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AFGHANISTAN ANALYSIS Dignified withdrawal tough task for Biden

BY ANNE GEARAN AND KAREN DEYOUNG The Washington Post Last month, President Joe Bi- den vowed that his decision to pull American forces out of Afghanis- tan would never end in a repeat of the infamous helicopter evac- uation from the U.S. Embassy in Saigon at the ig- nominious close of the Vietnam Biden War. “There’s going to be no circumstance when you’re going to see people being lifted off the roof,” he said. But the drama in Afghanistan is now closer to that scenario than Biden might have envisioned, as the president found himself order- ing thousands of troops back into Kabul to help evacuate American diplomats from the bunkered U.S. Taliban rolling in Embassy. SEE TOUGH ON PAGE 6 Insurgents approach Kabul’s outskirts, take major northern Afghan city

BY AHMAD SEIR, RAHIM FAIEZ province’s national army corps surrendered a breakneck offensive less than three weeks AND JOSEPH KRAUSS first, which prompted the pro-government mi- before the U.S. is set to withdraw its last troops, Associated Press litias and other forces to lose morale and give raising fears of a full militant takeover or an- KABUL, Afghanistan — Mazar-e-Sharif, the up in the face of the onslaught. other Afghan civil war. fourth-largest city in Afghanistan, fell to the According to the lawmaker, all of the provin- The Taliban have made major advances in Taliban on Saturday after a multipronged as- cial installations, including the governor’s of- recent days, including capturing Herat and sault launched by insurgents, according to a fice, are in Taliban hands. Kandahar, the country’s second- and third- lawmaker. The insurgents have captured much of Balkh lawmaker Abas Ebrahimzada said the northern, western and southern Afghanistan in SEE APPROACH ON PAGE 5 GULABUDDIN AMIRI/AP Insurgents sit on the back of a vehicle in the city of Herat, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturday after taking the province from Taliban flags fly at a square in the the Afghan government. The Taliban seized two more provinces on Saturday as they approached the outskirts of Afghanistan’s capital. city of Ghazni, southwest of HAMED SARFARAZI/AP Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturday. PAGE 2 • STARS AND STRIPES • Sunday, August 15, 2021 BUSINESS/WEATHER US stocks eke out small gains after wobbly day EXCHANGE RATES Military rates South Korea (Won) 1164.82 Associated Press losers. Gains in technology, health U.S. Bank Wealth Management. He Switzerland (Franc) 0.9192 Euro costs (Aug. 16) $1.15 Thailand (Baht) 33.33 Another wobbly day of trading on care and household goods compa- noted that the consumer sentiment Dollar buys (Aug. 16) 0.8284 Turkey (NewLira) 8.5484 British pound (Aug. 16) $1.35 Wall Street gave way Friday to nies outweighed losses by banks, report is “something the market is Japanese yen (Aug. 16) 108.00 (Military exchange rates are those available small gains and new highs for the energy stocks and other sectors. looking through as temporary.” South Korean won (Aug. 16) 1139.00 to customers at military banking facilities in the Commercial rates country of issuance for Japan, South Korea, Ger­ S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Small-company stocks fell more The S&P 500 rose 7.17 points to many, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Bahrain(Dinar) 0.3770 For nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e., pur­ Average. than the broader market. 4,468. The Dow added 15.53 points Britain (Pound) 1.3839 chasing British pounds in Germany), check with Canada (Dollar) 1.2525 your local military banking facility. Commercial The two indexes wavered for An economic report showing a to 35,515.38, and the Nasdaq picked China(Yuan) 6.4801 rates are interbank rates provided for reference Denmark (Krone) 6.3209 much of the day before eking out big drop in consumer confidence up 6.64 points to 14,822.90. Egypt (Pound) 15.6999 when buying currency. All figures are foreign their fourth straight gains. The last month due to the spreading del- The University of Michigan con- Euro 0.8500 currencies to one dollar, except for the British Hong Kong (Dollar) 7.7828 pound, which is represented in dollars­to­ benchmark S&P 500 rose 0.2% and ta variant of the coronavirus didn’t sumer sentiment index fell to 70.2 Hungary (Forint) 299.90 pound, and the euro, which is dollars­to­euro.) Israel (Shekel) 3.2176 notched its second-straight weekly keep the market from managing from its previous level of 81.2 in Ju- Japan (Yen) 110.11 INTEREST RATES increase. The Dow and the Nasdaq more records. ly. That was the largest drop in sen- Kuwait(Dinar) 0.3007 Norway (Krone) 8.8146 Prime rate 3.25 edged up less than 0.1%. “The reality is the market is hold- timent since April 2020, when the Philippines (Peso) 50.56 Interest Rates Discount rate 0.75 Poland (Zloty) 3.89 Federal funds market rate 0.09 Stocks in the S&P 500 were nearly ing up pretty well,” said Rob Ha- pandemic took its initial grip on the Saudi Arabia (Riyal) 3.7505 3­month bill 0.06 evenly split between winners and worth, senior portfolio manager at country. Singapore (Dollar) 1.3571 30­year bond 2.01 WEATHER OUTLOOK SUNDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST SUNDAY IN EUROPE MONDAY IN THE PACIFIC

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BY ROSE L. THAYER ning, Robins Air Force Base and Stars and Stripes Fort Gordon in Georgia, advo- A proposed stretch of interstate cates contend. highway that would connect a doz- By linking to other interstate en military bases between Texas highways, it could also ease travel and Georgia made its way into the as far west as Fort Bliss, Texas, $1 trillion infrastructure bill and as far east as Fort Stewart, passed by the Senate last week Ga., and the Port of Savannah, ac- with the expectation it will im- cording to a map of the proposed prove access to bases located in route. some of the more isolated stretch- Thompson, a former county es of the South. judge for Polk County, Texas, The highway is a “major step in which the highway is planned to Gulf Coast Strategic Highway Coalition advancing Interstate 14 as a future stretch across, used the phrase A proposed 1,300 mile route expanding Interstate Highway 14 would connect a dozen military bases corridor for handling freight “forts to ports” to describe the between Texas and Georgia. It is part of the $1 trillion infrastructure bill passed by the Senate last week. movement, military facility con- proposed route. nectivity, coastal evacuation and “It’s about moving troops and It’s the ability to move to ports those extreme weather events go- onomic bump, Sledd and Thomp- sparking economic develop- material, and it creates an ease in over in Louisiana or Mississippi or ing on, you now can bypass it fur- son said. ment,” said John Thompson, the ability to keep our country Alabama, or vice versa,” said ther inland,” Sledd said. Where I-10 and I-20 run through chairman of the Gulf Coast Strate- safe,” he said. Sledd, a retired Army colonel and Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and some of the largest cities in these gic Highway Coalition, a group of Of the Army’s 11 armored bri- executive director of the Heart of Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., pro- five states, proposed I-14 would community leaders who advocate gade combat teams, six reside in Texas Defense Alliance. Based posed the amendment to the bill bring life to some smaller towns, for the highway. Texas, said Keith Sledd, a coali- outside of Fort Hood in Killeen, with support from the other eight including many where military If the House passes the sweep- tion board member. the nonprofit is funded by local senators in the five affected states. families live, shop and seek em- ing legislation and sends it to Pres- “Sure, you can go to the Texas governments to advocate on is- The House has not released a ployment. ident Joe Biden to sign into law, it ports, but what if something hap- sues that benefit the military in schedule of when lawmakers “All the large corporations, dis- will expand Interstate Highway 14 pens like [Hurricane Harvey] in central Texas and the surround- might debate the infrastructure tribution centers or manufactur- from its 25 miles near Fort Hood, Houston several years ago?” he ing communities. bill. ing companies, they want to locate Texas, into Louisiana, Mississippi, said. Fort Stewart is home to three Cruz said passage of the amend- where their logistics is simplified Alabama and onto Augusta, Ga. In 2017, the massive storm Army brigades but also experi- ment clears the way to “begin the and it’s usually adjacent to an in- The proposed 1,300-mile route closed the Port of Houston for an ences hurricanes. The new high- necessary work to upgrade this terstate system,” Sledd said. runs between Interstate High- entire week. The nearby Port of way would allow those brigades to road system and connect strategic In the existing stretch of I-14 ways 10 and 20 and would primar- Beaumont, which Sledd said is al- get to other ports to the west to de- military installations across our running near Fort Hood, where ily upgrade existing roads. so used by the military, remained ploy, if needed, he said. states.” about 89,000 trucks make deliver- It would better connect tens of closed to large ships for several “[Hurricanes] often interdict “This planned route would con- ies each year, he said they’ve al- thousands of troops and families weeks after Harvey and suffered I-10 and it may lead to flooding or nect military installations across ready seen positive improve- at bases including Goodfellow Air eroded shorelines and infrastruc- sometimes physical damage to the Georgia and drive economic op- ments to traffic and new business Force Base, Texas, Fort Polk, La., ture damage that took years to ful- road structure itself or bridges. portunities to our rural communi- development. Federalizing the Camp Shelby and Keesler Air ly repair. What this gives you is an ability if ties,” Warnock said. highway also allowed for the road Force Base, Miss., Maxwell Air “To get them to another port, there is a contingency going on at Outside of the military, local to expand from two lanes to three Force Base, Ala., and Fort Ben- that’s what this highway offers. the same time you’ve got one of communities could also see an ec- in each direction. Resolution urges honorable discharges for troops who refuse vaccine

BY SARAH CAMMARATA those who refuse this vaccine, passion.” mandatory vaccination for mili- would also ensure that service Stars and Stripes which has only been available for “Commanders have a range of tary personnel prior to full ap- members do not face retaliation or WASHINGTON — A member less than a year, is antithetical to tools short of using the [courts] proval from the Food and Drug punishment for refusing to re- of the House Armed Services the values of our available to them to try to help in- Administration is illegal. ceive a vaccination. Committee is urging the Defense military,” said dividuals make the right deci- He wrote the Defense Depart- Massie wrote on Twitter in July Department to give honorable dis- Green, a 24-year sions” without issuing puni- ment does not have the authority that he had been “contacted by charges to troops who choose not Army veteran shments, Kirby said. to mandate the vaccine for troops members of our voluntary mili- to get the coronavirus vaccine and who deployed to Rebecca Galfano, a spokeswo- as long as the shots are authorized tary who say they will quit if the face disciplinary action . Iraq and Afghan- man for Green, said the lawmaker under emergency use. [coronavirus] vaccine is mandat- Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., in- istan. had been vaccinated. “To be clear, we believe [the ed.” troduced a resolution to that effect Troops can ap- The resolution has nine Repub- coronavirus] vaccines are not only However, a large number of on Friday. ply for an ex- lican co-sponsors including Reps. a testament to American ingenui- service members have already re- Green The resolution comes after De- emption to the Chip Roy and Dan Crenshaw of ty but are also safe and effective … ceived a vaccine. About 1,044,924 fense Secretary Lloyd Austin an- coronavirus vaccine mandate for Texas, Andy Harris of Maryland, Despite that, it is clear that the service members are fully vacci- nounced he will require all troops certain health conditions or reli- Kat Cammack of Florida, Greg mandate that you are considering nated, and another 237,082 have get the shots. Austin said Monday gious reasons, chief Pentagon Murphy of North Carolina, Mike is an unprecedented violation of had at least one vaccine dose, ac- that regardless of whether the spokesman John Kirby said last Garcia of California, Thomas federal law,” Green wrote in the cording to Pentagon data issued shots obtain full federal approval week. Massie of Kentucky, Tim Bur- letter, signed by 15 other GOP law- Aug. 4. — expected to happen in the fall — A commander has the authority chett of Tennessee and Tom Tiffa- makers. “As a physician, I’ve weighed he plans to seek President Joe Bi- to decide what punishment troops ny of Wisconsin. In June, Massie introduced a the pros and cons and have taken den’s permission by mid-Septem- will get if they decline to get the Ahead of the Defense Depart- bill that would prohibit the re- the vaccine. But that is a decision ber to require all troops to receive shot. Kirby said Austin expects ment announcement of the pend- quirement that all members of the for each American to make — with the coronavirus vaccine. commanders “to treat the admin- ing vaccine mandate, Green, armed forces must receive a vac- their doctor — not under coercion “Having gone into battle my- istration of that vaccine with … along with other lawmakers, cination against the coronavirus. from the government,” Green self, I strongly believe punishing professionalism, skill and com- wrote a letter to Austin arguing Similar to Green’s resolution, it wrote. PAGE 4 • STARS AND STRIPES • Sunday, August 15, 2021 WAR ON TERRORISM Afghan women fear a return to ‘dark days’ BY ZEINA KARAM The instrument hung on a wall be- AND AHMAD SEIR hind her as she spoke. Associated Press She listed some of the achieve- KABUL, Afghanistan — It was ments made by women in the past early evening and Zahra, her moth- 20 years since the Taliban’s ouster er and three sisters were on their — incremental but meaningful way to dinner at another sister’s gains in what is still a deeply conser- home when they saw people run- vative, male-dominated society: ning and heard gunshots on the Girls are now in school, and women street. are in Parliament, government and “The Taliban are here!” people business. screamed. Marianne O’Grady, Kabul-based In just a few minutes, everything deputy country director for CARE changed for the 26-year-old resi- International, said the strides made dent of Herat, Afghanistan’s third- by women over the past two dec- largest city. ades have been dramatic, particu- Zahra grew up in a mostly Tali- larly in urban areas, adding she ban-free Afghanistan, where wom- cannot see things going back to the en dared to way they were, even with a Taliban dream of careers takeover. and girls got an “You can’t uneducate millions of education. For people,” she said. If women “are the past five back behind walls and not able to go years, she has out as much, at least they can now been working educate their cousins and their with local non- neighbors and their own children in profit organiza- RAHMAT GUL/AP ways that couldn’t happen 25 years Kakar tions to raise Internally displaced school teacher wearing a burqa from Takhar province, who identified by her first ago.” awareness for women and press for name, Nilofar, left, speaks during an interview inside her tent in a public park Friday in Kabul, Afghanistan. Still, a sense of dread appears to gender equality. be omnipresent, particularly Her dreams and ambitions came Amid a lightning offensive over side their homes without a male rel- out to the market without a male es- among women, as Taliban forces crashing down Thursday evening the past several days, the Taliban ative to accompany them. The Tali- cort. Some 3,000 families mainly take more territory each day. as the Taliban swept into the city, now control more than two-thirds of ban also carried out public execu- from northern provinces recently “I feel we are like a bird who planting their white flags embla- the country, just two weeks before tions, chopped off the hands of taken over by the Taliban now live makes a nest for a living and spends zoned with an Islamic proclamation the U.S. plans to withdraw its last thieves and stoned women accused in tents inside the park, some on the all the time building it, but then sud- of faith in a central square as people troops. And they are slowly closing of adultery. sidewalks. denly and helplessly watches oth- on motorcycles and in cars rushed in on the capital, Kabul. There have been no confirmed Zahra stopped going to the office ers destroy it,” said Zarmina Kakar, to their homes. The U.N. refugee agency says reports of such extreme measures about a month ago as the militants a 26-year-old women’s rights activ- Like most other residents, Zahra, nearly 250,000 Afghans have fled in areas the Taliban fighters recent- approached Herat, and she worked ist in Kabul. her parents and five siblings are their homes since the end of May ly seized. But militants were report- remotely from home. But on Thurs- Kakar was a year old when the now hunkering indoors, too scared amid fears the Taliban would reim- ed to have taken over some houses day, Taliban fighters broke through Taliban entered Kabul the first time to go out and worried about the fu- pose their strict and ruthless inter- and set fire to at least one school. the city’s defensive lines, and she in 1996, and she recalled a time ture. The Associated Press chose pretation of Islam, all but eliminat- At a park in Kabul, transformed has been unable to work since. when her mother took her out to buy not to identify her by her full name ing women’s rights. Eighty percent since last week into a shelter for the Her eyes welled up with tears as her ice cream, back when the Tali- to avoid making her a target. of those displaced are women and displaced, families told the AP on she considered the possibility that ban ruled. Her mother was “I am in big shock,” said Zahra, a children. Friday that girls riding home in a she will not be able to return to whipped by a Taliban fighter for re- round-faced, soft-spoken young The fundamentalist group ruled motorized rickshaw in the northern work; that her 12-year-old sister will vealing her face for a couple of min- woman. “How can it be possible for the country for five years until the Takhar province were stopped and be unable to continue going to utes. me as a woman who has worked so 2001 U.S.-led invasion. During that lashed for wearing “revealing san- school (“She loves learning”); that “Today again, I feel that if Tali- hard and tried to learn and advance, time, it forbade girls an education dals.” her older brother will not be able ban come to power, we will return to now have to hide myself and stay and women the right to work, and A schoolteacher from the prov- play football; or that she won’t be back to the same dark days,” she at home?” refused even to let them travel out- ince said no one was allowed to go able to freely play the guitar again. said. Taliban assault imperils US effort to rescue Afghan allies The Washington Post 31 departure set by President Joe to be dead, and then they’ll bring in Kabul but their status could Friday. They advocated evacuat- WASHINGTON — The rapid Biden. them out?” change depending on the rapidly ing not only SIV applicants, but collapse of security in Afghanistan The U.S. government has trans- Responding to the crisis, the Bi- shifting security environment, ac- journalists, civil servants, activists has turned a slow-building U.S. ef- ported about 1,200 Afghans to the den administration announced on cording to three people familiar and others who may qualify as ref- fort to rescue men and women who United States in recent days, State Thursday that it was deploying with the discussion. Like some oth- ugees under another category have assisted the United States into Department spokesman Ned Price 3,000 combat troops to Kabul to ers, they spoke on the condition of known as “P2.” a full-blown humanitarian crisis, said. But the Biden administration harden security at the airport as anonymity because of the issue’s “With the collapse of Kabul an with tens of thousands of people has committed to temporarily relo- embassy personnel depart and the sensitivity. imminent possibility, we should still seeking refuge and potentially cating another 4,000 applicants and administration jump-starts its ef- The core team consists of the po- view this as a Dunkirk moment,” little time to relocate them. their families to other countries fort to evacuate Afghans aboard ci- litical section to coordinate with the the congressmen wrote, referring The scramble to rescue Ameri- while their immigration paper- vilian and military aircraft. Afghan government, the diplomat- to the daring rescue of Allied troops ca’s Afghan allies comes after U.S. work is finalized and assessed, and But the withdrawal at the embas- ic security team and the consular from the French city before they lawmakers in both parties have there are many thousand more who sy in Kabul threatens to further im- affairs team, which processes the were annihilated by Nazi forces. pressed the Biden administration are earlier in the process and face a pair the Biden administration’s special immigrant visas. “The safety of U.S. diplomats for months to move faster on the is- stark outlook. ability to evacuate vulnerable Af- “There is a rush to get them proc- and military personnel must be our sue, and as U.S. intelligence offi- “I’m really upset and heartbro- ghans, some of whom are still wait- essed so as not to leave them,” first priority,” they continued. “But cials assess that the capital city of ken,” said Ismail Khan, an Afghan ing on paperwork to be completed Sherman told lawmakers, accord- we must also evacuate Afghans eli- Kabul could fall to the Taliban who served as an interpreter for so they may flee. ing to people familiar with her gible for Special Immigrant Visas, within one to three months. More U.S. troops and now advocates for Deputy Secretary of State Wen- briefing. and all public and private re- than a dozen major cities fell to the other interpreters through the non- dy Sherman held closed-door A second category of Afghans al- sources must now be mobilized to Taliban in the last week as the U.S. profit No One Left Behind. “I don’t briefings with lawmakers on so need assistance, a bipartisan save not just those eligible for SIVs military’s 20-year mission in Af- understand. What are they waiting Thursday and informed them that group of about 40 members of Con- but as many other vulnerable Af- ghanistan barrels toward the Aug. for? Are they waiting for everyone acore embassy team would remain gress said in a letter to Biden on ghans as possible.” Sunday, August 15, 2021 • STARS AND STRIPES • PAGE 5 WAR ON TERRORISM More Marines in Kabul to aid embassy airlift

