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Death toll VIRUS OUTBREAK rises, dozens missing from floods in Japan Short BY MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO — Soldiers rescued residents on boats as floodwaters supply flowed down streets in southern Japanese towns hit by deadly rains that were expanding across the region Tuesday. At least 50 people have died and a dozen are missing. Pounding rain since late Fri- day in Japan’s southern region of Kyushu has triggered widespread flooding. More rain was predicted in Kyushu and the western half of Japan’s main island as the rain front moved east. In Fukuoka, on the northern part of the island, three soldiers waded through knee-high water pulling a boat carrying a mother, her 2-month-old baby and two other residents. “Good job!“ one of the soldiers said as he held up the baby to his chest while the mother got off the boat, Asahi video footage showed. Several children wearing orange life vests over their wet T-shirts arrived on another boat. SEE FLOODS ON PAGE 4

WILFREDO LEE/AP Health care workers help each other with their personal protective equipment at a drive-thru coronavirus testing site outside Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla., on Sunday. Protective gear is running out again as the virus resumes its rapid spread. Protective gear for medical workers begins to run low again

BY GEOFF MULVIHILL plies. And Democratic members of Congress ‘ AND CAMILLE FASSETT are pushing the Trump administration to We’re five months into Associated Press devise a national strategy to acquire and dis- this and there are still tribute gear in anticipation of the crisis wors- shortages of gowns, hair The personal protective gear that was in ening into the fall. dangerously short supply during the early “We’re five months into this and there are covers, shoe covers, weeks of the coronavirus crisis in the U.S. is still shortages of gowns, hair covers, shoe masks, N95 masks. running low again as the virus resumes its covers, masks, N95 masks,” said Deborah rapid spread and the number of hospitalized They’re being doled out, KYODO NEWS/AP Burger, president of National Nurses United, patients climbs. who cited results from a survey of the union’s and we’re still being told Japan Ground Self-Defense A national nursing union is concerned that members. “They’re being doled out, and Force search for people at the gear has to be reused. A doctors association to reuse them. ’ we’re still being told to reuse them.” site of a mudslide in Tsunagi warns that physicians’ offices are closed be- Deborah Burger town, Kumamoto prefecture, cause they cannot get masks and other sup- SEE SUPPLY ON PAGE 7 president of National Nurses United southwestern Japan on Tuesday. PAGE 2 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Wednesday, July 8, 2020 BUSINESS/WEATHER EXCHANGE RATES Uber buys Postmates in $2.65 billion deal Military rates Switzerland (Franc)...... 0.9424 Euro costs (July 8) ...... $1.10 Thailand (Baht) ...... 31.21 Dollar buys (July 8) ...... €0.8630 Turkey (Lira) ...... 6.8657 British pound (July 8) ...... $1.22 (Military exchange rates are those Japanese yen (July 8) ...... 105.00 available to customers at military banking BY MATT OTT rides while boosting home de- delivered to your home, Uber is South Korean won (July 8)...... 1,162.00 Commercial rates facilities in the country of issuance AND CATHY BUSSEWITZ livery needs. While Uber’s meal going to be there with you, and for Japan, South Korea, Germany, the Bahrain (Dinar) ...... 0.3770 delivery business, Uber Eats, has we think these everyday frequent Netherlands and the United Kingdom. For Associated Press British pound ...... $1.2553 nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e., mostly focused on restaurants, interactions create a habit, create Canada (Dollar) ...... 1.3577 purchasing British pounds in Germany), SILVER SPRING, Md. — Uber China (Yuan) ...... 7.0193 Postmates delivers a wider array a connection with customers. check with your local military banking Denmark (Krone) ...... 6.6031 has widened its reach in the facility. Commercial rates are interbank of goods including groceries, Uber will gain ground against Egypt (Pound) ...... 16.0398 fiercely competitive delivery pharmacy items, alcoholic drinks DoorDash, which controls about Euro ...... $1.1285/0.8861 rates provided for reference when buying currency. All figures are foreign currencies market by acquiring Postmates and party supplies. 44% of the U.S. meal delivery Hong Kong (Dollar) ...... 7.7502 Hungary (Forint) ...... 313.53 to one dollar, except for the British pound, in a $2.65 billion all-stock deal, “The vision for us is to become market, according to May fig- Israel (Shekel) ...... 3.4558 which is represented in dollars-to-pound, the company said Monday. an everyday service,” said Dara ures from Second Measure, a Japan (Yen) ...... 107.66 and the euro, which is dollars-to-euro.) The acquisition enables the Kuwait (Dinar) ...... 0.3081 INTEREST RATES Khosrowshahi, CEO of Uber, in data analysis company. That’s Norway (Krone) ...... 9.4321 ride-hailing giant to increase a conference call with investors compared with Uber Eats’ 23% Philippines (Peso)...... 49.50 Prime rate ...... 3.25 its delivery offerings at a time Monday. “Postmates is a great share before the Postmates deal. Poland (Zloty) ...... 3.96 Discount rate ...... 0.25 Saudi Arabia (Riyal) ...... 3.7509 Federal funds market rate ...... 0.08 when the global pandemic has step along that vision. Anyplace Postmates had about 8% of the Singapore (Dollar) ...... 1.3642 3-month bill ...... 0.15 suppressed customers’ desire for you want to go, anything you want market. South Korea (Won) ...... 1,194.22 30-year bond ...... 1.44 WEATHER OUTLOOK WEDNESDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST WEDNESDAY IN EUROPE THURSDAY IN THE PACIFIC

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T O D A Y IN STRIPES American Roundup ..... 14 Classified ...... 13 Comics ...... 18 Crossword ...... 18 Faces ...... 15 Opinion ...... 16-17 Sports ...... 20-24 Wednesday, July 8, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 3 MILITARY Pentagon mulls ban on Confederate flags

BY MISSY RYAN tion of anonymity to discuss in- President Donald Trump de- Military bases generally are symbol inside barracks rooms AND ALEX HORTON ternal deliberations. A Pentagon crying NASCAR’s flag ban and not decorated with Confederate and homes and on personal bags The Washington Post spokesman declined to comment vowing to veto an annual defense flags. Many barracks and homes and vehicles. on the proposed change, which bill if it includes a Democratic on post carry the U.S. flag, ser- While the Army, the largest WASHINGTON — Pentagon was first reported by CNN. proposal to change the names of vice-specific banners, the colors military branch, has previously leaders are considering a ban on The Pentagon’s consideration military bases honoring Confed- of service academies or sports resisted pressure to rename its 10 Confederate flags at all bases, an of the new policy comes as some erate leaders. teams and college teams. The bases honoring Confederate com- official said Monday, in another state and local leaders, along with Those proposals come amid a Confederate flag can more often manders, saying in 2017 that such possible step in the military’s colleges, universities and organi- nationwide reckoning that began be found on T-shirts, service moves would be “controversial reckoning with racism and its zations, take steps to address the with the death of George Floyd, a members’ tattoos, bumper stick- and divisive,” officials have said long acceptance of Civil War legacy of the Civil War, slavery Black man, in Minneapolis police ers or banners hanging inside a in recent weeks that Army lead- tributes. and racism, removing statues of custody in May. barracks. ers are now open to at least dis- The official said the draft Confederate leaders from public A Pentagon ban could also ex- Last month, the Marine Corps cussing the issue. policy being considered at the spaces and renaming institutions acerbate strains between Penta- ordered the identification and The installations, all in former Pentagon’s highest levels would honoring officials linked to racist gon leaders and Trump caused removal of Confederate flag sym- Confederate states, were named build on recent moves by military policies. by the military’s involvement in bols in public and work spaces; with input from influential locals services to bar Confederate sym- Last month, Mississippi’s gov- responding to recent civil unrest. the Navy has signaled it is mov- in the Jim Crow era. bols on facilities they control and, ernor signed a bill changing the Since then, Defense Secretary ing to do the same. The Army courted their ap- if approved, would represent the state flag. NASCAR has banned Mark Esper and military leaders The Marine Corps ban ap- proval because it needed large first Defense Department-wide the flag. have scrambled to illustrate their plies to mugs, bumper stickers, swaths of land to build sprawl- prohibition of such iconography. The moves in some cases have responsiveness to a newly open banners, posters and more. But ing bases during the buildups of The official spoke on the condi- taken on partisan tones, with conversation about race. it stops short of prohibiting the World Wars I and II. US planning to sell 6 Black Hawk helicopters to Lithuania

BY JOHN VANDIVER provide troop lift, border security, Stars and Stripes anti-terrorist, medical evacuation, search and rescue, re-supply/exter- STUTTGART, Germany — The nal lift, combat support in all weath- U.S. plans to sell six UH-60 Black er,” the agency said. Hawk helicopters to Lithuania to Lithuania, which shares borders boost allied quick response capa- with the militarized Russian exclave bilities in a region regarded by some of Kaliningrad to the south and Rus- security analysts as one of NATO’s sia’s strategic partner of Belarus to most vulnerable. the east, is considered by many se- The deal, which will also include curity analysts to be one of NATO’s a full stock of related Black Hawk most exposed members. gear and weaponry such as M240H Of particular concern is a 40-mile machine guns and missile warning stretch of land along Lithuania’s systems, is worth $380 million, the border with Poland, known as the Defense Security Cooperation Agen- Suwalki Gap, which, if seized by cy said in a statement Monday. Russian forces in the event of a con- The Black Hawks will help Lithu- flict, could result in the three Baltic ania support U.S. and NATO forces’ states being cut off from the rest of “rapid response to a variety of mis- the alliance. sions and quick positioning of troops NATO in recent years has added with minimal helicopter assets,” the multinational battle groups in Lithu- statement said. ania and the other Baltic states, Lat- The deal was announced as Lithu- via and Estonia, as well as in Poland, ania modernizes its armed forces, to act as deterrents against potential and one year after the former Soviet Russian aggression. republic entered into a new security The battle group in northeastern agreement with the U.S. that calls Poland is led by the U.S., and is par- ticularly focused on security around for closer defense cooperation. CHARLES ROSEMOND/U.S. Army “The proposed sale of these UH- the Suwalki Gap. 60 helicopters to Lithuania will sig- [email protected] A U.S. Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter from the 1st Air Cavalry Brigade from Fort Hood, nificantly increase its capability to Twitter: @john_vandiver Texas, conducts a training flight in 2018 at Katterbach Army Airfield, Germany. Drive-by shooting hits Virginia Beach military housing Corrections  A July 7 story about BY KATHERINE HAFNER thing,” said Parren, 22. “As soon joining rooms. “There’s bullet holes next to a the USS McCampbell de- parting Japan for a refit The (Norfolk, Va.) Virginian-Pilot as he put it away gunshots started No one was injured, Parren baby’s crib. Our family is going going off throughout the house.” said. She said Virginia Beach po- through a traumatic experience,” in the United States in- Kristianne Parren was tired Bullets sprayed through the lice told her that the intended tar- she said. “This shouldn’t have correctly identified the and ready for bed early Sunday front of the home, reaching sev- get had been a neighbor’s car. happened in military housing.” ship’s unit. It belongs to Destroyer Squadron 15. when an explosion-like sound eral rooms including the living “It wasn’t a handgun. It was a She added that the shooting is erupted in her Virginia Beach room, master bedroom and the rifle, and a pretty decently high- a final straw on top of multiple  A J u l y 3 Wa s h i n g t o n home. bedroom where the Parrens’ 8- powered one,” she said. service requests over the past Post story about the Army It was shortly after 1 a.m. in the month-old daughter, Mabel, lay Linda Kuehn, spokeswoman several years going unaddressed, soldiers under the com- Sandpiper Crescent Lincoln Mili- asleep in her crib. for the Virginia Beach Police regarding wasps and a creature mand of then-1st Lt. Clint tary Housing complex off Shore Parren said she was caught in Department, confirmed officers living in the roof. Lorance, who was convict- Drive, and she and her husband “absolute terror.” She ran and were called to the 5000 block of Brooke Scarbrough, a Lincoln ed of second-degree mur- had just finished moving a televi- grabbed her daughter and her Gunter Street at 1:08 a.m. but Military Housing spokeswoman, der for ordering his troops sion into their master bedroom, phone in another room to call 911. did not immediately have more said the residents notified the to fire on civilians in Af- she told The Virginian-Pilot on A cellphone video Parren took the information. complex of the shooting Monday ghanistan and pardoned by Monday. Her husband, Nicholas, next day shows at least 10 bullet Parren said she and her hus- morning and while police are President Donald Trump, was putting away his handgun holes, marked with evidence let- band, who’s a sailor based at leading the in vestigation, “we misstated the name of Lo- as he does every night when the ters by police, in Mabel’s room. Naval Station Norfolk, have until are working diligently with them rance’s forthcoming book. shooting started. The closest was about a foot away September on their lease with alongside our Navy Partner to en- It is “Stolen Honor,” not “I thought he had dropped his from the crib. Lincoln, but that they cannot live sure the impacted families are “Stolen Valor.” firearm and it exploded or some- Other holes mark walls in ad- at the complex anymore. taken care of and supported.” PAGE 4 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Wednesday, July 8, 2020 MILITARY N. Korea says no to nuke talks as US envoy arrives

BY KIM GAMEL Jong Un. Stars and Stripes “They seem to have a bad ear or are guided by the habit of al- SEOUL, South Korea — North ways talking in their own favor,” Korea insisted Tuesday that it he said. has “no intention” of resuming On Saturday, the North’s first dialogue with the United States vice minister of foreign affairs, PHOTOS BY KOTA ENDO, KYODO NEWS/AP as the Trump administration’s Choe Son Hui, also dismissed the main point man on the issue trav- idea of another summit, accusing Debris is scattered in a residential area hit by heavy rain in Kumamura, Kumamoto prefecture, southern Japan, on Tuesday. Rain threatened wider areas of the main island of Kyushu. eled to the region to try to revive Washington of using talks as a nuclear talks. distraction from Trump’s domes- Stephen Biegun, deputy secre- tic political woes. tary of state and special represen- “It is clear to us, even without Floods: Mud, debris hamper rescue workers tative for North Korea, planned meeting, with what shallow trick to meet with senior South Korean the U.S. will approach us as it has and Japanese officials during FROM FRONT PAGE neither intention nor will to go a four-day trip that began with back to the drawing board,” she An older woman told NHK tele- his arrival Tuesday on Osan Air was quoted as saying by KCNA. vision she started walking down Base. Trump and Kim have met three the road to evacuate, but floodwa- He planned to discuss coopera- times to discuss U.S.-led efforts ter rose quickly up to her neck. tion with both allies on a range of to persuade the communist state Another woman said, “I was al- issues “and further strengthen to abandon its nuclear weapons most washed away and had to coordination on the final, fully pro-gram. grab an electrical pole.” verified denuclearization” of However, talks stalled last year The Fire and Disaster Man- North Korea, according to the agement Agency said 49 victims State Department. after the two sides failed to agree on the North’s demands for sanc- were from riverside towns in the Biegun’s visit comes days after Kumamoto prefecture. Another of tions relief in exchange for a step- South Korean President Moon the dead confirmed as of Tuesday by-step disarmament process. Jae-in suggested the U.S. and morning was a woman in her 80s Biegun expressed optimism North Korean leaders meet again found inside her flooded home in last week that progress could before U.S. presidential elections another prefecture. still be made but acknowledged are held in November. About 3 million residents North Korea rejected the idea, a summit was unlikely due to the were advised to evacuate across calling Moon a “meddlesome coronavirus pandemic. Kyushu, Japan’s third-largest man,” in its second such message When asked about possible island. in less than a week. engagement between Trump Tens of thousands of army “Explicitly speaking once and Kim, he said, “I think that’s troops, police and other rescue again, we have no intention to sit probably unlikely between now workers mobilized from around face to face with the U.S.,” Kwon and the U.S. election as we see the country worked their way Jong Gun, head of the North Ko- events being canceled around the through mud and debris in the A boy walks along debris piled up at the side of a road in Hitoyoshi rean Foreign Ministry’s depart- world.” hardest-hit riverside towns along city, Kumamoto prefecture. ment of U.S. affairs, said Tuesday Biegun was to meet with South the Kuma River. Rescue opera- in a statement posted on the Korean Foreign Minister Kang tions have been hampered by the or floor and they sat on blue tarps to the Kuma River, known as the state-run Korean Central News Kyung-wha and other officials on floodwater and continuing harsh spread on the dirt ground, with “raging river” because it is joined Wednesday and to travel to Japan Agency. weather. no partitions. The village office’s by another river just upstream He also mocked the South Ko- on Thursday, according to the In Kuma village in the hardest- electricity and communications reans for trying to mediate be- foreign ministry. hit Kumamoto prefecture, dozens had been cut. and is prone to flooding. Its em- bankment fell, letting water gush tween President Donald Trump [email protected] of residents took shelter at a park. Among the victims were 14 and North Korean leader Kim Twitter: @kimgamel The roofed structure had no walls residents of a nursing home next into the nursing home. Paratrooper pleads not guilty to charges in neo-Nazi plot

