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Volume 79, No. 56 ©SS 2020 Monday, July 6, 2020 50¢/Free to Deployed Areas Shame in the name Aircraft carrier honoring ‘Dixiecrat’ segregationist Stennis draws criticism

BY KATHERINE HAFNER The (Norfolk, Va.) Virginian-Pilot VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — As a Mississippi senator, John C. Sten- nis signed the infamous “Southern Manifesto” decrying integration. He fought Black equality in the Navy and, as a prosecutor, sought ‘ Stennis the execution was the of three Black men who had heart, soul, been tortured and brains into confessing of the white to a slaying. supremacist For several decades, caucus in his name has the 1948 graced an Congress. aircraft car- ’ rier currently retired Lt. based in Nor- Cmdr. Reuben folk — the only Keith Green senator to have that honor. Now, amid a national reckoning over America’s racist roots, some are pushing for that to change. “Today’s sailors, Marines, and officers should not have to make the

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Aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis .

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VIRUS OUTBREAK July 4th holiday fuels worries about skyrocketing cases

Associated Press fuel for the nation’s surging coronavirus proving, it could be due to reduced report- before they were tested and missed mild outbreak. ing on a national holiday. cases. ST. PETE BEACH, Fla. — The United Johns Hopkins on Sunday counted The United States has the most infec- Worldwide, nearly 11.3 million people States has dipped under 50,000 new daily 45,300 new coronavirus infections report- tions and virus-related deaths in the world, have been infected and over 531,000 have infections for the first time in four days, ed Saturday in the U.S. after three days in with 2.8 million cases and nearly 130,000 died, with outbreaks surging in India, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins Uni- which the daily count reached as high as dead, according to the university. Experts South Africa, Pakistan, Brazil and several versity, but experts fear celebrations for 54,500 new cases. The lower figure does say the true toll of the pandemic is sig- the July 4th weekend will act like rocket not mean the situation in the U.S. is im- nificantly higher, due to people who died SEE CASES ON PAGE 7 PAGE 2 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Monday, July 6, 2020 BUSINESS/WEATHER EXCHANGE RATES Military rates Switzerland (Franc)...... 0.9449 Trump signs extension of business relief funds Euro costs (July 6) ...... $1.10 Thailand (Baht) ...... 31.12 Dollar buys (July 6) ...... €0.8681 Turkey (Lira) ...... 6.8660 British pound (July 6) ...... $1.22 Associated Press (Military exchange rates are those more flexible use of the funding program after the Republican- Japanese yen (July 6)...... 105.00 available to customers at military banking South Korean won (July 6) ...... 1,170.00 despite some grumbling among controlled Senate did the same. Commercial rates facilities in the country of issuance WASHINGTON — President for Japan, South Korea, Germany, the Bahrain (Dinar) ...... 0.3770 GOP conservatives. Trump had been expected to Netherlands and the United Kingdom. For Donald Trump on Saturday British pound ...... $1.2477 About $130 billion of $660 bil- nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e., sign the measure. Canada (Dollar) ...... 1.3557 signed into law a temporary ex- purchasing British pounds in Germany), lion approved for the program China (Yuan) ...... 7.0664 The subsidies come in the form check with your local military banking tension of a subsidy program for Denmark (Krone) ...... 6.6258 remains eligible for businesses to facility. Commercial rates are interbank of federal loans that can be for- Egypt (Pound) ...... 16.1221 small businesses battered by the seek direct federal subsidies for rates provided for reference when buying given if businesses follow rules Euro ...... $1.1245/0.8893 coronavirus, payroll and other costs such as Hong Kong (Dollar) ...... 7.7502 currency. All figures are foreign currencies such as utilizing 60% of the loan Hungary (Forint) ...... 314.27 to one dollar, except for the British pound, The legislation extends the rent, though demand for the Pay- which is represented in dollars-to-pound, for payroll costs. The loans have Israel (Shekel) ...... 3.4357 June 30 deadline for applying for check Protection Program has Japan (Yen) ...... 107.50 and the euro, which is dollars-to-euro.) the program to Aug. 8. Lawmak- pretty much dried up in recent been a lifeline to almost 5 million Kuwait (Dinar) ...... 0.3079 INTEREST RATES ers created the program in March firms, but business owners are Norway (Krone) ...... 9.4808 weeks. Philippines (Peso)...... 49.48 Prime rate ...... 3.25 and have modified it twice since, The Democratic-controlled looking for more flexibility and Poland (Zloty) ...... 3.97 Discount rate ...... 0.25 aid that helps them survive over Saudi Arabia (Riyal) ...... 3.7513 Federal funds market rate ...... 0.08 adding money on one occasion House voted Wednesday to ap- Singapore (Dollar) ...... 1.3942 3-month bill ...... 0.15 and more recently permitting prove the extension of the the long haul. South Korea (Won) ...... 1,199.31 30-year bond ...... 1.43 WEATHER OUTLOOK MONDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST MONDAY IN EUROPE TUESDAY IN THE PACIFIC

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BY WYATT OLSON that “no vessel shall be allowed claimed sovereignty over the USS Mustin conducted operations the exercise violates China’s Stars and Stripes to navigate within” during those Paracel archipelago, which China “in support of security and stabil- commitments under the 2002 days of operation. The number calls Xisha. ity” in waters near the Paracel Declaration on the Conduct of Chinese military exercises and types of vessels participat- The United States, among many Islands in late May, according to Parties in the South China Sea, being held this week around ing in the exercise were not other countries, regards much of the U.S. Navy. which calls for all parties to avoid disputed islands in the South disclosed. the sea as international waters The littoral combat ship USS activities that would “complicate China Sea “further destabilize” “The designated area where and thus open to free passage. Gabrielle Giffords was conduct- or escalate disputes and affect relations among nations staking the exercises are due to take In what it calls freedom-of- ing routine operations in the peace and stability.” claims in the waters, the Penta- place encompass contested wa- navigation operations, U.S. Navy South China Sea on Monday as China’s actions also “further gon warned last week. ters and territory,” the Pentagon ships routinely transit near reefs the Chinese exercise kicked off. destabilize the situation in the China state media announced said in a statement. “Conducting and small islets that lie in the The Giffords operated near the late last month that it would con- military exercises over disputed sea’s international waters but Chinese survey ship Hai Yang South China Sea” and conflict duct military training exercises territory in the South China Sea are subjects of disputed claims of Di Zhi 4 Hao, which over the past with China’s “pledge to not mili- in waters off the Paracel Islands is counterproductive to efforts at sovereignty by China, Vietnam, few months has ventured into the tarize the South China Sea,” the Monday through Friday. easing tensions and maintaining Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei exclusive economic zones belong- Pentagon said. The announcement included stability.” and Indonesia. ing to Malaysia and Vietnam. [email protected] descriptions of boundary lines Both China and Vietnam have The guided-missile destroyer The Pentagon statement said Twitter: @WyattWOlson US general shows off Global Hawk as Japan prepares for their own

BY SETH ROBSON with how the Air Force conducts Stars and Stripes Global Hawk air and ground operations, the statement said. YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan “The United States continues to — The top U.S. general in Japan forward position some of its most showed off an RQ-4 Global Hawk advanced capabilities as a part of surveillance drone to one of his our commitment to the defense of Japanese counterparts Thursday Japan and to the security and sta- as the country prepares to field bility of the Indo-Pacific region,” its own fleet of the unmanned Schneider said in the statement. aircraft. During the tour, airmen U.S. Forces Japan and 5th Air showed their Japanese counter- Force commander Lt. Gen. Kevin parts maintenance processes and Schneider, Air Defense Com- equipment, simulated aircraft mand chief Lt. Gen. Shunji Izutsu takeoff and command and control and about 20 U.S. and Japanese capabilities. They also explained military leaders visited a detach- how the Air Force organizes, ment from the 319th Operations trains and equips its reconnais- Group that operates the drones at sance forces. Yokota, according to an Air Force The Northrop Grumman-built statement released after the visit. drones, which can cost $100 mil- The Global Hawks support U.S. lion depending on configuration, intelligence, surveillance and re- are thought to be capable of oper- connaissance missions for joint ating at an altitude of 60,000 feet, combatant forces in peacetime, high above civilian air traffic, contingency and crisis opera- which normally does not surpass tions, the statement said. 40,000 feet. They can stay aloft Japan’s Defense Ministry, in for 34 hours and have a range of its 2020 budget request, revealed 14,000 miles. that it planned to create a unit of Global Hawks have been used Global Hawks, which are expect- to provide imagery to planners ed to deploy to Misawa Air Base during disasters such as the 2010 U.S. Air Force by March 2022. Haiti earthquake, tsunami relief Guam-based Global Hawks in Japan in 2011 and typhoon re- Japan’s Air Defense Command chief, Lt. Gen. Shunji Izutsu, center, speaks with U.S. airmen Thursday have operated out of U.S. bases sponse in the Philippines. They’ve about Global Hawk operations at Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo. in Japan during typhoon season also been used to track wildfires, each year since 2014. This sum- fight piracy and to search for ab- ed each mission daily, virtually “Yokota Air Base continues to out causing impacts to Yokota’s mer, several of the high-tech ductees in Africa. unnoticed, without incident,” Lt. prove the most ideal location for flight operations or the local com- drones are flying out of Yokota. “Since our arrival last month, Col. Ben Craycraft, 319th Opera- our operations due to the Kanto munities surrounding the base.” The generals’ visit was intend- our squadron of Global Hawks tions Group Detachment 1 com- Plain’s favorable weather and our [email protected] ed to familiarize the Japanese has safely and flawlessly execut- mander, said in the statement. ability to conduct operations with- Twitter: @SethRobson1 Of ficial: No environmental impacts from wastewater spill at Kadena

BY MATTHEW M. BURKE way 16, the 18th Wing wrote in the first of Ministry on the island, said the wastewater spokesman said. AND AYA ICHIHASHI a series of statements to Stars and Stripes also spilled into a field on the base. Government spokespeople in Japan cus- Stars and Stripes ending Wednesday evening. Workers were The spill was contained and the line re- tomarily speak on condition of anonymity pumping sewage with a temporary line paired, the wing statement said. On June as a condition of their employment. CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — The Air while repairs were made on existing lines 18 and 19, airmen from the 18th Civil En- “Some of the sewage spilled into the dry Force on Okinawa said a 25,000- to 50,000- when a break occurred. gineer Group flushed the riverbed with riverbed next to Highway 16 but did not gallon sewage spill on Kadena Air Base Water “from sinks, showers, toilets, water and pumped it into a nearby man- impact the Hija River or any other water last month was contained to the installa- washing machines and dishwashers” hole on base property, “restoring it to its source,” the 18th Wing statement said. “We tion and it anticipates no environmental spilled into a dry riverbed next to Highway original state.” anticipate no environmental impact.” impacts. 16, the email Wednesday said. The wastewater that leaked contained [email protected] Twitter: @MatthewMBurke1 The spill occurred June 15 inside the pe- A spokesman for the Okinawa Defense no harmful chemicals and it will not af- [email protected] rimeter fence, east of Gate 3, along High- Bureau, which represents Japan’s Defense fect drinking water in the area, a bureau Twitter: @AyaIchihashi PAGE 4 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Monday, July 6, 2020 MILITARY Professor researches nanofiber body armor

BY J.P. LAWRENCE Stars and Stripes Seven years of Harvard Uni- versity research into bulletproof armor began with a simple question of how to protect soldiers’ private parts from blast wounds. The problem inspired Harvard professor Kit Parker, a veteran of four tours in Afghanistan, to begin research that led to the development of a lightweight nanofiber material that can stop both bullets and burns. “I try to do one science project for each thing that pissed me off in the war,” said Parker, whose research on a new nanofiber material was published in the scien- tific journal Matter last week. The bioengineering and ap- plied physics professor and Army Reserve lieutenant colonel has done work on traumatic brain injuries, lab-made meat and a ro- botic stingray that was part of a quest to build an artificial heart. In 2013, knowing that mines and roadside bombs have left hundreds of troops with penis and testicle injuries, he began work to develop body armor so light it could fit in a soldier’s underwear. Modern body armor is bulky, with multiple materials layered to stop the force of a bullet in its dier Center in Natick will next together, due to the difficulty of tracks, while air in the fabric’s attempt to replicate the Harvard making a material that can pro- pores absorbs intense heat — 20 team’s manufacturing techniques tect against both projectiles and times more than traditional mate- and conduct further research, a intense heat at the same time, rials, researchers said. spokesman said via email. Parker said in a phone call on To test it, West Point cadets Parker, who jokes that his lab Monday. placed a blowtorch with a heater has more combat experience than Typical bullet-stopping mate- attachment beside a small gelatin most infantry platoons, thinks it rials like Kevlar are made with astronaut figure. could one day be used in soldiers’ grid-like molecular structures, The figure melted in minutes facemasks or underwear. while those that block intense without any protection, and anoth- West Point professor Col. John er body armor material, Twaron, heat, like Nomex, are fluffy with Burpo, an Iraq War veteran molecules more spread out. protected him for 17 minutes, but wounded in an improvised bomb But the Harvard researchers the new nanofiber kept him cool blast and one of several combat aimed to cut weight by creating a and unmelted after 30 minutes. veterans who took part in Park- single material that could do both Army researchers in Natick, jobs at once. They used micro- Mass., who shot BB-like projec- er’s research, hopes it will save scopic strands of Kevlar fibers, tiles at the new lightweight mate- lives one day. PHOTOS BY GRANT GONZALEZ/Harvard University gathered like tiny bundles of spa- rial found that it stops projectiles “Experiences with getting ghetti and arranged in a loose, about equally as well as heavier banged around overseas certain- Top: Cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point tested a unwoven network. stuff used in traditional body ly served as motivation,” Burpo new nanofiber body armor material by observing whether it would “It’s mostly air with a scaffold- armor. said in a phone call last week. protect a small gelatin astronaut figure from the heat of a blowtorch ing,” Parker said. The Army’s Combat Capabili- [email protected] heater. Above: A close-up view of a nanofiber material developed by The “long” fibers can stretch ties Development Command Sol- Twitter: @jplawrence3 researchers at Harvard University along with the U.S. Army. Woman sentenced in death of 4-year-old Army dependent

BY IMMANUEL JOHNSON stepson last year at the family the little boy, whose father was Vilseck, where the boy’s father first not visible,” a police state- AND MARCUS KLOECKNER home in Eschenbach, German away at the time, the court said. was assigned to the 2nd Cav- ment said. Stars and Stripes media reports said. The prosecutor’s office had alry Regiment’s Field Artillery The family has three other chil- GRAFENWOEHR, Germany The 26-year-old woman was asked for a 10-year prison Squadron, and found her stepson dren. The court in Weiden was — The wife of an American sol- convicted of manslaughter and sentence. unconscious and not breathing. not available for comment. dier was sentenced to nine years sentenced by a court in Weiden, The woman was arrested in An autopsy determined that [email protected] in prison Thursday by a German news website Nordbayern.de re- November last year after po- “the child died from the effects Twitter: Manny_Stripes court for killing her 4-year-old ported. The woman had strangled lice were called to a home near of external violence that were at [email protected] US military helicopter forced to land after takeoff at base in S. Korea

Stars and Stripes board the UH-60 Black Hawk or civilians lice hours after the incident, which South were knocked over by the wind. near the landing site, according to a press Korean officials said occurred at about 4 SEOUL, South Korea — A U.S. military U.S. Forces Korea said the cause was release. p.m. under investigation. helicopter was forced to make a “precau- The helicopter landed in an empty field A fire official, who spoke on condition of “USFK and local authorities will assess tionary landing” on Thursday shortly after near a parking lot in a riverside park near anonymity, said five fire trucks responded takeoff from Yongsan Garrison, U.S. Forc- the base. to the incident but left after about 50 min- any potential damage that may have oc- es Korea said. The field was cordoned off and guarded utes since there was very little damage. curred during the precautionary landing,” No injuries were reported to those on- by Military Police and South Korean po- He said a tent and a television satellite it said. Monday, July 6, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 5 MILITARY Search is Officials mark ongoing for US Marine 70 years since in Japan