Associated Press patch 3,000 fresh troops to the air- WASHINGTON — A fresh con- port adds a new twist to the U.S. tingent of Marines arrived in Ka- withdrawal. There is no discus- bul on Saturday as part of a 3,000- sion of rejoining the war, but the troop force intended to secure an number of troops needed for se- airlift of U.S. Embassy personnel curity will depend on decisions and Afghan allies as Taliban in- about keeping the embassy open surgents approach the outskirts of and the extent of a Taliban threat the capital. to the capital in coming days. The last-minute decision to re- Having the Aug. 31 deadline insert thousands of U.S. troops in- pass with thousands of U.S. troops to Afghanistan reflects the dire in the country would be awkward RAHMAT GUL/AP state of security and calls into for Biden given his insistence on Internally displaced Afghans from northern provinces, who fled their home due to fighting between the question whether President Joe ending the 20-year U.S. war by Taliban and Afghan security personnel, take refuge in a public park in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Friday. Biden will meet his Aug. 31 dead- that date. Republicans have al- line for fully withdrawing combat ready criticized the withdrawal as forces. a mistake and ill-planned, though After an advance group of Ma- there’s little political appetite by Approach: Taliban nearing Kabul rines arrived on Friday, more either party to send fresh troops flowed into the Kabul internation- to fight the Taliban. FROM PAGE 1 9/11 attacks. them. al airport on Saturday, said Navy Kirby declined on Friday to dis- largest cities. They now control The U.S. has continued holding Salima Mazari, one of the few Capt. William Urban, a spokes- cuss any assessment of whether about 20 of Afghanistan’s 34 prov- peace talks between the govern- female district governors in the man for U.S. Central Command. the Taliban are likely soon to con- inces, leaving the Western-backed ment and the Taliban in Qatar this country, said she has never even Citing operational security, Ur- verge on Kabul, but the urgent government with a smattering of week, and the international com- considered surrendering. ban declined to provide specific movement of extra U.S. troops in- provinces in the center and east, munity has warned that a Taliban “There will be no place for numbers. The Pentagon said on to Afghanistan to assist the em- as well as Kabul. government brought about by women,” said Mazari, who gov- Friday that the bulk of the 3,000 — bassy drawdown is clear evidence On Saturday, the Taliban cap- force would be shunned. But the erns a district of 36,000 people comprising two battalions of Ma- of Washington’s worry that after tured all of Logar province, just insurgents appear to have little in- near Mazar-e-Sharif. “In the prov- rines and one of Army soldiers — the rapid fall of major cities this south of the capital, Kabul, and de- terest in making concessions as inces controlled by the Taliban, no are due by the end of the week- week with relatively little Afghan tained local officials, said Hoda they rack up victories on the bat- women exist there anymore, not end. government resistance, Kabul is Ahmadi, a lawmaker from the tlefield. even in the cities. They are all im- Officials have stressed that the endangered. province. She said the Taliban “We have started consultations, prisoned in their homes.” newly arriving troops’ mission is Afghan President Ashraf Ghani have reached the Char Asyab dis- inside the government with elders The withdrawal of foreign limited to assisting the airlift of delivered a televised speech Sat- trict, just 7 miles south of Kabul. and political leaders, representa- troops and the swift collapse of Af- embassy personnel and Afghan urday, his first public appearance Insurgents also captured the tives of different levels of the com- ghanistan’s own forces — despite allies, and they expect to com- since the recent Taliban gains, capital of Paktika, bordering Pa- munity as well as our internation- hundreds of billions of dollars in plete it by month’s end. But they and pledged not to give up the kistan, according to Khalid Asad, al allies,” Ghani said. “Soon the re- U.S. aid over the years — has might have to stay longer if the “achievements” of the 20 years a lawmaker from the province. He sults will be shared with you,” he raised fears the Taliban could re- embassy is threatened by a Tali- since the U.S. toppled the Taliban said fighting broke out in Sharana added, without elaborating fur- turn to power or that the country ban takeover of Kabul by then. after the 9/11 attacks. early Saturday but ended after lo- ther. could be shattered by factional On Saturday, the Taliban seized The Biden administration has cal elders intervened to negotiate The president had flown to Ma- fighting, as it was after the Soviet two more provinces and ap- asserted that Afghan security a pullout. He said the governor zar-e-Sharif on Wednesday to ral- withdrawal in 1989. It’s also proached the outskirts of Kabul forces have tangible advantages and other officials surrendered ly the city’s defenses, meeting prompted many American and Af- while also launching a multi- over the insurgents, including a and were on their way to Kabul. with several militia commanders, ghan veterans of the conflict to pronged assault on a major north- viable air force and superior num- The Taliban also took control of including Abdul Rashid Dostum question whether two decades of ern city defended by former war- bers. The statement serves to Maimana, the capital of northern and Ata Mohammad Noor, who blood and treasure was worth it. lords, Afghan officials said. highlight the fact that what the Af- Faryab province, said Fawzia command thousands of fighters. Afghans have been streaming “Clearly from their actions, it ghan forces lack is motivation to Raoufi, a lawmaker from the prov- They remain allied with the into Kabul’s international airport appears as if they are trying to get fight in a circumstance where the ince. Maimana had been under government, but during previous in recent days, desperate to fly Kabul isolated,” Pentagon Taliban seem to have decisive siege for a month, and Taliban rounds of fighting in Afghanistan, out, even as more American spokesman John Kirby said, re- momentum. fighters entered the city days ago. warlords have been known to troops have arrived to help par- ferring to the Taliban’s speedy Stephen Biddle, a professor of Security forces finally surren- switch sides for their own surviv- tially evacuate the U.S. Embassy. and efficient takedown of major international and public affairs at dered Saturday, she said. al. Ismail Khan, a powerful former The first Marines from a contin- provincial capitals this past week. Columbia University, said in an Sayed Hussan Gerdezi, a law- warlord who had tried to defend gent of 3,000 arrived Friday. The Biden had given the Pentagon interview the announcement that maker from the neighboring Pak- Herat, was captured by the Tali- rest are expected by Sunday, and until Aug. 31 to complete the with- 3,000 U.S. troops were heading to tia province, said the Taliban ban when the insurgents seized their deployment has raised ques- drawal of the 2,500 to 3,000 troops Kabul to help pull out American seized most of its local capital, the western city after two weeks of tions about whether the adminis- that were in Afghanistan when he diplomats and embassy staff like- Gardez, but that battles with gov- heavy fighting. tration will meet its Aug. 31 with- announced in April that he was ly made Afghan morale even ernment forces were still under- Tens of thousands of Afghans drawal deadline. ending U.S. involvement in the worse. way. The Taliban said they con- have fled their homes, with many The U.S. Air Force has carried war. That number has dropped to “The message that sent to Af- trolled the city. fearing a return to the Taliban’s out several airstrikes to aid its Af- just under 1,000, and all but about ghans is: ‘The city of Kabul is go- Afghan President Ashraf Ghani oppressive rule. The group had ghan allies on the ground but they 650 are scheduled to be gone by ing to fall so fast that we can’t or- delivered a televised speech Sat- previously governed Afghanistan appear to have done little to stem the end of the month; the 650 are ganize an orderly withdrawal urday, his first public appearance under a harsh version of Islamic the Taliban’s advance. A B-52 to remain to help protect the U.S. from the embassy,’” Biddle said. since the recent Taliban gains. He law in which women were forbid- bomber and other warplanes tra- diplomatic presence, including This suggests to Afghans that the vowed not to give up the “achieve- den to work or attend school, and versed the country’s airspace Sat- with aircraft and defensive weap- Americans see little future for the ments” of the 20 years since the could not leave their homes with- urday, flight-tracking data ons at the Kabul airport. government and that “this place U.S. toppled the Taliban after the out a male relative accompanying showed. But Thursday’s decision to dis- could be toast within hours.” PAGE 6 • STARS AND STRIPES • Sunday, August 15, 2021 WAR ON TERRORISM Tough: President backs his decision

FROM PAGE 1 The country edged toward col- “We’d have seen lapse as senior Afghan officials and hundreds of government the same results troops surrendered to the Taliban. The militants overran three key had we pulled cities and partly encircled the cap- ital Kabul, where the U.S.-backed out 15 years ago government appeared tenuous. The moment highlighted the or 15 years from enormous gamble Biden has tak- en in withdrawing troops from a now.” SIDIQULLAH KHAN/AP conflict he says has lasted too long Justin Amash Afghan military and officials leave Kandahar city during fighting between the Taliban and Afghan security and cost too many lives. The Tali- personnel in Kandahar, southwest of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Thursday. ban’s strikingly rapid onslaught is Former Repbulican congressman bolstering the appearance that the lions of dollars and killed more with top Taliban leaders whereby strength there and has significant United States has lost or given up his first time out of the blocks.’” than 2,000 American troops. they understood what they are do- ties to the Taliban, experts said, in Afghanistan, a prospect from Republicans are already pounc- “I will not pass this responsibil- ing now would not have been ac- making it a potential force to be which Americans have historical- ing as Afghanistan’s collapse has ity on to a fifth,” he said at the time. ceptable,” Trump wrote in a fun- reckoned with. ly recoiled. accelerated in recent days. Over Biden initially supported the draising appeal. “It would have Sens. Jeanne Shaheen of New It is also a grim reckoning for the past week, the Taliban has 2001 U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, been a much different and much Hampshire and Robert Menendez Biden, who announced in April moved on to the major cities of but by 2005, he had changed his more successful withdrawal, and of New Jersey are among the that all U.S. forces were coming Kandahar and Herat; the Taliban mind. As vice president, he op- the Taliban understood that better Democrats who question Biden’s home after an inconclusive and, as has swept up more territory; and posed the expansion of the war un- than anyone.” withdrawal plans, while Sen. he saw it, increasingly irrelevant Americans have been urged to der President Barack Obama. The political risk to Biden will Chris Murphy, D-Conn., backed conflict. It was a pivotal moment leave Afghanistan. Biden’s confidence that he can grow if he is wrong and significant the president Monday on the Sen- in his presidency, as he rebuffed “This debacle was not only fore- quit a war that snared his prede- terrorist attacks are launched ate floor. Pentagon recommendations that seeable, it was foreseen,” Senate cessors also is based on a view that from Afghan soil. U.S. intelligence Like Amash, Murphy argued the United States maintain a small Minority Leader Mitch McCon- leaving will have few costs for the officials acknowledge that the that the Taliban’s gains prove the force in the country. nell, R-Ky., said Friday. “The United States. Biden argues that troop withdrawal — along with the need for the withdrawal, not its fu- And he has not backed away, president and his team actively terrorism is not the threat it was — end of CIA access to bases and the tility. even as conditions on the ground decided against a far more re- especially from Afghanistan — shrinking of the embassy staff — “The Taliban’s surge is actually have worsened. “I do not regret sponsible approach to preserving and that the United States is better has significantly reduced the a reason to stick to the withdrawal my decision,” he said Tuesday, de- our national security interests and served by focusing on China, United States’ ability to watch, spite a new intelligence assess- protecting our Afghan partners,” which he sees as the true national and strike, al-Qaeda and the Is- plan,” he said. “The complete, ut- ment that Kabul could fall to the McConnell said in a statement. security threat. lamic State. ter failure of the Afghan National Taliban in as little as a month. He urged immediate U.S. mili- Most Americans support the “When the time comes for the Army, absent our hand-holding, to American diplomats began de- tary action to prevent the Taliban military withdrawal, which was U.S. military to withdraw, the U.S. defend their country is a blistering stroying classified documents and from overrunning Kabul, some- initially announced last year by government’s ability to collect and indictment of a failed 20-year equipment Friday in preparation thing Biden has shown no willing- President Donald Trump. In a act on threats will diminish. That’s strategy predicated on the belief for a potential takeover of the U.S. ness to do. rare instance, Biden stuck to simply a fact,” CIA Director Wil- that billions of U.S. taxpayer dol- Embassy, per orders in an inter- But the politics of Afghanistan Trump’s plan, though he extended liam J. Burns told the Senate Intel- lars could create an effective, nal memo obtained by The Wash- — and U.S. foreign engagements the deadline for withdrawal by ligence Committee in the spring. democratic central government in ington Post. in general — are not straightfor- about four months. Burns told NPR in July that the a nation that has never had one.” U.S. officials said the latest de- ward. Some centrist Democrats A survey conducted by the Chi- CIA would “retain significant ca- Biden said much the same velopments would not derail the have joined hawkish Republicans cago Council on Global Affairs in pabilities both in and around Af- Tuesday, telling reporters that Af- withdrawal strategy, in which all in questioning the pullout. And July found 70% support among ghanistan” to monitor terrorist ac- ghan forces need to muster the American forces leave the coun- some conservative libertarians Americans for the decision to tivity. But he spoke before Af- will to fight for their own country. try by the end of the month. But agree with liberal peace activists withdraw. A May Quinnipiac poll ghanistan’s neighbors made it “Afghan leaders have to come the need for reinforcements un- that the United States should not found a smaller 62% approving. clear they would reject the posi- together.... They’ve got to fight for derscored that the plan has spend blood and treasure over- Even if the Taliban takes over, tioning of U.S. counterterrorism themselves, fight for their nation,” brought unforeseen consequenc- seas that could be used at home. Biden’s supporters say, it would resources on their territory. Biden said. “I think they’re begin- es. Former Republican congress- make little sense for the United For now, U.S. intelligence capa- ning to realize they’ve got to come If the United States were simply man Justin Amash of Michigan, States to linger for decades, shor- bilities are largely dependent on together politically at the top, but handing off responsibility to the for example, suggested the Tali- ing up an unstable government aircraft carriers in the Arabian we’re going to continue to keep Afghan security forces, as Biden ban’s onslaught only proves the and losing even more lives. But Sea and facilities as far away as our commitment. But I do not re- has said, there would be no need wisdom of withdrawing. the swift Taliban gains could the Persian Gulf to keep an eye on gret my decision.” for thousands of armed U.S. troops “The Taliban’s rapid gains in threaten that consensus, said Lisa Afghanistan. Paul Rieckhoff, founder of Iraq to guarantee the safe departure of Afghanistan underscore the futil- Curtis, who was a top foreign pol- William Wechsler, a senior and Afghanistan Veterans of Americans and vulnerable Af- ity of permanent occupation,” icy adviser to Trump. counterterrorism official in the America, said that message ig- ghans, said Ryan Crocker, a for- Amash tweeted Thursday. “The “It depends on what happens in Obama administration, said the nores the role played by the Unit- mer U.S. ambassador to Afghanis- United States wasn’t able to mea- the coming weeks and months,” effectiveness of such “over-the- ed States in setting up the current tan. ningfully shape circumstances said Curtis, who is now with the horizon” operations depends on faceoff. “That is geopolitical vic- “You can’t rewind this film,” through 20 years of war. We’d Center for a New American Secu- their distance from the target. Crocker said, suggesting that have seen the same results had we rity. “If there is a humanitarian “You can do it,” Wechsler said. tim shaming,” Rieckhoff said. Americans will see a botched ef- pulled out 15 years ago or 15 years catastrophe, or women are getting “It’s just that your effectiveness As conditions deteriorate, he fort and question Biden’s abilities. from now. End the wars.” shot in the streets by the Taliban, goes down and the risk goes up.” warned, American leaders will “Of course the Republicans will Biden has stuck with his gut in- and this is played over U.S. net- But the task becomes close to not be able to avoid their own cul- have a field day with it,” Crocker stincts all along, convinced that works, I think it will be a major impossible, he said, when the pability. “When the Taliban gets said. “But for a whole lot of other the United States should have left stain on the Biden administra- United States has little or no intel- in there and fires up their cell- Americans, you have to look at years ago and suspicious of Penta- tion.” ligence presence on the ground, phones and starts sending be- what’s happening and think, ‘This gon leaders’ arguments for stay- Trump contended Thursday even to deal with local operatives, heading videos, they will not be is the commander in chief, this is ing. Announcing the withdrawal that if he were still in charge, the at a viable U.S. Embassy. able to spin this,” Rieckhoff said. the guy who’s responsible for the in April, Biden noted that he is the withdrawal would be going far Although ISIS is not viewed as a Crocker had his own pithy sum- security of the nation, and what an fourth U.S. president to preside more smoothly. major threat emanating from Af- mation of the risk, saying, “This incredible mess he’s made of it in over the war, which has cost bil- “I personally had discussions ghanistan, al-Qaeda is gaining may make Saigon look good.” Sunday, August 15, 2021 • STARS AND STRIPES • PAGE 7 VIRUS OUTBREAK More US cities require proof of vaccination

