 1988 — has said the Justice Department most recently in 2003, when Louis made a lot of mistakes in my life, AP a hold on Lee’s execution Monday, but I’m not a murderer.” has a duty to carry out the sen- over concerns from death row Jones was executed for the 1995 His final words were: “You’re Daniel Lee, seen in 1997, was tences imposed by the courts, in- inmates on how executions were kidnapping, rape and murder of a killing an innocent man.” killed by lethal injection Tuesday cluding the death penalty, and to to be carried out, and an appeals young female soldier. The decision to move forward in the first federal government bring a sense of closure to the vic- court upheld it, but the high court Though there hadn’t been a fed- with the first execution by the Bu- execution in nearly two decades. tims and those in the communi- overturned it. That delay came eral execution since 2003, the Jus- reau of Prisons since 2003 — and ties where the killings happened. after an appeals court Sunday tice Department has continued to two others scheduled later in the of Lee’s victims, who had sued But relatives of those killed overturned a hold that had been approve death penalty prosecu- week — drew scrutiny from civil to try to halt it, citing concerns by Lee in 1996 strongly opposed put in place last week after the tions and federal courts have sen- rights groups and the relatives about the coronavirus pandemic. that idea and long argued that victims’ relatives argued they tenced defendants to death. Top defense firms getting biggest share of accelerated virus funds

BY TONY CAPACCIO “until the national emergency is over.” Bloomberg The Pentagon’s move was intended to guarantee that critical national security contracts — including The largest share of the Pentagon’s billions of dol- the production of key weapons systems and supplies lars in accelerated payments to contractors — in- — weren’t interrupted by companies having problems tended to help mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 accessing cash or credit. The extra funding would pandemic — is going to four of the country’s five big- ensure production lines were able to stay open. gest defense companies. After the program was announced, Warren, who Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon Technologies, serves on the Senate Armed Services Committee, Northrop Grumman and the United Launch Alliance expressed concern about its oversight. In particular, joint venture are the top beneficiaries of the Pentagon LM OTERO/AP she questioned whether companies might try to di- effort, according to a previously undisclosed May 15 vert the increased payments for stock buybacks, divi- Dallas County election worker Mark Bracken, left, checks in a voter letter to Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., from Ellen dends or executive pay. at a polling station Tuesday in Richardson, Texas. Lord, the Defense Department’s undersecretary for Lord said that hasn’t been the case. acquisition and sustainment. The companies are benefiting from a policy the “These payments represent costs incurred on our Pentagon announced in March, just as the pandemic contracts and therefore are used to pay those asso- Texans head to polls was building in the U.S., that provided for faster, and ciated bills (e.g. supplier costs, labor costs),” Lord bigger, payments to companies. wrote. According to figures previously released by In some cases, “major prime contractors used cor- for runoff amid virus Bethesda, Md.-based Lockheed, it appears to be porate funds to accelerate payments to at-risk sup- the single biggest recipient of the Pentagon’s action. pliers in advance of payments received from DoD,” Associated Press lion ballots were cast in early vot- Lord continued. ing — higher than most primary The company has said it’s received $1.1 billion out AUSTIN, Texas — As Texas In Warren’s original request, she also sought in- runoffs in recent years — but only of a total that Lord has estimated would be about $3 struggles to contain a raging sight into how the Pentagon was overseeing contrac- a fraction of the state’s 16 million billion. coronavirus outbreak, voters on tor requests for accelerated payments. The Defense Department’s move meant that larger Tuesday were heading out to polls registered voters. According to Lord, officials with the Defense Con- firms could get as much as 90% of their payments for for runoff elections that include The election will settle prima- tract Management Agency conduct “triweekly phone contracts in progress, up from 80% previously. For choosing a Democratic nominee ry battles that include President calls with industry associations and major prime con- smaller businesses, which might be more susceptible in a U.S. Senate race that offers Donald Trump’s former doctor, to virus impacts, the rate rose to 95% from 90%. tractors and other regularly-established forums.” the party another chance to break Ronny Jackson, trying to win the “Disbursements to prime contractors include pay- Lord declined to put a timeline on when the Penta- through in America’s biggest red Republican nomination for a rural ments to all tiers of its supply chain,” Lord wrote in gon policy would end, citing uncertainty around the state. congressional seat. But the big- the letter obtained by Bloomberg News. Lord said she COVID-19 outbreak as cases in the U.S. continue to Texas has become one of the gest race is who Democrats will expected the increased, accelerated rates to continue soar. world’s virus hot zones and is in pick as their Senate nominee to far worse shape now than when face Republican incumbent John the runoff was postponed in Cornyn — who isn’t as threatened March. Last week was the deadli- as several GOP senators in battle- est of the pandemic for Texas, and ground states, but is confronting Former VA staffer faces 7 murder counts Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has new signs of vulnerability in rap- warned that the infection num- idly changing Texas. BY ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE ing to court documents unsealed of seven people and assault with bers will likely get even worse. The Senate runoff is between Tuesday. the intent to commit murder of an Associated Press Abbott did not include polling Air Force veteran MJ Hegar, Reta Mays, a former nursing eighth person. A former staffer at a Veterans places in his recent statewide who narrowly lost a race for a Affairs hospital in West Virginia assistant at the Louis A. Johnson Mays’ attorney did not immedi- mask order, and unlike many House seat in 2018, and state Sen. is being charged with killing VA Medical Center in Clarksburg, ately return a voicemail seeking states, Texas has fought efforts to Royce West, who if he wins would seven patients by giving them W.Va., is being charged with sec- comment. She had a plea hearing expand mail-in balloting during become Texas’ first Black U.S. fatal doses of insulin, accord- ond degree murder in the deaths scheduled for Tuesday. the pandemic. More than 1 mil- senator. PAGE 12 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Wednesday, July 15, 2020 NATION Monthly US budget deficit hits all-time high of $864B

Associated Press The June deficit was driven higher by spending on various government relief programs such as an WASHINGTON — The federal government in- extra $600 per week in expanded unemployment curred the biggest monthly budget deficit in his- benefits and a Paycheck Protection Program that tory in June as spending on programs to combat the coronavirus recession exploded while millions of provided support to businesses to keep workers on their payrolls. job losses cut into tax revenues. AP The Treasury Department reported Monday that The report showed that the cost of the Paycheck the deficit hit $864 billion last month, an amount of Protection Program in June was $511 billion. That U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson on Monday demanded red ink that surpasses most annual deficits in the reflected a charge to the government for all the bank more information about President Donald Trump’s decision to nation’s history and is above the previous monthly loans made under the program even though the gov- commute the prison sentence of longtime ally Roger Stone, above. deficit record of $738 billion in April. That amount ernment will not actually have to pay out funds until was also tied to the trillions of dollars Congress has the banks determine whether the businesses met provided to cushion the impact of the widespread the criteria for having the loans forgiven. Those re- shutdowns that occurred in an effort to limit the quirements include spending at least 60% of the loan amount on worker pay with the other 40% going to Judge seeks more spread of the viral pandemic. For the first nine months of this budget year, overhead costs such as rent and utilities. which began Oct. 1, the deficit totals $2.74 trillion, Another reason for the surge in the June deficit also a record for that period. That puts the country was the government’s decision to delay tax pay- details on Trump’s well on the way to hitting the $3.7 trillion deficit for ments this year until July 15. That decision means the whole year that has been forecast by the Con- that quarterly payments made by individual taxpay- gressional Budget Office. That total would surpass ers and corporations will not be due until July 15 clemency for Stone the previous annual record of $1.4 trillion set in this year rather than June. 2009 when the government was spending heavily to The CBO estimate of a $3.7 trillion deficit for this lift the country out of the recession caused by the year could go higher depending on the course of the Associated Press and obstructing lawmakers who 2008 financial crisis. economy. were examining Russian inter- WASHINGTON — A federal ference in the 2016 election. judge on Monday demanded more Trump on Monday restated information about President Don- ald Trump’s decision to commute his position that the investigation Judge voids Ga. ‘heartbeat’ abortion law the prison sentence of longtime “should have never taken place.“ ally Roger Stone. Democrats lambasted Trump’s U.S. District Judge Amy Ber- action on behalf of Stone as hav- Associated Press by ultrasound as early as six reproductive decision making is ing undermined the rule of law, weeks into a pregnancy, before controlled by the state,” Sister- man Jackson ordered that the ATLANTA — A federal judge parties provide her by Tuesday and Sen. Mitt Romney, of Utah, many women realize they’re Song Executive Director Monica on Monday permanently blocked with a copy of the executive order the only Republican to vote to pregnant, according to a legal Simpson said in a statement. Georgia’s 2019 “heartbeat“ abor- that commuted Stone’s sentence. convict the president during his challenge. The bill narrowly Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, tion law, finding that it violates She also asked for clarity about impeachment trial, called the the U.S. Constitution. passed the Georgia General As- who has supported the restriction, the scope of the clemency . Hours clemency “unprecedented, his- U.S. District Judge Steve Jones sembly amid intense lobbying for immediately vowed an appeal. after the judge’s directive, the toric corruption.” Mueller himself ruled against the state in a law- and against. “We will appeal the court’s de- Justice Department submitted to defended the Stone prosecution in suit filed by abortion providers Those who challenged the law cision,” Kemp said in a statement. the court a n order making clear a Washington Post opinion piece and an advocacy group. Jones said the ruling proves their con- “Georgia values life and we will that the clemency extended to in which he said Stone “remains a had temporarily blocked the law tention that the measure was keep fighting for the rights of the both Stone’s prison sentence and convicted felon, and rightly so.” in October, and it never went into unconstitutional. Lead plaintiff unborn.” his supervised release. In an interview Monday eve- effect. The new ruling perma- SisterSong, an Atlanta-based The prospects of an appeal Trump commuted Stone’s 40- ning on Fox News, Stone, 67, said nently enjoins the state from ever group that fights abortion restric- are uncertain, though, consider- month prison sentence on Friday that while he knew Trump might enforcing House Bill 481. tions on behalf of African Ameri- ing the U.S. Supreme Court last evening, just days before he was “take some shots“ for the commu- Georgia’s measure sought to can and other women of color, month struck down other abor- to report to prison. Stone was con- tation, “I think most people, most ban abortions once a “detectable called it a “huge win for bodily tion restrictions from Louisiana. victed as part of special counsel fair-minded people, understand human heartbeat” was present, autonomy.” Women in Georgia can cur- Robert Mueller’s Russia inves- he saved my life and, at least on with some limited exceptions. “No one should have to live in rently seek an abortion during tigation of making false state- paper, he gave me a chance to Cardiac activity can be detected a world where their bodies and the first 20 weeks of a pregnancy. ments, tampering with a witness fight for vindication.” Wednesday, July 15, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 13 WORLD Widow of ex-Korean Air boss convicted of assaulting workers

