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MONDAY, MARCH 28, 2016
Village elder Kim Ri Jun
digs up a burlap sack on
which he claims contains
the remains belonging to
a soldier who fought in
the Korean War from a
burial site on Ryongyonri hill in Kujang county,
North Korea, on Dec. 3.
PHOTOS
BY
Military
justice
revisions
offered
WONG M AYE-E/AP
BY NANCY MONTGOMERY
Stars and Stripes
‘Until They Are Home’
US remains in North Korea lost in political limbo
BY ERIC TALAMADGE
Associated Press
RYONGYON-RI, North Korea — The
village elder put his shovel aside, stooped
down by a scraggly bush and pulled a sack
from the freshly turned dirt. Spreading
open the sack, he reached in to reveal femurs, skull and jaw fragments, boots and a
rusted green helmet.
“These are your American GIs,” Song
Hong Ik said at a burial mound near the
top of a small hill.
Perhaps they are. But for more than a
decade, no one has been trying to find out.
“Until They Are Home” is one of the most
sacred vows of the U.S. military, yet Wash-
Human remains, which village elders
claim belong to soldiers who fought in the
Korean War, are laid out next to a burial
site on Ryongyon-ri hill in Kujang county,
North Korea, on Dec. 3.
ington has long suspended efforts to look for
5,300 American GIs missing in North Korea
whose remains are potentially recoverable.
The countries’ abysmal relations suggest
that no restart is coming soon.
In the meantime, possible remains and
recovery sites are being lost as North
Korea works to improve its infrastructure
with projects such as the Chongchon River
No. 10 Hydroelectric Power Station. The
bones Song revealed came from that project’s construction site.
His village, the hamlet of Ryongyon-ri,
is nestled among low rolling hills in the
heart of a Korean War battleground about
100 miles north of Pyongyang.
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The Pentagon has proposed
significant changes to how troops
are tried and sentenced, two
years after a comprehensive review of the military justice system was ordered by then-Defense
Secretary Chuck Hagel in the
wake of persistent sexual assault
controversies.
The changes to the Uniform
Code of Military Justice are the
first proposed by the Pentagon in
30 years, after years of Congress
mandating change, and would
also make the system more transparent to public view.
The Senate Armed Services
Committee is expected to be
briefed on the proposed guidelines in the next few weeks.
For decades, the military’s
unique sentencing procedures
have required untrained military jurors to decide guilt or
innocence as well as impose sentences upon conviction. In most
military crimes, there were no
minimum sentences, and legally
allowed maximum punishment
could include life in prison. Under
the Pentagon proposal, military
judges in all cases would decide
sentences based on U.S. Department of Justice guidelines.
SEE REVISIONS ON PAGE 2
‘ You’d have three
guys get together
and go shoplifting
or abuse cough
medicine. One gets
two years, one
gets a month and
the other guy gets
restricted to base.
’
Don Christensen
retired Air Force top prosecutor
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the telephone interviews Donald
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MILITARY
Black Hawks deployed for Kan. wildfire
Associated Press
MEDICINE LODGE, Kan. — Firefighters
trying to snuff out the biggest wildfire in Kansas history are getting help from military helicopters — and a potential assist from looming
rain or snow.
Four UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters from
the Kansas National Guard were deployed
Saturday in the effort to contain the persistent prairie blazes that since Tuesday have
charred at least 620 square miles in Oklahoma and southern Kansas.
Six homes have been destroyed and some
livestock has been lost, said the office of the adjutant general. Three bridges and one railroad
trestle also have been damaged or destroyed.
No serious injuries have been reported.
At least two of the helicopters have 660-gallon buckets that will be used to dump water
from local sources onto the flames, said Ben
Bauman, a spokesman for the Kansas Adjutant General’s Office. The National Guard
also was contributing a fuel tanker truck and
another ground support vehicle.
Firefighters focused again Saturday southwest of Wichita in Butler County, where only
15 percent of the blaze that has scorched 427
square miles of the county was contained,
said Darcy Golliher, a spokeswoman for the
Kansas Incident Management Team.
The National Weather Service said the
area where the fire has raged, which borders
Oklahoma, could get up to a quarter of an
inch of rain or snow Saturday night or Sunday
morning.
Shawna Hartman, a Kansas Forest Service
spokeswoman, said slightly windier conditions prevailed Saturday compared with the
previous day. While she expects the forecast
precipitation to add welcome moisture, “it really won’t do anything to the fire that’s actively burning,” she said.
The prospect of relief from rain may offer
little solace to Don Gerstner, 87, a Korean War
veteran who along with his wife, Carol, lost
their home near Medicine Lodge to the fire
after the two narrowly escaped it.
Now facing the task of starting over, Carol
Gerstner lamented, “At our age, it’s just hard
to get used to something different.”
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Revisions: Ex-Army lawyer says measure would help public
FROM FRONT PAGE
Judges always have decided
sentences in bench trials.
Moreover, a number of crimes
that have been tried under the
catch-all Article 134 would be
set out independently, perhaps
with articles being added to the
UCMJ. That means prosecutors
would no longer have to prove that
a crime such as kidnapping was
service-discrediting.
Under the changes, all convicted
servicemembers also would have
the right to appeal, and military
court documents such as judicial
rulings — now accessible to the
public only through Freedom of
Information Act requests — would
be filed in a public system as they
are in federal courts.
“In federal court, anybody may
look up a case and view pleadings
in current cases. The military
trial courts should have a similar
system where the public could
view motions,” said Kyle Fischer,
a former Army lawyer now in private practice.
Fischer said the move would
benefit not just the public, but
also people he said are falsely
accused.
“Nobody knows about those
frivolous cases except for the client, the panel, the attorneys in
the case, and the military judge,”
he said. “If we are going to raise
awareness of problem of the falsely accused being tried on frivolous charges, then allowing the
press access to these proceedings
should be a concern.”
The changes make sense and
are long overdue, experts said.
“There’s a lot of good stuff in this
[proposal],” said retired Air Force
top prosecutor Don Christensen,
now president of Protect Our Defenders, the sexual assault victim
advocacy group. “But the fact
is that we lived with this insane
sentencing process for so many
years and the generals never said
it made no sense.”
Christensen said the proposal
was an effort to abort even more
sweeping changes, in particular
stripping the chain of command
from its prosecutorial and judicial role in the military justice
system.
The proposed guidelines would
leave military commanders to
still determine which cases go
to court-martial, what charges
will be brought against a defendant, whether to cut a deal, and
whether to grant clemency after
conviction.
“[The Defense Department]
didn’t want this,” Christensen said
of the proposed guidelines. “It’s a
smoke screen, forced on them by
Hagel.”
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y.,
has been a vocal opponent of the
current system. She has criticized
the Pentagon review for not considering whether trained military
prosecutors should replace commanders in deciding how to dispose of cases. Prosecutors have
more expertise and less bias than
commanders, according to her
and other critics of the current
system.
Military sentencing reform has
been proposed for decades, in part
because the current system allows
for widely varying sentences.
“A panel can come in very high
or very low,” said Army Reserve
lawyer Maj. Joseph Wilkerson, a
former editor of the Army Lawyer
and the Military Law Review who
serves on the defense team of one
of the Guantanamo detainees.
Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, for instance, is facing a misconductbefore-the-enemy charge that
carries a maximum life sentence.
But he also could go unpunished.
The only crimes that carried
minimum sentences were murder,
death of an unborn baby and spying. In addition, Congress in 2014
mandated punitive discharge as a
minimum sentence for penetrative sexual assault.
Lack of sentencing guidelines
can create chaos, critics say. Military juries have felt burdened by
the lack of sentencing guidelines,
Christensen said, and sometimes
asked for guidance. But none
could be given.
“You’d have three guys get together and go shoplifting or abuse
cough medicine — exactly the
same history,” Christensen said.
“One gets two years, one gets a
month and the other guy gets restricted to base.”
Disparate sentences aren’t solely due to military jury sentencing;
commanders’ decisions also play
a role. In a 2011 case in which a
soldier was sexually assaulted,
three defendants — two soldiers
and a Navy petty officer — were
tried on a variety of charges stemming from the assault, and they
received significantly different
sentences. One soldier, tried at
general court-martial, received a
sentence of 11 months and a badconduct discharge. The other got a
three-year sentence and a dishonorable discharge.
The petty officer, though equally culpable according to the facts
of the case, was tried at a lesser,
summary court-martial, in part
because the victim already had
gone through two courts-martial
and declined to participate in a
third. His sentence was 30 days of
restriction.
The Army Court of Criminal
Appeals in 2013 declined to reduce the sentence of the first soldier, who had argued it was unfair
his sentence was higher than the
petty officer’s. “Simply put, (the
petty officer) was able to negotiate
a more favorable pretrial agreement with his convening authority than appellant was able to with
his,” the court opinion said, and
there had been no “miscarriage of
justice or an abuse of discretion.”
Other military sentencing deficiencies are not addressed in the
Pentagon’s proposal, Christensen
said.
Unlike in the civilian system,
in which sentencing comes after a
pause, along with a presentencing
report giving a full picture of a
guilty defendant, military sentences are handed down immediately after guilty verdicts. “There’s
such a rush to get it done,” he said.
“The leadership would rather
have a case done quickly than
done right.”
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EUROPE
Russia plans
broad buildup
of military
Failed pop-up barrier
is cited in breach of
security at barracks
BY JENNIFER H. SVAN
Stars and Stripes
BY VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
Associated Press
MOSCOW — Russia is to beef up its military
forces all the way from its western border to the Pacific islands amid ongoing strains with the West, the
military said Friday.
No financial details were disclosed, but the buildup likely will be costly and takes place at a time
when the Russian economy is in recession under the
dual impact of low oil prices and Western sanctions
imposed on Moscow over its role in the Ukrainian
crisis.
While announcing the buildup, Defense Minister
Sergei Shoigu said the deployment of NATO’s forces
near Russia’s borders has caused concern. As part
of a response, he said new units in the Western Military District, including two new divisions, will be
formed.
The military forces in western Russia will receive
1,100 new weapons systems, including warplanes,
helicopters, tanks and other armored vehicles.
In the far east, the military will deploy state-ofthe art Bal and Bastion anti-ship missile systems
and new drones to the southern Kurils, a group of
islands that Japan calls the Northern Territories
and claims as its own.
The dispute over the islands, which were seized
by the Soviet army in the closing days of World War
II, has prevented Russia and Japan from signing a
peace treaty to formally end their hostilities.
PAVEL G OLOVKIN /AP
Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu attends
an exhibition of the Russian Defense Ministry in
October. Shoigu said Friday that NATO’s moves
near Russia’s borders require a response.
The anti-ship missile systems to be deployed on
the disputed islands are capable of hitting targets
more than 185 miles away.
Shoigu said Russia is also mulling the possibility
of setting up a naval base on the islands. Ships of
Russia’s Pacific Fleet will visit the area in the summer to study possible locations, he said.
The defense minister said the military will also
continue to strengthen its presence in the Arctic
region. As part of efforts to build military facilities
on Wrangel Island and Cape Schmidt, the Defense
Ministry delivered 9,500 metric tons of equipment
and materials during last year’s brief navigation
season, he said.
The Kremlin has made expanding Russia’s military presence to protect the country’s national interests in the Arctic a top priority in light of increasing
international interest in the region’s vast oil and
other resources.
Across Siberia, the military will focus on deploying top-of-the line air defense missile systems to
protect the vast region, Shoigu said.
USAFE contest gives wings a
chance to cash in on innovation
BY JENNIFER H. SVAN
Stars and Stripes
KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany — For airmen in Europe, innovation can pay off, literally.
U.S. Air Forces in EuropeAir Forces Africa’s second annual Innovation Madness contest
will earn one of its eight wings
$175,000.
This year, the command is
spreading the wealth and giving
away $250,000 in six categories,
including $50,000 to the runnerup. Last year’s winner, the 86th
Airlift Wing at Ramstein, walked
away with the entire $250,000
prize.
The idea behind the contest is to
foster innovation while creating
friendly competition among the
wings, said Capt. Liya Smolina, a
command personnel analyst with
the USAFE-AFAFRICA Innovation and Transformation Office.
“We have some great airmen”
who have resourceful ideas “on
how to save time and money,”
she said. The contest “is one way
on how to promote that in our
command.”
Wings submit their innovations throughout the year. Come
March, they are matched up in a
bracket-style format and a group
of judges decides who will go on
to the next round.
Judging is based on several
factors, including how well the
wing’s innovative ideas enhanced
the mission and saved time and
money, and how the wing promotes an overall culture of innovation, Smolina said.
“We try to keep it as objective
as possible,” she said, using hard
numbers for financial benefits
and time savings, which are validated by the command’s manpower and finance offices.
This year, 378 innovations were
submitted with an estimated savings of $15 million and 174,000
man-hours, Smolina said.
The overall champion will be
announced Thursday. The contest
kicked off in early March. Those
now vying for the top prize are
the 52nd Fighter Wing at Spangdahlem and the 48th Fighter
Wing at Lakenheath.
The wings tout their ideas with
often-quirky videos created by
their public affairs shops and
posted to social media. Spangdahlem’s video parodies a Key and
Peele “anger translator” sketch
and includes an awkwardly dancing public affairs officer and wing
commander. It’s garnered about
75,000 views so far. The wing
with the most Facebook “likes”
can notch $6,000.
The prize money comes from
existing command funding, said
USAFE-AFAFRICA spokesman
Capt. Tom Barger.
Spangdahlem estimates one of
its innovations this year saved
$66,000. The wing sent dental
professionals to its remote units
four times per year rather than
paying travel and lodging costs
for patients to visit Spangdahlem.
At Lakenheath, the Air Force
Office of Special Investigations
began using a device in the base’s
bioenvironmental
engineering
flight instead of an off-base lab to
test samples for suspicious substances. Wait time was reduced
from 10 days to one hour, and
costs went from $3,100 per test to
zero, according to USAFE.
One of the ideas that earned
the 86th Airlift Wing at Ramstein
the top prize last year was adjusting local nationals’ schedules to
avoid weekend and holiday work,
a change that saved more than
$700,000 annually.
Base officials said Ramstein
is spending its $250,000 prize
to improve 14 athletic fields on
Ramstein, Vogelweh and Kapaun.
Depending on the field, goalie
boxes will be resodded, infield
grass replaced, fencing repaired
and drainage fixed, among other
improvements.
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KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany — A German man who led police on a car chase last weekend
managed to get past gate security
at Pulaski Barracks on two different occasions because a popup barrier didn’t work, the Army
said Friday.
The breach prompted a sweeping review last week of security
measures at 39 installation access
points operated by U.S. Army
Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz. As a
result, some procedural changes
and beefed-up safety measures
have been implemented, officials
said.
The 61-year-old man from
Bad Duerkheim, who was later
detained by police, claimed he
had explosives. He was able
to drive onto the base because
of an equipment failure on the
pop-up barrier inside the base,
said Jonathan Riley, a garrison
spokesman.
The first time, the man drove
his car through the entrance
lane of the main gate. About
eight hours later, he breached the
base again, this time through the
exit lane. Both times, he made a
quick exit.
Police detained the man, whom
they called “mentally disturbed,”
after he crashed his car during a
chase on the Autobahn 6. No explosives were found.
In the wake of the security
breach, “where applicable, lessons learned from the event will
be used to enhance the security
of all of the 39 installation access
points” operated by the garrison,
Riley said by email.
At the Pulaski gate specifically, the road through the inoperable pop-up barrier will remain
blocked until it has been repaired,
Riley said. The exit lane remains
closed to facilitate the adjusted
traffic pattern; no decision has
been made on when it will be
reopened.
Riley said at least a dozen models and brands of barriers are in
use at the various gates.
“They are all at different points
in their life cycles and don’t necessarily fail for the same reason
at the same time,” he said.
Citing security concerns, he
declined to discuss what other
procedural changes were made
or how often the garrison tests
and services the barriers.
“We are confident that the measures we have implemented will
prevent anything like this from
happening again in the future,”
he said.
The first incident occurred
close to midnight on March 18,
when the man sped through the
checkpoint.
“Due to an equipment failure on the pop-up barrier, he
was able to drive straight ahead
on the road past Pulaski Park,”
Riley said. The man turned left
at the T-intersection and left
through Pulaski’s exit gate. He
was on the installation for about
45 seconds, Riley said. “We have
video surveillance and human
eyes at both the entrance and
exit gates.”
Nothing was found during a security sweep conducted to ensure
the man had not thrown anything
from his vehicle, Riley said.
The man returned about 7:30
a.m. the next day. That time, he
stopped at the gate checkpoint,
stepped out of his vehicle and told
a guard that he had explosives in
the car, Riley said. Military police were called and responded to
the scene within seconds, while
security guards cleared the area
to ensure the safety of bystanders, he said. That’s when the man
climbed into his car, backed up to
avoid the military police blocking his way, and entered the gate
through the
exit lane.
“At
this
They
point, the poare all at
lice officers
different
chose not to
use
deadly
points in
force to stop
their life
the intruder
and instead
cycles
and don’t followed the
vehicle,”
necessarily Riley said.
“The
man
fail for
the
the same drove
same route
reason at he did at midthe same night and did
not stop at
time.
any point.”
When
he
Jonathan Riley
spokesman left Pulaski
second
for U.S. Army the
Garrison time, he was
purRheinland-Pfalz being
sued by four
military police vehicles from the garrison
and the U.S. Air Force, Riley
said. Within minutes, German
police joined and took the lead in
the chase.
The pursuit, which shut down a
stretch of the autobahn for more
than three hours and snarled
traffic throughout the city, ended
a short time afterward when the
man crashed his car into a German patrol car as it was trying
to pass him on the highway, according to Kaiserslautern police.
No injuries were reported. Police
said they expected the man would
be hospitalized for psychiatric
treatment.
U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz operates several
bases in Kaiserslautern besides
Pulaski. It also has installations
in Baumholder, Sembach, Landstuhl, Miesau, Mannheim and
several other locations.
Air Force officials said they
run weekly checks of security
barriers at Ramstein, the largest installation in the region. Security officials “know they’re in
working order,” said Kelly Sanders, a Ramstein spokeswoman.
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PACIFIC
Navy captain sentenced
to 46 months in prison
BY WYATT OLSON
Stars and Stripes
The highest-ranking U.S. Navy officer
convicted so far in a widespread Asian
bribery scandal was sentenced in U.S. District Court in San Diego on Friday to 46
months in prison.
Capt. Daniel Dusek was also ordered
to pay a $70,000 fine and $30,000 in
restitution.
Dusek, 49, pleaded guilty to conspiracy
of bribery on Jan. 15, 2015, in a case involving the trade of military secrets to an
Asian defense contractor in exchange for
access to prostitutes, luxury hotel suites
and other perks.
Two sailors have already received prison terms in the scheme, headed by Singapore-based businessman Leonard Francis,
referred to as “Fat Leonard” by Navy
officials.
Before being sentenced, Dusek told the
judge, “I will hold this guilt in my heart for
the rest of my life,” according to The Associated Press.
U.S. District Judge Janis L. Sammartino was unmoved, telling Dusek that his
actions “potentially jeopardized national
security.”
“It’s truly unimaginable to the court that
someone in your position with the United
States Navy would
sell out based on what
was provided to you
— hotel rooms, entertainment and the services of prostitutes,”
the judge said.
U.S. Attorney Laura
Duffy said in a statement that it was “a
Dusek
fitting sentence” for a
man considered so valuable by his conspirators that they’d dubbed him their “Golden
Asset.”
“Captain Dusek’s betrayal is the most
distressing because the Navy placed so
much trust, power and authority in his
hands,” she said.
Dusek, who was ordered to report to the
U.S. Bureau of Prisons on June 15, has
been free on bond and serving desk duty at
Naval Base Coronado, San Diego.
The Pentagon declined to comment on
Dusek’s conviction, referring all inquiries
to the Justice Department. Naval Base
Coronado did not immediately respond to
a request for comment.
In a plea agreement, Dusek admitted
using his influence — first as deputy director of operations
for the 7th Fleet,
headquartered in YoCaptain
kosuka, Japan, and
then as commanding
Dusek’s
of the USS
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— to help Francis and
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fully paid luxury hotel
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suites. In exchange,
Dusek personally delivered and emailed Navy ship schedules
to Francis and his employees on numerous
occasions.
He directed Navy ships to the company’s
port terminals and, in one case, steered
the entire USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier
Group to a port terminal owned by Francis
in Malaysia.
Ten people have been charged in connection with the case, nine of whom have
pleaded guilty, including Lt. Cmdr. Todd
Dale Malaki; Cmdr. Michael Vannak
Khem Misiewicz; Naval Criminal Investigative Service Special Agent John Beliveau; Cmdr. Jose Luis Sanchez; and U.S.
Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Dan Layug.
In January, Layug was sentenced to 27
months in prison and fined $15,000; Malaki was sentenced to 40 months in prison
and ordered to pay $30,000 in fines and
restitution.
The bribery case is still under investigation by U.S. authorities.
Dusek’s attorney, Douglas Applegate,
said in court Friday that there “are probably close to 200 officers still being investigated,” Bloomberg reported. Applegate
said that “high-ranking admirals” were
currently under investigation.
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US to send F-35s to Japan next year
Stars and Stripes
YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — The U.S.
is planning to send F-35 stealth fighters to
Japan next year, according to a Japanese
media report.
Plans are to deploy the jets in January to
Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Sean Stackley
announced at a House Armed Service Committee hearing Wednesday.
“Marine pilots love this plane and the
capability it brings to the air-ground task
force,” Stackley said.
Japan is one of eight countries jointly developing the high-tech fighter, which has
become America’s most costly weapon,
with a price tag of $1 trillion over the next
four decades.
Japan’s Air Self-Defense Force plans to
acquire 42 F-35s. Stackley told the commit-
tee that the first of those jets is expected to
roll off the assembly line in November.
U.S. Forces Japan spokesman Lt. Col.
Kenneth Hoffman said in an email Friday
that the deployment of the aircraft would
not proceed without an authorization from
the Japanese government.
The Marine Corps will eventually replace all of its F/A-18 Hornet jets stationed
at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni with
F-35B Lighting IIs, Hoffman said.
“The Government of Japan is aware that
the U.S. intends to replace the F-18 with the
F-35 in the future. The specific timeframe
for this replacement remains to be determined,” he said.
The effort to exchange aircraft will take
place in close coordination with the government of Japan, Hoffman said.
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A sign at the entrance to an onsen near Yokota Air Base, Japan, warns that tattooed
guests are not allowed inside the public bath.
Relaxation of spa tattoo
policies in Japan urged
BY A ARON K IDD
Stars and Stripes
YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — Japan’s
tourism agency is urging traditional hot
springs spas to relax their tattoo policies
as the country aims to host 20 million annual foreign visitors by the 2020 Olympic
Games in Tokyo.
Public baths, including onsens, are admired for their reputed health and beauty
benefits but have a history of denying entry
to inked visitors because of an association
between tattoos and yakuza, the Japanese
organized-crime syndicate.
Japan Tourism Agency officials are asking public bath operators to consider that
many people have tattoos for religious, cultural or fashion reasons, and that tattoos
themselves pose no sanitation problems.
The agency is also providing the spas
with solutions for accepting tattooed
guests, such as covering the ink with skintoned tape, offering special bathing times
or providing separate facilities for those
with body art.
“It is difficult to institute standards that
will satisfy everyone since there are cultural differences in the mindset of foreigners
and Japanese toward tattoos,” the agency
said in a recent statement. “However, it is
necessary to encourage the way in which
friction between spa facilities and foreign
tourists with tattoos can be avoided as the
number of foreign tourists increase.”
In 2013, a 60-year-old Maori woman visiting from New Zealand was barred from a
Hokkaido onsen because of her cultural facial tattoos. The highly publicized incident
led luxury hotel chain Hoshino Resort Co.
to announce that it would allow tattooed
guests at its spas as long as their ink is
covered.
The effect of no-tattoo policies isn’t limited to tourists. U.S. servicemembers in
Japan often reach out to one another on the
Internet in search of public baths that are
OK with body art.
Whitney Marie Hedgepeth, the spouse
of a servicemember stationed at Yokota Air
Base in western Tokyo, said recent plans to
take a friend visiting from Oklahoma to an
onsen near Mount Takao were thwarted by
the spa’s no-tattoo policy.
“When we got there, there were two to
three separate signs saying in English and
Japanese that tattooed people would not be
allowed inside,” she said. “They even went
so far as to say they couldn’t be covered up
with a bandage or anything.”
Hedgepeth said she has the word “always” tattooed on her wrist and a flower
on her foot, and her friend has a butterfly
on her shoulder.
“We didn’t end up going in because we
didn’t want to feel embarrassed about being
kicked out, and we especially didn’t want
to feel embarrassed because we have tattoos,” she said. “It really felt like we were
being discriminated against, but it also felt
like it was a cultural thing we couldn’t do
anything about. Now my friend is back in
Oklahoma, and she didn’t get to experience
an onsen, which is unfortunate.”
Last year, in an effort to draw more tourists to Japan, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
asked his Cabinet to review restrictions
faced by foreign travelers. The tourism
agency responded by sending surveys to
3,700 facilities that house public baths,
asking questions such as: “Do you refuse
admittance to people with tattoos?” “Would
you accept someone with tattoos if they
cover them with stickers?” “Do you know
the reason for the custom of barring people
with tattoos?”
Only about 600 facilities responded, the
agency said. Fifty-six percent said they rejected people with tattoos, while 31 percent
allowed them. Thirteen percent said they
admitted guests who agreed to cover their
body art.
Asked why foreigners with tattoos were
rejected, most said their policy was based
on “moral hygiene aspects,” while others
said the decision was part of an industry
agreement or because of a request or guidance from outside organizations such as
police or local governments.
The majority of respondents said they’ve
had no trouble with tattooed visitors using
their bathing facilities. Just under half said
they had received complaints about guests
with tattoos.
Stars and Stripes staffer Hana Kusumoto contributed to this report.
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Analyst: Artificial
intelligence is no
match for humans
BY SETH ROBSON
Stars and Stripes
The defeat this month of a Korean Go master by Google’s AlphaGo program has many people
excited and, in some cases, fearful about the future of artificial
intelligence.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency — the
Defense Department arm responsible for developing emerging technologies — is already
looking at using artificial intelligence, or AI, to analyze vast
amounts of data from battlefield
sensors and give commanders options for how to respond,
according to online magazine
Breaking Defense.
However, the day when a computer could replace a human general remains in the distant future,
experts say.
“AI creates a good assistant for
a human, but it’s still many years
out from achieving anything like
human intelligence,” said David
Johnson, from the Center of Advanced Defense Studies, a Washington-based think tank.
There’s more to the art of generalship than a game of Go, he
said.
The board game, which originated in China 2,500 years ago,
is a test of strategy as players
attempt to capture territory by
moving black and white stones
around a 19-by-19 grid.
“In Go, the pieces move where
they are supposed to and achieve
what they are supposed to,” Johnson said. “On the battlefield, you
have the fog and fiction of war.”
The human mind deals with
complexity by doing things that
are good enough to work, he said,
whereas computers have a very
hard time doing things that are
less than optimal. Plus, human
soldiers respond to orders in different ways, Johnson said.
“A commander has to really
understand each of his troops and
what motivates them and get them
motivated differently,” he said.
A computer can land an airplane, but it might run into problems with situations involving
humans who don’t always behave
in predictable ways, Johnson
said.
“An artificial general might
provide a real general options,
but at best it would be a fine assistant,” he said.
Computers are used extensively to provide combat simulations
during training. However, those
models can never mirror the real
world, Johnson said.
“They can’t replicate an actual
fight with an enemy or sometimes
several enemies who are intent on
defeating you,” he said. “The real
world is more complex.”
Artificial intelligence will become more important as commanders seek to make sense
of the data streams coming in
from a growing array of battlefield sensors, said Arizona State
LEE JIN - MAN /AP
South Korean professional Go player Lee Sedol was left “speechless” after his second straight loss to
Google’s artificial intelligence program AlphaGo in Seoul, South Korea, earlier this month.
University engineering professor Braden Allenby. However, he
agreed computers won’t replace
military leaders anytime soon.