BY CHAD GARLAND tions, movements and security to members jihadis, and hopes to “usher in a new impe- he claimed had since been killed. Stars and Stripes of the extremist groups the Order of the rial aeon (age) ruled by a race of Satanic FBI agents also found ISIS propaganda Nine Angles, or O9A, and the “RapeWaffen supermen,” the London-based advocacy on Melzer’s online cloud storage describing An Italy-based paratrooper pleaded not Division.” group Hope Not Hate has said. attacks and murder of U.S. personnel, the guilty this week to charges he conspired He was motivated by hatred to orches- In one message to unnamed group mem- complaint said. with a satanic neo-Nazi group to help plot trate “this ultimate act of betrayal,” Audrey bers, Melzer wrote that a lack of heavy Federal officials foiled Melzer’s plot and an ambush on his own unit during a planned Strauss, acting U.S. attorney for the South- weapons and machine guns at the base in arrested him on May 30 at Caserma Ederle deployment to Turkey. ern District of New York, said in a state- Turkey meant “every fire-team is essential- in Vicenza, Italy, home to U.S. Army Gar- Ethan Melzer, 22, entered the plea Mon- ment announcing Melzer’s indictment last ly crippled,” a federal complaint said. An rison Italy and U.S. Army Africa. day before U.S. Magistrate Judge Sarah month. attack from nearby mountains could “panic In a recorded interview with FBI and Netburn in Manhattan at a virtual hearing, A native of Louisville, Ky., Melzer enlisted the s--- outta” the troops, another chat par- military officials at that time, Melzer con- court records show. in the Army in 2018 and joined O9A in 2019, ticipant said, according to the filing. fessed that he wanted to kill as many of his The six charges he faces include con- around the time he was stationed in Italy, An infantryman with 1st Battalion, 503rd fellow soldiers as possible, the complaint spiracy to kill U.S. nationals and conspir- the indictment said. He began planning a Infantry Regiment, Melzer wanted the at- stated. He considered himself a traitor and ing and attempting to murder U.S. service “jihadi attack” in April, after he and others tack to cause a mass casualty incident, his actions treason, court filings said, citing members, which each carry a maximum in his unit were told they would deploy to an which he hoped would spur a war in Tur- the interview. sentence of life in prison. He is also charged unnamed base in Turkey, it said. key, even if the ambush resulted in his own Melzer is being held at the Metropolitan with providing support to terrorists. O9A, formed decades ago in the United death, one message said. He also said he Correctional Center in Manhattan. Public Prosecutors accused Melzer, a private Kingdom, has espoused violent, white su- “wouldn’t mind” if the group found some- defenders representing him did not respond serving with the Vicenza-based 173rd Air- premacist, anti-Semitic and satanist beliefs. one to “stir something up” in Italy and to a request for comment about his plea. borne Brigade, of using an encrypted app to The group has also expressed support for claimed to have had contacts with several [email protected] send sensitive details about his unit’s loca- Osama bin Laden and other radical Islamic Islamic State members in France — some Twitter: @chadgarland Wednesday, July 8, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 5 MILITARY Body recovered of Marine missing at sea in Japan

BY JAMES BOLINGER The sea had swells of up to AND HANA KUSUMOTO nearly 10 feet at the time of the Stars and Stripes incident, along with strong winds, the spokesman said. It’s custom- MARINE CORPS AIR STA- ary in Japan for some government TION IWAKUNI, Japan — officials to speak to the media on Searchers on Sunday recovered condition of anonymity. the body of a Marine who likely Marines of Rankin’s squad- drowned days earlier while going ron — nicknamed the Sumos — to the aid of two other swimmers. “mourn the loss of their brother Sgt. Tyler M. Rankin, 24, of at arms,” Lt. Col. Christopher Kansas City, Mo., disappeared Kocab, the squadron’s command- Thursday off the coast of Hama- er, said in Tuesday’s statement. da Beach in Shimane prefecture, “Sgt. Rankin was a true leader according to a statement Tuesday within the squadron, a subject from Marine Aircraft Group 12. matter expert within his field, MOBIUS/Wikimedia Commons He was a KC-130 Hercules me- and a great friend to many. We chanic assigned to Marine Aerial About 200 police were dispatched to break up July 4th festivities on Haeundae beach in Busan, South send our heartfelt condolences Refueler Transport Squadron 152 to all of Tyler’s family and close Korea, after receiving more than 70 complaints about fireworks and other unruly behavior by U.S. at MCAS Iwakuni. service members. friends and will never forget the The Japan Coast Guard and impact he left on all of us.” local authorities responded im- Rankin joined the Marine mediately Thursday to a call of Corps in 2014, the statement said. US troops accused of wreaking someone drowning about 11 a.m. His awards include the Navy near the Iwami Kahin camp- Meritorious Unit Commendation ground, according to the coast Ribbon, National Defense Service havoc at beach party in S. Korea guard and the Marine statement. Medal, Global War on Terrorism About 20 people affiliated with Service Medal, Good Conduct the base were visiting the beach Medal and Sea Service Deploy- BY KIM GAMEL AND YOO KYONG CHANG behavior caused the people of Busan,” the command that morning, a coast guard ment Ribbon. Stars and Stripes said in a statement. spokesman said. Rankin went missing after he swam out to res- [email protected] It called the behavior “deeply troubling” and not Twitter: @bolingerj2004 SEOUL, South Korea — The U.S. military ex- representative of “the strong respect we hold for the cue two men from the group, who [email protected] pressed regret for “disruptive behavior” Tuesday Korean people, their culture, laws and regulations.” were swept offshore. Twitter: @HanaKusumoto after American troops allegedly caused a ruckus “All commanders will take appropriate action for during a Fourth of July party that included fire- those service members determined to be involved works on a popular beach in the southern city of in this type of behavior,” it said. “USFK remains Busan. committed to being good neighbors with our host About 200 police were dispatched to break up the nation and maintaining a strong [South Korea]-U.S. US airman accused festivities Saturday on Haeundae Beach in Busan alliance.” after receiving more than 70 complaints from The statement was issued after civic groups held residents. rallies in Seoul and Busan, denouncing the troops’ of drunken driving, One soldier was briefly detained and fined for a actions and calling for an apology. misdemeanor after throwing a firework in the di- The military enjoyed a four-day weekend for In- rection of police, then trying to flee the scene, the dependence Day, but with troops and their families leaving accident scene public affairs office at the Busan Metropolitan Po- barred by coronavirus restrictions from traveling lice Agency said. outside the country, many headed to local beaches Stars and Stripes either vehicle or Trotty’s speed. Two traffic accidents and a drunken driving case instead. A breath test by police mea- involving soldiers also were reported in the area CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa Rowdy troop behavior on beaches also has been a sured Trotty’s blood alcohol con- Saturday. — An airman assigned to Kadena problem in nearby Japan. tent at twice Japan’s legal limit of “The foreigners were setting off fireworks, spar- Air Base ended his Independence The commander of Naval Base Sasebo, Capt. 0.03%, according to the spokes- klers and so on along the path leading to the beach, Brad Stallings, said last week that members of the Day under arrest on accusations man. By comparison, all 50 U.S. even throwing some toward people,” a police offi- military community had recently caused problems that he drove while drunk and left states have set 0.08 as the legal cial said, speaking on condition of anonymity in line at Shirahama Beach, leaving trash and playing loud the scene of an accident, accord- limit for driving under the influ- with department policy. music that offended local nationals. ing to Okinawa police. ence or driving while impaired. “They also installed speakers and played loud “We are going to start checking the beach peri- Staff Sgt. Tavarus M. Trotty, Trotty was still in custody Tues- music. They clogged up the road, did not make way odically to ensure members of the base community 24, was taken into custody after day morning, the spokesman said. for cars and flipped folks off.” aren’t misbehaving there,” Stallings said in a Face- a taxi driver reported that he had His case, which remains under U.S. Forces Korea said it was aware of disruptive book post on June 29. “If another incident happens, struck another vehicle at 5:35 a.m. behavior and poor conduct reports in Busan and the beach will be secured.” and then left the area, a spokes- investigation, was referred to the promised to cooperate with South Korean law en- man for the Urasoe Police Station Naha District Public Prosecutors [email protected] Office on Sunday, the spokesman forcement authorities to identify those responsible. Twitter: @kimgamel said Tuesday. The driver followed “We regret the inconvenience and disruption this [email protected] Trotty, whom police arrested an said. The charges are driving hour later when he stopped not far under the influence and failing to from the accident scene. report an accident. Trotty injured his forehead, Kadena’s 18th Wing did not im- Soldier dies in noncombat incident in Kosovo which struck the windshield, and mediately respond to requests for also suffered a minor cut when comment Tuesday. Driving under the influence Stars and Stripes he hit the other car, according to Pfc. Alexander Blake Klass, 20, Klass was assigned to 2nd Bat- the spokesman. It’s customary in may result in up to three years of Willamina, Ore., died Saturday talion, 162nd Infantry Regiment, in prison or up to $4,672 in fines, An Oregon National Guard Japan for some government of- “as the result of a noncombat re- 41st Infantry Brigade Combat according to Japan’s Ministry of soldier has died while support- ficials to speak to the media on lated incident,” a statement said. Team out of Springfield, Ore., the condition of anonymity. Internal Affairs and Communica- ing the Operation Joint Guardian The death, which happened at statement said. The spokesman said the driver tions. Failing to report an accident peacekeeping mission in Kosovo, Camp Novo Selo near Vushtrri in No other information was whose car Trotty allegedly struck may result in up to three months the Pentagon announced Monday the northern part of the country, available. suffered no injuries. Police did in prison or up to $467 in fines. evening. is under investigation. [email protected] not detail the extent of damage to [email protected] PAGE 6 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Wednesday, July 8, 2020 PACIFIC Army mounts first large-scale drill since pandemic hit

BY WYATT OLSON munity our top priority,” he said. Stars and Stripes As of Tuesday, Hawaii had 1,030 verified cases of the virus, FORT SHAFTER, Hawaii — with 19 deaths, according to the Roughly 5,500 soldiers with the state Department of Health. Re- 25th Infantry Division will join cent weeks have seen an increase the annual Lightning Forge ex- in daily new cases, often in the ercise in Hawaii beginning Tues- double digits. day, the division’s first large-scale The state has gradually eased training since the coronavirus a stringent stay-at-home order is- pandemic hit in the spring. sued in early April, but new cases The exercise runs through July in June were about six times 21 and will be held in training higher than those in May. areas across the island of Oahu, In response, Kirk Caldwell, according to an Army statement mayor of the city and county of on Friday. Honolulu, on Thursday expanded The division began a gradual a mandate requiring face masks return to group training in early be worn in all indoor public spac- May as new cases of COVID-19, es — including workplaces that the disease caused by the virus, do not deal with the public — and MICHAEL BRADLE/U.S. Army began tapering off. in outdoors areas where physical “During this time of COVID- distancing is not possible. A soldier with the 25th Infantry Division assembles an M240 at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, on June 25 19, and as our country continues The Army has generally abid- during preparation for the Lightning Forge exercise that runs through July 21. a gradual return to normal, the ed by county and state orders need for the Army to maintain regarding the pandemic, but it Hawaii, said in a Facebook video exercise. Center in Fort Polk, La. a mission-ready force is more remains undecided how, or if, the Thursday. Training sites include Scho- Two large-scale helicopter op- important than ever,” Maj. Gen. mask order will be implemented The Lightning Forge training field Barracks, the East Range, erations will be conducted near James Jarrard, the division com- on Oahu’s two Army bases, Scho- will focus on the 2nd Brigade Dillingham Army Airfield, the Dillingham Army Airfield on mander, said in the statement. field Barracks and Fort Shafter. Wednesday and Thursday. “Just as we approached the “Army leadership is review- Combat Team, with support per- Kahuku Training Area and Basi- COVID-19 crisis, our approach ing the city and county require- sonnel drawn from across the lan Drop Zone. The Army has advised Oahu to Exercise Lightning Forge will ments, but all personnel must division. Lightning Forge prepares a residents slow-moving military be transparent, thoughtful, and follow the requirements when About 150 infantry soldiers brigade combat team each year convoys could affect traffic flow. deliberate, with the health safety going off base,” Col. Tom Barrett, from the Royal Thai Army’s 3rd for a training rotation at the U.S. [email protected] of our soldiers, families, and com- commander of Army Garrison Infantry Division will join the Army’s Joint Readiness Training Twitter: @WyattWOlson Okinawa base shelters in place after a few positive tests

BY DAVE ORNAUER effect at 2:49 p.m. and was lifted about four mine any additional potential exposures.” The infections were announced less than AND AYA ICHIHASHI hours later. There has been no change in the health- a week after the Marine Corps reported its Stars and Stripes Those who tested positive have been protection level for installations on Oki- first coronavirus case on Okinawa, a fam- moved into isolation, along with their close nawa, which remain at “moderate” risk, ily member of a Marine who tested posi- CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — The U.S. contacts, according to a Marine Corps according to an email from Marine spokes- tive July 1 after returning from the United military ordered personnel at Marine statement issued Tuesday evening. It did man 1st Lt. Timothy Hayes. States. Corps Air Station Futenma on Okinawa not say how many are infected or whether “We are taking all prudent measures to That case was the first on the island pre- to shelter in place Tuesday after “sev- they are on active duty. prevent the further spread of COVID-19 fecture since April 30. eral” people there tested positive for the “At this time, the source of exposure is and will continue to communicate with [email protected] coronavirus. unknown,” the statement said. “Military our forces, our families and our local Oki- Twitter: @DaveOrnauer The order, issued via a mass email alert leadership and health professionals have nawan communities openly,” the Marine [email protected] by Marine Corps Installations Pacific, took employed a contact tracing team to deter- statement said. Twitter: @AyaIchihashi State Department approves sale of Ospreys to Indonesia

BY SETH ROBSON infrared radars, missile warning systems, “This proposed sale will support the said during a press conference Tuesday Stars and Stripes multi-band radios, airborne GPS, machine foreign policy goals and national security that his nation’s first Osprey was sched- guns and various other equipment along objectives of the United States by improv- uled to arrive at the base Monday, but its The State Department has approved the with software, training for personnel and ing the security of an important regional delivery was delayed by bad weather. The sale of eight MV-22 Osprey tiltrotor air- U.S. government and contractor engineer- partner that is a force for political stabil- aircraft would travel to Kisarazu “hereaf- craft to Indonesia, the Defense Security ing, logistics and technical support, the ity, and economic progress in the Asia- ter” weather permitting, he said. Cooperation Agency announced Monday. statement said. Pacific region,” the agency’s statement The announcement comes as Japan pre- Indonesia, the world’s most populous said. “It is vital to U.S. national interest to U.S. forces in the Far East include Air pares to deploy its first of 17 Ospreys to Muslim nation with territory spread across assist Indonesia in developing and main- Force CV-22 Ospreys stationed at Yokota Camp Kisarazu, a Japan Ground Self-De- more than 17,000 islands, employs a large taining a strong and effective self-defense Air Base, Tokyo, and Kadena Air Base, fense Force airfield in Chiba Prefecture. fleet of conventional military aircraft for capability.” Okinawa. The Marine Corps has flown Os- The total cost to Indonesia for the heli- disaster relief and in a decades long fight The proposed sale will enhance Indo- preys out of Okinawa since 2012. copter/airplane hybrids along with related against Islamic extremists. Like several nesia’s humanitarian and disaster relief Stars and Stripes reporter Hana Kusumoto con- equipment is estimated at $2 billion, the other Southeast Asia nations, Indonesia capabilities and support amphibious op- tributed to this report. agency said in a statement. claims South China Sea territory that is erations, the statement added. [email protected] The sale includes 24 Rolls Royce engines, also claimed by China. Japanese Defense Minister Taro Kono Twitter: @SethRobson1 Wednesday, July 8, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 7 VIRUS OUTBREAK Supply: Association says its nursing homes received unusable items from FEMA