Associated Press abuse toward helpless “victims who were bally abusing her employees between 2011 in 2014 after she ordered a Korean Air under her influence” and sentenced her to and 2018, including reportedly kicking her passenger plane to return to a terminal at SEOUL, South Korea — The widow of a two-year prison sentence suspended by chauffeur for failing to load luggage into a John F. Kennedy International Airport in the former Korean Air chairman received three years. car and throwing pruning shears toward a New York because she was angry that the a suspended prison sentence Tuesday for While prosecutors had sought a jail term security guard at her home. crew served her macadamia nuts in a bag assault and other abuses of her chauffeur, of two-and-a-half years, the court said it She is the widow of former Korean Air instead of on a plate. security guard and other employees in a considered Lee’s age and that she was ac- Chairman Cho Yang-ho, who died last Dubbed “nut rage,” the incident severely case that extended a bizarre legal saga sur- knowledging responsibility. It wasn’t im- year. Their son, Walter Cho, has been lead- tarnished the Cho family’s image. She was rounding the company’s founding family. mediately known whether prosecutors or ing Korean Air since then. released from jail in South Korea in May The Seoul Central District Court found Lee would appeal the ruling. Their daughter Cho Hyun-ah was a 2015 after the top court suspended her sen- Lee Myung-hee, 70, guilty of habitual Lee was accused of physically and ver- company executive who gained notoriety tence in the case. Iran executes ex-defense UAE’s Mars orbiter launch from Japan ministry staffer for spying postponed because of bad weather Associated Press Associated Press he joined the CIA, he sold informa- lightning and rain were forecast over the next tion about our missiles ... to the CIA few days. TEHRAN, Iran — Iran has execut- TOKYO — The liftoff of the United Arab and took money from them,“ Esmaili Heavy rain has fallen for more than a week in ed a former employee of the defense Emirates’ Mars orbiter was postponed until Fri- large areas of Japan, triggering mudslides and said. “He was identified, tried and day due to bad weather at the Japanese launch ministry who was convicted of spying sentenced to death.” floods and killing more than 70 people, most of on behalf of the Central Intelligence site. them on the southern main island of Kyushu. Occasionally Iran announces ar- The orbiter named Amal, or Hope, is the Agency, the country’s judiciary said rests and convictions of alleged spies Hope is set to reach Mars in February 2021, Arab world’s first interplanetary mission. The Tuesday. It was the second such ex- for foreign countries, including the the year the UAE celebrates 50 years since its launch was scheduled for Wednesday from the ecution in the past month. U.S. and Israel. formation. Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan, The report said Reza Asgari was In June, Iran said another alleged A successful Hope mission would be a major executed last week. Judiciary spokes- spy, Jalal Hajizavar, was hanged in a but the UAE mission team announced the re- step for the oil-dependent economy seeking a fu- man Gholamhossein Esmaili said prison near Tehran. The report said scheduled date on Twitter. ture in space. Asgari had worked in the airspace Hajizavar — also a former staffer of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ H-IIA rocket Hope carries three instruments to study the department of the ministry and re- the defense ministry — had admitted will carry UAE’s craft into space. Mitsubishi upper atmosphere and monitor climate change tired in 2016. in court that he was paid to spy for launch official Keiji Suzuki had said on Monday and is scheduled to circle the red planet for at “In the last years of his service, the CIA. a postponement was possible as intermittent least two years. PAGE 14 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Wednesday, July 15, 2020 AMERICAN ROUNDUP Officials: Deputy falsely reported his assault

WARRENTON — Au- VA thorities said a sheriff’s deputy in Virginia who claimed he was the victim of a roadside assault was not telling the truth. Fauquier County Sheriff’s Deputy Jake Dooley was charged with falsely summoning law en- forcement after detectives from the sheriff’s office investigated his claims, the Fauquier County Sheriff’s Office said in a Face- book post. Dooley, 22, made the allega- tions after a passerby found him lying unconscious on a roadside in Marshall, a town in the county, according to the sheriff’s office. Investigators previously said the deputy was struck in the head with an object by an individual in another car. Officials said it had happened as he was walking back to his patrol car after stopping to remove a hazard from a road. For sale: A tiny house made by students

HANCOCK — A tiny MI house built by teenag- ers in the Upper Peninsula is up for sale. Bids start at $29,000 for the house, which was built by students in a technical program offered by the Copper Country Intermediate School District in Hancock. The GENE J. PUSKAR/AP house stands on an 8-foot-by-20- foot trailer. So-called tiny houses have been embraced by people seek- Taking it to the street ing a minimalist lifestyle. This one has water and sewer hookup, Additional outdoor seating extends into the street outside of Mike’s Beer Bar on the Northside of Pittsburgh. With indoor service not an electric stove, 50-amp elec- permitted due to COVID-19, the expanded outdoor seating at restaurants throughout Pittsburgh will run through mid-to-late October. tric service, a carpeted loft and a queen bed. Hawaii island. THE CENSUS green pickup truck. Gavin Simonson, who will be a The sewer line break dis- The Casa Grande Dispatch re- senior at Hancock Central High charged about 20,000 gallons The number of people who were hit after a woman put her vehicle into ported police found that the ex- School, said he worked on it for of sewage onto a street in Kai- the wrong gear and backed into the individuals. Police said the woman haust pipe on the victim’s car had two hours a day between Septem- lua-Kona, West Hawaii Today was trying to drive forward out of a parking space when she accidentally been cut. Police said the man may ber and March. With just a few reported. 7 put the vehicle in reverse, ran over the curb and hit the people. Police said have been trying to steal its cata- exceptions, the work was done Crews quickly diverted the four people were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. lytic converter, which reduces only by students. sewage to a different pump sta- Police did not release the name of the driver. the amount of pollutants and toxic tion, Hawaii County Department gases that vehicles produce. Biologists: No cause for of Environmental Management Wastewater Division Superinten- alarm over dead fish dent Alika DeMello said. Agriculture agency Ruth George celebrated her Protesters: Animal heart birthday Saturday in Westfield, Swimmers were told to leave the warns of rabbit disease meant to send message BANGOR — The area of Niumalu Beach at Kailua according to WTHR-TV. A line of cars drove by the senior citizens ME Maine Department Bay, and signs were posted warn- JUNEAU — The man MONTPELIER — The center where she lives and greet- of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife ing of contaminated water. who owned a caribou VT Vermont Agency of Ag- ed her. Family, friends and a few AK said there’s no cause for alarm by heart that protesters said they riculture is warning rabbit own- strangers participated. reports of dead fish in four north- wanted to give U.S. Sen. Dan Sulli- Police say man had fake ers about an exotic disease that She said she has been lonely ern lakes. van during a disrupted campaign A large number of fish, mostly gun during standoff affects both wild and domestic without a lot of visitors, but the rabbits that is spreading through parade cheered her up. event said Sullivan reminded him yellow perch, have died on Long of the robotic Tin Man from “The Lake, Cross Lake, Square Lake SACRAMENTO — A the western United States. George, a three-time cancer Wizard of Oz,” and he wanted to and Madawaska Lake, Frank CA man brandished what The deadly disease is called survivor, said her secret is work- give him a heart. Frost, the department’s fisheries police later learned was a fake rabbit hemorrhagic disease and ing hard and trusting in God. resource supervisor for the Fish gun during a standoff that re- has been found in California, Samuel Johns said his intended River Lakes Region, told the Ban- sulted in the evacuation of a hotel, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, Man steals catalytic message was tied to Sullivan’s authorities said. Arizona, Utah and Texas, and has support for opening a portion of gor Daily News. converter to cover debt Such fish kills are often caused Guests were evacuated from a also been identified in Mexico. the Arctic National Wildlife Ref- Comfort Inn in Red Bluff during The virus is not related to the uge for drilling. The refuge pro- by temperature stress, said David MARICOPA — A man Russell, a state fish pathologist. the standoff between police and coronavirus and it does not in- vides grounds for the Porcupine in Maricopa was arrest- Russell said the fact that fish a domestic violence suspect, The fect humans or domestic animals AZ Caribou herd, which is significant ed for allegedly stealing catalytic are dying needn’t cause alarm, Sacramento Bee reported. other than rabbits. to the Indigenous Gwich’in. converters to cover a gambling and he noted in a blog post that Christian Sandoval-Perez, 21, State Veterinarian Kristin “I thought, maybe I should give loss, according to police. thousands of dead white and yel- of Corning faces multiple charges Haas says the state is greatly him a heart as a symbolic mes- They said that Daniel Danforth, low perch can be observed each including child abuse and domes- concerned for Vermont rabbit sage that the caribou heart is 34, was held on suspicion of bur- year in some part of the state. tic violence, the Red Bluff Police owners. what has kept my people alive for glary in the third degree, posses- Department said in a release. thousands of years,” Johns said. Officers went to the hotel’s sec- sion of burglary tools, possession Johns said he was not at Sat- Swimming area closed ond floor and encountered Sando- Woman marks 105th of dangerous drugs and posses- urday’s event in Anchorage, in due to sewage spill val-Perez with a gun. He held off birthday with parade sion of drug paraphernalia. which a protester stepped on stage police for more than 75 minutes, A man told Maricopa police KAILUA — Officials police said. After he put down the WESTFIELD — A subur- that he had parked his car to do next to Sullivan and his wife and HI closed a swimming area gun and allowed himself to be IN ban Indianapolis woman business. When he returned, he attempted to pull the heart from and part of a road after a rupture taken into custody, police deter- turned 105 years old with a car saw someone underneath his ve- a bag. released untreated sewage on mined the weapon was fake. parade to mark the occasion. hicle, but the suspect fled in a From wire reports Wednesday, July 15, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 15 FACES New this week: Even more Miranda, ‘Psych’ movie on Peacock, The Chicks

