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PEOPLE surround or climb atop a plane Monday at the international airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, after the
stunningly swift end to a 20-year war included thousands of desperate Afghans flooding the tarmac.
Hoping
to drive
a boom
in clean
energy
California is test case
for Biden’s efforts, but
his push carries risks.
By Sammy Roth
and Chris Megerian
KETTLEMAN CITY,
Calif. — The steel beams cut
across the brown dirt like
scaffolding baking under the
Central Valley sun when the
workers pulled up.
One maneuvered a trac-
tor towing a trailer stacked
with solar panels, while an-
other handed down the pan-
els to eight other laborers.
They carefully arranged the
gleaming photovoltaics and
tilted them toward the sun.
Two more workers fastened
the panels to steel beams
with pneumatic guns.
The crew was one of
many spread across former
farmland on a recent after-
noon in Kings County, where
Westlands Solar Park is
shaping up to be one of the
world’s largest renewable-
energy facilities.
If President Biden suc-
cessfully pushes his climate
change plans through Con-
gress, he’s hoping for a lot
more jobs like these — good-
paying, blue-collar union
jobs. But it’s not a sure bet,
and the transition away
from fossil fuels could cause
upheaval for some workers
even as it produces new op-
portunity for others.
That’s because solar
fields and wind turbines re-
quire fewer people to op-
erate than natural gas
plants and oil refineries. Not
as many employees are
needed to help electric cars
roll down an assembly line.
And when new clean-energy
jobs are created, some could
be in less-lucrative lines of
work, such as installing
rooftop solar panels or
weatherizing homes to in-
crease energy efficiency.
“When the labor market
does its thing, we produce
tremendous wage inequality
and tremendous growth in
low-wage jobs,” said Carol
Zabin, who directs the
Green Economy Program at
UC Berkeley’s Labor Center.
Biden administration of-
[See Energy, A9]
U.S. declares shortage of
water at Colorado River
Levels have fallen to record lows
at Lake Mead, the river’s largest
reservoir. It could trigger cuts for
some Arizona farmers. NATION, A6
BUSINESS INSIDE: U.S. investigates a rash of Tesla crashes into emergency vehicles. A8
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A U.S. SOLDIER points his gun at an Afghan man who was among the throngs
at the airport who were attempting to flee the country after the Taliban takeover.
Long waits on first day at LAUSD
Screening is slow, but some are thrilled just to be back
By Howard Blume,
Melissa Gomez
and Colleen Shalby
Hundreds of thousands
of Los Angeles-area stu-
dents started school Mon-
day, a massive return to
in-person education that
was marked by pandemic-
driven anxiety, a sense of
excitement and early-morn-
ing frustration over the fail-
ure of the district’s health
screening system, which
caused long waits to enter
campuses.
The scenes from the na-
tion’s second-largest school
district included the famil-
iar: Yellow buses hit the
street on 1,500 routes; the
youngest children and their
parents exchanged tearful
hugs and goodbyes; friends
enjoyed happy reunions;
teachers felt the jitters of
standing before students
after the long absence.
The morning also re-
vealed signs of the times:
masked students, weekly co-
ronavirus testing, back-
packs filled with hand wipes
and sanitizer — and an on-
line daily health screening
that collapsed at the mo-
ment it was needed most.
Lines of anxious students
and parents formed down
sidewalks and around cor-
ners as they waited up to an
hour to access campuses
after the Daily Pass health
screening system failed to
[See School, A7]
Recall candidates vow
to roll back COVID rules
Republicans hoping to replace
Gov. Gavin Newsom say they
would rescind his vaccination and
mask mandates. CALIFORNIA, B1
TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2021
Photographs by Wakil Kohsar AFP/Getty Images
STUDENTS AND PARENTS wait Monday to enter Normont Elementary
School as a computerized health screening system collapsed under high volume.
Delta surge may be slowing
Experts are optimistic over new numbers
ill with COVID-19 is no longer
By Luke Money accelerating at dramatic
and Rong-Gong Lin II rates and even beginning to
flatten in some areas.
California enters a criti- Many experts are opti-
cal phase in its battle against mistic over the progress, but
the Delta variant this week some officials stressed it’s
— the reopening of schools too early to know definitively
— with some hopeful signs: whether the surge caused by
The number of people being the highly contagious strain
infected and falling seriously is peaking.
Bauer’s accuser testifies
on alleged sexual assault
Woman seeking restraining order
says, “I felt like my soul left my
body,” as Dodgers pitcher punched
her while having sex. SPORTS, B10
Biden defends
pullout from
Afghanistan
President says there
was no good time to
leave, but he blames
leaders ‘who gave up
and fled the country.’
By Eli Stokols
WASHINGTON — Presi-
dent Biden, facing the big-
gest political crisis of his
term, defended the chaotic
withdrawal of U.S. forces
from Afghanistan amid the
rapid collapse of the coun-
try’s government, taking re-
sponsibility for ending the
20-year war but deflecting
blame for the “hard and
messy” events of recent
days.
“I am president of the
United States of America,
and the buck stops with me,”
Biden said in a speech from
the White House on Monday
afternoon. “I’m deeply sad-
dened by the facts we now
face. But I do not regret my
decision to end America’s
war ... in Afghanistan.”
While Biden claimed he
had “planned for every con-
tingency,” he acknowledged
that the Taliban’s march
into Kabul “did unfold more
quickly than we antici-
pated.” The insurgent
group’s success in taking
over Afghanistan in just a
few weeks, he argued, val-
idated his decision to end
America’s two-decade pres-
ence in the country.
“American troops cannot
In U.S., fear for
those left behind
Pentagon says it plans to
evacuate 22,000 at risk in
Afghanistan, but details
remain murky. WORLD, A5
Al Seib Los Angeles Times
California is now report-
ing about 11,800 new co-
ronavirus cases a day over
the last week, up 7% from the
previous week, according to
a Los Angeles Times analy-
sis. That’s a far slower pace
of increase than in the previ-
ous week, when there was a
30% jump in daily cases, and
[See Surge, A7]
Weather
Low clouds and fog.
L.A.Basin: 85/69. B6
latimes.
— and should not — be fight-
ing in a war, and dying in a
war, that the Afghans are
not willing to fight for them-
selves,” Biden said. “We gave
them every chance to deter-
mine their own future. What
we could not provide them
was the will to fight for that
future.”
Biden was far more force-
ful in explaining his ration-
ale for bringing U.S. troops
home than in addressing the
poorly executed departure,
blaming Afghanistan’s polit-
ical leaders who “gave up
and fled the country.”
The president, deter-
mined to restore America’s
values-based leadership on
the world stage, asserted
that “human rights must be
the center” of U.S. foreign
[See Afghanistan, A4]
Clinging
to a U.S.
plane,
trying to
escape
Deadly chaos ensues
at Kabul’s airport as
desperate hordes
struggle to get away
from the Taliban.
By Marcus Yam
and Laura King
KABUL, Afghanistan —
Wrenching scenes unfolded
Monday at Kabul’s airport
as thousands of Afghans
desperate to flee their Tali-
ban-conquered homeland
clambered over barriers and
thronged the tarmac, with
some even clinging to the
side of a U.S. military trans-
port plane before falling
away. At least seven people
were reported to have died in
the chaos.
The American military
has taken control of the
evacuation of diplomatic
staff and allies, which has
turned into a harrowing cap-
stone on the two-decade
U.S. military mission. But
the deadly tumult left the
airlift effort in crisis. All
flights, civilian and military,
had been suspended until
the runway was secured, but
Pentagon spokesman John
Kirby said later that airport
operations had resumed.
Seven people were killed
in the airport vicinity, the
Associated Press reported,
and Kirby confirmed that
two “armed Afghans” were
killed by U.S. forces. The Tal-
iban controls all land cross-
ings out of the country, and
for now, the capital’s airport
is the only evacuation route.
The horrific airport
images — videos of men run-
ning alongside the taxiing
C-17 Air Force plane and
scrambling to grab its exte-
rior, and subsequently at
least two falling bodies vis-
ible after the craft was air-
borne — drew shock and dis-
may from around the world.
President Biden called the
images “gut-wrenching” but
said he stood by his decision
to withdraw American
troops from Afghanistan.
The U.S. failure to leave in
place a stable government
and a dependable Afghan
military was evident a day
after the Taliban assumed
control of the capital and
President Ashraf Ghani fled
the country. Most people in
the capital cowered in their
homes, staying out of sight.
In the early morning, nor-
mally traffic-choked streets
were eerily empty as Taliban
fighters, many clad in san-
[See Airport, A4]
A2 T U E S DAY , AU G U S T 17 , 2 0 21
Pfizer’s booster push spreads confusion
The company is
promoting a third
dose but has not
delivered proof to
back up effectiveness.
By Sarah Jane Tribble
Pfizer Chief Executive Al-
bert Bourla was confident in
June about the ability of his
company’s COVID-19 vac-
cine to protect against the
highly contagious Delta var-
iant.
“I feel quite comfortable
that we cover it,” Bourla
said.
Just weeks later, Pfizer
said it would seek authoriza-
tion for a booster shot after
early trial results showed a
third dose potentially in-
creased protection. At the
end of July, Pfizer and BioN-
Tech announced findings
that four to six months after
a second dose, their vac-
cine’s efficacy dropped to
about 84%.
Bourla was quick to pro-
mote a third dose after the
discouraging news, saying
he was “very, very confident”
that a booster would in-
crease immunity levels in
the vaccinated.
There’s one hitch: Pfizer
has not yet delivered conclu-
sive proof to back up that
confidence. The company
lacks late-stage clinical trial
results to confirm a booster
will work against variants in-
cluding Delta, which now ac-
counts for 97% of new co-
ronavirus infections across
the U.S., according to fore-
casts from the Centers for
Disease Control and Preven-
tion.
Pfizer announced its
global Phase 3 trial on a third
dose in mid-July. That trial’s
completion date is in 2022.
Phase 3 results generally are
required before regulatory
approval.
“We are confident in this
vaccine and the third dose,
but you have to remember
the vaccine efficacy study is
still going on, so we need all
the evidence to back up
that,” said Jerica Pitts, Pfiz-
er’s director of global media
relations. The financial
stakes are enormous: Pfizer
announced in July that it ex-
pects $33.5 billion in
COVID-19 vaccine revenue
this year.
Meanwhile, Pfizer re-
cently said that if a third
dose couldn’t combat Delta
or other variants, the drug-
maker is poised to come up
Scholars and statistics debunk Trump’s ‘Big Lie’
A Stanford professor
and colleagues offer a
refutation to fight the
falsehoods that 2020
election was stolen.
MARK Z. BARABAK
In a recent
survey of
presidential
scholars,
President
Trump
finished a
dismal third
from the
bottom, just ahead of peren-
nial duds James Buchanan
and Andrew Johnson.
He tied Franklin Pierce,
whose political timidity
helped lead to the Civil War,
and placed just behind two
other presidential laggards,
the pro-slavery John Tyler
and William Henry Harri-
son, who served only 31 days
before dropping dead.
But in just seven months
since leaving office, the
petulant Trump — who
always aims for the top —
has already bested his 44
predecessors in one way,
building a strong case for
conducting the most ma-
ligned post-presidency in
history. (Tyler was buried
with a Confederate flag but
at least kept his mouth shut,
being dead and all.)
Trump has made it his
singular mission to under-
mine the 2020 election he
irrefutably lost, promoting a
series of conspiracy theories
and fact-free allegations
used by Republicans
nationwide to justify laws
making it harder to vote and
easier to overturn elections
they don’t like, starting in
PFIZER Chief Executive Albert Bourla was quick to promote a third dose of his company’s COVID-19 vaccine,
saying he was “very, very confident” that a booster would increase immunity levels in the vaccinated.
with a “tailor-made” vaccine
within 100 days.
All of this has sown a
sense of confusion about
what exactly will work, and
when. The pharmaceutical
industry’s rush to recom-
mend boosters for the public
is “a little frustrating,” said
Dr. Paul Offit, director of the
Vaccine Education Center at
Children’s Hospital of Phila-
delphia. Even if a booster is
found to be safe, he said, the
U.S. effort should focus on
“vaccinating people who are
unvaccinated.”
In any case, decisions
about boosters do not rest
with vaccine makers, said
Offit, who advises the Na-
tional Institutes of Health
and the Food and Drug Ad-
ministration about vac-
cines. “Pharmaceutical
companies aren’t public
health agencies; it’s really
not theirs to determine
when or whether there
should be booster dosing,”
he said. “That is the purview
of the CDC.”
Indeed, the CDC and the
FDA — the federal agencies
overseeing the authoriza-
tion of COVID-19 vaccines —
said in July that fully vacci-
nated Americans do not
need a booster shot. Cur-
rently authorized vaccines
— from Pfizer, Moderna and
FORMER President Trump, shown at an event last month in Phoenix, has made
it his singular mission to undermine the 2020 election he irrefutably lost.
2022.
Justin Grimmer, a Stan-
ford political science profes-
sor, and two fellow research-
ers have set about debunk-
ing many of the baseless
assertions grounding those
legislative efforts.
Their hope, he said, is to
explain the facts to those
who may still have doubts
about the 2020 election,
whatever the origin, and to
offer a road map for judges
who may be presented
similar phony claims in
campaigns going forward.
“The basic notions of
legitimacy in our republic
depend upon us recognizing
that the president and other
elected officials were duly
PERSPECTIVES
Johnson & Johnson — are
working as they should: All
three lower the risk of
COVID-19 cases severe
enough to hospitalize or kill
a person.
If hospitalization and
death rates increase among
the vaccinated, then it would
be time to talk about boost-
ers, Offit said, but “we’re not
there yet.”
The White House has
added to the mixed messag-
ing: Press Secretary Jen
Psaki confirmed that the
U.S. will buy an additional
200 million doses of the
Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for
inoculating children under
12 and for possible boosters.
Natalie Dean, a biostatis-
tician at Emory University in
Atlanta, said the confusion
is not necessarily the fault of
any one institution. Rather,
she said, “there is genuine
scientific uncertainty about
how well [existing] vaccines
work against the new var-
iant.”
Scientists are piecing to-
gether information from ob-
servational studies, out-
break investigations and
analyses of antibody re-
sponses.
For many Americans, the
confusion has set off a fe-
verish search for an illicit
third dose just in case it’s
elected,” said Grimmer, who
has one foot in the Stanford
faculty as co-director of the
Democracy and Polariza-
tion Lab and another at the
conservative Hoover Insti-
tution, where he serves as a
senior fellow. “It’s extremely
problematic if that’s not the
case.”
Grimmer and his col-
leagues, Stanford’s Haritz
Garro and Andrew C. Eg-
gers of the University of
Chicago, divided the bogus
election fraud allegations
into two categories: claims
based on “facts that are not
actually anomalous” and
claims based on facts “that
are not actually facts.”
(Which, put another way,
necessary.
“I snuck in a dose of Pfizer
last week,” Angie Melton, a
50-year-old mother of four,
shared on Facebook. Melton
received the one-dose John-
son & Johnson shot at a
mass vaccination site in
April and feared the highly
contagious Delta variant
could infect her and then her
unvaccinated 10-year-old
son, who has asthma.
After consulting friends
and doctors and seeing re-
ports about mix-and-match
approaches in Europe,
Melton signed on to a local
pharmacy site and made an
appointment to get a Pfizer
shot. She’s scheduled for a
second shot as well.
“I’m trying to keep my
family safe,” Melton said.
On Thursday, the FDA
said transplant recipients
and other immunocompro-
mised people can get a third
dose of the Pfizer or Mod-
erna vaccines to offer added
protection against the Delta
variant.
Immunocompromised
patients such as Sarah
Keitt, who has multiple scle-
rosis and Crohn’s disease,
expressed relief about that
prospect. Keitt, a disability
rights activist who lives in
Connecticut, said her neu-
rologist told her to get a
Ross D. Franklin Associated Press
can be described as “lies.”)
The scholars offered a
point-by-point refutation of
each, starting with those
claims promoted by Trump
and his enablers that make
certain innocent facts out to
be somehow nefarious:
8 Joe Biden won more
votes than Trump even
though he carried far fewer
counties. (A meaningless
statistic. Biden cleaned up
in big cities while Trump
carried more rural areas
and, thus, more counties.)
8 Trump won more bell-
wether counties. (Another
meaningless statistic. Bell-
wethers reflect past per-
formance and don’t deter-
mine election outcomes.)
John Thys Pool Photo
booster even after she had
received two doses of the
Moderna vaccine. She said
she was eager to get another
dose but still frustrated
about a lack of confidence in
how much protection it
would offer.
“If someone could defi-
nitely say there is a 95%
chance you are protected”
by a booster, Keitt said, “I
would love it.”
Despite widespread me-
dia reports of “break-
through cases,” a recent
data analysis by the Kaiser
Family Foundation found
that hospitalizations and
deaths are extremely rare
among the fully vaccinated
— well below 1%.
Offit points to a recent
outbreak in Provincetown,
Mass., in which only four of
the 346 fully vaccinated peo-
ple who had breakthrough
infections were hospitalized
with COVID-19. Two of them
had underlying medical con-
ditions and no one died.
“This vaccine still does an
excellent job in the face of
the Delta variant at protect-
ing people against severe,
critical disease,” he said.
Yet the effectiveness of
the Pfizer vaccine against
variants is still under de-
bate. This month a new pre-
print study by the Mayo
8 There was a big differ-
ence between votes that
were counted early and
those that were counted
late. (That doesn’t indicate
fraud. Republicans were
more likely to vote on elec-
tion day and more Demo-
crats mailed in their ballots.
So they were tabulated at
different times.)
8 Differences between
voting patterns in 2016 and
2020 suggest voting irreg-
ularities. (Election results
aren’t stamped out on an
assembly line. Things in-
variably change from one
campaign to the next.)
The political scholars
then move on to “facts” that
aren’t really facts at all.
8 More votes were cast in
2020 than there are voters.
(It didn’t happen. That
falsehood grew out of a
faulty analysis that took the
turnout rate for eligible
voters — those 18 and older
— and applied it to the
smaller number of regis-
tered voters.)
8 Machines run by Do-
minion Voting Systems
switched votes from Trump
to Biden. (A statistical
analysis shows no signifi-
cant difference in Biden’s
performance in counties
using Dominion machines
compared with those using
other means to tabulate
their ballots. The software
and voting machine com-
pany has sued the right-
wing propaganda networks
Newsmax and One America
News, among others, for
defamation for widely pro-
moting the misinforma-
tion.)
8 Fulton County, Ga.,
which takes in the Atlanta
area, and Allegheny County,
home to Pittsburgh, were
major centers of fraud in-
L AT I M E S . C O M
Clinic found that the prod-
uct’s effectiveness against
infection dropped to 42%
from January to July as the
Delta variant’s prevalence
markedly increased.
Pfizer and partner BioN-
Tech announced they are
developing an updated ver-
sion of their vaccine to target
the genomic features of the
Delta variant.
However, the idea that a
new formulation could work
better is “mostly hypotheti-
cal at this point,” said
Vaughn Cooper, a professor
of microbiology and molecu-
lar genetics at the University
of Pittsburgh.
Dr. Vincent Rajkumar, a
hematologist at the Mayo
Clinic who closely studies his
patients’ immune responses
and antibody levels, said us-
ing the current vaccine and
testing a new version sounds
reasonable.
There is one hypothesis
that if breakthrough infec-
tions are due to a drop in an-
tibody levels, boosting those
levels will be enough, Rajku-
mar said. But the more wor-
risome hypothesis is that
the Delta variant, or any
other variant, might be less
threatened by the antibod-
ies the current vaccine gen-
erates.
“So unless you boost [an-
tibodies] with a vaccine that
is specific to Delta, it won’t
work,” Rajkumar said. Test-
ing both hypotheses is the
“right thing to do in the in-
terest of time.”
At the same time,
though, the push for giving
booster shots to healthy
populations is premature,
said Dr. Sadiya Khan, an epi-
demiologist and cardiolo-
gist at Northwestern Uni-
versity Feinberg School of
Medicine. That’s because
even if those already fully
vaccinated do get a third
dose or booster, the virus is
still circulating among mil-
lions of unvaccinated peo-
ple. “The overwhelming ma-
jority of infections and hos-
pitalizations and deaths are
occurring among those who
are unvaccinated,” Khan
said.
“Giving up on that great-
er strategy of vaccinating
the population is going to
lead to continued surges,”
she said. “The potential for
harm is quite large.”
This story was produced by
Kaiser Health News, one of
the three major operating
programs at the nonprofit
Kaiser Family Foundation.
KHN editor Arthur Allen
contributed to this report.
volving absentee ballots.
(Not so. Grimmer and his
colleagues found there was
nothing unusual about
Biden’s absentee ballot haul
in those counties relative to
his performance in neigh-
boring counties.)
8 Turnout was unusually
high in Democratic-leaning
counties in a number of
important battleground
states where massive fraud
is alleged. (There was no
fraud and no unusual surge
in turnout.)
Grimmer and his coau-
thors acknowledged their
scholarly paper won’t
change the mind of hard-
core conspiracy theorists —
the kind who promote nutty
ideas such as Biden being
replaced in the White House
by a body double, or the
election in Arizona being
overturned by a slapstick
“audit” and Trump being
reinstated as president.
Of greater concern, they
suggest, is the substantial
number of Republicans
telling pollsters they believe
“millions of fraudulent
ballots were cast, voting
machines were manipu-
lated, and thousands of
votes were recorded for
dead people.”
“There’s this real risk of
delegitimization that goes
along with people saying
this election was conducted
incorrectly,” said Grimmer,
who suggested the allega-
tions shouldn’t simply be
dismissed out of hand. “We
investigate ... and say, ‘Look,
the evidence just isn’t
there.’ ”
Hopefully, the fair-
minded will pay attention.
All it takes to undermine
democracy is for good peo-
ple to be faced with a crock
of lies and do nothing.
L AT I M E S . C O M
Haiti quake death toll surpasses 1,400
Hospitals are packed,
with scant resources.
Meanwhile, the nation
preps for the arrival
of a major storm.
By Mark Stevenson
and Evens Sanon
LES CAYES, Haiti — A
hospital in southwestern
Haiti, where a powerful
earthquake Saturday flat-
tened homes, shops and
other buildings, was so over-
whelmed with patients Mon-
day that many had to lie in
patios, corridors, verandas
and hallways. Then a loom-
ing storm, expected to bring
heavy rains Monday night,
forced officials to relocate
the patients as best they
could, given the hospital’s
poor conditions.
Yet those patients were
among the fortunate. Haiti’s
Civil Protection Agency on
Monday raised the death toll
from the quake to 1,419 and
the number of injured to
6,000. Many of the injured
have had to wait unsheltered
in burning heat, some on an
airport tarmac, for help.
“We had planned to put
up tents [in hospital patios],
but we were told that could
not be safe,” said Gede
Peterson, director of Les
Cayes General Hospital.
It is not the first time the
staff has been forced to im-
provise. The refrigeration in
the hospital morgue has not
worked for three months,
but after the quake struck,
staff had to store as many as
20 bodies in the small space.
Relatives quickly came to
take most of the dead for pri-
vate embalming services or
immediate burial. By Mon-
day, the morgue held only
three bodies.
Saturday’s earthquake,
centered about 80 miles west
of the capital, Port-au-
Prince, nearly razed some
towns and triggered land-
slides that hampered rescue
efforts in the poorest coun-
try in the Western Hemi-
sphere. Haiti already was
struggling with the pan-
demic, gang violence, wors-
ening poverty and political
uncertainty after the July 7
assassination of President
Jovenel Moïse when the
quake struck.
The devastation could
worsen with the arrival of
Tropical Depression Grace,
South Koreans long for recovery of soldiers’ remains
Survivors of the
missing have given
DNA samples and
waited for years. They
say time’s running out.
By Hyung-jin Kim
ANYANG, South Korea
— On the first day of each
month, Kwak Geum-ja
makes a pilgrimage to a Ko-
rean War memorial in her
neighborhood to pray for her
father, a South Korean sol-
dier who died in battle when
she was just a baby.
His remains have yet to
be recovered, and the aging
Kwak is eager for them to be
found and interred at the na-
tional cemetery.
“I’m over 70 now. I won’t
have any regrets in my life if I
recover my father’s remains
before I die,” a teary-eyed
Kwak said during an inter-
view in the city of Anyang,
just south of the capital,
Seoul. “I just want to see and
confirm them with my eyes.
Nothing more.”
Kwak is among the tens
of thousands of South Kore-
ans hoping the remains of
their loved ones — soldiers
who perished during the
1950-53 Korean War — will be
found.
There’s still a long way to
go.
Since recovery efforts
modeled after a similar U.S.
mission began in earnest
more than 20 years ago, au-
thorities have unearthed
thousands of sets of remains
believed to be South Korean
soldiers but have been able
to identify only 166 of them.
The number of unrecovered
South Korean soldiers
stands at about 120,000.
South Korea has so far
collected DNA samples from
blood relatives of only about
HAITIANS injured in Saturday’s earthquake rest Monday outside the overwhelmed Immaculée Conception
Hospital in Les Cayes. Painkillers, analgesics and steel pins for mending fractures were in short supply.
‘This disaster
coincides with
political
instability, rising
gang violence,
alarmingly high
rates of
malnutrition
among children
and the
COVID-19
pandemic.’
— Henrietta Fore,
UNICEF executive director
predicted for Monday night.
The Civil Protection Agency
said strong winds, heavy
rain, rough seas, mudslides
and flash flooding were ex-
pected. Rainfall could reach
15 inches in some areas.
“We are working now to
ensure that the resources we
have are going to get to the
places that are hardest hit,”
said agency head Jerry
Chandler.
Injured earthquake vic-
‘I’m over 70 now. I won’t have any regrets in my life
if I recover my father’s remains before I die.’
— K WAK G EUM - JA ,
47,000 slain soldiers to com-
pare with DNA extracted
from exhumed bones.
The conflict, which pitted
South Korea and U.S.-led
U.N. forces against North
Korea and China, killed 1
million to 2 million people,
including 160,000 South Ko-
rean soldiers.
Finding their remains is
an urgent, emotional task
because most of the be-
reaved relatives are either
elderly or have already died.
The recovery work is
complicated by the fact that
many South Korean soldiers
were sent to the front with-
out military identification
during the war’s opening
phase, as the South rushed
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tims continued to stream
into Les Cayes’ over-
whelmed general hospital.
“After two days, they are
almost always generally in-
fected,” said Dr. Paurus
Michelete, who had treated
250 patients and was one of
only three doctors on call
when the quake hit.
Meanwhile, rescuers and
scrap-metal scavengers dug
into the floors of a collapsed
hotel Monday in this coastal
town, where 15 bodies had
been extracted. Jean Moise
Fortunè, whose brother, the
hotel’s owner and a promi-
nent politician, was killed in
the quake, believed there
were more people trapped in
the rubble. But based on the
size of voids the workers cau-
tiously peered into, perhaps
a foot in depth, it appeared
unlikely that they would find
survivors.
As work, fuel and money
ran out, desperate Les Cayes
residents searched col-
lapsed houses for scrap met-
al to sell. Others waited for
money wired from abroad, a
mainstay of Haiti’s economy
even before the quake.
Anthony Emile waited
six hours in a line with doz-
ens of others trying to get
money his brother had wired
from Chile.
who was a baby when her father was killed in the Korean War
to blunt the surprise North
Korean invasion. Author-
ities also didn’t keep most
soldiers’ dental records,
chest X-rays and other
forms of ID. Once the con-
flict ended, rapid recon-
struction and land redevel-
opment projects followed,
making it difficult to find
some former battlefields
and burial sites.
“It would be more mean-
ingful for bereaved families
to get back their loved ones’
remains when they are still
alive. That’s our fundamen-
tal yet most difficult mis-
sion,” said Im Na Hyok, di-
rector of the central identifi-
cation laboratory at a De-
fense Ministry-run agency
“We have been waiting
since morning for it, but
there are too many people,”
said Emile, a banana farmer
whose relatives in the
countryside depend on him
for money to survive.
Efforts to treat the in-
jured were difficult at the
hospital, where painkillers,
analgesics and steel pins to
mend fractures were run-
ning out amid the crush of
patients, Michelete said.
Josil Eliophane, 84,
crouched on the steps of the
hospital, clutching an X-ray
showing his shattered arm
and pleading for pain medi-
cation. Michelete said he
would give one of his few re-
maining shots to Eliophane,
who ran out of his house as
the quake hit, only to have a
wall fall on him.
Nearby, on the veranda,
patients were on beds and
mattresses, hooked up to IV
bags of saline fluid. Others
lay in the garden just be-
yond, under bed sheets put
up to shield them from the
brutal sun. None of the pa-
tients or relatives caring for
them wore masks amid a co-
ronavirus surge.
Officials said the magni-
tude 7.2 earthquake left
more than 7,000 homes de-
stroyed and nearly 5,000
Ahn Young-joon Associated Press
that’s responsible for recov-
ering and identifying troops
killed in action.
During a recent visit by
Associated Press journalists
to her laboratory, located in
Seoul’s national cemetery,
she discussed some of the re-
mains authorities have dug
up in recent years from a for-
mer battlefield in the demili-
tarized zone, a strip of heavi-
ly fortified land that forms
the de facto border between
the two Koreas. It was South
Korea’s first such excavation
project in the DMZ since the
war’s end.
Describing a yellowish,
near-complete skeleton laid
on a lab table, Im said the re-
mains were probably a U.N.
T U E S DAY , AU G U S T 17 , 2 0 21
Fernando Llano Associated Press
damaged, leaving about
30,000 families homeless.
Hospitals, schools, offices
and churches also were de-
stroyed or badly damaged.
Underlining the dire con-
ditions, local officials had
to negotiate with gangs in
the seaside district of Mar-
tissant to allow two humani-
tarian convoys a day to
pass through the area, the
United Nations Office for the
Coordination of Humanitar-
ian Affairs reported. The
agency called Haiti’s south-
ern peninsula a “hot spot
for gang-related violence,”
where humanitarian work-
ers have been attacked.
The agency said the area
has been “virtually unreach-
able” over the last two
months because of road-
blocks and security con-
cerns. Spokeswoman Anna
Jefferys said the first convoy
passed through Sunday
with government and U.N.
personnel, and the U.N.’s
World Food Program
planned to bring in food sup-
plies via trucks Tuesday.
Haitian Prime Minister
Ariel Henry declared a one-
month state of emergency
for the country and said
first-aid convoys organized
by the government had
started moving help to areas
soldier from Europe, not a
Korean. She noted the
higher-bridged nasal bone
and teeth with amalgam fill-
ings, a dental treatment that
didn’t exist in both Koreas
and China at the time of the
war. A bulletproof vest,
boots and other items col-
lected with the skeleton
were all found to be U.N.-pro-
vided gear, she said.
Another, less-complete
skeleton is suspected to be a
South Korean soldier. Im
said the soldier was prob-
ably about 25, citing her
team’s examination of the
wisdom teeth, tooth wear
and the condition of other
bones.
Im said she hopes to ex-
pand her office’s missions
into North Korea, where
Seoul believes about 30,000
South Korean war dead are
buried.
North Korea has never al-
lowed South Korea to exca-
vate on its territory. It also
refuses to receive the re-
mains of its soldiers South
Korea has found.
But in a sign it prioritizes
relations with Washington,
North Korea still conducted
33 joint recovery operations
with the U.S. from 1996 to
2005, collecting 229 sets of
American remains on its ter-
ritory. In 2018, it returned 55
boxes containing the
remains of presumed U.S.
service members missing
from the war as a goodwill
gesture, as the two countries
were engaged in now-stalled
diplomacy on the North’s
nuclear program.
The Korean peninsula re-
mains at a technical state of
war because an armistice
that ended the conflict in
1953 has yet to be replaced
with a peace treaty. More
than 7,500 Americans re-
main unaccounted for from
the Korean War.
Kwak’s father, Pfc. Kwak
Jeong-kyu, died at age 26 at
A3
where towns were destroyed
and hospitals were over-
whelmed.
UNICEF Executive Di-
rector Henrietta Fore said
humanitarian needs were
acute. Many Haitians are in
urgent need of healthcare,
clean water and shelter, and
children who have been
separated from parents
need protection, she added.
Alluding to the 2010
earthquake that ravaged
Haiti’s capital, killing tens of
thousands, Fore said, “Little
more than a decade on, Haiti
is reeling once again. And
this disaster coincides with
political instability, rising
gang violence, alarmingly
high rates of malnutrition
among children and the
COVID-19 pandemic — for
which Haiti has received just
500,000 vaccine doses, de-
spite requiring far more.”
Haiti, with a population
of 11 million, received its
first batch of U.S.-donated
COVID-19 vaccines only last
month, via a U.N. program
for low-income nations.
Medical workers from
across the region were
scrambling to help as hospi-
tals in Les Cayes started
running out of space to per-
form surgeries.
“Basically, they need
everything,” said Dr. Inobert
Pierre, a pediatrician with
the nonprofit Health Equity
International, which over-
sees St. Boniface Hospital,
two hours from Les Cayes.
Pierre’s team was taking
some patients to St. Boni-
face for surgery, but with just
two ambulances, they could
transport only four at a time.
The U.S. Coast Guard
said a helicopter was trans-
porting medical personnel
from Port-au-Prince to the
quake zone and evacuating
the injured to the capital. Lt.
Commander Jason Nieman
said other aircraft and ships
were being sent.
At the Les Cayes hospi-
tal, Emma Cadet, 41, hov-
ered over her 18-year-old
son, Charles Owen, as he
awaited an operation on his
broken arm. He was among
the lucky patients to have re-
ceived pain medication.
Worse off was Nerison
Vendredi, 19, lying next to
Owen, quiet but alert. No
casts or splint would help
her, because she apparently
had suffered internal in-
juries and could not move.
Stevenson and Sanon write
for the Associated Press.
the South Korean border on
Jan. 1, 1951. She said she sub-
mitted her blood samples
more than 10 years ago. Each
year she receives a letter
from the government saying
her father’s remains have yet
to be found.
She has no memory of her
dad, since she was only a
year old when he was con-
scripted into the army. As a
child, Kwak said she hated
attending village parties in-
volving families, or seeing
her friends’ fathers show up
at school.
Shortly before her
mother died of a heart prob-
lem in 1984, the war widow
sank into delirium and
asked if her husband had re-
turned.
“When she was dying,
those were the only words
she uttered.... I think my
mom said this because she
had deep longings for him
too,” Kwak said.
Choi Choong-sik, the 68-
year-old son of a late South
Korean marine, said it was
only around 1980 that his
family learned there was a
grave with his father’s name
on it at the national ceme-
tery, although they were in-
formed of his death soon af-
ter he was killed in the war’s
closing weeks.
Choi regularly pays his
respects at the grave. But he
submitted DNA samples to
the search commission, in
case his father’s remains are
still out there. He feels
there’s a possibility someone
else’s ashes might have been
buried in the cemetery dur-
ing the postwar chaos.
“I sometimes wonder if
the remains at the grave are
truly my father’s,” Choi said.
“Wouldn’t it be wonderful if
my father’s real remains are
recovered when I’m still
alive?”
Kim writes for the
Associated Press.
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Biden defiant on Afghanistan withdrawal