Associated Press flighted to Temple or Oklahoma Hold on to that vaccination City or wherever we can find them card. A rapidly growing number a bed, but they won’t be getting of places across the U.S. are re- one here unless one clears.” quiring people to show proof they Earlier this week, Jenkins or- have been inoculated against CO- dered that masks be worn inside VID-19 to teach school, work at a schools, county buildings and hospital, see a concert or eat inside businesses after a judge blocked a restaurant. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s ban on Following New York City’s lead, such rules. The county is not re- NAM Y. HUH/AP New Orleans and San Francisco quiring people to show proof of A pedestrian wears a face mask as she walks past an information sign of COVID­19 testing in Chicago, Ill., will impose such rules at many vaccination. on Friday. businesses starting next week, On Friday, the Chicago school while Los Angeles is looking into system, the nation’s third-largest ing a shutdown similar to the one privacy. publicity,” but the backlash came the idea. district, with more than 360,000 that devastated businesses in At least 18 states led by Repub- quickly in the form of hundreds of The new measures are an at- students, announced it will re- 2020. lican governors or legislatures nasty phone calls, Facebook com- tempt to stem the rising tide of CO- quire all its teachers and other “Unlike this time last year, we prohibit the creation of so-called ments and emails. VID-19 cases that has pushed hos- employees to be fully vaccinated have a tool that we did not have,” vaccine passports or ban public “People were literally wishing pitals to the breaking point, in- by mid-October unless they qual- she said, referring to vaccines. entities from demanding proof of death upon our family, our staff, cluding in the Dallas area, where ify for a medical or religious ex- Over the past two weeks, Loui- vaccination. Several of those — in- everyone we knew,” Alston said. top officials warned they are run- emption. siana has set daily records for the cluding Alabama, Florida, Iowa, “They were cheering for our inev- ning out of beds in their pediatric Philadelphia has decreed that number of people hospitalized Montana, North Dakota and Texas itable failure.” intensive care units. health care workers and college with COVID-19, reaching 2,907 — also bar most businesses from Although his staff has had to Dallas County Judge Clay Jen- students and staff members must patients on Friday. Ninety-one denying service to those who turn away about 20% of patrons, kins said the situation is so dire get their shots by mid-October. percent of those hospitalized are aren’t vaccinated. Alston said he has no regrets: “I that if a parent is seeking care for a New Orleans Mayor LaToya unvaccinated, according to state In Salt Lake City, restaurant would personally feel like an in- sick or injured child, “your child Cantrell called proof of vaccina- data. owner Mark Alston decided to re- credible hypocrite to be running a will wait for another child to die. tion the best way to protect busi- Critics say that requiring people quire vaccination when he reo- restaurant that I knew was unsafe, Your child will just not get on a nesses. She said she is not impos- to be vaccinated to enter a busi- pened in May. He thought his de- that was contributing to the ventilator. Your child will be care- ing capacity limits or contemplat- ness violates their rights and their cision would draw “a little bit of spread.” COVAX blasted for not doing what it was created to do Associated Press delivered less than 10% of the doses it prom- LONDON — When global health officials ised. created COVAX, a U.N.-backed effort to COVAX is run by the World Health Orga- share coronavirus vaccines, it was sup- nization, the vaccines alliance Gavi and the posed to guarantee the world’s most vulner- Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Inno- able people could get doses without being at vations. The program is now trying to re- the mercy of unreliable donations. gain credibility by getting rich countries to It hasn’t worked out that way. In late distribute donated vaccines through its sys- June, COVAX sent more than 530,000 doses tem, Baker said, adding that many dona- to Britain — more than double the amount tions are aimed at currying political favors. sent that month to Africa, where fewer than COVAX is well aware of the problem. 2% of the population is immunized. During its last board meeting in June, offi- While poor countries joined COVAX to cials conceded they had failed to achieve receive donated doses, higher-income equitable distribution. But they decided countries were enticed to join as an insur- against blocking rich countries from getting ance policy in case their private vaccine more vaccines, reasoning that without deals fell through. Most rich countries have RAHMAT GUL/AP them, “it would be difficult to secure deals declined to buy COVAX doses after acquir- A woman receives the Johnson & Johnson COVID­19 vaccine, July 11, at a vaccination with some manufacturers.” ing enough shots through private deals. But center with COVID­19 vaccines donated by the United States and delivered through the During a subsequent call with partners, some, including the U.K. and Canada, U.N.­backed COVAX program, in Kabul, Afghanistan. Gavi CEO Dr. Seth Berkley said COVAX in- tapped into the initiative’s meager supply tended to honor the agreements it had made even after reserving most of the world’s session on vaccine equity. other 27 million. Both Britain and Canada with rich countries but would ask them to coronavirus vaccines. The U.S. never got any doses through CO- noted that COVAX was also open to higher- “adjust” their allocated doses to request The result is that poorer countries have VAX, although Saudi Arabia, Australia and income countries. fewer vaccines, according to a meeting par- landed in exactly the predicament COVAX New Zealand did. Canada got so much crit- However, Brook Baker, a Northeastern ticipant who spoke about the confidential was intended to avoid: depending on the icism for taking COVAX shipments that it University specialist in access to medi- call on condition of anonymity. Among the whims and politics of rich countries for do- said it would not request more. In the mean- cines, said it was unconscionable that rich reasons Berkley cited was the potential risk nations. time, Venezuela has yet to receive any of its countries would dip into COVAX supplies at to its balance sheet. “If we had tried to withhold vaccines COVAX doses. Haiti has received less than a time when its biggest supplier, the Serum In response to an AP request for com- from parts of the world, could we have half of its share, Syria about a 10th. Institute of India, stopped exporting vac- ment, Gavi said the initiative aims to deliver made it any worse than it is today?” asked British officials confirmed the U.K. re- cines to deal with a surge of cases on the 2 billion doses by early 2022 and that “the Dr. Bruce Aylward, a senior advisor at the ceived about 539,000 COVAX vaccines in subcontinent. That left nearly 60 countries vast majority of the COVAX supply” would World Health Organization, during a public late June and that it has options to buy an- with few options. So far, the initiative has go to developing countries. PAGE 8 • STARS AND STRIPES • Sunday, August 15, 2021 NATION Special enrollment period for cheaper ‘Obamacare’ ends BY RICARDO so in Texas. ALONSO-ZALDIVAR At a nonprofit service center in Associated Press Austin, Texas, more than 500 peo- WASHINGTON — With the ple have enrolled so far with the Obama health care law undergo- help of staff and volunteers. Foun- ing a revival under President Joe dation Communities health pro- Biden, Sunday was the deadline gram director Aaron DeLaO said for consumers to take advantage the schedule is booked and of a special sign-up period for pri- they’re working to clear the wait- HANS PENNINK/AP vate coverage made more affor- ing list. A billboard on Interstate I­787 against supporting New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is seen Friday in Albany, dable by his COVID-19 relief law. “Especially with the delta vari- N.Y. Lawyers concluded the state Legislature lacks the clear authority to impeach Cuomo after he resigns. A strong close would bolster Bi- ant, people are thinking about den’s case that Congress needs to their health a little more,” he said. make permanent the temporary The application process can be boost in health insurance subsi- complicated, requiring details NY Legislature won’t attempt to dies provided by the COVID-19 about citizenship or legal immi- legislation. His campaign prom- grant status, income, and house- ise to build on existing programs hold members. That’s before a impeach Cuomo after he resigns to move the U.S. toward coverage consumer even picks a health in- BY MARINA VILLENEUVE dum saying Assembly lawyers know if we can; I don’t want to for all might also gain credence. surance plan. People can apply Associated Press and outside counsel had conclud- have us step on their toes while The government says more online, via the HealthCare.gov ALBANY, N.Y. — The New ed lawmakers “probably” lack the there are criminal investigations than 2.5 million people have call center, or through programs York state Assembly will suspend constitutional authority to do so, going on,” he said Friday on the signed up since Biden ordered the like the one in Austin. its investigation of Gov. Andrew though the matter hasn’t been set- news program “Capital Tonight.” HealthCare.gov marketplace to About 9 in 10 customers at Cuomo once he steps down after tled definitely. Heastie didn’t explain how re- reopen Feb. 15 to account for Foundation Communities have its leader concluded the Legisla- “Let me be clear — the commit- leasing a committee report could health insurance needs in the selected standard “silver” plans, ture didn’t have the clear author- tee’s work over the last several interfere with independent law pandemic. Then, starting in April, which cost somewhat more but of- ity to impeach a departed official, months, although not complete, enforcement investigations. He the cost of coverage came down fer better financial protection the chamber’s top Democrat said did uncover credible evidence in has previously said that he’s asked due to sweeter subsidies in the when illness strikes. Friday. relation to allegations that have the committee to turn over evi- COVID-19 law, which attracted “That to me says that people are Cuomo announced Tuesday he been made in reference to the gov- dence it had gathered “to the rele- more enrollment. Officials at the really interested in having com- planned to resign over sexual ha- ernor,” said Heastie, a New York vant investigatory authorities.” Centers for Medicare and Medi- prehensive coverage,” DeLaO rassment allegations as it became City Democrat. Heastie denied that he had reac- caid Services, or CMS, hoped that said. clear he was almost certain to be He said that included evidence hed any deal with Cuomo to let this deadline weekend in mid-Au- The Obama-era Affordable impeached by the Legislature. He related to the sexual harassment him resign without facing an im- gust would surprise skeptics. Care Act offers subsidized private said his resignation was effective claims, possible misuse of state re- peachment trial or investigation. “We’ve seen even in the last insurance to people who don’t in 14 days, at which point he’ll be sources in conjunction with the “There was no deal,” Heastie couple of weeks increased inter- have job-based coverage, availa- replaced by Lt. Gov. Kathy Ho- publication of the governor’s book said. “I’ve said that 150 times and est in enrollment,” Administrator ble in every state. The ACA also chul. on the pandemic and “improper I’ll make that the 151st time.” Chiquita Brooks-LaSure said in expanded Medicaid for low-in- Some lawmakers have urged and misleading disclosure of nurs- Cuomo’s office and his lawyer, an interview. “When you make come adults, an option most states the Assembly to press on with an ing home data.” Rita Glavin, didn’t immediately coverage more affordable, people have taken. The two components impeachment proceeding, per- “This evidence — we believe — respond to a request for comment. buy it. What we need to do is to cover about 27 million people, ac- haps to bar Cuomo from holding could likely have resulted in arti- The first woman to publicly ac- make coverage more affordable.” cording to the nonpartisan Kaiser state office in the future if he at- cles of impeachment had he not cuse Cuomo of misconduct, Lind- Biden’s special enrollment pe- Family Foundation. tempted a political comeback. resigned,” Heastie said. sey Boylan, called the Assembly riod was to end at midnight local “Obamacare’s” place among But Assembly Speaker Carl When asked whether lawmak- leadership’s decision to call off its time Sunday around the country. government health programs Heastie said Friday that lawyers ers could still release a report with separate investigation “an unjust The regular annual sign-up sea- seems secure now, after more had advised the body’s judiciary findings to the public as originally cop out.” son won’t start again until Nov. 1. than a decade of fruitless efforts committee that the state constitu- planned, Heastie said: “I guess it “The public deserves to know Interest has been high in a cou- by Republicans to repeal it or get tion doesn’t authorize the Legisla- could.” the extent of the Governor’s mis- ple of states feeling the scourge of the Supreme Court to overturn it. ture to impeach an elected official “The concern behind that is, if deeds and possible crimes. His the delta variant. Nearly 490,000 Earlier this year by a vote of 7-2 no longer in office. you’re in the middle of an investi- victims deserve justice and to people have signed up in Florida, the conservative-leaning court Heastie had provided reporters gation and other law enforcement know he will not be able harm oth- and more than 360,000 have done dismissed the latest challenge. a less definitive legal memoran- areas are looking at this, I don’t ers,” she tweeted.

Bulletin warns 9/11 anniversary could inspire extremist attacks Associated Press resentment of restrictions imposed during Arabian Peninsula recently released the fied to these locations.” WASHINGTON — The upcoming 20th the pandemic. first English-language edition of its Inspire As in previous bulletins, DHS expressed anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks as well as DHS issues the warnings to alert the pub- magazine in four years, apparently to mark concern about both domestic extremists, approaching religious holidays could in- lic as well as state and local authorities. the upcoming anniversary of the Sept. 11, motivated by “personal grievances and ex- spire extremist attacks, the Department of They reflect intelligence gathered from 2001, terrorist attacks. tremist ideological beliefs,” and foreign in- Homeland Security said in a terrorism alert other law enforcement agencies. The anniversary and the approaching ho- fluences. issued Friday. The bulletin is an extension of a similar lidays “could serve as a catalyst for acts of The agency said Russian, Chinese and DHS did not cite any specific threats in one issued in May that expired on the day targeted violence,” it said. Iranian government-linked media outlets the National Terrorism Advisory System the new one was issued. DHS says domestic DHS also noted that domestic extremists have helped spread conspiracy theories Bulletin. But it noted that the U.S. is in a extremists remain a national threat priority motivated by religious and ethnic hatred about the origins of COVID-19 and the ef- “heightened threat environment,” fueled for U.S. law enforcement and will for at have in the past attacked houses of worship fectiveness of vaccines and have in some by factors that include violent extremists least the remainder of the year. and other gatherings, but it said there aren’t cases amplified calls for violence against motivated by racial and ethnic hatred and The agency noted that al-Qaida in the any “credible or imminent threats identi- people of Asian descent. Sunday, August 15, 2021 • STARS AND STRIPES • PAGE 9 NATION Western fires strain Forest Service resources

BY EUGENE GARCIA fornia, Oregon and Nevada, according to the AND DAISY NGUYEN National Interagency Fire Center. Associated Press “Mother nature just kind of keeps throw- WESTWOOD, Calif. — A month-old wild- ing us obstacles our way,” said Edwin Zuni- fire burning through forestlands in North- ga, a spokesman with the California Depart- ern California lurched toward a small lum- ment of Forestry and Fire Protection, which ber town as blazes across U.S. Western was working with the Forest Service to tamp states strained resources and threatened out the Dixie Fire. thousands of homes with destruction. In southeastern Montana, firefighters and Crews were cutting back brush and using residents were scrambling to save hundreds bulldozers to build lines to keep the Dixie of homes as flames advanced across the Fire from reaching Westwood east of Lake Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation. Almanor, not far from where the lightning- The blaze was more than 50% contained. caused blaze destroyed much of the town of But its southern edge was still burning near Greenville earlier this month.. the tribal headquarters town of Lame Deer, The entire town of about 1,700 people was where a mandatory evacuation remained in placed under evacuation orders Aug. 5 as place, and a second fire was threatening the blaze inched closer. EUGENE GARCIA/AP from the opposite direction. To the northwest, the Monument Fire — A tractor is left behind as a home burns outside of Taylorsville in Plumas County, Calif., The fires already had burned or threat- one of at least three large blazes sparked by from the impacts of the Dixie Fire on Friday. ened grasslands that many locals with cattle lightning last month — continued to grow af- and horses depend upon for their liveli- ter destroying a dozen homes and threat- The U.S. Forest Service said Friday it’s op- More than 6,000 firefighters alone were hoods, Montana officials said. ened about 2,500 homes in a sparsely pop- erating in crisis mode, fully deploying fire- battling the Dixie Fire, which has destroyed Smoke from the blazes grew so thick Fri- ulated region. U.S. Forest Service officials fighters and maxing out its support system. more than 1,000 homes, businesses and oth- day that the health clinic in Lame Deer was said Friday that flying embers ignited spot The roughly 21,000 federal firefighters er structures and was the largest wildfire shut down after its air filters could not keep fires as far as a mile ahead of the main blaze working on the ground is more than double burning in the U.S. Its flames have ravaged up with the pollution, Northern Cheyenne in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest. the number of firefighters sent to contain more than 800 square miles — an area larger Tribe spokesperson Angel Becker said. They were among more than 100 large forest fires at this time a year ago, and the than the city of London. Smoke also drove air pollution levels to wildfires burning in a dozen Western states agency is facing “critical resources limita- There also was a danger of new fires unhealthy or very unhealthy levels in parts seared by drought and hot, bone-dry weath- tions,” said Anthony Scardina, a deputy for- erupting because of unstable weather condi- of Idaho, Oregon, Washington and Northern er that has turned forests, brushlands, ester for the agency’s Pacific Southwest re- tions, including a chance of thunderstorms California, according to the Environmental meadows and pastures into tinder. gion. that could bring lightning to northern Cali- Protection Agency. New Mexico school year off to NOAA: July was hottest month on record for globe deadly start amid gun violence Associated Press North America and in parts of Eu- BY SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Earth sizzled in July and became rope and Asia really drove the re- Associated Press the hottest month in 142 years of re- cord-setting heat, Sanchez-Lugo ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — It’s cordkeeping, U.S. weather officials said. While the worldwide temper- only a few days into the new announced. ature was barely higher than the school year, but New Mexico’s As extreme heat waves struck record, what shattered it was land largest district is reeling from a parts of the United States and Eu- temperature over the Northern shooting that left one student rope, the globe averaged 62.07 de- Hemisphere, she said. dead and landed another in custo- grees Fahrenheit last month, beat- Northern Hemisphere temper- dy. ing out the previous record set in atures were a third of a degree The gunfire at Washington July 2016 and tied again in 2019 and higher than the previous record set Middle School during the lunch 2020, the National Oceanic and At- in July 2012, which for temperature hour Friday marked the second mospheric Administration said records is “a wide margin,” San- shooting in Albuquerque in less Friday. The margin was just .02 de- chez-Lugo said. than 24 hours. With the city on grees. July is the hottest month of the pace to shatter its homicide re- The last seven Julys, from 2015 to year for the globe, so this is also the cord this year, top state officials ROBERT BROWMAN, THE ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL/AP 2021, have been the hottest seven hottest month on record. said they were heartbroken by Family members wait to pick up students after a fatal shooting at Julys on record, said NOAA clima- One factor helping the world what they described as a scourge. Washington Middle School in Albuquerque, N.M., Friday. tologist Ahira Sanchez-Lugo. Last bake this summer is a natural “These tragedies should never month was 1.67 degrees warmer weather cycle called the Arctic Os- occur. That they do tells us there said. two people. It should have never than the 20th century average for cillation, sort of a cousin to El Nino, is more work to be done,” Gov. Dozens of fretful parents gath- happened … This shouldn’t hap- the month. which in its positive phase is associ- Michelle Lujan Grisham said. ered outside the school Friday af- pen in the community. It certainly “In this case first place is the ated with more warming, the Albuquerque Police Deputy ternoon as they waited for their shouldn’t happen at a school.” worst place to be,” NOAA Adminis- NOAA climatologist said. Commander Kyle Hartsock de- children to be released. Police said more officers will be trator Rick Spinrad said in a press Even with a scorching July and a scribed the shooting as an isolated Friday marked the third day of present when students return, release. “This new record adds to nasty June, this year so far is only incident between two students classes for Albuquerque’s public hoping to provide a sense of secu- the disturbing and disruptive path the sixth warmest on record. That’s who were believed to be about 13 school district. While students rity and in case students have any that climate change has set for the mostly because 2021 started cooler years old. He said a school re- won’t return until Tuesday, Su- more information about the shoot- globe.” than recent years due to a La Nina source officer ran toward the two perintendent Scott Elder said the ing they want to share. “This is climate change,” said cooling of the central Pacific that boys after gunfire erupted and staff will be making preparations Gunfire also rang out Thursday Pennsylvania State University cli- often reduces the global temper- prevented any other violence to ensure students have access to night at a sports bar and restau- mate scientist Michael Mann. “It is ature average, Sanchez-Lugo said. while tending to the boy who was counseling and any other support rant near a busy Albuquerque an exclamation mark on a summer “One month by itself does not say shot. services they need. shopping district. Police said one of unprecedented heat, drought, much, but that this was a La Nina Investigators were trying to de- “Of course it’s extremely diffi- person was killed and three were wildfires and flooding.” year and we still had the warmest termine how the student obtained cult,” he said of something like injured after someone pulled out Last week, a prestigious United temperatures on record ... fits with the gun and what may have this happening so early in the a gun during a fight. Nations science panel warned of the pattern of what we have been prompted the shooting, Hartsock school year. “There’s a lot of pres- No arrests have been made in worsening climate change caused seeing for most of the last decade said. Other students were being sure in the community. People that case. Investigators were re- by the burning of coal, oil and nat- now,” said University of Illinois interviewed as detectives tried to are nervous. It was a terrible in- viewing surveillance video and ural gas and other human activity. meteorology professor Donald piece together what happened, he cident that happened between interviewing witnesses. Warming on land in western Wuebbles. PAGE 10 • STARS AND STRIPES • Sunday, August 15, 2021 WORLD Turkish flood deaths rise as rescuers go on Associated Press Experts in Turkey, however, ISTANBUL — The death toll said interference with rivers and from severe floods and mudslides improper construction also con- along Turkey’s Black Sea coast tributed to the massive flood dam- has climbed to at least 51, the age. country’s emergency and disaster Geologists say that construction agency said Saturday, as author- narrowed the river bed and the ities disputed reports that hun- surrounding alluvial flood plain of dreds of people were missing. the Ezine stream in Kastamonu’s Torrential rains that pounded Bozkurt district, where the dam- the Black Sea provinces of Bartin, age was most severe, from 1,300 Kastamonu and Sinop on Wednes- feet wide to 50 feet. Residential day caused flooding that demol- buildings were also built along the ished homes, severed at least five waterfront. bridges, swept away cars and ren- During severe rains, the con- dered numerous roads unpassa- stricted stream can only overflow. ble. Turkish disaster agency Videos posted by residents AFAD said 43 people were killed showed water rushing down- in Kastamonu, seven in Sinop and stream in Bozkurt as buildings one in Bartin. and roads flooded. Nine people remained hospital- One geologist, Ramazan Demi- ized, according to the agency. rtas, explained the river bed nar- Some residents in Kastamonu rowing on Twitter and said hu- said on social media that there are mans were to blame for this hundreds more missing, a state- week’s disaster. ment also made by an opposition In Sinop, floodwaters almost lawmaker. But the provincial gov- ISMAIL COSKUN, IHA/AP completely wiped out the village ernor’s office said that reports A man sitting next to a statue of Turkey’s founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk among destruction in Bozkurt of Babacay, leaving toppled about 250 unidentified bodies town of Kastamonu province, Turkey, on Saturday. homes, damaged bridges and rub- were untrue. It did not specifically ble in their wake. A five-story address how many people could 5,820 personnel, 20 rescue dogs, floods, scores of them lifted from ly say that climate change is lead- apartment building constructed be missing in the flooding. 20 helicopters and two search rooftops by helicopters. Many are ing to more extreme weather on a riverbed was destroyed. Rescue teams and sniffer dogs planes were at the disaster spots. being temporarily housed in stu- events as the world warms be- Turkish broadcaster CNN Turk kept up the painstaking task of try- About 2,250 people were evac- dent dormitories. cause of the burning of coal, oil showed only an entrance door and ing to locate residents. AFAD said uated across the region amid the Climate scientists unequivocal- and natural gas. wall remaining. UK suspect got Tropical Storm Grace seized gun back forms; Fred nears Fla. Associated Press pass west of the lower Florida Keys before shootings HAVANA — Tropical Storm on Saturday afternoon and then Grace formed Saturday morning move into the eastern Gulf of Mex- Associated Press in the Atlantic Ocean, while Fred ico. LONDON — Britain’s police watchdog says it has remained a tropical depression A tropical storm warning was in launched an investigation into why a 22-year-old man headed into the eastern Gulf of effect for the Florida Keys west of who fatally shot five people in southwestern England Mexico. the Seven Mile Bridge to the Dry on Thursday was given back his confiscated gun and Both systems were expected to Tortugas. Fred was centered Sat- gun license last month. bring heavy rain and flooding. urday morning 90 miles south of Police have said Jake Davison killed his mother Fred, which has already been clas- Key West, and it was moving west- and four other people, including a 3-year-old girl, be- sified as a tropical storm before, northwest at 13 mph. fore taking his own life in the port city of Plymouth. It could regain such strength later in Once a tropical storm, Fred was Britain’s first mass shooting in over a decade. BEN BIRCHALL, PA/AP the day or on Sunday, according to weakened to a depression by its Firearm crimes are rare in Britain, which has strict Police stand Saturday, in the Keyham area of the U.S. National Hurricane Cen- spin over Haiti and the Dominican gun control laws and regulations. Plymouth, England, where a young man who killed ter. Republic, where it knocked out The Independent Office for Police Conduct said five people and then took his own life on Thursday. Grace was centered about 420 power to some 400,000 customers late Friday it would investigate the Devon and Corn- miles east of the Leeward Islands and caused flooding that forced of- wall police department’s decision-making in relation Friday, close to where the killings took place. and could reach the Lesser Anti- ficials to shut down part of the to Davison’s possession of a shotgun and the license. Police said Davison shot and killed his 51-year-old lles by Saturday night. It was mov- country’s aqueduct system, inter- The watchdog said it was not yet known whether the mother, Maxine Davison, also known as Maxine ing west at 22 mph with maximum rupting water service for hun- shotgun returned to Davison was the same one he Chapman, at a house before going into the street and sustained winds of 40 mph. dreds of thousands of people. Local used in Thursday’s shootings. killing 3-year-old Sophie Martyn and her father, Lee Atropical storm warning was is- officials reported hundreds of peo- Police took away the gun and the certificate in De- Martyn, 43. sued for the U.S. Virgin Islands ple were evacuated and some cember 2020 following an allegation of assault three According to the police timeline, Davison next and Puerto Rico. A tropical storm buildings were damaged. months earlier, the watchdog office said. They were killed Stephen Washington, 59, in a nearby park, be- watch was in effect for the British Fred was expected to bring 3 to 5 returned to Davison last month. fore fatally shooting Kate Shepherd, 66, on a nearby Virgin Islands. Forecasters said inches of rain to the Keys and “We will examine what police actions were taken street. Grace could reach the Dominican southern Florida through Monday. and when, the rationale behind police decision-mak- Two other people were wounded. Republic by Monday. No evacuations are planned for ing and whether relevant law, policy and procedures Shaun Sawyer, chief constable for Devon and Grace was forecast to bring 3 to 6 tourists or residents in Monroe were followed concerning Mr. Davison’s possession Cornwall police, told reporters that investigators inches of rain to the Leeward Is- County, Keys officials said Friday. of a shotgun,” the office’s regional director, David think the crimes started as “domestically related” lands, Virgin Islands and Puerto The county’s emergency manage- Ford, said in a statement. and “spilled into the street.” He said the investigators Rico into Monday. ment officials are advising people “The investigation will also consider whether the were keeping open minds but do not think extremist Meanwhile, Fred remained a in campgrounds, recreational ve- force had any information concerning Mr. Davison’s ideology prompted the attack. tropical depression with top winds hicles, travel trailers, live-aboard mental health and if so, if this information was appro- “Let’s see what’s on his hard drive, let’s see what’s around 35 mph. Forecasters said vessels and mobile homes to seek priately considered,” Ford said. on his computer, let’s see what’s on social media,” the system appeared “disorga- shelter in a safe structure during Hundreds attended a candlelit vigil in Plymouth Sawyer said. nized,” and projecting that it would the weather event. Sunday, August 15, 2021 • STARS AND STRIPES • PAGE 11 AMERICAN ROUNDUP