“You would be replacing not
just a lot of rational processes but
intuitive, emotional and human
knowledge these individuals have
built up, and that is really hard to
do,” he said.
Despite its limitations, it’s critical for the military to learn how
to interact with artificial intelligence, Allenby said.
“To some extent you might say
that some of the robots we use
today are using primitive AI,” he
‘ (Computers) can’t replicate an actual
fight with an enemy or sometimes several
enemies who are intent on defeating you.
The real world is more complex.
’
David Johnson
executive director of the Center for Advanced Defense Studies
said.
For example, when a communication link is cut to a remotely
piloted drone, the aircraft might
be programed to fly to a pre-set
way point and go into a holding
pattern.
Modern weapons and warfare
move too rapidly and are too complex for humans to stay on top of,
Allenby said.
Cyberattacks, for example,
happen too quickly for humans to
detect and react to them, whereas
defensive software can react in a
timely manner to protect data, he
said.
The Turing Test, which gauges
a machine’s ability to interact
with humans through a series
of questions and answers, is one
gauge of AI.
However, there is no guarantee
that machines, as they become
more complex, will think like humans, Allenby said.
“The Google machine … is not
intelligent in the sense of a human
being,” he said. “It’s training itself so you can’t predict what it is
going to do.”
Despite AlphaGo’s prowess
at a board game, computers are
nowhere near smart enough to
make the sort of comprehensive,
fluid analyses and decisions a
seasoned military officer can
make in the complex and uncertain environment of battle, Allenby said.
Even if the machines were capable of that, there are serious
cultural issues that come into
play, he said.
“Part of what it means to be a
warrior is following your leader
into battle, figuratively or literally,” Allenby said. “Going into
difficult combat because a computer thinks you should may not
be entirely different in an objective sense … but it certainly
seems different to anyone that
has served.”
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Chinese man pleads guilty to hacking defense contractors
BY M ATTHEW M. BURKE
Stars and Stripes
The
Justice
Department
chalked up a victory in the war
against cybertheft Wednesday
when a Chinese national pleaded
guilty in U.S. District Court to
hacking into American defense
contractors’ computer networks
and stealing sensitive military
data for sale abroad.
Su Bin, also known as Stephen
Su or Stephen Subin, 50, had
been charged with the yearslong conspiracy to steal military
technical information, including
data related to the C-17 strategic transport aircraft as well as
some military fighter jets, and
send the information to China,
according to a Justice Department statement.
The China-based businessman
working in the aviation and aerospace field faces a maximum of
five years in prison and $250,000
in fines — or twice the gross gain
or gross loss resulting from the
offense, whichever is greatest
— when he stands before Judge
Christina Snyder for sentencing
July 13, the statement said.
Charges were filed against Su
in 2014, and he was arrested in
Canada later that year.
“Su Bin admitted to playing an
important role in a conspiracy,
originating in China, to illegally
access sensitive military data, including data relating to military
aircraft that are indispensable in
keeping our military personnel
safe,” Assistant Attorney General
for National Security John Carlin said in the statement. “This
plea sends a strong message that
stealing from the United States
and our companies has a significant cost; we can and will find
these criminals and bring them
to justice. The National Security
Division remains sharply focused
on disrupting cyberthreats to the
national security, and we will
continue to be relentless in our
pursuit of those who seek to undermine our security.”
In the plea, Su admitted to conspiring with two others in China
from October 2008 to March
2014, the statement said. One of
the targets was the Boeing Co. in
Orange County, Calif.
Su would email his co-conspirators detailing which people,
companies and technologies to
target during their computer
intrusions, the statement said.
One of the co-conspirators would
then gain access to information
on the computers of U.S. com-
panies, using a cloaking agent
to avoid detection, and email Su
directory file listings and folders
showing the data. Su then recommended which files and folders they should steal.
Once they had the data they
were after, Su would translate
it into Chinese, and they would
draft reports about the information and technology they had acquired, including its value, and
send it to the final beneficiaries of
their hacking activities, the statement said.
Su admitted the stolen information included data on the U.S.
Munitions List contained in the
International Traffic in Arms
Regulations, the statement said.
He also admitted to engaging in
crime for financial gain through
the sale of the stolen data.
Cybertheft has been a burgeon-
ing area of concern for American
political and military leaders in
recent years. Nations like China,
North Korea and Syria have been
accused of hacking U.S. military,
government and defense contractor systems to steal secrets and
disrupt operations.
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Computer simulation to aid
battlefield medics’ training
BY WYATT OLSON
Stars and Stripes
On-the-job training for military medics comes at
a high cost.
The trauma they see downrange often requires
split-second decisions that could mean life or death
for a wounded warfighter.
To better prepare medics for these real-life situations, researchers at UCLA have created a prototype model computer simulation of a leg bleeding
from a puncture wound, such as from shrapnel or
a gunshot.
The goal is to give field medics initial training on
an “anatomically, physically and mathematically accurate model” of various leg wounds, said Dr. Erik
Dutson, a surgeon and executive medical director
of UCLA’s Center for Advanced Surgical and Interventional Technology. The work is sponsored by the
Office of Naval Research.
The researchers were driven in part by the Pentagon’s announcement a few years ago that, starting in
2015, the military would curtail the use of live animals for combat trauma training, a practice long decried by activists. The Pentagon called for the use of
more — and improved — simulations for training.
Injury simulations have been around for more
than 15 years, Dutson said, but they have been relatively unsophisticated, offering images and movements that didn’t factor in the myriad functions of a
wounded body — blood pressure, shock, heart rate
and the nature of blood spillage and coagulation.
The center’s researchers have painstakingly developed algorithms based on data from 3D coordinates, CAT scans and MRIs to re-create a virtual
wounded leg.
“We’ve used physics-based mathematics and fluid
dynamics to actually illustrate what would happen if
there were various projectile or blast injuries to the
leg,” Dutson said.
Previous simulations were created as “the best
estimate” of how a wound appears, he said.
“When you look at the virtual work that’s been
done up until now, it’s not based on actual CAT scans
or MRIs or actual anatomy,” he said. “It’s based on
a cartoon.
“But in those cases there’s never any bleeding
during surgery or any problem,” Dutson said. “The
representation of bleeding was not truly based on
how fluid actually acts, not taking into account the
human circulatory system, not taking into account
the various pressure heads of different sides of arteries, arterials and veins. We’ve managed to combine all of that. It’s probably as accurate as you can
get for this type of work so far.”
The researchers began with a simulation of the leg
for practical reasons. First, they’d already crunched
data for previous projects on the leg, so they had a
head start. Second, limb wounds have been the
scourge of American troops in the past 15 years.
Through 2014, 1,645 troops had suffered major limb
amputations as a result of battlefield injuries, according to the Defense Department.
“We figured that this was a good starting point
because of the pattern of injuries coming back from
Iraq and Afghanistan,” Dutson said. “They’re getting hit by improvised explosive devices.
“The last two major conflicts have seen an enormous rate of amputations and traumatic injuries
due to extremity injuries. That’s because the torso
and head tend to be well-padded, but extremities are
not. These are people who would have died in the
old days, for sure, but they still end up losing limbs
because of blood loss and tissue damage.”
Dr. Ray Perez, a program officer in ONR’s Warfighter Performance Department, pointed out a third
reason.
“Leg injuries are particularly difficult to treat
since different points of entry cause different levels
of blood loss,” he said in a Navy news release.
The new simulation can accurately mimic those
variations. A penetrating leg wound with entry and
exit points can be something that’s simply painful
Courtesy of UCLA
A computer simulation designed by the Center for
Advanced Surgical and Interventional Technology
at the University of California, Los Angeles
illustrates a leg wound. The simulation was
developed to train field medics.
or it can be a life-threatening hemorrhage, Dutson
said.
“A medic is not necessarily going to appreciate
what they’re faced with by looking at a hole in the
skin,” he said. “We have the opportunity to give
them the entire spectrum of experience based on
the outside looking like it’s not something serious at
all.”
The simulation can be easily manipulated to create an array of wounds, some of which a working
field medic might not see so often and thus not be
prepared to treat.
The simulation is interactive, with a learner facing various scenarios. At each step, a decision is
required, “sort of a multiple choice test based on
high-fidelity visual imagery and a change of scenario of vital signs and circumstances,” Dutson said.
“The whole thing keeps changing, and they have to
go from scenario to scenario to scenario.”
The researchers have gotten some negative comments from specialists in the field of trauma who’ve
looked at video of the prototype simulation and said,
“This doesn’t look real to me,” he said.
The finished simulation, Dutson said, will create
that reality by depicting “blood as the true tissue it
is.”
“Blood has a gazillion different cells in it,” he said.
“It has a very sophisticated coagulation cascade that
involves 12 or 13 steps anytime there’s any type of
injury. What we’ve been simulating so far has basically been something that has the molecular density
of blood, but it’s an inert fluid as opposed to blood,
which is a living tissue. So we want to incorporate
the coagulation factors and the altering natures of
blood in the next go-around.
“At that point, it will be very hard to distinguish
the simulation from an actual injury.”
The researchers are ready to move onto that final
phase of the simulation.
“Ideally, what we’d like to do is get this in the
hands of experienced field medics and some trainee
field medics,” Dutson said.
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Are North Koreans
fighting in Syria?
It’s not so far-fetched
BY A DAM TAYLOR
The Washington Post
Last week, representatives
of a Western-backed Syrian opposition delegation in Geneva
told Russian state media that
President Bashar Assad had a
surprising, new ally on the Syrian battlefield: militia units from
North Korea.
“Two North Korean units are
there, which are Chalma-1 and
Chalma-7,” Asaad az-Zoubi, head
of the High Negotiations Committee to Syrian peace talks in
the Swiss city, reportedly told the
Tass news agency Tuesday.
In any other context, the
presence of soldiers from the
internationally isolated and geographically distant North Korea
might seem absurd. However, the
civil war in Syria has emerged as
a mini-world war during the past
five years, with foreign fighters
from at least 86 countries believed to be fighting there.
The Syrian regime headed by
Assad already is known to have
the support of a number of international partners, including
Russia, Iran and the Lebanese
militia group Hezbollah. And this
isn’t the first time that there have
been reports of soldiers from the
Hermit Kingdom being involved
in the conflict.
In 2013, Rami Abdulrahman,
director of the London-based
Syrian Observatory for Human
Rights, told Saudi-owned Arabic
newspaper Al-Sharq al-Awsat
that a small number of North Koreans were in Syria to provide logistical and planning support.
“The exact number of the officers is not known, but there are
definitely 11 to 15 North Korean
officers, most of whom speak Arabic,” Abdulrahman said, according to a translation published by
South Korean outlet Chosun Ilbo.
Abdulrahman’s report was fol-
lowed up the next year by another from Jane’s Defence Weekly,
which reported that North Korea
was assisting helping Syria improve its missile capabilities.
The reports are hard to confirm, but many experts believe
they are credible. North Korea
and Syria have had a military
relationship for decades and
there’s little sign it’s been shaken
recently.
“The North Koreans have been
involved with Syria since the late1960s,” said Joseph S. Bermudez
Jr, a contributor to 38 North, an
analysis website affiliated with
the U.S.-Korea Institute at John
Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. That involvement included providing advisers
and air defense troops immediately after the 1967 and 1973 wars
with Israel, Bermudez said, and
stretches to the modern era, when
North Korea is believed to have
provided technology used to help
build the secret al-Kibar nuclear
site in Syria, which was destroyed
by an Israeli airstrike in 2007.
“Syria is one of North Korea’s
longest-standing and deepest political and military relationships,”
added Andrea Berger, of the Royal
United Services Institute.
In a report published last year,
Berger had described how the
relationship was originally based
upon military training but eventually graduated to weapons sales,
including ballistic missiles and
chemical weapons.
Remarkably, the relationship
between North Korea and Syria
does appear to have survived to
the present day, Berger noted,
despite U.N. sanctions on North
Korea that should, in theory,
curtail them. It may even have
thrived, with state media in both
countries loudly publicizing the
regular high-level meetings between Syria and North Korea.
Bomb explosion kills
44 in park in Pakistan
Associated Press
ISLAMABAD — A bomb blast
in a park in the eastern Pakistani
city of Lahore on Sunday killed 44
people and wounded 91, a health
official said.
Many of the injured are in a
critical condition, said Salman
Rafiq, a health adviser to the chief
minister of Punjab province.
The explosion took place near
the children’s rides in Gulshane-Iqbal park, local police chief
Haider Ashraf said. He said the
explosion appeared to have been
a suicide bombing, but investigations were ongoing.
The area was crowded with
Christians celebrating the Easter
holidays, and many families were
leaving the park when the blast
occurred, Ashraf said.
Ashraf said the park was
manned by police guards and private security guards.
“We are in a warlike situation
and there is always a general
threat, but no specific threat alert
was received for this place,” he
added.
Footage broadcast on local
television stations showed chaotic
scenes in the park, with people
running while carrying children
and cradling the wounded in their
laps.
A witness, not identified by
name on Pakistan’s Geo TV station, said he was heading toward
a ride with his wife and two children when he heard a huge bang
and all four of them were thrown
to the floor.
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Syrian soldiers take up positions Sunday during fighting between government forces and Islamic State
group militants in Palmyra, Syria.
Syrian troops drive Islamic
State out of historic town
BY A LBERT A JI
AND P HILIP ISSA
Associated Press
DAMASCUS, Syria — Syrian
government forces backed by Russian airstrikes drove Islamic State
fighters from Palmyra on Sunday,
ending the group’s 10-month reign
of terror over a town whose famed
2,000-year-old ruins once drew
tens of thousands of visitors each
year.
Government forces had been
on the offensive for nearly three
weeks to try to retake the central
town, known among Syrians as the
“Bride of the Desert,” which fell to
the extremists last May. Their advance marks the latest in a series
of setbacks for the Islamic State,
which has come under mounting
pressure on several fronts in Iraq
and Syria in recent months.
Gen. Ali Mayhoub announced
on state TV that the fall of Palmyra
“directs a fatal blow to [the Islamic State], undermines the morale
of its mercenaries, and ushers in
the start of its defeat and retreat.”
He said it lays the ground for further advances toward Raqqa, the
Islamic State group’s de facto capital, and Deir el-Zour, an eastern
city it largely controls.
Troops in Palmyra are now dismantling explosive booby traps
planted by Islamic State, the station reported. State TV and a
Britain-based monitoring group
later reported that troops captured a military base to the east.
The advance marks a strategic and symbolic victory for the
government, which has sought to
portray itself as a bulwark against
terrorism. The town was an important juncture on an Islamic State
supply line connecting its territory in central and northern Syria
to Anbar province in Iraq, where
the group also holds territory.
The Islamic State drove government forces from Palmyra
in a matter of days last May and
later demolished some of the bestknown monuments in its UNESCO
world heritage site, including two
large temples dating back more
than 1,800 years and a Roman triumphal archway.
State TV showed the rubble
left over from the destruction of
the Temple of Bel as well as the
damaged archway, the supports
of which were still standing. It
said a statue of Zenobia, the thirdcentury queen who ruled an independent state from Palmyra and
figures strongly in Syrian lore,
was missing. Many of the Roman
colonnades, however, were still
standing.
The extremists have destroyed
a number of historical sites across
their self-declared caliphate,
viewing such ruins as monuments
to idolatry.
The Islamic State also demolished Palmyra’s infamous Tadmur prison.
Syrian state TV hailed the government’s advance, and a local
reporter spoke live from inside
Palmyra, showing troops in the
center of the town. Some of the
nearby buildings had been reduced to rubble.
Syrian Culture Minister Issam
Khalil hailed the recapture of
Palmyra as a “victory for humanity and right over all projects of
darkness.”
Maamoun Abdulkarim, director of the museums and antiquities department in Damascus,
said Palmyra’s Great Colonnade
had suffered only minor damage.
“We will rebuild what you have
destroyed,” he said, addressing
Islamic State.
The Syrian opposition, which
blames the government for the
country’s devastating civil war
and the rise of the Islamic State,
rejected that narrative.
“The government wants through
this operation to win the favor
of Western nations by fighting
against terrorism, while obscuring its responsibility as providing
the reasons for the spread of terror,” said Khaled Nasser, a member of the opposition coalition that
has been negotiating with the government in Geneva.
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Belgians fear attacks will
hurt the country’s tourism
BY DANICA K IRKA
Associated Press
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Right-wing demonstrators protest at a memorial site at the Place de la Bourse in Brussels on Sunday.
Belgium officials criticized;
13 anti-terrorism raids made
BY LORNE COOK
AND R AF CASSERT
Associated Press
BRUSSELS — The Belgium
government sought Sunday to
contain criticism of its handling
of the Brussels attacks, as investigators launched 13 anti-terrorism
raids in the capital and two other
cities and took four more people
in custody.
In central Brussels, riot police used water cannons when
scuffles broke out in front of the
Bourse, which has become a symbolic rallying point for people to
pay their respects to those who
died in Tuesday’s suicide bombings. Black-clad men carrying an
anti-Islamic State group banner
with an expletive on it held an agitated rally but were pushed back
by riot police.
Interior Minister Jan Jambon
conceded Sunday that decades of
neglect had hampered the government’s response to violent extremism. He said the government
has invested $670 million into police and security services during
the past two years but Belgium’s
justice system and security services are still lagging.
Jambon, whose offer to resign
Thursday was declined by the
prime minister, also acknowledged some shortcomings prior
to the March 22 suicide bombings
in Brussels that killed at least 31
people and wounded 270 others.
“There have been errors,” he
said on VRT television.
Jambon said it takes time to
hire anti-terrorism specialists
and specialized equipment and
insisted that the government’s
new investments need time before they become visible to the
public.
Federal prosecutors, meanwhile, said Sunday morning’s
raids were linked to a “federal
case regarding terrorism” but
did not specify whether it had any
links to the March 22 attacks.
The 13 raids were launched in
the capital and the northern cities
of Mechelen and Duffel. An investigating judge will decide later
whether the four will remain in
custody. Five were released after
questioning.
As international pressure on
Belgium has mounted for serving as an unwitting rear base for
extremist fighters who launched
the Nov. 13 massacres that left
130 dead in Paris, the government has felt forced to defend its
choices and the actions of investigators. Lawmakers, meanwhile,
are demanding an inquiry.
Belgian police and the army
have been deployed, sometimes
around the clock, at major build-
ings and sites in the capital in
increasing numbers since November, when Brussels went into
lockdown over fears that top Paris
suspect Salah Abdeslam had returned and was hiding there.
As it turned out, Abdeslam did
return, but police did not find and
arrest him until March 18, four
days before suspects from his
network exploded suicide bombs
in Brussels.
Belgian investigators have
been slammed for not questioning
Abdeslam long enough or hard
enough after he was shot in the
leg during his arrest. Police also
have been criticized for taking too
long to get to Zaventem airport on
Tuesday morning after two suicide bombers blew themselves up
there — and left an even bigger,
third suitcase full of explosives
that did not go off.
On Sunday, Italian police in the
southern city of Salerno said they
had arrested an Algerian wanted
in Belgium for an alleged false
ID crime ring facilitating illegal
migration linked to the attacks in
Paris. Djamal Eddine Ouali was
arrested Saturday in the town of
Bellizzi, said Luigi Amato, the
head of Salerno police’s antiterrorism squad. Ouali, 40, was
being held in jail while authorities
expect extradition procedures to
soon begin.
BRUSSELS — At the aptly
named Planete Chocolat, the
shelves were laden with enticing Easter treasures for
shoppers: bunnies with bows,
pastel-wrapped eggs and elegant
boxes of pralines.
Swannee Vranckx, a clerk at
the shop near Brussels’ main
square, said she normally would
have seen 50 to 100 customers
by midafternoon in the days before one of the biggest holidays of
the Christian year. But after the
bombing attacks that shattered
the tranquility of Belgium’s capital, only a handful had come in
search of Easter treats.
While the city’s chocolatiers
are quick to offer condolences to
the victims of the tragedy, they
are equally fast to express their
concerns about the future. Their
livelihoods depend on people
from around the globe streaming
into their shops to indulge in their
world-famous goodies — and they
know that tourists don’t go places
they don’t feel safe.
“I’m sure it will happen —
people will cancel their trips,”
Vranckx said. “They think it is a
place for terrorists.”
The March 22 attacks that
killed 31 people and wounded 270
are only Brussels’ latest brush
with violence. Just days before the
bombings, Belgian and French
police arrested Salah Abdeslam,
the chief suspect in the Nov. 13
attacks that left 130 people dead
in Paris, in his Brussels hideout.
In May 2014, three people were
killed when a gunman targeted
the Jewish museum of Belgium.
The notion that Belgium, a
small Western European nation of
11 million, might become known
for terrorism is shocking to many
here. This is a place where President Barack Obama says it was
“easy to love a country known for
chocolate and beer.”
Belgian chocolatiers ship their
wares around the world and Brussels shopkeepers compete with
artistic window displays in hopes
of luring in tourists on their way
to the art museums or the Grand
Place, the UNESCO world heritage site.
This year, not far from there,
residents and visitors alike gathered to remember the victims
and to scrawl messages of sadness and hope in the aftermath of
the attacks.
The bombings will cut consumer spending on recreation, leisure
and tourism but they are likely
to have only a short-term impact
on the whole Belgian economy,
according to Francesca Peck, an
economist at IHS Global Insight
in London. The losses may be
magnified because the attacks
occurred so close to the long Easter weekend, when restaurants
and bars are typically busy.
At the sleek Neuhas chocolate
shop near from the Grand Place,
manager Tim Verstraeten could
only shake his head.
“We don’t know what is going to
happen,” he said.
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Deal reached to raise Calif.
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BY JULIET WILLIAMS
AND A NDREW DALTON
Associated Press
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California legislators and labor
unions have reached a tentative agreement that will take the
state’s minimum wage from $10
to $15 per hour, a state senator
said, a move that would make for
the largest statewide minimum in
the U.S. by far.
“This is not a done deal,” Democratic sate Sen. Mark Leno told
The Associated Press on Saturday. “Everyone’s been operating
in good faith and we hope to get it
through the Legislature.”
Leno said if an agreement is
finalized, it would go before the
Legislature as part of his minimum-wage bill that stalled last
year.
If the Legislature approves a
minimum-wage package, it would
avoid taking the issue to the ballot. One union-backed initiative
has already qualified for the ballot, and a second, competing measure is also trying to qualify.
“This is an issue I’ve been
‘ This is not a done
deal. Everyone’s
been operating
in good faith and
we hope to get
it through the
Legislature.
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State Sen. Mark Leno
D-San Francisco
working on for many years,”
Leno said. “The governor and
stakeholders have all been negotiating earnestly and in good faith
for some time.”
Leno did not confirm specifics
of the agreement, but most proposals have the wage increasing
about a dollar per year until it
reaches $15 per hour.
The Los Angeles Times, which
first reported the deal, said the
wage would rise to $10.50 per
hour in 2017, to $11 in 2018, and
one dollar per year to take it to
$15 by 2022. Businesses with
fewer than 25 employees would
have an extra year to comply.
At $10 per hour, California
already has one of the highest
minimum wages in the nation
along with Massachusetts. Only
Washington, at $10.50 per hour
is higher. The increase to $15
would make it the highest statewide wage in the nation by far,
though raises are in the works in
other states that might change by
the time the plateau is reached in
2022.
Some states have passed higher minimums for government
employees and state-contracted
workers, and some cities including Seattle already have passed
increases to $15 per hour.
Oregon officials approved a
law earlier this month that will
increase that state’s minimum
wage to nearly $15 in urban areas
over the next six years.
California union leaders said
they would not immediately
dispense with planned ballot
measures.
Sean Wherley, a spokesman for
SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West, confirmed that the
NICK UT
Workers rally in Los Angeles in July 2015 to support the Los
Angeles County Board of Supervisors’ proposed minimum wage
ordinance. California legislators and labor unions have reached an
agreement to take the state’s minimum wage to $15 per hour.
SEIU parent union was involved
in the negotiations. He said SEIUUHWW’s leadership will decide
whether to push ahead with its
initiative that has already qualified for the ballot.
“Ours is on the ballot. We want
to be certain of what all this is,”
Wherley said. “If some agreement is signed into law, then our
executive board would decide
what to do. They would only make
that decision after any agreement
is signed into law.”
The union proposal that has
already qualified for the ballot
calls for reaching the $15 mark
by 2021.
The second proposed measure
would reach $15 by 2020. Businesses and Democratic Gov.
Jerry Brown have said such a
steep wage increase would be incredibly costly.
A spokesman for Brown, Evan
Westrup, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Kevin Liao, a spokesman for
Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, declined to comment.
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Opponents, TV execs
hung up on Trump’s
telephone interviews
BY DAVID BAUDER
Associated Press
NEW YORK — In television
news, a telephone interview is
typically frowned upon. Donald
Trump’s fondness for them is
changing habits and causing consternation in newsrooms, while
challenging political traditions.
Two organizations are circulating petitions to encourage Sunday
morning political shows to hang
up on Trump. Some prominent
holdouts, like Fox’s Chris Wallace, refuse to do on-air phoners.
Others argue that a phone interview is better than no interview
at all.
Except in news emergencies,
producers usually avoid phoners
because television is a visual medium — a face-to-face discussion
between a newsmaker and questioner is preferable to a picture
of an anchor listening to a disembodied voice.
It’s easy to see why Trump
likes them. There’s no travel or
TV makeup involved; if he wishes
to, Trump can talk to Matt Lauer
without changing out of his pajamas. They often put an interviewer at a disadvantage, since it’s
harder to interrupt or ask followup questions, and impossible to
tell if a subject is being coached.
Face-to-face interviews let
viewers see a candidate physically react to a tough question and
think on his feet, said Chris Licht,
executive producer of “CBS This
Morning.” Sometimes that’s as
important as what is being said.
Trump tends to take over
phone interviews and can get his
message out with little challenge,
Wallace said.
“The Sunday show, in the
broadcast landscape, I feel is a
gold standard for probing interviews,” said Wallace, host of “Fox
News Sunday.” “The idea that
you would do a phone interview,
not face-to-face or not by satellite, with a presidential candidate
— I’d never seen it before, and I
was quite frankly shocked that
my competitors were doing it.”
Since Trump announced his
candidacy in June 2015, Wallace
has conducted three in-person interviews with him on “Fox News
Sunday” and four via satellite.
Chuck Todd, host of NBC’s
“Meet the Press,” has done phoners with Trump but now said
he’s decided to stick to in-person
interviews on his Sunday show.
He’s no absolutist, though.
“It’s a much better viewer experience when it’s in person,”
Todd said. “ … But at the end of
the day, you’ll take something
over nothing.”
Morning news shows do phoners most frequently. At the outset
of the campaign, Trump was ratings catnip. The ratings impact
of a Trump interview has since
settled down, but it’s still hard
to turn him down. He’s the leading contender for the Republican
presidential nomination. He’s
news.
There appear to be no network
policies; different shows on the
same network have different
philosophies. Licht has turned
Trump down for phoners on CBS
but concedes there may be exceptions for breaking news. “CBS
This Morning,” in fact, aired
Trump commenting by phone
following Tuesday’s attack in
Belgium.
On Sunday, Trump phoned
in an 11th time to ABC’s “This
Week,” calling from Florida. The
program repeatedly flashed a
stock Trump photo while the candidate demanded an overhaul of
NATO, blamed rival Ted Cruz for
the bitter feud targeting each other’s wife and complained about
the Republican Party’s delegate
selection process.
Cruz spokeswoman Catherine
Frazier tweeted last week that
she saw Trump being interviewed
via phone on “Fox & Friends” a
day after Cruz was told that he
couldn’t do a phone interview
with the show.
Fox said that since then, “Fox
& Friends” has offered to conduct
a phone interview with Cruz five
times and has been turned down
each time. Cruz did appear in the
studio Wednesday. Frazier did not
return requests for comment.
“It becomes a little silly when
you look at the bigger picture
here,” Todd said. “The media is
getting criticized for interviewing Donald Trump. If we weren’t
questioning him, we’d be criticized for not questioning him.”
