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Macron Campaign Says It Was Hit by ‘Massive’ Hacking Attack Rikers Deemed Too Dangerous
This article is by Aurelien Bree-
For Inmates Outside New York
den, Sewell Chan and Nicole Perl-
roth.
PARIS — On the eve of the most By MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ and WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM
consequential French presiden- The jail complex on Rikers Is- ter said.
tial election in decades, the staff of land has failed to comply with In the letter, a copy of which was
the centrist candidate Emmanuel minimum safety standards and obtained by The New York Times,
Macron said late Friday that the has become so dangerous, accord- the oversight agency identified a
campaign had been targeted by a ing to a New York State oversight number of failures uncovered
“massive and coordinated” hack- agency, that it can no longer be over a series of inspections dating
ing operation, one with the poten- permitted to accept inmate trans- back several years that the city’s
tial to destabilize the nation’s de- fers from outside New York City. Correction Department has con-
mocracy before voters go to the sistently failed to address.
In a letter sent to city officials
polls on Sunday.
last week, the agency, the State Given the many problems at
The digital attack, which in-
Commission of Correction, or- Rikers, the failures identified by
volved a dump of campaign docu-
dered a halt to all inmate transfers the commission seem relatively
ments including emails and ac-
from county jails outside the five minor. Housing areas at the jails
counting records, emerged hours
boroughs. Such transfers were not adequately staffed with
before a legal prohibition on cam-
paign communications went into typically involve special catego- correction officers; electronic
effect. While the leak may be of lit- ries of inmates, like former correc- monitoring devices meant to en-
tle consequence, the timing tion officers or gang leaders, who sure guards are properly conduct-
REGIS DUVIGNAU/REUTERS
makes it extremely difficult for face an increased risk of violence ing their rounds were not installed
Mr. Macron to mitigate any dam-
Emmanuel Macron, the front-runner to win France’s presidential election, on Friday in Rodez. at jails in their home counties. or being used; officers’ private
aging fallout before the runoff “Given the critical security na- firearms were not inspected as re-
election, in which he faces the far- telligence agencies have con- are also believed to have been in- were involved in this latest attack. ture of the operations associated quired; and officers were rou-
right candidate Marine Le Pen, cluded that Russia’s president, volved in the hacking related to In a statement, the Macron with these findings, coupled with tinely issued pepper spray and
who has pledged to pull France Vladimir V. Putin, ordered an “in- the 2016 United States presiden- campaign said the hackers had the extended period during which other chemical agents even
out of the euro and hold a referen- fluence campaign” to benefit the tial campaign, have previously mixed fake documents along with no substantive, departmentwide though their certifications to use
dum to leave the European Union. Republican nominee, Donald J. been accused of trying to breach authentic ones, “to sow doubt and corrective actions appear to have such weapons had lapsed.
The hacking immediately Trump. Groups linked to Russia the Macron organization. Security misinformation.” been implemented, the Commis- In addition, for two months this
evoked comparisons to last year’s have been accused of trying to experts tracking the activity of “Intervening in the final hour of sion of Correction concluded that year, the Correction Department
presidential election in the United hack the Macron organization. suspected Russian hackers say the official campaign, this opera- this restrictive step was both ap- failed to comply with a require-
States, during which American in- Groups linked to Russia, that they believe those same groups Continued on Page A7 propriate and necessary,” the let- Continued on Page A18
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art has Janet L. Yellen, the Federal Reserve Some cultural figures vow not to vote for
filed a formal proposal with the city to chairwoman, said policies like paid president, a trend called “Neither-Nor”
charge admission to out-of-state vis- leave and affordable child care could that could help Marine Le Pen. PAGE C1
itors, a lawyer said in court. PAGE A19 expand U.S. economic growth. PAGE B1
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The Canadian prime minister’s R2D2 The N.B.A. prospect Lonzo Ball and his
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SEAL Member Dies in Somalia Officer Charged With Murder A Senate vote to kill an Obama-era rule One Swing and Yankees Win
An American commando’s killing dur- The Dallas County Sheriff’s Depart- allowing states to automatically enroll Down to his team’s final strike, Brett
ing a raid has put a spotlight on the ment issued a warrant for the officer
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1. In Rare Unity, Hospitals, Doctors and Insurers Rukmini Callimachi, a Times correspondent focusing on Al
Criticize Health Bill Qaeda and ISIS, recently found herself playing an unwanted
According to Thursday’s most read article, the health care game of whack-a-mole. After an ISIS supporter threatened
industry’s triune opposition to the House health bill came her on Twitter, that user was deleted — but then immediately
about because of the looming cuts to Medicaid; large reappeared under a new username. The social media plat-
insurers, who had demurred on the subject, were pressed into form has no policy forbidding the opening of a limitless num-
action because of the effects the cuts would have on their ber of accounts, and that, Ms. Callimachi tweeted, is a prob-
bottom lines. More than half of the audience found this story lem the company could fix if it wanted to. A lightly edited and
through social media — in particular, through Facebook, condensed excerpt from her thread follows.
where The Times’s post was shared more than 40,000 times.
2. Student Arrested After Crawling Into a Duct Sequence of events over past hour speaks to all that
to Steal an Exam is broken inside social media engines like @twitter
It was not the first time, or even the second, that Henry when it comes to terror accounts.
Lynch II had crawled through a duct into his statistics profes-
sor’s office. But Mr. Lynch’s luck finally ran out on Wednes-
day, when the professor got the drop on his in-progress heist.
Counterterrorism experts have advised @twitter
The biosystems engineering major’s measures bewildered
to limit # of accounts a user can create. Why would
readers. “With all the time he spent planning this, he could
1 person need 100s of accounts?
have just studied for the exam,” one commented on Facebook.
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4. Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski The entity being tracked is not the (likely fake) name
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of ‘Morning Joe’ Are Engaged given upon registration, but the credit card, which
The news talk show co-hosts have decided to tie the knot, is harder to fake.
confirming long-swirling rumors of an off-air relationship:
“I’m so happy that each has found the only other person in Rukmini Callimachi @rcallimachi
the world who can put up with them,” a commenter remarked WK6WUHHW6RKR
on Facebook. GLRU'LRUFRP
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FROM SNICKER TO SLAMMER
Worry in Scorched Fort McMurray: How Many Will Just Walk Away?
Oil Boom Town Faces
A Struggle to Rebuild
By IAN AUSTEN
FORT McMURRAY, Alberta — When
a group of Fort McMurray homeowners
gathered Wednesday evening for a block
party, they had beer, rye whisky and soft
drinks. What they didn’t have was much
of a block.
There are now just two livable houses
on the street, where once there were 55.
About a dozen more are being rebuilt.
But where the rest once stood, there are
only muddy lots, vacant except for the
capped utility pipes jutting from the
ground.
Exactly a year earlier, when a huge,
fast-moving wildfire called the Beast
was bearing down on the city, the whole
of Fort McMurray had to be evacuated in
a hurry. The first neighborhood to be in-
cinerated was Beacon Hill, including
Beaverglen Close, the street that held the
block party.
Though no lives were lost directly to
the fire, it destroyed some 1,500 homes
and scores of businesses in and around
Fort McMurray, the capital of Canada’s
oil sands operations. The fire turned vast
stretches of the surrounding forest into
blackened char, and burned so hot that it
melted the aluminum engines in parked
cars.
That was the short-term damage. The
long-term effects on a city already hard
hit economically by sharply lower oil
prices are only now coming into focus,
with spring and the start of construction
season. High on the list is the number of
people who fled Fort McMurray last
May, through choking smoke and walls
of flame, and are deciding to stay away NOEL WEST FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
for good. Construction in Fort McMurray, Alberta. Across the city, only 1 percent of the buildings that were destroyed last year have been rebuilt and reoccupied.
The Beaverglen partygoers — about
two dozen people and two dogs — took a
ceremonial walk along the crescent- ing are likely to involve houses that were put her loss to smoke damage at about
shaped street, catching up with neigh- destroyed rather than just damaged. 500,000 Canadian dollars, only partly
bors, snapping photos and puzzling over Mr. Adams said there were no figures covered by insurance. “The town isn’t
exactly where some of the missing yet on how many people were taking the the same at the moment,” she said, “but
houses once stood. It quickly became ap- money and walking away rather than re- eventually it will get there.”
parent that the party was both a reunion building. If they are doing that, he said, Life remains badly unsettled for many
and something of a farewell: Two there is a good chance they were under- Fort McMurray residents.
residents said they did not intend to re- insured and have discovered that their “The kids did not do well coming
build, and a third said he was leaning that policies would not pay enough to cover back,” said Bobby-Jean Loevenmark,
way. replacement costs. whose house was just around the corner
Across the city, only 1 percent of the Settlements vary and are negotiated from Beaverglen Close. She and her hus-
buildings that were destroyed last year case by case. But several property own- band are rebuilding, but the new house
have been rebuilt and reoccupied. The ers said theirs were about 20 percent less may not be finished until December. In
city has issued building permits for than replacement cost. the meantime, the couple and the three
fewer than half of the rest. Those figures Quinn Lotsberg, a high school vice
will rise as more property owners reach principal who moved to Fort McMurray
settlements with their insurers. But Me- 12 years ago, reckons that it would cost
lissa Blake, the mayor of the regional him more to rebuild on Beaverglen now A year after a huge fire,
municipality that includes Fort McMur-
ray, acknowledged that the city might
than the house would be worth when fin-
ished. For that and other reasons, he is
residents gather and weigh
not fully repopulate for years.
“We know the events of last year
considering taking the cash, selling the their options.
land for whatever it will fetch and mov-
weigh heavily on a lot of people,” Ms. TYLER HICKS/THE NEW YORK TIMES ing on.
Blake said from her office, where she has “I can’t exactly tell you what will be the
a panoramic view of the black scar the The Beacon Hill neighborhood of Fort McMurray, which was the first neigh-
borhood to be burned when a wildfire swept through the area last year. deciding factor,” he said as he walked youngest of their five children stayed
fire left on the landscape. “If part of their near his lot, which for now is just fenced with friends in Saskatchewan and then a
recovery requires they leave the commu- in. relative in Ontario last summer, and then
nity, that’s just a reality we have to face.” “You knew everybody on the street,” he There were a lot of pros and cons.” moved into a rented house across town
Since the fire, Fort McMurray has
Residents and real estate agents agree said. “There wasn’t a lot of renters.” Shelley Kellington and her husband, when school started in September.
gone from having hardly any residential
that before the fire, Beacon Hill was Fort McMurray was long known as a who lived across the street from Ms. lots for sale to having a glut, and prices “They’re not happy, period, because
probably the most desirable part of the place for Canadians from all over to go Backhouse, are joining the exodus, too, have plunged, according to Andrew Weir, they’re not home,” she said of her chil-
city. The attraction was not so much the for a while, make a quick buck in the oil even though Ms. Kellington’s daughter a local real estate broker. At the top of the dren as she stood in front of her lot in
houses — mostly modest in size and style sands projects and move on again. But Melissa and her husband are rebuilding
and built in the 1970s — but the surround- market before the oil slump, he said, it Beacon Hill. “All their friends had lived
the people who are leaving Beaverglen down the street. might take 400,000 Canadian dollars to over here, or up over here, and now
ings. Unlike newer parts of town, Beacon
Close now were well rooted. “I just don’t have it in me to build,” said secure one of the few building lots that they’re all dispersed all over Fort Mc-
Hill homes had spacious lots with mature
Dawna Backhouse watched her house Ms. Kellington, who was teaching at the came available, but today they can be Murray.” Some had even moved away to
trees, and the street traffic was minimal
because there was only one access road being built for her parents 42 years ago. neighborhood primary school when the had easily for less than half that — a sign former homes in other provinces, she
into the area. She and her husband, Scott, later bought fire struck, and helped evacuate its stu- of how many homeowners are walking said, a loss her children felt acutely:
(That advantage turned into a big it and raised two children of their own dents. The school has not reopened, and away. “Their everyday life got ripped away
problem during the evacuation, when there. But with Scott now only five or six she and her husband have decided to re- The three neighborhoods hit hardest from them.”
traffic bottlenecked so badly that some years from retirement, the couple de- tire and live in a new motor home bought by the fire, in the city’s south end, are still After walking the length of Beaverglen
residents risked going off-road down a cided not to rebuild. Instead, they intend with part of their insurance settlement. largely deserted, and local businesses Close on Wednesday evening, the
steep hillside to reach the main highway. to take their insurance payout, rent in an- “We will be of no fixed address,” she said. are feeling the loss of those customers. partygoers said their goodbyes,
The ruts from their tires are still visible other part of town for a year and then “Who ever would have thought?” At A & J’s Fashions, a clothing store in strapped their children into car seats and
in the grass.) move south, possibly to a house they own So far, about 28,000 insurance claims the smaller of the city’s two malls, sales loaded the dogs in the back. Once more,
Beacon Hill “was the older, family-feel- in Calgary. have been filed from the fire in Fort Mc- are only about half what they were be- they were evacuating their neighbor-
ing neighborhood,” said Stephen Nash, a “It’s bittersweet; we love this neigh- Murray, according to Bill Adams of the fore the fire. hood — consigning it not to the flames
mechanic who lived on Beaverglen and borhood,” said Ms. Backhouse, a pre- Insurance Bureau of Canada, an indus- “We just have to struggle through an- this time, but to the night watchmen at
had emergency hip-replacement school teacher. “I’ve known some of try association. A majority have been other year and see if it gets better,” said the construction sites. Some of them may
surgery just a few days before the fire. these neighbors since I was, like, this tall. settled, he said, and those still outstand- Joycelyn B. Reece-Reid, the owner, who never return.
North Korea Claims C.I.A. Plotted With the South to Assassinate Kim Jong-un
By CHOE SANG-HUN The fears run so high that when Mr. North’s Ministry of State Security. The whom it accused of spying for the South. nine hours earlier on his way back from
SEOUL, South Korea — In a region al- Kim — and, before him, his father, the ministry serves as the North’s intelli- It remains impossible to verify these Beijing. Two trains carrying fuel had col-
ready tense over nuclear threats, North dictator Kim Jong-il — was scheduled to gence and secret police agency. claims. South Korea’s National Intelli- lided, killing or injuring as many as 3,000
Korea accused the South Korean and appear in public, agents removed The plan involved bombing a military gence Service dismisses them as propa- people, but no connection to the leader’s
American intelligence agencies on Fri- residents from nearby apartments, ac- parade attended by Mr. Kim, the North ganda. travel was ever confirmed.
day of plotting to assassinate its leader, cording to defectors who had served in Korean statement said. The South Kore- North Korea has also made improba- In the fraught history of the Korean
Kim Jong-un, and it warned of an un- North Korean security agencies. Even an spy agency later provided the man ble allegations that more than 30,000 Peninsula, however, the idea of assassi-
specified counterattack. soldiers who were designated to shake with additional cash to hire co-conspira- North Korean defectors who fled to nation attempts is not far-fetched.
The North Korean government said it hands with Mr. Kim had to wash their South Korea in the last two decades were In 1968, North Korean commandos
had recently uncovered a “hideous ter- hands first, the defectors said. kidnapped by the South. came within striking distance of the
rorists’ group” that the South Koreans The country’s relationship with South When it accused the South Korean spy South Korean president’s home, the Blue
and the C.I.A. had sent into the country Korea and the United States has been Vowing an ‘anti-terrorist’ agency in these cases, it usually named House, before being repelled. One agent
on a secret mission to kill Mr. Kim with particularly tense in recent months, as the C.I.A. as either a co-conspirator or caught alive said his team had snaked
biochemical agents. the North threatened to perform another attack after an allegation the mastermind. through the border to “slit the throat” of
nuclear test and continued to test ballis- Still, it is highly unusual for North Ko- the South Korean leader at the time, Park
A statement carried by the country’s
official news agency, KCNA, said that tic missiles. President Trump has rattled that is rare in its detail. rea to assert that the South’s spy agency Chung-hee. In retaliation, Mr. Park’s gov-
South Korea’s National Intelligence the region with martial-sounding plotted to assassinate Mr. Kim. ernment trained a secret unit with a mis-
Service had hired a North Korean logger threats, including a recent comment that In recent months, as tensions intensi- sion to assassinate his nemesis, Kim Il-
working in the Russian Far East in 2014 the United States could “end up having a fied on the Korean Peninsula, the North sung, Mr. Kim’s grandfather. The unit
major, major conflict with North Korea.” tors, the statement said.
to attack Mr. Kim. has reacted stridently to news reports was disbanded without carrying out its
On Monday, however, Mr. Trump said The statement then threatened that an mission.
The existence of such a plot is impossi- out of South Korea that United States and
he was willing to meet with Mr. Kim if the “anti-terrorist attack will be commenced South Korean commando units were In 1983, North Korea tried to assassi-
ble to verify. The National Intelligence
circumstances were right, a departure from this moment to sweep away the in- training to “decapitate” the North Kore- nate another South Korean dictator,
Service dismissed the accusations as
from past sitting presidents who have telligence and plot-breeding organiza- an leadership in case of war. Chun Doo-hwan, while he was visiting
groundless.
shunned the North Korean leadership. tions of the U.S. imperialists and the pup- Over the decades, there have been oc- Burma, now Myanmar. The bombs
North Korea is especially sensitive to
any hint of criticism or threat to its The North Korean government laid pet clique, the most mean and brutal hid- casional, unconfirmed reports of armed planted by its officers destroyed the
leader. Even a movie version of such a out its claims of a plot against Mr. Kim in eous terrorist group in the world.” In rebellions or assassination attempts in Martyrs’ Mausoleum in what was then
threat roiled the country. North Korea is surprising detail on Friday. North Korean propaganda, South Korea the North. But longtime North Korea the Burmese capital, killing 21 people, in-
widely believed to have mounted an au- It said that officers at South Korea’s is regularly referred to as a puppet of the observers say that organized subversion cluding several South Korean cabinet
dacious hacking attack of Sony Pictures National Intelligence Service had United States. is highly unlikely under the North’s po- ministers. Mr. Chun escaped the attack
in 2014 as retaliation against “The Inter- trained the man in the assassination plot, In recent years, at least three South lice state, in which huge numbers of sol- because his arrival had been delayed.
view,” a comedy based on a fictional plot and provided him with $20,000 and a sat- Koreans have been arrested in North Ko- diers and security agents are dedicated The latest allegations follow the assas-
to assassinate Mr. Kim. ellite communication device. His rea and sentenced to long prison terms to the sole task of protecting Mr. Kim. sination of Kim Jong-nam, Mr. Kim’s es-
And when North Korea executed Mr. handlers then sent the “human scum” on espionage charges. The North is also In 2004, an enormous explosion at a tranged half brother, with a banned
Kim’s uncle, Jang Song-thaek, it accused into North Korea, giving him instruc- holding at least three Americans on train station on the border with China chemical weapon at Kuala Lumpur In-
him of plotting to overthrow Mr. Kim’s tions last year on how to assassinate Mr. charges of “hostile acts,” including a Ko- prompted rumors of an attempt to kill ternational Airport in February. That
government. Kim, according to a spokesman for the rean-American named Kim Dong-chul, Kim Jong-il, who had passed through killing has been linked to North Korea.
THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, MAY 6, 2017 N A5
Mexico’s President Vows to Step Up Protections for Journalists last year, said that most of the
cases involving journalists had
nothing to do with the issues relat-
investigators in Veracruz. Testi-
mony from the bodyguard of the
mayor of the town where Mr.
By AZAM AHMED because the special office respon- ensure funding for a federal pro- murderous cycle and ensure that ed to the freedom of expression, Sánchez worked described how
MEXICO CITY — Faced with a sible for prosecuting cases involv- tection program for threatened journalists under threat will be and that was why his office inves- the mayor, Omar Cruz Reyes, had
wave of deadly attacks against ing the freedom of expression journalists follows several critical protected,” said Carlos Lauría, the tigated so few cases. At the time, ordered the assassination be-
journalists, the president of Mex- rarely brings anyone to justice for reports accusing the government coordinator of the organization’s he pointed to the case of Moisés cause he was annoyed by Mr.
ico has vowed to take concrete the crimes. of complicity in attacks on the Americas program. “The govern- Sánchez, a journalist in the state Sánchez’s coverage.
steps to ensure the safety of jour- Since its creation in 2010, the of- news media and of an inability — ment and the criminal justice sys- of Veracruz who was abducted Eventually, months later, Mr.
nalists in his country, including re- fice has examined more than 800 or unwillingness — to investigate tem must now follow through on from his home in 2015. His body Nájera’s office took on the case,
moving the lead prosecutor re- cases of serious crimes but has cases. the president’s pledges.” was found several days later, but Mr. Reyes had already fled
sponsible for investigating crimes won only two convictions. Ricardo Mr. Peña Nieto made his prom- The leadership of the special chopped into pieces by his kidnap-
and gone into hiding.
against the freedom of expres- Nájera, the lead prosecutor, has ise on Thursday to a visiting dele- prosecutor’s office has changed pers.
sion. repeatedly failed to take on cases, gation from the Committee to Pro- before, and it is unclear whom Mr. Mr. Nájera dismissed pleas to
Last year, 11 Mexican journalists including homicides, in which evi- tect Journalists, which was pre- Peña Nieto will appoint. In the investigate Mr. Sánchez’s case,
were killed, the most in more than dence exists that the victim’s re- senting its own recent report on past, changes in the office have saying that he was a cabdriver Other points of view
a decade, and several more mur- porting and writing had provoked impunity in crimes committed had little effect on its capacity to and that there was no evidence on the Op-Ed page
ders have already been recorded the wrath of attackers. against journalists in Mexico. investigate cases of murder and linking his death to his journalistic
assault against journalists.
seven days a week.
in 2017. And yet there is near total President Enrique Peña Nieto’s “We welcome President Peña activities.
impunity for the attackers, in part pledge to replace Mr. Nájera and Nieto’s commitment to break this Mr. Nájera, in interviews late But that is untrue, according to The New York Times
THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, MAY 6, 2017 0N A7
Macron Campaign Says It Was Hit by ‘Massive and Coordinated’ Hacking Attack
appears to be the contents of a was later deleted: “It was to be ex-
From Page A1 hard drive and several emails of pected. The last-ditch offensive
tion is clearly a matter of co-workers and En Marche po- benefiting a candidacy favored by
democratic destabilization, as litical officials.” a foreign government.”
was seen in the United States dur- “It will take to time to sift One of Ms. Le Pen’s top allies,
ing the last presidential cam- through it all, but at first glance, Florian Philippot, the vice presi-
paign,” the statement said. they seem to be utterly mundane,” dent of her party, the National
Earlier on Friday, Ms. Le Pen’s Numerama said after analyzing Front, asked on Twitter: “Will the
campaign staff said its website the data. “One finds memos, bills, #Macronleaks learn things that
also had faced “regular and tar- loans for amounts that are hardly investigative journalism has de-
geted” attacks during the cam- over-the-top, recommendations liberately killed,” referring to his
paign. and other reservations, amidst, of argument that the mainstream
It also said that the French au- course, exchanges that are news media has been biased
thorities had investigated the at- strictly personal and private — against Ms. Le Pen. “Scary, this
tacks and, this week, arrested a personal notes on the rain and democratic shipwreck.”
suspect who was “close to ex- sunshine, a confirmation email for
Mr. Macron, 39, an independent
treme-left circles” and who had the publishing of a book, reserva-
centrist and a former economy
admitted to being responsible for tion of a table for friends, etc.”
several attacks on Ms. Le Pen’s Some of the documents did not
campaign website. The arrest oc- appear to have any link to Mr.