BY JAMES BOLINGER AND HANA KUSUMOTO Battle of Osan Stars and Stripes MARINE CORPS AIR STA- TION IWAKUNI, Japan — The BY MATTHEW KEELER ert Abrams, commander of U.S. Marine Corps said Sunday that AND KIM GAMEL Forces Korea, said during the “search efforts are still ongoing” Stars and Stripes ceremony, using the formal name for a Marine who went missing at for South Korea. sea days earlier during a recre- OSAN, South Korea — It was “Their actions inspired na- ational trip to a beach in Shimane raining 70 years ago when Amer- tions from around the world, and prefecture. ican soldiers engaged in their the [South Korean]-U.S. alliance The Japan Coast Guard office first ground battle against North emerged from the embers of /Stars and Stripes in Hamada received a call at ap- Korean forces, just over a week MATTHEW KEELER war,” he added. proximately 11 a.m. Thursday after the Korean War began. Osan city also inaugurated the People release paper boats, made by children, into a pond as a about a person drowning near That meant the Air Force Jukmiryeong Peace Park and an proclamation of peace during a Korean War memorial service at couldn’t provide cover as the 540 the Iwami Kahin campground expanded museum in memory of Osan Jukmiryeong Peace Park in Osan, South Korea, on Sunday . members of Task Force Smith at Hamada Beach, an agency the battle, with dancers and a fly- fought more than 5,000 North spokesman told Stars and Stripes over by the Black Eagles, a South significant because it marked hours before commander Lt. Col. Koreans armed with Soviet-made by phone Saturday morning. Korean military aerobatic team. the start of broader international Charles Smith ordered a retreat. tanks. engagement. “Because it’s raining, the U.S. An earlier report in the Chu- More than 150 Americans Surviving American veterans goku newspaper described the from Task Force Smith have ap- “It showed this is no longer just can’t provide air cover and if you were killed or went missing in the a Korean conflict. Now you’ve got don’t have air cover, especially person as a 24-year-old Marine fighting on July 5, 1950, known as peared at past commemorations, assigned to Marine Corps Air but travel and attendance this American forces with, as the say- back in the 1940s and 50s, you re- the Battle of Osan. But the unit Station Iwakuni in neighboring year was limited by the coronavi- ing goes, with skin in the game,” ally can’t take on a tank with a re- accomplished its mission to help Yamaguchi prefecture. rus pandemic. Everybody at the said Cord Scott, an Osan-based coilless gun or an artillery piece,” delay the North Korean advance “About 20 people affiliated with ceremony wore face masks. history professor with the Univer- he said. while U.S. reinforcements ar- In all, 22 nations contributed the base were visiting the beach,” Abrams paid homage to retired sity of Maryland Global Campus. rived on the divided peninsula. combat forces or medical sup- the report said. “The man went Maj. Gen. Yoon Seung-kook, who “It exemplifies the expansion of U.S. and South Korean offi- port under U.N. auspices to the as a young captain was the only the war under the U.N. guise.” missing after he went to rescue cials gathered Sunday in Osan, fight against the North Koreans, South Korean assigned to the unit. Task Force Smith was a hast- two men in the group, who were about 30 miles south of Seoul, who were later joined by Chinese USFK also recently renamed an ily assembled and understrength swept out off shore.” to commemorate the 70th an- forces. access gate at Camp Humphreys battalion sent from the 24th In- The coast guard came up empty niversary of the battle, saying it The U.S. maintains at least in honor of Yoon, now 95. fantry Division in U.S.-occupied after searching Thursday, Friday also marked the beginning of the 28,500 service members in South The U.S. came to the aid of Japan after the United Nations and Saturday, the spokesman said longstanding alliance between Korea after the war ended on South Korea shortly after the war Security Council authorized mili- Sunday. the two countries. July 27, 1953, with an armistice tary action by member states. It’s customary in Japan for “Task Force Smith’s actions began on June 25, 1950, but it instead of a peace treaty. signaled that the free world would initially relied mainly on air and The outnumbered soldiers some government officials to not stand by idly and watch com- naval support. were ill-prepared against the bet- [email protected] speak to the media on condition Twitter: @MattKeeler1231 munist aggression towards the The Korean War saw many ter-equipped North Koreans but [email protected] of anonymity. Republic of Korea,” Gen. Rob- deadlier battles, but Osan was held the ground for more than six Twitter: @kimgamel However, the Marine Corps said its operation continues. “The search efforts are still ongoing and there has not yet Shame: been a change in the Marine’s Retired chief calls for renaming of aircraft carrier status,” Capt. Marco Valenzuela, a spokesman for Marine Aircraft FROM FRONT PAGE Mississippi. website. He went to law school at Act in 1964 and the Voting Rights Group 12 at MCAS Iwakuni, said psychologically damaging choice Pentagon officials have said the University of Virginia. Act in 1965. in an email to Stars and Stripes of speaking up or serving in si- they would look into changing the Stennis served as a prosecu- “I often have thought about what on Sunday. lence in a vessel named for an monikers of military installations tor, circuit court judge and state it must be like for a minority sailor The beach has not yet opened ardent segregationist and white named for Confederate leaders senator in his home state before to receive orders to and serve” on for the season, the coast guard supremacist, who condoned beat- —including North Carolina’s representing it in the U.S. Senate the Stennis, Green wrote. “Most spokesman said. Fort Bragg — though President for 41 years. ing the skin off black people until sailors — and Navy leaders — The sea was experiencing they either confessed or died,” Donald Trump has said he won’t While a prosecutor, he sought have little idea of his background, allow that to happen. A Navy conviction and the death penalty swells of up to nearly 10 feet at the retired Lt. Cmdr. Reuben Keith but the Navy, as an institution, has time of the incident, along with Green wrote in a recent piece for spokesman declined to comment for three black men accused of a moral obligation to know.” strong winds. the U.S. Naval Institute. “It is in- about the Stennis. murder, despite “knowledge that Clemons said symbols are Michael Clemons, a political the confessions had been obtained The beach is a popular spot for compatible with American values “very powerful,” and an aircraft science and African American through torture,” Clemons said. locals and those in neighboring and the recent directives from carrier’s name is one. studies professor at Old Domin- The case bolstered his repu- prefectures, he added. the Navy to expect for them to “They’re often motivational to ion University, said he thinks re- tation, but the convictions were have to do so.” people. In this instance the kind [email protected] In the piece, titled “The Case naming the ship “makes a whole overturned by the Supreme Court Twitter: @bolingerj2004 of inspiration I would not expect for Renaming the USS John C. lot of sense.” in 1936 in Brown v. Mississippi. [email protected] Stennis,” Green outlines the for- “The Navy is too diverse at this The justices ruled such confes- to be all that positive.” Twitter: @HanaKusumoto mer Democratic senator’s his- point in time, too inclusionary sions extracted by police violence tory as a white supremacist and to be honoring certain individu- cannot be used and violate the urges the Navy to rename the als,” said Clemons, who’s also the Fourteenth Amendment. ship. He suggested former sailor founding editor of The Journal In Congress, Stennis was part William S. Norman, a minority of Race and Policy. “To keep his of a coalition of southern Demo- affairs assistant to the naval op- name on an aircraft carrier of crats known as “Dixiecrats” who erations chief in the early 1970s that magnitude, I think it poten- vehemently opposed civil rights who pushed for improvements to tially undermines the safety and and desegregation. racial equality, as one possible cohesiveness of those men and “Stennis was the heart, soul, replacement. Norman grew up in women who put their life on the and brains of the white suprema- Norfolk and attended Booker T. line for this country.” cist caucus in the 1948 Congress,” Washington High School. Stennis was born in Mississippi Green wrote. A similar effort launched last in 1901, to a farmer “in one of the He signed the “Southern Mani- week aims to get Stennis’ name poorest counties in the poorest festo” opposing school integration off a NASA space center in state,” according to the carrier’s and voted against the Civil Rights PAGE 6 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Monday, July 6, 2020 WAR ON TERRORISM Talk of bounties renews pain at loss of Marines

BY DAN LAMOTHE, public attention as one of many MISSY RYAN AND PAUL SONNE violent incidents in a war that has The Washington Post killed nearly 2,400 Americans in combat over more than 18 years. WASHINGTON — With a burst But it has been thrust into the of light and dust, an armored ve- spotlight in recent days amid rev- hicle carrying Marines outside a elations that intelligence analysts major U.S. air base in Afghani- believe those who planned it may stan erupted into flames, killing have been paid a bounty by a Rus- three men inside and plunging sian military intelligence unit to their unit into chaos. kill Americans. The April 2019 car bombing President Donald Trump about a mile from Bagram Air- has dismissed the story as a field had the hallmark of a coor- “hoax,” amid reports that in- RAHMAT GUL/AP dinated ambush, said two defense formation about the threat cir- officials familiar with the details. culated through the American An Afghan security officer checks the site a day after a 2019 car bombing near Bagram Airfield, that A sedan packed with explosives intelligence community and first killed three American service members and a U.S. contractor. blew up as the Marines’ vehicle reached the White House early in drew alongside it, mangling the 2019, before the attack . Marines — Staff Sgt. Christopher vival of the attack in the news has it.” mine-resistant vehicle so badly Other Trump administration Slutman, Staff Sgt. Benjamin brought more pain. Slutman, 43, a married father that U.S. troops had to take the officials, meanwhile, have cast Hines and Sgt. Robert Hendriks “For the immediate family and of three, had served 15 years in wreckage back to Bagram to ex- the information as a concern that — who were just a few weeks Marines, it’s like ripping a Band- the New York City Fire Depart- tract the remains. merited attention, even if defense from returning home to the Unit- Aid off. They are just getting used ment. Hines, 31, was engaged to The Taliban released a photo of officials did not see the intelli- ed States when they were killed. to life again. We just had Memo- be married when he returned the explosion afterward, assert- gence — gathered in interviews Kyle Moyer, a Marine veteran rial Day, the one-year anniversa- home. The body of Hendriks, 25, ing responsibility for it and say- with Taliban members detained who deployed with Hines and ry in April, and now this,” Moyer was escorted home to the United ing that “multiple invaders” were in Afghanistan — as verified. Slutman to Iraq in 2008, said said. “They just want the lives to States by his brother, Joseph, who killed and wounded. Caught in the firestorm are the that the death of his friends was be celebrated, and to remember also is a Marine, his family has The attack quickly faded from families and friends of the three “heartbreaking” and that the re- them, and not have a cloud over said. Rocket fired Soldier dies in toward Green vehicle rollover Zone in Iraq in Afghanistan Stars and Stripes BY SAMYA KULLAB A vehicle rollover accident has claimed Associated Press the life of a soldier supporting Operation Freedom’s Sentinel in Afghanistan, the BAGHDAD — The Iraqi military said Pentagon said Saturday. Sunday that a rocket aimed at Baghdad’s Spc. Vincent Sebastian Ibarria, 21, of fortified Green Zone, home of the U.S. San Antonio, died Friday as a result of the Embassy, struck a residential house and incident, which is under investigation, a injured a child. statement said. The accident happened in Iraqi officials said the embassy’s recent- the capital of Farah province in the coun- ly installed C-RAM air defense system try’s southwest. may have attempted to intercept the rocket Ibarria was assigned to the 2nd Bat- as the system was operational late Satur- talion, 22nd Infantry Regiment. The Fort day. A recent spate of rocket attacks have Drum, N.Y.-based unit, part of the 1st In- struck close to the U.S. Embassy and tar- fantry Brigade Combat Team, 10th Moun- geted American troops in Iraqi bases. The tain Division, deployed to Afghanistan with officials spoke on condition of anonymity the brigade in the spring. in line with regulations. “The entire Warrior Team mourns the HADI MIZBAN/AP The rocket was launched from the Ali loss of Vincent,” the brigade said on its Al-Saleh area of Baghdad and landed next A man cools off from the summer heat under an open-air shower in Baghdad on social media pages. “Our thoughts and to a house close to a local TV channel late Sunday. The Iraqi military said Sunday that a rocket aimed at Baghdad’s fortified prayers are with Vincent’s Family, Friends, Saturday, the military statement said. A Green Zone, home of the U.S. Embassy, struck a residential house and injured a child. and fellow Soldiers.” child suffered head injuries and the house No other details, including the type of was damaged. ed to top the agenda. Green Zone. Thirteen detainees were later vehicle that rolled over, were released. Iraqi security forces say they also The U.S. has criticized the federal released and one remains in custody. Ibarria’s death brings the number of thwarted another attack in the Umm al- government for being unable to reign in The move drew praise from the U.S. but Americans killed in Afghanistan this year Azam area aiming to hit Camp Taji, north Iran-backed militia groups it believes are condemnation from Iran-backed political to nine. of Baghdad, a training base used by U.S.- orchestrating the attacks. Prime Minister factions in Iraq. In online tributes, friends remembered led coalition forces. Mustafa al-Kadhimi has pledged to protect The U.S. Embassy began testing the new Ibarria as loyal, kind and positive. In March, two Americans and one Brit- American installations from attacks, U.S. air defense system late Saturday, the Iraqi “I’m lost for words right now I can’t ish soldier were killed following a barrage officials said. officials said. It drew condemnation from believe you are gone,” said Trey Davis, of rockets on Camp Taji. Iraqi security forces last week raided Deputy Speaker of Parliament Hassan who described Ibarria as his best friend, The latest uptick in attacks comes short- the headquarters of the powerful Iran- al-Kaabi, who called on the government in a Facebook post on Saturday. “You will ly before Iraq embarks on strategic talks backed paramilitary Kataib Hezbollah to take action against the “illegal” move never be forgotten bro I love and miss you with the U.S. in which the presence of and detained 14 men suspected of being which would “provoke the Iraqi people,“ so much bro. I hope you’re looking down American forces in the country is expect- responsible for rocket attacks targeting the according to a government statement. and smiling at the boys.” Monday, July 6, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 7 VIRUS OUTBREAK Florida hits grim milestone

BY TAMARA LUSH than 3,700 people have died. — a positive impact. It takes a Associated Press About 43 percent of the cases little bit of time to find out exactly are in three counties: Miami- but we’re obviously very closely ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Dade, Broward and Palm Beach. monitoring hospitalizations and Florida health officials say the Miami Mayor Francis Suarez we’re very, very closely monitor- state has reached a grim mile- said Sunday on ABC News This ing the death rate, which our lag- stone: more than 200,000 people Week that the high numbers of ging indicators that give us the have tested positive for the novel positive tests both in his county impression that we have to take coronavirus since the start of the and in the state are “extremely outbreak. worrisome.” much stricter — much stricter State statistics released Sunday “It’s clear that the growth is measurements — measures.” show an additional 10,000 con- exponential at this point,” he Suarez had the virus in March. Florida’s death count is the firmed cases. The highest num- said. “Our county closed down WILFREDO LEE/AP ber of confirmed cases in one day the beaches for the July Fourth ninth highest in the country over- came Saturday, when more than weekend in the hopes that all all and the 27th highest per capita Lines of cars wait at a drive-through coronavirus testing site Sunday 11,400 cases were reported. More these rules will have an impact at 17.4 deaths per 100,000 people. outside Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla. Some summer camps will open, but with safety limits

Associated Press “We believe that we can run through the hoops to open are FAYETTE, Maine — Camp a program safely and with the going to have a tough time. Most Winnebago was founded during health of the campers at the top of them are losing money but be- the Spanish Flu and weathered of our minds. We’re not doing lieve strongly in the importance all manner of health scares from this cavalierly. We’re taking this of the camp experience, said Ron polio to the swine flu over a cen- extremely seriously,” Camp Win- Hall, from the Maine Summer tury. It wasn’t about to let the nebago owner Andy Lilienthal Camps. coronavirus stop the fun. said. It was all too much for some But things will be different this Nationwide, the summer camp camps. summer at this camp and others picture is coming into sharper In Vermont, Ellen Flight said that buck the trend and welcome focus with many of the 15,000- the decision was made not to open children. The vast majority of plus summer camps opting to the girls’ Camp Songadeewin and overnight camps are closed due close because of health concerns the separate boys camp Keeway- to the pandemic. surrounding the pandemic, or din because the safety of campers Campers were tested five days because of delays in receiving could not be assured, especially before arriving and will be tested rules or guidelines from licens- when they’re camping out. again five days later. The camp ing officials. “’When you start thinking about installed additional hand-washing All told, an estimated 19.5 mil- cooking a meal over the fire, you stations on the 150-acre property. lion youths will miss out on ei- can’t touch the utensils that some-

ROBERT F. B UKATY/AP Each cabin has hand sanitizer ther day camp or overnight camp body else touched, you know, you that must be used when entering this summer, said Tom Rosen- just can’t run a program with Trip leader Gordon Anderson power washes an outdoor basketball and leaving, and before and after berg, from the American Camp any sense of safety,” said Flight, court at the Camp Winnebago summer camp Thursday in Fayette, group activities. Face coverings Association. who’s also president of the Ver- Maine. are required in larger groups. Even camps that do jump mont Camp Association. Cases: Texas, Florida set new records Trump Jr.’s girlfriend tests as nationwide virus cases spike positive days after fundraiser Associated Press forte, Donald Trump Jr. and Guil- BOZEMAN, Mont. — The wife foyle. In the photo’s caption, Juras FROM FRONT PAGE “POTUS said it would go away,” In Florida, which reported and the running mate of Repub- wrote that the photo was taken other Latin American countries. Lee said of the pandemic, using 11,445 confirmed infections on lican gubernatorial candidate the night before, on June 30, the In a first, South Africa on Sunday an acronym for president of the Saturday, bars statewide are shut Greg Gianforte, as well as several newspaper reported. reported more than 10,000 new United States. “Masks, I think, down and some regional attrac- other top GOP officials, were pos- “Since learning of their poten- confirmed cases in a single day. are like a hoax.” tions, such as Zoo Miami and sibly exposed to the coronavirus tial exposure, Greg, Susan, and In another worrying sign, the Jungle Island, have closed. Offi- To show just how steep the U.S. after attending an event with the Kristen have adhered to recom- World Health Organization said cials in South Florida — includ- girlfriend of President Donald infection curve is, authorities mended guidelines. Out of an were reporting under 20,000 new member states reported more ing in Miami-Dade County and Trump’s oldest son, the Bozeman infections a day as recently as than 212,000 confirmed cases of the Florida Keys — also closed Daily Chronicle reported. abundance of caution and for the June 15. On Saturday, Florida and COVID-19 around the world on beaches through the weekend. Gianforte’s wife, Susan, lieu- health and safety of others, they Texas reported more record daily Saturday, the highest single-day Other beaches remained open. tenant governor candidate Kris- will self-quarantine, be tested for increases in confirmed cases and increase since the start of the At St. Pete Beach on the Gulf of ten Juras, as well as Republican COVID-19, and suspend in-per- virus-related deaths have begun pandemic. The Geneva-based Mexico, parking spaces were congressional candidate and state son campaign events pending test to rise. organization said more than 60% scarce and hundreds clustered auditor Matt Rosendale and state results,” a Gianforte campaign Despite warnings by health of the confirmed cases reports it under umbrellas and in cabanas auditor candidate Troy Down- spokesperson said. received were in the Americas, on the sand. Keisha Pereira came experts to limit gatherings, Presi- ing, were at a Trump fundraising Downing’s campaign man- dent Donald Trump went ahead which includes the United States to the beach from Osceola County event July 1 in Gallatin County ager Sam Loveridge confirmed with a speech at Mount Rushmore and Brazil. — more than 100 miles inland — with Kimberly Guilfoyle, the girl- in South Dakota on Friday and an Faced with rising infections, with her daughter and two other friend of Donald Trump Jr., the Downing attended the event. Lov- evening of tribute and fireworks many U.S. communities can- children. newspaper reported. eridge said in an email that nei- Saturday on the National Mall celed parades and fireworks and “We’re going to stay with each Guilfoyle was diagnosed with ther Downing nor his staff were in Washington. Trump used the cautioned people against hosting other,“ she said. “I feel pretty safe the coronavirus on July 3. ever in “close proximity” with nation’s Independence Day as an large gatherings. outside.” Greg Gianforte, Montana’s rep- Guilfoyle. occasion to assail those who do Texas, which reported a record The holiday weekend coincided resentative in the U.S. House, did “Out of an abundance of cau- with a big step back last week not support him and did not men- daily increase of 8,258 confirmed not attend the event because Con- tion, Troy Downing will be tested tion the horrific death toll from coronavirus cases Saturday, is re- for California’s efforts to reopen gress was in session, the Daily as soon as possible and will avoid the pandemic. treating from what had been one the state’s economy. Gov. Gavin Chronicle reported. Pat Lee of Upper Dublin, P a., of the country’s swiftest reopen- Newsom ordered a three-week On July 1, Juras posted a photo personal contact and all public and two friends, none in masks, ings. Much of the state began closure of bars and many indoor on her campaign Facebook page functions until a negative test re- gathered near the event in mandating face coverings Friday, establishments in counties where posing less than 6 feet away and sult can be confirmed,” Loveridge Washington. with a $250 fine for scofflaws. some 30 million people live. without masks with Susan Gian- told the newspaper in an email. PAGE 8 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Monday, July 6, 2020 VIRUS OUTBREAK Iran orders masks as public shrugs off resurgence