Associated Press Here’s a collection curated by The As- sociated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming ser- vices and music platforms this week. AP Movies The body of Naya Rivera, shown in 2018, was recovered from a Southern California “We Are Freestyle Love Supreme”: lake after a five-day search. She was 33. For anyone who didn’t get enough of Lin-Manuel Miranda from the live cap- ture of “Hamilton,” there is more. Spe- cifically, there is this documentary about Authorities the improvising hip-hop group Miranda co-founded before he created “In the Heights” or “Hamilton.” It’s a kind of origin story for a troupe that went on to find body of incredible fame. Or as Miranda and col- laborator Thomas Kail recently put it, it’s their “Muppet Babies.” In her review, AP Film Writer Lindsey Bahr called it “es- sential” to Miranda disciples. After the ‘Glee’ actress film’s June debut was postponed in soli- darity with Black Lives Matter protests, it BY MARK KENNEDY lands on Hulu on Friday. Associated Press “Airplane!”: Shirley it hasn’t been 40 years since possibly the greatest spoof Naya Rivera, a singer and actor who comedy ever made was released. Yet, played a gay cheerleader on the hit TV it’s true. This month marks the anniver- musical comedy “Glee,” was found dead sary of David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Monday in a Southern California lake. She Jerry Zucker’s 1980 pun-stuffed parody. was 33. Today, it remains hysterical and — with Rivera’s body was discovered five days a roster of “serious” actors including Les- after she disappeared on Lake Piru, where lie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Robert Hays her son, Josey, was found July 8 alone on a and Julie Hagerty — a monument to how boat the two had rented, the Ventura Coun- often, for the biggest laughs, you need to ty Sheriff’s Office said. The Sheriff’s Office play it straight. Streaming on Netflix. confirmed that the body was Rivera’s. — AP Film Writer Jake Coyle PEACOCK/AP Josey told investigators that his mother James Roday, left, and Dule Hill appear in the new film “Psych 2: Lassie Come boosted him back on to the deck of the boat Music Home,” premiering Wednesday with the debut of the Peacock streaming service. before he looked back and saw her disap- pearing under the water, authorities said. The Chicks: After recording their to upbeat, while Side B includes radio- their San Francisco lives, the pair are “She must have mustered enough ener- first album in 14 years and changing their ready pop hits and collaborations with pulled back to Southern California and gy to get her son back on the boat, but not name, Grammy-winning country trio Diplo, Swae Lee, Juice WRLD, Lauv and Santa Barbara after police chief Carlton enough to save herself,” Ventura County The Chicks will release their new album, blackbear. “Lassie” Lassiter (Timothy Omundson) Sheriff Bill Ayub said. “Gaslighter,” on Friday. The album was — AP Music Editor Mesfin Fekadu is ambushed and ends up in a recovery “Rest sweet, Naya. What a force you produced by hitmaker Jack Antonoff, who clinic. The unusual events he witnesses were,” wrote “Glee” co-star Jane Lynch on has helped Taylor Swift, Lana Del Rey, St. gives Shawn and Gus the thorny job of Twitter. Vincent, Sara Bareilles and Lorde craft Television sorting out a twisted case while navigat- Rivera began acting at a young age, but music. In an interview with the AP, Nata- The documentary “Showbiz Kids” she rose to national attention on “Glee,” lie Maines said now is the right time for ing their personal lives and, possibly, the promises a candid look at the “high risk, supernatural. Maybe a mischievous spirit which aired from 2009 until 2015 on Fox. the group to release music: “It just seemed high reward” careers of child actors, with She is survived by her parents, Yolanda like a good reflection on our times.” is responsible for the title. perspective from those who have been and George; a younger brother, Mychal; a On Tuesday K-pop powerhouses The stars of NBC’s “30 Rock” are there. Those sharing their experiences sister, Nickayla; and her 4-year-old son. BTS released their first Japanese album back in their old roles and with a new mis- include Evan Rachel Wood, Jada Pinkett sion: to help pitch next season’s shows and Rivera’s death is the latest in a tragic in two years. “Map of the Soul: 7 — The arc of “Glee” actors. Cory Monteith died in Journey” is the group’s fourth Japanese Smith, Henry Thomas, Mara Wilson, stars for the network and its sibling cable Milla Jovovich and Wil Wheaton. Alex channels. Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin are 2013 — seven years to the day before Rive- album and is the follow-up to their lat- ra’s body was publicly identified — from a est Korean album, “Map of the Soul: 7.” Winter, the “Bill & Ted” franchise star among the cast members taking part in toxic mix of alcohol and heroin, and Rive- The new 13-track set includes two new who appeared on Broadway as a young- “30 Rock: A One-Time Special.” The pro- ra’s ex-boyfriend Mark Salling, who played Japanese original songs as well as newly ster, wrote and directed the film now on gram is yet another outcome of the coro- a jock on the series, killed himself in 2018 recorded Japanese versions of “Boy With HBO and streaming on HBO Max. The navirus, which kept NBCUniversal and after pleading guilty to child pornography Luv,” “Black Swan,” “Make It Right” and documentary also follows two young other media companies from the spring charges. Rivera and Salling dated for three “Dionysus.” hopefuls — a teenager looking for her next tradition of presenting their 2020-21 years and broke up in 2010. Ellie Goulding recently surpassed big stage show and a young unknown who schedules to ad buyers in New York City. A native of Santa Clarita, Calif., Rivera Adele’s record for most entries by any moves to Los Angeles for TV roles — as As one alternative, the media company British female artist on the Billboard Hot they balance childhood with work. devised the hourlong Thursday special began acting at 4, appearing in such series 100 chart with the tune “Hate Me,” her “Psych” fans can rejoice, at least for that pitches to viewers and potential com- as “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” “Family 14th track on the chart. “Hate Me” ap- a couple of hours. Shawn (James Roday) mercial sponsors. Itself commercial-free, Matters” and “The Bernie Mac Show.” pears on Goulding’s new album, “Bright- and Gus (Dule Hill) return in the movie it will also be shown on AFN-Prime and She worked odd jobs as a telemarketer, est Blue,” out Friday. The album is broken “Psych 2: Lassie Come Home,” debuting channels including USA, Bravo and Oxy- a nanny, a waitress and an Abercrombie up into two parts: Side A features emo- Wednesday with the launch of stream- gen as well as streaming on Peacock. & Fitch greeter before landing the role of tional tunes that range slow to mid-tempo ing service Peacock. Leaving behind — AP Television Writer Lynn Elber Santana Lopez on Ryan Murphy’s “Glee.” Rivera played a secondary character — the mean cheerleader with blistering put-downs — in the show’s first season, but charged with murder and robbery while in juvenile Other news became a regular in the second season as court. Their names were not released due to their she struggled to reveal her character’s sex- Two men and two teens have been charged in age. The 20-year-old New York rapper, whose legal ual identity. Many on social media credited the death of rising rapper Pop Smoke, who was killed name is Bashar Barakah Jackson, was killed Feb. 19 her character for making them feel better during a Los Angeles home-invasion robbery in Feb- at a home in the Hollywood Hills. about their own sexuality. ruary, the district attorney’s office said Monday. Los “Empire” actor Bryshere Gray was arrested in Some of her more memorable songs Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey said Arizona on accusations of abusing his wife, police on the show include a cover of Fleet- in a statement that Corey Walker, 19, and Keandre said. The Goodyear Police Department said the 26- wood Mac’s “Landslide” with guest star Rodgers, 18, were charged with murder that oc- year-old was booked into jail Saturday, KPNX-TV Gwyneth Paltrow, “Here Comes the Sun” curred during the commission of a robbery and bur- reported. with Demi Lovato, and a tearful cover of glary. The two boys, 15 and 17 years old, were also From The Associated Press Pop Smoke The Band Perry’s “If I Die Young.” PAGE 16 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Wednesday, July 15, 2020 OPINION Max D. Lederer Jr., Publisher Lt. Col. Marci Hoffman, Europe commander Lt. Col. Richard McClintic, Pacific commander Never Trumpers are Dems in GOP clothing Caroline E. Miller, Europe Business Operations BY HENRY OLSEN Joshua M. Lashbrook, Pacific Chief of Staff “ilk” from getting the next GOP presiden- and rural Australia. Special to The Washington Post tial nomination. The only thing these men Weaver himself has tried to move the are guilty of is questioning the pre-Trump party to the center in the past two presi- EDITORIAL he Lincoln Project has quickly es- Republican economic orthodoxy on mat- dential campaigns, as chief strategist for tablished itself as the political arm ters such as trade, regulation of the inter- former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman in 2012 Terry Leonard, Editor of the “Never Trump” Republicans. net and immigration. Apparently that’s and then-Ohio Gov. John Kasich in 2016. [email protected] TIt has also shown in word and in also beyond the pale for a group that bears Each did well among educated moderates Robert H. Reid, Senior Managing Editor deed what many loyal Republicans have the name of a president who believed in a but crashed and burned among the 70% of [email protected] always suspected: They’re Democrats in protective tariff all of his career. Republican voters who are conservatives. Republican clothing. The Lincoln Project is thus a U.S. ver- Never Trump thus reveals its real names: Tina Croley, Managing Editor for Content The year’s Senate races offer a fresh in- [email protected] sion of a phenomenon seen worldwide: cen- Never Learn and Never Listen. dication of their real motives. The project’s trist conservatives who no longer feel at Indeed, the Lincoln Project itself is mis- Sean Moores, Managing Editor for Presentation newest television ad names 15 Republi- home in a party whose voters want a more named. It should be called the Doughface [email protected] can senators whom voters should oppose, nationalist and populist agenda. This was Project. “Doughface” was a pejorative including 13 up for reelection. Their sin? seen in Britain in the Brexit debate, where Managing Editor for Digital term applied to Northern Democrats who Joe Gromelski, Backing Trump on matters such as im- many important party figures broke ranks [email protected] supported Southern stances on the ques- peachment. The fact that nearly all Repub- to oppose Brexit and urged Conservative tion of slavery in the territories before the lican voters both approve of Trump’s job voters to oppose the Conservative Party Civil War, such as Lincoln’s strongest op- performance and opposed impeachment BUREAU STAFF in last year’s election. A milder version ap- ponent, Sen. Stephen Douglas, D-Ill. The doesn’t seem to matter to those who claim peared in Australia in 2018, when urban Lincoln Project’s leaders clearly align with Europe/Mideast to represent true Republican values. centrist Prime Minister Malcolm Turn- Democratic values on questions such as Erik Slavin, Europe & Mideast Bureau Chief Nor does what these senators vote for in [email protected] bull was ousted by his party caucus for not trade, immigration and the Internet, and the Senate seem to matter, either. These +49(0)631.3615.9350; DSN (314)583.9350 being sufficiently mindful of conservative are willing to, at best, overlook Democratic men and women have voted to confirm values on the economy and climate change. values on matters such as taxes, climate Pacific hundreds of conservative judges, once Many centrist, educated voters abandoned change and religious liberty. Democratic Aaron Kidd, Pacific Bureau Chief known as a core Republican value. 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Republican (+1)(202)886-0033 Lincoln Project’s eyes. nority within the center-right electorate. voters didn’t want what they were selling Brian Bowers, Assistant Managing Editor, News before Trump, and they certainly won’t [email protected] John Weaver, a veteran campaign strat- The Tories who rebelled from their party egist for moderate Republicans, made the lost badly in 2019 to Brexit-backing Boris want it afterward. Worldwide, center-right CIRCULATION project’s true aims even clearer this week- Johnson, who attracted voters in blue-col- voters are seeking populist-tinged conser- end. In a July 11 Washington Post article, lar, historically Labour seats. Turnbull’s vatism, and so the initiative’s only effective Mideast Weaver was quoted as saying, “Our task successor, Prime Minister Scott Morri- purpose will be to elect Democrats this fall Robert Reismann, Mideast Circulation Manager won’t be finished when Joe Biden takes the son, won despite trailing in nearly every and in the future. There’s a name for peo- [email protected] ple who want to do that: Democrats. [email protected] oath of office.” He said the project would pre-election poll by offsetting the flight of DSN (314)583-9111 seek to derail Sens. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., some educated conservatives with blue- Henry Olsen is a Washington Post columnist and a Tom Cotton, R-Ark., and others of their collar, former Labor voters in small-town senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. Europe Karen Lewis, Community Engagement Manager [email protected] [email protected] +49(0)631.3615.9090; DSN (314)583.9090 Why is Seoul limiting efforts to oppose the Kims? 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BY BRIAN P. G ILL early start on compensating for spring’s AND JENNIFER S. LERNER lost learning. Special to The Washington Post Second, reduce the number of students in schools and classrooms. We believe this can he prospect of reopening schools dramatically slow the spread of COVID-19, this fall is both urgent and terrify- the disease caused by the new coronavirus ing. Fortunately, there are ways to — even if children are not especially good Treopen schools while reducing the at wearing masks or maintaining physical odds of major COVID-19 outbreaks — if distance. Mathematica researchers con- we are willing to be creative about how to ducted an analysis for Pennsylvania’s state reopen them and abandon some long-held education department, running more than assumptions about how schools operate. 25,000 simulations across six approaches The challenge lies in making decisions to reopening schools. The analysis found under extreme uncertainty — uncertainty that dividing students into smaller groups, about the transmission of the virus in chil- each of which attends school some days dren, about how far apart students’ desks and learns from home on others, may (and school bus seats) need to be, and about allow schools to avoid an outbreak for five whether kids can successfully wear face to 10 times as long as if they tried to oper- masks for six hours a day. Schools in some ate normally. Rather than shutting down countries have reopened without experi- after a week or a month, many schools encing infection spikes, but it is hard to ex- might be able to remain open for an entire plain away the Israeli school that saw more semester. than 100 infections within a few weeks In addition, the analysis suggests that after reopening. shrinking group sizes with part-time at- In a pandemic, the challenge of deci- tendance could allow schools to open with- sion-making is made even harder by the out substantially increasing the risk of mathematics of contagion. Infections com- large-scale outbreaks. This is not to say ing to school part time. Pandemic math is the experience itself is equivalent in all pound, magnifying the risk of any large- that everyone can attend safely: Some stu- unforgiving. other respects. And for children, more pre- scale, synchronized activity. This means dents and staff members who are at high Of course, having students in school dictability yields better emotional health, a that bringing all the students back, in all risk of COVID-19 complications may need only two days a week creates a logistical key predictor of life outcomes. the schools, on the same day, risks throw- to teach and learn from home, and some headache for families. But it might allow If we are willing to let go of our long- ing fuel onto the fire. communities with high infection rates may schools to avoid an outbreak for months held societal expectation that all of our When facing extreme uncertainty cou- need to postpone reopening. And there is — while bringing all the students back pled with a dire worst-case scenario, it kids must be back in school together, on the no way for a school to eliminate risk en- every day may lead to frequent, unpre- makes a lot of sense to explore options and tirely. But for many communities, opening same Monday-through-Friday schedule dictable closures. By reducing outbreaks hedge bets. Doing so not only reduces the with small classes attending part time is starting in late August or early September, and closures, a part-time approach might chance of catastrophe, but also allows deci- nearly as safe as if the school were entirely we can reopen schools with enhanced pre- sion-makers to learn as they go and refine closed. ultimately produce more total hours of in- dictability and reduced risk. A phased and strategies accordingly. The analysis also found that mitigation school instruction. staggered approach acknowledges the lim- As parents ourselves, we would much What might this mean for reopening practices such as wearing masks on the its of present scientific knowledge, protects prefer that our child’s school be open for a schools? school bus and eating lunch in classrooms against worst-case scenarios and facilitates predictable two days a week than a highly First, don’t open all schools at once. Poli- could slow the spread of COVID-19 some- the development of better solutions. cymakers should encourage schools across what. But if all the students come to school unpredictable cycle of opening and closing. a state (or a metropolitan area) to stagger every day (as states such as Florida and But more important than our own prefer- Brian P. Gill is a senior fellow at Mathematica, a their start dates, reducing the risk of si- Massachusetts have proposed), with class- ences are these facts: Unpredictably dif- nonpartisan public-policy research and analysis ficult experiences create more stress and firm. Jennifer S. Lerner is a professor of public multaneous outbreaks that could quickly es and school buses running at full capac- policy, management and decision science at the create a statewide crisis. Some schools ity, outbreaks remain far more likely than more downstream health problems than Harvard University Kennedy School, and former could open earlier than usual, getting an if students were in smaller groups, com- predictably difficult experiences, even if chief decision scientist for the U.S. Navy. Bans on nursing home visitors are unhealthy, unethical