FROM FRONT PAGE last week ahead of a congres- When the crisis first exploded sional committee hearing that in March and April in hot spots raised concerns about looming such as New York City, the situa- problems in the supply chain. tion was so desperate that nurses Her report was based on inter- turned plastic garbage bags into views with unnamed employees protective gowns. The lack of at medical supply companies, one equipment forced states and hos- of whom warned that raw mate- pitals to compete against each rial for gowns is not available at other, the federal government any price in the amounts needed, and other countries in desperate, leading to an “unsustainable” expensive bidding wars. situation. In general, supplies of protec- Rear Adm. John Polowczyk, tive gear are more robust now, who is in charge of coronavirus- and many states and major hospi- related supplies for the White tal chains say they are in better House, told Congress last week shape. But medical professionals that more than one-fourth of the and some lawmakers have cast states have less than a 30-day doubt on those improvements as supply. shortages begin to reappear. “It would seem like in less than Dr. Aisha Terry, an associate 30 days, we’re going to have a real professor of emergency medicine crisis,” said Rep. Bill Foster, an at George Washington University Illinois Democrat. in Washington, said that she has FEMA, which manages the na- good access to PPE, but some tion’s stockpile, would not break non-academic and rural health down which states have enough LYNNE SLADKY/AP facilities have much less. gear to last beyond 30 days and “I think overall, production, which do not. In June, the gov- A health care worker carries a stack of clipboards at a COVID-19 testing site at the Martin Luther King distribution and access has im- ernment started replenishing its Jr. Clinica Campesina Health Center on Monday in Homestead, Fla. proved,” Terry said. “But the fear once-depleted stockpile with the is that we will become compla- goal of building up a two-month nursing homes said most items cent“ and allow supplies to dwin- supply. sent by FEMA in early June were dle in some places. As of June 10, FEMA had dis- unusable, including child-size In a let ter to Congress last week, tributed or directed private com- gloves, surgical masks with ear the health department in DuPage panies to distribute more than 74 loops that broke when stretched County, Ill. , near Chicago, said all million N95 masks and 66 million and isolation gowns with no arm hospitals in the county are reus- pairs of gloves, along with other openings. ing protective gear “in ways that gear. The agency said it changed A nonprofit group called were not originally intended and its distribution method to send #GetUsPPE was established in are probably less safe than the more equipment to hot spots. March by physicians to help dis- optimal use of PPE.” Although all U.S. states and tribute donated protective gear. The DuPage County depart- territories have received some The group had a 200% increase ment is a supplier of last resort protective gear from FEMA, an in requests during the last two Associated Press analysis of the that steps in when facilities have weeks of June from medical pro- agency’s own data found that less than two weeks’ worth of viders in Texas, a state with a big gear. As of Monday, it had only the amounts varied widely when surge in confirmed virus cases. nine days of some supplies at the measured by population and the State officials there have said current request level. A rise in number of confirmed COVID-19 new infections could make the cases. their supplies are adequate. supply go much faster. The AP analysis found that low- “We anticipated that we would The American Medical Associ- population, mostly rural states need to be around for a few weeks ation wrote to the Federal Emer- received the largest FEMA allo- until someone else stepped in and gency Management Agency, Vice cations per confirmed case. As of and Nebraska, all of which have supplies make up a small part of solved this problem,” said Dr. President Mike Pence and mem- mid-June, for example, Montana seen a surge in confirmed infec- their stockpiles after they spent Megan Ranney, an emergency bers of Congress calling for a co- had received 1,125 items of pro- tions, received among the lowest millions of dollars to acquire physician at Rhode Island Hos- ordinated national strategy to buy tective gear per case, compared amounts of protective gear from equipment on their own. pital who was among the group’s and allocate gear. with 32 items per case in Mas- FEMA per case, according to the Concerns extend beyond the founders. “Here we are, still get- Rep. Carolyn Maloney, a New sachusetts, an early hot spot. AP analysis. amount of gear. In New Hamp- ting hundreds of thousands of re- York Democrat, released a memo States including California, Iowa Many states say the federal shire, an association representing quests a week.” Brazil’s President Bolsonaro tests positive for COVID-19

Associated Press thought I had the virus, and that it would be consequences of the virus that was planned for this week. He it before, nothing more than a “little flu” you have to worry about. Life will continue working via vid- RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil’s given my were he to contract it. He also re- goes on. Brazil needs to produce. eoconference and receive rare President Jair Bolsonaro said very dynam- peatedly said that there is no way You need to get the economy in visitors when he needs to sign a Tuesday he has tested positive for ic activity. to prevent 70% of the population gear,” he said. document, he said. COVID-19 after months of down- I’m president falling ill with COVID-19, and Cities and states last month The president underwent an playing the virus’ severity. and on the that local authorities’ measures began lifting restrictions that X-ray of his lungs Monday after Bolsonaro, 65, confirmed the combat lines. to shut down economic activ- had been imposed to control the experiencing fever, muscle aches test results while wearing a mask I like to be in ity would ultimately cause more spread of the virus, as their sta- and malaise, he told reporters. and speaking to reporters in the the middle of hardship than allowing the virus tistical curves of deaths began to As of Tuesday, his fever had sub- capital, Brasilia, and said he is al- the people.” to run its course. decline along with the occupation sided, he said, and attributed the ready taking hydroxychloroquine Bolsonaro The popu- Bolsonaro on Tuesday repeat- rate of its intensive-care units. improvement to hydroxychloro- — an anti-malarial unproven to list has often ed those sentiments, comparing Brazil, the world’s sixth most quine, which he has promoted de- effectively treat COVID-19. appeared in public to shake hands the virus to a rain that will fall populous nation, with more than spite growing medical consensus “I’m well, normal. I even want with supporters and mingle with on most people, and that some, 210 million people, is one of the it does not combat COVID-19. He to take a walk around here, but crowds, at times without a mask. like the elderly, must take greater global hot spots of the pandemic. stepped back from the journal- I can’t due to medical recom- He has said that his history as an care. Bolsonaro said he has canceled ists and removed his mask at one mendations,” Bolsonaro said. “I athlete would protect him from “You can’t just talk about the a trip to the northeast region that point to show that he looks well. PAGE 8 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Wednesday, July 8, 2020 VIRUS OUTBREAK Study: Benefits of aid extended beyond needy

BY CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AND JOYCE M. ROSENBERG By the numbers Associated Press WASHINGTON — The gov- ernment on Monday identified roughly 650,000 mostly small $521B businesses and nonprofits that re- ceived taxpayer money through a federal program that was de- Amount doled out by the signed to soften job losses from the coronavirus but also benefited Treasury Department’s wealthy, well-connected compa- Payroll Protection Program nies and celebrity owned firms. through June 30. The Treasury Department’s Payroll Protection Program ap- JAKE SHANE, (QUINCY, ILL.) HERALD-WHIG/AP proved applicants from a broad Pawnshop owner Lionel Hammond said sales of his West Quincy, Mo., store have been off the charts swath of industries. Some that 7.5M and that he can’t keep merchandise on the shelves as buyers are using their governmental stimulus were less directly impacted by money to buy firearms, jewelry, televisions and other electronics. the pandemic, such as manufac- turing and construction, received Jobs added by employers a greater proportion of the loans in May and June, driven in than the hard-hit restaurant and Pandemic, stimulus checks hotel industries. Many law firms part by the program. and private equity companies also obtained loans. spawn boom for pawnshops Businesses owned by politi- cians also borrowed from the pro- $107K gram, including a minor league BY ETHAN COLBERT baseball team owned by the fami- ‘ ly of the governor of Ohio. A large Average loan amount for The (Quincy, Ill.) Herald-Whig When I talk to my friends who own pawn- franchisee of Wendy’s, Taco Bell the program. QUINCY, Ill. — Providers shops, they all tell me the same thing — it and Pizza Hut restaurants, whose of fast money, pawnshops have CEO is a major donor to President is a buying spree like no one has seen. SOURCE: Associated Press taken on an enhanced profile in Donald Trump, received loans to- an economy turned upside down Lionel Hammond’ taling $15 to $30 million. program with helping prevent the by the coronavirus. pawn shop owner in West Quincy, Mo. Other recipients included job market meltdown from being “We were an essential business Kanye West’s clothing and sneak- worse. Employers added 7.5 mil- because we have loans. Not ev- er brand Yeezy, Ice Cube’s profes- lion jobs in May and June, a solid eryone can ... afford or qualify for sional basketball league, Planned stimulus checks, which provided shelves because manufacturers increase that was probably driven a loan at a bank, so for a while we up to $1,200 to millions of Ameri- and other retailers are closed. Parenthood clinics in more than in part by the PPP. The economy were thinking we were going to can taxpayers, as the reason they Pigg said he was having simi- two dozen states, the nonprofit still has nearly 15 million fewer be pretty busy,” said Mike Pigg, are seeing this boom in spending lar difficulties. arm of the anti-tax group headed jobs than before the pandemic. who has owned Mike’s Jewelry that got its start in late April and by Grover Norquist, Americans Research by the Federal Re- “Electronics just flew out the and Loan since 2011. early May. The stimulus checks for Tax Reform, as well as Rosen- serve found that companies with door. We can’t keep electronics in Instead of being busy provid- were intended to encourage cash- blatt Securities, one of the biggest fewer than 50 workers before the stock, especially game systems. names on the floor of the New ing loans, Pigg and West Quincy strapped Americans to spur eco- People have been home for so pandemic saw their hiring rise Pawn Shop owner Lionel Ham- York Stock Exchange. nomic growth as the nation looked long now that they are coming in 12% in May, while jobs grew just mond said the pawnshops have As of June 30, the program to economically rebound after the and wanting to buy a new gaming 5% in larger firms, suggesting been swamped with customers had handed out $521 billion. The economy ground to a halt due to system or something to simply PPP helped fuel rehiring. coming in buying guns, jewelry, Treasury Department identified the pandemic. give them something to do,” Pigg Many small businesses have electronics and other goods. just a fraction of the borrowers already run through their PPP “Honestly, when the coronavi- said. Monday, naming companies that “Right now, we are still see- rus hit, it hit at a time when it’s money and face smaller demand, ing people coming in with their And like any other essential got more than $150,000. Those as consumers are wary of return- our Christmas time. We normally stimulus checks, and they are in business, pawnshop owners and firms made up less than 15% of ing to habits of shopping, visiting see a lot of people coming in and a buying mood. Never in all of my managers have made some ad- the nearly 5 million small entities gyms, or eating out. Texas, Flor- buying because they have their justments to their store since years, have I seen anything like income tax returns, but this year that received loans. ida, California, New York and mid-March to prevent the spread this,” said Hammond, who has there was no one coming in. Peo- Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and other states have reversed their of the virus, including altered owned West Quincy Pawn since ple were using their income tax chairman of the Small Business reopenings, closing bars and de- hours, adding hand sanitizing sta- Committee that crafted the pro- 1995. money to live on, not to buy things laying the onset of indoor dining. tions at the front door, plex iglass gram, said the release of the data “This is the time of the year like electronics or jewelry. It got The program provided loans of at the counter, and signs encour- provided “much- needed trans- that people borrow money be- so bad here that I wasn’t sure if up to $10 million for small busi- aging store patrons to maintain parency.” He called the program cause they are going to go and do we were going to be able to pull nesses to help them recover from social distancing. “a historic lifeline” for small the government-ordered shut- fun things, take vacations, week- out of it,” Pigg said. Both Pigg and Hammond say businesses. downs and revenue losses caused end trips or just do something fun Sales are up in many pawn- they anticipate the buying frenzy Senate Democratic leader by the virus. The average loan with their family. Because of the shops, according to data from Chuck Schumer described the amount for the entire program pandemic and not being able to various trade organizations. will likely stretch into mid-July data release as a “good start” but was $107,000, the Treasury De- work, many people are not going “When I talk to my friends who as the volume of sales continues lamented that it took so long and partment said in a broad sum- to do those fun things. They are own pawnshops, they all tell me to slow. “so much pressure from Demo- mary of the program. instead looking for something to the same thing — it is a buying “It is starting to slow, but as crats” to make it public. He said The loans can be forgiven if do that is fun at home, and for a spree like no one has seen,” Ham- for how long it lasts who knows,” more transparency was needed businesses mostly use the money while, we were one of the few mond said. Hammond said. “It is bound to “to ensure that these taxpayer to continue paying workers. The places that was open for people He explained that while busi- end eventually. Right now, peo- dollars went where Congress in- program initially was set to ex- to buy anything fun,” Hammond ness was allowed to stay open ple are starting to need money tended — to the truly small and pire June 30 but was extended said. during the first wave of the pan- and loans again so maybe we are underbanked small businesses.” last week to Aug. 8, with $132 bil- Hammond and Pigg both credit- demic, he is now having a hard about ready to have normal times Economists generally credit the lion still available. ed the federal government-issued time keeping merchandise on the again.” Wednesday, July 8, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 9 VIRUS OUTBREAK Schools debating over how and if to reopen

BY PATRICK WHITTLE with so much still uncertain about AND CAROLYN THOMPSON the virus. Associated Press Districts are worried about being able to afford added sup- PORTLAND, Maine — School plies — including masks and districts across America are in more buses. And school officials the midst of making wrenching said the resurgence of virus cases decisions over how to resume underway could shatter reopen- classes in settings radically al- ing plans before they’re even put tered by the coronavirus pan- in place. demic, with school buses running Aimee Rodriguez Webb, a spe- below capacity, virtual learning, cial education teacher in Cobb outdoor classrooms and quaran- County, G a., is wrestling with her tine protocols for infected chil- own health concerns while wait- dren the new norm. ing to hear her district’s plans. The plans for the upcoming She also has a 3 year old. school year are taking shape by “I love being in the classroom. the day and vary district to dis- And this year I get my own class- trict, state to state. The debates room, so I was looking forward have been highly emotional, with to decorating it and all that,” she tempers flaring among parents said. “But then the flip side is … and administrators, and have I don’t know that I’m mentally been made all the more vexing ready to step into the unknown by record numbers of COVID-19 like that.” cases being reported each day. Schools around the United In Florida, some school dis- States shut down suddenly this tricts want students back in the classroom in early August, year as coronavirus cases first even though the virus is surging began rising. That led to a hodge- SETH WENIG/AP through communities. On aver- podge of distance learning, on- the-fly homeschooling and, for age, Florida has reported more Olivia Chan’s father helps her with a new mask she received during a graduation ceremony for her Pre-K than 7,000 new cases each day re- some families, a lack of any school class in front of Bradford School in Jersey City, N.J. cently — more than seven times at all. Districts are now turning what it was reporting a month their focus to how to create more is for all elementary students to students physically present in In order to keep kids a safe ago. structured environments. return to school full time on Aug. school.” distance apart on school buses, New Mexico, which has been But the debates have been 10. Older students would rely on I n C ape El i zabet h, M a ine, Shael districts will need more vehicles largely spared major outbreaks, filled with tension. Near Roches- virtual learning while they are Norris said she’s particularly con- — an especially thorny issue for plans a hybrid model of virtual ter, N.Y., parents rallied in favor phased back into brick-and-mor- cerned about children who could rural districts, where students and in-person learning. Parents of fully opening schools, holding tar schools. face abuse at home and parents travel vast distances. New Mex- in New York have demanded signs outside an administration But that proposal isn’t set in who risk losing their jobs to care ico has issued guidelines that schools reopen in the fall. And in building June 29 saying: “No nor- stone amid a surge in infections. for their kids. Norris has two chil- buses should be run at 50% ca- Maine, more outdoor learning is mal school? No school taxes!” The county recorded its highest dren set to attend high school in pacity, according to Nancy Mar- planned. Districts nationwide are Christina Higley, a parent in number of new cases in a single the fall and runs a nonprofit that tira, a spokeswoman for the state coming up with various rules for the Rochester suburb of Webster, day in late June. combats sexual assault. Department of Education. wearing masks. Some want all said she started a Facebook group If a student tests positive for “There are so many equally Many districts plan to lean students to wear them. Others, initially to demand answers and the virus in the new school year, important risks, and we’re fo- heavily on federal bailout money such as Marion County, Ind., plan have a say in what school would classrooms or whole buildings cused entirely on COVID,” she to pay for their extra transporta- to limit the requirement to older look like, but the discussions would need to be disinfected, said said. “But I get it. It’s scary.” tion needs. children. there sparked a movement for re- Mike Barber, a district spokes- Maine never saw a major out- It’s all adding up to an anxious Each of these decisions is opening schools. man. Students and staff with break, and it is now reporting, start to the school year. fraught, trying to balance health “There’s a lot of parents that confirmed infections wouldn’t on average, a few dozen cases “Nobody has really laid out a concerns with clawing back as are saying, ‘Open our schools, be able to return until they had each day. Still, the state’s largest clear plan for how you’re going to much normalcy as possible. Par- let us have the decision if we feel tested negative twice. school district of Portland has left keep kids safe, especially smaller ents, wrung out after months of comfortable sending the children Meanwhile, medical experts all the options on the table: a full kids who are not going to be able juggling full-time work and full- in to them,’” said Higley, whose have expressed concerns for chil- reopening, a partial reopening or to social distance all day, and time home schooling, are desper- children just finished kindergar- dren’s development and mental fully remote learning. they’re going to touch things and ate for help. Children, isolated ten, third and fifth grade. health. The American Academy The district sent a letter to take their mask off,” said Duncan from their peers, are yearning for The decisions are even more of Pediatrics said it “strongly ad- parents that said it plans to use Kirkwood, whose 9- and 11-year- social interaction. And everyone, complicated in districts where vocates that all policy consider- outdoor space when possible — a old daughters attend the Charter including teachers, is concerned the case count is rising. In Mana- ations for the coming school year solution for only a few months a School for Applied Technologies about stepping into the unknown, tee County, Fla, the working plan should start with a goal of having year, given Maine’s weather. in Buffalo, N.Y. New at Saudi hajj: Bottled holy water and sterilized pebbles

