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Investors Press BALTIMORE JUDGE

Exxon to Rate ABSOLVES OFFICER
Climate Risks
IN FATAL ARREST
Concerns Mount After
Pledges in Paris DEATH OF FREDDIE GRAY
By CLIFFORD KRAUSS
and JOHN SCHWARTZ
Deciding That Others
HOUSTON — Exxon Mobil has Played a Larger Role
been under pressure for over a
year to explain its handling of cli- in the Encounter
mate change issues in the past.
Now the company faces new pres-
sure to explain its future, particu- By JESS BIDGOOD
larly how it will change in re- and TIMOTHY WILLIAMS
sponse to a warming world. BALTIMORE — The acquittal
At the company’s planned an- Monday of a police officer charged
nual meeting on Wednesday in in the arrest of Freddie Gray, the
Dallas, shareholders will vote on a black man who suffered a fatal
resolution to prod Exxon Mobil to spinal cord injury while in police
disclose the risks of climate custody last year, immediately re-
change to its business. newed questions of whether any
Such resolutions have been of the six police officers charged in
floated before, and they typically the case would be convicted in
do not pass. But there is a growing connection with his death.
chorus of investors, many of them Officer Edward M. Nero’s ac-
large institutional shareholders, quittal on four charges for his role
who say they are worried that in the opening moments of Mr.
Exxon Mobil, the largest publicly Gray’s arrest was a second blow to
AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES
traded energy company in the the prosecution’s sweeping case,
Bearing Down on Falluja world, is not adequately prepar-
ing for tighter times if countries
announced as Baltimore was still
seething after the unrest follow-
Iraqi forces on Monday advanced toward Falluja, which has been held by the Islamic State for more than two years. Page A10. start acting on the pledges they ing Mr. Gray’s death in April 2015.
made last December as part of the The first trial, against Officer
Paris climate change accord. William G. Porter, ended in a hung
Exxon Mobil, for example, jury in December, touching off le-
LEFTIST EKES OUT From Cuba by Homemade Boat, and Providence projects that global demand for oil
will keep growing — by just over
13 percent from today, to 109 mil-
gal maneuvers that brought pro-
ceedings against the officers to a
temporary halt.
AUSTRIAN VICTORY
hollered and wept. They then took lion barrels of oil a day by 2040. But legal experts said Judge
A Tide of Refugees, in
By LIZETTE ALVAREZ out a cellphone and, knowing they
would be welcomed, dialed 911, a
But the International Energy
Agency’s projections include one
Barry G. Williams’s finding was
MIAMI — The sign from God narrow and did not rule out the
and the Virgin Mary came near a Rush to Flee trick gleaned from American tele- situation where demand could
drop by 22 percent, to 74 million
possibility of convictions against
vision. other officers charged in the case.
the end of their perilous, sun-
Tight Results Illustrate scorched journey from Cuba to “Look at this great water,” Yos- barrels a day by 2040, if measures They said the ruling turned not on
vanys Chinea, a 42-year-old car- are put in place to keep global
Right Wing’s Power Florida: A dozen or so dolphins Nobody will get close to us now.”
penter, joked as he held up a bottle warming at levels that, while still
a wholesale rejection of prosec-
utors’ broad legal theory, but
swam up to their home-built, over- The omen proved true. After dangerous, could avoid the most
loaded sailboat, dipping in and out the police had handed him when rather on Judge Williams’s deter-
five days of being stuffed in the devastating consequences.
of the water, guiding them, they boat like cigarettes in a hard pack, they arrived. “It’s already curing mination that Officer Nero, 30,
By ALISON SMALE my parasites, something that, for The shareholder resolution
felt, toward a reimagined future. including 24 hours on an uninhab- was a bit player in Mr. Gray’s ar-
VIENNA — Alexander Van der me, hadn’t happened in 42 years.” calls for Exxon Mobil to publish an
“It’s true we are blessed,” ited islet, the men sailed right up rest.
Bellen, a 72-year-old economics Since President Obama re- annual assessment of impacts of
Rolando Quintero Ferrer, 27, one to a dock in Tavernier in the Judge Williams, who ruled on
professor and former Green Party newed diplomatic ties with the is- various climate change policies,
of the 12 passengers on the boat, Florida Keys. It was 4:20 a.m. the case after the officer opted to
leader, won Austria’s cliffhanger including ones that would lead to
said on his video recording of the They scrambled out, pointed to land in December 2014, Cuba has forgo a jury trial, said in his ver-
presidential election on Monday, the steep drops foreseen in the
voyage. “What a beautiful thing. the parking signs in English, Continued on Page A15 most severe forecast from the en- dict that there were other officers
defeating his far-right rival by the who played, or who could have
slimmest of margins and pledging ergy agency. Another calls for the
company to give shareholders a Continued on Page A14
to unite the divided country.
Austria had to wait almost 24 bigger say over governance.
hours after polls closed on Sunday Exxon Mobil previously tried to
for the authorities to count nearly block the climate change resolu-
700,000 valid mail-in ballots. In tion, but the Securities and Ex-
the end, Mr. Van der Bellen won change Commission ruled in
50.3 percent of the vote, and his March that shareholders must be
far-right rival, Norbert Hofer, 49.7 allowed to vote.
percent, a difference of just over Alan T. Jeffers, a company
30,000 votes, the Interior Ministry spokesman, said last week that
said. Exxon Mobil welcomed a dialogue
Mr. Hofer conceded defeat on with shareholders.
his Facebook page, writing: “Of “We want them to understand JIM LO SCALZO/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY
course I am sad today. I would so that we see the issue of climate Edward M. Nero was the sec-
gladly have taken care of our won- Continued on Page B4 ond of six officers to face trial.
derful country for you as presi-
dent.” He added, “The effort for
this campaign is not lost, but an in-
vestment in the future.”
The result averted the prospect
of the first right-wing populist
A Duel of Political Operatives
head of state in post-Nazi Europe
taking office in a democratic elec-
By AMY CHOZICK
tion. Yet the close result illustrat-
ed how deeply divided Austria is DOUG MILLS/THE NEW YORK TIMES One takes a pint-size dog and Mr. Stone for Donald J. Trump
between left and right, and how named Toby almost everywhere, — and a zeal for attacking critics
thoroughly the centrist elites who Is He Here Yet? smokes electronic cigarettes and of his candidate. Their intensity
Continued on Page A8 In Hanoi, awaiting President Obama, who said a Vietnam arms embargo would end. Page A6. wears his silver hair in a sweeping and pugnacity make them either
pompadour. perfect villains or misunderstood
The other has a portrait of Rich- masterminds, depending on your
ard M. Nixon tattooed on his back, point of view.
U.S. Strike on Taliban Leader Is Seen as a Message to Pakistan boasts that he owns more shoes
than Imelda Marcos and traffics in
conspiracy theories about the
On the wall of Mr. Stone’s office
in South Florida, which has an un-
disclosed address because of the
Americans tracked Mullah Obama described Mullah Man- The White House did not inform Kennedy assassination. death threats he said he had re-
By MARK LANDLER Akhtar Muhammad Mansour, sour’s death on Monday as an “im- the Pakistanis in advance of the The 2016 election, filled with ceived, hangs a “Spy vs. Spy” car-
and MATTHEW ROSENBERG leader of the Afghan Taliban, to a portant milestone” — but the operation, which occurred outside ugly insults, whispered innuendo toon, which young staff members
white sedan rattling across the strike was also an illustration of the frontier region near Af- and sordid character attacks, fea- titled “Brock-Stone” after the two
WASHINGTON — Early on
Saturday, a middle-aged Pashtun arid expanse of Baluchistan Prov- the tangled relationship between ghanistan, the one place where tures two central antagonists battling operatives.
man used forged documents to ince. The United States picked up Washington and Islamabad. Pakistan has tolerated American known for their colorful traits and “The dynamic between the two
cross from Iran into Pakistan. A a mix of phone intercepts and tips Not since Mr. Obama ordered drone strikes in the past. devotion to the dark arts of poli- of them is very interesting,” said
few hours later, on a lonely stretch from sources, American and Eu- Navy SEALs to hunt down Osama By using the military’s Joint tics: David Brock and Roger J. Hank Sheinkopf, a Democratic
of highway, he was incinerated by ropean officials said, and there bin Laden in May 2011 has he au- Special Operations Command Stone Jr. strategist who knows both men.
an American drone. were reports that Pakistan also thorized a military incursion in rather than the C.I.A. to carry out Each has a passion for his side “This will be a battle about who’s
It is not exactly clear how the provided intelligence. President Pakistan as audacious as this one. Continued on Page A10 — Mr. Brock for Hillary Clinton Continued on Page A13
BUSINESS DAY B1-9 NEW YORK A16-18
Little Ties Trump to Wall St. The E.M.T. Speaks Chinese

Donald Trump boasts of cozying up to An ambulance company in Brooklyn
the biggest banks, but his dealings with has started to provide Chinese lan-
Wall Street are more nuanced. PAGE B1 guage emergency medical care to immi-
grants in New York City. PAGE A16
'Ghostbusters,’ Meet Clinton
NATIONAL A11-15 On “Ellen,” the all-female reboot of SCIENCE TIMES D1-8
“Ghostbusters” gets entangled with
Chicago Compiles a Risk List election-year partisanship. PAGE B1
As part of a push to rein in gun and
gang violence, the police are using a Tribune Rejects Gannett Again
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prone to shoot someone. PAGE A11 ment from a hedge fund. PAGE B1
T.S.A. Shake-Up After Delays ARTS C1-7

Facing anger over airport lines and A Cloud of Questions
management problems, the Transporta- Duets by Human and Machine Research into a possible link between
P r e s s R e a d e r. c o m
tion Security Administration replaced Listeners reclined through an eight- ovarian cancer and baby powder, which
its top security official and made hour Sleep Concert at Moogfest in is known for its softness and used by
changes at Chicago O’Hare. PAGE A11 Durham, N.C. Critic’s Notebook. PAGE C1 many women, has been mixed. PAGE D1
INTERNATIONAL A4-10 EDITORIAL, OP-ED A20-21
West Bank’s ‘Wildest’ Areas David Brooks PAGE A21
“The Settlers,” a documentary film,

suggests a fringe group of religious
hippies is underestimated in its ability
to influence Israeli politics. PAGE A4
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Unrest in Kenya
At least two people died on Monday after police in Nairobi, Kenya, fired shots at demonstrators seeking reforms before elec-
tions next year. Many women and children ended up close to the protests, which have been on Mondays the past four weeks.
INTERNATIONAL NEW YORK SPORTS

QUOTATION OF THE DAY
Tunisian Islamic Party Feral Cats Are Latest Family of Tony Gwynn
Re-elects Moderate Leader
Rachid Ghannouchi, a renowned
Victims of Gentrification
As the city’s vacant lots are being
Sues Tobacco Industry
The family of Tony Gwynn, a base-
‘‘ There has been no
information presented at
this trial that the defend-
Islamic thinker, won endorsement redeveloped, colonies of cats are ball Hall of Famer who died of
for his effort to stay in tune with the forced to find new habitats. salivary gland cancer in 2014, filed a ant intended any crime to
country’s five-year-old democratic The Appraisal. PAGE A17 wrongful-death lawsuit against the
happen.
revolution. PAGE A4
Transcript Leaked in Brazil

Rikers Guards Won’t Testify
Lawyers for the nine Rikers Island
tobacco industry, charging that
Gwynn had been manipulated into
the addiction to smokeless tobacco
’’
BARRY G. WILLIAMS,
the judge who ruled in Balti-
A government minister appointed guards on trial in the beating of an that ultimately killed him. PAGE B10 more that Officer Edward M.
by Brazil’s new interim president inmate rested their case without Nero was not guilty in a case
said he would resign after excerpts calling a single witness or pre- A Holdout in Tennis related to Freddie Gray. [A14]
of a conversation indicated he was senting any evidence in State Su- When even low-tech soccer has
seeking to impede a corruption preme Court in the Bronx. PAGE A18 finally adopted some elements of
inquiry. PAGE A9 replay, there remains one Grand
Slam holdout in tennis where line
SCIENCE TIMES
Jail Over Allergy Death BUSINESS calls are still done the old-fashioned
The owner of an Indian restaurant way. At the French Open, as in all Prostate Testing Persists
in Britain was found guilty of man- Bank of America Penalty clay-court tennis, the umpires, not For Seniors, Against Advice
slaughter by gross negligence, and the machines, still have the last Medical associations discourage
other offenses, over a fatal dish of
Overturned in ‘Hustle’ Case word. On Tennis. PAGE B11 screening for men with limited life
chicken tikka masala. PAGE A10 A panel ruled that prosecutors had expectancy. PAGE D3
failed to prove that Bank of Ameri-
ca’s Countrywide unit had de- THE ARTS
frauded Fannie Mae and Freddie
OP-ED
NATIONAL
Mac, the government-backed mort-
gage firms. PAGE B2 Broadway Defies Odds Roger Cohen PAGE A21
Court Finds Racial Bias And Breaks Records
In Jury Selection Case Bayer Eyes Monsanto “Hamilton” brought a boost. “The Crossword C3
The Supreme Court ruled that Bayer of Germany said that it had Lion King” provided ballast. And Obituaries A19
prosecutors in Georgia violated the offered $62 billion in cash to acquire Broadway, once again, broke a TV Listings C7
Constitution by striking every black Monsanto in a deal that would record: The theater season that just Weather B8
prospective juror in a death penalty combine two of the biggest compa- ended attracted more people, and Classified Ads B13
case against a black defendant. nies in the businesses of seeds and more money, than any before. Commercial
OYSTER PERPETUAL ROLE X DEEPSE A PAGE A11 pesticides. PAGE B3 PAGE C1 Real Estate Marketplace B6
Corrections
FRONT PAGE costs taxpayers at least $35,000 a role in the lawsuit. While she was A music review on Saturday
Because of an editing error, a year in medical care, jail and other the lead plaintiff, she later opted about the Met Orchestra, at Car-
rolex oyster perpetual picture caption on Saturday in expenses. It is the Canadian Medi- out of the settlement and received negie Hall, misspelled the given
and deepsea are trademarks.
connection with an article about cal Association Journal, not the no money as a result of the suit. name of the piano soloist in Rach-
the reactions of some readers to Journal of the Canadian Medical maninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2.
Association. The error was cor- A picture caption with an article He is Evgeny Kissin, not Yevgeny.
the revelation that their ancestors
rected online after the article was on Saturday about the closing of
had been among slaves sold in
published, but editors failed to fol- The Tampa Tribune misspelled, in
1838 to help save Georgetown Uni- OBITUARIES
low through with this print correc- some editions, the given name of a
versity misidentified two ances-
tion. Tribune features reporter. She is An obituary on Saturday about
tors of Sandra Green Thomas. The
Cloe Cabrera, not Cole. The article the actor Alan Young misstated
two, whose portraits are shown
NATIONAL also misstated the founding date his role in the 2002 remake of the
hanging over her mantel, are her
of The Tampa Bay Times, which 1960 movie “The Time Machine.”
great-grandparents, not her An article on Thursday about a closed The Tribune after buying it. He played a flower store worker;
great-great-grandparents. federal judge’s order in a case in- It was founded in 1884 as The West he did not play David Filby, the
volving executive actions by Pres- Hillsborough Times, not in 1898 as
INTERNATIONAL ident Obama on immigration mis- part he had played in the original
The St. Petersburg Times, a name film.
An article on April 24 about stated the government’s actions by which it was also known before
signs of illegal logging in the ex- regarding a program designed to changing its name to The Tampa An obituary on Saturday about
clusion zone surrounding the nu- protect unauthorized immigrants Bay Times in 2012. Patricia Derian, who was Presi-
clear reactor at the Chernobyl from deportation. The Depart- dent Jimmy Carter’s chief advo-
plant in Ukraine referred incom- ment of Homeland Security re- cate on behalf of human rights
versed about 2,500 three-year THE ARTS
pletely to a typical radiation read- abroad, erroneously attributed a
ing in the zone. It is about 100 migrants to participate in the pro- An article on Monday about the distinction to the South Korean
crosieverts per hour, not “100 mi- gram that were mistakenly issued winners at the Cannes Film Festi- dissident Kim Dae-jung. He was
crosieverts.” after a federal judge’s injunction val misidentified the award given the second civilian president
in February 2015; the government to the director Xavier Dolan. It elected in South Korea after years
An article in some editions on did not reverse about 100,000 of was the Grand Prix, not the best of military dictators, not the first.
April 24 about President Obama’s the grants issued before the in- director award. (As the article (Kim Young-sam was the first.)
scheduling of meetings with West- junction. correctly noted, that award was
ern European leaders amid a shared by Cristian Mungiu and A picture caption on Friday with
growing sense in his administra- NEW YORK Olivier Assayas.) an obituary about Marlene
tion that Europe is faltering in the An article on May 14 about the Marder, the guitarist with the
face of multiple challenges mis- A picture caption on Monday Swiss post-punk band Liliput,
death of Susannah Mushatt Jones,
stated the day on which he was with a television review of “The misidentified her. She is in the cen-
the world’s oldest person, attribut-
scheduled to give a speech in Ger- Return,” a “POV” documentary on ter of the photo, taken from the
ed an erroneous distinction to her
many. It was Monday, April 25, not PBS, was accompanied by a credit cover of a Liliput record — not on
successor, Emma Morano. She is
Sunday, April 24. that misspelled the photogra- the left. (The woman on the left is
the last woman to have been born
pher’s surname. He is Mario Fur- Chrigle Freund, the band’s singer
Because of an editing error, an in the 1800s, not the 19th century
loni, not Furlani. at the time.)
— which officially did not end until
article on April 23 about a heroin

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When Elections
Aren’t About the Economy
By PETER EAVIS
The boring economy seems to
be making this presidential race
even more exciting. And uncer-
tain.
The economy has reliably been
one of the most important factors
influencing a presidential elec-
tion. A strong economy helps to
keep the party in power in power.
A weak economy tends to cause
voters to want to change the
residents of the White House.
But right now, the economy
could be best described as moder-
ately, perhaps deceptively, suc-
cessful.
Growth is lukewarm, but it has
been consistent enough to create
hundreds of thousands of new
jobs. Wages have not risen by
much, and the uneven recovery JUST THE THING
has left segments of the popula- TO CELEBRATE GRADS
tion behind. But the overall unem-
ployment rate is down to 5 per- Tiffany Celebration® Rings
cent. That’s unusual for a presi-
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been at 5 percent or lower in only Voters’ satisfaction with the economy helped George H. W. Bush win in
three of the 14 contests that have
taken place since 1960.
1988. A sleepy economy may be making this year’s race more exciting.
The quiet strength of the econ-
omy appears to be affecting the
campaign. It’s far easier for candi- A new president might be slamming on the brakes right now,
dates to make economic policy tempted to try bold new policies to ONLINE: NEW AT THE UPSHOT but it is expected to raise interest 800 843 3269 | TIFFANY.COM
messages resonate when the obtain an extra point of economic Bernie Sanders matches up rates this year, perhaps even be-
economy is roaring: the elections growth and spread wealth more better against Donald fore the election.
of 1996 (Dole vs. Clinton) and 2004 evenly. But if there is a chance the The Fed’s hope is that the econ-
Trump? Don’t be so sure.
(Bush vs. Kerry). Or when the economy is going to gradually omy will keep growing steadily
economy is in the doldrums: 1992 pick up on its own, why risk dis- nytimes.com/upshot
without a big helping hand. And it
(Bush vs. Clinton). Or when it’s ruptive initiatives or squander po- The Upshot provides news,
may. “I think it’s a myth that ex-
facing threats: high inflation for litical capital getting expensive analysis and graphics about
pansions die of old age,” Janet L.
Reagan vs. Carter in 1980, and a campaign promises through Con- politics, policy and everyday life.
Yellen, the chairwoman of the Fed,
global financial collapse for Mc- gress? Why unsettle a stock mar-
said late last year. The economy
Cain vs. Obama in 2008. But when ket that is in its second-longest
it’s middling? bull run since the 1930s? (The has grown in each of the previous
around 2 percent this year. In the
As the political scientist Lynn longest was the 113-month bull second half of 1988, it grew at six years.
Vavreck, an Upshot contributor, market from 1990 to 2000.) nearly double that rate. Jobs and economic growth will
has pointed out, people are gener- A major caveat: The economy The only years since 1960 when always matter to voters. Whipsaw
ally not angry about the economy, may weaken — and the stock mar- the economy was growing at more boom-bust economic cycles of the
at least by historical standards. ket may drop — by the time of the than 2 percent and unemploy- postwar years played a part in de-
Donald Trump and Bernie election. Problems in large econo- ment was at 5 percent or lower at ciding who was president, and the
Sanders will certainly keep high- mies around the world could the time of the election were 1964 American business cycle hasn’t
lighting what they see as big weigh on the United States. And (Goldwater vs. Johnson), 1968 suddenly gone away. But
weaknesses in the economy, and confidence here and abroad could (Nixon vs. Humphrey) and 2000 nowadays there are no big wars to
Hillary Clinton will keep talking plummet if Mr. Trump appears to (Bush vs. Gore). finance, just a few long, grinding
about how she would improve it. have a good chance of winning But the contests of 1964 (the commitments; inflation is under
But if most voters are doing sort of and he is still pushing policies that perception that Barry Goldwater control; and the recent overhaul
O.K., this approach may have a could set off a trade war with was extreme) and 1968 (Vietnam of the financial sector appears to
limited impact. Indeed, the lack of China or cost taxpayers huge and social disruption) were heav- have promoted steady credit
stark economic problems may sums, like mass deportations and ily influenced by noneconomic growth without creating wide-
have allowed Mr. Trump to push construction of a border wall. factors. The 2000 election, which spread losses. We may be in an era
unconventional policies. Still, if the economy holds, cam- occurred as a big speculative bub- when politicians cannot make
If the economy were repeating paign analysts will be scraping ble in the stock market and the much hay out of the economy.
the plunge of 2008, fewer voters around for precedents. technology sector was deflating,
If Mrs. Clinton becomes the
might be prepared to support a George H. W. Bush won in 1988 also lacks strong parallels to to-
Democratic nominee and wins in
candidate whose policies would against Michael Dukakis by day.
disrupt world trade and whose tax The best comparison might be November, it could show that a
promising to take the country on
cuts would almost certainly lead much the same course as Presi- the 2012 election. While unem- cautious candidate can do well in a
to a bigger budget deficit. And ad- dent Reagan did. But while the ployment was nearly 8 percent, composed economy. True, the lack
vances in the economy make it economy has achieved steady and economic growth was anemic, of drama in the economy may also
harder for Mr. Sanders to further gains under President Obama, jobs growth had picked up. But in be helping Mr. Trump run a wreck-
tap into discontent over issues like Mrs. Clinton might not gain a big that election year, the Federal Re- ing-ball campaign by stirring up
income inequality. advantage by portraying herself serve kept its foot firmly on the other issues. But think about it: If
The B-minus economy will also as his economic standard-bearer. monetary policy pedal. This there is one force that can derail
pose a challenge to whomever The economy just hasn’t been helped ensure momentum in the him, or restrain him, it’s the threat
wins the White House in Novem- growing fast enough. Economists economy continued through the that the economy won’t tolerate
ber. expect the economy to grow at election and after. The Fed isn’t his more unconventional policies.
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You may know there’s added 57th Street - Soho
sugar in your Coke or cookies. But
800.929.dior (3467) Dior.com
did you know that it’s in your salad
dressing, pasta sauce and bread?
The Food and Drug Administra-
tion came out on Friday with its
new template for nutrition labels.
One big change was the addition
of a line for “added sugar,” to go
below a line for total sugar. The
change is designed to distinguish
between sugars that are naturally
occurring in a food — like the milk
sugar in a plain yogurt — and the
sugars that food manufacturers
include later to enhance flavors —
like the “evaporated cane juice” in
a Chobani Kids strawberry yo-
gurt.
A team of researchers at the
University of North Carolina con-
ducted a detailed survey of the
packaged foods and drinks that
are purchased in American gro-
cery stores and found that 60 per- TODD HEISLER/THE NEW YORK TIMES
cent of them include some form of
added sugar. When they looked at Some pasta sauces have added sugar, as do many other foods that you
every individual processed food in might not expect. An F.D.A. labeling change will alert consumers.
the store, 68 percent had added
sugar. Some of those products are
more obvious sugary foods, but Carolina, and one of the paper’s be a lot clearer when the labels are satisfied with the new label rules.
not all. The list includes many authors, said that the wide variety updated. But the sugar industry and the
sauces, soups, fruit juices and of sugars was not always meant to “It’s going to really surprise corn refiners are upset. Critics of
even meat products. confound consumers. Instead, he people who go to organic and the policy argue that the differ-
You might think it’s easy to fig- said, the many sugar types are whole foods stores, when they find ence between natural and added
ure out whether the food manufac- chosen by food scientists to give that all this natural food they’ve sugars is not nutritionally mean-
turer added sugar to your food, their products the best flavor and been buying is full of added sugar,” ingful, and that the science estab-
but it isn’t always so. While some texture. Some sugars are better Mr. Popkin said. “It’s full of fruit lishing health harms from added
foods include “sugar” in their in- for baked goods, while others are juice concentrates, and they sugar is weak. The new label will
gredients, many use different better in soft drinks. Some are also thought it was all good stuff.” kick in for large food companies in
words for products that are nutri- cheaper than others. Sugar tariffs The emphasis on added sugar 2018, and for smaller companies a
tionally similar. Most of us have and import laws make it expen- comes from new nutrition guide- year later.
heard of high-fructose corn syrup, sive to bring in too much foreign lines that urge Americans to con- The U.N.C. research used its
a sugar made from processing sugar. But not all of the sugar for- sume a “healthy dietary pattern” master list of sugar code words to
corn. But there are also things like mulations count toward the laws’ containing certain types of foods. measure how many grocery store
the “evaporated cane juice” in the quotas. According to the regulation, hid- foods include sugar. But measur-
yogurt, and “rice syrup” and “flo- There’s also the matter of fruit den added sugars make it hard to ing the precise amount of sugars
malt,” which are less obvious and juice concentrates, which are understand whether the food you that are added with the current la- Woodworks Collection
amount to the same thing. Other juices that have been stripped of are eating is part of that healthy bel is quite difficult.
words that mean sugar: agave nearly everything but sugar and pattern. Medical evidence shows Mr. Popkin said consumers Shoelace Cuﬀ
juice, malt, treacle and mizuame. evaporated. A lot of seemingly that high sugar consumption is would be surprised by recent re-
(For a longer list of ingredients natural foods include ingredients linked to obesity, diabetes and search from his team revealing $19,500
that represent added sugar, see like “apple juice concentrate.” tooth decay — though not all of the large amounts of added sugars
the online version of this article at That’s sugar. (Also sugar: grape that work distinguishes between in products that are generally 942 Madison Avenue
nytimes.com/upshot.) juice concentrate and raisin juice added sugar and total sugar. thought of as healthy — foods like 212.421.3030
Barry Popkin, a professor of nu- concentrate, which may or may Many of the big food industry infant formula, protein bars and
trition at the University of North not be the same thing.) That will trade groups and lobbyists were yogurt.
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WEST BANK JOURNAL
A Window Into the West Bank’s ‘Wildest, Most Violent’ Areas
PHOTOGRAPHS BY URIEL SINAI FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Hanamel Dorfman, 21, beside the rubble of a house that was demolished this month by the Israeli authorities in Yishuv Hadaat, a Jewish settlement outpost in the West Bank.
By JAMES GLANZ Kodesh — the name means “Holy Fire”

— where several residents welcomed
YISHUV HADAAT, West Bank —
With shoulder-length hair tumbling
A documentary examines us into their synagogue, but one chased
from beneath his knit skullcap, a fringe group known as our group down in a golf cart and ex-
pressed strong unhappiness about our
Hanamel Dorfman, a radical young
Israeli settler, explains matter-of-factly the ‘hilltop youth.’ arriving without asking their permis-
on camera how hilltop settlement out- sion.
posts like his own will continue to pro- Mr. Dorfman, now 21, told me that
liferate across the West Bank. From and was shown for the first time in Israel’s government was illegitimate
there, he says bluntly, Israelis will cross Israel on Monday evening, suggests because it did not rule based on the
the Jordan River and start building on that the fringe group of religious hip- laws of the Torah. “It stays in its place
the other side. pies is underestimated in its ability to in a pathetic attempt at survival,” he
Reminded that beyond the river influence Israeli politics and thwart any said.
there is another sovereign nation, Jor- possibility of peace with the Mr. Dorfman said he had been ar-
dan, Mr. Dorfman says with an unwa- Palestinians. rested numerous times, but not for any
vering gaze, “Everything is temporary.” Mr. Dotan was born in Romania, major attacks on Palestinians. Still, his
The stunning statement comes in one immigrated to Israel as a boy and ideology echoes a manifesto of a new
of the final scenes of “The Settlers,” a moved to New York in 1995. He intro- group of extremist Jewish settler youth
documentary by an Israeli-American duced me to Mr. Dorfman and other that Israeli security officials revealed
filmmaker, Shimon Dotan, that opens a settlers during a recent visit to Yishuv last year.
rare window into the reclusive and Hadaat, which is little more than a Mr. Dotan’s film chronicles the germi-
politically explosive “hilltop youth” collection of mobile homes, a ram- nation of the early settler movement
movement. shackle synagogue and some play- after Israel captured the West Bank
The film, which had its premiere at A home this month in Esh Kodesh, an outpost featured in “The Settlers,” ground equipment on the crest of a hill. from Jordan in 1967, including the ideas
the Sundance Film Festival in January which was shown in Israel for the first time on Monday. We also went to the nearby outpost Esh Continued on Page A9
Tunisian Islamic Party Re-elects Moderate Leader in Vote Seen as Turning Point
By CARLOTTA GALL seats in Parliament after a breakup this
TUNIS — The leader of Tunisia’s main year of the secular Nidaa Tounes party.
Islamic political party was re-elected on Mr. Ghannouchi has repeatedly called
Monday, winning endorsement for his ef- on his followers to put national stability
fort to move the party away from its Is- and security ahead of party interests, but
lamist roots and stay in tune with the now Ennahda is evidently looking ahead
country’s five-year-old democratic revo- to municipal elections scheduled for May
lution. 2017.
Party members overwhelmingly ex-
The leader, Rachid Ghannouchi, a re-
pressed their support for the motion to
nowned Islamic thinker who spent 22
separate political affairs of the party
years in exile during Tunisia’s dictator-
from religious and cultural activities, al-
ship, had tears in his eyes Monday as he beit with the understanding that Islam
embraced his rival in the party vote,
which he won with 800 of the 1,058 ballots
cast.
The vote, a culmination of a three-day
party congress here in Tunis, was a vic-
Rachid Ghannouchi has
tory for Mr. Ghannouchi, 74, and an im- steered his party away
portant turning point for his party, En-
nahda, as it seeks to separate the party’s from its religious roots.
religious and political activities.
“One of the most important changes
we came to was the independence of the
remains the party’s ideological founda-
political mission and the political party
tion.
from social and cultural activities,” Mr.
“Before we were afraid for our iden-
Ghannouchi told reporters. “We were
tity,” Mohammad Krad, a party member
not able to achieve this cause before be- from the island of Djerba, said as he left
cause of a lack of clarity.” the rally last Friday. “Now we have a
He said the party had matured and the Constitution that says we are Arab and
country’s new Constitution — guaran- Muslim, so we do not need restate it in
teeing freedom of religion, and calling for our politics.”
a separation of politics from civil society More than 1,000 representatives gath-
— had made a change in the party’s di- FETHI BELAID/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES ered Saturday for two days of vigorous
rection possible. debate at the congress in the beach re-
Rachid Ghannouchi, right, the leader of the Ennahda party in Tunisia, and Abdelfattah Mourou, the vice president,
“The Ennahda millstone works sort town of Hammamet.
slowly,” he said in Arabic. “It makes the on Friday at the party’s congress. On Monday, Mr. Ghannouchi won re-election with 800 of 1,058 ballots cast.
The decision to separate Ennahda’s re-
cereals smooth, very smooth, after it ligious, cultural and social mission from
grinds the corn.” Tunisia’s first democratic elections. nahda to cede power to a caretaker gov- who has never held any public office. the party’s political activities had been in
Inspired by Egypt’s Muslim Brother- After that victory, the party struggled ernment before new elections. The president attended the opening
the works for a year and a half, and

hood, the party was founded as the Is- to govern Tunisia in the tumultuous peri- The agreement helped usher in a new rally of Ennahda’s party congress in Tu- passed with more than 80 percent of the
lamic Tendency Movement in 1981, and od following the revolution as secular op- Constitution. nis, standing beside Mr. Ghannouchi and party vote, said Rafik Abdessalem, En-
later renamed Ennahda, or Renaissance. position to the Islamists grew. They were Though Ennahda was beaten in elec- urging thousands of Ennahda sup- nahda’s head of external relations and
Thousands of its members were im- seen by some to condone a surge of tions in 2014 by Mr. Essebsi’s party, porters to participate in building a sover- Mr. Ghannouchi’s son-in-law.
prisoned or exiled under Tunisia’s au- Salafist vigilantism in Tunisia, and popu- Nidaa Tounes, Mr. Ghannouchi was eign modern society. The topic of greatest debate — and the
thoritarian presidents, Habib Bourguiba lar confidence in the party’s leadership widely credited with having secured his “Islam is never in contradiction with closest vote — was over whether the par-
and Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali. waned amid economic difficulties and party a permanent position in Tunisian democracy,” he said to widespread ap- ty’s executive council should be elected
Mr. Ghannouchi returned to Tunisia rising terrorism. politics. plause. by the congress or appointed by Mr.
from Britain in the weeks after the popu- Mr. Ghannouchi reached an agree- Mr. Essebsi went on to win the presi- Ennahda remains a critical element in Ghannouchi and confirmed by the con-
lar uprising that ousted Mr. Ben Ali in ment in 2013 with the leading secularist dency in December 2014, and he has re- the political stability of the country, and gress. Mr. Ghannouchi eventually won
2011 and led Ennahda to victory in 2012 in politician, Beji Caid Essebsi, for En- mained a close ally of Mr. Ghannouchi, has emerged once again with the most that vote, too.
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NEWS ANALYSIS
Despite Moves by Obama, Asian Nations Are Unsure of U.S. Commitment

By DAVID E. SANGER — not to be based there, but to be
SINGAPORE — When Presi- able to land, refuel, train and
dent Obama announced Monday build partnerships.
that he was ending a half-cen- It started with Darwin, Aus-
tury-long arms embargo against tralia. Now Mr. Obama is trying
Vietnam, it was another mile- to do the same in the Philippines,
stone in his long-running ambi- which the United States left more
tion to recast America’s role in than two decades ago, and at the
Asia — a “pivot” as he once deepwater port of Cam Ranh
called it, designed to realign Bay, if the unspoken deal with
America’s foreign policy so it can Vietnam works out. That would
reap the benefits of Asia’s eco- give Washington more reason to
nomic and strategic future. regularly traverse waters the
Yet as Mr. Obama’s time in Chinese claim as their exclusive
office comes to an end, Asian zone. But it is unclear that pres-
nations are deeply skeptical ence is large enough to deter
about how much they can rely on further Chinese expansion.
Washington’s commitment and The biggest challenge, howev-
staying power in the region. er, is on the home front. Donald J.
They sense that for the first time Trump’s threat to withdraw
in memory, Americans are ques- American forces from South
tioning whether their economic Korea and Japan unless they pay
and defense interests in Asia are far more of the cost — and they
really that vital. already pay much of it — may
Mr. Obama is the first presi- just be a negotiating position.
dent to have grown up in the But it suggests that the United
region — he lived in Indonesia as States has no independent na-
an elementary school student — tional interests in the Pacific.
and he has never doubted that That would be a rejection of a
America is underinvested in Asia post-World War II order that
and overinvested in the Middle goes back to the Truman admin-
East. istration.
In visit after visit, he has capi- The real glue may well be the
talized on the palpable nervous- Trans-Pacific Partnership — the
ness about Beijing’s intentions big, unwieldy trade deal that
while also cautioning that China’s involves a dozen nations, but not
growing influence and power are the Chinese. Mr. Russel notes
unstoppable forces of history. In that for President Obama, the
Mr. Obama’s view, that means DOUG MILLS/THE NEW YORK TIMES
agreement “fulfills the strategic
both the United States and the promise of the rebalance, as a
President Obama was given a warm welcome Monday by the Vietnamese, including a ceremony with President Tran Dai Quang. system that integrates the U.S.
rest of the region will have to
both accommodate and channel with the Asian-Pacific region.”
China’s ambitions rather than their hand in the South China Statecraft in Asia,” also noted So while almost certainly they constructed. More recently, he is Good geopolitics, though, often
make a futile attempt to contain Sea that smaller neighbors sud- that Asian nations were equally will buy American arms — espe- backing away from the current makes for bad domestic politics.
them, while reassuring the Chi- denly took a new interest in worried that America is no long- cially the high-tech gear they government’s effort to press its Even some of Mrs. Clinton’s top
nese of America’s peaceful inten- deepening their relations with er willing to be a steadying need to keep an eye on what the sovereignty arguments, saying foreign policy aides were as-
tions. Washington. power. Chinese are doing at the edge of he wants to negotiate directly tounded by her decision to de-
At the core, the policy has Countering those develop- “Asian countries are prone to Vietnam’s territorial waters — with the Chinese, perhaps swap- clare herself against a deal she
been building on the two-decade- ments, though, is the American anxiety about the behavior of they have no intention of build- ping a little sovereignty for some often praised. After all, in No-
old opening to Vietnam; the political mood, which has major powers, for good reasons ing the kind of alliance the economic concessions. That is vember 2012, just before she left
establishment of a new relation- darkened toward longstanding — they have seen a lot go wrong United States has with Japan and just the kind of invitation the the State Department, she did
ship with Myanmar as it lurches alliances and international trade over the past thousand years,” South Korea. “Now that the U.S. Chinese wanted to hear. not sound like she had a lot of
toward democracy; closer rela- itself. For Asian allies, this said Daniel R. Russel, the assist- fully lifted the weapons ban, I Mr. Obama’s vision is certainly doubts: “Our growing trade
tions with the two largest treaty means the United States might ant secretary of state for Asia. think U.S. Navy vessels will nuanced. As Mr. Campbell writes across the region, including our
allies in the region, Japan and pivot away. “And now there is angst about come to Cam Ranh Bay later this in his book, the trick in the pivot work together to finalize the
South Korea; and renewed mili- “Every country in Asia views what comes next and the sus- year,” said Alexander L. Vuving, is to build a deep relationship Trans-Pacific Partnership, binds
tary ties with the Philippines. the problem differently, and tainability of the rebalance.” a specialist on Vietnam at the with the Chinese to convince not our countries together, increases
The administration has also through their own lenses, but Not surprisingly, uncertainty Asia-Pacific Center for Security only “China but also China’s stability and promotes security,”
pushed the Trans-Pacific Part- they all see a twofold risk of begets hedging, in big ways and Studies in Honolulu. neighbors that our China policy she said then.
nership, which would set new things getting out of balance small. Last week, as the streets of is not intended to produce need- The question is whether the
terms for trade and business quickly,” Kurt M. Campbell, one The Vietnamese gave Mr. Hanoi were being cleaned up for less and unproductive friction.” opposite is also true: Having put
investment among the United of the architects of Mr. Obama’s Obama a huge welcome on Mon- the president’s visit, the Chinese Containment “has little or no America’s Pacific strategy on the
States and 11 other Pacific Rim strategy in his first term, said on day, lining the streets in ways were meeting with Vietnam’s relevance to the complexities of line, if the deal fails does that
nations. Monday. “One is that China reminiscent of Bill Clinton’s first defense minister, pledging to an interdependent Asia in which mean the binding glue will loos-
Perhaps most important, Mr. seriously overplays its national- presidential trip there 16 years strengthen their military ties. most states have deep economic en, and stability and security will
Obama has received unexpected ism” and that conflict breaks out ago. But missing from the news In the Philippines, the fire- ties with China.” be imperiled? And if so will the
help from the Chinese them- in the South China Sea. conferences was the hard-core brand who has just been elected The Chinese are unconvinced. leaders of Asia see that as an-
selves, who have so overplayed But Mr. Campbell, who is group in the leadership that president, Rodrigo Duterte, once One of the key military elements other reason to welcome Mr.
about to publish an account of remains deeply suspicious that promised to ride a Jet Ski to of the strategy is for American Obama’s successor one week,
Jane Perlez contributed reporting Mr. Obama’s efforts titled “The Washington’s real long-term goal plant a flag on one of the artifi- troops to “rotate” through stra- and visit Beijing and Moscow the
from Beijing. Pivot: The Future of American is regime change. cial islands the Chinese have tegically important Asian ports next?
Obama Lifts Vietnam Arms Embargo, a Vestige of War