MICHAEL DINNEEN /AP
Bernie Sanders supporter Maryellen Lambert reacts at the Democratic Party caucus in Anchorage,
Alaska, on Saturday. Sanders won party caucuses in Alaska, Hawaii and Washington state Saturday.
Sanders’ gains modest
despite 3 caucus wins
BY LISA LERER
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Bernie
Sanders scored three wins in
Western caucus contests, giving
a powerful psychological boost to
his supporters but doing little to
move him closer to securing the
Democratic nomination.
While results in Washington,
Alaska and Hawaii barely dented
Hillary Clinton’s significant delegate lead, Sanders’ wins on Saturday underscored her persistent
vulnerabilities within her own
party, particularly with young
voters and activists who have
been inspired by her rival’s unapologetically liberal message.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Sanders cast his
performance as part of a Western
comeback, saying he expects to
close the delegate gap with Clinton as the contest moves to the
more liberal northeastern states,
including her home state of New
York. He also said his campaign is
increasing its outreach to superdelegates, the party insiders who
can pick either candidate and are
overwhelmingly with Clinton.
“The Deep South is a very conservative part of the country,” he
said. “Now that we’re heading into
a progressive part of the country,
we expect to do much better.”
Clinton anticipated the losses.
She barely campaigned in the
three states, and was spending
the Easter weekend with her
family. She is turning her focus to
the April 19 contest in New York,
seeking to win a large share of
the delegates at stake and to avoid
the blow of losing to Sanders in a
state she represented in the Senate. She is trying to lock up an
even larger share of delegates
in five northeastern contests a
week later, hoping to deliver a big
enough haul to unify the party
and relegate Sanders to little
more than a protest candidate.
Sanders, who’s found some suc-
cess in the industrial Midwest,
wants to leverage his workingclass support and fiery arguments against free trade into an
April 5 victory in delegate-rich
Wisconsin. He also plans to compete fiercely in New York.
After Sanders’ three wins on
Saturday, Clinton held a delegate
lead of 1,243 to 975 over Sanders,
according to an Associated Press
analysis, an advantage that expands to 1,712 to 1,004 once the
superdelegates are included. It
takes 2,383 delegates to win.
But there’s little question that
Sanders has tapped into a powerful frustration within the party. It
was strong support for Sanders
that brought Kirsa Hughes-Skandijs out to her first caucus in Juneau, Alaska.
“This is the first time I’ve ever
felt that kind of belief in a candidate, that they mean what they
say and that they are not saying
what they think people want to
hear,” she said.
Saturday’s success a product of Sanders-friendly format, demographics
BY PHILIP BUMP
The Washington Post
Sen. Bernie Sanders had the
best night of his presidential campaign on Saturday, dominating
Democratic rival Hillary Clinton
in the WashingANALYSIS ton, Hawaii and
Alaska state caucuses by wide margins. He cut
into Clinton’s pledged-delegate
lead by at least one-sixth and potentially more. It was the sort of
night that he needs more of.
But which he’s almost certainly
not going to get.
The reason it was such a big
night for Sanders was that he
dominated in Washington state,
beating Clinton by more than 40
points.
Washington has a big delegate
total, so splitting up the delegates
gave Sanders a big margin. His
giant wins in Alaska and Hawaii
were icing on that cake.
But Alaska and Washington
had two characteristics that made
them very friendly terrain for
Sanders: They were caucuses in
predominantly non-black states.
And there aren’t many more of
those on the calendar.
Clinton has done worse in caucuses in both of her two presidential bids. In 2008, Clinton’s
median margin of victory in primaries was about a point; her median loss to Barack Obama that
year in caucuses was about 34
points.
Even including Sanders’ blowout in the Vermont primary this
year, there’s an even wider gulf.
Her median victory in primaries
has been 23 points, and Sanders’ median victory in caucuses
has been 26 points (using nonfinal numbers in Alaska and
Washington).
As we’ve noted before, there’s
also a clear link between the
number of black voters in a contest and the result. Hawaii is 3
percent black. Alaska is 4 percent black; Washington, about the
same.
When the composition of the
black Democratic electorate has
been below 7 percent for states
where Democratic primary exit
polling in 2008 or 2016 was available, Clinton has lost by an aver-
age of 30 points this year. Over
that percentage? She’s won by 26.
There are still five more caucuses on the Democratic calendar, all of them very small
contests and only two of them
U.S. states: Wyoming, Guam, the
U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico
and North Dakota.
Also left on the calendar? A
lot of big, diverse states holding
primaries.
Washington and Alaska were
caucus states with small black
populations. That’s as good as it
gets for Bernie Sanders.
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Pope recalls victims of terrorism
BY FRANCES D’EMILIO
Associated Press
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis tempered
his Easter Sunday message of Christian hope
with a denunciation of “blind” terrorism, recalling victims of attacks in Europe, Africa
and elsewhere, as well as expressing dismay
that people fleeing war or poverty are denied
welcome as European countries squabble.
Tens of thousands of people patiently endured long lines, backpack inspections and
metal-detecting checks Sunday to enter St.
Peter’s Square. Under a brilliant sun, they listened to Francis deliver the traditional noon
Easter speech from the central balcony of St.
Peter’s Basilica.
To their delight, Francis completed a whirl
through the square, made colorful with sprays
of tulips and other spring flowers, in his opentopped popemobile after celebrating Mass on
the steps of the basilica. He leaned over barriers to shake hands with his bodyguards jogging alongside.
In Jerusalem, the cavernous Holy Sepulcher church — where Christians believe Jesus
was crucified, buried and resurrected — was
packed with worshippers commemorating the
day they believe Jesus was resurrected in Jerusalem some 2,000 years ago.
For years, Islamist extremists on social
media have listed the Vatican and Rome as
potential targets due to hosting the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church and
several basilicas. Despite the threats, Francis
has kept to his habit of trying to be in close
physical contact with ordinary people.
Francis said, for the faithful, Jesus, who
rose after death by crucifixion, “triumphed
over evil and sin.” He expressed hope that
“will draw us closer to the victims of terrorism, that blind and brutal form of violence.”
At the end of Mass, he chatted with the former king and queen of Belgium, Albert II and
Paola, who attended the ceremony.
In his speech, Francis cited recent attacks
in Belgium, Turkey, Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon, Ivory Coast and Iraq.
Separately, in a condolences telegram, the
BY A SHOK SHARMA
Associated Press
L’OSSERVATORE ROMANO/AP
Pope Francis denounced recent terrorist attacks during his “Urbi et Orbi” message at the
end of the Easter Mass in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Sunday.
pope said he was saddened by “the great loss
of life caused by the terrorist attack” during a
match in an Iraqi soccer stadium Friday. That
attack, claimed by the Islamic State group,
killed more than 40 people.
Francis said he prayed that the Iraqi people
would, in response to the attack, “be strengthened in their resolve to reject the ways of hatred and conflict to work together” for a future
of mutual respect and freedom.
In his speech, Francis said Easter “invites
us not to forget those men and women seeking a better future, an ever more numerous
throng of migrants and refugees — including
many children — fleeing from war, hunger,
poverty and social injustice,” he said.
As he has done repeatedly, Francis lamented that “all too often, these brothers and
sisters of ours meet along the way with death
or, in any event, rejection by those who could
offer them welcome and assistance.”
Some European countries have erected
barbed-wire fences and other barriers to keep
out those who continue to arrive on Greek
and Italian shores after risky sea voyages on
smugglers’ boats. Another strategy has been
for some European countries to express a
preference for accepting Christian refugees
over Muslim ones, which would effectively
rule out the vast majority of Syrian refugees.
Most recently, a host of countries along Europe’s main migrant route north of Greece to
central Europe have simply closed their borders, stranding thousands of refugee families.
Francis also decried the destruction and
“contempt for humanitarian law” in Syria,
millions of whose people have fled to Europe
or to refugee camps closer to their homeland.
Iraqi, Syrian refugees
block migrant protests
BY COSTAS K ANTOURIS
Associated Press
IDOMENI, Greece — Several
hundred Iraqis and Syrians in
the Idomeni border camp stood
between protesters and police
Sunday, thwarting the protesters’
efforts to march toward the fence
separating Greece from Macedonia. Scuffles broke out between
the two groups.
The protesters twice broke
through the barrier the Iraqis
and Syrians formed, only to be
pushed back by Greek riot police.
People speaking for the Iraqis
and Syrians, including Kurds
from both countries, told police
that they are not taking part in
Sunday’s protest and that the
protesters are from Afghanistan
and Pakistan. They also say that
activists were circulating at the
Pakistani
team to probe
attack on
Indian base
camp Saturday, urging people to
join the protest, and that would
force the border to open.
“There were people, whom we
do not know, telling us that they
would help us open the border at
noon today, but obviously this was
not true,” Syrian refugee Hassan
Fatuhlla said.
Fatuhlla, who formed part of a
chain around the police, has been
at the camp for 37 days. His child
was born in a tent 10 days ago, he
said.
Iraqis and Syrians are allowed
into the European Union as war
refugees, although the route
through the Balkans is now closed
and refugees discouraged from
taking the perilous sea journey to
Greek islands from Turkey.
Activists from Greece and other
European countries have staged
DARKO VOJINOVIC /AP
Migrants scuffle with police in Idomeni, Greece, as they protest the
closure of the border between Greece and Macedonia.
protests and appear determined
to sabotage a deal between the EU
and Turkey, allowing the EU to
send migrants back to Turkey.
The rumors spread by activists
that the border would open Sunday led some people who had gone
to the centers to return to Idomeni.
These people then protested that
the border has not opened.
Greek police said they stopped
two buses and 10 cars carrying
Italian activists slightly over 2
miles from the border protest.
NEW DELHI — Pakistani investigators arrived in New Delhi
on Sunday to help probe an attack on an Indian air force base
close to the border with Pakistan
in which seven Indian soldiers
and six militants died earlier this
year.
India says phone intercepts suggest that the gunmen in the Jan. 2
attack on the base in the northern
Indian town of Pathankot came
from Pakistan. Islamabad said
it has arrested several suspects
belonging to the Jaish-e-Mohammad, or Mohammed’s Army, militant
group
and that it has
Seven
detained its
Indian
leader as part
soldiers
of its probe.
Pakistan
and six
Foreign
militants
Ministry
were killed spokesman
in the Jan. Mohammed
Nafees
Za2 attack.
karia said the
five investigators
who
arrived in New Delhi would help
with the probe into the incident.
Rana Banerji, a top retired
Indian intelligence officer, said
the investigators’ visit could be a
positive development if it helped
in gathering evidence that could
leading to the suspects’ conviction by a Pakistani court.
The Pakistani investigative
team comprises members of Pakistan’s military and civil intelligence agencies and police, the
Press Trust of India news agency
reported. The team is scheduled
to visit the Pathankot air force
base following talks with Indian
officials in New Delhi.
India postponed scheduled talks
on Kashmir and other issues with
Pakistan after the attack while it
evaluated actions taken by Islamabad against insurgents.
The assault on the base came
days before Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s surprise visit
to Pakistan in December in what
was viewed as a potential sign of
thawing relations between the
two nuclear-armed neighbors.
Since their independence from
Britain in 1947, India and Pakistan have fought three wars, two
of them over Kashmir, the Himalayan region that both claim in its
entirety.
India accuses Pakistan of arming and training insurgents fighting for Kashmir’s independence
from India or its merger with
Pakistan, a charge Islamabad
denies. More than 68,000 people
have been killed in the violence,
which began in 1989.
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FROM FRONT PAGE
The 90-minute drive from the capital
runs through mostly flat land covered by
rice paddies or fields of corn and potatoes.
The scene is quietly rustic. Farmers use
oxcarts to transport produce and villagers
can be seen walking in the distance on narrow dirt roads.
Not far from the highway that leads past
the village, a shallow river runs through a
wide valley. Song, polite but to the point,
explained as he climbed the hill that the
valley will be flooded when the dam is
completed.
Song said construction on the plant,
which involved a lot of digging, began in
earnest four years ago.
That’s when the bones started piling up,
he said. Enough, he added, to fill a halfdozen makeshift burial mounds on the hill,
maybe 70 or 100 sets in all.
He dug up a few other mounds to make
his point. Then, after a smoke break, he
and the plant’s construction supervisor put
the bones back in their bags and reburied
them.
Frosty relations halt efforts
Between 1996 and 2005, joint U.S.-North
Korea search teams conducted 33 joint recovery operations and recovered 229 sets
of American remains. Washington broke
them off because it claimed the safety of
its searchers was not guaranteed. Critics
of the program argued the North was using
the deal to squeeze cash out of Washington
— “bones for bucks,” they said.
Talks to restart recovery work resumed
in 2011, only to fall apart after North Korea
launched a rocket condemned by the U.S.
as a banned test of ballistic missile technology. There has been no progress since.
With distrust between the two countries
chronically high, it took months of requests
Left: North Korean soldiers carry an
aluminum casket containing remains
of a U.S. servicemember killed during
the Korean War toward U.N. Command
soldiers, foreground, at the border
village of Panmunjom, South Korea, in
November 1998.
AP
Below: Song Hong Ik recalls his
experience as a young boy during the
Korean War on Ryongyon-ri hill in Kujang
County, North Korea. The Pentagon’s
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
lists Kujang County as part of a prime
search area that could potentially yield
1,600 remains.
WONG M AYE-E/AP
before The Associated Press was allowed
to go to Ryongyon-ri, first last May with a
Korean People’s Army escort and again in
December.
The AP made the requests because North
Korea’s state-run media have repeatedly
said — without giving details — that with
construction, agricultural and other infrastructure projects going forward, time is
running out for the U.S. military to collect
its Korean War dead.
In Washington, such claims are often
seen as a not-so-subtle jab at the U.S. government for halting the searches, or an effort to guilt the U.S. into formal talks it has
refused to engage in as long as Pyongyang
continues its nuclear weapons program.
Pyongyang’s approval of The AP’s visits to Ryongyon-ri may have had similar
political motivations. That’s often how
things work in North Korea, though an
army official and villagers angrily denied
that their reasons for allowing The AP to
see the remains were anything other than
humanitarian.
In any case, Washington isn’t biting. And
its war dead are not being brought home.
Part of a prime search area
More than 7,800 U.S. troops remain lost
and unrecovered from the Korean War.
About 5,300 were lost in North Korea.
According to the Pentagon’s Defense
POW/MIA Accounting Agency, most died
in major battles or as prisoners of war.
Others died “along the wayside or in small
villages” and many of the losses from aircraft crashes also occurred near battle
Eighth U.S. Cavalry
Regiment soldiers
advance through low
brush in North Korea
on Oct. 15, 1950.
Korean War Veterans
Association President
Larry Kinard says
that since 1982 only
332 sets of Korean
War remains have
been identified and
accounted for.
AP
zones or roads connecting them. “So,” it
says, “it is possible that major concentrations of human remains are located in
these areas.”
The DPAA lists Kujang County, where
Ryongyon-ri is located, as part of a prime
search area that could potentially yield
1,600 remains. The Chosin Reservoir,
where another major campaign was fought,
and POW camp burial grounds near the
Chinese border are also priority sites.
“The Department of Defense is committed to achieving the fullest possible
accounting,” Lt. Col. Holly Slaughter, a
DPAA spokeswoman, told The AP. “U.S.
efforts to recover Korean War remains are
a humanitarian effort for our missing servicemen, their families and the American
people.”
Even so, Maj. Natasha Waggoner, another spokeswoman for the agency, said there
is no schedule “at this time” to hold talks to
send any search teams back.
Until they do, the jury will remain out on
the Ryongyon-ri remains.
It’s impossible to judge the veracity of
remains simply by looking at them. Only
expert eyes and a long and difficult forensic identification process can do that.
There were no dogtags, unit insignia or
other identification clues mixed in with the
remains seen by The AP.
Villagers acknowledged the remains
were gathered haphazardly as construction progressed. It is quite possible, they
said, the remains could include animal
bones or the remains of combatants from
other countries.
Villagers old enough to have witnessed
the battle have sketchy memories, at best.
By the time the fighting came to their
backyard, from mid-November to December 1950, most of the village, a scattering
of about 30 households, had already been
evacuated. Those who remained were
mostly women, children and old people. The
village was then known as Sangpyong.
“My aunt, uncle and grandfather were
caught by the U.S. enemies, who beat them
so they got sick and died,” said Kim Ri Jun,
who was then 13 years old.
Kim and Song had no information about
specific units the troops were attached to.
They did remember that many U.S. soldiers were African-American, and that
troops from other countries, taking part
in U.S.-led United Nations forces, were involved in the fighting as well.
The location and time frame coincide
with a major clash between the U.S. and its
allies and the Chinese “volunteer” forces
fighting on Pyongyang’s side. The push
north was known as the “Home by Christmas” campaign because Gen. Douglas
MacArthur thought the war would be won
by Christmas. Instead, it would last twoand-a-half more years, end in a stalemate
and claim 36,500 American lives.
The U.S. government has estimated as
many as 270 sets of American remains are
likely recoverable in Kujang County alone.
Searching for them was one of the top priorities when the U.S. missions were still
going to North Korea. Nearly a dozen joint
searches were conducted in the area from
1998-2000.
But they ended long before the real digging in Ryongyon-ri began.
Impasse angers Korea vets
That any joint searches were held at
all was almost miraculous. That they
would break down seems much more
predictable.
North Korea and the United States remain technically at war because the 195053 fighting ended with an armistice, not a
peace treaty. Remains recovery is the only
project their militaries have ever worked
on together.
Relations were much better when the
missions began.
Under President Bill Clinton, the two
countries had signed an agreement for the
North to freeze its illicit plutonium weapons program in exchange for aid. But that
deal unraveled in 2002, the same year
President George W. Bush declared North
Korea part of the “axis of evil.” The searches continued for a few more years, but bilateral relations took a nosedive. North
Korea conducted its first nuclear test in
2006 and meaningful contact between the
two countries has since been minimal.
Slaughter, of the DPAA, said the total
cost to the U.S. to carry out the joint missions was $19.5 million. Of the 229 remains
recovered, 110 have been identified. The
recovery of remains has since ground to a
halt — to only six, all unilaterally handed
over to the U.S. by Pyongyang in 2007.
The impasse on a humanitarian — not
political — issue doesn’t sit well with some
Korean War veterans.
“Those of us who fought there really feel
it’s a travesty that we haven’t been able to
get there and try to find those that were
killed or died in the prison camps,” said
Larry Kinard, who fought in Korea with
the Army’s 3rd Infantry Division and is
now president of the 15,000-member Korean War Veterans Association. He noted
that since 1982 only 332 sets of Korean
War remains have been identified and accounted for.
Kinard told the AP from his home in
Texas he is in regular contact with the
DPAA and feels it is doing the best it can
with limited resources and the challenges
it faces of getting into North Korea to conduct searches.
But he added that is of little consolation
to the families of the missing.
“Approximately 5,300 of our comrades
still lie in the ground in North Korea and
little or no effort is currently underway to
recover them,” he said. “The KWVA members, who average nearly 85 years old,
want to see their fellow brothers-in-arms
found, identified, brought home, and laid to
rest in our country.”
Song, meanwhile, said he had mixed
feelings about gathering the bones of his
enemy and moving them to the hill so that
they wouldn’t be lost when the valley is
flooded.
“Frankly, I don’t care if the Americans
come or not,” he said. “But they owe us a
thank you for taking care of their dead.”
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Arabian Sea ship
wreckage thought
to be from 1503
BY SARAH K APLAN
The Washington Post
Standing atop the rugged, barren peak of Al Hallaniyah island,
eyeing the blue-gray Arabian Sea
as it lashed the rocky coast below,
David Mearns tried to transport
himself back 500 years.
The sky was dark with storm
clouds, the sea a raging, surging maelstrom. Two ships, heedlessly anchored on the exposed
northern side of the island, were
whipped about by the winds and
waves, stretching their moorings
to the breaking point.
Once adrift, the wooden vessels were driven shoreward and
bashed against the rocks. One
got close enough to the beach for
its crew to escape before it broke
apart. The other splintered and
sank in deep water, dragging everyone on board, including its
captain, to the bottom of the sea.
Mearns had spent half a year
reading accounts of that disaster,
which doomed part of a fleet led
by the legendary Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama. He’d internalized everything he could find
about the weather, the vessels, the
island, the perils of the Arabian
Sea during the “Golden Age of Exploration” half a millennium ago.
And he knew that at least one unparalleled example of a ship from
that time lay somewhere within
his reach. If only he could find it.
“Our team stood at the top of
the island and watched the waves
come in, and put themselves
in the place of the Portuguese,
where they would have anchored
and where the storm would have
dashed them along the coastline,” Mearns told National
Geographic.
The initial search didn’t take
much more time than the visualization. “Then they snorkeled
around and in 20 minutes started
seeing cannonballs that were obviously from a European ship.”
That was in 1998. It would be
another decade and a half before Mearns’s shipwreck salvage
company, Blue Water Recoveries,
returned to conduct a full excavation of the site in partnership with
the Ministry of Heritage and Culture in Oman.
Mearns announced Tuesday
at a press conference in Muscat,
that the wreck uncovered off the
coast of Al Hallaniyah is almost
certainly da Gama’s ship Esmeralda, which sank with its captain
— da Gama’s uncle, Vincente
Sodre — on board in 1503.
Thousands of artifacts dug up
from the wreck site have yet to be
analyzed, but, if Mearns’ conclusion is borne out, the Esmeralda
will be the oldest ship from the Age
of Exploration to be excavated.
“It is fascinating to work on a
site that is involved in such early
European maritime connections
with the Indies,” Dave Parham,
a professor at Bournemouth University and the archaeological
director of the expedition, said in
a press release. “The armaments
that the site has produced are already providing us with information about the martial nature of
these voyages, and the site has
the potential to tell us much more
about the men and ships that undertook these adventures and the
peoples that they encountered.”
Among those armaments are
a bronze ship’s bell dated 1498
— the earliest ship’s bell to be discovered; a copper alloy disc bearing the Portuguese royal coat of
arms and thought to be part of an
astrolabe; and, rarest of all, a tiny
silver medallion known as “the
ghost coin of Dom Manuel I.”
The coin, minted by Portuguese King Dom Manuel in 1499,
was an “indio,” specially made
for trade with India. It’s a “ghost”
because, until now, only one has
ever been found.
The discovery of a second ghost
coin hints that the Esmeralda had
Photos by Oman Ministry of Heritage & Culture and Blue Water Recoveries
Divers excavate the wreck site of the 500-year-old ship Esmeralda, which went down in the Arabian Sea.
A bronze ship’s bell, left, and prized “ghost” indio coin, right, were
excavated from the wreck of the Esmeralda.
been part of a massive armada
led by da Gama to conduct trade
— and in many cases, wage war
— in India.
The fleet followed the route
pioneered by da Gama four years
earlier: a circuitous, 24,000-mile
voyage around the Cape of Good
Hope and up Africa’s eastern
coast that took the better part of
a year and killed the better part
of da Gama’s crew. Nevertheless,
his carreira da India provided
the first link between Europe and
the spices of the East that didn’t
depend on overland routes controlled by Arab traders and Venetian merchants.
That first successful voyage
was a turning point in world history: the beginning of the ages of
exploration, imperialism and globalization. What happened on da
Gama’s second voyage, including
the demise of the Esmeralda, was
a grim harbinger of the violent
centuries that lay ahead.
When the armada set out in
1502, the violence encountered by
its predecessors meant da Gama’s
fleet was well-stocked with weaponry and given broad license to
use it. He tried (not entirely successfully) to subdue uncooperative
Indian kingdoms and attacked any
other ships he encountered in the
Indian Ocean, including one carrying Muslim pilgrims on their
way back from Mecca. Da Gama
burned the boat along with its 300
passengers, according to an eyewitness, sparing only 17 children
who were then baptized without
their consent.
When he headed back to Portugal in early 1503, da Gama left
behind a squadron of five ships
led by his two uncles, Vincente
and Bras Sodre, to keep doing
more of the same.
The Sodre, though, set out for
the Gulf of Aden, which was full
of lucrative opportunities for piracy. They spent the next several
months capturing Arab ships,
plundering their cargo and killing their crews.
By April, monsoon season had
arrived, and one of the ships was
in need of repairs, so they retired
to Al Hallaniyah for some rest and
trade. The local fishermen warned
the Portuguese that their choice
of port on the exposed windward
side of the island was a poor one.
The Europeans moved the squadron’s smaller ships to the other
side of the island but left Vincente
Sodre’s Esmeralda and Bras’ Sao
Pedro where they were.
When the storm came, both
vessels were dashed against the
rocky shore.
Five hundred years later, it
seems that the ship that bore
Vincente’s ambitions and loot has
finally been found. But the Sodre
brothers and the 100 or so crewmembers who died with them are
still missing.
According to National Geographic, a survey of Al Hallaniyah island revealed dozens of
burial cairns that are thought to
be non-Islamic (they’re oriented
differently from burial sites for
Muslims). But when the sites were
excavated, researchers couldn’t
find any human remains. It’s likely that the buried bodies deteriorated from prolonged exposure to
animals and the elements.
It was those missing men that
Mearns thought about during his
long search for the Esmeralda.
“A shipwreck site is not a
pretty thing,” he told National
Geographic. “It’s the scene of a
tragedy ... it’s a place you have to
treat with respect because many
people died there.”
Italian art police crack Verona museum theft case; 13 arrested
BY JENNY STARRS
The Washington Post
Nearly four months ago, the art world
was struck with the news of a 17-painting
heist from Verona’s Castelvecchio Museum.
Eleven masterpieces were taken — including work by Italian Renaissance painters
Pisanello, Caroto and Jacopo Bellini; by
Flemish Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens; and by Dutch artist Hans de Jode.
The total value of the stolen pieces was
approximately $16 million, making it “one
of the most serious art robberies in our history,” art critic Vittorio Sgarbi said.
There seemed to be few clues to point
investigators toward a culprit or a motive.
Some, including Verona’s mayor, thought
the thieves were working under commission from a private collector. That theory
did away with the near-impossible task of
trying to sell such recognizable artworks
on the black market. Sgarbi theorized that it
was a “demonstrative act” executed by the
Islamic State group. And then there were
those who thought it was an inside job.
The heist itself was bafflingly well-timed.
The team of three armed thieves entered
the museum at a crucially weak time: 6:35
p.m., after the 11-person staff had left but
before the security system’s alarm was activated. All the masked men had to do was
disarm and immobilize the security guard,
tie up the museum cashier and take their
pick of treasures. Two thieves went from
room to room, carefully pulling their chosen paintings out of frames and off of walls,
while one watched the bound employees.
More than an hour after they tied up the
guard, the men were recorded speeding
away from the building.
That’s when the Carabinieri Art Squad
stepped in. The team specializes in solving
art thefts and recovering stolen antiquities.
The team wiretapped phones. They expanded their search area. And they homed
in on weaknesses in the guard’s testimony.
Investigators ended up combing through
4,000 hours of video and hundreds of wiretapped phone calls before they untangled
the crime, culminating in the arrest of 13
suspects.
Among them were the security guard,
his twin brother and his Moldovan wife.
Eleven of the 13 were Moldovans. They
had been recorded on intercepted calls
while planning their post-heist strategy.
It was “the robbery of the century,” said
prosecutor Gennaro Ottaviano at the news
conference announcement Wednesday, reported the Corriere del Veneto.
But there was something missing as the
media was informed of the arrests: the
paintings. Where was the Mantegna, the
Pisanello and all of the Tintorettos?
Somewhere in Moldova, said investigators. They hope to find the artwork together, as they don’t believe they were sold, but
nothing has been recovered yet.
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BUSINESS/WEATHER
Hacking industry may be helping FBI
EXCHANGE RATES
Military rates
Euro costs (March 28) ..................... $1.1472
Dollar buys (March 28) .................... €0.8717
British pound (March 28) .................... $1.45
Japanese yen (March 28).................. 110.00
South Korean won (March 28)......1,140.00
Commercial rates
BY BREE FOWLER
BRANDON BAILEY
AND
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Turns out
there’s a shadowy global industry
devoted to breaking into smartphones and extracting their information. But you’ve probably never
heard of it unless you’re a worried
parent, a betrayed spouse — or a
federal law enforcement agency.