BY AYA BATRAWY Monday as Saudi authorities pre- of the virus, with infection rates annual pilgrimage, which usually In other developments in the Associated Press pare for a very limited hajj, which rising by 3,000-4,000 cases daily. draws about 2.5 million people, Middle East, Iran’s health min- for the first time will not include More than 213,000 people have saying its decision was aimed at istry on Tuesday announced the DUBAI, United Arab Emirates pilgrims from outside the coun- contracted the virus in the king- preserving global public health. highest single-day spike in deaths — Saudi Arabia has issued guide- try. Instead, the kingdom said that dom so far, including 1,968 who At the hajj, the crowds move, from coronavirus, with 200 new lines for about 1,000 pilgrims who 70% of pilgrims allowed to make have died. pray and stand in extremely close fatalities. Spokeswoman Sima will be allowed to perform the the pilgrimage this year will be The new guidelines also man- proximity, often squeezed shoul- Sadat Lari said that was an in- hajj pilgrimage in Mecca later from among foreign residents of date that the foreign residents der-to-shoulder, as they carry out crease of 40 from Monday, when this month, an experience that Saudi Arabia and 30% would be making this year’s pilgrimage five days of rites around Mecca. 160 were reported to have died of will be unlike any before because of the coronavirus pandemic. Saudi citizens. should be between the ages of As part of the new safety mea- COVID-19. The pilgrims will be only be Saudi pilgrims will be selected 20 and 50, and that they have not sures this year, authorities said She blamed the spike on large able to drink holy water from the from among health care workers performed the hajj before. The anyone participating in the hajj gatherings for weddings and Zamzam well in Mecca that is and security personnel who have pilgrims will have to quarantine will not be allowed to touch the other ceremonies, where people packaged in plastic bottles, and recovered from COVID-19, the before and after the hajj, and they cube-shaped Kaaba, which is do not observe distancing regula- pebbles for casting away evil that illness caused by the virus. The will be tested for the coronavirus. Islam’s holiest site and the meta- tions. Iran on Sunday instituted are usually picked up by pilgrims government said their selection Those eligible have until Friday phorical house of God. mandatory mask-wearing even along hajj routes will be steril- represents a “token of apprecia- to submit an application through Pilgrims this year will also as its public increasingly shrugs ized and bagged ahead of time. tion for their role in providing the Hajj Ministry’s website. have to wear masks, maintain off the danger of the virus. Iran Pilgrims will also have to bring care” during the pandemic. Saudi Arabia has dramatically physical distance during prayers has reported more than 245,000 their own prayer rugs. Saudi Arabia has one of the scaled back the hajj due to con- and sleep in tents that follow cases of the virus so far and The guidelines were announced Middle East’s largest outbreaks cerns about overcrowding at the guidelines on social distancing. 11,931 deaths. PAGE 10 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Wednesday, July 8, 2020 VIRUS OUTBREAK ROUNDUP Foreign students must leave US if college is online

Associated Press tal Association, said hospitals are managing, but the trends are International students will be concerning. forced to leave the United States or transfer to another college if their schools offer classes entirely California online this fall, under new guide- SACRAMENTO — A corona- lines issued Monday by federal virus outbreak is closing Cali- immigration authorities. fornia’s Capitol and forcing the The guidelines, issued by U.S. Assembly to put off its return to Immigration and Customs En- work as infection and hospitaliza- forcement, provide additional tion rates soar across the state. pressure for universities to re- Assemblywoman Autumn open even amid growing con- Burke, a Democrat from Ingle- cerns about the recent spread of wood, tweeted Monday that she COVID-19 among young adults. was exposed to COVID-19 by Colleges received the guidance someone when the Assembly met the same day that some institu- on June 26 to pass a $202.1 bil- tions, including Harvard Univer- lion budget, even though she and sity, announced that all instruction others were wearing masks and BEN MARGOT/AP will be offered remotely. observing physical distancing President Donald Trump has requirements. A masked man walks past outdoor diners at San Pedro Square on Monday in San Jose, Calif. The insisted that schools and colleges Four other people who work Independence Day weekend saw one of Santa Clara County’s largest increases in COVID-19 cases return to in-person instruction as in the Assembly have also tested to date, which came as the state of California denied the county’s application for further reopening of soon as possible. Soon after the positive for the virus, Speaker An- businesses and activities. guidance was released, Trump thony Rendon’s office confirmed repeated on Twitter that schools without indicating whether they COVID-19 disease. Gunn announced Sunday that on system and about one-third of must reopen this fall, adding that were lawmakers or staff. Baton Rouge’s mayor, Sharon he had tested positive for the the 322 total infections reported Democrats want to keep schools The Speaker’s office said the Weston Broome, said most of the coronavirus. among its inmate population as of closed “for political reasons, not Capitol building would be closed sites will open Tuesday and oper- Monday afternoon. for health reasons.” until further notice for “cleaning ate seven days a week from 8 a.m. Oregon Thus far, 146 staff members Under the updated rules, in- and sanitizing.” to 4 p.m., with a goal of testing as across the agency have reported ternational students must take at many as 5,000 people a day. The PENDLETON — A spike in testing positive for the virus. least some of their classes in per- Florida federally supported test locations, COVID-19 cases in Umatilla Tyger River is a medium-secu- son. New visas will not be issued which will use a self-adminis- County has been fueled in part by rity men’s prison in Enoree, about to students at schools or programs FORT LAUDERDALE — tered nasal swab, will remain up sick employees returning to work, 75 miles northwest of Columbia. that are entirely online. And even Florida’s largest county is again and running through July 18. as the economy there reopens, Last week, prison officials con- at colleges offering a mix of in- severely limiting its restaurants Broome enacted a mask re- without realizing they have the firmed that a 58-year-old inmate person and online courses this and fully closing gyms and other quirement last week for anyone virus because their symptoms there had died of complications fall, international students will indoor venues weeks after they entering a business around the are mild, a local public health of- from COVID-19, a week after be barred from taking all their reopened because a spike in coro- city, as the region sees sizable in- ficial told a newspaper. being hospitalized for his symp- classes online. navirus cases is creating a short- creases in virus cases and hospi- The county’s largest workplace toms. Stanley Smith was the third The American Council on Edu- age of intensive care unit beds at talizations, including an outbreak outbreak is at the Lamb Weston South Carolina state prison in- cation, which represents universi- its hospitals. traced to a cluster of bars near potato factory in Hermiston, The mate to die in the outbreak. ty presidents, said the guidelines Miami-Dade County Mayor the Louisiana State University Oregonian/OregonLive reported. are “horrifying” and will result Carlos Gimenez said Monday campus. The Oregon Health Authority West Virginia in confusion as schools look for that starting Wednesday, restau- The new testing sites — located reported 168 new confirmed or ways to reopen safely. rants will be limited to outdoor at LSU, Southern University, Cor- presumptive cases of COVID-19 West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice dining, takeout and delivery ser- tana Mall, a megachurch location statewide on Monday, bringing on Monday instituted a manda- A labama vice, and gyms, banquet halls and and a multipurpose event center the total to 10,395. There were no tory face mask order for indoor short-term vacation rentals like in neighboring Ascension Parish new deaths reported; 215 people spaces after the state reported MONTGOMERY — The num- those available on Airbnb will be — will be supported by the Loui- have died statewide since the be- record numbers of coronavirus ber of COVID-19 patients in Ala- closed. Bars are already closed siana National Guard and other ginning of the pandemic. cases over the weekend. bama hospitals rose to a new high statewide and restaurants were state agencies. Results are ex- A surge of cases — more than The Republican’s executive of 1,000 on Monday as health of- limited to 50% capacity indoors. pected to take three to five days, 630 — has hit rural Umatilla order, which goes into effect at ficials continued to urge people to Gimenez had initially said that according to the mayor’s office. County hard. The county 210 midnight, requires everyone over wear masks and take precautions restaurants would be closed to all miles east of Portland has 2% of the age of 9 to wear the face cov- amid an uptick in cases. dining, but in a statement Monday Mississippi the state’s population but has ac- erings inside buildings when so- Alabama on Thursday saw the evening, the mayor said that after counted for nearly one-fifth of cial distancing isn’t possible. highest number of cases reported meeting with medical experts JACKSON — Mississippi’s Re- Oregon’s case count over the past New confirmed virus cases in one day, at 1,700, and on Mon- and the restaurant industry group publican governor said Monday week. in the state have risen sharply day had more than 1,000 people that his emergency order “will he is isolating himself after com- in the last two weeks, with state hospitalized with COVID-19, the allow for outdoor dining, where ing into contact with a member South Carolina health officials having recorded highest number since the pan- possible, to continue with restric- of the state House of Representa- 118 infections Saturday and 76 demic began. tions.” Those limits include no tives who tested positive for the COLUMBIA — More than on Sunday, both figures topping Alabama is recently averaging more than four people at a table coronavirus. 100 inmates have been infected previous daily highs since the about 1,000 new cases per day, with appropriate distancing and In a tweet Monday, Gov. Tate with COVID-19 in a South Caro- outbreak began. according to the Department of music to be played at a level that Reeves said he received a virus lina prison where one inmate has Justice and his health officials Public Health. Since the pan- does not require shouting. test and is awaiting results. already died from the disease have been urging West Virgin- demic began, more than 44,000 Reeves did not identify the caused by the coronavirus. ians to wear masks as cases people in the state have tested Louisiana lawmaker, only that he came According to numbers on the ticked up, with outbreaks linked positive for COVID-19, and 984 into contact with the individual website of the South Carolina to out-of-state tourism travel and people have died after contract- BATON ROUGE — The federal “briefly” last week. Reeves was Department of Corrections, 124 church services. Still, the gover- ing the illness. government is setting up five new visibly in close contact last week inmates at the Tyger River Cor- nor had stopped short of issuing State Health Officer Scott Har- drive-thru coronavirus testing with House Speaker Philip Gunn rectional Institution have been a mask order, saying it would be ris and Dr. Don Williamson, the sites in Louisiana’s capital city during the signing of a bill that diagnosed with the disease. That politically divisive and difficult to former state health officer who region, which has been seeing removed the Confederate emblem represents the largest outbreak enforce. On Monday, he said he now heads the Alabama Hospi- spikes in confirmed cases of the from Mississippi’s state flag. throughout South Carolina’s pris- could wait no longer. Wednesday, July 8, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 11 NATION Trump’s June may be November issue for GOP

BY ALAN FRAM South Dakota, said last week. He officials. Associated Press said GOP candidates “need to do He held his first campaign rally what they need to do to win. And in the coronavirus era in Tulsa, WASHINGTON — President in some states, he will be a ben- Okla., where many in the small Donald Trump’s June began with efit in some parts of the country. crowd wore no masks. his Bible-clutching photo op out- In other parts of the country, less John Bolton, his former na- side a church after authorities so.“ tional security adviser, released used chemicals and batons to “It’s been a little bit of a rough a book claiming Trump asked scatter peaceful demonstrators. It patch, but there’s a lot of good China’s president to buy more never got less jarring or divisive. stuff to be talking about,” said farm products to bolster his re- By the time it ended, he was Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., cit- election. Trump also used the downplaying a coronavirus pan- ing strong June rehiring numbers month to refuse to erase Confed- demic upsurge that was forcing and a revamped North American erate commanders’ names from Western and Southern states to trade deal. Cramer said candi- U.S. military bases, retweet an throttle back their partial reopen- dates should focus on their own image of a Florida supporter ing of businesses. And Republi- issues “and to the degree that in- shouting, “White power!” and can strategists already straining cludes their work with the presi- question reports that Russia had to retain Senate control in No- dent, fine. To the degree that it’s placed bounties on U.S. troops in vember’s elections were conced- independent, that’s fine, too.“ Afghanistan. ing that Trump’s performance Republicans control the Senate “Republican Senate candi- could make it harder to defend 53-47. Democrats must gain three dates will have to defend things their majority. seats to win the majority if they One said key Republicans win the White House because of President Trump says and does were telling Trump they’re wor- the vice president’s tie-breaking between now and Election Day,” ried about his campaign and he vote, four if they don’t. said Rory Cooper, a Republican PATRICK SEMANSKY/AP should heed polls showing him in Even measured against the strategist and longtime Trump trouble. Another pointed to sur- President Donald Trump holds a Bible as he visits outside St. John’s warp-speed news cycle that’s foe. Cooper said many Trump po- veys showing diminished public Church near the White House on June 1. Some Republicans are become routine under Trump, sitions “are toxic to mainstream optimism and many voters’ views expressing concern about Trump’s conduct over the course of last June was remarkable. He repeat- voters and will make down-ballot that Trump is poorly managing month and its impact on their party’s ability to hold the Senate. edly used cataclysmic language Republican candidates equally the surging virus and languishing to denigrate nationwide protests toxic.” economy. Still another said Re- cluding the GOP’s view that the deeply conservative base without for social justice, mostly peaceful Trump’s June outbursts came publicans worry the GOP brand Senate majority remains viable. broadening his appeal by taking a gatherings that he cast as mobs as polls showed him trailing of cutting taxes could be over- Yet their willingness to discuss more moderate tone. unleashing violence. He called for presumptive Democratic presi- shadowed by Trump’s drive to the problem, plus carefully word- “In all elections, the political the U.S. military to “dominate” dential nominee Joe Biden nation- defend Confederate monuments. ed assessments by Republican environment shapes how things the streets of American cities, ally and in several battleground All spoke on the condition of an- senators, highlight GOP worries come out, and sometimes you drawing rebukes from military states . Trump trailed in nearly onymity to speak candidly about about the impact of Trump using can’t control that,” No. 2 Senate leaders and his own current and all 2016 surveys until late in that the party’s internal thinking, in- June to relentlessly cater to his Republican leader John Thune, of former top Defense Department campaign. Trump niece’s President sideswipes book to come NASCAR and Black out next week driver over flag, noose BY JILL COLVIN told by NASCAR officials he was Associated Press AND JENNA FRYER the victim of a hate crime. NEW YORK — A tell-all book by President Don- Associated Press “Has @BubbaWallace apolo- ald Trump’s niece that has been the subject of a gized to all of those great NAS- legal battle will be released next week. WASHINGTON — NASCAR’s CAR drivers & officials who Publisher Simon & Schuster cited “high interest layered relationship with Presi- came to his aid, stood by his side, and extraordinary interest” in the book by Mary dent Donald Trump took a sharp & were willing to sacrifice every- Trump titled “Too Much and Never Enough: How turn Monday when Trump took thing for him, only to find out that My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous a sideswipe at the racing organi- the whole thing was just another Man.” The book was originally set for release on zation for banning the Confeder- HOAX?” Trump tweeted. “That July 28, but will now arrive on July 14. ate flag and wrongly accused the & Flag decision has caused lowest The revised date, announced Monday, came after sport’s only full-time Black driv- ratings EVER!” a New York appellate court cleared the way for the er of perpetrating “a hoax” when The tweet came after Trump book’s publication following a legal challenge by a crew member found a noose in used a pair of Independence Trump’s brother. the team garage stall. Day speeches to dig deeper into The White House did not respond immediately to Trump suggested Bubba Wal- America’s divisions by accusing a request for comment on the release date change. lace should apologize after the protesters who have pushed for Robert Trump had sued Mary Trump to block sport rallied around him after the racial justice of engaging in a publication of a book promoted to contain an “in- noose was found in his assigned “merciless campaign to wipe out sider’s perspective” of “countless holiday meals,” stall at Talladega Superspeedway our history.” The remarks served “family interactions” and “family events.” in Alabama. Federal authorities as a direct appeal to the Repub- A judge last week left in place a restraint that ruled last month the noose had lican president’s political base, blocked Mary Trump and any agent of hers from SIMON & SCHUSTER/AP been hanging since October and including many disaffected white distributing the book, but the court made clear it was was not a hate crime. NASCAR voters, with less than four months not considering Simon & Schuster to be covered by “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family and the FBI have exclusively to go before Election Day. the ruling. The publisher has said that 75,000 first- Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man,” a referred to the rope — which Wallace responded on Twitter run editions had already been sent to bookstores. book written by Mary L. Trump, President Donald was used to pull the garage door with a note to “the next genera- Mary Trump is the daughter of Fred Trump Jr., Trump’s niece, will be released on July 14. closed — as a noose. tion and little ones following my the president’s elder brother, who died in 1981. She It was the only garage pull out foot steps” in which he urged holds a doctorate in psychology. he showed his father after he was diagnosed with of 1,684 stalls at 29 inspected people to use their platform and “Mary L. Trump has the education, insight, and Alzheimer’s disease. NASCAR tracks to be fashioned not be detracted by “hate being intimate familiarity needed to reveal what makes The book’s back cover opens with a biting cri- as a noose. thrown at you.” Donald, and the rest of her clan, tick,” a release tique of the president: “Today, Donald is much as he NASCAR President Steve “Love should come naturally about the book said. was at three years old: incapable of growing, learn- Phelps has bristled at suggestions as people are TAUGHT to hate,” The book is expected to include a number of al- ing, or evolving, unable to regulate his emotions, the noose was a hoax. Wallace was Wallace tweeted. “Even when it’s legations about President Trump, including how his moderate his responses, or take in and synthesize shown a photograph of the noose, HATE from the POTUS .. Love upbringing led to his worldview and the derision information.“ never personally saw it, and was wins.” PAGE 12 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Wednesday, July 8, 2020 NATION VA nearing historically high budget