BY JASON KARLAWISH, loved ones eat, can communicate with the We do not minimize the threat COVID-19 tors to long-term care facilities, even those DAVID C. GRABOWSKI staff, and receive daily hygiene and dig- poses to nursing homes. Even with strong with active cases of COVID-19 infection. AND ALLISON K. HOFFMAN nified engagement. Family members are precautions in place, residents and workers Criteria included spacing visits to a facil- Special to The Washington Post often the first to see changes in a resident’s at long-term care facilities account thus far ity through the day and week, allowing one condition or other issues. Unsurprisingly, for 42% of U.S. COVID-19 deaths and 10% visitor per resident, and requiring distanc- n March, after an outbreak of COVID- quality of care has been found to be poor of cases. But we are seeing huge variation ing or personal protective equipment. No 19 in a Seattle nursing home launched for residents without regular visitors. across areas of the country in active cases, the pandemic in the United States, resurgence of COVID infections ensued, The sudden disruption in residents’ con- and local conditions should inform deci- and the Dutch government reopened long-term care facilities generally tact with loved ones has caused notable de- sions on allowing nursing home visitors. I nursing homes to visitors using these shut their doors to visiting family and clines in residents’ cognition and function, Nursing homes in areas where COVID- friends. This ban followed guidance from depression, as well as anguish for family 19 cases are slowing or declining are guidelines. the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid members. strong candidates for reopening. The harm At the very least, essential care partners Services (CMS), which regulates most During normal times, CMS regulations of keeping essential care partners out can should not be more restricted than nones- nursing homes: Facilities were ordered to recognize a right to visitors as necessary itself be a great threat to well-being, as sential health care workers, whom CMS restrict visitors except for “compassionate to promote and facilitate residents’ self-de- many families have learned. The risks of guidance allows into nursing homes that care” for a resident who was dying. termination. Even in these extraordinary visits can be minimized in these controlled have recorded no new infections for 14 As an early containment strategy, it times, facilities should balance the loss situations, as we know more now about days. We are certain that some visitors are made sense. At that time, there was great of self-determination and other medical the spread of COVID-19. And family and at least as important as these nonessential uncertainty on the disease’s transmission, harms against the risk of transmission of friends will likely be the most vigilant of personnel to residents’ well-being. but we have made progress in that area. COVID-19. anyone in protecting their loved ones from It is understandable that regulators and Although the pandemic continues, and Under CMS’s May 18 guidance on re- exposure. nursing home operators want to do every- resurges in some areas, long-term-care opening, many nursing homes are far from Nursing homes already have procedures thing possible to keep COVID-19 out. But facilities should reconsider their rules — meeting standards for resuming normal to make sure that workers do not bring blanket visitation bans fail to capture how especially in areas where cases are steady visitation. To do so, a facility must have at COVID-19 into facilities; they can do the some friends and family are critical to good or decreasing. Keeping the doors shut is least 28 days of no new COVID-19 cases, same with visits from essential care part- care. These benefits are worth the low risk harmful to the health of residents. Good as well as adequate staff, protective gear ners. A facility might stagger visitors, limit posed by well-monitored visits. policy demands more nuanced thinking and COVID-19 testing. Until then, visitors where they can be and require COVID-19 about how some visitors contribute to their should be allowed only in an “end-of-life testing, temperature checks and masks. In the long run, keeping these essential safety. situation.” Some nursing homes are already allowing care partners out will lead to more harm The fact is that for many nursing home The caution is understandable, but we limited and distanced outdoor visits. than good. residents, a visit is not simply a social call. think the recommendation draws too stark All this will demand staff time, but it will Jason Karlawish is a professor of medicine at the Many family members are not company a line. CMS’s guidance should take into ac- also save staff time. Visits will reduce wor- Perelman School of Medicine and co-director as much as essential caregivers and care count visitors who are “essential care part- ried family members’ phone calls and add of the Penn Memory Center at the University of monitors. Their involvement is vital, espe- Pennsylvania. David C. Grabowski is a professor ners” and give nursing home leadership more hands to help with basic care. of health care policy at Harvard Medical School. cially at facilities with shortages in staff- more leeway to allow these visitors reentry A 26-facility study in the Netherlands Allison K. Hoffman is a professor at the University ing. Caring visitors make sure that their — under careful procedures, of course. offers encouragement for allowing visi- of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. PAGE 18 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Wednesday, July 15, 2020 Wednesday, July 15, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 19 PAGE 20 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Wednesday, July 15, 2020 SCOREBOARD/AUTO RACING