BY NASSER KARIMI faithful touch or kiss the tombs’ AND JON GAMBRELL protective bars. Associated Press For a moment, it appeared the restrictions and public fear TEHRAN, Iran — Iran on Sun- had worked, as reported new day instituted mandatory mask- cases and deaths from the virus wearing as fears mount over dropped to their lowest levels in newly spiking reported deaths May. from the coronavirus, even as its But new cases soon rose again, public increasingly shrugs off the with officials initially saying bet- danger of the COVID-19 illness it ter testing causes the numbers to causes. spike even as they lifted restric- Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali VICTORIA JONES, PA/AP tions to boost economic activity. Khamenei publicized an image of By mid-June, daily death tolls Drinkers in Soho congregate, as coronavirus lockdown restrictions eased across the country, in London, himself in a mask in recent days, once again routinely rose to tri- on Saturday. urging both public officials and ple digits. On June 30, Iran saw the Islamic Republic’s 80 million its highest single-day reported people to wear them to stop the death toll of the pandemic with virus’s spread. 162 killed. Naked men and drunks: England But public opinion polling and Fears persist that Iran’s actual a walk through any of the streets death toll from the virus may be of Tehran show the widespread assesses the reopening of pubs apathy felt over a pandemic that nearly double its reported fig- saw Iran in February among the ures, as a parliamentary report in April suggested. BY PAN PYLAS first countries struck after China. Shoreditch in east London to see a commander at London’s Metro- Masoud Mardani, a member Associated Press some friends. politan Police. Whether rooted in fatigue, dis- missal or fatalism, that indiffer- of the country’s coronavirus task “As long as everyone’s keep- John Apter, chair of the Police force, recently said that sampling LONDON — It seems to have ing their distance, we’re going to Federation, who was on patrol ence has scared Iranian public from random antibody tests sug- been more like a typical Saturday have a few drinks and just enjoy in the southern England city of health officials into issuing in- gest that 18 million Iranians have night than a drunken New Year’s it and try and get back to a bit of Southampton, said it was a busy creasingly dire warnings. so far been afflicted by the virus, Eve. normality,” he said. shift, one that saw officers having “Let me first thank our great without elaborating. Iran has only The reopening of pubs in Eng- Health Secretary Matt Han- to deal with naked men, “happy” people,” a health worker in a land does not seem to have over- cock said the vast majority of drunks as well as “angry” drunks. hazmat suit in a hospital corridor reported over 240,000 confirmed whelmed emergency services as people did “the right thing” and He said the shift “managed to sarcastically bellows in one dark cases. many had feared ahead of the abided by social distancing rules cope” but it was “crystal clear” state TV spot. “You hand in hand “We see that some consider biggest easing of Britain’s coro- to stay over 3 feet apart from that those who have imbibed one with the coronavirus defeated being infected with the virus navirus lockdown. But one senior members of another households too many cannot, or won’t, social- us!” bad and hide it,” a mask-wearing police officer said Sunday it was if other safety measures were in ly distance. The new rules mark a turning President Hassan Rouhani said “crystal clear” that drunk people place, such as hand sanitizers. Rafal Liszewski, a store manag- point for Iran, which has strug- Saturday, according to a tran- struggled, or ignored, social dis- “It was really good to see peo- er in the London district of Soho, gled in trying to balance provin- script on the presidency’s website. tancing rules. ple out and about and largely, voiced concerns about Saturday’s cial lockdowns to stop the virus’s “If someone knows that they have For the most part, people ap- very largely social distancing,” swelling crowds. spread with the fears of stalling been infected with coronavirus, peared to abide by the rules and he said on Sky News. “Quickly everything got out of out an economy already strug- they have a religious and human rejoiced at the chance Saturday to Police forces across the coun- control, and by 8-9 p.m. it was a gling under U.S. sanctions after duty to inform others about it.” lift a pint in the company of their try said on the whole there were proper street party with people America’s unilateral withdrawal The state-owned polling center mates. In some places, however, no significant issues. dancing and drinking,” he said. in 2018 from Tehran’s nuclear ISPA published a June survey of large crowds raised concerns that “It’s vital that we don’t lose “Barely anyone was wearing deal with world powers. 1,055 Tehran residents showing the deadliest outbreak in Europe track of how far we have come masks and nobody respected so- Religious considerations also only 41% remain highly worried may find fresh legs. and all act responsibly and play cial distancing … with that many played a role in this Shiite theoc- about the virus, down from 46% Chris Newell, a 33-year- our part to minimise the spread people on one street, it was physi- racy as authorities declined for in May and 58% in April. The sur- old courier, traveled to trendy of coronavirus,” said Bas Javid, cally impossible.” weeks to close shrines where the vey offered no margin of error. Kansas newspaper’s post equates mask mandate with Holocaust

Associated Press The newspaper posted the marketplace of ideas.” Hicks also is Anderson Coun- an action designed to save lives cartoon on Friday, the day that “The topic here is the govern- ty’s GOP chairman. Kansas TOPEKA, Kan. — A weekly with mass murder. Finally, he Kelly’s mask order aimed at stem- mental overreach, which has been Republican Party Chairman said, putting the Star of David on Kansas newspaper whose pub- ming the spread of the coronavi- the hallmark of Governor Kelly’s Michael Kuckelman said in a Kelly’s mask is anti-Semitic be- lisher is a county Republican rus took effect. It’s drawn several administration,” he said. text that posting the cartoon is Party chairman posted a cartoon hundred comments, many of them As for the cartoon’s reference “inappropriate.” cause it implies “nefarious Jews” on its Facebook page likening the strongly critical. Dane Hicks, the to the Holocaust, Hicks said crit- But Kuckelman, also an attor- are behind her actions. Democratic governor’s order re- paper’s owner and publisher, said ics of President Donald Trump ney, added, “it is on the newspa- “This thing is like the trifecta quiring people to wear masks in in an email to The Associated have compared him to Adolf Hit- per Facebook page and media of garbage,” Rieber said. public to the roundup and mur- Press that he plans to publish the ler, and, “I certainly have more has wide berth with (the) First Hicks said that if Holocaust der of millions of Jews during the cartoon in the newspaper’s next evidence of that kind of totali- Amendment .” Holocaust. edition Tuesday. tarianism in Kelly’s actions, in an Critics of the cartoon demand- survivors, their relatives or other The cartoon on the Anderson Kelly, who is Catholic, issued a editorial cartoon sort of way, than ed Republican Party and GOP Jews are offended, he would apol- County Review’s Facebook page statement saying, “Mr. Hicks’ de- Trump’s critics do, yet they per- legislative leaders to repudiate ogize to them because he means depicts Gov. Laura Kelly wear- cision to publish anti-Semitic im- sist in it daily.” the cartoon and Hicks. “no slight to them. ing a mask with a Jewish Star of agery is deeply offensive and he Hicks’ newspaper is based in Rabbi Moti Rieber, executive “Then again, they better than David on it, next to a drawing of should remove it immediately.” the Anderson County seat of Gar- director of Kansas Interfaith Ac- anyone should appreciate the people being loaded onto train But Hicks said in an email nett, about 65 miles southwest of tion, said most if not all compari- cars. Its caption is, “Lockdown that political cartoons are “gross Kansas City and has a circulation sons of current political events to harbingers of governmental over- Laura says: Put on your mask … over-caricatures designed to pro- of about 2,100, according to the the Holocaust are “odious” and reach and the present but tender and step onto the cattle car.” voke debate” and “fodder for the Kansas Press Association. said it’s “incoherent” to equate seedlings of tyranny,” he added. Monday, July 6, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 9 NATION Two dead, 8 hurt in South Carolina nightclub shooting

Associated Press the state’s rate of positive tests GREENVILLE, S.C. — A is three times the recommended shooting at a nightclub early level. In late June, the Upstate Sunday left two people dead and city of Greenville — which has eight wounded in South Carolina, experienced some of the state’s a sheriff’s official said. highest COVID-19 rates — be- Two Greenville County sheriff’s came the first city to mandate deputies noticed a disturbance at face coverings in South Carolina, Lavish Lounge just before 2 a.m. where Gov. Henry McMaster has and saw a large crowd running refused to implement a statewide out of the building, Sheriff Hobart mask requirement. Lewis said at a press conference. KRISTEN ZEIS/The (Norfolk, Va.) Virginian-Pilot There was “active gunfire from McMaster reminded South inside the building,” Lt. Jimmy Carolinians last week that he An employee of Bob’s Gun Shop in Norfolk, Va. , helps a customer last month. Bolt said in an initial statement, hadn’t lifted restrictions on large and Lewis said all the shots were crowds, and that those operating fired inside. nightclubs illegally or holding Both Lewis and Bolt initially concerts against his orders don’t FBI background checks show said 12 people had been wounded have to be caught in the act to — with at least four in critical con- face criminal charges, but instead dition, Lewis said — but Bolt told could be charged weeks later if The Associated Press that two record hike in US gun sales COVID-19 cases are traced back. victims were likely counted twice Lewis said at the press confer- in the confusion at the hospital. BY CATHERINE LEFFERT strong demand around the civil the coronavirus crisis, ongoing ence that he didn’t know whether No one was immediately taken Bloomberg unrest and the defund-the-police protests and potential gun control into custody. Bolt told the AP that the club had sought an exemption theme for July and August.” legislation. the sheriff’s office was looking for to the governor’s order or secured DALLAS — U.S. consumers Keith predicts more share gains Not all gunmakers are soaring. two suspects, but couldn’t provide a permit for Saturday night’s are rushing to buy guns as the for gunmakers, especially given Remington Arms Co. is preparing names or descriptions. event, but said it was clear that COVID-19 pandemic and protests the relative dearth of stocks tied to file for Chapter 11 protection “We don’t really have a person the club’s patrons weren’t 6 feet over police brutality combine to demand for firearms. Many re- for the second time since 2018, of interest that we can name,” apart. with U.S. presidential politics to tailers have scaled back sales fol- The Wall Street Journal reported fuel unprecedented demand. Lewis said at the press confer- A phone call and an Instagram lowing the many mass shootings last week. The company is in talks ence, later adding that authori- Firearm background checks direct message from the AP to in the U.S. in recent years. for a potential bankruptcy sale to ties weren’t sure what led to the compiled by the Federal Bu- Smith & Wesson has more than the Navajo Nation, the newspaper Lavish Lounge weren’t immedi- gunfire. reau of Investigation, a proxy doubled this year to $21.95, ris- said, citing people familiar with Lewis said a “very large crowd” ately returned, but the club post- for gun purchases, jumped to a ing Wednesday to the highest in the matter. There’s no guarantee was at the nightclub for “some ed on Facebook just before 6 a.m. record in June as street demon- almost three years. Sturm Ruger a deal will be reached. type of concert.” that events “have been postponed strations spread around the U.S. has advanced 62% to the highest Remington has faced expen- A post on Lavish Lounge’s until further notice.” That extended a surge that began since 2016. sive litigation tied to the Sandy Facebook page advertised a July Lewis said the victims, whose in March as the coronavirus Dave Brown, a Dallas media Hook Elementary School shoot- 4 performance by trap rapper names were not immediately re- prompted lockdowns across the producer, said he made the de- ing in Connecticut in 2012, the Foogiano. leased, were taken to the Prisma country. cision to buy a gun at the end of Journal said. The company didn’t An Instagram direct message Health hospital in Greenville, The boom is lifting the shares May after he saw people smash- immediately respond to a request from the AP wasn’t immediately some via private vehicle. of gunmakers Smith & Wesson ing windows at a restaurant near for comment. returned, but a bookings repre- Brands Inc. and Sturm Ruger & Bolt said that of the eight his apartment. He said the dem- Gun store owners say sales will sentative told the AP that Foo- Co. after four mostly lean years onstrations lasted until 2:30 a.m., continue to rise at least until the wounded, some had non-life- giano was fine and his team was for investors. Gun shop owners and by noon he was buying a nine- presidential election in Novem- safe. threatening injuries and others and Wall Street analysts predict millimeter handgun for $450 plus ber. Financial analysts are ratch- Coronavirus cases in South were in critical condition, but he new sales gains, especially if pro- about $100 in ammunition. eting up their revenue estimates Carolina have risen swiftly, and didn’t have a tally of the latter. tests continue and Democratic “This is a time where no one for gunmakers after recent quar- presidential challenger Joe Biden, knows what’s going to be happen- terly sales gains. who supports more restrictions ing around town the next day, it James Hillin, owner of Full on firearms, maintains his lead feels like,” said Brown, 41. “So a Armor Firearms in Texas, said in national polls over President lot of people are uncertain, a lot the store’s gun sales have in- Report: US nuclear envoy Donald Trump. of them are scared.” creased 75% since January, and Gun sales are typically elevated Robert Marcus, owner of Bob’s that 95% of those were by new to visit Japan, S. Korea the year people go to the polls to Gun Shop in Norfolk, Va., said gun owners. choose a new president, “particu- sales have tripled since mid- “They’re scared,” Hillin said BY HOOYEON KIM of days in the country before larly in the fall as we get closer to March. He estimated that 35% before cutting a brief interview departing for Tokyo, the news the election,” said Peter Keith, an of purchases are coming from short to attend to waiting cus- Bloomberg analyst at Piper Sandler. “I think first-time gun buyers, and said tomers. “They want to protect agency said. you’ll probably see continued his customers are concerned by themselves.” U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Biegun’s visit comes amid es- Stephen Biegun, the Trump ad- calating tensions on the Korean ministration’s main representa- peninsula. North Korea’s Foreign tive for North Korea, will visit Minister Choe Son Hui on Satur- South Korea on Tuesday before day lashed out at the United States Firm studies cause of satellite launch failure heading to Japan, Yonhap report- and drew a line against holding ed Saturday, citing unidentified Associated Press four minutes after the Electron Electron rockets. further talks, just weeks after the diplomatic sources. rocket lifted off from the com- The main satellite aboard the country blew up an inter-Korean Biegun will visit Seoul on Tues- LONG BEACH, Calif. — Rock- pany’s launch site in Mahia, New rocket was intended to demon- day, where he is likely to meet liaison office it shared with the et Lab, which specializes in put- Zealand. strate Canon Electronics Inc.’s South Korean counterpart Lee South. ting small satellites into orbit, The liftoff and first-stage burn Earth-imaging technology. Do-hoon along with diplomatic of- Biegun may be accompanied failed to deploy a payload of seven and separation were successful, Before the failure, Rocket Lab ficials at the foreign ministry and by National Security Council Se- satellites during its 13th launch, Rocket Lab said in a statement. said it was planning monthly the presidential office, according nior Director for Asian affairs Al- the Long Beach, Calif. , company The company said it was inves- launches for the remainder of the to Yonhap. The U.S. official is ex- lison Hooker when he visits South said Saturday. tigating the cause of the failure, year and into 2021. Those mis- pected to hold an informal brief- Korea, Yonhap reported a source The failure occurred during the which followed 11 consecutive sions include launches for the ing in Seoul and spend a couple as saying. second-stage burn approximately successful orbital launches by its U.S. Space Force and NASA. PAGE 10 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Monday, July 6, 2020 NATION Facebook groups shift to attacks on Black Lives Matter

BY AMANDA SEITZ standards. Associated Press Others have become gathering grounds for promoting conspir- CHICAGO — A loose network acy theories about the protests, of Facebook groups that took root suggesting protesters were paid across the country in April to or- to go to demonstrations and that ganize protests over coronavirus even the death of George Floyd, stay-at-home orders has become an unarmed Black man who died a hub of misinformation and con- in the custody of Minneapolis po- spiracies theories that have piv- lice, was staged. oted to a variety of new targets. An Associated Press review Their latest: Black Lives Matter /AP of the most recent posts in 40 of JOHN MINCHILLO and the nationwide protests of ra- these Facebook groups — most of cial injustice. Protesters wear protective masks as they march at a Juneteenth rally June 19 outside the Brooklyn which were launched by conser- These groups, which now boast Museum in the Brooklyn borough of New York. a collective audience of more vative groups or pro-gun activists than 1 million members, are still — found the conversations large- Media, Politics, and Public Poli- temic racism a hoax. A member Private groups that balloon to ly shifted last month to attacking thriving after most states started cy. “Over time, people will drag of the California Facebook group that size, with little oversight, are lifting virus restrictions. the nationwide protests over the other people into them and they posted a widely debunked flyer killing of Black men and women like “creepy basements” where And many have expanded their will continue to organize.” that says “White men, women extremist views and misinforma- focus. after Floyd’s death. Facebook said it is aware of and children, you are the enemy,“ tion can lurk, said disinformation One group transformed itself Facebook users in some of the collection of reopen groups, which was falsely attributed to last month from “Reopen Cali- these groups post hundreds of and is using technology as well Black Lives Matter. Another researcher Nina Jankowicz, a fornia” to “California Patriots times a day in threads often seen as relying on users to identify falsely claimed that a Black man fellow at the nonpartisan Wilson Pro Law & Order,” with recent by members only and shielded problematic posts. The company was brandishing a gun outside the Center, a Washington, D.C., think posts mocking Black Lives Mat- from public view. has vowed in the past to look for St. Louis mansion where a white tank. ter or changing the slogan to “Unless Facebook is actively material that violates its rules in couple confronted protesters with “It’s sort of a way that the looking for disinformation in those “White Lives Matter.“ Members private groups as well as in public firearms. Dozens of users in sev- platforms are enabling some of have used profane slurs to refer spaces, they will go unnoticed for places on its site. But the platform eral of the groups have pushed the worst actors to stay on it,” to Black people and protesters, a long time and they will grow,” has not always been able to deliv- an unsubstantiated theory that calling them “animals,” “rac- said Joan Donovan, the research er on that promise. liberal billionaire George Soros said Jankowicz. “Rather than ist” and “thugs”— a direct vio- director at the Harvard Kennedy Some groups in New Jersey, is paying crowds to attend racial being de-platformed — they can lation of Facebook’s hate speech School’s Shorenstein Center on Texas and Ohio have labeled sys- justice protests. organize.” 1 of 2 Seattle protesters hit by car dies