Man charged after human head found in freezer — A Pennsylvania man PA was arrested after po- lice pulled a frozen human head out of his freezer, according to the Lancaster Bureau of Police. Donald Meshey Jr., 32, alleged- ly told a witness who had shown up at his house that he had a cadaver in one of the beds at his Lancaster home and a human head in the freezer, police said in a statement. After being taken into custody, Meshey allegedly told detectives he found a “cadaver doll” in his fa- ther’s bedroom, “which looked and sounded like his father,” ac- cording to the Lancaster Bureau of Police. Meshey admitted to stabbing the “cadaver doll” for two or three minutes with a knife, then dismembering the body. Police are still working to iden- tify the remains. Meshey has been charged with criminal homicide, abuse of a corpse and tampering with evi- dence. Toddler fatally shoots mom during video call ALTAMONTE FL SPRINGS — A toddler found an unsecured, loaded hand- gun inside an apartment and fatal- ly shot a woman while she was on a work-related video call, police in JACQUELINE DORMER, (POTTSVILLE, PA.) REPUBLICAN­HERALD/AP central Florida said. According to news outlets, the woman was the mother of the tod- Summer night of Shakespeare dler who shot her in the head. The Mechanicals act out a scene in Schuylkill Free Shakespeare’s presentation of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” in the garden at the Someone on the video call Yuengling Mansion at the Schuylkill County Council for the Arts in Pottsville, Pa.. dialed 911 after seeing the toddler in the background and hearing a where the Franks hid. Other part- THE CENSUS er, Julia Ho, and City Alderman noise, Altamonte Springs police ner sites are located in Berlin, Dan Guenther, who has been said in a news release. The wom- London and Buenos Aires. The number of shark attacks in a one-week span on beaches approxi- knocking on neighborhood doors an, identified as Shamaya Lynn, 2 mately 18 miles apart, near Savannah, Ga. A lifeguard on South Car- to see if anyone knows who might 21, fell backward and never re- Investigation ongoing olina’s Hilton Head Island suffered deep cuts to the chest area but is expected have hung the noose. turned to the video call, the person after boaters strike kids to survive after being bitten on Aug. 3, WTOC-TV reported. At nearby Tybee Police are investigating and reported. Island, Ga., a surfing instructor was bitten July 27 while leading one of his seeking any surveillance video An adult in the apartment left NEW ROADS — A Loui- surfing classes. South Carolina recorded just one unprovoked shark bite last that could help in determining the firearm unsecured, police siana sheriff is investi- year, and Georgia had none, according to the Florida Museum of Natural Histo- who left the noose, the St. Louis LA ry’s International Shark Attack File. said. Investigators were working gating after three children riding Post-Dispatch reported. with the Seminole County State on tubes on a waterway were Attorney’s Office to determine struck and injured by a pontoon The shooting in the Fairfax area about 110 miles northwest of Char- Police arrest 2 in alleged whether charges will be filed. boat. of Los Angeles was captured on lotte, N.C. They said they had last plot to defraud lottery The occupants on the boat all cellphone video. Investigators spoken to Keene on June 14. Anne Frank Center to fled the scene after the crash, worked through the night to track Court documents state Keene MASON CITY — Two Io- open at university Pointe Coupee Parish Sheriff down the killer, the LAPD said. was strangled with a belt and IA wa men accused of using Rene Thibodeaux told WBRZ-TV. struck in the head. Investigators bad checks to buy more than $800 COLUMBIA — An Two of the children required Caretaker arrested after have not said when Keene died. in lottery tickets saw a total profit SC Anne Frank Center is hospital treatment, including one killing, burying woman Avery County Sheriff Kevin of $134 after winning on some of opening at the University of South who was flown to the hospital. Frye announced Carserino was the tickets, Cerro Gordo County Carolina, which will be the first The investigation has been NEWLAND — A wom- taken into custody and charged authorities said. museum in North America and turned over to the Louisiana De- NC an whose body was with murder, identity theft, larce- Richard Lee Pierce II, 29, of the fourth in the world where vis- partment of Wildlife and Fisheries found buried in concrete in the ny of motor vehicle and financial Ventura, faces charges of attempt- itors can walk through the famed because it happened on False Riv- basement of her western North card theft. ing to defraud the Iowa lottery and story of the teenage Holocaust vic- er, Thibodeaux said. Carolina home had fired her care- forgery, while Joey Henry Allen, tim. taker in June, but neighbors said Police investigating after 31, of Clear Lake, faces similar The 1,060-square-foot center on Teen arrested in fatal the former caretaker was still liv- contractor finds noose charges plus a felony theft count, the Columbia campus features a shooting over shoe raffle ing in the woman’s home until late the Globe Gazette reported. rendering of the attic where the July, according to court docu- ST. LOUIS — Police Court documents say Allen girl’s Jewish family hid from the LOS ANGELES— Po- ments. MO in St. Louis are inves- went to a Ventura convenience Nazis for more than two years dur- CA lice arrested a teenager Search warrants state Elizabeth tigating after a Black contractor store on six different occasions, ing World War II. That exhibit in- on suspicion of shooting to death a Carserino, 53, of Goose Creek, found a noose at the renovation buying a total of $824 worth of lot- cludes a reproduction of the desk shoe store employee who tried to S.C., was hired by family to be site of a Benton Park home owned tery tickets and paying with a where Frank wrote what was break up a dispute over a raffle for Lynn Keene’s live-in caretaker by an Asian American woman. check that bounced. Police said eventually published as “The Di- a pair of sneakers. earlier this year after she fell and The noose was found in a tree by Pierce later took the winning tick- ary of a Young Girl.” The teen, 16, was taken into cus- suffered a traumatic brain injury, the contractor, a Black woman ets back to the store, cashing out All the artifacts for the museum tody at in the Los Angeles suburb WSOC-TV reported. who lives in Benton Park and has for $958 in winnings. were provided by the original of South Gate and booked on sus- Relatives reported Keene, 70, been visible working on the house Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, picion of murder, according to a missing in July from her home in for weeks. The incident was which preserved the secret annex police statement. Linville Falls, which is located brought to light by the homeown- From The Associated Press PAGE 12 • STARS AND STRIPES • Sunday, August 15, 2021 MUSIC

Q&A REVIEW

Jackson Browne Downhill From Everywhere (Inside Recordings) Jackson Browne was one of the most artistically and commercially successful singer-songwriters of the ’70s, with classic records such as “The Pretender” and “Running on Empty.” As he became more in- volved in activist move- ments, many of his sub- Jackson Browne, sequent works, such as 1986’s “Lives in the Bal- ance,” foregrounded social justice themes, with mixed results. One of the remarkable these days things about “Downhill From Everywhere,” Browne’s 15th studio al- bum, is how much it sounds like a solid, sturdy Jackson

RICARDO DEARATANHA/Los Angeles Times Browne album. Browne is Singer­songwriter Jackson Browne is pictured in the control room of his studio, Groove Masters, on July 6 in Santa Monica, Calif. Browne 72, and his voice has touches on a wide variety of current events on “Downhill From Everywhere,” his first album of new music in six years. weathered, but it’s familiar and comforting, especially tract COVID-19. He likes experimental thea- on ballads such as “A Little Influential singer-songwriter, 72, talks about cancel culture, ter — he’s wearing a shirt from Tim Robbins’ Soon to Say.” He’s working Culver City, Calif.-based the Actors’ Gang with some longtime collab- his ‘shelf life’ and how he feels about a personal memoir nonprofit — and seeing live music with some orators, including drum- BY AMY KAUFMAN of the young artists he’s befriended, like mer Russ Kunkel (who Los Angeles Times Dawes, Jenny Lewis, Inara George and appeared on his 1972 de- ackson Browne knows people think he’s past his prime. Or “way Phoebe Bridgers. (Earlier this year, Bridgers but) and guitarist Waddy out over my due date,” as he puts it on his new album. enlisted Browne to duet with her on a new Wachtel. David Lindley, his version of her song “Kyoto,” and she in turn regular foil, is absent, but “I’m talking about shelf life,” he says. “But I think a lot of then appeared in a music video for his song pedal steel guitarist Greg stuff is still good after the date that’s printed on the package.” “My Cleveland Heart.”) Leisz effectively reprises At 72, the musician is grappling with what his life will amount Browne, who lives in Los Angeles’ Mid- Lindley’s role. to — that’s really what the lyric is about, he says: “An admission City with his longtime partner, Dianna Co- The album is full of char- that you’re supposed to have settled stuff by this time.” hen, has two adult children from previous acter-driven stories, from the young immigrant in the It’s not that he had a vision for what life in his 70s would be like; he’s never marriages. J As he prepared for a three-month tour with empathetic bilingual ballad looked that far into the future. But he has always been a self-reflective sort, James Taylor, The LA Times spoke with “The Dreamer” to the unafraid to question whether he’s squeezing all of the juice out of the fruit. Browne at his Santa Monica recording studio, aging lover getting an arti- Even one of his first hits, “Doctor, My Eyes” — released in the midst of the Groove Masters, where Bob Dylan, Frank ficial heart in the (some- Vietnam War — told the story of a man puzzling over how to digest the hard- Ocean and David Crosby have made music. what stiff) rocker “My ships of the world. (Editor’s note: This interview has been edited Cleveland Heart,” to the for length.) bicycle-riding Haitian Browne’s eyes are still wide open on “Downhill From Everywhere,” the LA Times: What made you decide to priest in the lovely, loping Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee’s first collection of new music in six record an album after six years? “Love is Love,” to America years. On the album, the singer-songwriter takes typically forthright stands Browne: The way you pose the question itself on the title track. on ocean pollution, immigration rights and gay marriage. Though he grows presupposes that there’s getting ready. I’ve Personal reflections somber when he discusses current events, Browne also seems to have soft- had a studio for 30 years. I’m always doing bookend the album, begin- something. It’s more like there’s a residue ened with age — exuding less of an obstinate attitude than an equable one. ning with “Still Looking for you gather or a condensation that gathers. Something” and ending You once said that your standards plague with “A Song for Barcelo- In the late ’60s and ’70s, Browne establish- and toward the political. He organized “No you. Do you still feel that way? na,” an 8 ½-minute tribute ed himself as one of Laurel Canyon’s preem- Nukes” benefit concerts against nuclear I think I was talking about the fact that it’s to the “city that gave me inent songwriters with now-standards like weapons and nuclear energy alongside Gra- not a good idea to try to write a song as good back my fire and restored “These Days” (written when he was 16), ham Nash and Bonnie Raitt in 1979 and con- as some other song you’ve already written. my appetite.” That feeling “Take It Easy,” co-written with the Eagles’ demned U.S. policy in Central America on his Because when you wrote that song that you of rejuvenation permeates Glenn Frey and “Running on Empty.” Back- 1986 album “Lives in the Balance.” thought so highly of, you weren’t holding it up “Downhill From Every- to-back smash albums “The Pretender” and Browne still champions numerous causes; to some other standard; you were just trying where.” “Running on Empty” made him a full-fledged he was performing at a fundraiser for the to write something new. Look, I’ve got a high — Steve Klinge rock star, but gradually he would pivot his charity God’s Love We Deliver in March 2020 opinion of some of my songs, but to write Philadelphia Inquirer music and career away from pop philosophy when he became one of the first stars to con- SEE BROWNE ON PAGE 13 Sunday, August 15, 2021 • STARS AND STRIPES • PAGE 13 MUSIC