Sports Pro soccer MLS is Back tournament on AFN GROUP A (EASTERN CONFERENCE) W D L GF GA Pts Orlando City 1 0 0 2 1 3 Philadelphia 1 0 0 1 0 3 Go to the American Forces Miami 0 0 1 1 2 0 New York City FC 0 0 1 0 1 0 Network website for the most Wednesday, July 8 up-to-date TV schedules. Orlando City 2, Miami 1 Thursday, July 9 myafn.net Philadelphia 1, New York City FC 0 Tuesday, July 14 New York City FC at Orlando City Miami at Philadelphia Deals Monday, July 20 New York City FC at Miami Orlando City at Philadelphia Monday’s transactions GROUP B (WESTERN CONFERENCE) W D L GF GA Pts BASEBALL San Jose 0 1 0 0 0 1 American League Seattle 0 1 0 0 0 1 CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Placed RHP Chicago 0 0 0 0 0 0 Michael Kopech on the restricted list. Vancouver 0 0 0 0 0 0 Placed 3B Yoan Moncada and RHP Jose Friday, July 10 Ruiz on the 10-day IL. San Jose 0, Seattle 0, tie CLEVELAND INDIANS — Placed CF Deli- Tuesday, July 14 no DeShields on the 10-day IL. Seattle at Chicago DETROIT TIGERS — Released RHP Zack Godley from a minor league contract. Wednesday, July 15 HOUSTON ASTROS — Placed OF Yor- San Jose at Vancouver dan Alvarez, RHP Ralph Garza, RHP Jose Sunday, July 19 Urquidy, RHP Shawn Dubin, LHP Cionel San Jose at Chicago Perez on the 10-day IL. Vancouver at Seattle National League Thursday, July 23 MARK HUMPHREY/AP MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Placed LHP Vancouver at Chicago Angel Perdomo on the 10-day IL. GROUP C (EASTERN CONFERENCE) PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Signed RHP W D L GF GA Pts Bubba Wallace hasn’t qualified for Wednesday’s 20-driver All-Star race in Bristol, Tenn. Parker Brahms to a minor league con- New England 1 0 0 1 0 3 tract. D.C. United 0 1 0 2 2 1 ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Announced Toronto FC 0 1 0 2 2 1 RHP Jordan Hicks has opted out of the Montreal 0 0 1 0 1 0 Commentary 2020 season, citing pre-existing health Thursday, July 9 concerns. New England 1, Montreal 0 SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Placed C Monday, July 13 Buster Posey on the restricted list. D.C. United 2, Toronto FC 2, tie WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Placed Thursday, July 16 RHP Wander Suero and LHP Roenis Elias Toronto FC at Montreal on the 10-day injured list. Friday, July 17 FOOTBALL New England at D.C. United Wallace deserves a spot National Football League Tuesday, July 21 BALTIMORE RAVENS — Agreed to New England at Toronto FC terms with LB Malik Harrison on a rookie D.C. United at Montreal contract. CLEVELAND BROWNS — Signed LB Ja- GROUP D (WESTERN CONFERENCE) cob Phillips. W D L GF GA Pts MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Signed QB Real Salt Lake 1 0 0 2 0 3 Nate Stanley. Minnesota 1 0 0 2 1 3 HOCKEY Sporting KC 0 0 1 1 2 0 in NASCAR’s All-Star race National Hockey League Colorado 0 0 1 0 2 0 MINNESOTA WILD — Signed F Kirill Sunday, July 12 Kaprizov to a two-year, entry-level con- Minnesota 2, Sporting Kansas City 1 tract starting with the 2019-2020 season. Real Salt Lake 2, Colorado 0 CHARLOTTE, N.C. recognize RPM is He has been at the forefront of PHILADELPHIA FLYERS — Signed D Friday, July 17 Mark Friedman to a two-year contract Colorado at Sporting Kansas City ubba Wallace deserves a single-car team NASCAR’s racial reckoning and extension. Minnesota at Real Salt Lake a spot in NASCAR’s All- lacking the heavy became the face of the movement SOCCER Wednesday, July 22 Major League Soccer Sporting Kansas City at Real Salt Lake Star race, a $1 million sponsorship money when he successfully called on NEW ENGLAND REVOLUTION — Re- Minnesota at Colorado exhibition designed for required to compete series leadership to ban the Con- signed F Teal Bunbury to a multi-year GROUP E (EASTERN CONFERENCE) B contract. W D L GF GA Pts race winners and previous cham- with NASCAR’s federate flag at NASCAR events. National Women’s Soccer League Columbus 1 0 0 4 0 3 pions of the event. elite organizations. What followed has been a blind- ORLANDO PRIDE — Announced D Ali New York 1 0 0 1 0 3 Riley has been loaned to FC Rosengard. Atlanta 0 0 1 0 1 0 Wallace doesn’t qualify under An alliance with ing spotlight. COLLEGE Cincinnati 0 0 1 0 4 0 those conditions, though he has Richard Childress The 26-year-old Wallace has AUSTIN PEAY — Named Chris Camp- Saturday, July 11 bell associate head coach/director of New York 1, Atlanta 0 four chances to make the 20- Racing helps, but tried to navigate his new role as sports performance, Kevon Beckwith Columbus 4, Cincinnati 0 driver field Wednesday night at the finances are not a spokesman, a leader — a posi- defensive line coach, Jordan Frazier spe- Thursday, July 16 there for Wallace cial teams coordinator, Keith Scott nickel Cincinnati at Atlanta Bristol Motor Speedway in Ten- tion he never before had as a mid- backs coach and assistant special teams coordinator and Camie Cole Nations di- New York at Columbus nessee. There are 22 drivers en- to contend for wins pack racer — and soon enough rector of football operations and on- Tuesday, July 21 tered in the “open” event in which each week. he was receiving death threats, campus recruiting coordinator. Columbus at Atlanta WEST POINT — Announced the addi- Wednesday, July 22 the winners of each of the three Money equals speed in racing, scorn and mockery from the pub- tion of Maj.(Retired) Margeree King Rich- New York at Cincinnati stages earn an automatic berth whether its new parts, more peo- lic. When NASCAR said a noose ard to the women’s basketball coaching GROUP F (WESTERN CONFERENCE) staff. W D L GF GA Pts into the show. ple or the ability to spend time on had been in Wallace’s garage stall Portland 1 0 0 2 1 3 The fourth slot goes to the win- research and development. RPM at Alabama’s Talladega Super- Houston 0 1 0 3 3 1 Los Angeles FC 0 1 0 3 3 1 ner of a fan vote and Wallace was gets by with what it can afford speedway, the intensity only es- Auto racing LA Galaxy 0 0 1 1 2 0 leading that poll when results and recognizes its shortcomings. calated when federal authorities Monday, July 13 Houston 3, Los Angeles FC 3, tie were last updated a week ago. Wallace had a decent run at Char- determined the noose had been Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Portland 2, LA Galaxy 1 Voting closed Tuesday. lotte Motor Speedway in May but hanging in the garage stall since Saturday, July 18 schedule Houston at Portland Plenty will argue that an all- contact caused him to break a last October and thus Wallace LA Galaxy at Los Angeles FC July 15 — x-NASCAR All-Star Open, star race is for the very best in wheel hub. could not have been the target of Bristol, Tenn. Thursday, July 23 Houston at LA Galaxy the sport and Wallace needs to When the team told him what a hate crime. — NASCAR All-Star Race, Bris- July 15 Portland at Los Angeles FC tol, Tenn. earn his way in on the racetrack. the issue was over the radio, a Although Wallace never saw July 19 — O’Reilly Auto Parts 500, Fort He and his Richard Petty Mo- despondent Wallace replied he the noose, never reported it and Worth, Texas NWSL Challenge Cup torsports team will certainly try wasn’t going to stay on the track learned of it from NASCAR, con- July 23 — Super Start Batteries 400 At Herriman, Utah presented by O’Reilly Auto Parts, Kansas Saturday, June 27 that route but the competition is when the team can’t even afford spiracy theorists have been in City, Kan. North Carolina 2, Portland 1 steep: Aric Almirola, Clint Bow- new wheel hubs. “Bring it to the full attack mode. President Don- Aug. 2 — Foxwoods Resort Casino 301, Chicago 1, Washington 2 Loudon, N.H. Tuesday, June 30 yer, Chris Buescher, Austin Dil- garage,” he was told. ald Trump tweeted that Wallace Aug. 8 — NASCAR Cup Series Race at Houston 3, Utah 3 lon and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. — all So apply perspective to Wal- owed his fellow competitors an Michigan, Brooklyn, Mich. OL Reign 0, Sky Blue 0 Aug. 9 — NASCAR Cup Series Race at Wednesday, July 1 previous race winners driving for lace’s results. His ninth-place apology, wrongly stating it had Michigan, Brooklyn, Mich. Portland 0, Chicago 0 larger teams than RPM — are finish two weekends ago at India- been a hoax, and the White House Aug. 16 — NASCAR Cup Series Race at Washington 0, North Carolina 2 Daytona Road Course, Daytona Beach, Saturday, July 4 among those Wallace must beat napolis Motor Speedway was bet- likened the situation to the case of FL Utah 1, Sky Blue 0 for an automatic berth. ter than former champions Joey actor Jussie Smollett. Aug. 22 — Drydene 311, Dover, Del. Houston 2, OL Reign 0 Aug. 23 — Drydene 400, Dover, Del. Sunday, July 5 That doesn’t mean Wallace Logano, Kurt Busch and former The pressure has been enor- Aug. 29 — Coke Zero Sugar 400, Day- North Carolina 1, Chicago 0 doesn’t have a chance to race his Brickyard winner Ryan Newman. mous on Wallace, who somehow tona Beach, Fla. Portland 1, Washington 1 Sept. 6 — Southern 500, Darlington, Wednesday, July 8 way into the main event, which And for an RPM team that hasn’t has weathered it all with grace S.C. Utah 0, OL Reign 1 he did last year. Overlooked in won a race since 2014 when Aric while presenting himself as a Sept. 12 — Federated Auto Parts 400, Sky Blue 2, Houston 0 Richmond, Va. Sunday, July 12 a season in which he has domi- Almirola won a rain-shortened strong representative of NAS- Sept. 19 — Bass Pro Shops NRA Night Washington 1 Houston 0 nated off-track news, Wallace and race at Daytona. So a top-10 finish CAR. His performance has not Race, Bristol, Tenn. Chicago 1, Utah 0 Sept. 27 — South Point 400, Las Vegas, Monday, July 13 the No. 43 team have been much at Indy is pretty close to a moral suffered and his team has not Nev. OL Reign 0, Portland 0 improved. and emotional victory. given up on its driver or its quest Oct. 4 — YellaWood 500, Talladega, Sky Blue 0, North Carolina 2 Ala. Quarterfinals Through 17 races, Wallace has Statistics aside, the strain to improve. Oct. 11 — Bank of America ROVAL 400, Friday, July 17 already equaled his career best Wallace and his team have been That alone makes Wallace a Concord, N.C. Teams TBD Oct. 18 — Hollywood Casino 400, Kan- Saturday, July 18 with three top-10 finishes. He is under the last two months is enor- worthy candidate for the All-Star sas City, Kan. Teams TBD 19th in the Cup Series standings, mous. Wallace is the only Black race, whether he earns his way in Oct. 25 — Texas 500, Fort Worth, Tex- Semifinals as Wednesday, July 22 only 60 points outside the bubble driver at NASCAR’s top level and on the track or the fans — exist- Nov. 1 — Xfinity 500, Martinsville, Va. Quarterfinal winners to qualify for the playoffs. for that reason alone he has been ing ones or the new ones drawn to Nov. 8 — NASCAR Cup Series Champi- Championship onship, Avondale, Ariz. Sunday, July 26 Those stats are not that im- forced to speak out as the country the sport specifically by Wallace x-non-points race Semifinal winners pressive. But it is important to is pushing for racial equality. — make him the popular choice. Wednesday, July 15, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 21 SPORTS BRIEFS/NBA Briefl y MVP Delle Donne says NBA bubble faces first test WNBA denied waiver Westbrook delayed by positive test; two unwittingly breach safe zone BY TIM REYNOLDS “But I don’t know when it’s going to happen. As soon Associated Press Associated Press as protocols get out of the way ... they’re all anxious NFL, Oakley come up to get here and they’re doing what they need to do to NEW YORK — Elena Delle with face shields LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Houston’s Russell stay in shape. Donne’s request to be medically Westbrook hasn’t made it to the NBA restart yet. “This is not going to set us back. We’re not going excused from the WNBA sea- NEW YORK — With NFL train- The coronavirus did — but health protocols to let it set us back, and we’re going to be ready to son was denied, according to the ing camps set to start at the end seemed to work as the league and its players hoped roll here in the next two, three weeks.” league’s reigning MVP. of the month, the league believes they would. Houston has clinched a playoff spot and resumes The Washington Mystics star it is closer to one answer when On a day of troubling news for the league — West- its season with the first of eight seeding games on said in a statement Monday that it comes to player safety amid brook revealing that he has tested positive for the July 31 against Dallas. the independent panel of doctors the coronavirus pandemic: face virus and two other players facing 10-day quaran- “I’m praying for his safety and the same for his the league and union agreed upon shields for the players’ helmets. tines for leaving the league campus perimeter at family,” Phoenix guard Devin Booker said. “Hope- to decide whether players should The union’s medical director, Walt Disney World — it was also announced that two fully he can get healthy and get down here as soon be medically excused deemed her Dr. Thom Mayer suggested the players tested positive for the virus after arriving in as possible.” not to be “high risk, and should be players wear face masks to help Central Florida last week. The league also said Monday that 19 players newly permitted to play in the bubble.” control the spread of the virus. But neither of those positive players ever made it tested positive since July 1 during in-market testing, Had Delle Donne been medi- The league’s engineers and a out of quarantine, so neither entered the so-called meaning tests done before teams began arriving at cally excused, she would have sports equipment company test- bubble and could mingle freely with other players, Disney on July 7. Upon arrival at Disney, 322 play- earned her entire salary for the ed prototypes for the masks, but coaches and staff. The NBA said both players, nei- ers were tested with the two positives. season. Now, if she chooses not to players shot it down. ther of whom were identified, “have since left the “All we can do is try to stay optimistic about it and play, the defending WNBA cham- The face shield was designed Campus to isolate at home or in isolation housing.” positive, and hopefully we can finish this season,” pion Mystics wouldn’t have to pay by Oakley, which already pro- They could rejoin their teams later. said Los Angeles Clippers forward Kawhi Leonard, her. vides visors for the players. “Our protocols are unbelievable,” said Toronto the reigning NBA Finals MVP. Delle Donne has battled Lyme “We have well over 700 play- Raptors guard Kyle Lowry, one of the players who Inside the NBA bubble, however, there was opti- disease since 2008. The disease ers that used the visors last year,” helped craft the restart rules. “I think our protocols mism that the rules established by the league and is not included on the Centers said Renie Anderson, chief rev- and our health and safety the players will work — even though some Disney for Disease Control and Preven- enue officer and executive vice measures have been top- parks reopened to visitors over the weekend and the tion’s list of underlying conditions president of NFL Partnerships. ‘ All we can do notch. I think this thing MLS restart, also at the campus, has seen two teams that could put someone at an in- The face shield has received will work perfectly. ... leave after a spate of positive tests. creased risk for severe illness a better response than the mask is try to stay We’re doing everything “It’s a condition, a virus, that does not discrimi- from COVID-19. suggestion. optimistic about that we can possibly do nate,” Phoenix coach Monty Williams said. “And “I love my team, and we had an In other NFL news: to make sure that we’re we’re trying to do everything we can to keep our  it and positive, unbelievable season last year, and Los Angeles Chargers safety healthy, we’re safe and guys safe.” I want to play! But the question is Roderic Teamer has been sus- and hopefully we’re in an environment Those protocols that Lowry spoke of were de- whether or not the WNBA bubble pended for the first four regular- we can finish where we can be suc- signed to be taken seriously, and at least two play- is safe for me,” Delle Donne said season games due to a violation of cessful and do our jobs at ers inside the NBA bubble have already paid a steep in the statement. “My personal the NFL’s substance abuse policy, this season. ’ a high level.” price for violating quarantine upon their teams’ re- physician who has treated me for the league said Monday. Said by It’s unclear when spective arrivals last week. Lyme disease for years advised Teamer played in seven games affiliation Westbrook will arrive. Sacramento’s Richaun Holmes revealed Monday me that I’m at high risk for con- as a rookie last season with six As recently as Sunday, that he “briefly and accidentally” crossed the NBA tracting and having complica- starts. the Rockets believed that campus line to pick up a food delivery. Under the tions from COVID-19.” Westbrook, NBA scoring leader James Harden and NBA’s rules of the restart, he now has to spend 10 Delle Donne’s statement was Former USC QB Daniels newly re-acquired Luc Mbah a Moute — none of the days in quarantine. first obtained by ESPN. eligible in fall at Georgia three traveled with the team to Walt Disney World Holmes said he had eight days left in quarantine. “I’m thinking things over, talk- near Orlando last week — would be with the team in “I apologize for my actions and look forward to ing to my doctor and my wife, and ATHENS, Ga. — Former the next few days. rejoining my teammates for our playoff push,” Hol- look forward to sharing what I Southern California starter JT In Westbrook’s case, that now seems most mes wrote. ultimately plan to do very soon,” Daniels says he has been granted unlikely. Also Monday, a person with knowledge of the situ- the 30-year-old said. “My heart immediate eligibility at Georgia, “I tested positive for covid-19 prior to my teams ation said that Houston’s Bruno Caboclo was also has gone out to everyone who where he can join the competition departure to Orlando,” Westbrook wrote on his so- serving a 10-day quarantine for crossing the cam- has had to choose between their at quarterback. cial media channels. “I’m currently feeling well, pus line. Like Holmes, Caboclo also had eight days health and having an income, and Daniels posted on his Twitter quarantined, and looking forward to rejoining my remaining Monday, according to the person who of course to anyone who has lost account on Monday his appre- teammates when I am cleared.” spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of their job, their home, and anyone ciation to the NCAA “for grant- The arrival dates for Harden and Mbah a Moute anonymity because the Rockets have not announced they love in this pandemic.” ing me immediate eligibility and are murky as well. Neither player has revealed the sanction. The league declined to com- allowing me to play football this why they aren’t at Disney, and Rockets coach Mike Monday’s developments came on a day where ment, citing privacy concerns fall.” D’Antoni would only say that “these are things that more than 12,000 new cases were confirmed in about player health matters. Daniels announced his transfer people are dealing with.” Florida, now perhaps the hottest of virus hotspots in Delle Donne’s new teammate to Georgia on May 29 and he can D’Antoni said Westbrook had taken part in indi- the U.S. And officials in Houston also called for that Tina Charles also was waiting for play for three seasons. He started vidual workouts when they were permitted back in city to lock back down as area hospitals strain to ac- a decision from the medical panel. for the Trojans in 2018, but lost Houston, but declined to elaborate further on the commodate patients sick with COVID-19. If both players miss the season, his job to Kedon Slovis last sea- guard’s condition. He also isn’t sure when the miss- Westbrook also offered a word of caution. the Mystics would be down to 10 son after suffering a knee injury ing Rockets will arrive. “Please take this virus seriously,” Westbrook players on the roster. in the season opener. “I did have one year of pre-med,” D’Antoni said. wrote. “Be safe. Mask up!” PAGE 22 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Wednesday, July 15, 2020 COLLEGE/SOCIAL JUSTICE Patriot League cancels fall sports SEC still evaluating as virus spikes in South