BY STEVE BEYNON Stars and Stripes ‘ The [military construction]/VA bill includes historic WASHINGTON — The Department of spending for women veterans, mental health, suicide Veterans Affairs is one step closer to se- prevention, medical research and homeless prevention. curing its largest budget in history at more ’ than $250 billion, continuing a trend of the Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz government’s second-largest agency ex- D-Fla. panding rapidly in size to support a grow- ing and aging veterans population. House Appropriations subcommittee “Over the last decade, the VA’s budget enacted level and $40 million more than members Monday forwarded a bill fund- has more than doubled — far outpacing Trump’s budget request, including $313 ing the VA at unprecedented levels to its the growth in patients and beneficiaries,” million for suicide prevention outreach. full committee to send to the House floor said Darin Selnick, a senior adviser for $661 million for gender-specific care for a vote. The bill gives more money to Concerned Veterans of America, a con- for women, an increase of $76 million from the VA than the $243.3 billion requested by servative veterans advocacy group. “Ad- the 2020 enacted level, and $35 million President Donald Trump in the proposed ditionally, the VA has added nearly 50,000 more than Trump’s budget request. 2021 budget from the White House. employees in the past five years — making $1.9 billion for homeless assistance The funding proposal boosts virtually it larger than the active-duty United States programs, an increase of $81 million from all of the department’s major services and Navy in terms of personnel.” the 2020 enacted level, and $40 million priorities of VA Secretary Robert Wilkie Selnick said money is “merely a talking more than Trump’s budget request. and Capitol Hill: suicide prevention, wom- point” for lawmakers and the VA needs to $504 million for opioid abuse preven- en’s health care and a $1.1 billion boost to /AP become more efficient, suggesting an audit tion, an increase of $102 million from the CHRISTIAN COOPER implement the agency’s troubled health re- “would be a good place to start.” 2020 enacted level and equal to Trump’s Amy Cooper, shown in an image made cords system. The cash flow into VA’s mammoth elec- “The [military construction]/VA bill budget request. from video, called police during a dispute tronic health record modernization contin- $300 million for rural health initia- with Christian Cooper, a Black man, includes historic spending for women vet- ues to expand after a series of delays. The erans, mental health, suicide prevention, tives, equal to the 2020 enacted level and in Central Park in New York. She was overhaul of the VA’s system is designed to $30 million more than Trump’s budget charged with filing a false report. medical research and homeless preven- permit the VA to share Defense Depart- request. tion, while closely monitoring VA claims ment medical records of transitioning $840 million for medical and pros- processing and system modernization,” service members and ease the burden on thetic research, an increase of $40 million said Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D- veterans to prove service-connected in- from the 2020 enacted level, and $53 mil- Fla., chairwoman of the subcommittee on juries and illnesses. The new system was White woman military construction, veterans affairs, lion more than Trump’s budget request. also created to allow the VA to share infor- and related agencies. mation easily with private-sector health $2.6 billion to continue implementa- charged after VA is one of the only federal agencies care providers who treat veterans as more tion of the VA Electronic Health Record not getting a budget cut and it is the only veterans are able to seek care outside the System, an increase of $1.1 billion from the Cabinet department eyeing a double-digit VA with federal funding. 2020 enacted level and equal to Trump’s Central Park budget boost — 14%, according to Trump’s The VA’s budget still has a long way to budget request. The bill also continues Gov- proposed budget. go before being finalized, including a com- ernment Accountability Office oversight of The proposed budget is Trump’s fourth promise budget negotiated by House and the program to ensure the EHR system is racist dispute time requesting an increase for the VA, Senate lawmakers and a full vote from implemented in a timely manner. continuing a pattern set by previous ad- each chamber. $1.8 billion for VA construction, an Associated Press ministrations with little significant push- Here are some of the highlights of what increase of $139 million from the 2020 en- back from Congress. The agency’s budget the House Appropriations subcommittee acted level and equal to Trump’s budget NEW YORK — A white woman walking has increased consistently since the begin- bill includes: request. her dog who called the police during a vid- ning of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. In $10.3 billion for mental health care, [email protected] eotaped dispute with a Black man in Cen- 2001, the budget was $48 billion. an increase of $865 million from the 2020 Twitter: @StevenBeynon tral Park was charged Monday with filing a false report. In May, Amy Cooper drew widespread condemnation for calling 911 to report she was being threatened by “an African- Judge orders Dakota pipeline shut down for review American man” when bird watcher Chris- tian Cooper appeared to keep his distance Associated Press will seek an expedited appeal, spokeswom- that the flow of oil must cease,” he added. as he recorded her rant on his phone. an Vicki Granado said. The findings may challenge the legal District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. said FARGO, N.D. — A judge Monday ordered The order comes after Boesberg said footing for the Trump administration’s in a statement Monday that his office had the Dakota Access pipeline shut down for in April that a more extensive review was most momentous environmental rollbacks. charged Amy Cooper with falsely report- additional environmental review more ing the confrontation, a misdemeanor. She than three years after it began pumping oil necessary than what the U.S. Army Corps Trump surrounded himself with industry of Engineers already conducted and that he leaders and workers in hard hats in Janu- was ordered to appear in court Oct. 14. — handing a victory to the Standing Rock After the backlash, Amy Cooper released Sioux Tribe and delivering a blow to Presi- would consider whether the pipeline should ary when he announced plans to overhaul be shuttered during the new assessment. the rules for enforcing NEPA. an apology through a public relations dent Donald Trump’s efforts to weaken service, saying she “reacted emotion- “The Court does not reach its decision The Dakota Access pipeline was the sub- public health and environmental protec- ally and made false assumptions about his tions his administration views as obstacles with blithe disregard for the lives it will af- ject of months of protests in 2016 and 2017, intentions.” to businesses. fect,” Boasberg wrote Monday. sometimes violent, during its construction “He had every right to request that I In a 24-page order, U.S. District Judge “Yet, given the seriousness of the Corps’ near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation leash my dog in an area where it was re- James Boasberg in Washington, D.C., NEPA (National Environmental Policy that straddles the North Dakota-South Da- quired,” she said in the written statement. wrote that he was “mindful of the disrup- Act) error, the impossibility of a simple kota border. The tribe pressed litigation “I am well aware of the pain that misas- tion“ that shutting down the pipeline would fix, the fact that Dakota Access did assume against the pipeline even after it began sumptions and insensitive statements about cause, but that it must be done within 30 much of its economic risk knowingly, and carrying oil from North Dakota across race cause and would never have imagined days. Pipeline owner Energy Transfer the potential harm each day the pipeline South Dakota and Iowa and to a shipping that I would be involved in the type of inci- plans to ask a court to halt the order and operates, the Court is forced to conclude point in Illinois in June 2017. dent that occurred with Chris.” Wednesday, July 8, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 13 WORLD Russian space adviser Dutch police uncover makeshift charged with treason Associated Press torture chamber, arrest 6 men MOSCOW — An adviser to the director of Russia’s state space Associated Press large-scale production and traf- warehouse the “treatment room” corporation has been detained on ficking of drugs. and the “ebi,” a reference to a top THE HAGUE, Netherlands treason charges, the nation’s top Dutch police said last week that security Dutch prison. The mes- — Dutch police arrested six men security agency said Tuesday. their investigations, code-named sages also revealed identities Ivan Safronov, a former jour- after discovering sea contain- 26Lemont, based on millions of of potential victims, who were nalist who served as an advis- ers that had been converted into messages from the EncroChat warned and went into hiding, po- er to Roscosmos head Dmitry a makeshift prison and sound- phones, had led to the arrest of lice said. Rogozin, was detained in Moscow proofed “torture chamber” com- more than 100 suspects and sei- Video released by the police by agents of the Federal Security plete with a dentist’s chair, tools zure of more than 17,600 pounds showed a heavily armed arrest Service (FSB), the main KGB including pliers and scalpels and of cocaine and 2,600 pounds of team blasting open a door at successor agency. handcuffs, a high ranking officer crystal meth as well as the dis- the warehouse and discovering The FSB said that Safronov is announced Tuesday. mantling of 19 synthetic drugs the improvised prison. Another accused of relaying sensitive data Authorities said police con- labs and seizure of dozens of armed team detained a suspect in to a spy agency of an unspecified ducted the raid before the torture firearms. Rotterdam. NATO member. He could face up PETER KASSIN, KOMMERSANT/AP chamber could be used and alert- On June 22, Dutch national “Six of the containers were in- to 20 years in prison if convicted. ed potential victims, who went Ivan Safronov, an adviser to police force officers arrested six tended as cells in which people Roscosmos claimed that the into hiding. men on suspicion of crimes in- could be tied up and one con- charges didn’t relate to Safronov’s the director of Russia’s state The grisly discovery was made space corporation Roscosmos, cluding preparing kidnappings tainer was intended as a torture work for the corporation, which last month by officers investigat- has been detained on treason and serious assault. Detectives chamber,” Andy Kraag, head of he joined in May. Prior to that, ing leads generated by data from charges, the nation’s top also discovered the seven convert- the police’s National Investigation Safronov worked as a correspon- encrypted phones used by crimi- security agency said Tuesday . ed sea containers in a warehouse Service, said in a video released dent for the top business daily nals that were cracked recently in Wouwse Plantage, a village in by police, adding that the police Kommersant for nearly a decade by French police. Detectives in the southwest , close to the bor- operation “prevented a number opened an inquiry following Saf- until 2019, and after that worked Britain and the Netherlands have der with Belgium, according to a of violent crimes.” for a year for another business ronov’s article that claimed that already arrested hundreds of statement released Tuesday. A search of the containers un- daily, Vedomosti . Russia had signed a contract with suspects based on the encrypted They were tipped off by mes- covered bags containing tools Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Egypt for the delivery of sophis- messages. sages from an EncroChat phone including hedge cutters, scalpels Peskov said Safronov’s detention ticated Su-35 fighter jets. Kom- Tuesday’s announcement gave including photos of the container and pliers . isn’t related to his activities as a mersant later removed the report a chilling insight into the increas- and dentist’s chair with belts at- A court in Amsterdam ordered journalist . from its website, and no charges ingly violent Dutch criminal un- tached to the arm and foot sup- the six suspects held for 90 days Last year, the FSB reportedly were filed . derworld, which is involved in the ports. The messages called the as investigations continue. PAGE 14 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Wednesday, July 8, 2020 AMERICAN ROUNDUP Dog alerts owner to house fire next door

FRANKLIN — A dog TN in Tennessee became a hero on the Fourth of July by alerting her owner to a house fire next door. Roux, a 3-year-old Belgian Malinois, woke her owner Jeff LeCates with “frantic and un- usual barks” Saturday night, a Franklin Fire Department press release said. When LeCates opened his door to investigate, Roux burst out and LeCates saw his neighbor’s home on fire, officials said. LeCates banged on their door, waking the family of three and their pets, and then used a garden hose on the fire until firefighters arrived. No one in the home was injured. W oman recovering after attack by alligator

OKATIE — A South SC Carolina woman is being treated for injuries after being attacked by an alligator in her neighborhood. The 75-year-old woman was trimming plants near the edge of a pond in her gated community in the Okatie area Friday night when a 10-foot alligator latched onto her leg and pulled her into the water, according to the De- ERIC CARVIN/AP partment of Natural Resources. Spokesman David Lucas said that a man passing by on a golf cart jumped into the water to Space in the sand help the woman, and the alliga- People are flocking back to the Jersey Shore, as coronavirus-related restrictions are being eased and temperatures are climbing. Visitors to tor briefly pulled both of them Monmouth Beach, N.J., on Sunday had plenty of room to keep physical distance while lounging in the sand and playing in the surf. underwater. According to Lucas, the woman doled out to airports nationwide, said officials “don’t want that left has already undergone one sur- THE CENSUS according to the U.S. Department in the water.” gery after suffering several of Transportation. The boat took on water June fractures to her leg as well as lac- The number of people injured in a shooting in a Pennsylvania home. Airport spokesman Chris Jones 19 and sank. The 10 people on erations. Authorities said the alli- Authorities said Mark Ivie Jr., 20, and another man had fought after said the funds will help with re- board were rescued by the Coast gator had been killed and would midnight Sunday near Ivie’s Ephrata home . Authorities said at their pairing the surface of an aircraft undergo a necropsy. 4 home, Mark Ivie Sr., 43, gave a rifle to Ivie Jr., who then shot at six Guard. parking area as well as refur- people. The man Ivie fought with was among those he shot at, but bishing a nearby gate for ground it wasn’t clear if that man was among the wounded. Ivie Jr. is charged with six 700 nurses at hospital Man firing gun prompts vehicles. counts each of attempted homicide, aggravated assault and conspiracy. His bail strike over pay, safety long SWAT standoff was set at $1 million. The elder Ivie faces six counts each of aggravated assault Man facing charges for and conspiracy. His bail was set at $750,000. DAYTON — A man JOLIET — More than 700 angry that a firework riding a wild horse IL nurses at Amita Health OH St. Joseph Medical Center Joliet exploded near his apartment Gacek Arkadiusz, 37, of Des they had doused discharged fire- complex shot at the man who set SALISBURY — A went on strike Saturday morn- MD man is facing crimi- Plaines, Ill., was unconscious and works near their home with water ing after negotiations between it off, authorities said, sparking not breathing when police ar- earlier that night. a standoff that lasted for several nal charges for riding one of the the hospital and the nurses union wild horses at a national park rived at 2:15 p.m., media outlets But Timmerman said it ap- failed to result in a contract. hours. reported. where the Maryland herd of feral pears one of the fireworks ignited One of the main sticking points The shooting in Dayton oc- An officer began CPR until and went off near the house. curred early Monday. The shots animals is protected. in the negotiations is the union’s National Park Service spokes- lifeguards arrived and took over Firefighters were called to the struck a car but did not hit any medical treatment. contention that the nursing staff- woman Kelly Taylor told news scene around 2 a.m. Sunday and people, authorities said, and no He was taken to the hospital in fought the fire for several hours. ing levels are too low to keep the outlets that charges were filed injuries were reported . critical condition, Clearwater po- County authorities also respond- nurses safe. against the man, but she didn’t After firing the shots, the shoot- lice said. ed to a barn fire set off by a bottle The strike comes after Amita er returned to his apartment . Po- release his name or specify the Sav Keomany, 43, of Picker- rocket firework Saturday night. Health, which has 19 hospitals lice were called to the complex, charges. ington, Ohio, who was a few feet No one was injured in that fire in Illinois, issued a statement and about six hours later, the man The Salisbury Daily Times away, was taken to the hospital either. that said it would bring in other was taken into custody. Charges reported Sunday that a video of in stable condition, media outlets licensed nurses during a strike, have not been announced and he the man riding a horse on As- reported. State: Boat at bottom prepare to have ambulances by- has not been identified. sateague Island circulated on so- pass the hospital if necessary and cial media. House fire was likely of bay must be removed cancel nonurgent surgeries. A irport to receive $17M Taylor said the man faces a In an email Saturday to the possible fine of up to $5,000 and a set off by fireworks TRAVERSE CITY — A Chicago Tribune, a spokesman in federal funding maximum of six months in jail if MI sunken boat must be re- for Amita Health said a “mini- he is convicted. HARRISBURG — moved from the bottom of Grand mum number” of patients had LAS VEGAS — Las Firefighters in Har- SD Traverse Bay in northern Michi- been transferred to Amita Health Vegas’ McCarran In- risburg responded to a house fire gan, according to state officials. NV Lightning strikes and Adventist Medical Center Hins- ternational Airport will receive started by fireworks, authorities Federal and state authorities dale prior to the strike. federal funding to help with injures 2 men on beach reported Sunday. said Thursday they are working The nurses union, the Illinois improvements. No one was hurt in the fire that to arrange the salvage operation The Las Vegas Review Journal CLEARWATER — damaged one home, the Argus for the 33-foot-long vessel that Nurses Association, has been in reported Sunday that the nation’s FL Lightning struck two Leader reported. sank last month, the Traverse negotiations with Amita Health eighth-busiest airport will get $17 people Sunday afternoon as a line Lincoln County Emergency City Record-Eagle reported. since February and the nurses million in grant money for up- of storms from the Gulf of Mexico Management coordinator Harold Michigan Department of En- have been working without a con- grades. It’s part of $800 million moved onto Clearwater Beach, Timmerman said that the hom- vironment, Great Lakes and En- tract since May 9. in infrastructure spending being police said. eowners told fire investigators ergy spokesman Nick Assendelft From wire reports Wednesday, July 8, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 15 FACES ‘Devil Went Down to Georgia’ fiddler Charlie Daniels dies