Los Lobos Browne: Musician praises Bridgers, Native Sons (New West) Considering the covers album “Native Sons” pays tribute to the music of a single city — Los Dawes’ Goldsmith for ‘emotional literacy’ Lobos’ native Los Angeles — the set’s breadth is breathtaking. FROM PAGE 12 What did you like about it? news about s—. That washes over Familiar songs by Jackson Browne, Buffalo something new you have to for- If I want to use the word “grat- me. I’m concerned that “can- Springfield and the Beach Boys are inter- get everything you’ve ever done. itude” in a sentence, it would be celed” has become a reflexive spersed with R&B and garage-rock obscurities, along with nods to Los You sing on this album about about artists like Taylor [Gold- thing. My version of cancel cul- Lobos’ Latin influences. It’s melting-pot pop and true Americana. being concerned for the future smith, from Dawes] and Phoebe, ture is just turn it off or change The adventurous song selections make the album a celebration of your children will inherit. What who are bringing an emotional the channel. diversity, and a showcase for Los Lobos’ marvelous versatility. Guitar scares you? literacy and prowess with words To use an example involving solos by David Hidalgo and Cesar Rosas soar, and both shine on lead I am in a state of grief for the to rock lyrics again. It hasn’t people you know, Phoebe vocals, while the group’s harmonies shimmer, especially on the Beach world that my kids are inheriting been absent; Lucinda Williams Bridgers and Mandy Moore — Boys’ “Sail On, Sailor.” — my grandson. Elephants and and Randy Newman have been they were part of an On War’s “The World Is a Ghetto,” Los Lobos becomes a jam band. tigers are in danger. The ocean’s there all along. But when you see investigation alleging that Ryan Other highlights include “Dichoso,” a smoky Willie Bobo ballad; got dead spots in it. The reefs are somebody young applying them- Adams was emotionally and “Love Special Delivery,” freewheeling ’60s rock with a whole lotta dying. The natural world’s ability selves to those kinds of skills, it’s verbally abusive. As a result, drumming; and “Los Chucos Suaves,” a dance number that mixes to bounce back from what we’ve encouraging because it makes some say he should be Spanish lyrics with a line about the “boogie woogie jitterbug.” done is an existential threat. ... you think that is on the rise and canceled. The lone original is the title cut, a love song to Los Lobos’ hometown We’ve got these electric cars, so that a more youthful segment of I think powerful men have that serves as the album’s centerpiece. It’s true roots music. why don’t more people have the population will be exposed to been taking advantage of their — Steven Wine electric cars? Why don’t we that. status with women and that Associated Press phase out fossil fuels? They won’t Did any musicians serve as should stop. ... I think it made a until they’ve sold us every last mentors to you when you were big impression on everybody that thing they have. I don’t get to talk young? [Bridgers and Moore] came forth about this stuff very much in David Crosby agreed to sing on and talked about it. That’s their Bleachers conversation. So for me, the chal- my first record. He absolutely right and their responsibility to Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night lenge is to write a song that peo- showed me how to record — how tell the truth and why we like (RCA Records) ple don’t mind hearing and that to multi-track vocals. He praised their work. How’s this for a flex from Jack Antonoff? Get helps galvanize some sort of me to others and to myself, and I worry about [cancel culture], no less than Bruce Springsteen to show up on feelings or helps them find some that was really important. I feel a though, because there are exam- your new solo album. For background vocals. resolve. great debt of gratitude to David. ples of actors, supposedly, who I The Boss helps the multi-instrumentalist and When you started more But you no longer speak to think are tremendously gifted super-producer on Bleachers’ song “China- politically themed music in the him? and I don’t know what all they town” and the results are electric, a sound from two New Jersey lads 1980s, were you worried about That’s true. He said nobody did. ... In some cases, it sounds reminiscent of The National mashed with “Born to Run.” Springsteen losing your audience? he’s ever made music with will really bad. In some cases, it appears on only that one song, but he’s spiritually all over this album. I know it was considered prob- talk to him anymore. I would sounds like, really? They patted Antonoff, the guitarist in the band fun. who also records as Bleach- lematic by some people in the point out that his son makes somebody on the butt and so we ers, channels The Boss’ driving, sax-and-jam sound in “How Dare music industry to talk about music with him, and that’s really should not see this person’s mo- You Want More,” “Big Life” and “Don’t Go Dark,” but his idiosyn- politics. But they were never my what’s at the heart of his produc- vies now? I don’t know. I’m not cratic musical tastes are also on vivid display on the terrific 10-track people. You hear people like, ‘Oh, tivity right now, is his great rela- just trying to wriggle out of your “Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night.” he’s losing an enormous part of tionship with his son. I don’t question. I’m just trying to say No song prepares you for whatever comes next in this collection his audience by talking about really want to go into the details that I’m actually not a good per- from an artist who has sharpened the recent sounds of Taylor Swift, this.’ They’re talking about sales of why we’re not talking. son to [talk about this] because St. Vincent, Lana Del Rey, Sia, Lorde and The Chicks. There was a good and s— like that. That never I’m so uninterested in that stuff. I The opener — the cello-and-violin beauty “91” — has an unexpect- documentary made about him mattered to me anyway. Please. wouldn’t watch the O.J. trial. ed lyrical assist from novelist Zadie Smith and the set ends with two It didn’t matter to you at all? recently. Do you ever think What are you hoping your fans downbeat examinations of belief, “Strange Behavior” and “What’d I about being a part of a film like will take away from your new When you sing about stuff that Do with All This Faith?” He ends sing-whispering the phrase: “Ain’t that or writing a memoir? album? nobody knows anything about, no faith can take your place.” Take a listen: You’ll be a believer. the recognition for what you’re I’ve thought about it because You mean, you want me to boil — Mark Kennedy doing is gonna drop off. At the it’s been proposed. I may eventu- it down? It’s not for me to say. Associated Press same time, a bunch of other ally not be good for much else, so There are no CliffsNotes for things were happening that are I’ll leave myself enough time to these songs. I’m not that self- probably more responsible for sound off about stuff. I kind of conscious. I’m not worried about the popularity declining, like feel like I don’t know anything. what people are gonna think Prince punk music. You’re just not 25, I’m sure people would love to about me. This is not an ad for Welcome 2 America (Legacy Recordings) now you’re 33, and there’s a hear your stories — and about myself. This is a collection of Anyone who feared that Prince’s vault was completely different aesthetic dating the likes of Nico, Joni songs with me really trying to filled with nothing but Billy Joel covers, as the going on and an attitude about Mitchell and Daryl Hannah. Carly express myself. satirical website The Onion joked shortly after everything that’s come before, Simon wrote a really good So you don’t think about how his death, need not worry. rightfully or wrongfully dismis- memoir about her marriage to you’ve evolved musically? “Welcome 2 America” is the first complete, sing you. James Taylor. Honestly? The things that I You’ve developed Who’s interested in that, think about are trying to sing in previously unreleased record to come out since relationships with a lot of though? Who’s interested in Car- tune and making the song sound Prince died in 2016. And it’s a stunner. younger artists. How did those ly talking about James? good. Incredibly, the album manages to be as relevant, or maybe even friendships start? Uh, me? A lot of people! Why keep making new music? more relevant, today than when it was recorded, and promptly That’s the music that really I’m not very interested in that [Laughs] I just thought that shelved, in 2010. Most of the songs have been unheard until now. moves me. I feel really lucky to stuff. Have you read Linda’s this morning. There’s so many Confronting themes of racial justice, equality, big tech and just know all these people, and I [Ronstadt] book? Now that’s a other things going on. What could what it means to be human, “Welcome 2 America” feels like the guess I know them because I go good book. It’s about music. Yes! possibly be a more glacial f—ing soundtrack for the years since Prince’s untimely death. It’s almost as to their shows. I met Phoebe at a People don’t want to know about process than writing a song about if Prince knew “Welcome 2 America” would mean more in 2021 than party, but I hadn’t heard her Jerry Brown and Mick Jagger climate change, for instance? it might have when first recorded. play. It was a birthday party for and all of the people Linda had What it gives me is a song to sing From the first song and title track, which starts off with Prince [Australian singer-songwriter] relationships with. Besides, you that can be sung on an occasion, bemoaning the power of the iPhone and Google, the tone of “Welcome Tal Wilkenfeld at an escape have to be a really good writer. and sometimes that occasion is 2 America” is made clear. room. I was sure we were gonna And I can’t even write a post- where people have gathered “Land of the free / home of the slave,” Prince determines, and we’re escape, but we didn’t make it. card. together to do something about off. Oh, and it rocks, too, in the genre-defying way that defined Princ- Funnily enough, the room was What are your thoughts on something. I like the way I just e’s career. about a pandemic. But it was cancel culture? said that, because it’s very all- “Welcome 2 America” is also tinged with melancholy. As alive, hard to figure out. But later, I’m not very aware of cancel inclusive. It may sound like I’m relevant and fresh as Prince sounds, there’s no escaping the fact that when I heard her music, I went, culture, because I’m basically being vague, but I mean it gives he’s gone, and the only reason we’re hearing this is because of that. “That’s Phoebe. That’s that girl I helpless about social media and me a song I can sing that reaf- — Scott Bauer met. Holy s—.” the kind of quick, fast-breaking firms what I think. Associated Press PAGE 14 • STARS AND STRIPES • Sunday, August 15, 2021 BOOKS ‘Breathe’ captures widowhood’s wobbly reality

BY MARK ATHITAKIS collected journal entries she where Michaela teaches memoir exclamation point more to con- harrowing. Oates finds an effec- Special to The Washington Post wrote about the death of her first writing. It’s a place of “dark- vey manic alienation: “Chapel of tive way to resolve the story oyce Carol Oates dedi- husband, Raymond Smith, in bruised El Greco skies,” troubled Chimes! — Michaela’s numbed while preserving Michaela’s cated her new novel, 2008. The book was thick with only by the artwork of Pueblo brain hears Chapel of Crimes.” boiled-brain irrationality. She “Breathe,” to her second everyday detail — the slog of gods in their rental home that Parentheses are deployed to isn’t afraid to delve into over- Jhusband, Charles Gross, phone leave Michaela oddly disturbed. capture the way Michaela’s un- statement to make the point that who died in 2019. The overlaps calls, The couple planned a few pleas- settled mind keeps drifting into losing someone we love carves between the novel and reality are errands, ant months away from Cam- morbidity: “The widow’s life is out a piece of us. But that also impossible to miss. Like Oates, and ar- bridge, Mass., before Gerard the life of a penitent bearing her means Oates makes Michaela the lead character of “Breathe,” rang- learned he had late-stage cancer. (grotesque, bleeding) heart on cartoonish in the novel’s latter Michaela, is a successful writer ements Gerard’s book has the pointed the outside of her body.” stages. No rationality can reach and teacher. And she’s mourning that at- title of “The Human Brain and But in time, even simple decla- her. Gerard’s neuroscience offers the death of her husband, Ge- tended the Its Discontents,” and after the rative sentences start to warp. no comfort. Nor does spirituality rard, who, like Gross, was a neu- loss. (Crit- diagnosis, the discontent acceler- Michaela’s expressions of loss, at — she sees those Pueblo gods as roscientist. Michaela’s anguish is ics noted ates, as both quickly unravel first dark but rational, become vile monsters. Nor does teaching, intense from the start, as she that Oates mentally. obsessive and crazed: “The first which only introduces her to observes Gerard on his deathbed: covered Michaela tries to manage Ge- duty of the widow is to join her people she can’t trust. She’s “Pleading in desperation,” she just about rard’s decline by soldiering on husband.” The narration shifts friendless and has no family. writes. “In childish hope, un- everything except the fact that with her classes, but she has deeper into the second person, as She’s so inconsolable that she reason. Begging your husband she married Gross a little more trouble staying on track. When if Michaela were trying to recruit becomes less a character than a Breathe! Don’t stop breathing!” than a year after Smith’s death.) she’s informed that Gerard has the reader into her funhouse- leaden symbol of inconsolability. “Unreason” is the key word The early going of “Breathe” is died, she vividly imagines receiv- mirror-vision of the world. All Michaela’s fevered brain va- there. “Breathe” is stormy, even rich with many similarly fine- ing word of his resurrection. sorts of anxieties about race, porizes the affection that defined by Oates’ dark domestic-gothic grained passages about Michae- Instead of focusing on fulfilling spirituality and the mind begin to her marriage: “To be a good standards, dramatizing Michae- la’s morbid disorientation in the Gerard’s wish to be cremated, well up. Michaela fears she’s the widow, as to be a good wife, one la’s grief as it curdles into disori- face of her widowhood. She’s lost she dwells on the silliness of the imminent victim of one of those must learn how to lie convincing- entation and then utter derange- not just a spouse, but much of her funeral home’s name (“Chapel of Pueblo gods, a “god of eyeless ly,” Oates writes, just as Michae- ment. As a narrator, Michaela identity. “If there is no one to Chimes”) and the absurdity of sockets, Skull God, beast-god, la is starting to slip badly into out-magical-thinks Joan Didion’s admire us, do we exist?” Michae- the word cremains. The world is scavenger-god poised to devour irrationality. In its best moments, magical thinking. She unreliably la muses. And the corollary: “If undone. “How ridiculous life is, the body’s organs.” Widowhood “Breathe” shows how that makes narrates like few have unreliably there is no one to love us, do we Michaela thinks.” isn’t just a cause for mourning a kind of sense; so many relation- narrated before. It’s both merit existence?” Over her notoriously prolific but a kind of sump pump for the ships are made of the stories we wrenching and at times over the Michaela’s internal torments six-decade career, Oates has psyche, voiding everything. tell each other. But it’s also a top. are offset by the novel’s placid honed a few strategies to convey As a portrait of the wobbly novel that falls in love with its Widowhood is a subject Oates setting: a town outside Albuquer- this kind of woman-on-the-verge unreality of existence that comes portrait of paranoia — and that’s knows well. In 2011, she publish- que where Gerard had taken a predicament. No writer this side with a loved one’s death, not a healthy relationship for ed “A Widow’s Story,” which residency to finish a book and of Emily Dickinson uses the “Breathe” can be effective and anybody. Summer magic found in the King’s latest revolves around bonds of friendship, family redemption of assassin for hire BY ROB MERRILL King himself somewhere in Maine doing BY TERRI BARNES into his father’s childhood and a way to Associated Press the same decades ago after bringing a Special to Stars and Stripes see the island through his dad’s eyes. Jake, Among the many remarkable things chapter of “The Stand” to life. Heard about the bestselling book about Lovie and Macon help Honey with sea about Stephen King is that he has yet to Redemption is the novel’s central the adventures of an 11-year-old named turtle rescues and of course manage to get run out of ideas. Put another way, he finds theme. Billy has always told himself he Potter? No, not that one — the one about into a little trouble. Along the way, they great new ways to explore themes that only kills bad men who deserve it, but the military kid. All the magic in this new learn more about themselves and each have interested him his entire career. when he starts having doubts about his book, “The Islanders,” other. “Billy Summers” final job, he distracts himself by writing by Mary Alice Monroe The authors wisely avoid having the tells the story of the his life story. and Angela May, ema- story turn too much on Jake’s military title character — his It’s when he finds an audience for his nates from the bonds connection, creating a well-rounded nar- past and his present. A story that the book really starts to find its of family and friend- rative that rings true for all young readers. sniper in the Iraq war, groove. Before that, it’s heavy on inner ship, and all the spells Though deeply affected by military life, now an assassin for monologue as Billy thinks through all the are cast by the natural Jake’s character has other dimensions, hire, Billy displays a possible consequences of his actions and beauty and wildlife of and his connection to his parents is not “dumb self” to his the motivations of the people around him. a Carolina barrier based on their careers. The story also clients while inside The plot is straightforward and not island. emphasizes the bond of friendship Jake he’s very curious and really very compelling until about the Jake Potter is the shares with Lovie and Macon. Each friend introspective. So when midway point, when Alice Maxwell enters son of dual-service faces challenges unique to his or her life, he takes one last job the story. A victim of gang rape, she’s parents — an Air Force C-17 pilot and an and Jake’s trials are not portrayed as that requires him to dropped out of a slowly rolling car around Army officer — stationed in New Jersey. greater or less than that of his friends, have a long-term cover story, he chooses midnight outside the apartment where When Jake’s soldier father is seriously only different. writer. In what other profession could he Billy is lying low. She gives him a new injured in Afghanistan and is hospitalized Against a backdrop of nature and con- keep such weird hours and be responsible purpose as an avenging hit man while stateside, Jake’s mom goes with him. With servation, “The Islanders” addresses to no one but his creative muse, right? serving as an eager audience for Billy’s both his parents away, Jake has to spend themes of friendship, caring for family, The passages where Billy writes his life life story. the summer with his eccentric grand- facing fear, taking responsibility and story are some of the best in the book. The action kicks into a higher gear as mother, known to everyone as Honey. more. The story also touches on topics King is adept at shifting voices, from the Billy and Alice head west to tie up loose Honey lives on DeWees Island, S.C. related to military life: moving, missing “dumb self” narrative voice Billy uses in ends. There’s even a cameo from a certain Soon Jake discovers that like Honey, her friends, family separation, injury and his story, to the killer whose brain never hotel landscaped with animal topiary. It’s isolated island home has a few quirks — recovery. All wrapped up in a gentle, stops wondering who’s trying to manip- just one of those “King-winks” for fans. some more challenging than charming. encouraging story that middle schoolers ulate him. And those fans will happily ride along with Jake meets a couple of local kids, Lovie can understand and process. “Billy saves what he’s written, gets up, Billy and Alice. and Macon, and begins to find the brighter Terri Barnes is a book editor and the author of “Spouse Calls: and staggers a little because his feet feel For readers who are new to the King side of island life. Honey gives Jake the Messages from a Military Life,” based on her long-running like they’re in another dimension,” writes canon, though, there are literally dozens of column in Stars and Stripes. Her three military kids are now nature journal his father kept when he adults, but she still reads children’s books for fun. Contact her King. “He feels like a man emerging from other books with which you’re better off was an 11-year-old, offering Jake a peek online at terribarnesauthor.com. a vivid dream.” It’s not hard to imagine beginning your Stephen King journey. Sunday, August 15, 2021 • STARS AND STRIPES • PAGE 15 CROSSWORD AND COMICS

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GADGETS A flick and a swish A desk chair that monitors An inside look at CUE5, your health the hoops-shooting robot BY GREGG ELLMAN Tribune News Service BY BEN GOLLIVER I never thought I’d be review- The Washington Post ing a desk chair that offers med- hen the men’s basketball tour- ical advice. But the Nexvoo nament at the Olympics opened Health Ergonomic Adjustable last week, the most captivating Desk Chair has a USB port for Wplayer in the building wasn’t charging a built-in health mon- Kevin Durant, Damian Lillard or any of the itor that takes readings of heart other NBA superstars on Team USA. rate, blood oxygen level, HRV Instead, all eyes in the Saitama Super and fatigue index. Arena were peeled for Japan’s answer to What makes the chair stand Stephen Curry: CUE5, Toyota’s basketball- out is the right armrest, which shooting, artificial intelligence-powered has built-in health controls. Be- robot. Within minutes after CUE5 calmly fore using the controls, the in- swished a free throw, a three-pointer and a cluded proprietary magnetic half-court shot in quick succession, its shoot- USB-A cable has to be connected ing exploits had gone viral online, with one for charging and you’ll need the clip racking up more than 4.9 million views. free Nexvoo App (available on “Computers are absurdly more accurate iOS and Android platforms). than humans,” Tesla CEO Elon Musk wrote After downloading the app, a approvingly on Twitter. Bluetooth connection must be CUE5 is a sight to behold: Its 7-foot, 220- made between the chair and the pound physique is comparable to Giannis app. Antetokounmpo and Anthony Davis. The The app records the health robot bears a slight resemblance to C3P0 data and displays it in real time. from Star Wars, although its all-black exte- The app stores the history of rior and faceless design project an intimi- tests and has resources of in- dating air. For the Olympics, CUE5 is formation of health categories of dressed in a black jersey with a Japanese the collected data. flag, “Tokyo 2020” and the number “95” Once the charging and app are across its chest, black shorts, and oversized ready, while sitting in the chair gray shoes with red shoelaces. place your right index finger on These aesthetic details and the complex AI the top side measurement unit computing power inside CUE5’s body are the for three seconds to activate it brainchild of Toyota project leader Tomohiro and then 15 seconds to run the Nomi. The 43-year-old Nomi has worked at test. Toyota for two decades, focusing his efforts You can watch the data being on basketball robots for the past four years. collected, and like I did, you’ll The CUE team has made remarkable and run it a few times for compari- gradual progress given that it originally son. Hopefully, nothing alarming launched as a volunteer program. CUE1 shot BEN GOLLIVER/The Washington Post will be revealed, but if so, the only free throws and featured a plain base. Toyota’s CUE5 basketball­shooting robot stands 7 feet tall and weighs 220 pounds. next step should be contacting CUE2 stood on two legs and added a three- your doctor. point shot. CUE3 entered the Guinness Book pointers at practice, would surely be CUE5’s have taken place from the middle of the As for the chair, it’s first-class of World Records in May 2019 — under the toughest human competition. court, its distance sensor allows it to shoot in comfort. Putting it together category “Most consecutive basketball free “Stephen Curry is my favorite player,” from any angle. According to Nomi, CUE5 was simple with the included throws by a humanoid robot (assisted)” — by Nomi said during an interview in Saitama has a 1.2 degree margin of error to make a instructions. making 2,020 consecutive free throws in 6 last week. “I want to see [a shooting contest free throw. That drops to 0.8 degree for The ergonomic features are hours and 35 minutes. between CUE5 and Curry]. That’s my three-pointers and less than 0.5 degree on adjustable, along with both 3D CUE4 participated in a three-point contest dream.” half-court shots. armrests. Levers on the bottom at Japan’s B League All-Star Game in front CUE5 boasts seven sensors: One in its Misses can be chalked up to noise in its allow for moving the seat for- of thousands of fans. Along the way, Toyota chest to measure the distance to the hoop, distance sensor reading or slight variations ward and back. A left-side lever partnered with Levanga Hokkaido, a Japa- two in its feet for moving, and four in its in the ball’s size, weight or center of gravity. allows for the back to be ad- nese professional basketball team, to take its hands for picking up the ball and dribbling. Previous CUE robots swayed during and justed to recline back or forward, development to the next level. CUE5’s hands are huge — “like Shaquille after their shots in a way that negatively up to 140 degrees, and then lock- CUE5, the latest model, delighted media O’Neal,” Nomi said — because its palms impacted shooting efficiency. ing it in the position of choice. members, basketball officials and television handle the dribbling while its long fingers The robot can make real-time adjustments And one on the right is for ad- viewers during the Olympics. According to are responsible for cradling the ball during if it shoots too short or too long, but it will justing the height of the seat. Nomi, CUE5 can shoot “almost 100 percent” its shooting motion. All told, approximately never attempt a bank shot as a matter of Like any piece of furniture, it on 15-foot free throws, 98% on three-pointers 25 parts in the robot’s arms and legs are principle. takes some getting used to, but from the 22-foot, 1.75-inch international line activated on each shot. “A swish looks much better than using the once the adjustments are set to and better than 60% on half-court shots, Nomi, who was accompanied by a team of backboard,” Nomi said. the right position, the chair is which travel nearly 46 feet. 13 technicians at the Olympics, has gone to While Nomi has spent so much time on the very comfortable. By comparison, Chris Paul led the NBA great lengths to imbue his robots with hu- CUE project that he considers the robots to The back and headrest are last season by shooting 93% on free throws, manlike qualities. CUE5 shoots with a typical be his “friends,” he is quick to acknowledge made with soft mesh to promote Bogdan Bogdanovic posted a league-best motion, picking up the ball off a rack with their limitations and said it could be another cool air circulation. The foam 44% on three-pointers and Curry managed to two hands, bending at the knees, using its left 10 or 20 years before they can play the sport. seat is 2.3 inches thick with a make 39% of his attempts from beyond 30 hand as a guide hand, executing the shot After mastering the art of shooting, though, waterfall seat edge. Once feet. with its right hand from above its right Nomi has his heart set on another major charged, the rechargeable bat- In other words, CUE5 comfortably out- shoulder and following through with a flick innovation. tery should last for 30 days if shoots the NBA’s best at all three distances, of the wrist. The robot is even programmed “I don’t know his limits yet,” Nomi said. “I used once per day. although it doesn’t need to worry about pes- to wave to the crowd as it enters and leaves want the robot to try to dunk. We would have Online: nexvoo.healthcare; ky defenders or shot clocks. Curry, who once the court. to change everything. Jumping for a dunk, $499, in choices of blue and made 105 consecutive unguarded three- While CUE5’s Olympic demonstrations moving in the air — that’s a challenge.” black Sunday, August 15, 2021 • STARS AND STRIPES • PAGE 17 OPINION