By GARDINER HARRIS States would review future arms Obama did announce new com- the two countries have sparred
HANOI, Vietnam — The United sales to “examine what’s appro- mercial agreements worth more over Beijing’s claims to waters off
States is rescinding a decades-old priate and what’s not,” as it does than $16 billion, including one in Vietnam’s coast.
ban on sales of lethal military with any country. As for human which Boeing will sell 100 aircraft Since 2014, when China placed
equipment to Vietnam, President rights, he said, “this is an area and Pratt & Whitney will sell 135 an oil rig in waters near the Para-
Obama announced at a news con- where we still have differences.” advanced aircraft engines to Viet- cel Islands, which Vietnam
ference in Hanoi on Monday, end- Human rights advocates, who Jet Air, a private low-cost airline. claims, Hanoi has repeatedly
ing one of the last legal vestiges of had asked Mr. Obama to hold off Mr. Obama said that improved asked Washington for the free-
the Vietnam War. on lifting the ban until Vietnam ties with Vietnam made sense for dom to buy American lethal
The United States had long had released some prominent po- the United States, since it was a weapons. The United States re-
made lifting the embargo contin- litical prisoners and promised to fast-growing country in one of the laxed the ban two years ago, al-
gent on Vietnam’s improving its stop the police beatings of pro- lowing the purchase of nonlethal
human rights record. Administra- testers, condemned the decision. equipment for maritime defense.
tion officials had hinted recently “President Obama just gave China’s reaction to the decision
that the ban could be removed
partly in response to China’s
Vietnam a reward that they don’t
deserve,” said John Sifton, the
A step seen as helping on Monday was subdued. “The
arms embargo is a product of the DOUG MILLS/THE NEW YORK TIMES
buildup in the South China Sea. Asia policy director of Human to counter China’s Cold War and should never have President Obama, with President Tran Dai Quang of Vietnam
But Mr. Obama portrayed the Rights Watch. existed,” Hua Chunying, a spokes- on Monday, said that differences on human rights remained.
decision as part of the long Mr. Quang defended his coun- buildup in the South woman for the Foreign Ministry,
process of normalizing relations try’s rights record. “The consis- said in Beijing. “We welcome nor-
between the two countries after tent position and viewpoint of the China Sea. mal relations between Vietnam time for China. The government is have no formal role.
the Vietnam War. Vietnamese government is to pro- and the United States.” running a high-pitched diplomatic The university’s chairman, Bob
“The decision to lift the ban was tect and promote human rights,” But beneath the polite response campaign criticizing a pending ar- Kerrey, a former Nebraska sena-
not based on China or any other he said, adding, “Those achieve- are deep concerns in Beijing about bitration ruling on the South tor and a Vietnam veteran who
world’s fastest-growing regions. China Sea. China argues that a lost part of a leg in combat, said
considerations,” he said, with the ments have been highly recog- the intentions of Vietnam. And
nized and appreciated by the in- He predicted that the Trans-Pa- United Nations tribunal has no the university could start teach-
Vietnamese president, Tran Dai Vietnam, while seeking to defend
Quang, standing stiffly by his side. ternational community.” cific Partnership, a trade deal itself from China, is unlikely to right to make a ruling in the case, ing undergraduates in fall 2017.
“It was based on our desire to American officials have por- among 12 nations, including Viet- completely sever itself from Chi- which the Philippines brought Mr. Obama also said that Peace
complete what has been a lengthy trayed lifting the embargo as part nam, that has very little chance of na’s orbit. In a sign of the complex- against China. Corps volunteers would be posted
process of moving toward normal- of a strategy to help Vietnam de- passing Congress before the No- ities of the relationship, the Chi- Vietnam has loudly backed the to Vietnam for the first time.
ization with Vietnam.” fend itself against an increasing vember election, would someday nese ambassador to Vietnam, right of the Philippines to take its Earlier, Mr. Obama was
Mr. Obama insisted that the threat from China in the South become law. All three remaining Hong Xiaoyong, met last Thurs- case to the tribunal. whisked through Hanoi’s streets
move should not be interpreted as China Sea. Analysts have specu- presidential candidates oppose it. day with Vietnam’s defense min- Mr. Obama also announced on for a highly choreographed arriv-
carte blanche for weapons sales to lated that in return, Vietnam Mr. Obama’s visit was part of an ister, Ngo Xuan Lich, in Hanoi. Monday that the two sides had al ceremony at the Presidential
Vietnam and that the United would grant the United States ac- effort by Vietnam to recalibrate its Both sides pledged to strengthen formalized an agreement to allow Palace. His route was lined with
cess to the deepwater port at Cam relationship with China, its giant military ties, said Xinhua, the Chi- the opening of Fulbright Univer- children waving small American
Jane Perlez contributed reporting Ranh Bay. neighbor in the north. China re- nese news agency. sity Vietnam in Ho Chi Minh City, and Vietnamese flags. He later
from Beijing, and Nicola Clark While there were no statements mains Vietnam’s largest trading The lifting of the arms embargo the first university in Vietnam in had dinner with Anthony Bour-
from Paris. about such a deal on Monday, Mr. partner and an ideological ally, but comes at a particularly sensitive which the government would dain, the host of a CNN program.
Suicide Attacks Hit 2 Syria Cities, Killing Scores and Shattering Calm in Assad Stronghold
By BEN HUBBARD even scarier prospect for A spokesman for President In Tartus, a car bomb hit the bus
and MAHER SAMAAN residents of the area. 30 Miles Vladimir V. Putin of Russia said on station, then two suicide bombers
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Two The attacks shattered the rela- A logistical feat that Monday that a recent surge in mil- targeted people who had gathered
teams of suicide attackers waged tive calm in two cities, Jableh and
Tartus, both on Syria’s Mediterra-
raises questions about itant attacks and bombings “once
again demonstrates how fragile
in the aftermath.
Noah Bonsey, a Syria analyst
coordinated assaults on Monday
deep inside Syrian government nean coast, a region where sup-
port for Mr. Assad remains strong
TURKEY
Aleppo
government defenses. the situation in Syria is.”
Asked whether Russia would
with the International Crisis
Group, said the Islamic State ap-
territory, killing scores of people
and piercing a sanctuary for and where militant attacks and reconsider its decision to scale peared to be carrying out such
rebel activity have been rare. Idlib back its military contingent in high-profile suicide attacks
supporters of President Bashar
While the area has a high concen- and the emergency department of Syria, the spokesman, Dmitri S. against government forces and
al-Assad. a public hospital, seemed to target
tration of Alawites, members of Peskov, cited a previous state- their supporters to show that it
Merely pulling off the bombings the Muslim sect that has been the civilians in a religiously diverse ment by Mr. Putin that Russia’s was still strong despite territorial
was a logistical feat that calls into SYRIA area whose population has dou-
base of the Assad family’s power, Latakia bases in Syria allowed for “a very losses.
question the effectiveness of it also has large populations of bled as Syrians from other parts of flexible approach” to its deploy- The attacks also seek to incite
Syria’s defenses. To reach the ar- Christians and other Muslims. Jableh the country, including areas held ments. draconian responses from the
eas attacked, the jihadists would Mr. Assad has long presented by insurgents that are routinely The Syrian state news agency, government and its militias
have had to move large quantities his government as a bulwark GOVERNMENT-HELD hit with government airstrikes, SANA, and the Syrian Observa- against Sunni civilians, perpetu-
of explosives and a group of mili- TERRITORY have sought refuge. The attacks
against terrorism and chaos. Rus- tory for Human Rights, which op- ating a cycle of radicalization that
tants across more than 30 miles of sia, which backs the president and also appeared to reflect the chang- poses the government and tracks benefits the jihadists, Mr. Bonsey
Tartus
government-controlled territory has supported his troops with ing tactics of the Islamic State as the conflict from Britain through said.
without being detected, suggest- airstrikes and other military aid, Homs its military fortunes have contacts in Syria, described the at- Late Monday, pro-government
ing a major security breach. An- has a naval base in Tartus and an dimmed. tacks as coordinated and intended militias stormed though camps
other possibility was that the mili- air base nearby. Having lost significant territory to maximize civilian casualties. for the displaced, searching for ji-
tants had organized the attacks Amaq, a news agency LEBANON from its self-declared caliphate in In Jableh, two blasts struck the hadist supporters, activists said.
and built their bombs locally — an associated with the Islamic State, Source: IHS Conflict Monitor
Syria and Iraq, it has turned its fo- bus station, then suicide attackers SANA said that at least 78 peo-
said jihadists from the militant cus to external expansion while blew themselves up near an elec- ple had been killed in the two at-
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Ben Hubbard reported from group had carried out the assaults stepping up suicide bombings tricity administration building tacks. The Observatory reported
Beirut, and Maher Samaan from to strike “groupings of Alawites.” Militant and rebel activity had against civilian targets in places and at the entrance to the emer- at least 145 dead and many more
Paris. But the attacks, on bus stations been rare in the coastal region. like Baghdad. gency department of a hospital. wounded.
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Leftist Ekes Out Victory in Austria, but Result Shows Right Wing’s Power
though most moved on to Ger-
From Page A1 many and Sweden, roughly 90,000
have run the country since 1945 sought asylum in Austria.
have fallen from public grace. The Freedom Party, which has
The narrowness of the victory for decades campaigned to keep
also reflected the big strides into out foreigners, saw its support
the mainstream the far right has soar, with opinion polls consis-
made not only in Austria, but in tently showing that it would win a
much of Europe — from neighbor- nationwide election.
ing Hungary and Poland, where it That apparently prompted Mr.
already holds sway, to France and Faymann and his center-right
Germany, where rightist move- partners in government to re-
ments are polling strongly before verse course on its approach to
national elections next year. migrants, shutting Austria’s bor-
In Britain, voters are scheduled ders and persuading Balkan na-
to decide next month whether tions along the refugee trail to
their country will stay in the Euro- Central Europe from Greece to do
pean Union. That vote could turn the same.
on issues like migrants and a re- Hopes are now pinned on his
jection of European unity and the successor as chancellor, the
Continent’s centrist elites — is- leader of the Social Democrats:
sues that also figured significantly Christian Kern, 50, the former
in Austria’s vote. head of Austria’s state rail system,
In his first speech as president- got off to a vigorous start last
elect, Mr. Van der Bellen empha- week, talking of a “New Deal” that
sized his pro-European stance, would allay people’s worries and
welcoming foreign reporters in overhaul Austria’s moribund state
English, and promised Mr. Hofer’s structures.
voters that their grievances and The last time the outside world
views would be heard. paid such attention to the election
“We have quite clearly got a lot of an Austrian president was in
of work to do,” Mr. Van der Bellen 1986, when Austrians defied inter-
said. “Obviously, people do not national fears and elected Kurt
feel sufficiently seen or heard, or Waldheim, a former United Na-
both,” even if the five-month cam- tions secretary general, as presi-
paign proved that Austrians were dent, despite revelations that he
ready to discuss politics at length had served in the Wehrmacht
— something their new president close to the site of Nazi atrocities
said was “a good sign.” CHRISTIAN BRUNA/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY
in the Balkans.
Polling experts said Mr. Van der Mr. Waldheim’s six-year tenure
Bellen had won the election with Top, president- was scarred by almost complete
support from city dwellers — par- diplomatic isolation.
A narrow margin elect Alexander
ticularly in Vienna, which voted 61 “Very little will change in the
percent for him — women and the
Van der Bellen in real world” as a result of Sunday’s
highly educated. He promised on illustrates a country’s Vienna on Mon- vote, said Charles Grant of the
day. He defeated
Sunday night that he would try to
heal the rifts that had opened
deep divisions. his far-right
Center for European Reform, a
London think tank.
along these and other lines as es- rival, Norbert Nevertheless, he said, it was
tablishment politics stagnated. Hofer, left, in clearly a protest vote, cast as
Mr. Hofer’s showing is the first The parties of the center left “trade, migrants and globaliza-
and center right that governed for Vienna on Sun-
time the Freedom Party, which tion are increasingly unpopular”
has its roots in the 1950s, when it most of the past 30 years in ever- day, by just over and “inequality is growing”
was founded by former Nazis and duller grand coalitions were 30,000 votes. across Europe and the United
Teutonic nationalists, has gained trounced in the first round of the States.
close to 50 percent of the popular presidential elections last month, Mr. Grant compared the out-
vote. That alone signals that it is a when Mr. Hofer stunned rivals by come to the showing of the U.K. In-
factor to be reckoned with as Aus- reaping 35.1 percent, well ahead of dependence Party, which received
tria, a generally prosperous coun- Mr. Van der Bellen with 21 percent. almost 28 percent in European
try of 8.4 million, grapples to find Sunday’s runoff turned into a elections in 2014 but just 12.6 per-
its place in a globalized world, and cliffhanger as the popular vote cent in Britain’s general election
in a Europe whose unity is under was counted and showed an ever- last year.
question. narrowing lead for Mr. Hofer. The In France, the center-right daily
The disruptions of globalization Austrian public broadcaster ORF Le Figaro wrote on Monday that
and last year’s wave of one million projected that Mr. Van der Bellen JAN HETFLEISCH/GETTY IMAGES “Europe’s leaders should not be
migrants — most of whom only would win by just 3,000 votes too pleased if Alexander Van der
when the record number of re- tude illustrated the country’s deep “We do have a problem in this on May 9 after the rightward lurch Bellen spares them the shock of
passed through Austria en route
to Germany or Sweden — were quested mail-in ballots was divisions. country, that politics has been in the first round of the presiden- an anti-European president in Vi-
central themes of the election. counted on Monday. Doron Rabinovici, a writer who conducted not in discussing sub- tial vote. enna.”
Despite Austria’s outward pros- That projection — and the tone was among several prominent stance but at the level of the tab- Mr. Faymann had, at first, sup- The very narrow vote contains
perity, wrote Rainer Nowak, the of some of the ORF reporting on intellectuals supporting Mr. Van loid press,” he said. ported the welcoming stance of a lesson, the French daily added:
editor of Die Presse, the leading the election — was heavily criti- der Bellen, noted that “the 50-50 In Mr. Rabinovici’s view, that Chancellor Angela Merkel of Ger- “Across the whole Continent, peo-
center-right daily, “people fear cized by the Freedom Party. It was vote is not in itself a split; that’s was particularly true of the last many to the hundreds of thou- ple are expressing more or less
that it won’t go so well for much not clear if there would be legal democracy.” But how one pro- chancellor, the Social Democrat sands of refugees who poured in the same rejection of a Europe
longer.” consequences, but the party’s atti- ceeds is what matters. Werner Faymann, who resigned from the Balkans last year. Al- that lacks both a plan, and a head.”
Party Ideology in National Elections Right-wing Center-right, center-left Other parties Each bar represents the proportion of votes won by a party.
Austria Belgium Britain Bulgaria Czech Republic Denmark Finland

Freedom Party
won 35% of
the vote in Aprril
1999 ’02 ’06 ’08 ’13 2016 1999 ’03 ’07 ’10 2014 1997 ’01 ’05 ’10 2015 1997 ’01 ’05 ’09 ’13 2014 1996 ’98 ’02 ’06 ’10 2013 1998 ’01 ’05 ’07 ’11 2015 1999 ’03 ’07 ’11 2015
France Germany Greece Hungaryy Fidesz/KDNP Jobbik Italy Netherlands Norway

National
Front
Alternnative
for Gerrrmany
m
Golden
Dawn
1997 ’02 ’07 ’12 2015 1998 ’02 ’05 ’09 2013 ’00 ’04 ’07 ’09 ’12 ’12 ’15 ’15 1998 ’02 ’06 ’10 2014 1996 ’01 ’06 ’08 2013 1998 ’02 ’03 ’06 ’10 2012 1997 ’01 ’05 ’09 2013
Poland Law and Portugal Romania Slovakia Spain Sweden Switzerland

Justice
Sweden
Democrats
1997 ’01 ’05 ’07 ’11 2015 1999 ’02 ’05 ’09 ’11 2015 1996 ’00 ’04 ’08 2012 1998 ’02 ’06 ’10 ’12 2016 1996 ’00 ’04 ’08 ’11 2015 1998 ’02 ’06 ’10 2014 1999 ’03 ’07 ’11 2015
All elections are parliamentary elections, except the 2016 Austrian presidential election and the 2015 French regional elections. | Sources: European Election Database, Inter-Parliamentary Union, ElectionGuide.org, Government websites THE NEW YORK TIMES
How Far Is Europe Swinging to the Right?

This article is by Gregor Aisch, Adam Pearce and Bryant Rousseau.
The candidate for the far-right Freedom Party in Austria lost the country’s cliffhanger presidential election on Monday by the
slimmest of margins. Still, it was an example of the electoral gains made by right-wing parties in a growing number of Euro-
pean countries amid a migrant crisis, sluggish economic growth and disillusionment with the European Union. The right-wing
parties included in the graphic range across a wide policy spectrum, from populist and nationalist to far-right neofascist.
AUSTRIA POLAND HUNGARY SWEDEN GREECE FRANCE GERMANY

Norbert Hofer of the nation- The right-wing Law and Viktor Orban and his right- The far-right Sweden The neofascist Golden The National Front is a The far-right Alternative for
alist and anti-immigration Justice party roared back wing Fidesz party, running Democrats party, which has Dawn party, founded in 1980, nationalist party that uses Germany party, started
Freedom Party was the into the government in 2015 on a joint list with the Chris- disavowed its roots in the drew international attention populist rhetoric to promote three years ago as a protest
clear front-runner in the by winning 39 percent of the tian Democratic People’s white-supremacist move- in 2012 by winning its first its anti-immigration and movement against the euro,
first round of the presiden- national vote in parliamen- Party, have won the last two ment, won about 13 percent seats in Parliament amid anti-European Union won up to 25 percent of the
tial election in late April, tary elections. The party elections, and his increas- of the vote in September the country’s debt crisis and positions and its protection- vote in German state elec-
winning 35.1 percent of the was founded in 2001 by Lech ingly authoritarian rule has 2014, giving it 49 of the 349 struggles with budget aus- ist economic policies. The tions in March. The party
vote. But in Sunday’s runoff Kaczynski and his identical worried many Western seats in Parliament. None of terity. The party holds ex- party was established in narrowly missed the 5 per-
election, he narrowly lost to twin, Jaroslaw, and first won leaders. A party even far- the country’s mainstream treme anti-immigrant 1972; its founders and cent threshold for parlia-
Alexander Van der Bellen, a power in 2005. Lech Ka- ther to the right, the anti- parties would form a coali- views, favors a defense sympathizers included mentary seats in 2013, but it
72-year-old economics czynski became president immigration, populist Job- tion with the Sweden agreement with Russia and former Nazi collaborators. is now polling at 10 percent
professor and former Green and Jaroslaw Kaczynski bik, won 20 percent of the Democrats, which is led by has said adopting the euro Its longtime leader, Jean- to 12 percent. Support for
Party leader. Still, it was the eventually became prime vote in parliamentary elec- Jimmie Akesson, so the “turned out to be our de- Marie Le Pen, used overtly the party shot up after the
first time the Freedom minister. Lech Kaczynski tions in 2014, making it government is a shaky struction.” Dozens of senior anti-Semitic and racist New Year’s Eve sexual
Party, founded in the 1950s and many of Poland’s top Hungary’s third-largest minority coalition of Social Golden Dawn officials were language and was assaults in Cologne. The
by nationalists and former leaders were killed in a party. It wants to hold a Democrats and the Green arrested in September 2013, prosecuted repeatedly. He party “attracted voters who
Nazis, has come close to a plane crash in 2010 near referendum on membership Party. The Sweden including lawmakers and was succeeded in 2011 by his were anti-establishment,
majority of the popular vote. Smolensk, Russia; Jaroslaw in the European Union and Democrats’ platform calls the party’s leader, Nikos daughter Marine Le Pen, anti-liberalization, anti-
Mr. Hofer campaigned on Kaczynski, who was not on to “stop hushing up such for heavily restricting immi- Michaloliakos, who was who has tried to soften the European, anti-everything
strengthening the country’s the plane, is now leading taboo issues” as “Zionist gration, keeping Turkey out charged with forming a party’s image. The National that has come to be re-
borders and its army, lim- Poland’s shift rightward as Israel’s efforts to dominate of the European Union and criminal organization. Gold- Front won 27 percent of the garded as the norm,” said
iting benefits for immi- the party leader. Hungary and the world.” holding a referendum on en Dawn was largely silent vote in the first round of Sylke Tempel of the German
grants, and favoring Jobbik proposed a bill in Sweden’s own membership as the migrant crisis in regional elections in Decem- Council on Foreign Rela-
Austrians in the job market. 2012 that would impose in the union. Greece began, but party ber, more than any other tions. Led by Frauke Petry,
The far-right party, whose prison terms of up to eight members have been march- party, but second-round 40, the party says in its
motto is “Austria first,” years on gay people if con- ing recently in several areas runoffs denied it power in platform that “Islam does
holds 40 of the 183 seats in victed of promoting “sexual where migrants are any of the country’s 13 re- not belong in Germany” and
the National Council and deviancy.” Gabor Vona, the camped, and party leaders gions. Ms. Le Pen is ex- calls for a ban on the con-
won 49.7 percent of the vote party leader, said in April say that protests are pected to be her party’s struction of mosques.
in the presidential race. that Jobbik would remove planned around the country candidate in the 2017 presi-
half its leadership board, a against what they call the dential election.
move seen by some as a “Islamization of Greece.”
purge of extremist elements
before the 2018 election.
THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, MAY 24, 2016 0N A9
WEST BANK JOURNAL
Movie Opens Window

On ‘Most Violent’ Parts
Of Settled West Bank
the West Bank, said that there
From Page A4 were about 100 far-flung outposts
and religious zeal that fueled it, in the West Bank, with “many
and explores its latest extreme hundreds” of residents, and that
element: the hilltop youth. large numbers of them partici-
They are but a tiny fraction of pate in arson and vandalism of
the more than 400,000 Israeli mosques, churches and olive
Jews living in the occupied West groves.
Bank, but the object of mounting Outposts like Esh Kodesh and
concern as they are blamed for Yishuv Hadaat that dot the hills
extreme violence there, like the above the settlement of Shilo,
arson last summer that killed a where Mr. Dotan filmed many of
toddler and his parents in the his hilltop scenes, are some “of
village of Duma. the wildest, most violent areas of
the West Bank,” Mr. Etkes said.
“The Settlers” is one of the
first close-up views of the mo- Mr. Bar-On’s views are so
extreme that the residents of Esh
tives and personalities in a group
Kodesh asked him to leave the
that rarely opens up to outsiders.
outpost in February 2014. He was
Though mainstream settler
still living there during most of
leaders denounce violence and
the filming of “The Settlers,” in
try to distance themselves from
which he openly admitted, “I’m a
the radical youth in the hills, Mr.
racist.”
Dotan sees the hilltop dwellers
“Arabs don’t belong in our
as a natural outgrowth of the
country,” he said on camera.
original movement.
“Every morning I recite the
“Those who push it forward prayer: Thank you, God, for not
URIEL SINAI FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
today are the hilltop youth,” he creating me a gentile. I’m a With an Israeli Army watchtower reflected in the window, settlers prayed this month at a synagogue in the outpost of Esh Kodesh.
said. “And it seems to me a very racist. I’ll stop for a Jewish hitch-
dangerous direction.” hiker and not an Arab because intervene. Mr. Dorfman seemed nervous extremist rabbi who was mur-
Often depicted as uneducated post.
I’m a racist.” Mr. Dotan said that at one as he showed us around Yishuv dered, captioned, “God will
hooligans, the youth in the film “Maybe one day we’ll tend to
Israeli security forces have point, his film crew was attacked Hadaat, which is home to about avenge his blood.”
come off as raw but canny — an recently moved to arrest the and its equipment stolen, while 10 families. Another settler profiled in Mr. these trees,” Ms. Blumberg says.
American like me might call most violent elements of the Israeli soldiers stood by. (He said He said his skullcap was hand- Dotan’s film is Matti Blumberg, Mr. Dotan asks, Who deter-
them street smart — using acts hilltop youth, but several scenes that he had lodged a criminal knit by his mother, who he said who lived in Esh Kodesh at the mined that this land is yours?
of defiance and violence to in the movie suggest that the complaint, but that the police lives in a settlement close to time and appears on screen “For starters, God did,” she
achieve their aims. There is also military is sometimes either later informed him that it had Jerusalem. He wore black cargo harassing Palestinian farmers as replies. “It says so explicitly in
an aura of romance: Mr. Dorf- confused by the fanaticism of the been dismissed for lack of evi- pants emblazoned with a stylized they try to care for their fields the Bible. It says, ‘All the land
man, with his long sidelocks, youth or, perhaps, not inclined to dence.) image of Meir Kahane, the and olive groves near the out- which thou seest.’ ”
wispy beard and rimless glasses,
seems more like a hard-eyed
John Lennon than a backwoods
militant.
At one point in the film, a
Transcript
Suggests Plot
settler with a guitar sings Bob
Marley’s “No Woman No Cry” in
a mixture of English and Hebrew
while sitting at a fire. But there
are also expressions of virulent
racism, a glorification of violence
Led to Ouster
and a desire to replace the mod-
ern state of Israel with a full-
scale biblical kingdom that would
In Brazil
extend as far as Iraq. RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil’s
In one scene at Esh Kodesh, interim president, Michel Temer,
Pinhasi Bar-On, 25, speaks play- on Monday suffered a major set-
fully with several young children back in his campaign to win over
about his legal troubles, asking the country when a report of
them if they will come along on recordings surfaced suggesting
his escapades when they get that one of his ministers had plot-
older. ted to head off the huge Petrobras
“What will you do with me?” corruption investigation by pur-
Mr. Bar-On asks, as if teaching a suing the impeachment of Presi-
dent Dilma Rousseff.
The minister, Romero Jucá, an
influential leader in the Brazilian
A tiny fraction of the Democratic Movement Party, or
PMDB, though denying accusa-
Jewish population, tions of wrongdoing, said he
but the object of would step down on Tuesday and
return to the Senate. Earlier in the
mounting concern. day, the Brazilian newspaper Fo-
lha de S. Paulo published excerpts
from a recorded conversation be-
tween Mr. Jucá and a former busi-
preschool class. ness executive that indicated they
“Beat up Arabs,” one child were seeking to impede the
says. sprawling investigation in which
“Yes,” Mr. Bar-On says approv- both were caught up.
ingly. Mr. Temer temporarily took
Mr. Dotan, 66, whose previous over the presidency on May 12 af-
films include a feature based on ter Ms. Rousseff was suspended
a David Grossman novel (“The for up to 180 days following a vote
Smile of the Lamb,” 1986) and a by the country’s Senate to start an
documentary shot inside Israeli impeachment trial against her.
prisons (“Hot House,” 2007), said He replaced the entire cabinet,
he had decided to explore the seeking to win Brazilians’ trust
settlements because he views and also investors’ confidence
them as a threat to Israel from that he could find a way out of the
within. nation’s worst economic crisis in
Living abroad for decades had decades. Yet he named many min-
intensified his Zionism as he saw isters already ensnared in the cor-
the Jewish state through expatri- ruption inquiries.
ate eyes. The new accusations are likely
“If before that I had a very to raise more questions over the
strong conviction that the state motives behind the drive to im-
of Israel is probably the most peach Ms. Rousseff. They could
meaningful thing to Jews all over also increase scrutiny of other
the world,” he explained, “it cabinet ministers who face their
became absolutely clear to me own legal troubles.
after spending time out of Israel.” According to Folha de S. Paulo,
He said that he had inter- Mr. Jucá spoke to Sergio Macha-
viewed more than 100 people do, the former president of
across the West Bank and Israel Transpetro, a subsidiary of Petro-
for the film and that it had taken bras. Mr. Machado had left that
months to get access to the more position after being implicated in
radical outposts, where he tried the Petrobras scandal.
to let the youth tell their story in
The recordings, from a conver-
their own words.
sation in March, suggest that Mr.
“Their world is farther away
Jucá entered into an agreement
from my world than any other
with the goal of impeding and
individual’s in the film,” he said.
even possibly stopping the inves-
“With those guys, I feel com-
tigation. There was also a sugges-
pletely disconnected. They do
tion that the impeachment might
justify the killing and murder of
non-Jews, period.” have been part of that plan.
As a storyteller, he added, “this In one excerpt, Mr. Machado
gap that I felt probably attracted made reference to his desire for
me to them more than to others.” “the departure of Dilma.”
Yossi Klein Halevi, who stud- Following that, he said that Mr.
ied the early settlers for his 2013 Temer “would form a government
book, “Like Dreamers,” agreed of national unity, make a major
with Mr. Dotan that the hilltop agreement, protect Lula and pro-
youth “have a significance far tect everyone. This country would
beyond their numbers.” Mr. return to being calm.” Lula is Luiz
Halevi, a senior fellow at the Inácio Lula da Silva, Ms. Rouss-

Shalom Hartman Institute, an eff’s predecessor and mentor, and
educational center in Jerusalem, a founder of her Workers Party.
said the youth had “a strange Mr. Jucá, who until 2012 was Ms.
mix between far-right and a Rousseff’s ally and a coalition
hippie sensibility.” He said the leader in the Senate, responded, “I
mainstream “settler movement think there has to be a pact.”
is terrified of these kids — it In other excerpts, Folha re-
doesn’t know how to control ported that the two men had ex-
them.” pressed concern over the amount
Israeli officials estimate that a of new information likely to
few dozen hilltop youth are re- emerge from those charged in the
sponsible for the most violent investigation.
acts on the West Bank. But Dror Mr. Machado feared that “ev-
Etkes, who runs Kerem Navot, a eryone is going to sign a plea
human rights organization that deal.”
opposes the Israeli occupation of “Exactly,” Mr. Jucá responded,
naming Marcelo Odebrecht, a
Irit Pazner Garshowitz contribut- construction magnate, as some-
ed reporting from Jerusalem. one he was concerned about.
A10 N THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, MAY 24, 2016
Strike on Taliban Is Seen

As a Message to Pakistan
sense within Pakistan’s security
From Page A1 establishment that Mullah Man-
the attack, the United States de- sour was proving too independ-
nied Pakistan the fig leaf of a ent, and thus expendable.
covert operation, which in the A senior American defense offi-
past has given the Pakistanis the cial said that another factor in
ability to claim they had been con- Pakistan’s decision to provide
sulted beforehand. some limited help in tracking
The fact that the top official of down Mullah Mansour may have
Afghanistan’s Taliban was able to been that one of his deputies, Si-
travel freely through Pakistan, rajuddin Haqqani, has deep and
and even into Iran, contradicted longstanding ties to Pakistan’s
years of denials by Pakistani offi- main spy service, the Directorate
cials that they were harboring Tal- of Inter-Services Intelligence.
iban leaders. Mr. Obama offered Mr. Haqqani, who leads a Tal-
no apology for the decision to iban faction that is widely seen as
strike Mullah Mansour in one of the most violently effective
Pakistani territory, saying it was a parts of the insurgency, may
simple case of self-defense. prove more willing to take cues
“He is an individual who as from Pakistan’s military leader-
head of the Taliban was ship and the ISI.
specifically targeting U.S. person- For the United States and its al-
nel and troops inside of Af- lies in the Afghan government,
ghanistan who are there as part of though, the possibility of an even
the mission I have set to maintain harder-line Taliban leader could
a counterterrorism platform and undo any temporary advantage
provide assistance,” Mr. Obama provided by the killing of Mullah
said during a news conference in Mansour.
Hanoi, Vietnam. Killing Mullah “One of the interesting ques-
Mansour, Mr. Obama said, sent a
message that “we’re going to pro-
tect our people.”
To many outside experts, it sent
AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES
an equally powerful message to
Iraqi forces advanced toward Falluja on Monday. The city has been under the Islamic State’s control for more than two years. Pakistan. On Monday, the
Pakistani Foreign Ministry sum-
moned the American ambassador,
Iraqi Leader Declares Assault to Free City From ISIS David Hale, to lodge a protest for
what it said was a “violation of
Pakistan’s sovereignty.” The
By FALIH HASSAN cused on keeping Falluja cut off The United States military, led said that since May 17, the coali- killing would obstruct multiparty
and TIM ARANGO and under siege rather than by Marines, fought two battles for tion had struck 21 targets near Fal- efforts to negotiate a settlement
mounting any direct assault. the city in 2004, and the urban, luja. between the Taliban and the Af-
BAGHDAD — Iraqi forces have
Residents and human rights house-to-house fighting was some For the Iraqis, momentum for a ghan government, it said.
begun an assault on Falluja, a city
groups described a worsening of the toughest the American mili- Falluja offensive gained steam Pakistan’s military and intelli-
that has been held by the Islamic
problem with starvation and tary had faced since the Vietnam late last week after a surge in Is- gence establishment was said to
State longer than any other in Iraq
medicine shortages. War. lamic State attacks in Baghdad favor Mullah Mansour as the VIA REUTERS
or Syria, Prime Minister Haider
al-Abadi said in a televised speech As fighting intensified around Fighters of the Islamic State, killed nearly 200 people. group’s new leader. But the White An undated photo of Mullah
Falluja in recent days, the United also known as ISIS or ISIL, have Targeting Falluja, only 40 miles House concluded he was a stub- Akhtar Muhammad Mansour.
on Monday.
Nations said it had stockpiled sup- held the city since the beginning of from the capital, was immediately born obstacle to reconciliation
“Today we will tear down the talks, which have been paralyzed
black flags of the strangers who plies in Baghdad in the event of a 2014. They are believed to be seen by the government and mili-
for months. While his intransi- tions is, ‘Does this help?’ ” said
new displacement crisis. But the deeply entrenched and likely to tia leaders as necessary to protect
have kidnapped this city,” Mr. gence on the peace process had Vikram Singh, a former Pentagon
United Nations said that only 80 stay and fight, unlike in cities such Baghdad, and also as a way to ex-
Abadi, referring to the flags of the made him less valuable to the Pa- and State Department official who
families had been able to leave as Tikrit and Ramadi, which they act revenge.
Islamic State that have been fly- kistanis as well, experts said, Mr. is now vice president for interna-
Falluja recently, and that some eventually fled as Iraqi security “The moment has come to liber-
ing in Falluja for more than two Obama’s decision to target him tional security at the Center for
forces closed in. ate a city in the land of Iraq,” the
years, said in a speech alongside civilians had died trying. suggested he had little patience American Progress. “Mansour
Perhaps mindful of the diffi- Iraqi military said in a statement,
military commanders just after for Pakistani sensitivities. was bad news for any kind of
culty the United States faced in “the land that will never accept
midnight. “The administration is no long- peace process. He definitely came
pacifying Falluja, American offi- humiliation because the people of
However, Iraqi forces did not er worried about blowing up any- in hard line and basically pressed
cials have mostly urged the Iraqis this country have determined to
begin entering the city on Mon- A new resolve to take to refrain from trying to take back end the darkness of terrorism of thing,” said Vali Nasr, a former for a military advantage.”
day, but continued to fire mortar The White House, a senior
and artillery rounds at it, as they back Falluja, a city the city. Instead, they have
pressed the Iraqis to focus on
ISIS criminal gangs.”
Mr. Abadi’s announcement
State Department official who
worked on Pakistan. “This is American official said, had not
given up on the peace process. Re-
have for months. Officials said
pro-government forces had taken seen as essential to other targets, such as Mosul, one came after the authorities asked literally carrying out an opera-
tion, not against an Arab terrorist moving Mullah Mansour from the
of the country’s largest cities, civilians on Sunday to prepare to
some small districts on the out-
skirts of Falluja, as well as a gov-
protecting Baghdad. which has been in the hands of the leave the city, promising that safe leader, but against a Pashtun ally scene, he said, might actually in-
crease the incentives for the Tal-
Islamic State since June 2014. passage would be provided. of Pakistan, inside Pakistani terri-
ernment building in Karma, a city Backed by American and coali- For Mr. Abadi, there is also a po- tory.” iban to go to the bargaining table
to the northeast of Falluja that has tion airstrikes, Iraqi forces have tential political benefit to begin- Mr. Obama approved the target- since he was the major impedi-
long been contested by the gov- Tens of thousands of civilians made progress in liberating terri- ning the offensive, or at least to ing of Mullah Mansour in the past ment to talks. But this official ac-
ernment and the Islamic State. remain there and would be unable tory held by the Islamic State, in- announcing the start of one: It al- few weeks, according to officials. knowledged that it could also
Mr. Abadi and other Iraqi lead- to leave even if they wanted to. cluding Ramadi, the capital of An- lows him to convey a sense of au- With this authorization in hand, splinter the group’s leadership.
ers have frequently made bold The Islamic State would most bar Province, and other cities in thority at a time when his govern- the Joint Special Operations Com- Mullah Mansour had gone to
statements heralding new mili- likely shoot them on the way out, the Euphrates River Valley. ment is paralyzed and facing mand was able to act quickly Iran for undisclosed medical
tary offensives, only for the efforts and militias on the outskirts of the But they have come at a steep growing protests. when intelligence indicated that treatment, said a European offi-
to stall on the ground. But the new city sometimes refuse to allow cost in the level of destruction, On Friday, for the second time he was traveling through Balu- cial who had been briefed on the
determination to assault Falluja civilians to pass, human rights and military victories have not in three weeks, protesters chistan, those officials said. American operation. He traveled
signaled a shift in tactics for the activists have warned. been matched by any sense of rec- breached the heavy security of the The United States told across the border to avoid
Iraqi government. Any ground battle to liberate onciliation between Sunni and Green Zone, the fortified center of Pakistani authorities several Pakistani hospitals where the ISI
For many months, army units Falluja is likely to be long and Shiite Arabs that would suggest a Baghdad that houses government weeks ago that Mullah Mansour tends to keep track of who is com-
and allied Shiite militias had fo- bloody. It has often been called the peaceful future for Iraq. buildings and embassies. They was a target, officials said. While ing and going.
“city of mosques,” and it has long The American-led coalition was even got inside Mr. Abadi’s own the Pakistanis provided general Mr. Obama emphasized that the
Falih Hassan reported from Bagh- been a stronghold of Sunni supporting operations near Fal- office before withdrawing, but not information on his location and ac- strike did not reflect a shift in
dad, and Tim Arango from Istan- extremism, serving as a kind of luja, Col. Steve Warren, a coalition before at least two had died in the tivities, they did not provide spe- American strategy toward Af-
bul. Omar Al-Jawoshy contributed early home base for Al Qaeda in spokesman in Baghdad, said in a unrest, as security forces fired cific details on his movements. ghanistan, which is focused on
reporting from Baghdad. Iraq. Twitter message on Monday. He tear gas and live ammunition. That was supplemented by Amer- training and assisting Afghan
ican intelligence, including satel- troops rather than engaging in
lite imagery, signals intelligence combat. But it may have implica-
and human assets. tions for how the United States
Suicide Bomber Kills Army Recruits in South Yemen For Pakistan, providing even
the most slender of details about
the possible whereabouts of Mul-
deals with Pakistan.
“Does this amount to starting a
two-track approach — working
By SAEED AL-BATATI branch of the Islamic State too brutal. The bombing on Mon- Houthis, has been trying to estab- lah Mansour would represent an through Pakistan while using
and KAREEM FAHIM extremist group claimed respon- day came a little more than a week lish beachheads in Aden and Al unexpected turn. Pakistan had force to eliminate Taliban leaders
AL MUKALLA, Yemen — A sui- sibility for the attack, in a state- after the Islamic State claimed re- Mukalla, with the support of mili- cultivated him for years, and he who obstruct peace talks?” said
cide bomber attacked a gathering ment distributed on jihadist web- sponsibility for a similar attack in tary coalition led by Saudi Arabia was widely seen as its choice to Husain Haqqani, Pakistan’s for-
of army recruits in the southern sites. Al Mukalla, east of Aden, that that includes the United Arab lead the Taliban after the 2013 mer ambassador to the United
The attack was part of a surge of killed at least 25 police recruits. Emirates. death of Mullah Muhammad States. “Either way, it shows a di-
Yemeni city of Aden early Mon-
violence by militant extremists in The bombings raised the But an enormous military pres- Omar, the founder of the insurgen- minishing of the Obama adminis-
day, killing at least three dozen
southern Yemen since last month, specter of a competition for su- ence has so far failed to secure the cy movement, was revealed last tration’s already diminished trust
people in what witnesses and se- in Pakistan.”
when a force led by the United premacy in Yemen between the south. year.
curity officials described as one of But once installed, he resisted Barnett Rubin, a former senior
Arab Emirates and backed by Islamic State and Al Qaeda. The Maj. Gen. Ali Nasser Lakhsha,
the deadliest bombings in the city United States Special Operations attacks also undermined an effort Pakistani efforts to put up even State Department official, said
since Yemen’s civil war began 14 the Aden-based deputy minister
forces began an offensive to drive led by the United Arab Emirates the appearance of being willing to that Mullah Mansour’s death was
months ago. of the interior, said the bombing take part in a peace process. As a unlikely to have a significant im-
Al Qaeda’s local affiliate, Al Qaeda to stabilize Yemen’s chaotic south,
Pictures of the aftermath in the Arabian Peninsula, from a project that Emirati officials on Monday succeeded partly be- result there was growing Ameri- pact on the Taliban, which can
showed bodies slumped around territory its militants captured in have likened to state-building. cause many government build- can pressure on Pakistan to crack easily replace him.
concrete barricades outside a lo- the south during the conflict. Yemen’s civil war has ings had been destroyed in the down on Taliban leaders who take The effect could be far greater
cal commander’s home, where the With the affiliate’s leaders on sharpened a long-running divide war, which meant recruits had to shelter there — and a growing on Pakistan’s government, he
recruits had lined up. A local the run, the deadliest attacks have between the country’s north and be signed up in a relatively vulner- said, which now must deal with
come from the Islamic State’s south. Much of the north, includ- able area. Reporting was contributed by the embarrassing circumstance.
Saeed Al-Batati reported from Al shadowy local branch, which has ing Sana, the capital, is under the Security agencies had failed to Mark Mazzetti and Eric Schmitt “We killed the leader of the Tal-
Mukalla, and Kareem Fahim from carried out dozens of suicide control of the Houthi rebels and adapt after similar, previous from Washington; Gardiner Har- iban driving across Baluchistan in
Cairo. Somini Sengupta contribut- bombings since the war began — their allies. Yemen’s government, bombings, he said. “We did not ris from Hanoi, Vietnam; and Mu- a taxi,” Mr. Rubin said. “I think we
ed reporting from the United Na- including attacks that even the which was driven from power — learn the lesson, unfortunately,” jib Mashal from Kabul, Af- have some questions to ask of Pa-
tions. Qaeda affiliate has regarded as and from the capital — by the he said. ghanistan. kistan.”
6-Year Prison Term in Peanut Allergy Death WHAT IN THE WORLD
By KIMIKO DE FREYTAS-TAMURA
LONDON — The owner of an
favorite meal.
Mr. Wilson had eaten food from
been assured her meal would not
contain nuts, prosecutors said.
A Household Worry Unique to South Korea
Indian restaurant in Britain with a Indian Garden before, and the Mr. Zaman was convicted of By DAN LEVIN they suck out the oxygen, causing the elderly and patients with res-
“cavalier attitude” to food safety restaurant had gone so far as to manslaughter by gross neg- suffocation. Some fear that the fan piratory problems.”
Which household gadget do
was found guilty on Monday of write “no nuts” on the lid of his ligence in the death of Mr. Wilson, itself converts oxygen molecules According to the advisory, there
people in South Korea believe can
causing the death of a customer curry container. and six food safety offenses. He into carbon dioxide. were 20 cases of fan asphyxiation
was sentenced to six years in pris- kill you?
who had a severe allergy, after he But after just one bite of what For the record, none of these between 2003 and 2005. “To pre-
would be his last meal, Mr. Wilson on. (A) Microwave.
was served a dish containing (B) Blender. theories are true. But that has not vent asphyxiation,” it said,
peanuts. The owner received a had an allergic reaction. His room- He had a “reckless and cavalier stopped the Korean news media “timers should be set, wind direc-
mate found him slumped on his attitude to risk,” the prosecutor, (C) Electric fan.
six-year sentence. from reporting on supposed fan tion should be rotated and doors
toilet at home, where he had gone Richard Wright, told a jury at (D) Portable CD player.
It marked the first time in Brit- deaths. Even the government has should be left open.”
into anaphylactic shock and died. Teesside Crown Court. The correct answer is C.
ain that someone has been con- endorsed the lethal-breeze idea. Among dubious Koreans and,
Prosecutors said that the “Time and again he ignored the It sounds like the plot of an “X-
victed of manslaughter over the In 2006, the state-funded Korean well, everyone outside Samsung’s
restaurateur, Mohammed Zaman, danger and did not protect his Files” episode: People are said to
sale of food. Consumer Protection Board listed homeland, it is widely suspected
52, who owns six restaurants, was customers,” Mr. Wright said at have died merely from leaving
The customer, Paul Wilson, 38, “asphyxiation from electric fans that “fan death” was a ruse
about 300,000 pounds, or about trial. their electric fans blowing
ordered chicken tikka masala, to $434,000, in debt. He had cut cor- and air-conditioners” as one of the hatched by the country’s former
Mr. Zaman had said that he left overnight. But across South Ko-
go, from the Indian Garden ners, they said, replacing almond his employees to run his restau- top five recurring summer acci- authoritarian government in the
rea, many people believe the dents. 1970s to discourage citizens from
restaurant in North Yorkshire in powder in his recipes six months rants, including ordering the in-
January 2014, having specified whirring blades can cause death The agency warned: using too much electricity. The
earlier with a cheaper mix of gredients and preparing the dish- — and to address those fears,
“no nuts” in his order. groundnuts, and hiring untrained, es, and that he was not even on the “If bodies are exposed to elec- country has since been trans-
Mr. Wilson had diligently manufacturers equip fans with tric fans or air-conditioners for too formed into a thriving democracy,
undocumented workers to turn premises when the deadly curry sleep timers.
avoided peanuts and dishes made out the popular curry dishes at his was prepared. long, it causes bodies to lose water but the myth proved to be a match
with them ever since he had a se- How, exactly, might the electric and hypothermia. If directly in for electric fans: It survived.
restaurants. Shaun Page, a detective inspec-
vere reaction to eating a chocolate breeze kill? Theories abound in contact with a fan, this could lead
Another customer with a nut al- tor on the case, said that Mr. Za-
bar with peanuts when he was 7 lergy had to be treated at a hospi- man had a duty to serve safe food South Korea, among them that the to death from increase of carbon
years old. He was “very, very tal after eating at Mr. Zaman’s to his customers and that Mr. cold air circulating in a sealed dioxide saturation concentration Watch The Times.
careful,” his mother, Margaret, restaurant three weeks before Mr. Wilson’s death was “totally avoid- room could cause hypothermia, and decrease of oxygen concen- NYTimes.com/Video.
said, especially when ordering his Wilson’s death. Like him, she had able.” leading to organ failure. Or maybe tration. The risks are higher for
N A11
Justices See
Racial Bias
In Selecting
White Jury
Black Man Was Put
On Death Row in ’87
By ADAM LIPTAK
WASHINGTON — The Su-
preme Court ruled on Monday
that prosecutors in Georgia vio-
lated the Constitution by striking
every black prospective juror in a
death penalty case against a black
defendant. The vote was 7 to 1,
with Justice Clarence Thomas dis-
senting.
The case, Foster v. Chatman,
No. 14-8349, arose from the 1987
trial of Timothy T. Foster, an
African-American facing the
death penalty for killing Queen
Madge White, an elderly white
woman, when he was 18.
In notes that did not surface un-
til decades lat-
er, prosecutors
marked the
names of black
prospective ju-
rors with a B
and highlighted
those names in
green. They cir-
PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOSHUA LOTT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
cled the word
Guns that were confiscated last week during a drug and gang raid in Chicago. The city has seen an uptick this year in shootings and murders. “black” where
Timothy
potential jurors T. Foster
had noted their
Chicago Police Try to Predict Who May Shoot or Be Shot race on questionnaires.
They ranked those prospective
jurors in case “it comes down to
having to pick one of the black ju-
rors,” as the prosecution’s investi-
Keeping Track of People gator put it in a draft affidavit at
the time. In the end, prosecutors
struck all four black potential ju-
Who Are Most Likely rors.
After Mr. Foster was convicted,
To Be Involved in Violence Stephen Lanier, the lead prosecu-
tor, urged the all-white jury to im-
By MONICA DAVEY pose a death sentence to “deter
other people out there in the
CHICAGO — In this city’s urgent push to rein in gun projects.” The jury did so.
and gang violence, the Police Department is keeping a Chief Justice John G. Roberts
list. Derived from a computer algorithm that assigns Jr., writing for the majority, said
scores based on arrests, shootings, affiliations with the prosecutors had violated a
gang members and other variables, the list aims to pre- 1986 decision, Batson v. Kentucky,
dict who is most likely to be shot soon or to shoot some- in which the Supreme Court ruled
one. Shaquon Thomas was on it. that race-based discrimination in
His first arrest came at age 13, and others quickly jury selection was unconstitution-
followed, his face maturing in a progression of mug al and required lawyers accused
shots. By 18, Mr. Thomas, who was known as the rapper of it to provide a nondiscrimina-
Young Pappy, had been wounded in a shooting, the po- tory explanation.
lice said. Then, last May, Mr. Thomas, 19, was fatally shot That is a forgiving standard.
in what the police said was a running gang feud. His “All I have to do is have a race-
score was more than 500, putting him near the top of the neutral reason,” Mr. Lanier said at
Chicago Police Department’s list. the time, “and all of these reasons
“We know we have a lot of violence in Chicago, but that I have given the court are ra-
we also know there’s a small segment that’s driving this cially neutral.”
stuff,” Eddie Johnson, the police superintendent, said in But Chief Justice Roberts re-
a recent interview. jected several of Mr. Lanier’s rea-
The authorities hope that knowing who is most sons, calling them pretextual. The
likely to be involved in violence can bring them a step chief justice focused on two pro-
closer to curtailing it. They are warning those highest Eddie Johnson, the city’s police superintendent, speaking on Friday. “We know we have a lot of violence spective jurors, Marilyn Garrett
on the list that they are under intense scrutiny, while in Chicago, but we also know there’s a small segment that’s driving this stuff,” he said in an interview. and Eddie Hood.
offering social services to those who want a path away Mr. Lanier had offered a list of 11
from the bloodshed. reasons for striking Ms. Garrett,
About three years into the program and on a fourth of them are on what the department calls its Strategic ders, the Police Department said 117 of the 140 people including that she was too young.
revision of the computer algorithm that generates the Subject List. arrested were on the list. “Yet Garrett was 34,” Chief Jus-
list, critics are raising pointed questions about potential So far this year, more than 70 percent of the people And in one recent report on homicides and shoot- tice Roberts wrote, “and the state
breaches to civil liberties in the creation of such a rank- who have been shot in Chicago were on the list, accord- ings over a two-day stretch, nearly everyone involved declined to strike eight white pro-
ing. And the list’s efficacy remains in doubt, as killings ing to the police, as were more than 80 percent of those was on the list. spective jurors under the age of
and shootings have continued to rise this year. arrested in connection with shootings. “We are targeting the correct individuals,” Mr. John- 36. Two of those white jurors
In a city of 2.7 million people, about 1,400 are respon- In a broad drug and gang raid carried out last week son said. “We just need our judicial partners and our served on the jury; one of those
sible for much of the violence, Mr. Johnson said, and all amid a disturbing uptick this year in shootings and mur- Continued on Page A14 Continued on Page A14
T.S.A. Replaces Top Security Official as Tension Grows at Airports and Agency
By RON NIXON plaints have alleged that Mr. Hog- to replace Mr. Hoggan and add the fenger is only doing this because the Chief Risk Officer, said the ac- acting out of desperation.”
WASHINGTON — Facing a gan played a role in their forced new officials in Chicago, where the media and Congress are tions by Mr. Neffenger were large- In the changes in Chicago, Mr.
backlash over long security lines transfers. passengers have endured hours- making him look bad.” ly cosmetic. Neffenger announced that a new
and management problems, the Mr. Hoggan’s bonus was paid long waits at security check- Mr. Rhoades has filed a whistle- “No one thinks he is really T.S.A. leadership team was now
head of the Transportation Securi- out in $10,000 increments, an ar- points, were insufficient. blower complaint against the making any meaningful changes,” overseeing screening operations
ty Administration shook up his rangement that members of Con- “The timing of this decision is agency. Later, he said, he was or- said Mr. Livingston, who has sued at O’Hare Airport, which has had
leadership team on Monday, re- gress have said was intended to too late to make a real difference dered to racially profile Somali- the agency, claiming he was de- some of the longest waiting times
placing the agency’s top security disguise the payments. During a for the summer,” said Andrew Americans visiting the T.S.A.’s lo- moted because he reported mis- of any airport in the country.
official and adding a new group of hearing of the House Oversight Rhoades, an assistant federal se- cal office. conduct by senior managers. On Sunday, hundreds of pas-
administrators at Chicago O’Hare Committee two weeks ago, law- curity director at Minneapolis-St. Mark Livingston, a program “Bottom line is no one in T.S.A. be- sengers, including 450 on Ameri-
International Airport. makers grilled Mr. Neffenger Paul International Airport. “Nef- manager in the agency’s Office of lieves in Neffenger now. He is only can Airlines alone, missed flights
In an email to staff members, about the bonus, which was issued because of waits of two or three
Peter V. Neffenger, the T.S.A. ad- before he joined the agency in hours in security lines, according
ministrator, announced a series of July. to local news reports. Many of the
changes that included the re- “Those bonuses were given to passengers had to spend the night
somebody who oversees a part of in the terminal sleeping on cots.
the operation that was in total fail- The T.S.A. has sent 58 addi-
ure,” said Representative Jason tional security officers and four
An overhaul after Chaffetz, Republican of Utah and more bomb-sniffing dog teams to
O’Hare. Last week, Mr. Neffenger
staff complaints and the committee’s chairman.
Mr. Neffenger said he had
apologized to passengers and
briefed officials in Chicago about
a questionable bonus. changed the rules to cap bonuses
efforts to address the crushing de-
at $10,000 a year.
lays.
Asked during the hearing if he