Macron, Numerama reported.
curred on French soil, the state-
The National Commission for An attack meant to
ment said.
Unlike Mr. Macron, however, it
Control of the Electoral Cam-
paign, a regulatory body, said it
‘sow doubt and
did not appear that Ms. Le Pen’s
campaign documents had been
was contacted by the Macron misinformation’
campaign on Friday night. The
compromised. The authorities did
not immediately confirm the Le
commission, which planned to before an election.
meet on Saturday about the hack-
Pen camp’s account. ing, urged the news media to be
The Macron campaign said the cautious in its reporting.
documents leaked Friday were “It therefore asks the media, minister who is making his first
stolen several weeks ago after the and in particular their websites, run for elected office, has been fa-
MARTIN BUREAU/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES
personal and professional emails not to report on the content of vored in the polls over Ms. Le Pen,
of staff members at En Marche, Emmanuel Macron at a rally last week in Sarcelles. The hacking attack came to light just hours 48, a lawyer and political heir to
these data, recalling that the dis-
his political movement, were before the legal deadline for candidates to cease all campaign communications. semination of false information is the National Front movement her
hacked. liable to fall within the scope of the father, now estranged, founded in
It was not the first reported In the attack reported on Fri- as Fancy Bear, say it has been that APT28 was involved in the law — in particular criminal law,” 1972. The party has taken strong
hacking attempt of Mr. Macron’s day, Vitali Kremez, the director of moving aggressively against theft of the Macron campaign doc- the commission said. stands against immigration, glob-
campaign. In April, a report by the research at Flashpoint, a business NATO members and a variety of uments. The Macron campaign ap- alization and the European Union.
cybersecurity firm Trend Micro risk intelligence company in New Western targets using various Candidates and their staff are pealed to journalists to not do the The two candidates confronted
said there was evidence that the York, said he suspected the in- hacking tools, including so-called prohibited by French electoral hackers’ bidding by widely publi- each other Wednesday night in a
campaign was targeted in March volvement of a Russian-linked es- spear-phishing attacks, but also rules from campaigning between cizing the contents of the emails. vicious debate that more resem-
by what appeared to be the same pionage operation known as through the exploitation of vulner- midnight on Friday and when the “We call upon the news outlets bled an American-style shoutfest
Russian operatives who were re- APT28. “The key goals and objec- abilities in technologies that allow last polls close at 8 p.m. Sunday — that wish to report on this opera- than the Descartian discourse
sponsible for hacks of Democratic tives of the campaign appear to be hackers to invade their targets un- meaning that they cannot give in- tion to shoulder their responsibil- that French voters are more ac-
campaign officials before last to undermine Macron’s presiden- detected by security software. terviews to the news media, hold ities, in all good conscience,” the customed to. Ms. Le Pen, who was
year’s American presidential elec- tial candidacy and cast doubt on The security researchers, who rallies, make speeches or issue campaign said. “Indeed, this is not relentless in her attacks, was
tion. Mr. Macron’s campaign said the democratic electoral process asked for anonymity to discuss an statements. a simple hacking operation but widely judged the loser.
the attack was unsuccessful. in general,” he said. investigation, say they believe The Macron campaign made its well and truly an attempt to de- A post-debate poll, by the firm
Trend Micro said the attack in- “If indeed driven by Moscow, APT28 has previously passed statement about the hacking at stabilize the French presidential Ipsos — which was very accurate
volved sending emails to cam- this leak appears to be a signifi- stolen information taken from 11:56 p.m. — four minutes before election. It is therefore important in its projections before the first
paign officials and others with cant escalation over the previous breached accounts to another the legal prohibition on campaign- to consider the nature of the round of the elections on April 23
links to fake websites designed to Russian operations aimed at the Russian group. It is that second ing went into effect. leaked documents, to be fully — found Mr. Macron’s lead over
bait them into turning over pass- U.S. presidential election, expand- group of Russian cybercriminals Numerama, a French online aware of the fact that a large part Ms. Le Pen had widened, 63 per-
words. ing the approach and scope of ef- that, in other instances, has pub- publication focusing on digital life, of them are purely and simply cent to 37 percent.
fort from simple espionage efforts lished leaked information, securi- said that the hacked material ap- fake, and the appropriateness of But Ms. Le Pen could benefit on
Aurelien Breeden reported from towards more direct attempts to ty experts say, in large part to dis- peared to have been disseminated giving an echo to this destabiliza- Sunday if poor and disaffected
Paris, Sewell Chan from London sway the outcome,” Mr. Kremez tance Russian intelligence opera- through users of 4Chan, an online tion operation.” suburban voters do not cast bal-
and Nicole Perlroth from New added. tives from the hacks and maintain bulletin board. They shared nine Gérard Araud, the French am- lots or if on-the-fence voters who
York. Eric Schmitt contributed re- Security researchers who have a measure of plausible deniability. gigabytes worth of documents bassador to Washington, said of are unenthusiastic about their
porting from Washington. been tracking APT28, also known There was no firm evidence and emails — “a jumble of what the attack, in a post on Twitter that choices decide to abstain.
A8 N THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, MAY 6, 2017
A
T 82, the anthropologist T. N. Pan-
dit passes his days in the gentle India followed suit. Gift-giving expedi-
occupations of old age: poetry, a tions to the Sentinelese ended in 1996,
Buddhist study circle, a daily walk in and the Indian Navy now enforces a
the park. It is rare for anyone to ask buffer zone to keep curiosity-seekers
him about the years he spent with the away.
hunter-gatherer tribes of the Andaman In 2004, the central government
Islands. Only with difficulty can he formulated a new policy toward the
locate a single copy of the slender book Jarawa, with the primary goal of pro-
he wrote about that time. tecting them “from harmful effects of
Somewhere in a drawer, though, exposure and contact with the outside
there are photographs, capturing Mr. world.”
Pandit as he made contact with some But the process of integration, once
of the world’s most isolated people. begun, was impossible to stop, said
In these photographs, faded and Samir Acharya, a local environmental
curled with age, his face wears an activist, with a touch of bitterness.
expression of more or less pure joy. “Now they have gotten infected,” he
Mr. Pandit, the pale-skinned son of a said. “They have been exposed to a
Kashmiri professor, reaches to pass a modern way of life they cannot sustain.
coconut to a group of naked, dark- They have learned to eat rice and sug-
skinned young men who have waded ar. We have turned a free people into
waist-deep in water to greet him. He beggars.”
sits companionably beside a dark-
A
FACTION of anthropologists con-
skinned young woman, whose hand tinue to defend the practice of
rests casually on his thigh. Film shot in controlled contact, saying that
1974 shows him — a reserved Brahmin humans are by nature social animals,
— dancing exuberantly with a bare- longing to interact. As one put it re-
breasted Jarawa woman. cently, “There is nothing particularly
It took Mr. Pandit and his colleagues attractive about living in an isolated
more than two decades to persuade the tribe on the slow road to extinction.”
tribes known as the Jarawa and Sen- But their protestations have a weary
tinelese to lay down their bows and tone, as of one losing an argument.
arrows and mingle peacefully with the Mr. Pandit has followed these devel-
Indian settlers who surrounded them. opments from the hushed apartment in
PORAS CHAUDHARY FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
The process was grindingly slow, in- New Delhi where he lives with the third
volving trips into remote jungle areas
to leave gifts for people who would not
“What an amazing community, but it has been diluted in its outlook, its self-confidence, of his four daughters.
It is nearly impossible for him to
show themselves. In each case, though, its sense of purpose, its sense of survival. Now they take it easy. They beg for things.” discuss his work in the Andaman Is-
there was an exhilarating break- lands without thinking of his wife,
through. T.N. PANDIT Roshi, who died in 2015. Roshi would sit
In India’s Andaman Islands, these with him and endlessly discuss the
encounters occurred two centuries tribes. His loss remains so painful that
called North Sentinel and had barely as the Sentinelese, hid in the forest. the forest.
after indigenous populations in the he has tried to train his mind not to
been seen at all. The other group, “They were watching us carefully, There was a silence. Then, six years
United States and Australia had been dwell on it. He struggles, he says, to
devastated by disease and addiction, known as the Jarawa, were fearsome and they must not have been happy, later, for reasons Mr. Pandit could
archers, known for hiding in the tree- because they picked up their bows and never explain, a group of Jarawa come to terms with the fleeting quality
leaving no doubt of the dangers of of human experience.
unregulated contact. Mr. Pandit found tops and neatly impaling with arrows arrows,” he said. “This whole encounter greeted him on the beach with song and
outsiders who encroached on their was so amazing, because here is civ- dance. He visited, after that, every two “Nothing is permanent,” he said.
himself entrusted with the future of tiny “What has gone on in the past looks like
territory. Government policy toward ilized man facing primitive man in its weeks or so. They would strip off his
groups believed to have migrated from having been a dream.”
the Jarawa fell to the Bush Police, who extreme state, living very simply.” clothes, poke fingers in his eyes, pocket
Africa around 50,000 years ago, de- in the end, Mr. Pandit agrees that the
were armed with rifles and kept careful In 1968, Mr. Pandit had a stroke of his spectacles.
scribed by a team of geneticists as Jarawa were hurt by putting down their
“arguably the most enigmatic people on records of casualties on both sides. luck. Three Jarawa teenagers, captured He recalls these days, even now, with
a kind of reverence and delight. bows and arrows. “The negative impact
our planet.” India would do it better, he Mr. Pandit was openly contemptuous raiding a village, were kept in prison for of close contact is inescapable, but it is
promised himself. of this martial approach, which dated to a month, so Mr. Pandit had a chance to “I have seen a Jarawa girl,” he said.
sad,” he said. “What an amazing com-
So it is notable that now, when he the British Raj. In 1967, he managed to study them at close range. He showed “I can never forget her face, though it
munity, but it has been diluted in its
looks back on his life’s great achieve- join a “gift-dropping” expedition to them airplanes and cars. He scribbled was many years back. She sat in the
outlook, its self-confidence, its sense of
ment, he does so with an unmistakable North Sentinel Island, where the police down words in their language. After a boat watching us as if she was Queen
purpose, its sense of survival. Now they
sadness. dropped off coconuts and bananas month, the three young men, loaded Victoria, with such dignity and such take it easy. They beg for things.”
while the members of the tribe, known down with gifts, were released back to poise. You see, then I realized one does- This was not a surprise. He under-
M
R. PANDIT arrived in Port Blair, n’t need clothes and ornaments and stood that his work would expose the
the capital city of the island crown to make you dignified. What tribes to the outside, with its dazzling
chain, in 1966. Anthropology comes spontaneously, your inner self, technology, and that they would submit
was such a new field in India that when you can project your personality that avidly. His aim, he said, was to control
he was offered a spot to study it at way.” the process, to slow it as much as possi-
Delhi University he had to look the Mr. Pandit’s campaign worked. By ble, so that they understood the value
word up in the dictionary. His first the 1990s, the Jarawa were so at ease of what they were leaving behind.
government posting came as a disap- with outsiders that they began to roam “In the course of time, these commu-
pointment: the Andaman Islands, an the neighboring settlements, where nities will disappear,” he said. “Their
archipelago so remote that the British they found food that required neither cultures will be lost.”
used it as a penal colony. hunting nor gathering. Mr. Pandit last traveled to Jarawa
He found, to his surprise, that the It is difficult to identify the precise territory in 2014, on a visit to a daugh-
place suited him. His head was full of moment when contact with the Jarawa ter in Port Blair. Since then, he has
the romantic phrases of A. R. Radcliffe- came to be viewed as a problem. They become more physically fragile and
Brown, a British anthropologist who began to fish and weave baskets in doubts he will make the journey again.
studied the tribes at the turn of the exchange for money. Sometimes they He is left with the photographs —
century, describing them as “brave, snatched food from market stalls. Video square black-and-whites from the 1970s,
valiant and very clever people.” He was clips show Indian tourists tossing food faded color from the 1980s — and with
dismayed to find their descendants to Jarawa on the roadside, crudely his thoughts.
begging for alms, teased by the local ordering the women to dance. Babies “I see them sometimes in my
children. fathered by Indian settlers were born to dreams,” he said. “Just being with them
But there were other tribes, he Jarawa women. and spending a little time. Not too long.
learned, that had hardly changed since Activists concerned with the tribes Not frequently. Just once in a while.”
the days of Radcliffe-Brown. One group Mr. Pandit in 1991 at left presenting gifts of coconuts to the isolated Sentine- increasingly described contact missions And on those mornings, he said, he
lived alone on a 20-square-mile island lese tribe. It is the first recorded episode of friendly contact with the group. as a kind of cultural destruction, intro- wakes up happy.
U.N. Official
Faults Fight
On Drugs
By Duterte
By FELIPE VILLAMOR
MANILA — Implicitly rebuking
the leader of the Philippines on a
visit to his country, the United Na-
tions’ top expert on extrajudicial
killings said on Friday that gov-
ernments around the world had
rejected the “war on drugs” ap-
proach being championed by
President Rodrigo Duterte.
Speaking at a private policy for-
um in Manila, Agnès S. Callamard,
the United Nations special rap-
porteur on extrajudicial killings,
did not mention Mr. Duterte by
name. But she made it plain that
she viewed his policies as danger-
ously out of step.
Delegates at the United Nations
General Assembly special session
last year had recognized drug de-
pendency as a “disorder of a
chronic and relapsing nature,” Dr.
Callamard said. So instead of rely-
ing on heavy-handed tactics
against users and traffickers, she
said, “they called for what
amounts to a balanced, multifac-
eted, multidisciplinary approach,
and they placed great emphasis
on health,
rights and jus-
tice.”
GEOFF CADDICK/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES
Dr. Calla-
mard’s visit to
Counting ballots in local council elections on Friday in Birmingham, England. The results were a disaster for the anti-immigrant U.K. Independence Party. the Philippines
came after
government to
By STEVEN ERLANGER Normally, governing parties credible contender to the Tories,” election before deciding how to gions, as well as around 4,800 allow her to in- Agnès
LONDON — In voting for local are punished in local elections, but Professor Curtice said. cast their ballots in June. seats on local councils — all of the vestigate the
councils on Thursday, just five in England and Wales, at least, Michael Fallon, a Conservative But Labour seems on course for councils in Scotland and Wales, Callamard
more than
weeks before the British general there was a sharp swing to the who is Britain’s defense secretary, a defeat next month, with most and more than 30 in England. 4,000 violent
election, the governing Conserva- Conservatives from Labour, in said the outcome was “very en- commentators simply speculating While Labour lost a significant deaths — many at the hands of the
tive Party made significant gains, what appeared to be a protest vote couraging.” But he was eager to on the size of a Conservative ma- number of council seats, it won im-
police or vigilantes — that the au-
the opposition Labour Party did against Mr. Corbyn and his man- attack complacency ahead of June jority. The Liberal Democrats, the portant regional mayoral posts in
thorities have identified as drug-
badly and the centrist Liberal agement of the opposition. The 8, saying that the local results party that has been most opposed Greater Manchester, behind a for-
related since Mr. Duterte’s crack-
Democrats had mixed success. problem for Labour is that previ- were not an “accurate prediction” to a so-called Brexit and promises mer home secretary, Andy Burn-
down began 10 months ago.
ous UKIP voters, many of whom of a general election. voters a second referendum after ham, as well as winning in Liver-
The results, released on Friday, It also came days before the
were Labour loyalists, are moving Mrs. May said, “I will not take a settlement has been negotiated, pool City and Doncaster.
are a disaster for the far-right, Philippines was to appear, along
to the Conservatives instead of re- anything for granted.” is expected to make some gains in But in another surprise, the
anti-immigrant U.K. Independ- with 13 other countries, before the
turning to Labour. This has raised John McDonnell, Mr. Corbyn’s southern England. But the Con- Conservatives won the mayoralty
ence Party, which pushed for the chances of a sweeping Conser- United Nations Human Rights
closest ally, put the best face on servatives are expected to make in Tees Valley, as well as a tightly
Britain’s exit from the European vative victory next month, while big inroads into Labour’s heart- Council for a periodic review of its
the results by saying that Labour contested mayoralty in the West
Union but saw many of its voters Labour has collapsed in its former land in northern England, from Midlands. Labour’s candidate rights record. Its antidrug cam-
move toward the Conservatives, had not done as badly as some had paign was expected to be a focus
stronghold in Scotland. Labour voters who favor leaving there, Sion Simon, a member of
who promised to end unrestricted predicted. This was not the “wipe- of the session.
John Curtice, a professor of poli- the bloc. the European Parliament, was ex-
immigration while carrying out out that many commentators Mr. Duterte has said that the
tics at the University of Strath- The Labour Party under Mr. pected to win, but the Conserva-
the divorce. clyde in Glasgow, said the Conser- were forecasting,” he said, adding Corbyn has been ambivalent tive contender, Andy Street, had a Philippines would allow Dr. Calla-
In contrast, the results display vatives had, so far, put in their best that the party was building a about Britain leaving the Euro- narrow victory. Mr. Street is a mard to carry out an official inves-
the strength of the Conservatives election performance since at “solid base” for the general elec- pean Union, showing only tepid prominent businessman who tigation into the killings if she al-
under Prime Minister Theresa least 2008, with an average swing tion. support for both the “remain” gave up earnings of around $1.3 lowed him to publicly question her
May and the weakness of Labour of seven percentage points from Labour did reasonably well in camp in the June referendum and million a year as managing direc- as well. She has rejected the con-
under its left-wing leader, Jeremy Labour to the Conservatives, Wales, a stronghold, although it for exiting now. While a third of tor of John Lewis, an employee- dition, and she said on Friday that
Corbyn, going into the June 8 gen- known as Tories, since the last did badly in Scotland, where in Conservatives voted to remain in owned department store, to take her trip was not in an official ca-
eral election. Mrs. May hopes to comparable local elections in 2013. early counting it had already lost the European Union, they are part in the election. pacity.
increase her majority in Parlia- He told the BBC that the Con- control of Glasgow for the first sticking with their party. And The new mayoral districts were But Ernesto Abella, a presiden-
ment sharply as she tries to nego- servatives appeared to have been time in decades. In Scotland, it is while many Labour voters were created under a deal to spread tial spokesman, said that Manila
tiate a good deal for Britain as it the main beneficiaries of a sharp the Scottish National Party, not passionately in favor of leaving, power away from London and the would lodge a complaint at the
withdraws from the European Un- decline in support for UKIP, which the Conservative Party, that is si- they are unhappy with Mr. Corbyn center, with local authorities be- United Nations about Dr. Calla-
ion. may be on the verge of extinction phoning off Labour support. and are contemplating voting for ing invited to combine into larger mard.
as a party if it does not perform Mr. McDonnell urged voters to the Conservatives next month. regional tiers, taking on some “We are aware that Dr. Calla-
Stephen Castle contributed report- well next month. “Labour is not wait to see Labour’s party plat- The voting on Thursday was to strategic responsibilities such as mard is currently in the Phil-
ing. showing much signs of being a form, or manifesto, for the general elect mayors of six new city re- transportation and planning. ippines, and we are disappointed
that in not contacting our govern-
ment in advance of this visit, she
N K
Ty Steele, left, and Cortez Richey on the Jackson Park golf course in Chicago, which would be consumed by plans for a larger golf club.
Mixed Signals
From Trump
Vex Backers
Of Israel
From Page A1
ent message at an earlier dinner
with two other prominent
Palestinians, Salam Fayyad and
Ziad Asali, and two American
Jewish diplomats, Elliott Abrams
and Dennis B. Ross. They all told
him that a breakthrough was not
realistic now, and that Mr. Trump
would be better off pursuing incre-
mental advances, like bettering
the economic fortunes of the
Palestinians.
“There is a perception that he’s
fundamentally sympathetic, but
there is an uncertainty about
where he wants to go,” said Mr.
Ross, a Middle East envoy for
Presidents Barack Obama and
Bill Clinton. “Among those who
think there is no such thing as a
deal, or that Israel is being asked
to make troubling concessions,
there is unease.”
So far, none of these objections
are being made public. Conserva-
tive supporters of Israel view Mr.
Trump as a vast improvement
over Mr. Obama, whose blunt
pressure on Israel to halt con-
struction of settlements in the
West Bank poisoned his relation-
ship with Prime Minister Ben-
jamin Netanyahu.
DAMON WINTER/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Mr. Trump has “done more in
just 100 days than Barack Obama Sheldon G. Adelson was disappointed that President Trump had not fulfilled a campaign promise to move the American Embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv.
ever did in transforming the U.S.-
Israel relationship into a U.S.-Is- was widely noticed by Israeli cials insist it may still happen; to those officials’ arguments, for How much direct influence Mr. has an obligation to try, suggest-
rael partnership,” said Matthew news media. Curiously, similar Mr. Trump must decide by June example, on settlements. Lauder has on Mr. Trump is a mat- ing that his unconventional ap-
Brooks, the executive director of messages on other social media whether to renew the waiver of The president’s push on settle- ter of debate: Some close to the proach to diplomacy might unlock
the Republican Jewish Coalition. were not deleted. Michael Anton, the congressional vote instruct- ments unnerved Mr. Netanyahu, White House insist their contacts some doors.