BY MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press SEATTLE — A car drove onto a closed freeway early Saturday and struck two people in a crowd protesting against police brutality, killing one and critically injur- ing the other, authorities said. RICK RYCROFT/Associated Press Summer Taylor, 24, of Seattle People hold a banner as thousands gather at a rally supporting the died in the evening at Harbor- Black Lives Matter and Black Deaths in Custody movements Sunday view Medical Center, spokesper- in Sydney . son Susan Gregg said. Taylor and Diaz Love, 32, of Portland, Ore. , were hit by the car Thousands rally in Australia in that barreled through a panicked crowd of protesters on Interstate support of Black Lives Matter 5 early Saturday morning, officials said. Associated Press Dawit Kelete of Seattle drove since a royal commission into the issue ended in 1991. No convic- the car around vehicles that were SYDNEY — Several thousand JAMES ANDERSON/AP tions have been recorded in any blocking I-5 and sped into the people rallied in Black Lives crowd about 1:40 a.m., according Emergency workers tend to an injured person on the ground after Matter protests across Australia of the deaths. to a police report released by the a driver sped through a protest-related closure on the Interstate 5 over the weekend to call for racial On Saturday, Australians took Washington State Patrol. Video freeway Saturday in Seattle, authorities said. equality and highlight deaths of part in Black Lives Matter ral- taken at the scene by protesters Indigenous people while in police lies in the cities of Brisbane, Dar- showed people shouting “Car! impact are heard. of the other protesters got in a car custody. win, Perth and Adelaide. Many Car!” before fleeing the roadway. A graphic video posted on so- and chased the driver for about a About 500 people protested of the protesters wore masks Love is in serious condition in cial media showed the white mile. He was able to stop him by Sunday in Newcastle, north of and attempted to maintain social the intensive care unit, Harbor- Jaguar racing toward a group of pulling his car in front of the Jag- Sydney, after the New South Wales distancing due to coronavirus view, Gregg said. protesters who are standing be- uar, Van Cleave said. state Supreme Court approved concerns. Love was filming the pro- hind several parked cars, set up Troopers arrived, and the driv- the rally following an attempt by Australia’s Indigenous people test in a nearly two-hour-long for protection. The car swerves er was taken into custody, Wash- police to have it banned. are the most disadvantaged eth- Facebook livestream captioned around the other vehicles and ington State Patrol Capt. Ron A rally in Sydney on Sunday nic minority in the country. They “Black Femme March takes I-5” slams into the two protesters, Mead said. began with a ceremony at which have higher-than-average rates of when the video ended abruptly; sending them flying into the air. Kelete was booked into the people mourned the Indigenous infant mortality and poor health, with about 15 seconds left, shouts The driver, who was alone, fled King County Correctional Facil- Australians who have died in po- as well as shorter life expec- of “Car!” can be heard as the the scene after hitting the protest- ity on Saturday morning on two lice custody. tancy and lower levels of educa- camera starts to shake before ers, Trooper Chase Van Cleave counts of vehicular assault. Bail There have been more than tion and employment than other screeching tires and the sound of told The Associated Press. One was denied. 400 Indigenous deaths in custody Australians. Monday, July 6, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 11 NATION As statues fall, Confederate wall poses challenge

BY KATE BRUMBACK with the massive monument, con- AND RUSS BYNUM ceived some 50 years after the Associated Press Civil War ended but not finished until 1972. STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. The sculpture’s creators used — Some statues of figures from dynamite to blast huge chunks of America’s slave-owning past granite away from the mountain, have been yanked down by pro- then spent years carving the de- testers, others dismantled by tailed figures with hand-held cut- order of governors or city lead- ting torches. ers. But the largest Confederate Erasing the carving would be monument ever crafted — colos- dangerous, time-consuming and sal figures carved into the solid expensive. rock of a Georgia mountainside The stone is likely too durable — may outlast them all. for sandblasting, said Ben Bent- Stone Mountain’s supersized kowski, president of the Atlanta sculpture depicting Gen. Robert Geological Society. Controlled JOHN BAZEMORE/AP E. Lee, Confederate President explosions using TNT packed into Jefferson Davis and Gen. Thomas A carving depicting Confederate Civil War figures Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis, holes drilled in the mountainside in Stone Mountain, Ga., is America’s largest Confederate memorial. J. “Stonewall” Jackson mounted would work, he said. on horseback has special protec- “With the logistics, the safety tion enshrined in Georgia law. aspect of it, you’d have a budget Even if its demolition were certainly north of $1 million, sanctioned, the monument’s I suspect,” Bentkowski said. Armed protesters march through park sheer size poses serious challeng- “You’ll need insurance for the es. The carving measures 190 project, you’ll need hazard pay Associated Press son Davis and Gen. Thomas J. Although the park has histor- feet across and 90 feet tall. An old for people working on the surface “Stonewall” Jackson, WXIA-TV ically been a gathering spot for photo shows a worker on scaffold- of it. It could easily take a year or A large group of armed pro- reported. Carved into a granite ing just below Lee’s chin barely more.” white supremacists, the city of testers on Saturday marched mountain, the bas-relief sculp- reaching his nose. There’s also a sizable legal through Georgia’s Stone Moun- Stone Mountain nowadays has a Numerous Confederate stat- obstacle. ture is the largest Confederate majority-Black population. tain Park, calling for the park’s monument ever crafted. ues and monuments to American When Georgia lawmakers The park usually holds a massive Confederate carving to Stone Mountain Memorial slave owners have come down voted in 2001 to change the state be removed. Fourth of July laser show and across the South amid recent Association spokesman John flag that had been dominated by The predominantly Black fireworks display with the protests against racial injustice. Bankhead said there were be- the Confederate battle emblem demonstrators spoke out carving as a backdrop, but Stone Mountain hasn’t escaped since 1956, language to guaran- tween 100 and 200 protesters. against the huge sculpture de- this year’s presentation was notice. tee the preservation of the Stone He said the protesters, many of picting Gen. Robert E. Lee, canceled due to the COVID-19 After organizing a protest Mountain sculpture was included whom carried large rifles, were where thousands marched in as a bargaining chip. Confederate President Jeffer- peaceful. pandemic. neighboring Atlanta, Zoe Bamba- The law states that “the memo- ra, 19, held a demonstration June rial to the heroes of the Confed- 4 with a much smaller group — erate States of America graven challenge at Stone Mountain war- “As I’ve said many times, we historian for the Georgia Histori- her permit allowed no more than upon the face of Stone Mountain rants that.” can’t hide from our history,” cal Society. 25 — inside the state park where shall never be altered, removed, Other ideas — such as adding Kemp said, while citing the new Paula and Michael Smith of the sculpture has drawn millions concealed, or obscured in any a bell tower atop the mountain in hate crimes law he signed the Monticello, Ga., visited Stone of tourists for decades. fashion.” honor of the Rev. Martin Luther same day as a significant step in Mountain on Monday so their 10- “The Confederacy doesn’t cel- Ryan Gravel, an Atlanta-based King Jr. — have failed to take fighting racial injustice. year-old grandson could see the ebrate the South; it celebrates urban designer, noted the law hold. And Democratic proposals Stone Mountain wasn’t a battle monument for the first time. to strip the protective language site and had little historical sig- white supremacy,” said Bambara, doesn’t mandate maintenance. “The mountain itself is abso- who is Black. “The people on that from Georgia law have fallen flat nificance to the Civil War. But 50 He suggested allowing nature to lutely breathtakingly beautiful mountain, they hated me. They take its course, letting vegetation with the Republican-controlled years after the war ended, the ex- and the carving is an engineer- didn’t know me, but they hated grow over the sculpture from its Legislature. posed surface of the mountain’s me and my ancestors. It hurts to nooks and crannies. Asked whether Stone Mountain northern face sparked an idea ing marvel,” said Paula Smith, see those people celebrated and a “I think we’re in a moment still deserves special protection, among the United Daughters of a 70-year-old white woman who memorial dedicated to them.” where pushing the limits of that GOP Gov. Brian Kemp didn’t give the Confederacy. dismissed talk of removing or al- Still, Bambara admits she’s at law is possible,” Gravel said. a direct answer when speaking to “It looked like a giant bill- tering the carving as an attempt a loss for what should be done “And certainly the scale of the reporters June 26. board,” said Stan Deaton, senior to “steal American history.” Christopher Columbus statue toppled by Baltimore protesters

Associated Press say the Italian explorer is responsible for “We understand the dynamics that are calls a potential hate crime, the Baltimore the genocide and exploitation of native peo- playing out in Baltimore are part of a na- Sun reports. BALTIMORE — Baltimore protesters ples in the Americas. tional narrative,” Lester Davis said. “Johns Hopkins University condemns pulled down a statue of Christopher Co- According to The Baltimore Sun, the Statues of Columbus have also been top- lumbus and threw it into the city’s Inner this act of hate,” President Ronald J. Dan- statue was owned by the city and dedicated pled or vandalized in cities such as Miami; iels said in a message emailed to the uni- Harbor on Saturday night. in 1984 by former Mayor William Donald Richmond, Va.; St. Paul, Minn. ; and Bos- versity community Friday. “We find such Demonstrators used ropes to topple the Schaefer and President Ronald Reagan. ton, where one was decapitated. racist imagery horrifying and repugnant monument near the Little Italy neighbor- A spokesman for Baltimore Mayor Ber- Also in Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Uni- hood, news outlets reported. nard C. “Jack” Young told The Sun the top- versity is investigating the discovery of a and a direct threat to the Black community Protesters mobilized by the death of pling of the statue is a part of a national rope tied into a noose at a construction site at Johns Hopkins and in Baltimore, stand- George Floyd at the hands of police have and global reexamination over monuments in a building it owns off its campus. ing in stark opposition to the values of eq- called for the removal of statues of Colum- “that may represent different things to dif- Johns Hopkins officials also notified fed- uity, justice, and humanity to which we are bus, Confederate figures and others. They ferent people.” eral authorities about what the university firmly committed.” PAGE 12 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Monday, July 6, 2020 WORLD At least 34 dead in Japan amid flooding, mudslides

BY MARI YAMAGUCHI River were swallowed by flood- hypothermia, had been rescued Associated Press waters, with many houses, build- by boats and taken to hospitals for ings and vehicles submerged treatment by Sunday afternoon, TOKYO — Deep floodwa- almost up to their roofs. Mud- officials said. ters and the risk of more mudslides smashed into houses, send- As floods eased in parts of Ku- slides that left at least 34 people ing people atop rooftops waving mamoto on Sunday, vending ma- confirmed or presumed dead at rescuers. chines and cars lay scattered on hampered search and rescue At a flooded elderly care home mud-coated streets. Some people operations Sunday in southern in Kuma Village, where 14 resi- were cleaning their homes, tak- Japan, including at elderly home dents were presumed dead after ing out damaged furniture and facilities where more than a rescuers reached them on Satur- rinsing off mud. dozen died and scores were still day, rescues continued Sunday for More than 200,000 residents stranded. the dozens of remaining residents in Kumamoto prefecture were Helicopters and boats rescued and caregivers. urged to evacuate following more people from their homes in Sixty-five residents and about pounding rains on Friday eve- the Kumamoto region. More than 30 caregivers were trapped at ning and into Saturday. But the 40,000 defense troops, the coast the riverside care facility Sen- evacuation was not mandatory KYODO NEWS/AP guard and fire brigades were tak- juen when floodwaters and mud and many people opted to stay ing part in the operation. gushed in. All remaining 51 resi- home because of concerns over A car stands vertically Sunday on a muddy road after being washed Large areas along the Kuma dents, including three who had catching the coronavirus . away by floods in Hitoyoshi, Kumamoto prefecture, southwestern Japan. Activists at Paris Koike wins second term Pride March call as governor of Tokyo BY MARI YAMAGUCHI Koike, 67, is a fellow conser- for racial justice Associated Press vative of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and served in key Cabinet TOKYO — Tokyo Gov. Yuriko posts, including environment and BY ARNO PEDRAM Koike has won a second term to defense minister, before being Associated Press head the Japanese capital. elected as Tokyo’s first female Koike was buoyed to the win in governor in 2016. PARIS — Grassroots LGBTQ groups marched Sunday’s election by public sup- through Paris led by activists of color Saturday as port for her coronavirus handling Tokyo’s infections started to part of Global Pride observances, protesting police despite a recent rise in infections rebound in late June to reach 131 violence and demanding more political actions on that has raised concerns of a re- confirmed cases on Saturday, behalf of migrants, sex workers and other margin- surgence of the disease. topping 100 for a third straight alized members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans- BENJAMIN GIRETTE/AP In her victory speech, Koike day and hitting a two-month high gender and queer community. pledged to do her utmost to since early May. New daily cases Demonstrators hold a banner at the start of the While the French capital’s official Pride parade take measures to protect Tokyo have also spiked in recent weeks annual Gay Pride march in Paris on Saturday. was postponed until November to prevent the spread residents amid the coronavirus nationwide to about 19,700 with of the coronavirus, thousands of people turned out pandemic. 977 deaths. anyway for a festive, politically driven march that ity communities in impoverished neighborhoods. echoed the themes of recent international protests “I’m here because I saw myself in this call for against racial injustice. a more political, more politicized, more radical Marchers chanted “It’s my body, it’s my choice!” Pride,” said Douce Dibondo, 26, who hosts a pod- and “Everyone hates the police!” as the young, eth- cast that highlights voices of people of color and the Young scuba diver killed in nically diverse crowd wound peacefully from the Pi- LGBTQ community. “Previous Pride events didn’t galle neighborhood in northern Paris to Republique resonate with me because I had the feeling I was shark attack in Australia plaza in the east. Many of the participants wore pro- joining the very sequined, very depoliticized side” tective face masks. of the movement. Associated Press They provided emergency treatment but the man, who had been The virus has forced organizers in cities around Some participants criticized the influential group SYDNEY — A 20-year-old the world to cancel, postpone or adapt their Pride Inter-LGBT, which organizes the traditional Paris scuba diver died Saturday after bitten around the legs, could not parades this year, frustrating activists who want to Pride march featuring parade floats from politi- being attacked by a shark off the be saved and died at the scene, collectively mark the 50th anniversary of the first cal parties and corporations, for not pushing hard coast of Australia’s Queensland said the Queensland Ambulance Gay Pride parades and marches in Chicago, Los An- enough for political change and for allowing a police state, authorities said. Service. geles, New York and San Francisco in 1970. float at past parades. Inter-LGBT delayed its event The man was attacked at Fraser Coast Mayor George Sey- At Saturday’s event in the French capital, march- this year until November because of the pandemic. around 2 p.m. near Indian Head mour told the Australian Broad- ers wore rainbow flags as capes, waved the yellow Referring to police officers who took part in pre- on the eastern side of Fraser Is- casting Corp. that the attack was a and purple flag of the intersex pride movement and vious Pride events, Dibondo said: “We don’t deny land. A doctor and nurse at the tragic event for the community. carried red umbrellas to represent sex workers. their identities as LGBTQ. But what they represent scene provided first aid until “Our deepest condolences go Some held banners calling attention to the challeng- as forces, as the established order in our society, is paramedics arrived and were to this young man’s family and es faced by LGBTQ migrants or members of minor- what we are fighting.” winched down by helicopter. friends,” he said. Monday, July 6, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 13 WORLD Kenya’s worst locust outbreak far from over

BY KHALED KAZZIHA locust swarms for the targeted to both crops and rangelands is AND CARA ANNA pesticide spraying that has been very high,” the regional IGAD Associated Press called the only effective control. Climate Prediction & Applica- “It sounds grim because tions Center said in a statement. NAIROBI, Kenya — The there’s no way you’re gonna kill For now, the young yellow lo- crunch of young locusts comes all of them because the areas are custs cover the ground and tree with nearly every step. The worst so vast,” he told The Associated trunks like a twitching carpet, outbreak of the voracious insects Press from the field in northwest- sometimes drifting over the dust in Kenya in 70 years is far from ern Kenya on Thursday. “But the like giant grains of sand. over, and their newest generation key of the project is to minimize” In the past week and a half, is now finding its wings for prop- the damage, and the work is defi- Polo said, the locusts have trans- er flight. nitely having an effect, he said. The livelihoods of millions of For months, a large part of East formed from hoppers to more already vulnerable people in East Africa has been caught in a cycle mature flying swarms that in the Africa are at stake, and people with no end in sight as millions of next couple of weeks will take to like Boris Polo are working to locusts became billions, nibbling long-distance flight, creating the limit the damage. The logisti- away the leaves of both crops vast swarms that can largely blot out the horizon. cian with a helicopter firm is on and the brush that sustains the BORIS POLO/Associated Press contract with the United Nations livestock so important to many Once airborne, the locusts will Food and Agricultural Organi- families. be harder to contain, flying up to Locusts swarm on a tree south of Lodwar town June 23 in Turkana zation, helping to find and mark “The risk of significant impact 124 miles a day. county, northern Kenya. Many left dead, missing this year as China braces for more storms