[Afghanistan, from A1] had featured praise of
policy. But his statement Trump for his “historic
appeared to be at odds with peace agreement with the
the chaos unfolding at Taliban.”
Kabul’s international air- The 6,000 U.S. forces Bid-
port, where thousands of en deployed to Kabul over
desperate Afghans flooded the weekend for a rescue
the tarmac, some clinging to mission, according to the
the fuselage and wheels of a State Department and the
taxiing military aircraft. Pentagon, were tasked with
He also deflected criti- evacuating American citi-
cism for the U.S. failure to ex- zens and embassy person-
pedite the visa process for nel, a move that appeared,
the tens of thousands of for- for the moment, to strand
mer interpreters and con- tens of thousands of vulner-
tractors who aided U.S. able Afghans who served
forces, saying that delay was alongside U.S. forces.
in response to a request from The chaos at the airport
the former Afghan govern- on Monday led the Pentagon
ment, which had hoped to to deploy an additional 1,000
forestall panic. He claimed, troops on Monday, bringing
despite evidence to the con- the total to 7,000, more than
trary, that many Afghans double the size of the U.S.
waited to apply for visas out force Biden opted to draw
of hope that their country’s down.
government would remain Pentagon spokesman
in power. John Kirby said Monday
Biden had returned from that the U.S. would give ref-
Camp David just hours be- uge to 30,000 vulnerable
fore his appearance in the Afghans, although airlifting
East Room, cutting short a them to safety — something
week of vacation amid rising advocates have been seeking
pressure to respond to a for months — is only starting
diplomatic, humanitarian to ramp up.
and political crisis after The eleventh-hour
Afghanistan fell into Taliban Wakil Kohsar AFP/Getty Images scramble has led to the
hands. Afghan President AFGHAN PASSENGERS wait to leave the airport on Monday in Kabul. “I’m deeply saddened by the facts we kinds of chaotic, heart-
Ashraf Ghani fled the coun- now face. But I do not regret my decision to end America’s war ... in Afghanistan,” President Biden said. wrenching scenes that
try on Sunday, and the Americans remember well
Taliban within hours was others by Republicans, This disaster, whether in place. Trump, who criticized from Vietnam and that Bid-
holding court in the presi- Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) lawmakers admit it or not, President Trump’s ad- Biden this year for not stick- en said were unlikely.
dential palace, culminating blasted the president over has many fathers. Three ministration signed the 2020 ing to the previous adminis- “There’s going to be no
its quick takeover of a coun- his reluctance to reckon with presidents continued, and agreement with the Taliban tration’s withdrawal time- circumstance where you see
try of more than 39 million what’s gone on in recent at times, expanded a war to withdraw U.S. forces from line, issued a series of state- people being lifted off the
people. days. that cost the U.S. $2.6 trillion Afghanistan by May 2021. ments Monday attacking his roof of an embassy of the
The president, who de- “Contrary to his claims, and the lives of more than The agreement also allowed successor’s “incompetence” U.S. in Afghanistan,” Biden
parted the White House for our choice was not between 2,400 service members; hun- the release of 5,000 pris- and claiming that he would told reporters last month.
Camp David shortly after a hasty and ill-prepared re- dreds of lawmakers voted to oners, many with ties to ter- have done a better job of On Sunday, however,
his speech, emphasized his treat or staying forever,” authorize it. Biden’s deci- rorist groups such as Islamic evacuating Afghan civilians U.S. helicopters were photo-
consistent view that the Romney said. “The decision sion to end the war, based State and Al Qaeda. His to safety. graphed swooping into the
Afghanistan conflict had to place a higher priority on on deep personal conviction decision to not involve In a sign of the shifting U.S. Embassy compound in
evolved from a counter- a political promise than on and the public’s waning Afghan leaders in negotia- political winds, the Republi- Kabul to rescue diplomats
terrorism mission in the the lives of innocent men, commitment to Afghan- tions demoralized and de- can National Committee on and ferry them to the city’s
aftermath of the Sept. 11, women and children is a istan, also followed a time- legitimized the now toppled Monday quietly removed a international airport for
2001, attacks into a nation- stain on America’s reputa- line his predecessor had put government in Kabul. section from its website that evacuation.
building exercise that was tion and undermines our
draining U.S. resources. He credibility around the
acknowledged the unique world.”
pain of recent days for veter- Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-

Afghans desperately try to escape

ans, diplomats, humanitari- Va.), the chair of the Senate
an workers and Gold Star Intelligence Committee,
families. said his panel would investi-
Presenting his own ac- gate “why we weren’t better
tions as making good on his prepared for a worst-case
campaign promise to end scenario,” adding that the
the war, Biden implicitly re- U.S. owes answers “to the [Airport, from A1]
buked American generals American people and to all dals and the traditional
who convinced his prede- those who served and sacri- shalwar kameez, wielded
cessors to expand the war ficed so much.” automatic weapons on the
effort, often with rosy claims The president’s initial in- streets and in city squares.
about the situation on the conspicuousness during a The fighters displayed a
ground. major crisis also drew sharp disconcerting mix of men-
“I am now the fourth criticism from lawmakers, ace and nonchalance. A
American president to pre- who have called on the ad- young Taliban commander
side over a war in Afghan- ministration to do more to with bloodshot eyes and an
istan,” Biden said. “I will not reassure the public and to oversized gold watch sternly
pass this responsibility on to follow through on Biden’s waved off a request to take
a fifth president. I will not commitment to help the his picture, saying there was
mislead the American peo- Afghans who aided the U.S. no permission for photo-
ple by claiming just a little effort. graphs. Then he smiled.
more time in Afghanistan Rep. Seth Moulton (D- “Have a nice day,” he said.
will make all the difference.” Mass.), an Iraq combat But there was little doubt
Until stepping off Marine veteran, said calling Af- that the Taliban — which
One in Washington just after ghanistan’s fall “anything swept from the provinces
7 a.m., Biden had remained short of a disaster would be and into the capital in less
out of public view, relying on dishonest” and urged the than a week — was in charge.
top aides to appear on the White House to expedite the Near a United Nations com-
network morning shows to evacuation of vulnerable pound in the city center, one Wakil Kohsar AFP/Getty Images
defend what even political Afghans. “I have been calling fighter posed for a selfie in U.S. FORCES stand guard as Afghan people wait on the tarmac at the Kabul
allies described as the ad- on the administration to front of an armored vehicle. airport, hoping to leave the country the day after it fell to the Taliban.
ministration’s disastrous evacuate our allies immedi- Others perched on plastic
pullout. ately — not wait for paper- chairs in the scorching heat, ankle.
Biden’s remarks did little work, for shaky agreements eating breakfasts of Afghan Others waited to take
to quell outrage on both with third countries, or for bread, while a comrade cas- Hamid Karzai their cues from the conquer-
sides of the political aisle. time to make it look more ually balanced a rocket-pro- International Airport ors. On Chicken Street,
In comments that mirrored ‘orderly,’ ” he said. pelled grenade launcher on a thoroughfare popular with
two fingers. tourists and foreigners,
At the city’s landmark some shop owners lingered
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U.S. Afghans
fear for those
left behind
Pentagon says it plans
to evacuate 22,000
at-risk citizens with
special visas, but
details remain murky.
By Molly
Hennessy-Fiske
HOUSTON — For two
days, Aziz Shinwari has
been fielding frantic calls
and online messages from
relatives in Afghanistan, try-
ing to help get them out of
the country. Shinwari, who
plicants — out of Kabul,
Mitchell said.
But the pace of evacu-
ations has been slow. At a
Monday briefing, Pentagon
officials said they had relo-
cated about 2,000 Afghans to
the U.S., mostly to Ft. Lee,
Va. They were assessing
temporary sites for 22,000
more at Ft. Bliss, Texas, and
Ft. McCoy, Wis.
Several human rights
and migrant advocacy
groups on Monday called on
the Biden administration to
do more to help those trying
to leave Afghanistan.
“The incredibly urgent
work of protecting people AFP/Getty Images

worked as an interpreter
and guard for the U.S. mili-
tary for more than a decade
before relocating to Hous-
ton in 2015, fears his loved
ones will be targeted.
“We have left a lot of peo-
ple behind, and they could
die any day. They need to
leave the country as soon as
possible,” said Shinwari, 36,
who has relatives in the capi-
tal, Kabul, and Jalalabad to
the east. “My family mem-
bers, my neighbors, my
friends, my co-workers keep
sending me messages say-
ing, ‘What should we do?’ ”
It was unclear Monday
how many Afghans the U.S.
plans to evacuate, who
would receive priority or
where they would go. The
uncertainty was tormenting
enclaves such as the Bay
Area’s Little Kabul, home to
more than 60,000 Afghan im-
migrants.
The Department of De-
fense plans to evacuate
22,000 Afghans with special
immigrant visas showing
they worked for the U.S. gov-
ernment, as well as their
relatives and others consid-
ered at risk, according to
spokesman Lt. Col. Chris
Mitchell. The Pentagon also
plans to transport up to
30,000 additional people —
including U.S. Embassy per-
sonnel, citizens and visa ap-
from reprisals and persecu-
tion must include evacua-
tion and resettlement of ci-
vilians who need it, including
human rights defenders,
women’s rights activists,
members of the media, spe-
cial immigrant visa candi-
dates and other vulnerable
people,” said Omar Jadwat,
director of the American
Civil Liberties Union’s Im-
migrants’ Rights Project.
Shinwari said the U.S.
government needs to ex-
pedite special immigrant
visas and loosen document
requirements, since Afghan
government offices that is-
sued them are now closed.
“They need to come up
with an alternate solution,”
he said.
Shinwari worries about
his two older sisters in Jalal-
abad, one of whom taught at
a middle school that has
been closed since the Tali-
ban seized control over the
weekend.
“I just spoke to one of my
sisters this morning. The
Taliban told them not to get
out of their homes for two
days and two nights,” he
said. “Everybody is facing a
dark future.”
Seema Farhad has been
fielding calls from some of
the more than 600 families
she helped resettle in the
Fremont, Calif., area known
THE TARMAC at the Kabul airport was packed Monday with Afghans trying to flee the country. “They’re
willing to risk their lives to leave,” said Seema Farhad of the nonprofit Afghan Coalition in Fremont, Calif.
as Little Kabul, working
with the local nonprofit
Afghan Coalition.
“People in Kabul are ter-
rified. Families are doing
everything they can to leave
Afghanistan, because they
do not know what is to come.
They’re willing to risk their
lives to leave,” she said.
Farhad was trying to help
a woman whose brother-in-
law worked for a U.S. com-
pany in Afghanistan and
needed the firm to sponsor
his visa. “Now there’s no rep
from that company to help
him get out,” she said.
Most of the families
Farhad assists have 80% to
90% of their relatives in Af-
ghanistan. She found pro-
grams to help evacuate
those with approved or
pending U.S. visas, but for
the rest, she said, “there’s
nothing yet.”
“Last night, I lost my
voice crying. It’s not easy to
digest what is happening,”
she said.
Among those she’s trying
to help is Abdul Khusrawy,
58, of Pleasanton, an artist
who immigrated in 2010. His
brother-in-law, an Afghan
army veteran, worked at a
U.S.-sponsored television
station in Kabul, and since
the Taliban seized control of
the country, he has received
threatening phone calls
warning him to stay home.
“If the Taliban know he
worked for the army, they
may kill him,” Khusrawy
said.
His friend’s daughter, a
journalist who worked at the
presidential palace, is also in
hiding as she plots her de-
parture.
“Right now she is waiting
to see if the border to Paki-
stan opens to Afghan peo-
ple, and then she can apply
for a U.S. visa,” he said. “We
cannot wait. In Kabul, every
day is a bad situation, espe-
cially for women, girls.”
Mohammad “Musa”
Mahmodi, a human rights
lawyer at Yale University on
a fellowship, has been trying
to help his relatives and hu-
man rights workers escape
Afghanistan, including fe-
male prosecutors who
helped jail some of the Tali-
ban prisoners who were re-
leased over the weekend.
Many had assumed that the
Taliban’s takeover would be
gradual and negotiated.
Now, he said, “the window of
opportunity is very small for
anyone to get out.”
Mahmodi said it’s un-
clear how U.S. officials are
deciding which Afghans,
other than those who
worked with the U.S. mili-
tary, to evacuate.
“I have been contacting
everyone I know to get help,
trying to make sure they get
into this evacuation list. The
problem is there is a lot, lot of
people, thousands of peo-
ple,” he said. “They say
they’re trying their best, but
time is critical.”
Nisar Momand of Hous-
ton said his relatives in Af-
ghanistan had been threat-
ened because he and his
twin brother worked for six
years with U.S. forces.
“The Taliban sent us
warnings that they will eas-
ily target my family in
Kabul,” said Momand, 31.
“Their lives are in danger
now because of us.”
Momand immigrated to
the U.S. with his wife and
children in 2014, became a
citizen, worked for a refugee
resettlement agency and
now works for a travel
agency.
“I did not sleep for two
nights, because people are
calling me to see how they
can fly back to the U.S.,” he
said. “If the Taliban finds out
they are green-card holders,
they will kill them. I’m telling
them to try to delete their
social media, close their ac-
counts, stay home. Thou-
sands of people are sending
me their documents saying,
‘I worked with the U.S. mili-
tary — how can you help me
get out?’ ”
Most of his friends live
outside the capital but had
traveled to Kabul as the Tali-
ban gained control of the
countryside.
“Some of them are in the
street, some of them are
staying with friends, some
are in the airport,” he said. “I
talked with a few of them;
they’ve seen the Taliban, but
they did not give them any
threat or any warning. May-
be they did not know this
person was a green-card
holder. But we don’t know
what will happen tomorrow.
I just talked to my cousin,
and he said [the militants]
were searching houses.”
Momand paid about
$20,000 to send his mother
and five siblings, including
his twin, to neighboring Ta-
jikistan. They were safe
Monday, but he wasn’t sure
how long they would be al-
lowed to stay.
“We need some way to
bring them here,” he said.

