NFL PACIFIC FACES Joint practices N. Korea bristles at Movie ‘CODA,’ help teams tackle upcoming US and Chance the Rapper tedium of camp S. Korea exercises film new this week Page 24 Page 3 Page 18 New York Gov. Cuomo resigns amid sexual harassment scandal ›› Page 9 stripes.com Volume 80 Edition 83 ©SS 2021 WEDNESDAY,AUGUST 11, 2021 50¢/Free to Deployed Areas AFGHANISTAN US warns Taliban over taking power through force BY KATHY GANNON AND TAMEEM AKHGAR Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan — A U.S. peace envoy brought a warning to the Taliban on Tuesday that any government that comes to power through force in Afghanistan won’t be recognized international- ly after a series of cities fell to the insurgent group in stunningly quick succession. Zalmay Khalilzad, the U.S. en- voy, traveled to Doha, Qatar, where the Taliban maintain a po- litical office, to tell the group that there was no point in pursuing vic- tory on the battlefield because a military takeover of the capital of Kabul would guarantee they JENNIFER H. SVAN/Stars and Stripes would be global pariahs. He and Diesel waits in his kennel inside the passenger terminal at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, in May 2020 before boarding a Patriot Express flight. others hope to persuade Taliban leaders to return to peace talks with the Afghan government as American and NATO forces finish their pullout from the country. The insurgents have captured Change in the air six out of 34 provincial capitals in the country in less than a week, in- cluding Kunduz in Kunduz prov- Emotional support animals are no longer a recognized category on DOD flights ince — one of the country’s largest cities. On Sunday, they planted BY KARIN ZEITVOGEL They were implemented on U.S. commercial their flag in the main square, but Stars and Stripes flights at the start of this year, but AMC needed government forces still controlled KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany — Emo- time to update the DOD instruction, command the strategic airport and an army tional support animals are no longer a recog- spokesman Capt. Frederick Wallace said in an base on the city’s outskirts. nized category on Defense Department flights, email Monday. They are now battling the West- including the Patriot Express, and must fly as Prior to the rule change, emotional support ern-backed government for con- pets at their owner's expense, Air Mobility animals were considered service animals for trol of several others. Late on Command officials said. the purpose of air travel, even though they Tuesday, Taliban forces entered Under new regulations that went into effect don’t go through the rigorous training a service Farah and were seen in front to the last week, only cats and canines will be trans- animal does. provincial governor’s office. ported as pets on DOD flights, and only dogs Passengers wishing to travel with an emo- Taliban spokesman Zabihullah are recognized as service animals, which can tional support animal only needed to provide a Mujahed tweeted the insurgents fly for free in the passenger cabin. ERIC WHITE/U.S. Air Force document from a licensed health professional had taken the city, which is the The section on emotional support animals Emotional support animals like Bailey, seen that said the traveler has a mental or emotional was removed when the rules were updated in at Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Ohio, in SEE TALIBAN ON PAGE 5 December by the Transportation Department. June, must now fly at their owner’s expense. SEE CHANGE ON PAGE 6 PAGE 2 • STARS AND STRIPES • Wednesday, August 11, 2021 BUSINESS/WEATHER Calls mount for Fed to slow stimulus efforts by fall EXCHANGE RATES Military rates South Korea (Won) 1,153.40 Associated Press gin reducing its $120 billion in pur- goods such as homes and cars. Switzerland (Franc) 0.9228 Euro costs (Aug. 11) $1.14 Thailand (Baht) 33.46 WASHINGTON — The presi- chases of Treasury and mortgage Home prices are rising at the fas- Dollar buys (Aug. 11) 0.8315 Turkey (NewLira) 8.6106 British pound (Aug. 11) $1.35 dent of the Federal Reserve Bank bonds “this fall." The bond buying, test pace in nearly 20 years. Japanese yen (Aug. 11) 107.00 (Military exchange rates are those available of Boston added his voice Monday which the Fed initiated after the Fed officials have said the econo- South Korean won (Aug. 11) 1,119.00 to customers at military banking facilities in the Commercial rates country of issuance for Japan, South Korea, Ger­ to a growing number of people, in- coronavirus erupted in March of my needs to make “substantial fur- many, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Bahrain (Dinar) 0.3770 For nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e., pur­ side and outside the Fed, who say last year, has been intended to low- ther progress” toward its