One of those hacking businesses
may well be helping the FBI try to
break into the iPhone of one of the
San Bernardino, Calif., killers.
Last week, the FBI abruptly
put its legal fight with Apple on
hold, announcing that an “outside
party” had come forward with a
possible way to unlock the phone.
In an update for reporters Thursday, FBI Director James Comey
said the method “may work.” If
so, it could render Apple’s forced
cooperation unnecessary.
The announcement has thrown
a spotlight on a group of digital
forensics companies, contractors
and freelance consultants that
make a living cracking security
protections on phones and computers. Comey said the publicity
around the Apple case encouraged such people to come forward
with new ideas.
Most such companies keep a
very low profile. Since the bulk
of their business is with governments and law enforcement,
there’s no reason to for them to
advertise their services. In addition, it’s in their interest to keep
exactly what they do under wraps,
said Christopher Soghoian, principal technology expert for the
American Civil Liberties Union.
“The companies won’t share
their secrets. It’s their special
sauce,” Soghoian said. “And they
certainly won’t tell Apple how
they’re doing what they’re doing.”
For the moment, no one outside the Justice Department appears to know who the FBI’s white
knight is. A great deal of speculation centers on Cellebrite — an Israel-based forensics firm that says
it does business with thousands of
law enforcement and intelligence
agencies, militaries and governments in more than 90 countries.
Cellebrite has contracts with
the FBI dating to at least 2013.
The firm makes devices that
allow law enforcement to extract
and decode data such as contacts,
pictures and text messages from
more than 15,000 kinds of smartphones and other mobile devices.
In the cybersecurity arms race,
Apple has managed to stay ahead
of these forensics companies.
Cellebrite’s website says its commercial tools work with iPhones
running older operating systems,
including iOS 8, but not the latest
version, iOS 9, which is on the San
Bernardino phone.
“Anything is crackable — it’s
just how much time do you have
and how much money do you
have to spend,” said Jeremy
Kirby, sales director at Susteen,
a Cellebrite competitor in Irvine,
Calif., that says it’s not the FBI’s
outside party.
Susteen says its products are
used by the Defense Department
and hundreds of law enforcement
agencies nationwide. It also sells a
less-powerful data-extraction tool
for consumers who want to check
up on their kids or spouses by seeing their text messages, emails,
photos and even deleted files.
Forensics companies maintain
their own research staffs that
probe devices for weak spots, but
for tough jobs, they sometimes
turn to freelance hackers.
Inspired by the FBI-Apple
standoff, Rook Security, an Indianapolis-based cybersecurity firm
that works with law enforcement,
formed an expert team devoted
to creating a copy of an iPhone’s
flash memory, hoping a backup
would allow investigators to restore data that could be wiped out
after too many wrong password
guesses.
Rook suspended its efforts
when it couldn’t find a way to take
the phone apart without damaging it.
Bahrain (Dinar) ....................................0.3770
British pound ..................................... $1.4138
Canada (Dollar) ...................................1.3279
China (Yuan) ........................................6.5066
Denmark (Krone) ................................6.6764
Egypt (Pound) ......................................8.8698
Euro ........................................ $1.1166/0.8956
Hong Kong (Dollar) ............................. 7.7579
Hungary (Forint) .................................280.86
Israel (Shekel) .....................................3.8364
Japan (Yen)........................................... 113.15
Kuwait (Dinar) .....................................0.3022
Norway (Krone) ...................................8.4802
Philippines (Peso).................................46.43
Poland (Zloty) .......................................... 3.82
Saudi Arabia (Riyal) ........................... 3.7512
Singapore (Dollar) .............................. 1.3713
South Korea (Won) ..........................1,169.24
Switzerland (Franc)............................0.9775
Thailand (Baht) .....................................35.27
Turkey (Lira) .........................................2.8760
(Military exchange rates are those
available to customers at military banking
facilities in the country of issuance
for Japan, South Korea, Germany, the
Netherlands and the United Kingdom. For
nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e.,
purchasing British pounds in Germany),
check with your local military banking
facility. Commercial rates are interbank
rates provided for reference when buying
currency. All figures are foreign currencies
to one dollar, except for the British pound,
which is represented in dollars-to-pound,
and the euro, which is dollars-to-euro.)
INTEREST RATES
Prime rate ................................................ 3.50
Discount rate .......................................... 1.00
Federal funds market rate ................... 0.36
3-month bill ............................................. 0.28
30-year bond ........................................... 2.67
WEATHER OUTLOOK
MONDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST
TUESDAY IN THE PACIFIC
MONDAY IN EUROPE
Misawa
52/41
Kabul
68/46
Baghdad
66/51
Seoul
59/39
Kandahar
83/53
Kuwait
City
83/62
Mildenhall/
Lakenheath
51/39
Bahrain
86/75
Brussels
52/42
Lajes,
Azores
64/51
Doha
86/78
Riyadh
99/68
Osan
59/34
Ramstein
55/40
Stuttgart
60/44
Iwakuni
62/49
Sasebo
66/44
Guam
88/78
Pápa
56/44
Aviano/
Vicenza
59/48
Naples
61/54
Morón
71/45
Sigonella
74/46
Rota
63/49
Djibouti
87/78
Tokyo
62/52
Busan
62/44
Okinawa
69/60
Souda Bay
62/51
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Hi: Sat., 90, Imperial, Calif.
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SCIENCE AND MEDICINE
Newly discovered IRISH DNA
predates the CELTIC arrival
A man’s discovery of bones under his pub could change what we know about Ireland’s origins
BY PETER WHORISKEY
That story has inspired innumerable references older — than we previously thought,” he said.
linking the Irish with Celtic culture. Nobel-winning
Exactly where that leaves the pervasive idea that the
Irish poet William Butler Yeats titled a book “Celtic Irish and other people of the area are “Celtic” is unclear.
en years ago, an Irish pub owner Twilight.” Irish songs are deemed “Celtic” music. Some It depends on the definition of Celtic.
was clearing land for a driveway nationalists embraced the Celtic distinction. Also, in
There are essentially two definitions — and two
when his digging exposed an Boston, arguably the most Irish city in the United States, arguments.
unusually large flat stone. The the owners of the NBA franchise dress their players in
The first revolves around language. The Irish language
stone, in turn, obscured a dark green and call them the Celtics.
is, like Welsh and Scottish Gaelic, part of a group
Yet the bones discovered behind
gap underneath. He grabbed a
that linguists have labeled Celtic. The languages
McCuaig’s
tell
a
different
story
flashlight to peer in.
share words and grammar. They seem to have
“I shot the torch in and saw the of Irish origins, and it does not
The
emerged after a similar evolution from Indogentleman, well, his skull and include the Celts.
European. They are indisputably related
genomes
of
“The
DNA
evidence
based
on
bones,” Bertie Currie, the pub owner, said earlier this
and indisputably a well-defined category.
those bones completely upends
the contemporary
month.
What is unclear is whether or not the
The remains of three humans, in fact, were found the traditional view,” said
term “Celtic” is an appropriate name for
people in Ireland are
behind McCuaig’s Pub in County Antrim, Northern Barry Cunliffe, an emeritus
that group of languages.
older
—
much
older
professor
of
archaeology
at
the
Ireland. Although police were called, it was not, as it
To be sure, some think that Celtic
University of Oxford who has
turned out, a crime scene.
— than we previously
languages originated with the Celts on
Instead, what Currie had stumbled over was an ancient written books on the origins of
continental Europe and subsequently
thought.
the
people
of
Ireland.
burial that, after a recent DNA analysis, challenges the
spread to Ireland, Wales and Scotland.
DNA research indicates that
Dan Bradley
traditional centuries-old account of Irish origins.
That is the traditional view, and it dovetails
Trinity College Dublin
From as far back as the 16th century, historians the three skeletons found behind
with the idea that the Celts moved into Ireland
McCuaig’s
are
the
ancestors
of
the
taught that the Irish are the descendants of the Celts, an
during the Iron Age.
Iron Age people who originated in the middle of Europe modern Irish, and they predate the
But over the last decade, a growing number of
and invaded Ireland somewhere between 1000 B.C. and Celts and their purported arrival by a
scholars have argued that the first Celtic languages
thousand
years
or
more.
The
genetic
roots
500 B.C.
of today’s Irish, in other words, were spoken not by the Celts in the middle of Europe but
existed in Ireland before the Celts by ancient people on Europe’s westernmost extremities,
possibly in Portugal, Spain, Ireland or the other locales
arrived.
“The most striking feature” of on the western edges of the British Isles.
the bones, according to the research
published in the Proceedings of
Outlines of the Celts
the National Academy of Science
The second line of argument arises from archaeology
journal, is how much their DNA
resembles that of contemporary and related sources.
Numerous digs, most notably in Austria and
Irish, Welsh and Scots. (By contrast,
older bones found in Ireland were Switzerland, have traced the outlines of the Celts. The
more like Mediterranean people, artifacts offer evidence going back as far as about 800
B.C. The ancient Greeks and Romans also left written
not the modern Irish.)
Radiocarbon dating shows that accounts of the Celts and probably knew them well — the
the bones discovered at McCuaig’s Celts sacked Rome in about 390 B.C. and attacked Delphi
go back to about 2000 B.C. That in Greece in 279 B.C.
makes them hundreds of years older
It seemed plausible that this group that had invaded
than the oldest artifacts generally Rome had invaded Ireland as well, and in the standard
considered to be Celtic — relics view it was this people that eventually made it to
unearthed from Celt homelands of Ireland.
continental Europe, most notably
For decades, however, archaeologists and other
around Switzerland, Austria and scholars have noted just how flimsy the evidence is for
Germany.
that standard account and how broad is the application
of the word.
Biological certitude
In 1955, Oxford professor J.R.R. Tolkien, better
known as the author of “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of
For a group of scholars who in
recent years have alleged that the the Rings” novels, described the popular understanding
Celts, beginning from the middle of “Celtic” in a celebrated lecture: “ ‘Celtic’ of any sort
of Europe, may never have reached is … a magic bag into which anything may be put, and
Ireland, the arrival of the DNA out of which almost anything may come. … Anything is
evidence provides the biological possible in the fabulous Celtic twilight, which is not so
certitude that the science has much a twilight of the gods as of the reason.”
If the new scholarship proves correct, exactly what to
sometimes brought to criminal
do with the word Celtic will probably be a matter of some
trials.
“With the genetic evidence, the dispute. Should it be applied to languages or cultures that,
old model is completely shot,” John no matter how clearly defined, were largely uninfluenced
Koch, a linguist at the Centre for by the historical Celts of continental Europe?
Some experts warned that the new findings will
Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies
disappoint many who would prefer a simpler answer to
at the University of Wales.
The senior author of the DNA the question of Irish origins.
“The public will always want a place on the map
research paper, Dan Bradley,
of Trinity College Dublin, was and for someone to point and say, ‘This where the Irish
reluctant to weigh in on the cultural are from,’ ” said J.P. Mallory, an emeritus professor of
implications, but he offered that archaeology at Queen’s University Belfast and the author
Courtesy of Queen’s University Belfast
the findings do challenge popular of the book “The Origins of the Irish.”
A DNA analysis of these bones discovered behind McCuaig’s Bar in County beliefs about Irish origins.
“But there’s going to be no way to do that. These groups
Antrim, Northern Ireland, challenges the conventional account of Irish
“Thegenomesofthecontemporary were frequently traveling east-west across Europe, from
origins.
people in Ireland are older — much one place to another. Everyone is a mix,” he said.
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Police arrest man over
fake Facebook page
PARMA — A suburOH
ban Cleveland police
department charged a man with
THE CENSUS
$75K
The value of stolen car parts a California police officer is accused of possessing. Santa Clara Police officer Tyson
Green was arrested Friday and charged with owning and operating a chop shop and receiving stolen property.
Prosecutors say Green, a 14-year police veteran, was using a San Jose garage to store four engines, each worth
more than $15,000, and a dozen car computers that came from cars that had been stolen in the Bay Area.
creating a fake Facebook page
that purported to be the department’s page.
The Parma Police Department
said Friday that Anthony Novak,
27, of Parma, was charged with
a felony count of disrupting public services. The agency began
investigating early this month
when “The City of Parma Police
Department” page showed up.
The department’s page has the
same name without “The.”
The fake page had items about
ways sex offenders could have
their names taken off the state
sex offender database. It also suggested it would be illegal to help
the homeless for three months.
Hawks dive-bomb
neighborhood residents
SPRING HILL — ResiFL
dents living in a quiet
neighborhood are being hassled
by a group of hawks that have
taken to dive-bombing retirees as
they walk to their mailboxes.
WFTS reported that two of the
birds are red-shouldered hawks.
It’s the second season in a row
the hawks have chosen this quiet
street to make their home. According to residents, it seems
they’re getting more aggressive.
Wildlife officials refuse to remove the protective parent hawks
until nature runs its course.
The ordeal has left the victims
along the street without many options. One 88-year-old man has
taken to wearing a pith helmet
after he was struck and was sent
to the hospital.
‘Beeping’ device briefly
shuts shopping center
JOE PUCHE, C HICAGO TRIBUNE /AP
Doughnut rivals square off
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP — Authorities said
a suspicious beeping device that
briefly shuttered a New Jersey
shopping mall turned out to be an
anti-theft device from one of the
center’s retail stores.
Washington Township police
and Gloucester County authorities
were among those who responded
to the Cross Keys Commons shopping center about 9 p.m. Friday
for reports of a suspicious device.
Officers blocked off the center and evacuated some nearby
stores while they investigated
the device, which they said had a
“loud beep.”
The center was reopened shortly after authorities determined
the device didn’t pose a threat.
WMUR-TV reported that Lebanon police tried to stop the truck
after it crossed a double yellow
line to pass another driver early
Saturday morning, but the driver
sped away.
Blanche is charged with two
counts of receiving stolen property, criminal mischief, reckless
conduct, driving while intoxicated, disobeying an officer and
driving after suspension. He was
being held on $100,000 bail.
Police: Man hit house
with stolen dump truck
Wild turkeys attacking
cars in neighborhood
NJ
A square doughnut sold at Family Express is displayed in Highland, Ind. Valparaiso-based Family Express asked a court on Thursday to
declare that it can continue to call its products “Square Donuts” but Terre Haute-based Square Donuts wants Family Express to stop. The
Terre Haute company, which has been making its doughnuts since the 1960s, and Family Express, which started making its version in
2005, have been involved in a legal dispute since 2006.
DES MOINES — A flock
LEBANON — Police
NH
said the driver of a sto- IA of wild turkeys is making
len dump truck lost control of the life hard for some Des Moines
truck during a police chase and
rolled the truck, crashing into a
house in Lebanon.
Police said no one in the house
was injured. The driver — Gabriel Blanche, 20, of Grantham
— was taken to Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center with minor
injuries.
residents — and their cars.
Television station KCCI reported that the turkeys are damaging
cars in the neighborhood near
East 38th Street and Douglas
Avenue.
Dottie Bauer said two wild turkeys attacked her car about noon
Friday. Bauer said she also saw
the turkeys attack three other
cars, trying to keep anyone from
getting past them.
Des Moines police were sent to
the area Thursday after a woman
reported she was trapped in her
car and couldn’t get out because
the turkeys were attacking it.
Bison taken from
village by helicopter
GRAYLING
—
A
tagged bison had to be
taken from an interior Alaska village by helicopter after it seemed
to be stranded there.
The Fairbanks Daily NewsMiner reported that on Feb. 23,
Bull 123 was anesthetized so he
could be flown out of Grayling, on
the Yukon River.
Department of Fish and Game
biologist Tom Seaton blindfolded
the bison, collected a number of
samples and administered medications before loading Bull 123
onto a tarp-sling. The sling was
sewn shut to keep the bison in
AK
and was strung under a helicopter, which traveled about 22 miles
to a sedge meadow where another lone bull of the same age had
been feeding.
ment the flight was cancelled
and customers were taking other
flights.
Rare comic books taken
Airline co-pilot detained during store burglary
MACON — Rare “Juson suspicion of drinking
ROMULUS — FedMI
eral authorities said an
American Airlines co-pilot was
detained at Detroit Metropolitan
Airport after he was suspected of
being drunk.
The Federal Aviation Administration said the co-pilot was held
from a Saturday morning flight
from Detroit to Philadelphia.
He’s suspected of having a bloodalcohol level above the legal limit.
The pilot was detained after
arriving at the suburban Detroit
airport. Airport spokesman Michael Conway said the pilot was
released as authorities determine
whether charges will be filed.
American Airlines spokeswoman Laura Nedbal said in a state-
GA
tice League” and “XMen” comic books valued at more
than $200,000 were stolen from a
central Georgia store.
Will Peavy, owner of Comics
Plus in Macon told WMAZ-TV
that someone broke into the store
Wednesday night. The burglar
used a crowbar to get in the front
door, then ripped out and cut
wires to the alarm system.
Peavy said the burglar stole
the store’s safe containing $2,200
in cash and more than $200,000
worth of comic books.
The intruder took the first
eight copies of “Justice League
of America” from 1963. Also
taken were the first 20 issues of
“X-Men.”
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Aaron Paul had a rocky path to stardom
BY LUAINE LEE
Tribune News Service
W
hen 17-year-old Aaron Paul arrived in West Hollywood, Calif.,
to become an actor, he knew
he had worlds to conquer. His
mother drove with him in his 1982 Toyota
Corolla, which had a trunk that flooded in
a downpour and no second gear.
“My mom dropped me off, moved me into
this little studio, and there was a shootout
at the Bank of America two blocks away,”
recalls Paul over lunch at a hotel cafe here.
“We could hear the gunshots. ... Helicopters overhead. And my mom is, of course,
terrified. The first night with her leaving, I
thought, ‘OK, I’m an adult.’ But I was an infant, really, with a lot to learn. I think that
first night changed me.”
In spite of his youthful optimism, it
wasn’t going to get better soon. Paul had
saved $5,000 to make the move. “That was
the most money I’d ever seen in my life.
And it went pretty quickly. ... I was living
on Top Ramen. You could get 10 packets
for $1 back then.”
Nine months passed before he wangled
a job. “The first few months was fine,” he
says, taking a bite of steak salad. “I had
money to pay the $500-a-month rent, but
quickly I had a roommate move in. And
one week I had the bed, and the next week
I had the walk-in closet. But it was great,”
he said, smiling.
He managed to line up some commercials and was working as an usher at the
Universal City movie theater. “I did that
simply because I could watch movies for
free and I was on a fixed income. I got by
doing commercials,” he says. “You just
cross your fingers hoping you’d make the
cut. I think I’ve probably done 30-plus
commercials. I had my ups and downs, but
I was having a great time. I was somewhat
fulfilling my dream. But I wanted more.”
He got more all right, in a way that would
alter his life. Paul, 36, landed the role of the
flaky druggie Jesse Pinkman in the nowclassic “Breaking Bad.” “Right before
‘Breaking Bad’ I was at my lowest low in
terms of doubting myself,” he says, pausing, his fingers caressing his water glass.
“I was barely paying my bills. I had spent
money from my commercials. It costs
money to live in Los Angeles. I’m like, how
can I continue to go down this path of my
own personal dream? I never wanted to ask
for help from anyone. This was MY dream,
so I wanted to do it alone.”
But he couldn’t. “I remember the day
when I called my mom and dad — it was
very emotional for me — and I asked them
JORDAN STRAUSS, INVISION /AP
Aaron Paul arrives at the premiere of “The Path” on March 21 in Los Angeles. The new TV show will air on Hulu.
I got by doing commercials. You just cross your fingers hoping you’d
make the cut. I had my ups and downs, but I was having a great time.
I was somewhat fulfilling my dream. But I wanted more.”
for help with my rent. I know this was very
hard for them. It’s almost impossible for
them to say no, but it’s very hard for them
to say yes.
“So they ended up paying my rent for
three months. I knew that was that. ...
[T]hat was a LOT of money for them. Then
I got a script sent to me by the name of
‘Breaking Bad.’ I read it and I knew that
was the role that was going to change everything for me. So I just gave it my all.”
The series was such a phenomenal success that afterward Paul vowed to take a
break from episodic television and concentrate on film. After all, he’d performed
in seven pilots before he landed that series. None of them were picked up except
“Breaking Bad.”
“At the time, no one knew if it would survive,” he recalls. “We saw it at the Sony lot
— this is before we were picked up. We knew
it was a special script, we knew we had an
incredible experience shooting the project,
but you just never know. Everything has to
fall into place in the most cosmic way. And it
did. Everyone was so emotional, jaws on the
floor. And when the credits rolled we were
just speechless and we all knew our lives
were going to be changed.”
So how does he follow a flawless effort
like that? When his agent told him about
“The Path,” which premieres on Hulu on
March 30, he was reluctant. But he met
with the producers. “I had a great meeting
and walked out thinking, ‘I think I’m going
to pull the trigger. I think I’m going to do
it.’ Then I got cold feet and ended up passing on it.”
He didn’t want to do another series and
was concerned that people would compare
it to “Breaking Bad.” He needn’t have worried. In “The Path,” Paul plays a conflicted
husband, a convert to a Scientology-like religion that tests his commitment and faith.
“Two days later, after a couple of sleepless nights, I couldn’t stop thinking about
it. I was in the middle of dinner and it was
just internally in my head, and I just interrupted the conversation and said, ‘I have to
step outside and make a phone call.’ I left
and called my reps and said, ‘Can we get
this back?’ I put them through a little torture, but I’m so happy they didn’t give it to
somebody else.”
CBS and ‘Young and Restless’ lead Daytime Emmy nods
The Associated Press
CBS led with 77 nominations
overall while its daytime drama
“The Young and the Restless” led
with 27 nods when nominations
were announced March 24 for
the 43rd Annual Daytime Emmy
awards.
TV’s remaining trio of soap
operas, “General Hospital” (24
nominations), “The Bold and the
Beautiful” (23 nominations) and
“Days of Our Lives” (16 nominations), were the other series with
the most potential trophies. “The
Young and the Restless” joined
CBS’ “The Bold and the Beautiful,” NBC’s “Days of Our Lives”
and ABC’s “General Hospital”
among nominees for best soap
opera.
Best actress nominees for daytime drama were Kassie DePaiva
and Mary Beth Evans of “Days of
Our Lives,” Finola Hughes and
Maura West of “General Hospital” and Tracey E. Bregman of
“The Young and the Restless.”
Best actor nominees for a
soap were Anthony Geary and
Tyler Christopher of “General
Hospital,” and Christian LeBlanc,
Justin Hartley and Kristoff St.
John of “The Young and the
Restless.”
Nominees for best game show
were “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” (syndicated), “Jeop-
ardy!” (syndicated), “Let’s Make
a Deal” (syndicated), “Monopoly
Millionaires’ Club” (syndicated)
and “The Price Is Right” (CBS).
Nominees for best informative talk show were “The Chew”
(ABC), “The Dr. Oz Show” (syndicated), “The Kitchen” (Food Network), “The Doctors” (syndicated)
and “Larry King Now” (Ora TV).
Nominees for best entertainment talk show were “The Ellen
DeGeneres Show” (syndicated),
“The Real” (syndicated), “The
Talk” (CBS), “The View” (ABC)
and “The Wendy Williams Show”
(syndicated).
The awards ceremony will be
May 1.
Other news
U2 will be honored with the
Innovator Award at this year’s
iHeartRadio Music Awards for
their impact on popular culture
and commitment to social causes.
iHeartMedia announced March
25 that the special honor will be
given to the rock band during the
awards show in Los Angeles on
April 3. The band is also nominated in the best tour category.
Earl Hamner Jr., the versatile and prolific writer who drew
upon his Depression-era upbringing in the Blue Ridge Mountains
of Virginia to create one of television’s most beloved family shows,
“The Waltons,” died on March
24. He was 92. Hamner died in
Los Angeles, said Ray Castro Jr.,
a friend of Hamner’s. Although
best remembered for “The Waltons,” that show barely scratched
the surface of Hamner’s literary
accomplishments, which included
best-selling novelist (“Spencer’s
Mountain”), and author of eight
episodes of the classic 1960s TV
show “The Twilight Zone.”
David Smyrl, the Emmywinning actor best known for his
role as Mr. Handford, the retired
firefighter who ran Hooper’s
Store on “Sesame Street,” died
March 22. He was 80.
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Unpardonable inaction on clemency
BY GEORGE L ARDNER JR.
AND P.S. RUCKMAN JR.
Special to The Washington Post
W
hen the Obama administration’s new acting pardon attorney, Bob Zauzmer, arrived
on the job last month, he ran
headlong into a backlog of more than 9,000
clemency petitions awaiting a decision
on whether they deserve the president’s
consideration. Many of those petitions
were the byproduct of the announcement
of Clemency Project 2014, which was established by the Justice Department — to
great fanfare — to process additional applications from federal prisoners seeking reductions of unjustifiably long drug
sentences.
Zauzmer has his work cut out for him
— it has been widely reported that his predecessor, Deborah Leff, stepped down in
January over frustrations with a lack of
resources.
Was the administration ever serious
about Clemency 2014? The rules for commutation requests even reaching the overburdened pardons office under the initiative
are inexcusably discouraging. The worst is
that inmates must have served at least 10
years of their sentence. Other rules state
they must not have “a significant criminal
history” (whatever that means); they must
be nonviolent, low-level offenders; and
they must be serving a sentence harsher
than they would have gotten if convicted
of the same offense today. Those who fall
“outside of this initiative,” according to the
Justice Department, can still seek clemency under the old rules if their applications
are “especially meritorious.”
The results of this great, unprecedented
effort? Barack Obama has a clemency record comparable to those of the least merciful presidents in history. He has granted
just 70 pardons, the lowest mark for any
full-term president since John Adams, and
187 commutations of sentence. Meanwhile,
1,629 pardon petitions have been denied
(more than five of the previous six presidents), as well as 8,123 requests for commutations (a new record). An additional
3,444 requests have been “closed without
presidential action.”
Obama’s record is all the more deplorable
because of assurances that he has made
and that have been made on his behalf. On
April 21, 2014, then-Attorney General Eric
Holder encouraged federal prisoners to
seek relief, noting that, despite sentencing
reforms Obama signed into law in 2010,
there were “still too many people … sentenced under the old regime” who needed
attention. Holder said the White House had
“indicated” that it wanted to “consider additional clemency applications to restore a
degree of justice, fairness, and proportionality for deserving individuals who do not
pose a threat to public safety.” In addition,
the Justice Department was “committed
to recommending as many qualified applicants as possible for reduced sentences.”
Clemency Project 2014 has, however, become a bureaucratic disaster, assigned to
volunteer lawyers and law students with
little if any experience in the pitfalls of
dealing with the federal criminal justice
system.
In June 2014, The Hill reported that
Obama was pushing forward with a review
of the clemency system. In March 2015,
the president told The Huffington Post that
the pardon process had been “revamped”
and that he would be exercising the pardon
power “more aggressively.” Seven months
later, he told the Marshall Project that clemency applications were being processed
“more effectively” and a “steady ramp up”
was in play. The Washington Post recently
reported that some additional grants are
expected in the coming weeks, but “big” is
hardly a word that appropriately describes
what has gone on to date.
By now, Obama could have simply signed
an amnesty proclamation covering everyone qualifying for lesser sentences. He
could have taken the pardon process out of
the Justice Department and given the job
to a commission or an independent agency
that would give him a degree of political
cover if anything went wrong. Just such a
move had been proposed by his first White
House counsel, Gregory Craig.
Regardless, seven neglectful years allow
for few pretty endings. If current patterns
persist, Obama will go down as one of the
most merciless presidents in history. On
the other hand, even a moderate display of
concern about clemency, with a few grants
here and there, will almost certainly be
viewed (and dubbed) as “a last-minute gesture,” granted to avoid any serious political
accountability.
Any such grants will also be greeted
with suspicion and exceptional scrutiny by
the media and political opponents. Impressions left by any scandalous reports will
be much deeper than if the president had
simply been more merciful more evenly
across the term, and not left everyone to
wonder: “Why are these particular people
being pardoned? And why are they being
pardoned now? Why are they any more
special than the thousands of applicants
deemed unworthy before them?”