BY HARRISON SMITH The Washington Post Charlie Daniels, a onetime session musician who went on to bridge country and rock as a rowdy, fiddle-playing solo artist, rising to the top of the country charts with his fiery single “The NETFLIX/AP Devil Went Down to Georgia,” From left: Syd Brisbane, Yvonne Strahovski and Ewen McMorrine star in one of the week’s new died July 6 at a hospital in Nash- offerings, the Cate Blanchett-created “Stateless,” a six-part series streaming on Netflix. ville. He was 83. The cause was a stroke, accord- ing to a statement on his website. With a Stetson on his head and a fiddle under his chin, Daniels Projects old and new helped introduce Southern rock Charlie Daniels in 2016 into mainstream country in the 1970s, honing a musical style that “Uneasy Rider.” Sometimes de- mixed gospel, folk and Dixie boo- scribed as a novelty record, the Shaggy rerelease, Charlize Theron, Dalai Lama featured this week gie. “He can make a fiddle sound 1973 talking blues song played off like a rock ’n’ roll guitar, he can the counterculture movie “Easy By The Associated Press first-ever album. The 11-track “Inner World” fea- make a guitar sound like a coun- Rider” and cracked the Top 10, try fiddle and he can make a tall tures teachings and mantras by the Tibetan spiri- paving the way for the formation Here’s a collection curated by The Associated tale sound believable,” Washing- tual leader set to music. Grammy-nominated sitar of the Charlie Daniels Band. ton Post music critic Geoffrey Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriv- player Anoushka Shankar makes a guest appear- Modeled after the Allman Himes once wrote. ing on TV, streaming services and music plat- ance on the album, playing on “Ama La,” a track Brothers Band, the group fea- Daniels was a versatile singer, forms this week. honoring mothers. tured two guitarists and a jam- songwriter, guitarist and blazing- Shaggy: In 2000, reggae artist Shaggy domi- oriented sound polished through fast fiddler, best known for beat- Movies nated pop radio with his ubiquitous No. 1 hits, “It near-constant touring. It report- ing down the devil in his 1979 Wasn’t Me” and “Angel.” Twenty years later, he’s edly played 250 concerts a year, “The Old Guard”: The summer movie season classic “The Devil Went Down to celebrating the album that featured those songs, in between recording “Fire on may be nonexistent this year, but Netflix had a Georgia.” Early on, he was also “Hot Shot,” by rereleasing the project and includ- pinch-hitter ready to stream: “The Old Guard.” something of a transgressive fig- the Mountain” (1974) and “Night- ing updated versions of his hits. “Hot Shot 2020” Available Friday, this comic book adaptation stars ure in country music, singing of rider” (1975). will be available Friday and will also include clas- Charlize Theron as the leader of a group of ancient getting “stoned in the morning” “Our music represents wide- sic songs from Shaggy’s catalog, including the and “drunk in the afternoon” in open spaces and a free-wheelin’ immortals who have found another teammate in 1995 smash “Boombastic.” Sting, who collaborated “Long Haired Country Boy.” attitude,” Daniels told Stereo Re- a soldier played by KiKi Layne (“If Beale Street with Shaggy on the Grammy-winning 2018 album “Kinda like my old bluetick view magazine in 1980. In a sepa- Could Talk”). It’s directed by Gina Prince-By- “44/876,” is featured on new versions of “Angel” hound, I like to lay around in the rate interview, he said that his thewood, who also helmed “Love & Basketball” and “Primavera.” shade,” he sang, “and I ain’t got band’s music was neither country and “Beyond the Lights.” — AP Music Editor Mesfin Fekadu no money but I damn sure got it nor rock ’n’ roll, and was written “Palm Springs”: If a rom-com is more your made.” simply for “beer drinkers, dope speed, there’s also “Palm Springs,” on Hulu on Television Daniels spent more than a smokers and hell-raisers — peo- Friday, starring Andy Samberg and Cristin Mili- decade crisscrossing the coun- ple that live hard.” oti as wedding guests who find themselves caught Viewers seeking to stir their hearts and minds try as a journeyman musician, Daniels scored his biggest com- in a time loop. The sunny pic caused a stir earlier should consider Netflix’s “Stateless,” set in an im- performing for several years at mercial hit with “The Devil Went this year when it broke the Sundance Film Festi- migration detention center in the Australian des- clubs in Washington and Mary- Down to Georgia,” the Faustian val acquisition record by 69 cents. ert. Co-created and produced by Cate Blanchett, land, where he had an imposing story of a fiddle duel between “Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets”: Blurring the the six-part drama out Wednesday brings together stage presence at 6-foot-2 and 265 the devil and a young musician line between documentary and fiction, filmmaker an unlikely group of strangers, including an air- pounds. He eventually settled in named Johnny, who risks his soul brothers Bill and Turner Ross (“Western”) turn line steward running away from a cult, a family Nashville, where he co-wrote “It to win a golden fiddle. their camera on a group of people in a Las Vegas of Afghan refugees and a bureaucrat attempting Hurts Me,” which became a Top Released with the album “Mil- dive bar the day after Donald Trump’s election. to contain a national scandal. The story’s goal, as 40 hit for Elvis Presley in 1964, lion Mile Reflections” (1979), the The filmmakers rented the space, recruited the pa- Blanchett described it, is to illustrate the global and played on Bob Dylan’s ac- song topped the country charts, trons and told them all to pretend that the bar was displacement crisis and “how we’re being sepa- claimed country album “Nash- reached No. 3 on the pop charts closing at the end of the night. But the alcohol is rated from our humanity.” ville Skyline.” and gained a wider audience after real, the conversations unexpected and the result, Muscles and grit developed at work, not with a His work on that record made Daniels performed it in the John available to rent Friday, is filmmaking magic. personal trainer, are put to the test in CBS’ “Tough him a sought-after session musi- Travolta movie “Urban Cowboy” — AP Film Writer Lindsey Bahr as Nails,” a competition series debuting Wednes- cian, leading him to record with (1980). day. A farmer, roofer and iron worker are among Leonard Cohen, Pete Seeger, In 2008, he became a mem- Music those testing their mental and physical prowess in Ringo Starr and bluegrass artists ber of the Grand Ole Opry, and job-site challenges. The series is hosted and pro- Flatt & Scruggs before establish- in 2016 he was inducted into the The Dalai Lama: To commemorate his 85th duced by Phil Keoghan (“The Amazing Race”) . ing himself as a solo artist with Country Music Hall of Fame. birthday on July 6, the Dalai Lama is releasing his — AP Television Writer Lynn Elber Disney Plus streaming app a hot ticket over ‘Hamilton’ weekend

From wire reports cast in 2016. The musical, based on the Other news that it had acquired the memoir of the late life of the nation’s first secretary of the Sargent Shriver, the Peace Corps’ found- Walt Disney’s new Disney Plus stream- treasury, Alexander Hamilton, has been a  Venice Film Festival organizers said ing director and an architect of Presi- ing app was downloaded more than half a million times over the weekend after the huge hit on Broadway. The company had Tuesday that they are pushing forward dent Lyndon Johnson’s “War on Poverty.” service’s July 3 premiere of a filmed ver- originally planned to release it in theaters with September plans for its 77th install- Shriver worked on the memoir, “We Called sion of the musical “Hamilton.” next year. ment, which will include a slightly reduced It a War,” in the late 1960s and it was only The $7-a-month Disney Plus generated The Apptopia tally represents mobile number of films in the main competition as recently rediscovered. The 348-page book 513,323 new mobile downloads worldwide only, and doesn’t include people who ac- well as some outdoor and virtual screen- is scheduled for January. Shriver was the from July 3-5, including 266,084 in the U.S., quired the app via the Disney website, ings. If the schedule stays intact, it will be husband of President John F. Kennedy’s according to the market research firm Ap- Roku or other TV-linked devices. It also the first major film festival since COVID- sister, Eunice. ptopia. The global numbers are 47% higher doesn’t include India and Japan, where 19 essentially shut down the industry in  Former Kasabian frontman Tom Mei- than the average weekend in June, while Disney+ was rolled into existing products, mid-March. There will still be 50 to 55 ghan was sentenced to 200 hours of un- the domestic results were 72% greater. Apptopia said. Disney last said the service, films in the official selection, which will be paid work after pleading guilty Tuesday at Disney paid a reported $75 million for launched only in November, had more than announced on July 28 . Leicester Magistrates’ Court in England to the film, which was shot with the original 54 million subscribers worldwide.  RosettaBooks announced Tuesday assaulting his former fiancee. PAGE 16 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Wednesday, July 8, 2020 OPINION Max D. Lederer Jr., Publisher Lt. Col. Marci Hoffman, Europe commander Lt. Col. Richard McClintic, Pacific commander High court patches up Electoral College for 2020 Caroline E. Miller, Europe Business Operations BY NOAH FELDMAN rather by the 10th Amendment, which says Pacific Chief of Staff On Monday the justices Joshua M. Lashbrook, Bloomberg Opinion that powers not delegated to the federal acted like good, skilled government are reserved to the people — EDITORIAL n a moment of deep uncertainty about or to the states. Thomas, who loves states’ making the 2020 presidential election mechanics. rights, essentially concludes that sanction- Terry Leonard, Editor work, the U.S. Supreme Court has ing electors is an inherent sovereign right [email protected] Istruck a blow for stability and com- of the states. mon sense. In a 9-0 decision, the court held Robert H. Reid, Senior Managing Editor vidually, a few of them over the years have But this view is a little worrisome. The [email protected] that states have the power to force mem- presidential election is a federal undertak- bers of the Electoral College to vote for the entertained the idea that they, not the vot- ers who chose them, should be allowed to ing governed by the Constitution. Logical- Tina Croley, Managing Editor for Content candidate their state has pledged to sup- ly, there could be no pre-existing sovereign [email protected] port — and to punish them if they try to decide for whom they will cast their ballots. After all, they say, they are “electors” — so right of states to choose electors in a pro- Sean Moores, Managing Editor for Presentation break faith with that promise to voters. cess that did not come into existence until The decision is important because it will they should be free to do the electing. [email protected] In practical terms, this would make a the Constitution created it. Like most help avoid an election disaster in which a states’ rights arguments, Thomas’ could Managing Editor for Digital mockery of the idea that presidential elec- Joe Gromelski, few electors try to thwart the will of the be extended to enable the states to resist [email protected] people. More fundamentally, the decision tions are democratic at all. 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Here’s hoping the old Instead, however, the framers devised the to sanction them if they do not; and to re- jalopy can get us through the November Mideast idea of an Electoral College made up of ac- place them with different electors who will 2020 election — and the presidential tran- Robert Reismann, Mideast Circulation Manager tual human beings, each with one vote, all do the job right. There are 15 states that sition that one can only hope will follow in [email protected] of whom meet in their respective states and already have such laws in place. It would [email protected] January. DSN (314)583-9111 send their votes to Washington. (The name be good for the other 35 to follow suit. “Electoral College” makes it sound like all Justice Clarence Thomas, joined by Jus- Noah Feldman is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist Europe the electors get together in one place, but tice Neil Gorsuch, agreed with the result. and a professor of law at Harvard University. 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BY VLADIMIR KARA-MURZA has been clear. “The outcome of this vote Special to The Washington Post was decided long before the ballots were tallied,” the bipartisan leaders of the U.S. osef Stalin was reported to have delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary As- said, at a Bolshevik party meeting sembly, Rep. Alcee L. Hastings, D-Fla., in 1923, that voting is “completely and Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., said in a Junimportant” — “what is extraordi- statement. “State-sponsored fraud, coer- narily important is … who will count the cion, and obfuscation make it impossible to votes, and how.” Except for a brief demo- know the true will of the Russian people.” cratic interlude in the 1990s, this maxim Sen. James Risch, R-Idaho, who chairs has governed the Soviet and later the the Foreign Relations Committee, was Russian government’s approach to elec- even blunter, noting that the “sham” vote tions ever since. “has swept away all remnants of Putin’s It was also on full display last week as the legitimacy.” Central Election Commission announced Legitimacy is the key issue here. For a the official results of a recent plebiscite long time, Putin has been illegitimate de that waived Vladimir Putin’s presidential facto — extending his rule through a pre- term limits, allowing him to remain in arranged job swap (does anyone remember power until 2036. Evidently unconcerned “President” Dmitry Medvedev?) or rub- with appearances, the commission began ALEXEI DRUZHININ, SPUTNIK, KREMLIN POOL PHOTO/AP ber-stamp “elections” in which opponents publishing the tallies before voting has Russian President Vladimir Putin shows his passport to an election commission would be removed from the ballot. Until ended. According to the certified results, member as he arrives to take part in voting at a polling station in Moscow on July 1. now, however, he was careful to maintain 78% of Russians voted to make Putin, in ef- appearances, formally adhering to the let- fect, president for life. His press secretary Commission chair Ella Pamfilova called it, manipulations would have been exposed ter of the law even as he violated its spirit. Dmitry Peskov hailed the vote as a “trium- This time, it’s different. By subverting “a unique one-time affair.” While govern- by independent observers — as they had phant referendum” on Putin’s leadership. term limits through a patently fraudulent ment agencies engaged in an unfettered been in previous Russian elections, most Except, of course, it wasn’t. vote, Putin has become illegitimate de jure; push for a “yes” vote, the “no” campaign prominently in 2011. This time, however, A referendum, as codified in Russian in the same league with rogue regimes that had its website blocked by the federal the only observers allowed for the count law and governed by the international had employed this trick before. regulator and its rallies prohibited under were those approved by state-controlled framework under Russia’s membership in From now — and certainly from the the pretext of concern for public health. institutions. Poll watchers from the OSCE bodies such as the Organization for Securi- end of his current mandate in 2024 — the ty and Cooperation in Europe, would have The voting lasted a whole week, with bal- and the Council of Europe were not invited world’s democracies should treat him the provided an opportunity to campaign on lots handed out not only in regular polling — instead, Russian television paraded “in- same way they had, say, Blaise Compaore both sides; it also would have clearly estab- places but also in makeshift mobile loca- ternational monitors” carefully selected in Burkina Faso or Alberto Fujimori in lished procedures on voting and counting; tions set up on park benches, car trunks among Europe’s far-right politicians, the Peru. No more red-carpet ceremonies, no and it would have allowed independent and and shopping trolleys. Organized coercion Kremlin’s most reliable allies in the West. more “resets,” no more invitations to pres- international observation at polling places. of public-sector employees to participate One such “monitor,” German Bundestag tigious summits — in short, democracies Given the trends in Russian public opin- in the plebiscite was reported all over member Stefan Keuter from the Alterna- should not offer the international accep- ion — including the fall of public trust in the country. (How they voted was of little tive for Germany — a known Nazi sympa- tance Putin so desperately wants. Putin to 25% and a clear majority for age- concern: Ballots could be easily switched thizer who has sent out pictures of Adolf With his constitutional coup of 2020, limiting the presidency at 70 (Putin turns while being stored overnight in electoral Hitler, made anti-Semitic remarks and de- Vladimir Putin has left the West no other 68 this year) — it is hardly surprising that commissions). According to two exit polls, fended the Third Reich’s policy of forced choice. No other choice, that is, that wouldn’t the Kremlin decided not to entrust such most voters in Moscow and St. Petersburg euthanasia — praised Russia’s election betray its fundamental principles. an important decision to the whim of the rejected Putin’s constitutional amend- standards as “higher than Germany’s.” electorate. ments. The official tallies for both cities Outside of the choreographed statements Vladimir Kara-Murza is a Russian democracy activist, author and filmmaker. He is the chairman Instead of a referendum, Russians got recorded a resounding “yes.” from the Kremlin’s far-right partners, in- of the Boris Nemtsov Foundation for Freedom and an ill-defined “public vote” — as Electoral In regular circumstances, many of these ternational reaction to Putin’s power grab vice president of the Free Russia Foundation. Uncertainty is part of process of briefing a president