Max D. Lederer Jr., Publisher Lt. Col. Marci Hoffman, Europe commander Lt. Col. Michael Kerschbaum, Pacific commander I am Middle Eastern. The census lists me as white. Michael Ryan, Pacific chief of staff BY DALIA AZIM ing data. couldn’t. Special to The Washington Post Not only was this advice discarded in the Igrew up in the suburbs of Denver, went to illing out the 2020 Census launched creation of the 2020 Census in the Trump ad- Stanford University and work at an art mu- EDITORIAL me into a bit of an identity crisis. ministration, but Middle Easterners also seum in Austin, Texas — which is to say that Terry Leonard, Editor Under the “race or origin” ques- were explicitly absorbed into the white cate- my dominant experience in this world has [email protected] Ftion, I saw myself, a person of Egyp- gory. “White” had never been defined in any been as a person of color navigating majority- tian descent, defined as “white” for the first previous census, but this time the form read, white spaces, usually keenly aware of my sta- Robert H. Reid, Senior Managing Editor time. The Census Bureau just released de- “White - Print [origin(s)], for example, Ger- tus as an outsider. As a child, I was frequently [email protected] tailed reports on its race and ethnicity data. man, Irish, English, Italian, Lebanese, Egyp- teased for being darker than my peers and for Sean Moores, Managing Editor for Presentation While this census showed a drop in the white tian, etc.” the last name on my birth certificate: Abdel- [email protected] population, those numbers might have been Undoubtedly, there are many Arabs in the Azim. I became so ashamed of the “Abdel,” lower still if the census had been conducted United States who would prefer to identify as which clearly marked me as Arab, that I drop- BUREAU STAFF more fairly. white. Passing has always been an effective ped it in college. I’ve never considered myself white or been way to access power and privilege, an adapta- I’m trying to raise my kids to be proud of Europe/Mideast viewed as white by anyone else, to my knowl- tion that lighter-skinned minorities have long their Middle Eastern heritage. But our contri- Erik Slavin, Europe & Mideast Bureau Chief edge, so it felt misleading and dishonest to practiced. It is important to understand what butions to diversity aren’t systematically [email protected] +49(0)631.3615.9350; DSN (314)583.9350 check that box. When it comes to surveys role the Naturalization Act of 1790 has likely tracked. We’re not typically who a company such as these, it’s rare to find an option for played in this. or university is looking for when seeking to di- Pacific “Middle Eastern or North African,” or ME- Among the first pieces of legislation passed versify its staff, student body or faculty. When Aaron Kidd, Pacific Bureau Chief NA, though it kind of delights me whenever I by the first Congress, the law restricted ac- you’re part of an invisible minority, it can [email protected] do. 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Historical census forms reflect the Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, North Afri- gin into the white category also falsely inflates Brian Bowers, Assistant Managing Editor, News [email protected] country’s troubling and ever-evolving rela- ca and other non-European origins seeking to the statistical edge of the alleged majority tionship with race and how to define, and be legally defined as white, and therefore eli- group. It’s like gerrymandering demographic CIRCULATION count, people of color. gible for U.S. citizenship. data, redrawing the boundaries of race and The question of a person’s “color” first ap- It wasn’t until 1952 that racial restrictions ethnicity to the advantage of those in power. Mideast peared on the 1850 Census, with three options related to immigration and naturalization People who identify as white still constitute a Robert Reismann, Mideast Circulation Manager [email protected] given: white, black or mulatto. Other minority were abolished. My parents immigrated to majority of the U.S. population, according to [email protected] groups were added through the decades. Be- the United States in 1980. I was born in Cana- the Census Bureau. But, then again, I’m iden- DSN (314)583-9111 tween the 2010 and 2020 Censuses, the Office da, where they had earned citizenship as tified as white on the latest census, and I’m not of Management and Budget under President graduate students. When my parents were white. There may very well be a robust ME- Europe Barack Obama convened a working group to naturalized as Americans, I was a minor and NA population in Austin, but you wouldn’t Karen Lewis, Community Engagement Manager improve the quality of federal data on race therefore afforded citizenship through their know it by looking at the numbers. [email protected] [email protected] and ethnicity. One of the group’s key recom- efforts. My brother was born in Denver a year We’re here. Hiding in plain sight. +49(0)631.3615.9090; DSN (314)583.9090 mendations resulting from their research after we moved to the States. He used to tease was to add MENA to the standards for collect- me that he could run for president, but I Dalia Azim is a writer in Austin, Texas. Pacific Mari Mori, [email protected] +81-3 6385.3171; DSN (315)227.7333 ERA backers bend the rules as they seek ‘equality’ CONTACT US BY GEORGE F. WILL ification resolutions. tively, to ratify. 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Most of the 20 states that ratified it She added: “If you count a latecomer on the A Venn diagram probably would show an religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, physical in the first three months held no hearings. In plus side, how can you disregard states that almost complete overlap of today’s victory-at- handicap, political affiliation or any other nonmerit factor of the purchaser, user or patron. January 1977, Indiana became the 35th state said, ‘We’ve changed our minds’?” any-price ERA advocates and the most vocif- © Stars and Stripes 2021 to ratify. Twenty-six of the 35 explicitly re- Nevada (2017), Illinois (2018) and Virginia erous progressive critics of the previous presi- ferred to the seven-year deadline in their rat- (2020) became the 36th, 37th and 38th, respec- dent’s disdain for constitutional norms. stripes.com PAGE 18 • STARS AND STRIPES • Sunday, August 15, 2021 Sunday, August 15, 2021 • STARS AND STRIPES • PAGE 19 SCOREBOARD/GOLF

PRO SOCCER PRO FOOTBALL GOLF DEALS MLS NFL preseason Wyndham Championship Friday’s transactions PGA Tour BASEBALL EASTERN CONFERENCE Thursday’s games Friday Major League Baseball Henley WLTPts GF GA New England 22, Washington 13 At Sedgefield Country Club American League Pittsburgh 24, Philadelphia 16 Greensboro, N.C. BOSTON RED SOX — Sent RHP Eduard Ba- New England 12 3 4 40 35 22 Friday’s games Yardage: 7,131; Par: 70 zardo to Florida Complex League (FCL) on Orlando City 8 4 6 30 28 23 Purse: $6.4 Million a rehab assignment. Reinstated OF Kyle Buffalo 16, Detroit 15 Second Round Schwarber from the 10-day IL. Reinstated NYCFC 8 5 4 28 32 18 Tennessee 23, Atlanta 3 Russell Henley 62-64—126 -14 OF Alex Verdugo from the paternity leave Philadelphia 7 5 7 28 25 19 Arizona 19, Dallas 16 Rory Sabbatini 66-64—130 -10 list. Designated INF/OF Marwin Gonzalez Saturday’s games for assignment. Optioned RHP Tanner Nashville 6 2 10 28 26 17 Webb Simpson 65-65—130 -10 leads by Housck to Worcester (Triple-A East). D.C. United 8 7 3 27 27 21 Miami at Chicago Scott Piercy 64-66—130 -10 CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Optioned SS Columbus 6 6 6 24 21 23 Denver at Minnesota Justin Rose 66-65—131 -9 Danny Mendick to Charlotte (Triple-A Cleveland at Jacksonville CF Montréal 6 7 5 23 24 24 Tyler Duncan 69-62—131 -9 East). New Orleans at Baltimore CLEVELAND INDIANS — Placed CF Harold New York 5 8 4 19 21 22 Cincinnati at Tampa Bay Brian Stuard 65-66—131 -9 Ramirez on the 10-day IL, retroactive to Atlanta 3 6 9 18 21 25 N.Y. Jets at N.Y. Giants Kevin Streelman 66-66—132 -8 August 12. Optioned LHP Francisco Perez Houston at Green Bay Chicago 4 9 5 17 20 29 Alex Smalley 68-64—132 -8 to Columbus (Triple-A East). Recalled 1B Kansas City at San Francisco Yu Chang and LHP Logan Allen from Co- 4 shots Tyler McCumber 65-67—132 -8 Inter Miami CF 4 8 4 16 15 26 Seattle at Las Vegas Kevin Na 68-64—132 -8 lumbus. Associated Press L.A. Chargers at L.A. Rams NEW YORK YANKEES — Returned OF Es- Cincinnati 3 7 7 16 18 30 Chris Kirk 64-69—133 -7 Sunday’s games tevan Florial to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre GREENSBORO, N.C. — Russell Toronto FC 3 9 6 15 23 38 Kevin Kisner 65-68—133 -7 (Triple-A East). Returned INF Chris Gittens Carolina at Indianapolis Henley shot a 6-under 64 on Fri- WESTERN CONFERENCE Hudson Swafford 64-69—133 -7 from rehab assignment and reinstated Thursday, Aug. 19 Bronson Burgoon 65-68—133 -7 him from the 10-day IL then optioned him day to open a four-stroke lead half- WLTPts GF GA Sam Ryder 68-65—133 -7 to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. Transferred OF New England at Philadelphia Clint Frazier’s rehab assignment from way through the Wyndham Cham- Sporting KC 10 4 4 34 33 20 Friday, Aug. 20 Mackenzie Hughes 70-63—133 -7 Tampa (Low-A Southeast) to Somerset Matt Kuchar 66-67—133 -7 (Double-A Northeast). Transferred RHP pionship. Seattle 9 3 6 33 26 14 Cincinnati at Washington Kansas City at Arizona Sung Kang 64-69—133 -7 Luis Severino’s rehab assignment from Henley was at 14-under 126, ty- LA Galaxy 10 6 2 32 29 28 Sebastián Muñoz 66-67—133 -7 Somerset to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. Colorado 8 4 4 28 22 16 Saturday, Aug. 21 TEXAS RANGERS — Reinstated RHP Dane ing Stewart Cink at the RBC Heri- Jhonattan Vegas 65-68—133 -7 Dunning from the 10-day IL. Selected the Minnesota 7 5 5 26 21 21 Buffalo at Chicago John Augenstein 68-65—133 -7 N.Y. Jets at Green Bay contract of C Yohel Pozo from Round Rock tage in April for the lowest 36-hole Portland 7 8 2 23 23 29 Atlanta at Miami Denny McCarthy 65-69—134 -6 (Triple-A West) and agreed to terms on a score this season in a tournament LAFC 6 7 5 23 24 25 Baltimore at Carolina Tommy Fleetwood 66-68—134 -6 major league contract. Optioned LHP Wes Detroit at Pittsburgh Sungjae Im 66-68—134 -6 Benjamin and 1B Curtis Terry to Round Cink went on to win. San Jose 5 7 7 22 21 27 Rock. Designated RHP Jimmy Herget for Tennessee at Tampa Bay Si Woo Kim 66-68—134 -6 Real Salt Lake 5 6 6 21 26 20 Houston at Dallas assignment. Olympic silver medalist Rory Erik van Rooyen 65-69—134 -6 National League FC Dallas 5 7 6 21 23 25 Indianapolis at Minnesota ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Optioned Sabbatini was tied for second with Houston 3 6 9 18 19 25 Denver at Seattle Las Vegas at L.A. Rams Scottish Open RHP Sean Poppen to Reno (Triple-A West). past champion Webb Simpson and Vancouver 3 7 8 17 19 28 Activated RHP J.B. Wendelken. Sunday, Aug. 22 LPGA Tour ATLANTA BRAVES — Optioned LHP Kyle Austin FC 4 9 4 16 13 20 playoff bubble man Scott Piercy. N.Y. Giants at Cleveland Friday Muller to Gwinnett (Triple-A East). Re- Note: Three points for victory, one point San Francisco at L.A. Chargers At Dumbarnie Links called RHP Jacob Webb from Gwinnett. Sabbatini shot a 64, Simpson 65 for tie. Fife, Scotland Sent C Kevan Smith outright to Gwinnett Monday, Aug. 23 and Piercy at 66. Friday’s game Purse: $1.5 million Stripers. Jacksonville at New Orleans Yardage: 6,573; Par: 71 CINCINNATI REDS — Sent RHP R.J. Alaniz Former FedEx Cup champion Vancouver 0, San Jose 0, tie Second Round to Louisville (Triple-A East) on a rehab as- Saturday’s games TENNIS Ariya Jutanugarn 69-66—135 -9 signment. Justin Rose, outside the playoffs at LA Galaxy at Minnesota Charley Hull 69-69—138 -6 COLORADO ROCKIES — Sent RHP Chi Chi Gonzalez to Arizona Complez League the start of the week, continued his Miami at New York City FC Rogers Cup Emily Kristine Pedersen 69-69—138 -6 New England at Toronto FC (ACL) on a rehab assignment. surge toward the postseason with New York at CF Montréal Friday Atthaya Thitikul 68-70—138 -6 MIAMI MARLINS — Agreed to terms with Colorado at Houston At Aviva Centre Jeongeun Lee6 71-68—139 -5 RF Dustin Fowler on a minor league con- a 65 that left him at 9 under in a Sporting Kansas City at FC Dallas Toronto Lydia Hall 69-70—139 -5 tract. Placed INF Joe Panik on the 10-day IL. group with Tyler Duncan and Austin FC at Real Salt Lake Purse: $2,850,975 Sarah Schmelzel 68-71—139 -5 Reinstated INF Jazz Chisholm from the 10- Sunday’s games Surface: Hardcourt outdoor day IL. Brian Stuard. Ryann O’Toole 68-71—139 -5 MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Signed RHP Los Angeles FC at Atlanta Men’s Singles Kelsey MacDonald 68-71—139 -5 Robbie Baker to a minor league contract. Columbus at Chicago Quarterfinals Duncan had the lowest score of Yuka Saso 67-72—139 -5 Sent RHP Sal Romano outright to Nashville D.C. United at Nashville Stefanos Tsitsipas (3), Greece, def. the round at 62. Stuard shot 66. Seattle at Portland Marina Alex 69-71—140 -4 (Triple-A East). Casper Ruud (6), Norway, 6-1, 6-4. NEW YORK METS — Placed INF Javier Yealimi Noh 68-72—140 -4 When Henley teed off, the first- NWSL Reilly Opelka, United States, def. Rober- Baez on the 10-day IL, retroactive to Au- to Bautista Agut (10), Spain, 6-3, 7-6 (1). Ssu-Chia Cheng 72-69—141 -3 gust 12. Recalled INF Travis Blakenhorn Daniil Medvedev (1), Russia, def. Hubert round leader had already been WLTPts GF GA Whitney Hillier 72-69—141 -3 from Syracuse (Triple-A East). Optioned Hurkacz (7), Poland, 2-6, 7-6 (6), 7-6 (5). Ashleigh Buhai 71-70—141 -3 RHP Trevor Williams to Syracuse. Signed passed by Sabbatini, Piercy and John Isner, United States, def. Gael Mon- Portland 9 3 1 28 20 7 Anna Nordqvist 70-71—141 -3 OF Josh Reddick to a minor league con- fils (11), France, 7-6 (5), 6-4. tract. Simpson. Henley, who opened on North Carolina 6 4 3 21 17 9 Men’s Doubles Celine Boutier 70-71—141 -3 ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Placed LHP the back nine, got going with four Gotham FC 5 2 5 20 13 8 Quarterfinals Nanna Koerstz Madsen 68-73—141 -3 Wade LeBlanc on the 10-day IL. Reinstated Orlando 5 4 5 20 17 16 Horia Tecau, Romania, and Kevin Kra- Jasmine Suwannapura 67-74—141 -3 RHP Jack Flaherty from the 60-day IL. straight birdies on Nos. 14-17 to re- wietz (4), Germany, def. Dusan Lajovic, Ally Ewing 73-69—142 -2 SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Agreed to Chicago 6 6 2 20 15 20 Serbia, and Aslan Karatsev, Russia, 6-3, terms with SS Brandon Crawford on a two- gain the lead. Karolin Lampert 71-71—142 -2 Washington 5 5 4 19 17 17 3-6, 10-3. year contract. Reinstated RHP Anthony Nikola Mektic and Mate Pavic (1), Croa- A Lim Kim 71-71—142 -2 Henley added three more bird- Reign FC 6 6 1 19 17 14 DeSclafani from the 10-day IL. Optioned tia, def. Matwe Middelkoop, Netherlands, Jing Yan 71-71—142 -2 RHP Camilo Doval to Sacramento (Triple-A ies on his final nine. It was a couple Houston 5 6 3 18 17 20 and Luke Saville, Australia, 6-3, 6-7 (6), Lydia Ko 70-72—142 -2 West). Placed RHP Aaron Sanchez on un- Louisville 4 6 2 14 10 18 10-7. Cheyenne Knight 70-72—142 -2 conditional release waivers. of months ago that Henley shared Rajeev Ram, United States, and Joe Sa- WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Optioned Kansas City 0 9 4 4 6 20 lisbury (3), Britain, def. Rohan Bopanna, In- Prima Thammaraks 70-72—142 -2 RHP Tanner Rainey to Rochester (Triple-A the halfway lead at the U.S. Open. Note: Three points for victory, one point dia, and Ivan Dodig (8), Croatia, 4-6, 6-3, Becky Morgan 68-74—142 -2 East). He was among three leaders after for tie. 10-4. Esther Henseleit 75-68—143 -1 BASKETBALL Friday’s game Sander Gille and Joran Vliegen, Belgium, Jenny Shin 73-70—143 -1 National Basketball Association 54 holes until falling off with final- Washington 2, Houston 2, tie def. Robert Farah and Juan Sebastian Ca- Azahara Munoz 73-70—143 -1 BOSTON CELTICS — Signed C Enes Kan- bal (2), Colombia, 6-7 (5), 6-2, 10-8. round 76. Saturday’s games ter and G Dennis Schroder. Carlota Ciganda 72-71—143 -1 HOUSTON ROCKETS — Signed F Matt Henley hopes he can keep the Portland at Orlando National Bank Open Leona Maguire 71-72—143 -1 Hurt to a two-way contract. Reign FC at Kansas City Friday Bronte Law 69-74—143 -1 LOS ANGELES CLIPPERS — Re-signed G same drive and mentality on the Sunday’s games At IGA Stadium & Aviva Centre Celine Herbin 69-74—143 -1 Nicolas Baturn. weekend. After all, this is not the Louisville at Gotham FC Montreal NEW ORLEANS PELICANS — Re-signed G Chicago at North Carolina Didi Louzada. Purse: $1,835,490 Shaw Charity Classic FOOTBALL U.S. Open and pars here will prob- Surface: Hardcourt outdoor National Football League PRO BASKETBALL Women’s Singles Champions Tour ably lead you out of contention. Quarterfinals Friday CHICAGO BEARS — Activated DT Eddie At Canyon Meadows Golf & Country Club Goldman from the COVID-19 list. Waived “You have to do everything WNBA Aryna Sabalenka (1), Belarus, def. Victo- WR Thomas Ives. ria Azarenka (8), Belarus, 6-2, 6-4. Calgary, Alberta right,” Henley said. “So it’s kind of Purse: $2.35 million GREEN BAY PACKERS — Placed OLB Ran- EASTERN CONFERENCE Karolina Pliskova (4), Czech Republic, dy Ramsey on unclaimed waivers and re- def. Sara Sorribes Tormo, Spain, 6-4, 6-0. Yardage: 7,086; Par: 70 the same way except for I’m just WLPct GB First Round verted to IR. Camila Giorgi, Italy, def. Coco Gauff (15), HOUSTON TEXANS — Placed OTs Laremy mainly trying to keep committing United States, 6-4, 7-6 (2). Billy Mayfair 32-30—62 -8 Connecticut 14 6 .700 — Tunsil and Tytus Howard on the COVID-19 Jessica Pegula, United States, def. Ons Mike Weir 31-32—63 -7 list. to every shot off the tee and put Chicago 10 10 .500 4 Jabeur (13), Tunisia, 1-6, 7-6 (4), 6-0. Doug Barron 30-34—64 -6 LAS VEGAS RAIDERS — Activated DB myself in the fairway” where he Women’s Doubles Isaiah Johnson from the physically unable New York 10 11 .476 4½ Quarterfinals Steve Flesch 34-30—64 -6 Stephen Ames 33-31—64 -6 to perform (PUP) list. can stay aggressive. Washington 8 10 .444 5 Andreja Klepac, Slovenia, and Darija Ju- NEW ORLEANS SAINTS — Waived LB Atlanta 6 13 .316 7½ rak (6), Croatia, def. Alexa Guarachi Mathi- Ken Duke 33-32—65 -5 Quentin Poling with an injury designation. It was a good day for Sabbatini, son, Chile, and Desirae Krawczyk (4), Unit- Brandt Jobe 34-31—65 -5 Indiana 4 16 .200 10 Released CB Keith Washington from IR Piercy and Rose, all who began ed States, 6-4, 6-2. Robert Gamez 35-31—66 -4 with a settlement. Signed OT Lawrence WESTERN CONFERENCE Veronika Kudermetova, Russia, and Ele- Kirk Triplett 34-32—66 -4 Woods. the week outside the 125-man na Rybakina, Kazakhstan, def. Ulrikke Eik- Billy Andrade 33-33—66 -4 NEW YORK GIANTS — Waived RB Mike WLPct GB eri, Norway, and Catherine Harrison, Unit- Weber with an injury designation settle- postseason cutoff, but have played ed States, 6-0, 6-2. Scott Dunlap 32-34—66 -4 ment. Signed OT Ted Larsen. Waived DB Seattle 16 5 .762 — Gabriela Dabrowski, Canada, and Luisa Jeff Maggert 32-34—66 -4 Jordyn Peters. themselves into next week’s Stefani (5), Brazil, def. Elise Mertens, Belgi- Las Vegas 15 6 .714 1 Dean Wilson 34-33—67 -3 PHILADELPHIA EAGLES — Waived DB Northern Trust with 36 holes to go. um, and Aryna Sabalenka (1), Belarus, 6-2, John Riegger 33-34—67 -3 Nate Meadors with an injury designation Minnesota 12 7 .632 3 6-2. settlement. Sabbatini has moved from 141st Paul Stankowski 34-33—67 -3 Phoenix 9 10 .474 6 HOCKEY AP SPORTLIGHT Paul Goydos 35-32—67 -3 in the FedEx standings to a pro- Dallas 9 12 .429 7 National Hockey League Tim Herron 35-32—67 -3 BUFFALO SABRES — Signed D Casey Fitz- jected 95th. He tied his career low Los Angeles 6 13 .316 9 Aug. 15 Matt Gogel 36-31—67 -3 gerald to a two-year contract. COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS — Signed LW 36-hole score of 130, last accom- Friday’s games 1948 — Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins Steve Pate 34-33—67 -3 the U.S. Women’s Open golf title over Betty Alex Cejka 34-33—67 -3 Zac Rinaldo to a one-year, two-way con- No games scheduled tract. plished in 2003 at the Shriner’s Hicks. Jonathan Kaye 34-34—68 -2 Saturday’s games 1950 — Ezzard Charles knocks out Fred- FLORIDA PANTHERS — Signed LW Joe Children’s Open. Lee Janzen 36-32—68 -2 Thorton to a one-year contract. No games scheduled die Beshore in the 14th round to retain his world heavyweight title. Kent Jones 34-34—68 -2 SOCCER Piercy started this week as first Sunday’s games 1965 — Dave Marr edges Jack Nicklaus Tom Pernice Jr. 35-33—68 -2 Major League Soccer man out at No. 126. His 64-66 start Connecticut at Dallas and Billy Casper to take the PGA Cham- Tim Petrovic 35-33—68 -2 MINNESOTA UNITED FC — Acquired pionship. $75,000 in 2022 general allocation money Seattle at Chicago David McKenzie 34-34—68 -2 has him projected at 80th for the Atlanta at Phoenix 2014 — Mo’Ne Davis, one of two girls at (GAM) from D.C. United for first refusal for Washington at Las Vegas the Little League World Series, throws a Bernhard Langer 35-33—68 -2 D Jose Aja. Waived F Ramon Abila. playoffs. New York at Minnesota two-hitter to help Philadelphia beat Nash- Cliff Kresge 35-33—68 -2 COLLEGE Rose was also outside at No. 138 Indiana at Los Angeles ville 4-0 in the opener for both teams. Da- Gibby Gilbert III 35-33—68 -2 MEMPHIS — Named Kassie Kadera as vis, the first girl to appear for a U.S. team in David Morland IV 37-31—68 -2 associate head volleyball coach and when he teed off Thursday. He’s at Monday’s games South Williamsport since 2004, has eight Mitchell Baumgartner as assistant volley- No games scheduled strikeouts and no walks. Dennis Hendershott 35-33—68 -2 ball coach. 117th after shooting 66-65. PAGE 20 • STARS AND STRIPES • Sunday, August 15, 2021 NBA/SPORTS BRIEFS