Having waited almost two years before
granting his first presidential pardon,
Obama would probably do as much harm to
the general reputation of the pardon power
as to his personal legacy with a controversial, Bill Clintonesque splurge in clemency
just before leaving office. Sadly, many deserving recipients would be besmirched
as well. This is the bed the president has
made for himself.
George Lardner Jr., a former Washington Post
reporter, is scholar in residence at American
University’s Investigative Reporting Workshop.
P.S. Ruckman Jr. is a professor of political science
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‘Threat’ NRA sees in Garland is a phantom
BY JOHN FEINBLATT
Special to The Washington Post
B
y this point, we’re all familiar with
the National Rifle Association’s
political playbook.
We’ve seen its leaders misinform and exaggerate before, in debates
about legislation, candidates for office
and judicial nominees. While their tactics
might be tried and true, they typically bear
little relationship to the truth.
Their latest campaign, against Judge
Merrick Garland, is no different.
Garland is the chief judge of the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Regarded as the second-highest
court in the land, the District of Columbia
Circuit served as a steppingstone to the
Supreme Court for former Justice Antonin
Scalia, who died in February, along with
Chief Justice John Roberts, Justices Ruth
Bader Ginsburg and Clarence Thomas,
among others. Here’s something else about
Garland’s resume. Nothing about it sheds
any light whatsoever on how he views guns
or the Second Amendment.
Of course, NRA headquarters wants you
to believe something different. In a Washington Post op-ed last weekend (“Obama’s
high court pick a no-go with NRA,” March
21, Stars and Stripes), the NRA’s chief lobbyist, Chris W. Cox, portrayed Garland’s
nomination to the Supreme Court as nothing less than an existential threat to lawful gun ownership. The evidence for such
a claim doesn’t exist. The truth is, appointing a successor to Scalia will not threaten
our Second Amendment rights.
It’s settled law. The court’s landmark
2008 decision in District of Columbia v.
Heller recognized an individual right to
keep and use a handgun for self-defense in
the home. Just last Monday, the Supreme
Court confirmed that Heller remains good
law, and it did so unanimously — giving
the lie to the NRA’s repeated claim that the
fate of the Second Amendment depends on
the vote of a single justice.
The NRA’s leaders falsely portray the
right to gun ownership as on the precipice.
They’re just as alarmist about Garland’s
record. Again, their claims are baseless.
To paint Garland as an opponent of gun
rights, they distort a basic procedural vote
that he cast in a gun case before the D.C.
Circuit. In fact, Garland didn’t issue a ruling. He didn’t even say or write anything
about the merits of the case. And think
about the company he was keeping. Judge
A. Raymond Randolph, a George H.W.
Bush appointee and outspoken conservative, was among three judges who joined
Garland in the same vote.
NRA leaders also say that Garland voted
to uphold that classic gun lobby bugaboo: a
federal “registry” of gun owners. In fact,
Garland simply joined an opinion upholding a Justice Department rule that allowed
for the temporary retention of data from
the national gun-sale background-check
system. The FBI kept the data for no more
than six months to ensure the system’s accuracy and integrity. Then it destroyed the
data, in keeping with the law. The “registry”? It doesn’t exist.
In short, nothing in his record suggests
that a Justice Garland wouldn’t respect
the Second Amendment and uphold the
Constitution. But when it comes to vetting
high-profile judicial nominees, the NRA’s
leaders have shown they’re willing to look
past the facts.
Previously, when Justice Sonia Sotomayor was nominated, NRA officials came
up with a creative rationale for opposing
her. Following what was at the time the
Supreme Court precedent, Sotomayor had
joined an opinion that upheld a state’s ban
on nunchucks. Sotomayor was practicing
what’s called “judicial restraint,” and nunchucks aren’t guns, but no matter — the
gun lobby branded her an enemy of the
Second Amendment.
Next nominee, same tactic. Justice Elena
Kagan had no meaningful record on gun
issues, but that didn’t stop the NRA from
misrepresenting her experience and opposing her nomination. Now it’s Garland’s
turn to be a (not very convincing) threat to
our Constitution and freedoms.
If the NRA’s leaders were simply ginning up a no-compromise base and using
the nomination process to raise funds, then
we could dismiss their rhetoric as business
as usual and ignore them. But when the
Senate majority leader says it would be
unimaginable to confirm a nominee from
President Barack Obama who is opposed
by the NRA, that’s when the rest of us
ought to set the record straight.
So don’t believe the hype. The NRA’s
partisan political arm doesn’t represent the
views of the vast majority of Americans.
John Feinblatt is president of Everytown for Gun
Safety.
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OPINION
Cruz, Trump sink to old lows, drown US
BY K ATHLEEN PARKER
Washington Post Writers Group
WASHINGTON
hen a presidential election devolves into a hydrant-watering
contest between leading contenders about the relative attractiveness of their respective wives, not
only does America look ridiculous but we
diminish our moral standing to denounce
other cultures’ marginalization of women.
It’s that bad.
This latest tantrum-a-deux between
Donald Trump and Ted Cruz began with
an anti-Trump ad targeting his wife Melania. Created by a super PAC unrelated to
Cruz (and run by a woman), the ad showed
a nude photo of Melania Trump that was
shot for GQ in 2000 when she was a model
and before she became Mrs. Trump.
The ad, which ran on Facebook just before the Utah caucuses, read: “Meet Melania Trump. Your next first lady. Or, you
could support Ted Cruz on Tuesday.”
Presumably, the image would so offend
Mormon women that they’d vote for Cruz.
Indeed, Trump lost. But one notes for fun
that few if any wagered that the photo
might also offend men, least of all Trump
himself. Anyone who has lived a while recognizes Trump as the schoolyard braggart
who might just as well distribute the photo
himself to remind his locker-room tormentors that, hand size notwithstanding, he
had won the prize.
The cutline on a recent Trump retweet,
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Heidi Cruz
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featuring side-by-side photos of a posed
and smoldering Melania and an unflatteringly candid Heidi Cruz, was: “The images
are worth a thousand words.”
Is this what Trump means when he says
he can be “presidential” when the time
comes? Would it be impolite to ask when
that might be?
The photo of Mrs. Cruz, an extremely attractive, successful businesswoman, was
obviously intended to make her look shrill
and scolding, a shriveling image to most
men. Plainly, it was one of those split-second expressions loathed by all who have
been targeted by the vengeful eye of a roving camera.
Trump, whose compulsive tweeting
surely leaves little time for self-reflection
(or policy considerations), issued a warning to Cruz about the ad:
“Be careful, Lyin’ Ted, or I will spill the
beans on your wife!”
There’s something unmanly about
threatening a woman through a tweet,
which has a nyah-nyah quality to it. Two
little dickie birds sitting on a wall. ... Come
on, guys, get down from your perches and
duke it out like men. (Can we still say that?)
Mano a mano. Or at least face-to-face. Perhaps this is what prompted Cruz to call
Trump a “sniveling coward” and to “leave
Heidi the hell alone!”
There is also something unseemly about
a woman using another’s racy image to
discredit her, as though what is, in fact, a
tasteful pose as such things go, the extent
of her value. Melania was a model — and
now she’s a wife and mother. How about
we also leave Melania the hell alone while
we’re at it?
Once upon a time, I protested the Democratic trope that the GOP was waging war
on women. Since the accusation was based
primarily on the Republican Party’s continuing defense of the not-yet-born, amid
absurd and offensive comments by a handful of GOP males whose tongues and brains
have never met, I rejected the notion as
little more than a political strategy.
Sue me if you must, but I’ve changed my
mind.
Trump’s success is troublesome as a
matter of common decency. He seems to
recognize what decency sounds like when
it involves his wife, but he’s coyly oblivious when he makes derogatory remarks
about other women, including Megyn
Kelly, Rosie O’Donnell and Carly Fiorina,
to name a few.
Yes, he’s an equal-opportunity offender,
a philosophy I respect, but his insults to
women are of a particular sort, typically
focused on looks and/or physiology. If this
is presidential, we need a new definition.
And if Republican men (and women) can’t
bring themselves to condemn Trump for
his disrespect toward women, then they
are by their silence complicit in what feels
a lot like a war on women from the Republican front-runner.
Should Trump become president, he
likely will have defeated the only woman
left in the race, Hillary Clinton, who is recognized globally for her work in raising the
status of women. In that case, other nations
may reasonably conclude that the U.S.
doesn’t care much for women. Worse, they
can congratulate themselves for keeping
their own women in their swaddled places,
deserving neither respect nor protection.
These and all other things considered,
I’d rather hear from the wives of wannabe
presidents than their husbands these days.
This goes for the wives of presidents past
as well.
Families, therapists brace for cuts to autism care fees
MILITARY UPDATE
BY TOM PHILPOTT
J
essika Ashcraft, wife of an Army
helicopter pilot at Joint Base LewisMcChord, Wash., praises the progress their 4-year-old son, afflicted
with mild autism, has made this past year
because of applied behavior analysis, or
ABA therapy at home 3½ hours a day, five
days a week.
She called their ABA technician “amazing” and described techniques that
improved markedly her son’s ability to express wants and needs, to engage in imaginative play and even to tolerate his first
barbershop haircut.
The importance of such therapy to this
family is evident. Under an expansive
demonstration program, Tricare, the
military’s health insurance program, now
covers ABA therapy for more than 10,500
service families and retirees with autistic
children. Another 16,000 are eligible for
such care.
Yet this is a nervous time for these families, and for ABA therapy providers. On
April 1, Tricare will cut ABA reimbursement rates as much as 15 percent, with a
second rate cut planned in some locales
next year. Some families are alarmed,
some ABA businesses are enraged and
some advocates for special-needs children
forecast an access-to-care crisis.
Tricare officials see no such crisis in the
offing, and hold firm to the rate cut plan.
They do so despite receiving two complaint letters this month from members of
Congress — one signed by four senators
and another by 40 House members — urging postponement of the rate drop until the
autism care demonstration ends in December 2018 and results are assessed.
The letters echo arguments of family
advocates and the growing ABA therapy
industry that a pair of studies ordered by
the Defense Health Agency, on which rate
changes were to be based, failed to capture
accurately how Tricare reimbursements
stack up against commercial insurance
rates.
Douglas McBroom, manager of the autism program for the Tricare Policy and
Benefits Office, in Aurora, Colo., said the
criticism is off the mark. Tricare now recognizes the difficulty of tracking proprietary rate data of commercial insurers. So
the new ABA rates have another goal to
align reimbursements to what Medicare
might pay, because by law Medicare is the
yardstick Tricare is required to use in setting rates for health services.
The hitch is Medicare is health insurance for the elderly and doesn’t reimburse
for ABA therapy. Medicare rates generally
are 20 percent higher than provider payments under Medicaid, the government
health insurance for care of poorer Americans. Therefore, to reset ABA therapy
rates, Tricare is using a foundation of
state Medicaid rates and then adding 20
percent.
Tricare has been reimbursing $125 an
hour to ABA providers with doctorate or
master’s degrees, $75 to those with bachelor’s degrees and $50 for technicians with
high school diplomas and ABA training.
New rates will vary by locale but average
roughly $114 for doctorates, $107 for master’s degrees, $67 for bachelor’s degrees
and just over $40 per hour for technicians.
Tricare notes that new ABA rates still
compare favorably with its reimbursements for other mental health services.
For example, doctorate-level clinical psychologists under Tricare are reimbursed
at $93 to $105 an hour.
Opponents of lowered rates say the
change runs counter to trend, as almost all
states now require insurers to cover ABA
therapy. Tricare officials suggest the therapy industry has seen recent Tricare rates
as a “gold standard” to spur rate increases
nationwide, and so families oppose reversing course.
The therapy company the Ashcraft family uses has assured Tricare clients that
services will continue despite the rate cut.
But that same agency, South Sound Behavior Therapy of Olympia, Wash., will not be
accepting new Tricare patients, said its director, Jennifer K. Orme.
“The 15 percent reduction in rates
is crippling for an agency,” Orme said.
Eighty-eight percent of her patients are
Tricare beneficiaries. “We have already
reduced overhead staff, and will reduce
the pay of our employees.” Given these
cuts, Orme added, “we are not sure how
many employees will chose to continue to
stay [and] provide ABA services.”
McBroom said it’s too early to say if
many more ABA providers will cap the
number of new Tricare clients they accept.
But he has seen no worrisome sign that
ABA providers are dropping current Tricare patients.
Veronica Grant, spouse of an Army lawyer assigned to West Point, did get a letter from her ABA provider in December,
less than a week after Tricare announced
plans to cut rates, explaining that therapy
for their 12-year-old son, Colum, would be
ending by early January, and it did.
The letter from Hybrid Learning Group
of Somerset, N.J., referred curiously to a
“continued reduction in reimbursement
rates” by Tricare, though the first cut
was months away. The cuts make it “cost
prohibitive for HLG to appropriately staff
programs,” the company advised military
clients.
Grant hasn’t found replacement therapy
for her son, who is nonverbal and suffers
other medical conditions. Her search for a
new provider, might have been made more
difficult because the Grants reside in Bergen County, N.J., far from a military base,
she said.
Colum’s therapy, before it stopped, focused on use of a speech device to help de-
velop functional communication skills so
he would be able to explain when he had
a headache or stomachache and needed
medicine.
“We saw a drastic reduction in the selfinterest behavior, the aggression,” said
Grant. “He was making progress toward
some goals. … Then comes January, when
the therapist left, and you could start seeing … at-school behaviors went right back
up again.”
Lawmakers opposed to the rate cuts
noted in their letters that Tricare, to ensure care quality, also is imposing new
certification requirements on therapy
technicians. So as they gain new skills, and
perhaps expect a pay raise, Tricare reimbursements are falling.
McBroom encouraged me to share his
contact information with the Ashcrafts,
the Grants or any family struggling to access ABA care. He still predicts that the
lowered rates will not cause any significant access issues.
“We don’t have one child today that I
can’t place [with an ABA provider] unless
the mother wants a specific provider or a
specific hour of the day, [because] some
providers don’t work after-school hours,”
McBroom said. “But other than that, I can
tell you I have honestly placed 100 percent
of the children that have called me since
I’ve been here.”
Karen Driscoll, mother of a child with
autism who now works for a coalition of
ABA providers, charged that Tricare officials “are aware of the access issues and
are proceeding anyway” with rate cuts.
“When you have a disabled child requiring therapy services, any interruption or
delay in care will affect that child’s outcome,” she said. “We’re talking about military children so that also affects readiness”
if deployed parents get word that sons or
daughter are cut off from services.
Send comments to Military Update, P.O. Box 231111,
Centreville, VA, 20120; email milupdate@aol.com;
or Twitter: Tom Philpott @Military_Update.
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SCOREBOARD
Sports
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Tennis
Miami Open
Saturday
At The Tennis Center at Crandon Park
Key Biscayne, Fla.
Purse: Men, $6.13 million (Masters
1000); Women, $6.13 million (Premier)
Surface: Hard-Outdoor
Singles
Men
First Round
Kei Nishikori (6), Japan, def. Pierre-Hugues Herbert, France, 6-2, 7-6 (4).
Milos Raonic (12), Canada, def. Denis
Kudla, United States, 7-6 (4), 6-4.
Alexandr Dolgopolov (27), Ukraine,
def. Andreas Seppi, Italy, 6-4, 6-4.
Andrey Kuznetsov, Russia, def. Stan
Wawrinka (4), Switzerland, 6-4, 6-3.
Jack Sock (22), United States, def. Sergiy Stakhovsky, Ukraine, 6-2, 3-2, retired.
Gael Monfils (16), France, def. Tatsuma Ito, Japan, 6-3, 6-2.
Damir Dzumhur, Bosnia-Herzegovina,
def. Rafael Nadal (5), Spain, 2-6, 6-4, 3-0,
retired.
Grigor Dimitrov (26), Bulgaria, def.
Federico Delbonis, Argentina, 7-6 (8), 46, 6-4.
Mikhail Kukushkin, Kazakhstan, def.
Thomaz Bellucci (30), Brazil, 5-7, 6-3, retired.
Pablo Cuevas (23), Uruguay, def. John
Millman, Australia, 7-5, 6-4.
Nick Kyrgios (24), Australia, def. Marcos Baghdatis, Cyprus, 6-2, 6-1.
Tim Smyczek, United States, def. John
Isner (13), United States, 6-2, 2-6, 7-6 (5).
Roberto Bautista Agut (17), Spain, def.
Aljaz Bedene, Britain, 7-5, 2-2, retired.
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (9), France, def.
Santiago Giraldo, Colombia, 6-3, 6-1.
Adrian Mannarino, France, def. Sam
Querrey (29), United States, 6-7 (5), 6-2,
6-4.
Andy Murray (2), Britain, def. Denis Istomin, Uzbekistan, 6-3, 7-5.
Women
Second Round
Ekaterina Makarova (30), Russia, def.
Petra Kvitova (8), Czech Republic, 6-4, 64.
Svetlana Kuznetsova (15), Russia, def.
Caroline Garcia, France, 4-6, 6-2, 7-6 (6).
Agnieszka Radwanska (3), Poland, def.
Madison Brengle, United States, 6-3, 6-2.
Heather Watson, United States, def.
Yanina Wickmayer, Belgium, 3-6, 7-5, 6-3.
Simona Halep (5), Romania, def. Julia
Goerges, Germany, 6-4, 6-1.
Serena Williams (1), United States,
def. Zarina Diyas, Kazakhstan, 7-5, 6-3.
Timea Bacsinszky (19), Switzerland,
def. Ana Ivanovic (16), Serbia, 7-5, 6-4.
Elina Svitolina (12), Ukraine, def. Caroline Wozniacki (23), Denmark, 5-7, 6-4,
7-6 (1).
Doubles
Men
First Round
Omar Jasika and John-Patrick Smith,
Australia, def. Edouard Roger-Vasselin,
France, and Nenad Zimonjic (7), Serbia,
6-1, 5-7, 12-10.
Marin Cilic and Marin Draganja, Croatia, def. Henri Kontinen, Finland, and
John Peers, Australia, 4-6, 6-3, 12-10.
David Marrero, Spain, and Benoit
Paire, France, def. Leonardo Mayer, Argentina, and Joao Sousa, Portugal, 7-5,
6-4.
Jeremy Chardy and Fabrice Martin,
France, def. Jean-Julien Rojer, Netherlands, and Horia Tecau (1), Romania, 7-6
(7), 7-6 (4).
Bob Bryan, United States, and Mike
Bryan (4), United States, def. Inigo Cervantes, Spain, and David Ferrer, Spain,
6-3, 7-5.
Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi, Pakistan, and
Gilles Simon, France, def. Daniel Nestor,
Canada, and Radek Stepanek, Czech Republic, 6-4, 7-5.
Philipp Petzschner, Germany, and Alexander Peya, Austria, def. Thomaz Bellucci, Brazil, and Andre Sa, Brazil, 6-4,
6-2.
Raven Klaasen, South Africa, and Rajeev Ram, United States, def. Jamie Murray, Britain, and Bruno Soares (3), Brazil,
3-6, 6-3, 10-7.
Women
First Round
Bethanie Mattek-Sands, United States,
and Lucie Safarova (3), Czech Republic,
def. Madison Keys and Sloane Stephens,
United States, 6-4, 6-2.
Sara Errani, Italy, and Carla Suarez
Navarro, Spain, def. Belinda Bencic, Switzerland, and Stefanie Vogt, Liechtenstein, 6-1, 6-2.
Ekaterina Makarova, Russia, and Barbora Strycova, Czech Republic, def. Chan
Hao-ching and Chan Yung-jan (2), Taiwan, 7-6 (2), 6-4.
Daria Kasatkina and Elena Vesnina,
Russia, def. Chuang Chia-jung, Taiwan,
and Liang Chen, China, 6-2, 6-3.
Margarita Gasparyan, Russia, and
Monica Niculescu, Romania, def. Monica
Puig, Puerto Rico, and Heather Watson,
Britain, 6-1, 2-6, 10-5.
Kateryna Bondarenko, Ukraine, and
Olga Savchuk, Ukraine, def. Caroline Garcia, France, and Kristina Mladenovic (6),
France, 6-3, 6-7 (6), 10-5.
College basketball
College baseball
Pro soccer
Golf
Men’s NIT
Saturday’s scores
MLS
Dell Match Play
Semifinals
At New York
Tuesday, March 29
Valparaiso (29-6) vs. BYU (26-10)
George Washington (26-10) vs. San Diego State (28-9)
Championship
Thursday, March 31
Semifinal winners
EAST
Alderson-Broaddus 13, Salem International 3
Brockport 5, Oneonta 3
Brown 2, Holy Cross 1
CCNY 7-6, SUNY Poly 0-1
Cortland 7, Fredonia 2
Fairleigh Dickinson 1, NYIT 0
Fordham 2, NJIT 0
Keystone 6, Kean 3
Manhattan 10, Lehigh 2
Marist 4, Quinnipiac 2
Millersville 6, West Chester 5
Molloy 5, LIU Post 1
New Paltz 3, Plattsburgh 0
Old Westbury 9, St. Joseph’s (L.I.) 2
Pace 13, S. Connecticut 1
Penn St.-Abington 1-2, Stockton 0-8
Plymouth St. 2-4, W. New England 1-2
Sacred Heart 5, LIU Brooklyn 0
Seton Hill 9, California (Pa.) 5
Shepherd 4, Charleston (W.Va.) 1
Susquehanna 12, Juniata 4
Thiel 7-7, Mount Aloysius 4-3, 1st
game, 11 innings
Thomas 4, Castleton 3
UConn 3, Columbia 0
Utica 5-4, Houghton 0-5
W. Va. Wesleyan 2, Wheeling Jesuit 1
Yale 5, Bucknell 4
SOUTH
Asbury 9-1, Ohio Christian 8-3
Augusta (Ga.) 15-14, Georgia Southwestern 2-0
Austin Peay 16, Murray St. 11
Barton 5, Southern Wesleyan 1
Berry 8, Rhodes 7
Campbell 7, Charleston Southern 5
Campbellsville 7-15, Georgetown (Ky.)
6-4
Charlotte 7, Louisiana Tech 4
Coker 4-1, Carson-Newman 3-6
Cumberland (Tenn.) 10-6, St. Catharine 8-0
Erskine 1, Mount Olive 0
Evansville 10-5, E. Kentucky 2-6
FAU 5, UAB 0
Georgia Tech 6, North Carolina 0
Hendrix 6-6, Sewanee 3-4
Huntingdon 5-8, Maryville (Tenn.) 4-0
Jackson St. 10, Alabama A&M 9
Kentucky 7, Florida 4
Kentucky St. 17, Lane 7
King (Tenn.) 14-6, Limestone 1-7
Lincoln Memorial 15-11, Davis & Elkins
1-8
Lindsey Wilson 7-11, Cumberlands 410
Lipscomb 11, MVSU 1, 7 innings
Louisiana-Lafayette 4, Georgia St. 1
Loyola (NO) 12, Blue Mountain 6
Martin Methodist 7-15, Brewton-Parker 0-5
Miami 5, Clemson 4, 11 innings
Milligan 6, Reinhardt 5
Montevallo 11, S.C.-Aiken 9
Morehead St. 9, Belmont 0
Notre Dame 5, Virginia Tech 2
Oakland 6-12, N. Kentucky 1-4
Oakland City 7-2, Brescia 3-0
Oglethorpe 5-6, Centre 2-1
Ohio Valley 5-0, Kentucky Wesleyan
4-3
Pittsburgh 5, Boston College 4
Radford 6, Longwood 5
Savannah St. 4, N.C. Central 2
Shenandoah 7, Hampden-Sydney 1
Shorter 3, Ala.-Huntsville 2
SE Missouri 26, UT Martin 2
Tenn. Wesleyan 4-7, Bryan 3-9
UCF 8, Cornell 3
UNC Greensboro 5, Georgetown 4
UNC Pembroke 10, Young Harris 3
Valdosta St. 7, Lee 6
Wake Forest 3, Duke 2, 10 innings
West Alabama 3, Union (Tenn.) 1
West Florida 5, Christian Bros. 0
Winthrop 6, High Point 2
W. Kentucky 10, Middle Tennessee 4
MIDWEST
Bellarmine 6, S. Indiana 3
Cal Poly 7, Wichita St. 6
Concord 7, Urbana 3
Concordia (St.P) 11, Bemidji St. 7
Cornell (Iowa) 8-10, Dominican (Ill.)
0-6
Dubuque 9, North Central (Minn.) 2
Illinois 6, Penn St. 1
Ill.-Springfield 7, McKendree 1
Lewis 3, Wis.-Parkside 1
Lindenwood 6, SW Baptist 5
Milwaukee 1, Youngstown St. 0
Missouri S&T 4, Drury 2
North Central (Ill.) 6, Wis. Lutheran 1
Missouri Western 21, Northeastern St.
5
Quincy 10, Truman 3
St. Joseph’s (Ind.) 4, Indianapolis 3
Saint Louis 7, Dayton 2
Texas-Permian Basin 2, Newman 1
Upper Iowa 6, Minot St. 5
Virginia-Wise 6, Notre Dame (Ohio) 3
William Jewell 8, Rockhurst 6
William Penn 8-0, MidAmerica Nazarene 2-2
Xavier 6, Cincinnati 3
SOUTHWEST
Ark.-Monticello 9, Ouachita 1
Arkansas Tech 8, SE Oklahoma 4
CSU Stanislaus 5, Cal St. San Marcos 2
East Central 13, Harding 11
Georgia Southern 9, Arkansas St. 7
Houston Baptist 3, Cent. Arkansas 2
South Alabama 3, Texas St. 2
SW Oklahoma 5, Oklahoma Baptist 1
Texas A&M-Kingsville 11, Tarleton St.
3
FAR WEST
New Mexico 2, San Diego St. 1
Eastern Conference
W L T Pts GF GA
Montreal
2 1 0
6
6 4
Philadelphia
2 1 0
6
5 3
Orlando City
1 0 2
5
4 3
New York City FC 1 1 2
5
7 7
Toronto FC
1 1 1
4
4 3
New York
1 2 0
3
4 8
New England
0 1 3
3
4 7
Chicago
0 1 2
2
4 5
D.C. United
0 2 2
2
2 8
Columbus
0 2 1
1
2 4
Western Conference
W L T Pts GF GA
Sporting KC
3 0 0
9
4 1
FC Dallas
3 1 0
9
7 5
Los Angeles
2 1 0
6
7 3
Vancouver
2 2 0
6
6 6
San Jose
2 1 0
6
4 4
Real Salt Lake
1 0 2
5
6 5
Houston
1 2 1
4 11 8
Portland
1 1 1
4
5 5
Colorado
1 1 1
4
2 2
Seattle
0 3 0
0
2 5
Note: Three points for victory, one
point for tie.
Saturday’s games
New York City FC 1, New England 1,
tie
FC Dallas 3, D.C. United 0
Vancouver 1, Houston 0
Friday’s games
New York at New England
Saturday, April 2
Philadelphia at Chicago
Toronto FC at Colorado
Real Salt Lake at Sporting Kansas City
Columbus at FC Dallas
Montreal at Seattle
Los Angeles at Vancouver
D.C. United at San Jose
Sunday, April 3
Portland at Orlando City
Friday, April 8
Orlando City at Philadelphia
Saturday, April 9
Columbus at Montreal
Toronto FC at New England
Vancouver at D.C. United
Sporting Kansas City at New York
San Jose at FC Dallas
Colorado at Real Salt Lake
Sunday, April 10
Seattle at Houston
Chicago at New York City FC
Portland at Los Angeles
World Golf Championships
At Austin Country Club
Austin, Texas
Yardage: 7,703. Par: 71
Fourth round
Saturday
(Seedings in parentheses)
Chris Kirk (54), United States, def. Bill
Haas (30), United States, 2 and 1.
Rory McIlroy (3), Northern Ireland, def.
Zach Johnson (14), United States, 1 up.
Brooks Koepka (18), United States, def.
Matt Kuchar (28), United States, 1 up.
Jason Day (2), Australia, def. Brandt
Snedeker (15), United States, 3 and 2.
Rafa Cabrera Bello (52), Spain, def.
Byeong-Hun An (27), South Korea, 11
holes, An withdrew.
Ryan Moore (45), United States, def.