Associated Press raised the weather alert to yellow Sunday Anhui province. To the south in Jiangxi media post, citing the Ministry of Emer- morning, the third highest of four levels, province, more than 8,000 people have gency Management. BEIJING — A wide swath of southern for more than half a dozen provinces and been evacuated and 54 houses collapsed The National Meteorological Center said China braced Sunday for more seasonal the cities of Shanghai and Chongqing. after rainstorms in recent days. some parts of Anhui, Hubei, Hunan and rains and flooding that state media said Heavy to torrential rains were forecast Nationwide, flooding-related disasters Zhejiang provinces could see 10 inches of has already left more than 120 people dead into Monday night. have destroyed 17,000 homes, caused $5.9 rain. It also issued a yellow alert for rain in or missing this year. Footage on state broadcaster CCTV billion in economic losses, the official two northeastern provinces, Heilongjiang The National Meteorological Center showed flooded streets and farmland in People’s Daily newspaper said in a social and Jilin. PAGE 14 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Monday, July 6, 2020 AMERICAN ROUNDUP Woman finds rattlesnake under wheelchair seat

MURRAY — A woman KY travel ing in a motor- ized wheelchair near a Kentucky Walmart discovered a rattlesnake under her seat , the Murray Led- ger & Times reported. Murray Police Department officers killed the snake after they helped the woman out of her wheelchair and got the rattler on the ground. John Hewlett, a Murray State University graduate researcher, told the paper the snake was probably not local to the area. “If I had to bet everything on it, somebody caught it and turned it loose in the parking lot (of Walmart) or somewhere else in the city,” Hewlett said. “The chance of there being a population of timber rattlesnakes within 15 miles of Murray is exceedingly low.” Absentee ballots set state record for primary

AUGUSTA — Maine ME voters are taking ad- vantage of absentee ballots at an unprecedented rate in advance of the July 14 primary. The Bangor Daily News reported that 163,000 Mainers have re- quested the ballots. Voting on the day of the primary is likely to be complicated by the coronavirus pandemic, and that has led local ROSS D. FRANKLIN/AP and state officials to encourage absentee voting. The volume of absentee bal- Business as usual – for now lots is a record for a primary. It would, however, take a big final A trainer, top, at Mountainside Fitness, works with a client in Phoenix. Mountainside Fitness CEO Tom Hatten said he would keep his chain push to equal the state record of open for now. “We are going to stay open until we have our day in court, which is Monday morning,” Hatten said at a Mountainside location 244,000 set during the 2008 gen- in Scottsdale. “If the court does not allow a stay, we will comply and respect the court’s decision. We will deal with being closed again.” eral election. up at the site of the Wabashiki THE CENSUS ily was not being singled out be- Father who sued son Fish and Wildlife Area due to a cause of their support for Black attacked by second son $20,000 grant from Duke Energy The number of years it took for Mississippi to allow the pos- Lives Matter and that the city and the efforts of the Vigo County session of alcohol in every county in the state after the end removed the chalk after receiv- KNOXVILLE — An Iowa Parks and Recreation Depart- of Prohibition in the United States. The new bill, which goes ing complaints, and would do the IA man who successfully ment, the (Terre Haute) Tribune- 90 into effect Jan. 1, 2021, does not legalize the sale of alcohol. same to any other chalk art, even sued one of his sons for the shoot- Star reported. Residents would have to vote to allow that. Under the current if it was in support of President ing death of his wife was assault- County parks Superintendent law, Mississippi is still considered a completely “dry state” but residents have been Donald Trump. ed by his other son, police said. Adam Grossman noted that the able to vote in local government elections to decide whether to allow liquor in their Billy Dean Carter, 55, was ar- old junkyard gives Monarch but- county or city. Currently, only 29 of 82 counties are still dry. Lawsuit claims racial rested and charged with assault- terflies a place to visit during bias at Frito-Lay ing his father, Bill Carter, 74, the their annual journey from Cana- da to Mexico. About 20 plant spe- Des Moines Register reported. TOPEKA — Black em- cies are growing in a raised bed investigations unit is focused on Police said the younger Carter Family warned of ployees at the Frito-Lay at the site. the case. No suspects have been KS knocked his father to the ground plant in Topeka were subjected to Rick Burger, district manager identified . penalties for chalk art and kicked him twice on a road ongoing racial harassment and for Duke Energy, said the proj- near his father’s home following SELAH — A family discrimination, including hearing an argument. ect is an exciting environmen- Potato chip heiress wins in Washington state racial slurs and being threatened In 2017, a jury ordered another tal development that cleaned WA back control of estate could face up to year in jail or be with lynching by white employees, of Bill Carter’s sons, Jason Carter, up a junkyard and benefits the fined no more than $5,000 if they according to a federal lawsuit. to pay $10 million to the estate of community. MONTGOMERY continue to draw chalk on their Plant managers tolerated the his mother, Shirley, 68, who died AL — The heiress to the street in support of Black Lives discrimination and did not disin 2015 from two gunshot wounds University investigates Golden Flake potato chip empire Matter, a city attorney said. cipline white employees who fired by a rifle. Bill Carter had is, for now, back in control of her Selah City Attorney Rob Case were involved, according to the claimed in the lawsuit that Jason racist sticker sightings fortune after a ruling by the Ala- warned Laura Perez, her fam- lawsuit filed on behalf of two for- killed his mother to gain access to TUCSON — The Uni- bama Supreme Court. ily and her attorney, Joseph Cut- mer employees and one current his parents’ assets. versity of Arizona is The court voided a 2019 pro- ler, in a letter that using chalk employee . In 2019, Jason Carter was ac- AZ investigating the appearance of bate order granting an emer- to draw on a public street con- The employees also allege in quitted of murder in his mother’s racist stickers around campus gency conservator that came stitutes third-degree malicious the suit that Black workers were death, but the jury verdict in the that advocate white supremacy. after two employees claimed that mischief, the Yakima Herald-Re- disciplined for offenses that white civil case was allowed to stand. Campus police said the stick- Joann Bashinsky, 88, has demen- public reported. employees were not and that white ers with hate messages have been tia and is mentally unfit to handle Erasing chalk art promoting employees were promoted ahead Former junkyard now a spotted on utility poles, buildings her vast estate. Black Lives Matter while al- of Black employees, The Kansas pollinator habitat and other exteriors. Justices said Bashinsky’s basic lowing other chalk drawings to City Star reported. Issaiah Johnson, a member of due-process rights were egre- remain untouched is a violation “Discrimination of any kind is DRESSER — Butter- the football team who is Black, giously violated when the probate of the artists’ First Amendment not tolerated within Frito-Lay or IN flies, bees, birds, bats posted a picture of one of the court made the emergency deci- rights, Cutler argued, adding that its parent company, PepsiCo,” the and small mammals have found a stickers on his Twitter account. sion without giving her time to the city’s graffiti ordinance does company said in a statement. home in a former auto junkyard The sticker states “ #whitelives- obtain counsel after her lawyers not cover chalk art, as water-solu- The men are suing the compa- along the Wabash River in west- matter” and to “kill a black on were disqualified. The perma- ble chalk is not listed as a graffiti ny for violation of the Civil Rights ern Indiana. sight.” nent petition remains pending implement. Act. A pollinator habitat has sprung According to police, a special before the court. Case argued that Perez’s fam- From wire reports Monday, July 6, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 15 FACES Union tells ‘Songbird’ actors production conditions unsafe

From wire reports executives running DC Films for Warner Bros. Pictures at the The union that represents film time. actors told its members July 2 not Whedon has not responded. to work on the upcoming pan- Berg told Variety that it was demic thriller “Songbird,” saying “categorically untrue that we the filmmakers have not been up- enabled any unprofessional front about safety measures and behavior.” had not signed the proper agree- Whedon, known for his writ- ments for the movie that is among ing and directing on Marvel’s the first in production after coro- “Avengers” films and television’s navirus closures. “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” was Actors had reportedly been brought in during post-production rehearsing remotely for the film to replace director Zack Snyder produced by Michael Bay and di- on “Justice League.” He oversaw rected by Adam Mason. extensive reshoots, editing and The film’s pre-production list- visual effects on the film. ing on IMDbPro.com says its stars include Demi Moore, Peter Stormare and Craig Robinson, Other news and gives the description, “In a The 27th Screen Actors Hulu post-pandemic world, an even Guild Awards is the latest awards Chelsea Clinton, right, appears with her mother, Hillary Clinton, in the Hulu documentary “Hillary.” more serious virus continues to show to push its date. The awards mutate.” show, presented by Hollywood But the Screen Actors Guild- actors to Hollywood actors, will American Federation of Televi- take place March 14, 2021. That sion and Radio Actors issued a pushes it back more than a month do-not-work order to its members, from its original intended date of saying the production company Jan. 24. The nominations are now Clinton rises again “has failed to complete the signa- set to be announced Feb. 4. tory process,” and working on the Hugh Downs, the genial, film could result in disciplinary versatile broadcaster who be- action. came one of television’s most fa- ‘Hillary’ doc culled from campaign footage, interviews The small film was among the miliar and welcome faces with first to attempt to resume produc- more than 15,000 hours on news, BY GLENN WHIPP “Hillary” documents the media’s gender bias tion after the long closure. Cali- game and talk shows, died July Los Angeles Times in your presidential campaigns. How do you fornia Gov. Gavin Newsom gave 1 at age 99 of natural causes at think the women running for president this year film and television productions his home in Scottsdale, Ariz. He “Hillary,” Hulu’s four-part documentary about were treated? the green light to resume shoot- worked on NBC’s “Today” and Hillary Clinton, came out of 2,000 hours of foot- It was a very mixed picture. On the one hand, ing in the state starting June 12, “Tonight” shows, the game show age shot during her 2016 presidential campaign, we had more women running, which was a big so long as strict coronavirus re- “Concentration,” co-hosted the 35 hours of fresh interviews with the subject her- positive because then you could see that women, strictions were in place. ABC magazine show “20/20” with self and a bevy of archival material that filmmak- just like men, had different styles, different ap- Barbara Walters and the PBS se- er Nanette Burstein found while researching the proaches, different platforms. And yet at the same Actor says director ries “Over Easy” and “Live From project. time, there were still some of the same tropes and When Burstein had a version of the movie that Lincoln Center.” attitudes being expressed about women becoming Whedon was ‘abusive’ was close to locked, she sent it to Clinton at her Actress Christina Ricci has president and what kind of person could beat Don- home in Chappaqua, N.Y., where she watched it in Actor Ray Fisher says direc- filed for divorce July 2 from her ald Trump and all of the usual questioning. It was a single sitting. As you might expect, taking it all tor Joss Whedon’s behavior was husband of seven years, and is a step forward, but not as big a step as I wish it had in, Clinton says, chuckling, was an “overwhelming “abusive” on the set of the 2017 asking for sole custody of their 5- experience.” been. film “Justice League.” year-old son, Freddie. Ricci filed Clinton recently discussed the documentary. Some of the clips in the movie — men scream- “Joss Whedon’s on-set treat- documents in Los Angeles Coun- ing, “Iron my shirt,” or John Edwards saying, ty Superior Court to dissolve her Los Angeles Times: Were there things in the ment of the cast and crew of “I’m not sure about that coat” during a debate marriage with camera operator documentary that surprised you? Maybe the ‘Justice League’ was gross, abu- — seemed particularly crazy. Did you ever come James Heerdegen, citing irrecon- footage of your daughter Chelsea putting herself sive, unprofessional, and com- close to snapping? pletely unacceptable,” Fisher, cilable differences. between you and Bill, holding both your hands, We all have that choice. You can escalate or who played the young superhero Saroj Khan, a top Bollywood “filling in the empty space,” as Bill puts it, that choreographer, died of cardiac existed after he addressed the nation about his you can try to take a deep breath and deal with Cyborg in the DC Comics film, it thoughtfully. I believe strongly in what I think tweeted July 1. arrest in a Mumbai hospital July relationship with Monica Lewinsky? 3, her family said. She was 71. Clinton: That was one of those moments that is right. And I am willing to stand up for it. But Fisher added that Whedon I’m not interested in engaging in some kind of was “enabled, in many ways, by The three-time National Award I remembered, but I hadn’t seen the footage for verbal confrontation for the sake of delivering a Geoff Johns and Jon Berg,” two winner choreographed more than years until I saw the movie. Watching it again was flashpoint. producers on the film who were 2,000 songs in her career, which pretty emotional. I had no idea Chelsea was going spanned more than 40 years. to do that. “Hillary” is now available on Hulu. Prince Royce calls positive test for virus a wake-up call

