• Abstract and Figures
• Public Full-text

MILITARY MILITARY FACES Combat controller Guillen case Anthony Bourdain Keller awarded prompts significant documentary an Airman’s Medal reforms within Army ‘act of therapy’ Page 5 Page 6 Page 14 Suns sweep Nuggets, advance to conference finals ›› NBA playoffs, Page 24 stripes.com Volume 80 Edition 42 ©SS 2021 TUESDAY,JUNE 15, 2021 50¢/Free to Deployed Areas Biden: Defending allies a ‘sacred obligation’ President recommits US to NATO; new strategy for countering China, other threats BY JOHN VANDIVER Stoltenberg, Biden also described NATO’s Arti- NATO, to North America and Europe, working Stars and Stripes cle 5 provision that an attack on one member is together in NATO,” Stoltenberg said at the start President Joe Biden arrived in Brussels on regarded as an attack on all, as a “sacred obliga- of the summit. Monday with a message that defending allies in tion.” “I want all of Europe to know that the Unit- At the top of the conference agenda is NATO’s Europe was a “sacred obligation,” as NATO’s ed States is there,” Biden said. 2030 plan, which calls for adapting the alliance to leaders gathered for a summit that will result in a For allies, Biden’s talk of NATO solidarity take on new threats. Allies also will agree to new strategy that accounts for the rise of China, comes after four years of angst in Brussels over launch a new “Strategic Concept,” which hasn’t climate change and threats in space. the U.S. commitment to the alliance. NATO was been updated since 2010 and doesn’t currently “I want to make it clear, NATO is critically im- frequently criticized by former President Do- take into account China’s growing military pow- portant to U.S. interests in and of itself. If there nald Trump, who openly questioned the rele- er. weren’t one (NATO), we’d have to invent one,” vance of a security pact that dates to the early “China is coming closer to us. We see them in Biden said upon his arrival at alliance headquar- days of the Cold War. cyberspace. We see China in Africa, in the Arc- NATO ters. “I welcome the fact that we have a president of President Joe Biden smiles in Flanked by NATO Secretary-General Jens the United States who is strongly committed to SEE OBLIGATION ON PAGE 3 Brussels on Monday. 1991 eruption was shattering finale to US in Philippines BY WYATT OLSON Stars and Stripes Ash, smoke and mayhem descended onto Clark Air Base when nearby Mount Pinatu- bo erupted three decades ago in the Philip- pines. In the hours after the eruption on June 15, 1991, Susan Krei- fels, Stars and Stripes’ Philippines bureau chief who lived on the base, was stuck in a snarl of traffic on her way to Manila. Her driv- er inched through the dusk created by the mushroom Mount Pinatubo, cloud of ash that June 1991. blotted out the sun. As the car ground to a halt in the conges- tion, a man walked up to Kreifels’ open win- dow, plopped a crying baby into her arms and hastily disappeared. “I didn’t know what to do,” recalled Krei- fels, now the media program manager for the East-West Center in Honolulu. “I didn’t know what to do with that poor crying baby. JON WELCH/U.S. Marine Corps U.S. Army Sgt. Kevin Sanchez studies terrain during Exercise Balikatan 2019 near Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines. It's been 30 SEE FINALE ON PAGE 4 years since the massive eruption of the Mount Pinatubo volcano, which ultimately severed America's longtime ties with Clark Air Base. PAGE 2 • STARS AND STRIPES • Tuesday, June 15, 2021 BUSINESS/WEATHER Elon Musk shows off Tesla’s fastest car yet EXCHANGE RATES Military rates South Korea (Won) 1,118.57 Bloomberg electric car is the best car, hands with a plaid logo on the back. Tes- Switzerland (Franc) 0.8993 Euro costs (June 15) $1.18 Thailand (Baht) 31.12 Elon Musk billed Tesla’s new- down.” la shares rose as much as 1% to Dollar buys (June 15) 0.8046 Turkey (NewLira) 8.3905 British pound (June 15) $1.37 est vehicle, the Model S Plaid, as Musk touted the Plaid as being $616 before the start of regular Japanese yen (June 15) 107.00 (Military exchange rates are those available a halo product that proves the su- be able to go from zero to 60 miles trading Friday. South Korean won (June 15) 1087.00 to customers at military banking facilities in the Commercial rates country of issuance for Japan, South Korea, Ger­ periority of electric cars at an per hour in less than 2 seconds, The first 25 Plaid cars were many, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Bahrain(Dinar) 0.3769 For nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e., pur­ event marking