Patton Kizzire (63), United States, 4 and
3.
Dustin Johnson (8), United States, def.
Patrick Reed (9), United States, 3 and 2.
Louis Oosthuizen (16), South Africa,
def. Jordan Spieth (1), United States, 4
and 2.
Quarterfinals
Rory McIlroy (3), Northern Ireland, def.
Chris Kirk (54), United States, 4 and 3.
Jason Day (2), Australia, def. Brooks
Koepka (18), United States, 3 and 2.
Rafa Cabrera Bello (52), Spain, def.
Ryan Moore (45), United States, 2 and 1.
Louis Oosthuizen (16), South Africa,
def. Dustin Johnson (8), United States, 2
and 1.
CIT
Semifinals
Sunday, March 27
NJIT (20-14) at Columbia (23-10)
UC Irvine (27-9) at Coastal Carolina
(21-11)
Championship
March 29
Semifinal winners
CBI
Championship Series
(Best-of-three)
Monday, March 28: Morehead State
(22-12) vs. Nevada (22-13)
Wednesday, March 30: Morehead
State vs. Nevada
Friday, April 1: Morehead State vs.
Nevada
Vegas 16
At Las Vegas
First Round
Monday, March 28
Tennessee Tech (19-11) vs. Old Dominion (22-13)
Northern Illinois (21-12) vs. UC Santa
Barbara (18-13)
Oakland (21-11) vs. Towson (20-12)
Louisiana Tech (23-9) vs. ETSU (23-11)
Men’s
NCAA Division II Tournament
At Frisco Texas
Semifinals
Thursday, March 24
Lincoln Memorial 103, West Liberty 102
Augustana (S.D.) 74, Western Oregon 55
Championship
Saturday, March 26
Augustana (S.D.) 90, Lincoln Memorial 81
Women’s NIT
Quarterfinals
Sunday, March 27
Western Kentucky (27-6) at South Dakota (29-6)
Monday, March 28
Hofstra (25-8) at Florida Gulf Coast (31-5)
Temple (23-11) at Michigan (20-13)
Oregon (23-10) at UTEP (29-4)
WBI
Championship
Saturday, March 26
La.-Lafayette 87, Weber State 85, 2OT
Women’s
NCAA Division II Tournament
Championship
At Indianapolis
Monday, April 4
Lubbock Christian vs. Alaska Anchorage
Women’s
NCAA Division III Tournament
Championship
Monday, April 4
At Indianapolis
Tufts vs. Thomas More
College hockey
NCAA Division I Tournament
MIDWEST REGIONAL
At Cincinnati
First Round
Friday, March 25
North Dakota 6, Northeastern 2
Michigan 3, Notre Dame 2, OT
Regional Championship
Saturday, March 26
North Dakota 5, Michigan 2
NORTHEAST REGIONAL
At Worcester, Mass.
First Round
Friday, March 25
Minnesota-Duluth 2, Providence 1, 2OT
Boston College 4, Harvard 1
Regional Championship
Saturday, March 26
Boston College 3, Minnesota-Duluth 2
WEST REGIONAL
At St. Paul, Minn.
First Round
Saturday, March 26
Ferris State 5, St. Cloud State 4, OT
Denver 7, Boston U. 2
Regional Championship
Sunday, March 27
Ferris State (20-14-6) vs. Denver (24-9-6)
EAST REGIONAL
At Albany, N.Y.
First Round
Saturday, March 26
Quinnipiac 4, RIT 0
Massachussets-Lowell 3, Yale 2, OT
Sunday, March 27
Quinnipiac (30-3-7) vs. Massachussets-Lowell (26-9-5)
FROZEN FOUR
At Tampa, Fla.
Semifinals
Thursday, April 7
East champion vs. Northeast champion
West champion vs. Midwest champion
Championship
Saturday, April 9
East-Northeast winner vs. West-Midwest winner
Saturday
FC Dallas 3, DC United 0
FC Dallas
2 1—3
D.C. United
0 0—0
First half—1, FC Dallas, Barrios 1, 14th
minute. 2, FC Dallas, Barrios 2 (Diaz),
28th.
Second half—3, FC Dallas, Urruti 3
(Castillo, Diaz), 52nd.
Goalies—FC Dallas, Chris Seitz; D.C.
United, Travis Worra.
Yellow Cards—Gruezo, FC Dallas, 30th;
Sarvas, D.C. United, 37th; Barrios, FC Dallas, 60th; Rolfe, D.C. United, 61st.
Red Cards—Sarvas, D.C. United, 66th.
A—14,201 (45,596)
Whitecaps 1, Dynamo 0
Houston
0 0—0
Vancouver
1 0—1
First half—1, Vancouver, Morales 4
(penalty kick), 23rd minute.
Goalies—Houston, Joe Willis; Vancouver, David Ousted.
Yellow Cards—Laba, Vancouver, 76th;
Kah, Vancouver, 90th+.
A—22,120 ()
Revolution 1,
New York City FC 1
New England
1 0—1
New York City
1 0—1
First half—1, New York City FC, McNamara 2, 10th minute. 2, New England,
Tierney 1, 38th.
Goalies—New England, Bobby Shuttleworth; New York City FC, Josh Saunders.
Yellow Cards—Iraola, New York City
FC, 36th; Bravo, New York City FC, 55th;
Caldwell, New England, 65th; Pirlo, New
York City FC, 68th; McNamara, New York
City FC, 90th+.
Red Cards—Koffie, New England, 51st.
A—23,425 (49,642)
Puerto Rico Open
PGA Tour
Saturday
At Coco Beach Golf & Country Club
Rio Grande, Puerto Rico
Purse: $3 million
Yardage: 7,506; Par 72
Third Round
Ian Poulter
71-66-68—205 -11
Tony Finau
69-70-67—206 -10
Jonathan Byrd
70-68-68—206 -10
Steve Marino
70-67-69—206 -10
Scott Brown
71-69-67—207 -9
Aaron Baddeley
66-72-69—207 -9
Rafael Campos
64-71-72—207 -9
Nick Taylor
70-71-67—208 -8
Freddie Jacobson
69-69-70—208 -8
Will MacKenzie
66-71-71—208 -8
Kyle Reifers
67-70-71—208 -8
Jorge Fernandez-Valdes 72-69-68—209 -7
Rodolfo Cazaubon
70-70-69—209 -7
Graham DeLaet
70-69-70—209 -7
Derek Fathauer
70-68-71—209 -7
Mark Hubbard
67-70-72—209 -7
Alex Cejka
66-71-72—209 -7
Cameron Percy
69-71-70—210 -6
Andres Romero
70-73-68—211 -5
David Toms
73-69-69—211 -5
Tim Wilkinson
71-71-69—211 -5
Scott Langley
72-70-69—211 -5
Kelly Kraft
72-69-70—211 -5
Erik Compton
71-70-70—211 -5
Cameron Smith
72-69-70—211 -5
Luke List
70-70-71—211 -5
Patrick Rodgers
69-70-72—211 -5
Luke Guthrie
69-70-72—211 -5
Boo Weekley
72-71-69—212 -4
Brice Garnett
72-71-69—212 -4
Henrik Norlander
72-70-70—212 -4
Tyler Aldridge
69-73-70—212 -4
Rod Pampling
69-72-71—212 -4
Billy Mayfair
67-74-71—212 -4
Michael Bradley
67-72-73—212 -4
Kia Classic
LPGA Tour
Saturday
At Aviara Golf Club
Carlsbad, Calif.
Purse: $1.7 million
Yardage: 6,593; Par: 72
Third Round
Lydia Ko
68-67-67—202
Sung Hyun Park
71-66-68—205
Brittany Lang
67-68-70—205
Jenny Shin
69-65-71—205
Inbee Park
67-69-70—206
Jessica Korda
70-67-70—207
Suzann Pettersen
70-72-66—208
Na Yeon Choi
70-69-69—208
Haru Nomura
70-69-69—208
Mi Jung Hur
68-71-69—208
Candie Kung
75-69-65—209
Danielle Kang
73-70-66—209
Jodi Ewart Shadoff
67-71-71—209
Hyo Joo Kim
70-66-73—209
Paula Creamer
72-72-66—210
Shanshan Feng
71-69-70—210
Ai Miyazato
67-72-71—210
-14
-11
-11
-11
-10
-9
-8
-8
-8
-8
-7
-7
-7
-7
-6
-6
-6
Deals
Saturday’s transactions
BASEBALL
American League
CLEVELAND INDIANS — Optioned RHP
Austin Adams, OF Joey Butler and INFs
Erik Gonzalez and Giovanny Urshela
to Columbus (IL). Reassigned C Adam
Moore to minor league camp.
DETROIT TIGERS — Optioned OF Steven Moya and SS Dixon Machado to Toledo (IL).
LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Assigned RHP
Deolis Guerra outright to Salt Lake (PCL).
Optioned C Jeff Bandy to Salt Lake. Reassigned RHP Roman Ramirez and C Juan
Graterol to their minor-league camp.
MINNESOTA TWINS — Released OF
Ryan Sweeney. Optioned C John Hicks
and OF Max Kepler to Rochesters (IL).
NEW YORK YANKEES — Optioned LHP
James Pazos and RHP Nick Rumbelow to
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL). Reassigned
1B Chris Parmelee to minor league
camp.
TEXAS RANGERS — Reassigned OF
James Jones to minor league camp.
National League
ATLANTA BRAVES — Optioned RHP
Ryan Weber and LHP Ian Krol to Gwinnett (IL).
CINCINNATI REDS — Agreed to terms
with RHP Ross Ohlendorf on a one-year
contract.
HOCKEY
National Hockey League
CALGARY FLAMES — Assigned D Tyler
Wotherspoon to Stockton (AHL).
FLORIDA LIGHTNING — Assigned D
Josh Brown from Portland (AHL) to Manchester (ECHL).
TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Recalled D
Slater Koekkoek and F Joel Vermin from
Syracuse (AHL) and F Brian Hart from
Greenville (ECHL) to Syracuse.
WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Assigned
F Caleb Herbert from Hershey (AHL) to
South Carolina (ECHL).
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SPORTS BRIEFS/NBA
Briefly
Coach K apologizes
for postgame chat
Associated Press
DURHAM, N.C. — Duke coach
Mike Krzyzewski says he has
apologized to Oregon coach Dana
Altman for his postgame conversation with Dillon Brooks.
In a statement issued Saturday, Krzyzewski said “it is not
my place to talk to another team’s
player” and he hoped he “did not
create a distraction” for the topseeded Ducks.
Oregon lost to Oklahoma 8068 on Saturday night in the West
Regional final of the NCAA
Tournament.
Brooks hit a long three-pointer
with the shot clock expiring in the
final seconds of the Ducks’ 82-68
victory over Duke on Thursday
night. In the handshake line,
Krzyzewski had a prolonged discussion with the Oregon guard
— and video of it immediately
went viral.
In the statement, Krzyzewski
said that chat “took the focus
away from the terrific game that
Dillon played.” The Hall of Fame
coach also apologized for responding “incorrectly to a reporter’s question about my comment
to Dillon.”
Altman dismissed Krzyzewski’s concerns after the Ducks’ loss
to Oklahoma.
“He called and apologized,
and I told him he didn’t need to,”
Altman said. “Someone that has
accomplished what he has accomplished and makes a comment to
one of my players is perfectly fine
with me, and it didn’t bother me
at all. It bothered a lot of people.
It didn’t bother me. It didn’t bother Dillon, and Dillon’s response
proved that.”
In the locker room after Thursday’s game, Brooks said that
Krzyzewski told him “I’m too
good of a player to be showing
[off] at the end.”
In his ensuing news conference,
Krzyzewski disputed Brooks’ version of events and appeared angry
when it was brought up.
“I didn’t say that,” Krzyzewski
said. “You can say whatever you
want. Dillon Brooks is a hell of a
player. I said, ‘You’re a terrific
player.’ And you can take whatever
he said and go with it, all right?”
Man arrested after
protesting Cuba game
BRADENTON, Fla. — A
man apparently angered by the
Tampa Bay Rays’ recent trip to
Cuba made his way onto the field
and threw a full can of beer into
the team’s dugout Saturday night
during a spring training game
against the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Nobody was hurt. A member
of the Pirates’ grounds crew and
Rays third base coach Charlie
Montoyo restrained the protester
until police arrived.
The man was arrested and will
be charged with causing a fray,
trespassing and assault, Bradenton police Lt. John Affolter said.
Brewers’ Smith injures
knee putting on shoes
PHOENIX — The Milwaukee
Brewers will start the season
without reliever Will Smith, who
tore a ligament in his right knee
while taking his spikes off after a
game.
Smith, who was set to share closer duties with Jeremy Jeffress, received the diagnosis Friday night
and was awaiting test results to
determine if surgery is necessary.
Smith said he was getting ready
to shower after pitching in a minor
league game on Thursday and was
standing on one leg to take off his
other shoe when he lost his balance and twisted the knee.
“I pulled hard (on the shoe) and
it stayed on,” he said. “My knee
just went up and popped. Everyone tells you there is nothing you
can do about it, but you still feel
like you are letting people down.”
Smith tore his lateral collateral
ligament.
Spieth eliminated; Day
to face McIlroy
AUSTIN, Texas — Jordan Spieth lost his match. Then he lost
his No. 1 ranking.
Jason Day assured a return
to the top of the world ranking
Saturday when he advanced to
the semifinals of the Dell Match
Play. His reward is to face Rory
McIlroy, who ran his unbeaten
streak to 12 matches in this event
and needs two more to join Tiger
Woods as the only players to win
in consecutive years.
This is only the second time
since the Match Play began in
1999 that the No. 2 (Day) and No.
3 (McIlroy) seeds have met in the
semifinals.
Louis Oosthuizen eliminated
Spieth with a 4-and-2 victory.
JULIE JACOBSON /AP
Cavaliers forward LeBron James blocks a shot by Knicks forward Carmelo Anthony as Cavaliers center
Timofey Mozgov helps defend Saturday in New York. Cleveland won 107-93.
NBA roundup
LeBron helps Cavs regroup
Associated Press
NEW YORK — LeBron James
is feeling stronger as the season
gets shorter.
If you don’t believe him, ask
Lou Amundson.
James had 27 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists in his third
triple-double of the season, Kevin
Love added 28 points and 12 rebounds, and the Cleveland Cavaliers beat the New York Knicks
107-93 on Saturday night.
James also picked up a technical foul when he stared at
Amundson after driving to the
rim and ferociously dunking over
the Knicks forward and Kristaps
Porzingis.
“I haven’t jumped out of my
seat like that in a long time,” Love
said. “I’m usually out of my seat,
clapping, yelling, but I ran with
J.R. (Smith) to about, almost to
the basket. That was impressive.
That was a strong man there.”
Even with Kyrie Irving resting,
the Cavaliers easily bounced back
from a loss in Brooklyn on Thursday, shutting the Knicks down in
the first half.
Smith finished with 13 points
in the Cavs’ sixth straight victory
over the Knicks.
Carmelo Anthony scored 28
points after a brutal start for the
Knicks, who were coming off a
home-and-home sweep of Chicago. Porzingis had 19.
James recorded his 42nd career triple-double and moved
within three points of Dominique
Wilkins for 12th place on the
NBA’s scoring list.
James made it clear Saturday
morning he believes the Cavs
have enough to win the title, and
they looked it during a dominant
first half. They held the Knicks to
15 points in the first quarter and
17 in the second, with James and
Love taking turns carrying the
offense as Cleveland took a 24point lead.
Raptors 115, Pelicans 91:
DeMar DeRozan scored 23
points, Patrick Patterson had 16
and visiting Toronto snapped a
two-game losing streak to tie a
franchise record with their 49th
victory of the season.
Hawks 112, Pistons 95: Paul
Millsap had 23 points and nine
rebounds, and visiting Atlanta
snapped Detroit’s five-game win-
ning streak.
Nets 120, Pacers 110: Brook
Lopez scored 23 points, Bojan
Bogdanovic added 18, and host
Brooklyn beat Indiana.
Magic 111, Bulls 89: Orlando journeyman center Dewayne
Dedmon scored a career-high 18
points and grabbed 13 rebounds,
Jason Smith added 14 off the
bench and the host Magic dealt
Chicago a blow to their fading
playoff hopes.
Jazz 93, Timberwolves 84:
Gordon Hayward scored 16 of his
18 points in the fourth quarter and
road-weary Utah finished a fivegame road trip with a victory.
Hornets 115, Bucks 91:
Nicolas Batum scored 23 of his 25
points in the first half and visiting
Charlotte used a three-point barrage to rout Milwaukee.
Celtics 102, Suns 99: Isaiah
Thomas scored 28 points against
his former team, and visiting
Boston held off Phoenix despite
almost blowing a 21-point lead.
Trail Blazers 108, 76ers 105:
C.J. McCollum converted a threepoint play with 7.6 seconds left to
break a tie and lift host Portland
past Philadelphia.
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NBA
Scoreboard
Eastern Conference
Hornets 115, Bucks 91
y-Cleveland
x-Toronto
Atlanta
Boston
Miami
Charlotte
Indiana
Detroit
W
52
49
44
43
42
42
38
39
L
21
23
30
30
30
31
34
35
Pct
.712
.681
.595
.589
.583
.575
.528
.527
GB
—
2½
8½
9
9½
10
13½
13½
Chicago
Washington
Orlando
Milwaukee
New York
Brooklyn
Philadelphia
36
35
30
30
30
21
9
36
37
43
44
44
51
64
.500
.486
.411
.405
.405
.292
.123
15½
16½
22
22½
22½
30½
43
Western Conference
y-Golden State
y-San Antonio
y-Oklahoma City
L.A. Clippers
Memphis
Portland
Houston
Utah
SUE OGROCKI /AP
Thunder forward Kevin Durant, right, shoots over Spurs guard Andre
Miller, left, in the second quarter Saturday. Oklahoma won 111-92.
Thunder cruises
by Spurs backups
BY CLIFF BRUNT
Associated Press
OKLAHOMA CITY — The
Thunder didn’t face the San Antonio Spurs’ biggest stars, but
they’ll take the win.
Kevin Durant scored 31 points
and Russell Westbrook added 29
to help the Thunder defeat the
short-handed Spurs 111-92 on
Saturday night.
It wasn’t the late-season showdown that was anticipated when
the schedule first came out — the
Spurs rested Kawhi Leonard, LaMarcus Aldridge, Tim Duncan,
Manu Ginobili and Tony Parker.
The game also had little effect
on the standings. San Antonio is
likely to finish second in the Western Conference and the Thunder
are virtually locked into third.
But the Thunder, who won their
seventh straight, said it was important to maintain momentum.
“Another opportunity for us to
keep growing and building our
habits,” Durant said. “It wasn’t on
us that they didn’t play their starters. We just had to continue to play
our game and do what we do.”
Enes Kanter had 20 points and
10 rebounds, and Serge Ibaka
added 15 points and eight rebounds for Oklahoma City.
David West and Jonathon Simmons each scored 17 points for the
Spurs, who had won eight of nine.
Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said
he thought his team played hard,
but didn’t have the talent avail-
able to keep up.
“They did what they were supposed to do in the end and they
kicked our butt,” Popovich said.
“We hung in there really well and
did a good job. You learn from everything. Win or lose, it doesn’t
matter.”
Westbrook scored 20 points in
the first half to help the Thunder
take a 48-44 lead into the break.
Andre Roberson hit a threepointer, then Westbrook rebounded a missed free throw and found
Steven Adams running down the
middle of the lane for a dunk.
Westbrook then set Ibaka up for
a dunk to push Oklahoma City’s
lead to 69-56.
Westbrook uncorked a powerful one-handed jam to bump
Oklahoma City’s lead to 74-59
late in the third quarter. Durant
scored nine points in the period
to help the Thunder take an 83-63
edge into the fourth.
“I think it was that little spurt in
the moment that we didn’t make
stops, and they made tough shots,
and at the same time, we didn’t
score,” Spurs forward Boris Diaw
said.
The Spurs didn’t want to make
excuses.
“I mean, we are professional,
so we are going to give the effort,” West said. “When you are
down a few guys like we are in a
game like this against a high-caliber opponent, you almost have to
be mistake free to give yourself a
chance.”
W
65
61
51
44
41
38
36
36
L
7
12
22
27
32
36
37
37
Pct
.903
.836
.699
.620
.562
.514
.493
.493
GB
—
4½
14½
20½
24½
28
29½
29½
Dallas
35
37 .486 30
Denver
31
42 .425 34½
Sacramento
28 44 .389 37
New Orleans
26 46 .361 39
Minnesota
24 49 .329 41½
Phoenix
20 53 .274 45½
L.A. Lakers
15
57 .208 50
d-division leader
x-clinched playoff spot
y-clinched division
Friday’s games
Minnesota 132, Washington 129,2OT
Detroit 112, Charlotte 105
Houston 112, Toronto 109
Miami 108, Orlando 97
Atlanta 101, Milwaukee 90
San Antonio 110, Memphis 104
Sacramento 116, Phoenix 94
Golden State 128, Dallas 120
Denver 116, L.A. Lakers 105
Saturday’s games
Brooklyn 120, Indiana 110
Toronto 115, New Orleans 91
Orlando 111, Chicago 89
Atlanta 112, Detroit 95
Cleveland 107, New York 93
Utah 93, Minnesota 84
Oklahoma City 111, San Antonio 92
Charlotte 115, Milwaukee 91
Boston 102, Phoenix 99
Portland 108, Philadelphia 105
Sunday’s games
Denver at L.A. Clippers
Dallas at Sacramento
Houston at Indiana
Philadelphia at Golden State
Washington at L.A. Lakers
Monday’s games
Oklahoma City at Toronto
Brooklyn at Miami
Atlanta at Chicago
Phoenix at Minnesota
New York at New Orleans
San Antonio at Memphis
Dallas at Denver
L.A. Lakers at Utah
Sacramento at Portland
Boston at L.A. Clippers
Saturday
Celtics 102, Suns 99
BOSTON — Turner 6-14 5-6 17, Johnson
1-1 0-0 2, Sullinger 2-8 0-0 4, Thomas 8-20
10-11 28, Bradley 5-16 4-4 15, Smart 2-7 56 9, Olynyk 7-10 0-0 16, Jerebko 3-5 0-0 9,
Rozier 1-3 0-0 2. Totals 35-84 24-27 102.
PHOENIX — Jenkins 3-3 0-0 9, Tucker 38 3-3 9, Len 5-8 0-1 10, Knight 5-16 7-7 19,
Booker 8-20 4-4 21, Teletovic 7-17 2-4 17,
Goodwin 3-4 2-2 8, Price 0-4 0-0 0, Budinger 3-5 0-0 6. Totals 37-85 18-21 99.
Boston
35 23 23 21—102
Phoenix
22 19 34 24— 99
Three-point
goals—Boston
8-29
(Jerebko 3-5, Olynyk 2-4, Thomas 27, Bradley 1-7, Turner 0-1, Smart 0-5),
Phoenix 7-31 (Jenkins 3-3, Knight 2-12,
Booker 1-4, Teletovic 1-7, Budinger 0-1,
Tucker 0-2, Price 0-2). Fouled Out—None.
Rebounds—Boston 54 (Turner 11), Phoenix 49 (Tucker 10). Assists—Boston 14
(Smart 4), Phoenix 19 (Tucker 5). Total
Fouls—Boston 23, Phoenix 24. Technicals—Thomas, Boston defensive three
second. A—18,055 (18,055).
CHARLOTTE — Batum 8-15 4-4 25, Williams 8-12 1-2 21, Zeller 2-4 0-0 4, Walker
5-11 5-5 18, Lee 5-9 0-0 12, Jefferson 4-8
7-10 15, Lin 4-5 0-0 9, Kaminsky 2-3 0-0 4,
Lamb 0-1 0-0 0, Hawes 0-2 0-0 0, Hansbrough 0-1 0-0 0, Daniels 3-3 0-0 7, Gutierrez 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 41-74 17-21 115.
MILWAUKEE — Antetokounmpo 3-9
2-2 8, Parker 6-13 2-2 15, Monroe 3-7 68 12, Bayless 1-7 0-0 2, Middleton 6-10
0-0 13, Vaughn 2-7 0-0 5, Henson 8-10 33 19, Plumlee 3-5 0-0 6, Ennis 4-10 0-0 9,
O’Bryant 1-4 0-0 2, Inglis 0-2 0-0 0. Totals
37-84 13-15 91.
Charlotte
29 26 35 25—115
Milwaukee
17 21 26 27— 91
Three-point goals—Charlotte 16-29
(Batum 5-9, Williams 4-7, Walker 3-6,
Lee 2-4, Daniels 1-1, Lin 1-2), Milwaukee
4-16 (Parker 1-2, Vaughn 1-2, Middleton
1-3, Ennis 1-4, Inglis 0-1, Bayless 0-1, Antetokounmpo 0-3). Fouled Out—None.
Rebounds—Charlotte 42 (Williams 8),
Milwaukee 44 (Henson 8). Assists—Charlotte 30 (Batum 8), Milwaukee 26 (Ennis
12). Total Fouls—Charlotte 11, Milwaukee
16. A—15,544 (18,717).
Thunder 111, Spurs 92
SAN ANTONIO — Anderson 3-7 0-0 7,
Diaw 4-6 2-2 10, Marjanovic 5-12 3-4 13,
Mills 4-10 0-0 10, Green 1-6 0-0 2, West 716 3-3 17, Martin 1-9 1-1 3, Bonner 1-2 0-0
2, Miller 4-7 3-3 11, Simmons 7-11 2-4 17.
Totals 37-86 14-17 92.
OKLAHOMA CITY — Durant 13-20 00 31, Ibaka 7-12 0-0 15, Adams 4-5 1-2 9,
Westbrook 10-18 9-9 29, Roberson 2-2 00 5, Singler 0-1 0-0 0, Kanter 7-12 6-7 20,
Waiters 0-4 0-0 0, Payne 0-5 0-0 0, Foye 1-6
0-0 2. Totals 44-85 16-18 111.
San Antonio
26 18 19 29— 92
Oklahoma City
24 24 35 28—111
Three-point goals—San Antonio 4-15
(Mills 2-6, Anderson 1-1, Simmons 1-1,
Martin 0-1, Diaw 0-2, Green 0-4), Oklahoma City 7-20 (Durant 5-7, Roberson 1-1,
Ibaka 1-4, Westbrook 0-2, Foye 0-3, Payne
0-3). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—San
Antonio 40 (Miller 8), Oklahoma City 55
(Kanter, Durant 10). Assists—San Antonio
14 (West, Anderson 3), Oklahoma City 19
(Westbrook 8). Total Fouls—San Antonio
17, Oklahoma City 18. Technicals—Diaw,
Westbrook. A—18,203 (18,203).
Jazz 93, Timberwolves 84
UTAH — Hayward 7-15 2-2 18, Favors
8-15 3-3 19, Gobert 2-3 1-2 5, Mack 3-14
0-0 6, Hood 7-11 0-0 15, Booker 0-3 0-0 0,
Ingles 3-5 0-0 8, Neto 2-6 0-0 5, Lyles 69 0-0 15, Johnson 1-2 0-0 2. Totals 39-83
6-7 93.
MINNESOTA — Wiggins 4-12 5-7 13, Dieng 2-6 0-0 4, Towns 6-12 2-2 14, Rubio 912 3-4 23, LaVine 3-11 2-2 9, Smith 1-5 0-0
2, Jones 2-7 4-4 8, Muhammad 4-12 0-0 8,
Bjelica 1-5 0-0 3, Prince 0-2 0-0 0. Totals
32-84 16-19 84.
Utah
18 17 25 33—93
Minnesota
10 24 25 25—84
Three-point goals—Utah 9-21 (Lyles 35, Hayward 2-3, Ingles 2-4, Neto 1-2, Hood
1-3, Mack 0-4), Minnesota 4-11 (Rubio 22, LaVine 1-2, Bjelica 1-2, Jones 0-1, Wiggins 0-1, Prince 0-1, Towns 0-2). Fouled
Out—None. Rebounds—Utah 51 (Gobert
11), Minnesota 49 (Towns 11). Assists—
Utah 21 (Mack 6), Minnesota 18 (Rubio
6). Total Fouls—Utah 16, Minnesota 13.