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Hong Kong rallies disbands
Civil Human Rights
Front’s decision comes
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dissent under Beijing’s
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HONG KONG — A pro-
democracy group that or-
ganized some of the biggest
anti-government protests
during months of political
upheaval in Hong Kong in
2019 is dissolving.
The Hong Kong Civil Hu-
man Rights Front, made up
of a number of member or-
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that it could no longer op-
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vestigation for possible vio-
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jing-imposed national secu-
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organized an annual protest
march marking Hong
Kong’s reversion to Chinese
control in 1997, is the largest
to disband amid a sweeping
crackdown on dissent in the
city. Last week, the former
British colony’s largest
teachers union disbanded in
light of what it said were
drastic changes in the politi-
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Amnesty International
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“the pattern of self-censor-
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more than 100 pro-democ-
racy figures since it took ef-
fect. The law also led to the
closure of pro-democracy
newspaper Apple Daily.
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ally silenced opposition
voices in the territory — and
drawn sanctions from the
U.S. against Hong Kong and
mainland Chinese govern-
ment officials.
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Civil Human Rights Front,
Figo Chan and Jimmy
Sham, are in jail on charges
related to their activism.
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have said the law would not
be applied retroactively, a
recent interview with a
Hong Kong police commis-
sioner suggested that the
group was being investi-
gated for holding rallies in
the last year.
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Hong Kong police said they
would continue to spare no
effort to investigate whether
any organization or individ-
uals violated the national se-
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legislation. It said they
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gardless of a group’s dis-
bandment.
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group to hand over informa-
tion on its members and ac-
tivities as well as its funding.
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A6 T U E S DAY , AU G U S T 17 , 2 0 21
Food stamp
benefits to get
a record boost
Biden administration
approves 25% bump
over pre-pandemic
levels, hiking average
amount by $36.
By Erin B. Logan
WASHINGTON — A
food assistance program
used by more than 42 million
needy Americans will sub-
stantially and permanently
increase benefits starting
next month, a record boost,
just as the pandemic emer-
gency expansion expires.
The Biden administra-
tion on Monday announced
it had approved the change
that will boost the average
food stamp benefits by more
than 25% above pre-pan-
demic levels. The average
monthly benefit that partic-
ipants in the Supplemental
Nutrition Assistance Pro-
gram received before the
pandemic was $121 per per-
son, per month. Starting
Oct. 1, participants on aver-
age will receive an additional
$36 per person, per month.
The increase is an “in-
vestment in our nation’s
health, economy, and securi-
ty,” Agriculture Secretary
Tom Vilsack said in a state-
ment. “Ensuring low-income
families have access to a
healthy diet helps prevent
disease, supports children
in the classroom, reduces
health care costs, and
more.”
The announcement
comes nearly three years af-
ter a bipartisan bill, signed
by then-President Trump,
directed the U.S. Depart-
ment of Agriculture to reas-
sess the Thrifty Food Plan,
which estimates how much
groceries cost families and
calculates food stamp ben-
efits. Biden in January
issued an executive order
urging the department to
consider revising the plan to
ensure benefits “reflect the
modern cost of a healthy ba-
sic diet.”
Advocates have long de-
cried the federal program for
not providing participants
with enough benefits to af-
ford healthy food.
The USDA’s study found
that the cost of a “nutritious,
practical, cost-effective diet”
OVER 42 million Americans get food assistance from
the federal government. Benefits are set to increase.
Amid Delta wave, vaccination mandates widen in New York
By Bobby Caina Calvan
NEW YORK — Vaccina-
tion mandates expanded
Monday as New York state
ordered hospital and nurs-
ing home workers to get
COVID-19 inoculations and
New York City was poised to
start requiring them for any-
one in restaurant dining
rooms, gyms, museums and
many other leisure venues.
The new policies aim to
prod people into being vacci-
nated as New York, like the
rest of the U.S., confronts a
coronavirus wave powered
by the highly infectious
Delta variant of the virus.
As the variant posed a
growing threat and vaccina-
tion rates leveled off this
summer, some cities, states
and federal agencies have
rapidly shifted from encour-
aging vaccination to either-
or requirements — inocula-
tion or testing — to a flat-out
insistence on vaccination
for some settings or work-
forces.
is 21% higher than the
Thrifty Food Plan’s current
rates.
The department’s con-
clusions are in line with the
estimated 60% of participa-
nts who in a June study re-
ported affordability as a bar-
rier to achieving a healthy di-
et.
Demand for food stamps
increased in spring 2020 as
the deadly novel coronavirus
emerged and the American
economy fell into recession.
A15% increase in food stamp
benefits extended by Con-
gress in March to aid fam-
ilies during the COVID crisis
is set to expire Sept. 30.
The most recent increase
to the program, which began
in 1975, is part of a broader
push by the Biden adminis-
tration to expand America’s
social safety net, which ad-
vocates have said proved in-
adequate to protect millions
from poverty and food inse-
curity as the deadly virus
emerged.
Sen. Debbie Stabenow
(D-Mich.), chair of the Sen-
ate Agriculture Committee,
in a statement described the
increase as “long overdue”
and one that “takes into ac-
count the time constraints,
nutritional needs, and
budgets of working families
in America today.”
This is a “welcome im-
provement” for “families
struggling to find enough
time to prepare and share
meals or afford enough nu-
trition for their growing kids,
or the seniors on fixed in-
comes now navigating com-
plicated dietary health
needs,” Stabenow said.
Republicans were skepti-
cal of the USDA’s assess-
ment before its release. Two
Republican lawmakers re-
quested that the Govern-
ment Accountability Office
review USDA’s assessment
of the Thrifty Food Plan.
“The complexity of this
process, and its likely im-
pacts, create an urgent need
for scrutiny, particularly on
the heels of significant nutri-
tion-related pandemic
spending that has contin-
ued without rigorous over-
sight,” Sen. John Boozman
of Arkansas and U.S. Rep.
Glenn Thompson of Penn-
sylvania wrote last week in a
letter to Gene Dodaro, the
comptroller general of the
U.S. and head of the GAO.
Seth Wenig Associated Press
“Just buy into this be-
cause it’s going to work for all
of us, is going to make us all
safer,” New York City Mayor
Bill de Blasio said Monday.
In a nationwide first for a
city government, the Demo-
crat announced this month
that proof of vaccination
would be required to par-
take in much of public life, in-
cluding indoor dining, gym
workouts and theater. Other
cities, including San Fran-
cisco, later followed New
York’s move.
It applies to patrons, em-
ployees, New Yorkers, com-
muters and visitors alike in
settings including arenas,
coffee shops and yoga stu-
dios. Even strip clubs are in-
cluded.
There are exceptions for
children under 12 — who are
not yet eligible for vaccina-
tion — and athletes, con-
tractors and some perform-
ers who don’t live in the city.
The policy also excludes
church potlucks, communi-
ty centers, office buildings,
house parties (even if they’re
THE NATION
LIGHTNING strikes over Lake Mead in late June. Water levels at the largest reservoir on the Colorado River
have fallen to record lows amid droughts and heat waves. The river serves 40 million people in the West.
A Colorado River first:
Water shortage declared
Low levels trigger cuts that will start with farmers in central Arizona
By Suman Naishadham
WASHINGTON — U.S.
officials on Monday declared
the first water shortage from
a river that serves 40 million
people in the West, trigger-
ing cuts to some Arizona
farmers next year amid a
gripping drought.
Water levels at the largest
reservoir on the Colorado
River — Lake Mead — have
fallen to record lows. Along
its perimeter, a white “bath-
tub ring” of minerals out-
lines where the high water
line once stood, underscor-
ing the acute water chal-
lenges for a region facing a
growing population and a
drought that is being wors-
ened by hotter, drier
weather brought on by cli-
mate change.
States, cities, farmers
and others have diversified
their water sources over the
years, helping soften the
blow of the upcoming cuts.
Federal officials said Mon-
day’s declaration makes
clear that conditions have
intensified faster than scien-
tists predicted in 2019, when
some states in the Colorado
River basin agreed to give up
shares of water to maintain
levels at Lake Mead.
“The announcement to-
day is a recognition that the
hydrology that was planned
for years ago — but we hoped
we would never see — is
here,” said Bureau of Recla-
mation Commissioner
Camille Touton.
Lake Mead was formed
by building Hoover Dam in
the 1930s. It is one of several
man-made reservoirs that
store water from the Col-
orado River, which supplies
household water, irrigation
for farms and hydropower to
Arizona, California, Col-
orado, Nevada, New Mexico,
Utah, Wyoming and parts of
Mexico.
But water levels at Lake
catered) and people ducking
in somewhere to pick up
food or use the bathroom,
among other exemptions.
It goes into effect Tues-
day, but enforcement won’t
begin until Sept. 13, to give
the public more time to be
vaccinated. City officials
promised training for busi-
nesses on how to handle pos-
sible confrontations be-
tween patrons and their
staffers who will be on the
front lines of checking vacci-
nation status.
The Metropolitan Muse-
um of Art, one of the city’s
most visited venues, said it
was working on how to im-
plement the new rule but
was happy to comply.
“We wholly support all ef-
forts to increase vaccination
rates,” spokesperson Ken
Weine said.
New York state’s new pol-
icy for hospitals and long-
term care facilities follows
vaccination requirements
for healthcare workers in
California, members of the
U.S. military, and patient
Mead and Lake Powell, the
river’s two largest reservoirs,
have been falling for years
and faster than experts pre-
dicted. Scorching tempera-
tures and less melting snow
in the spring have reduced
the amount of water flowing
from the Rocky Mountains,
where the river originates
before it snakes 1,450 miles
southwest and into the Gulf
of California.
“We’re at a moment
where we’re reckoning with
how we continue to flourish
with less water, and it’s very
painful,” said Sarah Porter,
director of the Kyl Center for
Water Policy at Arizona
State University.
How is the river water
shared?
Water stored in Lake
Mead and Lake Powell is
divvied up through legal
agreements among the
seven Colorado River basin
states, the federal govern-
ment, Mexico and others.
The agreements determine
how much water each gets,
when cuts are triggered and
the order in which the
parties have to sacrifice
some of their supply.
Under a 2019 drought
contingency plan, Arizona,
Nevada, California and
Mexico agreed to give up
shares of their water to
maintain water levels at
Lake Mead. The voluntary
measures weren’t enough to
prevent the shortage decla-
ration.
Who does Lake Mead
serve?
Lake Mead supplies
water to millions of people
in Arizona, California, Ne-
vada and Mexico.
Cuts for 2022 are trig-
gered when predicted water
levels fall below a certain
threshold — 1,075 feet above
sea level, or 40% capacity.
Hydrologists predict that
by January, the reservoir
will drop to 1,066 feet.
care staffers in the federal
Health and Human Services
Department and Depart-
ment of Veterans Affairs.
Some private businesses, in-
cluding Google and United
Airlines, also have ordered
employees to get the shot.
“Our healthcare heroes
led the battle against the
virus, and now we need them
to lead the battle between
the variant and the vaccine,”
said Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a
Democrat who is leaving of-
fice later this month after re-
signing over sexual harass-
ment allegations, which he
denies.
The seven-day rolling av-
erage of daily new cases in
New York has risen over the
last two weeks from more
than 2,400 new cases a day to
nearly 4,200, according to
figures compiled by Johns
Hopkins University. New
York City averaged 2,000
new cases of coronavirus a
day over the last seven days,
up from around 200 a day in
late June.
New York state took a
Further rounds of cuts
are triggered when proj-
ected levels sink to 1,050,
1,045 and 1,025 feet.
Eventually, some city
and industrial water users
could be affected.
Lake Powell’s levels also
are falling, threatening the
roughly 5 billion kilowatt
hours of electricity generat-
ed each year at the Glen
Canyon Dam.
Colorado, New Mexico,
Utah and Wyoming get
water from tributaries and
other reservoirs that feed
into Lake Powell. Water
from three reservoirs in
those states has been
drained to maintain water
levels at Lake Powell and
protect the electric grid
powered by the Glen Can-
yon Dam.
Which states will be af-
fected by cuts?
In the U.S., Arizona will
be hardest-hit and lose 18%
of its share from the river
next year, or 512,000 acre-
feet of water. That’s around
8% of the state’s total water
use. An acre-foot is enough
water to supply one to two
households a year.
Nevada will lose about
7% of its allocation, or 21,000
acre-feet of water. But it will
not feel the shortage mainly
because of conservation
efforts.
California is spared from
immediate cuts because it
has more senior water
rights than Arizona and
Nevada.
Mexico will see a reduc-
tion of roughly 5%, or 80,000
acre-feet.
Who in those states will see
their water supply cut?
Farmers in central Arizo-
na, who are among the
state’s largest producers of
livestock, dairy, alfalfa,
wheat and barley, will bear
the brunt of the cuts. Their
allocation comes from water
deemed “extra” by the
more limited step late last
month, requiring vaccina-
tion for staffers who work di-
rectly with patients at state-
owned hospitals and veter-
ans homes. Asked whether
the new policy applies only
to front-line workers and
whether it would also extend
to such settings as medical
offices and home healthcare,
state Health Department
spokesperson Jill Montag
said the agency was working
to finalize the details.
About 75% of the roughly
450,000 hospital workers
statewide, 68% of the 145,500
nursing home workers and
74% of the 30,000 other adult
care facility workers are fully
vaccinated, Cuomo’s office
said in a release. That com-
pares with about 58% of all
New Yorkers, and 70% of
those 18 and older.
The Greater New York
Hospital Assn., a statewide
advocacy group, called
workers’ vaccination rates
“impressive” while endors-
ing the new requirement.
“This is a critical moment
L AT I M E S . C O M
Allen J. Schaben Los Angeles Times
agency that supplies water
to much of the region, mak-
ing them the first to lose it
during a shortage.
As a result, the farmers
will probably need to fallow
land — as many already
have in recent years because
of persisting drought — and
rely even more on ground-
water, switch to water-
efficient crops and find
other ways to use less water.
Water suppliers have
planned for the shortage
declaration by diversifying
and conserving their water
supply, such as by storing
water in underground
basins. Still, water cuts
make it harder to plan for
the future.
The Central Arizona
Project, which supplies
water to Arizona’s major
cities, will no longer bank
river water or replenish
some groundwater systems
next year because of the
cuts.
“It’s a historic moment
where drought and climate
change are at our door,” said
Chuck Cullom of the Cen-
tral Arizona Project.
Cities such as Las Vegas,
Phoenix and Tucson, and
Native American tribes are
shielded from the first
round of cuts.
Can the decline of Lake
Mead be reversed?
Water levels at the reser-
voir have been falling since
1999 due to the dry spell
enveloping the West and
increased water demand.
With weather patterns
expected to worsen, experts
say the reservoir may never
be full again.
Though Lake Mead and
Lake Powell could theoreti-
cally be refilled, planning for
a hotter, drier future with
less river water would be
more prudent, said Porter of
Arizona State University.
Naishadham writes for the
Associated Press.
requiring bold action,” Pres-
ident Kenneth Raske said,
noting that many hospitals
already had their own vacci-
nation mandates.
Under the new policy,
health workers in nursing
homes, adult care and other
congregate care settings will
have to get at least a first
dose of vaccine by Sept. 27,
with what the state called
“limited exceptions for those
with religious or medical
reasons.”
While officials are urging
some people to be vacci-
nated, the Health Depart-
ment on Monday authorized
additional doses for people
with severely weakened
immune systems.
The federal government
on Friday approved third
doses of the usually two-shot
Pfizer or Moderna vaccines
for transplant recipients
and other similarly immune-
compromised patients, but
not the public.
Calvan writes for the
Associated Press.
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Experts say masks and vaccines are working
[Surge, from A1]
much better than in early
July, when there was an 86%
week-over-week increase.
Daily cases remain far below
the pandemic peak of 45,000
new cases a day.
The rise in COVID-19 hos-
pitalizations is also slowing.
California on Sunday re-
ported 7,166 people with
COVID-19 in its hospitals, up
20% from the previous week.
But that’s an improvement
from late July, when there
was a 50% week-over-week
jump in hospitalizations,
and still far below the
wintertime peak of 22,000.
Epidemiologists and in-
fectious disease experts
credited the combination of
better-than-average vacci-
nation rates and local rec-
ommendations or require-
ments to wear masks in in-
door public settings as ma-
jor reasons why the fourth
wave has not become as hor-
rific as what’s been seen else-
where nationwide, such as in
Texas and Florida, where
hospitals are so over-
whelmed they’ve been
forced to cancel elective sur-
geries and have run short of
intensive care unit beds.
“Due to the more rig-
orous application of public
health measures, such as
strongly recommending or
mandating mask use, and
the increasing numbers of
persons becoming vacci-
nated, we may very well be
cresting in terms of the num-
bers of cases in California —
as compared to other parts
of the country — that are still
on a major upswing in this
fourth surge,” said Dr.
Robert Kim-Farley, medical
epidemiologist and infec-
tious disease expert at the
UCLA Fielding School of
Public Health.
Some officials, however,
warned it was too early to
say that the peak of the
fourth wave had passed.
While San Francisco has
seen a decrease in daily co-
ronavirus cases, which
might have been the result of
people increasingly wearing
masks, it is “too early to con-
clude that the fourth surge
has peaked or plateaued,
and hospitalizations gener-
ally peak two weeks after the
cases,” San Francisco health
director Dr. Grant Colfax
said in a statement to The
Times.
California is still taking
steps to prepare in case con-
ditions deteriorate. The Cal-
ifornia Department of Pub-
lic Health is ordering hospi-
tals to begin accepting pa-
tients from facilities with
limited intensive care unit
capacity starting Wednes-
day. And Gov. Gavin New-
som has issued an executive
order that extends the prac-
tice of waiving licensing and
certification requirements
for out-of-state medical em-
ployees assisting in the pan-
demic response effort.
While the overall health-
care system is not as deluged
as during California’s fall-
and-winter surge — when
roughly three times as many
coronavirus-positive pa-
tients were receiving profes-
sional care — hospitals are
Long delays for screenings on first day at L.A. schools
[School, from A1]
keep up with demand and
was unable to process re-
quired health checks.
At campuses throughout
the sprawling district, stu-
dents were delayed from en-
tering schools for 30 min-
utes, an hour or more. The
problem seemed especially
acute at high schools, with
many students missing their
first classes.
“You’ve got the normal
chaos of the first day of
school, with the added
COVID layers,” said school
board member Nick
Melvoin, who described the
performance of the health
screening system as a disap-
pointment. “But we’re get-
ting through it. And I think
everyone’s excited to be
back at school.”
Students or parents are
supposed to log on to a dis-
trict website every morning
before school to receive a
pass. The software asks
whether students have a
cough, fever or fatigue. If
students say they are feeling
well, with no symptoms of ill-
ness, the system issues a
pass with a code for that day.
The pass can be printed out
or scanned at the entrance
to the school, much like an
event ticket.
The computer-generated
pass is not mandatory —
those without it can answer
screening questions on the
spot — but it is meant to save
DR. SAROJ Bharatiya examines a COVID-19 patient at Little Company of Mary Medical Center in Torrance
on Aug. 5. California has reported 7,166 people with COVID-19 in its hospitals, up 20% from the previous week.
Coronavirus cases flattening
Daily cases per 100,000 residents
Los Angeles County
San Francisco Bay Area
30
20
10
0 like Gorilla Glue, Chin-Hong
4 11
July
Numbers calculated over a seven-day average.
Times database
‘We can’t just let down our guard so quickly, but we
should still be comforted. Surges do come to an end.’
feeling the pinch.
“What is really happen-
ing is a real challenge with
staffing overall,” said Jan
Emerson-Shea, a spokes-
woman for the California
Hospital Assn. “And that is
an area that is becoming of
great concern across the
state.”
Even before the latest
surge, she said, hospitals
were contending with a
backlog of people who had
put off non-COVID-related
care earlier in the pandemic.
“Now they may need that
knee replacement surgery or
the gallbladder out,” she
said. “Those procedures
were starting to come back,
and now COVID is rising.”
The Times analysis
found that coronavirus
time and replace hundreds
of on-site student interac-
tions with staff members.
But the system was appar-
ently overwhelmed by the
volume of traffic Monday
and shut down or repeatedly
denied access. Teachers and
other staff rushed to the
school entrance to help with
verbal screenings.
L.A. Unified interim
Supt. Megan Reilly stopped
short of saying that the Daily
Pass system had crashed
but said it was working more
slowly than anticipated be-
cause of high volume.
“The district has been
working with the vendor and
fixing the problem through-
out the day to speed it up,”
Reilly said.
When asked whether
long lines to enter campus
would be the norm, she said,
“Today is the first day of
school. I think we’ll get bet-
ter and better as each day
goes by.”
It was unclear Monday
night whether the system
had been fixed. District offi-
cials did not respond to
questions about the sys-
tem’s status.
One student waiting out-
side Marshall High in Los
Feliz said the lengthy wait
had definitely “killed my
mood.” He pointed wistfully
to the window where his
first-period class was taking
place.
Parents weighed in via
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cases were flattening in mul-
tiple regions of California.
In Los Angeles County,
new average daily co-
ronavirus cases rose 4%
compared with the previous
week; the week before saw an
18% jump. Sacramento
County recorded a 9% rise;
Riverside County, 8%; Or-
ange and Fresno counties
were essentially flat.
San Diego County re-
corded a 5% decrease in
daily cases, and the nine-
county San Francisco Bay
Area observed a 12% drop in
daily cases.
Other areas saw higher
jumps. Ventura County ob-
served a 13% rise; Kern
County, 17%; San Bernar-
dino County recorded a 54%
jump.
text and email with com-
ments like “disaster,” “com-
plete failure” and “unaccept-
able.”
Others were simply
thrilled to have children
back on campus — and were
willing to be patient.
“Ultimately, my daughter
texted me and said she
would wear four masks at
school if they asked her to, so
she can be on campus with
her teachers and classmates
and friends,” said Jana Fain,
whose child attends Frank-
lin Dual Language Middle
School in Highland Park.
“Her face was brimming
with so much joy after
school, it broke my heart.”
Some parents ques-
tioned the need for Daily
Pass, given that it’s based on
the honor system and is not
mandatory, though officials
are pushing families to use it.
School board member
Jackie Goldberg said the
system has merit.
“Once everyone gets the
hang of it, the Daily Pass will
let students in more
quickly,” Goldberg said.
“Also, it is used to book a
COVID test, and one can
record vaccination informa-
tion. Can people lie? Of
course. But overwhelmingly,
people do not.”
At elementary schools,
first-day jitters were more
pronounced than usual.
“I’m nervous,” said San-
dra Espinoza, as she strug-
COVID-19 hospitalizations
Patients in the hospital per 100,000 residents
Los Angeles County
San Francisco Bay Area
15
10
5 ple of reasons. For one, it is
0 said. Second, it produces so
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July
Times database
— K IRSTEN B IBBINS -D OMINGO ,
Although vaccination
rates have risen recently, the
reduction in the severity of
the pandemic wave now
probably has more to do
with greater use of masks
and a reduction in riskier
forms of social contact. It’s
too soon for recently admin-
istered vaccination doses to
have had an effect, said UC
San Francisco epidemiolo-
gist Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Do-
mingo.
“The key here is to recog-
nize we probably are turning
the corner, that we can’t just
let down our guard so
quickly, but we should still
be comforted. Because
surges do come to an end,
and I think that’s what we’re
starting to see now, which is
very encouraging,” Bibbins-
gled to pull up the Daily Pass
site while waiting in line to
check in her son Ozil, who
is entering kindergarten at
Montara Avenue Elementa-
ry School in South Gate.
She is worried about the
surging Delta variant and
about reports that young
people are becoming in-
fected.
Still, her son was excited,
she said. While in line, he
tugged on her shirt, eager to
get inside. She snapped a
photo of him holding a mini
chalkboard.
Because most students
have been in remote school-
ing since March 2020, huge
numbers are attending class
on campus for the first time
— ninth- and 10th-graders at
high school, sixth- and sev-
enth-graders at middle
school.
Many parents kept their
children out of kindergarten
last year, adding another
level of academic and social
uncertainty. Teachers had
to explain that students
can’t get up to get a snack or
use the bathroom whenever
they want. And while shar-
ing is a good thing — be it
crayons or food — it’s not so
good this year, with the co-
ronavirus circulating.
Among the major chal-
lenges was the district’s de-
termination to test every
student and employee for a
coronavirus infection before
allowing them back on cam-
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UCSF epidemiologist
Domingo said.
Some doctors were opti-
mistic that California’s
fourth surge would end up
being far milder than in
other states where political
leaders have opposed mask
mandates enacted by local
officials and vaccination
rates are relatively low.
The experience in Britain
shows that, particularly in a
highly vaccinated area, a
surge in the Delta variant
can hit quickly but also fade
quickly, said Dr. Peter Chin-
Hong, infectious disease
specialist at UC San Fran-
cisco. By contrast, it will
probably take areas with
lower vaccination rates long-
er to emerge from this wave.
At UC San Francisco, the
number of COVID-19 pa-
pus. The district has about
465,000 students in kinder-
garten through 12th grade
and more than 75,000 em-
ployees.
School board members
had been updated recently
on the results of the baseline
testing. Board President
Kelly Gonez said that as of
the end of last week, less
than 1% of students were
testing positive for a corona-
virus infection — about six
students per 1,000. That rate
is similar to what was found
toward the end of summer
school. The rate for employ-
ees was seven per 1,000.
The safety protocols at
L.A. Unified are being touted
as among the strictest in the
nation, relying on layers of
measures, such as masking,
improved ventilation and in-
creased hand-washing. Ad-
ditionally, on Friday, Reilly
announced that all teachers
and school staff must be vac-
cinated against COVID-19 by
Oct. 15.
Despite the measures,
about 3% of students are
starting school online
through an independent
study program. Making that
choice required filling out
lengthy forms and leaving
behind familiar classmates
and teachers — at least for
the time being.
Parents who opted for
their kids to return to cam-
pus still express worry. What
happens if there is an out-
A7
tients in the hospital is hov-
ering around 40, up from just
five when California fully re-
opened on June 15. But it’s
still far less than the peak
during the winter wave,
when there were 100, Chin-
Hong said.
Hospitalizations have re-
mained steady for the last
three weeks, Chin-Hong
said. And pediatric hospi-
talizations remain very low.
Most of the people hospi-
talized with COVID-19 are
unvaccinated, Chin-Hong
said. Those who are vacci-
nated and hospitalized with
COVID-19 tend to have com-
promised immune systems.
San Francisco might be
doing particularly well be-
cause many residents com-
plied with recommenda-
tions and requirements to
mask up indoors. San Fran-
cisco has one of the state’s
highest vaccination rates.
When California fully re-
opened on June 15, “people
partied like it was 1999. ...
They were not being irre-
sponsible, it was mainly be-
cause we were told to go on
with life as normal. But once
the alarm bell was sounded,
pretty much, people in the
Bay Area took it to heart —
they grumbled, but they did
it,” Chin-Hong said.
Chin-Hong credited L.A.
County, one of the first local
governments in the country
to recommend and then re-
quire mask use indoors, as
properly sounding the alarm
that the Delta variant posed
a more severe challenge.
“It was probably a pre-
scient move,” Chin-Hong
said.
The Delta variant poses a
much more difficult chal-
lenge than previous strains
of the coronavirus for a cou-
far stickier to human cells,
many more copies of itself —
up to 1,000 times more than
previous variants.
Vaccinated people are
still less likely to get the co-
ronavirus, and less likely to
transmit it even if they do get
infected, than unvaccinated
people, Chin-Hong said.
Still, some doctors say it’s no
longer considered “rare” for
a fully vaccinated person to
eventually become infected
and, as a result, become po-
tentially capable of trans-
mitting the virus to others,
even if they are likely to re-
main healthy.
“Uncommon, OK. Not
rare,” tweeted Dr. Robert
Wachter, chair of UC San
Francisco Department of
Medicine.
There’s some speculation
that vaccinated people —
even though they can have
high viral loads at the time of
infection, although they gen-
erally don’t become severely
ill — reduce their viral load
much faster than unvacci-
nated people.
That might help explain
why California’s fourth
surge might be much short-
er in duration than in other
parts of the country, such as
Missouri, that have a lower
rate of vaccination, Chin-
Hong said.
break at a school? How
many students will be sent
home, and for how long?
It isn’t clear how forth-
coming schools will be — in
L.A. Unified and elsewhere
— about releasing campus
infection information.
Coronavirus cases must
be reported to the L.A.
County Department of Pub-
lic Health, which will work
with school officials to iden-
tify close contacts and notify
them for follow-up testing
and possible quarantines.
Kathy Kuzniar feared the
worst Monday, because her
daughter, a sophomore in
high school, wasn’t looking
forward to returning due to
anxiety over COVID-19.
“We dropped her off and
knew instantly that it was
going to be a long day of lines
and weirdness for her,”
Kuzniar said. “She had to
wait in lines way after her
first period had ended.”
But things began to look
up. “She called us at
lunchtime and was in good
spirits about all of the stu-
dents she saw who were
helping out and providing
good information,” Kuzniar
said. She expressed grati-
tude to the “teachers, staff
and administrators who are
working so hard to make this
happen.”
Times staff writer Paloma
Esquivel contributed to this
report.
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Beware of ‘a cornucopia for scam artists’
Swindlers are thriving
amid pandemic, but a
Long Beach couple
avoid falling victim.
DAVID LAZARUS
The message
looked legit.
“How are
you?” it be-
gan. “Hope
you are keep-
ing safe. Are
you available
via email? I
need your
help.”
Long Beach resident
Anne Supple told me she
and her husband, Charley,
had no reason to question
the recent email from one of
their neighbors, who they
knew was out of town.
The name was correct. It
was sent from her proper
email address.
“I am right where you left
me,” Charley replied in a
bantering tone. “How can I
help you?”
Then came the followup.
“Thanks for responding,”
it said. “Actually, I need to
get GOOGLE PLAY GIFT
CARDS for my Niece who
had Heart operation some
days ago she had lost both
parents to the disease
(COVID-19).
“It’s her birthday but I
can’t do this right now be-
cause I have arthritis in the
knees and ankles. They are
giving me problems. I am
going up and down one step
at a time. This method is
neither graceful! Or fast!
And I tried purchasing
online but unfortunately no
luck with that.
“Kindly let me know if
you can handle this,” the
email concluded, with a
U.S. investigates Tesla crashes into emergency vehicles
By Russ Mitchell
In theory, identifying and
avoiding stationary objects
set off by hazard cones or
flashing lights ought to be
one of the easiest challenges
for any autonomous-driving
or driver-assist system.
Yet at least 11 times over
the last seven years, cars
made by Tesla Inc. and run-
ning its software have failed
this test, slamming into
emergency vehicles that
were parked on roads and
highways. Now the National
Highway Traffic Safety Ad-
ministration wants to know
why.
A federal investigation
announced Monday involves
Tesla cars built from 2014 to
2021, including models S, X, 3
and Y. If the inquiry results
in a recall, as many as 765,000
vehicles could be affected.
The 11 crashes at issue re-
sulted in 17 injuries and one
death. Three took place in
Southern California.
The new investigation in-
dicates that the safety
agency, under President
Biden and Transportation
MARKET ROUNDUP
S&P 500, Dow hit records despite COVID surge
associated press
A choppy day on Wall
Street ended Monday with
the Standard & Poor’s 500
index and Dow Jones indus-
trial average notching new
highs after recovering from
an early slide.
The indexes each rose
0.3%, extending their win-
ning streak to a fifth straight
trading day, while the
Nasdaq composite fell 0.2%.
Technology and healthcare
stocks accounted for much
of the gain in the S&P 500.
Sectors traditionally consid-
ered lower risk, including
utilities and companies that
make food and personal
goods, also helped lift the
market. Those gains out-
weighed a pullback in banks,
energy stocks and a swath of
retailers and travel sector
companies.
Despite the latest gains,
there are signs that in-
vestors have turned cau-
tious with the market at all-
time highs amid rising co-
SCAMMERS frequently seek payment in gift cards because once they get their
hands on the cards or their numbers, that’s that. Your money’s gone.
pledge to reimburse the
Supples for whatever they
spent on the gift cards.
“We do a lot of favors for
our neighbor,” Anne Supple,
73, told me. “The first email
seemed real. But as soon as
they asked for gift cards, we
suspected it was a scam.”
Good instincts. Scam-
mers frequently seek pay-
ment in gift cards because
once they get their hands on
the cards or their numbers,
that’s that. Your money’s
gone.
The emails to the Sup-
ples highlight yet again how
the COVID-19 pandemic has
been Christmas for con
artists looking to cash in on
all-too-common tales of woe
and hardship.
“A worst-in-a-century
pandemic is a cornucopia
for scam artists — all the
major holidays rolled into
one,” Robert Herrell, execu-
Secretary Pete Buttigieg, is
paying more attention to
automated driving safety
than the more laissez-faire
Trump administration. In
June, the NHTSA ordered
automobile manufactures,
including Tesla, to forward
data on crashes involving
automated systems to the
agency.
It’s about time, said Alain
Kornhauser, director of the
self-driving car program at
Princeton University. “Tes-
las are running into station-
ary objects,” he said. “They
shouldn’t be.”
Autopilot is the brand
name for Tesla’s partially
automated driving system.
It combines adaptive cruise
control with automatic
steering and lane changing.
Tesla manuals say the driver
needs to pay full attention,
but the feature has been
marketed as a hands-free
system, with Chief Execu-
tive Elon Musk appearing on
television news shows be-
hind the wheel of various
Teslas with his hands raised
high in the air and a grin on
his face.
In a statement emailed to
Major stock indexes
Index Close
Dow industrials 35,625.40
S&P 500 4,479.71
Nasdaq composite 14,793.76
S&P 400 2,724.79
Russell 2000 2,203.41
EuroStoxx 50 3,649.51
Nikkei (Japan) 27,523.19
Hang Seng (Hong Kong) 26,181.46
Associated Press
ronavirus infections around
the globe due to the highly
contagious Delta variant.
Traders shifted money
into U.S. bonds, which
helped drag bond yields
lower. Small-company
stocks fell, knocking the
Russell 2000 index 0.9%
lower. Nearly twice as many
stocks in the New York Stock
Exchange fell than rose.
The S&P 500 rose 11.71
points to 4,479.71. The Dow
added 110.02 points to
35,625.40. The Nasdaq fell
29.14 points to 14,793.76. The
BUSINESS
Elise Amendola Associated Press
tive director of the Con- pared with 23% a year before
sumer Federation of Cali- — an indication that either
fornia, told me. people have grown more
The Federal Trade Com- gullible while being stuck at
mission received more than home or the fraudsters have
2 million fraud reports from grown more sophisticated.
consumers last year, with I’d guess it’s a combina-
so-called imposter scams tion of the two.
the most commonly cited While hacking the email
racket. account of the Supples’
The number of reports of neighbor demonstrates a
imposter scams hit nearly modicum of tech savviness,
557,000 in the first half of this the grammatical errors in
year, up 18% from the same the second email show that
period last year. the hacker isn’t exactly a
More than $3.3 billion in criminal mastermind.
fraud losses were reported That said, the hacker
to the FTC in 2020, almost was smart enough not to
double the amount a year take the bait when I emailed
earlier. Roughly half the asking how I could help the
losses resulted from Supples obtain gift cards for
imposter scams similar to the bereaved, recuperating
what the Supples experi- niece.
enced. The FTC says con artists
The FTC noted that 34% know people are very vul-
of consumers reporting nerable and emotional
scams last year acknowl- because of the pandemic,
edged losing money, com- and that this may lead some
Michael A. McCoy Getty Images
TESLA CEO Elon Musk, center, has helped give the
appearance that Autopilot is a hands-free feature.
reporters Monday, the technical language obscures
NHTSA said that “no com- some common sense ques-
mercially available motor tions that surely will be ex-
vehicles today are capable of plored: Why does Autopilot
driving themselves ... and all sometimes not see fire
State laws hold human driv- trucks and police cars with
ers responsible for operation lights flashing? Why did its
of their vehicles.” automatic emergency brake
Although human drivers systems not work?
indeed can be held legally li- As countless YouTube
able in such crashes, the videos attest, Autopilot is
NHTSA is investigating easy to cheat. It monitors
Autopilot’s ability to identify driver attention by sensing
obstacles in the roadway hands on the steering wheel,
and its “event detection and but weights can be hung on
response” systems. The the wheel to defeat the moni-
head back to school or pre-
pare to head back at the end
of August. School shut-
Daily Daily % YTD % downs because of the virus
change change change
could crimp a recovery in the
+110.02 +0.31 +16.40 job market if parents have to
+11.71 +0.26 +19.27 stay home.
-29.14 -0.20 +14.78 Data out of China
showed the COVID-19 pan-
-6.67 -0.24 +18.13
demic continues to hurt
-19.70 -0.89 +11.57
economies around the
-14.67 -0.40 +17.41 world. Chinese industrial
-453.96 -1.62 +0.29 production and retail sales
-210.16 -0.80 -3.85 both rose last month, but at
a far weaker pace than what
economists had expected.
Russell 2000 lost 19.69 points China’s economy is suf-
to 2,203.41. fering from supply chain is-
Stocks have been push- sues, where manufactured
ing to ever higher records in goods that would typically
the last couple of weeks even be on their way to foreign
amid choppy trading as in- markets have either re-
vestors try to gauge the ef- mained unfinished or stuck
fects of rising virus cases. in shipping containers.
Analysts had expected econ- The collapse of the
omic growth to slow from its Afghan government over the
breakneck pace earlier this weekend was also on in-
year, but the highly conta- vestors’ minds. Although
gious Delta variant has the economy of Afghanistan
prompted even more cau- is small, the country is in a
tion from investors. delicate part of the world,
The concerns are being sandwiched between the
heightened as students economic giants of South
potential victims to lower
the guard.
The agency warned in
April that particularly abu-
sive fraudsters were target-
ing family members of peo-
ple who had died of
COVID-19, offering help in
paying funeral expenses.
There’s a real govern-
ment relief program run by
the Federal Emergency
Management Agency that
provides up to $9,000 in
COVID-related funeral
costs. But FEMA will never
call you out of the blue.
If you didn’t contact the
agency yourself or sign up
for the benefit, any call you
receive about this is a scam.
The FTC warned in June
about rising incidents of the
so-called grandparent
scam, in which people,
typically seniors, receive a
call ostensibly from a grand-
child who has been arrested
or jailed.
The call almost always is
bogus and will lead to elabo-
rate steps to separate you
from your money either by
purchasing gift cards or
making a wire transfer. A
Pasadena man lost $27,000
to this ruse last year.
I’ve also been hearing
from a number of readers
about phony offers to help
secure inheritance cash. I
wrote about this racket
after a San Fernando Valley
resident was told he could
receive almost $10 million
from a dead relative he
never heard of.
As with claims that
you’ve just won a lottery or
sweepstakes, it’s highly
unlikely a total stranger
bequeathed you a mountain
of money. Keep your dis-
tance.
The best way to protect
yourself from imposter
scams is to be wary of any
call purporting to be from a
toring system. Autopilot has
frequently been misused by
drivers, who have been
caught driving drunk or
even riding in the back seat
while a car rolled down a Cal-
ifornia highway.
Other manufacturers use
sophisticated cameras that
analyze eye and head move-
ment to assess the level of
driver attention. Warnings
are issued and eventually
car power is cut off if the
driver fails to keep eyes on
the road.
Tesla has disbanded its
media relations depart-
ment. A request for Tesla
comment was directed at
Musk’s Twitter account, to
which he has not responded.
The emergency vehicle
incidents under the NHTSA
investigation include a 2018
crash into the back of a
firetruck stopped on the 405
Freeway in Culver City; a
2018 crash into a parked po-
lice cruiser in Laguna
Beach; and a crash last
month into an unoccupied
California Highway Patrol
car in San Diego.
The National Trans-
portation Safety Board,
and East Asia and the oil-
rich Middle East.
The price of U.S. crude oil
fell 1.7% and weighed down
energy companies. Exxon
Mobil dropped 1.5% and
Chevron closed 1% lower.
Bond yields fell and
pulled banks lower. They
rely on higher yields to
charge more lucrative inter-
est on loans. The yield on the
10-year Treasury fell to 1.26%
from 1.29% late Friday. Wells
Fargo lost 1.9% and Citi-
group dropped 1.4%.
Also dampening in-
vestors’ optimism was the
University of Michigan con-
sumer sentiment index from
Friday, which fell to 70.2 from
its previous level of 81.2 in
July. That was its largest
drop since April 2020, when
the pandemic took its initial
grip on the country.
The unexpectedly bad
reading was almost entirely
due to the spread of the
Delta variant, which has
caused hospitals to fill up
with unvaccinated patients
across the U.S.
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government agency — the
Social Security Adminis-
tration is a favorite cover for
con artists — or any request
for money.
The FTC says caller ID
won’t necessarily protect
you; numbers can be faked
using a technique known as
“spoofing.”
The agency also advises
checking the legitimacy of
any “official” caller by saying
you’ll call back. Use the
number you find online, not
the one the caller gives you.
Hang up on any caller
requesting payment in gift
cards, wire transfers or
cryptocurrency. This is a
giveaway that you’re being
hoodwinked.
“Consumers need to be
vigilant, especially when
money is involved,” said
Herrell at the Consumer
Federation of California.
“Take an extra moment
to check out who you might
be dealing with,” he told me.
“Find out more about them
from credible news sources
— not your Facebook feed —
and think about whether
you even need a middleman
to get you the help you
need.”
Anne Supple said she
had to laugh when she and
her husband saw what
looked like a real appeal
from a friend turn into a
scammy plea for gift cards.
“What friend would ever
ask for gift cards?” she said.
“Who would do that?”
Unfortunately, $3.3 bil-
lion in fraud losses last year
suggest many people think
otherwise.
David Lazarus’ column runs
Tuesdays and Fridays. He
also can be seen daily on
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Twitter @davidlaz. Send
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@latimes.com.
which also has investigated
some of the Tesla crashes,
has recommended that the
NHTSA and Tesla limit
Autopilot’s use to areas
where it can safely operate.
The NTSB also recom-
mended that the NHTSA re-
quire Tesla to have a better
system to make sure drivers
pay attention.
The NHTSA has not tak-
en action on any of the
recommendations. The
NTSB has no enforcement
powers and can only make
recommendations to other
federal agencies such as the
NHTSA.
Tesla is also under review
by the California Depart-
ment of Motor Vehicles for
its marketing of Full Self-
Driving technology. That’s
a significant enhancement
to Autopilot that allows the
car to be driven on city
streets, with the claimed
ability to handle traffic sig-
nals and make turns at
intersections. The feature
costs $10,000, which includes
future enhancements, but
Tesla has noted that its
Full Self-Driving does not
make the car self-driving.
DMV regulations prevent
auto manufacturers from
making false claims about
automated driving capa-
bilities.
The DMV launched its re-
view in mid-May. Asked how
long the review might take, a
DMV spokeswoman said via
email, “The review is on-
going. The DMV does not
comment on an ongoing re-
view.”
Tesla has issued Full Self-
Driving in various “beta”
versions to select customers,
who are testing the self-drive
system on public roads.
Other companies deploying
experimental autonomous
car technology on public
roads use trained test driv-
ers and make reports on
safety progress to the state.
Asked why Tesla was not re-
quired to do so with its Full
Self-Driving beta, the DMV
said that the feature is not
actually full self-driving, and
so does not fall under those
requirements. Tesla does
tell Full Self-Driving beta
testers they must pay full at-
tention.
The Times has repeat-
edly asked to interview DMV
officials to clarify its stance.
Those requests have been
repeatedly declined.
The Associated Press was
used in compiling this
report.
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Biden pushes for climate-friendly energy
[Energy, from A1]
ficials are trying to avoid
those pitfalls and boost
higher-paying careers in cli-
mate-friendly energy as they
seek to pass a massive
budget plan this year. The
$3.5-trillion package in-
cludes a system of financial
incentives and penalties
that’s intended to increase
the amount of electricity
that’s generated from car-
bon-free sources. There are
also tax breaks for clean-en-
ergy companies and incen-
tives for domestic manufac-
turing operations.
Failure to create good-
paying jobs could mean
eroding political support for
reducing the greenhouse gas
emissions fueling bigger
wildfires, harsher droughts
and deadlier heat waves.
“It’s something to be tak-
en super, super, super seri-
ously,” Zabin said. “It’s diffi-
cult to find comparable jobs
at those good wages that
those unions fought for over
decades.”
Gina McCarthy, Biden’s
top advisor on domestic cli-
mate issues, said the shifting
energy economy — which
has been driven as much by
the falling costs of renewable
power sources as it has by
government policy — will ul-
timately generate new jobs
in growing industries such
as building high-capacity
batteries or even solar pan-
els, which are primarily
manufactured overseas.
“We are talking about ex-
panding and enlarging the
kind of job opportunities we
have, while recognizing in
some areas it may not grow
but in other areas it may
pick up,” McCarthy said in
an interview.
Anthony Romano is one
of the beneficiaries of that
push. After spending a dec-
ade as a non-union roofer, he
studied to be an electrician
through a five-year appren-
ticeship program offered by
the International Brother-
hood of Electrical Workers,
or IBEW, which involved
working solar jobs during
the day and taking classes at
night.
“Roofing was always a
job. I was looking for a ca-
reer,” he said.
Romano oversees a team
Home Depot punished staff
over activism, agency says
Labor board, alleging
selective enforcement
of dress code, says
worker with a BLM
apron was forced out.
bloomberg
Home Depot Inc. used
threats and punishments to
try to shut down employee
activism about race-based
harassment, including by
forcing out a worker who
wore a BLM apron, accord-
ing to a complaint issued by
federal labor board prose-
cutors.
In an Aug. 12 filing on be-
half of the general counsel of
the National Labor Rela-
tions Board, a regional di-
rector of the agency accused
the home-improvement re-
tailer of selectively enforcing
its dress code, which prohib-
its displaying “causes or po-
litical messages unrelated to
workplace matters,” to tar-
get employees who wore
Black Lives Matter apparel
at work.
An employee who had
been trying to address dis-
crimination and harass-
ment issues at a Minnesota
facility, including by talking
to co-workers and sending
emails, was illegally sus-
pended and forbidden from
continuing the person’s ac-
tivism, according to the
complaint. Home Depot
management also threat-
ened employees in person
and over a video call to pre-
vent them from mounting
protests against racial har-
assment, according to the
filing, which was obtained by
Bloomberg News via a Free-
dom of Information Act re-
quest.
Home Depot said in an
emailed statement that the
labor board “misrepresents
the relevant facts” of the
case, and that the company
will share more with the
agency as the case proceeds.
“The Home Depot does
not tolerate workplace har-
assment of any kind and
takes all reports of discrimi-
THE DEVELOPER of Westlands Solar Park in the San Joaquin Valley, CIM Group of Los Angeles, plans to
expand the site to 20,000 acres. It’s shaping up to be one of the world’s largest renewable-energy facilities.
of about 60 people as a fore-
man for BEI Construction,
the electrical contractor at
Westlands Solar Park.
When The Times visited
earlier this summer, there
were more than 400 iron-
workers, laborers, car-
penters, electricians and op-
erating engineers on the
site, a cross section of the
types of jobs that can be gen-
erated by clean-energy in-
vestment.
Most were installing pan-
els manufactured in India,
while others were driving
piles into the ground, dig-
ging trenches for electrical
cables or assembling track-
ers that help solar panels fol-
low the sun as it moves
through the sky.
Construction crews have
installed as many as 10,000
panels in a single day. They
work from dawn into the eve-
ning, 10 hours a day, four
days a week. Under an agree-
ment signed by five trade
unions and the developer,
Los Angeles real estate firm
CIM Group, workers typi-
nation or harassment seri-
ously, as we did in this case,”
spokesperson Sara Gorman
said. “Regardless of the out-
come, we will continue to be
fully committed to diversity
and respect for all people.”
Like many big U.S. com-
panies, Home Depot put out
a statement after George
Floyd’s murder committing
to racial justice and equality.
As of 2019, Black people
made up 17% of the retailer’s
U.S. based workforce — a
larger share than the U.S.
population.
About a third of man-
agers and a quarter of U.S.-
based officers were “minor-
ities,” according to a 2020
company report.
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cally earn $33 to $50 an hour,
not including health ben-
efits and pensions.
That’s significantly bet-
ter than the average wage for
Americans working in solar,
wind and other clean-energy
jobs, which is slightly less
than $24 an hour, according
to a report from E2, a non-
partisan group that advo-
cates for those technologies.
Of the 3 million clean-energy
jobs the group tallied last
year, 2.1 million were in ener-
gy efficiency, which includes
installing modern lighting
and heating and air condi-
tioning systems that use less
electricity.
Across the board, clean-
energy workers tend to earn
more than the national aver-
age for hourly wages. But
that may be cold comfort to
oil and gas company em-
ployees, who have seen their
industry shrink and worry
the state will regulate them
out of existence. Fossil fuel
jobs pay more on average
and are more likely to be
unionized than solar and
Federal law guarantees
employees the right to par-
ticipate in collective action
regarding workplace mat-
ters. “Issues of racial harass-
ment directly impact the
working conditions of em-
ployees,” Jennifer Hadsall,
the labor board regional di-
rector who issued the com-
plaint, said in a statement
Monday.
Absent a settlement, la-
bor board complaints are
heard by agency judges,
whose rulings can be ap-
pealed to NLRB members
in Washington. The agency
has no authority to make
companies pay punitive
damages for violating the
law.
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wind positions, according to
the Bureau of Labor Stat-
istics.
Bob Keefe, the executive
director of E2, said govern-
ment needs to do more to en-
sure that workers in emerg-
ing industries benefit from
better salaries and union
representation.
“Is that where it needs to
be? It probably needs to be
higher,” he said.
Clean-energy supporters
say there’s a huge opportu-
nity, in California and across
the country, to train fossil
fuel workers for the jobs of
the future — especially be-
cause the skills needed for
those jobs are useful for
other trades too.
“Any time an industry
changes or shifts direction,
there’s always going to be
people that are affected both
ways,” Romano said. “But I
think the renewables are
just important, especially
with the power shortages
and all of that stuff in Cali-
fornia.”
Romano lives in the San
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Carolyn Cole Los Angeles Times
Francisco Bay Area city of
Hayward and commutes to
the San Joaquin Valley dur-
ing the week. But the solar
project’s developer esti-
mates that around 90% of
the workers on-site are local.
George Fernandez, a
quality control foreman who
lives in the San Joaquin Val-
ley, oversees more than two
dozen employees. He works
for Swinerton Renewable
Energy, the main project
contractor, and he said he
much prefers this assign-
ment to his previous jobs at
cable and pest control com-
panies.
“I’m not crawling under-
neath crawl spaces any-
more. That’s a plus, you
know?” he said with a laugh,
after demonstrating how his
crews make sure solar pan-
els are properly secured. “I
get fresh air. I’m getting
some rays of sun.”
Renewable-energy skep-
tics sometimes point out
that the bulk of the jobs are
temporary — it may take a
few hundred people to build
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a solar or wind farm, but only
a handful are needed to op-
erate the facilities once
they’re finished.
Fernandez, though, isn’t
worried about having to find
another job any time soon.
That’s because Westlands
Solar Park is so big. The first
phase — 250 megawatts
across 1,800 acres — is on
track to finish construction
this fall.
But the developer plans
to expand the site to 2,700
megawatts over more than
20,000 acres, a process that
could take the rest of the
decade.
Most solar projects aren’t
nearly that size. But many of
them will be needed to wean
California — not to mention
the rest of the country — off
fossil fuels. State officials
estimate that to meet its
goal of 100% clean electricity,
California may have to build
as much solar and wind
power every year for the next
quarter-century as it’s ever
built in a single year until
now.
CIM Group co-founder
Avi Shemesh pointed to an-
other reason to expect more
growth in renewable-power
jobs: improving technology.
He said he expects solar to
get so much cheaper that it
will make sense to “re-panel”
facilities within the next dec-
ade — in other words, tear-
ing out the original panels
and replacing them with
new ones capable of generat-
ing more electricity.
Solar and wind farm op-
erators are also increasingly
adding batteries that can
store electricity for times
when the sun isn’t shining
and the wind isn’t blowing.
Specially trained workers
are required to build and
maintain those devices.
Overall, CIM expects to
spend “substantially north”
of $4 billion to $5 billion to
build Westlands Solar Park,
Shemesh said.
For CIM, using union la-
bor was an easy choice, in
part because the five-trade
agreement helped build po-
litical support for the proj-
ect.
“You’re not going to make
or break the project by sav-
ing a little more on labor,”
Shemesh said.
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Leighton Sonco, 5, at Madison Elementary School in South Gate in April.
The safe way to go back to school
L.A. Unified’s vaccine, mask
and test rules protect returning
students and the community.
L
os angeles county can expect a
rise in reported COVID-19 cases
over the coming week as the
Delta variant continues to
spread. Not all of the infected
people will feel sick. Some will be asymp-
tomatic cases discovered by COVID testing
of all students and staff by L.A. Unified
schools — hundreds of thousands of tests
every week.
That’s a good thing, folks. By finding
cases that otherwise would have gone
undiscovered, the schools will not only pre-
vent outbreaks among students and staff,
but also help lower transmission rates in
the larger community, as infected people
stay home and their families take proper
precautions.
When it comes to safety from COVID-19
in schools, L.A. Unified has emerged as a
national leader. It was the first district to
institute mandatory, universal testing at its
schools under a contract with a vendor that
provides results by early the following
morning, long enough before school starts
to take necessary quarantining or other
steps. It was among the first to replace its
aging ventilation systems with state-of-
the-art air filtration.
Even better, it now is mandating vacci-
nation for its staff, except those with medi-
cal or religious reasons for not taking the
jab. The district should ensure that those
are legitimate reasons, such as established
religions that forbid vaccination rather
than someone who claims a vague moral
belief or a member of a newly formed Con-
gregation Against Common-sense Acts.
This isn’t a vaccinate or be tested rule.
It’s vaccinate and be tested.
Vaccination is by far the most effective
way to prevent both infection and serious
disease, and L.A. Unified is showing the
way for other school districts to follow. Chil-
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What we lacked in Afghanistan
Re “Afghanistan falls to the Taliban,” Aug. 16
D
emocracy can’t be forced down the barrel of a gun.
It’s perplexing to watch as small groups of men on motorcycles, dressed in
traditional clothing and armed with AK-47 rifles and primitive rocket launch-
ers, proceed with relative ease to finally liberate their country from 20 years of
attempted control by one of the most formidable, best equipped military
forces in history. Perhaps fighting with unshakable faith, in your own backyard, for your
home and your culture, is the most potent of all weaponry.
It seems there never was a true opportunity for U.S. victory in Afghanistan or Iraq. At
best, both wars were ill-thought, retaliatory ideas carried out at a huge cost of treasure and
lives on all sides. The only winner was the military industrial complex.
I recently heard a veteran from Afghanistan share a Taliban saying regarding our con-
quest: “You have the wristwatch, but we have the time.” Meanwhile, the ice melts, the virus
thrives, and all perceived forms of God weep at the inanity of men in their names.
At first glance, the deba-
cle in Afghanistan implies a
failure of the Biden adminis-
tration.
But on a deeper histori-
cal level, it represents the
demise of Western domina-
tion in world affairs.
What began with the fall
of European colonialism
and imperialism in the last
century has finally ended
with America’s realization
that it cannot impose its
way of life on a distant na-
tion with an alien culture
merely by force. President
Biden had the wisdom to
realize the futility of such a
venture.
The future points to a
world where Asians, Ameri-
cans, Europeans and Afri-
cans will have to learn to sit
together on equal terms,
respecting one another’s way
of life, in shaping the future of
our common planet.
Srinivas Chari
Camarillo
FOUNDED DECEMBER 4, 1881
L AT I M E S . C O M / O P I N I O N
OPINION
EDITORIALS
The tragic, inevitable downfall
of the Afghan government
In a speech to the American people on
President Biden was right to Monday, Biden said the withdrawal was
“hard and messy,” but necessary: “I stand
withdraw but should have better squarely behind my decision. After 20 years,
prepared for the Taliban takeover. I’ve learned the hard way that there was ne-
ver a good time to withdraw U.S. forces.”
And although he acknowledged that the
A
merica’s nearly 20-year war in Taliban takeover unfolded more quickly
Afghanistan came to a sudden than anticipated, the easy capitulation of
end Sunday as Taliban fighters Afghanistan’s military and political leader-
poured into the capital, Kabul, ship bolstered his belief that it was the right
facing scarcely any resistance, decision. “American troops cannot and
Irfan Khan Los Angeles Times and as the Western-backed president, should not be fighting in a war, and dying in
Ashraf Ghani, fled the country. a war, that Afghan forces are not willing to
The images of desperate Afghans fight for themselves,” he said.
thronging the airport in Kabul, seeking to The truth is that the conflict in Af-
flee the country, are harrowing. Already
there are reports that Taliban fighters have
imposed their severe, fundamentalist inter-
ghanistan — America’s longest war — was
probably lost soon after it began. After the
U.S. ousted the Taliban — which had
dren younger than 12 cannot be vaccinated pretation of Islam in cities they have cap- hosted the Al Qaeda terrorist network and
at this point, and it is the job of teachers tured — for example, insisting that women refused to turn over terrorists such as
and staff not just to help their minds devel- cover their hair in public and demanding Osama bin Laden — the George W. Bush
op, but also to avoid letting them be sick- that classrooms be segregated by gender. administration expanded the goals of the
ened at school. (As well as protecting the Then there is the plight of tens of thou- mission in ways that in hindsight were ne-
other adult staffers.) Assuming that one or sands of Afghans who worked with the ver realistic. (Bin Laden was not located
more of the vaccines receives full approval United States over the years as inter- and killed until 2011.)
from the U.S. Food and Drug Administra- preters, translators and contractors. Presi- Afghanistan had not had a widely
tion — all of them are now under emergency dent Biden has promised to process, trans- agreed-upon national government since
use authorization, which puts some limits port and relocate these applicants for spe- the Soviet invasion of 1979. The U.S. and its
on vaccine mandates — the state should re- cial immigrant visas, but events have un- Western allies had noble hopes of building a
quire them for all students 12 and older. folded faster than the American military’s multi-party democracy — with respect for
Along with new air-filtration systems ability to evacuate them. Many will be left the rights of women and minorities, an in-
and notched-up janitorial services, the behind, facing the threat of imprisonment, dependent judiciary and a new constitution
school district is helping to convince par- torture or worse. To betray these Afghans — but nation-building was not an appropri-
ents that their families will be safe sending would be unconscionable. ate goal.
the kids back to school campuses. Less That the Afghan government’s fall was That does not mean that countless
than 3% of L.A. Unified students have inevitable does not make the astonishing Afghans do not want to live in a country
opted for remote instruction — that is, if speed of that collapse any less tragic. One that is peaceful and democratic. Many —
the total student count is close to the generation’s worth of progress — including maybe most — do. But over 20 years and
450,000 or so that district officials had improvements in literacy, life span and the across four U.S. presidencies, no amount of
hoped to enroll this year. rights of women and girls — is under threat money and firepower could give Afghans
It was good to see lots of kids back of being wiped out. what they needed and deserved: an honest,
on campus Monday — something that The chaotic evacuation of the U.S. Em- competent and effective government that
should have been happening by about the bassy in Kabul and of American civilians in could unify the nation, use its U.S.-backed
middle of the last academic year. But it’s Afghanistan raises serious questions about military to defend cities and, above all, mar-
not yet clear how many students are actu- the intelligence and planning that followed shal the political and popular will necessary
ally returning. Preliminary kindergarten Biden’s decision in April to withdraw all re- to defeat the Taliban. Ultimately, Afghans
enrollment is now at 34,000, compared with maining troops by the end of August — in were failed by their leaders.
43,000 in the fall of 2019. The number this time for the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, The war cost the lives of more than 2,400
year is expected to rise over the next few 2001, terrorist attacks, which triggered the American military members. The U.S.
weeks, but at this point it looks as though U.S.-led invasion. spent $83 billion to train and equip the
the district has lost heavily in its The U.S. must intensify its efforts to get Afghan forces, only to see them melt away
enrollment of the youngest students, its military personnel, civilians and Afghan in just over a week in the face of the Tali-
whether they have gone to other districts, allies out of the country safely and swiftly. ban’s blitz. And for decades, America will be
to charter school or are being home- But as criticism of the Biden adminis- paying the medical bills of veterans suffer-
schooled. That’s a potentially damaging tration’s handling of the withdrawal grows, ing from the emotional and physical toll of
statistic in a district that even before the it is also worth taking a step back to con- their trauma and injuries.
pandemic was losing student population. sider how we got to this point. The U.S. must be vigilant in preventing
Staff members have been canvassing by Biden was fundamentally correct that Afghanistan from once again becoming a
phone, going door to door, doing everything keeping a small troop presence in Af- haven for jihadist terrorists; the greatest
to coax families to send kids back to school. ghanistan — enough to hold off a Taliban risk is that the Taliban takeover will lead to
And unless they have found other good takeover but not nearly enough to actually a new version of Al Qaeda or Islamic State.
schooling options for their children, par- secure the country — was pointless. It But keeping a small force in the country
ents should send the kids back to their L.A. would also have violated international law. would not have eliminated that risk.
Unified school. The last year and a half has The peace agreement signed by the Trump The conflict has been ruinously costly in
been scary and wearying and the Delta var- administration and the Taliban in Febru- money and in lives. Biden made the diffi-
iant has stirred the fear pot again. But in ary 2020 committed to a full U.S. troop with- cult, but correct, decision to not prolong
terms of physical safety, they’d be sending drawal by May 2021; Biden had already ex- this quagmire any further. The Taliban’s re-
their kids to among the most prepared and tended that deadline once, to the end of Au- turn to power is a tragedy, but one that was
cautious schools in the nation. gust. decades in the making.
LETTERS
The United States spent
billions of dollars training
Afghan men to fight. What a
“Will the Taliban surge in
Afghanistan hurt Biden
politically?” is the wrong
to giggle at the Los Angeles
Police Department’s use of
the term “Antifa” (its capi-
waste. question. It should be, “Will talization) to describe peo-
The money should have leaving hurt the U.S.?” ple who showed up at Los
been spent arming and In 1975, in Indochina, the Angeles City Hall on Sat-
teaching the women. They’d U.S. fled the field, dishon- urday to protest against a
love the chance to kill the ored American servicemen group of anti-vaccine and
Taliban. who died there and aban- anti-mask demonstrators.
Kurdish women warriors doned our allies. Within 30 Antifa is not an organiza-
were instrumental in defeat- days, Cambodia, Vietnam tion. It is a concept, even a
ing Islamic State in north- and Laos fell to the enemy. trend at times, but there are
ern Iraq. They didn’t throw The tragedies were punctu- no meetings, no rosters, no
down their arms and scurry ated by peace plans, florid dues or fees and no secret
away like roaches in the face statements of resolve and handshakes.
of the enemy that wanted to inadequate and ill-planned This lack of serious intel-
subjugate them. evacuations. ligence by the LAPD is as-
Melissa Verdugo As the last American tonishing. Who gives these
Rancho Palos Verdes helicopters departed the people a gun and badge?
Jon D. Elder courtyards, soccer fields Santa Claus, the Lone Rang-
Monterey Park and rooftops, the rotor wash er and the Bogeyman all
A tone-deaf blew away the remaining
aspirations, hopes and lives
have more standing in reali-
ty than antifa.
Though many observers
connect current events with
We are at last ending the
United States’ “forever war.”
question to ask of those left behind. The LAPD would have us
The U.S. that emerged believe that it is a real organi-
the U.S. pullout from Saigon For two decades we have Re “Will leaving Af- from World War II was no zation. How embarrassing.
in 1975, the more apt analogy sent our soldiers and our ghanistan hurt Biden politi- more. Our role in the world, Robin Doyno
was the U.S. withdrawal considerable treasure to cally?” Aug. 14 our influence, the worth of Mar Vista
from Iraq under then-Presi- this difficult, clannish, our word changed for the
dent Obama, which led to mountainous country in Somewhere in Af- worse. Today we can be sure ::
the rise of the mega-terror- Central Asia. ghanistan right now, there that our allies watch in fear
ist group Islamic State and The money has gone are families trying to figure and horror, while our ene- Can we please call anti-
its attempt to establish a largely into the pockets of out where to hide their young mies take solace from vaxxers what they truly are
caliphate in the Middle the country’s leaders. They daughters from the Taliban. America’s abandonment of — virus lovers?
East. have not adequately paid or There are lives being lost and those principles we once By refusing to get a vac-
It seems Biden, who fed their army. memories being made that held sacred. cine or wear a mask, they
reportedly advised Obama Is it any wonder the no child should have to carry Biden may escape the signal their desire to keep
against authorizing the raid soldiers choose not to fight into adulthood, much the political consequences of the coronavirus around so it
that killed Osama bin Lad- when U.S. forces do not have same way children there this action. The U.S. and the can kill people, destroy the
en, has been consistent in their backs? have for decades. world will not. economy, put companies
his foreign policy miscalcu- Now it is over. We join Such chronic conflict Gary Larsen out of business and wreak
lations. numerous countries that breeds extremism. We’re Lakewood havoc on everyone’s life.
The Taliban is of special have unsuccessfully tried to seeing a clear picture of that They do this under the false
significance to the U.S.: When organize this disjointed unit right now everywhere, not flag of freedom, a word with
it last ruled Afghanistan, it
harbored Al Qaeda, which
called Afghanistan.
We may be in “anguish”
just in the Middle East.
Pain, loss and not having
Is it antifa? no fixed definition.
This pandemic won’t be
planned and executed the
worst terrorist attack on our
over the Taliban’s recaptur-
ing of Afghanistan, but let’s
enough breed extremism.
But I’m sure they’re all
Call the LAPD over until everyone gets in
the fight, and I am not talk-
soil. This disastrous pullout end our involvement and put also really concerned about Re “One stabbed in clash at ing about the violent one on
will have grave consequences our ample resources where President Biden’s political City Hall vaccine protest,” the Los Angeles City Hall
for years to come. they can do some real good. prospects. Aug. 15 steps.
Richard Friedman Barbara Pritzkat Cathryn Roos Nancy Zaman
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AFGHANISTAN’S FALL
Collapse proves
Biden was right
By Charles A. Kupchan
I A
t has been excruciating to watch the Taliban roll
across Afghanistan, undoing in a matter of months
two decades of efforts by the Afghan people and the
international community to build a decent, secure
and functioning state.
The Taliban’s virtually uncontested takeover raises
obvious questions about the wisdom of President Bid-
en’s decision to withdraw U.S. and coalition forces from
the country. However, the rapidity and ease of the Tali-
ban’s advance provide a clear answer: that Biden made
the right decision — and that he should not reverse
course.
Biden doubted that U.S.-led efforts to prop up the
government in Kabul would ever enable it to stand on its
own. The international community took down Al Qaeda;
beat back the Taliban; supported, advised, trained and
equipped the Afghan military; bolstered governing in-
stitutions; and invested in the country’s civil society.
None of that created Afghan institutions capable of
holding their own.
That is because the mission was fatally flawed from
the outset. It was a fool’s errand to try to turn Af-
ghanistan into a centralized, unitary state. The coun-
try’s difficult topography, ethnic complexity, and tribal
and local loyalties produce enduring political fragmen-
tation. Its troubled neighborhoods and hostility to out-
side interference make foreign intervention perilous.
Biden made the tough and correct call to withdraw
and end a losing effort toward an unattainable goal.
The case for withdrawal is also buttressed by the re-
ality that even if the U.S. has fallen short on the nation-
building front, it has achieved its primary strategic goal:
preventing future attacks on America or its allies from
Afghan territory. The U.S. and its coalition partners
have decimated Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The same goes for the
Afghan branch of the Is-
lamic State, which has
The U.S. has
demonstrated no ability
to carry out transnational achieved its
attacks from Afghanistan.
primary goal:
In the meantime, the
U.S. has built a global net-
preventing
work of partners with
which to fight terrorism future attacks
worldwide, share relevant
on America
intelligence and jointly
boost domestic defenses
from Afghan
against terrorist attacks.
The U.S. and its allies are
today much harder tar-
territory.
gets than they were on
Sept. 11, 2001. Al Qaeda has
not been able to carry out a major overseas attack since
the bombings in London in 2005.
There is, of course, no guarantee that the Taliban
won’t again provide safe harbor to Al Qaeda or similar
groups. But that outcome is highly unlikely. The Taliban
has been doing just fine on its own and has little reason
to revive its partnership with the likes of Al Qaeda. The
Taliban will also want to maintain a measure of interna-
tional legitimacy and support, probably quashing any
temptation to host groups seeking to organize terrorist
attacks against foreign powers. Moreover, those groups
have little incentive to seek to regroup in Afghanistan
when they can do so more easily elsewhere.
Finally, Biden is right to stand by his decision to end
the military mission in Afghanistan, because doing so is
consistent with the will of the electorate. Most Ameri-
cans, Democrats and Republicans alike, have lost pa-
tience with the “forever wars” in the Middle East. The il-
liberal populism that led to Donald Trump’s election
(and near reelection) emerged in part as a response to
perceived American overreach in the broader Middle
East. Against a backdrop of decades of economic dis-
content among U.S. workers, recently exacerbated by
the devastation of the pandemic, voters want their tax
dollars to go to Kansas, not Kandahar.
The success of Biden’s effort to repair American
democracy depends principally on delivering domestic
investment; the infrastructure and social policy bills
now moving through Congress are critical steps in the
right direction. But foreign policy also matters. When
Biden pledges to pursue a “foreign policy for the middle
class,” he needs to deliver by pursuing a brand of state-
craft that enjoys the backing of the American public.
Afghanistan deserves the support of the interna-
tional community for the foreseeable future. But the
U.S.-led military mission has run its course. Sadly, the
best the international community can do for now is help
alleviate humanitarian suffering and press Afghans to
look to diplomacy, compromise and restraint as their
country searches for a peaceful and stable political equi-
librium.
Charles A. Kupchan, a senior fellow at the Council on
Foreign Relations, is a professor of international affairs
at Georgetown University and the author of
“Isolationism: A History of America’s Efforts to Shield
Itself from the World.”
OP-ED
The U.S. presence
was doing its job
By Richard Haass
fghan President Ashraf Ghani has fled the
country. His government has collapsed as Taliban
fighters enter Kabul. Two decades of America’s
military presence in Afghanistan have vanished
in a matter of weeks. How did it come to this?
There are wars of necessity, in which military force is em-
ployed because it is deemed to be the best and often only
way to protect vital national interests. There also are wars of
choice, in which a country goes to war even though the inter-
ests at stake are less than vital and there are nonmilitary
tools that can be employed.
Now, it seems, there are also withdrawals of choice, when
a government removes troops that it could have left in a the-
ater of operation. It does not withdraw troops because their
mission has been accomplished, or their presence has be-
come untenable, or they are no longer welcomed by the host
government. None of these conditions applied to the situa-
tion the U.S. found itself in Afghanistan at the start of Presi-
dent Biden’s administration. Withdrawal was a choice, and,
as is often true of wars of choice, the results promise to be
tragic.
American troops first went to Afghanistan 20 years ago
to fight alongside Afghan tribes seeking to oust the Taliban
government that harbored Al Qaeda. The Taliban was soon
on the run, although many leaders escaped to Pakistan,
where over time they reconstituted themselves and re-
sumed the fight against the Afghan government.
Troop numbers increased over the years — at one point
during Barack Obama’s presidency to more than 110,000 —
as U.S. ambitions in Afghanistan expanded. The cost was
enormous: an estimated $2 trillion and close to 2,500 Ameri-
can lives, more than 1,100 lives of its coalition partners, as
well as up to 70,000 Afghan military casualties and nearly
50,000 civilian deaths. The results, however, were modest:
While an elected Afghan government (unique in the coun-
try’s history) controlled the big cities, its grip on power re-
mained tenuous, and the Taliban regained control over
many smaller towns and villages.
The U.S. intervention in Afghanistan was a classic case of
overreach, a limited war of necessity initiated in 2001 that
morphed over the years into a costly war of choice. But by
the time Biden assumed the presidency, overreach was a
thing of the past. American troop levels were down to
around 3,000; their role was largely limited to training, advis-
ing and supporting the Afghan forces. There had not been
an American combat fatality in Afghanistan since February
2020. The modest U.S. presence was both an anchor for
some 8,500 troops from allied countries and a military and
psychological backstop for the Afghan government.
In the U.S., Afghanistan had largely faded as an issue. Af-
ter 20 years, the U.S. had reached a level of limited involve-
ment commensurate with the stakes. Its presence would
not lead to military victory or peace, but it would avert the
collapse of a government that, however imperfect, was far
preferable to the alternative that is now taking power.
Sometimes what matters in foreign policy is not what you
can accomplish but what you can avoid. Afghanistan was
such a case.
But this was not U.S. policy. Biden was working from a
script inherited from the administration of Donald Trump,
which in February 2020 signed an accord with the Taliban
(cutting out the government of Afghanistan in the process)
that set a May 2021 deadline for the withdrawal of U.S. com-
bat troops. The agreement did not oblige the Taliban to dis-
arm or commit to a cease-fire, but only to agree not to host
terrorist groups on Afghan territory. It was not a peace
agreement but a pact that provided a fig leaf, and a thin one
at that, for American withdrawal.
The Biden administration has honored this deeply
flawed agreement in every way but one: The deadline for full
U.S. military withdrawal was extended by just over three
months. Biden rejected any policy that would have tied U.S.
troop withdrawal to conditions on the ground or additional
Taliban actions. Instead, fearing a scenario in which securi-
ty conditions deteriorated and created pressure to take the
politically unpopular step of redeploying troops, Biden sim-
ply removed all U.S. forces.
As was widely predicted, momentum dramatically
shifted to the Taliban and away from the dispirited govern-
ment after the announcement, and more so after the depar-
ture. With the Taliban taking control of all of Afghanistan,
widespread reprisals, harsh repression of women and girls,
and massive refugee flows are a near certainty. Preventing
terrorist groups from returning to the country will prove far
more difficult without an in-country presence.
Over time, there is the added danger that the Taliban will
seek to extend its writ to much of Pakistan. If so, it would be
hard to miss the irony, as it was Pakistan’s provision of a
sanctuary to the Taliban for so many years that allowed it to
wage war. Now, it is possible that Afghanistan will become a
sanctuary for taking the war to Pakistan — potentially a
nightmare scenario, given Pakistan’s fragility, large popula-
tion, nuclear arsenal and history of war with India.
Biden was recently asked if he harbored any regrets
about his decision to withdraw all U.S. troops from Af-
ghanistan. He replied that he did not. He should.
Richard Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign
Relations, is the author, most recently, of “The World: A
Brief Introduction.”
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Rick Loomis Los Angeles Times
The faithless signal
we sent from Kabul
JONAH GOLDBERG
W
hen Joe Biden came into office, we were
told that the “adults are back in charge”
because he immediately set to work undo-
ing as much of Donald Trump’s legacy as
he could. “The new president in his first
week issued more than three dozen executive actions on a
wide range of issues,” reported U.S. News & World Report.
“And virtually all of them reverse or stop actions taken by
Donald Trump.” From immigration to healthcare, the
adults set about cleaning up the mess left for them.
To that end, he rejoined the Paris climate accord and set
to work on restoring the Iran deal.
But, on Afghanistan, the president’s hands were tied.
On Saturday, and again on Monday, he insisted that he
“inherited” Trump’s deal and his hands were tied. But,
wanting it both ways, he also said he agreed with the policy
that was forced on him.
It’s true, Trump’s disastrous deal with the Taliban
would have had us withdraw by May 1, but because Biden
was such a grownup, he extended the deadline to Sept. 11 —
the 20-year anniversary of the attack that set this war in
motion. In messaging terms, it was singularly the most
idiotic date he could pick. But he justified the extension to
ensure that “We will not conduct a hasty rush to the exit.
We’ll do it — we’ll do it responsibly, deliberately and safely.”
On Sunday, CNN’s Jake Tapper asked Secretary of
State Antony J. Blinken what to make of the fact that the
spectacle in Afghanistan didn’t look particularly responsi-
ble, deliberate or safe. Blinken’s response: “Look. I think it
shows that we were prepared. The president was prepared
for every contingency as this moved forward.”
But Blinken also admitted, “the fact of the matter is,
we’ve seen that that force has been unable to defend the
country, and that has happened more quickly than we
anticipated.” On Monday, Biden confirmed he was taken
by surprise by the rapidity of the Afghan government’s
collapse but said it was all
because the Afghans were
The Afghan “unwilling” to fight. He made
the obligatory “the buck
collapse wasn’t stops with me” nod but also
insisted the calamity was the
inevitable until fault of the Afghan army,
U.S. policy and which was trained and organ-
ized to depend on U.S. sup-
leadership made port.
“In the wake of President
it inevitable. Biden’s withdrawal decision,”
the Wall Street Journal re-
ports, “the U.S. pulled its air
support, intelligence and contractors servicing Af-
ghanistan’s planes and helicopters. That meant the Afghan
military simply couldn’t operate anymore.”
One would think adults would have understood this and
planned accordingly — or at all. The collapse of the Afghan
government wasn’t inevitable until we made it inevitable.
When I say “we,” I mean the entirety of the U.S. govern-
ment and the foreign policy establishment. The military
should have understood that immediately cutting off sup-
port would cripple the Afghan military. And, knowing this,
someone should have threatened to resign as a way to
forestall this calamity.
This was Biden’s decision and he deserves all of the
scorn he gets for it, but that doesn’t change the fact that
the Trump administration made this choice an easy one for
him. If Trump had his druthers, we would have left even
earlier, and the Taliban’s takeover would be just as assured
(Trump himself congratulated Biden’s “wonderful” deci-
sion to withdraw). It may not have happened as quickly —
but the strategic goal was the same: abandon the Afghans,
the same way he abandoned the Kurds.
Perhaps what is most infuriating about this debacle is
how its defenders, on the left and right, cling to the idea
that they are the sober realists. We should go to war only
when it is in our narrow, vital, self-interest, they thunder,
forgetting we invaded Afghanistan in the first place for
precisely such reasons, with the most bipartisan support
for use of force since we declared war on Japan.
The Biden administration justified our withdrawal on
the grounds that we need to switch to more serious geopo-
litical rivalries, as with China. Maybe we do. But doing so
didn’t require pulling a few thousand troops and contrac-
tors from Afghanistan. More importantly, does anyone
truly believe that this self-inflicted blow to our national
honor will improve our standing in the world? The signal
sent to Taiwan — and China — is that we can’t be counted
on.
That message, heard around the world, is an unforced
strategic blunder. It’s also a moral one.
Biden made “America is back” the unofficial slogan of
his presidency. Imagine how that phrase sounds to the
Afghans swarming the Kabul airport. Or how it would have
sounded to the poor souls who clung to the outside of a
transport plane before they plummeted to their deaths? Or
how hollow it sounds to the millions of Afghan girls facing
forced marriages to Taliban fighters?
If this is how adults behave, let’s give some children a
shot.
@JonahDispatch
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GOV. GAVIN NEWSOM’S recent mandates on masks and vaccinations were orders by his public health officer, not executive orders.
Could GOP roll back virus rules?
Candidates to replace
Newsom vow to undo
his mandates. They
could, with caveats.
By Phil Willon
SACRAMENTO — Re-
publicans hoping to replace
Gov. Gavin Newsom after
the Sept. 14 recall election
have vowed to rescind a se-
ries of statewide COVID-19
vaccination and mask man-
dates, and, given the broad
executive authority granted
to California governors, they
almost certainly could make
good on those promises if
elected.
Should Newsom lose the
election and a Republican
take his place, GOP lawmak-
ers and activists who have
condemned the Democratic
governor’s use of his sweep-
ing powers would be poised
to have a political ally in of-
fice who could wield those
very same powers to imple-
ment their own policies.
A new Republican gover-
nor may decide to follow the
lead of those in Texas and
Florida and issue executive
orders banning mask man-
dates in defiance of masking
requirements enacted by
counties, cities and school
districts. But any attempt to
do so could be blocked by the
Democrats who control the
California Legislature and
challenged in court, as is cur-
rently happening in those
two states.
Conservative talk-show
host Larry Elder, who recent
polls show leads the field of
candidates running to re-
place Newsom if he’s ousted,
First day of school brings mix of emotions
Many are frustrated
with glitches in health
protocols but happy
to be back on campus.
By Melissa Gomez,
Laura Newberry
and Colleen Shalby
The lines to enter South
Gate’s South East High
School and South East Mid-
dle School at 9 a.m. Monday
were each about 200 stu-
dents deep.
Kony Aguillon sat in the
shade while her son, an
eighth-grader, waited for his
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CALIFORNIA RECALL
JOHN COX is in the field of Republican candidates who have gone on the
offensive like never before in the recall race to replace Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Latino anger just might
cost the governor his job
GUSTAVO ARELLANO
Let me tell you a story about
the political performance-
enhancing drug called
anger.
It was the summer 1999. I
was about to start my junior
year at Chapman Uni-
versity, where I was a film
major with dreams of mak-
ing enough money to leave Anaheim
forever and buy a big house in, of all
places, Thousand Oaks.
But I was furious.
health clearance.
She had done everything
right Sunday night, pre-
checking the district’s Daily
Pass website so it would be
smooth going the next
morning. But on Monday,
the system wouldn’t load.
They arrived at school early,
around 7:50 a.m., to check in,
and an hour later, there they
stood.
“Que locura,” she said.
This is madness.
“I imagined it was going
to be crazy,” she added, but
not as bad as it was. Still, she
said, she would have pa-
tience. It was only the first
day, and this new set of safe-
ty protocols is going to take
Genaro Molina Los Angeles Times
has promised to take quick
action to undo Newsom’s
policies. During a news con-
ference on Friday, he called
mask mandates an “assault
on freedom.”
“When I win I will fight
any and all vaccine and
mask govt mandates at
state and local level,” Elder
tweeted to his followers.
Elder’s comment came
shortly after San Francisco
decided to require proof of
full vaccination against
COVID-19 for restaurants,
bars, gyms and other indoor
venues. The Los Angeles
City Council on Wednesday
called for a similar ordi-
nance.
The day before, Elder and
other GOP candidates were
critical of Newsom’s an-
nouncement that public
Sam Hodgson San Diego Union-Tribune
school teachers and staff
members will be required to
be vaccinated or be tested
regularly for the co-
ronavirus.
That order followed earli-
er directives by the Newsom
administration that, with
limited exceptions, require
all public school children to
wear masks in class, all
healthcare workers to be
vaccinated and all state em-
An Anaheim Union High School ployees to be vaccinated or
District trustee had announced he tested for the virus.
wanted to sue Mexico for $50 million for Other well-known Re-
educating the children of undocumented publicans running in the re-
immigrants. The issue was personal for call election also oppose
me: I had graduated from Anaheim High mask mandates, including
School just two years earlier and was the former San Diego Mayor
son of a man who came to this country in Kevin Faulconer, 2018 guber-
the trunk of a Chevy. natorial candidate John
Although I considered myself liberal, Cox, Rocklin Assemblyman
politics was an abstract concept that I Kevin Kiley and former
didn’t want to involve myself in — until I Northern California Rep.
did. That’s how I found myself as the first Doug Ose.
speaker to address the board meeting “I have consistently
[See Arellano, B5] urged my fellow Californians
to [See Recall, B5]
some adjustment.
Opening day at the na-
tion’s second-largest school
district unfolded with a
mix of emotions: frustration
over long waits and techno-
logical troubles, anxiety over
health protocols and con-
cern for how things would go
for children who have been
learning online for a year and
a half.
But for many, the sense of
joy and relief at being to-
gether again eased the woes.
Soon enough, though,
problems accessing the dis-
trict’s online Daily Pass
health screening system be- Al Seib Los Angeles Times
gan to surface — leading to SIXTH-GRADERS wait to enter their classroom
[See First day, B4] Monday at the Girls Academic Leadership Academy.
B
Durst
admits
writing
‘cadaver
note’
In court, he reverses
years of denials about
a crucial piece of
evidence in the case.
By James Queally
After years spent deny-
ing it, Robert Durst admit-
ted in court Monday that he
authored a crucial piece of
evidence in his Los Angeles
trial — the so-called cadaver
note — after discovering the
body of the woman he is now
charged with killing, Susan
Berman.
Durst, 78, testified last
week that he and Berman
had planned a Christmas
“staycation” in Los Angeles
and that he was traveling to
see her the week she was
killed.
On Monday morning, he
described arriving at her
house in December 2000 and
entering using a key she had
mailed him, only to find his
decades-long confidante
bleeding on the floor a short
time later.
“I did a double take. I saw
Susan lying on the floor,” he
said. “I shouted ‘Susan!’ a
couple of times, then I
quickly ran to the bedroom
where she was. Her eyes
were closed.”
Durst said after checking
to see if Berman had a pulse
[See Durst, B2]
Activists
disrupt
Buscaino
event
A scuffle breaks out
as the councilman
pushes a ban on tents
near public schools.
By David Zahniser
Los Angeles City Coun-
cilman Joe Buscaino upped
the ante in the debate over
where and how to restrict
homeless encampments,
calling on his colleagues to
prohibit tents from going up
within 500 feet of any public
school in the city.
Buscaino, who is running
for mayor, said he wants the
council to use its new anti-
camping ordinance to make
sidewalks around more than
1,000 campuses “no camping
zones.”
The councilman an-
nounced his proposal out-
side Larchmont Charter
School in Hollywood on
Monday, the first day of
school for hundreds of thou-
sands of children in the Los
Angeles Unified School Dis-
trict. But his event was
swiftly cut short when one of
his aides got into a brief scuf-
[See Homelessness, B4]
PG&E warns of
power shutoffs
With strong winds
expected in Northern
California, the utility
says it might cut
electricity to some
39,000 residents. B2
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PG&E warns of power shutoffs amid Dixie fire
Strong winds and high
temperatures raise the
risk of utility lines
sparking more blazes.
By Lila Seidman and
Alex Wigglesworth
As the Dixie fire contin-
ues to rage, Pacific Gas &
Electric Co. has announced
that it could cut power Tues-
day night for roughly 39,000
residents in 16 Northern Cal-
ifornia counties to reduce
the risk of wildfires from en-
ergized power lines.
Strong southwest winds
were expected to arrive in
the northern part of the
state Monday, colliding with
searing temperatures and
parched vegetation — a
cocktail of conditions that is
known to stoke extreme fire
behavior.
A red flag warning for the
Dixie burn area is expected
to last through 10 p.m. Tues-
day, as gusts are expected to
peak at 35 mph. Tempera-
tures will hover in the
mid-90s, potentially hitting
triple digits in some areas.
PG&E began alerting
customers about the pos-
sible shutoffs on Sunday
through text, email and
automated calls.
The utility has said its
equipment may have
sparked the massive Dixie
fire, which broke out July 13
near where a tree fell into a
power line. It took a worker
about 10 hours to reach the
remote site and observe
flames, company officials
said.
Nine days after the Dixie
fire started, PG&E equip-
ment may have ignited the
Fly fire nearly 30 miles to the
northeast, a blaze that even-
tually merged with Dixie.
As of Monday morning,
Dixie covered a monstrous
569,707 acres, growing by
roughly 50,000 acres since
Friday. After burning for
more than a month, it is only
31% contained. It is the sec-
ond-largest wildfire in Cali-
fornia history.
PG&E said in a news re-
lease that the planned shut-
offs are a preemptive step to
tamp down risk amid the
dangerous weather condi-
tions.
Most of the residents in
the potential shutoff area —
about 27,000 — are in Butte
and Shasta counties, PG&E
said in a news release. How-
ever, residents in 14 other
counties — Glenn, Hum-
boldt, Lake, Lassen, Mendo-
cino, Napa, Plumas, Sierra,
Solano, Sonoma, Tehama,
Trinity, Yolo and Yuba —
may also be affected.
Temperatures could top
100 degrees Monday in parts
of Butte and Shasta coun-
ties. Smoke will envelope
both counties; plumes con-
tinue to plague areas far
from the burn sites. A 48-
hour smoke advisory of un-
healthy air quality was is-
sued Monday for the An-
telope Valley — an area more
than 400 miles south of the
Dixie fire.
Although the cause of the
fire remains under review,
prosecutors in at least two
counties are investigating
PG&E for potential criminal
charges, saying the utility
should have been aware of
the high risk of fire in the
canyon. It is the same can-
yon where PG&E equip-
ment ignited the 2018 Camp
fire. The utility pleaded
guilty to 84 counts of
manslaughter after the town
of Paradise was decimated
in that blaze.
PG&E had planned to
bury the power line that
might have started the Dixie
fire as part of a safety cam-
paign announced after the
Camp fire, but work on the
project hadn’t yet begun.
The Dixie fire has
torched parts of Plumas,
Lassen, Tehama and Butte
counties, forcing thousands
to evacuate.
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SMOKE from the Dixie fire engulfs the town of Greenville, which was leveled by the blaze. Unhealthy air quality plagues areas far from the
fire, including the Antelope Valley, 400 miles to the south. Meanwhile, more than 39,000 Californians are facing potential power shutoffs.
mote Gold Rush town of
Greenville and has de-
stroyed at least 1,173 struc-
tures, including more than
630 homes, according to the
latest incident report. More
than 14,800 structures re-
main threatened by the
flames.
Another blaze, the Mor-
gan fire, merged Sunday
with the northwestern por-
tion of the Dixie fire, expand-
ing it by several hundred
acres, fire spokesperson
David Janssen said.
With fierce winds ap-
proaching, there is concern
the blaze will continue to
grow.
“A lot of these lines will be
tested today,” Janssen said
Monday, “and it’s going to be
pushing pretty hard up there
on that north end.”
Toward the north lies
Lassen National Forest, as
well as Lassen Volcanic Na-
tional Park, where flames ar-
rived in early August and
forced the park’s closure.
“It’s a treasure up there,”
Janssen said of the park,
noting that the fire has rap-
idly expanded through for-
ested areas.
The Dixie fire has de-
stroyed timber worth more
than $1 billion. Still under
threat is additional timber
worth $1 billion, according to
the U.S. Forest Service.
Several other wildfires
In court, Durst admits he wrote ‘cadaver note’
[Durst, from B1]
and trying to lift her off the
floor, he ran to another room
to call 911 but the phone line
was not working.
After that, he said, he left
the home and tried to con-
tact authorities from a pay
phone on Sunset Boulevard,
roughly two miles away.
But when an operator an-
swered his call from the pay
phone, Durst said, he
started to have reservations.
“I decided I did not want
to give them my name,” he
said. “I was aware that my
voice is very recognizable
even without a name.”
Durst said he instead
opted to write what has
come to be known as the ca-
daver note — a scrap of pa-
per containing only
Berman’s address on Bene-
dict Canyon Drive and the
word “cadaver” — and mai-
led it to the Beverly Hills Po-
lice Department.
Under questioning from
his lead defense attorney,
Dick DeGuerin, Durst ad-
mitted he had lied about au-
thoring the note repeatedly
over the years, including
during interviews for the
HBO documentary series
“The Jinx.”
“It’s a very difficult thing
to believe,” he said Monday.
“I mean, I have difficulty be-
lieving it myself, that I would
write the letter if I had not
killed Susan Berman.”
The note triggered a key
are ravaging Northern Cali-
fornia, including the Monu-
ment and McFarland fires to
the northwest of the Dixie
fire, which were sparked in
late July by lightning.
The Monument fire had
chewed through 97,287 acres
by Monday and was 10% con-
tained. A new evacuation or-
der was issued for the
Barker Mountain area and
northwest of Hayfork Sum-
mit, with additional places
under evacuation warnings.
Details can be found on the
Trinity County Sheriff ’s Of-
fice Facebook page.
The McFarland fire — at
51,909 acres and 68% con-
tained — continued to
prompt evacuations Mon-
day in three counties.
The Shasta County Sher-
iff ’s Office announced
mandatory evacuations f
or the community of Platina,
including all residences
and roadways from the
Trinity-Shasta county line
to the Shasta-Tehama
county line.
A temporary evacuation
point was opened at Shasta
County’s Igo Ono Platina
Union Elementary for those
fleeing the fire, a regional
chapter of the American
Red Cross announced in a
tweet.
Michelle Gorelow, a Ne-
vada assemblywoman,
tweeted a photo of the Mc-
ROBERT DURST , 78, testified at his trial on Monday that he wrote and mailed
an unsigned letter to Beverly Hills police after finding Susan Berman’s body.
moment in “The Jinx.” After
being confronted with a let-
ter Durst supposedly wrote
to Berman in 1999 that con-
tained the same misspelling
of the word “Beverly” that
appeared on the cadaver
note, Durst walked into a
restroom.
Unaware he was still be-
ing recorded, he muttered
the phrase “killed them all,
Farland fire glowing orange
over her husband’s cabin
early Monday, followed
several hours later by an
image of evacuations under-
way.
“Be safe everyone!” she
wrote.
More than 10,700 fire-
fighters are battling 10 large
wildfires across California
that, combined, have
burned more than 1 million
acres, according to the
state’s Department of For-
estry and Fire Protection.
Nationwide, 97 large fires
and complexes have
scorched more than 2 mil-
lion acres, according to the
National Interagency Fire
Center, or NIFC.
It’s still early in the fire
season, and new blazes con-
tinue to crop up.
Around 7 p.m. Saturday,
a blaze that has been named
the Caldor fire sprang up in
El Dorado County, roughly
four miles south of Grizzly
Flats and two miles east of
Omo Ranch, according to an
incident report.
Less than two days later,
the fire had burned 754 acres
through heavy timber and
up steep terrain, spurring
mandatory evacuation or-
ders for Leoni Meadows and
Big Mountain.
The concurrent blazes
have strained personnel and
access to basic necessities
of course,” which many have
taken as a confession.
The note has also been a
key part of the Los Angeles
Police Department’s investi-
gations into Durst for nearly
two decades. In 2002, detect-
ives obtained a writing sam-
ple from Durst under a
judge’s order. The real estate
heir scribbled the words
“BEVERLEY HILLS PO-
such as food and water, fire
officials said.
The National Multi-
Agency Coordinating Group
within the NIFC, which
works with local officials to
prioritize needs and re-
sources, recently issued
memos warning of a short-
age of radio communica-
tions equipment and advis-
ing firefighters arriving at
incidents to bring enough
food and water for three
days because of high de-
mand on caterers, bottled
water and shower units.
The memos affect fire-
fighters who are responding
to large, team-managed
fires, said Carrie Bilbao, a
public information officer.
All of the caterers con-
tracted by the government
to feed those at large inci-
dents were already working,
so the group had to hire local
caterers through an emer-
gency equipment order, Bil-
bao said.
“It sounds like there are
more caterers becoming
available, so it should be
good,” Bilbao said Sunday.
“But until they lift it, and as
long as we continue to see a
high need for resources, they
just want everyone to be pre-
pared.”
The demand on radio
equipment is in part caused
by the sheer size of some of
the fires, she said.
Gary Coronado Los Angeles Times
LICE,” “1527 BENEDICT
CANYON” and “CADAVER”
for comparison to the only
phrases contained in the ca-
daver note.
Durst’s legal team first
acknowledged he would ad-
mit he was at the scene of
Berman’s murder and wrote
the cadaver note in court pa-
pers filed in late 2019. The
move marked an abrupt re-
Mel Melcon Los Angeles Times
Bilbao said it’s not un-
usual for authorities to face
resource limitations when
the NIFC is operating at Pre-
paredness Level 5, meaning
that at least 80% of the coun-
try’s incident management
teams and wildland fire-
fighters are deployed.
This year, the NIFC en-
tered its highest prepared-
ness level on July 14, versus
Aug. 18 last year — meaning
that as the West enters peak
fire season, many personnel
have already been battling
large blazes for a month.
Bilbao said officials are
aware of reports of person-
nel shortages but noted that
the 25,000 people fighting
fires across the country as of
Sunday remained below last
year’s peak of 32,000.
It’s difficult to determine
whether there’s a shortage,
she said. “Especially when
you have multiple geo-
graphic areas having multi-
ple fires, resources are kind
of spread thin, because
they’re needed across multi-
ple areas,” she said.
That contrasts with pre-
vious years, when only one or
two areas were “in dire
need,” and resources could
be shifted accordingly.
“This year, we’re seeing
more need in multiple areas
all at once, and so that’s
what has been unusual,” she
said.
versal, after the defense had
spent years attempting to
block testimony from hand-
writing experts who might
be able to confirm Durst
penned the cryptic message.
At the time, Durst’s at-
torneys called it a “strategic
decision” but did not elabo-
rate.
DeGuerin also repeat-
edly sought to undercut the
prosecution’s theory of the
crime Monday: that Durst
killed Berman to wall off a
resurgent investigation into
the 1982 disappearance of
his wife, Kathleen. Prose-
cutors have long argued
Berman knew Durst killed
his first wife and had helped
him concoct a false alibi in
the case.
On Monday, DeGuerin
asked Durst several times
whether Berman had any-
thing to blackmail him with.
“Someone must have had
a reason, a motive, whatever,
to kill Susan Berman,” Durst
said. “And I had no reason to
kill Susan Berman.”
Durst also said he knew
Berman was cooperating
with the renewed investiga-
tion being conducted by
prosecutors in Westchester
County, N.Y., but insisted he
was not worried about it.
DeGuerin is expected to
continue questioning Durst
into Tuesday, and prose-
cutors will probably cross-
examine the defendant for
several days.
L AT I M E S . C O M
San Diego
employers
urged to
push shots
By Jonathan Wosen
and Mike Freeman
SAN DIEGO — San Di-
ego County officials called
on employers Monday to
require their workers to
get vaccinated against
COVID-19 or receive a weekly
test.
The recommendation
would apply to public and
private employers as well as
nonprofits. It’s the latest
measure local officials have
taken to combat a wave of in-
fections and hospitali-
zations driven by the fast-
spreading Delta variant of
the coronavirus.
But will it work?
The answer will depend
on how many businesses
heed the county’s call.
“I have talked to a lot of
employers who said, ‘You
know what? A little nudge
would help us out,’ ” county
Supervisor Nathan Fletcher
said.
It’s a message that Jerry
Sanders, chief executive of
the San Diego Regional
Chamber of Commerce, ech-
oed.
“I applaud the county for
doing that. I think it makes
sense,” he said. “I think the
fact that the county came
out and recommended it
helps smaller employers
think about doing it and
helps them do it. A lot of em-
ployers probably didn’t
know they could.”
It remains unclear how
many businesses will insti-
tute vaccine requirements
for their workers, but many
of the region’s largest em-
ployers have already done so
or plan to soon.
That includes the re-
gion’s 48,500 federal employ-
ees and 45,200 state employ-
ees. President Biden and
Gov. Gavin Newsom have al-
ready issued mandates for
federal and state workers,
respectively.
It also includes San Di-
ego County’s own 18,000
workers. County employees
who haven’t proved that
they’re vaccinated will have
to wear masks indoors and
get tested weekly beginning
Aug. 23. Fletcher said there
will be disciplinary action for
those who don’t comply but
said the county is still deter-
mining what that would look
like — such as whether em-
ployees who refuse to get
vaccinated or tested would
be fired.
About 2.8 million San
Diegans are currently eligi-
ble for a COVID-19 vaccine,
but 500,000 of them have yet
to get their shots.
County officials pointed
to recent data as a good rea-
son they should. Over the
last 30 days, Fletcher said,
people who are not fully im-
munized have accounted for
92% of new infections and
98% of hospitalizations.
Cases in the region have
continued to climb since the
Fourth of July. In mid-July,
San Diego was seeing 200 to
300 new infections a day, but
now cases routinely reach
1,000 or more a day. The
number of San Diegans in a
hospital with COVID-19 has
risen from about 100 to 500 in
that same time.
“It will get worse before it
gets better,” said Dr. Wilma
Wooten, the county’s public
health officer. “But the way
out of that is for people to get
vaccinated.”
Notably, the county is not
requiring businesses to
mandate workplace vacci-
nation and isn’t issuing a
vaccine mandate for the
public. Instead, officials con-
tinue to recommend that ev-
eryone who’s eligible to get a
vaccine do so.
It’s a move that mimics
the county’s stance on mask-
ing, where it has asked all
San Diegans to mask in-
doors regardless of vaccina-
tion status without requir-
ing that residents do so.
When asked whether the
county would consider
masking or vaccination
mandates in the future and
what would trigger such a
change, Fletcher repeatedly
declined to provide a direct
answer. He also would not
say whether the county has
the authority to enact strict-
er measures, though other
California counties are
clearly doing so.
Wosen and Freeman write
for the San Diego
Union-Tribune.
Skaters are among bicyclists Sunday on Avalon Boulevard during CicLAvia in Wilmington. Public
streets were closed to cars on the 2.25-mile route from Banning Park to Wilmington Waterfront Park.
Ridley-Thomas to stay put on
council, won’t run for mayor
His decision could
boost the likelihood
that Rep. Karen Bass
would join the race.
By David Zahniser
Los Angeles City Coun-
cilman Mark Ridley-Thom-
as announced Monday that
he will not run for mayor,
saying he intends to keep his
focus on addressing the
city’s homelessness crisis.
Ridley-Thomas, who has
represented parts of South
Los Angeles for three dec-
ades, told an audience at the
Los Angeles Current Affairs
Forum he would stay on the
council, where he chairs the
powerful committee cur-
rently grappling with how to
find housing and services for
tens of thousands of people
living on the streets.
“My calling and focus is
that of the homeless crisis in
the city of Los Angeles, and I
will double down and lean in
on that particular issue,” he
said.
Ridley-Thomas said he
had not been concerned by
polling or by the challenge of
raising money for a mayoral
bid. But he argued that he
would have more power to
address homelessness as a
councilman than if he were
mayor, a position that would
have required him to focus
more heavily on the Police
Department, the Fire De-
partment and many other
city agencies.
So far, City Atty. Mike
Feuer, City Councilman Joe
Buscaino and San Fernando
Valley real estate agent Mel
Wilson have entered the race
to succeed Mayor Eric
Garcetti, who was first
elected to the post in 2013.
Ridley-Thomas’ an-
nouncement comes a few
weeks after another well-
known political figure in
South Los Angeles, Demo-
cratic U.S. Rep. Karen Bass,
Brain-eating amoeba kills child
Boy, 7, was infected
after swimming in a
freshwater lake in
Northern California.
By Melissa Hernandez
A 7-year-old Tehama
County boy has died after
contracting a rare but severe
brain-eating amoeba after
swimming in a lake in North-
ern California, his family
said.
David Pruitt died from
primary amoebic meningo-
encephalitis Aug. 7, Crystal
Hayley, the boy’s aunt, said.
“We are sad and broken-
hearted to report that our
sweet little David has passed
on,” Hayley wrote on a Go-
FundMe page for the child’s
family.
CITY & STATE
ON A ROLL
MARK RIDLEY-THOMAS , shown in November,
says he would have more power to address homeless-
ness as an L.A. councilman than if he were mayor.
confirmed that she had been
asked by supporters to con-
sider her own mayoral run.
Some in her orbit had sug-
gested that she would be far
less likely to run if Ridley-
Thomas was in the race.
Ridley-Thomas said he
has not asked Bass to enter
the contest but predicted
she would be a formidable
force if she did.
“If she were to run, it
would send terror through
the ranks” of the other can-
didates, he said.
Council President Nury
Martinez, who is weighing
her own mayoral bid,
praised Ridley-Thomas for
his compassion, saying he
“would have been a compel-
ling candidate” in next year’s
election.
Others in L.A. political
circles said they would turn
their attention to Bass, who
is well-liked in progressive
circles and was considered
for a vacant U.S. Senate seat
and as a running mate for
President Biden last year.
“Ridley-Thomas sup-
porters like me will be work-
ing hard to convince Con-
gresswoman Karen Bass to
return home to Los Angeles
and run for mayor in 2022,”
David was infected after
swimming in a freshwater
lake last month in Tehama
County, although public
health officials for the
county have not disclosed
which body of water.
“People get infected
when water containing the
amoeba goes up the nose
forcefully,” the Tehama
County Health Services
Agency wrote in an Aug. 4
news release. “From the
nose, the amoeba can some-
times migrate to the brain
and destroy brain tissue.”
In the initial stage of in-
fection, symptoms can in-
clude a severe headache, fe-
ver, nausea and vomiting,
according to the U.S. Cen-
ters for Disease Control and
Prevention. As the infection
worsens, symptoms — David’s family has de-
which appear one to nine
days after exposure to the
Dania Maxwell Los Angeles Times
‘The city needs
her leadership
abilities and her
coalition skills to
bring people
together.’
—Kerman Maddox,
public affairs consultant,
on Rep. Karen Bass
(D-Los Angeles)
said Kerman Maddox, a
public affairs consultant
long involved in civic issues.
“The city needs her leader-
ship abilities and her coali-
tion skills to bring people to-
gether.”
Several others — real es-
tate developer Rick Caruso,
Councilman Kevin de León,
Councilman Paul Krekorian
and Jessica Lall, head of the
Central City Assn. — are still
weighing their options and
have not ruled out a mayoral
bid.
Garcetti’s term ends in
December 2022, but he could
leave much earlier. He has
been nominated by Biden to
amoeba — can further devel-
op into a stiff neck, seizures
or hallucinations.
David was rushed to the
emergency room July 30 and
then flown to UC Davis Med-
ical Center, Hayley said,
where he was placed on life
support with severe brain
swelling. He died eight days
later.
There have been only 10
cases of primary amoebic
meningoencephalitis, or
PAM, reported in California
since 1971, according to the
Tehama County Health
Services Agency. Health offi-
cials recommend if anyone
has had nasal exposure to
warm freshwater in the last
10 days and develops symp-
toms to consult a doctor im-
mediately.
clined several interview re-
quests, but Hayley said that
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Gary Coronado Los Angeles Times
become the U.S. ambas-
sador to India but first must
be confirmed by the U.S.
Senate.
Ridley-Thomas has
served in multiple public of-
fices, including the Los An-
geles County Board of Su-
pervisors and the state Sen-
ate.
He returned to the City
Council in December after
an 18-year absence, repre-
senting a district that
stretches from Koreatown to
Leimert Park and the Cren-
shaw corridor.
While laying out his polit-
ical plans, Ridley-Thomas
also offered some assess-
ments of the officials seeking
to replace Garcetti. He criti-
cized Buscaino’s more ag-
gressive approach to en-
forcement around homeless
encampments, saying, “you
can’t get well in a cell.”
“I’m not going to use this
time to bang on any col-
leagues of mine, but if Joe
Buscaino thinks he has the
right answer to the problem,
then let me just give him a
news flash: Joe, you got it
wrong,” Ridley-Thomas told
the group. “You can’t arrest
your way out of this prob-
lem.”
Asked about Feuer, Rid-
ley-Thomas had a more fa-
vorable take, saying: “Each
time I call him, he’s respon-
sive.”
Buscaino issued a state-
ment Monday saying Ridley-
Thomas’ description of his
views was both untrue and
“out of touch.”
The councilman said he
has been pushing to restore
“basic rules” for access to
city sidewalks while also
adding a thousand units of
permanent and transitional
housing — both of which
serve homeless people — in
his Watts-to-San Pedro dis-
trict.
“The result is much
cleaner streets and a safer
community for all — without
arresting anyone,” Buscaino
said.
“they want people to be
aware of this amoeba and
the illness signs.”
According to the CDC’s
website, the Naegleria fowl-
eri parasite infects people
when contaminated water
enters a person’s body
through the nose. Infection
usually occurs from swim-
ming in warm, freshwater
lakes and rivers, although in
rare instances, swimmers
also can contract the para-
site from inhaling untreated
pool water.
Because of the extremely
low occurrence of primary
amoebic meningoencephali-
tis, and how rapidly the in-
fection progresses, the para-
site can be difficult to detect,
the CDC website says. No
method currently exists that
could accurately measure
the amount of amoebae in
water.
B3
Santa
Clara
sheriff
targeted
San Jose mayor cites
alleged prison abuse,
wants Laurie Smith to
resign after 23 years.
By Melissa Hernandez
After multiple allega-
tions of inmate abuse and
neglect as well as corruption
in Santa Clara County jails,
San Jose Mayor Sam
Liccardo is calling for the
resignation of Sheriff Laurie
Smith.
Liccardo says there’s no
question that Smith, who
has been the county’s top
law enforcement officer for
nearly two dozen years,
should step down.
“As a former criminal
prosecutor, I believe in the
necessity of jail detention to
serve public safety, but in
any civil society, the safety of
inmates themselves must
also be protected,” Liccardo
said during a news confer-
ence Monday.
Liccardo is the first
elected official to publicly
call for the resignation of
Smith, first voted into office
in 1998 and the longest-serv-
ing elected sheriff in Santa
Clara County. The mayor
said Smith’s alleged
mismanagement has
“destroyed lives and vio-
lated the most basic of civil
rights of inmates” and has
created a “dystopian place of
horrible suffering.”
According to the mayor,
Smith’s 23 years in office
have resulted in a slew of
egregious abuse allegations,
including:
8 repeated severe beat-
ings of inmates;
8 repeated concealment
of facts related to those inci-
dents;
8 tens of millions of tax-
payer dollars paid to liti-
gants alleging civil rights
violations by deputies;
8 two consent decrees re-
sulting in $450 million in
public expenditures to im-
prove jail conditions and op-
erations;
8 an ongoing criminal
bribery investigation, result-
ing in the indictment of two
top aides and a campaign
fundraiser;
8 and a pay-to-play scan-
dal involving $300,000 in
union contributions toward
Smith’s 2018 reelection cam-
paign.
“When a grand jury in-
dicts the sheriff ’s top assist-
ants and campaign fund-
raiser on bribery charges
relating to contributions to
her own reelection efforts,
we should have serious con-
cerns,” Liccardo said. “But
when the same sheriff — the
top law enforcement official
in the county — then refuses
to cooperate with that same
bribery investigation for fear
of incriminating herself, the
time for concern is long
past.”
Liccardo’s announce-
ment comes days after two
members of the Santa Clara
County Board of Super-
visors called for an investiga-
tion into Smith and the
Sheriff ’s Office after the in-
juries and deaths of multiple
inmates at the jails.
Supervisors Joe Simitan
and Otto Lee have called for
the public release of a report
and audio recording related
to a 2018 incident involving
Andrew Hogan, a mentally
ill man who became severely
disabled after he was repeat-
edly injured while riding in a
jail transport van unre-
strained. At the time, Hogan
was having a mental health
crisis and received no assist-
ance from deputies or jail
staff, according to the Mer-
cury News.
Liccardo said he was re-
cently made aware of an al-
leged long-standing practice
put in place by Smith, man-
dating that officers from po-
lice departments disable
body-worn cameras when
booking certain inmates
into the jail, precluding any
video evidence of abuse from
correctional officers.
That mandate was
halted in June, Liccardo
said.
Deputy Cian Jackson, a
spokesperson for the Santa
Clara County Sheriff ’s Of-
fice, said the department
was planning to hold a news
conference Tuesday.
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Activists target Buscaino event, and chaos ensues