BY RALPH D. RUSSO ments around the virus on a daily Associated Press basis,” SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey said in a statement after The Patriot League joined the the meeting. Ivy League on Monday, punting The meeting had been sched- on football and other fall sports uled for a while but came just because of the coronavirus pan- days after the Big Ten and Pac-12 demic while holding out hope the said they would play conference- games can be made up. only schedules this fall in football The Patriot League said its 10 and a number of other sports. DAVID TULIS/AP Division I schools will also not “We believe that late July will compete in men’s and women’s provide the best clarity for mak- Braves fans do the tomahawk chop during the ninth inning of a game in Atlanta. The team says it has no soccer, women’s volleyball and ing the important decisions ahead plans to change the team name but it is examining things such as the tomahawk chop chant. field hockey. The conference’s of us,” Sankey said. council of presidents said the SEC football media days, the league will consider playing those unofficial start of the season for Other teams face more scrutiny seasons in the winter and spring. many fans, had been scheduled to “Really, really tough decision,” begin this week, but the pandem- Patriot League Commissioner ic forced all FBS conferences to BY TOM WITHERS Jennifer Heppel said. “Nobody’s While the Indians seem open to hold those events online this year. Associated Press a new identity, the Braves aren’t happy. Happy is a word that’s Even some of those — for the SEC kind of gone out the window.” budging. and ACC — are now on hold. CLEVELAND — The spot- They have no plans to change The conference is mostly com- Some programs are taking steps light for change is shining on the prised of private schools located their nickname, telling season- toward playing and even starting Cleveland Indians. ticket holders in a letter last week in the Northeast that offer limited football seasons on time. Mon- Now that the NFL’s Washington athletic scholarships. Pennsylva- that “we will always be the Atlanta day was the first day the NCAA Redskins have retired their con- nia rivals Lehigh and Lafayette Braves.” However, the team said allowed football players to take tentious nickname and logo after have played 155 times, more than it will review the team’s “toma- part in mandatory team activities decades of objection and amid a any opponents in college football hawk chop” chant — a tradition with coaches, including unpadded nationwide movement calling for history. borrowed in the early 1990s from walk-through practices. racial justice, the Indians appear Army and Navy are league Florida State posted a video on Florida State’s football program. members, but not in football. to be the next major sports fran- The Blackhawks, too, have no social media of its team hitting chise that might assume a new Heppel said news about the Unit- the field with players and coach- plans for change, saying their ed States’ inability to control the identity. name honors a Native American es wearing face coverings and Along with the Indians, who pandemic coming out of the July shields to help stop the spread of leader, Black Hawk of Illinois’ 4 weekend heightened concern recently announced they are in Sac & Fox Nation. The NHL team the virus. the early stages of evaluating a within the Patriot League about Pac-12 football teams will have DAVID DERMER/AP said it plans to work harder to its ability to name change for the first time raise awareness of Black Hawk to wait. Last week, conference in 105 years, the Atlanta Braves, safely con- presidents delayed mandatory Francisco Lindor runs the and “the important contributions ‘ Nobody’s duct a sports Chicago Blackhawks and Super bases during a simulated game of all Native American people.” team activities , acknowledging Bowl champion Kansas City happy. season. the league would likely delay the in Cleveland on Friday. The “We’re trying to honor the logo “That re- Chiefs are among those facing Indians appear to be the next and be respectful,” general man- start of the fall sports seasons. backlash along with the potential Happy is ally spurred Iowa State athletic director major sports franchise in line to ager Stan Bowman said. “There’s of sponsors pulling their financial a lot of indi- Jamie Pollard, in a letter to fans change their name.( certainly a fine line between re- a word support. vidual con- posted online, said the school is spect and disrespect, and I think For some, the time has come that’s kind versations trying to balance the health and First, the Indians are not feel- we want to do an even better job. for widespread changes to sports of gone of, ‘What are safety of athletes with the dras- ing heat from any corporate spon- I think the most important thing nicknames, mascots and symbols you think- tic financial repercussions of not sors. At least not publicly. is to be clear that we want to help out the as the country reckons with its ing? Where having a football season. When the Redskins announced educate. ... I think we’ve done a window. ’ are you? How “If we are unable to play sports legacy of racism. their review earlier this month, good job, but we want to do a bet- might we “I understand people aren’t the Indians released a statement Jennifer Heppel this fall, the athletics department ter job. And I think we’re commit- best begin to willing to change so quickly, or within hours of Washington’s that Patriot League would incur approximately $40M ted to that as we go forward.” think about they’re hoping this moment is said, “we are committed to engag- commissioner in unfunded expenses in the next Part of Atlanta’s insistence to moving for- six months,” Pollard wrote. going to pass. It’s not,” said ac- ing our community and appropri- keep a nickname the franchise ward?’ ” she The college football season was tivist Frances Danger, who is ate stakeholders to determine the brought from Milwaukee in 1966 said. “And that led into more col- scheduled to start with a handful Muscogee (Creek) and Seminole best path forward with regard to is due to the the team’s “cultural lective conversations last week.” of nonconference games — three from Oklahoma. “And now that our team name.” working relationship” with the The Patriot League competes involving Pac-12 teams — on we’ve gotten what we needed on The Indians didn’t promise to Eastern Band of Cherokee Indi- the Redskins side, we’re going to in Division I’s second tier of col- Aug. 29, before a full slate around change their nickname. But it ans in North Carolina and other start working on the rest of them. lege football (FCS) like the Ivy Labor Day weekend. would be hard to imagine them tribal leaders it collaborates with We’re not going to let up.” League, which announced a simi- The Patriot League doesn’t going through a detailed evalua- regularly. On Monday, Washington an- lar decision last week. Unlike the have a multimillion-dollar rev- tion and deciding to stick with a But as teams look to make nounced it was dropping a nick- Ivy League, the Patriot League enue stream attached to its foot- nickname that Native American changes, Danger will continue to name that had been in place since participates in the FCS playoffs. ball season. groups have condemned for years push them to abandon any con- 1933 . The team buckled under “Of course you take note,” “The specific financial aspect as degrading and racist. nection with Native Americans, financial pressure from sponsors Heppel said of the Ivy’s decision. of it didn’t come into the conver- Cleveland showed a willing- who have been portrayed as mas- including FedEx, the shipping “When a decision that’s made like sations,” Heppel said. “It wasn’t ness to rebrand itself when it cots for generations. giant and naming rights holder the Ivy made that hadn’t been a factor in our decision-making. pulled the highly debated Chief “We’re being paraded around made before, you want to un- to the teams’s stadium, as well as And if that means it was easier, Wahoo logo off its game jerseys without a say in how we’re seen,” derstand because information is other groups. and caps. While the red-faced, I don’t know. Because it was still she said. “It’s a less bloody con- valuable.” While the debate over the Red- toothy caricature remains a pres- pretty damn hard.” tinuation of that, of us being a Meanwhile, Southeastern Con- skins’ nickname raged for years, ence on some team merchandise, Army and Navy play football sideshow. It’s not hard to choose ference athletic directors met in the drastic change came just two its removal from the diamond and in the highest tier of Division I the right side of history, so I person in Birmingham, Ala., to weeks after owner Dan Snyder, signage around Progressive Field and were exempt from the Pa- hope these teams will take that discuss how the SEC can have triot League’s decision regard- who once said he would never was applauded as a positive step. step with us, side by side, as we a football season as COVID-19 ing other fall sports. The Patriot change the team’s moniker, said Even if the Indians decide to all work together to change the cases spike throughout much of League council said the service the franchise would undergo a drop the nickname, there are world.” the South. academies will be allowed to pur- “thorough review” before its next numerous other layers — trade- “It is clear that current cir- sue competition in those sports in move. mark contracts, new logos, Major Associated Press writer Felicia cumstances related to COVID-19 which they usually compete with- Cleveland’s situation is differ- League Baseball’s approval — to Fonseca in Flagstaff, Ariz., and AP sports writers Charles Odum in Atlanta must improve and we will con- in the conference as the schools’ ent from Washington’s on several work through before the change and Jay Cohen in Chicago contributed tinue to closely monitor develop- leaders see fit. fronts. could take effect. to this report. Wednesday, July 15, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 23 MLB/NHL Baseball teams ramp up competition Only a week before season begins