But later this month, when Mr. a White House spokesman, said ing that the embassy be moved. according to officials on both are frequent; others say there His hard-line pro-Israel
Trump will test his ideas on his that no one knew what had hap- David M. Friedman, the bank- sides, though they avoided an have been just three meetings, supporters console themselves
first foreign trip, to Saudi Arabia pened to the Twitter post but that ruptcy lawyer who is Mr. Trump’s open split over it. Mr. Netanyahu one in the Oval Office and two at that Mr. Trump will soon recog-
and Israel, one of his most power- “we stand by the message.” ambassador to Israel, has told was determined not to antagonize Mar-a-Lago, Mr. Trump’s Palm nize the futility of this undertak-
ful donors, the Las Vegas casino Mr. Trump has borrowed a few people he plans to divide his time another president, and the under- Beach club. But Mr. Lauder has an ing. That pessimism, they note, is
magnate Sheldon G. Adelson, will pages from Mr. Obama’s play- between the ambassador’s sea- standing on settlements was left open line to Mr. Greenblatt; the a view shared not just by hard-lin-
be in Israel when the president is, book. He, too, has leaned on Mr. side residence near Tel Aviv and unwritten, mitigating attacks on dinner for Mr. Abbas testifies to ers but also by most of the Israeli
according to people briefed on his Netanyahu to curb settlement the King David Hotel in Jerusa- Mr. Netanyahu by pro-settler fac- his social clout.
schedule. political establishment, left and
construction to make it easier to lem, where the State Department tions in his coalition. An adviser to Mr. Lauder de- right.
Mr. Adelson was disappointed pursue talks with the keeps an apartment for its envoy. One of the biggest cheerleaders nied he was pushing an alliance
that Mr. Trump had not fulfilled a “The administration is likely to
Palestinians. Mr. Greenblatt came But Mr. Friedman, who is mov- for a peace deal is Mr. Lauder, a with Mr. Abbas, but described Mr.
campaign promise to move the discover what its predecessors
to an understanding with Mr. Ne- ing to Israel in the coming days, cosmetics heir who has known Mr. Lauder as an optimist.
American Embassy to Jerusalem learned: that there is no deal to be
tanyahu that is not unlike the one has been a less central figure in Trump for decades. His mother, Mr. Adelson was frustrated that
from Tel Aviv. He will be watching between President George W. Mr. Trump’s peacemaking project Estée Lauder, was among the first Mr. Trump did not fulfill his prom- had right now because the parties
closely to see how the president Bush and Prime Minister Ariel than Mr. Greenblatt. An Orthodox of the Manhattan social elite to ac- ise to move the embassy on “Day have unbridgeable positions on
squares his vow to be a stalwart Sharon, under which Israel Jew and an in-house lawyer who cept Mr. Trump when he arrived 1.” But people who have spoken to most of the issues,” said Noah Pol-
friend of Israel with his peace- agreed not to approve further con- negotiated real estate deals for on the scene as a young developer him said he was heartened by the lak, a Republican strategist who
making ambitions. struction outside existing settle- Mr. Trump, Mr. Greenblatt has from Queens. White House’s silence when the works with pro-Israel conserva-
The deletion of Mr. Trump’s ment boundaries. impressed outsiders with his de- Mr. Lauder’s enthusiasm for a Israeli government announced a tive groups.
Twitter message calling it “an After his promise to move the termination to learn the be- bold new initiative has alarmed new settlement to replace Amona, “Obama used the impasse as a
honor” to meet with Mr. Abbas embassy to Jerusalem, Mr. Trump deviling history of Middle East some in Mr. Trump’s circle, partic- a settler outpost evacuated after it way to condemn Israel,” he
has set that issue aside for now, peace. ularly his chief strategist, Stephen was declared illegal. A spokesman continued. “We’re not worried
Mark Landler reported from heeding the advice of King Abdul- Mr. Greenblatt has met with a K. Bannon. Mr. Bannon speaks for Mr. Adelson declined to com- Trump will follow suit. We simply
Washington, and Maggie Ha- lah II of Jordan and other Arab wide range of Arab leaders, regularly with Mr. Adelson, who ment. hope the process of the adminis-
berman from New York. Peter leaders, who warned him it could ambassadors, and other officials, donated millions of dollars to out- Aides to Mr. Trump said they tration proving to itself that no
Baker contributed reporting ignite violence among in a crash course that hard-liners side groups to help Republicans in are well aware of the hurdles to a deal is possible will be quick and
Washington. Palestinians. White House offi- worry will leave him sympathetic the 2016 elections. deal. But they say the president undramatic.”
Trump’s 2nd Nominee for Army Secretary Withdraws, Citing ‘Misleading’ Attacks
By HELENE COOPER have been mischaracterized and Mr. Green was accused by the from which armed citizens should sponded that “if you poll the psy- Democratic leader, had vowed to
WASHINGTON — Mark E. attacked by a few on the other side American Military Partner Asso- protect themselves. chiatrists, they’re going to tell you vote against Mr. Green. The last
Green, President Trump’s second of the aisle for political gain,” Mr. ciation and other gay-rights advo- “We are back to where the coun- that transgender is a disease.” Army secretary, Eric Fanning,
nominee to be secretary of the Green said in the statement. cacy groups of discriminating try was at its beginning, and it’s And he implied that same-sex was the first openly gay leader of a
Army, withdrew from considera- “While these false attacks have no against gay, bisexual and trans- the armed citizen who will defend marriage was as unthinkable 30 military branch.
tion on Friday, saying in a state- bearing on the needs of the Army gender individuals, particularly this nation,” Mr. Green said. “And years ago as government-spon- Senator Tammy Duckworth,
ment that his nomination had be- or my qualifications to serve, I be- given the military’s circuitous his- there’s something else that we’ve sored infanticide is today. Democrat of Illinois, on Friday
come a distraction because of lieve it is critical to give the presi- tory of treatment of gays in the got to protect ourselves from, and Chad Griffin, president of the called Mr. Green “not fit to lead
“false and misleading attacks dent the ability to move forward military. it is an overreaching federal gov- Human Rights Campaign, said on the Army” and praised his deci-
against me.” with his vision to restore our mili- He had made a number of con- ernment. The notion that Mr. Friday that Mr. Green’s “danger- sion to withdraw his nomination.
Mr. Green, a Tennessee state tary to its rightful place in the tentious assertions, particularly Obama thinks that he can tell the ous views and hateful comments “It should not matter what reli-
senator who was an Army flight world.” in an appearance before the Chat- state of Tennessee who can go into are disqualifying for any public gion you are or what your sexual
surgeon, has criticized federal at- Mr. Trump’s first pick for Army tanooga Tea Party last year, when a men’s bathroom or a women’s servant, let alone someone wish- orientation is when you join the
tempts to bar discrimination secretary, Vincent Viola, pulled he suggested that President bathroom is absurd.” ing to serve as secretary of the military, only that you care deeply
against gay, bisexual and trans- out of consideration in February, Barack Obama’s opposition to Asked during that appearance Army.” about this country and want to
gender people in workplaces and saying he could not disentangle laws meant to prevent transgen- what military rank and file The job of Army secretary must serve and defend it,” Ms. Duck-
businesses. himself from his business ties. Mr. der people from using the bath- thought about “the social revolu- be confirmed by the Senate, and worth, a former Army helicopter
“Tragically, my life of public Viola is the owner of the N.H.L.’s rooms of their stated gender was tions being imposed upon them by several senators, including Chuck pilot who lost her legs in the Iraq
service and my Christian beliefs Florida Panthers. the kind of government action this government,” Mr. Green re- Schumer of New York, the war, said in a statement.
A12 N THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL SATURDAY, MAY 6, 2017
Opponents of Abortion
Warily Measure Progress
By JEREMY W. PETERS way, the president’s counselor, to
WASHINGTON — There are speak at a gala for one of the larg-
few constituencies as pleased est groups that backs anti-abor-
with President Trump’s three and tion candidates, the Susan B. An-
a half months in the White House thony List. Both reassured the
as the anti-abortion groups that crowd of donors, activists and
rallied to his side during the 2016 members of Congress on hand
campaign. that they were closer than ever to
He has signed legislation achieving their goals.
making it easier for states to deny “President Trump has been
funding to health centers that per- keeping his promises to all of you
form abortions. His recently con- and the American people,” Mr.
firmed Supreme Court nominee, Pence said, pointing specifically
Neil M. Gorsuch, has the unwa- to the Planned Parenthood provi-
vering backing of anti-abortion sion in the health care repeal bill.
groups. And on Thursday, the “We’re going to see that fight all
House voted to repeal and replace the way through. And this presi-
the Affordable Care Act while also dent is unwavering.”
eliminating most public funding Mr. Pence told the crowd how
for Planned Parenthood, a central proud he was to have raced to the
campaign promise of Mr. Trump’s. Capitol last month to cast the
But the battle over the roughly tiebreaking vote on a resolution
$500 million Planned Parenthood that lifts an Obama administra-
receives each year could yet be- tion rule barring state and local
come the litmus test for social con- governments from withholding
servatives. And it is one that is al- federal funds for family planning
ready straining the relationship services that performed abor-
between the president and this tions. The resolution was aimed
pivotal bloc of voters and interest directly at Planned Parenthood in
groups, many of whom put aside what abortion rights advocates
deep misgivings and supported expected to be the first in a series
him specifically because of his re- of attempts to drive the organiza- RENEE JONES SCHNEIDER/STAR TRIBUNE, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS
peated and insistent vows to make tion out of business. A protest at a Planned Parenthood clinic. A fight over funding the group is straining ties between the president and conservatives.
it more difficult for women to get But Ms. Conway acknowledged
an abortion. that the defunding provision faces
Approval in the House, howev- an uncertain fate in the Senate. “It Parenthood — significantly so, but litical organization,” he said. churches that bar them from en- mixed record on gay rights but
er, is no guarantee that the de- could go either way,” she said in an only for a year — and still leave it Recent polls have shown that gaging in political activity if they has been more publicly accepting
funding measure will ever reach interview. And she pushed back eligible for certain federal dollars Americans overwhelmingly want want to remain tax-exempt. The than many in his party, was un-
the president’s desk. Any provi- on the premise that Mr. Trump for family planning. to maintain federal funds for the night before, he hosted a smaller comfortable reversing those pro-
sion that targets Planned Parent- was not following through on his Planned Parenthood said the group. And many social conserva- group of religious conservatives tections.
hood seems likely to alienate promises to the movement. “If legislation would have a devastat- tives say they are not quite sure for dinner. Some said the president simply
enough moderate Republicans they’re disappointed then they’re ing effect on the 24 million women what to expect now. But on that measure, too, slight caved. The website the Conserva-
that it could kill the bill unless the not paying attention,” she said. who rely on its services. “This is “We’re in a unique and hopeful signs of strain between Mr. Trump tive Review wrote that the order’s
Senate strips it out — meaning Some groups, though they are a the worst bill for women’s health moment,” said Representative and the movement were showing. limited scope “offers no relief
that the Republican victory on minority within the social conser- in a generation,” Cecile Richards, Trent Franks, Republican of Ari- Some groups wanted the presi- whatsoever for people whose
Thursday could be short-lived vative movement, have criticized the group’s president, said matter- zona. “But I’m not sure how fleet- dent to go further in reaffirming livelihoods have been threatened
and, ultimately, moot. Complicat- Mr. Trump and congressional Re- of-factly. ing that might be.” his commitment to their beliefs or destroyed by the demands of
ing matters further, a repeal bill on publicans for not pushing harder Ralph Reed, chairman of the Given how overwhelmingly and undo a 2014 Obama adminis- the sexual identity activist class
its own that did not touch Planned against Planned Parenthood. Faith and Freedom Coalition, Christian conservative groups tration order that created new and its corporate and cultural
Parenthood would be a heavy lift Anything but a full defunding seemed to raise expectations for lined up behind Mr. Trump during workplace protections for gay, les- cronies.”
in the Senate. amounted to “a betrayal that the defunding, saying he believed the campaign — despite the early bian, bisexual and transgender In most cases, though, religious
After some anti-abortion G.O.P. will find extensively diffi- that the Senate might not be as dif- objections — there is probably no people. Others also criticized his conservative leaders praised Mr.
groups expressed dismay this cult to overcome,” said Kristan ficult a hurdle to overcome as in part of his base he is more focused executive order as hollow, saying Trump’s action on religious
week that Planned Parenthood Hawkins, the president of Stu- the past. on repaying. And his efforts on a it was little more than a news re- speech. Tony Perkins, president of
will remain funded in the spend- dents for Life of America. Planned Parenthood, he said, range of issues this week reflected lease restating current policy. the Family Research Council,
ing plan that Congress negotiated And there are other problems has come to be seen by many Re- that. Twice now Mr. Trump has de- noted that the president was hon-
to keep the government running that many of the activists see with publicans as a political entity On Thursday, Mr. Trump invited clined to change the workplace oring one of his campaign pledges
through September, the White the way things are playing out: whose goal first and foremost is to religious leaders to a Rose Garden protections policy, first in January, to them. And he added, “President
House tried to reassure them. For starters, the bill that passed defeat them. “You can’t make the ceremony to watch him sign a new and again this week. A senior Trump is taking a significant first
Mr. Trump sent Vice President the House on Thursday would case anymore that this is a executive order that is intended to White House official said Wednes- step to defending religious lib-
Mike Pence and Kellyanne Con- only reduce funding for Planned women’s organization. It’s a po- ease the legal burdens on day that Mr. Trump, who has a erty.”
And Context on G.O.P. Health Bill able Care Act. But the bill would
not literally “end” coverage
By LINDA QIU existing condition, and neither that you’ve been screened for because of them as it does not
WASHINGTON — Rumors did insurers before the Afford- S.T.D.s, had treatment for an remove the act’s rule on guaran-
that the Republican health care able Care Act. It is possible that S.T.D., taken H.I.V.-preventive teed issue and requires the state
bill counts rape, domestic vio- sexual assault victims could see medication, had more than annu- waiver process.
lence and ulcers as uninsurable higher insurance costs, not be- al pelvic exams or had other Of all the conditions listed, the
pre-existing conditions are circu- cause of assault itself but be- follow-up encounters with the Kaiser Family Foundation found
lating among opponents of the cause of resulting trauma or medical system,” said Sabrina evidence that before the Afford-
bill. But these claims are overly sexually transmitted diseases. Corlette, a research professor at able Care Act, about three dozen
simplistic. Iterations of the claim began to Georgetown’s Health Policy of them were declinable — from
The claims conflate what the circulate year ago during the Institute. STEPHEN CROWLEY/THE NEW YORK TIMES AIDS/H.I.V. and lupus to severe
bill says and its potential out- debate over the Affordable Care The Affordable Care Act then obesity and diabetes. Others
comes. While the bill could weak- Act. Internet searches on mandated “community rating” also claimed domestic abuse was a ter. Many insurers did deny cov- such as acne, allergies, mi-
en protections for people with whether rape is a pre-existing (charging the same price regard- pre-existing condition under the erage to domestic violence vic- graines and ear infections could
pre-existing conditions and re- condition started to spike again less of health status) and “guar- bill. tims in the 1990s, according to trigger higher costs or fewer
sult in much more expensive on Wednesday, the day before anteed issue” (offering coverage multiple surveys. When Politi- benefits.
insurance, the effect ultimately the House voted to repeal and to any applicant). “The New AHCA Bill Lists Fact examined the issue in 2009, Kaiser also stated that the vast
rests on states and insurers. replace the health care law. The Republican health care bill Sexual Assault And it found no evidence this was an majority of people with these
More important, the bill does not This appeared to follow the that passed the House would Domestic Abuse As ongoing or widespread practice. conditions have insurance
specify what a pre-existing con- publication of an article on Raw- allow states to apply for a waiver ‘Pre-Existing Conditions’” through employers or other
dition is, nor does it allow story: “Trumpcare could make from the community-rating rule Others, like the People for Bernie public options like Medicaid.
insurers to deny coverage out- sexual assault a pre-existing for those who haven’t maintained THIS NEEDS CONTEXT. Before the Sanders, shared an image claiming Again, this doesn’t mean that
right, although potentially they condition again — depending on continuous coverage, effectively Affordable Care Act, several the bill would “end” insurance for the Republican bill gives insurers
could set premiums beyond the where you live.” While the Raw- allowing health status underwrit- states did not have laws that those with pre-existing conditions. a free pass to deny coverage
reach of some sick consumers. story headline is nuanced, the ing again, if the Department of prohibited insurers from counting because of these conditions,
Here is an assessment. claims it may have inspired Health and Human Services domestic violence as a pre-exist- “217 Republicans voted though people who, for example,
rarely are and thus often are less grants the waiver. (The bill also ing condition. But it’s unclear if today to end your cannot afford higher costs could
Several liberal websites, like the accurate. requires states to provide other insurers actually did deny cover- healthcare if you suffer lose insurance in states that
Resistance Report, suggested that Before the Affordable Care health care or cost-sharing op- age to victims of domestic vio- receive a waiver from communi-
Act, insurers could practice tions in lieu of community rat- lence in the years that immedi- from” a range of medical ty ratings.
the bill allows insurers to
discriminate against rape victims. “health status underwriting” or ing.) But the bill does not allow ately preceded passage of the issues including The bill could lead to “astro-
review health records to assess states to waive guaranteed issue. health law. AIDS/H.I.V., acne, nomically high premium in-
“Under Trumpcare plan, medical risk, and they could So if a state chooses to waive Five states — Idaho, North depression, heartburn and creases for people with many of
rape would be considered a charge higher prices, or even the regulation, insurers could Carolina, South Carolina, Ver- these conditions, if they buy
charge much more for pre-exist-
ulcers.
pre-existing condition.” deny coverage, for conditions mont and Wyoming — do not bar insurance on their own and have
deemed to be more costly. ing conditions like H.I.V. and insurers from considering domes- THIS NEEDS CONTEXT. Many of a gap in coverage,” said Larry
THIS NEEDS CONTEXT. The bill Insurers did not typically trauma — not rape on its own — tic violence a declinable pre- the medical issues specified by Levitt, an executive with Kaiser.
does not define rape as a pre- directly ask about sexual assault, but they cannot deny coverage existing condition, said Gretchen the image, courtesy of Senator “Even if states seek a waiver, not
or consider it in calculating in- outright because of them. Borchelt, the vice president for Sherrod Brown, Democrat of everyone with these conditions
Margot Sanger-Katz contributed surance premiums. But they may reproductive rights and health at Ohio, were considered pre-exist- would lose insurance, but some
reporting. have charged more “if they see Some websites, like Distractify, the National Women’s Law Cen- ing conditions before the Afford- certainly would.”
Ivanka Trump Promotes Her New Book on Social Media (Though Not in the Media)
By RACHEL ABRAMS lions of followers on social media. their positions for personal profit. White House ethics adviser under dent George Bush.
In a Facebook post last month, she On Thursday, Ms. Trump President George W. Bush, said Ms. Trump, who wrote the book
Ivanka Trump will continue to
promote her new book on Twitter had pledged to abstain from other posted a short video of herself Some ethics experts the person responsible for the before her father was elected
and Instagram, according to a types of publicity “out of an abun-
dance of caution and to avoid the
dancing with her children, along
with a link to a recent article about
wonder if the wrong State Department retweeting
could have violated standards
president, has had to navigate a
minefield of potential conflicts of
spokeswoman, weeks after Presi-
dent Trump’s adviser and daugh- appearance of using my official her career advice book. message is sent. prohibiting federal employees interest since she became an offi-
ter pledged not to draw publicity role to promote the book.” “Little moments matter, espe- from promoting products. A cial federal employee. She
through a promotional tour or me- A spokeswoman said that Ms. cially for working moms!!” Ms. spokeswoman for the department continues to own her fashion
dia appearances. Trump had decided to promote Trump wrote in the caption. Global Women’s Issues reposted a declined to comment. brand, and she retains the ability
Ms. Trump, who recently took her book solely on social media af- Norman L. Eisen, the chief Twitter message promoting Ms. But Ms. Trump does not appear to approve potential new deals
an unpaid job in the West Wing, ter consulting with the Office of White House ethics adviser under Trump’s book but later deleted it. to have violated any laws, ethics through a newly formed trust — a
raised eyebrows on Thursday Government Ethics, and that her President Barack Obama, said her Are government officials “re- experts said. mechanism that her advisers say
when she plugged the book, decision was “consistent” with the actions could send the wrong mes- sponding to a signal from the “We don’t outlaw the appear- will help minimize potential prob-
“Women Who Work,” to her mil- office’s guidance. A spokesman sage to other government offi- Trumps?” Mr. Eisen wrote in an ance of conflict,” said Edwin lems.
for the office declined to comment. cials: that promoting Trump busi- email. “That is a legitimate ques- Williamson, a government ethics
Maggie Haberman contributed re- Federal law makes it a crime for nesses was O.K. On Thursday, the tion, and an important one.” expert who was the State Depart-
porting. government employees to use State Department’s Office of Richard W. Painter, the chief ment’s legal adviser under Presi- Spend Sunday with The Times.
THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL SATURDAY, MAY 6, 2017 N A15
After Vowing to Curb Drug Use, Trump Seeks to Slash Drug Control Funds
White House Proposes 95% Reduction
In Office’s Budget Amid an Opioid Crisis
By ALAN RAPPEPORT icy in a fashion similar to how the
WASHINGTON — When he National Economic Council
was running for office, Donald J. coordinates economic policy, help-
Trump promised to rid America of ing to craft it without making
the scourge of drugs, vowing to grants. But critics say the cuts
crack down on dealers and invest would weaken a centralized office
heavily in programs to get heroin key to battling drugs.
and other opioids off the streets. Mr. Trump has so far struggled
But on Friday, President to get his spending priorities
Trump’s administration revealed pushed through Congress. Repub-
plans to gut the 2018 budget of his licans are also under fire from
Office of National Drug Control those who claim that the health
Policy. According to an Office of care legislation passed by the
Management and Budget docu- House of Representatives this
ment obtained by The New York week would reduce mental health
Times, the White House is propos- and drug addition coverage of-
ing to slash the drug policy office fered through insurance plans if it
budget by about 95 percent, to just became law.
