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NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MAY 29, 2015

2015 The New York Times

ISIS ALTERNATES
STICK AND CARROT
IN CAPTURED CITY

HASTERT ACCUSED
OF SCHEME TO PAY
TO HIDE MISDEEDS

NEW TWIST IN PALMYRA

FORMER HOUSE SPEAKER

After Beheadings, Free

Bread and Electricity
Ruins Intact

U.S. Indictment Says He

Lied to F.B.I. About
Illicit Payments
By MONICA DAVEY

By ANNE BARNARD
and HWAIDA SAAD

BEIRUT, Lebanon Hours after they swept into the Syrian

city of Palmyra last week, Islamic
State militants carried out scores
of summary executions, leaving
the bodies of victims including
dozens of government soldiers
in the streets.
Then, residents say, they set
about acting like municipal functionaries. They fixed the power
plant, turned on the water
pumps, held meetings with local
leaders, opened the citys lone
bakery and started distributing
free bread. They planted their
flag atop Palmyras storied ancient ruins, and did not immediately loot and destroy them, as
they have done at other archaeological sites.
Next came dozens of Syrian
government airstrikes, some killing civilians. That gave the Islamic State a political assist:
Within days, some residents had
redirected the immediate focus of
their anger and fear from the militants on the ground to the warplanes overhead.
In Palmyra, the Islamic State
group appears to be digging into
power in a series of steps it has
honed over two years of accumulating territory in Iraq and Syria.
But Palmyra presents a new
twist: It is the first Syrian city the
group has taken from the government, not from insurgents. In
Raqqa, farther north, and in Iraq,
the group has moved quickly and
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MAURICIO LIMA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Hamida Ajengui says the Tunisian state police beat her and threatened her with rape when she was 21. I was broken, she said.

Tortured and Violated in Tunisia, Then Shamed Sanders Lures

A Certain Age
Women Are Preparing
Of Voters: His
to Testify on Nations
By CARLOTTA GALL

TUNIS She was just 21 when

she was arrested by Tunisias
state police, who hauled her into
an Interior Ministry office and
beat me up so hard that I dont
even remember how I found myself there. But that was not the
worst part.
Hamida Ajengui said she was
stripped, and hung upside down
by a dozen police officers who
hurled abuse at her and threatened her with rape.
I was a girl, Ms. Ajengui, now
46, said in an interview. I was
raised in a certain environment
where it is ethical to be a moral,
respectable, polite person. Then
all of a sudden I was taken to this

Brutal Past
place where they strip you
they took all my clothes off
they leave you completely naked.
Tunisia has embarked on a
bold and painful experiment,
gathering testimony from victims
of six decades of abuses under
two dictatorships before its revolution four years ago led to a stillfledgling democracy. Already,
thousands have arrived to lodge
complaints at the countrys Truth

and Dignity Commission, which

is scheduled to begin public hearings in June with the goal of exposing the violations, making
reparations and holding the abusers accountable in a search for
national reconciliation.
Just a few months into the process, 12,000 victims have come
forward, most of them men. But
what has surprised even longtime human rights activists is the
number of women starting to tell
stories of extreme cruelty, sexual
violence and rape.
By far the most difficult and
traumatic cases, commission
workers say, are accounts like
Ms. Ajenguis, because women
are seen to embody family honor
in this conservative society.
Continued on Page A8

Colorado Killers Notes: Detailed Plans vs. a Whole Lot of Crazy

By JACK HEALY

EPPING, N.H. Fit and

quick-witted at age 73, Senator
Bernie Sanders was still going
strong after speaking for an hour
in 90-degree heat on Wednesday
when he fielded a question from a
man who could have been an older brother.
Would you raise the top marginal tax rate to over 90 percent,
as it was in the 1950s, when the
middle class and the economy
were doing so well? asked Milt
Lauenstein, 89, who had the same
white hair and hunched posture
as Mr. Sanders.
You mean under the communist Dwight D. Eisenhower? Mr.
Sanders quipped about the former president, who, of course,
was a Republican, but one who
did not oppose high taxes as
fiercely as party leaders do now.
It is not every day in 2015 that
an Ike joke gets a laugh, but Mr.
Sanders landed the line perfectly
at least for the roughly 50 older
people in the crowd of 200 who
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Commuters Pay Price as Rails

And Roads Wilt in New Jersey
By EMMA G. FITZSIMMONS

COLORADO JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS

Pages from a notebook belonging to James E. Holmes, who killed 12 in an Aurora, Colo., theater.
sanity. Key to the case is whether
Mr. Holmes, despite his ravings
and struggles with mental illness,
was able to distinguish the difference between right and wrong,
and was legally responsible for
his actions, when he opened fire
on a midnight movie screening in

Aurora, Colo., in July 2012.

On Thursday, a psychiatrist
said Mr. Holmes, 27, was indeed
able to know the difference and
was legally sane.
Whatever he suffered from, it
did not prevent him from forming
the intent and knowing what he

was doing and the consequences

of what he was doing, said Dr.
William Reid, a psychiatrist who
performed a court-ordered examination of Mr. Holmes.
His testimony, the first from
any of the mental health experts
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SPORTSFRIDAY B8-12

OBITUARIES B15

Shrugging, FIFA Is Set to Vote

Tub of Memories
Morris Wilkins, 90, who designed both
the heart-shaped and champagne glassshaped bathtubs that lured visitors to
PAGE B15
his Poconos hotel, is dead.