BY STEVEN WINE Minnesota Twins center fielder Associated Press Byron Buxton was going all-out in an intrasquad game at Target Well-traveled Milwaukee Field when he suffered an in- Brewers first baseman-outfielder jury. The oft-injured Buxton was Logan Morrison figures it will be tracking a long fly by Nelson Cruz easy for him to adjust to games when he hurt his left leg, and he without spectators this season. had to be carted off the field. “I played for the Rays and the Meanwhile, the virus continued Marlins, so I’m used to it,” Mor- to complicate preparations. St. rison said. Louis Cardinals reliever Jordan The Brewers and other major Hicks opted out of playing this league teams worked out again season, citing underlying health Monday in mostly empty ball- concerns. He was diagnosed in parks, mindful the long-awaited high school with Type 1 diabetes. start to the season is a week away Manager David Ross and five and fans won’t be coming. So other undisclosed tier one indi- teams are trying as best they can viduals sat out a Chicago Cubs to ramp up the competitiveness of summer camps conducted in workout as a precaution while isolation. awaiting virus test results. Tier Several teams announced up- one includes players, coaches, coming exhibition games, in- physicians and others. cluding Houston at Kansas City, Cubs catcher Willson Contre- Kansas City at St. Louis, and ras complimented the protective Cleveland against Pittsburgh. measures being taken by the team and MLB. The Brewers will play intra- /AP squad games for several nights “I don’t think that I’m at risk NAM Y. HUH starting Tuesday and are dub- inside the ballpark,” Contreras The Cubs’ Willson Contreras reacts after hitting a ball during team practice at Wrigley Field in Chicago. bing them the Blue and Gold said. “Walking the streets, that’s Contreras says he doesn’t feel at risk of contracting the coronavirus when he’s at the ballpark. World Series, a nod to manager the one place that I don’t feel Craig Counsell’s alma mater, safe.” at Coors Field. the positive test result and has no his team after contracting the Notre Dame. Catcher Omar Nar- All-Star outfielder Charlie “It’s nice to be back,” he added. idea how he contracted COVID-19 virus last month. vaez and outfielder Avisail Garcia Blackmon, the first major league “I was getting kind of bored sit- after taking all the usual precau- The Twins said first baseman will draft teams for matchups de- player known to have tested posi- ting there in the basement in tions with his family: sheltering Miguel Sano and backup catcher signed to approximate the inten- tive for the coronavirus, returned quarantine by myself.” at home, social distancing and Willians Astudillo, who tested sity of regular-season games. to the Colorado Rockies for his Blackmon said he was only wearing a mask out in public. positive when they arrived at first workout after being cleared “It’s important for the players to mildly affected for about a day But he said he was fortunate his camp, have been eager to return. understand the dial can’t go from to rejoin his teammates. and a half by the virus that has symptoms weren’t even as bad as one to 10, from camp to opening “I feel great. I have felt that killed more than 130,000 Ameri- the flu and he hopes to be ready AP sports writers Greg Beacham, Dave day,” Counsell said. “That’s an way for at least a couple of weeks Campbell, Jay Cohen, David Ginsburg, cans and claimed more than a for the July 24 opener at Texas. Steve Megargee, Kristie Rieken and important part of how we’re try- now,” Blackmon said before tak- half-million lives worldwide. Los Angeles Angels left-hander Arnie Stapleton contributed to this ing to prepare them.” ing batting and fielding practice He said he was “blindsided” by Patrick Sandoval also rejoined report. Back: Players must adjust to new reality if they want to finish the season