The agency has attributed the

would discipline or remove Mr. lines, in part, to tightened security
moval of Kelly Hoggan, who had Hoggan, Mr. Neffenger said he
been the assistant administrator procedures and budget cuts that
would not, adding that he had no have caused a shortage of screen-
for the Office of Security Opera- evidence of any wrongdoing. But ers.
tions since 2013. by Monday, he appeared to have In his email to the agency’s
Beginning late that year, Mr. had a change of heart. staff, Mr. Neffenger also an-
Hoggan received $90,000 in bo- Mr. Neffenger announced that nounced the creation of an Inci-
nuses over a 13-month period, Darby LaJoye, a deputy assistant dent Command Center at the
even though a leaked report from administrator at the agency, agency’s headquarters. The cen-
the Department of Homeland Se- would immediately take over as ter will closely track daily screen-
curity showed that auditors were acting assistant administrator of ing operations, shifting officers
able to get fake weapons and ex- the Office of Security Operations. and bomb-sniffing dogs to better
plosives past security screeners Mr. LaJoye will manage security allocate the agency’s resources.
95 percent of the time in 70 covert operations for the agency’s work “These adjustments will enable
tests. force of more than 50,000 more focused leadership and
In addition, several employees employees at about 440 airports screening operations at critical
who say they were punished with nationwide. airports in the national trans-
reassignments to other airports Several current and former SCOTT OLSON/GETTY IMAGES
portation system,” Mr. Neffenger
after filing whistle-blower com- T.S.A. employees said the moves Chicago O’Hare International Airport, which received new administrators Monday to ease waits. wrote.
A12 N THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL TUESDAY, MAY 24, 2016
Seeing Resurgence of Racism, Carter Plans Baptist Meeting to Promote Unity

By LAURIE GOODSTEIN cember that doctors had found tist associations attended the
Former President Jimmy him free of cancer but that he was founding meeting in 2008.
Carter, who has long put religion still receiving treatments for met- Hannah McMahan, the execu-
and racial reconciliation at the astatic melanoma. On Monday, he tive director of the New Baptist
center of his life, is on a mission to said he was feeling well. Covenant, said the group had
heal a racial divide among Bap- Mr. Carter, a Democrat who was been in a “pilot phase” for the last
tists and help the country soothe the 39th president, grew up on a two years.
rifts that he believes are getting farm in Plains, Ga., where many of She said black and white
worse. his friends were the black children churches had formed partner-
In an interview on Monday, Mr. of neighboring farmhands. He ships, called covenants, in Dallas;
Carter spoke of a resurgence of was raised a Southern Baptist and Macon, Ga.; St. Louis; Birming-
open racism, saying, “I don’t feel was the first United States presi- ham, Ala.; and Atlanta.
good, except for one thing: I think dent to call himself a born-again But the process is painstaking,
the country has been reawakened Christian, bringing national atten- Ms. McMahan said, adding,
the last two or three years to the tion to the evangelical movement. “What this has given me an appre-
fact that we haven’t resolved the Mr. Carter said the election of ciation for is how deep the divides
race issue adequately.” Mr. Obama was a hopeful sign, but are, and that this kind of work will
He said that Republican ani- he added, “I think there’s a heavy not happen overnight.”
mosity toward President Obama reaction among some of the ra- The work is especially challeng-
had “a heavy racial overtone” and cially conscious Republicans ing in this climate, said the Rev.
that Donald J. Trump’s surpris- against an African-American be- Raphael G. Warnock, the senior
ingly successful campaign for ing president.” pastor of Ebenezer Baptist
president had “tapped a waiting He said recent reports showing Church in Atlanta, the church
reservoir there of inherent rac- high unemployment and incarcer- where the Rev. Martin Luther
ism.” ation rates among black people, King Jr. was once a pastor. Ebene-
Mr. Carter conducted telephone “combined with the white police zer Baptist is participating in the
interviews to call attention to a attacks on innocent blacks,” had New Baptist Covenant.
summit meeting he plans to hold “reawakened” the country to the KEVIN D. LILES FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
“This is a dark moment in our
in Atlanta this fall to bring togeth- realization that racism was not re- national conversation,” Pastor
er white, black, Hispanic and solved in the 1960s and ’70s. Jimmy Carter in August. He is planning a conference of Baptist congregations this fall in Atlanta. Warnock said. “Those of us who
Asian Baptists to work on issues He said Mr. Trump had violated understand that we are better to-
of race and social inequality. Mr. “basic human rights” when he rein many countries. to right-wing political philosophy, nounced that he was leaving the gether had better raise our voices,
Carter began the effort, called the ferred to Mexican immigrants as Asked why polls showed high and he obviously is a proponent of Southern Baptist Convention in because there are others who are
New Baptist Covenant, in 2007, criminals and called for a ban on support among evangelical Chris- that concept,” Mr. Carter said, re- 2000, after the denomination so- trafficking in theater, in paranoia,
but it has taken root in only a few Muslims’ entering the country. tians for Mr. Trump’s candidacy, ferring to Mr. Trump. lidified its turn to the right and de- and they ply the trade of fear as
cities. The initiative is expanding “When you single out any par- Mr. Carter said: “The use of the He pointed out that the clared that it would not accept part of their political craft.”
to enlist Baptist congregations ticular group of people for second- word evangelical is a misnomer. I evangelicals in the Southern Bap- women as pastors. However, he said, “I’m much
across the country to unite across ary citizenship status, that’s a vio- consider myself an evangelical as tist Convention had aligned them- Mr. Carter founded the New more fired up than discouraged,
racial lines. lation of basic human rights,” said well. And obviously, what most of selves with the Republican Party Baptist Covenant by reaching out because the ugliness of the rheto-
Mr. Carter, 91, began treatment Mr. Carter, who won the Nobel the news reporters thought were and organized the Moral Majority, to black and white Baptist associ- ric we’re seeing in this election cy-
last year for cancer that had Peace Prize in 2002 for his work evangelicals are conservative Re- a conservative Christian political ations, many of which had split cle really just brings into sharp fo-
started in his liver and spread to with the Carter Center in promot- publicans.” group, only in the late 1970s, while many years ago over slavery. cus the ugly underbelly of bigotry
his brain. He announced in De- ing human rights and democracy “They have a heavy orientation he was president. Mr. Carter an- Nearly 15,000 people from 30 Bap- that has always been there.”
Slate Urging
Free Tuition
Fails in Vote
At Harvard
Critics of Policies
Are Kept Off Board
By STEPHANIE SAUL
A rebellious slate of candidates
who this year upset the normally
placid balloting for the Board of
Overseers at Harvard has failed to
secure positions on the board,
which helps set strategy for the
university.
Calling itself Free Harvard, Fair
Harvard, the group ran on a pro-
posal that Harvard should be free
to all undergraduates because the
university earns so much money
from its $37.6 billion endowment.
It tied the notion to another,
equally provocative question:
Does Harvard shortchange Asian-
Americans in admissions?
The outsider slate, which was
formed in January, proposed five
candidates against a slate of eight
candidates officially nominated
by the Harvard Alumni Associa-
tion. After 35,870 alumni votes
were counted, five winners were
announced from the alumni group
GABRIELLA DEMCZUK/THE NEW YORK TIMES on Monday.
John Koskinen, the commissioner of the I.R.S., testifying during a House hearing in 2014. House Republicans say he lied during testimony that year. The votes garnered by each
candidate were not announced, so
it was unclear how close the out-
House to Consider I.R.S. Chief’s Impeachment, Without a Precedent sider slate had come.
Expressing displeasure at the
group’s defeat, Ron Unz, a conser-
By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN mitted to singling out the tax-ex- broader effort by Republicans But House Republicans con- for comment last week, but in an vative California software entre-
and JACKIE CALMES emption applications of Tea Party bent on destroying the I.R.S. by tinued their investigations, and interview in April, he called the preneur who formed the slate,
groups. The I.R.S.’s “lookout lists” slashing its budget and impeding said the new commissioner lied House impeachment resolution, nevertheless said it had achieved
WASHINGTON — When the
went beyond conservative groups its work. during testimony in the winter which was introduced in the fall, part of its mission.
House Judiciary Committee con-
to include organizations like Pal- “Instead of taking real action on and spring of 2014. They pointed to “groundless.” “I do think we certainly got a lot
venes on Tuesday to consider the
alleged misdeeds of the Internal estinian rights activists and open- critical issues that involve the se- assurances that the I.R.S. would “We testified truthfully and of media coverage and focus out
Revenue Service commissioner, software developers, but the scru- curity and well-being of Ameri- turn over email messages sent completely on the basis of what there about the absurd, dispropor-
John Koskinen, it will contemplate tiny of hundreds of Tea Party ap- cans, House Republicans are busy and received by Lois Lerner, a we knew at the time,” he said. He tionate size of Harvard’s invest-
action that has not been taken in plicants infuriated congressional engaging in political witch hunts,” senior official in the Exempt Orga- attributed the loss of some of Ms. ment income compared to their
more than 140 years, and that in Republicans. said Representative Sander M. nizations Division from 2009 to Lerner’s emails to “the inadver- annual tuition, and it could be that
some respects has never been President Obama turned to Mr. Levin of Michigan, the senior 2010, when Tea Party-affiliated tent destruction of very old tapes.” will start more pressure on the is-
pursued: the impeachment of an Koskinen in 2013 to lead the I.R.S. Democrat on the tax-writing groups applying for tax-exempt Mr. Koskinen is something of an sue going forward,” he said.
agency head of Mr. Koskinen’s because of his reputation in the Ways and Means Committee. status were unfairly scrutinized. unlikely target for the first im- The slate also included Ralph
rank. public and private sectors as a go- The drive to impeach Mr. Koski- Professor Gerhardt said that peachment of an agency’s leader. Nader, the consumer advocate
Tuesday’s hearing on accusa- to manager of troubled enter- nen is running parallel to the Re- impeachment might be appropri- Before his I.R.S. appointment, he and former presidential candi-
tions by House Republicans that prises. publicans’ investigation of the ate if Republicans proved their was enlisted to run the mortgage date. Mr. Unz and the other three
Mr. Koskinen lied under oath to “He is one of the truly dedicated deaths of American diplomats in case. “Lying to Congress is a very giant Freddie Mac when it was put candidates have written or testi-
Congress and defied a congres- public servants who has been re- Benghazi, Libya, and allegations serious charge, and if somebody under government conservator- fied extensively against affirma-
sional subpoena is a remarkable spected as a top government man- against Planned Parenthood. were actually guilty of that, that is ship in September 2008. Before tive action, opposing race-based
moment, even for a Washington ager for years,” said G. William “The fact is that John Koskinen a perfectly legitimate basis for that, he was named by President admissions.
long fractured by partisanship. Hoagland, who was a longtime has assumed a very difficult task, their removal,” he said. Bill Clinton to lead a federal task Their argument was that if Har-
Not since Secretary of War staff director of the Senate Budget and that task has been made only But he said Republicans could force overseeing the tricky “Y2K” vard were free, more highly quali-
William W. Belknap in 1876 has the Committee and fiscal policy advis- undermine their effort if they fo- computer coding transition at the fied students from all back-
House impeached an administra- er to Senate Republican leaders. cused on political arguments and turn of the century, and to be the grounds would apply, and the uni-
tion official other than the presi- But amid the mishandling of potential wrongdoing by the deputy director for management versity would no longer have trou-
dent, said Michael J. Gerhardt, a email messages sought as evi- A possible fate that I.R.S., rather than the legal argu- of the White House Office of Man- ble balancing its class for racial or
dence by House investigators, ments against Mr. Koskinen. agement and Budget.
professor at the University of
North Carolina School of Law and that fury turned on him. Mr. Koski- has befallen no one Mr. Koskinen’s supporters say Still, only two Republicans
ethnic diversity — ensuring, they
said, that Asian-Americans did
an expert on the federal impeach-
ment process. And an official be-
nen will not appear at the Tuesday
hearing, the I.R.S. said on Mon-
below cabinet level. some of the House members have
been pushing for impeachment
voted with Democrats to confirm
Mr. Koskinen for the I.R.S. job.
not lose out.
The issue of race at Harvard has
low the president’s cabinet has day, because he just returned from for political gain. They also note One was Mr. Hatch. also been raised in a federal law-
never been impeached. a tax conference in China and had that in recent weeks, the chair- Fred T. Goldberg Jr., a tax lawsuit accusing the university of dis-
“This is unprecedented in many little time to prepare given the more difficult by the false accusa- man of the House Judiciary Com- yer and Republican who was the criminating against Asian-Ameri-
respects,” he said. committee’s recent invitation. tions of Republicans and by the mittee, Representative Robert W. commissioner of the I.R.S. under cans in admissions. The univer-
Senator Orrin G. Hatch of Utah, “He provided, I think, a whole continued insistence of Republi- Goodlatte of Virginia, has come the first President George Bush, sity has denied the claims.
the chairman of the Finance Com- series of false testimony,” said cans to cut the budget for the under pressure by a conservative called charges of unethical or ille- Similar claims were made
mittee, has made clear that the Representative Jason Chaffetz, I.R.S.,” the White House press sec- challenger, Harry Griego, in the gal behavior “preposterous” and against several other Ivy League
Senate would not convict Mr. Republican of Utah and chairman retary, Josh Earnest, said at a Republican primary. calls for impeachment “just way schools in a federal complaint an-
Koskinen, which would require a of the House Oversight and Gov- briefing last week. Some House Republicans have over the line.” nounced on Monday.
nearly impossible two-thirds vote. ernment Reform Committee, who The case against Mr. Koskinen made clear that the I.R.S. target- But House Republicans are res-
But the effort in the House high- is one of the leaders of the push for focuses on testimony that he gave ing is still the main backdrop. olute. Last week, Mr. Chaffetz pro-
lights the extent to which the impeachment. “You can’t be un- to Congress as part of inquiries “We know they targeted peo- posed a resolution censuring Mr.
I.R.S. has become a symbol for der a duly issued subpoena and into whether the I.R.S. improperly ple’s most cherished right, their Koskinen. Mr. Chaffetz said he
House Republicans of everything mislead Congress, and when you scrutinized applications for tax- First Amendment free speech viewed the step as a “precursor”
they despise about the federal bu- provide false testimony, there has exempt status by conservative rights, their political speech to impeachment, but one that also
reaucracy, and of their outrage to be a consequence.” political groups. The I.R.S. admit- rights,” said Representative Jim might be sufficient for some col-
about what they view as a pattern “We’re left with no other reme- ted the improper conduct and Jordan, Republican of Ohio and a leagues who regarded impeach-
of obstruction by the Obama ad- dy,” Mr. Chaffetz added. “The apologized. The Justice Depart- leading proponent of impeachment as too drastic.
ministration. F.B.I. is not going to take action. ment ultimately said it had found ment. “They did it systematically. Mr. Chaffetz said he did not
“We can have our disagree- The president is not going to take mismanagement but no crime, They did it for a sustained period know if the full House would ulti-
ments with him, but that doesn’t action, but clearly he provided and it did not bring any charges. of time, and then they got caught. mately vote on impeachment. “It’s
mean there’s an impeachable of- false testimony.” Mr. Koskinen started as com- And when they got caught, Mr. incumbent upon us to make the
fense,” Mr. Hatch said last week. Congressional Democrats and missioner of the I.R.S. in Decem- Koskinen’s response to those in- case and rally enough support in
Mr. Koskinen was not even in the White House have character- ber 2013, well after the scrutiny vestigations has been terrible.” the conference in order to justify it
government when the I.R.S. ad- ized the criticism as part of a was exposed. Mr. Koskinen was unavailable coming to the floor,” he said.
ELECTION 2 016
In the Political Shadows Antagonists known

for colorful traits and
Of Trump and Clinton, devotion to the dark
arts of elections.
2 Operatives Compete And both have taken risky
described conservative hit man moves that have created drama
From Page A1 intent on taking them down. He and tensions within the cam-
tougher.” and Mr. Stone knew each other so- paigns they are ostensibly help-
Politics has always attracted cially and would occasionally ing.
flamboyant characters with a compare notes. Mr. Stone hit a rough patch with
sometimes-reckless devotion to a Reporting for The American Mr. Trump after the first Republi-
cause, and both of these men seem Spectator, a conservative news- can primary debate in August,
to enjoy their outsize images. magazine, Mr. Brock asserted in when he advised Mr. Trump to
Mr. Brock, 53, divides his time 1994 that Arkansas state troopers stop attacking Megyn Kelly of Fox
between Washington and the facilitated sexual liaisons for Mr. News. Mr. Trump said he had fired
West Village in Manhattan, throw- Clinton when he was the state’s his longtime friend and adviser.
ing lively salons and wooing governor, allegations that have Mr. Stone said he had quit.
liberal donors on both coasts, of- been central to Mr. Stone’s at- Since then, a détente has oc-
ten accompanied by Toby, his tacks. curred.
schnoodle — a schnauzer-poodle “Today, Brock claims his Ameri- Mrs. Clinton has embraced Mr.
mix. can Spectator stories exposing Brock ever since his flattering
Mr. Stone, 64, has a fashion blog Bill Clinton were false,” Mr. Stone 1996 biography of the first lady,
and likes to quote Gore Vidal’s ad- wrote in his book. “He’s lying.” “The Seduction of Hillary Rod-
vice to “never miss a chance to Mr. Brock declined to be inter- ham.” She said his 2002 book,
have sex or appear on television.” viewed about Mr. Stone. “Blinded by the Right: The Con-
STEPHEN B. THORNTON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
He divides his time between Fort Mr. Brock now runs Correct the science of an Ex-Conservative,”
Lauderdale, Fla., and an apart- Record, a “super PAC” that David Brock, 53, is at the center of a multimillion-dollar operation built to defend the Clintons. provided evidence of a “vast right-
ment on the Upper East Side of coordinates with the Clinton cam- wing conspiracy” against her and
Manhattan crammed with po- paign to defend Mrs. Clinton, and her husband.
litical memorabilia and Le Cor- American Bridge, a related group The Clintons encouraged Mr.
busier furniture. that digs up opposition research Brock to start Media Matters, and
“Socially, he’s a very charming, to defeat Mr. Trump. (Enough to Mr. Clinton used to hand out cop-
likable, intelligent guy,” Mr. Stone “knock Trump Tower down to the ies of “Blinded by the Right” that
said of his rival in a telephone in- subbasement,” as Mr. Brock put it he kept in the couple’s Chap-
terview on Saturday. He praised in remarks to liberal donors, ac- paqua, N.Y., home.
Mr. Brock’s style, saying he is “a cording to Politico.) As the campaign intensifies, Mr.
dapper guy” and likening his hair- His mission now will largely be Brock and Mr. Stone are likely to
style to that of the title character to get inside Mr. Stone’s compli- keep clashing.
in “Eraserhead,” David Lynch’s cated head to anticipate, and stay When CNN barred Mr. Stone
1977 surrealist horror film. ahead of, Mr. Trump’s attacks. from the network in February, af-
But in recent weeks, as sexual Mrs. Clinton’s allies have vehe- ter he had used racial and gender
assault allegations against former mently denied that she was in- slurs in describing two of the net-
President Bill Clinton surfaced in volved in silencing Mr. Clinton’s work’s commentators, he accused
the campaign, the intersections of accusers, but Mr. Trump will con- Mr. Brock of influencing the cable
Mr. Brock’s past with Mr. Stone’s tinue to push that assertion as the channel.
attacks on the Clintons have made two candidates battle for the sup- “As Media Matters continues its
for a deeper kind of intrigue. port of female voters. campaign to highlight the worst of
Last week, when Mr. Trump Mr. Stone acknowledged that Roger Stone’s history, we encour-
brought up a decades-old rape al- Mr. Brock’s operation had signifi- age other networks to follow suit,”
legation against Mr. Clinton in a cantly more resources, but he said Bradley Beychok, the president of
Fox News interview, Mrs. Clin- the traditional tactic of dismissing Media Matters, said at the time.
ton’s allies saw the influence of Mr. these accusations as sordid ru- Mr. Stone said the move was all
Stone. His thinly sourced 2015 mors could backfire. part of Mr. Brock’s “suppression
book, “The Clintons’ War on Wom- “Brock is calling us conspiracy game” with mainstream news
en,” which he wrote with Robert theorists and trying to make us all outlets that he said were increas-
Morrow, focuses on Mr. Clinton’s sound kooky,” he said. “The only ingly irrelevant in the social-me-
sexual misconduct and accuses people that scares away are the dia era. He wrote on Twitter: “My
Mrs. Clinton of silencing women elites.” exposing Bill Clinton’s serial
who came forward to complain Mr. Brock’s group Media Mat- JESSE DITTMAR FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES rapes and Hillary’s bullying his
about it. ters for America has taken direct victims seems to have gotten un-
Roger J. Stone Jr., 64, is close to Donald J. Trump and has had a major influence on strategy. der @davidbrockdc’s skin.”
But it is reporting by Mr. Brock aim at Mr. Stone, labeling him “the
that Mr. Stone has used to help Mr. underbelly of the Trump ma- Not long after that, Mr. Brock’s
Trump make that case. chine” and assembling an ency- ing with Lee Harvey Oswald be- Both men operate outside the he had “no formal or informal Correct the Record said it would
Before Mr. Brock became the clopedia on his tactics, including fore President John F. Kennedy’s official campaigns, though Mr. role” within the Trump campaign, spend $1 million to defend Mrs.
man at the center of a multi- his involvement in a National En- assassination. Mr. Stone calls Me- Brock directly coordinates with but he is close to Mr. Trump and Clinton against attacks on social
million-dollar operation built to quirer article that accused Sena- dia Matters part of “the Clinton the Clinton campaign through has had a major influence on strat- media. Perhaps it will start with
defend the Clintons, he was a self- tor Ted Cruz’s father of associat- slime machine.” Correct the Record. Mr. Stone said egy. Mr. Stone’s Twitter feed.
Clinton Declines Offer to Debate Sanders

By THOMAS KAPLAN
DETROIT — Eager to move on
from the Democratic primary
race, Hillary Clinton has turned
down an invitation to debate Sen-
ator Bernie Sanders ahead of Cali-
fornia’s primary, her campaign
said on Monday.
The announcement came hours
after Mrs. Clinton unleashed a bit-
ing critique of Donald J. Trump
while addressing a union conven-
tion, mocking his business record
and offering a glimpse at how she
might confront him in the general
election.
Mr. Sanders’s campaign last
week tentatively accepted an invi-
tation by Fox News to participate
CARLOS OSORIO/ASSOCIATED PRESS
in a debate before California’s
June 7 primary, and expressed Hillary Clinton mocked Donald J. Trump’s businesses record
hope that Mrs. Clinton would while speaking at a union convention in Detroit on Monday.
agree to face off against the sena-
tor. ally.” March after highlighting his
In a statement issued Monday The union has spent millions staunch opposition to trade deals.
evening, a spokeswoman for Mrs. underwriting the Fight for $15 Mr. Sanders, who also criticized
Clinton’s campaign, Jennifer campaign to raise the minimum trade deals, defeated Mrs. Clinton
Palmieri, said Mrs. Clinton’s team wage. On that subject, Mrs. Clin- in the Democratic primary there.
would contest California while ton brought up Mr. Trump’s com- Despite her campaign’s state-
“turning our attention to the ment during a debate in Novem- ment that she would not debate
threat a Donald Trump presiden- ber about wages being “too high” him, Mrs. Clinton took a moment
cy poses.” — though he has recently said oth- to give credit to Mr. Sanders dur-
“We believe that Hillary Clin- erwise — and his suggestion that ing her address.
ton’s time is best spent campaign- the federal minimum wage should “I applaud Senator Sanders and
ing and meeting directly with be eliminated. his supporters for challenging us,”
voters across California and pre- Mrs. Clinton has not supported Mrs. Clinton said. She listed
paring for a general election cam- a $15 hourly federal minimum money in politics and income in-
paign that will ensure the White wage, but when pressed about it in equality, key issues for Mr.
House remains in Democratic the last Democratic debate, she Sanders, as two areas she in-
hands,” Ms. Palmieri said. tended to address further.
Mr. Sanders said in a statement Mrs. Clinton is trying to keep
that he was “disappointed but not her attention on Mr. Trump. She
surprised” by Mrs. Clinton’s “un- has a virtually insurmountable
willingness to debate before the Focusing on Donald delegate lead over Mr. Sanders,
largest and most important pri-
mary in the presidential nominat- Trump before the and last week she said there was
“no way” she would not be the
ing process.” He added, “I hope
Secretary Clinton reconsiders her California primary. Democratic Party’s nominee.
But Mr. Sanders defeated her
unfortunate decision to back away this month in Indiana, West Vir-
from her commitment to debate.” ginia and Oregon, contests that
Earlier on Monday, Mrs. Clinton highlighted her vulnerabilities
said she would sign a bill raising it
left no confusion about where she among white working class
to that amount if she were presi-
was focusing her attention. voters.
dent.
Speaking at a convention here Now, even without a debate,
Taking on Mr. Trump on Mon-
for the influential Service
day, she warned that “what little Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Sanders are
Employees International Union, headed to a battle in California.
we know of his economic policies”
which endorsed her in November, Mr. Sanders is in the midst of a
consisted of piling up debt, lead-
Mrs. Clinton asserted that “a lot of string of campaign events there,
ing the country into trade wars
Republicans themselves say Don- and Mrs. Clinton is planning sev-
and letting Wall Street run amok,
ald Trump is a disaster waiting to eral stops in the state this week.
with potentially devastating con-
happen to America.” At a rally in East Los Angeles on
sequences.
She broached the subject of his Monday, Mr. Sanders pointedly
And she criticized his hard-line
business record, suggesting his
approach to immigration, includ- criticized both Mrs. Clinton and

supposed acumen was less than Mr. Trump by attacking how they
ing his desire to deport those who
met the eye. raised money.
are in the country illegally.
“He could bankrupt America Mr. Sanders also called Mr.
“What kind of country would we
like he’s bankrupted his compa- Trump “hysterically funny,” add-
be if we let Donald Trump rip our
nies,” Mrs. Clinton said. “I mean, ing that the businessman might be
families apart?” she asked.
ask yourself: How can anybody lying about his net worth.
Mrs. Clinton gave her address
lose money running a casino? Re- “Trump is a multibillionaire —
in Michigan, one of the Rust Belt
states that Mr. Trump hopes to or so he tells us,” he said. “We
Amy Chozick contributed report- move into the Republican column don’t know what is true or not be-
ing from New York, and Yamiche in the November election. He won cause, you know, he lies every day,
Alcindor from Los Angeles. the state’s Republican primary in so probably he’s broke.”
A14 N THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL TUESDAY, MAY 24, 2016
Chicago Trying to Predict

Who May Shoot or Be Shot
been shot before? Is your “trend
From Page A11 line” for crimes increasing or de-
state legislators to hold these peo- creasing? Do you have an arrest
ple accountable.” for weapons?
Many government agencies Dr. Wernick said the model in-
and private entities are using data tentionally avoided using
to try to predict outcomes, and lo- variables that could discriminate
cal law enforcement organiza- in some way, like race, gender, eth-
tions are increasingly testing such nicity and geography.
algorithms to fight crime. The Jonathan H. Lewin, the deputy
computer model in Chicago, chief of the Chicago Police Depart-
though, is uniquely framed ment’s technology and records
around this city’s particular prob- group, said: “This is not designed
lems: a large number of splin- to replace the human process.
tered gangs; an ever younger set This is just designed to inform it.”
of gang members, according to The police have been using the
the police; and a rash of gun vio- list, in part, to choose individuals
lence that is connected to acts of for visits, known as custom notifi-
retaliation between gangs. cations. Over the past three years,
Supporters of Chicago’s list say police officers, social workers and
that it allows the police to focus on community leaders have gone to
a small fraction of people creating the homes of more than 1,300 peo-
chaos in the city rather than un- ple with high numbers on the list.
fairly and ineffectively blanketing Mr. Johnson, the police superin-
whole neighborhoods. But critics tendent, said that officials were in-
wonder whether there is value in creasing those visits this year,
predicting who is likely to shoot or adding at least 1,000 people.
be shot with seemingly little abil- During these visits — with JIM LO SCALZO/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY
ity to prevent it, and they question those on the list and with their
the fairness and legality of creat- Officer Edward Nero, center, with his lawyer, Marc Zayon, after Officer Nero was acquitted on Monday in Baltimore.
families, girlfriends and mothers
ing a list of people deemed likely — the police bluntly warn that the
Baltimore Judge Absolves Officer in Fatal Arrest

to commit crimes at some future person is on the department’s ra-
time. dar. Social workers who visit offer
“We’re concerned about this,” ways out of gangs, including drug
said Karen Sheley, the director of treatment programs, housing and
the Police Practices Project of the job training. Miller would actually be signifi-
From Page A1 cantly stronger than the case
“We let you know that we know
reasonably been expected to play, against Officer Nero, and perhaps
what’s going on,” said Christopher
a bigger role in the encounter. And significantly stronger than we
Mallette, the executive director of
In a city of 2.7 million the Chicago Violence Reduction while that is no guarantee that thought before the verdict came
out,” Mr. Jaros said, although he
other officers will be found guilty,
people, about 1,400 Strategy, a leader in the effort.
“You know why we’re here. We it is those officers who will stand cautioned that all of the trials
trial in the coming months. would require separate findings of
are responsible for don’t want you to get killed.”
“The judge did seem to create a fact.
Uncertain, for now, is the effec-
much of the violence. tiveness. The RAND Corporation hierarchy of responsibility and
say that Officer Nero was at the
Judge Williams found that Offi-
cer Nero acted reasonably when
is evaluating the city’s list, but re- he did not use a seatbelt on Mr.
sults are yet to be published. Mr. bottom,” said David Jaros, a pro-
fessor of law at the University of Gray in the police van, citing ques-
Mallette said that 21 percent of the tions about his training and
American Civil Liberties Union of Baltimore who has been watching
people they had succeeded in talk- awareness of the rules. Again, he
Illinois. “There’s a database of cit- the case. “Now, let’s see as we go
ing to had sought assistance, and looked to other officers, saying Of-
izens built on unknown factors, up whether or not anyone else is
that fewer than 9 percent had ficer Nero could reasonably have
and there’s no way for people to sufficiently responsible as to be
been shot since a home visit. assumed that Lt. Brian Rice, a su-
challenge being on the list. How criminally liable.”
A juvenile who has a high score perior officer who climbed into the
do you get on the list in the first Judge Williams read his verdict
on the list and who was visited last CHIP SOMODEVILLA/GETTY IMAGES
van with Mr. Gray, or Officer Cae-
place? We think it’s dangerous to matter-of-factly while Officer
week was shot in the leg and in- Nero stared straight ahead. Protesters gathered on Monday outside the courthouse in Balti- sar R. Goodson Jr., the driver of
single out somebody based on se-
jured on Sunday, the police said. more after the verdict. Some chanted, “No justice, no peace.” the van, would have secured Mr.
cret police information.” “There has been no information
They said he did not answer the presented at this trial that the de- Gray if either believed that it was
The city is trying both to calm
door last week when the group fendant intended for any crime to required or necessary.
residents’ worries about mount- ning. He was arrested and put into serting that every arrest made
went to his home. happen,” Judge Williams said. Other observers, like Peter
ing violence and to rebuild com- a transport van, where, pro- without probable cause could be a
Arthur J. Lurigio, a professor of At the conclusion of his 30- Moskos, a former Baltimore po-
munity relations with the police secutors and defense lawyers criminal act.
psychology and criminology at minute explanation, he added, lice officer who teaches at John
after years of distrust, which have said, his spinal cord was But he sidestepped those ques-
boiled over with the release of a Loyola University Chicago, said “The verdict on each count is not Jay College of Criminal Justice in
functionally severed; he died a tions on Monday, focusing instead
video six months ago showing a there was little evidence to date guilty.” Officer Nero rose to his New York, said it seemed that Ms.
week later. on the fact that no evidence
black teenager named Laquan that the approach was slowing feet and wiped away tears as his Mosby had “overplayed her
Last May, the state’s top pros- showed Officer Nero had touched
McDonald being shot 16 times by a crime. “This is a first step,” he supporters — including Officer hand.”
ecutor, Marilyn J. Mosby, an- Mr. Gray during the critical open-
white police officer. said, “but now, figuring what to do Garrett E. Miller, who is also “Someone dying doesn’t always
nounced charges against six po- ing moments of his arrest.
The Chicago police, which be- with that list — that’s another charged in the case — moved in to make it a crime,” Mr. Moskos said.
lice officers. “When the detention morphed
gan creating the Strategic Subject thing.” embrace him. “The prosecutors are trying to
For Officer Nero’s trial, Ms. into an arrest, the defendant was
List a few years ago, said they A police computer dashboard of Outside the courthouse, per- not present,” Judge Williams said. find social justice, but these are
Mosby’s team of prosecutors tried
viewed it as in keeping with find- the Strategic Subject List gives a haps a dozen protesters gathered He cited the testimony of the trials of individual cops.”
an unusual legal theory: that he
ings by Andrew Papachristos, a glimpse of the arc of each person after the verdict. Some chanted, and Officer Miller exceeded their state’s witnesses: Officer Miller, A lawyer for Officer Nero, Marc
sociologist at Yale, who said that on it. Shaquon Thomas’s entry “No justice, no peace.” authority by handcuffing, moving who told the court that he had Zayon, called for the charges
the city’s homicides were concen- went on and on: 23 arrests, the po- “To see that officer walk away, and searching Mr. Gray without handcuffed Mr. Gray, and Bran- against the remaining officers to
trated within a relatively small lice said, mostly for misde- and still no accountability, that first questioning and patting him don Ross, a friend of Mr. Gray’s be dropped.
number of social networks that meanors, then the shootings. hurts me the most,” said the Rev. down, as the law requires — es- who witnessed the arrest. “The state’s attorney for Balti-
represent a fraction of the popula- “When people think we’re pro- Westley West, a frequent pres- sentially turning a lawful deten- “Since the defendant’s contact more City rushed to charge him,
tion in high-crime neighborhoods. filing or targeting, it’s not true,” ence at demonstrations related to tion into an unlawful arrest. The with Mr. Gray came after Mr. Gray as well as the other five officers,
Miles Wernick, a professor at said Mr. Johnson, who was an offi- Mr. Gray’s death. prosecutors said that Officer Nero was detained by Miller, this court completely disregarding the facts
the Illinois Institute of Technol- cer here for decades before being Mr. Gray’s death set off rioting, had committed misconduct by ar- finds that the contact by the de- of the case and the applicable law,”
ogy, created the algorithm. It appointed this year to succeed the looting and arson in this city, resting Mr. Gray without probable fendant was legally justified and Mr. Zayon said in a statement.
draws, the police say, on variables superintendent in the aftermath which has a long history of tension cause, and that any physical con- not reckless,” the judge said. Despite the acquittal, Tessa
tied to a person’s past behavior, of the Laquan McDonald video. “It between residents and the police. tact he had made with him while Mr. Jaros, the law professor, Hill-Aston, the president of the
particularly arrests and convic- has nothing to do with your race, He had been walking through doing so amounted to second-de- said Judge Williams’s finding that Baltimore city branch of the
tions, to predict who is most likely your background. It’s just all the Sandtown neighborhood in gree assault. the detention had turned into an N.A.A.C.P., said she remained
to become a “party to violence.” about the contacts you have with West Baltimore when he saw a Normally, defense lawyers, not arrest and his focus on the actions hopeful that someone would
The police cited proprietary law enforcement.” group of officers and took off run- prosecutors, make claims of ille- of Officer Miller could foreshadow eventually be held responsible for
technology as the reason they The police said Shaquon Thom- gal search and seizure in court. a tougher-than-expected case for Mr. Gray’s death.
would not make public the 10 as was scheduled to receive a visit Jess Bidgood reported from Balti- During closing arguments, Judge Officer Miller’s defense team “I’m thankful we’re even in
variables used to create the list, — one of the custom notifications more, and Timothy Williams from Williams himself questioned when he is tried this summer. court, that charges were brought,”
but they said that some examples — but he died before it could take New York. Nicholas Fandos con- prosecutors aggressively on “That certainly seemed to sug- she said. “But now we’ve got to
were questions like: Have you place. tributed reporting from Baltimore. whether they were really as- gest that the case against Officer come out with something.”
Supreme Court Denies Appeal of Virginia District Map Justices Find Bias in Picking
By ADAM LIPTAK
WASHINGTON — The Su-
down the map, saying it had put
too many black voters into an odd-
White Jury in Capital Case
preme Court on Monday left in ly shaped district, diminishing
Studies in Alabama, Louisiana
place a court-imposed congres- their voting power. From Page A11 and North Carolina have found
sional redistricting map in Virgin- The court gave the General As-
two was only 21 years old.” that prosecutors use peremptory
ia, dismissing a challenge from sembly an opportunity to redraw
Mr. Lanier also said Ms. Garrett challenges two or three times
three Republican congressmen. the map, but lawmakers failed to
was unfit to serve because she more often to strike black poten-
The court’s brief, unanimous deci- act. The court then devised its
was divorced. But, the chief jus- tial jurors than to strike others.
sion said the members of Con- own map.
tice wrote, Mr. Lanier “declined to Stephen B. Bright, a lawyer for
gress had not shown that they had Virginia at first defended the Mr. Foster, now 48, said his client
suffered the sort of direct and con- legislative map but switched sides strike three out of the four pro-
spective white jurors who were was “entitled to a new trial at
crete injury that gave them stand- after a change in administrations. which jurors are not excluded
ing to sue. The three Republican legislators also divorced.”
Mr. Lanier gave eight reasons based on race.” But Justice Samu-
The court, therefore, did not — Randy J. Forbes, Rob Wittman el A. Alito Jr., in a concurrence,
rule on the larger issues in the and David Brat — intervened, for striking a second prospective
juror, Mr. Hood, including that his suggested that the state court in
case, Wittman v. Personhuballah, saying they had been hurt by the Georgia might still have a path to
No. 14-1504, which concerned the court-ordered plan, which added son was the same age as the de-
fendant and had been convicted of rule against Mr. Foster.
role race may play in drawing leg- Democratic voters to their dis- In dissent, Justice Thomas said
islative maps. tricts. a crime that was, he said, “basical-
the majority had not given enough
“We cannot decide the merits of Mr. Forbes, for instance, said ly the same thing that this defend-
deference to the trial judge’s as-
this case unless the intervenor the plan would “completely trans- ant is charged with.”
sessment of the prospective ju-
members of Congress challenging form” his district “from a 48 per- Chief Justice Roberts called this
the district court’s racial-gerry- cent Democratic district into a “nonsense.”
mandering decision have stand- safe 60 percent Democratic dis- “Hood’s son had received a 12-
month suspended sentence for
ing,” Justice Stephen G. Breyer
wrote for the court. “We conclude
trict.”
His lawyer told the court when stealing hubcaps from a car in a The chief justice says
that the intervenors now lack the case was argued in March that mall parking lot five years earlier,”
he wrote. “Foster was charged
a prosecutor’s claim
standing. We must therefore dis- the change had forced Mr. Forbes
miss the appeal for lack of juris- to run in a different district. with capital murder of a 79-year- is ‘nonsense.’
diction.” “That’s where he lives, that’s old widow after a brutal sexual as-
The court addressed a similar where he’s a 16-year incumbent, J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE/ASSOCIATED PRESS sault.”
question last year in Alabama and that’s where he’s got a huge Participants in Wittman v. Personhuballah, a redistricting case Mr. Lanier also said he doubted
Legislative Black Caucus v. Ala- incumbency advantage,” the law- that Mr. Hood would impose the rors’ demeanor and of the
from Virginia, after arguments in March. The Supreme Court
bama. By a 5-to-4 vote, with Jus- yer, Michael A. Carvin, said of his death penalty in light of his reli- prosecutors’ credibility.
dismissed a challenge from three Republican congressmen. For instance, Justice Thomas
tice Anthony M. Kennedy and the client’s original district. “The inju- gious faith. “But the record per-
court’s four more liberal members ry that they imposed on him in suades us that Hood’s race, and said, the judge determined that
in the majority, the court indicated District 4 was so severe it pushed ry that Forbes might have suf- idence establishing their alleged not his religious affiliation, was Mr. Hood had answered questions
that the Alabama Legislature had him out.” fered ‘is likely to be redressed by a harm.” Lanier’s true motivation,” Chief about the death penalty slowly
relied too heavily on race in its Mr. Carvin added that his client favorable judicial decision.’” “The party invoking the court’s Justice Roberts wrote. and softly. Notes in the
2012 state redistricting by main- would “absolutely” run in his orig- The other two lawmakers said jurisdiction cannot simply allege a In sum, the chief justice wrote, prosecutors’ files said the Church
taining high concentrations of inal district if the Supreme Court the court-ordered plan had hurt non-obvious harm, without more,” “we are left with the firm convic- of Christ, of which Mr. Hood was a
black voters in some districts. ruled in his favor. them by replacing part of their Justice Breyer wrote. “Here, there tion that the strikes of Garrett and member, did not take a formal
The Virginia case started with a Shortly after the argument, Jus- “base electorate” with “unfavor- is no ‘more.’ Representatives Hood were motivated in substan- stand against capital punishment,
similar challenge to a map drawn tice Breyer wrote, the court re- able Democratic voters.” Justice Wittman and Brat claim that un- tial part by discriminatory intent.” Justice Thomas added.
by the state’s General Assembly. A ceived a letter from Mr. Forbes’s Breyer said that assertion was not less the enacted plan is reinstated, The decision was narrowly fo- “This new evidence supports
three-judge federal court struck lawyers saying he would continue backed up by evidence. their districts will be flooded with cused on Mr. Foster’s jury selec- the prosecution’s stated reason
to run in the new district however “Even assuming, without decid- Democratic voters and their tion and is unlikely to have a broad for striking Hood — that he, as a
the Supreme Court ruled. “Given ing, that this kind of injury” is le- chances of re-election will accord- impact. Evidence of the sort that member of the Church of Christ,
Books of The Times: this letter,” Justice Breyer wrote, gally recognized, he wrote, ingly be reduced.” surfaced in Mr. Foster’s case is had taken an uncertain stance on
Monday through Friday, quoting from a 2013 standing deci- “Representatives Wittman and Justice Breyer said there was rare, and the Batson decision is capital punishment,” Justice
The New York Times sion, “we do not see how any inju- Brat have not identified record ev- no such evidence. easy to evade. Thomas wrote.
THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL TUESDAY, MAY 24, 2016 0N A15
Fearing a Last-Minute Obstacle in a Push to Release 9/11 Findings