BY SIGAL RATNER-ARIAS For him, it all started about two weeks ago family, I’ve been sending them stuff. I thought Associated Press on a Sunday, when he woke in the middle of the for sure like I wouldn’t have gotten it cause night not feeling well after spending the day at I’ve been ‘taking precautions.’ ” Singer Prince Royce says he got a wake-up the pool making TikTok videos and battling a Royce doesn’t know how he got COVID- call with a COVID-19 diagnosis and now he “really bad headache.” But he attributed it to 19, but he admits that, after spending three wants to try and wake others, too. a day in the sun , and went back to sleep. months in quarantine, the reopening of bars Royce revealed that he is recovering from When he woke up in the morning, he was and restaurants gave him a false sense of the virus in a July 2 interview with The As- feeling worse and had a temperature of 101 security. sociated Press. degrees. He took some painkillers. On Mon- “I was home this whole time, and I went out Royce, 31, said he decided to speak up out day, the fever was gone, but the headache to some restaurants because things opened, of a growing frustration with seeing people persisted. and I thought, ‘Well, Florida hasn’t been so going out and gathering without masks — even “I said, ‘I’m gonna go get tested for COVID while cases are spiking in several states. just to be responsible, but I don’t think I have bad, and New York is the one with the prob- “At first, I was very scared, like ‘Nobody it.’ And that’s how I found out,” said the multi- lem.’ I fell for that and I think many people can find out; I shouldn’t tell anybody.’ But I platinum Bachata singer. can fall for that and will fall for that,” he said. felt that I have a duty to tell my communities, Royce said the diagnosis shocked him. “And that’s what made me think, I need to you know. I live in Florida, I’m from New York, “I thought I was washing my hands,” he come out and tell my story. Because it’s upset- I have a place in California. And I’m seeing said. “I thought I was wearing the mask, you ting me. It’s so frustrating to me to see people what’s happening across the country. I see know. And I think that for me it was just a at supermarkets without a mask. It’s so frus- AP what’s happening in the world,” said Royce wake-up call, like I’ve been seeing this on TV trating to me to see that people are being ir- via Zoom from his home in Miami. every day, I’m on WhatsApp groups with my responsible and not protecting others.” PAGE 16 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Monday, July 6, 2020 OPINION Max D. Lederer Jr., Publisher Lt. Col. Marci Hoffman, Europe commander Lt. Col. Richard McClintic, Pacific commander Facebook’s dodges validate protest effort Caroline E. Miller, Europe Business Operations Joshua M. Lashbrook, Pacific Chief of Staff BY DAVID ZURAWIK Zuckerberg has saw a racial epithet on the bulletin board The Baltimore Sun where help wanted and babysitting ads are repeatedly defended placed. Wouldn’t you hold the manager of EDITORIAL uly 1 is not a date Facebook CEO that store and the company that owns it Mark Zuckerberg is likely to forget his irresponsible responsible for policing that board and not Terry Leonard, Editor anytime soon. [email protected] management of Facebook allowing such speech to be put there — let J Some of the most iconic and big- alone remain? Senior Managing Editor Robert H. Reid, gest spending brands in American life — with intellectually Nick Clegg, vice president for global af- [email protected] including Coca-Cola, The Hershey Co. and dishonest arguments. fairs and communication, defended the Tina Croley, Managing Editor for Content Ford Motor Co., have joined a call for the company on CNN’s “Reliable Sources” last [email protected] suspension of advertising on Facebook this Sunday, saying: “I sometimes hear folks month. From Adidas to Verizon, many of imply somehow that Facebook or social Sean Moores, Managing Editor for Presentation the brands you see every night advertising [email protected] they could never get on TV. media in general is awash in hate. And, on TV have signed on, according to a list at yes, there are hateful people in the world. the boycott’s website. Reporting by “Frontline” on PBS chroni- Joe Gromelski, Managing Editor for Digital cled how Facebook had allowed highly per- … But, thankfully, the vast, vast, vast ma- [email protected] The action was called last month by a sonal data it held from members to be sold jority of content on Facebook is positive, is civil rights coalition that includes the Anti- useful, is joyful, is sometimes playful. It’s Defamation League (ADL) the NAACP to the political consulting firm Cambridge BUREAU STAFF Analytica for use in targeting voters on be- the local business reaching local clients. and Color of Change. It’s the dad running the Facebook group Europe/Mideast “We asked companies to act against half of Trump. Congressional hearings in 2017 revealed how Facebook had carried for his daughter’s football team.” Erik Slavin, Europe & Mideast Bureau Chief hate and disinformation being spread To some extent, he’s right. But that is [email protected] by Facebook in our campaign, Stop Hate ads paid for in rubles that sought to exploit +49(0)631.3615.9350; DSN (314)583.9350 racial tension in Baltimore with disinfor- absolutely no excuse for not diligently po- for Profit,” the group says on its website, licing the disinformation from Russian Pacific stophateforprofit.org. “We asked busi- mation following the death of Freddie Gray in 2015. Rubles! And Team Zuckerberg operatives, the videos from hate groups or Aaron Kidd, Pacific Bureau Chief nesses to temporarily pause advertising on the lies and smears from politicians like [email protected] Facebook and Instagram in order to force saw nothing suspicious about that. +81.42.552.2511 ext. 88380; DSN (315)227.7380 After that, I was all for almost anything Trump — as small a portion of overall con- Mark Zuckerberg to address the effect that tent as that might be. Facebook has had on our society.” (Face- that could rein in the titans of Silicon Val- Washington In fact, that steady stream of familiar, book owns Instagram.) ley like Zuckerberg, who revolutionized Joseph Cacchioli, Washington Bureau Chief friendly, local content from friends and [email protected] Hate, disinformation and the effect Face- media technologically before we had a family is what makes the political lies, pro- (+1)(202)886-0033 book has had on our society. Amen. This is chance to figure out ethically and legally paganda, divisive content and hate speech Brian Bowers, Assistant Managing Editor, News a righteous and much needed campaign. I how the digital content machines could be [email protected] all the more dangerous. Because it comes hope it succeeds where other attempts in used for the enlightenment rather than ex- wrapped in that trustworthy, safe flow of recent years to criticize, shame, expose ploitation of its users. CIRCULATION more personal information from friends, or beg Zuckerberg to be more socially re- Zuckerberg has repeatedly defended his you receive the hateful and dishonest con- Mideast sponsible have failed. irresponsible management of Facebook tent with your guard down, so to speak, Robert Reismann, Mideast Circulation Manager For most of my professional life, I with intellectually dishonest arguments. and are more receptive to it. [email protected] have been against boycotts of media Take his long-held position that he [email protected] Zuckerberg’s history shows him to be DSN (314)583-9111 companies. merely managed a platform where infor- But then came Zuckerberg and Face- mation was placed by others, so he wasn’t someone only concerned about profits. Europe book. I started regularly blasting away at an actual publisher with the responsibility So, go for it, #StopHateforProfit. Hit Karen Lewis, Community Engagement Manager the social media giant following the presi- that someone who publishes a newspaper him and his social media monster where it [email protected] dential election of 2016 when I saw how would have. How convenient — and disin- hurts — in his profit margin. Hit as hard as [email protected] you can and then some. +49(0)631.3615.9090; DSN (314)583.9090 Donald Trump’s campaign used Facebook genuous. Ask yourself how you would feel if for lies and potentially libelous content you went into your local grocery store and David Zurawik is The Baltimore Sun’s media critic. 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BY GEORGE F. WILL Taiwan. Beijing is demonstrating in Hong Washington Post Writers Group Kong “one country, two systems” actually means one country, one simmering stew WASHINGTON of Leninism and Stalinism flavored with he French revolutionaries’ in- fascism. strument for administering the The dictator Xi Jinping has repeatedly 1793-1794 Reign of Terror was said that Taiwan’s current status — na- Tthe Committee of Public Safety. tionhood in all but name — is intolerable Today, China’s totalitarians, displaying and “should not be passed down genera- either ignorance of this unsavory history, tion after generation.” A reelected Donald or arrogance in flaunting their emulation Trump, whose cramped notion of Ameri- of it, call their new instrument for suf- ca’s role in the world is confined to com- focating Hong Kong the Commission for mercial bookkeeping, might swap Taiwan’s Safeguarding National Security. Yet again, freedom for increased Chinese purchases actual tyranny is imposed in the supposed of U.S. soybeans. When at noon Jan. 20 the service of safety. U.S. ends the policy of making America Acting as communists do, the leaders marginal again, Biden should adopt strate- of China’s Communist Party, which is the gic clarity, informing Beijing that the U.S. bone and sinew of that nation’s Lenin- legal obligation to sell Taiwan weaponry ist party-state, have, less than half way needed for self-defense entails a moral ob- through their commitment, shredded the 1997 agreement to respect Hong Kong’s ligation to assist with that project. autonomy until 2047. The new law mocks The Korean War, which brought Ameri- the rule of law, which requires sufficient cans into combat against Chinese troops, specificity to give those subject to the law began 70 years ago after Dean Acheson, VINCENT YU/AP due notice of what is proscribed or prohib- President Harry S. Truman’s secretary of ited. The new law stipulates four major of- Protesters against the new national security law march and gesture with five fingers, state, gave a speech in which he left South fenses: separatism, subversion, terrorism signifying the “Five demands — not one less,” in Hong Kong on Wednesday, the 23rd Korea outside his definition of America’s and collusion with foreign governments. anniversary of Hong Kong’s handover to China from Britain. defense perimeter. Beijing has drawn a These will be defined post facto, in capri- “nine-dash line” to demarcate extrava- cious enforcements against those whose China’s faux law, which echoes Josef of Genocide and on the Sino-British Joint gant claims to sovereignty over the South speech is not chilled by the law’s menacing Stalin’s use of randomness to intensify Declaration guaranteeing Hong Kong’s China Sea — claims incompatible with in- vagueness. The “law” authorizing the com- fear, serves two purposes: It smashes Hong autonomy are equally constraining. Next ternational law and disdainful of the legal mittee to operate secretly was released at Kong dissent — Leninism brooks no chal- year, President Joe Biden and a Demo- rights of various nations in the region. The 11 p.m. Tuesday, probably to deter demon- lenge to the party’s supremacy. And it dis- cratic-controlled Congress should match Biden administration should draw a line strations on Wednesday, which was the an- tracts attention from reports that Beijing is Britain’s generosity in welcoming refugees that places Taiwan within the sphere of niversary of Beijing’s 1997 agreement. pioneering a sinister fusionism that melds from Hong Kong’s talented, freedom-lov- regional nations whose self-defense impli- Modern technologies of communication Leninism and Stalinism with an ethno-na- ing citizenry. cates vital U.S. interests. enable the world to watch darkness de- tionalism reminiscent of fascism. In diplomatic parlance, China is a “revi- Beijing should remember this: France’s scend on one of the world’s most vibrant The regime reportedly is employing sionist” power, aiming to revise the global Committee on Public Safety was created in metropolises. Modern technologies of sur- forced abortions and sterilization to in- order. In less antiseptic language, it is a April 1793. Maximilien Robespierre, who veillance enable Beijing to refine a deep, flict what has been called “demographic piratical power whose crudeness, born of prefigured Lenin, joined it on July 27. One penetrating oppression beyond what Win- genocide” on Muslim Uighurs and other cultural condescension toward others, in- year and a day later, devoured by forces he ston Churchill could have imagined when minorities. U.S. customs officials have cludes special contempt for an America had fomented, he was guillotined in Paris’ he warned that Nazism’s triumph would seized some China-made beauty products distracted domestically by various hyste- Place de la Revolution, now called Place mean the world would “sink into the abyss perhaps made from human hair harvested rias, and choosing retreat abroad. Presi- de la Concorde. Beijing’s totalitarians, who of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and in Xinjiang concentration camps. China’s dent Biden’s urgent foreign policy tasks have murderous French precursors, may perhaps more protracted, by the lights of signatures on the U.N. Convention on the will include revising the longstanding U.S. one day have a similarly disagreeable ren- perverted science.” Prevention and Punishment of the Crime policy of “strategic ambiguity” regarding dezvous with their handiwork. The US-China confrontation is not another Cold War BY RICHARD FONTAINE acquiesce in the other’s preferences. Com- As a result, cookie-cutter Cold War poli- non-proliferation, cooperation with China AND ELY RATNER petition stretches across multiple domains, cies — such as a counter-China military may be possible and even necessary. In Special to The Washington Post simultaneously and indefinitely. This all alliance, a geographic containment strat- other arenas, Washington will simply have sounds familiar. egy or all-out economic warfare — are as to take a deep breath and acknowledge ith U.S.-China relations in free But looking backward to the Cold War ill-suited as they are unlikely to succeed. where greater Chinese influence actually fall, the Trump administra- obscures more than it illuminates about Nor is the answer to fan fears of a looming doesn’t matter all that much to the United tion’s chief arms control ne- U.S.-China competition today. The Soviet Cold War and urge Washington to ease up States. gotiator recently proclaimed W Union and the West formed coherent blocs on competition with China. Beijing’s ambi- All the while, the competition for friends that “we know how to win these races — in Europe, for instance, NATO stood on tions are increasingly global and at odds will rarely be one of strict strategic align- and we know how to spend the adversary one side and the Warsaw Pact on the other. with the United States, and Washington ment, but rather an effort to build coali- into oblivion.” This obvious allusion to Nonaligned countries in key strategic re- needs an approach that factors in this new America’s triumph in the Cold War was gions were relatively few and far between. reality. tions of the willing on different issues, such only the latest sign that the decadeslong The name of the game was to contain the That means preparing for a more dif- as responding to China’s unfair trade prac- rivalry with the Soviet Union has recap- other’s expansion while finding new allies ferentiated competition with Beijing, one tices, supporting Taiwan or dealing with tured the attention of Washington’s foreign where one could. Contested spaces saw in which rivalry plays out issue by issue repression in Xinjiang. policy elite. proxy wars and battles for alignment, and and countries balance an array of relation- This is where the China debate should One prominent camp of experts and for- little economic activity took place between ships with both capitals. Out with unified now focus: not on top-down questions of mer dignitaries is arguing that a new Cold blocs. blocs, uncoupled economies and Fulda how to wage or avoid a Cold War, but rath- War with China would be a mistake of his- Virtually none of these characteristics Gap -like standoffs; in with multiple strate- er a bottom-up effort to renew American toric proportions, to be avoided at all costs. are present in today’s world. China lacks gies aimed at decreasing interdependence competitiveness, with more serious de- Others are offering advice for how to pre- anything representing an Eastern Bloc, and competing effectively where neces- bates about specific issues and less nostal- vail: Enlist India as an ally, say, or perhaps and the United States’ network of alliances sary, and conserving energy and resources gia or neuralgia over past rivalries. befriend Russia. While China’s foreign is military but not economic; indeed, one of where not. In December 1989, George H.W. Bush minister is warning that the United States America’s top trade partners is its greatest Frustrating even America’s best grand and Mikhail Gorbachev met in Malta to is pushing “to the brink of a new Cold War,” geopolitical rival. U.S. allies aren’t ready strategists, the right approach for the Unit- declare the Cold War over. It still is. A new a former President Donald Trump official to sign up for an all-out confrontation with ed States will vary. Some issues will be and different era of competition between has already announced “the start of a new Beijing, and nearly everyone wants some containment-like: trying to stymie the ex- the United States and China is dawning. Cold War.” mixture of security and economic benefits port of China’s high-tech authoritarianism, Washington needs to update its mindset as It may be tempting to reach for the Cold from both the United States and China. for instance. Some will be more defensive, War playbook. Two superpowers now Rather than a replay of the Cold War, a primarily aiming to prevent China’s domi- well. stand off in geopolitical, military and ideo- new kind of competition is emerging — one nance, as in the South China Sea. Richard Fontaine is chief executive of the Center logical competition. They compete for al- that eludes neat concepts such as contain- Others will require focusing on U.S. for a New American Security and former foreign lies and influence across multiple regions. ment and engagement that defined Amer- power at home separate and apart from policy adviser to Sen. John McCain. Ely Ratner is executive vice president at the center and former Both wish to avoid the profound destruc- ica’s previous approach to great-power China, such as boosting domestic innova- deputy national security adviser to former Vice tiveness of hot war, but neither is willing to politics. tion. In areas such as climate change and President Joe Biden. PAGE 18 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Monday, July 6, 2020 Monday, July 6, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 19 PAGE 20 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Monday, July 6, 2020 SCOREBOARD/SOCCER Scoreboard Sports Caution on the MLS pitch on AFN MLS is Back tournament At Orlando, Fla. Group Stage Eastern Conference, Group A Go to the American Forces W L T Pts GF GA Chicago 0 0 0 0 0 0 Network website for the most Players balance health history with virus risk as league reopens Philadelphia 0 0 0 0 0 0 up-to-date TV schedules. Orlando City 0 0 0 0 0 0 New York City FC 0 0 0 0 0 0 myafn.net BY TIM BOOTH Inter Miami CF 0 0 0 0 0 0 Associated Press Nashville SC 0 0 0 0 0 0 Eastern Conference, Group C W L T Pts GF GA Deals SEATTLE — Vancouver New England 0 0 0 0 0 0 D.C. United 0 0 0 0 0 0 Whitecaps midfielder Andy Rose Toronto FC 0 0 0 0 0 0 needed to have a lot of conversa- Montreal 0 0 0 0 0 0 Saturday’s transactions Eastern Conference, Group E BASEBALL tions and make hard decisions W L T Pts GF GA Major League Baseball when Major League Soccer first New York 0 0 0 0 0 0 American League Columbus 0 0 0 0 0 0 KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Placed C Sal- started moving toward returning Atlanta 0 0 0 0 0 0 vador Perez on the 10-day IL. to action with a tournament in Cincinnati 0 0 0 0 0 0 MINNESOTA TWINS — Placed C Wil- Western Conference, Group B lians Astudillo and 3B Miguel Sano on Florida. W L T Pts GF GA the 10-day IL. There were concerns about po- FC Dallas 0 0 0 0 0 0 National League San Jose 0 0 0 0 0 0 ATLANTA BRAVES — Place LHP Will tentially exposing his young son Seattle 0 0 0 0 0 0 Smith and 1B Freedie Freeman on the Vancouver 0 0 0 0 0 0 10-day IL. and pregnant wife to the coro- Western Conference, Group D COLORADO ROCKIES — Signed OF Matt navirus. And as someone living W L T Pts GF GA Kemp to a minor league contract. Sporting Kansas City 0 0 0 0 0 0 LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Placed LHP with Type 1 diabetes, significant Colorado 0 0 0 0 0 0 David Price on the restricted list. concerns about his own personal Real Salt Lake 0 0 0 0 0 0 Minnesota United 0 0 0 0 0 0 health. Western Conference, Group F “You’re trying to not read too W L T Pts GF GA Golf LA Galaxy 0 0 0 0 0 0 much. There’s so much infor- Houston 0 0 0 0 0 0 Portland 0 0 0 0 0 0 mation out there,” Rose said. “I Los Angeles FC 0 0 0 0 0 0 Rocket Mortgage Classic checked in with my endocrinolo- Wednesday, July 8 PGA Tour gist a couple weeks ago, we had Orlando City vs. Inter Miami CF Saturday Nashville SC vs. Chicago Fire At Detroit Golf Club a conversation. And then obvi- Thursday, July 9 Detroit ously going through this process New York City FC vs. Philadelphia Union Purse: $7,500,000 Montreal vs. New England Yardage: 7,340; Par 72 of going to Orlando while my wife FC Dallas vs. Vancouver, ppd. Third Round is pregnant. I’ve been in constant Friday, July 10 Matthew Wolff 69-64-64—197 -19 Toronto FC vs. D.C. United Ryan Armour 69-64-67—200 -16 communication with our team Seattle vs. San Jose Saturday, July 11 Bryson DeChambeau 66-67-67—200 -16 doctor and he’s been amazing in Atlanta vs. New York Troy Merritt 68-67-67—202 -14 Cincinnati vs. Columbus Mark Hubbard 67-66-69—202 -14 terms of giving me updates.” NICK WASS/AP Sunday, July 12 Seamus Power 67-66-69—202 -14 The majority of the league’s Sporting Kansas City vs. Minnesota Chris Kirk 67-65-70—202 -14 D.C. United defender Chris Odoi-Atsem, left, who has overcome United Wesley Bryan 69-69-65—203 -13 players will be taking part when Real Salt Lake vs. Colorado Luke List 69-67-67—203 -13 the tournament starts this week. cancer, is one of several MLS players in the MLS Is Back Monday, July 13 Viktor Hovland 69-67-67—203 -13 tournament this week with underlying health issues they must Los Angeles FC vs. Houston Matt Wallace 66-69-68—203 -13 For some like Rose, that will in- LA Galaxy vs. Portland Webb Simpson 68-64-71—203 -13 clude balancing underlying health balance with the risk of the coronavirus. Tuesday, July 14 Hideki Matsuyama 71-68-65—204 -12 Inter Miami CF vs. Chicago Fabián Gómez 70-68-66—204 -12 concerns with the opportunity to Philadelphia vs. Nashville SC Kevin Chappell 69-69-66—204 -12 return to the field. upon arrival in Florida and the Seattle’s Jordan Morris, who both Orlando City vs. New York City FC Scott Harrington 71-66-67—204 -12 Wednesday, July 15 Tyrrell Hatton 68-67-69—204 -12 Rose had to decide whether to entire team was quarantined. have Type 1 diabetes, are among Seattle vs. FC Dallas Kevin Kisner 65-69-70—204 -12 When two Whitecaps players the most prominent, partly be- Montreal vs. Toronto FC Tony Finau 69-70-66—205 -11 even play in Florida and, if so, Vancouver vs. San Jose Adam Schenk 68-71-66—205 -11 how best to protect himself know- also tested positive, forcing the cause of their philanthropic ef- Thursday, July 16 Tom Lewis 68-71-66—205 -11 team to stay in Canada for now, forts to help those with similar Atlanta vs. Cincinnati Arjun Atwal 70-69-66—205 -11 ing diabetics have a higher risk D.C. United vs. New England Kristoffer Ventura 69-68-68—205 -11 of complications if they contract Thursday’s MLS is Back tourna- conditions. Columbus vs. New York Chris Baker 69-68-68—205 -11 ment match between FC Dallas But there are other examples. Friday, July 17 Adam Hadwin 67-69-69—205 -11 the coronavirus. That meant a lot Sporting Kansas City vs. Colorado Ted Potter, Jr. 68-68-69—205 -11 of talks with doctors, his endocri- and the Whitecaps had to be Orlando City goalkeeper Mason Real Salt Lake vs. Minnesota United Doc Redman 65-70-70—205 -11 Saturday, July 18 J.J. Spaun 66-69-70—205 -11 nologist and infectious disease postponted. Stajduhar underwent chemother- Portland vs. Houston Richy Werenski 67-66-72—205 -11 experts. Toronto FC and Nashville SC apy for bone cancer in 2018. D.C. Los Angeles FC vs. LA Galaxy Danny Willett 71-68-67—206 -10 Sunday, July 19 Jonathan Byrd 70-69-67—206 -10 “Having all those conversations, delayed travel to the tournament United’s Chris Odoi-Atsem over- New York FC vs. Chicago Michael Gellerman 68-70-68—206 -10 given my health, given how seri- while awaiting test results. came Stage II Hodgkin’s lympho- Philadelphia vs. Inter Miami CF Sam Burns 68-69-69—206 -10 Monday, July, 20 Chris Stroud 66-71-69—206 -10 ously I take managing my diabe- There’s also the rising cases ma and returned to action for the Orlando City vs. Nashville SC Henrik Norlander 67-70-69—206 -10 tes on a daily basis, I came to the across the Orlando area. club last season. FC Dallas vs. San Jose Scott Stallings 65-71-70—206 -10 Seattle vs. Vancouver Pat Perez 68-68-70—206 -10 conclusion fairly early on even be- Columbus goalkeeper Matt In Odoi-Atsem’s case, the little Tuesday, July 21 Lanto Griffin 70-66-70—206 -10 fore Orlando was a go — this was Lampson, a cancer survivor, time he’s had to play over the past Toronto FC vs. New England Sepp Straka 68-66-72—206 -10 Atlanta vs. Columbus Rhein Gibson 67-72-68—207 -9 still during negotiations — that I tweeted Thursday night about the couple of seasons made the Flori- Montreal vs. D.C. United Rickie Fowler 67-71-69—207 -9 seriousness of the situation. da decision fairly easy. Wednesday, July 22 Zac Blair 70-68-69—207 -9 would feel safe going,” Rose said. Real Salt Lake vs. Sporting Kansas City Brendon Todd 68-69-70—207 -9 MLS has said players can opt “For everyone in the “These “For me, my past health con- Cincinnati vs. New York Harold Varner III 70-67-70—207 -9 are pro athletes. There is no risk. dition made me want to go down Colorado vs. Minnesota United Emiliano Grillo 66-70-71—207 -9 out of the tournament for various Thursday, July 23 Maverick McNealy 68-68-71—207 -9 Nothing happens to them if they there even a little bit more,” Odoi- LA Galaxy vs. Houston reasons. Los Angeles FC vs. Portland Cameron Tringale 68-67-72—207 -9 get the virus” camp — I am high Atsem said. “I’ve missed a lot of Hudson Swafford 67-68-72—207 -9 Players who are deemed high Patrick Rodgers 69-70-69—208 -8 risk have to be cleared by their risk. And I know for a fact there time in my pro career due to my NWSL Challenge Cup Luke Donald 69-70-69—208 -8 primary care provider to partici- are multiple others at #MLSis- cancer and even injuries and Herriman Utah Tyler Duncan 68-70-70—208 -8 Saturday, June 27 Johnson Wagner 67-71-70—208 -8 pate. Some of those high-risk con- Back that are as well — including things like that. This is a point North Carolina Courage 2, Portland Si Woo Kim 71-67-70—208 -8 ditions include moderate to severe other players on their way here. in my career where I’m fully Thorns 1 Lucas Glover 67-70-71—208 -8 Washington Spirit 2, Chicago Red Cameron Champ 69-68-71—208 -8 asthma, heart conditions, diabetes This is serious,” Lampson wrote. fit, fully healthy and a chance Stars 1 Steve Stricker 70-67-71—208 -8 and being immunocompromised. Lampson is among a handful of to play in real, official games in Tuesday, June 30 Brandon Hagy 67-68-73—208 -8 Houston Dash 3, Utah Royals 3 Brian Stuard 68-67-73—208 -8 The caution has been war- MLS players whose past health the league is what I’m really con- OL Reign 0, Sky Blue 0 Sungjae Im 70-69-70—209 -7 ranted as six players for FC Dal- issues or underlying conditions cerned about. I’m really excited Wednesday, July 1 Seung-Yul Noh 68-71-70—209 -7 Portland Thorns 0, Chicago Red Stars George McNeill 67-71-71—209 -7 las tested positive for COVID-19 are publicly known. Rose and to get back to playing.” 0 Mark Anderson 68-68-73—209 -7 North Carolina Courage 2, Washington Kyoung-Hoon Lee 69-69-72—210 -6 Spirit 0 Michael Thompson 69-68-73—210 -6 Saturday’s games Austin Cook 69-70-72—211 -5 Utah Royals 1, Sky Blue 0 Josh Teater 70-69-72—211 -5 Dash, Royals roll to wins in Challenge Cup Houston Dash 2, OL Reign 0 Keegan Bradley 69-69-73—211 -5 Sunday’s games Bo Van Pelt 70-69-73—212 -4 North Carolina Courage vs. Chicago Zack Sucher 69-69-74—212 -4 Associated Press Red Stars Harry Higgs 69-70-78—217 +1 the tournament. Portland Thorns vs. Washington Spirit Rachel Daly scored two goals in Houston’s open- Wednesday’s games HERRIMAN, Utah — Kristie Mewis and Shea Utah Royals vs. OL Reign ing game, a 3-3 draw with the Utah Royals. She Sky Blue vs. Houston Dash Baseball Groom scored to give the Houston Dash a 2-0 vic- was listed as questionable for the game against the Sunday, July 12 tory over OL Reign on Saturday night in the group Washington Spirit vs. Houston Dash Reign, but started. Chicago Red Stars vs. Utah Royals This date in baseball stage of the NWSL’s Challenge Cup tournament. The Reign were coming off a scoreless draw Monday, July 13 The Dash now have five goals, most of any team OL Reign vs. Portland Thorns 1983 — On the 50th anniversary of the against Sky Blue in its opening game. They have yet Sky Blue vs. North Carolina Courage All-Star game, Fred Lynn’s grand slam in the tournament. to score a goal in the tournament. Quarterfinals off Atlee Hammaker, the first in All-Star Friday, July 17-Saturday, July 18 competition, capped a record seven-run Mewis scored in the 12th minute, taking a sweet Former Reign coach Vlatko Andonovski, who TBD third inning. The AL also set a one-game back heel pass from Groom and blasting the ball Semifinals record for runs scored in a 13-3 vic- now coaches the U.S. women’s national team, was at Wednesday, July 22 tory that ended an 11-game NL winning from just inside the penalty area. Zions Back Stadium for the game. TBD streak. Chicago’s Comiskey Park was the Championship site, as it was for the first All-Star game Groom scored on a precisely executed leaping The Royals defeated Sky Blue 1-0 earlier Satur- Sunday, July 26 in 1933. header in the 54th minute. It was her second goal of day on Amy Rodriguez’s goal late in the first half. TBD Monday, July 6, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 21 AUTO RACING/GOLF Roundup Dixon breaks through at Indianapolis with win in GP Associated Press Scoreboard INDIANAPOLIS — It took Scott Dixon 12 years to make a second trip to victory lane at In- GMR Grand Prix Pennzoil 150 at the Brickyard dianapolis Motor Speedway. IndyCar NASCAR-Xfinity He’s already plotting a third Saturday Saturday Indianapolis Motor Speedway At Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road trip next month. Indianapolis, Indiana Course The 2008 Indianapolis 500 win- (Start position in parentheses) Speedway, Ind. 1. (7) Scott Dixon, New Zealand, 80 Lap length: 2.44 miles ner ended what had been a frus- laps, Running. (Start position in parentheses) trating quest for a second win at 2. (4) Graham Rahal, United States, 80, 1. (12) Chase Briscoe, Ford, 62 laps, 57 Running. points. CARLOS OSORIO/AP the Brickyard, beating Graham 3. (20) Simon Pagenaud, France, 80, 2. (11) Justin Haley, Chevrolet, 62, 50. Rahal to the checkered flag by Running. 3. (8) Noah Gragson, Chevrolet, 62, 39. Matthew Wolff watches his drive on the second tee during the third 4. (3) Colton Herta, United States, 80, 4. (30) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 62, 19.9469 seconds Saturday and Running. 34. round of the Rocket Mortgage Classic on Saturday in Detroit. claiming his first IndyCar Grand 5. (18) Rinus Veekay, Netherlands, 80, 5. (10) Austin Cindric, Ford, 62, 42. Running. 6. (9) Ross Chastain, Chevrolet, 62, 35. Prix title. 6. (14) Marcus Ericsson, Sweden, 80, 7. (5) Justin Allgaier, Chevrolet, 62, 48. “It’s really nice to get another Running. 8. (22) Alex Labbe, Chevrolet, 62, 31. 7. (6) Josef Newgarden, United States, 9. (2) Michael Annett, Chevrolet, 62, 34. win at Indianapolis even though 80, Running. 10. (19) Preston Pardus, Chevrolet, 62, it’s not the big one,” Dixon said. 8. (13) Patricio O’Ward, Mexico, 80, 27. Running. 11. (24) Brandon Brown, Chevrolet, 62, Wolff shoots 64, “It is significant, man, to win at 9. (15) Santino Ferrucci, United States, 31. 80, Running. 12. (38) Brandon Gdovic, Toyota, 62, 25. this place. Sometimes you need 10. (17) Takuma Sato, Japan, 80, Run- 13. (21) Jeremy Clements, Chevrolet, a little bit of luck and sometimes ning. 62, 25. 11. (19) James Hinchcliffe, Canada, 80, 14. (17) Jade Buford, Chevrolet, 62, 23. you need a clean race like we had Running. 15. (27) Kyle Weatherman, Chevrolet, today.” 12. (8) Conor Daly, United States, 80, 62, 22. Running. 16. (26) Myatt Snider, Chevrolet, 62, 21. takes 3-shot lead The atmosphere at Indy was 13. (12) Ryan Hunter, United States, 80, 17. (4) Ryan Sieg, Chevrolet, 62, 28. subdued. Running. 18. (13) Jesse Little, Chevrolet, 62, 19. 14. (22) Zach Veach, United States, 80, 19. (34) Timmy Hill, Toyota, 62, 0. Dixon donned a face mask as Running. 20. (7) Anthony Alfredo, Chevrolet, 62, BY LARRY LAGE at the 559-yard, par-5 14th to he raised his arms and pumped 15. (9) Felix Rosenqvist, Sweden, 80, 17. Running. 21. (28) Stephen Leicht, Toyota, 62, 16. Associated Press pull into a tie with Armour at 17 his fist inside the recently redone 16. (10) Max Chilton, Britain, 80, Run- 22. (20) Josh Williams, Chevrolet, 62, ning. under, and added birdies on the winner’s circle. The stands were 17. (2) Jack Harvey, Britain, 80, Run- 15. DETROIT — Matthew Wolff par-3 15th and par-5 17th. He fin- ning. 23. (36) Josh Bilicki, Toyota, 62, 18. empty and the usual celebratory 18. (24) Charlie Kimball, United States, 24. (14) Mike Wallace, Chevrolet, 62, 13. has been working on his mind- ished with the eagle, nine birdies, noise was almost nonexistent. 80, Running. 25. (6) Harrison Burton, Toyota, 62, 17. set, trying to have a good time 19. (21) Alex Palou, Spain, 80, Run- 26. (29) Joe Graf Jr, Chevrolet, 62, 11. five pars and three bogeys. But after three consecutive running. 27. (37) Chad Finchum, Toyota, 62, 10. regardless of results to help him If the 21-year-old Wolff can ner-up finishes in this race and a 20. (1) Will Power, Australia, 80, Run- 28. (31) Kody Vanderwal, Chevrolet, 61, perform closer to his potential. ning. 9. hold on Sunday, it will be his first résumé full of near-misses and 21. (26) Dalton Kellett, Canada, 79, 29. (15) BJ McLeod, Chevrolet, 61, 8. An ice cream truck outside the victory since the 3M Open last bad luck on Indy’s 2.5-mile oval, Running. 30. (33) Matt Mills, Chevrolet, 61, 7. Detroit Golf Club seemed to help. 22. (25) Marco Andretti, United States, 31. (1) Jeb Burton, Chevrolet, 60, 6. year in Minnesota. Dixon was going to have some 79, Running. 32. (35) Vinnie Miller, Chevrolet, 60, 5. Wolff had a roller-coaster round “Just going to go out there, have fun, and he appeared to savor 23. (23) Sage Karam, United States, 79, 33. (23) Riley Herbst, Toyota, 57, 4. Running. 34. (32) Bayley Currey, Chevrolet, 54, 0. that went well enough Saturday to fun and hopefully I hear the ice one of the rare spoils of victory 24. (16) Spencer Pigot, United States, 35. (25) Tommy Joe Martins, Chevro- give him a three-shot lead in the cream truck a little bit,” he said. 74, Did not finish. let, axle, 51, 2. — giving the starting command 25. (11) Alexander Rossi, United States, 36. (16) Brett Moffitt, Chevrolet, 44, 0. Rocket Mortgage Classic. He shot Last year, he made a 26-foot for NASCAR’s inaugural Xfinity 41, Did not finish. 37. (3) Brandon Jones, Toyota, garage, his second straight 8-under 64 to putt from the fringe for eagle on 26. (5) Oliver Askew, United States, 34, 34, 7. Series race on the road course. Did not finish. 38. (18) Jeffrey Earnhardt, Chevrolet, move into position for his second the final hole for a one-stroke win Dixon couldn’t have scripted Race Statistics garage, 9, 1. PGA Tour victory. at the 3M Open in his third tour- Average Speed of Race Winner: Race Statistics a better strategy for the 14-turn, 114.789 mph. Average Speed of Race Winner: 73.889 “I have to give credit to the ice nament as a professional. Wolff 2.439-mile road course, either. Time of Race: 01:41:59.3232. mph. cream truck that was circling the Margin of Victory: 19.9469 seconds. Time of Race: 2 hours, 2 minutes, 48 joined Tiger Woods and Ben He opted to start on the slower Cautions: 1 for 4 laps. seconds. property,“ said Wolff, who was Crenshaw as winners of a PGA black tires and maneuvered his Lead Changes: 10 among 8 drivers. Margin of Victory: 1.717 seconds. 19-under 197 after three rounds. Lap Leaders: Power 1-16, Harvey 17, Caution Flags: 5 for 15 laps. Tour event and the individual way through the field after start- Rahal 18-26, Power 27-38, Rahal 39-47, Lead Changes: 12 among 8 drivers. “I’m not joking, actually.” NCAA title in the same year. ing seventh. Then, just a few laps Dixon 48-54, Pigot 55, Ericsson 56, New- Lap Leaders: J.Burton 0-1; J.Allgaier 2- garden 57-60, Veach 61, Dixon 62. 3; A.Cindric 4-21; B.Jones 22-23; C.Briscoe Wolff made a 35-foot putt on The former Oklahoma State after pitting to put on the reds, Points: Dixon 104, Pagenaud 75, New- 24-27; A.Cindric 28-30; C.Briscoe 31-36; the 138-yard No. 5 for birdie, his star, though, has struggled enough garden 64, Herta 58, Rahal 54, Veach 50, R.Sieg 37-38; C.Briscoe 39-53; P.Pardus Dixon got the break he needed Daly 46, O ward 42, Hunter 41, Ericsson 40. 54-55; C.Briscoe 56-58; A.Allmendinger second of nine birdies. this season that he was 108th in w h e n r o o k i e O l i v e r A s k e w c r a s h e d 59-60; C.Briscoe 61-62 “I heard the ice cream truck Leaders Summary (Driver, Times the world going into the week. He into the outside wall as he tried to bricks. Led, Laps Led): C.Briscoe, 5 times for and I’m like, ‘I have a good feel- missed the cut at the previous two enter the front straightaway. 30 laps; A.Cindric, 2 times for 21 laps; It was the kind of celebra- A.Allmendinger, 1 time for 2 laps; ing about this,’ ” Wolff recalled. tournaments and was 54th at the Dixon knew immediately he tion that made team owner Tony J.Allgaier, 1 time for 2 laps; P.Pardus, 1 “Just had that little like ice cream PGA Tour’s first event after its was in charge. time for 2 laps; R.Sieg, 1 time for 2 laps; Stewart proud. B.Jones, 1 time for 2 laps; J.Burton, 1 time truck song in my head. I think that restart. “We were in the right situation for 1 lap. The 25-year-old who grew up helped me just not think about the Armour played well and was to go hard. It was a bit of a no- Wins: C.Briscoe, 5; N.Gragson, 2; dreaming of racing at the Brick- H.Burton, 2; J.Haley, 1; B.Jones, 1; speed or the line or anything, just in a great mood on the front nine brainer,” he said. “Some of those A.Allmendinger, 1. yard, just like Stewart, made a keep my head free.” while making five birdies to reach guys were just sitting ducks with Top 16 in Points: 1. C.Briscoe, 556; 2. Ryan Armour and Bryson De- late pit stop for tires pay off by N.Gragson, 535; 3. R.Chastain, 501; 4. 16 under, giving him a one-shot the tires they were on.” A.Cindric, 495; 5. J.Haley, 451; 6. J.Allgaier, Chambeau were tied for second lead. retaking the lead, holding off AJ 434; 7. H.Burton, 421; 8. B.Jones, 383; 9. Dixon controlled most of the after 67s. Allmendinger and Austin Cindric M.Annett, 373; 10. R.Sieg, 329; 11. R.Herbst, He chatted and laughed with second half of the 80-lap race, 298; 12. B.Brown, 285; 13. M.Snider, 279; DeChambeau had a testy ex- some fans, watching the tourna- for the frantic few final laps and 14. D.Hemric, 254; 15. A.Labbe, 253; 16. helped in part when pole-winner J.Clements, 236. change with a TV cameraman ment from beyond a chain-link becoming the first Xfinity Se- Will Power stalled in the pits. after a bogey on the sixth hole. fence, near the seventh tee. ries driver to win on Indy’s road And when he made a clean pass could have been here to share “He was literally watching me The former Ohio State player course. of Rahal, it was only a matter of that because it may never happen the whole entire way up after get- has his school’s logo adorned on time before Dixon chalked up his Justin Haley finished second, ting out of the bunker, walking up the bag, and that caught the atten- 1.1717 seconds behind Briscoe. again.” 48th career IndyCar win. Only He’s won the last two Xfin- next to the green,” DeChambeau tion of some spectators perched A.J. Foyt (67) and Mario Andretti “I just can’t believe I won at said. “And I just was like, ‘Sir, on a platform a few minutes later. Indianapolis,” Briscoe said. “It’s ity races and three of the last (52) have more. four overall. He leads the series what is the need to watch me that “Go get ’em Buckeye,” one fan “Dixey just had tremendous still not as prestigious as winning with five wins this season, and long?’ I understand it’s his job to shouted from the backyard of a pace in the middle of the race,” on the oval, but to be the first to do video me, but at the same point, I his seventh career win will be home. Graham Rahal said. something here, it’s still special — think we need to start protecting Otherwise, it was often so quiet remembered as much for how it especially when you grow up less our players out here compared to that the jingle from an ice cream happened as where it happened. Briscoe wins, completes than an hour away from here.” showing a potential vulnerability truck in the neighborhood and dream weekend at Indy Noah Gragson wound up third “I thought it was a great show,” and hurting someone’s image. I a single-engine plane overhead while Allmendinger and Cindric Haley said after getting to wit- just don’t think that’s necessarily broke through the eerie silence. INDIANAPOLIS — Chase faded to fourth and fifth as they ness the battle from behind the the right thing to do.” Troy Merritt (67), Mark Hub- Briscoe parked the No. 98 car on battled and bumped around the leaders. “I really enjoyed it, it was DeChambeau birdied four of bard (69), Seamus Power (69) and the front straightaway at India- 14-turn, 2.439-mile course over fun to come and learn and I was the last six holes and pumped his Chris Kirk (70) were five shots napolis, climbed out and scaled the final two laps. really excited to be here. It’s my right fist after making a 12-foot back. Webb Simpson (71) had a the catch fence with some crew “I wish fans were here,” he home track, it’s Briscoe’s home birdie putt at 18. bogey on the final hole, falling six members. He even kissed the said. “That’s tough. I wish they track.” Wolff made a 14-foot eagle putt strokes behind. PAGE 22 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Monday, July 6, 2020 NBA Balance: Playoff seeds aren’t as likely to take it easy