BY MICHAEL LEITER, nity “consensus” or — in President Donald an easy call by President Barack Obama, intelligence community and the media. MICHAEL HAYDEN Trump’s own words — were a “hoax.” At it was not. Obama was faced with uncer- Trump’s call for Russia to be readmit- AND ROBERT CARDILLO the same time, national security adviser tain and conflicting intelligence and was ted to the Group of Seven — while the Special to The Washington Post Robert O’Brien has said that the National forced to decide based on imperfect — and intelligence community struggles with Security Council had convened at least one sometimes competing — acts. Rather than uncertain intelligence, and the National ver the course of our careers in meeting to prepare “options” for the presi- eschewing a decision, the president em- Security Council (we hope) struggles with the intelligence community — dent. And finally, the administration has braced this uncertainty, stood up to his the proper response to the prospect of Rus- years that spanned Republican stated that it plans no immediate action in responsibility and decided, knowing the sia targeting U.S. troops — is yet another Oand Democratic administrations response to the reports. In our view, this risks associated with doing so. sign that the commander in chief isn’t ful- — we regularly briefed presidents on intel- makes no sense. We saw President George W. Bush and filling his responsibilities. Worse, his ac- ligence issues. Regardless of how often we First, intelligence on critical issues is other presidents before him tackle the tions directly counter U.S. and our allies’ did so, walking into the Oval Office or the almost always unclear. In fact, if we had same types of uncertainty because they interests and bolster Putin’s campaign for White House Situation Room was a seri- applied the administration’s apparent knew — as Harry Truman so clearly ex- a resurgent Russia. ous and solemn experience. Our job was to standard for certainty before we briefed pressed — where the buck stopped. Not Indeed, from Moscow, the president’s explain our analysis of the situation in as a president, we could have renamed the all intelligence was perfect, and some objective a way as possible so that the pres- Daily Brief the Annual Brief, given how in- — as we painfully recognize — was wrong. invitation — roundly rejected by our stron- ident could make the best decision possible frequently we would meet that lofty, unrea- Nonetheless, these men knew they didn’t gest allies — undoubtedly provided yet to protect the United States, our allies and sonable bar. As one of us used to say when have the luxury of sitting back and waiting another assurance that various types of our interests. asked to judge the CIA’s work, “We never for complicated decisions to become easy Russian meddling were low on the presi- We had the easy job. We had only to get asked questions that would provide the ones. dent’s list of worries. present intelligence, which was almost by clarity or certainty of a 9 or 10.” Third, the White House argument that To be clear: None of what is occurring definition imperfect in countless ways, Second, it was often the very uncertain- it was preparing options, but had not yet represents what commanders in chief have and advise. The harder job — making ty of the intelligence — dissenting views decided to act, fails to recognize that the done in the past, and all of what is occur- the ultimate choice — was, of course, the from various agencies, difficult questions president has already acted — just not in a ring gives us little comfort that U.S. in- president’s. And the big decisions, the ones regarding reliability and the challenge of way that protects U.S. interests. The presi- terests — in the form of the precious lives that could have lasting effects on people collecting additional intelligence — that dent’s conclusion that these reports are yet of those defending us abroad — are being across the globe, were far from easy. In demanded presidential attention. In our another “hoax” — drawing a perfect par- protected. The Oval Office is a place where fact, most often, they forced the president experience, the intelligence community allel to his view of the bipartisan-recog- difficult decisions will always be premised to tackle uncertainty in ways few of us can had a sacred responsibility to alert poli- nized Russian interference in our elections on imperfect information. We know well imagine. cymakers to potentially significant intel- in 2016 — provides Russia and Vladimir that if the commander in chief deflects It is with this background that we find ligence both because they had the ultimate Putin an unmistakable win and severely or rejects intelligence that challenges his the Trump administration’s response to re- responsibility to act and would need time undermines our own intelligence com- skewed worldview, the threat to our armed ports of Russian bounty programs target- to think through options, and because de- munity. If the president is serious about forces will be stronger and our nation will ing U.S. troops in Afghanistan so deeply cisions about how to gain a clearer intel- knowing the truth, then dismissing ongo- be weaker. disturbing. Although the administration’s ligence picture often themselves posed ing intelligence collection and analysis statements are anything but clear, the sum difficult choices. should be his last instinct. And if discour- Michael Leiter was director of the National Counterterrorism Center from 2007 to 2011. total seems to be that the president was Consider, for example, the raid that aging further Russian misbehavior were Michael Hayden was CIA director from 2006 to not briefed because the reports were “un- brought justice to Osama bin Laden. Al- his priority, the warning would obviously 2009. Robert Cardillo was director of the National verified,” or lacked intelligence commu- though many now speculate that this was be aimed at Moscow rather than the U.S. Geospatial-Intelligence Agency from 2014 to 2019. PAGE 18 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Wednesday, July 8, 2020 Wednesday, July 8, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 19 PAGE 20 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Wednesday, July 8, 2020 BASKETBALL/SPORTS BRIEFS/SCOREBOARD Taylor to be on WNBA jerseys

BY DOUG FEINBERG overnight, but it is our shared responsibility to do Associated Press everything we can to raise awareness and promote the justice we hope to see in society.” NEW YORK — WNBA players will wear uni- The jersey idea was first publicly put forth by Las forms for the opening weekend of the season featur- Vegas Aces forward Angel McCoughtry. Players ing Breonna Taylor’s name when the league begins have the option to just wear the uniforms opening play later this month. weekend or throughout the season. Players will also wear warmups that read “Black The league and players association also announced Lives Matter” on the front and “Say Her Name” the creation of a new platform — The Justice Move- on the back throughout the season, the league and ment — and the creation of the WNBA/WNBPA So- players’ union announced Monday. Also, the phrase cial Justice Council. The purpose of the council is “Black Lives Matter” will be featured prominently to push for change on issues including race, voting on the courts where the teams practice and play. rights, LGBTQ advocacy and gun control. Taylor, a 26-year-old Black emergency medical WNBA players Layshia Clarendon, Breanna technician, was shot eight times by plainclothes Stewart, A’ja Wilson, Sydney Colson, Tierra Ruffin- Louisville police officers serving a narcotics search Pratt and Satou Sabally will led the council. warrant at her apartment on March 13. No drugs “As many WNBA players — past and present — were found. Her family and protesters around the have said and, more importantly, consistently dem- country have called for swift action against the of- onstrated, the reason why you see us engaging and DAVID J. PHILLIP/AP ficers who shot Taylor. leading the charge when it comes to social advocacy The Celtics’ Jaylen Brown is encouraged by the steps the NBA is “We are incredibly proud of WNBA players who is because it is in our DNA,” WNBPA President taking to connect with its players’ desire to support social justice continue to lead with their inspiring voices and ef- Nneka Ogwumike said. “With 140-plus voices all causes. He also says he wants to see the league go further with fective actions in the league’s dedicated fight against together for the first time ever, we can be a power- some of those plans as it prepares to restart the season in Florida. systemic racism and violence,” WNBA Commission- ful force connecting to our sisters across the coun- er Cathy Engelbert said. “Working together with the try and in other parts of the world. And may we all WNBPA and the teams, the league aims to highlight recognize that the league’s stated commitment to us players’ social justice efforts throughout the 2020 — in this season and beyond — offers a pivotal mo- season and beyond. Systemic change can’t happen ment in sports history.” Celtics star Brown

Briefl y taking social justice Sports message to Florida on AFN FC Dallas withdraws BY KYLE HIGHTOWER and the NBA leadership’s atten- Go to the American Forces Associated Press tiveness to the union’s concerns. Network website for the most from MLS tournament That has included allowing an up-to-date TV schedules. BOSTON — Jaylen Brown is option for players to opt out of myafn.net BY ANNE M. PETERSON was in contact with the FC Dallas encouraged by the steps the NBA playing in Orlando. Associated Press delegation. is taking to connect with its play- Lakers guard Avery Bradley Also on Monday, LAFC forward ers’ desire to support social jus- and Brooklyn’s Kyrie Irving, who Deals FC Dallas has withdrawn from Carlos Vela opted out of the tour- tice causes. have been vocal leaders of a play- the MLS is Back tournament in nament out of concerns for his He also wants to see the league ers’ coalition that has sought to Florida after 10 players tested go further with some of those Monday’s transactions wife, who is expecting their sec- keep a focus on social justice and positive for coronavirus. ond child. plans as it prepares to restart racial equality issues, are among FOOTBALL National Football League The league said Monday that of “I always want to give every- the season later this month in a handful of players who are KANSAS CITY CHIEFS — Signed QB the 557 players sequestered at a thing I have to my club, our fans Florida. sitting out the Orlando restart. Patrick Mahomes to a 10-year contract extension through 2031. pair of Walt Disney World hotels, and supporters and the city of One of the Celtics’ young stars, Bradley made his decision out of SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Signed CB 13 have tested positive: 10 from L.A.,” Vela said in a statement. the 23-year-old has been one of Jamal Taylor to a one-year contract. concerns for his son with a his- Waived DB Teez Tabor. Dallas, two from Nashville and “However, it is in the best interest the most outspoken voices among tory of respiratory illnesses and COLLEGE one from Columbus. Addition- of the health of my family to stay players since the NBA paused its GEORGE MASON — Named Duane Irving because of injury. Simpkins men’s basketball associate ally, a Dallas coach also tested home and be with my wife during season in March. Last month the league an- head coach. Named Bryson Johnson and positive. what is a risky pregnancy.” From encouraging young Maurice Joseph men’s basketball assis- nounced a pledge to devote tant coaches. “The decision to have them not Americans to take COVID-19 resources to helping players pro- LA SALLE — Named Jamal Robinson men’s basketball assistant coach. participate in the tournament is in PGA, Memorial change seriously, to driving 15 hours mote social justice causes. Those MARTIN METHODIST — Named Caleb the best interests of everyone, of from Boston in May to lead a pro- initiatives will include paint- Chowbay men’s basketball assistant course on spectators coach. the Dallas players and the other test march in the days after the ing “Black Lives Matter” on the 25 teams, and allows us to contin- The PGA Tour and the Memori- release of the video of George courts at Disney Wide World of Pro soccer ue to manage the health and safe- al scrapped state-approved plans Floyd’s death in Minneapolis, Sports. And while players who ty of our players while continuing to have limited spectators next Brown has actively used social decided to opt out of playing in to go forward with our plan,” MLS week because of what it described media to raise awareness on sev- Orlando won’t be paid for the NWSL Challenge Cup Commissioner Don Garber told as rapidly changing dynamics of eral fronts to his more than 1.6 games they missed, they won’t Herriman Utah The Associated Press in a tele- the COVID-19 pandemic. million followers on Twitter and face discipline from their teams. Saturday, June 27 North Carolina Courage 2, Portland phone interview on Monday. The Memorial, hosted by Jack Instagram. “At the end of the day, Black Thorns 1 Apart from the health and safe- Nicklaus at his Muirfield Vil- While he said Monday that he Lives Matter and Black athletes’ Washington Spirit 2, Chicago Red Stars 1 ty aspect, the number of positive lage Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio, initially considered not playing lives matter as well,” Brown said. Tuesday, June 30 cases also meant that Dallas could was in line to be the first tourna- in Orlando because of the pan- “I respect any guy’s decision. My Houston Dash 3, Utah Royals 3 OL Reign 0, Sky Blue 0 not play competitive games. ment with spectators since golf demic and family concerns, he decision was to play just because Wednesday, July 1 With Dallas’ withdrawal, Major resumed its schedule on June 11 ultimately decided the opportu- I felt like it’s bigger than me and Portland Thorns 0, Chicago Red Stars 0 League Soccer was devising a in Texas. nity to amplify his voice on the it’s bigger than my family and N.C. Courage 2, Washington Spirit 0 new schedule for the monthlong NBA’s worldwide stage won out. Saturday, July 4 Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, a Re- it’s bigger than all of us. People Utah Royals 1, Sky Blue 0 tournament, to be played with- publican, last month approved “Once I thought about the op- have died for the opportunity to Houston Dash 2, OL Reign 0 out fans at ESPN’s Wide World of portunity that the organization Sunday, July 5 a plan that would allow the Me- be able to shed light and speak on N.C. Courage 1, Chicago Red Stars 0 Sports Complex at Disney World. morial to have 20% capacity on and the NBA presented to play certain causes. The least I could Portland Thorns 1, Washington Spirit 1 The tournament is still set to property, which would include for something bigger than my- do is play basketball.” Wednesday’s games open Wednesday with a nationally fans, private hospitality areas self, I was signed up,” he said. But Brown also is in agreement Utah Royals vs. OL Reign Sky Blue vs. Houston Dash televised match between Orlando and essential staff to run the “I plan on using my voice while with Philadelphia 76ers forward Sunday’s games City and expansion Inter Miami. tournament. I’m down there. I plan on spread- Mike Scott that the NBA’s plan to Washington Spirit vs. Houston Dash Chicago Red Stars vs. Utah Royals FC Dallas announced last week “But given the broader chal- ing light on things that are get- only allow players to choose mes- Monday, July 13 that six players had tested posi- lenges communities are facing ting dimmed and hopefully the sages from a league-approved list OL Reign vs. Portland Thorns Sky Blue vs. North Carolina Courage tive upon arrival in Florida for the due to the ongoing COVID-19 NBA and our organization can to put on the back of their jerseys Quarterfinals tournament, and the entire team pandemic, we need to stay fo- understand.” is disappointing. Friday, July 17-Saturday, July 18 TBD was quarantined. Subsequent cused on the No. 1 priority for our Brown’s heavily involved with “I think that list is an example Semifinals Wednesday, July 22 tests found four more players in- ‘Return to Golf’ — the health and the players association as a mem- of a form of limitations,” Brown TBD fected with the virus that causes safety of all involved,” PGA Tour ber of the executive committee said. “I think we should be able to Championship Sunday, July 26 COVID-19. Commissioner Jay Monahan said and said he’s encouraged by the express our struggle just a little TBD The league said no other team in a statement Monday. open dialogue among players bit more.” Wednesday, July 8, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 21 NBA NBA’s faith in Orlando restart will be tested

BY DAN WOIKE By the numbers Los Angeles Times Houston Rockets general man- ager Daryl Morey is wearing some of the effects of the NBA’s shutdown all over his face. With 25 the kind of beard you’d expect to see on someone cast away on a remote island and talking to a Players who tested positive volleyball, Morey has his anxiet- for the coronavirus between ies concerning what’s to come for the league. June 23 and June 29. Teams are making their way to Orlando, Fla., for the NBA restart over a three-day span beginning SCOTT R. GALVIN/AP Tuesday before training camps 7 can begin in preparation for re- Former Cleveland Cavaliers guard J.R. Smith had been out of the league for 20 months when the Lakers opening day July 30. signed him to play during the team’s restart, where he rejoins former teammate LeBron James. Positive tests for COVID-19 Teams of the 22 in the continue to register. Some teams restart that have closed have closed their practice fa- practice facilities after cilities. And for people such as hearing of positive tests. JR Smith, happy to be back Morey, who doesn’t know for sure whether 69-year-old Rock- ets coach Mike D’Antoni will be cleared to participate, it’s a criti- in game, lands with Lakers cal time. 48 Still, all things considered, BY GREG BEACHAM the wild-bearded exec has faith. Hours teams must Associated Press ‘ I just want to enjoy every possible It’s why he’ll be on one of those planes. quarantine in their hotel LOS ANGELES — JR Smith moment that I get. “I think it would be pretty bad rooms after arriving in was not ready to wrap up his 15- ’ JR Smith to ask the players to do something Orlando, Fla. year NBA career when he left On being back in the NBA, now with the Lakers that I’m not doing,” he said dur- the Cleveland Cavaliers in late ing a Zoom call Monday. “I do feel 2018, and the ensuing 20 months comfortable that we have the best SOURCE: Los Angeles Times were not much fun for the veteran “I was gone for a while,“ Smith Caldwell-Pope and Alex Caruso, plan in a tough situation. Does shooter. that make the situation perfect? fied the league criteria to rejoin said. “Being somebody who has who are likely to fill the majority their teams. If a passenger is pre- “I went through a very de- been around the league predomi- of Bradley’s minutes. No. But I do think a lot of work pressed state for a long time,” has been put into this. senting any COVID-19 symptoms nantly for most of their adult life, But Smith’s particular set of or lives with someone who has or Smith said Monday. “I’m a big when that’s taken away from you, skills is exactly what the Lakers “It’s about as safe as you can video gamer, (but) I didn’t even get.” recently had the virus or symp- it kind of gives you that culture sought — particularly his career toms, they will not be allowed to play (NBA) 2K anymore. I don’t shock. You obviously don’t under- 37.3% shooting on three-pointers. There are varying levels of want to hoop, I don’t want to trust in the NBA’s bubble, but travel with their teams. stand what you’ve lost until it’s With James setting up Anthony Passengers will be directed work out, I don’t want to play 2K, gone. I just want to appreciate the Davis as their primary scoring most everyone agrees this is the to clean their hands before and I don’t want do anything with moment for what it is, and wheth- option, the Lakers have plenty best the league can do amid the after the security screening pro- basketball.” er it be next year or never again, of opportunities for well-spaced conditions. NBA sources have in- cess and will undergo a tempera- Thanks to a call from the Los I just want to enjoy every possible shooters to get open looks. sisted the plan, while exhaustive, ture and symptoms check before Angeles Lakers, Smith is getting moment that I get.” “Hey, his nickname is ‘Swish’ isn’t cemented and that the league boarding. They also will be asked another shot on basketball’s big- Smith tried out for the Lakers in for a reason, right?” Vogel said of is ready to adjust if necessary. to wear masks for the trip. gest stage. He joined the Western February when they had another Smith. “He’s a shot-maker, a big- Between June 23 and 29, 25 Conference leaders for workouts roster spot available, but the team time shot-maker. I think he’s re- players tested positive for the On the plane, passengers will last week before they headed to chose veteran Dion Waiters for ally going to help us.” coronavirus. An additional 10 be spread out with as many empty Florida for the conclusion of the that slot. Waiters never got to play Smith is also uncommonly fa- staff members also tested posi- seats and rows between them as NBA season. for Los Angeles before the season miliar with James, and he knows tive. Seven of the 22 teams head- possible. Food and drinks will The 34-year-old Smith was was suspended, and now both vet- what to do when LeBron’s com- ing to Orlando have closed their all be prepackaged, if there is added to the roster because Lak- erans are headed to Orlando with petitiveness ramps up in the post- practice facilities after learning service . ers starter Avery Bradley de- the Lakers. season. Smith and James have of positive tests. After landing, two buses and a clined to return for the rest of the Coach Frank Vogel was im- played together for years in the “I think every day there’s new luggage truck will await a team, season, citing family concerns. pressed by the way Smith kept NBA’s most difficult situations . info and you have to make the with the drivers wearing masks. The Lakers needed a depth re- himself in shape despite being “There’s people that are not best decision based on that info. As the team arrives on campus, placement who could immediate- without a team for an extended going to know how to deal with As I talk to you right now, I think everyone must either wash or ly fit in alongside LeBron James period. it,” Smith said of James’ com- we’re on the right path, on the sanitize their hands. while playing solid wing defense, “I think this is really a great petitiveness. “It comes off in the right plan,” Morey said. “But I After checking in, everyone providing a three-point threat and story,” Vogel said. “When you look wrong way sometimes, and you think every day, there’s new in- must quarantine in their hotel meshing quickly as a teammate. at a guy who could potentially be need that bridge as a player to be formation. We’ll see what comes rooms for up to 48 hours (or until Nobody in recent NBA history out of the league and was a start- able to go to the next player and in the future. If anyone is certain each traveler passes two corona- fits that job description more per- er on a Finals team a couple years be like, ‘Listen man, it’s nothing about anything right now, I think virus tests more than 24 hours fectly than Smith, who reached back, a champion, for him to have personal. (It’s not about) who they’re making a mistake.” apart). four NBA Finals and won the the perseverance to stay ready was right, who was wrong.’ It’s Teams will travel either by “Just stretch and watch Netf- 2016 title while playing alongside and give himself this opportunity, just a good balance, I think, be- chartered plane or bus. All pas- lix,” New Orleans Pelicans guard James in Cleveland. Known for I think is to be commended.” tween myself and him, because sengers must have tested negative Lonzo Ball said about the quar- his ebullient behavior on and off It’s too soon to tell whether he knows just as well he can chal- throughout the league’s testing. If antine. “There’s really not much the court, Smith was overjoyed to Smith will get significant play- lenge anybody else, I’ll challenge they have returned a positive test, more you can do — try to get my get back in the show. ing time behind Kentavious him, and vice versa.” the passengers must have satis- series in.” PAGE 22 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Wednesday, July 8, 2020 NHL/NFL Payday: Mahomes will be big hit on salary cap