After years of frustration, That approach — first raised in gress, it is not even clear what “It is going to be in the eye of the No. 2 Senate Republican and immunity legislation is a differ-
proponents of releasing 28 classi- a private meeting last week procedure would be used to make the beholder,” he said. “I think a chief author of the legislation, ent story. Saudi officials have
fied pages of a congressional among Mr. Clapper, Mr. Graham the documents public. the person looking at this with- said he had kept his Republican said a loss of immunity could
inquiry into the Sept. 11 attacks and lawmakers — took Mr. Gra- Would it take a vote by the out preconception is going to find colleagues in the House apprised force them to remove hundreds
were seeing real progress in their ham by surprise. It threatens to House and Senate? Would it be it very disconcerting what the of the Senate legislation. His of billions of dollars in invest-
push for disclosure add a new layer of complexity to left up to the House and Senate Saudis did.” aides met last week with staff ments from the United States, a
CARL of findings that are
said to show high-
a process that those backing the
release thought was reaching its
Intelligence Committees, which The developments on the members of the House Judiciary
Committee, which would con-
move that could have implica-
first produced the report? The potential release of the 28 pages tions for the economies of both
HULSE level Saudi Arabian long-sought end. current chairmen of those panels, come as Congress is exerting sider the bill, and representa- nations.
support for the “No one has ever questioned Senator Richard M. Burr of North other pressure on Saudi Arabia tives of Sept. 11 families backing The congressional willingness
ON hijackers. that this is a decision that rests at the measure met Monday with
WASHINGTON Carolina and Representative over the Sept. 11 attacks, with the to challenge the Saudis suggests
“We seem to be the White House,” said Mr. Gra- Devin Nunes of California, both Senate voting without objection House leadership aides. a weakening of their political
coming to a point of decision as to ham, who noted that Congress Republicans, have expressed this month to change foreign “This is the right thing to do,” standing — a fact the Saudis
whether to release it or not and in had long ago moved to release reluctance about doing so. said Representative Peter T. seem to recognize. The Saudi
what form,” said Bob Graham, the pages, only to be stopped by King, a New York Republican
“I am just worried,” Mr. Gra- government prepared a glossy
the former Democratic senator President George W. Bush. “The and an author of the House ver-
ham said in an interview. “We 110-page white paper now being
from Florida, who served as a
co-chairman of the 2002 inquiry
idea of adding another elongated,
contentious step to the process is
have been at this for 13 years A bid to reveal sion of the immunity legislation.
The White House has raised
circulated around Washington to
now.” show its seriousness about fight-
and has made disclosure of the befuddling.”
A spokesman for Mr. Clapper classified pages takes objections to the bill, saying it
ing terrorism.
pages a personal cause since Mr. Graham said Mr. Clapper could spur retaliation against the
leaving Congress. had compared the approach to declined to discuss the meeting
with Mr. Graham.
another twist. United States and hurt ties with “It is in the kingdom’s national
interest to defeat terrorism, and
But last-minute obstacles, often the handling of a Senate report an important ally. But Senator
by design, have a way of crop- on C.I.A. torture of terror The possibility of a renewed Chuck Schumer, the New York it is a national priority,” the docu-
ping up in Washington and slow- detainees. That document was role for Congress was just one Democrat who helped write the ment, first reported on by Po-
ing things down. Mr. Graham reviewed by the Obama adminis- new wrinkle as the potential for sovereign immunity laws to give legislation, said he believed that litico, begins. “The devastating
hopes he is not seeing an exam- tration, which redacted parts of it releasing the pages loomed. families of those killed on Sept. 11, any veto could be overridden. May 2003 and May 2004 terrorist
ple of that, he said, after sugges- over security concerns, and the Some in the intelligence commu- 2001, the opportunity to hold “They will have their day in bombings in the kingdom galva-
tions from James R. Clapper Jr., Senate ultimately released an nity have raised concerns that Saudi Arabia accountable in court, and if they weren’t com- nized the Saudi people against
the director of national intelli- executive summary. But that was some of the original findings federal court. plicit, so be it,” he said. “But if terrorism.”
gence, that Congress will ulti- a messy process that took proved unsubstantiated and that Backers of that legislation are they are, it outweighs diplomatic That galvanizing, backers of
mately be left to decide what to months of bitter fighting to re- a release now might do more increasingly optimistic that it can considerations.” the legislation easing immunity
do with the pages once intelli- solve. harm than good. pass the House and be sent to Saudi officials have said for like to note, came well after the
gence officials finish a review as If the decision on making the Mr. Graham said he expected President Obama. years that they support the re- Sept. 11 attacks in the United
early as next month. pages public is returned to Con- skeptics to take that view. Senator John Cornyn of Texas, lease of the 28 pages, but the States.
From Cuba to Miami, by Providence and a Homemade Boat

From Page A1
undergone significant change.
Airplane travel between Miami
and Havana is booming. Cubans
are expanding private microbusi-
nesses with the help of stateside
relatives. One thing that has not
changed, however, is the despera-
tion of Cubans to set sail in rickety
boats for the United States — a
sign that fears are increasing, not
decreasing, as Cubans worry that
protections, not available to other
immigrants, offering them legal
status are in danger of being re-
scinded.
Since Oct. 1, more than 3,500
Cubans have either made it to the
shores of the United States, allow-
ing them to stay here legally, or
been picked up at sea by the Coast
Guard and sent home. The num-
bers arriving this year may reach
numbers not seen since the
balsero exodus of the 1990s.
They come for two reasons. Life
in Cuba remains incalculably diffi-
cult, especially for those outside
the hustle and bustle of Havana.
Freedom of expression remains
severely limited, and wages can
be as low as $16 to $22 a month.
They are also motivated by
panic. They believe that Congress
is ready to repeal the 1966 Cuban
Adjustment Act, which gives
Cubans a unique privilege — auto-
matic residency one year and a
day after their arrival in the coun-
try. Attempts at a repeal have so
far been unsuccessful, but anti-
immigrant sentiment in Washing-
ton makes it a possibility, espe-
cially because Cubans are now
viewed here as economic, rather PHOTOGRAPHS BY SCOTT M c INTYRE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
than political, migrants.
Coast Guard officials said Above from left, Yosvanys Chinea, Alierky Perez and Brayan Sanchez, refugees from Cuba,
Cubans had become more ag- in Miami this month. Mr. Perez, far left, and Raul Rodriguez tried on new shoes at the Migra-
gressive in trying to evade cap-
ture. They at times jump in the sea tion and Refugee Services offices in Miami, run by the Conference of Catholic Bishops.
or refuse to board the Coast Guard
cutters. On Friday, as the Coast
Guard approached, 19 Cubans and nuts. They wore floppy hats They slept, smoked cigarettes, Police officers showed up and
scrambled off their boat and and long sleeves, and used blan- played Latin music, bantered the Cubans took photos with
swam to a lighthouse five miles off kets to cover themselves from the about girlfriends and children, them, unfurling their American
the Florida Keys; they eventually sun. They had made six oars from poked fun at one another — espe- flag.
climbed down and will most likely tree branches. cially at the man who got severely The next morning they were
be taken right back to Cuba. Two Most important, they had three seasick the moment he boarded whisked to the Migration and
months ago, six Cubans on a boat smartphones. Mr. Quintero had and scarcely moved during the Refugee Services offices run by
had gunshot wounds and said jury-rigged a computer battery to five-day journey — and ate nuts the Conference of Catholic Bish-
they had been attacked in the charge the phones during the and crackers. They also argued — ops. The center fills out paper-
Florida Straits. But all the bullets journey. This meant the men had over who would row, who could work for arriving Cubans and, for
managed to miss major organs, something invaluable — GPS to sleep at night, who was hogging those without relatives, feeds and
prompting skepticism. guide them to Florida. space. puts them up in motels until they
“We have had cases in the past Inside the sailboat, they layered “We laughed at our own misery, can be relocated to other states.
of self-inflicted gunshots, and tightly. Although most Cubans dis- which is how we survive in Cuba,” Cuban migrants and refugees
there is more noncompliance,” Cuba, and he returned home with find a tractor to pull the boat, cam- dain religion, the men did not hesi- said Mr. Sánchez, 43, a farmer. On have been resettled around the
Petty Officer Mark Barney of the less than he had left with. ouflaged by palm fronds, to the tate to ask Dios for his blessings. the boat, he joked that he already country for decades so no one
Coast Guard said. “Often they Everyone contributed. Mr. coast when the weather looked “I made promises to everyone: knew what his first American area bears the economic burden of
continue going and refuse to let us Chinea, the carpenter, and Edel good. But the tractor could not to God, to La Virgen de la Caridad wish would be. He never again helping them start new lives.
get them off the boats. It is a safety Sánchez spent 20 days building haul the boat up a steep hill, so in del Cobre,” Mr. Quintero said, re- wanted to see “crackers, nuts or The Quality Inn in Doral, west
issue. There are cases all the time the sailboat in a tobacco-drying the middle of the night, in the mid- ferring to the patron saint of Cuba.” of Miami, felt close to heaven for
where people are found in the wa- house from scraps of wood. The dle of nowhere, the men had to balseros. Soon after clearing Cuba, they the men: air-conditioning, televi-
ter, alive, dead, migrants gone small boat was designed for six find a second tractor to push it. They would need them. For two landed on rocky Cayo Anguilla, an sion with dozens of channels,
missing.” people and ended up sailing with They finally arrived on the terrifying days, they could not uninhabited Bahamian islet, to get more eggs and meat than they had
This group of Cubans said they, 12. A couple helped sail and navi- shore, at Punta de Judas, on April clear Cuban waters. some rest. They hid their boat in seen in forever.
too, had a plan to dodge the au- gate. A few had money or muscle 17 at 6 a.m. On board, they had 31 “We left with the current and the brush and quickly discovered Half of the group would soon be
thorities. “We would all jump in power. Some had connections. gallons of water, juice, powdered the wind against us,” said Onelio they had company. Another group destined for Las Vegas, the other
the water and try to swim away,” Getting the sailboat to the shore milk, cans of sweetened con- Rodríguez, a baby-faced 26-year- of Cubans was there, too, and in
half for Austin, Tex., where they
Mr. Quintero said. was tricky. The men managed to densed milk, and piles of crackers old farmer. “But God is beautiful.” worse shape, so the men shared
will look for work. The center’s re-
But first they had to get off the their food and water, and even
settlement programs have a 70 to
island, no small task for a group of caught a fish they cooked in sea-
90 percent success rate in finding
Cubans from Florencia, a hilly, to- water. They had a sleepless night.
jobs, said Juan F. Lopez, an associ-
bacco-producing area close to the The islet was covered in opossum-
ate director for the refugee
center of the island. The group size rats.
services group.
formed slowly, in an underground “All night we had to fight them
off,” Mr. Rodríguez said. “One “This is a country of laws, but
game of who-wants-out and who- we say, ‘Let’s look at this from the
can-you-trust. walked across me while I slept.”
The next day they carried the humane standpoint,’” Mr. Lopez
It is illegal and dangerous to said. “We can’t afford people get-
leave Cuba by boat, so many kept boat back to shore, shimmied an
American flag up the mast and ting here and going straight on
their plans hidden even from rela-
public assistance.”
tives, a reflection of the secrecy sailed. The wind died, and they
worried. But, Mr. Quintero said, Nearly two weeks after their ar-
surrounding these journeys,
which often take months or years “God was just trying to protect rival, the men sat on a sea wall in
to organize and require money, in- us.” Miami’s Biscayne Bay, where they
genuity and courage. Luck had been on their side; paid tribute at a shrine to La Vir-
They formed a motley group: they had not seen the Coast Guard gen de la Caridad del Cobre.
several farmers, a carpenter, a tat- or hit a storm, which can doom Mr. Chinea, the carpenter,
too artist, a funeral home worker these crossings. That was when thought about his wife and two
and a D.J. who doubled as a dis- the dolphins greeted them, and sons back in Florencia. His eyes
tributor of the paquetes — the their optimism swelled. “Vamos a welling up, he gave thanks. Now,
black market recordings of Amer- coronar,” Mr. Veloso said, describ- he said, he could help them.
ican and Latin American movies, ing their arrival and the cold beer “We are so lucky to have ar-
television and news shows that that awaited them. rived,” he said. “I have more here
are pirated off satellite dishes. The GPS flashed that they were in eight days than I ever had in my
Asael Veloso, a 34-year-old 18 miles from the Florida Keys. 42 years in Cuba.”
farmer, tried to leave three years The men started to row in the His five years of waiting and
ago. He sold everything and darkness. Finally, they spotted a planning had paid off. “What you
hitched a ride with another bunch sea wall along a beach in Taver- have here is a nest of hope,” he
of so-called balseros. But their raft nier and spied a dock. They sailed said. “What you have there is a
was captured eight hours from Members of the group were applauded at the Shrine of Our Lady of Charity in Miami. to it and pulled out the phone. nest of scorpions.”
A16 N
Midtown Art Supply Store to Shutter as Luxury Towers Sprout Around It

By JAMES BARRON across the street from Lee’s, in the block on renovations in 2001 and 2002 that in-
Twelve years ago, as a newlywed, Mi- between Broadway and Seventh Ave- creased the retail space to 40,000 square
chelle Nagler went shopping for an al- nue. It will house a Nordstrom depart- feet from 7,500 square feet. The extra
bum for her wedding photographs. “Now ment store, New York City’s first full-line room was on three largely unused floors
I’m buying craft things for my kids,” she outpost of that chain. Another tower has upstairs. New escalators were brought in
said the other day as she worked her way sprouted at the corner of Park Avenue. (through a hole in the roof ) and installed
through the same store, Lee’s Art Shop And yet another will soon rise on the site at night. That let the store stay open by
on West 57th Street in Manhattan. of a secondhand fur store next to the for- day.
The craft items she bought — ribbon, mer home of Steinway & Sons, near Ave- In 2013 — five years after the death of
paint and rubber stamps — were deeply nue of the Americas. Gilbert Steinberg, who had owned Lee’s
discounted because Lee’s is closing; The new towers are remaking 57th since the early 1950s, and six years after
some merchandise in the store was Street at ground level. Longtime fixtures the death of his wife, Ruth, who was
marked down 75 percent. The clerks at of 57th Street like Steinway and the Riz- known as Ricki and also had a hand in the
the cash registers said the 120-year-old zoli bookshop have moved. Now there is store — the two children who had taken
building was being sold. talk in real estate circles of finding a sin- over signed a contract to sell the building
“Isn’t that the usual story, that it’s al- gle retail tenant for the Lee’s building for $65 million.
ways about real estate?” said Ms. Na- that would take a page from the Ralph That deal crumbled, and in 2014, Thor
gler, a publisher of children’s books at Lauren flagship store on Madison Ave- Equities, a longtime commercial land-
Random House. nue at 72nd Street. lord, and General Growth Properties
But the story, in this case, is about “What’s going on here is destroying struck a new deal with the Steinberg chil-
something else. Lee’s, a Midtown fixture New York’s sense of place, particularly dren. The Real Deal website reported
for more than six decades, is at one end of for an artist,” said Kate Simon, a photog- that the price was $85 million and that
a half-mile between Broadway and Park rapher who has lived around the corner HIROKO MASUIKE/THE NEW YORK TIMES
the closing was expected to take place
Avenue that is now being reshaped and and up the block from Lee’s for 38 years. next month. Lee’s, which has no plans to
Lee’s Art Shop, a longtime fixture on West 57th Street, is closing its doors and reopen in some other location, will con-
redefined by supertall towers. One, at 157 “What would Truman Capote write now,
‘Breakfast at Nordstrom’s’?”
has no plans to relocate. The 120-year-old building is being sold, clerks said. tinue its final sale until then, although
West 57th Street, across the street from
Carnegie Hall near Seventh Avenue, sold “I’ve been watching them build all many of its shelves and display cases are
so many of its condominiums to buyers these huge buildings,” she said. “I think American Society of Civil Engineers, Lee’s, which had been across the street in already empty. (David Steinberg, the
with long strings of zeros on their net this is the last nail in the coffin of the whose members no doubt appreciated a 500-square-foot storefront, leased the chief executive of Lee’s, did not return a
worth statements that people began re- neighborhood.” its delicate facade as they filed in and ground floor in the 1970s. call seeking comment.)
ferring to the block as Billionaires’ Row. The Lee’s building, at 220 West 57th filled its 400-seat auditorium — until the The owners of Lee’s bought the entire So artists will have to look elsewhere
Another supertall tower is going up Street, was originally a clubhouse for the building became a Schrafft’s restaurant. building in the 1990s and spent $8 million Continued on Page A18
PHOTOGRAPHS BY ÁNGEL FRANCO/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Ambulance Service in Brooklyn Speaks Chinese, Like Its Patients

By SARAH MASLIN NIR would not be understood.
Dr. Chen’s neighbors suggested that the
In the back of an ambulance the other day,
an anxious father-to-be rattled off his wife’s An Effort to Reduce a Barrier in Health Care community needed its own ambulances, and
Mr. Rapisarda agreed. Now Mr. Rapisarda has
medical history in Cantonese as she went into
labor. It took the two emergency medical tech- Jason Lau, above, three ambulances emblazoned with English
nicians onboard, both fluent in Chinese, just seen in the rearview and Chinese characters traveling around the
seconds to act, and they pulled the ambulance mirror, inside one of city.
over to the side of the Franklin D. Roosevelt He said the response had been so positive
Midwood Ambu- that he was hiring more Chinese-speaking
Drive in Manhattan after learning that the
lance’s new ambu- workers and had ordered three more ambu-
couple’s first child had been born quickly.
In less than two minutes, they delivered a lances with Chinese- lances, each of which costs $76,000. On a re-
howling baby boy. speaking workers, cent day in the company’s parking depot in the
“The fact that I can speak their language left. Alonzo Rapis- Gravesend section of Brooklyn, newly hired
was a tremendous help,” said Jason Lau, 26, arda, below, several employees practiced carrying a dummy
one of the medical technicians who helped de- years ago started strapped to a chair up and down a steep stair-
liver the baby. case. He said this was an essential skill in the
hiring employees at city.
The dramatic birth was a first for a new Midwood who speak
service started by a private ambulance com- In New York and around the country, emer-
pany in Brooklyn that provides Chinese lan-
the language. gency responders have historically been
guage emergency medical care to New York white and male, said Scott Moore, a human re-
City’s growing population of Chinese immi- sources and operations consultant with the
grants. The company’s three amubulances American Ambulance Association, a national
with Chinese-speaking health care workers trade organization, and an emergency medical
have already responded to calls beyond technician for 26 years. Beyond translating
Brooklyn — including Chinatown in Manhat- words, Mr. Moore said, a diverse emergency
tan and Flushing, Queens. response fleet can add cultural competency to
The service was started last month by how their work is done.
Alonzo Rapisarda, 42, who lives in the Bay Last year, Mr. Moore’s organization issued
Ridge neighborhood of Brooklyn and traces its first handbook for intercultural communi-
his family’s roots to a great-grandfather who cation. “Demographic trends across the
immigrated to the United States from Italy. United States indicate a growing need for bet-
During the three generations of Rapisardas ter cross-cultural communication skills
who have run the family business, Midwood among health care professionals,” the guide-
Ambulance, the south Brooklyn area has book begins.
changed, from historically Jewish and Italian The profession is “becoming more aware of
to largely Chinese. the challenges” that a diverse patient popula-
Bensonhurst, one of its main service areas, tion presents, Mr. Moore said, “and under-
is now home to one of the city’s largest concen- standing that care is something more than
tration of Chinese residents. From 2000 to 2013 maybe just taking medical care of them.”
the number of foreign-born Chinese in the bor- The Midwood Ambulance service has
ough increased by nearly 50 percent, to teamed up with the United Chinese Associa-
128,000 from 86,000, according to the census. tion of Brooklyn, a community organization,
Unlike city-run ambulances, which respond which is helping spread the word about the
to 911 emergency calls, private ambulance service. Steve Chung, the association’s presi-
companies have their own direct phone num- dent, said the service was drawing rave re-
bers and will, among other services, transport responders in their native language, accord- thing if you’re not fully able to understand views from the community and, in particular,
ill patients from their doctor’s offices to hospi- ing to doctors and emergency medical them, or them, you.” accolades for Mr. Rapisarda. Mr. Chung noted
tals or take women in labor to hospitals. providers. Several years ago, he started hiring Chi- the only-in-New-York factor that the new Chi-
The city is home to a small network of pri- Over the years, Mr. Rapisarda’s regular nese-speaking dispatchers, paramedics and nese-language ambulance fleet was started by
vate ambulance companies that cater to cer- crews — 107 ambulances in all — found that emergency medical technicians. But it was an Italian-American.
tain neighborhoods, including a few that serve they were frequently unable to speak with only last year, after Mr. Rapisarda heard a But there is a history of collaboration — a
non-English speakers, such as Chevra Hatza- their patients. story from a local doctor, that the idea of a dedi- long one — between the communities, he said.
lah, whose workers speak Hebrew, and Assist “If you can’t communicate with your para- cated fleet and a 24-hour Chinese dispatch was “Think about it, in Marco Polo’s time, he
Ambulance, which focuses on Russian-speak- medic, you could leave out something, or the born. The doctor, Gary Chen, an internal medi- visited China and we gave him good things:
ing patients. Ambulances operated by the city, paramedic could misunderstand something,” cine specialist in Bensonhurst, said an older spaghetti and pizza,” Mr. Chung said with a
as well as private companies, do have access Mr. Rapisarda said. couple who were sick waited through the laugh. “I think this is the best thing about hu-
to telephone-based translation services, but He said patients sometimes confused chest weekend for a Monday appointment with their man culture — we know each other and we’re
people facing medical issues often find it easi- pain with indigestion, particularly older peo- Chinese-speaking doctor rather than call an sharing and who knows what good things pop
er and more comforting to speak to emergency ple. His workers, he feared, “might miss some- ambulance because they were afraid they up.”
THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK TUESDAY, MAY 24, 2016 N A17
THE APPRAISAL
Now Displaced
By Gentrification:
New York’s Feral Cats
By MATT A. V. CHABAN keepers of two separate colonies
Zane was the first to disappear, fear encroaching construction.
followed a few days later by Dali. But not all developers have
Freckles was barely breathing clashed with their four-legged
when they found him. Buzzy, by neighbors. Roosevelt Island has
the time they rushed him to the long been a haven for wildlife.
hospital, his stomach distended, When people began arriving at the
had died. When the police found Mitchell Lama apartment towers
Mama and her son Blacky fes- in the 1970s, so did their cats.
tering in a parking lot, it was al- “You’d get cats that escaped, but
ready too late. The Dutch Kills cat also people throwing cats out of
colony in Queens was gone. their cars,” said Rossana Ceruzzi, a
For nine years, Barbara Garber, former record and advertising
Rebecca Wolf and other volunteers executive who has been caring for
have been caring for feral cats on the cats and other animals since
dead-end streets at the edge of she moved to the island 16 years
Sunnyside Yards. Like the roughly ago. “One guy came down and
500 registered cat colonies across pretended to be taking pictures,
New York City, this cluster in Long and when I turned around, he let a
Island City, Queens, fluctuates with cat out of his backpack and ran.”
the seasons and the years. Cats are Some 70 cats live in four colonies
regularly abandoned there or on the two-mile-long island.
simply appear. They die of old age Among the greatest source of
or are hit by vehicles on busy felines was the former Goldwater
Jackson Avenue. Some give birth Hospital, where many nurses and
PHOTOGRAPHS BY KARSTEN MORAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
to new litters. patients kept them as pets. When
While the Police Department’s Cornell University took over the home for the cats — a challenge
Animal Cruelty Investigation site about three years ago for its given the booming development on
Squad has looked into what might campus with Israel’s Technion the West Side.
have caused eight cats to disap- Institute, Ms. Ceruzzi asked the Ms. Wylde would prefer the city
schools to help rescue and relocate establish a feral cat sanctuary.
pear or die within two weeks this
the animals. “A lot of people’s knee-jerk reac-
month, the people who have cared
for them have their suspicions. “Cornell has a world-class veter- tion is just, ‘Oh, get them off the
inary school, it’s a land-grant uni- streets and find them a good
Around the time the cats living
versity, and this is just part of home,’ ” Ms. Wylde said. “As people
on Dutch Kills Street began to get
those values, 100 percent,” Andrew working in welfare know, it’s hard
sick or disappear, dozens of large
Winters, the director of capital enough to find homes for homeless
projects at Cornell Tech, said. people nowadays.”
In addition to a few cats, Ms. In Long Island City, where Tish-
Ceruzzi, a state-certified wildlife
Colonies of wild rehabilitator, rescued some rac-
man Speyer is building three
apartment towers, things have
animals are having coons and a family of opossums.
About 20 cats now live in a fenced-
been less tame. When the develop-
er started work on the towers last
to find new habitats. in section of Southpoint Park, year, it received permission from
which opened in 2011. the city to turn the end of Orchard
Ms. Ceruzzi has found others Street into a staging area. Some 16
less to be accommodating. When cats under Ms. Garber and Ms.
plastic rat traps were scattered construction began on Four Free- Wolf’s care lived there. They were
outside a new 26-story apartment doms Park in 2010 at the island’s soon joined by generators, pumps,
building, Halo LIC, on Purves southern tip, she was, understand- pipes, hoses and heavy machinery,
Street, one block over. Some of the ably, denied access. And while the which crushed most of the cat
traps had been cut, creating larger monumental expanse of granite shelters.
openings, and clumps of beige designed by Louis Kahn has be-
poison littered the pavement. Ms. Garber has since moved the
come a popular destination, Ms.
cats under a metal staircase across
“If that’s not overkill, I don’t Ceruzzi said that many of the
know what is,” Ms. Garber said from the site, but only about half a
fauna that once visited are gone,
last week, as she and Ms. Wolf Michele Glick- dozen remain.
including a family of pheasants
began disassembling the straw- and a yellow fox. Guarneri, top, The city issued three violations
lined buckets and plastic foam to the contractor last week, after a
Stephen Martin, director of feeding a feral reporter contacted the Buildings
boxes on Dutch Kills Street that design and planning at Four Free- cat in Long
were the cats’ homes. doms, said that the site was a toxic Department about whether work
Island City, on the street was allowed. Two of
“It’s an atrocity is what it is,” Ms. landfill overgrown with weeds.
Wolf said. “There weren’t even any “It’s true, we’re not putting out
Queens. the violations — insufficient pedes-
rats, because of the cats.” Kibbles ’n Bits for anyone, but the Above, from trian protections and having a
From Astoria, Queens, to St. memorial is an ecological sanctu- left, Robert generator too close to a fire hy-
George, Staten Island, the latest ary in its own right, with gulls and Benfatto, the drant — were deemed Class 1, or
real estate boom has reshaped the crabs and cormorants calling our Hudson immediately hazardous.
city in countless ways. Just as it is riparian shoreline home,” he said. Tishman Speyer declined to
Yards/Hell’s comment.
affecting people, gentrification is New Yorkers have long cared for Kitchen Busi-
displacing the city’s wild animals, strays, in alleys, bodegas and even Ms. Garber and Ms. Wolf are
too. Vacant lots, old factories,
ness Improve- still trying to find out what hap-
some of the most rarefied ad-
former warehouses and even shut- dresses — for many years, a court- ment District pened on Dutch Kills Street. The
tered hospitals are being re- yard of the San Remo on Central director; Gary Police Department has concluded
developed, forcing colonies of Park West housed as many as 75 Granger, an its investigation without a culprit
strays to find new habitats. cats. Many of those underwent a Urban Cat because Mama and Blacky were
Complicating matters for these practice known as trap-neuter- League volun- disposed of before a necropsy
territorial creatures, the same return. Since the passage of Local teer; and City could be performed.
developments that are forcing Law 59 by the City Council in 2012, being developed by Tishman Spey- also a cat fancier. Phone calls to the offices of the
Councilman Rabsky Group, the Brooklyn-based
their colonies to relocate have that has been the sanctioned er, the real estate firm that controls “I was showing off my new cat
made it that much harder for their method for dealing with the city’s
Corey John- the Chrysler Building and Rocke- at the State of the City last year, developer of the Halo LIC, were
caretakers to find new homes wild cats. son. Above feller Center. and Kathy overheard and immedi- not returned. A man who answered
nearby. That method has been in prac- right, Barbara When Corey Johnson, the local ately took out her phone to show a cellphone number listed on build-
“If they can make room for tice for years at a colony of two Garber, left, councilman, was contacted by the off hers,” Mr. Johnson recalled. ing documents under the name
10,000 people, they can make room dozen cats at a lot on 37th Street and Rebecca colony’s caretakers, he immedi- Ms. Wylde estimates she has Rafael Rabinowitz, a member of
for a few dozen cats,” State Assem- near 11th Avenue in Manhattan. Wolf. ately turned to Kathryn Wylde, rescued as many as 100 cats. A the firm, said he was not Rafael
blyman Joseph R. Lentol said at a Like so many parcels in and president of the Partnership for longtime friend of the Speyers, she Rabinowitz.
cat colony neighboring the Green- around Hudson Yards, this one is New York City, a pro-business arranged a meeting between them “I don’t know anything about
point Landing development site on now poised to become part of a group. Those were not the connec- and the colony caretakers, and any dead cats,” the man said. “I’m
the Brooklyn waterfront, where the 1,005-foot, $3 billion office tower tions he was after, though. She is they are working to find a new not involved in any of this stuff.”
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A18 N THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK TUESDAY, MAY 24, 2016
Thieves Ransack Queens Bank Vault, Leaving Many Deposit Boxes on Roof
By SARAH MASLIN NIR
and ARIELLE DOLLINGER
Workers arrived at Maspeth
Federal Savings Bank on Monday
only to discover that several doz-
en safe deposit boxes were miss-
ing.
They did not have to look far to
find them.
When the police arrived at the
bank branch in Rego Park,
Queens, they found the boxes
piled on the roof, next to a wide
hole through which, it appeared,
thieves had broken into the vault
over the weekend.
The full extent of the theft re-
mained unclear; the vault held not
only safe deposit boxes but also WABC-TV
teller’s cash, the bank said in a
statement on Monday evening.
Customers at Maspeth Federal Savings Bank in Rego Park,
The branch is expected to remain Queens, on Monday could not immediately learn whether their
closed for several days, the state- valuables had been stolen. After cutting a hole in the bank roof,
ment said, and the bank will “keep burglars entered the vault and lifted out boxes, above.
our customers informed as to
whether or not their safe deposit any arrests, and the investigation is not just the stuff of Hollywood
boxes were affected by the bur- is continuing. heists.
glary.” The audacious crime echoes an Last year, in Bensonhurst,
Outside the bank on Wood- ULI SEIT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
April robbery of a bank in Bor- Brooklyn, thieves dug through a
haven Boulevard, caution tape
jewelry collection was still intact. Mr. Duy said he watched from ladder painted flat black, a black ough Park, Brooklyn, where hole in a closed restaurant next
roped the front doors as
But the bank was closed to all but his filling station all Monday after- box on the roof of the bank. nearly $300,000 was stolen from door to a bank and made off with
customers arrived to see if their
investigators and law enforce- noon as customers found out what He made the call at 4:11 p.m., Mr. an HSBC vault via the roof. No ar- valuables; the same year in Bay-
belongings had been taken.
Dozens of pilfered boxes had been ment, and Mr. Maurello left with- had happened. Greco said. The desk sergeant rests were made in that robbery. side, Queens, another break-in
left piled on the roof, according to out any answers. “They were crying on the side said he would get back to him, Mr. Detectives will look into whether was carried out through a bank’s
the police, next to a makeshift ply- Gunther Duy, who owns the Mo- of the building,” he said. Greco said. And he did. the two are linked, the police said. back wall.
wood scaffold that appeared to bil gas station and Gunral Service The police may have had some “He says, ‘I guess you own a Some safe deposit boxes, which And in 2010, thieves entered the
have been constructed over the Center next door to the bank, said warning. John Greco, who owns ladder.’ Quote,” Mr. Greco re- are rented by a customer from a safe deposit vault at a bank in
hole. he wished he had noticed unusual the house behind Maspeth Fed- counted Monday evening. bank, come with content insur- Gravesend, Brooklyn, but for
“There’s a lot of memories in- activity before the theft. eral Savings Bank, said he called The police said they could not ance, while others require users to some reason, according to news
side the box,” said Nicola Mau- “For a small community bank, them on Saturday to report suspi- comment on whether they re- buy insurance. reports at the time, they appeared
rello, who arrived on Monday af- and for a community, it’s devastat- cious findings in his backyard: a ceived a call. Tunneling into vaults, or drop- not to have stolen anything of val-
ternoon to check if his family’s ing,” Mr. Duy said. hole in the fence, an aluminum The police have not yet made ping into them through the ceiling, ue.
Guards Won’t Testify About Inmate’s Beating

By WINNIE HU testified in court that he suffered Mr. Lightfoot was jailed at Rikers
and KATE PASTOR for months afterward. He said his in 2010 after snatching a woman’s
The nine correction officers eyes would hurt and his vision pocketbook. He has acknowl-
who are on trial in the July 2012 would become blurry when he edged in court that he had been a
beating of an inmate at Rikers Is- tried to read, and he would get part of the Bloods gang and had
land, New York City’s main jail headaches and spit up blood. He been arrested for possession of
complex, will not be telling their was released from state prison in marijuana and crack cocaine,
side of the story in court. 2014. among other minor offenses.
Lawyers for all nine defendants The nine officers have been On Monday, the defense
unexpectedly rested their case on charged with various crimes, in- lawyers initially informed Justice
Monday without calling a single cluding attempted gang assault. Barrett that they would be calling
witness or presenting any evi- Defense lawyers have scruti- witnesses, including some of the
dence in State Supreme Court in nized and, in some cases, neutral- officers. But after a short break to
the Bronx. One after another, the ized the prosecution’s witnesses, discuss the case among them-
which have included doctors, in- selves, the lawyers seemed to re-
defense lawyers informed Justice
vestigators and a DNA expert. verse course and returned to say
Steven Barrett and the jurors of
Even the prosecution’s last wit- they were resting their case.
their decision shortly after
prosecutors concluded their case The lawyers declined to explain
after weeks of testimony from their decision afterward, citing an
order not to discuss case that was
more than a dozen witnesses, in-
cluding the former inmate who
Lawyers for Rikers imposed by Justice Barrett at the
was beaten, Jahmal Lightfoot. officers unexpectedly start of the trial.
Daniel C. Richman, a professor
In response, Justice Barrett
told the jurors, “We’ve taken a rest their case. at Columbia Law School and a for-
HIROKO MASUIKE/THE NEW YORK TIMES long journey together and the mer federal prosecutor, said
Kate Simon, a photographer who has frequented Lee’s Art Shop for years, with Hector Alburez. journey is coming to an end, for defendants and their lawyers fre-
better or worse.” quently choose not to present a
ness, Dr. Eric Cerrati, who exam- case as a strategic move, often be-
The case has drawn public scru-
Manhattan Art Supply Store to Shutter tiny at a time when persistent vio-
lence at Rikers Island has re-
ined Mr. Lightfoot after the
episode, testified that while his in-
juries were consistent with being
cause the defendants have crimi-
nal histories or because it could
open doors to other areas the
ceived intensifying criticism and
As Luxury High-Rises Sprout Around It prompted calls by Gov. Andrew
M. Cuomo, a Democrat, and oth-
kicked by the guards, as Mr. Light-
foot claimed, they could have also
been caused by officers punching
prosecution could question.
“There are always some risks
defendants bear by putting on a
ers to shut it down. him in the face after he bran-
silver gelatin prints and if one cor- And Tony Bennett would be there Prosecutors argued that Mr. case,” Mr. Richman said. “By not
From Page A16 dished a weapon, as the defense
ner is dog-eared, the whole deal is all the time.” Lightfoot, 31, was unarmed and putting on a case, they can avoid
off,” she said, adding that Mr. Al- has claimed.
for supplies. The Art Students Other customers, though, said did nothing to provoke a beating those risks and make a clean argu-
burez for years has packed them The defense lawyers have said
League of New York, across the the demise of Lee’s seemed al- by members of an elite correction ment about how the prosecution
so that they were never damaged that Mr. Lightfoot was injured
street, has its own store. “Anyone most inevitable. squad in a small cell. They said the failed to meet its burden.”
in shipping. while being restrained by the offi-
who’s mourning the loss of Lee’s “What in New York isn’t differ- beating was ordered by Eliseo Pe- cers after he was found with a Mr. Perez retired in 2013, and
can come across the street and “He never talks about Brad Pitt ent from what it used to be?” Mr. Vaughn in 2014. The seven
rez Jr., an assistant chief for secu- weapon during a search and disre-
and Angelina Jolie, even though I Marty Merkley asked, checking other correction officers on trial —
pick up what they need,” Ken rity, and Gerald Vaughn, a correc- garded their orders to drop it.
would see them in a magazine at Tobias Parker, Jose Parra, Alfred
Park, a spokesman for the school, discounted merchandise on Fri- tion captain, after Mr. Perez de- They have also sought to under-
Lee’s Art Supply,” she said. “I
said. day. “What was quaint is chichi cided that the prisoner thought he mine the former inmate’s credibil- Rivera, David Rodriguez, Jeffrey
would say something to Hector,
But longtime customers like and what was chichi is astronomi- was tough. Three other officers ity by emphasizing his criminal Richard, Harmon Frierson and
and he would never talk about it.
Ms. Simon, the photographer, will And he’s somebody I’ve known for cally expensive. But that’s have been accused of helping to history and by suggesting that Mr. Dwayne Maynard — were sus-
be left without the help that they 38 years. I don’t want to overem- progress, whether we like it or not. cover up the beating. Lightfoot, who is unemployed, pended in June 2013, but recently
counted on from Lee’s employees phasize that particular star cou- Gentrification on any level is the Mr. Lightfoot sustained frac- hopes to benefit financially with a returned to work on modified duty
like Hector Alburez. “I have these ple, but they’re there all the time. lifeblood of any city.” tures of both his eye sockets and pending lawsuit against the city. with no contact with inmates.
THE NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES TUESDAY, MAY 24, 2016 N A19
Fred Papert, 89, Dies; Protected Grand Central Terminal

By SAM ROBERTS to be dull?” was a poke at The employees. Fred Papert, left, with Jacque-
Fred Papert, an innovative ad- New York Times) and Xerox (a By 1967, P.K.L. had more than line Kennedy Onassis and the
vertising agency director who chimpanzee was recruited to 200 employees in New York and architect Philip Johnson, in
helped galvanize civic leaders and prove the simplicity of using the $40 million in billings, but the front of Grand Central Termi-
government officials to preserve first plain paper copier). agency closed within a few years
The firm also produced televi- after Mr. Lois and Mr. Koenig left.
nal in 1977; he helped save it.
Grand Central Terminal and re-
vive Times Square, died on Friday sion ads for Robert F. Kennedy’s Mr. Papert soon discovered a
in Manhattan. He was 89. 1964 Senate campaign in New new career, in preservation and the whole city.”
The cause was a pulmonary em- York. (Mr. Papert said in an inter- development. When he retired in 2015 after al-
bolism, his daughter Lisha Papert view at the time: “No studios. No “I lived on a block that was the most 40 years as president of the
Lercari said. gimmicks. No ‘creativity.’ We victim of a preservation battle,” he corporation, one major dream —
A debonair wordsmith with a want to reveal the man, not con- said. of a crosstown 42nd Street trolley
flair for promotion, Mr. Papert jure up an image.”) The conflict was over a pro- — remained unfulfilled.
(pronounced PAP-ert) worked Frederic Stuart Papert was posed 32-story apartment tower “New York’s specialty is a zest
both ends of 42nd Street in sepa- born in Manhattan on Oct. 29, at 89th Street and Madison Ave- for inertia,” New York magazine
rate campaigns that burnished 1926. His father, Emil, was a furri- nue. In a letter to the editor of The quoted him as saying.
the face of Midtown. er. His mother, the former Isabel Times in 1973, he wrote that the Still, Mr. Papert lived to see a
He rallied Jacqueline Kennedy Trachtenberg, was a dancer. building “would stick out of the significant transformation, even
Onassis; Senator Daniel Patrick He attended Public School 6 on heart of the neighborhood like a by 1995. Invoking the lyrics of
Moynihan, Democrat of New the Upper East Side and high knife handle, blocking light and “42nd Street,” he proclaimed, “the
York; and the architecture critic school in Miami, where the family air, and throwing everything naughty, bawdy Times Square is a
Brendan Gill in a successful lobby- had moved when he was a child, around it into perpetual shadow.” thing of the past.”
ing campaign to save Grand Cen- and graduated with a degree in The tower was built notwithstand- As a preservationist and a na-
tral from demolition and deface- journalism from the University of ing. tive New Yorker, though, he could
ment during the mid-1970s and to Missouri. He wrote his first ad Mr. Papert helped found and also be wistful.
safeguard New York City’s new copy for Woolf Brothers, a men’s presided over a neighborhood “To me, New York is seltzer, not
landmarks preservation law from watchdog group, Carnegie Hill orange juice,” he said. “There are
the legal challenges of developers. Neighbors, which successfully already more than enough neon
With support from the Ford lobbied for a special zoning dis- Mickey Mouses on 42nd Street.”
Foundation and other sources, he An ad man whose trict in which new buildings were DAVE PICKOFF/ASSOCIATED PRESS
created the nonprofit 42nd Street