$24 million from $388 million. The cuts also seemed at odds
The cuts would mean the office with Mr. Trump’s stated views on
could lose up to 33 employees. The drug addiction. In March, the
budget would also eliminate grant White House announced plans to
programs it administers, includ- set up a commission to address
ing the High Intensity Drug Traf- the country’s opioid crisis. At the
ficking Areas Program and the time, Mr. Trump said, “This is a to-
Drug-Free Communities Support tal epidemic and I think it’s proba-
Program. According to the docu- bly, almost un-talked about com-
ment, the Trump administration pared to the severity that we’re
thinks the programs are duplica- witnessing.”
tive of other federal and state ini- As a candidate, Mr. Trump
tiatives. talked regularly about the coun-
The proposal was rebuked by try’s drug addiction problem and
BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES
Republicans and Democrats as a said drugs were a reason that a
potentially reckless move. Rich wall was needed along the border The police search a man for drugs in Huntington, W.Va. The White House revealed plans to gut its drug control policy office.
Baum, the acting drug czar ap- with Mexico.
pointed by Mr. Trump, expressed “We’re going to take all of these Budget, said in a statement that “The reality is that O.N.D.C.P. is letter, said he was stumped by Mr. by opioid addiction that he would
anguish about the cuts in an email kids — and people, not just kids — the budget was still under review. an agency in dire need of reform,” Trump’s decision to make cuts to come to their aid. That was a lie.”
sent to the office’s staff on Friday. that are totally addicted and they “Reports that suggest budgetary said Grant Smith, deputy director his drug office. “It felt like a Some Republicans were also
“These drastic proposed cuts can’t break it,” Mr. Trump said at numbers or policy decisions are of national affairs for the Drug sucker punch in the face,” Mr. Sa- unhappy, arguing that Mr. Trump
are frankly heartbreaking and, if an event in Ohio last year. “We’re premature and subject to change Policy Alliance, who said that the bet said after word trickled out was underestimating the impor-
carried out, would cause us to lose going to work with them, we’re go- before the late May publication of grant programs being cut “are a about the cuts. “This is a time tance of the drug czar’s work. Sen-
many good people who contribute ing to spend the money, we’re go- the budget,” he said. phenomenal waste of money that when we have one of the largest ator Rob Portman of Ohio said
greatly to O.N.D.C.P.’s mission and ing to get that habit broken.” Some advocacy organizations, contribute to the incarceration opioid epidemics in history and that the antidrug programs that
core activities,” Mr. Baum wrote. The Trump administration re- such as the Drug Policy Alliance, and stigmatization of drug users.” the rise of new industry of people the Trump administration wants
“I don’t want to see this happen.” leased a “skinny budget” in March were cautiously optimistic that Groups that are dedicated to selling pot candy to kids.” to eliminate have had a pro-
The White House maintains that asked for deep cuts to domes- changes to the O.N.D.C.P. could be combating substance abuse were Democrats pounced on the pro- foundly positive impact in his
that Mr. Trump’s commitment to tic programs in exchange for a big helpful. The drug epidemic has worried on Friday and a coalition posed cuts as a significant broken state.
defeating the opioid epidemic will increase in military spending, but worsened in recent years under of them scrambled to draft a letter promise by the president. “We have a heroin and prescrip-
be addressed in his 2018 budget re- did not detail the plans for the its watch and there is concern that to the White House condemning “This is a cruel betrayal by tion drug crisis in this country and
quest and that a bevy of federal White House’s drug office. A more the Trump administration would the cuts. Trump,” said Daniel Wessel, a we should be supporting efforts to
programs already exist to fight comprehensive budget will be re- use a powerful drug czar to ag- Kevin Sabet, president of Smart spokesman for the Democratic reverse this tide, not proposing
the war on drugs. The administra- leased this month. gressively treat drug abuse as a Approaches to Marijuana, who National Committee. “Through- drastic cuts to those who serve on
tion envisions a streamlined John Czwartacki, a spokesman criminal justice issue rather than advised three former presidents out the campaign, Trump the front lines of this epidemic,”
O.N.D.C.P. coordinating drug pol- for the Office of Management and as a public health problem. on drug policy and organized the promised communities ravaged Mr. Portman said.
Hiring Burst in April Drives U.S. Unemployment Rate to Its Lowest Level in 10 Years
From Page A1 NOT QUITE THERE The Labor Picture in April by 37,000, the monthly average in
the sector was down from last
that this late into an expansion the The labor market has seen strong year at the same time. “Health
economy is still adding jobs well data, but it’s not yet at the elusive UNEMPLOYMENT RATE SHARE OF care employment since the begin-
1-MONTH 1-YEAR
full employment. Page B1. POPULATION ning of the year is not the driver it
above the steady-state pace.” 5.0 % APRIL CHANGE CHANGE
The April figures renewed a once was,” Ms. Swonk said, calling
Employed 60.2 % + 0.1 pts. + 0.5 pts. it a “residual of uncertainty re-
conversation among economists 4.4%
about whether the economy was growth figure, which was revised 4.8 Labor force (workers 62.9 – 0.1 + 0.1 garding health care coverage.”
at “full employment,” the point at to 79,000, and April’s vibrant one and unemployed) (The biggest gains were found
which everyone who wants a job was a useful reminder that every in the leisure and hospitality sec-
can get one at the current level of monthly jobs report provides only 4.6 tors. “They’re not buying cars, but
a temporary and incomplete snap- ‘HIDDEN’ UNEMPLOYMENT
pay. they’re buying vacations,” Mr.
shot of the economy. In millions 1-MONTH 1-YEAR
There was less agreement on APRIL CHANGE CHANGE Swonk said.)
Whatever effect Mr. Trump’s 4.4 Owners of small and medium-
who deserved the credit. Republi- Working part time, but 5.3 – 5.1 % – 11.7%
cans crowed about how many jobs policies are having so far, econo- M J J A S O N D J F M A size businesses tell pollsters that
mists agree that presidents al- want full-time work
had been created since President they are optimistic about the
Trump took office in January, ways tend to be given much more People who currently 5.6 † – 1.0 – 2.0 economy, despite several weak
UNEMPLOYMENT DEMOGRAPHICS 1-MONTH 1-YEAR
while Democrats pointed to the responsibility for the economy’s CHANGE CHANGE
want a job§ economic indicators, said Cather-
APRIL
ongoing economic legacy of Presi- ups and downs than they deserve. ine Barrera, an economics profes-
“We have a big, big economy and White 3.8 % – 0.1 pts. – 0.5 pts. UNEMPLOYMENT BY sor at Cornell University and the
dent Barack Obama. 1-MONTH 1-YEAR
the overall shape is made by mil- Black 7.9 – 0.1 – 0.9 EDUCATION LEVEL chief economic adviser for
Three months is still a short APRIL CHANGE CHANGE
span in the life of an administra- lions and millions of individual de- Hispanic* 5.2 + 0.1 – 0.9 ZipRecruiter, an online jobs plat-
cisions,” said Michael Strain, an Less than high 6.5 % – 0.3 pts. – 1.0pts.
tion, and Mr. Trump has not yet form. But many employers have
economist at the American Enter- Asian 3.1 † – 0.1 † – 0.5 † school
pushed through the main planks yet to act on their stated inten-
of his pro-growth agenda like tax prise Institute, a conservative Teenagers 14.7 + 1.0 – 1.3 High school 4.6 – 0.3 – 0.8 tions to add workers. “The thing
reform or a large investment in in- think tank. “We tend to give too (16-19) Some college 3.7 Unch. – 0.4 that stands out most,” Ms. Barrera
frastructure. Even so, some econ- much emphasis to role of the pres- said, is the “gap between that op-
ident.” Bachelor’s or higher 2.4 – 0.1 Unch.
omists gave the president credit timism and the follow-through on
DURATION OF UNEMPLOYMENT
for a jump in optimism. Certainly, the administration’s 1-MONTH 1-YEAR that optimism.”
In weeks TYPE OF WORK
“Sharp increases in consumer solidly pro-business agenda has APRIL CHANGE CHANGE Matthew Dolly, director of re-
buoyed many executives. At the In millions 1-MONTH 1-YEAR
and business confidence can have search at Transwestern, a na-
same time, they have steadily Average 24.1 – 4.7 % –13.0 % APRIL CHANGE CHANGE
real consequences that show up in tional commercial real estate firm,
increased hiring and investment,” complained about a growing Median 10.2 – 1.0 – 8.9 Nonfarm 146.1 + 0.1% + 1.6% said: “Businesses want to hire
said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a for- shortage of workers. Goods 20.0 + 0.1 + 1.2 and planned on hiring. But until
mer director of the Congressional “It’s not an employer’s market,” EMPLOYMENT Nonfarm payroll, 12-month change + 0.2 policies are ironed out, hiring will
Services 126.1 + 1.6
Budget Office who advised Sena- said Patrick Bass, chief executive +2% remain stagnant for a bit while
tor John McCain, Republican of of Thyssenkrupp North America, Agriculture 2.6 + 5.9 + 2.6 that happens.”
Arizona, during his 2008 presiden- which makes elevators, steel and Even after a policy is carried
tial campaign. other industrial products. AVERAGE WEEKLY EARNINGS out, it can take time before the ef-
Mr. Holtz-Eakin added that Mr. Based in Germany, Rank-and-file 1-MONTH 1-YEAR fect kicks in. When it comes to in-
Trump’s freezing of new regula- Thyssenkrupp employs more workers APRIL CHANGE CHANGE dividual tax cuts, for example,
+1
tions and elimination of others than 15,000 people in the United $900.94 +0.6% + 2.5 % consumers have historically
were having a measurable im- States, but “the labor market is started to spend only when the ex-
pact. very competitive at all levels,” Mr. Figures are seasonally adjusted, except where noted. tra money is in hand, not when it is
“The observed pace of regula- Bass said. “We have more promised, said William Gale, a
tory activity has come to a stand- positions open than we’ve been 0 *Hispanics can be of any race. †Not seasonally adjusted. senior fellow at the Brookings In-
still,” he said. In contrast, he ar- able to fill.” §People not working who say they would like to be. stitution.
M J J A S O N D J F M A Includes discouraged workers and those who cannot work
gued, a persistent rollout of regu- Yet if shortages were as acute Gauging the impact on busi-
lations by the Obama administra- as advertised, then wages would for reasons including ill health. nesses is much more complicated.
tion had added millions of dollars be bid up at a faster rate. Average Source: Bureau of Labor Statisics THE NEW YORK TIMES “We generally think it takes
in costs for businesses each week. hourly earnings, though, rose by about a decade for the economic
Another major factor in the 0.3 percent in April, bringing the effects of a tax plan to fully phase
tional institutions or in developing the prerecession rate. ginalized workers. With skills ero-
economy’s performance is, of year-over-year growth to 2.5 per- in,” said Kyle Pomerleau, director
course, the Federal Reserve skills so that new hires “can earn Less encouraging was a dip in sion, people in long-term unem-
cent. Last year at this time, in- of federal projects at the conser-
Board, which put a confident creases were the same but infla- while they learn.” the proportion of adults who have ployment have gotten into a vi- vative Tax Foundation.
stamp on the economy this week tion was lower, further shrinking Workers with fewer skills or a job or want one. That measure, cious cycle. An incoming tide does And maybe not even then, given
and plans to raise interest rates the impact of any wage increases. less experience can often be hired known as the labor participation not lift all boats.” how many variables affect invest-
further this year. Employers must decide at a cut rate. Some may have come rate, edged down to 62.9 percent And the divisions among Re- ment and the economy, said Alan
The jobs report on Friday whether to buy skills or to build from the ranks of part-time work- last month from 63 percent, a sign publicans in Washington that Viard, a senior fellow at the Amer-
strengthens that case, though an- them, said Michael Stull, a senior ers who want full-time jobs and of that workers who had been side- have left the future of the Afford- ican Enterprise Institute.
other report is due before Fed pol- vice president at the staffing com- those who had previously been lined are not being drawn back able Care Act uncertain even after “You might never be able to pin
icy makers meet again in June. pany Manpower North America. too discouraged to look. There into the labor market. the House vote on Thursday to re- down what happened due to the
And the wide swing between The small pressure on wages, he was a sharp drop last month in the “This gets to be the real issue,” peal it have put some employers tax cut, as there would be no way
March’s disappointing jobs said, is evidence that they have broader measure of unemploy- said Diane Swonk, founder of DS in a wait-and-see mode. to know what would have hap-
been trying to buy them, but more ment, which includes individuals Economics in Chicago. “As good Ms. Swonk noted, for example, pened without the tax cut,” he
Nelson D. Schwartz contributed re- businesses are expressing an in- in both categories, to 8.6 percent as this report is, it points to how that while hiring in health care said. “We can’t observe the path
porting. terest in partnerships with educa- from 8.9 percent. That is close to hard it is to bring in those mar- and social-assistance jobs was up not taken.”
For Only the Second Time, F.D.A. Approves a Drug to Treat Lou Gehrig’s Disease
By DENISE GRADY year, according to its manufactur- The disease kills nerve cells But he was uncertain about symptoms. It can slow the decline,
er, MT Pharma America, a subsid- that control voluntary muscles, so whether he would actually recom- but that is not something a patient
A new drug for amyotrophic
lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s iary of the Japanese company Mi- A treatment is found patients gradually weaken and mend it, because the method of will notice.
disease, was approved on Friday tsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corpora-
tion.
to slow weakening become paralyzed. Most die
within three to five years, usually
administration is difficult. Pa-
tients have to have an intravenous
According to the F.D.A., the
most common adverse reactions
by the Food and Drug Administra-
tion. Radicava is only the second and paralysis. from respiratory failure. About line inserted and left in place in- were bruising and gait disturb-
The drug, called Radicava or drug ever approved to treat A.L.S. 12,000 to 15,000 people in the definitely, which poses an infec- ance. There can be other serious
edaravone, slowed the progres- The first, riluzole, was approved United States have A.L.S., accord- tion risk. The first round of treat- risks that require immediate care,
sion of the degenerative disease in by the F.D.A. more than 20 years ing to the Centers for Disease Con- ment requires a one-hour infusion like hives, swelling or shortness of
ago. Riluzole can increase sur- declined less than those receiving trol and Prevention. every day for 14 days, followed by breath, and allergic reactions that
a six-month study in Japan. It placebos.
must be given by intravenous in- vival by two or three months. Dr. Shneider predicted that pa- 14 days off. After that, the infu- can be life threatening in people
There is no information yet about Dr. Neil A. Shneider, director of tients would be eager to try the sions are given daily for 10 out of 14 who are sensitive to sulfite.
fusion and will cost $145,524 a
whether Radicava has any effect the Eleanor and Lou Gehrig ALS new drug. He said several of his days, with 14 days off. MT Pharma America said it
on survival. Center at Columbia University patients were already receiving it “If it were a pill and easily ad- would provide some co-pay assist-
In the study in Japan, 137 pa- Medical Center, said, “The effect because they had obtained it ministered, I’d be less reluctant to ance to patients with commercial
Other points of view
tients were picked at random to is modest but significant.” themselves from Japan. If more use it,” Dr. Shneider said. insurance, and other help to peo-
on the Op-Ed page receive either Radicava or a pla- He added, “I’m very happy, want it, he will prescribe it, he He added that the drug will not ple who are uninsured or face de-
seven days a week. cebo. At the end of six months, the frankly, that there is a second drug said. make patients feel better or lays in coverage. Those who qual-
The New York Times condition of those taking the drug approved for A.L.S.” “It’s very safe,” he said. stronger. It does not improve ify might even be treated for free.
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Top, from left: a terra cotta architectural sculpture from around 1875, a water spout and a Norseman are among the pieces on display at the Anonymous Arts
Museum in Charlotteville, N.Y. Above left, a piece called “Muse of Sculpture” was believed to be a favorite of Ivan Karp, who salvaged many of the pieces.
Rikers Is Deemed
Too Dangerous to Take
Transferred Inmates
18, the issues raised in the letter
From Page A1 were not discussed.
ment to report incidents like in- A City Hall spokeswoman said
mate deaths and suicide attempts that months before the letter was
to the commission in a timely sent, the Correction Department
manner. had submitted plans to address
The letter was dated April 28, many of the issues raised by the
the same day the city’s Investiga- state commission and had started
tion Department reprimanded the taking steps to resolve them.
Correction Department’s commis- “A few minor issues that are al-
sioner, Joseph Ponte, and three ready being addressed provide in-
top aides for misusing their offi- sufficient grounds to revoke a pro-
cial vehicles. Mr. Ponte, the Inves- gram that has improved the safety
tigation Department said, vio- of staff and inmates at Rikers and
lated city rules by using his city at jails across the state,” said the
car to take extended trips outside spokeswoman, Natalie Gry-
the state, mostly to Maine. He bauskas. “We welcome any guid-
spent a total of 90 days outside the ance from the State Commission
of Correction on how it believes in-
mates already in custody at Rik-
ers and around the state should be
State officials demand handled.”
Inmate transfers to jails outside
a halt to an infrequent the county of arrest are rare. As of
this week, there were 17 trans-
safety measure. ferred inmates at Rikers, mostly
from nearby counties like Nassau
and Suffolk on Long Island, and
Westchester just north of New
city in 2016, at a time when vio- York City. The letter does not
lence at Rikers was on the rise. specify what to do with those in- PHOTOGRAPHS BY SPENCER PLATT/GETTY IMAGES
It comes in the midst of a feud mates already in custody at Rik-
between Mayor Bill de Blasio, who ers under the transfer program. The entrance to New York City’s jail complex. The State Com-
has defended Mr. Ponte, and Gov. In addition to the 12 jails in New mission of Correction says Rikers Island can no longer take in-
Andrew M. Cuomo, who is respon- York City, the state commission mates from jails in other counties. Transfers are typically made
sible for appointing members of oversees 63 county jails and 54 if inmates face a higher risk of violence in their area.
the State Commission of Correc- state prisons. It evaluates renova-
tion. In recent months, the gover- tion projects and changes in regu-
nor has frequently criticized the lations and investigates inmate charged. been arrested as a result of Inves-
mayor over the spiraling crisis at deaths, among other matters. But The commission is but one of a tigation Department inquiries into
Rikers Island, notwithstanding it has little enforcement power. In number of agencies responsible brutality by guards, sexual assault
his own struggles to rein in brutal- 2015, the commission issued a for overseeing conditions at New and the smuggling of drugs and
ity and corruption within the state scathing report about the mis- York City jails. In the city, the weapons into Rikers, according to
prison system. treatment of an inmate at Rikers Board of Correction sets Diane Struzzi, a spokeswoman for
Though there have been serious who was locked in his cell for six minimum standards that the Cor- the Investigation Department.
problems at Rikers for years, the days, was denied food and medi- rection Department must follow. There is also a federal monitor-
state commission had never be- cation and died after he was found The Department of Investiga- ing team brought on in 2015 as a re-
fore deemed conditions too dan- naked and covered in feces. The tion, which has a special unit for sult of a class-action settlement
gerous for inmate transfers. And it report said the details of the death investigating malfeasance at Rik- over brutality at Rikers. Last
is not clear what prompted the “shock the conscience.” But cor- ers, has the power to make arrests month, the team issued a report
commission to issue the letter rections officials would not say if and refer city employees for pros- that said guards were continuing
when it did. At its two most recent anyone was disciplined or fired, ecution. Since 2014, 38 Correction to use brutal force against inmates
meetings, on March 28 and April and no one was criminally Department staff members have at an “alarming rate.”
JEENAH MOON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES ANDREW GOMBERT/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY
Flooding on Friday forced partial closings of many roads in New York, including part of the West Side Highway in Manhattan. Right, cars on a flooded street in the Gowanus area of Brooklyn.
Flooding and Cancellations as New York Receives Almost a Month’s Worth of Rain
By ELI ROSENBERG three inches of rain — about two- cluding SoHo and Chelsea in Man- pressway, and a ramp off the the subway after flooding in at Airport and Newark Liberty In-
Over the course of just a few thirds of its typical monthly total hattan; Dumbo and Gowanus in George Washington Bridge to the least one station and pooling on ternational Airport — were can-
hours on Friday, a heavy down- — nearly doubling the previous Brooklyn; and parts of Staten Is- Harlem River Drive, according to the floor at the Oculus at the World celed, according to the flight data
pour sent floodwaters through the record for the day recorded in 1871, land, New Jersey and Long Is- the city’s Office of Emergency Trade Center transportation hub site FlightAware.
streets, shutting down roads, according to the National Weather land. Management. downtown. Ferries and buses to the Frieze
stranding motorists, and causing Service. Other areas around the The floodwaters forced partial And the storm delivered a jolt to Hundreds of flights into and out New York art fair on Randalls Is-
delays on transit systems city received two to three inches of closures of many roads around the the city’s transit systems, closing of the region’s three main airports land were canceled. The rain be-
throughout the New York region. rain. Flooding was reported city, including portions of the West two tracks and an entrance at — John F. Kennedy International gan to taper off Friday evening
Central Park received about throughout much of the area, in- Side Highway, the Van Wyck Ex- Penn Station, causing delays in Airport, La Guardia International from its midday peak.
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surpassed the 3 percent mark was 17 LECTIONS in the Netherlands, disproportionately affect women” at
years ago. France and Germany this year Eastern Europe, and particularly in the To accomplish that, the European Union work. Everybody who thinks unwanted
What ails France? The facile answer is have brought much drama to the Balkans, using various forms of subver- has had, in effect, to replace the function- pregnancies are a barrier, please raise
to cite forces beyond French control: bu- old Carolingian core, where sion, from running organized crime rings ality of those former empires. Even inside your hands.
reaucracy in Brussels; the currency Charlemagne founded his empire in the to financing nationalist-populist move- the open borders of the Schengen Area, Under normal circumstances, we’d
straitjacket of the euro; the European ninth century. This has always been the ments. Montenegro may be close to join- within which free movement is guaran- give Ivanka’s slim tome, “Women Who
Central Bank; the dark winds of global- richest and most strongly institutional- ing NATO, but it is often viewed as a veri- teed, the union represents a sprawling ter- Work,” a pass. Or link you to Jennifer
ization. Le Pen specializes in just this ized part of Europe. But should the Euro- table colony of Russian oligarchs and ritory, governed by a remote and only Senior’s review in The Times, which calls
sort of blame shifting, which is another pean Union continue to weaken, the most crime groups, where by some accounts partly democratic bureaucracy, with it “not really offensive so much as wit-
way in which she and Donald Trump are profound repercussions will be felt farther Russia tried to stage a coup last year. Ser- many of its people demanding more direct lessly derivative.” It’s stuffed with obvi-
kindred spirits. east and south. bia and Bulgaria are seen as beachheads representation. Isn’t this a form of late and ous tips and multitudinous inspirational
There, along the fault line of the Austri- of Russian regional influence, even as neo- declining empire?