FROM BACK PAGE “Like we always would if this were the regular season or if these were the last eight games of the regular season, we would compete to win,” Lakers coach Frank Vogel said. “That’s how your habits are built the best. Every time we take the floor, we’re going to go out there and try to win a game.” When teams are locked into a particular playoff seed, they often spend the final few games of the regular season resting key players to avoid the risk of injury. That won’t necessarily be the case ‘ We’ll see BRANDON DILL/AP this season after such a a lot of New Orleans Pelicans guard Jrue Holiday (11) handles the ball against Memphis Grizzlies guard Ja Morant. Holiday said he expects long hiatus. balls, basketball to be the easy part of living in the NBA’s bubble when 22 teams gather in Central Florida to resume their suspended seasons. Middleton said Fri- people day he was throwing “probably the ball not able to Too much time on their hands? touch a bas- through ketball for the stands, maybe two or three turnovers.’ League, union make mental health resources available to players in bubble months” Giannis during the Antetokounmpo BY BRETT MARTEL nio’s DeMar DeRozan opened up about their pandem- Bucks forward Associated Press ‘ You’re restricted, and you inner struggles. ic. Bucks DeRozan knows it won’t be easy at Disney. guard Donte NEW ORLEANS can’t do the things that “It’s tough,” he said. “You’re taking guys DiVincenzo said his inability to rue Holiday says he expects basket- you’re normally used to who’ve been with their families every single use the Bucks’ training facility ball to be the easy part. The Pelicans day for the last few months and all of a sudden for much of the hiatus caused him guard will be living in the NBA’s doing. separating everybody into this one confined to focus on conditioning and said “bubble” when 22 teams gather near ’ Bradley Beal space and taking away a lot of joyful things that “it kind of took me back to Orlando, Fla., this month to resume that we do outside of basketball.” being a little kid again, dribbling J Washington Wizards guard on life in the NBA bubble their suspended season. Milwaukee forward Giannis Antetok- the ball inside, doing those little Holiday’s wife, Lauren, a former U.S. na- ounmpo, who has played for Greece’s national moves on the sidewalk and stuff tional team soccer player, is pregnant with team, said being away for three weeks during like that.” the couple’s second child at a time when much to significantly limit exposure to COVID-19 international tournaments was challenging. That means even the teams of society has been shut down by the corona- inside the bubble. This trip to Disney could last three months if without much at stake may need virus pandemic. The veteran New Orleans Even under normal circumstances, Holiday the Bucks make the NBA Finals. to spend these last eight regular- player might be away from home for more sees family time as a cherished respite. Life at “Not being able to see your family, being season games trying to regain the than a month. Disney will clearly complicate that. there for three months, playing games with no momentum that was lost these Meanwhile, Memphis rookie Ja Morant “This is one of the mental parts about it that fans, it’s going to be mental,” Antetokounmpo last few months. expects to miss his daughter’s first birthday guys have to adjust to, where someone like said. “You’ve got to push yourself through “I don’t expect the first game or next month. Boston’s Gordon Hayward may me, I go home and it’s where I kind of relax,” this.” second game or third game, guys leave the team when his fourth child is born in Holiday said. “I try my best not to bring my Daniel Medina, the Wizards’ chief of ath- are going to be at 100%,” Bucks September. And players such as Washington’s work home with me so I can hang out with my letic care and performance, said some play- forward and reigning MVP Gi- Bradley Beal and Portland’s Damian Lillard wife, my dog, and my daughter and I can do ers are concerned that an interrupted season annis Antetokounmpo said. wonder how intense NBA restrictions on play- things like that. ... I think that’s going to be a might make them more prone to injury, which “Guys are going to be rusty. We’ll er movement will be received. little bit of a challenge, especially after like could be career-altering to players with ex- see a lot of balls, people throwing These are but a few examples of why the seven to 10 days.” piring contracts . the ball through the stands, turn- NBA, its teams and the players’ union are Likewise, Beal said living in the bubble will Parham, who helped launch the NBPA’s overs. … But I think as we move making mental health and wellness resources hardly be “a walk in the park.” mental health program in 2018, expects many forward and guys get more com- available to players now and once they arrive “We can’t just leave. We can’t just order players to handle the resumption well. fortable, the level of basketball is at Disney’s Wide World of Sports complex. whatever food we want. We can’t just do ac- Still, the unprecedented nature of the bub- going to get better each game.” “It is going to leave the guys with a lot of tivities we want to do. We can’t go to our team- ble, will present challenges. Another issue, An early top-seed clinching time on their own, and challenges with fami- mates’ rooms,” Beal said. “You’re restricted, Parham said, is how the restart coincides with also could see Lakers forward lies, newborns and whatever else they have and you can’t do the things that you’re nor- the political and social upheaval spawned by LeBron James breaking his rou- going on in their personal lives are going to be mally used to doing.” the death of George Floyd, a Black man, while tine. Typically, once James’ team magnified because they’re going to be in con- The Pelicans’ mental health and wellness in police custody. is locked into a playoff seed, he fined spaces for prolonged periods of time,” program is led by team psychologist Jenna “Prior to COVID, and prior to these social shuts it down and begins pre- said William Parham, a Loyola Marymount Rosen, and New Orleans general manager justice demonstrations, there were sufficient paring for the postseason. But psychology professor and director of the Na- David Griffin calls it “critical.” daily distractions for people to not really even because of the layoff, it could be think about their stuff. They were just sort of tional Basketball Players Association’s men- “Let’s not kid ourselves. This quarantine argued that James might want to on automatic pilot,” Parham said. “You know tal health and wellness program. “There’s situation is going to be very difficult,” Grif- get a bit more game action. what they say: A person will never see their no way around it, so I would anticipate some fin said. “We will work through mindfulness “Does that mean you want to reflection in running water. It is only when increased anxiety, some increased tension, training with Jenna literally every day. ... It’s play certain guys 47 minutes? the water is still that their reflected image be- some increased restlessness.” going to be about who can keep themselves in Obviously, no,” Vogel said. “We’ll gins to emerge.” There will be no fans at Disney. There also the best frame of mind, quite frankly.” be intelligent with the whole will be restrictions on where players can go, Mental health has been a priority for the AP Basketball Writer Tim Reynolds in Miami and AP process.” Sports Writers Stephen Whyno in Washington, Teresa plus rules keeping families away until at least NBA and the NBPA, especially after players Walker in Nashville, Tennessee,and Steve Megargee AP Basketball Writer Tim Reynolds in the second round of the playoffs. The hope is such as Cleveland’s Kevin Love and San Anto- in Milwaukee contributed to this report. Miami contributed to this report. Monday, July 6, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 23 MLB Tough day for MLB Price out, Freeman positive, Tanaka injured