Development Corporation, which flair for promotion limited to 18 stories.
After a state judge overturned Deaths Deaths Deaths
transformed a derelict block be-
tween Ninth and 10th Avenues rallied support to save Grand Central’s landmark desig-
Begun, Martin Guttman, Anne Papert, Fred FUTTERMAN—Ruth. KRAMER—Sarah Greenberg,
nation in 1975, Mr. Papert orga-
beloved buildings.
Temple Beth El of Cedar- passed away at home peace-
into an Off Off Broadway Theater nized a “Landmark Express”
Carp, Rhoda Hoffman, Edna Ratner, Michael
hurst mourns the passing of fully after a long and mea-
Row and helped transform Times Codey, John Hynes, Patrick Reich, Samuel Ruth Futterman, beloved ningful life at the age of 96
train to Washington to support the Corry, Emily Kleinberg, Belle Rosenbaum, Herbert mother of our Rabbi Mat- surrounded by her family.
Square from an unsafe and seedy thew Futterman and Donald She leaves her three loving
city’s appeal to the United States Dube, Alexander Kramer, Sarah Shapiro, Ronald Futterman, grandmother and children, Noelle Parket, Mari-
symbol of urban decay into what
Supreme Court. Futterman, Ruth Nutt, David great- grandmother. Ruth lyn Kramer Weitzman
Mr. Papert foresaw as a “cultural clothing store in Kansas City, Mo., was a vibrant leader of the (Kahn) and Glenn Kramer
“Fred Papert’s genius for pub- Queens Jewish community. and their respective spouses,
amusement park.” where he worked his way through She and her late husband Robert Parket, Thomas Gra-
licity was behind many of Jackie’s
His four-decade civic role, college as a salesman. BEGUN—Martin S., BEGUN—Martin. Saul both served as pres- ham Kahn and Lynn Wech-
public appearances,” K. L. Kelle- We are deeply saddened by idents of Temple Gates of sler Kramer. She leaves sev-
which included the presidency of He married the former Diane the death of Martin Begun, Prayer, Flushing. We extend en devoted grandchildren
the Municipal Art Society, fol- her wrote of Mrs. Onassis in 2000 our dear friend for over fifty condolences to the entire Fut- and their spouses, ten loving
Keedwell, who died in 2006. In ad- terman family. May Ruth's great - grandchildren and
lowed a stellar career in advertis- in “Jackie: Beyond the Myth of years. He was devoted to his
dition to their daughter Lisha, he family and friends and com- memory be for a blessing. many caring relatives and
ing. Camelot.” mitted to the well being of Richard Holland, President friends. Her beloved hus-
is survived by another daughter, New York University, New Edward Edelstein, Executive band, Philip Kramer, former
In 1960, he recruited George Emily Papert Williams; and a In Times Square, Mr. Papert York City and State. He was a Director President and CEO of Hess
Lois and Julian Koenig (pro- granddaughter. pressed the city to evict the area’s devoted supporter of Israel
and the extended Jewish GUTTMAN—Anne Caro, 95,
Corporation predeceased
her. Sarah was a beautiful, in-
nounced KAY-nig) from Doyle Mr. Papert worked at several ad biggest pornography shop. His re- community. He was an inte- suddenly on May 21, loving
wife of the late David, devot-
dependent woman who
gral part of our family and his moved from humble begin-
Dane Bernbach to establish Pa- agencies in New York, including development corporation also kindness, concern and quick ed mother of Nancy (Philip nings to a luxury New York
Newfield) and Charles (Shir-
pert Koenig Lois, an upstart that Kenyon & Eckhardt, which fired helped build new stables for the wit will be missed every day
ley Ladd), beloved grand-
City building and still main-
tained her modest demeanor.
by each of us. We extend our
wowed not only Madison Avenue him over a budget dispute with Police Department’s Mounted sympathy to Louise, the fa- mother of James, Emily, Da- She frequented the ballet,
niel, Ariel, Carrie and Molly, theater and museums, but
but also Wall Street by becoming the wife of Pepsi’s president. Unit (and gave John F. Kennedy mily and all of Martin's legion
of friends. proud great-grandmother of was always available for fa-
the first advertising agency to go “I had to eat,” Mr. Papert told Jr. his first job, as an intern). who had a long and distin- Laura and Lewis Kruger 11, dear sister of Beatrice
Roxin and Janet Murphy, lov-
mily and her most beloved
guished career in the fields of spouse. Within the last few
public since 1929. The Times in 1962, so he started But progress came slowly, after medicine, public service and BEGUN—Martin S.
ing companion of the late months, she continued to lead
Abe Kent, beloved aunt and an active life. A funeral ser-
P.K.L.’s clients included Maypo his own agency. David Ogilvy, the many cleanup plans were pro- community relations, died JBI International, Inc. (estab- cousin. She was the center of vice will be held at Riverside
suddenly on Saturday of lished in 1931 as The Jewish
cereal (adults, like Mickey Man- influential advertising man, re- claimed and many Broadway complications from pneumo- Braille Institute) mourns the
her devoted family and large
circle of friends and will be
Memorial Chapel, 180 West
76th Street at Amsterdam
tle, were enlisted to want their ferred the Xerox account because stars were enlisted to publicize nia. He was 83 years old, but
remained actively engaged
passing of its Trustee and
good friend Martin S. Begun.
deeply missed. Avenue, on Monday, May 23
Maypo, too), Wolfschmidt’s Vodka it was too small for his own them. to the end of his life. He is sur- Our condolences to his wife, HOFFMAN—Edna Sonia at 11:15am. The family will be
sitting Shiva on Monday, May
vived by his loving wife of family and many friends. He Ranow, was born in New
(a bottle with the line “Who was agency. Mr. Papert and his part- “If I had one dollar for every nearly 20 years, the real es- will be missed. May his me- York, and died in Bridgeport, 23 and Tuesday, May 24 from
4:30pm-8:00pm at the home of
that tomato I saw you with last ners were paid, in part, in stock; news conference, and every time tate entrepreneur Louise
Sunshine, step-children Su-
mory serve as a blessing.
Judy E. Tenney,
CT, on May 22, 2016, at the
Marilyn Weitzman Kahn, 25
age of 96. The cherished
night?” was rejected as too risqué they made a fortune. He also de- a broom was thrust into poor Ce- zanne, Samuel and Paul Sun- Co-Chairman of the Board daughter of Paula Firestone Central Park West and on
Wednesday, May 25 and
shine, and three step- Steven P. Polivy,
by The New Yorker), The New cided to sell shares in P.K.L. and leste Holm’s hands,” he said in grandchildren Alexa and Co-Chairman of the Board
Ranow, Edna was the trea-
sured wife of Maurice Je- Thursday, May 26 from
3:00pm-5:00pm and 7:00pm-
York Herald Tribune (the slogan supplement salaries by offering 1981, referring to the actress, “I’d Marc Mendel and Arielle Sun- Dr. Ellen Isler, rome Hoffman of Bridgeport,
9:00pm at the home of Noelle
shine. Born to Judith and Mi- President & CEO whom she married on Sep-
“Who says a good newspaper has stock options to the agency’s have enough money to redevelop chael Begun, Martin grew up Israel A. Taub, tember 15, 1940, after her gra- Parket. Anyone wishing to ce-
in New York City, which re- Vice President & CFO duation from Vassar College. lebrate Sarah's life may con-
mained the center of his life Edna and Maury, who lived tribute to CaringKind - The
and activities. He received a BEGUN—Martin. The Board their magnificent lives in Heart of Alzheimer's Care-
BA from the University of of Trustees of the Sackler Bridgeport and Fairfield, giving, Attention: Lou-Ellen
Michael Mariotte, 63, an Antinuclear Activist Wisconsin, and an MA from School of Medicine NY State were perfect co-partners and Barkan, 360 Lexington Ave.,
the Department of Public American Program of Tel co-paragons for 54 loving 4th floor, NY, NY 10017.
Law and Government from Aviv University mourn the years, until Maury's death in NUTT—David Tysen,
Columbia University, where loss of our friend, fellow Trus- 1995. We, Edna's children — 92, on May 22, 2016 in Watch-
he also did post-Graduate tee, and Founding Member Elisabeth (Alan) Doft, Con-
By SAM ROBERTS work. He was a Senior Fellow since 1976. We send our very stance (Yves) de Balmann,
ung. Dartmouth '44 and U.S.
Air Force. Husband of Grace,
at Taub Urban Research Cen- sincerest condolences to Lo- Laurence Hoffman, and
Michael Mariotte, a leading na- ter of NYU's Robert F. Wagn- uise and the family. We have Bruce Hoffman, plus eight
father of five, grandfather of
12. For more info visit: www.
tional opponent of nuclear power er Graduate School of Public worked with Martin for half a grandchildren — Michael higginsfuneralhome.com
Administration. Martin, per- century and will miss his guid- Doft, Jonathan Doft (Dr. Me-
and an advocate for alternative, formed Military service as a ance and sense of humor and lissa), Rachel Doft (John PAPERT—Fred.
sustainable sources of energy, Sergeant in the Army Nation-
al Guard from 1955-1960. He
special personality more than Wareck), Raphael de Bal- Paul Travis and Washington
can be stated. mann (Courtney), Gabriel de Square Partners mourn the
died on May 16 at his home in served as Chairman of New Balmann, Paul Hoffman, An- passing of Fred Papert. Fred
York State's Liberal Party.
Kensington, Md. He was 63. Martin was a partner in Rei-
BEGUN—Martin S. drew Hoffman, Daniel Hoff-
man, plus five great-
left an indelible mark on the
city he loved. From fighting
Donald J. Trump and The
The cause was pancreatic can- ter/Begun, a private sector Trump Organization are grandchildren — Andrew and to save Grand Central to be-
consulting marketing and Alexander Doft, Eliza ing the pioneer in the revitali-
cer, his wife, Tetyana Murza, said. management firm for
deeply saddened by the pass-
ing of Martin Begun, husband Wareck, Alexander and Nata- zation of Times Square, he
As executive director and presi- governmental and communi-
ty relations. He was also
of the wonderful Louise lie de Balmann — have lost changed the course of New
York City. He believed that a
Sunshine. Martin was a dear our mother's glowing pre-
dent of the Nuclear Information President and Founder of friend and great humanita- sence, but we will never lose great city was marked by the
MSB Strategies, a public poli- intersection of history, cul-
and Resource Service in Takoma cy planning consulting firm.
rian. He had a long and ex- our memories of her unend-
ing kindness, selfless genero- ture and growth, most notab-
tremely distinguished career,
Park, Md., for three decades, Mr. Prior to that, Martin, also and was admired and re- sity, incisive intellect, and en- le in the development of
known as Dean Begun, thusiastic joie de vivre. Im- Theatre Row on West 42nd
Mariotte was at the forefront of served for more than 35
spected by all who knew him.
Our sincere condolences to mersed in life-long learning Street which stands as his le-
two successful landmark efforts: years at New York University
School of Medicine and Medi-
Louise and family on this and culture, she was equally gacy. He will be missed.
very somber occasion. committed to “repairing the Paul Travis,
to prevent the repeal of a federal cal Center as Senior Asso- world.” Always contributing, Washington Square Partners
ban on interstate shipment of ra- ciate Dean and Vice Pres- BEGUN—Martin S. effective, high-minded, and
ident for External Affairs principled, she had a serious- PAPERT—Fred.
We mourn the passing of
dioactive waste, and to bar the with Dr. Saul Farber. Martin New York's true champion, ness of purpose combined The Board and Staff of The
was a member of numerous with an innate grace and New York Landmarks Con-
construction of new nuclear boards, and was Board Chair
whose extraordinary contri-
lightness of touch which servancy mourn the passing
butions will be long remem-
plants in Maryland and Louisiana. for the Baruch School of Pub- bered. Deepest condolences made her totally irresistible. of our former Board Mem-
ber. Fred's vision, passion
lic Affairs, as well as a board She was the star that lit up
He also organized antinuclear member for the Parks Coun-
to Louise Sunshine and the
entire family. our firmament, and she has and determination were di-
rected at improving civic life
campaigns in Eastern Europe af- cil of New York City, the New
York City Economic Deve-
Lisa Linden, left a stellar legacy for us all.
Her life was — and her me- and preserving the best of
President and CEO,
ter the fatal power plant catastro- lopment Corporation, and the LAK Public Relations, Inc. mory will always remain — the City.
American Red Cross of an undying blessing. The Lloyd P. Zuckerberg, Chair
phe in 1986 at Chernobyl, in what NUCLEAR INFORMATION AND RESOURCE SERVICE
Greater New York. He was funeral will be at 11am on Peg Breen, President
was then the Ukrainian Soviet So- Michael Mariotte at a demonstration in New York in 2014. Chairman of the Community
Services Board of the New
BEGUN—Martin S.
We have lost a very special
Wednesday, May 25th, at RATNER—Michael.
Congregation Rodeph Sho-
cialist Republic. And his informa- York City Department of friend and the world has lost lom, 2385 Park Ave., Bridge-
North Star Fund deeply
a unique person. We will miss mourns the loss of Michael
tion service acted as a clearing- Mental Health and Mental
him always. Love to Louise
port, CT 06604. Elisabeth and Ratner, a lion of the global so-
Ms. Murza, Zoryana and next year and began publishing a Retardation and Alcoholism, Alan Doft welcome friends
house for groups that opposed nu- and Chairman of the Board of and the family. for shiva at the Plaza Ath-
cial justice movement. A
Kateryna; a sister, Julie Mariotte; newsletter called Groundswell, the New Milford Foundation. The Postel Family founding donor and longtime
clear power, both in the United enee Hotel (37 E. 64th St.), on advisory board member, Mi-
and a brother, Jeffrey. now known as Nuclear Monitor. He served on the New York Thursday, May 26th, from 4-7, chael was ever there for us.
States and overseas. State Hospital Review and CARP—Rhoda (nee Reich), and Friday, May 27th, from
When he was a young man, Mr. The organization mobilized anti- Planning Council, on the Task passed away peacefully on 2-5.
Our heartfelt condolences go
In 2014, Mr. Mariotte (pro- Force on Police Community Sunday at an assisted living out to Karen, Ana, Jake and
Mariotte and housemates from nuclear groups, testified before facility in a Philadelphia su- HYNES—Patrick J., 84, of New everyone at the Center for
nounced like the hotel chain) re- Relations, and on Governor
Constitutional Rights and
Virginia formed the band Tru Fax Congress and enlisted celebrity Pataki's Task Force on burb. Loving wife of the late York, on May 22, 2016. Gra-
ceived a lifetime achievement Health Care Facilities in the Dr. Leon Carp, beloved moth- duate of John Carroll '54 and those in New York City's
and the Insaniacs, which began endorsements. 21st Century. He was appoint- er and grandmother of Marc, Wharton '62. A retired US broader progressive commu-
award from Ralph Nader, the con- Michael, Jeffrey and Ned and Army Captain, Pat was a nity who knew, loved and re-
sumer advocate, on behalf of a playing at local clubs in 1978 and Notably, it helped defeat a pro- ed by Mayor Giuliani to the
New York City Korean War their children, and devoted computer consultant and an spected our dearest and most
fierce donor leader.
dozen environmental groups, in- produced an album in 1982. The posed reactor in Calvert Cliffs, 50th Anniversary Comme- sister of Seymour Reich of Associate Professor at Ford-
morative Commission, was a Manhattan and the late Lor- ham University. Visitation
cluding Friends of the Earth, Md.; a uranium processing plant Member of the Battery Park raine Firstman, Rhoda was Wednesday 4pm to 7:30pm at
REICH—Samuel.
With profound sadness, we
Greenpeace, Public Citizen and in Louisiana; and legislation that City Authority, the New York full of fun and life and will be
missed very much. The
St. Paul the Apostle Church.
Mass Thursday 10am.
mourn the passing of our
City Campaign Finance dear friend, Samuel Reich. To
the Sierra Club. would have lifted curbs on the Board, and the Jonas Center. funeral will be today in Phi-
KLEINBERG—Belle, his wife, Betty, children,
He had earlier been a co- Leading the Nuclear transportation of radioactive
waste. Mr. Mariotte said the meas-
He was President of the Jew-
ish Community Relations
Council of New York, board
ladelphia.
Seymour D. Reich nee Koenigsberg, of San Die-
go died peacefully in her
Rachelle (Stephen) Winters,
Nathan (Lauren) Reich and
founder of an alternative weekly Helene Reich (Aric Gitomer),
newspaper in the nation’s capital, Information and ure had posed the threat of a “mo- member of Lechters, Inc.,
and a member of the Adviso-
CODEY—John.
The Salk Institute for Biologi-
sleep on Sunday, May 22, 2016
at age 97. Beloved wife of the
late Cantor Jacob Kleinberg.
his sister, Barbara Chodosz
and his grandchildren, we of-
bile Chernobyl.” ry Board at Tri Cap Health cal Studies honors the memo-
Resource Service for
fer our condolences and sym-
which became Washington City Group. Martin has received ry of our friend John Codey, Loving and devoted mother
pathies. May the entire Reich
Paper, as well as a drummer in a He resigned as executive direc- many honors including those whose vision as a tireless sup- of Ann Robin “Bobbin” and
Nahman David “Nik”. Cher- family be comforted among
three decades.
from Housing and Human porter of science was trans-
punk-rock band. tor at the end of 2013 because of his Services, the Metropolitan formative for many fields of ished aunt and faithful friend the mourners of Zion and
Jerusalem.
to many. Her life of charitab-
Michael Lee Mariotte was born illness. He was subsequently Council on Jewish Poverty, biomedical research. As a
le deeds created a path for all Cecile and Edward Mosberg,
and the Coalition of Volunta- Trustee of the Helmsley Cha- Beatrice Mosberg,
in Indianapolis on Dec. 9, 1952, to named president and ran the or- ry Mental Health Agencies. ritable Trust, Mr. Codey was to follow as we mourn the
Louise and Stuart Levine,
loss of this beautiful woman
Richard Mariotte, a civilian em- ganization’s website, its Green- He loved classical music,
theater, politics, and spending
central to the founding of the
Helmsley Center for Genom- of valor. Graveside services Caroline and Darren Karger
and Families
ployee of the Defense Depart- band continued to perform occa- World blog and other programs. time in Florida with Louise ic Medicine at the Salk Insti- will take place at Cedar Park
Cemetery, 735 Forest Ave.,
and Beni. The funeral service tute. Since its founding, the REICH—Samuel.
ment, and the former Rozetta Mae sionally until recently (and imp- Mr. Mariotte remained con- and internment will be held Center has produced ground- Paramus, NJ on Wednesday, March 5, 1920, Dubiecko, Po-
May 25, 2016 at 12:30pm.
Dorton, who had worked for a ho- ishly relished the title of Washing- vinced that nuclear power would on Wednesday at 10:30am at breaking discoveries in can- land, May 23, 2016, Morris
Plains, NJ, husband of Bertha,
Congregation Rodeph Sho- cer, diabetes and mental dis-
tel in Hilton Head, S.C., and for an ton’s worst band, bestowed in 1980 become obsolete and be replaced lom at 7 W. 83rd St, New York orders, offering new hope for father of Rachelle, Nathan,
City. A memorial service will conquering these diseases. Helene, grandfather of Leon-
employment agency. He moved to by Washingtonian magazine). by clean, renewable energy take place in June. The fami- Mr. Codey's support of the ard, Daniel, Tamar, Jeremy,
the Washington area when he was Mr. Mariotte was also the sources and greater energy effi- ly requests in lieu of flowers, Salk Institute was just one of Elana, Nicole, Rebecca, Adi-
contributions to the Ameri- many examples of how he na. He was an exceptionally
13 and graduated from Herndon founding editor and later general ciency. can Red Cross or the Ameri- worked for the betterment of gentle, kind, happy, generous
High School in Fairfax County, Va. manager of the alternative news- “It is no longer a question of can Jewish Joint Distribution
Committee (JDC) would be
humanity. He will be greatly
missed, but his legacy will
man of the utmost integrity,
loved and respected by all.
Mr. Mariotte graduated from paper 1981, which was renamed whether these 21st-century tech- appreciated. carry long into the future. On He now joins brothers Zissa
behalf of Irwin M. Jacobs, and Mendel, parents, Jonah
Antioch College in Ohio in 1978. Washington City Paper a year lat- nologies can replace nuclear BEGUN—Martin S. Chairman of the Salk Board and Rachella, who perished
His marriage to Lynn Thorp er. power and fossil fuels,” he said I have a had a long and re- of Trustees, the entire Salk in the Holocaust and sister,
warding career as a physi- Board of Trustees, Dr. Eli- Mina. Donations may be
ended in divorce. He is survived He joined the Nuclear Informa- when he stepped down as execu- cian, author, teacher and re- zabeth Blackburn, President made to: Mt. Freedom
tive director of the information Jewish Center, New Jersey.
by their children, Nicole and Rich- tion and Resource Service in 1985, searcher, which would not of the Salk Institute, the se-
nior leadership and the facul-
have been possible without
ard Mariotte; his children with became executive director the service. “The question is when.” the extraordinary help of ty and staff of the Salk com- ROSENBAUM—Herbert D.
May 18, 2016, age 95. Loving
Marty Begun when he was munity, we expresses our
deepest sympathy for Mr. husband of Nikki, father of

Dean at NYU School of Medi- Edward (Davey) and Daniel
cine. I, and a multitude of oth- Cody's family.
(Olivia), grandfather of
ers, are eternally grateful to Shoshi, Michael, and Jeremy.
him. He will be missed but CORRY—Emily McKnight, Former president NYS Politi-
never forgotten. 85, of Bronxville, May 21. Be- cal Science Assn. and RVC
Steven R. Goldstein, M.D. loved wife of John A. Corry Democratic Club. Professor
Professor of Obstetrics and mother of Anne Corry. Emeritus of Political Science
and Gynecology Alumna of Smith College. at Hofstra University, where
NYU Langone Lifelong lover of opera, trav- he taught for 40 years.
Medical Center el and cooking. Services at
Bronxville Reformed Church, SHAPIRO—Ronald,
BEGUN—Martin S. June 9, 4pm. Contributions to of Great Barrington, MA and
The Jewish Community Rela- Chautauqua Foundation, Box Daytona Beach, FL, died
tions Council of New York 46, Chautauqua, NY 14722. peacefully at his home in
mourns the passing of our be- Florida on May 21, 2016 at the
loved esteemed Past Pres- DUBE—Alexander J. age of 83. He is survived by
ident, Martin S. Begun. Martin (1948 - 2016) The dance world his loving wife Evelyn, devot-
was an exceptionally com- lost a dedicated advocate last ed children Alan (Nancy),
passionate leader, counselor week. Alexander J. Dube, Marci Silbert (Graeme) and
and friend. His wise guidance who led Career Transition Amy Guenzl (Simon), eight
and vivacious personality will For Dancers since 2001 and grandchildren and his broth-
be sorely missed. May the fa- was instrumental in integrat- er, Lewis Shapiro. He was
mily be comforted among ing their programs and servi- philanthropic, charitable and
the mourners of Zion and Je- ces into The Actors Fund last lived life to the fullest. Grave-
rusalem. year, passed away at the age side service will be at 10am at
Ronald G. Weiner, of 67. He had a great passion Mt. Lebanon Cemetery in
President for dancers and worked tire- Glendale, NY followed by a
Charles S. Temel, lessly for the dance commu- Memorial Service at Frank E.
President-Elect nity. The Actors Fund sends Campbell “The Funeral Cha-
Michael S. Miller, condolences to his family and pel” at 12:30pm on Madison
Exec. VP and CEO his many friends. Avenue and 81st Street.
A20 N THE NEW YORK TIMES EDITORIALS/LETTERS TUESDAY, MAY 24, 2016
Is Single Payer Our Health Salvation?

TO THE EDITOR: providers (eliminating a lot of adminis-
Re “Why a Single-Payer Plan Would trative complexity). The private-sector
Still Be Really Costly” (The Upshot, May companies would compete on “getting
ARTHUR OCHS SULZBERGER JR., Publisher, Chairman
17): the most from your benefit spending,”
Founded in 1851 ADOLPH S. OCHS ARTHUR HAYS SULZBERGER ORVIL E. DRYFOOS ARTHUR OCHS SULZBERGER As a physician who favors a single- just as they do with self-insured em-
Publisher 1896-1935 Publisher 1935-1961 Publisher 1961-1963 Publisher 1963-1992 payer plan, I cannot disagree with your ployers.
analysis about the high cost of moving to As long as we hold on to the myth that
this type of health care plan. health care reform eliminates an indus-
Our present system is really all about try, there will be no reform.
profit — from the medical device makers MARY KAY PLANTES
A Baffling, Hard-line Choice in Israel to the pharmaceutical industry to health

care workers and medical administra-
tors to insurance companies. The chal-
lenge to bring down costs, under this sys-
La Jolla, Calif.
The writer is an economist and business
strategist with board, management and
consulting experience in the health care
Avigdor Lieberman’s previous stints as Israel’s for- fense of an Israeli soldier arrested for executing a tem or single-payer, is large. industry.
eign minister under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wounded Palestinian. Yet we have seen what the free market
were a disaster for Israeli-American relations. Mr. Lieber- Mr. Lieberman’s appointment would make a mockery has done over the last 70 years, and it has TO THE EDITOR:
man’s ultranationalist positions on Palestinians, settle- of any possible Israeli overtures to the Palestinians. He re- not been a success in terms of cost con- Our health care costs more because
ments and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict rendered him ef- signed from the government last year over Mr. trol. Indeed, health care costs are going our administrative costs, a result of a fi-
fectively unwelcome in Washington and toxic to to get significantly worse if we continue nancing system that relies on for-profit
Netanyahu’s failure to destroy Hamas, the Islamic militant our present system, a combination of pri-
Palestinians. Yet to shore up his coalition in the Israeli insurance companies, are so high. Some
group that controls Gaza, and to build more settlements in vate and government payment.
Parliament, Mr. Netanyahu has now offered Mr. Lieber- of those costs are borne by physicians,
Jerusalem and the West Bank, where Mr. Lieberman lives. Only a single-payer system has any who must pay for complex billing sys-
man the office of minister of defense — widely considered He has called for removing Arabic as an official language chance to control costs yet guarantee tems, denial management, preauthoriza-
to be the second most powerful position in the Israeli gov- and has proposed instituting the death penalty for con- that all citizens will have health care cov- tion requirements, collections manage-
ernment, with a critical role in dealing with the United victed terrorists. erage. To stand pat with free-market fer- ment and bad debt, as well as devoting
States and the Palestinians. vor or to go backward, such as eliminat- patient time to discussing insurance cov-
Even Mr. Netanyahu does not believe Mr. Lieberman ing the Affordable Care Act, will deprive
Mr. Netanyahu may think his political needs are more erage rather than medical issues.
is the right man for the job — or at least he didn’t quite re- many of medical care while still driving If we substantially decrease those
important than relations with the soon-to-end Obama ad-
cently, when he declared that “Lieberman hates me, he up costs. costs to physicians, as a single-payer
ministration, relations that are already severely strained In the long run, the present system will
slanders me, he’s a dangerous man, he stops at nothing.” system would do, we could decrease in-
by the nuclear agreement with Iran. But the administra- cost far more than a single-payer option, surance payments to physicians and still
But the prime minister seems to think that bringing
tion had at least established a working relationship with and the sooner we proceed in that direc- give all of them a raise. No economic mir-
peace to his shaky coalition, which now holds a scant one- tion the better. GREGORY L. SHEEHY
Moshe Yaalon, the tough but pragmatic defense minister acle involved; just a matter of the people
vote majority in Parliament, is more important than the Middleton, Wis. who do the work, rather than a wasteful
who resigned once the offer to Mr. Lieberman became
known. The timing of this changing of the guard is particu- risk of putting a rival in charge of Israel’s vaunted security The writer is a retired internist. middleman, taking home the money.
larly sensitive because a critical 10-year defense agree- forces and of further straining relations with Washington. ANNE SCHEETZ
Mr. Netanyahu may also believe that a two-state solu- TO THE EDITOR: Chicago
ment establishing new levels of American military aid for
tion to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, creating a Palestin- It’s time to debunk the myth that a sin- The writer is a retired internist.
Israel is in the final stages of negotiations.
ian state alongside Israel, as Washington has long advo- gle-payer system must eliminate the
It’s hard to imagine peace talks moving rapidly for- health insurance industry. That industry TO THE EDITOR:
ward in the immediate future, for a number of reasons. cated, is effectively dead for now, and that he may get a works with self-insured employers not as If a single-payer system is put in place,
But it is entirely possible to imagine Israel’s relations in better defense deal from the next president. an insurer but as an administrator, beware: Not only will some hospitals go
the region and beyond moving backward with a defense But that is a risky and cynical gamble. The next making sure that the self-insured em- out of business and doctors default on
minister who has threatened, among other things, to con- American president is not likely to abandon support for a ployer lowers health care costs through their mortgages, but far worse is in store.
quer Gaza or bomb the Aswan Dam in the event of a war two-state solution, and Israel’s position in Washington will provider contracts, benefit plan design We all as patients will suffer grave conse-
and insights that identify patients re- quences.
with Egypt. Mr. Lieberman’s ties with Israel’s own mili- not be strengthened by a defense minister at odds with the
quiring proactive steps to reduce long- It takes a long time to school and train
tary establishment are frayed, most recently by his de- Israeli military establishment. term medical costs. a competent doctor, at a very high eco-
The industry has been very successful nomic cost. Most of the well-trained, mid-
in enabling self-insured organizations to dle-age doctors are still in practice, so the
Congress Moves, Finally, on Toxic Chemicals reduce and contain costs.

The federal government could become
a single payer (for one national risk pool
absence of well-trained physicians has
not been seen or felt by the general pub-
lic yet.
or 50 state pools) administered through But we doctors ourselves shudder to
Congress is finally getting serious about hazardous the private-sector insurance companies think “who will take care of us when we
chemicals in household products and industrial goods. The acting as benefit administrators, just as get sick?” Are we prepared for the real
House is expected to vote on Tuesday on a bill overhauling they do for self-insured employers. answer? ROBERT J. LEON
a 1976 chemical safety law that has made it hard for federal The government would require com- Hoboken, N.J.
regulators to ban toxic substances, even known mon forms and do all contracting with The writer is a cardiologist.
carcinogens like asbestos. The Senate is expected to fol-
low later in the week.
The bipartisan legislation would direct the Envi- Humanitarian Aid The Value of College
ronmental Protection Agency to review chemicals to de-
TO THE EDITOR: TO THE EDITOR:
termine whether they threaten human health or the envi-
Re “Thin on Influence, U.N.’s First “A Broken Bargain With College Grad-
ronment. Regulators would be required to give priority to Global Aid Gathering Will Tackle Aid Cri- uates” (editorial, May 22) uses President
the riskiest chemicals, evaluate at least 20 substances at a sis” (news article, May 22): Obama’s commencement address at
time and finish each evaluation in no more than seven The debate over the usefulness of the Rutgers as an opportunity to address
years. first World Humanitarian Summit being America’s challenging job market.
The reviews would have to pay special attention to held this week seems to conflate the rele- For years our government leaders
vance of a process with the very purpose have spoken about higher education al-
the harm the chemicals could cause to vulnerable groups of humanitarian action, namely saving most exclusively in terms of economic
like children, industrial workers, pregnant women and lives. impact and jobs. President Obama’s ef-
poor people. Substances commonly stored near drinking Legitimate frustrations are loudly ex- fort to highlight the civic virtues imbued
water sources would move to or near the top of the list. pressed, making the case that root causes by education, virtues that are in painfully
These changes represent a big improvement over the of major humanitarian crises, notably the short supply, is a refreshing exception.
1976 law, the Toxic Substances Control Act, under which failures to prevent or resolve deadly con- While not forgetting the real impor-
flicts, are shamefully ignored. Hence, tance of careers, can’t we for a moment
the E.P.A. has been able to ban or restrict the production there are compelling demands for more simply embrace the observation that “in
or use of only five chemicals out of the roughly 85,000 in focus on measures by world leaders to- politics and in life ignorance is not a
use today. The 1976 law is written in such a way that it can ward international peace and justice. virtue”? And the vital though noneco-
be almost impossible for the E.P.A. to do a satisfactory job, At the same time, soul-searching is run- nomic rewards of higher education that
in part because it does not require manufacturers to pro- ning deep within the humanitarian con- the observation implies?
vide safety data before a product hits the market. JASU HU stellation for better ways to execute NEIL WEISSMAN
emergency responses. That requires a se- Provost, Dickinson College
And courts have often interpreted the 1976 law in the to deal with one federal regulator than a patchwork of rious review by multiple stakeholders, Carlisle, Pa.
industry’s favor. In 1989, the environmental agency state laws. States like California have often been more ranging from donors to those on the front
banned most asbestos-containing products, but two years willing to ban and regulate dangerous substances and line.
later the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Cir- have had stronger legal authority to do so than the E.P.A., At the end, though, everyone should co-
cuit overturned the ban for many products containing as- which is why some public interest groups and some state
alesce around the premise so frequently Right to Shelter in New York
invoked at the Security Council by man-
bestos, some of which are still on the market. Asbestos-re- regulators are unhappy with the pre-emption provision. agers of humanitarian operations: There TO THE EDITOR:
lated diseases cause about 120,000 deaths a year globally. That said, pre-emption is unlikely to be a major problem are no humanitarian solutions to humani- Re “New Priority Means Fewer Beds
The latest bill is the product of painful compromises as long as the legislation empowers the E.P.A. to do its job tarian crises, only political ones. in City’s Shelters” (editorial, May 17):
on both sides and, as with any compromise, is not perfect. and the agency acts with urgency. PIERRE BERTRAND While it is indeed deplorable that the
The biggest potential problem is that it would pre-empt Under the measure, the chemical industry would con- New York Obama administration has proposed
states from imposing restrictions on chemicals that the tribute $25 million a year to help pay for the agency’s The writer is former director of the New cuts to funding from the Department of
York office of the United Nations High Housing and Urban Development for
E.P.A. has reviewed or is in the process of evaluating. work. That’s a good start, but it will cover only a portion of Commissioner for Refugees. emergency shelter in New York City at a
State laws and regulations enacted before April 22 would the money the agency needs to review thousands of chem- time of record need, there is no possibil-
be allowed to stand and states could ask for waivers from icals; the rest will come from the federal budget. A lot will ity that these cuts will cause needy peo-
pre-emption for laws or regulations enacted after that depend on whether Congress continues to provide suffi-
date. cient resources to the E.P.A., long a favorite target of anti-
Rethinking Luggage Fees ple to “face eviction” from shelter.
New York City has a right to shelter,
Industry pushed for pre-emption because it is easier regulatory legislators. established by litigation brought by the
TO THE EDITOR:
Legal Aid Society and the Coalition for
Re “Behind the Backups at Airport Se- the Homeless. This law compels the city
curity” (news article, May 19): to provide shelter to New Yorkers who
Senators Edward J. Markey and Rich- are homeless by “reason of physical,
ard Blumenthal have suggested that air-
EDITORIAL OBSERVER FRANCIS X. CLINES mental or social dysfunction.”
lines waive checked baggage fees during Both the city and the state entered into
peak travel periods as a means for reduc- an agreement to provide lifesaving shel-
New York Stories From Potter’s Field ing airport security delays. The airlines,
predictably, have declined; they’re not
going to give up the resulting revenues.
ter more than 30 years ago, regardless of
whether a particular funding source is
available.
As mighty a city as New York claims schools under questionable laws dating Island Project, founded by Melinda There is an obvious alternative that While we share HUD’s goal of secur-
to be, its power and pride seem no- to the bygone era of body snatching. Hunt, an artist who has painstakingly would accomplish both security and reve- ing permanent housing for New York’s
where in evidence on Hart Island, a des- One body remained in a limbo-like state gathered data from old ledgers and cre- nue goals, and more. Charge for carry-on homeless, the best way to achieve that is
olate spot off the Bronx shore where the of student experimentation for two ated a website. Court records and inter- bags and not for checked luggage. with more resources from all levels of
most pauperous and forgotten citizens years before arriving at Hart Island. views by The Times filled out individual Some passengers would be willing to government to increase the availability
are buried in tiers of coffins for their The investigation uncovered family en- identities with no great help from the pay for the convenience and time value of of decent, affordable housing and ac-
eternal rest in a potter’s field. Since the mities and deep poverty behind some city, which redacted cadavers’ names carrying their bags onto flights, while oth- companying services when necessary,
Civil War, the lives and misfortunes of decisions to allow a relative to be sent to as if privacy were paramount for the ers would opt to check them if there were not cuts to existing programs.
those anonymously interred in bull- the potter’s field. There were also fam- anonymous dead. The Times had to use no fees. MARY BROSNAHAN
dozed pits have gone untold and un- ilies who fought valiantly to reclaim a drone to record burials when the city This policy would likely, on balance, re- JOSHUA GOLDFEIN
mourned while the rest of the city their own for reburial. denied permission for a reporter to wit- duce the number of carry-on bags, retain New York
teems with life around them. As the stories are told, identities ness the scene. airline revenues and improve wait times, Ms. Brosnahan is president and chief ex-
Now, however, an investigation by emerge from the underground masses. The dead on Hart Island, of course, security and efficiency during the board- ecutive of the Coalition for the Homeless.
The Times’s Nina Bernstein has pene- have the least clout in the city. But offi- ing process. STEPHEN CHAIKIND Mr. Goldfein is a staff attorney at the Le-
trated some of those lost histories and cials should at least be motivated by ba- Bethesda, Md. gal Aid Society’s Homeless Rights Project.
uncovered gruesome bureaucratic fail-
ures in a burial ritual in great need of
Unearthing identities sic city pride to clean up the laws and
mandate a new attitude toward the
reform. She found a scramble of laws and giving respect to hundreds of thousands who lie there
and procedures that by far favor en- and the attempts by survivors to track
richment of the living — particularly
nursing homes and court-appointed
the carelessly buried. lost kin. The medical examiner’s office,
where the unclaimed bodies are held,
NEWS EDITORIAL
DEAN BAQUET, Executive Editor JAMES BENNET, Editorial Page Editor

guardians in “an end-of-life industry” says it is using the Internet and com- JAMES DAO, Deputy Editorial Page Editor
— over respect for the 1,500 unclaimed It is both a privilege and a shock to en- mercial databases to better search for TOM BODKIN, Creative Director
TERRY TANG, Deputy Editorial Page Editor
dead who turn up each year. counter an 88-year-old woman who relatives. SUSAN CHIRA, Deputy Executive Editor
The report was able to identify peo- worked as a housekeeper for one family Years back, when as a reporter I was JANET ELDER, Deputy Executive Editor
ple buried on Hart Island despite hav- for 50 years, but who outlived the fam- allowed in the potter’s field, I watched a MATTHEW PURDY, Deputy Executive Editor BUSINESS
ing plots elsewhere and their own ade- ily’s protection. Her body was left un- detail of inmates from Rikers Island KINSEY WILSON, Editor for Innovation and Strategy
claimed by a wayward court guardian Executive V.P., Product and Technology MARK THOMPSON, Chief Executive Officer
quate burial funds; they had outlived don fresh white cotton gloves to politely
and now resides at Hart Island. And MICHAEL GOLDEN, Vice Chairman
anyone who knew this. Others wound inter the unclaimed dead. “Bodies in REBECCA CORBETT, Assistant Editor
there is the 102-year-old feminist pio- JAMES M. FOLLO, Chief Financial Officer
up on the island because of a lack of ef- the ground; we’re seeing our future,” STEVE DUENES, Assistant Editor
neer found there three years after her KENNETH A. RICHIERI, General Counsel
fort by authorities to reach the next of said Daroyl, an inmate on the shovel IAN FISHER, Assistant Editor
family donated her body to science with ROLAND A. CAPUTO, Executive V.P., Print Products
kin. So they were classified as officially gang. Nearby, a simple marker for the JOSEPH KAHN, Assistant Editor
the expectation that she would be cre- MEREDITH KOPIT LEVIEN, Chief Revenue Officer
unclaimed, leaving only a few days by dead told visitors: “No longer do we CLIFFORD LEVY, Assistant Editor
law to catch errors that could block a mated. “My God, she ended up there?” cast shadows on the ground as you do.” ALEXANDRA MAC CALLUM, Assistant Editor WILLIAM T. BARDEEN, Senior Vice President
Hart Island burial. her daughter exclaimed when she An inmate hefting coffins on that sunny MICHELE MC NALLY, Assistant Editor TERRY L. HAYES, Senior Vice President
Even worse, some of the unclaimed learned the truth. day had advice of value for the sur- R. ANTHONY BENTEN, Controller
dead were requisitioned as teaching ca- The Times investigation was con- rounding city as much as his col- LAURENA L. EMHOFF, Treasurer
davers by medical and mortician ducted with assistance from the Hart leagues: “Respect, respect, fellers.” DIANE BRAYTON, Secretary
THE NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED TUESDAY, MAY 24, 2016 N A21
ROGER COHEN DAVID BROOKS
Australia's Why
Offshore Is Clinton
Cruelty Disliked?
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA I understand why Donald Trump is so
The Australian treatment of refugees unpopular. He earned it the old-fash-
trying to reach this vast, thinly populated ioned way, by being obnoxious, insulting
country by boat follows textbook rules for and offensive. But why is Hillary Clinton
the administering of cruelty. It begins with so unpopular?
the anodyne name for the procedures — She is, at the moment, just as unpopu-
“offshore processing” — as if these des- lar as Trump. In the last three major na-
perate human beings were just an accu- tional polls she had unfavorability rat-
mulation of data. ings in the same ballpark as Trump’s. In
It continues with the secrecy shrouding the Washington Post/ABC News poll,
what goes on “offshore” in the tiny Pacific they are both at 57 percent disapproval.
island nation of Nauru and on Manus Is- In the New York Times/CBS News
land in Papua New Guinea, where over poll, 60 percent of respondents said Clin-
1,350 people languish with no notion of ton does not share their values. Sixty-
how their limbo will end, where they will four percent said she is not honest or
go or how to get answers to their predica- trustworthy. Clinton has plummeted so
ment. Under the Australian Border Force completely down to Trump’s level that
Act of 2015, disclosure by any current or she is now statistically tied with him in
former worker of “protected information” some of the presidential horse race polls.
is punishable by up to two years in prison.
There are two paradoxes to her unpop-
It goes further with the progressive de-
ularity. First, she was popular not long
humanization of people — dubbed “ille-
ago. As secretary of state she had a 66
gals” without cause — who are caught in
this Australian web under a policy now percent approval rating. Even as re-
dating back almost four years. They are
NICOLE XU cently as March 2015 her approval rating
was at 50 and her disapproval rating was
Lessons and Hopes in Vietnam