But the French can thank their lucky quotes on leadership, one of which
an Hapsburg and Ottoman Turkish em- authoritarian governments farther north So it must be saved — and improved.
stars for reasonably stable money, the comes from John Quincy Adams, an un-
pires, former Communist countries lack in Hungary and Poland bear growing sim- Jan Zielonka of St. Antony’s College, Ox-
E.C.B.’s bond-buying spree and member- successful president who nobody liked.
the sturdy middle-class base of core Eu- ilarities to the Russian regime. The effort ford, writes optimistically of a vibrant
ship in a Union that allows French job His wife was so empowered she wrote a
rope, and in many cases are still dis- by the Hungarian government to end the “neo-medievalism” in Europe: a dynamic
tracted by ethnic and territorial disputes freedom of the Central European Univer- overlapping of identities and sovereign-
It is desperate for reform 25 years after the siege of Sarajevo. They sity, founded in Budapest by the Hungar-
ian-American billionaire George Soros,
ties — supranational, national and local —
as cities and regions vie with a revitalized
Reproductive rights go all
depend on pro-European Union govern-
— and desperate not to ments as never before. has to be seen in this geopolitical context.
As for Turkey, President Recep Tayyip
European Union for a claim on people’s wrong in Washington.
In Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, of- loyalties. Unless there is a credible Euro-
be reformed. ficials and experts talk about a so-called Erdogan won a referendum granting him pean Union, the other layers of identity
White House memoir titled “Adventures
phantom frontier that still exercises peo- near dictatorial powers last month. The are not possible without conflict.
next day, he visited the tomb not of of a Nobody.” One of his sons called him
seekers a chance to find work in higher- ple’s imagination. This is the “Antemurale I recently visited the Croatian port city “the Iron Mask.” Do you think Ivanka’s a
Christianitatis,” the “Bulwark of Christi- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, modern Turkey’s of Rijeka, close to the Slovenian and Ital-
growth economies — including an esti- John Quincy Adams fan? Or has another
mated 300,000 in Britain alone. anity,” proclaimed in 1519 by Pope Leo X, in ian borders, when the two-headed eagle Trump ghostwriter been over-Googling?
a reference to the Roman Catholic Slavs was put back atop the bell tower. “It is a
A more honest account of France’s tra-
vails starts — and pretty much ends — considered the front line against the Mus- There will be conflict in Hapsburg emblem, not a Croat, Hungar-
Ivanka’s a major power in the adminis-
tration, and she ought to be mobilizing
ian or Italian one,” a local ethnic-Italian
with what the French often call their “so- lim Ottoman Empire. Croatia was the first
line of defense and Slovenia the second.
the Balkans without a writer, Giacomo Scotti, explained to me.
support for things like easy access to
cial model.” France ranks first in the contraceptives. “Women Who Work”
O.E.C.D.’s tables for government spend- “When Yugoslavia collapsed, it was as-
sumed that none of this earlier history
strong European Union. “It was taken down by the Fascists and
symbolizes the local freedom and autono-
isn’t exactly aimed at the people who
ing (57 percent of gross domestic prod- have problems paying for their prescrip-
was important,” one official said to me re- my that this city enjoyed under the Haps-
uct, tied with Finland) and welfare tions — its target readers need tips on
cently. “But a quarter-century after the burgs.” Mainly because Croatia is a sover-
spending (31.5 percent). As of 2014, the founder, but the tomb of Mehmed II, massage priorities and getting the
disintegration of Tito’s Yugoslavia, we eign state within the European Union, and
total tax take was second only to Den- known as the Conqueror, the 15th-century nanny to send Mom pictures of how the
find that we are back to late-medieval and working toward entry into the Schengen
mark’s. Ottoman sultan whose imperial armies kids are spending their day. But she’s not
early-modern history.” and euro zones, do the circumstances ex-
This isn’t just a tax-and-spend model marched westward from Constantinople witless and she obviously knows that
The Slovenes, governed for hundreds of ist for such a nonthreatening display of lo-
of government. More like: tax-spend- as far as Bosnia. Whether it is in Bulgaria, birth control plays an important role in
years by the Austrian Hapsburgs, had in cal pride.
cosset-strangle. At least until the outgo- Macedonia or Kosovo, Mr. Erdogan is de- working women’s lives. You think she’d
2016 a per-capita income of $32,000. The The great Italian scholar of Central Eu-
ing government of President François termined to fill the void opened by a de- put in a word.
Croats, with their mixed history of Austro- rope, Claudio Magris, refers to Tito in his
Hollande managed to ram through some clining European Union. No sign. The president has directed
Hungarian, Ottoman and Venetian tradi- epic travel book, “Danube,” as the last of
modest labor-market reforms last year, Only if Serbia, Albania and Kosovo be- departments like health and human
tions, had a per-capita income of $22,400. the Hapsburg emperors, resembling
the French labor code ran to over 3,000 come members of the union can the ethnic services to consider whether the govern-
But in the rest of the former Yugoslavia, Franz Joseph “because of his awareness
pages. dispute between Serbs and Albanians ment should allow employers who cite
which fell almost completely within the of inheriting a supranational, Danubian
The code is designed to make firing a truly be solved. Within the European Un- religious objections to cut contraceptives
Ottoman Empire, Montenegro has a per- legacy.” Like Franz Joseph, Tito held
full-time employee as difficult as possi- ion, Albania and Kosovo will have no need out of their health care plans. What do
capita income of $17,000 and Serbia’s is Yugoslavia together through a mixture of
ble — which makes hiring them that $14,000. Macedonia, Kosovo and the for- of unifying on their own, an act that could repression and, compared with other you think said agencies will decide?
much more unlikely. As The Times’s mer Ottoman parts of Bosnia register sim- become a casus belli for the Serbs. A simi- Communist states, benevolence. Now the Here’s a hint: The new head of H.H.S.,
Adam Nossiter reported last year, “90 ilarly low numbers. lar dynamic holds for the contest between states that were once part of Yugoslavia Tom Price, is a guy who once claimed
percent of jobs created in France” in 2015 This is not ethnic or racial determinism, Croatia and Serbia for influence in Bosnia- will find peace and security only through a there was “not one” woman who had
were “unstable, poorly paid and short since the Slavs of southeastern Europe Herzegovina. There is peace in the former far more benign imperial system: the Eu- ever had a problem paying for birth con-
term.” have been shaped politically and economi- Yugoslavia within the European Union. ropean Union. So what happens next in trol on her own. (Getting an intrauterine
None of this is a mystery to a majority cally more by the agency of foreign im- There is only protracted conflict without the core of Europe — whether, for in- device implanted can cost $1,000 in some
of the French, though it often eludes perialism than by their own blood and lan- it. The European Union offers a system of stance, France joins Britain in seeking to parts of the country.)
credulous foreigners who extol the bene- guage. The former Byzantine and Otto- legal states instead of ethnic nations, im- exit the European Union — is crucial to The reproductive rights war is always
fits of the French model without counting man part of Europe is still the poorest, personal laws rather than fiat, protection the rest of the Continent. 0 promoted publicly as a battle against
or being subject to its costs. The French least stable and most in need of support for individuals over groups. abortion. But many religious conserva-
twice elected conservative presidents — from the European Union. Whether Eu- The European Union, in other words, is ROBERT D. KAPLAN, the author of “Balkan tives hate birth control in general. Some
Jacques Chirac in 1995 and Nicolas rope remains a secure and prosperous the necessary empire. Ghosts” and “In Europe’s Shadow,” is a just want to stop sex outside of marriage.
Sarkozy in 2007 — on the strength of continent, or fractures along traditional I use the word “empire” advisedly. The senior fellow at the Center for a New Some don’t believe even married couples
promises to pare the state. Twice disap- east-west fault lines — with European Union has been such an ambi- American Security and a senior adviser should use artificial methods like pills or
pointed, they turned to the Socialist Hol- authoritarians in Russia and Turkey carv- tious enterprise mainly because it has at the Eurasia Group. condoms. Some believe that all fertilized
lande in 2012, but his flirtation with soak- eggs are humans and that many forms of
the-rich policies was short-lived. contraception, from IUDs to morning-af-
(Recent polls have been cruel to the ter pills, cause the equivalent of murder.
president, but like Germany’s Gerhard
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pedagogical. Le Pen has offered him a OW that the Obamacare re-
that remain often have a monopoly, and macare is generous, yet I have to fight for described intrauterine devices to Emily
relatively easy ideological foil, given how placement bill has passed the
premiums rise. essential care for my patients. We need to Bazelon in a Times interview as having
thoroughly tainted her party is by xeno- House and is moving on to the
Speaking of compassion, how about be less emotional about this issue. “life-ending properties.” Yoest, who’s go-
more centrist Senate, the real
phobia and anti-Semitism. some for the 20-something construction Jimmy Kimmel’s contention that a child ing to be assistant secretary for public af-
debate begins. What is the true purpose of
Yet it’s one thing to make the abstract worker who can’t pay his rent because his like his would not receive lifesaving fairs, also refuses to consider whether in-
health insurance, and what is our govern-
case for openness, competitiveness and premiums help subsidize overusers like surgery without Obamacare may tug at creased access to contraception will ac-
ment’s goal in ensuring we have it?
globalization in the face of a bigot. The my allergy sufferer? Why shouldn’t a pa- the heartstrings, but it is not accurate. tually help reduce abortion rates. It
I learn from my patients every day
harder climb will be to press for changes tient who is risk-averse pay more for cov- Employer-based health insurance, which would, she told PBS, “be, frankly, carry-
about the benefits, limitations and contra-
that inevitably take things away from erage she might never need, while that covers 170 million Americans, would have ing water for the other side to allow them
dictions of their health insurance. One
people. construction worker be allowed to choose paid for this infant’s needs with or without to redefine the issue in that way.”
charming 60-year-old with severe season-
The paradox of France is that it is des- al allergies insists on seeing me every few a cheaper plan that might cover only the Obamacare. Even if the Republican plan Teresa Manning, a former official at
perate for reform — and desperate not to weeks this time of year, even though I tell essentials? replaced Obamacare, and even if the in- National Right to Life, is said to be
be reformed. It wants the benefits of a her she doesn’t need to — her antihis- The House bill would also let states cre- fant didn’t have employer-provided insur- Trump’s pick for another high post at
job-producing competitive economy but tamines and nasal spray treatment rarely ate high-risk pools for patients with pre- ance, the treatment would still be covered. H.H.S., deputy assistant secretary for —
fears relinquishing a job-protecting un- changes. But she worries that her al- And at the end of the day, a federal law, the are you ready? — population affairs.
competitive one. A Macron presidency lergies could be hiding an infection. I in- Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Manning, who, like Yoest, has argued
will have to devote its intellectual and
rhetorical energies to explaining that it
vestigate and reassure her, and her insur- Why shouldn’t my Act, guarantees this kind of treatment,
whether we have Obamacare or Trump-
that abortions cause breast cancer, is go-
ing to be in charge of all federal family
ance (which she buys through New York’s
can be one or the other, but not both. Obamacare exchange) covers the bill. patient pay more? care. planning programs. She’s the one who
I don’t want to close this column with- If she was responsible for more than a The final question concerns the sky- once claimed in a radio interview that
out allowing for the awful chance that Le small co-payment for these visits, I’m sure rocketing costs of innovation. My 93-year- “contraception doesn’t work.” The idea
Pen might win. That would be a moral I would see her less often. existing conditions who let their coverage old father, a retired engineer, just received that “contraception would always pre-
tragedy for France and a probable disas- We pride ourselves on being a compas- lapse, and who could then be charged pre- a $50,000 catheter-inserted aortic valve, vent the conception” was, she said, “pre-
ter for Europe. But it would also be a re- sionate society, and insurers use this to miums more in keeping with their health covered by Medicare. But if all such high- posterous.”
minder that chronic economic stagna- manipulate us into paying for other peo- care needs. This is the only way to make tech devices are covered, it will be practi- Nobody thinks these appointees re-
tion inevitably begets nationalist furies. ple’s excessive health care. Meanwhile, 5 insurance affordable for most consumers; cally impossible for any insurance com- flect Trump’s own personal convictions,
In the United States, a complacent left percent of Americans generate more than pre-existing conditions will continue to pany not to go belly-up. The tax-free and the president doesn’t need to go this
acquits itself too easily of its role in 50 percent of health care expenses. Why drive up premiums if everyone is com- savings accounts that the House bill far to satisfy his voter base. It’s just that
paving the way to the Trump presidency. shouldn’t a patient who continues to see pelled to pay the same price. would expand are a far better way to pay he doesn’t care, and figures he can con-
Many of Le Pen’s supporters might be me unnecessarily pay more? These risk-pool premiums can and for this kind of care. Shouldn’t people be cede to the ultraright on women’s repro-
bigots, but their case against the self-sat- The government’s job is to maintain should be subsidized by the government. asked to save their own money for just this ductive issues in return for stuff he really
isfaction, self-dealing, moral preening public health and safety. It should ensure A recent report from the Kaiser Family sort of rainy day? wants. So he’s working toward a world
and economic incompetence of the that insurance plans include mandatory Foundation found that high-risk pools can Or should we continue to overload where low-income women won’t be able
French ruling classes is nearly impecca- benefits like emergency, epidemic, vac- work, but have been historically under- health insurance with all our fears and ex- to afford contraceptives. And aren’t al-
ble. cine and addiction coverage. The Republi- funded. Trumpcare should change that — pectations? 0 lowed to have an abortion if they get
What has failed in France is an idea — can bill would let states apply for waivers though it will cost more than the House pregnant. Where there’s no Planned Par-
an idea about the role of the state. to define these benefits differently; it bill’s $8 billion in additional funding. Dras- MARC K. SIEGEL is a contributor for Fox enthood to go to for help, or insurance to
Macron’s challenge, should he win, is to would be a big mistake to drop such cover- tic cuts to Medicaid should also be re- News and a professor of medicine at cover prenatal care or delivery.
show the French there’s a better one. 0 age entirely. But Obamacare went well be- versed, which could help the bill pass the NYU Langone Medical Center. Other than that, no problem. 0
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A Milestone for China Wealth Matters
New Jetliner Takes Flight Not-So-Bumpy Rides
The test run of the Comac C919 Top thoroughbreds often travel
symbolized the industrial might in specially outfitted airplanes
of an emerging superpower. 2 and supersize trailers. 3
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Christienne Dobson, second from right, used the EatWith site, below, to attract guests to a dinner party last month in her Harlem apartment.
Be My Guest . . . Please?
Social-dining By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD ing the first party in the United States.
The guests — half friends and half
In a penthouse apartment in Manhattan’s
services let chefs Chinatown on a recent Monday night, Lisa
strangers — arrived. Mostly millennials,
they displayed a dinner-party-appropriate
Larsson chopped shiitake mushrooms and
cook at home looked rather relaxed for someone about to
gravitas: pocket squares, bottles of wine for
Ms. Larsson. There was only a whiff of cyni-
host a 14-person dinner.
for strangers, but She had arranged the party through the
cism when Noor Shams, who works in mi-
crofinance, said the doorman downstairs
app AirDine, which lets users pay to eat at
many potential strangers’ houses, rating the experience af-
did not recognize Ms. Larsson’s name and
“for a second, I was like, ‘This is a scam!’”
terward. The app started in Sweden last
patrons are wary. year and expanded to the United States and
It was not a scam — but whether AirDine
and a wave of similar apps can get con-
elsewhere in March. Ms. Larsson, 26, a
painter originally from Sweden, was host- Continued on Page 4
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Sterling Jewelers has settled leased as part of a filing with the sations do not make up the basis of through May 4
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employees, reaching a deal with- accusations. has said that it investigated the
INVESTMENT In a statement, Signet Jewelers, claims of sexual misconduct and
PROPERTIES out having to admit wrongdoing 2. With Fox News in Tumult, Another Executive, Bill Shine, Is
or pay any damages, a win for the Sterling’s parent company, said it found them to be without merit.
(600)
company as it faces continuing le- was pleased to have resolved the In a statement, Joseph M. Sell- Ousted
Investment Properties gal challenges over its pay and case. ers, the lawyer representing the 3. Puerto Rico Declares a Form of Bankruptcy
Other Areas 605 “Signet has a sound framework women in the class-action arbitra-
promotion practices.
Poughkeepsie, NY $1,895,000 of policies and practices designed tion, said the deal with the federal 4. Sean Hannity Defends Executive as Fox News Turmoil
Investment Opportunity in Growing Under the deal, Sterling, the
Waterfront District. 5 Multi Family
parent of chains including Jared to ensure equal opportunity for commission had no bearing on his Continues
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Berkshire Hathaway Lynn Dennison, the company’s Mr. Sellers said that “we very Dragged Off Plane
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Other Areas 795 tion practices. fairs officer. “The additional steps tice for the victims and to forcing Tastes
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Sterling faces a separate class- against Sterling in 2008. Economists are like meteorologists with their explanations for why
action arbitration case from wom- Signet, with a market capital- their predictions did not come to pass.
en who accuse the company of ization of more than $4.3 billion, is — CA DREAMER, PETALUMA, CALIF.
gender bias. Lawyers for the one of the world’s largest retailers
women in that case say the com- of diamonds, rings and watches. 8. Hacker Leaks Episodes From Netflix Show and Threatens
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employees less than their male and shopping centers around the Other Networks
counterparts and unfairly over- country, and its more than 3,600 9. For Journalists, Annual Dinner Serves Up Catharsis and
looked women for promotions and stores throughout the United Resolve
other opportunities. The case also States, the United Kingdom and
accuses Sterling of fostering a cul- Canada generate annual sales 10. Yellow-Light Crusader Fined for Doing Math Without a
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PERSONAL BUSINESS
WEALTH MATTERS
To Lift Economic Growth, Help Women Join the Work Force, the Fed Chief Says
policy supported and reinforced as the participation of women in
From First Business Page changes in society. A 1974 law, for the work force has continued to
the same age range working or example, allowed women to apply rise in other developed countries.
seeking work, which was 88.6 per- for loans without a male co-signer. The United States, which had one
cent in April. Women gained entry into a of the highest rates of participa-
Ms. Yellen’s speech was unusu- wider range of professions, and tion in the early 1990s, fell to 17th
ally narrative and unusually per- the gap between men’s and among 22 developed nations in
sonal. Speaking at her alma mater, women’s wages narrowed signifi- one recent analysis.
she told the stories of other wom- cantly. Nancy H. Teeters became That analysis, a 2013 study by
en who graduated from Brown, in- the first woman appointed to the Francine D. Blau and Lawrence
Fed’s board in September 1978. M. Kahn, both of Cornell Univer-
cluding her husband’s aunt, Eliza-
Ms. Yellen said that their in- sity, attributed much of the differ-
beth Stafford Hirschfelder. She
creased work force participation ence to government policies. The
said Ms. Hirschfelder, who gradu-
United States lags behind other
ated in 1923, faced discrimination had produced clear benefits not
countries in the availability of
throughout her career as a math- only for women, but also for men,
paid maternity leave, affordable
ematician. “I believe that Betty for the children of working women
child care and flexible work
Stafford Hirschfelder was denied and for the American economy. schedules. Ms. Blau and Mr. Kahn
opportunities and greater success “The evidence shows that the estimated that adopting Euro-
simply because she was a wom- rise in women’s participation has pean policies on those issues
an,” she said. contributed to widespread im- could close more than half of the
Ms. Yellen, who is 70, said wom- provements in the safety and pro- gap in the United States between
en of her own generation had ductivity of our workplaces, to the male and female labor force par-
faced fewer obstacles and had health of families and to the mac- ticipation.
more opportunities. “I enrolled at roeconomic success that our Ms. Yellen also cited research
Brown fully planning to attend country has enjoyed,” she said. showing that women still make
graduate school and have a ca- She spoke at a conference titled about 10 percent less, on average,
reer, as did many of my class- “125 Years of Women at Brown.” than men with similar back-
mates in the Class of 1967,” she That progress, however, has MICHAEL DWYER/ASSOCIATED PRESS
grounds who work in similar
said. She noted that changes in stalled in the United States even Janet L. Yellen spoke on Friday during a conference at Brown University in Providence, R.I. positions.
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PERSONAL BUSINESS
has not caught on in the same way in Harlem and an EatWith host, Christienne Dobson used the EatWith site to host a dinner party. Her main course, top left, included Trinidadian chicken curry.
so far, and a few of the apps have said she saw cooking as a hobby
already shut down. rather than an income stream.
“Basically, I’m not spending that it was typical in Israel for peo- new users.” EatWith also began requiring that,” Ms. Larsson advised, as
The challenge is not finding
money to host people — it pays for ple to open the door and invite oth- Mitch Monsen, the founder of that hosts cook a demo meal with conversations started between
hosts willing to invite strangers
over. It’s finding guests willing to itself, which is really nice, so I can ers over. But “what I discovered in Kitchen.ly, a social-dining app real guests giving ratings before guests discussing Silvio Berlus-
show up. source better ingredients, source the U.S. is, people are more terri- that he shut down in 2013, said din- allowing the host on the site; it ac- coni, a former prime minister of It-
different types of food,” she said. torial and more personal about ers were particularly concerned cepts only 4 percent of applicants aly, versus President Trump,
“My thought was, ‘It must be
hard to find these amazing chefs Many of the social-dining sites their own personal space,” he said. about sanitary issues and hosts’ as hosts. The company also plans among other topics.
and hosts, and convince them to and apps began around 2012, After finding limited success personal-cleanliness standards. to expand to South America, Ms. The second course was filet mi-
do it out of their home.’ That ac- spurred by other companies that with HomeDine in San Francisco, The feedback was, “I’m not en- Kim said. gnon and cucumber-pea salad.
tually hasn’t been the obstacle,” promote the sharing model, like Mr. Ofek tried New York. There, tirely sure that the meal I’m going Feastly, which used to accept a One guest, Alex Sommer, gave the
said Susan Kim, the chief execu- Airbnb. to be eating is safe,” he said. range of hosts, also now focuses night an early rave, especially
tive of EatWith, whose site started “After that exists for a few The apps must also be prepared on professionals like private chefs compared with a meal he had at-
in 2012. “When people try it, they years, you look at your kitchen for regulatory challenges, said or restaurant chefs. It has added tended through a competing app,
love it, but how do we get people to and say, ‘Couldn’t that be a restau- Some sites, facing Seth B. Weinberg, a lawyer who about 100 venue spaces where the
cooks can host dinner, said a
where the table was crammed
against the host’s bed.
try this new way of experiencing a rant?’” said Simon Rothman, a teaches food law and policy at Co-
city or a new way of eating out? venture capitalist at Greylock an ‘intellectual lumbia Law School. “Once you founder, Noah Karesh, and is plan- Third course: lamb with shi-
start charging people, you cease ning an expansion across the itake-cream sauce and berries
It’s been an intellectual conun-
drum.”