BRIEFLY Castroneves headlines Motorsports HoF class

Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — Helio Cas- troneves celebrated his record-ty- ing fourth Indianapolis 500 victo- ry in May. The rewards are still rolling in. When the popular 46-year-old Brazilian returned to Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Thursday, track officials presented him with a bronze brick and on Friday, he was named as the headliner in a nine-member Motorsports Hall of MICHAEL CONROY/AP Fame of America induction class Helio Castroneves poses after for 2022. winning this year’s Indianapolis “The motivation has always 500. It was the fourth time been there,” Castroneves said. Castroneves won the race. “It’s not about the title. I never lost FRANK FRANKLIN II/AP faith. I wouldn’t be going inside the street. DeMar DeRozan, left, believes the Chicago Bulls, his new team, is ready to make the jump to contender the helmet if I didn’t think I had a Beltre and Chuck Morgan, in after four straight years of missing the playoffs. chance to succeed. For me that his 38th season as the public ad- keeps me right there on the edge dress announcer for the Rangers and the competition in the Indy- spanning three different stadi- Car Series, it’s so competitive that ums, are the 23rd and 24th induc- if you sneeze, you lose a tenth.” tees in the team’s Hall of Fame With DeRozan, Ball, Bulls Castroneves, the open-wheel since the first class in 2003. selection, will be joined by long- The Rangers retired Beltre’s time NASCAR owner Jack Roush, No. 29 jersey two years ago, in Pete Brock from sports cars, Dick their last season at Globe Life LaHaie from drag racing, NAS- Park before moving last season in- expect to be contenders CAR co-founder Raymond Parks to the new Globe Life Field with a and NASCAR builder Banjo Mat- retractable roof. His first time on BY ANDREW SELIGMAN thews, Denise McCluggage in the the ballot for the National Base- Associated Press media category while motorcycle ball Hall of Fame will be for the CHICAGO — Joining Olympian Zach LaVine and innovators Trey Vance and Byron Class of 2024. Nikola Vucevic in what could be a high-scoring trio Hines will go in as a single entry. appealed to DeMar DeRozan. He is thrilled to get to Roush was the mastermind of Bills owners committed play alongside fellow newcomer Lonzo Ball, too. more than 300 Cup Series wins. He sees a team poised to make a jump, and that ex- Brock deigned the 1965 world to sharing stadium costs plains why the Chicago Bulls were an attractive des- champion Cobra Daytona coupes. BUFFALO, N.Y. — Buffalo Bills tination. LaHaie is the only person to win owners Terry and Kim Pegula are “Every guy, when I look at their roster, has a chip NHRA Top Fuel titles as a driver committed to paying a portion of on their shoulders,” DeRozan said. “Vuc, since col- and a crew chief. the projected $1.4 billion in their lege, I know the type of player he is, how bad he wants The final inductee will be proposal to build a stadium. to win. Zach wanting to be on that main stage and named later this month. “When it comes to the future wanting to compete for something much more than new home of the Bills, (the Pegu- just stats during the season. Myself, I always carried Beltre going into Rangers las) have always known that, like a chip on my shoulder. And Lonzo. ... There’s so much virtually all NFL stadiums, this there that can bring so much potential.” Hall of Fame with Morgan will ultimately be some form of a The Bulls finished 11th in the Eastern Conference ARLINGTON, Texas — Much public/private partnership,” Peg- and missed the playoffs for the fourth straight year. of what Adrian Beltre now hears ula Sports and Entertainment se- While it was their first season with Arturas Karniso- TONY GUTIERREZ/AP about his Hall of Fame-caliber ca- nior vice president Ron Raccuia vas leading the front office and Billy Donovan coach- Like DeRozan, Lonzo Ball joined Chicago in a reer comes from his son, a base- said in a statement to The Associ- ing the club, they clearly have their sights set on the sign­and­trade agreement. ball fanatic who grew up in the ated Press on Saturday. postseason. Texas Rangers clubhouse during Raccuia’s comments are the The Bulls are banking on DeRozan and Ball to help New Orleans. It could have worked out, but like I his father’s last eight big league team’s first public statement since them get there after making big moves to acquire the said, everything happens for a reason.” seasons. discussions with state and county two in separate sign-and-trade deals. They intro- Ball, a four-year veteran who turns 24 in October, “When AJ (Adrian Jr.) sees officials on the team’s future home duced their new arrivals on Friday. is coming off his best season. In his second year with stuff like that, I can see in his face opened two months ago. The state- DeRozan, a four-time All-Star with eight straight the Pelicans, he averaged career highs in points (14.6 that he’s proud, which just makes ment is timed at ending specula- seasons averaging more than 20 points, agreed to a per game) and field-goal percentage (41.4) while av- me emotional,” Beltre said. “And I tion the Bills want taxpayers to three-year, $85 million contract. In return, the Bulls eraging 5.7 assists. He hit a career-high 172 three- always try to be humble with him pay the entire cost. sent San Antonio veteran forwards Thaddeus Young pointers last season while making a career-best and kind of teach how to be, you How the costs will be split is un- and Al-Farouq Aminu, a protected first-round draft 37.8% of his shots from deep. know, hungry for what you want, clear, and to be determined in ne- pick and two second-round draft picks. Ball, drafted by the Lakers with the No. 2 pick out of but stay humble.” gotiations, which are expected to The Bulls gave Ball, a restricted free agent, $85 UCLA in 2017, changed his shooting mechanics after The four-time All-Star and five- resume once Lt. Gov. Kathy Ho- million over four years. The Pelicans got Garrett being traded to the Pelicans in the deal that sent An- time Gold Glove-winning third chul takes over as New York gov- Temple, Tomas Satoransky, a 2024 second-round thony Davis to Los Angeles. baseman, who retired in 2018 after ernor following Andrew Cuomo’s draft pick from Chicago and landed guard Devonte “Since he’s been in the league, it seems like he 21 big league seasons, was induct- resignation last week. Graham from Charlotte in a separate sign-and-trade hasn’t really been let free to be the player that I be- ed into the Texas Rangers Base- The Bills want to replace the move. lieve he is,” DeRozan said. “Coming to this organiza- ball Hall of Fame on Saturday newly renamed Highmark Stadi- “I think everything happens for a reason and ev- tion once I’d seen him sign and seeing him having night. He went to his only World um, which opened in 1973. The erything plans out how it’s supposed to plan out,” Ball that opportunity for the first time in his career, was Series in 2011, his first season in proposal calls for the stadium to said. “I think at this point in my life, it was time for me something that I definitely want to be a part of. The Texas, and joined MLB’s 3,000-hit be built in a Bills-controlled park- to be a Chicago Bull. I’m happy to be in Chicago. Ob- dynamic that he brings to the court on both ends is club in a Rangers home game in ing lot across the street from their viously, I’ve got good bonds with guys over there in tremendous.” 2017 at their old stadium across current home. Sunday, August 15, 2021 • STARS AND STRIPES • PAGE 21 MLB