rarely visible. They are often nameless,
merely given identification numbers. at 39.
Women and children are vulnerable in It’s only since she launched a multi-
squalid conditions where idleness and vio- million-dollar campaign to impress the
lence go hand in hand. American people that she has made her-
The refugees are consistently deserve in public office, we are proud of the ing create an initiative to manage its self so strongly disliked.
meaned, as when the conservative immi- By John Kerry, John McCain contributions we made to the resumption ecosystem and cope with the effects of cli- The second paradox is that, agree with
gration minister, Peter Dutton, said this and Bob Kerrey of normal diplomatic relations between mate change. We could never have imag- her or not, she’s dedicated herself to pub-
month that they could not read and would the United States and Vietnam. The ined that our two countries would be part- lic service. From advocate for children to
A
somehow contrive at once to steal process of restoring relations was ardu- ners in a landmark trade agreement, the senator, she has pursued her vocation
Australian jobs and “languish in unem- S President Obama visits Vietnam, Trans-Pacific Partnership, which is in- tirelessly. It’s not the “what” that ex-
ous and required full cooperation by Ha-
ployment queues” — a statement that we are struck by the fact that tended to raise labor and environmental plains her unpopularity, it’s the “how” —
noi in developing information about
prompted Prime Minister Malcolm Turn- most citizens of both coun- standards while expanding prosperity in the manner in which she has done it.
Americans missing or unaccounted for
bull to call Dutton “outstanding,” no less. tries have no living memory of our country and all along the Pacific Rim. But what exactly do so many have
from the conflict — an effort that
Turnbull, who came to office with a rep- a conflict that claimed the against her?
continues today. It would have been even harder to
utation for being from the more progres- lives of more than 58,000 Americans and I would begin my explanation with this
But we have reached the point, more imagine that the United States and Viet-
sive wing of the conservative Liberal upward of a million Vietnamese. question: Can you tell me what Hillary
than 20 years after normalization, when nam would be cooperating on security is-
Party but has proved beholden to the As Americans who fought in that war, Clinton does for fun? We know what
our agenda with Vietnam is forward-look- sues. And yet the United States has helped
we are frequently asked about its lessons.
ing and wide-ranging. Mr. Obama’s dis- established a new training center for Peo-
There are few easy answers, in part be-
cussions with the Vietnamese will cover ple’s Army of Vietnam on the outskirts of
cause every conflict is unique and because
issues from security cooperation to trade Hanoi, where young Vietnamese soldiers
Refugees condemned we have learned that attempts to apply
past lessons to new crises sometimes do and investment to education, and from the will prepare for service in United Nations- Nobody loves
environment to freedom of religion and sponsored peacekeeping missions.
to a hopeless limbo. more harm than good. But a few things are
clear. human rights. The United States and Vietnamese mili- a workaholic.
The first is not personal to us, but a prin- This wider agenda reflects changes to taries are in frequent contact, and our di-
ciple that applies to all who wear the uni- the relationship that are well underway. plomats consult regularly about the con-
form: We must never again confuse a war Twenty years ago, there were fewer than troversy surrounding competing mari-
hard-line right, faces an election in early time claims in the South China Sea. Our Obama does for fun — golf, basketball,
July. Clearly he and Dutton reckon casting with the warriors. American veterans de- 60,000 American visitors annually to Viet- etc. We know, unfortunately, what Trump
serve our deepest respect, gratitude and government does not take sides on the le-
the marooned of Nauru and Manus Island does for fun.
support whenever and wherever they gal merits of these claims, but we believe
as threats will play well with voters. But when people talk about Clinton,
serve. strongly that they should be settled peace-
Beyond electoral calculations, people they tend to talk of her exclusively in pro-
fully and in accordance with international
are dying. Last month, a young Iranian
refugee, Omid Masoumali, self-immolated
The second lesson is that our leaders
need to be honest with Congress and the
Veterans see a bright law and not unilaterally by any country fessional terms. For example, on Nov. 16,
2015, Peter D. Hart conducted a focus
on Nauru and died in a Brisbane hospital.
Soon after, a 21-year-old Somali refugee,
American people about our plans, goals
and strategy when the lives of our fighting
future for a country with seeking to assert hegemony over its
neighbors.
group on Clinton. Nearly every assess-
ment had to do with on-the-job perform-
identified only as Hodan, set herself on
fire and was taken in critical condition to
men and women are put at risk. (The mis-
sion of the first American combat troops
a troubled past. Of course, the United States and Viet-
nam have different political systems and
ance. She was “multitask-oriented” or
“organized” or “deceptive.”
Brisbane. Their acts were reflections of deployed to Vietnam was described as different approaches to some issues. But
Clinton’s career appears, from the out-
the desperation and exhaustion inflicted “flood relief.”) human rights are universal, and we have
side, to be all consuming. Her husband is
by Australia under a policy that was sup- The third is to exercise humility in as- nam. Today, there are nearly half a million. made clear to the leaders in Hanoi our
her co-politician. Her daughter works at
posed to be temporary, has not been suming knowledge about foreign cultures. Twenty years ago, our bilateral trade in strong belief that Vietnam will reach its the Clinton Foundation. Her friendships
thought through, and places people in con- During the war in Southeast Asia, neither goods with Vietnam was only $450 million. full potential only if and when its people appear to have been formed at network-
ditions of hopelessness. America’s allies nor our adversaries acted Today, it is 100 times that. Twenty years have the right to express themselves ing gatherings reserved for the ex-
Perhaps “offshore processing” was in accordance with our expectations. ago, there were fewer than 1,000 Vietnam- freely in the arenas of politics, labor, the tremely successful.
supposed to afford the government plausi- A fourth and final lesson of the Vietnam ese students in the United States. Today, media and religion. In our visits to Viet- People who work closely with her
ble deniability. Australia would pay bil- conflict is playing out before our eyes: there are nearly 19,000. nam, we have been impressed by the ea- adore her and say she is warm and car-
lions of dollars to poor Nauru and poor Pa- that with sufficient effort and will, seem- More remarkably, the Vietnamese Po- gerness of its citizens to take advantage of ing. But it’s hard from the outside to think
pua New Guinea to take a big problem off ingly unbridgeable differences can be rec- litburo includes two people who earned technology and to compete in the global of any non-career or pre-career aspect to
its hands. But in reality there can be no onciled. The fact that Mr. Obama is the graduate degrees in the United States labor market. We are convinced that the her life. Except for a few grandma refer-
plausible deniability. On the contrary, by third consecutive American president to while on Fulbright scholarships. It’s ap- government in Vietnam has nothing to ences, she presents herself as a résumé
any ethical standard, the policy engages visit Vietnam is proof that old enemies can propriate, therefore, that this week, a new lose, and much to gain, by trusting its citi- and policy brief.
Australian responsibility for cruelty. become new partners. institution of higher learning will open in zens.
Dutton even suggested that human For example, her campaign recently
As veterans who were fortunate to Ho Chi Minh City: Fulbright University Looking to the future, we know that mu- released a biographical video called
rights advocates bore responsibility for Vietnam. One of us, Senator Kerrey, is tual interests, above all else, will drive our
the self-immolations by giving asylum “Fighter.” It’s filled with charming and
John Kerry is the secretary of state. John proud to serve as chairman of the univer- partnership with Vietnam. But it is quirky old photos of her fighting for vari-
seekers “false hope.” He said the govern- sity’s board. strengthened, as well, by the natural affin-
ment was “not going to stand for” people McCain, a Republican senator from Ari- ous causes. But then when the video cuts
zona, is chairman of the Senate Armed Nearly half a century ago, when we ities between our societies. These include to a current interview with Clinton her-
trying to twist its arm. Well, a dead person
Services Committee. Bob Kerrey, a former were serving in Vietnam, we would never family ties, a tendency toward optimism, a self, the lighting is perfect, the setting is
cannot do that, of course.
Democratic senator from Nebraska, is have imagined that our country would one fierce desire for freedom and independ- perfect, her costume is perfect. She looks
“We don’t see the boats, we rarely see a
chairman of the board of Fulbright Uni- day work with the government in Hanoi to ence and a hard-earned appreciation that less like a human being and more like an
human face and there is a black hole of ac-
countability,” said Madeline Gleeson, a hu- versity Vietnam. help save the Mekong River Delta by help- peace is far, far preferable to war. 0 avatar from some corporate brand.
man rights lawyer and the author of the Clinton’s unpopularity is akin to the
recently published book “Offshore.” She unpopularity of a workaholic. Workahol-
told me, “The international community ism is a form of emotional self-estrange-
does not understand how outrageous this
policy is, how far from basic human
standards and how shot through with vio-
On Using the Wrong Bathroom ment. Workaholics are so consumed by
their professional activities that their
feelings don’t inform their most funda-
lence and sexual abuse.” mental decisions. The professional role
glare at me when they figured it out. to protect transgender workers from becomes to dominate the personality and
The government argues it is keeping By Meredith Russo Some insisted that I was in the wrong ing dismissed for their gender identity, encroaches on the normal intimacies of
the country safe from terrorism, prevent-
place — until they realized what I was, but I didn’t know that then.
ing a proliferation of Australia-bound the soul. As Martyn Lloyd-Jones once
and got really angry. It got so bad that I Similar bathroom laws, of course, are
I
boats that could result in deaths on a scale CHATTANOOGA, TENN. put it, whole cemeteries could be filled
AM a trans woman, meaning I iden- stopped going to the bathroom at work being passed in other states, notably with the sad tombstone: “Born a man,
seen in the Mediterranean, and ensuring
tify as a woman rather than the sex altogether, and I developed urinary tract North Carolina and Mississippi. Many of
its immigration policy remains orderly. In died a doctor.”
I was assigned at birth. I transi- infections. So then I stopped drinking the people who support these laws say
the current fiscal year, the country has of- At least in her public persona, Clinton
tioned all at once in 2013 while work- water before and during work. they don’t actively hate trans people;
fered to take in 13,750 people under its Hu- gives off an exclusively professional
ing at a call center; one day I came This happened in Tennessee, where I their concern is that men will pretend to
manitarian Program, and committed, ex- vibe: industrious, calculated, goal-ori-
have lived for most of my life. The law be trans so they can go into women’s
ceptionally, to a further 12,000 from the in a man, and the next I came in a wom- ented, distrustful. It’s hard from the out-
bathrooms and prey on them without
Syrian and Iraqi conflicts (a handful of an. Things went well at first, with co- here doesn’t bar me from using the side to have a sense of her as a person;
women being able to complain about
them have been processed). But it has workers taking it in stride and customers women’s room, though not for poli- she is a role.
their presence. Some who support these
vowed that nobody in Nauru or on Manus reading my voice as female, but then one ticians’ lack of trying. In 2012, State Sena- This formal, career-oriented persona
laws have admitted that they themselves
Island will gain admission to Australia. of my bosses demanded to speak with tor Bo Watson, a Republican, who repre- puts her in direct contrast with the mores
would do exactly this. (That tells you
Australia’s “offshore processing” is fall- me. sents the county where I was born and of the social media age, which is in-
more about them than it does trans wom-
ing apart and must end. The Supreme She wanted to talk about bathrooms. still live, introduced a “bathroom har- timate, personalist, revealing, trusting
en, if you ask me.) The thing is, though,
Court of Papua New Guinea ruled in April “Have you had the surgery?” she and vulnerable. It puts her in conflict
this doesn’t actually happen, at least not
that the Australian-funded detention cen- asked. (Have you ever talked about your with most people’s lived experience.
in any statistically significant way.
ter on Manus Island was illegal. In Aus- genitals with a superior at work? It’s not Most Americans feel more vivid and
tralia, only retroactive legislation enacted After a year, a book deal let me quit my
after a lawsuit was filed provided legal
exactly a party.) I told her no. “Well, then,
you’ll have to use the men’s until you do.
Men stared at me so job to write full time. Nobody can harass
me for using my own bathroom. In many
alive outside the work experience than
within. So of course to many she seems
support for a policy that was in effect pur-
sued illegally since 2012.
We can’t risk a lawsuit.”
I headed to the men’s room, where I
much I tried to stop ways, I have it easier than others: I’m Machiavellian, crafty, power-oriented,
untrustworthy.
This country’s history includes the long white, and I sort of pass when I’m wear-
and unhappy chapter of its White Austral-
waited for the solitary stall to open up. I
considered going all punk rock, hiking up
going altogether. ing makeup. I haven’t been assaulted or There’s a larger lesson here, especially
for people who have found a career and
ia policy under which a vast land mass raped, a common experience for trans
my skirt at a urinal and flipping off any people. vocation that feels fulfilling. Even a so-
was portrayed as under threat of invasion
man who looked at me funny. But there is That doesn’t mean it’s not still an issue cially good vocation can swallow you up
by uncivilized “natives” from across Asia.
probably no meeker creature on earth assment” bill that would have fined any when I have to use a public restroom. and make you lose a sense of your own
Politicians like Dutton are playing
than a newly transitioned woman. trans person who used the “wrong” bath- voice. Maybe it’s doubly important that
scurrilously on similar fears. The fear is still there — that someone will
The man who emerged from the stall room $50 (though he withdrew his sup- take offense, get angry and attack me, or people with fulfilling vocations develop,
A nation of immigrants, short of agricul-
looked at me as if I were a jug of spoiled port for the bill shortly after in order to that I’ll be made to leave a business, that and be seen to develop, sanctuaries out-
tural labor, Australia has benefited when it
milk. I waited on the toilet until the bath- focus on “more pressing issues”). More I’ll be accused of sexual misconduct, ar- side them: in play, solitude, family, faith,
has overcome its fears, as with the admis-
sion of Vietnamese “boat people” in the room was empty again, but as soon as I recently, State Representative Susan rested and sent to men’s jail. hobbies and leisure.
1970s. As Steven Glass, an international started washing my hands, another man Lynn, a Republican, sponsored a bill that That’s the main thing I wish the Abraham Joshua Heschel wrote that
lawyer, observed in introducing Eva entered. He looked at me for a long time would have required that students at supporters of these laws would realize: the Sabbath is “a palace in time which we
Orner’s new movie, “Chasing Asylum,” and then made a beeline for the urinal public schools and universities use We are much more frightened of you build.” It’s not a day of rest before work;
“What, exactly, are we scared of?” Even next to the sink, inches away from me, restrooms matching the gender on their than you are of us. 0 you work in order to experience this day
women raped and impregnated on Nauru his stare never breaking. birth certificates. That bill was with- of elevation. Josef Pieper wrote that
have been treated as if they are security There was a lot of turnover at this job, drawn in April, about a month before the leisure is not an activity, it’s an attitude of
threats. so every two weeks a fresh batch of Obama administration sent a letter to correction mind. It’s stepping outside strenuous ef-
Bring those stranded in Nauru and on employees seemed to come in. This schools telling them to let students use fort and creating enough stillness so that
Manus Island, many of whose refugee meant that every two weeks new men the bathrooms that match their gender An Op-Ed article on May 18 about transit becomes possible to contemplate and
claims have already been deemed legiti- would come into the bathroom, assume identity. (Ms. Lynn said the directive re- gender access to bathrooms gave the enjoy things as they are.
mate, to Australia. Treat them with hu- they’d accidentally entered the women’s quired people to “entertain another’s wrong title of the author’s most recent Even successful lives need these sanc-
manity as their demands for permanent room when they saw me there, and then mental disorder.”) book. It is “Why Government Fails So Of- tuaries — in order to be a real person in-
settlement are assessed. Scrap a policy Whatever the law, I worried my em- ten, and How It Can Do Better,” not “Why stead of just a productive one. It appears
that shames a nation with its pointless Meredith Russo is the author of the young ployer would fire me if I disobeyed. Fed- Government Fails, and How It Can Do that we don’t really trust candidates who
cruelty. 0 adult novel “If I Was Your Girl.” eral civil rights law has been interpreted Better.” 0 do not show us theirs. 0
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Fraud Penalty Reversed Investors Are Skeptical Tobacco Industry Sued
Judges say the big bank’s actions Bayer’s shares tumbled as Wall Tony Gwynn’s survivors say that
in the mortgage crisis ‘hustle’ Street took a closer look at its the business manipulated him
case didn’t add up to fraud. 2 $62 billion offer for Monsanto. 3 into his fatal addiction. 10
N B1
Gawker Trump Boasts of Rapport With Wall St., but It’s Not Mutual
Suspects By SUSANNE CRAIG
By Donald Trump’s reckoning, his rela-
mer Goldman Sachs partner and chair-
man and chief executive of Dune Capital
Management, a private investment firm,
raiser later this month, Mr. Mnuchin said.
“I think we will have very broad sup-
port,” Mr. Mnuchin said of the financial
than he suggests.
While some bankers said they had a
personal relationship with Mr. Trump, a
tionship with Wall Street could not be bet-
A Financer ter.
“I am friends with all the major banks,”
as his national finance chairman. Carl C.
Icahn, the billionaire activist shareholder,
was an early supporter. Thomas J. Bar-
community.
Still, an examination of financial
records and interviews with nearly two
majority of those interviewed about him
said they had never met him, and either
had not done business with him or would
he said in an interview. “They are dying
Behind Suits to do business with me.”

The presumptive Republican nominee
recently tapped Steven T. Mnuchin, a for-
rack Jr., founder and executive chairman
of the private equity firm Colony Capital,
is scheduled to host a Los Angeles fund-
dozen executives at financial firms show
that Mr. Trump’s relationship with the fi-
nancial industry is far more nuanced
not do so because of past dealings that did
not end well.
Continued on Page 5
At first, Nick Denton, the
founder of Gawker Media,
thought it an unlikely conspiracy
theory.
Now, he’s starting to believe it
himself.
ANDREW
A Political Turn for a Slimed Movie
For the last
several years, Mr.
ROSS SORKIN Denton has been
the target of a
DEALBOOK
lawsuit brought
by the wrestler Hulk Hogan in
the now-infamous defamation
case over Gawker’s publication
of a sex tape — an editorial
choice that recently resulted in a
$140 million jury award to Mr.
Hogan. The appeals process is
likely to drag on for years, and
some legal experts predict that
the judgment will ultimately be
overturned or the award greatly
reduced.
During the trial, a low hum of
speculation emerged within the
legal community that Mr.
Hogan’s legal case, which
dragged on for more than three
years, might be funded by some-
one other than Mr. Hogan — and
for reasons other than simply
inflicting financial pain on
Gawker. At the time, the ques-
tions were provoked by several
strategic decisions on Mr.
Hogan’s side that didn’t appear
economically rational. More on
that in a moment. Back then, Mr.
Denton dismissed the idea of a
third party secretly underwriting
Mr. Hogan’s case as “rather
conspiracy-theorylike.”
But in recent weeks, in the
face of several new lawsuits
brought against Gawker that are
unrelated to Mr. Hogan’s case
and seem to personally attack
certain Gawker writers, Mr.
Denton is having second
thoughts. All of the new cases,
like Mr. Hogan’s, were brought
by Charles J. Harder, a Los Ange- SONY PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT
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appear Wednesday on an episode for
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Leslie Jones, Kristen Wiig and Kate Mc-
to keep male moviegoers interested in its
Mr. Denton has begun to ques-
tion whether Mr. Harder has a
Hostility of “Ghostbusters” reboot after an Internet Kinnon.
“Get your Woman Cards ready,” Ms.
benefactor, perhaps one of the Gender Politics attack on its female cast. Hillary Clinton
wants women to throw their support be- DeGeneres wrote on Twitter to her 60 mil-
many subjects of Gawker’s skew-
ering coverage. On a Talk Show hind her presidential campaign. lion followers, a reference to the Republi-
can contender Donald J. Trump’s criticism
“My own personal hunch is In a strange confluence, those agendas
risk colliding this week on “The Ellen De- that Mrs. Clinton had relied on playing
that it’s linked to Silicon Valley,
Generes Show.” “the woman’s card.” The show’s website
but that’s nothing really more
To the surprise of Sony, Ms. DeGeneres added, “This Wednesday, Ellen’s sitting
than a hunch,” Mr. Denton told
announced on May 17 that her talk show down with some powerful women!”
me. “If you’re a billionaire and
had booked Mrs. Clinton — a friend, po- For Mrs. Clinton, her identification with
you don’t like the coverage of
you, and you don’t particularly litical ally and repeated past guest — to Continued on Page 7
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Tribune Publishing, With New Backer, Rejects Gannett’s Bid Again

By LESLIE PICKER saying it would issue almost five million favor of its board. this doesn’t make a lot of sense,” said Bill evaluated” Gannett’s latest proposal and
The Tribune Publishing Company is shares to an investor who has agreed to Gannett responded on Monday by say- Smead, the chief executive and chief in- determined that it was not in the best in-
testing Gannett’s limits. side with the chairman, Michael W. Ferro ing it needed to review whether to pro- vestment officer of Smead Capital Man- terest of its shareholders.
The publisher of The Chicago Tribune Jr., on major issues. The investor, Nant ceed with the offer after its shareholders agement, which owns about 5 percent of That rejection came with some fire-
and The Los Angeles Times has rejected Capital, and a fund run by Mr. Ferro com- meeting next week. In other words, Gan- Gannett shares. power in the form of a $70.5 million in-
both of Gannett’s takeover proposals, the bine to control nearly one-third of Trib- nett could very well choose to walk away. Gannett, publisher of USA Today, vestment by Nant Capital, founded by
latest valued at nearly double the price of une shares. The back-and-forth, which has been sweetened its offer for Tribune Publish- Patrick Soon-Shiong, a billionaire who
Tribune’s stock before news of their po- Separately, a firm that is vital in wran- intensifying since late April, has many ing a week ago to $15 a share from the has started several health care compa-
tential combination surfaced in April. gling shareholder votes rebutted Gan- shareholders scratching their heads. $12.25 offer that Tribune rejected in early nies and is a part owner of the Los Ange-
On Monday, in rejecting that latest bid, nett’s takeover efforts by encouraging “The difference between truth and fic- May. Tribune Publishing said in a state- les Lakers basketball team. Tribune Pub-
Tribune Publishing raised the pressure, Tribune Publishing investors to vote in tion is that fiction has to make sense, and ment on Monday that it had “thoroughly Continued on Page 3
Viacom Chiefs Take Trust Battle to Court

By EMILY STEEL was “saddened that Mr. Dauman is Redstone on Friday unexpectedly
The vicious battle over the future trying to make this dispute” about ousted Mr. Dauman and Mr. Abrams
of Sumner M. Redstone’s $40 billion Mr. Redstone’s daughter. from the trust, which will gain con-
media empire boiled over from the The dueling legal actions repre- trol of Mr. Redstone’s companies
public stage into courtrooms on both sent a bitter new fissure in Mr. Red- when he dies or is declared incompe-
coasts Monday. stone’s corporate empire, which he tent. Mr. Redstone also ejected them
built into an entertainment con- from their positions on the board of
With sharp rhetoric, directors

from Viacom, Mr. Redstone’s enter- glomerate after wresting control of the theater chain company National
tainment company, charged in a law- Viacom in 1987. They also feature a Amusements, through which Mr.
suit that the media mogul had been reversal of fortunes for some of the Redstone controls his companies.
manipulated by his daughter, Shari key principals involved. Ms. Red- After a weekend of caustic accusa-
Redstone, into changing the terms of stone, long estranged from her fa- tions, Mr. Dauman and Mr. Abrams
the trust that controls his compa- ther, is now reconciled with him, and filed a lawsuit Monday morning in
nies. Philippe P. Dauman, the chair- his actions over the weekend align the probate court in Norfolk, Mass.,
man and chief executive of Viacom, with her view of how his companies seeking to immediately block the
who was removed from the trust, should be managed. Mr. Dauman moves. The 24-page suit depicts Mr.
called it an “an unlawful corporate and George Abrams, a Viacom direc- Redstone, 92, as suffering “profound
takeover.” tor who was also removed from the physical and mental illness” and be-
COOPER NEILL FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Mr. Redstone’s legal team fired trust, are longtime confidants of Mr. ing subject to the undue influence of
Redstone who now find themselves his daughter. It also claims that the
Humor for Harried Travelers back with a petition in Los Angeles,
asking that a court confirm the va- pushed aside and forced to chal- changes will allow Ms. Redstone to
Marty Cobb of Southwest Airlines delivers her preflight safety announcement like lidity of the changes he made. Mr. lenge his mental capacity. “illegitimately tip the balance of
a stand-up comic. Some carriers are embracing a lighter mood in the air. Page 5. Redstone’s lawyer said his client The legal war erupted after Mr. Continued on Page 2
B2 N THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS TUESDAY, MAY 24, 2016
Court Overturns Penalty Against Bank of America in Mortgage Case

By MICHAEL CORKERY page ruling. the Federal District Court in Man- Countrywide’s contracts with
A federal appeals court dealt a The ruling by the United States hattan ordered the bank to pay a Fannie and Freddie may have in-
blow to the federal government’s Court of Appeals for the Second $1.27 billion penalty in the hustle cluding false statements. But
effort to hold Bank of America ac- Circuit is one of a few setbacks in case. But that sum is a small frac- even “intentional” contract
countable for the sale of shoddy the Justice Department’s sprawl- tion of the tens of billions of dollars breaches did not constitute fraud
mortgages before the financial ing prosecution of Wall Street af- the bank has paid in legal fees and on the part of the mortgage lender,
crisis, overturning a $1.27 billion ter the mortgage crisis. It is also a settlements related to Country- the ruling said.
penalty the bank had been or- disappointment for Preet Bhara- wide, which Bank of America The ruling is also a vindication
dered to pay in the so-called hustle ra, the United States attorney for bought in 2008. Since 2010, Bank of for Ms. Mairone, who worked at
case. America has spent $37 billion on JPMorgan Chase at the time of the
A three-judge panel ruled on litigation expenses, most of it re- trial and had to leave her job after
Monday that federal prosecutors lated to the legal fallout from the the jury convicted her on one
had failed to prove that Bank of financial crisis.
America’s Countrywide unit had Prosecutors did not The hustle case stood out be-
count of fraud, her lawyer said.
Since then, she has worked as a
defrauded Fannie Mae and Fred-
die Mac, the government-backed
prove a bank unit cause in addition to Bank of Amer-
ica, federal prosecutors had
consultant. The appeals court rul-
ing means Ms. Mairone does not
mortgage firms, when it sold them defrauded Fannie and sought to hold Rebecca Mairone, a
former Countrywide executive, li-
have to pay the $1 million penalty
troubled loans.
The judges said that while Freddie. able for the faulty loans.
that the district court had ordered.
The government’s case was
Countrywide employees may It also represented a departure ALEX WONG/GETTY IMAGES
for Bank of America, which settled based on a whistle-blower com-

have sold loans in 2007 and 2008 Steve Bailey of Bank of America’s Countrywide unit at a 2008 plaint originally brought by Ed-
that were not of the quality that most of its mortgage-related Senate hearing. A $1.27 billion penalty was overturned Monday.
was promised in the contracts the Southern District of New York, charges before they went to trial. ward O’Donnell, a former Coun-
with Fannie and Freddie, there who brought the prosecution But from the beginning, the bank’s trywide executive.
was no evidence that these sales against Bank of America and lawyers were betting they could ist.” 2013, federal prosecutors accused Mr. O'Donnell received $57 mil-
— an element of a loan program at called its practice of rubber- win the hustle case. The case was called hustle be- Ms. Mairone of overseeing the lion from the government for his
Countrywide that was known in- stamping risky loans and selling “The Second Circuit under- cause the government’s case in- high-speed lane program that role in bringing the issues to light.
formally as hustle — were part of them to Fannie Mae and Freddie stood this was a massive govern- volved a program at Countrywide pushed through loans to unquali- His lawyer said the appeals court
a deliberate deception. Mac “spectacularly brazen.” ment overreach from the begin- known as the High-Speed Swim fied buyers and ultimately failed, ruling would not affect that pay-
“The trial evidence fails to dem- The bad lending ultimately re- ning,’’ said Josh Rosenkranz of the Lane that the lender created to causing more than $1 billion in out, which was tied more broadly
onstrate the contemporaneous quired a taxpayer-financed bail- law firm Orrick, who represents sell mortgages to Fannie and losses. The faster that employees to his work helping federal
fraudulent intent necessary to out of the nation’s biggest banks, Ms. Mairone. “The message is Freddie as the subprime mort- originated loans, the higher their prosecutors reach a $16.65 billion
prove a scheme to defraud,” Judge including Bank of America. that government should stop look- gage market was imploding. bonuses, according to testimony. settlement with Bank of America
Richard C. Wesley wrote in a 31- In 2014, Judge Jed S. Rakoff of ing for fraud where it doesn’t ex- During the trial, in October The appeals court ruled that in August 2014.
Phoenix Casino, a Babeland employee, said workers at the store

sometimes are asked invasive questions by customers.
Sex Shop Workers to Join

Retail Union in New York
By RACHEL ABRAMS support for airing grievances and
One of the country’s largest re- navigating workplace disputes.
tail unions represents workers in The vote for unionizing, which
department stores, grocery stores took place on Friday, was 21 to 4,
and bakeries. the union said.
Now, it has a new category: sex “It’s a sign of how much we love PHOTOGRAPHS BY MISHA FRIEDMAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
shop workers. this place,” said Lena Solow, who
Massima Desire, a Babeland employee, said getting the shop to respect her gender identity motivated her to vote to unionize.
Last week, 25 employees of Ba- said she had worked at Babeland
beland, an adult toy store with for three years. “We want it to be
three locations in New York City, the best place it can be.”
Babeland sells a variety of sex
The store also said that it had
“developed a list of new trainings”
Seeking greater While her co-workers call her
Massima, the company uses her
ding public schools from forcing
students to use bathrooms that
voted to join the Retail, Wholesale
and Department Store Union, the toys, accessories and books, and based on staff feedback that transparency around legal name in its computer sys- did not match their gender iden-
group said on Monday. The move, the workers proudly consider would focus on how to handle diffi- tem, she said. Getting Babeland to tity. The directive came during a
workers said, would help them ad- themselves sex educators. But cult customers. hiring, promotion and respect her gender identity was heated debate in North Carolina
just one of the reasons she voted over a state law that restricts ac-
dress a number of wage and train-
ing issues, as well as some con-
that also makes them a target for
invasive questions and even har-
Claire Cavanah, a co-founder of
Babeland who opened the first
disciplinary decisions. to unionize. cess to bathrooms, locker rooms
cerns related more specifically to assment, they said. store in Seattle in 1993, said she “That’s a question of dignity, and changing rooms.
the nature of adult retail work and “People don’t go into the Gap was surprised to learn that the and that’s what we’re going to be “More and more transgender
to a handful of transgender and ask what shirt fits you best,” workers wanted to form a union. part of Friday’s vote. negotiating,” Mr. Appelbaum, the folks are coming out on the job and
employees. added Phoenix Casino, who has “For a year we have been work- Mx. Casino, who identifies as retail union president, said. coming out earlier, and so that by
“This is the only adult sex shop worked at Babeland for two years. ing on this very issue, making Ba- transgender and uses the pro- Ms. Cavanah said that Babe- necessity means there’s more and
that is organized,” Stuart Appel- The employees have advocated beland a better pace to work,” she nouns them and they instead of he land called employees by the more work to be done on these is-
baum, the president of the retail better training and support from said. In March, for example, the or she, and others said they also names and pronouns they identi- sues,” said Hayden Mora, a for-
union, said in an interview on management to deal with prob- company raised the starting wanted management to address fied with. She said she was un- mer labor organizer and a manag-
Monday. “And I think that’s signif- lematic customers. They had minimum wage to $14 from $12 for issues for employees who identi- aware of any issues with clocking ing partner at the Parallax Group,
icant.” pushed for caller ID, for example, New York City employees. New fied as transgender or otherwise in. a consulting firm with a specialty
The employees said there were to help weed out the threatening York’s current minimum wage is gender-nonconforming. In recent months, transgender in transgender workplace issues.
many reasons why they had phone calls workers said they re- $9. When Massima Desire clocks in issues have taken center stage in a “Many employers and many folks
wanted to unionize: more trans- ceived on a daily basis. Two of the “I guess it was a little bit too late and out of her shift, she cringes national debate over civil rights. in management have not yet done
parency around hiring, promotion three stores now have caller ID, for the staff,” Ms. Cavanah said. when she sees the name that pops This month, the Obama adminis- the work that’s crucial and neces-
and disciplinary decisions, and Babeland said. The Seattle location was not up on the screen. tration released a letter forbid- sary.”
Viacom Chiefs Take Trust Battle to Court Philippe P. Dauman, the chair-
man and chief executive of
Viacom, sued the trust of
As Redstone Asserts His Competency Sumner Redstone on Monday.
ceded the title in February, she

move to dismiss the boards and daughter when he removed the was the sole Viacom director to
From First Business Page leadership of Viacom and CBS and companion, Manuela Herzer, from vote against Mr. Dauman’s eleva-
power to her.” also make plans to merge or sell a directive that would have given tion to chairman.
In a four-page petition filed in the companies. her supervision of his health care. In their suit, Mr. Dauman and
Los Angeles County Superior John C. Coffee Jr., a professor That suit was dismissed two Mr. Abrams claimed that the peo-
Court, lawyers for Mr. Redstone and the director of the Center on weeks ago. ple put forward to replace them on
asserted that because “there is no Corporate Governance at Colum- While the judge sided with Mr. the trust and the board are under
evidence” that Mr. Redstone was bia Law School, said that “the bur- Redstone, he did not make a deci- the influence and control of Ms.
incapacitated or unable to mange den of proof lies with the plaintiff,” sion on Mr. Redstone’s compe- Redstone.
his business affairs, he still had in this case, the ousted trustees tency. According to the lawsuit They also questioned whether
the power to remove or add and Viacom. filed by Mr. Dauman and Mr. Mr. Redstone’s legal representa-
trustees. Abrams, Mr. Redstone’s physical tion is legitimate. Their suit states
A determination of Mr. Red- and mental health has diminished that Michael C. Tu, a partner at the
stone’s incapacity, the petition significantly since Ms. Herzer’s law firm Orrick, Herrington & Sut-
said, depends on a court ruling or Caustic accusations suit was filed in November.
Mr. Klieger sought to use Mr. EVAN VUCCI/ASSOCIATED PRESS
cliffe, had refused to disclose
a document signed by three doc- whether he had ever met Mr. Red-
tors, stating that he lacks the com- pile up as executives Dauman’s own words from the
That description is strikingly sim- if effectuated, could have far- stone and asserts that statements
Herzer lawsuit against him. “It is
petency to manage his affairs.

Neither occurred before Mr. Red- tussle over a $40 telling that Mr. Dauman is raising ilar to the one Ms. Herzer pro- reaching consequences for thou- that Mr. Tu made to the media re-
lated to Viacom business activi-
vided in her lawsuit. sands of shareholders and
stone changed the trust, making
the decisions valid, the petition
billion media empire. the question of mental capacity
for the first time after he’s been re- Mr. Dauman and Mr. Abrams employees of Viacom.” ties were false.
claim that Mr. Redstone’s ability In a statement issued on Mon- “As counsel for Mr. Redstone, I
states. moved when, just months ago in of course have met with my client
“Mr. Redstone has been clear court documents, he pronounced to “understand and assess the day, Nancy Sterling, a spokes-
consequences of his actions is woman for Ms. Redstone, said it on these matters,” Mr. Tu said in
and unequivocal in his desire to But he added, “At some point, Mr. Redstone ‘engaged, attentive, an email. “The accusations in to-
remove Philippe Dauman and and as opinionated as ever,’” Mr. limited.” was “absurd for anyone to accuse
given the debate over his condi- day’s filing about false statements
Shari of manipulating her father.”
George Abrams as trustees,” tion, there will need to be some- Klieger said in the statement. The suit also says that Ms. Red-
stone made changes to Mr. Red- “Sumner makes his own deci- are reckless and irresponsible.
Robert N. Klieger, a lawyer with thing: a signed document or a The suit from Mr. Dauman and These accusations and others will
Hueston Hennigan who is repre- videotape demonstrating that Mr. Abrams details how Mr. Red- stone’s last will and testament. sions regarding whom he wants to
“After years of estrangement, see, both in his home and else- be vigorously contested in court.”
senting Mr. Redstone, said in a they are hearing from him and not stone, who has not been seen pub-
she has inserted herself into his where,” Ms. Sterling said. Mr. Redstone turns 93 on Fri-
statement. from his daughter, Shari.” licly for nearly a year, can no long-
home, taken over his life and iso- The weekend’s developments day.
The trust, intended to benefit The dispute puts a renewed fo- er stand, walk, read, write or
Mr. Redstone’s five grandchil- cus on the question of Mr. Red- speak coherently. It asserts that lated him from anyone not under were considered a major victory
dren, wields enormous power. The stone’s mental capacity. In No- he cannot swallow and requires a her control, including longtime for Ms. Redstone in her quest to Everything you need to
seven voting members could vember, a former companion of feeding tube to eat and drink and business colleagues,” Mr. Dau- shape the future of her father’s
Mr. Redstone filed suit alleging the suctioning of phlegm and sali- man said in a statement on Mon- media companies. She has pub- know for your business day
Erik Eckholm contributed report- that he was not competent and va throughout the day and night to day. “Shari’s actions amount to an licly opposed Mr. Dauman’s lead- is in Business Day.
ing. was under the influence of his avoid breathing complications. unlawful corporate takeover, and ership of Viacom; when her father The New York Times
THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS TUESDAY, MAY 24, 2016 N B3
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A Bayer plant in Leverkusen, Germany. The chemical maker’s

bid is the largest all-cash acquisition offer on record.
Bayer Offers $62 Billion

To Acquire Monsanto
By MICHAEL J. de la MERCED 6 percent on Monday after the an-
and CHAD BRAY nouncement, to 84.42 euros, or
The German industrial giant about $95, as shareholders
Bayer has finally revealed its $62 seemed to register displeasure
billion takeover bid for Monsanto over the high-priced plan. The
as it seeks to create a new titan in company already bears a high
the world of farming. debt load, some €17 billion, about
But so far, the chemical maker’s $19 billion, after a string of acquisi-
ambitious announcement — it is tions in the last three years. TOM GANNAM/REUTERS
the largest takeover bid by a Ger- The all-cash offer of $122 a share
would probably require Bayer to
A Monsanto lab in Missouri. Joining its seed business with Bayer’s pesticide operations would create a one-stop shop for farmers.
man company and the biggest all-
cash acquisition offer on record — take on additional debt, as well as
appears to have fallen on deaf issue new stock that would dilute that its board was reviewing the tion the German company to be- agriculture player with excep- ing resistance for Bayer in its
ears. existing shareholders. The com- proposal. Last week the compa- come a supplier of choice. tional innovation capabilities to home country.
Monsanto, based in St. Louis, is pany said it was “confident” in its nies confirmed that an approach The combined company’s seed the benefit of farmers, consumers, And the National Farmers Un-
the world’s biggest manufacturer ability to raise the money after had been made. business and North American our employees and the communi- ion, which represents family
of genetically modified crop having consulted with its lenders, Buying Monsanto would give headquarters would be in St. Lou- ties in which we operate.” farms in the United States, said
seeds. Bayer is hoping to unite Bank of America Merrill Lynch Bayer bulk as other giants in agri- is. Its pesticide and crop science The takeover bid represents a that it was “troubled” by the pro-
that business with its own pesti- and Credit Suisse. culture have turned to mergers to business would be based in Mon- test of Mr. Baumann, who became spective merger.
cide operations, forming a one- Shares in Monsanto traded well gain scale. Dow and DuPont heim, Germany. Bayer said it pro- Bayer’s chief just three weeks ago. The president of the trade
stop shop for farmers. The com- below Bayer’s offer, closing on agreed last year to an enormous, jected annual cost savings of Government regulators in the group, Roger Johnson, said in a
bined company, with $67 billion in Monday at $106, suggesting skep- complicated merger that will fuse about $1.5 billion after three years United States and Europe are ex- statement: “Given the proposed
sales, would produce an array of ticism that a deal will be reached their crop science businesses. if the two companies combined. pected to closely scrutinize any merger between Dow and DuPont
products including pain medica- at the current offer. And Syngenta, a Swiss pesti- “We have long respected Mon- union of the two. While the compa- and the pending acquisition of
tion, G.M.O. seeds and pesticides. It is unclear whether other agri- cide maker that Monsanto unsuc- santo’s business and share their nies operate in separate busi- Syngenta A.G. by China’s National
It is an outsize takeover bid that cultural companies, including the cessfully courted last year, agreed vision to create an integrated nesses — Monsanto focuses on Chemical Corporation, we ask
requires the German company to fellow German manufacturer in February to sell itself for $43 business that we believe is capa- seeds, Bayer on pesticides — com- that the Department of Justice
win over antitrust regulators who BASF, will make rival bids. billion to the China National ble of generating substantial val- bining them could give the thoughtfully consider and apply
may be leery of a huge new titan in Analysts also said that Bayer Chemical Corporation. ue for both companies’ share- merged company more pricing critical review to any pending and
the agricultural business. But would probably need to raise its Among Bayer’s arguments is holders,” Werner Baumann, power over farmers. future deals, including a Bayer/
more important, Bayer needs to bid to succeed with the deal — a that farmers must greatly raise Bayer’s chief executive, said in a European countries, including Monsanto deal, that would break
win over skeptical investors. prospect that appeared unattrac- their productivity to feed the news release. “Together we would Germany, have also sounded down marketplace competition in
Shares in Bayer tumbled nearly tive to its shareholders. world’s growing population, and draw on the collective expertise of alarms over the use of genetically an already heavily concentrated
On Monday, Monsanto said only that buying Monsanto would posi- both companies to build a leading modified crops, potentially augur- agriculture sector.”
Doctor’s Stake in Tribune Patrick Soon-Shiong, a billion-

aire doctor in Los Angeles,
bought a $70.5 million stake
Is to Preserve ‘Public Trust’ in Tribune Publishing, which
owns the Los Angeles Times
and the Chicago Tribune.
By ANDREW POLLACK valuable tool for the community,
LOS ANGELES — Dr. Patrick where it really adds to democra-
ferent companies aimed at medi-
Soon-Shiong, the new vice chair- cy,” he said. He also said the in-
cine. “We like to think NantWorks
man and second-largest investor vestment could make money if
is combing the inventive spirit of
in Tribune Publishing, is believed Tribune could be transformed
Thomas Edison or Leonardo da
to be the wealthiest physician in from a “legacy newspaper com-
pany” into a technology and con- Vinci,” its website says. “All at the
the world and the richest person scale of Bell Labs.”
in this city, surpassing all the Hol- tent company.
On politics, Dr. Soon-Shiong, 63, One company in the network,
lywood moguls. NantKwest, is developing cancer
Much of that fortune, valued at called himself the “quintessential
independent.” He has donated treatments that harness the
$11.9 billion by Forbes, came from body’s immune system. It went
selling generic drugs and from de- $82,400 to campaigns, according
to the Federal Election Commis- public last summer with an initial
veloping one new type of drug to
sion, including $60,000 to the market value of $2.6 billion, a
treat cancer.
Democratic National Committee. record for a biotechnology com-
But his meteoric rise has not
But he has also donated to Ru- pany. The stock has lost three-
been without controversy, either,
dolph Giuliani and Rick Perry, quarters of its value since then.
as he has developed a reputation
both Republicans. Another company, privately
for exaggerating his prospects
and accomplishments. Dr. Soon-Shiong said it was his held NantHealth, is trying to use
medical projects that got him in- DNA sequencing and high-pow-
“He thinks big and sometimes
his statements come off hyper- volved with Tribune. His compa- ered computing to quickly ana-
KEVORK DJANSEZIAN/GETTY IMAGES
bolic,” said Dr. Eric Topol, profes- nies were developing artificial in- lyze a patient’s genes and other
sor of genomics at the Scripps Re- telligence and machine vision — tent pop up. After getting his medical de- His biggest accomplishment medical information and suggest
search Institute. “Only time will for such tasks as having a comput- Taking a stake in the owner of gree in South Africa, Dr. Soon- was the development of the can- the best treatment. It has raised
tell” how much he really accom- er analyze pathology slides or The Los Angeles Times would not Shiong became a doctor at the cer drug Abraxane. It consists of more than $600 million, including
plishes, Dr. Topol said. helping the vision-impaired to be out of character for Dr. Soon- University of California, Los An- the widely used drug paclitaxel from the government of Kuwait.
In a brief interview Monday, Dr. navigate. Shiong. While not well known out- geles. (also known by the brand name Two former executives filed a
Soon-Shiong said he did not see Michael W. Ferro Jr., who is now side Los Angeles, he has taken an In 1993, he made headlines for Taxol) linked to particles of albu- wrongful termination lawsuit ac-
his $70.5 million investment in the biggest shareholder in Trib- active role in institutions here. doing the first transplant of insu- min, a protein in blood. That helps cusing NantHealth of making
Tribune Publishing, which owns une, had been an investor in a He is a part owner of the Los lin-producing pancreatic cells into the drug get to the tumors better fraudulent claims about the reli-
The Los Angeles Times and The medical imaging company, Merge Angeles Lakers, buying Magic a patient with Type 1 diabetes. and makes the treatment more ability of its technology. The com-
Chicago Tribune, as a philan- Healthcare, and came to see what Johnson’s 4.5 percent stake. He While he proclaimed that the pro- tolerable. pany says the suit is without mer-
thropic exercise. But he said he Dr. Soon-Shiong had developed. made an unsuccessful bid to buy cedure had succeeded, other ex- Doctors debate whether any ad- it.
did consider newspapers a “public Under a deal also announced the Dodgers, losing out to a group perts questioned that claim. vantages of Abraxane merit the In January, Dr. Soon-Shiong an-
trust” and wanted to preserve Monday, Tribune will have access that included Magic Johnson. He started a company selling extra cost compared with generic nounced a Cancer Moonshot 2020
them. to that technology for use in the He and his wife, Michele Chan, generic drugs, taking advantage paclitaxel. But Celgene, the large program, in which companies like
Dr. Soon-Shiong (pronounced newspaper business, eventually an actress, have given at least $135 of a financial relationship with biotechnology company, saw Celgene and Amgen would co-
Soon Shung) said he appreciated paying royalties to one of Dr. million to Saint John’s Health Cen- Premier, a group that buys drugs enough in Abraxane to acquire the operate on certain clinical trials.
the value of a free press after hav- Soon-Shiong’s companies. ter in Santa Monica, and he has for hospitals. The company, APP company that controlled it for an He has also been an adviser to
ing grown up in apartheid-era One use, Dr. Soon-Shiong said, helped reopen Martin Luther Pharmaceuticals, was sold to the initial payment of $2.9 billion in Vice President Joseph R. Biden
South Africa, the son of immi- could be to point a phone camera King Jr. Community Hospital, German company Fresenius for 2010. Jr., though Mr. Biden’s cancer
grants from China. at an article in the printed news- which serves impoverished South an initial payment $3.7 billion in Dr. Soon-Shiong’s new project is moonshot program is distinct
“I recognize the press is a very paper and have related video con- Los Angeles. 2008. NantWorks, an “ecosystem” of dif- from Dr. Soon-Shiong’s.
Tribune Publishing, Now With a New Backer, Rejects Gannett’s Proposal Again
offset the influence of Oaktree the letter said, citing a Gannett votes as a symbolic way of show- Gannett has been looking to ac- Tribune Publishing signed with
From First Business Page Capital Management, a Los Ange- proxy filing. ing their dissatisfaction. quire Tribune since at least mid- NantWorks, Dr. Soon-Shiong’s
lishing agreed to issue Nant Capi- les fund that had been in favor of In response to Oaktree, Justin Gannett’s plan, however, did not April as part of its strategy to con- company, Tribune Publishing will
tal 4.7 million shares at $15 each to exploring a potential combination C. Dearborn, the chief executive of get much support from an influen- solidate the newspaper industry be able to keep the first $80 million
support the company’s stand- of the two companies. Oaktree Tribune Publishing, said that “no tial proxy advisory firm, Institu- to extract costs and streamline op- in revenue from those patents and
alone strategy, the company an- was Tribune Publishing’s second- such committee is appropriate or tional Shareholder Services, erations. will have to pay NantWorks a 6
nounced on Monday. Tribune Pub- largest shareholder until the in- necessary.” Mr. Dearborn pointed which recommended that Tribune It may not be willing to bid percent royalty on revenue there-
+1 604 278 4604
vestment by Nant Capital.