Partners, whose firm led an $8
million financing of EatWith in
conundrum,’ are to be a hobbyist, and you start be- United States and into Europe. sautéed in Hennessy.
The social-dining companies 2014. “At that moment, it starts to
be obvious to multiple people.”
tinkering with coming a commercial enterprise,
even a small one,” he said. Regula-
As for AirDine, Charlie Hed-
strom, its chief executive, said he
“Can we have another toast to
the chef?” someone shouted. “I
come at the premise from differ-
ent angles. EatWith focuses on He said he understood why their approach. tors could also potentially require thought that its more laid-back ap- love her!” yelled another.
travelers, with meals in 200 cities. hosts might embrace the idea, liquor licenses and food-safety proach — it does not screen hosts As the dessert of passion fruit
Feastly signs up professional while potential guests remain standards for meals arranged this and lets the ratings provide feed- sorbet arrived, guests, short on
chefs as hosts. VoulezVouzDîner wary. “The host has a sense of con- way, he added. back — works well and that it will spoons, plunged forks in. A candle
lets travelers and other diners re- trol,” Mr. Rothman said, including he said, hosts and guests were so- To attract more users, some get a boost with more marketing. petered out, the music got louder,
quest hosted meals on specific turning down potential guests. cial, but real estate was a problem. sites and apps are now tinkering Back at Ms. Larsson’s apart- someone knocked over a glass,
days. AirDine asks hosts to ar- “The idea of, ‘I’m going to go to “If they had a kitchen, it is a tiny with their strategy. ment, the guests took their seats and the guests theorized about
range fixed dinners and, ideally, someone’s house I don’t know,’ it kitchen where they cannot cook EatWith has begun analyzing along a candlelit table to eat the love as the clock ticked on.
fill the table with strangers. And feels slightly different.” anything,” he said. He shut down guests’ ratings to see what works first course of salmon sashimi. Soon after, Ms. Larsson’s Air-
BonAppetour and VizEat offer Many hurdles to the business HomeDine in 2014. best at dinners, and sharing that But there was a wrinkle: While Dine ratings came in: five stars
food experiences, like market are also cultural. Sagiv Ofek, who “We found people all over in information with hosts. The com- Ms. Larsson had dashed out earli- from each guest. A few weeks lat-
tours, along with meals. brought HomeDine, his social-din- terms of hosting — we had no pany has found that 12-person par- er to get enough plates, she was er, several United States hosts had
But all try to make money in the ing website and app, to the United problem with that,” Mr. Ofek said. ties work, as do pairs of hosts — short on water glasses. arranged AirDine dinners; almost
same way: The companies take a States from Tel Aviv in 2013, said “Our main problem was to acquire one cooking and one socializing. “If you like alcohol, stick to all still had seats available.
From the London Whale to Wells Fargo, a Bank Regulator Looks Back
By BEN PROTESS that the president is rushing to zation requires you to take a look
Thomas J. Curry’s first week replace Mr. Curry with an acting at yourself and your actions. To
as a federal banking regulator appointee who has clear conflicts learn from it. That really was
was his worst. of interest.” why I thought it was important
Soon after taking over the Whoever his formal successor to do the lessons learned review
Office of the Comptroller of the might be — Joseph Otting, a — and also painful as it may be
Currency, which polices some of former top executive at OneWest to our pride — to do it publicly.
the nation’s largest banks, Mr. is reportedly under consideration Again, I don’t see any other
Curry learned that JPMorgan — Mr. Curry’s departure signals agencies taking a problem by the
Chase was racking up billions of the near-conclusion of Obama- horns, acknowledging it and then
dollars in losses on a risky deriv- era bank regulation, a period doing something about correct-
atives trade in London. known for big fines and long ing it.
The 2012 episode, known as the rules, as well as lingering con-
cerns about the culture of an Are you worried about your suc-
London Whale, exposed huge
industry that has faced its share cessor unwinding the new regula-
gaps in federal oversight of big
of scandals. Mr. Curry’s depar- tory approach?
banks. A few months after that, a
Senate report cited the agency’s ture follows the exit of Daniel K. I don’t think anyone wants to
“systemic failures” that allowed Tarullo, the Federal Reserve repeat the mistakes of the past.
a money-laundering scheme at official who led efforts to You need a sound rule book, and
HSBC “to fester and worsen.” strengthen financial regulation. then you need highly trained
Five years and hundreds of Mr. Curry spoke to The New professionals, dedicated supervi-
millions of dollars in fines later York Times this week about his sors to make an assessment of
— for JPMorgan, HSBC and tenure and the challenges that lie how well [the banks] are adher-
others — Mr. Curry is known for ahead for banking regulators in ing to that framework. I think
overhauling the agency and its the Trump administration. Below you can play around on the
approach to bank regulation. are excerpts from the interview. edges but as long as you have
But on Friday, he will be gone. those key elements in place you
The Trump administration re- What did the London Whale have a good system.
moved Mr. Curry from his role episode do to shape your ap- CARLOS BARRIA/REUTERS
this week, nearly a month after proach at the agency? How much of a surprise was it
Thomas J. Curry, the departing comptroller of the currency, is known for overhauling the agency. when you got the call this week
his term expired, alarming At the time, I think my head
Democratic lawmakers who fear from the Trump administration?
was spinning. But I really ac- old-guard people at the agency capital, but what was the idea priest-penitent relationship.” Have
a return to the days when the tually think it was a good thing. My term ended in early April. I
agency was more of a cheer- who had a more deregulatory behind your lesser-known “height- the banks gotten any better at offered to stay on as long as the
It caused us to look at how confessing their sins?
leader than a watchdog. approach. And you installed peo- ened standards” for bank execu- administration wanted me. I live
could we be better and I think
The lawmakers, noting that ple like Paul Nash, from the Fed- tives and boards? Ideally, we want the bank to in Boston and I have a rented
that was probably the defining
President Trump has vowed to eral Deposit Insurance Corpora- You need the rules — capital find these things first. The indus- apartment here. I told people I
reason that people — my man-
dismantle Obama-era financial tion, as top aides. and liquidity requirements are try is getting much better at that. went month-to-month on my
agement team here and the staff
rules, raised concerns about the — bought into the need to get an You need to have a shared essential. But what we provide is Nobody is perfect yet. apartment and I was month-to-
administration’s choice to re- external review of how we super- vision. Like I said, the good part the ability to assess the risk month on the comptroller’s job.
place Mr. Curry. The Treasury You also pushed for a culture
vise. To actually examine how about having the London Whale management structures at insti-
Department announced this change in your own agency, and Any advice for the next guy?
well we examine. That kind of and HSBC was you couldn’t tutions and corporate govern-
week that Keith Noreika, a long- yet you released a damning report You really have to be prepared
got to be the road map to trying argue that there wasn’t a prob- ance. What we did with height- last month in which the agency
time banking lawyer, would to make this a really stellar, what lem that we needed to confront ened standards is basically said, for the next downturn. At the end
serve as acting comptroller until acknowledged that its oversight of of the day, you can’t stop banks
I hope and think is, a stellar bank as an agency. I think people feel “The bigger you are, the more Wells Fargo during the whole fake
the president nominates a new supervisory agency. To my pretty good about the agency we expect of you.” from making mistakes on indi-
one. account scheme was “untimely vidual loans. It’s not our job. But
knowledge, no other regulator today and where we’re headed.
Senator Sherrod Brown, the You once told The Times that the and ineffective.” it is our job to make sure that the
globally has ever done that.
top Democrat on the Banking There’s the Volcker Rule and rules relationship between your agency I think we’ve made great banks are safe and sound and the
Committee, called it “disturbing You also removed some of the requiring banks to hold greater and the banks was akin to “a progress. To be a strong organi- system itself is stable.
Even as Puerto Rico Was Buckling Under Debt, Investors Hungered for More
By MARY WILLIAMS WALSH from taking shelter from creditors
It all goes back to 1917. in Chapter 9.
Congress passed a law that year Almost no one paid attention
making Puerto Ricans United until 30 years later, when Puerto
States citizens. That same law, Rico began to sound the alarm
still on the books today, em- about a possible need for bank-
powered the island to raise money ruptcy access, resulting in a fight
by issuing tax-exempt bonds. that ultimately went to the United
And not just federally tax-ex- States Supreme Court, which
empt bonds: Congress went on at ruled that Puerto Rico could not
length to bar anyone from taxing seek Chapter 9 bankruptcy ac-
Puerto Rico’s bonds, presumably cess.
never dreaming how this would Melba Acosta Febo, the head of
play out a century later — which, the Government Development
on Wednesday, led to the territory Bank until it closed, said the prob-
declaring a form of bankruptcy lems began in earnest when
Puerto Rico started borrowing to
because it could not pay the $123
balance its budget.
billion in bonds and unpaid pen-
sion debts it owes. This might have gone unnoticed
too, because Puerto Rico’s gov-
The 100-year-old law stipulates
ernment structure, as well as its
that no one — not any state, not
debt, is complex. But Ms. Acosta
any county or city, not the District
said that during the time she
of Columbia, not any other territo-
served as budget director, from
ries, not even Puerto Rico itself —
2001 to 2004, her staff realized that
can tax the interest that Puerto
the development bank had $4 bil-
Rico pays its investors. This has
lion of loans outstanding to vari-
spurred people with eyes on easy ous branches of government that
profits to dive in for decades. it was propping up.
And, until last year, the “We were like, ‘$4 billion? Oh
investors taking the plunge had my God!’” Ms. Acosta recalled.
an easy guarantee: States and ter- Puerto Rico was soon borrow-
ritories are not allowed to declare ing every year just to balance its
bankruptcy. budget, and taking on new debt to
Then Congress surprised them. keep up with the payments on its
Under a new law set up to govern DENNIS M. RIVERA PICHARDO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
old debt.
Puerto Rico until its financial cri- Tax-free bonds combined with a constitutional guarantee to creditors let Puerto Rico accumulate staggering levels of debt. After the crash of 2008, when
sis recedes, an exception known the Federal Reserve ushered in a
as Title III was made to govern long period of low interest rates,
territories that want to shield case to Judge Laura Taylor Swain, when the United States saw value Promesa does not give Puerto funds.
a federal judge in the Southern in building up Puerto Rico as a Rico the right to suspend its own Such mutual funds were popu- Puerto Rico’s bonds grew even
themselves from creditors. Puerto more desirable: Savers were des-
Rico did this on Wednesday. District of New York and a former showcase of how democracy and constitution. lar in higher-tax states like New
bankruptcy judge. The logistics of free markets could raise living Gov. Ricardo Rosselló and his York, but not all states issued perate for yield, and Puerto Rican
Now the small Caribbean island debt, supposedly supersafe, was
— home to some 3.5 million peo- the case, which was filed in federal standards beyond what was avail- predecessor, Alejandro García Pa- enough debt to make the funds
court in San Juan, are not yet able in Soviet-backed Cuba. dilla, have both taken the view now paying a risk premium.
ple, many of whom still feel the possible — at least until fund man-
clear. Money began to pour in for pub- that in light of the crisis, they had Puerto Rico came close to hit-
sting of the annexation of their an- agers remembered that Puerto
Judge Swain has shown exten- lic housing and better infrastruc- to put the essential needs of the ting a constitutional limit on its ca-
cestors’ lands in 1898 — owes ap- Rico’s were tax-exempt every-
sive familiarity with bankruptcy ture, and in 1952 Puerto Rico got Puerto Rican people first. pacity to issue general-obligation
proximately $34,000 in debt per where. Those bonds could be
law, but the case is still expected its own constitution, which con- Back in the postwar develop- bonds, but it still needed more
man, woman and child. Their tucked into a fund’s portfolio to in-
to be long and contentious, with tained an unusual provision ment boom, the constitutional money. So in 2006 officials began
school budgets and other services crease the overall yield without to issue a new type of bonds,
hedge funds arguing that Puerto meant to reassure prospective provision made Puerto Rico’s jeopardizing the tax exemption.
are all being cut as part of the aus- called Cofinas, which were backed
Rico is violating a sacred constitu- bond buyers. It said, in essence, bonds an easier sale, and an at-
terity planning. The yields were higher because by a dedicated sales tax.
tional pledge, unions clamoring to that if there was not enough tractive business for banks that
How did things get this bad? Puerto Rico’s debt carried more Yet Puerto Rico still needed
preserve labor contracts and money to pay for everything in the help governments bring their
As some Americans have risk, but that did not faze more cash. In 2014, it issued one
some of the island’s advocates budget, then “all available re- bonds to market. Those banks
grown increasingly tax-averse saying that certain bonds should sources” would go first to pay investors who wanted tax-exempt last, big batch of general-obliga-
came to the island, eager to take
and eager to shelter income, that be declared void. what was due on Puerto Rico’s advantage of growth opportuni- income — especially considering tion bonds, some of it to make pay-
100-year-old provision helped suc- Many creditors are targeting general-obligation bonds. ties and to build relationships with the constitutional guarantee. ments on older bonds. Puerto Ri-
cessive Puerto Rican govern- Puerto Rico’s federal oversight Today this constitutional guar- Puerto Rico’s Government Devel- After bankruptcy scares in New co’s credit had been downgraded
ments build up a debt big enough board, which has limited the antee — and what it means under opment Bank. York City and Cleveland in the to junk, and the mutual funds and
to crush the island. amount available for debt service Promesa, the law approved by For decades, the appetite for 1970s, Congress set about making other conventional bond-buyers
As the problem swelled, so, too, to $800 million a year for the next Congress to organize Puerto Ri- Puerto Rico’s tax-exempt, consti- amendments to the part of the were finally worried. The only tak-
did the exodus of the educated five years. They say this amount co’s affairs — looms as one of the tutionally guaranteed debt bankruptcy law that cities and ers were hedge funds.
classes from the island. Many tip- is absurdly low, relative to the major issues Judge Swain will seemed endless. Demand for debt counties use, Chapter 9. About a year later, Governor
ping points were reached and roughly $3.5 billion a year coming have to decide. was fueled by the upward creep of In 1984, an unknown person García Padilla announced that
reached again. due. Angry investors say that they tax rates on the mainland and, in added a provision to federal law Puerto Rico had more debt than it
On Friday, Chief Justice John G. The debt train moved slowly un- bought the bonds with the consti- the 1970s, the advent of single- explicitly barring Puerto Rico, as could repay and needed a morato-
Roberts assigned Puerto Rico’s til the outbreak of the Cold War, tutional guarantee, and that state tax-exempt bond mutual well as the District of Columbia, rium.
2nd Jury in Dewey & LeBoeuf Fraud Case May Be Bracing for Long Deliberations
By MATTHEW GOLDSTEIN Jurors wading through moun- ond trials, has noted that there are charges. district attorney. the end of next week.
Jury deliberations in the retrial tains of documentary evidence hints the current jurors expect to This time, prosecutors went to The prosecution called more In his instructions to the jury on
of two former Dewey & LeBoeuf and three months of testimony be deliberating well into next trial with a slimmed-down case — than 30 witnesses, including its May 1, Justice Stolz said that Mr.
executives on criminal charges have already begun to ask for of- week at least. just three charges against each star witness Francis Canellas, DiCarmine and Mr. Sanders were
fice supplies — Post-it Notes tape Mr. DiCarmine, 60, and Mr. man. Still, both defendants could Dewey’s former finance director. not on trial in the financial col-
arising from the law firm’s col-
and large sheets of paper — to Sanders 58, are awaiting a verdict face up to four years in prison if Just as at the first trial, the de- lapse of Dewey but on charges
lapse are starting to have a famil-
make their job easier. The jury in on charges that they were part of a convicted of the most serious fense did not call any witnesses, that they had sought to conceal
iar ring. the first trial, which deliberated 21 charge, securities fraud.
The panel deciding the fate of plot to manipulate the law firm’s relying instead on the strength of the severity of the firm’s financial
full days, did the same. The case also proceeded to a
Stephen DiCarmine, the firm’s for- financial records during the finan- its cross-examination of the situation from its financial back-
Completing its fourth full day of second trial without a third de-
mer executive director, and Joel cial crisis. They are accused of try- prosecution’s witnesses. ers.
deliberations on Friday in State fendant, Steven H. Davis, the law
Sanders, its former chief financial ing to defraud bank lenders and The trial judge, Robert M. Stolz, Dewey filed for bankruptcy in
Supreme Court in Manhattan, this firm’s former chairman. After the
officer, is composed of eight wom- jury has a long way to go to match insurance companies that in- mistrial, Mr. Davis reached a de- has already said that the jury is May 2012. Two years later,
en and four men, like the jury in the slow pace of the earlier panel. vested in a bond offering. ferred prosecution agreement not likely to deliberate two days prosecutors in Manhattan filed
the first trial, which ended in a But Law360, a legal publication The jury in the first trial ulti- with prosecutors working for Cy- this month because of juror con- the indictment against Mr. Di-
mistrial in October 2015. that live-blogged the first and sec- mately deadlocked on dozens of rus R. Vance Jr., the Manhattan flicts, if no verdict is reached by Carmine and Mr. Sanders.
B6 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY, MAY 6, 2017
Regulator in China
investing. The liquidity risk is par-
ticularly high if the issuer has put
its money into long-term projects
that cannot be sold quickly to
By The Associated Press strategist at Wells Fargo’s Invest- the first three months of the year traded company. That helped tech
Solid hiring last month helped ment Institute, said stocks bene- and sluggish economic growth. stocks move higher.
push the stock market to record fited from the combination of Energy companies regained CBS announced a bigger profit 20,980
highs on Friday. The major in- greater hiring and slower wage some ground as the price of oil and more revenue than analysts Previous close
dexes were driven by gains by en- growth because, if wages rose too steadied. After two steep losses in expected, and its stock gained 20,951.47
ergy, technology and industrial quickly, they would affect corpo- three days, benchmark crude oil $1.35, or 2.1 percent, to $65.20. Me-
companies. rate profits. futures for June delivery jumped dia companies had struggled the 20,940
Energy companies rose as the “The market is likely to be con- 70 cents, or 1.5 percent, to $46.22 a last few days as investors worried
price of oil recovered from earlier cerned about wage gains and the barrel in New York. Brent crude, about declining cable ad revenue.
in the week. Media companies like impact on corporate margins as the standard for international oil Charter Communications, Scripps
CBS and Charter Communica- we move into 2018,” he said. prices, added 72 cents, or 1.5 per- Networks and Tegna all traded 20,900
tions also recovered from their The Standard & Poor’s 500- cent, to $49.10 barrel in London. higher.
losses earlier in the week. stock index added 9.77 points, or Oil prices had fallen earlier this Stocks of biotechnology compa- 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m.
Technology companies rose, 0.4 percent, to 2,399.29. The Dow week as investors wondered if nies slipped. Biogen dropped Source: Reuters | By The New York Times
but IBM shares fell after the bil- Jones industrial average rose OPEC would extend a deal that $6.45, or 2.4 percent, to $262.15 and
lionaire investor Warren Buffett 55.47 points, or 0.3 percent, to trimmed oil production. Incyte sank $2.69, or 2.1 percent, to
said he sold a large part of his 21,006.94. Occidental Petroleum rose $122.41. Celgene fell $2.05, or 1.6 decline since right after the presi- dent over the weekend. The CAC
stake in the company. The Nasdaq composite went up $2.38, or 4.1 percent, to $60.40 and percent, also closing at $122.41. dential election. 40 is at its highest level since early
Scott Wren, senior global equity 25.42 points, or 0.4 percent, to Transocean jumped 84 cents, or 8.1 Bond prices held steady. The The dollar rose to 112.46 yen 2008. In Britain, the FTSE 100 was
6,100.76, which beat a record it set percent, to $11.18. Baker Hughes yield on the 10-year Treasury note from 112.35 yen. The euro climbed up 0.7 percent, and in Germany,
Everything you need to earlier this week. gained $1.92, or 3.3 percent, to remained 2.35 percent. $1.0995 from $1.0984. the DAX added 0.5 percent.
Employers in the United States $59.33. Gold prices for May delivery The CAC 40 in France jumped 1.1 The Hang Seng in Hong Kong
know for your business day
added 211,000 jobs in April, accord- Apple jumped $2.43, or 1.7 per- dipped $1.70 to $1,224.80 an ounce. percent as investors hoped cen- lost 0.8 percent. Markets in Japan
is in Business Day. ing to the Labor Department. cent, to $148.96, another record for The precious metal fell more than trist candidate Emmanuel and South Korea were closed for
The New York Times That comes after slow hiring in the world’s most valuable publicly 3 percent this week for its biggest Macron would be elected presi- holidays.