A—14,694 (19,356).
Cavaliers 107, Knicks 93
CLEVELAND — James 10-21 5-6 27, Love
10-19 4-6 28, Mozgov 1-4 3-4 5, Smith 5-11
0-0 13, Dellavedova 3-8 1-1 10, M.Williams
3-6 0-0 8, Thompson 0-0 6-8 6, Frye 3-7 00 6, Shumpert 1-3 0-0 2, Jefferson 1-3 0-0
2, Kaun 0-0 0-0 0, McRae 0-1 0-0 0. Totals
37-83 19-25 107.
NEW YORK — Anthony 9-24 5-6 28,
Porzingis 7-16 4-6 19, Lopez 4-8 0-0 8, Vujacic 4-6 0-0 9, Calderon 3-6 0-0 6, Grant
0-2 2-2 2, Seraphin 0-1 0-0 0, Afflalo 2-4
1-5 5, D.Williams 2-7 7-9 11, Galloway 25 0-0 5, Amundson 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 33-79
19-28 93.
Cleveland
32 24 33 18—107
New York
15 17 40 21— 93
Three-point goals—Cleveland 14-34
(Love 4-9, Dellavedova 3-6, Smith 3-8,
M.Williams 2-2, James 2-3, Shumpert 01, Jefferson 0-2, Frye 0-3), New York 8-23
(Anthony 5-9, Vujacic 1-2, Galloway 1-3,
Porzingis 1-5, Grant 0-1, D.Williams 0-1,
Afflalo 0-1, Calderon 0-1). Fouled Out—
None. Rebounds—Cleveland 59 (Love 12),
New York 48 (Anthony 9). Assists—Cleveland 21 (James 10), New York 20 (Calderon 7). Total Fouls—Cleveland 23, New
York 23. Technicals—James, Anthony.
A—19,812 (19,763).
Hawks 112, Pistons 95
ATLANTA — Bazemore 7-9 0-0 17,
Millsap 8-14 4-5 23, Horford 6-15 0-0 13,
Teague 3-12 4-4 12, Korver 5-10 1-1 12,
Schroder 5-14 0-0 11, Humphries 5-8 1-1
11, Hardaway Jr. 1-8 1-1 3, Scott 3-5 2-2 10,
Muscala 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 43-95 13-14 112.
DETROIT — Harris 10-20 0-0 21, Morris
3-12 5-6 13, Drummond 7-11 5-9 19, Jackson 4-12 1-1 11, Caldwell-Pope 3-13 1-2 9,
Tolliver 0-4 0-0 0, Johnson 1-5 2-2 4, Blake
1-4 1-2 3, Baynes 5-6 5-6 15, Hilliard 0-1 0-0
0. Totals 34-88 20-28 95.
Atlanta
27 29 27 29—112
Detroit
15 27 32 21— 95
Three-point goals—Atlanta 13-34 (Millsap 3-4, Bazemore 3-5, Teague 2-3, Scott
2-4, Schroder 1-3, Korver 1-5, Horford 1-5,
Humphries 0-2, Hardaway Jr. 0-3), Detroit
7-29 (Jackson 2-4, Morris 2-6, CaldwellPope 2-7, Harris 1-3, Blake 0-2, Johnson
0-3, Tolliver 0-4). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Atlanta 51 (Millsap 9), Detroit
64 (Drummond 17). Assists—Atlanta 34
(Teague 12), Detroit 25 (Blake 6). Total
Fouls—Atlanta 21, Detroit 14. Technicals—Hardaway Jr., Drummond, Johnson.
A—17,857 (22,076).
Magic 111, Bulls 89
CHICAGO — Dunleavy 3-7 3-3 10, Gibson 8-9 0-0 16, Gasol 3-6 1-2 7, Rose 4-14
0-2 9, Butler 5-10 2-4 12, Mirotic 1-7 1-2 4,
McDermott 5-10 0-0 12, Holiday 1-6 2-2 4,
Portis 1-8 2-2 4, Brooks 3-6 0-0 6, Felicio
1-2 0-0 2, Snell 1-3 0-0 3. Totals 36-88 1117 89.
ORLANDO — Fournier 5-9 2-3 12, Gordon 4-9 0-0 9, Dedmon 9-14 0-0 18, Payton
7-9 1-1 15, Hezonja 2-3 0-0 5, Marble 3-6
1-1 8, Watson 2-5 1-2 6, Smith 7-12 0-0 14,
Nicholson 5-13 3-5 14, Jennings 3-5 0-0 7,
Napier 1-4 0-0 3. Totals 48-89 8-12 111.
Chicago
22 28 21 18— 89
Orlando
36 32 21 22—111
Three-point goals—Chicago 6-24 (McDermott 2-2, Dunleavy 1-2, Snell 1-2, Rose
1-4, Mirotic 1-7, Portis 0-1, Butler 0-1,
Brooks 0-1, Gasol 0-1, Holiday 0-3), Orlando 7-19 (Hezonja 1-1, Jennings 1-1, Watson 1-2, Marble 1-2, Napier 1-3, Gordon 13, Nicholson 1-4, Smith 0-1, Fournier 0-2).
Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Chicago
51 (Portis, Felicio 7), Orlando 52 (Dedmon 13). Assists—Chicago 20 (Gasol 8),
Orlando 32 (Payton 10). Total Fouls—Chicago 16, Orlando 21. Technicals—Brooks
2, Gordon. Ejected—Brooks. A—18,846
(18,500).
Raptors 115, Pelicans 91
TORONTO — Powell 5-11 3-3 15, Scola
4-5 0-0 12, Valanciunas 5-8 0-0 10, Lowry
3-13 5-7 11, DeRozan 9-11 4-4 23, Joseph
2-5 1-1 6, Johnson 4-8 2-2 11, Biyombo 1-1
5-6 7, Patterson 5-7 3-3 16, Thompson 1-2
0-0 2, Wright 0-1 0-0 0, Nogueira 0-0 2-2 2,
Caboclo 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 39-73 25-28 115.
NEW ORLEANS — Cunningham 3-12 1-2
7, Ajinca 3-10 3-3 9, Asik 2-6 3-6 7, Douglas 4-14 1-1 11, Gee 8-12 2-4 18, Babbitt
6-11 0-0 14, Frazier 5-9 2-2 12, Perkins 1-1
0-0 2, Hamilton 5-10 1-2 11. Totals 37-85
13-20 91.
Toronto
20 28 37 30—115
New Orleans
15 21 25 30— 91
Three-point goals—Toronto 12-29 (Scola 4-5, Patterson 3-3, Powell 2-6, Joseph
1-1, DeRozan 1-2, Johnson 1-3, Thompson
0-1, Lowry 0-8), New Orleans 4-15 (Babbitt 2-4, Douglas 2-5, Frazier 0-1, Gee 01, Cunningham 0-4). Fouled Out—None.
Rebounds—Toronto 53 (Valanciunas 9),
New Orleans 39 (Gee 8). Assists—Toronto 24 (Lowry 8), New Orleans 22 (Frazier
6). Total Fouls—Toronto 18, New Orleans
18. Technicals—Toronto defensive three
second, Ajinca. A—17,009 (16,867).
Trail Blazers 108, 76ers 105
Nets 120, Pacers 110
PHILADELPHIA — Thompson 6-13 00 17, Grant 4-11 5-10 13, Landry 5-6 2-2
12, Smith 8-14 0-1 17, Canaan 2-11 2-2 6,
Holmes 1-4 2-2 4, Covington 6-17 4-5 17,
Stauskas 4-8 2-2 13, McConnell 2-4 0-0
4, Weems 0-2 0-0 0, Brand 1-1 0-0 2, Marshall 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 39-93 17-24 105.
PORTLAND — Aminu 6-12 5-5 20, Harkless 5-9 5-7 16, Plumlee 3-7 2-4 8, Lillard
6-20 2-2 16, McCollum 9-22 6-6 25, Crabbe
2-8 0-0 4, Henderson 4-7 2-2 11, Davis 2-4
2-4 6, Vonleh 1-1 0-0 2, Roberts 0-1 0-0 0.
Totals 38-91 24-30 108.
Philadelphia
27 22 25 31—105
Portland
31 26 29 22—108
Three-point goals—Philadelphia 10-38
(Thompson 5-11, Stauskas 3-6, Smith 12, Covington 1-9, Grant 0-1, Weems 0-2,
Marshall 0-2, Canaan 0-5), Portland 8-25
(Aminu 3-8, Lillard 2-6, Henderson 1-2,
Harkless 1-3, McCollum 1-3, Crabbe 0-3).
Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Philadelphia 57 (Smith 14), Portland 63 (Davis 13).
Assists—Philadelphia 21 (Smith 9), Portland 21 (Lillard 7). Total Fouls—Philadelphia 22, Portland 21. A—19,506 (19,980).
INDIANA — George 8-21 8-10 27, Turner
2-7 2-2 6, Mahinmi 6-7 6-8 18, G.Hill 7-8 1-1
17, Ellis 1-4 0-0 3, Allen 1-4 2-2 4, Stuckey
1-6 3-4 6, J.Hill 5-7 2-2 12, Lawson 2-5 0-0
5, Miles 4-8 1-1 12, S.Hill 0-0 0-0 0. Totals
37-77 25-30 110.
BROOKLYN — Bogdanovic 7-14 0-0
18, T.Young 4-8 0-0 8, Lopez 7-16 9-13 23,
Larkin 4-6 6-6 14, Karasev 5-7 6-7 17, Hollis-Jefferson 2-3 2-2 6, Kilpatrick 6-9 2-2
14, McCullough 0-4 0-0 0, Sims 2-3 1-1 5,
Sloan 3-3 5-5 11, Brown 2-4 0-0 4. Totals
42-77 31-36 120.
Indiana
29 37 27 17—110
Brooklyn
26 34 25 35—120
Three-point
goals—Indiana
11-24
(Miles 3-5, George 3-10, G.Hill 2-2, Lawson 1-1, Stuckey 1-3, Ellis 1-3), Brooklyn
5-12 (Bogdanovic 4-7, Karasev 1-3, McCullough 0-1, Larkin 0-1). Fouled Out—
None. Rebounds—Indiana 36 (J.Hill 6),
Brooklyn 49 (Lopez 9). Assists—Indiana
24 (Ellis 6), Brooklyn 24 (Sloan, Larkin
5). Total Fouls—Indiana 26, Brooklyn 23.
Technicals—Brooklyn defensive three
second. A—16,625 (17,732).
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Hawks forward Mike Scott
grabs a rebound next to Pistons
forward Stanley Johnson on
Saturday. Atlanta won 112-95.
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NEWS AND NOTES FROM THE WEEKEND
Yokota’s Sonnenberg, Galvin set records
Marks broken in discus, 3,200 at Bonk Field
BY JAMES K IMBER
AND DAVE ORNAUER
Stars and Stripes
YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — The
Kanto Plain track season is only two
weeks old, but it has the look of one
that might be remembered for a while.
The latest to etch their names among
record holders are a pair of Yokotans:
Christian Sonnenberg, a junior who beat
his own northwest Pacific discus record
by just under 4½ meters, and senior
Daniel Galvin, who shaved just under a
second off the Kanto 3,200 record.
Sonnenberg broke his own record
of 51.98 three times in a span of 20
minutes on Saturday at Yokota’s Bonk
Field, first hitting 52.99, then 53.23
and finally 56.40.
“It felt beautiful. That was the most
natural throw I’ve ever felt,” said Sonnenberg, adding that he felt he extended more than typical and released
a split-second later than usual, keeping
his fingers on the disc a bit longer than
normal.
He confessed to worrying that his
practice throws were only going 45 or
46 meters. “This is perfect and gets
me back on track to reaching my goal
of 60,” he said.
Galvin, the former northwest Pacific
1,600 and current 800 record holder,
breached the 10-minute mark in the
3,200 once before, 9:59.37 last season. He obliterated that, with a 9:38.13,
beating American School In Japan’s Rich
Gallagher’s 9:38.90 set in 1984.
Galvin credited losing the previous
week to ASIJ’s Evan Yukevich, the
region’s new 1,600 record holder, for
“lighting a fire under me again.”
“I’ve been training harder and with
greater focus this week — much more
serious, you know — than I ever have
in the last four years,” he said.
Galvin is now less than eight seconds
shy of the 42-year-old region record of
9:31 set in 1974 by Christian Academy
Japan’s Roger Olson.
“It’s always been my goal to have
every distance record before I graduate” in June, Galvin said.
Solid feats were not limited to the
track for Yokota athletes over the weekend. Sophomore Regina Dukat had four
goals and four assists as Panthers girls
soccer swept two matches at E.J. King,
while freshman Troy Barnes threw a
no-hitter Friday, again at the Cobras’
expense.
Zama: Coaches Marc Norton and
Manny Duarte could
have worried at season’s
beginning about replacing
departed Pacific leading
goal scorers Malik Wilkes
and Megan Hurley. But Zach Lowery
(16 goals) and Rachel Norton (15) have
allayed those fears. Lowery scored six
goals and Norton nine as the Trojans
swept weekend matches at Edgren.
Edgren: Brittany Crown and the Eagles continue to climb the
DODEA Japan softball
ladder. The sophomore
pitched two more wins
and hit three home runs,
three triples and a double and drove in
eight runs as Edgren swept Perry 16-0,
19-2 and 37-5. The Eagles are 5-2 this
season.
King: Every time the Cobras have
taken the softball field
against defending D-II
champion Yokota this
season, wins have followed, the latest coming
at home, 16-4 and 16-6. King is 4-2
this season, with all four wins coming
against the Panthers.
Perry: Sophomore Garrett Macias
is becoming the ace of
the Samurai baseball
staff, his latest win 8-1
over Yokota on Saturday.
In two starts, the righthander has allowed six hits, five walks,
one earned run and has struck out 27
batters in 12 2/3 innings.
Kinnick: Red Devils track for the
second straight week
topped the Kanto meet
standings, boys with
227½ points and girls
with 208. Northwest Pacific sprint record holder Jabari Johnson swept the 100, 200 and 400 and
Arlene Avalos did the same in the 800,
1,600 and 3,200.
Kubasaki: Track season opened on
Friday with a brothersister act dominating the
sprints. Senior Kaelyn
Francis and sophomore
JACK HIGBEE /Special to Stars and Stripes
Yokota junior Christian Sonnenberg broke his own northwest Pacific record in the discus (51.98) with a
throw of 56.40 meters during Saturday’s Kanto Plain track and field meet at Yokota.
Mahlik Francis each won the 100 and
200 and anchored their 400-meter
relay teams to victory on a windy, sprinkly evening.
Kadena: Briana Wilson sparked a
comeback win for Panthers softball with a
home run, a double and
five RBIs as Kadena won
8-3 and leveled the season series 1-1 with Kubasaki … Shani
Summers scored a hat trick to boost
Panthers girls soccer past Kyuyo 6-0.
Seoul American: Senior pitcher
Alexis Harrod went nine
innings in three starts,
giving up four hits and six
walks while striking out
21 as the Falcons beat Osan, Daegu
and Humphreys, each by run rule,
to begin the season with a weekend
sweep.
Osan: Andrea Carandang scored in
the final two minutes,
breaking a scoreless
deadlock and boosting
the Cougars past Seoul
American 1-0 to complete the DODEA Korea jamboree unbeaten at 2-0. She had four goals to
power Osan past Daegu 8-0.
Daegu: Sophomore Nathan Scheidt
continues to find the
back of the net for the
Warriors; he scored four
goals in two matches in
the DODEA-Korea jamboree, lifting the
Warriors past Humphreys 4-2 in the
first match before falling late against
Osan 3-2.
Humphreys: Nicole Castro and Natalie Cornwall are forming a
solid 1-2 distance punch
for Blackhawks track.
Castro won the 400 and
800, while Cornwall took
the 1,600 and 3,200 as Humphreys
girls finished second to Seoul American
for the second straight week.
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NHL
Scoreboard
Eastern Conference
z-Washington
d-Florida
N.Y. Rangers
Tampa Bay
Pittsburgh
Boston
N.Y. Islanders
Philadelphia
GP
74
75
75
75
74
76
74
74
W
53
42
43
43
41
40
40
36
L OT Pts GF GA
16 5 111 232 174
24 9 93 216 184
24 8 94 217 196
27 5 91 211 182
25 8 90 211 184
28 8 88 222 207
25 9 89 208 192
25 13 85 193 197
Detroit
New Jersey
Carolina
Ottawa
Montreal
Buffalo
Columbus
Toronto
75
75
75
76
76
75
75
74
37
36
32
34
34
31
30
27
27
31
28
33
36
34
37
36
11
8
15
9
6
10
8
11
85
80
79
77
74
72
68
65
192
169
183
217
201
179
194
181
206
190
204
234
221
202
233
217
Western Conference
BRIAN BLANCO/AP
Panthers right wing Jaromir Jagr, left, controls the puck against
Lightning defenseman Matt Carle during Saturday’s game in Tampa,
Fla. Jagr had a goal and an assist in Florida’s 5-2 victory.
Roundup
Panthers roll past
Bolts, lead Atlantic
Associated Press
TAMPA, Fla. — Jaromir Jagr
had a goal and an assist while
Roberto Luongo made 33 saves
as Florida took over first place in
the Atlantic Division by beating
Tampa Bay 5-2.
Vincent Trocheck, Jiri Hudler,
Jonathan Huberdeau and Jussi
Jokinen also scored for the Panthers, who have a two-point lead
over the Lightning.
Tampa Bay got goals from Tyler
Johnson and Steven Stamkos.
The Lightning were without
right wing Nikita Kucherov, who
took a shot off his foot in a 7-4 win
over the New York Islanders on
Friday night. Right wing Ryan
Callahan, defenseman Anton
Stralman and center Valtteri Filppula also sat for Tampa Bay with
injuries.
Penguins 7, Red Wings 2:
Carl Hagelin scored twice and
Phil Kessel had a goal and four
assists to help Pittsburgh rout
visiting Detroit.
Stars 4, Sharks 2: Mattias
Janmark returned to the lineup
from injury and got his first career two-goal game while Antti
Niemi made 34 saves against his
former team as Dallas beat host
San Jose.
Ducks 4, Senators 3 (OT):
Rickard Rakell scored a powerplay goal in overtime as Anaheim
finished with four straight goals
to beat host Ottawa.
Islanders 4, Hurricanes 3
(OT): Cal Clutterbuck scored a
deflected goal with 13.8 seconds
left in overtime as visiting New
York beat Carolina.
Clutterbuck had two goals, with
his first tying it 30 seconds into
the third period.
Bruins 3, Maple Leafs 1:
Zdeno Chara snapped a 20-game
goal drought as Boston ended
a season-long five-game losing
streak with a victory over host
Toronto.
The win created some muchneeded space in the Eastern Conference playoff race for Boston,
currently third in the Atlantic
Division with 88 points and now
three points up on Detroit.
Wild 4, Avalanche 0: Zach
Parise scored twice and Devan
Dubnyk made 29 saves for his
19th NHL shutout as Minnesota
beat host Colorado in a pivotal
game between two teams contending for the final Western
Conference playoff spot.
Rangers 5, Canadiens 2:
Chris Kreider had two goals and
an assist as New York beat host
Montreal.
Predators 5, Blue Jackets
1: Shea Weber and James Neal
each had a goal and an assist
to lead Nashville over visiting
Columbus.
Sabres 3, Jets 2: Sam Reinhart tied the game and then set
up Jack Eichel’s go-ahead goal
4:07 into the third period, rallying host Buffalo over Winnipeg.
The loss mathematically eliminated the Jets from playoff contention in a matchup of teams out
of the postseason picture.
Blackhawks 4, Flames 1: Andrew Ladd had two goals and an
assist and Scott Darling made
31 saves to lead visiting Chicago
over Calgary.
Kings 6, Oilers 4: Tyler Toffoli had two goals and two assists while Trevor Lewis added
a short-handed goal as host Los
Angeles completed a five-game
season sweep of Edmonton.
Coyotes 2, Flyers 1: Shane
Doan and Mike Stone scored in
the final 4½ minutes of the second period while Mike Smith
made 34 saves as host Arizona
beat Philadelphia.
x-Dallas
x-Los Angeles
x-St. Louis
x-Anaheim
Chicago
San Jose
Nashville
Minnesota
GP
76
75
76
74
75
75
75
76
W
45
45
45
41
43
41
39
37
L
22
25
22
23
25
28
23
28
OT Pts GF GA
9 99 247 218
5 95 206 175
9 99 203 185
10 92 194 177
7 93 209 186
6 88 219 196
13 91 210 190
11 85 206 189
Colorado
75 38 33 4 80 200 212
Arizona
75 34 34 7 75 197 221
Winnipeg
75 31 38 6 68 192 220
Calgary
75 31 38 6 68 205 238
Vancouver
74 27 34 13 67 169 214
Edmonton
78 30 41 7 67 193 232
Note: Two points for a win, one point
for overtime loss.
d-division leader
x-clinched playoff spot
z-clinched conference
Friday’s games
Washington 1, New Jersey 0, OT
Tampa Bay 7, N.Y. Islanders 4
St. Louis 4, Vancouver 0
Saturday’s games
Buffalo 3, Winnipeg 2
Pittsburgh 7, Detroit 2
Minnesota 4, Colorado 0
Dallas 4, San Jose 2
Boston 3, Toronto 1
N.Y. Rangers 5, Montreal 2
Anaheim 4, Ottawa 3, OT
Florida 5, Tampa Bay 2
St. Louis 4, Washington 0
N.Y. Islanders 4, Carolina 3, OT
Nashville 5, Columbus 1
Chicago 4, Calgary 1
Arizona 2, Philadelphia 1
Los Angeles 6, Edmonton 4
Sunday’s games
New Jersey at Carolina
Pittsburgh at N.Y. Rangers
Chicago at Vancouver
Monday’s games
Winnipeg at Philadelphia
Columbus at Washington
Buffalo at Detroit
Toronto at Tampa Bay
Colorado at Nashville
Anaheim at Edmonton
Calgary at Arizona
Los Angeles at San Jose
Saturday
Coyotes 2, Flyers 1
Philadelphia
0 0 1—1
Arizona
0 2 0—2
Second Period—1, Arizona, Doan 26
(Vermette, Tanguay), 15:37 (pp). 2, Arizona, Stone 6 (Duclair, Hanzal), 19:59.
Third Period—3, Philadelphia, Couturier 10 (Gostisbehere, Read), 19:20 (pp).
Shots on Goal—Philadelphia 5-16-14—
35. Arizona 6-7-4—17.
Power-play opportunities—Philadelphia 1 of 5; Arizona 1 of 3.
Goalies—Philadelphia, Mason 19-17-9
(17 shots-15 saves). Arizona, M.Smith 1410-1 (35-34).
A—16,002 (17,125). T—2:44.
Bruins 3, Maple Leafs 1
Boston
0 2 1—3
Toronto
1 0 0—1
First Period—1, Toronto, B.Smith 2
(Greening, Laich), 16:55.
Second Period—2, Boston, Bergeron
29 (Beleskey, Krug), 2:52 (pp). 3, Boston,
Chara 9 (Krejci, Vatrano), 6:29.
Third Period—4, Boston, Beleskey 14
(Eriksson, Krejci), 19:10 (en-pp).
Shots on Goal—Boston 9-11-13—33.
Toronto 11-5-10—26.
Power-play opportunities—Boston 2
of 4; Toronto 0 of 2.
Goalies—Boston, Rask 29-21-7 (26
shots-25 saves). Toronto, Bernier 10-20-3
(32-30).
A—19,185 (18,819). T—2:38.
Blackhawks 4, Flames 1
Chicago
0 2 2—4
Calgary
0 1 0—1
Second Period—1, Chicago, Ladd
21, 5:51. 2, Calgary, D.Hamilton 11
(F.Hamilton, Gaudreau), 12:47. 3, Chicago, Shaw 14 (Rozsival, Ladd), 19:11.
Third Period—4, Chicago, Ladd 22,
18:48 (en). 5, Chicago, Teravainen 12
(Kane, Hjalmarsson), 19:48 (en).
Shots on Goal—Chicago 9-7-11—27.
Calgary 9-12-11—32.
Power-play opportunities—Chicago 0
of 2; Calgary 0 of 2.
Goalies—Chicago, Darling 8-7-3 (32
shots-31 saves). Calgary, Ortio 4-8-4 (2523).
A—19,289 (19,289). T—2:23.
Predators 5, Blue Jackets 1
Panthers 5, Lightning 2
Columbus
1 0 0—1
Nashville
2 2 1—5
First Period—1, Nashville, Neal 30 (Johansen, Josi), 3:04. 2, Columbus, Jenner
28 (Saad), 11:52. 3, Nashville, Ekholm 8
(Ellis, Ribeiro), 17:33.
Second Period—4, Nashville, C.Smith
19 (Weber, Josi), 6:11. 5, Nashville, Weber
18 (Ribeiro, F.Forsberg), 14:14 (pp).
Third Period—6, Nashville, Jarnkrok 14
(Josi, Neal), :23.
Shots on Goal—Columbus 10-3-6—19.
Nashville 27-11-10—48.
Power-play opportunities—Columbus
0 of 1; Nashville 1 of 3.
Goalies—Columbus, Korpisalo 14-10-4
(48 shots-43 saves). Nashville, Rinne 3219-10 (19-18).
A—17,113 (17,113). T—2:24.
Florida
2 1 2—5
Tampa Bay
1 0 1—2
First Period—1, Tampa Bay, Johnson
14 (Nesterov, Palat), 5:52 (pp). 2, Florida,
Trocheck 25 (Jokinen), 13:36. 3, Florida,
Jagr 25 (Barkov, Huberdeau), 18:02 (pp).
Second Period—4, Florida, Hudler 15
(Petrovic, Bjugstad), 15:53.
Third Period—5, Florida, Huberdeau 15
(Barkov, Jagr), 4:02. 6, Tampa Bay, Stamkos 36 (Boyle, Nesterov), 16:48 (pp). 7,
Florida, Jokinen 17, 19:35 (en-sh).
Shots on Goal—Florida 11-10-6—27.
Tampa Bay 12-12-11—35.
Power-play opportunities—Florida 1
of 4; Tampa Bay 2 of 5.
Goalies—Florida, Luongo 32-18-6 (35
shots-33 saves). Tampa Bay, Vasilevskiy
11-8-0 (26-22).
A—19,092 (19,092). T—2:28.
Kings 6, Oilers 4
Edmonton
2 0 2—4
Los Angeles
2 3 1—6
First Period—1, Los Angeles, Toffoli 28
(McNabb, Lucic), :16. 2, Edmonton, Eberle
25 (Oesterle), :38. 3, Edmonton, McDavid
15, 9:53. 4, Los Angeles, Carter 19 (Lucic,
Schenn), 10:20.
Second Period—5, Los Angeles, Toffoli
29 (Lucic), 3:11. 6, Los Angeles, Andreoff
5 (Toffoli, Carter), 13:07. 7, Los Angeles,
Lewis 8 (McNabb, Quick), 17:26 (sh).
Third Period—8, Edmonton, Maroon 8
(Sekera, Eberle), 9:22 (pp). 9, Edmonton,
Maroon 9 (McDavid, Clendening), 16:50.
10, Los Angeles, Carter 20 (Toffoli, Muzzin), 19:27 (en).
Shots on Goal—Edmonton 13-7-9—29.
Los Angeles 12-15-6—33.
Power-play opportunities—Edmonton
1 of 4; Los Angeles 0 of 1.
Goalies—Edmonton, Brossoit 0-4-1 (32
shots-27 saves). Los Angeles, Quick 3820-4 (29-25).
A—18,230 (18,230). T—2:32.
Ducks 4, Senators 3 (OT)
Anaheim
0 0 3 1—4
Ottawa
1 2 0 0—3
First Period—1, Ottawa, Hoffman 27
(B.Ryan, Zibanejad), 19:12.
Second Period—2, Ottawa, Karlsson
14 (Pageau, Smith), :39. 3, Ottawa, Neil 4
(Paul), 16:28.