[Homelessness, from B1]
fle with a group of protesters
who had surrounded Bus-
caino, yelling and waving
signs as the councilman at-
tempted to deliver his re-
marks.
The incident began when
Buscaino spokesman Bran-
imir Kvartuc grabbed one of
the protesters’ signs, which
had come close to the coun-
cilman’s face. The protester,
who identified herself only
as Stevie, tried to stop him,
yelling at him to get his
hands off her.
Theo Henderson, host
and creator of the podcast
“We the Unhoused,” stepped
in and pushed Kvartuc away
from the protester, shoving
him into the lectern.
“Branimir! Branimir!”
Buscaino yelled.
The crowd spilled into
the street, with protesters
yelling at Kvartuc and de-
manding that police officers
arrest him. Stevie, who
showed up as part of the
Services Not Sweeps Coali-
tion, told officers that they
should not be protecting
Kvartuc.
“That man grabbed my
sign down and then elbowed
me,” she told The Times.
“It’s all on video. And then
the whole crew came, be-
cause we’re not going to let
men assault women, on
camera or off.”
Kvartuc, in a phone call,
denied elbowing anyone. “I
nounced Buscaino’s propos- Buscaino’s proposal is Buscaino has already
al, saying it wrongly insinu- part of a lengthy tug of war proposed that the ordinance
ated that people living on at City Hall over how far, and be used to prohibit encamp-
the streets are criminals who how fast, to enforce the city’s ments around homeless
pose a threat to children and anti-camping law. shelters in his district, which
families. Henderson, in an Homeless advocates stretches from Watts to San
interview a day earlier, have accused city leaders of Pedro. But other council
called Buscaino’s proposal criminalizing poverty by set- members have taken steps
“evil, pure and simple.” ting up a new process that to limit enforcement.
“What it ignores is that could cause people living on The council’s homeless-
there are unhoused families the streets to receive cita- ness committee voted 3 to 1
that are going into these tions for camping in certain on Thursday to recommend
schools, families that love locations. But business that outreach and enforce-
their kids just as much as the groups and some neighbor- ment around parks, schools
housed community,” he hood organizations have and other sensitive areas be
said. voiced support for new re- limited to 15 locations be-
School board member strictions, saying the city tween September and Feb-
Kelly Gonez also criticized needs to restore access to its ruary. Such a strategy would
Buscaino’s effort, calling it public spaces. effectively give each of the
David Zahniser Los Angeles Times “incredibly disappointing.” The ordinance, which re- council’s 15 members the
COUNCILMAN Joe Buscaino, right, looks on as his “Permanent housing is ceived a final vote last ability to target one location
aide scuffles with activists during a news conference the solution to homeless- month, prohibits people during that time frame.
in Hollywood on homeless encampment rules. ness, and this action gets us from sitting, sleeping, lying Council members Mark
no closer to solving the cur- or storing property on side- Ridley-Thomas, Nithya Ra-
grabbed the stick to move it gathered behind Buscaino rent humanitarian crisis,” walks that are within 500 feet man and Kevin de León
away from [Buscaino’s] to ensure that he would not she wrote on Twitter. of “sensitive uses,” such as voted in favor of that strate-
face,” he said. “That is all provide television cameras Buscaino scheduled his parks, libraries, schools and gy, which still needs approv-
that I was doing.” the encampment as a back- news conference in a section day-care centers. But it also al from the full council.
It was the second Bus- drop. of Hollywood represented by places limits on the city’s Ridley-Thomas argued
caino news conference on Amy Held, executive di- Councilman Mitch O’Far- ability to enforce those re- in favor of the more limited
homelessness to end in dis- rector of Larchmont Char- rell. Dan Halden, an O’Far- strictions. approach, saying the city
array in recent months. ter School, said she viewed rell spokesman, said his boss Under the ordinance, en- should start off with a pilot
In June, Buscaino was the situation on L.A.’s had not been aware of Bus- forcement cannot take place program and then assess
hustled out of a news streets as a humanitarian caino’s news conference un- near schools and other pub- next year whether its street
conference on the Venice crisis. But she said she also til Buscaino issued his advis- lic facilities unless the coun- engagement teams are
boardwalk after someone on has a responsibility to make ory. cil has voted to give the go- working effectively to move
the scene noticed that a sure her kids arrive at school “Our team’s focus, both ahead. Signs would need to people indoors.
homeless woman near him safely. in this area of Hollywood be installed in a particular “The objective is to get
had a knife. “I just want to make sure and throughout the 13th Dis- location and remain up for 14 this right, and then be able
Buscaino gave Monday’s that the streets, the side- trict, will continue to be on days before enforcement to build on our successes,”
remarks near a stretch of walks, around our campuses outreaching to people expe- could begin. he said in a statement.
Selma Avenue lined on both are unobstructed, so that riencing homelessness and Enforcement also would Buscaino cast the lone
sides with tents, bicycle our kids can get to and from effectively connecting them be accompanied by the ar- opposing vote, arguing that
parts and other possessions. school,” she said. to housing and resources,” rival of “street engagement” the process would be too
Protesters said they had Homeless advocates de- he said. teams that would spend up slow and bureaucratic.
to four months offering shel- The proposal for more
ter and other services to limited enforcement next
those living outside in a tar- heads to the council’s energy
geted area, according to a and environment commit-
city report issued last tee, which is headed by
month. O’Farrell.