INTERNATIONAL A4-9

Soccers world governing body is expected to easily re-elect Sepp Blatter to

his fifth term as president, days after
some of the groups leading officials
were charged with corruption and its ofPAGE B8
fices were raided.

Big Plans for a Russian Saint

BUSINESS DAY B1-7

Russians are divided over plans to erect

an 82-foot-tall statue of St. Vladimir,
Russias patron saint, atop one of the
PAGE A4
few hills in Moscow.

A Plea for a Muslim Minority

The Dalai Lama said Daw Aung San
Suu Kyi should help the Rohingya minority in Myanmar.
PAGE A4
NATIONAL A10-17

Railroad Police Under Scrutiny

Dozens of lawsuits and complaints have
been filed against police forces run by
the nations railroads.
PAGE A15

Pataki Joins Presidential Race

Former Gov. George E. Pataki will seek
the Republican nomination.
PAGE A16

SECAUCUS, N.J. Bridges

across the state are falling apart.
Roads are rife with potholes.
Frustrated New Jersey Transit
riders are facing another fare increase.
As many commuters bemoan
the mounting delays and disruptions, state officials say New Jersey is confronting a transportation funding crisis with no easy
way out. Voters are so fed up,
support is growing for a revenue
option long viewed as politically
untenable: raising the states gas
tax, which is the second lowest in
the country.
Whatever happens with the

gas tax, many New Jerseyans

soon will be paying more to get to
work. New Jersey Transit has
proposed raising fares by about 9
percent for its 915,000 daily riders, and an increase of some
amount is all but certain. Federal
and state subsidies as a share of
the agencys annual budget have
been falling, and that has left it
increasingly reliant on fares to
cover costs, even as many passengers say service is slipping.
Here at one of the busiest rail
hubs in the state, the exasperation was evident, in interviews
with people headed home, and in
Continued on Page A20

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DENVER The spiral notebook is a road map to murder,

filled with plans, diagrams and
to-do lists that James E. Holmes
laid out in scrupulous detail before carrying out a shooting rampage in a Colorado movie theater.
In his own handwriting, he plans
a mass murder spree and considers theaters and times to attack for maximum casualties.
He also plots his own psyche with
pages of self-diagnosis of what he
calls his broken mind.
As his murder trial enters its
second month, this notebook has
become a Rorschach test of the
thoughts of Mr. Holmes, the neuroscience graduate student who
killed 12 people in one of the
countrys worst mass shootings
in recent years.
Prosecutors say that he was
sane and methodical, planning
his actions with murderous intent. Defense lawyers, who have
entered his plea of not guilty by
reason of insanity, say his writing
brims with a whole lot of crazy
delusions about death, human
worth and negative infinity
that were the product of a profoundly diseased mind.
The 12 jurors will be forced to
examine the hazy border between mental illness and legal in-

By PATRICK HEALY

CHICAGO J. Dennis Hastert, the former speaker of the

House of Representatives, has
been charged with lying to the
F.B.I. and making cash withdrawals from banks in a way that was
designed to hide that he was paying $3.5 million to someone for
his misconduct from years ago,
a federal indictment released on
Thursday said.
Mr. Hastert, 73, the longestserving Republican speaker, had
worked as a lobbyist since leaving office. The indictment, announced by the United States attorney for the Northern District
of Illinois, said Mr. Hastert, who
was once a high school teacher
and wrestling coach in Yorkville,
Ill., had so far paid $1.7 million to
the person, who had lived in
Yorkville and had known Mr.
Hastert for most of his or her life.
Mr. Hastert worked in Yorkville
from 1965 to 1981.
In 2010, during meetings between Mr. Hastert and the unnamed individual, the two discussed past misconduct by Mr.
Hastert against the person, according to the indictment.
In those meetings and in later
discussions, Mr. Hastert agreed
to provide money to the person
in order to compensate for and
conceal his prior misconduct,
the indictment said. It said he
was structuring the cash withdrawals in increments designed
to avoid bank reporting requirements. The indictment does not
provide details of the misconduct.
Mr. Hastert could not be
reached for comment at his office
in Washington.
Each of the two charges carries
a penalty of as much as five years
in prison and a $250,000 fine, the
prosecutors office said. Mr.
Hastert is to appear at an arraignment at a future date, the
prosecutors said.
Kimberly Nerheim, a spokeswoman for the United States attorneys office, declined to identify the person being paid who
Continued on Page A14

Netflix and the Cable Shake-Up

The influence of Netflix, which is emerging as a symbol for net neutrality, is being felt as regulators scrutinize mergers, James B. Stewart writes.
PAGE B1

WEEKEND C1-30

Bold Vision From a Little Box

An Algerian Take on Camus

With a piece of cardboard and some

lenses, Google is trying to make virtual
reality something that anyone with a
PAGE B3
smartphone can experience.

Kamel Daouds The Meursault Investigation tells The Stranger from an Algerian perspective. A review. PAGE C21
EDITORIAL, OP-ED A22-23

Paul Krugman

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