after.
lishing shares traded about 20 to an offer by a private, independ- Publishing shareholders vote in much higher than $15 when it
percent below that price on Mon- Oaktree Capital Management ent party to acquire Oaktree’s favor of the company’s board at could turn around and find an- Even though Tribune Publish-
day. has urged the board in a letter Tribune shares for $15 each, which the annual meeting next month. other target, analysts and ing rejected the increased offer, it
Nant Capital has agreed to vote filed with the Securities and Ex- Oaktree declined. I.S.S. said that “the board has investors said. did invite Gannett to sign a mutual
its shares in favor of Tribune Pub- change Commission to establish “Our entire board is perplexed grounds for declining to engage “Gannett investors like us nondisclosure agreement, by
lishing’s election of directors, and an independent committee to con- by the apparently coordinated be- on an offer with an eye-popping thought it was great if you could which it could start due diligence
said in the case of a takeover, or sider Gannett’s proposal. havior of Gannett and Oaktree, premium to the market.” buy them at a nice price, but and discussions to see whether a
change in control, Nant would John B. Frank, Oaktree’s vice and we question Oaktree’s under- “The market price itself may there’s many more fish in the sea transaction could be negotiated,
vote proportionately to how all chairman, said that Mr. Ferro had lying motives,” Mr. Dearborn said. not have fairly represented the in- as you consolidate this industry,” Monday’s statement showed.
other shares of Tribune were vot- not been acting for all Those shareholders who dis- trinsic value of the company — let Mr. Smead said. Gannett may not be apt to sign the
ing. shareholders. He detailed motives agree with Mr. Ferro’s strategy alone its prospects under the re- Tribune Publishing, on the document if it precludes soliciting
Dr. Soon-Shiong was also invit- by Mr. Ferro, like his unwilling- may have little recourse. Because vised strategic plan being formu- other hand, has been investing in shareholder votes in the future.
ed to join the board of Tribune ness to engage with Gannett un- Gannett missed the window to lated by its new leadership,” the technology, like artificial intelli- Methuselah Advisors has been
Publishing as vice chairman, a less he personally got a “piece of nominate its own directors to Trib- I.S.S. report said. gence, to increase its revenue. advising Gannett, as has the law
role that will start on June 2. the action.” une Publishing’s board, Gannett Gannett said in a statement on As part of the investment with firm Skadden, Arps, Slate,
Tribune Publishing’s largest Mr. Ferro had been willing to decided to solicit so-called with- Monday that it would review Nant Capital, Tribune Publishing Meagher & Flom. Goldman Sachs
shareholder is Merrick Ventures, negotiate with Gannett only if he hold votes. This tactic, aimed to whether to proceed with its acqui- will receive access to 100 machine and Lazard are providing finan-
the private equity firm founded by were able to have a significant role put pressure on Tribune Publish- sition offer after it received the revision and artificial intelligence cial advice to Tribune Publishing,
Mr. Ferro. in the combined company and to ing to entertain the offer, asks sults from the withhold vote cam- patents for news purposes. Ac- with Kirkland & Ellis on the legal
The new investment appears to become its largest shareholder, shareholders to boycott their paign. cording to the term sheet that side.
In Internal Investigation, Facebook Finds No Anti-Conservative Bias

By MIKE ISAAC which cited two former Facebook Senator John The New York Times found no
SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook news curators as saying some Thune, a South widespread examples of inten-
said on Monday that an internal conservative news was not pro- Dakota Republi- tional bias on Trending Topics,
investigation found no evidence of moted on Trending Topics, de- based on interviews with current
can and chair-
systemic political bias in the selec- pending on the individual biases and former Facebook employees.
of staff members. Trending Topics man of the Sen- Instead, the company’s Trending
tion of news presented in a section
shows up as the list of the most- ate Commerce Topics team was characterized as
of its app called Trending Topics.
Even so, the social network, talked-about items of interest on Committee, having a problematic culture
which is making a tour of contri- Facebook, and appears in the top demanded an- made up largely of contract jour-
tion after accusations that it ac- right corner of the desktop site for swers from Face- nalists, some of whom said there
tively suppresses conservative hundreds of millions of users. book about how was a lack of oversight from and
content, said it would make some To counter the accusations, es- its Trending communication with manage-
changes to Trending Topics, in- pecially from Republicans who Topics news ment.
cluding no longer referring to a said they could no longer trust Still, Facebook on Monday
selection
list of national news sources — Facebook as an impartial plat- noted it could not rule out the iso-
form, the company held a meeting
worked. lated biased actions of any partic-
like Fox News, The New York
Times and BuzzFeed News — to with a group of conservatives at ular individual, nor could it dis-
“boost” topics appearing on its its Menlo Park, Calif., headquar- miss unintentional bias in its
Trending Topics. ters and published its internal edi- guidelines or policies. To combat
“These improvements and safe- torial guidelines. that, the company will make some
guards are designed not only to Facebook has pushed back hard changes to how Trending Topics
ensure that Facebook remains a against the criticism. On Monday, functions, including eliminating
platform that is open and welcom- it said that it could find no evi- JABIN BOTSFORD/THE NEW YORK TIMES the list of external media sites and
ing to all groups and individuals, dence of any systemic suppres- RSS feeds to judge which material
but also to restore any loss of trust sion in the section and that “con- publican of South Dakota, who ency in its methodology for deter- last week with other conserva- should be shown as trending
in the Trending Topics feature,” servative and liberal topics are ap- had earlier demanded answers mining trending topics,” Senator tives, called for more transparen- across Facebook.
Colin Stretch, Facebook general proved as trending topics at about how Trending Topics works. Thune said in a statement. cy from the company and said in “We want people to feel confi-
counsel, said in a statement virtually identical rates,” accord- “Private companies are fully At least one conservative-lean- an emailed statement on Monday: dent that our community wel-
posted to the company’s site. ing to a blog post. entitled to espouse their own ing publication was skeptical of “It comes as no surprise that comes all viewpoints, and we are
The move is the latest attempt The Silicon Valley company views, so I appreciate Facebook’s Facebook’s findings. Stephen K. Facebook did an internal investi- committed to designing our prod-
by Facebook to control political published results of the internal efforts to address allegations of Bannon, executive chairman of gation and declared itself inno- ucts to give all people a voice and
criticism after a report from Giz- investigation and its changes in a bias raised in the media and my Breitbart News, which declined to cent. We don’t need more dissem- foster the free flow of ideas and
modo, the technology news site, letter to Senator John Thune, Re- concern about a lack of transpar- attend the meeting at Facebook bling, photo ops or happy talk.” culture,” Mr. Stretch wrote.
A Campaign Against Exxon Mobil The work of Naomi Oreskes of

Harvard has drawn parallels
between the tobacco industry
Has Its Roots in a 2012 Gathering

and fossil fuel companies.
tive reaction to any plans that

“demonized” the fossil fuel indus-
By JOHN SCHWARTZ the group produced a 36-page re- a victory against the industry in a
try.
The activists who have painted port that is readily available on- case relying largely on the Rack-
line. eteer Influenced and Corrupt Or- The effort to stoke public out-
a bright target on the back of Exx- rage has played out in protests,
on Mobil have “colluded to push In addition, groups like the Un- ganizations Act, also known as
ion of Concerned Scientists have RICO — despite the tobacco com- and on social media through hash-
politically motivated investiga- tags like #ExxonKnew.
tions of climate dissent,” and con- been open about their collabora- panies’ insistence that its public
ducted a “real-life RICO-type con- tion and consultation with attor- statements were protected under
spiracy.” neys general. the First Amendment. Fraud, the The Road Ahead
So say defenders of the energy “There’s nothing hidden here,” judge noted, is not protected by
said Peter C. Frumhoff, director of the Constitution. The workshop concluded with
company, who in recent weeks ideas for what should come next:
science and policy at the Union of The 2012 report stated, “Similar
have tried to flip the script on the “Participants also made com-
Concerned Scientists. documents may well exist in the KAYANA SZYMCZAK FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
activists whose work helped set mitments to try to coordinate fu-
Later actions by the activists vaults of the fossil fuel industry
the stage for the current investi- ture efforts, continue discussing
were conducted confidentially, in- and their trade associations and Take Companies to Court Venice.’”
gations of possible conflicts be- strategies for gaining access to in-
cluding a strategy meeting in Jan- front groups, and there are many The group also talked about
tween Exxon Mobil’s public and The group also discussed other ternal documents from the fossil
uary hosted by the Rockefeller possible approaches to un- publicizing “the close connections
private statements on climate strategies for lawsuits based on fuel industry and its affiliated cli-
Family Fund that was described earthing them.” among climate change deniers,
change. theories that included false adver- mate denial network, and to help
in an April article in The Wall It also said, “State attorneys the fossil fuel industry and even
They say the environmentalists general can also subpoena docu- tising, libel suits brought by cli- the tobacco companies.” build an accessible repository for
Street Journal. That meeting,
have been holding a series of however, occurred after the first ments, raising the possibility that mate scientists who have been Establishing these connections those documents that are ob-
meetings and discussions to plot investigation of the company an- a single sympathetic state attor- maligned by industry surrogates, has been a big part of Professor tained.”
their strategy, dating back to a nounced by an attorney general. ney general might have substan- and “atmospheric trust” litiga- Oreskes’s work, and the work of A lot of that has in fact hap-
gathering in La Jolla, a San Diego The 2012 report offers a road tial success in bringing key inter- tion, which is now being pursued several other organizations. pened.
community, in 2012. That meeting map of sorts that helps explain nal documents to light.” in many states by groups like Our In an interview, Professor
was conceived of by Naomi why those taking on Exxon Mobil Since November, several attor- Children’s Trust. Oreskes said that Exxon Mobil
Oreskes, a historian of science at neys general, beginning with Eric Dragging the companies into Tell the Story was not the focus of the 2012 meet-
and other fossil fuel companies
Harvard whose work has drawn might find the courts a promising T. Schneiderman in New York, court risked backfiring on the Part of the fight, the partici- ing, and that “the point of the
parallels between the public af- battleground. have sent extensive subpoenas activists, they acknowledged, as pants said, would involve creating meeting was not to say we should
fairs strategies of the tobacco in- Here are some highlights: to Exxon Mobil seeking internal the public might dismiss the law- a “public narrative” that could do prosecute Exxon Mobil.”
dustry and fossil fuel companies. documents related to climate suits as frivolous. But there was a what scientific evidence alone Instead, she said, the point was
Critics refer to that founding change. clear upside, too: The cases would could not — provoke public out- “to ask the question, given the
group as the La Jolla Junta. The Tobacco Fight Recalled The state attorneys general allow discovery of internal com- rage. That is what happened when similarities between what the fos-
discussions would grow over time The participants, including sev- have said that while they consult pany documents. it became clear that the tobacco sil fuel industry did and what the
to include groups like the climate eral veterans of the tobacco wars, widely in preparing an inquiry, the industry had lied about its prod- tobacco industry had done, was it
campaigners 350.org and the discussed a turning point in the decision to proceed is based on the ucts. worth looking at it, and did it make
Rockefeller family philanthropies. Lay Blame sense to consider whether legal
fight against tobacco: the un- merits of the case alone. As one participant in the 2012
But any accusations that the earthing of industry documents Lamar Smith, a Republican Part of the workshop reviewed workshop noted: “Outrage is approaches could help break the
group engaged in a conspiracy that compellingly showed the in- from Texas who is chairman of the continuing research purporting to hugely important to generate. climate deadlock?”
would seem to violate the first rule dustry had long been aware of the House Science Committee, has show individual companies’ con- Language that holds carbon She said that she had been
of conspiracies: that they operate health risks of its products, and sent letters to the attorneys gen- tributions to climate change. For producers accountable should be pleasantly surprised by how
in secret. the enormous lengths to which the eral and activist organizations, example, Professor Oreskes sug- an important part of the narrative many of the things envisioned
For anyone curious about the companies went to sow doubt citing the collaboration and result- gested, “You might be able to say, we create.” during the workshop had come to
strategy developed at the work- about the science. ing subpoenas as possible “abuse ‘Here’s Exxon’s contribution to Others, however, expressed pass. “It’s kind of amazing, ac-
shop in La Jolla, it is no mystery — The Department of Justice won of prosecutorial discretion.” what’s happening to Key West or concerns about a potential nega- tually.”
Shareholders Press Exxon to Explain How It Will Deal With Climate Change Risks
”Probably there will be assets
From Page A1 stranded, yes, because the costs of
change, we see the risks of climate CO2 doesn’t make them attrac-
change and take them seriously, tive,” said Bjorn Otto Sverdrup,
and we are working hard on lower Statoil’s senior vice president for
emissions technology,” he said. sustainability.
Mr. Jeffers added that his com- By contrast, the political envi-
pany’s projection was not set in ronment around climate change
stone, and that Exxon Mobil was remains polarized in the United
flexible enough to move in new di- States. For example, Representa-
rections in the future. tive Lamar Smith, a Republican
But big owners of the stock who is chairman of the House
worry that the optimism of Exxon Committee on Science, Space and
Mobil’s outlook for oil demand is Technology, has accused the
dangerously misguided. Obama administration and fed-
“Investors can’t afford to have eral researchers of manipulating
Exxon become the next Kodak,” global warming research to pur-
said Scott M. Stringer, the comp- sue the administration’s “suspect
troller of New York City, whose climate agenda.”
pension fund owns roughly $1 bil- Last week, Mr. Smith also sent a
lion worth of Exxon Mobil stock. letter to the New York attorney
“It is impossible for them to do general, Eric T. Schneiderman,
business for the next 100 years as demanding all communications
they have the last 100 years,” add- since 2012 between Mr. Schneider-
ed Mr. Stringer, who supports the man’s office and climate change
risk-disclosure resolution. activist organizations. Mr. Smith
Some protesters are exhorting said the attorneys general were
investors to sell all of their fossil- doing the bidding of envi-
fuel stocks and are conducting ronmental activists who set out to
campaigns to pressure Exxon Mo- make pariahs of Exxon Mobil in
bil and other companies to “keep pursuit of policies to limit climate
it in the ground” — that is, to stop change.
extracting the very fossil fuels Analysts sympathetic to com-
that are their lifeblood. panies like Exxon Mobil and
And while some of those Chevron say that some of the
activists would consider it a vic- activists, especially divestment
tory to see these companies driv- groups on college campuses, are
en out of business, a growing num- trying to lower the equity values
ber of institutional shareholders PATRICK T. FALLON/BLOOMBERG
of oil companies and choke off cap-
want to see these companies ital for exploration.
move profitably into a future in
An Exxon refinery in California. Analysts sympathetic to Exxon say some activists are trying to choke off capital for exploration. That, these analysts say, would
which fossil fuels play a smaller keep the benefits of cheap energy
role, while renewable sources like “Our concern is about looking “stranded assets.” Logan said. have been more receptive to such out of the hands of the poor and
wind and solar play a larger one. forward,” said Anne Simpson, in- That conclusion did not satisfy But many investors said they resolutions. Last year, even before emerging middle classes in the de-
In recent months, Exxon Mobil vestment director for California Exxon Mobil’s critics. would be voting with manage- the Paris agreement was com- veloping world.
has been under increasing pres- Public Employees’ Retirement “The world is changing around ment on the climate resolution. pleted, several large European oil But proponents of the resolu-
sure to move faster, in part be- System, which is backing the dis- Exxon,” said Andrew J. Logan, di- “Exxon Mobil goes the extra companies, including Royal Dutch tions say transparency about cli-
cause of the efforts of the attor- closure resolutions. “The critical rector of oil and gas and insurance mile to ensure they are fulfilling Shell, Statoil of Norway and BP mate risks can help shareholders
neys general of New York, Califor- thing now is the next 25 years.” programs at the sustainable in- their role as a good steward of the accepted resolutions that were better assess their investment
nia and several other states. They Mr. Jeffers noted that vesting organization Ceres, which environment,” said Paul L. Lucas, similar or virtually the same as and prod Exxon Mobil and other
are investigating Exxon Mobil shareholders had withdrawn a backs the resolutions. a Midland, Tex., energy investor. those facing Exxon Mobil and companies to take part in a more
over its past funding of publicity similar disclosure resolution a few He noted that the range of large “That’s why it costs Exxon more Chevron. sustainable future.
that cast doubt on the science of years ago when Exxon Mobil shareholders promoting the reso- money to do business because Those companies, which are Proponents point to a recent pa-
climate change, while Exxon’s promised to report on the risks it lutions included New York State, they do business the right way.” based in countries where the gov- per, for example, by Chatham
own scientists were speaking and faced because of evolving emis- the Church of England and the Chevron, which is facing a simi- ernments and public opinion are House, a research organization
writing about the seriousness of sions policies. It concluded that Norwegian sovereign wealth lar resolution, is having its annual demanding new climate change based in London, that said Exxon
global warming. there was no current risk of de- fund. “The fact that this array of meeting on Wednesday as well. initiatives, have pledged to seek Mobil, Chevron and Shell “are
But many investors are more mand drying up to a degree that actors lining up against Exxon is Executives at Chevron say it al- renewable energy opportunities. faced with the choice of managing
interested in Exxon Mobil’s plans the company would have to leave so diverse is a powerful demon- ready carefully assesses various Statoil even acknowledged that a gentle decline by downsizing or
for the future than what the com- some of its oil reserves in the stration of just how isolated the risks to its investments. it may, in fact, end up leaving risking a rapid collapse by trying
pany did and said decades ago. ground, a problem known as company is at the moment,” Mr. Foreign energy companies some fossil fuels in the ground. to carry on business as usual.”
ITINERARIES
Live Entertainment Jack Sullivan was an imper-

sonator in Las Vegas before
joining Southwest. When he
At 30,000 Feet was hired, Elvis came along.
cepting of fun announcements, or

not,” Mr. Berry said. “If the cabin
seems like they are up for some
Flight Attendants Put On a Show fun, they’re encouraged to go for
it.”
By ZACH SCHONBRUN lost their élan, much of that indi- A spokeswoman for Southwest
vidual charm has worn off. also said that the company consid-
As the American Airlines flight
Still, some flight attendants are ered its crew to be its in-flight en-
swooped in over New York Har- tertainment and that it hired flight
bor on its way into La Guardia Air- not going gently. They are still do-
ing what they can to keep pas- attendants primarily because of
port one evening last month, Joe their attitude.
Howell grabbed the microphone sengers entertained or informed
beyond pushing a button to play That was certainly the case
and began his tour. with Mr. Sullivan, Southwest’s
“For those of you on the left- the video recordings of the in-
flight safety videos. Elvis, who did, in fact, begin his
hand side just off the wing, you’ll entertainment career as an imper-
see the Statue of Liberty on Lib- Consider Jack Sullivan, a South-
west Airways flight attendant sonator on the Las Vegas Strip.
erty Island,” Mr. Howell began, his When he applied for a job with
who impersonates Elvis.
baritone carrying all the authority Southwest eight years ago, he de-
of his 44 years as a flight attend- Or the Spirit Airlines flight at-
tendant who has taken to singing cided to keep his résumé vague.
ant. “The Statue of Liberty opened “I thought they were going to
safety instructions to the tune of
originally in 1886. Grover Cleve- think they’ve got some nut flying
John Denver’s “Leaving on a Jet
land was the presiding president.” around,” Mr. Sullivan said.
Plane.”
Against a smattering of groans, Nonetheless, Southwest appar-
But few can match the world- ED RAINES
he offered details of the statue’s ently loved Mr. Sullivan’s act, and
wide appeal of Marty Cobb, a 10-
copper plates (there are 500, year Southwest Airlines flight at- he has been singing Elvis tunes
tomers. Not her. Kara Mulder, a flight attendant sengers need to know I work for
handmade), the birthplace of the tendant, after a video of her co- like “In the Ghetto” on flights ever
“Not everybody is going to with Norwegian Airlines who the airline, they need to know who
designer (Alsace) and Liberty Is- medic spinoff of the mundane since, with crew members as
think I’m funny,” Ms. Cobb said. runs a popular blog, TheFlightAt- to go to when there’s a problem,
land’s original name (Bedloe’s Is- safety directions spread quickly backup dancers.
“That’s just the way it is. I think tendantLife.com, said there and they also need to have confi-
land). online in 2014. Like Ms. Cobb, Mr. Sullivan fret-
some people are afraid to do that seemed to be a cookie-cutter men- dence that I can handle an emer-
“Now if you look on the Manhat- It has since been viewed on because they don’t want to cause tality in air travel today, which is gency.” ted that such a mentality was dis-
tan side of the Brooklyn Bridge YouTube more than 22 million any attention and they’re afraid why recordings have replaced Still, in the view of some air- appearing from air travel, as more
along the East River,” he added, times and led to appearances for they’re going to offend some- some personal touches. lines, flight attendants can do airlines favor professionalism
“that is the South Street Seaport!” her on national television, includ- body.” “A lot of the legacy carriers their job and express themselves. over high jinks in the cabin. But,
Unlike checked bags and exit- ing this season’s “The Amazing Not all airlines are enamored of don’t want the liability of differ- Paul Berry, a spokesman for he said, he keeps letters and
row seating, the aerial tour was Race” on CBS. such displays of personality. Delta ences,” Ms. Mulder said. “They Spirit, said the airline encouraged emails from passengers who have
free. Ms. Cobb said the video was and American (which declined to want it to be a certain standard. its flight attendants to use their appreciated his attempt at light-
Mr. Howell’s routine is a relic of nothing out of the ordinary for her. make Mr. Howell available for And an easy way to make it the personalities as much as possible, ening up a stressful flight.
a bygone age when air travel was “I always like to make people comment) said in statements that standard is to automate every- as long as they covered the man- One of his favorite stories, in
something anticipated, not en- laugh and smile,” she said in a tele- the airline appreciated it when thing.” datory information. The no-frills fact, took place when a traveler
dured, and flight attendants did phone interview. “It just made it a flight attendants humanized their There is little disagreement that airline caters mostly to leisure started eyeing him while he was in
more than look out for safety and lot more fun for me and our crew interactions, but that flight a flight attendant’s primary focus travelers. Few of its customers the middle of a rousing rendition
delivered more than peanuts and and everybody else. That really attendants were reminded that is on safety. To some, that leaves are the corporate business of “Viva Las Vegas.” Finally, she
tomato juice. They used to think of and truly is sort of old-school less was more when it came to inno room for shtick. travelers who “tend to get an- took out her phone to show him a
themselves, according to those Southwest.” flight announcements. “I wear a uniform for a reason,” noyed with the fun announce- picture.
like Mr. Howell with long enough But she acknowledged that oth- Translation: Stick to the script. said Heather Poole, a flight at- ments,” Mr. Berry said. “She found a picture of her
memories, as hosts and hostesses ers were not as willing to show- And never has it been easier to tendant and author of “Cruising “We ask our flight attendants to standing with me back when I was
of an exclusive party. case their personalities, for rea- ensure uniformity with many an- Attitude: Tales of Crashpads, gauge the passengers and the cab- performing in Vegas in my Elvis
But in today’s age of consolida- sons that often boil down to not nouncements made by video or Crew Drama and Crazy Pas- in, and make a decision if that par- costume,” Mr. Sullivan said. “I
tion, when even the uniforms have wanting to offend a few cus- automated technology. sengers at 35,000 Feet.” “Pas- ticular flight would be more ac- thought, ‘O.K., I’ve made it.’”
Wall Street
Isn’t Feeling
The Rapport
With Trump
From First Business Page
This month Mr. Trump sub-
mitted a financial disclosure re-
port that was released by the Fed-
eral Election Commission. In that
document there was no indication
that entities associated with Mr.
Trump had lending relationships
with most of the country’s biggest
banks, including Citigroup, JP-
Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs
and Morgan Stanley.
One of his largest banking rela-
tionships is with Ladder Capital, a
small New York firm that typically
extends mortgages in amounts
below what generally interests
the big Wall Street banks.
“His roots and connections on
Wall Street are fairly shallow,”
said Roy C. Smith, a former part-
ner at Goldman Sachs who
teaches finance at New York Uni-
versity.
This observation may play well
with Mr. Trump’s supporters, who
have flocked to him in part be-
cause he is not part of the estab-
lishment. Though Mr. Trump this
month recruited Mr. Mnuchin to
lead his fund-raising effort, Hilla-
ry Clinton, the Democratic front-
runner, has made millions of dol-
lars giving paid speeches to cor-
ALEX BRANDON/ASSOCIATED PRESS
porations, banks and other orga-
nizations, including Goldman Donald J. Trump conducting a tour of the old post office in Washington. “I am friends with all the major banks,” he says. “They are dying to do business with me.”
Sachs, drawing fire from her op-
ponents. money, and now I have over a bil- cause the Trump Organization loan was due and payable. Trump started down a new path “I am not sure it’s appropriate
Part of the reason Mr. Trump lion dollars in cash, so I just do my had not drawn down on it as of the Mr. Trump asked the lenders for together on the Trump Interna- for us to discuss our sort of inter-
has fewer recent dealings with own financing,” he said. date listed on the 2015 Federal more time to pay because of the fi- tional Hotel and Tower, which is nal financial reasoning behind
Wall Street stems from a change Currently, 14 entities with ties to Election Commission filing. As a nancial crisis. He argued that the now finished and stands on the transactions in the press,” he said.
in his business model. The casino Mr. Trump owe banks in excess of result, no liability then existed, he crisis was essentially an act of site of the old Chicago Sun-Times “It’s really personal corporate
empire that resulted in huge $315 million, according to the dis- said. God, allowing him to invoke the building. (It was also a site of trade secrets, if you will. Neither
losses, more than a billion dollars closures released by the Federal According to guidance from the “force majeure,” or extraordinary protests in March on a night of newsworthy or frankly anybody’s
in debt and hard feelings across Election Commission. The actual federal office of government event, clause, in his contract with clashes that resulted in Mr. business.”
Wall Street, is gone. He also ex- amount of debt is not known and is ethics, an untapped line of credit the bank. He also demanded that Trump’s canceling a campaign As for Mr. Harris of Ladder Cap-
panded into fee-generating mar- higher — presidential candidates does not have to be reported as a Deutsche Bank instead pay him rally.) It included a new loan ital, he had nothing but positive
keting agreements, which are not are required to reveal only debt of liability. $3 billion in damages. valued at $25 million to $50 mil- things to say about Mr. Trump as a
capital-intensive and which banks $50 million or above, without fur- Mr. Trump’s complicated his- lion, according to his federal dis- borrower.
Deutsche Bank countersued
typically do not lend large sums of ther specificity. For instance, a tory with Wall Street goes back to closure statement.
Mr. Trump, demanding repay- “I’ve read all the stories you’ve
money against. Ladder Capital loan secured by a the early 1990s, when three of his Mr. Trump does list an addi-
ment of the loan. “This action is an read, but I’ve never had a default,”
Ivanka Trump, executive vice lease at 40 Wall Street is for $160 casinos ran into financial trouble; tional liability connected to the
attempt by Donald J. Trump — a Mr. Harris said. (Ladder Capital
president for development and ac- million. the Trump Taj Mahal filed for Chicago tower — this one in ex-
self-proclaimed master of negoti- happens to employ Jack Weissel-
quisitions at the Trump Organiza- Brian Harris, a founder and bankruptcy. Creditors often ended cess of $50 million — on his finan- berg, the son of Allen Weisselberg,
tion, said the company was no chief executive of Ladder Capital, up with pennies on the dollar, and cial disclosure form. chief financial officer of the Trump
longer interested in taking on said his firm also lent Mr. Trump the failures soured Mr. Trump’s This loan, oddly, is not from a Organization.)
huge amounts of debt.
“We get a tremendous amount
$100 million in 2012 on Trump
Tower, on Fifth Avenue. Both
relationship with a number of
banks. Many bankers say bank but is housed in a limited li-
ability company controlled by Mr.
“I’ve never had to call him and
say you missed a payment or you
of calls from lenders across all the
major banks looking to lend
those loans are listed simply as
being higher than $50 million on
At one point, Mr. Trump was re-
sponsible for about $900 million
they have never met Trump himself.
In the interview with The New
have a loan coming due — not at
the candidate. all,” Mr. Harris added. “He bor-
against our assets and pitch their the documents released by the personally before his businesses York Times, Mr. Trump said he
firms for future acquisitions and Federal Election Commission. rows money. He gets a schedule to
were restructured. Several bought this particular loan back
development opportunities we’re bankers on Wall Street say they from a group of banks several pay us back, and he does it.
In 2014, Deutsche Bank agreed
looking at,” she said in an inter- to lend the Trump Organization up are simply not willing to take on years ago. Instead of retiring it, he There’s no additional concerns be-
view. “But we have very little in- to $170 million to finance the gut what they almost uniformly re- ation and deal making — to avoid decided to keep it outstanding, cause he’s Donald Trump.”
terest in borrowing at this point. renovation of the soon-to-be ferred to as “Donald risk.” living up to the deal he reached and he pays interest on it to him- If there were any prevailing
So we have almost no leverage opened Trump International Ho- Another risk with dealing with with Deutsche Bank in 2005,” the self. The L.L.C. is valued on Mr. doubts of his stature on Wall
across our portfolio.” tel, a building a few blocks from Mr. Trump is his proclivity to sue. bank said in a legal filing. “This Trump’s financial statements as Street, Mr. Trump said the chief
Still, Mr. Trump recently said he the White House that was once Deutsche Bank got a taste of his suit is classic Trump.” practically worthless despite executive at Deutsche Bank could
loved debt, referring to himself on Washington’s stunning old post of- litigious side in 2008 when he sued The two sides ultimately holding a multimillion-dollar loan. easily allay it.
CNN as “the king of debt.” It is not fice. The loan was not disclosed on it and a group of other financial in- reached an agreement, and the “We don’t assess any value to it “Why don’t you call the head of
known how much debt Mr. the first financial form Mr. Trump stitutions to avoid paying the $40 original construction loan has because we don’t care,” Mr. Trump Deutsche Bank? Her name is
Trump’s company has, or what submitted in July 2015, but it was million that he had personally since been repaid in full. Dune said. “I have the mortgage. That is Rosemary Vrablic,” he said in the
percentage of its assets is encum- on his most recent filing. . guaranteed on a $640 million con- Capital, Mr. Mnuchin’s firm, was all there is. Very simple. I am the recent interview. “She is the boss.”
bered by debt, because neither Donald F. McGahn, a lawyer at struction loan connected to the part of the lending group led by bank.” Ms. Vrablic is a private wealth
Mr. Trump nor his company, Jones Day and former chairman Trump International Hotel and Deutsche Bank. “We were happy Jason D. Greenblatt, chief legal manager at Deutsche Bank in
which is privately held, will re- of the Federal Election Commis- Tower in Chicago. with the outcome, and it had no officer for the Trump Organiza- New York. She is not the compa-
lease that information. He says he sion who is representing Mr. Things went awry when impact on our relationship,” he tion, would not explain why the ny’s chief executive; John Cryan
is worth $11 billion and has $1 bil- Trump, said the construction loan Deutsche Bank asserted in late said. loan was not simply paid off after holds that role. Both declined to
lion in cash on hand. “I don’t need was not initially disclosed be- 2008 that part of the construction In 2012, Deutsche Bank and Mr. the company bought it. comment on Mr. Trump.
Financer Is Suspected
Behind Gawker Suits
viewed as being as much as
From First Business Page about money as about principle.
want to embroil yourself any And Max Mosley, the former
further in a public scandal, it’s a head of Formula One who suc-
pretty smart, rational thing to cessfully brought a series of suits
fund other legal cases.” against News of the World for
Mr. Denton’s view is based on publishing pictures of him in-
the huge expenses of legal cases volved in an orgy, later funded a
and settlements, the fact that Mr. number of lawsuits against the
Hogan’s financial health has same tabloid by people who said
been erratic — and on the rich its journalists had hacked their
history of lawsuits in which phones.
lawyers make money only if they As for the lawsuits against
win the case. There is an entire Gawker Media, “the evidence
industry that exists to provide has built up over time that there
lines of credit to lawyers working are questions that are unan-
on contingency. There is also a swered here,” Mr. Denton said.
small netherworld of investors “The data point that really got us
who back certain lawsuits. thinking was the move that they
“The answer may be entirely made on insurance, which
innocent,” Mr. Denton said, mus- seemed designed to prevent
ing on the question of whether insurance paying for our de-
Mr. Harder was paid by someone fense.”
other than Mr. Hogan, “but I Mr. Denton is referring to a
think in order for people to un- decision by Mr. Hogan’s legal
derstand what’s going on here, team to abruptly drop one of the
what the stakes are, I think it’s claims — for “negligent infliction
important that it be out in public, of emotional distress” — from its
or at least that he’d be asked the case. That claim had a particu-
question in public.” larly special meaning: It was the
EVE EDELHEIT/TAMPA BAY TIMES, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS
Based on my conversation one claim that required Gawker’s
with Mr. Denton as well some insurance company to pay for its Hulk Hogan, center, won a $140 million jury award in his defamation case against Gawker over the publication of a sex tape.
independent lawyers who first defense as well as potential
raised questions about the fi- payouts in the case of a settle- neen, a risk management con- is a defamation case on behalf of Gizmodo — I think that has been that crossed the line of good
nancing of Mr. Hogan’s suit, I ment. (That provision of Gawk- sultant who has long dealt with Shiva Ayyadurai, who claimed to a change for them.” taste. I’ve been on the other side
approached Mr. Harder and er’s insurance policy became lawsuits involving insurance have invented email. Gawker Gawker has made a virtual of Gawker’s critical pen, and it is
asked him the question directly. public after the insurance com- companies. “I’ve never had a had written an article challeng- industry of skewering the indus- not fun. Even so, I believe in a
In an email, he said, “I do not pany, Nautilus, sued Gawker to situation where the plaintiff ing his argument, similar to an try. The company got into a free press, and that means free-
discuss the finances of my try to limit payment for defense.) intentionally took out the claim article from The Washington public battle with Steve Jobs dom of speech for Gawker’s
clients, including any financial Several legal experts said that involving the insurance com- Post and others on the same over the publication of pictures brand of journalism.
arrangements they have with my it was particularly unusual for a pany.” topic. of a prototype iPhone that was Mr. Denton does too, but he
firm. This applies to all clients.” plaintiff using a lawyer being And given that Mr. Hogan has “In L.A. and New York power found at a bar. It has also poked also would like to see more trans-
Stepping aside from this case, paid on a contingency basis not had financial ups and downs, the centers, people are pretty used to at the private lives of virtually parency on the financial side. As
it’s clear that some lawsuits have only to turn down settlement cost of the hundreds of motions an independent and critical every member of Silicon Valley’s
offers (several sizable settle- for the Hulk Hogan lawsuit, “it’s
been funded for reasons beyond his lawyers made is significant, press,” Mr. Denton said. “It’s not royalty and outed many. (I’ll
ments were proffered by a big case that involves the bal-
strict economics. Kenneth G. and the chances the award is like we write that much about spare them being name-checked
Langone, the co-founder of Home Gawker) but also to pursue a significantly reduced based on Hollywood’s celebrities that isn’t here because it will invariably ance of power between public
Depot and former director of the strategy that prevented an insur- previous cases he lost making written in TMZ or in other celeb- send readers scurrying to Google figures and the press,” he said. “I
New York Stock Exchange, ance company from being able to the same claims in federal court, rity news sites.” to search the names.) think it’s in the public’s interest
helped fund Maurice R. Green- contribute to a settlement. it’s hard to completely under- But some subcultures aren’t Admittedly, it is a bit hard to and the media interest for the
berg’s lawsuit against the United “It’s a very unusual thing to stand the motivations at play. used to the glare, Mr. Denton defend Gawker Media. I often motives of people on both sides
States government over the do, because the insurance com- Additionally, Mr. Harder has added. “Silicon Valley coverage disagree with Gawker’s news to be out there.”
bankruptcy of the American pany would have deeper pockets brought two new cases against with coverage on Valleywag, and judgment, and it has routinely It would be great to know the
International Group, which was than Gawker,” said Larry Ge- Gawker that seem puzzling. One the coverage on Gawker and published items over the years answer.
Microsoft Awards Grants CF Industries

