MILITARY VIDEO GAMES NBA More US troops could Umurangi Generation Players, coaches kneel soon be heading to urges players to take for justice and equality Poland under new deal a closer look at world before reopening night Page 4 Page 14 Back page War on terrorism: Taliban, Afghanistan start 3-day cease-fire » Page 5 Volume 79, No. 75A ©SS 2020 CONTINGENCY EDITION SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 2020 stripes.com Free to Deployed Areas VIRUS OUTBREAK Cautious optimism Fauci says a safe, effective vaccine is possible this year BY JOHN WAGNER, RACHEL WEINER AND COLBY ITKOWITZ The Washington Post WASHINGTON — With the coronavirus death toll soaring in the United States, three of the Trump administration’s top health officials — Infectious-disease expert Anthony Fauci, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield and Brett Giroir of the Department of Health and Human Servic- Dr. Anthony Fauci, director es — were pressed Friday morning by a Demo- of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious crat-led House panel about the ongoing crisis. Diseases attends a House In opening remarks, Fauci, the federal gov- Select Subcommittee hearing ernment’s top infectious-disease specialist, Friday on the coronavirus on again said he was “cautiously optimistic” that a Capitol Hill in Washington. safe and effective vaccine is possible this year. ERIN SCOTT/AP SEE FAUCI ON PAGE 7 1 Marine dead, 8 missing in amphibious vehicle accident off Calif. coast BY CAITLIN M. KENNEY tal, where they are in critical condi- Stars and Stripes tion, the statement said. CALIFORNIA Fifteen Marines, all assigned to WASHINGTON — One Marine the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, died, two are injured and eight oth- I Marine Expeditionary Force, and ers are missing at sea after a training San one sailor were on the assault am- SANTA Clemente accident in an assault amphibious ve- ATALINA phibious vehicle, which is used for C hicle off the coast of southern Califor- ISLAND Camp storming beaches. They were part Pendleton nia, the Marine Corps said Friday. of a routine training exercise with The accident happened late Thurs- AN LEMENTE the Makin Island Amphibious Ready S C day afternoon near San Clemente ISLAND Group when the accident occurred. Island, when Marines reported the The 15th MEU is based at Marine vehicle was taking on water, the ser- Pacific Ocean vice said in a statement. The injured Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif. Marines were taken to a local hospi- SEE ACCIDENT ON PAGE 6 ANDREA VILLARI/Stars and Stripes U.S. Marines operate an Assault Amphibious Vehicle during a training at Camp Pendleton, Calif., in 2017. FRANK CORDOBA/U.S. Marine Corps PAGE 2 •STARS AND STRIPES• Saturday, August 1, 2020 BUSINESS/WEATHER EXCHANGE RATES Military rates China commissions competitor to GPS Euro costs (August 3) .......................... $1.16 Thailand (Baht) .................................... 31.21 Dollar buys (August 3) ......................€0.8217 Turkey (Lira) .........................................6.9674 British pound (August 3) .................... $1.28 (Military exchange rates are those Japanese yen (August 3) ..................103.00 available to customers at military banking BEIJING — China is celebrat- with an extremely high degree of While China says it seeks coop- South Korean won (August 3) ......1,156.00 facilities in the country of issuance Commercial rates for Japan, South Korea, Germany, the ing the completion of its BeiDou accuracy, the system offers short eration with other satellite navi- Bahrain (Dinar) ...................................0 .3770 Netherlands and the United Kingdom. For Navigation Satellite System that message communication of up to gation systems, BeiDou could British pound .....................................$1.3161 nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e., Canada (Dollar) ...................................1.3420 purchasing British pounds in Germany), could rival the U.S. Global Posi- 1,200 Chinese characters and the ultimately compete against GPS, China (Yuan) ........................................6.9764 check with your local military banking tioning System and significantly ability to transmit images. Denmark (Krone) ................................6.2959 facility. Commercial rates are interbank Russia’s GLONASS and the Euro- rates provided for reference when buying boost China’s security and geopo- “China is willing to continue Egypt (Pound) ....................................15.9691 pean Union’s Galileo networks. Euro ........................................ $1.1824/0.8457 currency. All figures are foreign currencies to one dollar, except for the British pound, litical clout. to strengthen exchanges and co- Hong Kong (Dollar) .............................7.7503 Among the chief advantages of which is represented in dollars-to-pound, President Xi Jinping, the operation in space and share the Hungary (Forint) .................................291.46 and the euro, which is dollars-to-euro.) the system, whose construction Israel (Shekel) .................................... 3.4009 leader of the ruling Communist achievements of space develop- began 30 years ago, is the abil- Japan (Yen) .......................................... 105.68 Party and the People’s Liberation ment with other countries on the Kuwait (Dinar) .................................... 0.3056 Army, officially commissioned basis of mutual respect, open- ity to replace GPS for guiding its Norway (Krone) ...................................9.0647 INTEREST RATES Philippines (Peso).................................49.06 the system Friday at a ceremony ness, inclusiveness, equality and missiles . Poland (Zloty) ..........................................3.73 Prime rate ................................................3.25 at the Great Hall of the People in mutual benefit,” foreign ministry It also stands to raise China’s Saudi Arabia (Riyal) .......................... 3.7501 Discount rate ..........................................0.25 Singapore (Dollar) ..............................1.3732 Federal funds market rate ...................0.09 Beijing. spokesman Wang Wenbin said at economic and political leverage South Korea (Won) ...........................1190.97 3-month bill .............................................0.09 As well as being a navigation aid a daily briefing. over nations adopting the system . Switzerland (Franc)............................ 0.9113 30-year bond ...........................................1.20 WEATHER OUTLOOK SATURDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST SATURDAY IN EUROPE SUNDAY IN THE PACIFIC Misawa 71/66 Kabul 97/64 Seoul 78/74 Baghdad 110/82 Kandahar 102/77 Osan Tokyo Mildenhall/ Drawsko 83/71 79/72 Lakenheath Pomorskie Busan 75/64 73/52 80/73 Iwakuni 81/75 Kuwait Bahrain Zagan Sasebo City 97/93 Brussels 74/54 Guam 107/93 76/64 Ramstein 82/74 84/81 Lajes, 91/63 Riyadh Doha Azores Stuttgart Pápa 114/86 105/89 73/70 87/65 83/62 Aviano/ Vicenza 87/72 Naples 88/75 Okinawa Morón 84/81 107/69 Sigonella Rota 103/68 The weather is provided by the Djibouti Souda Bay American Forces Network Weather Center, 95/84 87/68 83/75 2nd Weather Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. T O D A Y IN STRIPES American Roundup ..... 10 Comics/Crossword ...... 17 Books ...................12-13 Opinion ..................... 16 Sports .................. 18-24 Television .................. 15 Video Games ..............14 Saturday, August 1, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• PAGE 3 MILITARY Guillen’s family demands action, reform President: ‘We didn’t want to have this swept under the rug’ BY NIKKI WENTLING Stars and Stripes WASHINGTON — The 16- year-old sister of a slain Army specialist took the stage in front of 100 people on the National Mall in Washington on Thursday and fervently demanded Congress EVAN VUCCI/AP NIKKI WENTLING/Stars and Stripes. pass reforms to prevent more deaths. Army Spc. Vanessa Guillen’s mother Gloria Guillen, left, speaks as Activists hold signs depicting slain Army Spc. Vanessa Guillen while “This has to stop,” Lupe Guillen she meets with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the listening to speakers at a rally on the National Mall on Thursday,, in said. “Fort Hood should be held White House on Thursday, in Washington. Washington . accountable. Their leadership has to be held accountable. They vice members to file claims of justice for what happened to her who are not in the military. The enforcement in Killeen, Texas, signed to protect and respect sexual harassment and assault to daughter,” the translator told group will look into the base’s Robinson shot himself in the every soldier, but they didn’t pro- a third-party agency, rather than Trump. culture and report their findings head and died. Robinson’s girl- tect my sister, they didn’t respect through the chain of command, Trump responded: “It hit me to James McPherson, undersec- friend, Cecily Aguilar, was being my sister.” Khawam said. very hard. I saw what happened to retary of the Army, and Gen. held without bail on three federal Spc. Vanessa Guillen, a 20- Rep. Sylvia Garcia, D-Texas, your daughter Vanessa, who was a Joseph Martin, the Army’s vice charges related to helping Rob- year-old small arms repairer sta- attended the rally in support of spectacular person. I invited you chief of staff. inson mutilate and hide Guillen’s tioned at Fort Hood, was killed by the family, as did dozens of other to the White House. … We didn’t In a statement Thursday, Secre- body. another soldier April 22. She was people from as far as Texas and want to have this swept under the tary of the Army Ryan