FROM BACK PAGE you are a player or a fan, you five months. kind of weird, but I’m pretty sure miss the game. You also have to “It’s a nice little secret weapon we’re going to get used to it.” understand the seriousness of we’ve had all year, waiting to Players and everyone else who what’s around you. We’re trying come back,” defenseman Alex will be spending up to two months to find a balance for that... I’m Pietrangelo said of Tarasenko. inside the “bubble“ — including optimistic.” “Seemed like a pretty seamless hotel staff, bus drivers and arena It was a far different story in transition, jumping back in with workers — will have no other Denver, where the Avalanche the rest of us.” choice but to get accustomed to had nearly a fully complement In Nashville, coach John Hynes the new reality if the NHL hopes of players practicing, which is a drew out plays on a white board to complete its most unique sea- considerable turnaround. Nathan at the edge of the ice, with play- son. Once games resume, they MacKinnon, Mikko Rantanen, ers gathered closely around him. will be played in empty arenas, Nazem Kadri, Cale Makar and Inside the arena, half the seats with as many as three games goalie Philipp Grubauer were inside the lower bowl stayed played per day at each site, and among the formerly injured play- stacked away, leaving concrete with the Stanley Cup awarded in ers back on the ice, with only cen- around much of the ice. late September at the earliest. ter Colin Wilson deemed not fit to Nashville goalie Pekka Rinne There is no guarantee the play. said the unknowns and questions league will be able to pull it off. “The fun thing about returning left him concerned during his Though the familiar sound of now, after having some time off return from his native Finland CHRIS YOUNG, THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP pucks, skates and sticks echoed and jumping right into the most to the United States. Now, the 37- through arenas once again, the Maple Leafs President Brendan Shanahan and General Manager important time of year, is that year-old goalie feels much more reminders of COVID-19 were Kyle Dubas watch Monday as training camp opens in Toronto. you’re going to see everyone’s comfortable after seeing the pro- also prevalent. best players healthy, rested,” tocols being used. The NHL announced that 43 And then obviously things flipped NHL rules barred the Penguins coach Jared Bednar said. “We’re “We come to the Bridgestone players had tested positive for the pretty quickly there,” Matthews from revealing who the players all anxious and champing at the Arena and you could eat off the coronavirus from June 8 through said. “I did my quarantine, and were, but the most notable player bit ready to go, which should be a floor,” Rinne said. “I mean, it’s the end of the league’s optional I’m feeling healthy now, so it’s all not on the ice was forward Patric lot of fun.” clean. It’s a safe place so far.” workouts. In Toronto, star for- good.” Hornqvist. In St. Louis, the defending AP hockey writers Stephen Whyno ward Auston Matthews con- In Pittsburgh, the Penguins Captain Sidney Crosby re- champion Blues welcomed back and Larry Lage, and AP sports writ- firmed he tested positive while voluntarily sidelined nine players mained upbeat. scoring star Vladimir Tarasenko, ers Stephen Hawkins, Jay Cohen, spending the break at his home in after learning they may have had “It’s a matter of everyone work- who sustained a major injury to Mitch Stacey and The Canadian Press contributed. Wawrow reported Arizona last month. secondary exposure to a person ing together and doing our best to his shoulder 10 games into the from Buffalo, N.Y., and Walker from “It was the safest place to be. testing positive for COVID-19. be safe,” Crosby said. “Whether season and was projected to miss Nashville, Tenn. S TARS AND STRIPES Wednesday, July 15, 2020 F3HIJKLM Following suit Another conference drops fall sports SPORTS due to coronavirus » Page 22

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Maple Leafs center Auston Matthews tested positive for COVID-19 while spending the break at his home in Arizona and had to quaratine.

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Pucks and masks prevalent as 24 teams return to rinks

BY JOHN WAWROW wore one while watching the Predators AND TERESA M. WALKER practice from a private suite. Associated Press And in Dallas, Stars interim coach Rick Bowness wore a mask while observing St. Louis Blues goalie Jordan Binning- practice from an empty bench. At 65, he ton is so accustomed to wearing a mask, wasn’t taking any chances. he didn’t mind doing so for the past four “I was going to err on the side of caution. months during the coronavirus pandemic. I’m still very nervous about the COVID, “Sometimes, I forgot I’m wearing it and we haven’t tested our players since while driving,” Binnington said Monday, last Thursday,” Bowness said. Once results when the Blues were among the NHL’s 24 come back, he intends to return to the ice, teams to open training camp for the up- perhaps as early as Wednesday coming playoffs. “You make fun of those Players and staff all have their eyes on people who are driving by themselves with resuming the season with an expanded 24- a mask on, but I sometimes forget.” team playoff set to begin in two hub cities Goalies weren’t the only ones wearing — Toronto and Edmonton, Alberta, — on masks as the NHL hit the ice, en masse, Aug. 1. in the first full glimpse of hockey’s return “On the ice is normal,” Washington Cap- since the regular season was placed on itals captain Alex Ovechkin said. “On the pause March 12. COLTER PETERSON, ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH/AP ice is same rules what we have before. But Masked equipment managers patrolled soon as you step off the ice in the locker The defending champion Blues welcomed back scoring star Vladimir Tarasenko, who the benches, clearing them of water bottles room, everybody have to wear a mask. It’s suffered a major injury to his shoulder 10 games into the season and was projected to and towels following practices. In Nash- miss five months. The hiatus allowed him time to completely recover. ville, general manager David Poile, 70, SEE BACK ON PAGE 23

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