FROM BACK PAGE watching film, he wants to be the Still, Mahomes will take up a best,” Reid said. “He’s a competi- big chunk of Kansas City’s cap tor and his teammates feed off space, around 20 percent depend- his energy. He makes us all bet- ing on the annual contract break- ter as an organization and we are down and final cap numbers. That blessed he’s going to be our quar- could potentially make it difficult terback for years to come.” for the Chiefs to pay several star The Chiefs traded up to select players big contracts. Mahomes 10th overall in the 2017 The Chiefs already had picked draft, and he spent one season up their fifth-year option in April learning the ropes under Alex on Mahomes, who had been due Smith before getting the starting to make $825,000 on the final job. year of his rookie contract this Mahomes proceeded to shat- season, to keep him around at ter just about every franchise least through 2021. General man- passing record while winning ager Brett Veach said this deal the league MVP award, and he has been a priority for quite a had the Chiefs within overtime while and thanked Mahomes’ of landing in the Super Bowl that agents, Chris Cabott and Leigh season. He also was The Associ- Steinberg. JASON FRANSON, THE CANADIAN PRESS/TNS ated Press NFL Offensive Player “His abilities are so rare, and of the Year. Rogers Place, home of the Edmonton Oilers, will be the hub city for teams in the Western Conference to couple that with an incredible He dealt with numerous inju- during the qualifying rounds once the NHL season resumes on Aug. 1. personality is outstanding,” Veach ries this past season, including said of Mahomes. “We’re going to a dislocated kneecap on a seem- continue to do everything we can ingly innocent quarterback sneak to surround him with talent, and that left him sidelined for a cou- this deal provides us more flexi- ple of games. He came back to bility to do that. He’s obviously an lead the Chiefs to a long winning Labor deal: NHL, players integral part to our success and streak that culminated with a se- we’re thrilled he’s going to be the ries of come-from-behind wins in quarterback of the Kansas City the playoffs, including their sec- Chiefs for a long time.” ond-half rally in the Super Bowl. Mahomes threw touchdown He is 24-7 as a starter, complet- passes on consecutive fourth- ing 65.9% of his passes with 76 agree on date to resume quarter drives in rallying the Chiefs to their first Super Bowl touchdowns and only 18 intercep- title in 50 years and the first for tions. Mahomes is 724-for-1,099 BY JOHN WAWROW The AP. The salary cap will re- coach Andy Reid. That comeback for 9,412 yards passing, averag- AND STEPHEN WHYNO DID YOU KNOW ? main at $81.5 million for at least performance earned Mahomes ing 303.6 yards per game with a Associated Press next season, the person said, also the Super Bowl MVP award 108.9 career quarterback rating. If approved, the four-year extension speaking only on the condition of and only cemented his status He also has run 110 times for 500 The NHL is in position to re- of the collective bargaining anonymity because the details as the face of the Kansas City yards with four TDs. sume playing in less than a month agreement could pave the way have not been released. franchise. He has led the Chiefs to back-to- — with 24 teams in action, all in for NHL players to return to the Escrow payments to owners to Reid said the best part is that back AFC championship games. Canada — and could be on the Olympics. The NHL participated even out hockey-related revenue Mahomes is still early in his ca- In the postseason, Mahomes is verge of enjoying labor peace in five consecutive Olympics from at 50/50 would be capped at 20% reer. Mahomes won’t turn 25 115-for-184 for 1,474 yards with through 2026. next season, with the cap de- 1998-2014 before skipping the until Sept. 17. 13 TDs and only two intercep- The National Hockey League creasing throughout the deal, the “He’s a natural leader and al- tions with a 106.6 rating. and the NHL Players’ Associa- 2018 games in South Korea. second person said. If owners are ways grinding, whether that’s on AP pro football writer Teresa M. Walker tion on Monday announced a ten- SOURCE: Associated Press still owed money from the play- the field, in the weight room or contributed to this report. tative deal on a return-to-play ers, the CBA would be extended format and a memorandum of un- a result of the pandemic. The ex- for an additional season. Escrow derstanding on a four-year exten- tension covers numerous on- and has been one of the biggest com- sion of the collective bargaining off-ice issues, including the NHL’s plaints of players in the past sev- agreement. potential return to the Olympics, eral years. Should both agreements be the person said. The agreements need two- ratified, the NHL would proceed If approved, players would be thirds approval by owners. immediately to its expanded 24- in a position to compete at the On the union side, the agree- team playoff format, with play Beijing Olympics in 2022 and in ments must first be approved by beginning on Aug. 1. Under the Italy four years later. In order for a majority of the NHLPA’s 31- plan, training camps would open that to happen, the NHL would member executive committee July 13, with teams traveling to first have to resolve market- before going to a vote to the full their respective hub cities for ex- ing rights and health insurance, membership. hibition games on July 26. among otehr issues, with the In- Should the league push ahead, The hub cities are Toronto and ternational Olympic Committee the matchups are already known: Edmonton, Alberta, for the quali- and International Ice Hockey The top four teams in each con- fying round and at least first two Federation. ference (Boston, Tampa Bay, playoff rounds, according to a The NHL, NHLPA and IIHF Washington and Philadelphia in person with direct knowledge of had what were called productive the East and St. Louis, Colorado, the agreements who spoke with talks earlier this year. The NHL Vegas and Dallas in the West) The Associated Press on the con- participated in five consecutive play a handful of round-robin dition of anonymity because the Olympics from 1998-2014 before games to determine seeding. league and NHLPA have not re- skipping 2018 in South Korea. Those top seeds then face the leased this information. Financially, the CBA exten- winners of eight opening-round, For the conference finals and sion would attempt to address the best-of-five series: No. 5 Pitts- the Stanley Cup Final, the person lost revenue stemming from the burgh vs. No. 12 Montreal; No. said, the league is being cautious remainder of the regular season 6 Carolina vs. No. 11 New York and allowing itself site flexibility being wiped out and with empty Rangers; No. 7 New York Island- in the event of potential spikes in arenas looming for the playoffs. ers vs. No. 10 Florida; No. 8 To- COVID-19 infections. Players would defer 10% of ronto vs. No. 9 Columbus; No. 5 PATRICK SEMANSKY/AP Extending the CBA, which was salaries next season which own- Edmonton vs. No. 12 Chicago; No. set to expire in September 2022, ers would pay back over three 6 Nashville vs. No. 11 Arizona; Patrick Mahomes’ 10-year extension worth up to $503 million, was considered a necessary step consecutive seasons starting in No. 7 Vancouver vs. No. 10 Min- surpasses Mike Trout’s $426.5 million deal with Major League in restarting the season, which 2022-23, a second person familiar nesota; and No. 8 Calgary vs. No. Baseball’s Los Angeles Angels. It is expected to use up about 20 was placed on pause in March as with the proposed agreement told 9 Winnipeg. percent of Kansas City’s space under the NFL’s salary cap. Wednesday, July 8, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 23 MLB Starting off with a bang: Yanks-Nats, Dodgers-Giants Schedule has two high-profile games July 23

Associated Press son, however, are at night. Teams will play 40 games NEW YORK — Mookie Betts, against their division opponents. Gerrit Cole and a pair of high- The other 20 will be interleague profile matchups are set for open- games, including six against a ing day as Major League Baseball natural opponent, taking on clubs begins its shortened 60-game in their corresponding geograph- season on July 23 in ballparks ic region — East vs. East, for without fans amid the coronavi- example. rus pandemic. Games planned for London, TONY GUTIERREZ/AP MLB released the schedule Mexico City and Puerto Rico al- Texas Rangers pitcher Kolby Allard, left, bumps elbows with manager Chris Woodward after Allard was Monday, and it starts with two ready have been canceled. done throwing Monday in an intrasquad game in Arlington, Texas. games. Cole and the New York Among the schedule Yankees visit the World Series highlights: champion Washington Nation-  The St. Louis Cardinals take als at 7:08 p.m. EDT, then Betts on the Chicago White Sox next to and his new Los Angeles Dodgers the “Field of Dreams” cornfield Testing concerns overshadow teammates host the San Francis- outside Dyersville, Iowa, on Aug. co Giants at 10:08 p.m. 13. There are 14 games on July 24,  Jackie Robinson Day, usual- release of 60-game schedules including the first matchup at new ly celebrated on April 15, will be Globe Life Field in Texas when held Aug. 28 — that’s the date the the Rangers take on Colorado. BY BERNIE WILSON Rev. Martin Luther King led the day-to-day right now, making sure that we’re ready The same day, Anthony Rendon for the given day and looking forward to that.” March on Washington in 1963, Associated Press and the Los Angeles Angels visit The Nationals and Astros were idled after not re- and also the date Brooklyn Dodg- Oakland and the Cincinnati Reds Major League Baseball released its pandemic- ceiving test results from Friday. That came a day ers owner Branch Rickey talked host Detroit. shortened schedule Monday, featuring a tantalizing after Washington reliever Sean Doolittle criticized to Robinson in 1945 about a fu- “Seeing the schedule makes it season opener between the New York Yankees and slow test results and a lack of some personal protec- ture in the majors. a little more real,” Reds manager  World Series champion Washington Nationals, even tive equipment. Roberto Clemente Day will as some teams were still bogged down by coronavi- “Without accurate and timely testing, it is simply David Bell said. “We can all start be held Sept. 9.  rus concerns. not safe for us to continue with summer camp,” Na- to plan a little better, have an idea The 100th anniversary of the By the time MLB revealed each team’s 60-game tionals general manager Mike what our life is going to be like Negro Leagues will be celebrated slate Monday evening, the Nationals and Houston Rizzo said. “Major League and where we’re going to be the on Aug. 16. next several months.  Astros — last year’s pennant winners — had can- ‘ Without Baseball needs to work quickly Oakland pitcher Mike Fiers celed workouts because of COVID-19 testing delays to resolve issues with their pro- “It will make it more realistic: will get his first look at his former that one executive worried could endanger the sea- accurate cess and their lab. Otherwise, Hey, this is about to happen in Houston teammates on Aug. 7 at son. The St. Louis Cardinals also scrubbed their and timely summer camp and the 2020 just over two weeks now.” the empty Coliseum. Fiers blew practice for the same reason. season are at risk.” The season ends on Sept. 27, the whistle on the Astros’ sign- “We got camps being shut down and people going testing, it is MLB said in a statement with all 30 teams starting their stealing scam, which dominated three and four days without tests. You just don’t simply not that 95% of its intake testing games at 3 p.m. EDT to possi- baseball talk throughout the win- know what’s going on,” Dodgers star Mookie Betts safe for us had been completed and the bly make for a final-day playoff ter before the virus shut down the said. “We have to just figure out the right way to do Utah laboratory it’s using had scramble. Most games this sea- sport. it.” to continue reported 98% of results, a ma- Nick Markakis became the second Atlanta Braves with jority of those a day after sam- veteran to opt out of the season, swayed by a phone summer ples were collected. MLB said call with teammate Freddie Freeman, who has been it addressed delays caused by stricken with COVID-19. camp. ’ the holiday weekend, doesn’t The Texas Rangers said All-Star slugger Joey Mike Rizzo expect them to continue and Gallo tested positive and is asymptomatic. Arizona Nationals GM commended teams for cancel- Diamondbacks outfielder Kole Calhoun also tested ing workouts. positive but feels good, manager Torey Lovullo But it’s clear that players, said. managers and coaches have a lot more to worry Philadelphia Phillies ace Aaron Nola reported to about than just getting in shape and rounding out camp after waiting a few extra days because he was rosters. in contact with someone who tested positive for the “You get around the cage and you know you’re not coronavirus. supposed to be touching the cage,” Marlins manager “All my tests came back negative,” Nola said. Don Mattingly said. “You have this mask on all day, The schedule was a bright spot on an otherwise which is quite honestly cumbersome when it’s hot shaky day in baseball’s reboot following a shutdown and you’re working. But it’s something you get used of more than three months. The steady stream of to. When you’re out there and guys are working, it players testing positive and opting out is leading to looks exactly the same. You totally forget about it. a growing unease that the full season might not be You can get past it, for sure.” played. Mattingly said he tries to be as careful as pos- “Sixty games looks pretty good on paper, but when sible before and after workouts: “You go to touch you go through it day by day, it gets more difficult to a door and you’re like, ‘If I can open that without kind of see that, the end of the finish line,” Minne- actually having to grab it,’ you’re trying to do that. sota Twins catcher Mitch Garver said. That’s everywhere now. All the stuff we’re having to “There’s a ton of players out there quoted saying do everywhere in the world, especially in the South this, but it almost feels like you’re waiting on bad Florida area where it has been rough lately, that’s KATHY WILLENS/AP news, right? You’re just waiting on somebody’s camp what we’re trying to do here.” to break out. You’re waiting for travel restrictions to Testing hasn’t been an issue everywhere. New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone, left, talks to relief pitcher be shut down across the nation. You’re waiting for a “We have not had any, I wouldn’t even say hic- Chad Green after Green pitched part of an intrasquad game Monday second wave, where things become unplayable and cups,” Cleveland Indians manager Terry Francona at Yankee Stadium. The team opens its season July 23 against the sports take a backseat. We’re all just kind of going said. Washington Nationals, the defending World Series champions. S TARS AND STRIPES Wednesday, July 8, 2020 F3HIJKLM Schedule released MLB takes another step SPORTS toward 60-game season » Page 23

NFL Payday Mahomes gets richest deal in sports history

BY ROB MAADDI Associated Press DID YOU KNOW ?

The Kansas City Chiefs made The 10-year extension Chiefs sure they’ll have Super Bowl quarterback Patrick Mahomes MVP Patrick Mahomes around as long as possible. received is worth up to $503 Mahomes agreed to a 10-year million, according to his agency, extension worth up to $503 mil- Steinberg Sports. The deal is lion, according to his agency, worth $477 million in guarantee Steinberg Sports. The deal is mechanisms and includes a no- worth $477 million in guar- trade clause and opt-out clauses if antee mechanisms and in- cludes a no-trade clause guarantee mechanisms aren’t met. and opt-out clauses if SOURCE: Associated Press guarantee mechanisms aren’t met. leader and a credit to the Kansas It’s the richest City community, and I’m delight- contract in profes- ed that he will be a member of the sional sports history, Chiefs for many years to come.” surpassing Mike The Chiefs had the 2018 NFL Trout’s $426.5 mil- MVP under contract for the next lion deal with the Los two seasons but that wasn’t near- Angeles Angels. ly enough. “Since he joined the Chiefs “Here to stay,” Mahomes wrote just a few years ago, Patrick has on Twitter. developed into one of the most The contract extension starts prolific athletes in all of sports,” in 2022 when the NFL salary Chiefs chairman Clark Hunt said cap is projected to be $227.5 mil- in a statement about the quarter- lion. However, that number could back who led them to their first be lower depending on revenue championship in 50 years. losses due to the cornonavirus “With his dynamic play and pandemic and the possibility any infectious personality, he is one games played this season won’t of the most recognized and be- have fans. loved figures to put on the Chiefs uniform. He’s an extraordinary SEE PAYDAY ON PAGE 22

GREGORY PAYAN, ABOVE, AND MARK J. TERRILL, RIGHT/AP Above: Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes scrambles during Super Bowl LIV against the San Francisco 49ers on Feb. 2 in Miami Gardens, Fla. The Chiefs won the game 31-20. Right: Chiefs coach Andy Reid, left, celebrates with Mahomes, who was named MVP of the game.

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