Third Period—4, Anaheim, Getzlaf 12
(McGinn), 5:43. 5, Anaheim, Silfverberg
16 (Fowler, Horcoff), 11:31. 6, Anaheim,
Lindholm 10 (Perry, Rakell), 19:02.
Overtime—7, Anaheim, Rakell 20 (Getzlaf, Fowler), 2:38 (pp).
Shots on Goal—Anaheim 7-15-13-4—
39. Ottawa 10-12-7-3—32.
Power-play opportunities—Anaheim 1
of 4; Ottawa 0 of 4.
Goalies—Anaheim, Andersen 21-9-7
(32 shots-29 saves). Ottawa, Anderson
29-23-5 (39-35).
A—18,162 (19,153). T—2:29.
Islanders 4, Hurricanes 3 (OT)
N.Y. Islanders
2 0 1 1—4
Carolina
0 3 0 0—3
First Period—1, N.Y. Islanders, Okposo
21 (Kulemin), 1:35. 2, N.Y. Islanders, Kulemin 8, 15:55.
Second Period—3, Carolina, Rask 18
(Terry, Pesce), :59. 4, Carolina, Skinner 26
(Hainsey, Slavin), 5:34. 5, Carolina, McClement 3 (Murphy), 8:01.
Third Period—6, N.Y. Islanders, Clutterbuck 14 (Cizikas, de Haan), :30.
Overtime—7, N.Y. Islanders, Clutterbuck 15 (Nelson, Leddy), 4:46.
Shots on Goal—N.Y. Islanders 10-7-113—31. Carolina 6-19-9-2—36.
Power-play opportunities—N.Y. Islanders 0 of 2; Carolina 0 of 1.
Goalies—N.Y. Islanders, Berube 3-1-1
(36 shots-33 saves). Carolina, Lack 12-126 (31-27).
A—11,636 (18,680). T—2:29.
Rangers 5, Canadiens 2
N.Y. Rangers
1 4 0—5
Montreal
1 1 0—2
First Period—1, N.Y. Rangers, Miller 21
(Stepan, Yandle), 3:04. 2, Montreal, Eller
12 (Pateryn, Beaulieu), 12:26.
Second Period—3, N.Y. Rangers, Brassard 27 (Kreider, Klein), 1:32. 4, N.Y. Rangers, Kreider 17 (Brassard, Yandle), 8:19
(pp). 5, N.Y. Rangers, Kreider 18, 10:42.
6, Montreal, Danault 3 (Desharnais, Andrighetto), 15:38. 7, N.Y. Rangers, Stepan
18 (Zuccarello, Brassard), 19:19 (pp).
Shots on Goal—N.Y. Rangers 11-8-4—
23. Montreal 7-10-9—26.
Power-play opportunities—N.Y. Rangers 2 of 3; Montreal 0 of 6.
Goalies—N.Y. Rangers, Raanta 10-5-2
(26 shots-24 saves). Montreal, Condon
18-23-6 (19-14), Scrivens (0:00 third, 4-4).
A—21,288 (21,287). T—2:22.
Blues 4, Capitals 0
St. Louis
0 3 1—4
Washington
0 0 0—0
Second Period—1, St. Louis, Brodziak
5 (Backes, Upshall), 4:45. 2, St. Louis, Parayko 8, 11:05. 3, St. Louis, Tarasenko 35
(Lehtera, Stastny), 12:45.
Third Period—4, St. Louis, Berglund 9
(Pietrangelo, Stastny), 17:45.
Shots on Goal—St. Louis 8-16-5—29.
Washington 10-13-9—32.
Power-play opportunities—St. Louis 0
of 0; Washington 0 of 2.
Goalies—St. Louis, Allen 25-14-3 (32
shots-32 saves). Washington, Grubauer
8-7-1 (29-25).
A—18,506 (18,506). T—2:21.
Stars 4, Sharks 2
Dallas
1 2 1—4
San Jose
0 0 2—2
First Period—1, Dallas, Janmark 14 (Jo.
Benn, Hemsky), 15:28.
Second Period—2, Dallas, Janmark 15
(Spezza, Johns), 4:22. 3, Dallas, Sharp 18
(Spezza, Klingberg), 14:19 (pp).
Third Period—4, San Jose, Ward 21,
3:44 (sh). 5, San Jose, Hertl 19 (Pavelski,
Burns), 5:48. 6, Dallas, Ja.Benn 37 (Sharp),
18:52 (en).
Shots on Goal—Dallas 5-9-3—17. San
Jose 12-11-13—36.
Power-play opportunities—Dallas 1 of
3; San Jose 0 of 6.
Goalies—Dallas, Niemi 23-12-7 (36
shots-34 saves). San Jose, Jones 35-21-4
(16-13).
A—16,439 (17,562). T—2:35.
Wild 4, Avalanche 0
Minnesota
0 2 2—4
Colorado
0 0 0—0
Second Period—1, Minnesota, Parise
23 (Granlund), 11:27. 2, Minnesota, Schroeder 2 (Fontaine, Scandella), 19:38.
Third Period—3, Minnesota, Parise 24
(Suter, Koivu), 4:55 (pp). 4, Minnesota,
Granlund 11 (Haula), 11:06 (en-sh).
Shots on Goal—Minnesota 8-17-10—
35. Colorado 11-11-7—29.
Power-play opportunities—Minnesota
1 of 5; Colorado 0 of 5.
Goalies—Minnesota, Dubnyk 31-22-6
(29 shots-29 saves). Colorado, Varlamov
26-20-3 (34-31).
A—18,007 (18,007). T—2:31.
Penguins 7, Red Wings 2
Pittsburgh
0 4 3—7
Detroit
1 0 1—2
First Period—1, Detroit, Athanasiou 7
(Richards, Ericsson), 8:24.
Second Period—2, Pittsburgh, Kunitz
17 (Letang, Crosby), :20. 3, Pittsburgh,
Letang 15 (Kessel, Daley), 4:08 (pp). 4,
Pittsburgh, Hagelin 10 (Kessel, Bonino),
11:58. 5, Pittsburgh, Kessel 22 (Cole,
Bonino), 15:11.
Third Period—6, Detroit, Green 5 (Datsyuk, Tatar), 5:08 (pp). 7, Pittsburgh, Fehr
6 (Bonino), 6:44. 8, Pittsburgh, Hagelin
11 (Kessel, Bonino), 8:37. 9, Pittsburgh,
Bonino 6 (Kessel, Fehr), 14:45 (pp).
Shots on Goal—Pittsburgh 12-15-14—
41. Detroit 9-10-4—23.
Power-play opportunities—Pittsburgh
2 of 5; Detroit 1 of 2.
Goalies—Pittsburgh, Fleury 33-17-6 (23
shots-21 saves). Detroit, Mrazek 27-16-6
(27-23), Howard (15:11 second, 14-11).
A—20,027 (20,027). T—2:36.
Sabres 3, Jets 2
Winnipeg
2 0 0—2
Buffalo
1 0 2—3
First Period—1, Winnipeg, Ehlers 14
(Scheifele, Wheeler), 4:27. 2, Winnipeg,
Copp 4, 5:09. 3, Buffalo, Fasching 1 (Pysyk, Nelson), 8:37.
Third Period—4, Buffalo, Reinhart 21
(Girgensons), 1:23. 5, Buffalo, Eichel 23
(Reinhart), 4:07.
Shots on Goal—Winnipeg 5-9-5—19.
Buffalo 10-10-9—29.
Power-play opportunities—Winnipeg
0 of 1; Buffalo 0 of 2.
Goalies—Winnipeg, Hutchinson 8-14-3
(29 shots-26 saves). Buffalo, Johnson 1915-3 (19-17).
A—19,070 (19,070). T—2:24.
Scoring leaders
Through March 25
GP
74
75
72
75
72
73
73
74
74
73
74
74
70
Patrick Kane, Chi
Jamie Benn, Dal
Sidney Crosby, Pit
Erik Karlsson, Ott
Tyler Seguin, Dal
Evgeny Kuznetsov, Was
Johnny Gaudreau, Cgy
Joe Thornton, SJ
Joe Pavelski, SJ
Anze Kopitar, LA
Brent Burns, SJ
Blake Wheeler, Wpg
Nicklas Backstrom, Was
3 tied with 64 pts.
G
39
36
31
13
33
20
28
17
35
25
26
19
19
A PTS
53 92
46 82
45 76
62 75
40 73
53 73
44 72
55 72
35 70
43 68
40 66
47 66
46 65
Calendar
April 10 — Final day of regular season.
April 13 — Playoffs begin.
May 29-June 4 — NHL rookie combine
at Buffalo, N.Y.
June 24-25 — NHL Draft at Buffalo, N.Y.
July 1 — Free agency opens, noon
EDT.
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Blues blank Caps,
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BY STEPHEN WHYNO
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WASHINGTON — Jake Allen
watched from the bench as fellow
goaltender Brian Elliott put together three consecutive shutouts
for the St. Louis Blues. Jealousy
didn’t set in, but Allen wanted his
chance, too.
He got it Saturday night and
kept the streak going. Allen
stopped all 32 shots he faced, and
the Blues beat the NHL-leading
Washington Capitals 4-0 for their
franchise-record fourth shutout
in a row.
St. Louis is the 11th team to post
four consecutive shutouts, a testament to team defense but also the
goaltending of Elliott and Allen.
“It can be tough a little bit because (Allen has) been watching
lately, and obviously (Elliott) has
been playing unbelievable,” Blues
forward Paul Stastny said. “It’s
that internal competition that
sometimes can be bad for you and
sometimes can be good. These
guys have found a way to make it
competitive on a good standpoint
that benefits the team.”
The Blues left Elliott back in St.
Louis to rest after he shut out the
Vancouver Canucks on Friday.
Coach Ken Hitchcock said Elliott will be back in net Tuesday
against the Colorado Avalanche,
who are fighting to keep their
playoff hopes alive.
Thanks to stellar goaltending,
the Blues have already clinched a
playoff spot and can now set their
sights on the Central Division and
the top seed in the Western Conference. The victory against the
Capitals improved St. Louis to 102 in its past 12 games and allowed
the team to keep pace with the
Dallas Stars atop the division.
“We’ve had a weird year with
injuries and missing bodies, we
really haven’t had a full team all
year and still don’t,” said Allen,
who bounced back from allowing
five goals in his last start March
16. “It’s just a credit to every-
one in this locker room to get to
first in the division with the year
we’ve had.”
Kyle Brodziak, Colton Parayko,
Vladimir Tarasenko and Patrik
Berglund scored for the Blues
against Capitals backup Philipp
Grubauer, who stopped 25 shots.
Brodziak’s goal was his second in
as many nights after his wife gave
birth to the couple’s third child
Thursday, and Tarasenko scored
his team-leading 35th.
Washington missed its first
chance to clinch the Presidents’
Trophy and home-ice advantage
throughout the playoffs. The Capitals needed just a point to wrap
that up but will have to wait until
Monday when they host the Columbus Blue Jackets.
Coach Barry Trotz didn’t think
the score was indicative of how
tight the game was most of the
night.
“We tried to press to break the
goose egg and they countered and
ended up scoring,” Trotz said, lamenting two games without a 5on-5 goal. “I thought Jake Allen
for them was really good tonight.
But it should’ve been a little closer than it was, probably.”
Allen made a handful of memorable saves, stopping Marcus
Johansson in the second period
sliding to his right and then denying NHL leading goal-scorer
Alex Ovechkin from point-blank
range in the third. Allen credited
teammates for limiting chances
to the outside.
Hitchcock praised Allen for
being the Blues’ best penalty killer and for bailing them out after
turnovers. Even if skaters were
helping clear rebounds, Allen followed Elliott’s lead in stopping
initial shots and not cracking.
“The goalies have been just
outstanding,” Hitchcock said.
“They are the story of the team
this year, and they’re keeping us
afloat again.”
A LEX BRANDON /AP
Blues goalie Jake Allen, left, stops a shot by Capitals left wing
Alex Ovechkin, center, with right wing Justin Williams during the
third period of Saturday’s game in Washington. St. Louis upped its
shutout streak to four with a 4-0 win over Washington.
JESSICA HILL /AP
Texas’ Imani Boyette, left, and UCLA’s Monique Billings fight for position under the basket during
Saturday’s regional semifinal of the women’s NCAA Tournament in Bridgeport, Conn. Texas won 72-64.
Women’s NCAA Tournament roundup
Texas rallies past UCLA
Longhorns through to Elite Eight for first time since 2003
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BRIDGEPORT,
Conn.
—
Texas’ goal all season has been to
make it to a regional final.
Mission accomplished.
Imani Boyette scored 18 points
and grabbed 10 rebounds to lead
the second-seeded Longhorns to
a come-from-behind 72-64 win
over UCLA on Saturday in the
Sweet 16.
Brooke McCarty added 15
points for Texas (31-4), which will
play for the first time since 2003
in a game that could send it to the
Final Four.
“They set out at the beginning
of the year to get to this place, and
that’s all they talked about,” said
coach Karen Aston. “This was
exactly where they wanted to be;
they wanted to get one step further than last year.”
Monique Billings scored 20
points and grabbed 12 rebounds
for UCLA, which finishes its season at 26-9.
UCLA led by 10 points in the second quarter, five points at the half
and 54-48 after three quarters.
But Texas scored the first 10
points of the fourth to take the
lead for good.
Texas will play UConn in the
regional final.
“I think we’ll be more mentally
prepared because of the opportunity to play them last year,” Aston
said. “That should be somewhat
of a difference. We understand
what we are up against.”
UConn 98, Mississippi State
38: At Bridgeport, Conn., Breanna Stewart and the UConn
Huskies took notice of the major
upsets Friday night. They needed
Glance
Bridgeport Regional
Regional Semifinals
At Bridgeport, Conn.
Saturday, March 26
UConn 98, Mississippi State 38
Texas 72, UCLA 64
Regional Championship
Monday, March 28
UConn (35-0) vs. Texas (31-4)
Dallas Regional
Regional Semifinals
Saturday, March 26
At Dallas
Baylor 78, Florida State 58
Oregon State 83, DePaul 71
Regional Championship
Monday, March 28
Baylor (36-1) vs. Oregon State (31-4)
Sioux Falls Regional
Regional Semifinals
Friday, March 25
At Sioux Falls, S.D.
Syracuse 80, South Carolina 72
Tennessee 78, Ohio State 62
Regional Championship
Sunday, March 27
Syracuse (28-7) vs. Tennessee (22-13)
Lexington Regional
Regional Semifinals
Friday, March 25
At Lexington, Ky.
Washington 85, Kentucky 72
Stanford 90, Notre Dame 84
Regional Championship
Sunday, March 27
Washington (25-10) vs. Stanford (27-7)
Final Four
At Indianapolis
National Semifinals
Sunday, April 3
Bridgeport champion vs. Dallas champion
Sioux Falls champion vs. Lexington
champion
National Championship
Tuesday, April 5
Semifinals winners
just four minutes to put to rest any
notion of that happening to them.
Stewart had 22 points, 14 rebounds and five blocks to lead No.
1 UConn to a record rout of fifth-
seeded Mississippi State.
The win was the 72nd straight
for UConn (35-0) and left the
Huskies three victories shy of an
unprecedented fourth consecutive national championship. Their
road to that historic title got a
bit easier Friday night when top
seeds South Carolina and Notre
Dame lost in the Sweet 16.
The victory supplanted the record 51-point win the Huskies had
over Texas in the regional semifinals last year that set the NCAA
record for margin of victory in
the regional rounds and beyond.
Dallas Regional
Baylor 78, Florida St. 58: At
Dallas, Kim Mulkey was clearly
frustrated when she called an
early timeout after Baylor fell behind because of a quick flurry of
turnovers.
“We were sloppy, so you just
kind of call a timeout to change
momentum and settle down,”
said Mulkey.
The Lady Bears had quite a response, and are on the way to the
Elite Eight for the third straight
year after a victory over Florida
State.
Nina Davis had her second
consecutive 30-point game in the
women’s NCAA Tournament, and
the Lady Bears (35-1) went ahead
to stay with a 15-3 run in the final
4½ minutes of the first quarter.
Leticia Romero had 11 points
for fifth-seeded Florida State (258), which made consecutive Sweet
16 appearances for the first time
in school history. Ivey Slaughter,
Shakayla Thomas and Brittany
Brown each had 10 points.
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carry Oregon State
to first Elite Eight
BY STEPHEN H AWKINS
competitor and a teammate like
that, it makes you want to work
harder and to do more for her and
DALLAS — An elite perfor- for the team.”
mance by Jamie Weisner and a
The Beavers (31-4), the No. 2
first-ever regional final for Or- seed in the Dallas Regional, play
egon State in the women’s NCAA top seed Baylor (36-1) on Monday
Tournament.
night with a Final Four berth on
“What I’m seeing is amazing,” the line.
coach Scott Rueck said.
Wiese and Hamblin both
Weisner had career
scored 13 points. Wiese
highs with 38 points and
had consecutive early
seven three-pointers,
three-pointers right beShe
along with 10 rebounds,
fore the Beavers went
as the Pac-12 champion
ahead to stay.
willed us
Beavers beat DePaul
DePaul (27-9) was
to
win
83-71 on Saturday night
in its fourth Sweet 16
tonight.
to win in the Sweet 16
under 30-year coach
less than six years after
Ruth Hamblin Doug Bruno, but has
Rueck took over a proOregon State never gotten farther in
gram in shambles.
the tournament.
senior center,
“Just enjoying every
Jessica January had
on
teammate 20 points for sixthmoment of it,” said
Jamie Weisner seeded DePaul, while
Weisner, the senior
guard who was the PacJacqui Grant had 15
12 Player of the Year and confer- and Mart’e Grays 14.
ence tournament MVP.
Grant scored her team’s first
After Weisner missed her first seven points as the Blue Demons
three shots, she scored Oregon jumped out to a quick 9-2 lead beState’s last 11 points of the first fore Wiese hit consecutive threes
quarter — right after the Beavers in 32 seconds and Deven Hunter
(31-4) had gone ahead for the first — who finished with nine points
time, and to stay. She made 14 of and 12 rebounds — made a goher last 17 shots, including 7 of 9 ahead layup.
threes.
“They’re obviously a lot bigger
“That was contagious for the than us and it made it difficult to
rest of the team,” guard Sydney get to the rim as we have in other
Wiese said.
games,” January said. “Just a
“She willed us to win tonight,” good team all around, they own
said center Ruth Hamblin, an- their match-ups and they’re just
other Beavers senior. “To have a really aggressive.”
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Oregon State guard Jamie Weisner (15) shoots against DePaul guard
Megan Podkowa during the first half of Saturday’s 83-71 win in the
regional semifinals of the women’s NCAA Tournament in Dallas.
M ARK J. TERRILL /AP
Oklahoma guard Buddy Hield cuts down the net after the Sooners’ 80-68 win over Oregon in the West
Regional finals of the NCAA Tournament on Saturday in Anaheim, Calif.
Hield too much for Ducks
Oregon falls to Oklahoma
as Sooners’ star scores 37
BY GREG BEACHAM
Associated Press
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Oregon won a school-record
31 games while claiming the Pac-12 regular-season
and tournament titles. The Ducks were a No. 1 seed
in the NCAA Tournament for the first time, and they
advanced confidently to the brink of their first Final
Four since 1939.
And then they met Buddy Hield.
Oklahoma’s star scorer hit eight three-pointers
while dropping 37 points on the Ducks, leading the
Sooners past Oregon 80-68 on Saturday to end the
Ducks’ remarkable season.
Elgin Cook scored 24 points for the Ducks (317), whose 11-game winning streak ended one game
shy of the second Final Four in school history. With
Hield hitting one dramatic shot after another, Oregon fell behind by 18 points in the first half and
couldn’t get back in it despite the combined efforts
of a deep, balanced roster.
“No one expected it,” Cook said. “We were confident. We believed in each other, but this hurts a
lot.”
Oregon had beaten six NCAA Tournament-bound
teams by double digits during its winning streak,
but Oklahoma’s outside shooting and rebounding
led to a first-half hole that was too deep for the Pac12 champions. Hield had the highest-scoring performance against the Ducks all season.
Hield scored 17 points in the first half, capped by
drilling his fifth three-pointer from three steps behind the line with 4 seconds left to put the Sooners
up 48-30 at the break, matching Oregon’s biggest
halftime deficit of the season.
He hit two more huge three-pointers down the
stretch, including a graceful, high-arching shot with
4:20 to play that pushed Oklahoma’s lead back to 17
points. Cook played solid defense for long stretches
against Hield, but the Ducks could only watch and
wonder as he carved up their defense from all distances with his smooth outside shot and a knack for
momentum-swinging buckets.
“I thought he had a phenomenal game,” Oregon
coach Dana Altman said. “And every time I felt like
we were getting ready to do something, he would
jump up and make a shot.”
Jordan Woodard added 13 points for the Sooners
G REGORY BULL /AP
Oregon forward Chris Boucher leaves the court
after losing to Oklahoma 80-68 on Saturday.
(29-7), who are in the Final Four for the fifth time in
school history. The regional final was a monument
to the formidable talent of Hield, the Sooners’ senior
star who passed on NBA riches for another chance
to reach the Final Four.
Even Orange County resident Kobe Bryant
watched admiringly from the stands, prompting
some Oregon players to compare Hield to the Lakers’ retiring superstar.
“I’m not Kobe Bryant,” Hield said with an embarrassed grin. “They should not compare me. I
just make shots. Me and Kobe [are] in two different
classes.”
Dillon Brooks, the Ducks’ leading scorer in the
past two games, managed just seven points before
fouling out.
“Buddy Hield just willed them to a win,” Brooks
said. “We had a poor first half. We dug ourselves a
huge hole. We were down 18, and we were fighting
in the second half, but we couldn’t get it back.”
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Jenkins, Hart and Ryan Arcidiacono each scored 13 points for
the Wildcats. They used a 10-0
run to take a 50-45 lead and get
key baskets and plays down the
stretch in beating the Jayhawks
(33-5).
“Every guy on this team is willing to do whatever it takes to win,
man,” said Jenkins, who made
all six free throws to offset 3-for10 shooting. “Everybody on this
team sacrifices. But we’re not
satisfied. We’re looking forward
to our next game in Houston.
This definitely is a special feeling
but like I said before, we’re not
satisfied.”
Devonte’ Graham had 17
points, and Frank Mason III and
Wayne Selden Jr. added 16 each
for Kansas, which got just four
points from leading scorer Perry
Ellis. The Jayhawks shot 46 percent from the field and even won
the rebounding battle 32-28, but
played from behind most of the
night.
Even when it was ahead, Kansas never seemed in control and
ended up making desperation
plays that didn’t work.
Graham made 5 of 9 from long
range but fouled out late, and
everyone else was a combined 1for-13 from behind the arc. Kansas also committed 16 turnovers,
including several in the final
minutes when it was within a possession of tying or leading.
“I think the basket shrunk a little bit for us, and certainly, they
probably got some confidence
the way they were defending us,”
Kansas coach Bill Self said about
Villanova. “But it came down to
them making free throws and it
came down to a couple of loose
balls, and that was the difference
in the outcome.”
Villanova got 10 points from
Daniel Ochefu, including a big
jumper with 6:14 left, just one
of many big plays the Wildcats
made to preserve the lead after
finally wresting it from Kansas.
It wasn’t easy. Mason scored
five points and the Jayhawks cut it
to 60-59 with 15 seconds left. But
Arcidiacono, who turned 22, preceded that with four free throws
before Jenkins and Brunson followed with two more. The Wildcats made 18 of 19 at the line and
all eight in the final 33 seconds.
The Wildcats were also given
the ball with 34 seconds left when
officials determined that Graham
undercut Hart on a scramble
after Graham’s turnover. Graham fouled out at that point, and
Mason’s foul led to the first of
Arcidiacono’s foul shots.
Darryl Reynolds had two free
throws and Bridges had a key
tip-in for the Wildcats as well in
a game in which they shot 40 percent from the field.
Villanova gets to pursue its
second national title in its fifth
Final Four berth, though the
NCAA vacated its 1971 appearance because star Howard Porter
had signed a pro contract while
still in college. The Wildcats will
face Oklahoma next Saturday in
Houston.
More importantly, the Wildcats
JOHN FLAVELL /AP
Kansas players and staff walk off the court after losing to Villanova 64-59 in the South Regional final of the NCAA Tournament on Saturday.
did what no team had been able to
over two months and really wasn’t
expected to in knocking out the
tournament favorite. But both
teams had been ranked No. 1 this
season and have been winning
even bigger in the tournament.
This Elite Eight matchup
seemed inevitable as a result,
with Villanova coach Jay Wright
comparing it to a heavyweight
bout on Friday. The Wildcats
ended up cutting off the court
with a zone defense and mixing
in timely offense.
Villanova’s 40-percent shooting including 4-for-18 from long
range didn’t matter as the Wildcats had the victory that moves
them into April.
“We wanted to make it a street
fight, make it an ugly game,” said
Arcidiacono, who made 6 of 7
from the line to seal the win on
his 22nd birthday. “I think we did
that.”
All-region team: Jenkins was
named the regional’s Most Outstanding Player. Joining him on
the team were teammates Hart,
Ochefu and Arcidiacono and
Kansas’ Devonte’ Graham.
Tournament tidbits: Villanova
scored 13 points off 16 turnovers.
... The win tied a school record for
season victories set last season.
Kansas’ 16 turnovers were four
above their season average. ...
Landen Lucas had 12 rebounds
and six points.
Scoreboard
East Regional
At Philadelphia
Regional Semifinals
Friday, March 25
Notre Dame 61, Wisconsin 56
North Carolina 101, Indiana 86
Regional Championship
Sunday, March 27
Notre Dame (24-11) vs. North Carolina
(31-6)
South Regional
At Louisville, Ky.
Regional Semifinals
Thursday, March 24
Villanova 92, Miami 69
Kansas 79, Maryland 63
Regional Championship
Saturday, March 26
Villanova 64, Kansas 59
Midwest Regional
At Chicago
Regional Semifinals
Friday, March 25
Virginia 84, Iowa State 71
Syracuse 63, Gonzaga 60
Regional Championship
Sunday, March 27
Virginia (29-7) vs. Syracuse (22-13)
West Regional
At Anaheim, Calif.
Regional Semifinals
Thursday, March 24
Oklahoma 77, Texas A&M 63
Oregon 82, Duke 68
Regional Championship
Saturday, March 26
Oklahoma 80, Oregon 68
Final Four
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Villanova head coach Jay Wright holds a portion of the net after the
No. 2 Wildcats beat overall top seed Kansas on Saturday.
At Houston
National Semifinals
Saturday, April 2
Villanova (33-5) vs. Oklahoma (29-7)
East champion vs. Midwest champion
National Championship
Monday, April 4
Semifinal winners
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No. 2 Villanova upsets
top-seeded Jayhawks
in South Region final
BY GARY B. GRAVES
Associated Press
LOUISVILLE, Ky.
illanova players danced and celebrated after
pulling off what many thought would be the
NCAA Tournament’s most difficult task.
Beating Kansas, the No. 1 overall seed, required taking the Jayhawks out of their comfort zone
while seizing the opportunities that resulted. The Wildcats did both effectively even
though it wasn’t always pretty,
Every guy on
and their reward is a berth in
this team is willing the Final Four.
Kris Jenkins made two
to do whatever it
takes to win, man. free throws with 13.3 seconds remaining, Jalen
Everybody on this Brunson added two more
team sacrifices.
with 3.5 seconds left and
But we’re not
second-seeded
Villanova
upset the top-seeded Jayhawks
satisfied. We’re
64-59
on
Saturday
night in the
looking forward to
South Region final. The Wildcats
our next game in
will play Oklahoma next weekend
Houston.
in Houston.
Mikal Bridges and Josh Hart
Kris Jenkins
Villanova forward each made big steals in the final
minute to help the Wildcats (335) pull off the upset and end the Jayhawks’ 17-game winning
streak. The Wildcats are back in the Final Four for the first
time since 2009, and they can credit balanced scoring and ferocious defense.
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Villanova guard Josh
Hart celebrates
during the second
half of Saturday’s
NCAA Tournament
South Regional
final against
Kansas in
Louisville, Ky.
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