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students were still waiting,
having missed part of the
first class.
Gary Garcia, the princi-
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Tuesday in case the Daily
Pass system is still slow to
respond. He’s asking stu-
dents to take screenshots of
their passes prior to arriving
on campus; that way, if the
passes are difficult to access
in the morning, they can
show proof of their health
check-ins.
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he had already extended the
first period of classes by
about 18 minutes in hopes
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the morning, he fielded
questions from parents wor-
ried that their kids couldn’t
get into school, and wel-
comed students back.
“I’ve seen students coop-
erating with the masks, and
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we’re going to be OK,” said
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cipal for 15 years.
Teachers and parents
also expressed optimism.
“It’s exciting; it’s scary,”
said Nohemi Sanchez-Here-
dia, who teaches first grade
at Normont Elementary in
Harbor City. “I’m excited for
the children, and I’m excited
for myself, actually, to be
back, to be able to help these
little guys face to face again.
Just like the good old days.”
At her school, the organ-
ized chaos of the first day felt
not that far from normal,
even though safety protocols
resulted in a line of more
than 150 students and par-
ents waiting patiently to be
checked in.
Principal Kim Sheehan
said that about 95% of her
Also on hand for the first
day were three school board
members and Los Angeles
Unified interim Supt. Megan
Reilly, who read the Mc-
Cloud book to 10 first-
graders in Sanchez-Here-
dia’s classroom. Other stu-
dents in the class were still
waiting to get through the
screening process.
Sanchez-Heredia has
been vaccinated, so she feels
safe, but she worries about
her students.
“I feel protected,” she
said. “My little guys, I just
feel that I don’t want them to
get sick. I just wake up every
morning thinking positive
and hope for the best.”
Henriette Jeter was at
the school with her daugh-
ters, who are starting kin-
dergarten, second and fifth
grades. All three wore light-
blue T-shirts with sequined
stars, plus tie-dyed masks.
“We’re very excited to
start school and start learn-
ing and being with other
kids,” Jeter said.
Her children had been
learning remotely at a pri-
vate religious school for
much of last year before she
decided to home-school
them.
Even though the Delta
variant worries her, she felt
her kids needed to be back in
a classroom.
“They needed to get their
energy out and be able to
learn and be with other
kids,” she said.
She put hand sanitizer
and Lysol spray in the kids’
backpacks. In the car on the
way to school, she reminded
them not to share food with
their friends.
“But I can’t stay at home
in fear,” she said. “I just have
to do the best that I can with
the girls to make sure that
they are doing their due dili-
gence to stay clean and stay
away from people and not
share food.”
At Cleveland Charter
High in Reseda, Tony Saave-
dra polled his American lit-