To Help Widen Web Access Scraps a Deal
By VINDU GOEL
SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft
bicycle hot spots to deliver Inter-
net access to the four billion or so
Aimed to Cut
has largely stood by as other tech-
nology giants like Facebook and
Google have begun work on grand
people around the world who are
not yet online.
The venerable software com-
Its Tax Rates
plans for balloons, satellites, pany, still best known for the Win- By CHAD BRAY
drones, simplified apps and even dows software that runs most of
LONDON — The American fer-
the world’s personal computers,
tilizer maker CF Industries said
did buy the handset business of
on Monday that it had called off an
IN THE UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT Nokia, the Finnish cellphone
FOR THE DISTRICT OF DELAWARE $8 billion deal to acquire several
maker, in 2014 — a platform that
In re: ) Chapter 11 European and North American
DEX MEDIA, INC., et al.,1 ) Case No. 16-11200 (KG) could have been the basis of a mo-
Debtors. ) (Jointly Administered) operations from OCI of the
NOTICE OF COMMENCEMENT OF PREPACKAGED CHAPTER 11 bile access strategy — only to
Netherlands because of a crack-
BANKRUPTCY CASES AND COMBINED HEARING ON DISCLOSURE write off most of the business a
STATEMENT AND CONFIRMATION OF JOINT PREPACKAGED down by the United States on so-
CHAPTER 11 PLAN year later and sell the low-end
TO: ALL HOLDERS OF CLAIMS, HOLDERS OF INTERESTS, AND PARTIES called tax inversions.
side of it last week.
IN INTEREST IN THE ABOVE CAPTIONED CHAPTER 11 CASES Inversions have gained popu-
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT on May 16, 2016 (the “Petition Date”), Dex But now Microsoft finally
Media, Inc. and certain of its affiliates, as debtors in the above-captioned larity in recent years as American
chapter 11 cases (collectively, the “Debtors”) filed with the United States seems to be settling on a strategy
companies look to lower their cor-
Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware (the “Bankruptcy Court”) a for addressing the great global
proposed joint prepackaged chapter 11 plan of reorganization [Docket porate tax rates and more easily
No. 18] (as supplemented, amended, or modified from time to time, disconnect: It is going to fund
the “Plan”) and proposed disclosure statement [Docket No. 19] (the use income that has been held in
other businesses developing local
“Disclosure Statement”) pursuant to sections 1125 and 1126(b) of title foreign subsidiaries. But those
11 of the United States Code, 11 U.S.C. §§ 101–1532 (the “Bankruptcy solutions and help build the ones
Code”). Copies of the Plan and the Disclosure Statement may be obtained deals have faced resistance from
upon request of the Debtors’ proposed counsel at the address specified that show the most promise. HOW HWEE YOUNG/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY
the United States government.
below and are on file with the Clerk of the Bankruptcy Court, 824 North
Market Street, 3rd Floor, Wilmington, Delaware 19801, where they
On Tuesday, the company, A classroom in Sichuan Province in China. Microsoft will fund efforts to expand Internet access In April, the Treasury Depart-
are available for review between the hours of 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., which is based in Redmond, around the world, but unlike other tech giants it will focus on businesses that offer local solutions.
prevailing Eastern Time. The Plan and Disclosure Statement also are ment, in conjunction with the In-
Wash., announced the first win-
available for inspection on the Bankruptcy Court’s website at www.deb. ternal Revenue Service, an-
uscourts.gov, or free of charge on the Debtors’ restructuring website at ners of grants under a new pro-
http://dm.epiq11.com/DexMedia.2 include a company in Rwanda the ambition of Facebook, which is based in eastern Maine and will nounced a series of new rules
PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE THAT a hearing (the “Confirmation gram called the Affordable Access
franchising solar-powered mobile offers a free set of basic Internet use the money to expand Internet meant to further curtail the prac-
Hearing”) will be held before the Honorable Kevin Gross, United Initiative. The 12 recipients, who
States Bankruptcy Judge, in Room 3 of the United States Bankruptcy kiosks that provide Wi-Fi and bat- services with local phone compa- access there. Another recipient, tice. The first deal to fall victim to
Court, 824 North Market Street, Wilmington, Delaware 19801, on will get $70,000 to $150,000 apiece,
July 15, 2016 at 10:00 a.m., prevailing Eastern Time, to consider the tery recharges, and an Argentine nies in more than three dozen AirJaldi, already works with Face- those new rules was Pfizer’s $152
adequacy of the Disclosure Statement, any objections to the Disclosure
Statement, confirmation of the Plan, any objections thereto, and any firm that uses monitoring tech- countries and is testing the first of book to deliver wireless Internet billion merger with Allergan.
other matter that may properly come before the Court. Please be IN THE UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT nologies and chatbots so that a planned fleet of large, ultralight service in rural India. CF Industries and OCI said on
advised that the Confirmation Hearing may be continued from time FOR THE DISTRICT OF DELAWARE
to time by the Bankruptcy Court or the Debtors without further notice In re: ) Chapter 11 farmers can keep tabs remotely drones to deliver Internet service Microsoft’s previous affordable Monday that the new rules re-
other than by such adjournment being announced in open court or by DEX MEDIA, INC., et al.,1 ) Case No. 16-11200 (KG)
on the health of their cattle. from on high. access projects focused on duced the benefits of their pro-
a notice of adjournment filed with the Bankruptcy Court and served on Debtors. ) (Jointly Administered)
other parties entitled to notice. NOTICE OF (I) DISCLOSURE PROCEDURES APPLICABLE TO That’s a pittance compared with Microsoft said it had concluded experiments with a technology posed transaction, and that they
PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE THAT objections (each, an
“Objection”), if any, to the Plan or the Disclosure Statement must: (a)
SUBSTANTIAL HOLDERS OF EQUITY SECURITIES, (II) DISCLOSURE
PROCEDURES FOR CERTAIN TRANSFERS OF THE EQUITY SECURITIES, Google, which has built a fiber-op- that such grand solutions, con- called white spaces, which uses were unable to restructure it in a
be in writing; (b) comply with the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure AND (III) FINAL HEARING ON THE APPLICATION THEREOF
tic network in Uganda’s capital ceived and driven by American vacant television bandwidth to way that would be attractive to
and the Local Rules of Bankruptcy Practice and Procedure of the United TO: ALL ENTITIES (AS DEFINED BY SECTION 101(15) OF THE
States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware; (c) state the name BANKRUPTCY CODE) THAT MAY HOLD BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF and has struck deals in Sri Lanka companies, would take many wirelessly deliver the Internet their shareholders.
and address of the objecting party and the amount and nature of the EQUITY SECURITIES OF DEX MEDIA, INC.:
and Indonesia to eventually beam years to put into practice and over long distances. “Although the original deal cre-
Claim or Interest beneficially owned by such entity or individual; (d) PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT on May 16, 2016 (the “Petition Date”),
state with particularity the legal and factual basis for such objections, the above-captioned debtors (collectively, the “Debtors”), filed petitions the Internet down from high-alti- would not work everywhere. In January, the company ated significant value for both par-
and, if practicable, a proposed modification to the Plan that would
resolve such objections; and (e) be filed with the Bankruptcy Court
with the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware (the
“Bankruptcy Court”) under chapter 11 of title 11 of the United States tude balloons. Nor does it display “We are taking a different ap- pledged to donate $1 billion in ties, changes in the regulatory
(contemporaneously with a proof of service) and served so as to be Code (the “Bankruptcy Code”). Subject to certain exceptions, section 362 proach than some of the others in cloud services to nonprofit organi- and commercial environments
actually received no later than June 20, 2016, at 4:00 p.m., prevailing of the Bankruptcy Code operates as a stay of any act to obtain possession
Eastern Time, by those parties who have a filed a notice of appearance in of property of the Debtors’ estates or property from the Debtors’ estates the area. We are partnering with zations and universities, and forced us to re-evaluate the com-
the Debtors’ chapter 11 cases as well as each of the following parties: the or to exercise control over property of the Debtors’ estates. the locals,” said Peggy Johnson, some of that commitment will now bination and led us to the conclu-
Debtors: Dex Media, Inc., 2200 West Airfield Drive, P.O. Box 619810, DFW PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE THAT on the Petition Date, the
Airport, Texas 75261, Attn.: General Counsel, with copies to: Kirkland Debtors filed the Debtors’ Motion for Entry of Interim and Final Orders Microsoft’s executive vice presi- be spent to help the communities sion that terminating the agree-
& Ellis LLP, Kirkland & Ellis International LLP, 300 North LaSalle Drive,
Chicago, Illinois 60654, Attn.: Adam Paul and Bradley Thomas Giordano;
(I) Approving Notification and Hearing Procedures for Certain Transfers of
the Equity Securities, and (II) Granting Related Relief [Docket No. 10] (the dent for business development. in which the current round of ment is in the best interests of CF
Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Rodney Sqaure, 1000 North King “Motion”). “We are focused on the here and grant recipients will be working. Industries and its shareholders,”
Street, Wilmington, DE 19801, Attn.: Pauline K. Morgan and Patrick A. PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE THAT on May 18, 2016, the
Jackson. the Dex East Administrative Agent, the Dex West Administrative Bankruptcy Court entered the Interim Order (I) Approving Notification now and what you can do in the ex- Paul Garnett, director of Tony Will, the CF Industries presi-
Agent, or the SuperMedia Administrative Agent: JPMorgan Chase Bank, and Hearing Procedures for Certain Transfers of the Equity Securities, and isting ecosystem.” Microsoft’s Affordable Access Ini- dent and chief executive, said in a
N.A., 383 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10179, Attn: Neil Boylan, with (II) Granting Related Relief [Docket No. 61] approving the Procedures2
copies to: Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, 425 Lexington Avenue, New (the “Order”). Microsoft plans to offer more tiative, said the company would news release.
York, NY 10017, Attn: Sandeep Qusba and Nicholas Baker. the RHDI
Administrative Agent: Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, 60
PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE THAT pursuant to the Order, a
Substantial Holder may not consummate any purchase, sale, or other
grants and is likely to provide ad- announce partnerships with big- The OCI deal, announced in Au-
Wall Street, New York, NY 10005, Attn: General Counsel, with copies transfer of the Equity Securities or Beneficial Ownership of the Equity ditional financial support to the ger companies later in the year gust, would have created the
to: Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, 425 Lexington Avenue, New York,
NY 10017, Attn: Sandeep Qusba and Nicholas Baker. the SC Members:
Securities in violation of the procedures set forth therein, and any such
transaction in violation of such procedures is null and void ab initio.
RETAIL projects that show the greatest that would have a much bigger im- world’s largest publicly traded ni-
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP, 28 Liberty Street, New York, NY PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE THAT pursuant to the Order, SPACE promise. pact than the current projects. trogen company.
10005, Attn.: Dennis Dunne and Gerard Uzzi; Milbank, Tweed, Hadley the Procedures, annexed as Exhibit 1 to the Order, shall apply to the (200)
& McCloy LLP, 601 South Figueroa Street, 30th Floor, Los Angeles, CA holding and purchase, sale, or other transfers of the Equity Securities or All of the current grant recipi- Microsoft’s approach “has been The transaction, worth $8 bil-
90017, Attn.: Mark Shinderman and Brett Goldblatt. the Subordinated
Notes Indenture Trustee: The Bank of New York Mellon Corporate Trust
any Beneficial Ownership therein.
PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE THAT upon the request of any Manhattan 205 ents are for-profit enterprises. toe in the water, but it’s now foot in lion, including debt, was struc-
Administration, 101 Barclay St., FL. 8W, New York, NY 10286, with copies entity, the solicitation agent for the Debtors, Epiq Bankruptcy Solutions, 6th AVE. #1032 Betw/ 38th & 39th Sts. One of them, Axiom Technologies, the water at least,” he said. tured so that CF Industries would
to: Bryan Cave LLP, 1290 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10104, LLC (“Epiq”), will provide a form of each of the required declarations
Attn.: Mary Stephanie Wickouski. the ad hoc group of the Debtors’ described above and a copy of the Order in a reasonable period of
Store for rent, ground level, aprx 800sf.
Currently Pizzeria/Light Cooking
become a subsidiary of a new
prepetition subordinated note holders: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld time. Such declarations are also available via PACER on the Bankruptcy Falconproperties.com 212-302-3000 holding company based in Britain.
LLP, One Bryant Park, Bank of America Tower, New York, NY 10036, Attn.: Court’s website at http://ecf.deb.uscourts.gov for a fee, or by accessing
Michael S. Stamer; Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, 1700 Pacific the Debtors’ restructuring website at http://dm.epiq11.com/DexMedia. OCI’s European, North American
Avenue, Suite 1400, Dallas, TX 75201, Attn.: Sarah L. Schultz.
UNLESS AN OBJECTION IS TIMELY SERVED AND FILED IN
PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE THAT a final hearing shall
be held before the Bankruptcy Court on June 13, 2016, at 1:00 p.m., BUSINESS and global distribution businesses
ACCORDANCE WITH THIS NOTICE IT MAY NOT BE CONSIDERED BY Eastern Time. OPPORTUNITIES would have become part of the
THE BANKRUPTCY COURT. FAILURE TO FOLLOW THE PROCEDURES SET FORTH IN THIS
YOU ARE ADVISED TO CAREFULLY REVIEW AND CONSIDER THE NOTICE SHALL CONSTITUTE A VIOLATION OF, AMONG OTHER (3400) new company.
PLAN, INCLUDING THE DISCHARGE, RELEASE, EXCULPATION, AND THINGS, THE AUTOMATIC STAY PROVISIONS OF SECTION 362 OF CF Industries, based in Deer-
INJUNCTION PROVISIONS IN ARTICLE VIII OF THE PLAN, AS YOUR THE BANKRUPTCY CODE AND THE ORDER. Automobile Repair and
RIGHTS MIGHT BE AFFECTED. ANY PROHIBITED PURCHASE, SALE, TRADE, OR OTHER Gas Stations 3446 field, Ill., will pay a termination fee
Wilmington, Delaware Dated: May 24, 2016 TRANSFER OF THE EQUITY SECURITIES OF THE DEBTORS OR of $150 million to OCI after the
/s/ Patrick A. Jackson, Pauline K. Morgan (Bar No. 3650), Patrick A. OPTION WITH RESPECT THERETO IN VIOLATION OF THE ORDER
Jackson (Bar No. 4976), YOUNG CONAWAY STARGATT & TAYLOR, IS PROHIBITED AND IS NULL AND VOID AB INITIO AND MAY BE 86 Convenience Stores w/ Gas deal’s collapse.
_________________________________________
LLP, Rodney Square, 1000 North King Street, Wilmington, Delaware PUNISHED BY CONTEMPT OR OTHER SANCTIONS IMPOSED BY THE
19801, Telephone: (302) 571-6600, Facsimile: (302) 571-1253, BANKRUPTCY COURT.
Stores in CT, ME, MD, MA, NH, NY, RI
Bid Deadline: June 21, 2016
A move by the Obama adminis-
Email: [email protected], [email protected] - and - James H.M. PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE THAT the requirements set forth 800-747-3342, ext. 1608
Buy One, Some or All
NRC.com/1608
tration to begin to tighten rules on
Sprayregen, P.C. (admitted pro hac vice), Marc Kieselstein, P.C. (admitted in this notice are in addition to the requirements of applicable law and
pro hac vice), Adam Paul (admitted pro hac vice), Bradley Thomas do not excuse compliance therewith.
Auction Adv., RE BRK Lic#10991209380
inversions in 2014 killed some
Giordano (admitted pro hac vice), KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP, KIRKLAND
& ELLIS INTERNATIONAL LLP, 300 North LaSalle, Chicago, Illinois
Wilmington, Delaware Dated: May 24, 2016
/s/ Patrick A. Jackson, Pauline K. Morgan (Bar No. 3650), Patrick A.
deals, including AbbVie’s planned
Professional Practices 3448
Watch memorable
60654, Telephone: (312) 862-2000, Facsimile: (312) 862-2200, Email: Jackson (Bar No. 4976), YOUNG CONAWAY STARGATT & TAYLOR, $54 billion takeover of its Irish
[email protected], [email protected], LLP, Rodney Square, 1000 North King Street, Wilmington, Delaware State of the art West Orange, NJ
[email protected], [email protected]. 19801, Telephone: (302) 571-6600, Facsimile: (302) 571-1253, Surgery Center, recently approved counterpart Shire. But those rule
Proposed Counsel for the Debtors and Debtors in Possession Email: [email protected], [email protected] - and - James H.M. Triple AAAHC. Fully licensed, which is changes ultimately failed to stem
TimesTalks programs
1
The Debtors in these chapter 11 cases, along with the last four digits of Sprayregen, P.C. (admitted pro hac vice), Marc Kieselstein, P.C. (admitted no longer available in NJ. Approx
each Debtor’s federal tax identification number, include: Dex Media, Inc. pro hac vice), Adam Paul (admitted pro hac vice), Bradley Thomas 14,000 sq ft. 4 Class C ORs, 1 exam the tide of American companies
room, large reception area, fully
(0040); Dex Media East, Inc. (5763); Dex Media Holdings, Inc. (9762); Dex
Media Service LLC (9647); Dex Media West, Inc. (7004); Dex One Digital,
Giordano (admitted pro hac vice), KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP, KIRKLAND
& ELLIS INTERNATIONAL LLP, 300 North LaSalle, Chicago, Illinois
equipped pre and post-op areas. This is seeking foreign partners to re-
truly a turn key business opportunity.
Inc. (9750); Dex One Service, Inc. (0222); R.H. Donnelley APIL, Inc. 60654, Telephone: (312) 862-2000, Facsimile: (312) 862-2200, Email: duce their tax rates.
on YouTube.
More info, inquire: 732-890-1268 or
(6495); R.H. Donnelley Corporation (2490); R.H. Donnelley Inc. (7635); [email protected], [email protected],
SuperMedia LLC (6092); SuperMedia Inc. (5175); and SuperMedia Sales [email protected], [email protected].
[email protected] In April, the administration
Inc. (4411). The location of the Debtors’ service address is: 2200 West
1
Proposed Counsel for the Debtors and Debtors in Possession Miscellaneous 3454 moved to make inversions even
Airfield Drive, P.O. Box 619810, DFW Airport, Texas 75261. The Debtors in these chapter 11 cases, along with the last four
2
Capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein have the digits of each Debtor’s federal tax identification number, include: Dex AMERICAN DRIVING SCHOOL LTD tougher to carry out, particularly
For Sale- estab since 1983 - driving
meanings ascribed to them in the Plan or the Disclosure Statement,
as applicable. The statements contained herein are summaries of the
Media, Inc. (0040); Dex Media East, Inc. (5763); Dex Media Holdings,
Inc. (9762); Dex Media Service LLC (9647); Dex Media West, Inc. (7004);
instruction business w/2 locations-
Ulster/Greene County-near Kingston,
by foreign companies that have
provisions contained in the Disclosure Statement and the Plan and Dex One Digital, Inc. (9750); Dex One Service, Inc. (0222); R.H. Donnelley NY. OWNER WANTS TO RETIRE!
Incl 1 bldg, 2 cars, all supplies, + $200 in
completed multiple deals with
do not purport to be precise or complete statements of all the terms APIL, Inc. (6495); R.H. Donnelley Corporation (2490); R.H. Donnelley
and provisions of the Plan or documents referred therein. To the extent Inc. (7635); SuperMedia Inc. (5175); SuperMedia LLC (6092); and
corporate stock. Call 845-331-2222. American partners in a short peri-
there is a discrepancy between the terms herein and the Plan or SuperMedia Sales Inc. (4411). The location of the Debtors’ service address od, which United States authori-
Disclosure Statement, the Plan or Disclosure Statement, as applicable,
shall govern and control. For a more detailed description of the Plan,
is: 2200 West Airfield Drive, P.O. Box 619810, DFW Airport, Texas 75261.
2
Capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein have the
LI Car Wash w/ Prop. Avail. YOUTUBE.COM/TIMESTALKS ties have described as “serial
To much to list, must see, nets $300k/yr,
please refer to the Disclosure Statement. meanings ascribed to them in the Order or the Motion, as applicable. will finance, ask $995k Joe (516)672-3822 inverters.”
‘All this attention is great, but I hope they realize that Slimer is not a registered voter.’
TOM ROTHMAN, chairman of the Sony motion pictures group that made the ‘Ghostbusters’ remake, speaking of its brush with politics.
A Slimed Movie Gets a Political Turn on ‘Ellen’

Melissa McCar-
From First Business Page
thy in the latest
a hip, and somewhat younger, “Ghostbusters.”
group of actresses is a chance to Donald J. Trump
score points with younger female
has commented,
voters. On the heels of Ms.
DeGeneres’s tweet came a fan- “Now they’re
made follow-up post showing a remaking
smiling Mrs. Clinton in a ‘Ghostbusters’
“Ghostbusters” jumpsuit stand- with only wom-
ing next to Mr. Trump as the film’s en,” adding,
gluttonous Slimer. “What’s going
Ms. DeGeneres is scheduled to on?”
tape Ms. Clinton and the
“Ghostbusters” cast separately.
That may help to minimize any
alignment between film and her
campaign, though Ms.
DeGeneres’s enthusiasm for both
has already been obvious.
But the not-quite-joint appear-
ance came as less-than-welcome
news to Sony, whose marketing
team has been fighting to tamp
down what it sees as a mi-
sogynistic, Internet-based assault
on the movie. The first trailer for
the new film, released in early
March, became the most disliked
trailer in YouTube history after a
coordinated campaign by a group
of mostly male naysayers.
In the best of circumstances,
film studios are reluctant to let a
big-budget film — “Ghostbusters”
cost more than $150 million to
make — become identified with a
political candidate. Mr. Trump,
who must overcome major weak-
nesses among female voters, has
also shown a willingness to fuel
the unwanted “Ghostbusters”
gender debate. “Now they’re re-
HOPPER STONE/COLUMBIA PICTURES
making ‘Ghostbusters’ with only
women,” he said with derision in a ers. Sony urgently wants to resus- peared in a sketch together last personal attacks leveled on cable than the janitorlike outfits dis-
recent video. “What’s going on?”
citate this franchise, with a sepa- year. news. Tuesday’s sit-down is the played on one the film’s early pro-
Amy Pascal, a producer of
rate animated “Ghostbusters” In the months since the booking A political mix of third time this cycle Mrs. Clinton motional images. One set of dark,
“Ghostbusters,” declined to dis-
cuss the “Ellen” booking or its po-
movie also in the pipeline.
Multiple people involved with
was made, Sony has found itself
trying to douse an online brush
Hillary and an will appear with Ms. DeGeneres.
The appearance coincides with a
moody posters shows a shadowy
Ms. Wiig in a profile reminiscent
tential perils for the film. Warner
Bros., which produces “The Ellen the film, who spoke on condition of fire over the film’s female cast and all-female cast. new ABC News-Washington Post of the noir advertisements for the
DeGeneres Show,” said no one in- anonymity because of confidenti- overall decision to revisit the orig- poll showing 53 percent of voters graphic novel-based movie, “Sin
volved with the show would com- ality strictures, said that Sony se- inal film. Just last week, the criti- have an unfavorable opinion of City.”
ment. cured the “Ellen” booking two cism flared anew, when a popular Mrs. Clinton, compared to 60 per- Even while swatting at arm-
months ago, and that the studio YouTube critic and the operator of The film’s director, Paul Feig, cent who said the same about Mr. chair critics who dislike the notion
In a statement, Tom Rothman, has fired back at the critics on so-
chairman of the Sony motion pic- was thrilled with the chance to Cinemassacre, a movie and video Trump. of a female “Ghostbusters,” Sony
promote “Ghostbusters” in such a game fan site, announced that he cial media, and male cast mem- But in helping Mrs. Clinton and its filmmaking team have
tures group, made light of the
positive, prominent setting. The would not review the film. bers from the original reach women, the hit daytime been weathering accusations of
film’s brush with politics. “All this
date for the appearance was man- Sony has traced hostility to- “Ghostbusters” — whose $229 show has inadvertently gotten in racial bias. Those have come from
attention is great, but I hope they
realize that Slimer is not a regis- dated by the schedules of two of ward “Ghostbusters” to a small million in 1984 ticket sales would the way of Sony’s efforts to hold commentators who note that the
tered voter,” Mr. Rothman said of the actresses, Ms. Jones and Ms. number of fan sites that embed- translate to about $584 million to- young males, a vital component of three white female
those with an eye on the “Ellen” McKinnon, who portrays Mrs. ded the YouTube trailer. The stu- day — have helped to mute the the audience for all but a handful “Ghostbusters” are scientists or
appearance. Clinton as a humorous ball of un- dio found that a parallel trailer re- gender politics. Bill Murray, who of summer blockbusters (like, for professionals, while the black
From a business aspect, the bridled ambition on “Saturday lease on Facebook was over- has a cameo, has been openly sup- instance, “Sex and the City,” in partner, portrayed by Ms. Jones,
new “Ghostbusters,” set for re- Night Live,” which concluded its whelmingly positive, and actually portive. 2008). is a transit worker.
lease on July 15, carries oversize season over the weekend. Ms. Mc- was seen by more men than wom- Mrs. Clinton has leaned heavily Sony has circulated online “Why can’t a regular person be
weight for Sony, which has been Kinnon portrayed Mrs. Clinton on en, according to people briefed on on “Ellen” to help humanize her- posters for “Ghostbusters” with a ghostbuster?” Ms. Jones re-
hurt by a shortage of blockbust- that episode, and the two ap- the film. self beyond policy speeches and looks that are more provocative sponded on Twitter.
STOCKS & BONDS
Choppy Day
Of Trading
Alters Little
For Markets
By The Associated Press
Stocks ended a quiet day

slightly lower on Monday as
investors sat on the sidelines wait-
ing for more clues about whether RICHARD VOGEL/ASSOCIATED PRESS
the Federal Reserve might raise
interest rates next month. Tribune Publishing, owner of The Los Angeles Times, rejected
Energy stocks fell along with another takeover bid from Gannett, and its shares fell sharply.
the price of crude oil.
The Standard & Poor’s 500- The Dow Minute by Minute
stock index fell 4.28 points, or 0.2 Position of the Dow Jones industrial average at 1-minute intervals on
percent, to 2,048.04 and the Nas- Monday.
daq composite lost 3.78 points, or 17,560
0.1 percent, to 4,765.78.
The Dow Jones industrial aver-
age fell 8.01 points, or 0.05 percent, 17,540
to 17,492.93.
Investors had little news and no
economic reports to analyze on 17,520
Monday, so stocks traded in a nar-
row range throughout the day.
Roughly three billion shares 17,500
traded hands on the New York
Previous close
Stock Exchange, making it one of 17,500.94
the slowest trading days this year. 17,480
Several members of the Federal
Reserve will be making speeches 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m.
this week, which may give insight Source: Reuters THE NEW YORK TIMES
on what Fed policy makers might
do at their meeting in June. Min- lion. The deal would make the
utes from the Fed’s late April 3-Month Treasury Bills combined company the world’s
meeting showed that the nation’s High rate at weekly auction. largest producer of fertilizers and
central bank seems to believe the other agricultural products.
American economy has improved 0.40% Tribune Publishing fell $2.14, or
enough to warrant higher interest 15 percent, to $12.09 after the
rates. 0.350% newspaper company rejected a
0.35
“Very quiet today,” Ryan Lar- new takeover offer from Gannett. THE ETERNAL MOVEMENT
son, head of United States equity The company also announced a
trading at RBC Global Asset Man- 0.30 new investor, who bought a $70
agement, wrote in response to an million stake in Tribune.
email query from The Associated 0.25
Benchmark United States Ulysse Nardin, from the movement of the sea
Press. “The hesitation seems to be crude shed 33 cents, to $48.08 a to the perpetual innovation of Haute Horlogerie.
directly related to what the Fed barrel on the New York Mercan- For over 170 years, the powerful movement of the
0.20
may or may not do come its June tile Exchange. Brent crude, used
Feb. March April May to price international oils, fell 36 oVean has inþired Ulysse Nardin in its singular
meeting.”
On Monday, interest rates on cents, to $48.36 a barrel in Lon- quest: to push back the limits of mechanical
three-month Treasury bills hit Source: The Bond Buyer don. Energy stocks followed oil watchmaking, time and time again.
their highest level in more than prices lower.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
seven years. In other energy commodities,
The Treasury Department auc- wholesale gasoline rose 1 cent, to
from 0.370 percent last week. The $1.65 a gallon; heating oil fell 1
tioned $31 billion in three-month
three-month rate was the highest cent, to $1.48 a gallon; and natural
bills at a discount rate of 0.350 per-
since Nov. 10, 2008, at the height of gas fell 1 cent, to $2.06 per thou-
cent, up from 0.275 percent last
the financial crisis. The six-month sand cubic feet.
week. Another $26 billion in six-
rate was the highest since March The dollar fell to 109.22 yen from
month bills was auctioned at a dis- Marine Chronometer
14. 110.14 yen, and the euro remained
count rate of 0.480 percent, up 60 hours power reserve
The yield on the 10-year note unchanged at $1.1214.
was unchanged, at 1.84 percent. Felf winding manufaÿure
Precious and industrial metals
In company news, the agricul- futures closed mostly lower. Gold Silicium technology
Other points of view
tural products company Mon- lost $1.40, to $1,251.50 an ounce. Sil- ulysse-nardin.com
on the Op-Ed page santo rose $4.48, or 4 percent, to ver fell 11 cents, to $16.42 an ounce,
seven days a week. $106 after the German company and copper was little changed at
The New York Times Bayer offered to buy it for $62 bil- $2.06 a pound.
B8 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, TUESDAY, MAY 24, 2016
Weather Report Meteorology by AccuWeather
Vancou
uver 50s
40s Metropolitan Forecast
70s
L Regina TODAY ..............Some rain, thundershower
Seattle
eattle
eattl Winnipe
pe
peg
eg 60s Quebec
ec
c
50s Spokane
Spoka 5
50s High 73. A storm off the southern New TODAY Record
H
Halifax highs
Portla
and
d Montreal
70s
50s
0 England coast will slowly move to the
Helena
Bism
marck northeast. Occasional rain and drizzle in 90° T F S S M T W T F S
Eugen
ene Fargo Ottawa P
Por
Portland
Billingss Burlington
n on 5
50s the morning will yield to clouds, breaking
60s Boise 5 s
50s
Toro
To ro
ronto
Manchester
M
Ma
Bos
Boston
for some sunshine later. A thundershower
Minneapolis
n Sttt. Paul
S Albany
70s
60
60s
60
0s is expected.
Pierre Milwaukkee Buffalo Har
Hartford
a
Caspe
er
Sioux
o Fallss Detroit
New York
N
L TONIGHT ..................................Partly cloudy
70s 80°
Reno
no 50s Che
heyenne
he e
Des Moines
D Chicago
o Cleveland
nd
d Pittsburgh
Phi
Philadelphia
Low 60. As the storm moves farther away,
Salt
alt Lake Omaha
Indianapolis
p
a northwest-to-west flow will usher in
City Wash
Wash
Washington
San Fra
Francis
isco
co Denverr Kansasa
sas H drier air, allowing the sky to turn partly
Springfield
i
50
50s Colorado
orad
ora
80s
Topeka City Charles
Charleston
harle
e
Rich
chmond
m
cloudy. Watch for areas of fog to develop Normal
Fresn
sno
sn Las
as N
Norfolk
Vegas
Ve
Springs
prin s
50s L St. Louis Louisville late. highs
Wichita Rale
eigh
e gh 70°
Los Angel
Lo ngel
ngeles
70s Santa Fe
e Nashville Charlotte 70s
0s TOMORROW .............Mostly sunny, warmer
Oklahoma City
O
Little Rock
Memphis High 85. Patchy fog may start the day.
Sa
Sa
ann Diego
o Phoenix Albuquerque
ue
uer
Birmingham
m
Columb
bia Otherwise, it will be mostly sunny with a
90s
0s
Lubbock Atlanta
warmer afternoon as an area of high
Tucson
Tu son El Paso
Dallas pressure builds east from the Ohio Valley.
Ft. Worth 90s
Jackson
n 60°
J
Jacksonville THURSDAY ................................Partly sunny
80
80s
0 80s 90s Normal
Honolulu San Antonio
Sa
Baton
o Rouge Mo
Mobile
High pressure sliding off the East Coast lows
New O
Orlando
H
Hilo Hou
ouston Orleans H Tampa
a
will allow the wind to turn to the south.
70s
0s
90s This will bring even warmer and more
Corpus Christi
C Miami humid air into the region. Sunshine will
50°
30s
Monterrey
nte
nter
Nassau mix with some clouds.
4
40s 80s
Weather patterns shown as expected at noon today, Eastern time. FRIDAY
SATURDAY ........................Warm and humid
Fairbanks TODAY’S HIGHS
50s Friday will be very warm and humid, with Forecast Record
<0 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100+
Actual range
An
Anchorage
nchorage
e
6 s
60s
clouds and sunshine. The high will be 83. High High
lows
H L 40°
Juneau
eau
COLD WARM STATIONARY COMPLEX HIGH LOW MOSTLY SHOWERS T-STORMS RAIN FLURRIES SNOW ICE
Saturday will remain much the same, with
FRONTS COLD PRESSURE CLOUDY PRECIPITATION
a high of 80. Low Low
Highlight: More Severe Storms Target the Plains National Forecast Metropolitan Almanac
Yet another round of Clouds and showers will keep coastal In Central Park for the 16 hours ended at 4 p.m. yesterday.
severe weather will occur areas of the Northeast cool today.
across the Plains this Warmth will continue to build over the Temperature Precipitation (in inches)
afternoon and evening. Southeast and Midwest and will expand Yesterday ............... 0.00
Damaging winds, hail into more of the central Appalachians,
Record Record .................... 2.70
SUN. YESTERDAY high 94°
and a couple of strong with sunshine. 90° (1964) For the last 30 days
tornadoes are possible. Actual ..................... 2.19
A corridor of thunderstorms will affect Normal .................... 3.98
Locally severe thunder- L the Central states as a multiday outbreak
78°
2 p.m. For the last 365 days
storms will follow for of severe weather continues. The great- 80° Actual ................... 40.06
tomorrow afternoon est risk of large hail, damaging wind and Normal .................. 49.91
before a potentially more tornadoes will extend from west-central
Normal LAST 30 DAYS
high 73°
intense outbreak of Texas to Nebraska and southwestern Air pressure Humidity
DRY 70°
severe weather develops Iowa. High ........... 29.96 8 a.m. High ............. 83% 6 a.m.
on Thursday. With each Low ............ 29.89 4 p.m. Low.............. 38% 2 p.m.
STEAMY
Most areas from North Dakota to New
round of storms, the flood Mexico and southern Arizona can expect
danger will heighten. 60° Cooling Degree Days
a dry day with at least partial sunshine. Normal
An index of fuel consumption that tracks how
Clouds, showers and spotty thunder- low 56°
far the day’s mean temperature rose above 65
storms will continue to affect much of the 56° Yesterday ..................................................................... 2
50°
rest of the West. Most of the rain should 6 a.m.
Record
So far this month .......................................................... 5
So far this season (since January 1).......................... 24
stay north of Southern California. low 43° Normal to date for the season ................................... 41
(1963)
4 12 6 12 4
Little Rock 85/ 65 0.01 89/ 70 T 90/ 71 T New Delhi 106/ 74 0.13 109/ 82 T 108/ 79 T p.m. a.m. a.m. p.m. p.m. Trends Temperature Precipitation
Cities Los Angeles 71/ 56 0 67/ 56 PC 68/ 58 PC Riyadh 109/ 78 0 108/ 79 S 98/ 74 S Average Average
High/low temperatures for the 16 hours ended at 4 Louisville 78/ 55 0 84/ 65 PC 84/ 68 T Seoul 81/ 61 0.38 69/ 59 R 76/ 58 PC Avg. daily departure Avg. daily departure Below Above Below Above
p.m. yesterday, Eastern time, and precipitation (in Memphis 87/ 64 0 88/ 70 PC 90/ 73 T Shanghai 82/ 67 0.12 74/ 65 R 79/ 69 PC from normal from normal Last 10 days
inches) for the 16 hours ended at 4 p.m. yesterday. Miami 86/ 74 0 87/ 76 T 86/ 76 T Singapore 91/ 77 0.24 91/ 79 PC 90/ 80 T
this month .............. –3.2° this year ................ +1.8° 30 days
Expected conditions for today and tomorrow. Milwaukee 77/ 57 0 75/ 56 T 66/ 57 T Sydney 81/ 56 0 70/ 53 S 68/ 54 PC
Mpls.-St. Paul 78/ 63 Tr 83/ 63 PC 73/ 62 R Taipei 87/ 77 0.66 85/ 76 T 86/ 77 PC 90 days
C ....................... Clouds S ............................. Sun Nashville 84/ 55 0 88/ 63 PC 90/ 66 PC Tehran 86/ 67 0.05 90/ 68 PC 86/ 60 PC Reservoir levels (New York City water supply) 365 days
F ............................ Fog Sn ....................... Snow New Orleans 87/ 70 0 87/ 72 PC 88/ 73 T Tokyo 85/ 63 0 83/ 67 PC 76/ 67 C
H .......................... Haze SS......... Snow showers Norfolk 67/ 55 0.67 80/ 62 PC 84/ 66 PC Yesterday ............... 99% Chart shows how recent temperature and precipitation
Oklahoma City 80/ 67 0.80 83/ 69 T 87/ 71 PC Europe Yesterday Today Tomorrow
I............................... Ice T .......... Thunderstorms Est. normal ............. 98% trends compare with those of the last 30 years.
Omaha 76/ 62 0.46 81/ 65 T 85/ 65 T Amsterdam 56/ 52 1.47 57/ 50 R 61/ 48 C
PC........... Partly cloudy Tr ........................ Trace Athens 82/ 61 0 81/ 61 S 79/ 61 PC
Orlando 86/ 68 0 87/ 67 PC 88/ 65 PC
R ........................... Rain W ....................... Windy Philadelphia 78/ 58 0 79/ 60 T 86/ 65 S Berlin 77/ 62 0 78/ 56 T 73/ 56 C
Sh ................... Showers –.............. Not available Phoenix
Pittsburgh
87/
75/
66
52
0
0
89/
79/
66
58
S
S
89/
82/
63
64
S
PC
Brussels
Budapest
57/ 49 0.55
82/ 56 0
60/ 47 PC
67/ 54 C
64/ 47 C
75/ 55 T
Recreational Forecast
N.Y.C. region Yesterday Today Tomorrow
Portland, Me. 76/ 50 0 59/ 49 C 75/ 55 C Copenhagen 68/ 57 0 73/ 55 PC 70/ 53 PC
New York City 78/ 56 0 73/ 60 R 85/ 66 S Portland, Ore. 67/ 53 0.18 71/ 51 PC 67/ 49 C Dublin 57/ 42 0 59/ 45 PC 52/ 45 PC Sun, Moon and Planets Beach and Ocean Temperatures
Bridgeport 70/ 52 0 66/ 56 R 79/ 61 S Providence 79/ 53 0 65/ 55 T 83/ 62 PC Edinburgh 61/ 43 0.14 55/ 41 C 55/ 43 C
Caldwell 78/ 51 0.05 74/ 55 R 86/ 63 S Raleigh 66/ 53 0.02 82/ 60 PC 87/ 64 S Frankfurt 61/ 53 0.26 58/ 46 R 70/ 51 C Last Quarter New First Quarter Full
Danbury 78/ 47 0 69/ 51 R 84/ 58 S Reno 61/ 45 0 63/ 47 T 65/ 46 T Geneva 54/ 44 0.48 61/ 43 R 71/ 51 PC Today’s forecast
Islip 73/ 49 0 67/ 55 R 79/ 60 PC Richmond 63/ 53 0.26 80/ 59 PC 85/ 63 S Helsinki 72/ 47 0 74/ 51 PC 75/ 53 T
Newark 76/ 54 0.05 75/ 58 R 86/ 64 S Rochester 79/ 53 0 80/ 58 S 81/ 59 T Istanbul 69/ 61 0 76/ 64 PC 73/ 62 T
Trenton 76/ 52 0 76/ 56 T 84/ 63 S Sacramento 73/ 52 0 75/ 51 PC 77/ 50 PC Kiev 72/ 49 0.01 70/ 50 T 69/ 54 T May 29 June 4 June 12 June 20
White Plains 73/ 50 0 69/ 55 R 83/ 61 S Salt Lake City 70/ 50 0 72/ 50 T 69/ 47 T Lisbon 77/ 52 0 68/ 56 PC 66/ 55 T 11:00 p.m. 7:03 a.m.
United States Yesterday Today Tomorrow San Antonio 89/ 73 0.04 87/ 74 PC 88/ 72 T London 66/ 49 0 64/ 45 PC 60/ 47 C Kennebunkport
San Diego 68/ 61 0 69/ 61 PC 68/ 62 PC Madrid 72/ 46 0 77/ 55 PC 72/ 54 PC Sun RISE 5:31 a.m. Moon S 7:52 a.m. 56/49 Cooler with a shower
Albany 82/ 56 0 74/ 53 PC 82/ 58 T Moscow 63/ 51 0.14 69/ 53 R 67/ 49 Sh
San Francisco 65/ 54 0 64/ 53 PC 64/ 53 PC SET 8:15 p.m. R 10:37 p.m.
Albuquerque 83/ 53 0 82/ 51 S 80/ 51 PC Nice 75/ 58 0.18 71/ 57 S 69/ 60 PC
San Jose 70/ 55 0 67/ 53 PC 67/ 54 PC NEXT R 5:30 a.m. S 8:45 a.m. Cape Cod
Anchorage 57/ 44 0.16 61/ 46 C 62/ 46 PC Oslo 60/ 53 1.07 55/ 47 R 60/ 46 PC 40s
San Juan 91/ 80 0.14 88/ 78 T 86/ 76 T 62/52 A couple of thundershowers
Atlanta 83/ 59 0 86/ 63 S 88/ 64 PC Paris 59/ 48 0.57 63/ 46 PC 66/ 50 PC Jupiter S 2:15 a.m. Mars S 5:26 a.m.
Seattle 65/ 52 0.20 68/ 51 PC 66/ 50 C
Atlantic City 64/ 55 0 68/ 59 T 76/ 63 PC Prague 72/ 54 0.26 67/ 51 T 68/ 51 C R 1:16 p.m. R 7:59 p.m.
Sioux Falls 76/ 54 0.27 82/ 60 PC 81/ 54 T L.I. North Shore
Austin 87/ 73 0.02 87/ 73 PC 88/ 72 T Rome 68/ 58 0 71/ 54 S 73/ 56 PC
Spokane 58/ 48 0.05 66/ 49 Sh 70/ 48 PC Saturn S 6:26 a.m. Venus R 5:23 a.m.
Baltimore 74/ 55 0.21 80/ 56 PC 85/ 62 S St. Petersburg 71/ 49 0 72/ 52 S 74/ 55 S 68/55 A couple of thundershowers
St. Louis 85/ 65 0 85/ 69 T 82/ 70 T R 8:51 p.m. S 7:54 p.m.
Baton Rouge 87/ 65 0 87/ 68 PC 88/ 69 T Stockholm 74/ 54 0 74/ 47 T 60/ 45 T
St. Thomas 90/ 81 0.09 90/ 81 S 89/ 80 S
Birmingham 84/ 59 0 88/ 62 PC 90/ 66 PC Vienna 79/ 58 0 62/ 53 T 72/ 55 PC L.I. South Shore
Syracuse 79/ 50 0 78/ 53 S 78/ 56 T Boating
Boise 69/ 44 0 70/ 48 C 70/ 48 T Warsaw 81/ 55 0 76/ 52 PC 75/ 52 PC 67/59 Rain and drizzle
Tampa 87/ 70 0 89/ 71 PC 90/ 69 S
Boston 73/ 53 0 60/ 55 T 79/ 62 PC
Toledo 76/ 48 0 82/ 62 S 81/ 64 T North America Yesterday Today Tomorrow From Montauk Point to Sandy Hook, N.J., out to 20 N.J. Shore
Buffalo 79/ 53 0 75/ 59 S 75/ 61 T
Tucson 91/ 59 0 90/ 60 S 88/ 55 S nautical miles, including Long Island Sound and New 68/59 An afternoon thundershower
Burlington 79/ 53 0 79/ 55 PC 77/ 53 T Tulsa 75/ 69 0.44 84/ 69 T 88/ 73 PC Acapulco 93/ 80 0.04 90/ 80 PC 90/ 80 PC
Casper 64/ 37 0 69/ 40 T 68/ 37 T York Harbor.
Virginia Beach 65/ 58 0.19 78/ 66 PC 83/ 68 PC Bermuda 77/ 70 0.41 77/ 71 T 76/ 70 PC 50s
Charlotte 73/ 54 0 82/ 59 S 87/ 62 S Washington 73/ 58 0.23 80/ 62 PC 84/ 66 S Edmonton 47/ 37 0.17 64/ 39 PC 72/ 42 Sh Wind will be from the north, then west at 5-10 knots. Eastern Shore
Chattanooga 85/ 56 0 88/ 61 S 92/ 65 PC Wichita 74/ 67 2.45 83/ 67 T 92/ 69 PC Guadalajara 92/ 58 0 95/ 59 S 93/ 59 PC Waves will be 2-4 feet on the ocean and 1-2 feet on 77/57 Clearing and warmer
Chicago 83/ 60 0 79/ 63 T 80/ 65 T Wilmington, Del. 73/ 55 0.15 78/ 58 T 83/ 64 S Havana 90/ 70 0.31 87/ 72 PC 87/ 71 S Long Island Sound and on New York Harbor. Visibility
Cincinnati 76/ 52 0 81/ 61 PC 83/ 66 T Kingston 89/ 79 0.11 90/ 78 T 91/ 78 T will be reduced in spotty showers. Ocean City Md.
Cleveland 74/ 53 0 80/ 61 S 81/ 64 T Africa Yesterday Today Tomorrow 60s
Martinique 90/ 79 0.01 88/ 76 Sh 86/ 75 Sh 73/59 Clearing and warmer
Colorado Springs 71/ 45 0 78/ 47 S 78/ 48 T Algiers 75/ 55 0 85/ 62 S 84/ 60 S Mexico City 84/ 54 0.09 83/ 55 PC 84/ 58 PC High Tides
Columbus 75/ 51 0 80/ 59 S 82/ 63 T Cairo 82/ 67 0 87/ 63 S 91/ 74 S Monterrey 90/ 70 0.08 96/ 71 PC 96/ 69 T Virginia Beach Color bands
Concord, N.H. 82/ 53 0 65/ 49 T 85/ 55 PC Cape Town 66/ 51 0.21 65/ 45 PC 67/ 45 S Montreal 79/ 55 0 83/ 58 S 74/ 54 Sh Atlantic City ................... 9:51 a.m. ............ 10:05 p.m. indicate water
Dallas-Ft. Worth 86/ 71 0 86/ 73 T 88/ 74 PC
78/66 Clearing and warmer
Dakar 77/ 68 0 77/ 70 S 77/ 69 S Nassau 90/ 77 0.06 89/ 73 PC 88/ 73 Sh Barnegat Inlet .............. 10:06 a.m. ............ 10:16 p.m. temperature.
Denver 65/ 44 0 74/ 47 T 72/ 46 T Johannesburg 65/ 42 0 65/ 41 S 64/ 43 PC Panama City 93/ 79 0.18 88/ 77 T 89/ 77 T The Battery .................. 10:47 a.m. ............ 10:40 p.m.
Des Moines 78/ 65 0 79/ 66 T 80/ 65 T Nairobi 78/ 59 0.17 72/ 52 T 75/ 55 T Quebec City 77/ 45 0 82/ 51 PC 75/ 50 Sh Beach Haven ............... 11:33 a.m. ............ 11:40 p.m.
Detroit 77/ 52 0 82/ 63 S 80/ 66 T Tunis 81/ 63 0 77/ 60 S 93/ 66 PC Santo Domingo 88/ 74 0.23 86/ 73 T 87/ 72 T
El Paso 93/ 63 0 90/ 63 S 92/ 64 S Toronto 76/ 51 0 83/ 61 S 78/ 56 PC
Bridgeport ..................... 1:22 a.m. .............. 1:57 p.m.
City Island ...................... 1:00 a.m. .............. 1:34 p.m.
A storm system off the southern New
Asia/Pacific Yesterday Today Tomorrow
Fargo
Hartford
84/ 54 0.76
80/ 54 0
86/ 60 PC
67/ 53 T
75/ 54 T
86/ 60 PC Baghdad 106/ 71 0 93/ 70 S 94/ 68 S
Vancouver 60/ 51 Tr 66/ 51 C 64/ 48 PC Fire Island Lt. ............... 11:01 a.m. ............ 11:08 p.m. England coast will depart to the northeast
Winnipeg 77/ 59 0.15 81/ 56 T 77/ 54 T
Honolulu 86/ 75 0 85/ 73 Sh 85/ 73 Sh Bangkok 95/ 79 0.04 89/ 78 T 89/ 78 T Montauk Point .............. 11:49 a.m. ............ 11:51 p.m. today. The New England beaches will be
South America Yesterday Today Tomorrow Northport ....................... 1:21 a.m. .............. 1:52 p.m.
Houston
Indianapolis
85/ 72 0.04
78/ 53 0
86/ 74 PC
81/ 63 PC
86/ 74 PC
82/ 65 T
Beijing
Damascus
74/ 58 0.04
79/ 62 0
86/ 60 PC
79/ 55 W
87/ 61 PC
86/ 57 S Buenos Aires 61/ 36 0 59/ 45 PC 62/ 43 PC Port Washington ............ 1:06 a.m. .............. 1:37 p.m. mostly cloudy, with a few showers and a
Jackson 86/ 61 0 89/ 64 PC 89/ 68 T Hong Kong 86/ 77 0.02 88/ 80 C 87/ 80 PC Caracas 91/ 78 0.18 90/ 79 PC 90/ 75 PC Sandy Hook ................. 10:15 a.m. ............ 10:22 p.m. thunderstorm, while the beaches farther
Jacksonville 85/ 61 0 85/ 63 S 87/ 61 PC
Kansas City 71/ 64 0.62 81/ 67 T 83/ 68 T
Jakarta
Jerusalem
90/ 78 0.27
70/ 58 0
91/ 78 T
65/ 55 PC
91/ 77 T
73/ 61 S
Lima
Quito
70/ 64 0
74/ 53 0
75/ 64 PC
74/ 53 PC
75/ 63 S
74/ 53 Sh
Shinnecock Inlet .......... 10:06 a.m. ............ 10:21 p.m.
Stamford ........................ 1:25 a.m. .............. 2:00 p.m.
south can expect a mix of clouds and
Key West 88/ 76 0 86/ 77 T 86/ 76 PC Karachi 91/ 82 0 96/ 83 S 94/ 83 S Recife 86/ 76 0.02 86/ 75 Sh 86/ 75 PC Tarrytown .................... 12:36 p.m. .......................... --- sunshine. A shower or thunderstorm is
Las Vegas 83/ 62 0 80/ 60 S 78/ 62 PC Manila 90/ 81 0.11 93/ 82 T 94/ 82 T Rio de Janeiro 77/ 69 0 72/ 65 PC 75/ 64 PC
Lexington 75/ 52 0 81/ 61 PC 84/ 65 T Mumbai 93/ 86 0.02 93/ 86 PC 91/ 85 PC Santiago 72/ 48 0 66/ 47 C 64/ 43 PC
Willets Point ................... 1:00 a.m. .............. 1:36 p.m. also forecast there in the morning.

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