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American League Tribe top Tigers; Cabrera stuck at 499 East Division Associated Press WLPct GB DETROIT — Cleveland rookie Tampa Bay 71 45 .612 _ Ernie Clement hit the first two 0-for-4 Boston 67 51 .568 5 homers of his career while Miguel New York 63 52 .548 7½ Tigers slugger Miguel Cabrera’s output Toronto 62 53 .539 8½ Cabrera stayed one drive short of at the plate on Friday in a 7-4 loss to Baltimore 38 76 .333 32 No. 500 as the Indians beat the De- the Cleveland Indians in Detroit. Ca- Central Division troit Tigers 7-4 on Friday night. brera struck out in the first inning, flied WLPct GB “It was obviously a great feeling out twice and grounded out. Chicago 68 48 .586 _ to hit my first one, but I was in SOURCE: Associated Press Cleveland 56 58 .491 11 complete shock when the second Detroit 57 61 .483 12 one went out,” said Clement, who for the Indians, who improved to Minnesota 50 66 .431 18 Kansas City 49 65 .430 18 only had three homers in 268 mi- 11-5 against Detroit this season. West Division nor league games. Plesac (7-4) allowed two runs on WLPct GB “My game is about trying to hit five hits in seven innings. He Houston 69 46 .600 _ the ball hard and get on base for struck out nine without a walk af- Oakland 67 49 .578 2½ the guys behind me. I’m not a ter giving up five runs in four in- Seattle 62 55 .530 8 home-run hitter,” he said. nings against the Tigers Sunday. Los Angeles 58 59 .496 12 Cabrera went 0-for-4, leaving “I knew I had good stuff in that Texas 41 75 .353 28½ him at 499 career home runs and game, but I didn’t do a good job of National League disappointing a crowd of 22,107. executing my pitches,” he said. JOSE JUAREZ/AP East Division Fans were crammed into Comeri- “That’s been something I’ve been Tigers slugger Miguel Cabrera reacts after striking out against Indians WLPct GB ca Park’s outfield seats at where dealing with, but today was a lot pitcher Zach Plesac during the first inning Friday in Detroit. Atlanta 60 56 .517 _ the milestone drive might land. better.” Philadelphia 60 56 .517 _ “It was electric every time Mig- “Miggy is fine,” Tigers manager open a six-game homestand. Tyler Alexander (2-2) gave up New York 59 56 .513 ½ Washington 50 66 .431 10 gy came up to the plate,” Indians A.J. Hinch said. “As great as he is, “We know the fans are here for four runs in five innings. Miami 49 67 .422 11 starter Zach Plesac said. “The he can’t just will a home run when- Miggy, but we’re all feeding off “The top of Cleveland’s order is Central Division ground was shaking — that was a ever he wants one. He’s swinging this energy,” Tigers catcher Eric really tough against lefties and he WLPct GB playoff atmosphere. I just didn’t well and it will come.” Haase said. “We’ve been a win- did a really good job against Milwaukee 70 46 .603 _ want to be the one who gave it up.” Cabrera homered Wednesday ning team for a couple months them,” Hinch said. “But the bot- Cincinnati 63 54 .538 7½ Cabrera struck out in the first night at Baltimore and sat out now, and it is fun seeing the crowd tom of the order had three homers St. Louis 59 56 .513 10½ inning, flied out twice and ground- Thursday against the Orioles. The respond to that.” and a triple. That’s just how it goes Chicago 52 66 .441 19 ed out. Tigers then returned to Detroit to Yu Chang homered and tripled some days.” Pittsburgh 41 74 .357 28½ West Division WLPct GB ROUNDUP San Francisco 75 41 .647 _ Los Angeles 70 46 .603 5 San Diego 66 52 .559 10 Colorado 51 65 .440 24 Marlins score 11 in second inning, beat Cubs Arizona 37 80 .316 38½ Friday’s games Associated Press Cleveland 7, Detroit 4 Boston 8, Baltimore 1 MIAMI — Bryan De La Cruz hit a grand Texas 8, Oakland 6 St. Louis 6, Kansas City 0 slam and Alex Jackson added a three-run Tampa Bay 10, Minnesota 4 homer as the Marlins tied a team record by Houston 4, L.A. Angels 1 Seattle 3, Toronto 2 scoring 11 times in the second inning of a 14-10 Cincinnati 6, Philadelphia 1 Atlanta 4, Washington 2 victory over the slumping Chicago Cubs. Miami 14, Chicago Cubs 10 The 11 runs tied a Marlins mark set in the L.A. Dodgers 6, N.Y. Mets 5 (10) Arizona 3, San Diego 2 fifth inning at Milwaukee on June 4, 2019. San Francisco 5, Colorado 4 Milwaukee at Pittsburgh, ppd. The Marlins’ second-inning outburst erased Saturday’s games a three-run deficit. De La Cruz’s drive against Baltimore at Boston Cleveland at Detroit Adbert Alzolay (4-13) put Miami ahead 5-4. Oakland at Texas N.Y. Yankees at Chicago White Sox Jesús Aguilar also homered for Miami. St. Louis at Kansas City Tampa Bay at Minnesota Starter Jesús Luzardo (4-5) benefited from Houston at L.A. Angels the offensive support and allowed five runs Toronto at Seattle Milwaukee at Pittsburgh (2) and six hits in five innings. He struck out six, Cincinnati at Philadelphia Atlanta at Washington walked four and hit a batter. Chicago Cubs at Miami Chicago got two-run homers from Frank L.A. Dodgers at N.Y. Mets San Diego at Arizona Schwindel and Ian Happ. Robinson Chirinos Colorado at San Francisco Sunday’s games homered, doubled twice and singled. The Baltimore (Akin 0-6) at Boston (Rodrí- Cubs have lost nine straight. guez 8-6) Cleveland (McKenzie 1-5) at Detroit Braves 4, Nationals 2: Austin Riley home- (Mize 6-6) N.Y. Yankees (Cortes Jr. 0-1) at Chicago red in the seventh inning of a weather-delayed White Sox (Giolito 9-8) LYNNE SLADKY/AP St. Louis (Happ 6-6) at Kansas City (Bub- game, and Atlanta beat host Washington to ic 3-5) move into a first-place tie in the NL East with Tampa Bay (Patiño 2-3) at Minnesota The Marlins’ Alex Jackson hits a three­run home run during the second inning of Friday’s game (TBD) Philadelphia. against the Chicago Cubs in Miami. The Marlins won 14­10. Oakland (Manaea 8-7) at Texas (Allard 2-10) Dodgers 6, Mets 5 (10): Will Smith hit a Houston (McCullers Jr. 9-3) at L.A. An- two-run homer to start the 10th inning and Rays 10, Twins 4:Nelson Cruz homered in Kyle Tucker hit his first career grand slam, gels (Detmers 0-2) Toronto (Matz 9-7) at Seattle (Gilbert 5-3) visiting Los Angeles bounced back after blow- his return to Minnesota and Tampa Bay Zack Greinke pitched two-hit ball over seven Atlanta (Smyly 8-3) at Washington (Es- pino 3-3) ing a four-run lead to beat New York. moved a season-high 26 games over .500 with scoreless innings and Houston beat Los An- Cincinnati (Gray 4-6) at Philadelphia (Nola 7-6) Reds 6, Phillies 1: Joey Votto hit a three- the win. geles. Milwaukee (Peralta 9-3) at Pittsburgh run homer and Tyler Mahle tossed seven Cruz made his first appearance in Minneso- Diamondbacks 3, Padres 2: Daulton Var- (Brault 0-1) Chicago Cubs (Mills 5-4) at Miami shutout innings to lead Cincinnati over host ta since being traded by the Twins to Tampa sho hit a game-ending homer in the ninth in- (Thompson 2-5) Colorado (Gray 7-8) at San Francisco Philadelphia. Bay on July 22. He struck out on three pitches ning, sending Arizona past visiting San Diego. (Wood 9-3) San Diego (TBD) at Arizona (Gallen 1-6) Red Sox 8, Orioles 1: Kyle Schwarber in his first at-bat before sending a line drive Giants 5, Rockies 4: Wilmer Flores hit a L.A. Dodgers (Scherzer 9-4) at N.Y. Mets scored twice in his debut with his new team into the left-field seats for his 24th home run three-run homer in the first, Thairo Estrada (Carrasco 0-0) Monday’s games and his new teammates delivered three home of the season and fifth for the Rays. Cruz fin- added an RBI single, and host San Francisco L.A. Angels at N.Y. Yankees runs to lift Boston over visiting Baltimore. ished 2-for-4 with a walk and two runs scored. extended its winning streak to six games with Baltimore at Tampa Bay Cleveland at Minnesota Rangers 8, Athletics 6: Yohel Pozo hit a Cardinals 6, Royals 0: Jack Flaherty a win over Colorado. Houston at Kansas City Oakland at Chicago White Sox go-ahead, three-run home run in the sixth in- pitched six innings of two-hit ball in his return Mariners 3, Blue Jays 2: Jarred Kelenic Atlanta at Miami Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati ning of his major league debut, fellow rookie from an oblique injury, and St. Louis blanked drew a bases-loaded walk in the ninth inning, San Diego at Colorado DJ Peters had a two-run shot and host Texas host Kansas City. and Seattle stretched its winning streak to N.Y. Mets at San Francisco Pittsburgh at L.A. Dodgers beat Oakland. Astros 4, Angels 1: At Anaheim, Calif., three games with a win over visiting Toronto. PAGE 22 • STARS AND STRIPES • Sunday, August 15, 2021 COLLEGE FOOTBALL

COMMENTARY Kiffin, Ole Miss setting shining example with 100% vaccination rate BY PAUL NEWBERRY at 42.1%) has a lower vaccination Associated Press rate. The dichotomy in Mississippi is All across the SEC’s 11-state striking. footprint the anti-vax movement The state has one of the lowest is strong. COVID-19 vaccination rates in the Florida, Kentucky, Texas and country. Its hospitals are on the Missouri are the only SEC states verge of being overwhelmed by with vaccination rates above 50%. those stricken with the potentially The remaining seven have yet to deadly disease. reach even that modest threshold, Yet, in the face of all that discou- even though vaccines are free and raging news, the flagship univer- pretty much available now on ev- sity’s football team is fully vacci- ery street corner. nated — all 240 coaches, players The numbers are especially and staff. troubling when one considers the It will be intriguing to see just example being set by the power- GEORGE FREY/AP how much influence coach Lane house football programs in those On Thursday, BYU announced Built Brands — a Utah­based company that makes protein­heavy snacks — Kiffin and his Ole Miss players states. will give the opportunity for all 123 members of its football team to be paid to promote its products. have on those who have been re- The Georgia Bulldogs say more luctant to embrace, even in the than 90% of their players are fully face of overwhelming scientific vaccinated, while Alabama coach evidence, their best defense Nick Saban reported recently that against the coronavirus pandem- his team was closing in on that BYU deal raises questions ic. number. Saban also has made That goes for the entire South- PSAs urging Alabamians to get eastern Conference, the country’s vaccinated. mightiest football league and one “We feel really comfortable that, in normal times, wields enor- where we are,” Georgia coach of competitive advantage mous influence in its neck of the Kirby Smart said at the start of woods. preseason practice. “My goal as Marketing partnership will give all players opportunity for paid promotions “Going out and talking about it always is to be 100%. I think it’s the ... is one thing,” Kiffin said during safest thing for our players.” BY RALPH D. RUSSO “Competitive advantage make at least one appearance at a an appearance this week on These coaches have selfish rea- Associated Press exists in life. It’s called company event. MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” talk sons for goading their teams to get A deal BYU has made available Walk-ons are required to make show. “But when a team, an entire vaccinated, of course. to its football players could test creativity. You come up with two appearances and promote the organization — not just the play- With the pandemic raging again how much allowing athletes to be good ideas that give you a company on social media. ers — decides to do this at 100%, I and the start of the season just compensated by outside compa- competitive advantage.” Holmoe said BYU did not nego- would like to think that’s pretty weeks away, vaccines are the best nies for name, image and likeness tiate the deal with Built Brands eye-opening for a lot of people that defense against schools having to can be used as a competitive ad- Tom Holmoe CEO Nick Greer, who is a friend of were sitting right on the edge or forfeit games — and possibly ruin vantage. BYU athletic director Sitake’s, but it was vetted by the not really motivated to do it. any championship hopes — be- Earlier this week, BYU an- school’s general counsel and pres- “I bet our numbers go up,” he cause they don’t have enough nounced Built Brands — a Utah- BYU athletic director Tom Hol- ident. went on to prognosticate. “That’s healthy players to take the field. based company that makes pro- moe told the AP on Friday that he The NCAA has taken a hands- pretty cool.” The SEC has already an- tein snacks — will give all 123 and football coach Kalani Sitake off and permissive approach to Those numbers have nowhere nounced that forfeits — not post- members of the Cougars’ football were searching for a way to pro- NIL, allowing schools in states to go but up. ponements or cancellations, like team the opportunity to be paid to vide an NIL opportunity to the en- that do not have NIL laws to set According to data compiled by last season — are on the table if promote its products. tire team, not trying to find a work- their own policies. Utah has no the Mayo Clinic, just 42.7% of Mis- COVID-19 disrupts the season. Scholarship players can earn around to the scholarship limit. law, but the NCAA still does not al- sissippi residents have received at The PAC-12 joined that stance $1,000. For walk-ons, players who “The whole mindset wasn’t to low NIL payments to be used as least one dose of a COVID-19 vac- this week. are not on athletic scholarship, the try to get a recruiting advantage or recruiting inducements or pay- cine. Only one other state (Idaho It shouldn’t be controversial. payment can be equivalent to the anything,” Sitake said. “It was just for-play. cost of a year’s tuition at BYU, to do what we thought was right “There are still, I’ll say, rules,” which ranges from about $3,000 to and to help the walk-ons on this Holmoe said. $6,000 per semester. team.” Built Brands is not funding “This is creative and different,” But Holmoe didn’t refute the scholarships, but paying athletes said Blake Lawrence, the CEO of idea that this could benefit BYU. directly. Opendorse, a firm that works with “Are we saying that people in “(The players) don’t have to pay schools on NIL-related matters collegiate football these days are for their tuition,” Holmoe said. from brand building to compli- not looking for competitive advan- “They can do whatever they want ance. “The first-move advantage tages? That’s like the essence of with that money.” here for both BYU and Built is ve- athletics is competitive advan- For most walk-ons, though, the ry evident.” tage,” said Holmoe, who played money can be a game-changer. BYU’s arrangement with Built seven seasons in the NFL with the “It takes stress off for sure,” drew national attention for the San Francisco 49ers in the 1980s. said Nick Billoups, a walk-on joyous celebration it sparked “Competitive advantage exists in quarterback. among the players and because it life. It’s called creativity. You The NCAA lifted its longtime seems to provide the Cougars a come up with good ideas that give ban on athletes being compensat- way to circumvent the NCAA’s you a competitive advantage.” ed for the use of their names, im- scholarship-limit rules. Teams To satisfy their contracts with ages and likenesses on July 1, that play in the highest division of Built, BYU football players must opening the door for all kinds of ROGELIO V. SOLIS/AP college football can only have 85 wear a decal with the company’s endorsement opportunities for Mississippi coach Lane Kiffin, left, and wide receiver John Rhys scholarship players on the roster. logo on their practice helmets and athletes. Plumlee look at the camera during practice on Aug. 9. Sunday, August 15, 2021 • STARS AND STRIPES • PAGE 23 NFL Grown: ‘Experience definitely teaches you’ FROM PAGE 24 “For the first time in my life, I was kind of listening to the outside Mayfield is more measured with noise and I let that affect me too his actions and words: business much,” he said. “I was so worried Baker. More of a leader, a role about what type of picture I need- model, franchise quarterback. ed to portray as a franchise QB be- “Experience,” he said, “defi- cause everybody was telling me I nitely teaches you.” had to be a certain way, instead of Mayfield crashed after a re- cord-setting rookie year, only to just doing how I’ve always done it bounce back in 2020 under first- — which is how I’m here.” year coach Kevin Stefanski. On While it would have been easy to the eve of his fourth training blame Cleveland’s ceaseless dys- camp, he was relaxed and reflec- function, Mayfield held himself tive as he prepared for a season accountable. Browns fans have awaited for a “The whole 2019 season was just generation. kind of a miserable year,” he said, Mayfield helped Cleveland end glancing at a ”Believe In Your- the playoff drought. Next chal- self” tattoo on his left forearm. “I lenge: the Super Bowl, which the expect a lot of things out of myself Browns never have reached. and I just didn’t play well. That ADAM HUNGER/AP He’s physically fit, having drop- was a humbling experience.” New York Jets linebacker Blake Cashman, right, on New England Patriots tight end Benjamin Watson ped “bad weight,” and in a good Then came 2020’s strangeness. during his rookie season in 2019. Cashman has battled injuries his first seasons in the league. place mentally. He’s found inner But in the midst of masks and peace, and the 25-year-old feels a mandates, Mayfield found stabil- strong connection with this foot- ity and kinship with Stefanski, his ball-crazed city and its fans. Cle- third coach in three years. Shortly veland is where he wants to play after being hired, Stefanski visited his entire career. Mayfield in Texas, not imagining “We’ve talked about it, Emily he wouldn’t see him again in per- Betting on himself and I,” Mayfield said, referring to son for five months. his wife, who co-stars with him in Although most of their interac- those TV ads for Progressive In- tions came over Zoom, coach and Oft-injured Cashman confident big plays surance. “It wouldn’t be the same QB bonded. if we lived in a city where they “He’s a sports junkie and not the didn’t live, breathe and die foot- biggest guy ever,” Mayfield said, loom as he begins third season with Jets ball. That’s the atmosphere we smiling when asked about their want — and it’s here.” connection. “We agree on the BY DENNIS WASZAK JR. There’s an unmistakable bond work-ethic mentality. You can’t Associated Press “I keep telling myself my bad luck between this Ohio city and this Ok- just show up. He loves the grind FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — lahoma quarterback. Both under- and so do I. When you put two peo- Blake Cashman’s right forearm ran out and only good things will dogs, they’ve been through good ple together with the same inner tells his story in black ink. years and bad ones. Knocked values and drive, that’s pretty spe- Tattooed images and words come moving forward.” down and counted out, they’ve cial.” fought back. are sources of inspiration, with Blake Cashman Expectations for the 2021 the most recent addition provid- “When I say that my work ethic Browns are enormous, even ex- ing a constant reminder: Jets linebacker on injuries that limited his playing time his first two seasons and mentality fits right in here,” cessive. Mayfield says he isn’t “Always Bet On Yourself.” he said, “I genuinely mean that.” fazed by them. The New York Jets linebacker with the Golden Gophers. Same lege at Minnesota and then an- Even before being drafted first “It would bring the great tradi- got that one this past offseason thing when he was drafted in the other landed him on injured re- in 2018, Mayfield sensed Cleve- tion back,” he said. “It’s a football and it’s especially fitting as he fifth round by the Jets in 2019. serve as a rookie with the Jets. land was where he belonged. town because of what it’s been in pushes through his third NFL Plenty of negativity has come Cashman appeared poised to be “If anybody’s going to turn that the past, and what it deserves to training camp following two in- along the way, much of it beyond a major contributor last season franchise around it would be me,” be. It would mean a ton to me, but I jury-marred seasons. his control. That includes the as a fill-in for C.J. Mosley, who he boasted at the combine that wouldn’t be satisfied at just stop- “I keep telling myself my bad people who laugh and say he’s opted out because of the corona- year. ping at one.” luck ran out,” Cashman told The brittle and injury-prone. virus pandemic, but injured his He was right. Associated Press after a recent “You can’t let that get to you,” groin during punt coverage The Browns went 1-31 in two practice, “and only good things he said. “I’m somebody that’s, when he his ankle was stepped seasons before he arrived and will come moving forward.” I’m relentless. I block out the on. spent two decades discarding To some, the 25-year-old negativity. And to get by, even if He came back from that, but quarterbacks and coaches at diz- Cashman is a forgotten man, al- you have to put on a fake smile, ended up back on IR a few weeks zying speed. In Mayfield, they ready phased out in their minds that’s what you’ve got to do.” later with a hamstring injury — have seemingly found the leader and replaced by newer, younger Cashman would ideally like relegated to being a spectator as missing since Bernie Kosar led players. He’s competing for a his play to do all the talking — New York trudged through a 2- Cleveland to three AFC title role and a roster spot, but em- and silence the naysayers. But 14 season. games from 1986-89. braces the doubters. he has had trouble staying on the “I had those thoughts like, ‘Am After breaking Peyton Man- It’s what he has been doing all field to do so. I made for this?’ ” Cashman said. ning’s rookie record for TD passes his life. “It has been upsetting,” Cash- “I felt like every single opportu- and going 7-8-1, Mayfield took “I felt like ever since I gradu- man acknowledged. “I would be nity I was getting, I was getting things for granted. He didn’t ated high school,” Cashman lying if I said it hadn’t gotten me knocked back. And I kept asking, spend nearly enough time work- said, “I was left out until I down at times and had me frus- ‘Why me? Why me?’ ing on his craft, got heavy and wasn’t.” trated. But those things are just “But every time I’d go to that, I threw nearly as many intercep- And that’s a big reason the for- another roadblock, another chal- guess, dark place, I’d have to re- tions (21) as TDs (22) in 2019. mer Minnesota star is even here. lenge where you’ve just got to mind myself, I just said, ‘That Picked to contend for the AFC He wasn’t the best, fastest or overcome. And I’ve never been ain’t me. Like, you have to re- North title, the Browns disinte- TONY DEJAK/AP most talented. But he’s resilient, someone to quit on myself.” main positive. This is not how grated. They went 6-10, fired In head coach Kevin Stefanski, tough and determined. Cash- Even if seemingly everyone this is going to end. I refuse to let coach Freddie Kitchens and May- above, Cleveland quarterback man’s blue-collar approach on else has. an injury like this, a soft tissue, field’s critics circled with sharp- Baker Mayfield has found a the field made him a fan favorite He had shoulder issues in col- be the end of my playing.’ ” ened knives. kindred spirit. PAGE 24 • STARS AND STRIPES • Sunday, August 15, 2021 Stuck at 499 homers SPORTS Tigers’ Cabrera goes 0-for-4 in loss to Indians ›› MLB, Page 21

Quarterback Baker Mayfield helped lead the Cleveland Browns NFL to an 11­5 record and their first playoff berth since 2002. Grown up DAVID DERMER/AP More mature Mayfield welcomes lofty goals BY TOM WITHERS Associated Press CLEVELAND aker Mayfield has grown up. There was no other option. “I had to hit rock bottom for a little Bbit,” he said. He’s rising, and judging by last season, so are the Browns. As he picked at lunch during a break last month while shooting commercials at FirstEnergy Stadi- um, Mayfield exuded some of that chip-on-his- shoulder confidence that transported him from college walk-on to NFL starting quarterback. That will always be on display, defining him, driving him. The brashness, though, has been muted. While discussing the stuttering start to his pro career, his future in Cleveland and expectations for this season during a sit-down interview with The Associated Press, there was something no- ticeably different about Mayfield. He’s changed. It’s not a 180-degree turn by any means, but

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TONY DEJAK/AP Mayfield and the Browns beat rival Pittsburgh 48­37 in a wild­card playoff game last season, leading to even greater expectations for this season, Mayfield’s fourth.

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