to form four ordinary words. 295 students had taken the
required baseline corona-
OVNYE virus test that would allow
them to return to campus.
“We had done a pretty ro-
bust outreach program, and
SALHS we were even still making
calls to remind parents
yesterday that they could
still go to Gardena High
WLOHLO School yesterday and get
their tests,” Sheehan said.
“Thank goodness we didn’t
have anybody come on cam-
GTRIHB pus that was disallowed.”
The entry station was
equipped with hand sani-
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you take,” Sheehan said.
the supervisor was the — HEAD OF LETTUCE
erature honor students on
their feelings about being
back on campus and proj-
ected the results on a large
screen.
The most common emo-
tions were in the largest
type: “nervous” and “ex-
cited.” In smaller type were
“stressed,” “happy,” “tired”
and “scared.”
Two-thirds of the class
felt excited to be back,
Saavedra said.
“I was also feeling very
mixed in terms of coming to
school today, but to be live in
front of students like this —
there’s nothing like that feel-
ing,” he said.
Times staff writers Howard
Blume and Paloma Esquivel
contributed to this report.
L AT I M E S . C O M
Candidates vow to roll back mask, vaccine rules
[Recall, from B1]
join me in getting vacci-
nated, but mandates are not
the solution,” Faulconer
said in a statement Wednes-
day.
At a GOP debate the
week before, when
Faulconer was asked if he
would take action as gover-
nor to ban mask mandates
at schools as Republican
Gov. Ron DeSantis has done
in Florida, he sidestepped
the question.
Ose called the mask
mandates a “significant
overreach” of government
authority.
“We must draw the line
and protect people’s free-
doms,” Cox said.
Any incoming governor
would have the ability to re-
place the leaders of Califor-
nia’s public health agencies.
That includes the director of
the state Public Health Of-
fice, which has been at the
forefront of the Newsom ad-
ministration’s COVID-19 re-
sponse.
Under California law, the
state public health officer
has wide-reaching authority
to respond to the pandemic
and “may take measures as
are necessary to ascertain
the nature of the disease and
prevent its spread.”
All of Newsom’s recent
mandates on mask-
wearing and vaccinations
were orders by Newsom’s
public health officer — not
executive orders by the gov-
ernor.
While the Democratic
Legislature would have the
ability to block the confirma-
Angry Latinos might cost governor
[Arellano, from B1]
where the Anaheim school
board was to vote on the
proposed Mexico lawsuit —
and by “address,” I mean
“yell.” The Los Angeles
Times even quoted me as
warning them, “If you con-
tinue these actions, we will
get all of you out of here.”
Both the proposed recall
and legal action went no-
where, but the rage I felt was
shared by many other Lat-
inos like me. And it helped
to change California forever.
I was part of the Proposition
187 generation, one of hun-
dreds of thousands of young
Latinos in California whose
reaction to the GOP-led
anti-immigrant campaigns
during the 1990s was to vote
Democrat and help turn
this state bluer than Lake
Tahoe.
The power of that rage
was awesome in the most
literal sense.
Democrats learned to
love the angry Latino voter
and used our power to take
over Sacramento; our re-
ward was law after law
passed to make life easier
for immigrants in the coun-
try without legal status and
create a larger social safety
net. Republicans fearful of
our righteous wrath did
little better than put their
head in the proverbial sand.
Now, angry Latino voters
once again stand as judge,
jury and executioner of
California’s political future
— but in a way few could’ve
ever imagined. We just
might be the ethnic group
that costs Gov. Gavin New-
som his job.
Maybe because we’re not
angry enough in the face of
his ouster. Maybe because
we can’t muster that old
anger we felt toward Repub-
licans. Maybe, just maybe,
because many of us are just
a little bit angry at the gov-
ernor too.
Although two-thirds of
us voted for El Gavin when
he was elected to office in
2018, Latino support for
Newsom has eroded ever
since the threat of recall
became real. A Public Policy
Institute of California sur-
vey in May found 33% of
likely Latino voters wanted
to boot Newsom; by July, the
figure had grown to 40% in a
Berkeley IGS Poll. Mean-
while, an Emerson College/
Nexstar report released this
month found Latinos were
the only ethnic group in
favor of the recall, with 54%
of those asked supporting
the effort; a recent CBS
News study shows half of
Latinos do, bested only by
white respondents at 51%.
California’s Latino vote
isn’t a sleeping giant; it’s a
cactus. We’re nourishing
and hardy and bear deli-
cious fruit for those who
know how to pick it — but
take us for granted, and
we’ll cut you up good.
Democrats haven’t felt
our pricks for a generation.
That’s why I see an air of
Robert Gauthier Los Angeles Times
FORMER San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer, shown
in April, is among the Republican candidates in the
recall election who oppose a mask mandate.
tion of a new governor’s pub-
lic health nominees, those
posts could be filled while
lawmakers are in recess
between mid-September
and the beginning of Janu-
ary.
The nominee will have
the full powers of the office
before the official nomina-
tion hearing and the ability
to change or rescind all cur-
rent state mask and vaccina-
tion mandates.
Actions taken by county
public health officers also
could be in jeopardy, said
Santa Clara County Execu-
tive Jeffrey Smith.
“The state public health
officer has the authority to
modify or remove any order
done by a county health offi-
cer,” said Smith, who has de-
grees in both law and medi-
cine. “Now, they almost ne-
ver do it because they func-
GOV. Gavin Newsom greets Frida Carrillo, 4, and her dad, Franky, thanking them
for working an anti-recall phone bank at Hecho en Mexico restaurant in East L.A.
Now, angry Latino voters
once again stand as judge,
jury and executioner of
California’s political future
— but in a way few could’ve
ever imagined.
desperation around New-
som these days. He has
spent a good chunk of this
year crisscrossing California
for photo ops and rallies
flanked by Latino Demo-
cratic leaders Newsom is
counting on to save his
political nalga.
He has visited San Di-
ego’s Barrio Logan to talk
with a small-business
owner. In Fresno, the gover-
nor stopped by a health
clinic to sign a bill that lets
undocumented immigrants
over 50 qualify for Medi-Cal.
He even appeared over the
weekend in East Los Ange-
les to indulge in that most
hoary yet delicious of politi-
cal cliches: a meet-and-
greet at a Mexican restau-
rant.
Newsom tried to run on
the idea of a California
comeback early on, but soon
realized it’s not a winning
proposition for Latinos.
Because where are the good
times for us during this
pandemic? Too many of us
remain unvaccinated
against COVID-19 even as
the disease has devastated
Latinos. Our kids make up
the majority of students in
public schools grappling in a
variety of ways with reopen-
ing amid the surge of the
Delta variant. Latinos re-
main disproportionally
unemployed, underhoused
and overburdened, with
little relief in sight.
So Newsom and his
supporters are stoking the
tion as a team. But it’s
possible to do.”
Still, any attempt by a
new governor or member of
the administration to
change a local public health
order to be less restrictive is
almost guaranteed to be
challenged in court, Smith
said.
Constitutional law pro-
fessor Leslie Jacobs, direc-
tor of the University of the
Pacific McGeorge School of
Law’s Capital Center for
Law & Policy, said Califor-
nia’s governor has “enor-
mous powers” during a state
of emergency.
Jacobs said she hopes
that responsibility would
humble any new governor,
but said that has not been
the case in other states.
“There is broad discre-
tion in the governor to make
judgments and there are
same Latino anger I felt so
long ago against Republi-
cans.
In recent days, Newsom
described Larry Elder, a
longtime radio talk-show
host who leads in the polls of
possible gubernatorial
replacements, as “to the
right of Donald Trump.” A
pro-Newsom Spanish-
language campaign ad did
nothing to play up their man
and instead tried to tie the
recall to Republicans who
have compared immigrants
to animals, want to implant
microchips on undocu-
mented immigrants, and
advocate for a border wall.
This messaging is pretty
true, actually. But it’s now
the political equivalent of
penicillin — no longer as
effective as it used to be due
to overuse. It’s why Trump
not only didn’t lose Latino
support in the 2020 election
despite his anti-immigrant
ways, he actually gained it.
Democrats are still in
shock about that, and can’t
fathom why so many Lat-
inos are pro-recall.
It’s the anger, locos.
Now, Republicans are on
the offensive like never
before. Former San Diego
Mayor Kevin Faulconer
sprinkles stilted Spanish
into his speeches before
Latino audiences, and even
recorded his first commer-
cial en español. Reform
California, a conservative
political action committee,
launched a website called
governors in other states
who are imposing these
mask bans,” Jacobs said.
“There’s also the possibility
that whoever assumes office
will understand they’re in a
public trust, and will behave
in a way that isn’t subverting
what would presumably be
the will of the California peo-
ple as far as public health
goes.”
Under the Emergency
Services Act, the governor
has broad authority to re-
spond during a state of
emergency such as a pan-
demic.
The governor can “make,
amend, and rescind” state
regulations and suspend
state statutes, and has the
power to redirect state funds
to help in an emergency,
even funds appropriated by
the California Legislature
for an entirely different pur-
pose.
The governor also has the
authority to commandeer
private property, including
hospitals, medical labs, ho-
tels and motels.
The governor’s emer-
gency authority, however,
must be used to “mitigate”
the effects of a natural or
man-made emergency, and
an order that might make a
crisis worse — including
banning mask and vaccina-
tion mandates — might not
survive a court challenge,
Jacobs said.
Elder has expressed a de-
sire to wield his emergency
powers in different ways,
saying that he might declare
a state of emergency in order
to fire “bad” public school
Genaro Molina Los Angeles Times
Latinos for the Recall that
claims Newsom “has de-
stroyed our jobs” and “hurt
our children” in English and
Spanish. That’s why the
California Republican Party
— headed by Jessica Millan
Patterson, a Latina — held a
virtual workshop last week
geared specifically to train
volunteers on how to reach
out and get Latinos onto the
recall train.
It’s why Elder — who
once tweeted that Latino
people are bigoted against
Black people but that the
opposite isn’t true, and
proudly told my fellow col-
umnist Jean Guerrero that
he frequently advised
Trump’s chief immigration
advisor Stephen Miller on
messaging — barely men-
tions immigration at all
nowadays.
Instead, recall propo-
nents keep hammering on
the point that Latinos
should be angry at Newsom
for making their lives worse
— and there’s little that the
Democrats can say to show
that Newsom has made
things better.
I’m as angry as my 20-
year-old self — at Newsom
for his many mess-ups, at
his campaign for treating
the recall as one giant joke
for far too long, at recall
backers for making the
state spend a quarter-bil-
lion dollars when all they
had to do was wait another
year to try to beat Newsom
in the general election.
They would’ve had my
vote then, but not now. But
I’m angriest at Democrats.
They had a quarter century
to plan for the moment
when angry Latino voters
might turn their fury
against them.
Because sometimes, you
can’t just bank on the anger.
You’ve got to give people a
reason to love you. And
Newsom is about as loved by
many Latinos as a stale
Mexican Coke.
S T U E S DAY , AU G U S T 17 , 2 0 21
teachers.
Kiley has vowed to do the
opposite. He said one of his
first acts as governor would
be to terminate the state of
emergency Newsom de-
clared because of the pan-
demic.
“I’m totally against man-
dates of any form. I think it’s
an issue of personal free-
dom,” Kiley said. “Unfortu-
nately, this governor has got-
ten it completely
backwards.”
Kiley joined fellow Re-
publican Assemblyman
James Gallagher of Yuba
City in challenging New-
som’s use of emergency pow-
ers during the pandemic, ini-
tially receiving a favorable
ruling in a Sutter County
court that was later over-
turned.
The appellate court rul-
ing found that the governor
has the constitutional au-
thority to enact laws during
an emergency — a ruling
that could open the door for
a new governor to ban mask
mandates and take other
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DELAHOUSSAYE JR, Gilbert HOCHBERG, Samuel
J Mount Sinai Memorial Parks -
November 25, 1934 - August 2, 2021
Gilbert J Delahoussaye
Jr. was born in New
Iberia, Louisiana on
November 25th, 1934
and entered to rest on August 2nd,
2021 in Fontana, California, at 86
years old. He is predeceased by
his parents, Gilbert Delahoussaye
Sr. and Lucind Lumbard. He is also
predeceased by his brothers, Woodrow
Delahoussaye and Terry; as well as his
stepmother, Mary Delahoussaye and
his grandson, Ken Ray. Gilbert was
blessed with four children: Gail and
her husband, Anthony Rose; Craig
and his wife, Chantal Delahoussaye;
Sybil Delahoussaye; and Kim and her
husband, Rene Delahoussaye-Hall.
Gilbert was also blessed with nine
grandchildren and their significant
others: Jeremy and Melisa Carnes,
Justin and Sharmean Carnes, Jasmin
and Jesse Acevedo, Shelby Hall, Mia
Delahoussaye, Austin Delahoussaye,
Cameron Delahoussaye, Aubree
Delahoussaye, and surviving wife of
Ken Ray Delahoussaye, Cherelle. Gilbert
was a great grandfather of nine great
grandchildren and was a sibling of six
children including: Beatrice and her
husband, Poochie Livingston; Dorthy
D. Antionne; Monty Delahoussaye;
Ricky Delahoussaye; Diedra and her
husband, Wendell Chambers; and
Charmaine Delahoussaye, also known
as “Chili Pepper.”
Gilbert went to school at Jonas
Henderson High school in New Iberia,
Louisiana and served in the United
States Army for four years in the late
1950s. Gilbert was a manager for Pep
Boys for twenty years before his work
as a custodian for Kaiser Cadallac
Hospital, which he did for fifteen
years. Gilbert was a proud member
of many clubs such as The Masters
Golf Association, Cosmopolitan Golf
Association, Western State Golf
Association. He was a loving father,
grandfather, and great grandfather
who happily watched the milestones
as they all grew up.
There will be services held August
21st in New Iberia, Louisiana at St.
Edwards Catholic Cemetery for Gilbert.
GORDON, Gary
Mount Sinai Memorial Parks -
Hollywood Hills 800-600-0076
www.mountsinaiparks.org
HAYASHI, Dennis Toshio
Dennis, a short time resident of Las
Vegas, Nevada passed away on August
7th at the age of 65. He was a graduate
of Belmont High School, Class of 1974.
He was a kind soul who touched many
lives and will never be forgotten.
He is survived by his mother Marion
Fumiko Hayashi; brothers Dale, Dan
(Cynthia Herrera), Joey; sister Lynne
Hayashi. He was an Uncle to Chasen
(Jenny), Janey and Joey Jr. A Great-
Uncle to Nathan and Bradyn. He is
predeceased by his Father Shiunro
Hayashi.
An outdoor service will be held on
Saturday August 21st, 2021, 11am
at Fukui Mortuary. The Family is
requesting that only our vaccinated
friends and family attend. Masks will
be provided for this socially-distanced
ceremony.
Casual, comfortable attire is
recommended.
www.FukuiMortuary.com
(213) 626-0441
HIRSHFELD, Roslyn Daic
March 13, 1921 - August 12, 2021
In the morning of August 12, 2021,
Roslyn passed peacefully at home.
Ros was born and raised in Calabasas,
California. She was one of the first
women to graduate from UCLA. On
February 7, 1943 Ros married Leo
Marcus Hirshfeld, Jr. in Los Angeles. She
then resided in Los Angeles, Paradise
Cove, and Ventura. Ros and Leo were
married for 62 years until his passing
in 2006. Roslyn and Leo had two
sons, Jeffrey Neil and Mark Alan. She
survived her oldest son who passed in
2004. Ros is survived by her son Mark
Alan Hirshfeld; daughter-in-law Robin
“Elle” Stockton; and granddaughter
Aria Murillo. Arrangements made with
Neptune Society. A memorial TBA.
Donations to the American Cancer
Society, Brentwood Guild for the
John Tracy Clinic, or City of Hope are
appreciated.
B5
sweeping action without leg-
islative approval.
That same court ruling,
however, emphasized that
there is a pivotal check on
the governor’s power to de-
clare an emergency.
The state Legislature
has the authority to termi-
nate a state of emergency
with a simple majority vote
in both the Senate and As-
sembly.
In February, Republican
state lawmakers filed a reso-
lution to terminate the state
of emergency Newsom de-
clared, saying the “open-
ended state of emergency,
with boundless powers
vested in a chief executive, is
incompatible with demo-
cratic government.”
The Legislature’s Demo-
cratic leadership has chosen
not to exercise that option
while Newsom has been in
office.
But “if [the governor]
started declaring bizarre
emergencies, the Legisla-
ture is back there to say no,”
Jacobs said.
Hollywood Hills 800-600-0076
www.mountsinaiparks.org
KAFTAL, Edwin Joseph
February 15, 1932 - August 7, 2021
Edwin Joseph Kaftal (“ED” or “Eddie”
to his friends and family), 89, passed
away peacefully with his family close
on August 7, 2021 from Alzheimer’s.
Edwin was born February 15, 1932
to Irving and Helen (Lucash) Kaftal in
Brooklyn, New York.
Following his High School
Graduation, Ed enlisted in the U.S.
Navy. Ed served on the Destroyer USS
Colahan for 3 years during the Korean
War.
Ed moved to Los Angeles after
leaving the Navy and graduated
from UCLA with a Business Degree,
specializing in Accounting. Ed worked
for the IRS as an auditor, and went on
to become a partner in a CPA Firm. This
launched Ed’s career, where he became
CFO for many companies. Ed’s ethics,
honesty and love of people is well
known in the business arena.
Ed is survived by his loving partner
of 35 years, Sherry A. Erb. Ed and
Sherry traveled the world together and
lived and loved their life in Calabasas,
CA for over 22 years. Ed is also survived
by his sister and brother-in-law
Brenda (Kaftal) and Morton Shatzkin
of Woodland Hills, daughter Sherri
Killion and son-in-law Commander
Mark A Killion (USNR,Ret.) of North
Carolina and their children Elizabeth
and Evan, son Steven Kaftal of San
Diego, daughter and son-in-law, Linda
O’Connell and Sergeant Major Neil and
their children Brandon, Meghan and
Cara of San Diego, extended family,
daughter and son-in-law Debra (Erb)
and James LeGantanno of Georgetown
Kentucky, daughter Amber Bellazaire,
and great granddaughter Nora, of
Lansing Michigan, son Jeffrey Erb,
granddaughter Ashley, son Chad
Erb, grandson Jake of Florida, nieces,
Karyn Shatzkin, Liza (Shatzkin) and
Michael Fischer and children, Hannah,
Sarah, and Emma, and nephew, Eric
and Melissa (Marcus) Shatzkin and
children, Max and Harlin.
His wonderful life of love,
compassion and caring will always be
with us.
In lieu of flowers, donations in
memory of Ed may be made to the
Alzheimer’s Foundation (www.act.alz.
org/donate).
SCHNEIDERMAN, Vera
Mount Sinai Memorial Parks -
Hollywood Hills 800-600-0076
www.mountsinaiparks.org
SEGAL, Albert
Albert Segal from Sherman Oaks
passed away on August 4, 2021.
Beloved father to Larry and Robyn.
Precious brother to Flora, Sylvia and
Jerry. Grandpa to Emily and Josh. Uncle
to Janis, Stuart, Ronnie, Sherry, Rudi
and Loie. Loved by all!
In Memoriam
Russell Lane Grossman
August 17, 1969 - March 10, 2019
Happy Birthday to My beautiful Boy.
Our hearts ache for you in everyday
that passes. Never to be forgotten
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Dodgers Bauer’s accuser testifies

get past about alleged sex assault
Pirates [Bauer, from B10]
her in the face “but not
right behind my ears. ... The
pain was so excruciating on
ing show bruising under her
eyes and a scab on her lip as
hard,” then rolled her on her top of all the other pain I was well as swelling on her jaw
Offense takes awhile stomach and again initiated experiencing that it brought and cheekbone.
choking her by wrapping her my soul back into my body.” During the opening
to wake up, and hair around her neck. The first portion of her statement for Bauer, attor-
defensive struggles “There was very tight pres- testimony established that ney Shawn Holley argued
sure on my neck. I couldn’t she is a lifelong baseball fan that when the accuser asked
continue, but L.A. breathe. I was gasping for air who became aware of Bauer Bauer to stop at several
manages to win. then lost consciousness,” in February when he was points during their sexual
she testified. pitching for the Dodgers activity, he stopped. “All he
DODGERS 2
Marcio Jose Sanchez Associated Pres Bauer’s attorneys say In- during spring training. “I no- can go on is what she’s telling
DODGERS’ Billy McKinney celebrates his seventh- stagram messages sent by ticed that he was closing one him,” Holley said. “When you
PITTSBURGH 1
inning solo home run with teammate Justin Turner. the accuser make clear that eye [while pitching] and ... get into a rough sex relation-
she not only consented to I’m drawn to people doing ship, it’s a continuum.”
By Ethan Sears hits and struck out five, the Dodgers let the Pirates Bauer choking her uncon- unique things. I told my Bauer’s accuser, 27, testi-
flashing an impressive go ahead in the seventh in- scious while having sex, but mom about it. That was the fied that she was an alco-
Coming into Monday changeup to get Rodolfo ning thanks to miscues. It encouraged it. Bauer at- first thing that intrigued me holic beginning at age 15 but
night, the last time the Pitts- Castro looking in the sec- started when Brusdar Grat- tended the hearing Monday about him.” that she has been sober
burgh Pirates had beaten ond. erol hit Polanco with a pitch, and sat expressionless, like since January 2020. She said
the Dodgers was June 6, 2018, Giving up three walks, but things spiraled when everyone in the courtroom she has been hospitalized for
an 11-9 thriller in which Matt
Kemp and Yasiel Puig
Jackson worked in and out of
trouble in the second and
Trea Turner misplayed a
Castro groundball, allowing
wearing a protective mask.
Between the two encoun- ‘I felt like my alcoholism “eight to 10
times.”
played the corner outfield
positions for the Dodgers.
fifth innings. The first of
those featured a balk that let
him to reach.
The play was changed to
ters she messaged Bauer
that the choking “was a soul left my She testified that during
her first drive from San Di-
Despite not playing each
other in 2020, the winning
two runners, Jacob Stallings
and Gregory Polanco, move
an infield single after origi-
nally being scored an error.
gamechanger” that “I’ve ne-
ver been more turned on in body. I was ego to Bauer’s home in Pasa-
dena she was nervous. “The
streak stood at 13 games —
and 1,167 days.
to second and third with two
outs, but Jackson induced a
The next batter, Wilmer
Difo, laid down a sacrifice
my life” and “give me the
pain.” terrified. I whole way there I was think-
ing about how I was going to
For a brief moment Mon-
day, it looked as if that streak
groundout from pitcher
Steven Brault to end the
bunt. First baseman Cody
Bellinger threw the ball
In her testimony, the ac-
cuser explained that she couldn’t fight act and what I was going to
say. He’s a very powerful per-
would end. Then Billy Mc-
Kinney and Max Muncy sent
threat. In the fourth, walks
to Castro and Ke’Bryan
away, allowing Polanco to
score from second.
sent the messages because
she “was going with the flow. back.’ son ... Since I got sober I
don’t date a lot.
baseballs into the right-field Hayes set up All-Star Bryan It’s the second night in a I wanted to tell him what he She said Bauer put her at
bleachers, tying the score Reynolds with a chance to row in which the Dodgers wanted to hear. I wanted to
—accuser, ease during a long conversa-
recounting a sexual encounter
and putting the Dodgers give the Pirates a lead with have had issues on defense create a better experience tion in the basement of his
with the Dodgers’ Trevor Bauer
ahead. two outs. A hard-hit fly ball — both against inferior op- than the first time.” home. “We had a deeply
It took until the seventh to right found McKinney’s ponents. On Sunday, it When she regained con- emotional conversation,”
inning for the Dodgers to glove. didn’t end up mattering as sciousness after being she testified. “I opened up
score their first run of the “It was awesome,” Jack- they won in a blowout, and choked during the second The San Diego resident about my troubles with alco-
game. It took until the son said. “It was everything I on Monday, it wasn’t deci- encounter, she said Bauer testified that on April 18 she holism. ... He was very sup-
eighth inning for them to go thought it was gonna be and sive. turned her over on her back created an Instagram story portive and kind. ... I
ahead. And it wasn’t a night more.” “I’m not concerned about while still having vaginal sex while watching Bauer pitch wouldn’t have opened up
when their offense was much Jackson said he had it at all,” Roberts said. “Last and “he started punching against the Padres and be- and been vulnerable if he
to brag about. But, after re- about 50 friends and family night, I was a little frustrated me.” gan it with this message: hadn’t opened up.”
turning from the East Coast members scattered by it, but tonight I think that She said she was nau- “Open third eye to rattle Other witnesses sched-
at 4:30 in the morning, their throughout the ballpark. He we played a good ballgame.” seous and had difficulty @baueroutage.” She tagged uled to be called by the ac-
winning streak over Pitts- arrived in Los Angeles on opening her eyes. “I was try- Bauer’s account, but be- cuser’s team include a foren-
burgh would reach a 1,168th Sunday after being told Sat- Kershaw due back? ing to regain conscious- cause she estimated he had sic nurse who examined her
day. urday he would be getting About two hours and 45 ness,” she said. He began hit- about 400,000 followers, she when she sought medical at-
Here are three observa- the call-up and spent the minutes before the first ting her, she said, with a said she did not expect a re- tention a few days after the
tions from the 2-1 win. last 24 hours getting himself pitch, Clayton Kershaw was closed fist on the left side of sponse. second encounter, three po-
— and everyone else — situ- in left field at Dodger Sta- her jaw, then on her head. “I Bauer did respond, and lice detectives, a psychia-
A successful debut ated. When the moment fi- dium playing catch. When he felt like my soul left my body. they exchanged Instagram trist and sexual assault ex-
Andre Jackson’s major nally came, Jackson said, finished, Kershaw, who has I was terrified. I couldn’t direct messages for three pert, the woman’s best
league debut ended the the nerves were less than he been out since early July be- fight back.” days until she drove to his friend, her father and Bauer.
same way it started: a walk expected. cause of left elbow inflam- She testified that she ne- Pasadena home on the night Bauer’s team plans to call
off the mound and what “I thought he kept his mation, raised both his arms ver gave Bauer consent to of April 21 when they had a male friend of the accuser
must have been a sigh of re- composure really well,” Dod- in mock celebration. punch her and that he also their first of two sexual en- who exchanged several text
lief as he stranded two Pi- gers manager Dave Roberts Before the game, Roberts punched her three times in counters. messages with her regarding
rates runners to escape a said. “So proud of him earn- said that Kershaw could be the vagina. She said that she A few days later, she said, Bauer and turned them over
jam. ing this opportunity.” back in the rotation by next passed out again, and when she had two black eyes, a to authorities.
Jackson, who was re- month. she woke her entire body swollen jaw and cheekbones,
called from triple-A Okla- More struggles “Best-case scenario is was in pain. a split lip and bruising near The National Sexual
homa City, pitched four Just one night after he’s making a couple starts “I had blood in my mouth. her vagina, on her gums and Assault Hotline can be
scoreless innings for the struggling on defense in September,” Roberts ... I couldn’t open my jaw. I on her head. Pictures of her reached 24 hours a day at
Dodgers. He gave up just two against the New York Mets, said. had this horrible burning face included in the court fil- (800) 656-4673.
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BASEBALL

NL STANDINGS
West
San Francisco
W
77 42 .647
L Pct. GB
—
L10
8-2
Angels stymied by Cole, Yankees
DODGERS 73 46 .613 4 8-2
San Diego 67 54 .554 11 5-5 [Angels, from B10] Suarez, who took an earlier star center fielder might start
“I got Yankee pitching,” Mad- flight on Sunday, grooved a 95- ramping up activities in anticipa-
Colorado 53 66 .445 24 5-5
don said, when asked if the results mph fastball that Joey Gallo lined tion of a return.
Arizona 38 81 .319 39 4-6 had more to do with New York’s into the second deck in right field But he did not work out on the
Central W L Pct. GB L10 arms than Angels at-bat quality. for a two-run homer in the first. field Monday, and it’s beginning to
Milwaukee 72 47 .605 — 7-3 “They threw big arms at us the He retired 13 of the next 15 bat- seem as if he might need some di-
Cincinnati 65 55 .542 71⁄2 6-4 whole night. Cole had really good ters before walking three in a row — vine intervention to play again this
stuff. And the guys out of the DJ LeMahieu and Aaron Judge on season.
St. Louis 61 56 .521 10 8-2 bullpen, all those dudes with no four pitches and Gallo on a full- “As you work through these dif-
Chicago 52 69 .430 21 0-10 names, threw the ball really well.” count curve — to open the sixth. ferent days and exercises, you just
Pittsburgh 42 77 .353 30 1-9 Cole, leaning on a four-seam Cishek came on and struck out have to be diligent,” Maddon said,
East W L Pct. GB L10
fastball that averaged 97.5 mph Giancarlo Stanton with a sweeping “because you don’t know if that calf
and a sharp slider, gave up a two- slider and got Luke Voit to ground is going to have an epiphany and all
Atlanta 63 56 .529 — 8-2
out solo homer to Justin Upton in into a 5-4-3 double play, second of a sudden it’s going to feel great.”
Philadelphia 61 57 .517 11⁄2 6-4 the first, a leadoff infield single to baseman David Fletcher making a The Grade 2 strain was sup-
New York 59 59 .500 31⁄2 3-7 Phil Gosselin in the second and difficult turn as Gallo slid into him. posed to sideline Trout for six to
Miami 51 68 .429 12 4-6 nothing else. “In the sixth inning, I don’t eight weeks.
Britton replaced Cole and know what happened,” Suarez said On July 19, Trout said he was
Washington 50 68 .424 121⁄2 1-9 struck out Jared Walsh with a through an interpreter. “I did “really close” to beginning a reha-
nasty slider to end the sixth. everything the same. I just couldn’t bilitation assignment, but a week
Monday’s results
Abreu, who ran his two-seam find my location.” later he suffered a setback.
at DODGERS 2, Pittsburgh 1
Atlanta 12, at Miami 2 sinking fastball up to 97.8 mph, re- Suarez’s five-inning, two-run, “We’re just trying to get him to
at Cincinnati 14, Chicago 5 tired five in a row in the seventh four-hit, six-strikeout effort the point where that calf feels nor-
at Colorado 6, San Diego 5 and eighth. Rodriguez struck out snapped a four-start skid in which mal on a consistent basis,” Mad-
at San Francisco 7, New York 5 Ohtani, who leads baseball with 39 Noah K. Murray Associated Press he went 1-3 with a 6.75 ERA. don said.
homers, with a 94-mph fastball to SHOHEI OHTANI reacts to a Mike Trout, out since May 18 be- “I want to believe he’s gonna
end the eighth. Green struck out called third strike in the third cause of a right-calf strain, traveled play again. It’s just not to the point
two in a scoreless ninth. inning. He went 0 for 4. with the Angels, stirring hopes the where he’s ready to do that.”

AL STANDINGS
West W L Pct. GB L10
Houston 70 48 .593 — 5-5 DODGERS 2 YANKEES 2 BRAVES 12 RAYS 9
Oakland 68 51 .571 2 ⁄2 1
7-3 PIRATES 1 ANGELS 1 MARLINS 2 ORIOLES 2
Seattle 63 56 .529 71⁄2 5-5 Streak Won 4 This month 10-3 Streak Lost 1 This month 7-9 Freddie Freeman and Adam Duvall Brett Phillips hit an inside-the-park
ANGELS 59 61 .492 12 3-7 Home 37-20 Road 36-26 Home 33-30 Road 26-31 homered in a seven-run fourth inning homer as Tampa Bay handed Balti-
Texas 42 76 .356 28 3-7 Division 32-20 Interleague 12-8 Division 21-32 Interleague 9-7 for surging Atlanta, winners of 11 of 13. more a 12th straight loss. Rays opener
Central W L Pct. GB L10 Next: Tonight vs. Pittsburgh, Dodger Stadium, 7 Next: Tonight at Detroit, 4 PDT Touki Toussaint, Edgar Santana and Collin McHugh has not yielded an
TV/Radio: SportsNet LA/570, 1020 TV/Radio: BSW/830, 1330
Chicago 69 50 .580 — 6-4 Jacob Webb combined for a four-hitter. earned run in 16 straight appearances.
Pittsburgh AB R H BI Avg. Dodgers AB R H BI Avg.
Cleveland 57 60 .487 11 4-6 Park ss 5 0 0 0 .245 T.Turner ss 4 0 2 0 .289 Angels AB R H BI Avg. New York AB R H BI Avg. Atlanta AB R H BI Avg. Miami AB R H BI Avg. Baltimore AB R H BI Avg. Tampa Bay AB R H BI Avg.
Hayes 3b 3 0 1 0 .256 Mncy 2b-1b 2 1 1 1 .274 Ohtani dh 4 0 0 0 .269 LMhu 2b-1b 2 0 0 0 .270 Albies 2b 5 2 3 3 .263 Cshlm Jr. ss 4 1 1 1 .254 Mullins cf 3 1 1 1 .318 Lowe 2b 4 2 3 3 .233
Detroit 58 62 .483 111⁄2 6-4 Reynolds cf 3 0 1 0 .309 Pujols 1b 3 0 0 0 .265 Fletcher 2b 4 0 0 0 .299 Judge dh 3 1 2 0 .288 Soler rf 5 0 2 0 .250 Aguilar 1b 4 0 1 0 .269 Mancini 1b 4 0 1 1 .253 Choi 1b 2 2 1 0 .241
Moran 1b 4 0 0 0 .270 c-Seager 1 0 0 0 .277 Upton lf 4 1 1 1 .224 Gallo lf-rf 3 1 1 2 .177 Frman 1b 4 1 3 3 .294 Brinson cf-lf 3 0 0 0 .276 Sntander dh 4 0 0 0 .245 Luplow 1b 1 0 0 0 .125
Minnesota 53 66 .445 16 7-3 Gamel lf 4 0 0 0 .269 J.Turner 3b 2 0 0 0 .289 Walsh 1b 4 0 1 0 .264 Stanton rf 4 0 1 0 .260 Adrnz 3b 1 0 0 0 .243 Sanchez rf 3 0 0 0 .256 Hays rf 3 0 0 0 .240 Margot lf 5 1 1 0 .254
Stallings c 3 0 0 0 .230 Pollock lf 4 0 0 0 .300 Gosselin 3b 4 0 1 0 .272 Gardner lf 0 0 0 0 .212 Rly 3b-1b 4 1 1 0 .292 Leon 1 0 0 0 .181 Stewart lf 3 0 0 0 .201 Madows dh 4 0 1 2 .233
Kansas City 50 67 .427 18 3-7 Polanco rf 3 1 1 0 .203 Taylor cf-2b 3 0 1 0 .280 J.Iglesias ss 3 0 0 0 .267 Voit 1b 3 0 1 0 .236 Swnsn ss 6 2 2 2 .265 Anderson 3b 4 0 0 0 .244 Urias 3b 3 0 1 0 .268 Wendle ss 4 0 1 1 .273
Castro 2b 3 0 1 0 .208 McKinney rf 3 1 1 1 .175 Marsh cf 2 0 0 0 .205 Wade 3b 0 0 0 0 .258 Duvall lf 5 2 1 2 .229 Alfaro c 2 0 0 0 .235 Mateo 2b 4 1 2 0 .308 Brsseau 3b 4 1 1 1 .187
East W L Pct. GB L10 Brault p 1 0 0 0 .000 Barnes c 3 0 0 0 .223 Stassi c 3 0 0 0 .279 Odor 3b-2b 2 0 0 0 .220 d’Arnud c 5 1 2 2 .230 Sierra cf 1 0 0 0 .239 Wynns c 4 0 1 0 .179 Phillips rf 4 1 2 1 .217
Tsutsugo 1 0 1 0 .120 Jackson p 1 0 0 0 .000 Adell rf 3 0 0 0 .234 Higashioka c 3 0 0 0 .165 Hredia cf 2 2 0 0 .235 Diaz 2b 3 1 1 1 .194 Martin ss 4 0 1 0 .233 Kermaier cf 4 1 1 1 .242
Tampa Bay 72 47 .605 — 7-3 Totals 30 1 5 0 Bllnger 1b-cf 2 0 0 0 .181 Totals 31 1 3 1 Davis cf 3 0 0 0 .067 Tussaint p 3 1 0 0 .000 D L Cruz lf-rf 3 0 1 0 .300 Totals 32 2 7 2 Mejia c 4 1 1 0 .259
Totals 28 2 5 2 Velazquez ss 3 0 0 0 .125 Totals 40 12 14 12 Garrett p 1 0 0 0 .182 Totals 36 9 12 9
Boston 69 51 .575 31⁄2 5-5 Totals 26 2 5 2 A.Jackson c 2 0 0 0 .154 Baltimore 001 000 010 —2 7 0
Pittsburgh 000 000 100 —1 5 0 Totals 31 2 4 2
Angels 100 000 000 —1 3 0 Tampa Bay 000 233 10x —9 12 0
New York 66 52 .559 51⁄2 7-3 Dodgers 000 000 11x —2 5 1
New York 200 000 00x —2 5 1 Atlanta 100 702 200 —12 14 0
Walks—Pittsburgh 5: Hayes 2, Reynolds 1, Stallings 1, Castro 1. Dodgers 2: Walks—Baltimore 2: Hays 1, Urias 1. Tampa Bay 3: Choi 2,
Walks—Angels 1: Marsh 1. New York 5: LeMahieu 2, Judge 1, Gallo Miami 110 000 000 — 2 4 0
Toronto 63 54 .538 8 5-5 Muncy 1, J.Turner 1. Meadows 1.
Strikeouts—Pittsburgh 10: Park 1, Hayes 1, Moran 1, Gamel 3, Stallings 1, 1, Odor 1. Walks—Atlanta 11: Albies 1, Soler 1, Freeman 1, Riley 2, Duvall 1, d’Arnaud 1, Strikeouts—Baltimore 5: Hays 1, Stewart 1, Urias 1, Mateo 1,
Baltimore 38 79 .325 33 0-10 Polanco 1, Castro 2. Dodgers 7: Pujols 1, Seager 1, J.Turner 1, Taylor 2, Barnes 1, Strikeouts—Angels 15: Ohtani 2, Fletcher 1, Upton 2, Walsh 3, Heredia 3, Toussaint 1. Miami 2: Brinson 1, Sierra 1. Martin 1. Tampa Bay 7: Meadows 1, Wendle 3, Phillips 1, Kiermaier 1,
Jackson 1. Gosselin 1, Marsh 2, Stassi 2, Adell 2. New York 9: Gallo 2, Stanton Strikeouts—Atlanta 11: Albies 1, Soler 1, Freeman 1, Riley 3, Duvall 1, d’Arnaud Mejia 1.
2, Odor 1, Higashioka 1, Davis 2, Velazquez 1. 1, Toussaint 3. Miami 10: Chisholm Jr. 1, Aguilar 1, Sanchez 1, Anderson 1, Alfaro 2, De
E—Bellinger (3). LOB—Pittsburgh 10, Dodgers 6. 2B—Tsutsugo (1), LOB—Baltimore 7, Tampa Bay 7. 2B—Mateo (5), Mancini (26),
Monday’s results T.Turner (4). HR—McKinney (1), off Banda; Muncy (26), off Shreve. E—Odor (12). LOB—Angels 4, New York 5. HR—Upton (16), off
La Cruz 1, Garrett 1, A.Jackson 2.
Wendle (25). 3B—Meadows (2). HR—Kiermaier (4), off Harvey;
LOB—Atlanta 13, Miami 4. 2B—d’Arnaud 2 (6), Riley (22), Soler 2 (3).
at New York 2, ANGELS 1 RBIs—McKinney (5), Muncy (70). S—Brault, Difo. Cole; Gallo (4), off Suarez. RBIs—Upton (37), Gallo 2 (8). HR—Freeman (26), off Campbell; Duvall (22), off Campbell; Chisholm Jr. (13), off Lowe (27), off Harvey; Phillips (10), off Fry; Lowe (28), off Fry;
Runners left in scoring position—Pittsburgh 7 (Brault 2, Moran 3, CS—LeMahieu (1). Toussaint; Diaz (4), off Toussaint. RBIs—Swanson 2 (72), Albies 3 (83), Freeman 3 Brosseau (5), off Abad. RBIs—Mullins (41), Mancini (62), Meadows
at Tampa Bay 9, Baltimore 2 Reynolds, Hayes); Dodgers 2 (Pollock 2). RISP_Pittsburgh 0 for 10; Dodgers 0 Runners left in scoring position—Angels 1 (Stassi); New York 1 2 (79), Kiermaier (28), Lowe 3 (68), Wendle (40), Phillips (35),
(68), Duvall 2 (68), d’Arnaud 2 (14), Chisholm Jr. (38), Diaz (15). S—Toussaint.
at Kansas City 7, Houston 6 for 2. (Voit 2, Stanton). RISP_Angels 0 for 2; New York 0 for 4. Runners left in scoring position—Atlanta 7 (Duvall, Soler, d’Arnaud, Brosseau (18). S—Mullins.
Runners moved up—Park. GIDP—Pujols. Runners moved up—J.Iglesias. GIDP—Voit. Swanson 2, Toussaint, Riley); Miami 2 (Sanchez, A.Jackson). RISP_Atlanta 8 for 22; Runners left in scoring position—Baltimore 4 (Mancini, Wynns,
at Chicago 5, Oakland 2 DP—Pittsburgh 1 (Hayes, Castro, Moran). DP—Angels 2 (J.Iglesias, Fletcher, Walsh; Gosselin, Fletcher, Miami 1 for 3. Stewart, Martin); Tampa Bay 2 (Brosseau 2). RISP_Baltimore 1 for 9;
at Minnesota 5, Cleveland 4, 10 innings Pittsburgh IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Walsh). Runners moved up—Diaz. Tampa Bay 2 for 5.
Brault .......................52⁄3 3 0 0 1 4 76 1.84 Angels IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Atlanta IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Mears.........................1⁄3 0 0 0 1 0 7 4.35 Runners moved up—Martin, Wynns. GIDP—Wynns.
Suarez, L, 5-6 ..............5 4 2 2 3 6 82 3.88 Toussaint, W, 2-2........61⁄3 3 2 2 2 7 97 4.01 DP—Tampa Bay 1 (Wendle, Lowe, Luplow).
Banda, BS, 0-1 ............1 1 1 1 0 2 19 2.08 Cishek ........................2 0 0 0 1 2 21 3.42 Santana....................12⁄3 1 0 0 0 2 24 3.41 Baltimore IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Shreve, L, 1-1 ..............1 1 1 1 0 1 22 2.95 Quijada.......................2⁄3 1 0 0 1 1 18 4.35 Webb..........................1 0 0 0 0 1 11 4.29 Harvey, L, 6-12 ..........42⁄3 5 5 5 1 6 86 6.25
Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Guerra ........................1⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 4 5.37 Miami IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Fry .............................2⁄3 4 3 3 2 0 29 5.44
Bruihl .........................1 1 0 0 0 0 12 3.86 New York IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Garrett, L, 1-2 ..............3 3 3 3 6 2 77 5.03 Sulser.........................2⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 7 2.86
Jackson.......................4 2 0 0 4 5 71 0.00 Cole, W, 11-6 ............52⁄3 2 1 1 1 9 90 3.04 Campbell.....................1 5 5 5 0 2 28 8.47 Abad ..........................2 3 1 1 0 1 31 15.43
Vesia ..........................1 0 0 0 0 1 11 2.70 Britton, H, 9 ................1⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 4 6.06 Guenther .....................2 3 2 2 3 1 39 9.53 Tampa Bay IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Graterol ......................2⁄3 1 1 0 1 1 20 4.11 Abreu, H, 1................12⁄3 0 0 0 0 2 15 4.12 Guzman ......................1 2 2 2 2 3 34 18.00 McHugh ......................2 0 0 0 0 1 21 1.35
Treinen, W, 3-5...........11⁄3 0 0 0 0 2 8 1.92
TODAY’S GAMES Jansen, S, 24-29 ..........1 1 0 0 0 1 11 2.85
Rodriguez, H, 2 ............1⁄3 0 0 0 0 1
Green, S, 4-8 ...............1 1 0 0 0 2
5 2.70
17 3.08
Okert ..........................1 1 0 0 0 2
Detwiler.......................1 0 0 0 0 1
14 2.41
7 5.49
Fleming, W, 10-6........52⁄3 6 2 2 1 2
Head ........................11⁄3 1 0 0 1 2
101 4.86
25 1.85
Inherited runners-scored—Mears 2-0, Treinen 3-0. IBB_off Graterol Inherited runners-scored—Cishek 3-0, Guerra 1-0, Britton 1-0. Inherited runners-scored—Santana 1-0, Campbell 2-2. WP—Okert. Inherited runners-scored—Fry 1-1, Sulser 1-0, Head 2-0.
NATIONAL LEAGUE >>> (Reynolds). HBP_Brault (Muncy), Graterol (Polanco), Shreve (J.Turner). U— Junior Valentine, Jerry Meals, Jansen Visconti, Vic Carapazza. PB_Alfaro (13). HBP_Harvey (Lowe), Fleming (Stewart).
MATCHUP W-L ERA TIME U— Gabe Morales, John Bacon, Bill Miller, Doug Eddings. T—2:50. T—2:49. Tickets sold—37,010 (47,309). U— Stu Scheuwater, Roberto Ortiz, Chad Fairchild, CB Bucknor. T—3:28. U— Adrian Johnson, Brian Gorman, Jeremy Riggs, James Hoye.
PIT/Crowe (R) 3-7 5.27 7 p.m. Tickets sold—48,005 (56,000). Tickets sold—6,442 (36,742). T—2:53. Tickets sold—5,460 (25,000).
Dodgers/Price (L) 4-1 3.60 SNLA
ATL/Ynoa (R) 4-2 3.02 4 p.m.
NOTES
MIA/Alcantara (R) 7-10 3.52 REDS 14 WHITE SOX 5 GIANTS 7
CHI/Hendricks (R) 13-5 4.15 4 p.m.
CIN/Gutierrez (R)
MIL/Burnes (R)
STL/Wainwright (R)
SD/TBD
8-3
7-4
11-6
—
3.95
2.23 4:45 p.m.
3.27
— 5:30 p.m.
Jonathan India homered and drove in
CUBS 5
Eloy Jimenez hit a tiebreaking RBI
OAKLAND 2