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE
Most Active Foreign Currency Dollars in Foreign Currency Dollars in
Credit Rating Price
Issuer Name (SYMBOL) Coupon% Maturity Moody’s S&P High Low Last Chg Yld% in Dollars Foreign Currency in Dollars Foreign Currency
AMERICAS ASIA/PACIFIC
INVESTMENT GRADE
Argentina (Peso) .0651 15.3500 One Dollar in Euros Australia (Dollar) .7418 1.3481
One Dollar in Yen
Oracle Corp (ORCL) 1.200 Oct’17 A1 AA– 100.412 99.796 99.983 0.000 1.239 Bolivia (Boliviano) .1449 6.9000 1.00 euros $1 = 0.9095 China (Yuan) .1449 6.9021 120 yen $1 = 112.71
Royal Bk Cda (RY) 1.200 Sep’17 Aaa NR 100.059 99.957 99.957 –0.012 1.318 Brazil (Real) .3148 3.1762 Hong Kong (Dollar) .1285 7.7839
Verizon Communications Inc (VZ) 5.500 Mar’47 Baa1 BBB+ 108.564 105.916 106.202 –0.321 5.093 Canada (Dollar) .7326 1.3650 India (Rupee) .0156 64.3000
Enlink Midstream Partners Lp (DVN) 5.450 Jun’47 NR BBB– 100.079 98.334 99.500 0.526 N.A. Chile (Peso) .0015 671.10 0.95 Japan (Yen) .0089 112.71
115
Express Scripts Hldg Co (ESRX) 3.400 Mar’27 Baa2 BBB+ 96.451 94.638 94.972 –0.069 4.025 Colombia (Peso) .0003 2943.0 Malaysia (Ringgit) .2307 4.3350
Pfizer Inc (PFE) 2.100 May’19 A1 AA 100.947 100.778 100.831 –0.078 1.679 Dom. Rep. (Peso) .0212 47.0800 110
New Zealand (Dollar) .6915 1.4461
Cisco Sys Inc (CSCO) 2.200 Feb’21 A1 AA– 100.479 100.347 100.406 –0.242 2.088
Comcast Corp New (CMCS) 3.400 Jul’46 A3 A– 87.440 86.506 87.375 0.809 4.150
El Salvador (Colon) .1146 8.7222 0.90 Pakistan (Rupee) .0096 104.65
Guatemala (Quetzal) .1363 7.3390 Philippines (Peso) .0201 49.8390 105
Raymond James Finl Inc (RJF) 5.625 Apr’24 Baa2 BBB+ 113.229 113.079 113.229 0.133 3.451
Honduras (Lempira) .0427 23.4200 Singapore (Dollar) .7120 1.4044
Pfizer Inc (PFE) 1.700 Dec’19 A1 AA 100.082 99.776 100.000 0.150 1.700
Mexico (Peso) .0527 18.9895 0.85 So. Korea (Won) .0009 1134.7
100
Nicaragua (Cordoba) .0342 29.2300 Taiwan (Dollar) .0331 30.1700
HIGH YIELD Paraguay (Guarani) .0002 5622.0 Thailand (Baht) .0289 34.6600
Apple Inc (AAPL) 2.850 May’24 NR 100.500 99.824 100.249 100.249 N.A. Peru (New Sol) .3066 3.2620 0.80 Vietnam (Dong) .00004 22730 95
Apple Inc (AAPL) 3.200 May’27 NR 101.500 99.890 100.060 100.060 N.A. Uruguay (New Peso) .0359 27.8200
Apple Inc (AAPL) 2.300 May’22 NR 100.922 99.692 100.232 100.232 N.A. Venezuela (Bolivar) .1003 9.9750 2016 2017 2016 2017
MIDDLE EAST/AFRICA
Apple Inc (AAPL) 1.800 May’20 NR 100.037 99.250 99.962 99.962 N.A. Bahrain (Dinar) 2.6553 .3766
Petrobras Global Fin B V (PBR) 7.375 Jan’27 B1 BB– 109.600 106.500 108.150 –0.225 6.239 EUROPE Lebanon (Pound) .0007 1506.7
Norway (Krone) .1164 8.5911 Egypt (Pound) .0555 18.0300
Anadarko Pete Corp (APC) 5.550 Mar’26 Ba1 BBB 110.599 110.134 110.599 0.218 4.076 Britain (Pound) 1.2979 .7705 Saudi Arabia (Riyal) .2666 3.7503
Poland (Zloty) .2612 3.8282 Iran (Rial) .00003 32443
Sesi L L C (SPN) 7.125 Dec’21 B2 BB– 102.500 99.188 100.500 –2.015 6.907 So. Africa (Rand) .0745 13.4165
Czech Rep (Koruna) .0412 24.2940 Russia (Ruble) .0173 57.9096 Israel (Shekel) .2787 3.5879
Noble Hldg Intl Ltd (NE) 7.750 Jan’24 B2 BB– 92.375 89.250 90.375 0.125 9.738 U.A.E (Dirham) .2723 3.6723
Denmark (Krone) .1479 6.7607 Sweden (Krona) .1138 8.7886 Jordan (Dinar) 1.4116 .7084
Rri Energy Inc (NRG) 7.875 Jun’17 Caa3 CCC 96.490 87.500 87.841 1.091 146.066
Europe (Euro) 1.0995 .9095 Switzerland (Franc) 1.0134 .9868 Kenya (Shilling) .0097 103.00
Revlon Consumer Prods Corp (MCFH) 6.250 Aug’24 B3 B 97.480 91.250 92.540 –5.710 7.609 Prices as of 4:45 p.m. Eastern Time.
Hungary (Forint) .0035 283.21 Turkey (Lira) .2822 3.5431 Kuwait (Dinar) 3.2895 .3040
Source: Thomson Reuters
CONVERTIBLES
Amag Pharmaceuticals Inc (AMAG) 2.750 Jun’22 NR 100.750 97.431 97.431 97.431 N.A.
Herbalife Ltd (HLF) 2.000 Aug’19 NR NR 102.818 100.495 101.500 3.250 1.325
Spirit Rlty Cap Inc New (SRC)
Weatherford Intl Ltd (WFT)
2.875
5.875
May’19
Jul’21
NR
NR
BBB–
B
99.500
113.750
97.380
111.250
98.125
113.258
–1.575
2.291
3.851
2.486
FUTURES
Spirit Rlty Cap Inc New (SRC) 3.750 May’21 NR BBB– 99.000 96.500 97.860 0.410 4.336 Monetary
Newmont Mng Corp (NEM.GP) 1.625 Jul’17 NR BBB 100.390 100.000 100.390 1.590 –0.530 units per Lifetime Open Crude Oil
Future Exchange quantity High Low Date Open High Low Settle Change Interest $60 $46.22 a barrel
Ctrip Com Intl Ltd (CTRP) 1.250 Oct’18 NR NR 137.117 136.990 136.990 –0.008 –19.818
Priceline Group Inc (PCLN) 0.900 Sep’21 NR BBB+ 116.066 115.250 115.694 0.694 –2.495 Corn CBT ¢/bushel 460.00 332.50 May 17 359.00 365.50 359.00 361.75 + 3.75 2,233
Starwood Ppty Tr Inc (STWD) 3.750 Oct’17 NR BB– 100.875 97.375 100.875 0.375 1.698 Soybeans CBT ¢/bushel 1116.00 872.00 May 17 965.50 973.50 960.00 963.00 ◊ 2.25 1,341
Synchronoss Technologies Inc (SNCR) 0.750 Aug’19 NR B 88.500 87.375 87.900 2.100 6.590 Wheat CBT ¢/bushel 646.75 398.50 May 17 428.00 428.00 428.00 427.50 + 1.50 133 55
Live Cattle CME ¢/lb 134.55 91.30 Jun 17 131.30 131.35 128.30 128.30 ◊ 3.00 150,340
Hogs-Lean CME ¢/lb 76.53 62.50 May 17 69.50 69.50 69.15 69.40 + 0.40 1,844
Cocoa NYBOT $/ton 3326.00 1805.00 May 17 1836.00 1866.00 1836.00 1866.00 + 27.00 38 50
Coffee NYBOT ¢/lb 228.00 123.20 May 17 132.90 133.00 132.40 133.10 + 0.40 13
Sugar-World NYBOT ¢/lb 22.09 12.07 Jun 17 15.37 15.68 15.24 15.31 ◊ 0.06 388,205
CONSUMER RATES ECONOMIC INDICATORS
Yesterday Change from last week
Gold COMX $/oz 1295.30 1197.20 May 17 1227.00 1233.70 1225.10 1224.80 ◊ 1.70 84 45
Silver COMX $/oz 20.95 14.35 May 17 16.29 16.47 16.20 16.22 ◊ 0.03 606
Hi Grade Copper COMX $/lb 2.84 1.97 May 17 2.50 2.53 2.50 2.52 + 0.02 3,947
Up Flat Down
1-year range
Light Sweet Crude NYMX $/bbl 93.23 36.18 Jun 17 45.51 46.68 43.76 46.22 + 0.70 577,422 40
Heating Oil NYMX $/gal 2.67 1.11 May 17 1.41 1.45 1.37 1.44 + 0.02 128,407
Natural Gas NYMX $/mil.btu 6.10 2.37 May 17 3.20 3.28 3.18 3.27 + 0.08 262,030 2016 2017
Home Year
Mortgages Friday Ago 0% 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 5-YEAR HISTORY Key to exchanges: CBT-Chicago Board of Trade. CME-Chicago Mercantile Exchange. CMX-Comex division of NYM. KC-Kansas City Board of Trade. NYBOT-New York Board of
Trade. NYM-New York Mercantile Exchange. Open interest is the number of contracts outstanding.
Federal funds 0.91% 0.37% Source: Thomson Reuters
Construction Spending +15%
Prime rate 4.00 3.50 Change from
15-yr fixed 3.12 2.71 previous year
MUTUAL FUNDS SPOTLIGHT: CONVERTIBLE BOND AND DOMESTIC HYBRID FUNDS
15-yr fixed jumbo 4.11 3.64 March ’17 +3.6% 0
Feb. ’17 +5.4 ’12 ’17 % Total Returns Exp. Assets % Total Returns Exp. Assets
30-yr fixed 3.92 3.58 Fund Name (TICKER) Type YTD 1 Yr 5 Yr* Ratio (mil.$)
Fund Name (TICKER) Type YTD 1 Yr 5 Yr* Ratio (mil.$)
30-yr fixed jumbo 4.43 4.06 LARGEST FUNDS LEADERS
5/1 adj. rate 3.22 2.93
Personal Savings Rate +15%
Vanguard Wellington Admiral(VWENX) MA +4.8 +13.3 +10.2 0.16 79,718 Putnam Capital Spectrum Y(PVSYX) AL +12.2 +24.4 +12.1 0.37 2,083
Percent of American Funds Income Fund of Amer A(AMECX) AL +4.6 +12.0 +9.4 0.56 75,405 Franklin Mutual Beacon Z(BEGRX) XM +8.3 +23.6 +12.5 0.79 2,729
5/1 adj. rate jumbo 3.65 3.12 disposable income American Funds American Balanced A(ABALX) MA +5.6 +11.9 +10.5 0.59 58,504 Lord Abbett Convertible I(LCFYX) CV +7.4 +23.0 +9.5 0.86 426
Franklin Income A(FKINX) CA +3.9 +16.3 +7.5 0.61 46,232 Wells Fargo Diversified Cap Bldr A(EKBAX) AL +6.1 +22.1 +14.0 1.14 539
1-year adj. rate 3.11 2.79 March ’17 +5.9% Vanguard Wellesley Income Admiral(VWIAX) CA +3.0 +6.4 +7.1 0.15 37,471 Columbia Convertible Securities Z(NCIAX) CV +5.9 +21.6 +10.0 0.88 299
0
Vanguard Target Retirement 2025 Inv(VTTVX) TG +6.5 +12.6 +8.8 * 34,928 Dodge & Cox Balanced(DODBX) MA +4.6 +21.3 +12.7 0.53 15,768
Feb. ’17 +5.7 ’12 ’17 Vanguard Target Retirement 2020 Inv(VTWNX) TE +5.8 +11.1 +8.0 * 29,883 Schwab MarketTrack All Equity(SWEGX) XM +7.2 +20.7 +11.7 0.41 616
Home Equity 0% 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Vanguard Target Retirement 2030 Inv(VTHRX) TH +7.2 +14.1 +9.4 * 28,690 Franklin Mutual Shares R6(FMSHX) XM +5.1 +20.5 NA 0.67 1,930
Vanguard Target Retirement 2035 Inv(VTTHX) TI +7.8 +15.6 +10.1 * 27,704 JPMorgan Investor Growth I(ONIFX) XM +8.6 +19.6 +11.5 0.27 336
$75K line good credit* 4.89% 4.39%
Manufacturing Index 58 T. Rowe Price Capital Appreciation(PRWCX) MA +7.6 +12.9 +12.5 0.70 24,850 Fidelity Freedom K 2035(FKTHX) TI +9.3 +19.5 +10.0 0.05 11,863
$75K line excel. credit* 4.64 4.25 Fidelity Balanced(FBALX) MA +7.1 +13.9 +10.0 0.55 22,043 Fidelity Freedom K 2055(FDENX) TL +9.2 +19.4 +10.4 0.05 2,195
ISM; over 50 indicates T. Rowe Price Retirement 2030(TRRCX) TH +8.9 +16.5 +10.3 * 22,042 Fidelity Freedom K 2050(FFKHX) TN +9.3 +19.4 +10.2 0.05 6,685
$75K loan good credit* 4.63 4.17 expansion; seasonally adjusted T. Rowe Price Retirement 2020(TRRBX) TE +7.2 +13.3 +8.7 * 21,543
LAGGARDS
Vanguard Target Retirement 2040 Inv(VFORX) TJ +8.4 +17.1 +10.5 * 20,457
$75K loan excel. credit* 4.63 4.15 Apr. ’17 54.8 46 Vanguard Balanced Index Adm(VBIAX) MA +5.0 +11.8 +9.3 0.07 20,456 USAA Total Return Strategy(USTRX) AL +3.0 ◊5.0 ◊0.1 1.40 69
Fidelity Puritan(FPURX) MA +7.4 +13.4 +9.9 0.55 19,838 Wells Fargo Dow Jones Target Today A(STWRX) RI +2.2 +1.6 +1.8 0.76 55
March ’17 57.2 ’12 ’17 Vanguard STAR Inv(VGSTX) MA +7.5 +13.8 +9.0 * 19,783 Wells Fargo Dow Jones Target 2010 A(STNRX) TA +2.3 +1.7 +2.3 0.78 58
Auto Loan Rates 0% 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Vanguard Target Retirement 2045 Inv(VTIVX) TK +8.7 +17.6 +10.6 * 18,604 JHancock Multi-Index Income Presv 1(JRFOX) RI +1.9 +2.9 +3.0 0.33 539
T. Rowe Price Retirement 2025(TRRHX) TG +8.1 +14.9 +9.6 * 18,524 Columbia Thermostat C(CTFDX) XY +2.0 +3.4 +4.4 1.25 308
36-mo. used car 3.32% 3.27% Balance of Trade –30 FPA Crescent(FPACX) MA +5.1 +15.9 +9.2 1.07 17,348 Permanent Portfolio Permanent I(PRPFX)
Fidelity Advisor Strategic Real Ret I(FSIRX)
CA
XY
+3.1
◊0.1
+3.8
+4.0
+1.2
+0.8
0.82
0.79
2,812
211
Vanguard Target Retirement 2015 Inv(VTXVX) TD +4.8 +8.9 +7.0 * 17,239
60-mo. new car 3.23 3.36 In billions of dollars Fidelity Freedom K 2030(FFKEX) TH +8.5 +17.4 +9.1 0.05 17,192 Vanguard LifeStrategy Income Inv(VASIX) XY +2.7 +4.1 +4.2 * 3,923
Seasonally adjusted Fidelity Freedom K 2020(FFKDX) TE +6.7 +13.4 +7.5 0.05 16,546 Nationwide Inv Dest Cnsrv Svc(NDCSX) XY +2.0 +4.3 +3.3 0.60 147
Wells Fargo Dow Jones Target 2020 A(STTRX) TE +3.8 +4.6 +4.4 0.81 216
CD’s and Money Market Rates 0% 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 March ’17 –43.7 –50 Average performance for all such funds +6.1 +12.7 +8.0 Bruce(BRUFX) MA +3.6 +4.7 +9.1 0.67 568
Number of funds for period 625 625 622 American Century One Choice VryCnsrv I(AONIX) XY +2.6 +5.0 +4.0 * 434
Feb. ’17 –43.8 ’12 ’17
Money-market 0.31% 0.23%
*Annualized. Leaders and Laggards are among funds with at least $50 million in assets, and include no more than one class of any fund. Today’s fund types: AL-Allocation--70% to 85%
$10K min. money-mkt 0.28 0.23 Equity. CA-Allocation--30% to 50% Equity. CV-Convertibles. MA-Allocation--50% to 70% Equity. RI-Retirement Income. TA-Target-Date 2000-2010. TD-Target-Date 2015. TE-Target-Date 2020.
Housing Supply 7
TG-Target-Date 2025. TH-Target-Date 2030. TI-Target-Date 2035. TJ-Target-Date 2040. TK-Target-Date 2045. TL-Target-Date 2055. TN-Target-Date 2050. XM-Allocation--85%+ Equity. XY-
6-month CD 0.38 0.33 Allocation--15% to 30% Equity. XQ-Target-Date 2060+. NA-Not Available. YTD-Year to date. Spotlight tables rotate on a 2-week basis. Source: Morningstar
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French Vote
Splinters
The Culturati
A trend of ‘neither-nor’ leads
to a last-minute mobilization
for the centrist candidate.
By RACHEL DONADIO
PARIS — The French comedian Sophia Aram
took to the airwaves of one of France’s most
popular morning radio shows this week. In
the squealy voice of a teenage girl, she
cried, “I can be against toothbrushes, and
against cavities!” She then added: “Hash-
tag: NeitherCheeseNorDessert.”
Ms. Aram was making light of what she
saw as a worrisome trend ahead of the
French presidential election on Sunday, a
race that has divided the country’s
intellectuals and cultural figures: voters,
especially on the left, who might abstain or
cast a blank ballot because they intensely
dislike both the centrist front-runner Em-
manuel Macron and his far-right rival,
Marine Le Pen.
The “Neither-Nor” impulse, as it’s called
here, was a factor in past French elections,
but greater discontent — with conventional
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25 “Doktor Faust” 53 Torment
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IFC The Transporter (2002). Jason Sta- The Rock (1996). Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage. Breaking into Alcatraz to thwart threats of mass destruction. Mission: Impossible III (2006). Agent Ethan Hunt faces featuring “must-see” films and explaining
tham, Shu Qi. (PG-13) (6) Slam-bang nonsense. (R) the toughest villain of his career. Cruise, off his game.
why they are required viewing. And David
LIFE Stalker’s Prey (2017). Shark-attack Deadly Sorority (2017, TVF). Greer Grammer, Chloe Babcook. A college Running Away (2017). Holly Deveaux, Paula Trickey. A woman tries to Deadly Sorority
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tect daughter from boyfriend’s twin. (6) happy woman ends up working at massage parlor. (14) Dr. Mary Harris has a secret. (14) (2010, TVF). discussion begins with “The Bad and the
7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30 12:00 Beautiful” (1952), Vincente Minnelli’s
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producer, played by Kirk Douglas, who
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and William Friedkin will join Mr. Baldwin
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later in the season.
We’re the Millers (2013). (R) (5:30) Pitch Perfect (2012). Female a cappella group enters national contest. In the key of schlock. The Hangover (2009). Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms. (R)
NBCS Swimming U.S.A. Swimming: Arena Pro Swim Series. Track and Field I.A.A.F. Diamond League: Doha. From Doha, Qatar. College Rugby Varsity Cup. CHRIS GETHARD: CAREER SUICIDE 10 p.m. on
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OVA Fools Rush In (5) . You’ve Got Mail (1998). E-mail pals in love on Upper West Side. Cozy romantic comedy. (PG) The Tudors “Bottom of the Pot.” The Tudors (MA) Dante’s Peak to television, with Judd Apatow among the
OWN Iyanla, Fix My Life (Part 2 of 2) (14) Iyanla, Fix My Life (14) Iyanla, Fix My Life (N) (Part 1 of 3) The Book of John Gray (N) (PG) Iyanla, Fix My Life (14) Fix My Life producers. Mr. Gethard swears he is “‘sig-
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SCIENCE What on Earth? “Ghost of Zorro.” What on Earth? “Expedition Truth.” (N) (PG) What on Earth? (PG) (10:04) What on Earth? “Expedition Truth.” (PG) (11:06) Isherwood wrote in The Times. “Having
SMITH Sacred Sites “Oracles.” (PG) Sacred Sites “Egypt.” (PG) Secrets “The Sphinx.” (PG) Secrets “Great Pyramid.” (PG) Sacred Sites “Egypt.” (PG) Secrets (PG) seen Mr. Gethard in only this show, I can’t
SNY Oh Yeah. Broadway Boxing (G) Oh Yeah. Mets Postgame SportsNite SportsNite SportsNite SportsNite vouch for that specifically, but he definitely
SPIKE Cops (14) Cops (PG) Cops (PG) Cops (14) Cops (14) Cops (14) The Mummy (1999). Gaudy horror parody. Makes Indiana Jones look Shakespearean. (PG-13) qualifies as significantly funny.”
STZENF Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006). John Leguizamo. (PG) . Inside Out (2015). Voice of Amy Poehler. (PG) (8:32) Troop Beverly Hills (1989). Shelley Long, Craig T. Nelson. (PG) (10:08) Titan A.E. (11:55) SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE 11:30 p.m. on NBC.
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YANKEES 7 p.m. 8 p.m. 7 p.m. 7 p.m. 7 p.m. tear of his right latissimus muscle, game,” T. J. Rivera said.
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start because of stiffness in his worries over Syndergaard’s ab-
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scoring single. Michael Conforto three and two-third innings. In ad- The New York Times.