BY STEVE MEGARGEE man offered a reminder to players across Associated Press the league that anyone is potentially sus- ceptible. Freeman joins Colorado Rockies Freddie Freeman tests positive for outfielder Charlie Blackmon as four-time COVID-19. Masahiro Tanaka gets hit in All-Stars who have tested positive. the head by a line drive. David Price an- “It doesn’t matter — age, race, ethnicity, nounces he won’t play this season. religion,” Milwaukee Brewers star Ryan On this Fourth of July, even the return Braun said. “Nobody is immune from this of baseball didn’t offer much cause for thing. I think there are constant reminders celebration. when you see the amount of athletes who As teams prepared to start their pan- have tested positive, the amount of big- demic-shortened season, sobering exam- name athletes who have tested positive and ples of the game’s potential danger took you hear some of their stories.” place at camps across the country. San Francisco Giants catcher Buster Major League Baseball is getting ready Posey says he hasn’t ruled out the possibil- for a 60-game season that won’t include ity of sitting out this season, assuming the Price, a former Cy Young Award winner games are actually played. The six-time who was traded from the Boston Red Sox All-Star isn’t yet convinced there will even to the Los Angeles Dodgers in February. be a season. “After considerable thought and dis- “The way I would project it is I wouldn’t cussion with my family and the Dodgers, be surprised by anything at this point,” I have decided it is in the best interest of Posey said. “I wouldn’t be surprised if my health and my family’s health for me to we played 60 games with no hiccup and I

PHOTOS BY ANDREW HARNIK/AP not play this season,” the five-time All-Star wouldn’t be surprised if we didn’t play a tweeted Saturday. game at all and I wouldn’t be surprised if Above: Washington Nationals shortstop Trea Turner takes batting practice as the “I will miss my teammates and will be we played half the games. That’s just the Washington Nationals held their first training camp workout at Nationals Stadium in cheering for them throughout the sea- variability of this to me.” Washington on Friday. Below: Outfielder Michael A. Taylor fields during the workout. son and on to a World Series victory. I’m “I just really think there’s no way we can sorry I won’t be playing for you this year, give a hard line answer one way or another but look forward to representing you next to what this is going to look like a week year,” Price said. from now much less two months from Defending champ Nats The 34-year-old Price said he was opting now,” he said. out about five hours after Atlanta manager Posey’s comments came one day after Brian Snitker announced Freeman had three-time AL MVP Mike Trout of the Los tested positive along with Braves pitchers Angeles Angels said return healthy, careful Will Smith and Touki Toussaint as well as he still doesn’t “feel infielder Pete Kozma. Snitker said Smith that comfortable” and Toussaint were asymptomatic and about playing this BY STEPHEN WHYNO noted Kozma had a fever. season with his wife Associated Press Freeman is “not feeling great,” Snitker expecting their first said. child in August. Trout WASHINGTON — Dave Martinez’s “It will be a while before we can get him said he is planning to mantra of going 1-0 every day followed the back,” he said of the four-time All-Star play at this point but Washington Nationals to their first World first baseman. that much would de- Series title. It was uncertain whether Freeman pend on how he feels When they resumed workouts Friday would be ready for the start of the season, the next couple of at summer training camp in the midst of scheduled for July 23. Freeman weeks. a global pandemic, the manager’s mantra The New York Yankees said All-Star Texas Rangers out- remained. Only, it has a different mean- infielder DJ LeMahieu and pitcher Luis fielder Nick Solak said ing for the defending champions tiptoeing Cessa tested positive for COVID-19 before that “after getting tested, just waiting for the health and safety protocols that made traveling to New York and were self-isolat- the results, there’s a level of anxiety.” He baseball feel anything but natural. ing at home. Manager Aaron Boone said acknowledged that anxiety might subside “When you see the guys come in after LeMahieu was asymptomatic and Cessa as the season wears on and players get not seeing them for a while, you want to had mild symptoms. more accustomed to going through the give them a big hug, a fist bump, high- Kansas City catcher Salvador Perez and tests. five,” Martinez said by video conference Twins first baseman Miguel Sano also The most frightening scene of the day from the bowels of Nationals Park. “We’re tested positive. didn’t involve the coronavirus at all. trying to figure out what we can do to emu- Due to concerns about medical pri- During the Yankees’ first official sum- late some kind of handshake or fist bump and it actually becoming a marathon,” vacy laws, MLB isn’t making a practice mer camp workout, Tanaka got hit in the or elbow tap or feet tap — whatever. We’ll Martinez said. “Now, you want to get out of of disclosing which players test positive. head by Giancarlo Stanton’s live drive. figure something out.” the gate, get out strong, put some wins on For example, Baltimore Orioles manager Tanaka immediately collapsed and stayed The team that danced itself from a 24-31 the column early. You can’t fall behind.” Brandon Hyde said the team doesn’t intend down for a few minutes before sitting up start to a championship in 2019 is off to a In an effort to start strong, Martinez to reveal to the general public if anyone and eventually walking off. relatively positive start in 2020. Martinez spaced out workouts from 7:45 a.m. to 5:30 has tested positive. The Pittsburgh Pirates The Yankees said in a statement that learned depth catcher Welington Castillo p.m. to allow players to practice in small acknowledged there were positive tests Tanaka was responsive and walking is joining Ryan Zimmerman and Joe Ross groups and coaches to use their time at the within the organization but didn’t get into under his own power. He was sent to New in opting out of the season, but he said the park wisely. Scherzer and Strasburg threw specifics. York-Presbyterian Hospital for further 57 players at camp are all good to go. in the morning, some position players took In the Braves’ case, the four players who evaluation. Ace Max Scherzer threw 65 pitches in batting practice and fielded grounders in tested positive permitted Snitker to reveal Before they even began their first offi- his return to the park, fellow right-hander the 95-degree heat, and all of it came in the their names. It’s a move he applauded. cial workout, Yankees players were star- Stephen Strasburg looked sharp and there shadow of a new “World Champions” sign “For me, I think it’s good in the indus- tled mid-stretch around when someone are plenty of reasons for optimism . in center field. try and society, to know that this is a real set off a firework just outside the ballpark “The important thing is we came into For those in charge of steering a bid to deal,” Snitker said. “This virus is real. It’s that echoed throughout the empty stadium. spring training 2.0 in good shape,” general repeat, it felt comforting to be back, even if nothing to mess with.” Similar bangs went off intermittently. manager Mike Rizzo said. the new normal feels completely different Snitker said Braves first base coach Eric About 45 minutes after Tanaka was hit, Washington is long past the departure from October. Young Sr. already has opted out due to a deafening siren went off in Yankee Sta- of third baseman Anthony Rendon and is “You can’t just come in here with a clear COVID-19 concerns. dium, drowning out music playing through adding 2020 first-round pick Cade Cavalli mind,” Rizzo said. “You have to keep your- Houston’s Dusty Baker, who at 71 is the the PA system for about 30 seconds. Emer- to its pool of 60 available players. Three self safe and look out for the other guys. oldest MLB manager, added that “I admire gency lights flashed around the stadium weeks remain until opening day against You walk in here excited, but also with Freddie Freeman and his group for coming for about five minutes, as well. the New York Yankees, and the monumen- things on your mind to adhere to the proto- out saying what the problem is. And hope- tal challenge is trying to be game ready for col and conduct yourself in a manner that fully this can get through to other people, AP sports writers Dave Ginsburg, Will Graves, Stephen Hawkins, Janie McCauley, Charles Odum, baseball’s version of a 100-yard sprint. is safe for yourself, your family and your other young people.” Kristie Rieken, Jake Seiner and Steven Wine con- “We’re so used to it being a long season teammates.” Indeed, the news surrounding Free- tributed to this report. S TARS AND STRIPES Monday, July 6, 2020 F3HIJKLM Brickyard breakthrough 2008 Indy 500 winner Dixon ends SPORTS Indianapolis drought » Auto racing, Page 21

NBA Finding the right balance All but guaranteed top two playoff seeds, Lakers, Bucks can focus on preparation

BY STEVE MEGARGEE World as a safety precaution amid Associated Press the coronavirus pandemic, owning a No. 1 seed may not matter as much MILWAUKEE as usual. But the Bucks and Lakers he Milwaukee Bucks and are virtually assured of having the Los Angeles Lakers have all top seeds in their respective confer- but guaranteed themselves ences regardless. the top two playoff seeds T Milwaukee owned the NBA’s and face a balancing act when the best record at 53-12 and the Lakers NBA returns to action. were next at 49-14 when the pan- While other teams will be fight- demic caused a suspension of play in ing for a postseason berth or play- mid-March. off seedings The Lakers will arrive at Disney when they play World with a magic number of three the final eight ‘ From a in the race for the No. 1 seed in the regular season Western Conference. That number player’s games in Flor- could get trimmed to one on re-open- ida, the Lakers aspect, you ing night if they beat the Los Angeles and Bucks will can expect Clippers in the second game of the be looking to July 30 doubleheader. us to go out shake off the Milwaukee’s magic number for the there and rust after a 4 ½- East’s No. 1 seed is two. The Bucks month hiatus play as best can’t drop below the No. 2 spot in the while also stay- as we can East, no matter what happens, and ing healthy. they could lock up the top spot on and as hard “At least from their half of the bracket as early as as we can. a player’s as- ’ Aug. 2. pect, you can Kris Middleton The race for the NBA’s best overall expect us to go Bucks guard record still could be in doubt at that out there and point. But with no home-court ad- play as best as vantage to play for in these playoffs, we can and as hard as we can during the only thing left to decide would this situation,” Bucks forward Khris be which team is assured of wear- Middleton said. “That’s the only ing white uniforms for Game 1 of thing we can control, really.” the NBA Finals if the title series is a With the league playing the re- Bucks-Lakers matchup. mainder of the regular season and the entire playoffs at Walt Disney SEE BALANCE ON PAGE 22

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MIlwaukee’s Kris Middleton, left, and the Lakers’ LeBron James. The Bucks held the NBA’s best record at 53-12, with Los Angeles right behind at 49-14, when the ongoing coronavirus pandemic caused a suspension of play in mid-March. AP photos

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