Kris Bryant hit two home runs and

METS 5
Padres sign
Arrieta to
COL/Márquez (R) 10-9 3.78
five runs and Joey Votto recorded his single and Liam Hendriks got the save Kevin Gausman set a career high with
PHI/Gibson (R) 8-4 2.91 6:30 p.m. 2,000th hit on a single in the seventh against his former team, leading his 12th win to lead San Francisco.
ARI/TBD — — as Cincinnati gave Chicago 12 losses Chicago to a win. The White Sox im- Brandon Crawford had four hits and is
NY/Stroman (R) 8-11 2.79 6:45 p.m. in a row for the first time since 2012. proved to an AL-best 40-22 at home. hitting .427 over his last 28 games.
SF/Webb (R)

AMERICAN LEAGUE >>>

MATCHUP
Angels/Bundy (R)
6-3

W-L
2-9
2.96

ERA
6.16
TIME
4 p.m.
Chicago
Duffy 3b
Schwndl 1b
Wisdom lf
AB
5
5
4
R
1
1
0
H
2
2
0
BI
0
0
0
Avg.
.258
.373
.255
Cincin.
India 2b
AB R H BI Avg.
6 2 3 5 .283
Cstllans rf 4 1 2 0 .317
Votto 1b 4 1 3 1 .284
Oakland
Canha lf
Marte cf
Olson 1b
AB
5
4
3
R
0
0
0
H
2
0
0
BI
1
0
0
Avg.
.246
.361
.281
Chicago
Andrson ss
Hrnndez 2b
Abreu 1b
AB
5
2
4
R
1
0
0
H
2
1
0
BI
0
1
0
Avg.
.301
.246
.255
New York AB R H BI Avg. San
Nimmo cf

Alonso 1b
Smith lf
4 1 1 0 .280 Francisco
Conforto rf 4 1 0 0 .217 Slater cf
4 1 1 2 .250 Dickerson
4 0 0 1 .251 Belt 1b
AB R H BI Avg.

2 0 0 0 .232
1 1 1 0 .234
add depth
Bote 2b 4 0 1 0 .198 Farmer ss 5 1 1 1 .261 Gomes c 4 0 0 0 .219 Jimenez lf 4 0 1 1 .328 2 1 1 1 .248
DET/Mize (R) 6-6 3.66 BSW Chirinos c 3 1 1 2 .286 Sarez 3b 3 2 0 0 .172 Lowrie dh 4 0 2 0 .262 Mncada 3b 3 0 1 0 .251 McNeil 2b 5 0 0 0 .255 Bryant rf-lf 4 2 2 3 .321
Heyward rf 4 1 1 1 .199 Aquino lf 4 3 2 3 .216 Chapman 3b 4 1 1 1 .224 Vaughn dh 4 0 0 0 .260 Davis 3b 4 1 3 0 .308 Posey c 4 1 1 0 .330
BOS/Eovaldi (R) 10-7 3.92 10 a.m. Villar ss 4 1 2 2 .249 Ruf lf
Fargas cf 3 0 0 0 .269 Naquin cf 3 1 1 1 .251 Harrison 2b 2 1 0 0 .276 Robert cf 4 3 3 1 .328 2 0 1 1 .270 wire reports
NY/Gil (R) 1-0 0.00 MLB Happ 1 0 1 2 .179 Brnhart c 4 1 2 3 .268 Piscotty rf 1 0 0 0 .212 Goodwin rf 2 0 0 0 .230 McCann c 4 0 2 0 .240 Wade Jr. rf 2 0 0 0 .249
BOS/Houck (R) 0-3 2.93 4 p.m. Alcntara ss 3 0 1 0 .192 Miley p 3 1 0 0 .156 Brown rf 2 0 0 0 .207 Zavala c 3 1 2 2 .230 Hill p 2 0 0 0 .000 Longoria 3b 3 2 1 0 .278
Steele p 1 0 0 0 .000 Brrero ss 1 1 0 0 .000 Machin ss 2 0 1 0 .107 Totals 31 5 10 5 Blnknhorn 1 0 0 0 .211 Crawford ss 4 0 4 1 .306
NY/Montgomery (L) 4-5 3.69 MLB Romine 1 0 0 0 .231 Totals 37 14 14 14 Moreland 1 0 0 0 .233 Drury 1 0 1 0 .307 Flores 1b 4 0 2 1 .251 Jake Arrieta caught on with a
BAL/Means (L) 5-4 3.21 4 p.m. Ortega cf 2 1 1 0 .329 Totals 32 2 6 2 Totals 37 5 10 5 Solano 2b 1 0 0 0 .275
Totals 36 5 10 5 La Stlla 2b 3 0 0 0 .248 playoff contender after getting re-
TB/Rasmussen (R) 1-1 3.98 Oakland 020 000 000 —2 6 1
SEA/Anderson (L) 5-8 4.24 5 p.m. Chicago 000 000 050 — 5 10 0 Chicago 001 111 01x —5 10 0 Gausman p 1 0 0 0 .211
Ystrzmski cf 3 0 0 0 .221
leased by the Chicago Cubs, sign-
Cincinnati 000 220 82x —14 14 0
TEX/Howard (R) 0-3 5.61
Walks—Oakland 3: Harrison 1, Piscotty 1, Machin 1. Chicago 3: Hernandez 1, Totals 36 7 13 7 ing a minor league deal with the
Walks—Chicago 1: Alcantara 1. Cincinnati 8: Castellanos 1, Votto 1, Suarez Moncada 1, Goodwin 1.
CLE/Morgan (R) 1-5 6.52 5 p.m. 2, Aquino 1, Naquin 2, Barrero 1. Strikeouts—Oakland 11: Canha 1, Marte 1, Olson 1, Gomes 1, Lowrie 1, New York 000 030 020 —5 10 0 San Diego Padres on Monday.
Strikeouts—Chicago 9: Wisdom 3, Bote 1, Heyward 1, Fargas 3, Steele 1. San Francisco 000 220 30x —7 13 1
MIN/Ober (R) 1-1 4.53 Cincinnati 10: India 1, Castellanos 1, Votto 1, Farmer 3, Suarez 2, Barnhart 1,
Chapman 2, Harrison 1, Brown 1, Machin 1, Moreland 1. Chicago 9: Anderson 1, Abreu
Walks—New York 2: Nimmo 1, Conforto 1. San Francisco 1: Longoria 1.
The former National League Cy
3, Jimenez 1, Moncada 2, Vaughn 1, Robert 1.
HOU/Valdez (L) 8-3 3.10 5 p.m. Miley 1. E—Machin (2). LOB—Oakland 8, Chicago 8. 2B—Lowrie (21). HR—Chapman
Strikeouts—New York 12: Nimmo 1, Conforto 2, Alonso 1, Smith 1, McNeil 1, Villar 2, McCann 2, Hill 2. San
Francisco 6: Slater 1, Posey 1, Wade Jr. 1, Longoria 2, La Stella 1.
Young Award winner is expected to
LOB—Chicago 6, Cincinnati 8. 2B—Schwindel (6), Heyward (13), Happ
KC/Lynch (L) 2-3 5.97
(11), Barnhart (20), Farmer (16), India (21). HR—India (16), off Steele; Aquino
(18), off Keuchel; Robert (3), off Guerra. RBIs—Chapman (56), Canha (42), E—Crawford (7). LOB—New York 9, San Francisco 6. 2B—Posey (14), Dickerson (8). 3B—Alonso (1), make his first start for San Diego
OAK/Bassitt (R) 12-3 3.06 5 p.m. Hernandez (4), Zavala 2 (13), Jimenez (20), Robert (12). SB—Hernandez (1), Robert Crawford (2). HR—Villar (14), off Rogers; Bryant (2), off Castro; Belt (16), off May; Bryant (3), off May.
(8), off Rucker; Barnhart (7), off Meisinger. RBIs—Chirinos 2 (7), Heyward (5), Goodwin (1). CS—Robert (1). SF—Hernandez. S—Zavala. RBIs—Alonso 2 (67), Smith (52), Villar 2 (31), Ruf (32), Flores (44), Bryant 3 (8), Belt (36), Crawford (70). on Wednesday against the Col-
CHI/López (R) 1-0 1.35 (23), Happ 2 (32), India 5 (55), Aquino 3 (17), Farmer (44), Naquin (62),
Barnhart 3 (40), Votto (76). SF—Barnhart.
Runners left in scoring position—Oakland 6 (Gomes, Olson 2, Harrison SB—Villar (10). SF—Smith.
Runners left in scoring position—New York 4 (Smith 2, Hill, Conforto); San Francisco 3 (La Stella,
orado Rockies.
3); Chicago 4 (Jimenez, Vaughn, Moncada, Anderson). RISP_Oakland 1 for 7; Chicago
INTERLEAGUE >>> Runners left in scoring position—Chicago 3 (Bote, Schwindel, Alcantara 2 for 9.
Yastrzemski, Flores). RISP_New York 1 for 7; San Francisco 3 for 7.
Runners moved up—Alonso. The Padres signed Arrieta to
2); Cincinnati 4 (Suarez 2, India, Aquino). RISP_Chicago 4 for 13; Cincinnati 4 Runners moved up—Olson, Chapman, Goodwin. GIDP—Canha, Vaughn.
MATCHUP W-L ERA TIME for 13. GIDP—Schwindel.
New York IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA add depth to their injury-plagued
TOR/Manoah (R) 5-1 2.59 4 p.m. DP—Cincinnati 1 (Suarez, India, Votto). DP—Oakland 1 (Machin, Harrison, Olson); Chicago 1 (Hernandez, Abreu). Hill...........................32⁄3 6 2 2 0 2 68 4.98
Chicago IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Oakland IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Castro, L, 3-4 ............11⁄3 2 2 2 0 2 28 3.38 rotation. Chris Paddack (left ob-
WAS/Fedde (R) 4-8 5.12 Montas, L, 9-9 .............5 8 3 3 3 6 99 4.04 Familia .......................2⁄3 2 0 0 0 2 15 3.89
Steele, L, 2-2...............4 5 2 2 3 5 82 3.22
Petit ...........................1 1 1 1 0 0 15 3.28 Loup ..........................1⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 4 1.17 lique strain) and Yu Darvish (back
Rucker ........................2 4 6 6 2 4 53 9.26
Winkler .......................1⁄3 2 4 3 3 0 28 5.22 Puk ............................1 0 0 0 0 2 18 0.00 May ............................1 3 3 3 1 0 20 4.17 tightness) are on the 10-day injured
Jewell .........................2⁄3 1 0 0 0 1 13 7.88 Guerra ........................1 1 1 1 0 1 19 3.83 Lugo ...........................1 0 0 0 0 0 10 3.30
Meisinger ....................1 2 2 2 0 0 28 14.73 Chicago IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA San Francisco IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA list.
Cincinnati IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Keuchel, W, 8-6............5 5 2 2 2 2 78 4.48 Gausman, W, 12-5........5 5 3 3 2 7 94 2.40 San Diego manager Jayce Tin-
Miley, W, 10-4 ..............7 4 0 0 1 7 97 2.84 Kopech, H, 13..............2 0 0 0 1 3 30 2.42 Jackson, H, 3...............1⁄3 2 0 0 0 0 8 3.68
gler said Arrieta was put on the
ODDS Hembree.....................2⁄3 5 5 5 0 2
Hoffman....................11⁄3 1 0 0 0 0
30 6.38
23 4.31
Kimbrel, H, 2 ...............1
Hendriks, S, 27-33........1
1
0
0
0
0 0 3
0 0 3
18 4.70
18 3.35
Alvarez, H, 4 ................2⁄3
Watson, H, 2................1
0
0
0
0
0 0 1
0 0 1
6
14
2.33
0.00 team’s taxi squad after joining the
Inherited runners-scored—Winkler 3-3, Jewell 2-1, Hoffman 2-2. HBP_Keuchel (Harrison), Kimbrel (Olson), Guerra (Goodwin). WP—Puk. Rogers ........................1 3 2 2 0 2 17 2.05
Major League Baseball HBP_Miley (Chirinos). PB_Chirinos (2). T—3:37. Tickets sold—15,404 PB_Zavala (7). McGee, S, 26-29 ..........1 0 0 0 0 1 15 2.66 team in Denver.
U— Ron Kulpa, Nic Lentz, Nick Mahrley, Bruce Dreckman. T—3:16. Tickets Inherited runners-scored—Castro 2-0, Loup 2-0, Alvarez 2-0. HBP_Gausman (Alonso).
NATIONAL LEAGUE (42,319).
sold—19,410 (40,615). U— Dan Iassogna, Jeremie Rehak, Scott Barry, John Libka. T—3:23. Tickets sold—23,511 (41,915).
Favorite Underdog
at DODGERS -297 Pittsburgh +243
Honus Wagner card sells
Atlanta -125 at Miami +110 ROCKIES 6 TWINS 5 for $6.6 million
at Cincinnati -154 Chicago +139
ROYALS 7
PADRES 5 INDIANS 4 A Honus Wagner baseball card
Milwaukee -145 at St. Louis +128 ASTROS 6 reportedly sold for $6.606 million,
at Colorado -130 San Diego +110
Philadelphia -120 at Arizona -100 C.J. Cron hit the first pitch he saw from Jorge Polanco doubled with two outs in making it the most expensive trad-
at San Francisco -147 New York +133 Salvador Perez drove in the go-ahead ing card ever.
Daniel Hudson for a walk-off solo the bottom of the 10th inning to score
AMERICAN LEAGUE runs with a two-out single in the eighth The card, known as a T206
homer. Connor Joe homered on his Max Kepler and give Minnesota a
Favorite Underdog inning, helping struggling Kansas City Honus Wagner, printed between
at Detroit -122 ANGELS +105 29th birthday, and Charlie Blackmon second straight walk-off win. The Twins
to a back-and-forth victory over AL 1909 and 1911, broke the $5.2 million
Boston -145 at New York +125 also went deep for Colorado. have won eight of 11.
Boston -130 at New York +110 West-leading Houston. paid for a 1952 Topps Mickey Man-
Cleveland AB R H BI Avg. Minnesota AB R H BI Avg.
at Tampa Bay -192 Baltimore +167 San Diego AB R H BI Avg. Colorado AB R H BI Avg. Straw cf 5 0 1 0 .309 Kepler rf 3 2 1 2 .211 tle card sold in January and a 2003-
Tatis Jr. rf 4 1 1 0 .299 Joe lf 4 2 2 1 .291 Houston AB R H BI Avg. Kansas AB R H BI Avg.
Seattle -154 at Texas +138
Frazier 2b 4 0 1 0 .268 Rodgers 2b 4 1 1 0 .284
Rosario ss 5 1 2 0 .278 Rooker lf 3 0 1 0 .202
Ramirez 3b 5 0 1 1 .253 Refsnyder lf 2 0 0 0 .308 Altuve 2b 5 1 3 0 .274 City 04 Upper Deck Exquisite Collec-
Houston -185 at Kansas City +162 Brantley lf 4 0 1 1 .332 Mrrifield 2b 5 1 3 1
Mchado 3b 4 0 2 1 .282 Story ss 4 1 1 2 .258 Reyes dh 4 1 0 0 .251 Plnco 2b-ss 6 1 2 1 .268
Correa ss 4 1 2 1 .270 Lopez ss 32 1 0
.276
.270
tion LeBron James autographed
at Minnesota -147 Cleveland +133 Crnnwrth ss 3 2 2 0 .278 Blackmon rf 4 1 1 2 .270 Zimmer rf 4 1 2 2 .251 Dnldson dh 5 0 3 1 .252
Oakland -120 at Chicago +105 Nola c 4 1 1 0 .290 Cron 1b 3 1 2 1 .263 Mercado lf 4 0 0 0 .217 Arraez 3b 5 0 2 0 .317 Alvarez dh 3 0 1 1 .289 Perez c 41 1 2 .277 jersey rookie card sold in April.
Hosmer 1b 4 0 0 0 .277 McMhn 3b 3 0 1 0 .265 Miller 1b 3 1 0 0 .150 Sano 1b 3 0 1 0 .215 Jones dh 1 1 1 0 .218 C.Sntna 1b 4 0 2 1 .224
INTERLEAGUE Myers lf 4 0 2 0 .258 Diaz c 3 0 1 0 .225 Gurriel 1b 4 0 0 0 .315 Bnintendi lf 4 1 1 0 .249
Favorite Underdog Grisham cf 4 1 1 3 .258 Daza cf 3 0 0 0 .283
Gimenez 2b 3 0 1 0 .182 Cave cf
Hedges c 4 0 1 1 .179 Jeffers c
4 1 1 0 .179
4 1 1 1 .215 Diaz 3b 4 1 2 2 .305 O’Hearn dh 3 0 2 2 .240 Etc.
Weathers p 1 0 0 0 .167 Senzatela p 2 0 0 0 .036 McCrmck rf 4 0 1 0 .254 M.Taylor cf 3 0 0 0 .244
Toronto -179 at Washington +159
Pham 1 0 0 0 .243 Hilliard 1 0 0 0 .206
Totals 37 4 8 4 Smmons ss 3 0 0 0 .215
Castro c 4 1 1 1 .197 Dozier rf 42 1 1 .205 The Tampa Bay Rays signed
Garver 1 0 1 0 .237
Caratini 1 0 0 0 .227 Totals 31 6 9 6 Gordon 2b 1 0 1 0 .258 Meyers cf 3 1 0 0 .238 Rivera 3b 40 1 0 .256 36-year-old reliever David Rob-
Kim 1 0 0 0 .206 Totals 40 5 14 5 Totals 36 6 12 6 Totals 34 7 12 7
Totals 35 5 10 4 Houston 100 021 011 —6 12 0
ertson to a major league contract
Cleveland 020 011 000 0 —4 8 1
San Diego 010 001 003 —5 10 0 Minnesota 101 101 000 1 —5 14 4 Kansas City 021 001 12x —7 12 0 and will have him report to triple-A
Colorado 104 000 001 —6 9 0 Walks—Cleveland 3: Reyes 1, Zimmer 1, Gimenez 1. Minnesota 6: Kepler 3, Sano 2, Cave Walks— Kansas City 3: Lopez 1, Perez 1, C.Santana 1. Durham. Robertson pitched for
LEADERS Walks—San Diego 1: Cronenworth 1. Colorado 1: Cron 1.
Strikeouts—San Diego 3: Hosmer 2, Grisham 1. Colorado 5: Story 1, Cron
1.
Strikeouts—Cleveland 8: Straw 1, Ramirez 2, Reyes 1, Zimmer 1, Mercado 2, Miller 1.
Strikeouts—Houston 2: Correa 1, Castro 1. Kansas City 7: Perez 1,
C.Santana 1, M.Taylor 2, Dozier 1, Rivera 2. the silver medal-winning USA
Minnesota 8: Rooker 1, Polanco 1, Donaldson 2, Sano 1, Cave 3.
Through Sunday 1, McMahon 1, Senzatela 1, Hilliard 1. E—Gimenez (7), Polanco (13), Jax (2), Cave (2), Simmons (10). LOB—Cleveland 8,
LOB—Houston 4, Kansas City 9. 2B—Altuve (16), Jones (6), team in the Tokyo Olympics. ...
LOB—San Diego 4, Colorado 1. 2B—Cronenworth (27), Tatis Jr. (22), Story O’Hearn (3), C.Santana (12). HR—Diaz (7), off Hernandez; Correa
NATIONAL LEAGUE >>> (29). HR—Grisham (13), off Bard; Joe (7), off Weathers; Blackmon (8), off
Minnesota 15. 2B—Rosario (20), Hedges (3), Cave (6), Garver (12), Polanco (24).
(19), off Hernandez; Castro (4), off Barlow; Dozier (9), off Odorizzi. Cincinnati Reds outfielder Jesse
Player G AB R H Avg. HR—Zimmer (5), off Jax; Kepler (16), off Quantrill; Jeffers (11), off Garza. RBIs—Zimmer 2
T. Turner, Dodgers ............105 422 76 134 .318
Weathers; Cron (20), off Hudson. RBIs—Machado (79), Grisham 3 (50), Joe (22), Ramirez (73), Hedges (22), Kepler 2 (45), Donaldson (49), Jeffers (29), Polanco (64). RBIs—Alvarez (77), Diaz 2 (34), Brantley (40), Correa (63), Castro Winker was placed on the 10-day IL
(25), Story 2 (56), Blackmon 2 (54), Cron (64). SB—Zimmer (9). (11), O’Hearn 2 (28), Merrifield (57), Dozier (33), C.Santana (57),
Castellanos, CIN ...............97 371 66 117 .315 Runners left in scoring position—San Diego 0 (Nola); Colorado 0 Runners left in scoring position—Cleveland 4 (Hedges 2, Reyes, Miller, Zimmer); Perez 2 (77). SB—Merrifield (34), Lopez 3 (13). S—Lopez, M.Taylor. with an intercostal strain. ... Yan-
Reynolds, PIT ..................115 418 68 129 .309 Minnesota 6 (Sano, Polanco, Cave, Refsnyder, Jeffers 2). RISP_Cleveland 3 for 12; Minnesota 2
Winker, CIN ....................109 420 77 129 .307 (Daza). RISP_San Diego 2 for 8; Colorado 2 for 4. for 11. Runners left in scoring position—Houston 1 (Brantley, Diaz); kees manager Aaron Boone isn’t
Runners moved up—Nola, Myers. GIDP—Grisham, Nola, Myers, Kansas City 3 (Lopez, Dozier, M.Taylor). RISP_Houston 3 for 9;
Segura, PHI......................90 348 50 106 .305
McMahon, Daza.
Runners moved up—Arraez. GIDP—Reyes, Polanco, Refsnyder, Sano.
DP—Cleveland 3 (Ramirez, Miller; Rosario, Gimenez, Miller; Ramirez, Hedges, Ramirez); Kansas City 4 for 12. certain that Clint Frazier will be
Soto, WAS......................107 358 75 108 .302
Crawford, SF.....................97 336 58 100 .298 DP—San Diego 3 (Frazier, Cronenworth, Hosmer; Frazier, Cronenworth, Minnesota 2 (Arraez, Polanco, Sano; Polanco, Sano).
Cleveland IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Runners moved up—Benintendi, M.Taylor. GIDP—Alvarez. able to play baseball again after the
Hosmer; Machado, Cronenworth, Hosmer); Colorado 3 (Story, Rodgers, Cron; DP—Kansas City 1 (Lopez, C.Santana).
Harper, PHI ......................97 337 68 100 .297
Rodgers, Story, Cron; Rodgers, Story, Cron). Quantrill ......................5 8 3 3 1 4 92 3.24 Houston IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA outfielder was pulled from a minor
Riley, ATL........................117 420 65 123 .293 Garza, BS, 0-1 ...........11⁄3 2 1 1 1 3 22 4.86
San Diego IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Parker.........................2⁄3 0 0 0 1 1 15 2.42
Odorizzi.....................51⁄3 8 4 4 2 2
Maton ........................2⁄3 0 0 0 0 1
89 4.74
10 4.26
league rehab assignment amid
Weathers .....................4 8 5 5 0 3 62 5.06
AMERICAN LEAGUE >>> Adams ........................1 0 0 0 0 1 13 2.81 Karinchak ....................1 1 0 0 0 0 19 3.83 Stanek ........................1 1 1 1 1 2 29 3.73 continuing issues with his vision. ...
Player G AB R H Avg. Wittgren, L, 2-6 ..........12⁄3 3 1 0 3 0 27 4.40 Garcia, L, 0-1...............1 3 2 2 0 2 15 4.50
Brantley, HOU ...................94 370 61 123 .332
Crismatt ......................2 0 0 0 1 1
Diaz............................1 0 0 0 0 0
26 3.14
4 2.61 Minnesota IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Kansas City IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA The Houston Astros have agreed
Gurriel, HOU ...................101 368 55 117 .318 Hudson, L, 0-1.............1⁄3 1 1 1 0 0 3 7.71 Jax .............................6 7 4 2 2 3 87 5.11 Hernandez ...................6 8 4 4 0 1 72 4.33 to a confidential settlement with
Mullins, BAL ...................114 438 67 139 .317 Colorado IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Gant ...........................1 0 0 0 0 2 17 4.15 Brentz.......................11⁄3 2 1 1 0 1 18 3.27
Guerrero, TOR .................116 427 90 134 .314 Senzatela ....................7 6 2 2 1 2 83 4.58 Minaya........................1 0 0 0 1 1 19 3.32 Barlow, W, 5-3 ...........12⁄3 2 1 1 0 0 14 2.68 the family of a 2-year-old girl struck
Hernandez, TOR ................98 380 58 119 .313 Estevez, H, 13 ..............1 1 0 0 0 0 10 4.57 Colome .......................1 1 0 0 0 0 10 3.94 Inherited runners-scored—Brentz 1-0, Barlow 1-1. by a foul ball during a 2019 Astros
Bogaerts Bos..................111 411 73 127 .309 Bard, W, 6-5 ................1 3 3 3 0 1 23 4.53 Thielbar, W, 5-0 ............1 0 0 0 0 2 19 3.74 HBP_Hernandez (Meyers), Stanek (O’Hearn).
Fletcher, Angels...............114 457 64 138 .302 WP—Senzatela.
Inherited runners-scored—Parker 1-0. IBB_off Wittgren (Sano), off Wittgren (Kepler).
U— Paul Clemons, Gerry Davis, Rob Drake, Will Little. T—3:06. game at Minute Maid Park, the
HBP_Quantrill 2 (Rooker,Jeffers), Jax (Miller). WP—Jax, Minaya.
Anderson, CHW...............100 427 73 128 .300 U— Adam Hamari, Marvin Hudson, Dave Rackley, Larry Vanover. T—2:32.
U— John Tumpane, Jim Wolf, Sam Holbrook, Mike Muchlinski. T—3:43. Tickets
Tickets sold—10,228 (37,903). family’s attorney said.
Martinez, BOS.................110 426 76 125 .293 Tickets sold—24,565 (50,445). sold—15,622 (38,544).
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RAMS REPORT

Morris aims to push right buttons on defense

New coordinator
learning on job and
hoping his messaging
is getting through.
By Thuc Nhi Nguyen
Preseason games aren’t
just for players hoping to
prove themselves or rookies
trying to learn the ropes.
Coaches need them too.
In his first preseason
game as the Rams defensive
coordinator, Raheem
Morris was trying to relay
play calls to rookie lineback-
er Ernest Jones but his mes-
sages weren’t reaching the
field. Meanwhile, the Char-
gers were marching down
the field.
Morris was pressing the
wrong button on his head-
set. He smiled as he re-
counted the stressful start
to his Rams tenure Monday.
The Rams ironed out the
kinks in their first preseason
game Saturday and are us-
ing the lessons learned from
their 13-6 loss to the Char-
gers to prepare them for up-
coming joint practices with
the Raiders and their regu-
lar-season opener against
the Bears on Sept. 12.
“These are the games
where you establish your
philosophy,” Morris said.
“Some people like to come
out there and tell you what
your philosophies are, it’s all
about what that tape is. So
let’s go out there, it doesn’t
matter who the bodies are, it
doesn’t matter who the peo-
ple are, you go out there and
establish your philosophy in
these types of games.”
The Rams plan to rely
primarily on young players
during preseason games
and use joint practices like
the two scheduled this week
against the Raiders to pre-
pare starters.
In the spotlight of an NFL
game for the first time, Jones
showed his meddle by han-
dling the microphone snafu
with “absolute poise,” Mor-
ris said, giving coaches a
glimpse at a promising ca-
reer for the third-round pick
from South Carolina.
“He was one of the guys
RAMS first-year defensive coordinator Raheem Morris, acclimating to his new
role, is also trying to establish his philosophy during these preseason games.
that you guys are looking
like, in the future, he may be
a green dot candidate,” Mor-
ris said of players desig-
nated to hear helmet mes-
sages from coaches. “So to
give him those reps in the
Chargers see signs defense falling in place
By Jeff Miller
The play was a solid one,
a cornerback in tight cov-
erage edging in front of a
wide receiver to secure a
clutch interception.
What the play repre-
sented, however, was the
reason Chargers coach
Brandon Staley liked it so
much.
Earlier in training camp,
Michael Davis was beaten by
Mike Williams with a back-
shoulder throw on the same
route.
In practice Monday,
Davis read the situation cor-
rectly and this time picked
off Justin Herbert’s pass in-
tended for Jason Moore.
The play was a sign of
progress — of a lesson
learned.
“We wanted to make sure
preseason is really invalu-
able.”
The defense recovered on
the first drive to hold the
Chargers to a field goal after
they had reached the Rams’
two-yard line. When the
an offense trying to score in
the closing seconds. It was
the sort of play that could
win a game for the Chargers
in just a few more weeks.
It also was the latest ex-
ample of a defense that con-
tinues to show signs of
promise. Staley is installing
a more aggressive, more ver-
satile system meant to ex-
ploit individual skills.
“It’s about making
plays,” veteran edge rusher
Kyler Fackrell said. “It’s not
so much a strict structure
with coverage lanes or any-
thing like that …[Staley]
wants guys to take their
shots. That’s the way you
like to play.”
The Chargers’ new ap-
proach was on display dur-
ing the first defensive series
in their preseason opener
Saturday. After permitting
the Rams to cross midfield,
Mark J. Terrill Associated Press
Rams got the ball, they were
hoping to establish the run
and start evaluating their
stable of young running
backs who could back up
Darrell Henderson Jr.
A game clock that
“I feel like I’m not think-
ing as much,” White said of
his progress. “When you
kind of cut that off and don’t
do as much thinking and
just play football, I feel like
I’m better off. The past few
years I was overthinking
some things and it was mak-
ing me play a little slower.
Now I just try to go out there,
have a relaxed mind and just
play football.”
With a new coaching staff
and new systems on both
sides of the ball, the Char-
gers have been experiencing
an education, one that be-
gan during the offseason
program.
On Monday, they were
dressed in only shorts and
helmets but still went
through what Staley de-
scribed as “a competitive
script — about as competi-
tive as we’ve had.”
showed 5:07 left in the first
quarter made that difficult.
“You feel that as an of-
fense,” offensive coordinator
Kevin O’Connell said of the
Chargers’ long opening
drive, “especially when you
got a chart full of, ‘Hey, we
gotta get this guy this many
snaps and that guy this
many touches.’ ”
The Rams rushed for 73
yards in 24 carries, led by
quarterback Bryce Perkins’
23 yards. Xavier Jones led
the running backs with 21
yards in seven carries. Run-
ning backs Raymond Calais
and Jake Funk had 14 and 12
yards rushing, respectively.
The effort left much to be de-
sired for Sean McVay, who
called the run game
“sloppy.”
“It takes all 11 in the run
game,” he said. “There were
instances where individual
guys did a nice job, but there
might be a certain block or a
certain angle or the way
we’re fitting a block based on
where the back’s landmark
is wasn’t in unison.”
Floyd hurt
Outside linebacker
Leonard Floyd limped off
the field with an ankle injury
and didn’t finish practice.
then there were some hard
problems that both sides
had to solve, too, that we’re
going to be able to learn a lot
from.”
The Chargers are down
to their final traditional
training camp practice, set
to begin at 2 p.m. Tuesday.
The players don’t prac-
tice Wednesday before re-
turning for joint sessions
Thursday and Friday with
San Francisco. The Char-
gers and 49ers will play a pre-
season game starting at 4:30
p.m. Sunday at SoFi Sta-
dium.
Fackrell, entering his
sixth year, signed with the
Chargers as a free agent af-
ter spending time with
Green Bay and the New York
Giants. He said he has been
impressed by the methods of
Staley, a rookie head coach.
“What I love probably the
McVay said it “seems like it’s
good,” but the fifth-year pro
will get more tests to make
sure. Justin Lawler stepped
in for Floyd during the re-
maining team periods to
build off a stand-out pre-
season performance that in-
cluded five tackles and two
quarterback hits. It was his
first live game action since
2019, when he broke his foot
during training camp.
Morris could sense that
Lawler was due for a break-
out performance as soon as
the coach walked by during
warmups.
“I went to walk by Lawler
and I said, ‘You know what,
I’m going to leave him
alone,’ ” Morris said. “I just
had a feeling. I walked into
the coaches’ locker room
and I said, ‘Law Dog is going
to be the player of the
game.’ ”
Etc.
Receiver Trishton Jack-
son did not practice Monday
because of a knee injury. …
Defensive lineman Eric
Banks was held out because
of soreness that flared up af-
ter the walk-through and re-
ceiver Tutu Atwell was held
out as a precaution for back
pain.
practice because of a lower-
back issue that Staley de-
scribed as not concerning.
He said Slater should be
able to return for the joint
practices with the 49ers.
8 Wide receiver Williams
(hip flexor) won’t practice
this week and running back
Justin Jackson (groin) likely
won’t, either.
8 Staley said he is unsure
whether cornerback Ryan
Smith (core muscle) will be
ready for the start of the
regular season.
Smith is expected to be a
gunner in kick coverage.
8 With Cole Mazza out
because of a shoulder injury,
the Chargers signed veteran
long snapper Matt Overton.
Ryan Langan also is in camp
competing for the job.
8 Defensive lineman
Cortez Broughton, offensive
tackle Trey Pipkins and

Players that we worked really hard

on that back-shoulder
[throw],” Staley said. “That
the defense tightened and
pushed the drive backward.
On three successive
Twice Staley became as
animated on the field as he
has been all training camp
most about him is you can
tell by the way he talks, by
the way he coaches that he
edge rusher Chris Rumph II
also didn’t practice.
8 The Chargers released

scatter was a good example of him

[using] all the drill work that
[the coaches] are putting in
front of him each and every
plays, veteran lineman
Christian Covington had a
tackle for loss, linebacker
Drue Tranquill pressured
while trying to get players
aligned correctly. After-
ward, he said he was more
“energized” and excited
loves football,” Fackrell said.
“He’s never dragging when
he comes into the building.
He’s all about it all the time.”
punter Lachlan Edwards,
kicker Alex Kessman and
wide
Bandy.
receiver Michael

to other day. That’s exciting.”