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A.L. STANDINGS
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By The Associated Press concern for bad publicity. All Times EDT All Times EDT
(Best-of-7; x-if necessary) (Best-of-7; x-if necessary)
A son of the former Penn State foot- Sandusky continued to abuse boys Yankees 18 9 .667 —
EASTERN CONFERENCE EASTERN CONFERENCE
ball coach Joe Paterno who has been a until his 2011 arrest. He is now serving Cleveland 3, Toronto 0 Ottawa 2, Rangers 2 Baltimore 18 10 .643 {
staunch defender of his father’s legacy a sentence of 30 to 60 years for Monday, May 1: Cleveland 116, Toronto 105
Wednesday, May 3: Cleveland 125, Toronto
Thursday, April 27: Ottawa 2, Rangers 1
Saturday, April 29: Ottawa 6, Rangers 5, 2OT Boston 15 13 .536 3{
was elected to the university’s board of sexually abusing 10 boys. He is appeal- 103 Tuesday, May 2: Rangers 4, Ottawa 1
Tampa Bay 15 16 .484 5
Friday, May 5: Cleveland 115, Toronto 94 Thursday, May 4: Rangers 4, Ottawa 1
trustees on Friday. ing the conviction and maintains his Sunday, May 7: Cleveland at Toronto, 3:30 Saturday, May 6: Rangers at Ottawa, 3 p.m. Toronto 10 19 .345 9
Jay Paterno received the most votes innocence. p.m. Tuesday, May 9: Ottawa at Rangers, TBD
Jay Paterno has been a fierce de-
x-Tuesday, May 9: Toronto at Cleveland, x-Thursday, May 11: Rangers at Ottawa, TBD Central W L Pct GB
in the alumni election for trustee. TBD Pittsburgh 3, Washington 1
“Being elected to Penn State’s board fender of his father. x-Thursday, May 11: Cleveland at Toronto, Thursday, April 27: Pittsburgh 3, Washington Minnesota 14 12 .538 —
TBD 2
of trustees is and should always be a In a book he published in 2014, he x-Sunday, May 14: Toronto at Cleveland, Saturday, April 29: Pittsburgh 6, Washington 2 Cleveland 15 13 .536 —
said he was not writing to exonerate TBD Monday, May 1: Washington 3, Pittsburgh 2, OT
call to service,” he said in a statement Boston 2, Washington 1 Wednesday, May 3: Pittsburgh 3, Washington 2 Chicago 15 13 .536 —
Friday, adding that he hoped to “build his father “because he did not commit Sunday, April 30: Boston 123, Washington Saturday, May 6: Pittsburgh at Washington,
Detroit 14 13 .519 {
111 7:16 p.m.
on the enduring pride and values that a crime that needs a pardon.” Tuesday, May 2: Boston 129, Washington 119, x-Monday, May 8: Washington at Pittsburgh, Kansas City 10 18 .357 5
have never wavered” at the university. “If anything, he is guilty of failing to OT TBD
Thursday, May 4: Washington 116, Boston 89 x-Wednesday, May 10: Pittsburgh at West W L Pct GB
There are 38 trustees, and alumni possess the godlike qualities ascribed Sunday, May 7: Boston at Washington, 6:30 Washington, TBD
vote for nine seats; three are on the to him by others, qualities that Joe was p.m.
Wednesday, May 10: Washington at Boston,
WESTERN CONFERENCE Houston 19 10 .655 —
Edmonton 2, Anaheim 2
ballot each year. Paterno will start his the first to insist he never had,” Jay Pa- 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 26: Edmonton 5, Anaheim 3 Los Angeles 15 15 .500 4{
x-Friday, May 12: Boston at Washington, TBD
new role in July. terno wrote. x-Monday, May 15: Washington at Boston,
Friday, April 28: Edmonton 2, Anaheim 1 Seattle 13 16 .448 6
Sunday, April 30: Anaheim 6, Edmonton 3
Joe Paterno, one of the most suc- He called his father’s firing by the 8 p.m. Wednesday, May 3: Anaheim 4, Edmonton Oakland 12 16 .429 6{
cessful coaches in college football his- CAROLYN KASTER/ASSOCIATED PRESS
trustees “an act of cowardice.” WESTERN CONFERENCE 3, OT
Houston 1, San Antonio 1 Friday, May 5: Edmonton at Anaheim Texas 12 17 .414 7
tory, was fired in 2011, just days after Jay Paterno, left, in 2008 with his Jay Paterno was on the university’s Monday, May 1: Houston 126, San Antonio Sunday, May 7: Anaheim at Edmonton, 7
99 p.m. THURSDAY
the arrest of his former assistant Jerry father, Joe, the Penn State football coaching staff for 17 seasons, mostly as Wednesday, May 3: San Antonio 121, Houston x-Wednesday, May 10: Edmonton at Cleveland at Detroit, ppd.
Sandusky. Joe Paterno died of lung coach who was fired in 2011. a quarterbacks coach. 96 Anaheim, TBD
Oakland 8, Minnesota 5
Friday, May 5: San Antonio at Houston Nashville 3, St. Louis 2
cancer early the next year at 85. A bronze statue of Joe Paterno was Sunday, May 7: San Antonio at Houston, 8 Wednesday, April 26: Nashville 4, St. Louis 3 Texas 10, Houston 4
University trustees later said that removed from outside Beaver Stadium p.m. Friday, April 28: St. Louis 3, Nashville 2 Chicago White Sox 8, Kansas City 3
one of the reasons they had removed reported the incident to the police or to in 2012 in the aftermath of the San-
Tuesday, May 9: Houston at San Antonio,
TBD
Sunday, April 30: Nashiville 3, St. Louis 1
Tuesday, May 2: Nashville 2, St. Louis 1 Baltimore 8, Boston 3
Joe Paterno was his handling of the the child-welfare authorities. All three dusky scandal. Last summer, more x-Thursday, May 11: San Antonio at Houston, Friday, May 5: St. Louis 2, Nashville 1 Tampa Bay 5, Miami 1
TBD x-Sunday, May 7: St. Louis at Nashville, 3
2001 complaint by another assistant former administrators were convicted than 200 former Penn State football x-Sunday, May 14: Houston at San Antonio, p.m.
Seattle 11, L.A. Angels 3
who had seen Sandusky molesting a this year of child endangerment for players petitioned university leaders TBD FRIDAY
Golden State 1, Utah 0
boy in a shower in the team’s locker their handling of the complaint. to return it. However, Jay Paterno said Tuesday, May 2: Golden State 106, Utah 94 N.H.L. CALENDAR Yankees 3, Chicago Cubs 2
Thursday, May 4: Golden State 115, Utah Baltimore 4, Chicago White Sox 2
room. Joe Paterno was never charged with Friday he was not focused on the stat- 104
May 28-June 3 — Draft combine, Buffalo,
Toronto 8, Tampa Bay 4
N.Y.
Joe Paterno passed the information a crime, but a university-commis- ue. Saturday, May 6: Golden State at Utah, 8:30 June 14 — Last possible day for Stanley Kansas City 3, Cleveland 1
p.m. Cup finals
along to the president at the time, Gra- sioned review of the scandal con- “That is something for somebody Monday, May 8: Golden State at Utah, 9 p.m. June 23-24 — NHL draft, Chicago Boston at Minnesota
cluded that he and the other adminis- x-Wednesday, May 10: Utah at Golden State,
ham B. Spanier, and two other high- else to worry about, not me,” he said. 9 or 10:30 p.m.
July 1 — Free agency begins. Detroit at Oakland
level administrators, but no one ever trators had remained silent out of a “I’m focusing on Penn State’s future.” x-Friday, May 12: Golden State at Utah, TBD Houston at L.A. Angels
x-Sunday, May 14: Utah at Golden State, TBD TENNIS Texas at Seattle
N.B.A. PLAYOFF LEADERS SATURDAY
THROUGH THURSDAY ISTANBUL OPEN Boston (Porcello 1-4) at Minnesota
SCORING AVERAGE Friday
(Tepesch 0-0), 2:10
G FG FT PTS AVG At Koza World of Sports Toronto (Estrada 1-1) at Tampa Bay
Westbrook, OKC. . .5 59 56 187 37.4 Istanbul (Odorizzi 1-1), 4:10
James, CLE . . . . . .6 73 44 205 34.2 Singles
Leonard, SAN . . . .8 75 72 242 30.2 Quarterfinals Cleveland (Tomlin 2-3) at Kansas
Wall, WAS . . . . . . .9 95 57 261 29.0 Diego Schwartzman (3), Argentina, d. City (Vargas 4-1), 4:15
Harden, HOU . . . . .7 53 76 199 28.4 Dusan Lajovic, Serbia, 7-5, 6-2. Maric Chicago White Sox (Covey 0-2) at
George, IND . . . . .4 34 26 112 28.0 Cilic (2), Croatia, d. Steve Darcis
Lillard, POR . . . . . .4 39 24 111 27.8 Baltimore (Bundy 4-1), 7:05
(8), Belgium, 6-1, 6-1. Milos Raonic
Curry, GOL . . . . . .6 52 35 164 27.3 (1), Canada, d. Bernard Tomic (6), Yankees (Montgomery 1-1) at Chi-
Thomas, BOS . . . .9 75 68 237 26.3 Australia, 7-6 (4), 7-6 (6). Viktor Troicki cago Cubs (Anderson 2-1), 7:15
Paul, LAC . . . . . . .7 67 29 177 25.3 (5), Serbia, d. Laslo Djere, Serbia, 6-2, Detroit (Zimmermann 3-1) at Oak-
2-3 retired.
Doubles land (Hahn 1-2), 9:05
CYCLING Quarterfinals Houston (McCullers 2-1) at L.A.
Antonio Sancic, Croatia, and Adil Angels (Ramirez 3-2), 9:07
GIRO D’ITALIA Shamasdin, Canada, d. Nicholas
Texas (Perez 1-4) at Seattle (De
Monroe, United States, and Artem Sitak
Friday (1), New Zealand, 6-3, 1-6, 10-8. Tuna Jong 0-2), 9:10
At Olbia, Sardinia Altuna, Turkey, and Alessandro Motti,
First Stage Italy, d. Jonathan Erlich, Israel, and N.L. STANDINGS
128 miles from Alghero to Olbia Scott Lipsky (3), United States, 7-5,
1. Lukas Postlberger, Austria, Bora- 3-6, 10-7. East W L Pct GB
Hansgrohe, 5 hours, 13 minutes, 35 Semifinals
seconds. Roman Jebavy and Jiri Vesely, Czech Washington 20 9 .690 —
2. Caleb Ewan, Australia, Orica-Scott, same Republic, d. John-Patrick Smith and
time. Jordan Thompson, Australia, 7-6 (4), Mets 13 15 .464 6{
3. Andre Greipel, Germany, Lotto Soudal, 7-5.
same time. Philadelphia 12 16 .429 7{
4. Giacomo Nizzolo, Italy, Trek-Segafredo, ESTORIL OPEN Miami 12 16 .429 7{
same time.
5. Sacha Modolo, Italy, UAE Team Emirates, Friday
same time. At Estadio Nacional Atlanta 11 15 .423 7{
6. Kristian Sbaragli, Italy, Dimension Data, Oeiras, Portugal
same time. Singles
Central W L Pct GB
7. Jasper Stuyven, Belgium, Trek- Quarterfinals Chicago 16 13 .552 —
Segafredo, same time. Pablo Carreno Busta (1), Spain, d.
8. Ryan Gibbons, South Africa, Dimension Nicolas Almagro, Spain, 6-2, 6-4. David Milwaukee 15 14 .517 1
Data, same time. Ferrer (4), Spain, d. Ryan Harrison (7),
9. Sam Bennett, Ireland, Bora-Hansgrohe, United States, 6-4, 6-0. Kevin Anderson, Cincinnati 14 14 .500 1{
same time. South Africa, d. Richard Gasquet (2),
10. Phil Bauhaus, Germany, Team Sunweb, France, 6-2, 3-6, 7-6 (4). Gilles Muller St. Louis 13 14 .481 2
same time. (3), France, d. Taro Daniel, Japan, 5-7,
6-2, 6-3. Pittsburgh 12 16 .429 3{
Doubles
GOLF Semifinals West W L Pct GB
David Marrero and Tommy Robredo, Colorado 18 11 .621 —
FRANK GUNN/THE CANADIAN PRESS, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS WELLS FARGO Spain, d. Nicolas Almagro and Guillermo
Garcia-Lopez, Spain, 6-4, 4-6, 10-8. Arizona 17 13 .567 1{
LeBron James driving to the basket past Jonas Valanciunas, left, P. J. Tucker, center, and Cory Joseph. Friday
At Eagle Point Golf Course PRIX DE SAR LA PRINCESSE Los Angeles 15 14 .517 3
Wilmington, N.C.
Purse: $7.5 million LALLA MERYEMÇ San Diego 12 18 .400 6{
PR O BASKETBA L L Yardage: 7,396; Par: 72
Partial Second Round Friday San Francisco 11 18 .379 7
Billy Hurley III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70-69—139 -5 At Club Des Cheminots
Rabat, Morocco THURSDAY
TEN N IS
Report Calls Hernandez a Gang Member Saturday's Games
Red Bulls at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.
Garcia p
Ziegler p
0
0
0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0
---
---
Bryant 3b
Rizzo 1b
3
4
1 1 1 1 2 .322
0 1 0 0 1 .235
Barraclough p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --- Zobrist 2b-lf 4 0 1 0 0 1 .233
Toronto FC at Seattle, 3 p.m.
Aaron Hernandez was a member of the Bloods street Montreal at D.C. United, 6 p.m.
Dietrich ph
Totals
1
39
0 0 0 0 0 .189
7 13 7 4 9
Russell ss 4 0 0 0 0 1 .241
Djokovic Splits With Longtime Coach gang and was once disciplined in prison for having gang New England at Columbus, 7:30 p.m.
Orlando City at Houston, 8:30 p.m.
New York
Conforto lf
ab
4
r h bi bb so avg.
1 1 0 1 2 .351
Heyward rf
Contreras c
4
4
0 0 0 0 2 .253
0 0 0 0 1 .225
paraphernalia, according to newly released documents re- FC Dallas at Real Salt Lake, 9:30 p.m. T.Rivera 1b 4 1 2 3 0 1 .300
Hendricks p 2 0 0 0 0 1 .200
Novak Djokovic has split with his longtime coach, lated to the investigation into his suicide. Chicago at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m. Bruce rf 2 1 0 0 1 1 .286
Duensing p
Szczur ph
0
0
0 0 0 0 0 .000
0 0 0 1 0 .211
Portland at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.
Marian Vajda, and two other team members, saying he A death report listed the Bloods under Hernandez’s
Walker 2b 4 0 0 0 0 2 .212 Baez 2b 1 0 0 0 0 1 .250
Sunday's Games Granderson cf 3 1 1 2 1 0 .143 Jay cf-lf 2 0 0 0 0 0 .347
wants to find “the winning spark on the court again.” “gang profile” and said Hernandez had once been disci- Atlanta Unitedat NYCFC, 4 p.m. Reed p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --- Strop p 0 0 0 0 0 0 ---
Djokovic said on his website on Friday that he had mu- plined for having “STG” paraphernalia. In prison, “STG”
Kansas City at Minnesota United, 1:30 p.m. Familia p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --- Rondon p 0 0 0 0 0 0 ---
Flores 3b 3 1 2 1 1 0 .205 Totals 32 2 4 2 2 10
tually agreed with Vajda, his fitness coach and his physio- stands for “Security Threat Group,” a term for gangs. The ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE Reyes ss 4 1 1 0 0 0 .188
New York 000 000 003—3 11 2
therapist to end their “successful and long-term partner- R.Rivera c 4 1 2 1 0 0 .304
Bloods is a violent gang that started in California and now Team GP W D L GF GA Pts Montero p 1 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Chicago 100 001 000—2 4 0
ship” two weeks ago after the Monte Carlo Masters, where has thousands of members. Chelsea . . . . . 34 26 3 5 72 29 81 Smoker p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
E—Judge (1), Headley (6). LOB—New
Tottenham. . . . 35 23 8 4 71 23 77 Salas p 0 0 0 0 0 0 ---
he lost in the quarterfinals. York 9, Chicago 6. 2B—Hicks (3), Judge
Hernandez, a former Patriots tight end, was found Liverpool . . . . . 35 20 9 6 71 42 69 Reynolds ph
Robles p
1
0
0 0 0 0 0 .143
0 0 0 0 0 --- (3). HR—Gardner (5), off Rondon; Bryant
Man. City . . . . 34 19 9 6 65 37 66
hanging from a bedsheet in his cell on April 19 in a maxi- Man. United . . 34 17 14 3 51 25 65 Blevins p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --- (6), off Pineda; Schwarber (5), off Pineda.
RBIs—Gardner 3 (10), Schwarber (13),
Arsenal . . . . . . 33 18 6 9 64 42 60 Cabrera ph 1 1 1 1 0 0 .255
SOCCER mum-security prison in Massachusetts, where he was Everton. . . . . . 35 16 10 9 60 40 58 Lagares cf 1 0 0 0 0 0 .200 Bryant (16). SB—Hicks (3). CS—Bryant (2).
S—Pineda. DP—Chicago 3
serving a life sentence for a 2013 murder. His suicide came West Bromwich 34 12 8 14 39 43 44 Totals 32 8 10 8 4 6
New York ip h r er bb so np era
FIFA Lifts Messi’s World Cup Ban five days after he was acquitted in a 2012 double slaying. West Ham . . . . 36
Southampton . . 33
11
11
9
8
16
14
45
39
59
44
42
41
Miami
New York
001
100
600 000—7 13 0
200 50x—8 10 0
Pineda
Shreve
6 3 2 2 1 6 90 3.12
1 0 0 0 1 1 22 0.00
Bournemouth . . 35 11 8 16 50 63 41
CUTLER HEADS TO THE BOOTH Fox hired Jay Cutler as an ana- HolderW1-0 1 1 0 0 0 1 21 2.70
Lionel Messi, Argentina’s captain, was cleared by FIFA Leicester. . . . . 34 11 7 16 42 54 40 LOB—Miami 12, New York 5. 2B—Stanton ChapmanS7-7 1 0 0 0 0 2 14 0.79
to play in the next three World Cup qualifiers after a ban for lyst to work on its No. 2 N.F.L. team with Kevin Burkhardt. Stoke . . . . . . . 35
Watford . . . . . 34
10
11
10
7
15
16
37
37
50
55
40
40
(5), Ozuna (4), Bour (4), Rojas (4), T.Rivera Chicago ip h r er bb so np era
(5), Reyes (5). HR—T.Rivera (1), off Koehler; Hendricks 5Í/¯ 6 0 0 2 5 94 3.51
insulting a referee’s assistant was lifted. Cutler, 34, spent eight years with the Chicago Bears but Burnley . . . . . . 35 11 6 18 35 49 39 Granderson (2), off Koehler. RBIs—Prado DuensingH2 1Î/¯ 1 0 0 0 2 18 4.76
Crystal Palace . 35 11 5 19 46 56 38
Messi served one match of the four-match ban. FIFA drew little interest as a free agent in the off-season. Hull . . . . . . . . 35 9 7 19 36 67 34
(6), Stanton (20), Ozuna (24), Bour 2 (17), StropH5 1 1 0 0 0 2 19 3.72
Rojas 2 (4), T.Rivera 3 (4), Granderson 2 RondonL0-1BS1-11 3 3 3 1 1 40 3.65
Swansea. . . . . 35 9 5 21 40 69 32
said its appeal committee considered Messi’s behavior — Middlesbrough . 35 5 13 17 26 45 28
(9), Flores (4), R.Rivera (7), Cabrera (13).
SB—Gordon (9), Rojas (2). CS—Bruce (1).
T—3:17. A—40,395 (41,072).
verbally abusing a linesman late in a 1-0 win over Chile on HO R S E R AC ING Sunderland . . . 34 5 6 23 26 60 21 DP—Miami 2; New York 1 M.L.B. CALENDAR
Miami ip h r er bb so np era
March 23 — “reproachable.” But the panel concluded that Friday's Game Koehler 5 4 3 3 2 3 78 5.40 May 16-18 — Owners’ meetings, New York.
the “evidence available was not sufficient to establish to the
appropriate standard” required for the disciplinary com-
Baffert’s Entry Wins Kentucky Oaks West Ham 1, Tottenham 0
Saturday's Games
Garcia 1 0 0 0 0 0 11 1.12
ZieglerL1-2BS1-1 0 6 5 5 0 0 19 4.72
June 12 — Amateur draft starts.
July 11 — All-Star Game, Miami.
Manchester City vs. Crystal Palace Barraclough 2 0 0 0 2 3 25 1.23 July 7 — Last day to sign for amateur
mittee to impose the initial suspension. Abel Tasman charged late to win the Kentucky Oaks by Bournemouth vs. Stoke New York ip h r er bb so np era draft picks subject to deadline.
Montero 3Î/¯ 7 5 5 3 4 90 10.45 July 30 — Hall of Fame inductions.
BAN RESCINDED OVER WALKOFF The Italian soccer federation
one and a quarter lengths and give the Hall of Fame trainer Hull vs. Sunderland
Leicester vs. Watford Smoker 1 2 2 2 1 2 32 8.04 July 31 — Last day to trade a player
has rescinded Sulley Muntari’s one-match ban for walking Bob Baffert the victory with his lone entrant in the week- Burnley vs. West Bromwich Salas Í/¯ 0 0 0 0 0 1 6.75 without securing waivers.
Swansea vs. Everton Robles 1 2 0 0 0 1 18 1.65 Sept. 1 — Active rosters expand to 40 players.
end marquee races at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky. BlevinsW2-0 1 1 0 0 0 0 10 0.82 November TBA — Deadline for teams
Baffert, who does not have a horse in the Kentucky Derby, Sunday's Games ReedH3 1 1 0 0 0 2 15 3.38 to make qualifying offers to their eligible
Liverpool vs. Southampton FamiliaS3-3 1 0 0 0 0 0 7 1.29 former players who became free agents,
All news by The Associated Press unless noted. and his son Bode celebrated by dabbing. Arsenal vs. Manchester United T—3:14. A—25,618 (41,922). fifth day after World Series.
D6 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY, MAY 6, 2017
BASKETBALL
Then, too, there are utilitarian they’ve had is now over,” Powell own brand. That is the smartest Armour stock as part of his deal to
concerns. At least in theory, bas- added. way of doing it.” James’s cashing in on his shares of much less Curry. to say that they had it.”
ketball sneakers are for playing Stephon Marbury, the former In the ZO2 release video, which Beats when the headphones com- It also does not help that Star- Or not. The Flight Club consign-
basketball in, and Big Baller N.B.A. star who plays in China is set to a Drake track and features pany was acquired by Apple, it is bury shoes are deliberately inex- ors dismissed even a proposal to
Brand was not believed to possess and is believed to be one of a few Lonzo Ball training in his shoes part of the zeitgeist for the most pensive — some new ones start at shell out for ZO2s now on the off
the same kind of technology that basketball players to have his own near his hometown, Chino, Calif., talented and savvy basketball $14.98 — while the ZO2s are, well, chance that everyone will be
makes the established companies’ sneaker brand independent of a the namesake himself spoke in players to seek and acquire equity. not. wanting them in a decade or so.
shoes user-friendly. major shoe company — Starbury those terms, too, advocating “a The analogy falls short, though, “This shoe,” Dorfman said, “I’d rather buy lottery tickets,”
“I want to know how they per- — praised LaVar Ball on Wednes- movement allowing us to be en- because Ball is not yet Marbury, “may be bought by collectors just Leung said.
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