goals of Britain (Pound) 1.3845 chasing British pounds in Germany), check with Canada (Dollar) 1.2559 your local military banking facility. Commercial the central bank should soon begin er longer-term interest rates and maximum employment and an- China (Yuan) 6.4854 rates are interbank rates provided for reference Denmark (Krone) 6.3474 to dial back its extraordinary aid encourage borrowing and spend- nual inflation at modestly above 2% Egypt (Pound) 15.7203 when buying currency. All figures are foreign for an economy that is strongly re- ing. before the central bank will begin Euro 0.8535 currencies to one dollar, except for the British Hong Kong (Dollar) 7.7821 pound, which is represented in dollars­to­ covering from the pandemic reces- Rosengren also echoed some of to pare its bond purchases. Rosen- Hungary (Forint) 301.25 pound, and the euro, which is dollars­to­euro.) Israel (Shekel) 3.2261 sion. the Fed’s recent critics by arguing gren said that he believed that this Japan (Yen) 110.57 INTEREST RATES Eric Rosengren said in an inter- that the bond purchases are no criteria had already been met with Kuwait (Dinar) 0.3010 Norway (Krone) 8.9414 Prime rate 3.25 view with The Associated Press longer helping to create jobs but inflation, which has surged above Philippines (Peso) 50.49 Interest Rates Discount rate 0.75 Poland (Zloty) 3.91 Federal funds market rate 0.09 that the central bank should an- are instead mostly helping drive up 2% since this spring, and was close Saudi Arabia (Riyal) 3.7501 3­month bill 0.06 nounce in September that it will be- the prices of interest-rate sensitive to being fulfilled in regard to jobs. Singapore (Dollar) 1.3591 30­year bond 1.96 WEATHER OUTLOOK WEDNESDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST WEDNESDAY IN EUROPE THURSDAY IN THE PACIFIC Misawa 67/64 Kabul Seoul 92/54 86/72 Baghdad 107/79 Drawsko Osan Tokyo Kandahar Mildenhall/ 92/72 81/73 Pomorskie Busan 101/68 Lakenheath 69/56 73/52 79/76 Iwakuni Kuwait City 79/76 Bahrain Zagan Sasebo Guam 113/88 97/93 Brussels Ramstein 72/59 67/57 79/55 79/76 83/80 Riyadh Lajes, Stuttgart 110/78 Doha Azores Pápa 73/70 78/57 105/89 Aviano/ 83/64 Vicenza 88/65 Naples 92/76 Okinawa Morón 82/79 99/72 Sigonella Rota 111/77 The weather is provided by the Djibouti 79/66 Souda Bay American Forces Network Weather Center, 91/84 85/78 2nd Weather Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. TODAY IN STRIPES American Roundup ...... 11 Classified .................... 13 Comics .........................16 Crossword ................... 16 Faces .......................... 18 Opinion ........................ 14 Sports .................... 19-24 Wednesday, August 11, 2021 • STARS AND STRIPES • PAGE 3 PACIFIC N. Korea bristles at US, S. Korea exercises BY DAVID CHOI News Agency website. from Monday until Aug. 26. exercise’s intent, rather than its Last month, South Korea reo- Stars and Stripes “The dangerous war exercises The joint military drills be- size, was the cause for her con- pened its communication lines CAMP HUMPHREYS, South pushed ahead by the U.S. and the tween the two countries have cern. with North Korea and offered Korea — Kim Yo Jong, North Ko- South Korean side disregardful of been scaled back since the Donald “Whatever the scale and mode, some hope for rekindling diplo- rean leader Kim Jong Un’s sister our repeated warnings will surely Trump administration due to the the joint military exercises are of macy on the peninsula. The lines and a senior official of the coun- make them face a more serious se- COVID-19 pandemic and diplo- aggressive nature as they are a were suspended for a year before try’s ruling Communist Party, has curity threat,” Kim said. matic overtures from North Ko- war rehearsal,” Kim said. being reinstated “to make a big criticized the United States and Pyongyang routinely criticizes rea. U.S. Forces Korea spokesman stride in recovering the mutual South Korea for an upcoming, U.S.-South Korean exercises as a Former Defense Secretary Col. Lee Peters declined to speak trust and promoting reconcilia- joint military exercise. precursor to an invasion of the Mark Esper postponed a joint ex- about the drills Monday, citing the tion,” KCNA said in its statement. She accused the two countries North. ercise in 2019, citing “a good-faith command’s policy of not com- Roughly 70 South Korean law- of “further accelerating the insta- South Korean military officials effort by the United States and menting on the military exercises. makers last week urged the gov- ble situation” on the Korean Pen- said Monday they would kick off [South Korea] to enable peace.” “Any discussions on combined ernment to postpone the drills and insula and warned that “we will the military drills with a crisis The scheduled drills are ex- training events are a [South Ko- expressed concern in light of the counter the U.S.