the start of deliv- though that time excludes an ini- handed over to customers Thurs- Britain (Pound) 1.4115 chasing British pounds in Germany), check with Canada (Dollar) 1.2135 your local military banking facility. Commercial eries to customers. tial roll forward, according to the day, and Musk said he expected China(Yuan) 6.3987 rates are interbank rates provided for reference Denmark (Krone) 6.1345 “Why make this really fast car company’s website. The car of- the company to deliver 1,000 a Egypt (Pound) 15.6518 when buying currency. All figures are foreign that’s crazy fast?” the chief exec- fers an estimated 390 miles of week by next quarter. Euro 0.8248 currencies to one dollar, except for the British Hong Kong (Dollar) 7.7617 pound, which is represented in dollars­to­ utive officer asked rhetorically range, reaches a top speed of 200 The eightfold gain in Tesla’s Hungary (Forint) 289.48 pound, and the euro, which is dollars­to­euro.) Israel (Shekel) 3.2454 outside Tesla’s factory in Fre- mph and costs $129,990 in the stock price last year made the Japan (Yen) 109.91 INTEREST RATES mont, Calif. “There is something U.S. company the world’s most valua- Kuwait(Dinar) 0.3009 Norway (Krone) 8.3181 Prime rate 3.25 that’s quite important to the fu- “This is what I call limit-of- ble automaker. But shares drop- Philippines (Peso) 47.84 Interest Rates Discount rate 0.75 Poland (Zloty) 3.73 Federal funds market rate 0.06 ture of sustainable energy, which physics engineering,” said Musk, ped 14% through Thursday’s Saudi Arabia (Riyal) 3.7501 3­month bill 0.03 is that we’ve got to show that an wearing a black leather jacket close. Singapore (Dollar) 1.3265 30­year bond 2.15 WEATHER OUTLOOK TUESDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST TUESDAY IN EUROPE WEDNESDAY IN THE PACIFIC Misawa 64/60 Kabul Seoul 80/71 78/66 Baghdad 107/77 Drawsko Osan Tokyo Kandahar 85/67 70/66 Mildenhall/ Pomorskie Busan 98/73 Lakenheath 64/58 68/55 68/65 Iwakuni Kuwait City 70/65 Bahrain Brussels Zagan Sasebo Guam 110/87 90/87 Ramstein 76/53 74/70 75/59 78/50 85/82 Riyadh Lajes, Stuttgart 108/80 Doha Azores Pápa 70/64 77/55 109/82 Aviano/ 76/49 Vicenza 74/63 Naples 80/64 Okinawa Morón 82/78 88/67 Sigonella Rota 77/60 The weather is provided by the Djibouti 68/60 Souda Bay American Forces Network Weather Center, 100/84 71/61 2nd Weather Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. TODAY IN STRIPES American Roundup ...... 11 Classified .................... 13 Comics .........................16 Crossword ................... 16 Faces .......................... 14 Opinion ........................ 15 Sports .................... 18-24 Tuesday, June 15, 2021 • STARS AND STRIPES • PAGE 3 MILITARY Erdogan, Biden meet at tense moment for ties BY SUZAN FRASER base, which is very much built on a seems to understand that to get any Associated Press functioning Turkish economy that is kind of international investment to ANKARA, Turkey — President tethered into the West,” Ellehuus Turkey, he will need to project an Joe Biden and Turkish counterpart said. image of positive relations with the NATO Recep Tayyip Erdogan have known However, before leaving Sunday U.S.” President Joe Biden arrives at NATO Headquarters escorted by each other for years, but their meet- for the NATO summit in Brussels Biden has often touted the person- Secretary­General Jens Stoltenberg in Brussels on Monday. ing Monday was their first as heads where he met with Biden, Erdogan al relationships he’s developed with of state. And it came at a particularly described the president’s com- world leaders over nearly 50 years tense moment for relations between ments on the killings of Armenians as a factor that makes him uniquely Obligation: their two countries. living in the Ottoman Empire as “ve- equipped to revitalize the reputation NATO chief Biden says he had a “very good ry negative” and an “approach of the United States following the meeting” with Erdogan on the side- (that) has seriously upset us.” presidency of Donald Trump. lines of the NATO summit in Brus- Erdogan, in power for 18 years as In recent days, he’s mentioned to says an attack in space sels. prime minister and then president, aides that he’s developed a strong Biden’s brief comment came af- also has one-on-one meetings with rapport with Erdogan over the ter he and Erdogan met privately on French President Emmanuel Ma- years, according to a senior admin- could trigger an Article 5 Monday before being joined by oth- cron, German Chancellor Angela istration official who spoke on the er officials.

Load more

  24

Copy Link