Davis’ interception Mon-
day was magnified in that it
Devlin Hodges into an in-
completion with a perfectly
timed blitz and Kyzir White
than anything.
“There were a lot of good
things that were happening
Etc.
8 Rookie left tackle
Edwards was signed to
compete with Ty Long, who
has been the Chargers’ punt-

programs ended a desperate drive by had a tackle for loss. out there,” Staley said. “And Rashawn Slater did not er the past two seasons.

Star kicker draws

By Eric Sondheimer

When Manuel Douglas

resigned as football coach at
St. Bernard last spring just
before the team’s final game,
the phones started ringing
among those with connec-
tions to St. Bernard players.
The writing was on the wall
that players would scatter.
The main beneficiaries of
the transfers appear to be
Bishop Alemany, Leuzinger
and Inglewood, among oth-
ers.
Here’s a look where many
of St. Bernard’s top players
ended up. Most entered this
week still seeking Southern
Section eligibility approval
to play this week, according
to the section’s website.
Adding to potential prob-
lems is that St. Bernard is
hoping to play a three-game
league season, which will
prevent transfers from gain-
ing immediate eligibility
based on the school drop-
ping its program.
Bishop Alemany
WR Larry Turner, Sr.;
WR Jhacob Blenman, Jr.;
DB Khristian Dunbar-
Hawkins, So.; OL Trey
Brooks, Sr.
Long Beach Poly
QB Darius Curry, So.; LB
Dylan Williams, So.
Sierra Canyon
RB Terrell Cooks, So.; LB
Cameron Brandt, Jr.
Leuzinger
DB Daijon Calimon, So.;
OL Haneef Muhammad, Jr.;
DE Blake Wells, Jr.; OL
Leonard Jefferson, Sr.
Inglewood
WR Terrell Bradshaw,
So.; DB Justin Johnson, Jr.;
DL Kristopher Beavers, So.
Gardena Serra
QB Jason Mitchell, So.;
LB Cincere Rhaney, So.
St. John Bosco
WR Zacharyus Williams,
So.
St. Pius X-St. Matthias
RB Dejour Menefee, So.;
OL Esekielu Aevanu, So.
inspiration as his
dad fights cancer
By Eric Sondheimer
Ninth and final in a se-
ries of stories profiling top
high school players in the
Southland by position.
Chase Meyer of Santa
Ana Mater Dei is an Eagle
Scout. He can build a fire, fix
a toilet, put up a tent, cook,
even mount a 60-inch flat-
screen TV and put the wires
in the right places. He has a
4.3 grade-point average and
plans to study mechanical
engineering in college.
He has the “whole pack-
age,” as any college recruiter
would say. His specialty on
the football field is kicking.
His father, brother and sis-
ter all played soccer. “It was
in my blood to kick balls,” he
said.
At 10, he joined a youth
football team. At first, he
played defensive end and
linebacker, but no one
wanted to be the kicker. He
tried out and made a 30-yard
field goal. “You know what,
this might be the position I
can play,” he told himself.
A star was born. He has
plunged full steam ahead by
learning fundamentals from
professionals and going on
the camp circuit. Last spring
for the Monarchs, he sent 23
of his 36 kickoffs into the end
zone for touchbacks. He was
27 for 27 on conversion kicks
and four for five on field-goal
tries. He also delivered a
touchdown-saving tackle on
a kickoff against Bellflower
St. John Bosco.
He has flourished despite
facing a test no teenager
should have to undergo —
dealing with his father’s ups
and downs with cancer. Mey-
er played for West Hills
Chaminade as a freshman
and sophomore, then moved
to Costa Mesa with his fam-
ily so his father, Peter, could
be closer to medical care.
His new coaches, class-
mates and friends have
helped him every step of the
way, telling him they are al-
ways available to talk, to
support, to lean on when
there’s a bad day.
But the most important
person inspiring and moti-
vating Meyer is his father.
“It’s been tough,” Meyer
said. “He’s taught me even
though it’s hard, even
though you don’t want to get
up, you have to get up and
keep pushing and keep go-
ing. He is the true definition
of perseverance. He shows
me every day you can’t give
up.”
Neither his father nor his
mother was able to attend
any of his five games last
spring, but they watched at
home, either on television or
on a computer. The word
was dad was jumping out of
bed after Chase made a big
kick. And there’s encourag-
ing news after many sur-
geries, radiation treatments
and chemotherapy. Peter
continues to progress and is
hopeful of attending games
this fall, possibly joining the
team on a trip to Texas on
Aug. 27 for a game against
Duncanville.
“It’s pushed me ahead,”
Meyer said. “It’s given me
strength that others don’t
Eric Sondheimer Los Angeles Times
CHASE MEYER says his family lineage made it natural for him to kick balls.
KICKERS/PUNTERS TO WATCH
Player School Ht. Wt. Yr. Eric Sondheimer’s comment
Kian Afrookhteh Dana Hills 5-6 170 Sr. Made six of eight field-goal tries in spring.
Chase Barry JSerra 6-5 215 Sr. Averaged 38.7 on punts in the spring.
Ryan Ewing Mission Viejo 6-2 175 Sr. Had 45-yard field goal during spring season.
Aidan Flintoft Oaks Christian 6-1 188 Jr. Earned top punter ranking at summer camps.
Sean Harry San Clemente 6-3 175 Sr. Made game-winning kick vs. Mission Viejo.
Michael Luckhurst Bishop Diego 6-3 180 Sr. From 55 yards and in, he’s good.
Chase Meyer Mater Dei 5-11 185 Sr. Carries 4.3 GPA and makes clutch kicks.
Nicholas Pasquarella Alta Loma 6-1 185 Sr. Four for four on FGs with a long of 49.
Brady Weinberg Apple Valley 5-8 140 Sr. Was 13 for 13 on PATs in spring.
Tate Zimmerman Irvine 6-1 200 Sr. Athlete who averaged 41.3 yards on punts.
have.” badges beyond the 21 re- “I’m a creature of habit,”
He said his mother, quired to become an Eagle he said. “I do like to eat the
Annamarie, also has served Scout. same thing every day.”
as inspiration by the way she He came to Mater Dei not So it’s protein pancakes
has taken care of his father. knowing what to expect but for breakfast and a chicken
“She’s literally an angel,” has embraced coach Bruce bowl for lunch. And if the
he said. “She’s always Rollinson’s focus on devel- team needs him, he’ll be
showed me what it means to oping “pride, poise and ready for any pressure-filled
have strength.” courage.” Unlike many kick- kick.
There are few things Mey- ers who like to be in their “At the end of the day, if I
er doesn’t do well. When he own little world, Meyer wel- become complacent or satis-
was in middle school at comes being part of the fied with how I am, then I’m
Westlake Village Oaks Chris- team, joining teammates never going to be able to
tian, he built a campus when lifting weights, attend- grow to compete at next lev-
prayer garden as part of his ing competitions and listen- el,” he said.
project to become an Eagle ing to all talks. He has his Wednesday: The Times’
Scout. He also has two Eagle own little routine, though, top 25 preseason football
Palms, which are merit before games. rankings.
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Young tackles get an edge?
Freshmen Ford and
Monheim bookend
USC’s offensive line
in perhaps a glimpse
of starting lineup.
By Ryan Kartje
The two redshirt fresh-
men had already estab-
lished themselves as the
leading contenders in USC’s
left tackle competition, tak-
ing turns to see who might
fill the glaring hole on the
Trojans’ offensive line.
But on Monday, for the
first time in fall camp, both
Courtland Ford and Jonah
Monheim took their places
on USC’s first-team offense.
Ford was on the left. Mon-
heim was on the right. And
senior Jalen McKenzie, after
spending the first eight
practices at right tackle, was
left on the sideline.
USC has made a point of
rotating tackles throughout
camp, all the while reiterat-
ing its plans to find the best
five linemen and figure out
their positions later. But the
deadline to define that line is
fast approaching, and Mon-
day’s grouping offered a first
glimpse into a line book-
ended by freshmen, one that
could — and perhaps,
should — become a reality
soon enough.
USC coach Clay Helton
said he hoped to have an ini-
tial two-deep up-front fig-
ured out after the team’s sec-
ond scrimmage Saturday.
The interior already appears
to be decided, with Andrew
Vorhees and Liam Jimmons
at guard and Brett Neilon at
center. The intrigue, in-
stead, remains at tackle,
where McKenzie has started
each of the last two seasons
on the right side.
Helton said last week
that McKenzie made major
strides in his fundamentals
under offensive line coach
Clay McGuire, narrowing his
base and had been “ultra-
competitive.” But his praise
for Monheim has been noth-
ing short of effusive, while
Ford was the first to get a
crack at the left tackle spot
in the spring.
Soon enough, USC’s staff
will have to make a decision.
That could come, at least
unofficially, before USC’s
opener against San Jose
State to ensure the offensive
line has time to conjure up
some chemistry.
THE DAY IN SPORTS
U.S. soccer star Lloyd to retire
staff and wire reports
Carli Lloyd, arguably the
best big-game player in U.S.
soccer history, announced
her retirement from interna-
tional competition Monday
following a 17-year career in
which she was twice named
FIFA world player of the
year.
Lloyd, 39, also won two
Olympic gold medals — de-
livering the winning goal in
both finals — and two World
Cup titles. During this sum-
mer’s Tokyo Olympics,
Lloyd scored twice in the
third-place game to give the
U.S. a bronze medal.
Lloyd will play the re-
mainder of the NWSL sea-
son with NJ/NY Gotham FC
as well as in the anticipated
four-game fall series for the
national team before step-
ping aside completely. De-
tails for the fall series
matches have not been an-
nounced by U.S. Soccer.
She’ll go into those final four
international games with 312
caps, second all time behind
Kristine Lilly’s 354.
— Kevin Baxter
Barcelona’s president
presented a grim picture of
the club’s financial situa-
tion, saying its debt had ris-
en to 1.35 billion euros ($1.6
billion). Joan Laporta
blamed the previous admin-
istration of Josep Bartomeu
for the club’s “dramatic” sit-
uation that ultimately led to
Lionel Messi’s departure. ...
Nine of the teams who were
part of the ill-fated launch of
a breakaway Super League
have been welcomed back
into the decision-making or-
ganization overseeing the
European club game.
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Alabama No. 1
in preseason poll
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they’re going to go into mock 8 Running back Keaon- Team Pts. BASEBALL
week or game week as far as tay Ingram (ankle) is ex- 1. Alabama (47) 1,548 10 a.m. Boston at New York Yankees, Game 1 TV: MLB
which side they’re going to pected back later this week
2. Oklahoma (6) 1,462 4 p.m. Angels at Detroit TV: BSW R: 830
play. So as we get closer to after sitting out the last
3. Clemson (6) 1,447 4 p.m. Boston at New York Yankees, Game 2 TV: MLB
that date, we really need to three practices. Fellow
settle in and start building transfer back Darwin Bar- 4. Ohio State (1) 1,393 7 p.m. Pittsburgh at Dodgers TV: SNLA
some chemistry and conti- low (hamstring) is expected 5. Georgia (3) 1,364 R: 570, 1020
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play.” Epps seemed set for a role in 8. Cincinnati 1,014 6 p.m. NBA Summer League, championship, TV: ESPN
Helton said USC should USC’s offense, but turf toe 9. Notre Dame 1,009 Sacramento vs. Boston
have “a semblance of who is will sidelined him for at least 10. North Carolina 999 7 p.m. WNBA, Washington at Las Vegas TV: CBSSN
going to be the two-deep for the next three to four weeks, 11. Oregon 968 7:30 p.m. WNBA, Atlanta at Sparks TV: NBA
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13. Florida 728
tackles will still be compet- end Korey Foreman played 4 p.m. Second semifinal, Texas vs. Virginia TV: ESPN2
14. Miami 663
ing through September re- through a strained groin SOCCER
gardless. during Saturday’s scrim- 15. USC 660
Noon. UEFA Champions League, Monaco vs. Shakhtar TV: TUDN
Fellow redshirt freshman mage, making his strong 16. Louisiana State 631
vs. Donetsk
Casey Collier has not been performance all the more 17. Indiana 549
3 p.m. Copa Sudamericana, Bragantino vs. Rosario TV: beIN1, beINes
among them for the past impressive. But Foreman 18. Iowa 513
Central
week as he returned home to sat out after trying to give it 19. Penn State 456
3 p.m. Mexico, Toluca vs. Mazatlan TV: TUDN
Texas for “personal rea- a go. His injury isn’t ex- 20. Washington 449
sons,” Helton said on Mon- pected to hold him out long. 5 p.m. Mexico, Tigres UANL vs. Queretaro TV: TUDN
21. Texas 350
day. But Collier is expected 8 Cornerback Isaac Tay- 5 p.m. CONCACAF League, Metropolitan vs. Santa Lucia TV: FS2
22. Coastal Carolina 232
to return on Tuesday. lor-Stuart sat out with a 5:30 p.m. Copa Libertadores, Palmeiras vs. Sao Paulo FC TV: beIN1, beINes
23. Louisiana-Lafayette 208
“He’ll jump right back knee bruise to the same knee 7 p.m. Mexico, Tijuana vs. Puebla TV: FS1, FOXD
24. Utah 176
in,” Helton said. “Obviously he’d injured last season but 7 p.m. CONCACAF League, FAS vs. Forge FC TV: FS2
a young player that’s devel- is expected back soon. 25. Arizona State 125
7 p.m. Mexico, Necaxa vs. Pumas UNAM TV: TUDN
oping. We’ve been fortunate 8 USC did suffer two sea- Others receiving votes: Oklahoma 7:30 p.m. MLS, Colorado at Galaxy TV: SpecSN
to be able to work, as you’ve son-ending injuries over the State 107, Mississippi 106, TCU 40, R: 1330
seen out there, from Jalen to last week, as cornerback Liberty 36, Auburn 32, NC State 14,
Michigan 12, Northwestern 8,
TENNIS
Jonah to Andrew Vorhees Adonis Otey had surgery on Nevada 7, Boise State 7, Ball State 8 a.m. ATP/WTA Western and Southern Open, early TV: Tennis
got some reps out there, a broken bone in his wrist 6, BYU 6, UCF 5, Houston 5, Boston rounds
Courtland Ford, to have him and safety Briton Allen suf- College 5, West Virginia 3, UCLA 2,
10 a.m. ATP/WTA Western and Southern Open, early TV: BSW
back, I tell you what, Mason fered a torn ligament in his Army 2, UAB 2.
rounds
Murphy has done a really knee.
Senior QB still on
track for opener
and not masks. Starting at
the Raiders’ Sept. 13 game
against the Baltimore [UCLA, from B10] UCLA and impressed Kelly
Ravens, fully vaccinated missed starts in his fresh- with the accuracy and veloc-
fans will not have to wear man and sophomore sea- ity on his passes as well as
masks — a first-in-the-NFL sons because of injuries and mature decision-making.
policy. ... The Atlanta Fal- had to sit out two games last “Sometimes when guys
cons became the first NFL year because of COVID-19 have really strong arms ... it
team to have all of its players contact tracing. He has yet doesn’t matter what the cov-
completely vaccinated to make it through a whole erage is, they think they can
against COVID-19. season without missing a get the ball in there,” Kelly
game. said. “I just think he’s really
The Cleveland Browns Although Thompson- smart and makes really good
placed tight end Stephen Robinson’s eight missed decisions in there.”
Carlson on injured reserve practices account for almost Griffin, Garbers, redshirt
after he suffered a season- half of UCLA’s total training freshman Parker McQuarrie
ending knee injury in Sat- camp days, Kelly said he and freshman Kajiya Holl-
urday night’s exhibition didn’t anticipate it would awayne will stake their
opener at Jacksonville. ... knock Thompson-Robinson claims to be UCLA’s
The New York Giants off course for the season quarterback of the future,
Kiichiro Sato Associated Press waived injured third-string opener against Hawaii on but for now, the spotlight be-
CARLI LLOYD celebrates after scoring against Aus- quarterback Clayton Thor- Aug. 28 at the Rose Bowl. longs solely to Thompson-
tralia during the bronze-medal game for the U.S. son and signed former Mich- The senior returned to Robinson. The senior has
igan State star Brian Lew- the field last Friday and fell yet to deliver on the lofty ex-
T E N N I S R E S U LT S erke. ... New York Jets defen- seamlessly back into his pectations that followed him
sive lineman Quinnen starting role. He stood at the from high school, where he
$3-MILLION WESTERN & SOUTHERN OPEN (11), Czech Republic, def. Madison Keys, U.S., 7-5, 6-4. Williams was activated from front of the quarterback line was dubbed a four-star
At Cincinnati Heather Watson, Britain, def. Aliaksandra Sasnovich,
Surface: Hardcourt outdoor Belarus, 6-2, 3-6, 6-1. Paula Badosa, Spain, def. Petra the physically unable to per- during stretches and took quarterback prospect de-
MEN’S SINGLES (round of 64) — Jannik Sinner (11), Martic, Croatia, 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (9). Elise Mertens (15), form list after offseason snaps with the No. 1 offen- spite starting only one year
Italy, def. Federico Delbonis, Argentina, 6-2, 7-5. Fabio Belgium, def. Nadia Podoroska, Argentina, 6-3, 6-4. Yu-
Fognini, Italy, def. Nikoloz Basilashvili, Georgia, 7-6 (3), lia Putintseva, Kazakhstan, def. Zhang Shuai, China, surgery on a broken foot . ... sive line. The tempo of prac- under center at prep power-
6-3. Dominik Koepfer, Germany, def. Jan-Lennard Struff, 6-2, 6-0. Shelby Rogers, U.S., def. Danielle Collins, U.S., Baltimore quarterback tice knocked him back house Las Vegas Bishop
Germany, 7-6 (2), 5-7, 6-3. Albert Ramos-Vinolas, 6-4, 2-1, ret.
Spain, def. Taylor Fritz, U.S., 4-6, 6-4, 6-4. Felix Auger- $115,000-CHICAGO 125 Trace McSorley is expected briefly on the first day, but Gorman.
Aliassime (12), Canada, def. Marton Fucsovics, Hunga- At Chicago to miss a few weeks because he quickly caught up. He Thompson-Robinson
ry, 7-6 (0), 6-3. Lloyd Harris, South Africa, def. Yoshihito Surface: Hardcourt outdoor
Nishioka, Japan, 6-3, 6-4. Diego Schwartzman (10), Ar- WOMEN’S SINGLES (round of 32) — Claire Liu, U.S., of back problems. The had no other choice with committed to UCLA under
gentina, def. Daniel Evans, Britain, 6-2, 4-6, 6-3. Alex def. Ysaline Bonaventure, Belgium, 6-3, 6-2. Anna Ravens announced they how the Bruins continued to the previous coaching staff
de Minaur (14), Australia, def. Filip Krajinovic, Serbia, Kalinskaya, Russia, def. Anhelina Kalinina (4), Ukraine,
0-6, 6-4, 6-4. Andy Murray, Britain, def. Richard Gas- 6-2, 6-4. Sara Errani, Italy, def. Harmony Tan, France, signed quarterback Kenji progress during his absence. but stuck with his commit-
quet, France, 6-4, 6-4. 6-4, 2-6, 6-3. Varvara Gracheva (8), Russia, def. Misaki Bahar. ... The Detroit Lions “It looked like they never ment when Kelly took over.
WOMEN’S SINGLES (round of 64) — Barbora Krej- Doi, Japan, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4.
cikova (9), Czech Republic, def. Daria Kasatkina, Rus- WOMEN’S DOUBLES (round of 16) — Dalma Galfi, were aware of the car acci- missed a beat,” Thompson- The quarterback and offen-
sia, 6-3, 6-2. Jil Teichmann, Switzerland, def. Sorana Hungary, and Kamilla Rakhimova, Russia, def. Abigail dent cornerback Alex Robinson said. “Young guys sive guru were supposed to
Cirstea, Romania, 6-2, 6-0. Jelena Ostapenko, Latvia, Forbes and Dalayna Hewitt, U.S., 6-1, 6-4.
def. Tamara Zidansek, Slovenia, 7-5, 6-1. Petra Kvitova Brown was involved in be- really coming along. Espe- lead the Bruins back to
fore his release. Michigan cially at receiver. Got a lot of prominence.
sixth national champi- of eight boys he mentored State police say the driver of guys stepping up so I was ex- In three years, they’ve
onship under Nick Saban, is and coached on the day that the car that caused the tremely proud of how they gone 10-21 in the Kelly era
No. 1 in the AP top-25 pre- jury selection in his long-de- crash was driving the wrong handled themselves while I and are 0-6 in nonconference
season college football poll layed trial was supposed to way shortly after 2 a.m. on was away.” games.
for the fourth time in the last begin. Christopher Prew, Sunday. Without Thompson- The mediocre record has
six seasons. Alabama re- 34, was sentenced to 13 to 15 Robinson, the focus shifted done nothing to put the Bru-
ceived 47 of 63 first-place years in prison after plead- Dick Schafrath, a star of- to a backup battle between ins on the national map as
votes from the panel of ing guilty to one count of fensive tackle for the Cleve- redshirt sophomore Chase they received only two votes
sportswriters and broad- child rape and 14 other land Browns who blocked Griffin and transfer Ethan in the preseason Associated
casters. Oklahoma is No. 2, charges, the Salem (Mass.) for Hall of Fame running Garbers. Press poll. One voter slotted
followed by No. 3 Clemson. News reported. backs Jim Brown, Leroy Griffin, who threw for 451 them at No. 24.
Ohio State is No. 4. Georgia Kelly and Bobby Mitchell yards, six touchdowns and But in Westwood, expec-
rounds out the top five. Nevada Gov. Steve Siso- before going into politics af- two interceptions in four tations are much higher.
lak said large indoor venues ter retiring, has died at 84. games last year, became a Thompson-Robinson is
The Nashville Predators will be allowed to opt out of fan favorite for his calm, pos- ready to meet the bar.
signed goaltender Juuse the state’s mask require- Tennis star Naomi itive demeanor and steady “I don’t want to give away
Saros to a four-year, $20-mil- ments if they verify their Osaka tweeted her decision play when he had to start in any secrets or anything,
lion contract. ... The Minne- guests are vaccinated. on Saturday to donate her Thompson-Robinson’s what we’ve got going on
sota Wild signed Kevin Fiala Hours after the announce- prize money from this week’s place. here, because we’ve got
to a $5.1-million, one-year ment, the Las Vegas Raiders U.S. Open tuneup tourna- Garbers is a local kid re- some special stuff coming,”
contract. ... A former private went public with a plan ment in Ohio for relief efforts turning home. The former Thompson-Robinson said.
hockey coach pleaded guilty made possible by the new di- in Haiti following a deadly Corona del Mar star trans- “Everyone will see what
to rape and the sexual abuse rective to require vaccines — earthquake. ferred from Washington to we’ve got on the 28th.”

D
MAX MUNCY reacts after hitting a solo home run in the eighth inning Monday to power the Dodgers to a 2-1win over Pittsburgh. B6
Angels’ rain makeup
game offensive washout
Cole and four Yankees
relievers hold team to
only three hits,
wasting solid starting
effort by Suarez.
N.Y. YANKEES 2
ANGELS 1
By Mike DiGiovanna
NEW YORK — The An-
gels didn’t arrive at their
Manhattan hotel until 5 a.m.
EDT Monday, their 10-game,
five-city trip getting off to a
bit of a rough start when
their flight from Long Beach
USC lines up
freshmen?
Ford and Monheim
are bookend tackles
in potential preview
of the first-team
offensive line. B9
Pushing right
buttons key
Rams defensive
coordinator Raheem
Morris establishing
his game philosophy
on the job. B8
Chargers get
hang of it
Staley encouraged by
how defensive
players are quickly
picking up new
coverage schemes. B8
Dad inspires
prep kicker
Chase Meyer was
born to kick and
finds all the life
lessons he needs
from ailing father. B8
SPORTS
T U E S D A Y , A U G U S T 1 7 , 2 0 2 1 :: L A T I M E S . C O M / S P O R T S
to Newark was delayed for
several hours Sunday.
“I’m sure there will be
some fatigue,” manager Joe
Maddon said before Monday
night’s game against the
New York Yankees, “but
Yankee Stadium is the kind
of place that can draw some
of that out of you if you’re not
feeling 100%, and then you
have to face a pitcher of Ger-
rit Cole’s stature on top of
that.”
A lively crowd of 37,010
showed up in the Bronx for
the makeup of a July 1 rain-
out, and any cobwebs the
Angels had were knocked off
by Cole’s first pitch of the
night, a snap-to-attention
99-mph fastball that Shohei
Thompson-Robinson mum on absence
UCLA QUARTERBACK Dorian Thompson-Robinson was welcomed back to
training camp by teammates and coaches after a 10-day undisclosed absence.
Ohtani swung through.
The Angels went on to
play a crisp game, getting a
solid start from left-hander
Jose Suarez, stout relief
from Steve Cishek and turn-
ing a clutch double play in
the sixth inning, but they
managed just three hits off
Cole and four Yankees re-
lievers in a 2-1 loss.
Cole came off the
COVID-19 injured list to give
up one run, two hits and
strike out nine in 52⁄3 innings
to improve to 11-6 with a 3.04
ERA, and relievers Zach
Britton, Albert Abreu, Joely
Rodriguez and Chad Green
combined for 31⁄3, one-hit in-
nings.
[See Angels, B7]
Marcio Jose Sanchez Associated Press
Adam Hunger Getty Images
JOSE SUAREZ watches Joey Gallo of Yankees round
the bases after his two-run, first-inning home run.
After missing eight
practices, UCLA QB
returns to camp only
explaining no-show as
‘really personal.’
By Thuc Nhi Nguyen
The 2021 season is ap-
proaching, but the circum-
stances surrounding Dorian
Thompson-Robinson’s mys-
terious 10-day absence from
UCLA training camp
sounded very 2020.
Speaking Monday for the
first time since he missed
eight practices, the UCLA
quarterback declined to
specify what kept him out,
saying simply it was “really
personal,” and he had to
“deal with some stuff.” Fol-
lowing a policy put in place
Luis Sinco Los Angeles Times last year to not risk tipping
their hand in the event of a
COVID-19 health and safety
B10
ACCUSER:
‘MY SOUL
LEFT MY
BODY’
Woman testifies about
alleged sexual assault
by Dodgers’ Bauer.
Request for a third
continuance denied.
By Steve Henson
The woman seeking a re-
straining order against Dod-
gers pitcher Trevor Bauer
testified for nearly four
hours Monday in L.A. Supe-
rior Court, saying, “I felt like
my soul left my body” when,
according to her, Bauer
started punching her in the
face while having sex with
her.
Bauer is accused of as-
saulting the woman during
their only two sexual en-
counters, on the nights of
April 21 and May 15 at his
Pasadena home. No crimi-
nal charges or civil suits have
been filed and Bauer is on
paid administrative leave
from Major League Base-
ball. His legal team has ar-
gued both encounters were
consensual.
The woman obtained a
temporary restraining order
June 28 and is seeking to
have it extended the maxi-
mum five years allowed
under California law. The re-
quest by Bauer’s attorneys
for a third continuance was
denied Monday morning by
Judge Dianna Gould-Salt-
man, and the accuser was
the first witness called after
opening statements.
Her testimony will re-
sume Tuesday, then Bauer’s
counsel will cross-examine
her before additional wit-
nesses are called.
While constantly adjust-
ing her blue protective
mask, the woman was alter-
nately poised and teary as
she recounted the two sexu-
al encounters while also try-
ing to explain a rash of often
brazen, vulgar Instagram di-
rect messages and phone
texts she sent to Bauer, her
cousin and close friends.
Near the end of the day
she recounted the second
time she had sex with Bauer.
She testified that even
though he had stuck two fin-
gers down her throat,
choked her to the point of
unconsciousness and en-
gaged in anal sex without
her consent the first time
they met, “I felt very safe
with him,” the second time.
“His kisses were not ag-
gressive at all,” she testified.
“He was on top. That’s when
he asked me what’s off limits
... I felt like I had to act like I
knew what I was doing. I said
no fingers down the throat. I
said I didn’t like anal sex.”
Bauer, she said, slapped
[See Bauer, B6]
incident, UCLA and coach
Chip Kelly said only that
Thompson-Robinson was
“unavailable.”
After participating in the
first three practices of train-
ing camp, Thompson-Rob-
inson said he was still work-
ing out during the absence
and attended meetings
through Zoom. He enjoyed
watching his teammates
blow off training camp
steam in a karaoke session.
But after Monday’s practice
— his third since returning
— he said he’s glad to trade
on-screen bonding activities
for real-life celebrations.
“It was amazing being
able to get to see the guys af-
ter so long,” Thompson-
Robinson said. “Everybody
was really excited to see me
and I was really excited to
see everybody.”
The training camp inter-
ruption was the latest hur-
dle in Thompson-Rob-
inson’s UCLA career. He
[See UCLA, B9]
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High school football season has arrived
By Eric Sondheimer
The opening week of the
fall high school football sea-
son has arrived. There will
be some postponements be-
cause of COVID-19 proto-
cols, but it’s an exciting time.
Friday Night Lights are
back, along with fans in the
bleachers.
Preview
Randy Rosenbloom and
I provide a sneak preview of
top players, teams and is-
sues in this return to our
weekly show that will be
available every Thursday
night at 5 p.m.
at latimes.com/sports/
highschool.
The Times’ nine-part se-
ries looking at top players
continues Monday and
Tuesday with defensive
backs and kickers. Here’s a
brief look at one of my favor-
ite stories on Gardena Serra
cornerback Rodrick Pleas-
ant.
Adoree’ Jackson. Robert
Woods. Marquis Lee.
George Farmer. Jordan
Lasley. The list of outstand-
ing Gardena Serra football
players who used track to
show off their speed and ath-
leticism is eye-popping.
Get ready to add Rodrick
Pleasant to the list. During a
four-day stretch last spring
after running the 100 meters
in 10.57 seconds, Pleasant
said he received 14 schol-
arship offers from college
football recruiters. When he
set Division 4 records in the
100 and 200 by running 10.46
and 21.02 in June as a sopho-
more, his reputation was
sealed as an athlete to
watch. By the final weekend
of June, he ran the 100 in 10.32
and the 200 in 20.59. It
capped a meteoric rise to
prominence.
Pleasant was already a
first-team all-Mission
League selection for Serra
during its six-game spring
football season playing cor-
nerback. He’s 5 feet 11, 175
pounds and has a burst of
speed that you just can’t
teach.
COVID-19
disrupting openers
It’s not panic time for
high school football, but the
number of teams pulling out
of season openers because of
COVID-19 protocols contin-
ues to grow.
Santa Ana Mater Dei,
Servite and Loyola were all
looking for replacement
games after Corona Centen-
nial, Bishop Amat and Muir
had to cancel because they
would not have enough re-
quired practices completed
in time to play games. Loyola
picked up Inglewood. Long
Beach Poly is under
COVID-19 protocols and
postponed its opener vs.
Leuzinger. St. Bonaventure
had to pull out of its opener.
The City Section is in
worse shape. Belmont
pulled out of its game with
Marshall. Marquez, Bell,
L.A. Wilson, Dorsey and
Chavez had to pause prac-
tices. Schools are also trying
to build up depleted rosters
to make it through a 10-game
schedule.
It appears it’s going to be
touch and go to see which
teams can play, forcing
schools and coaches to bring
back the strategy of last
spring, when they had to
rapidly find replacement
games when one school can’t
play and hope their adminis-
tration agrees to last-min-
ute replacements.
Breakout stars
For weeks, lists have been
coming out identifying top
Southland high school foot-
ball players for the new sea-
son. Let me offer another list
— projected breakout stars
for 2021.
Jason Jones,
Chatsworth Sierra Canyon,
running back, senior. “That
running back is special,”
West Hills Chaminade coach
Ed Croson said of Jones af-
ter seeing him in a scrim-
mage this week. Fast and
strong, Jones will be running
behind an exceptional offen-
sive line.
Ty Dieffenbach, Agoura,
quarterback, junior. A 6-
foot-5 receiver moved to
quarterback, he passed for
867 yards in six games last
spring while learning the po-
sition on the job. His coach,
former quarterback Dustin
Croick, expects a big jump
this fall.
Coaches returning
to high school
Who would have predic-
ted that landing a top high
school basketball coaching
job might be better than a
college assistant position?
There’s a small trend
under way of college assist-
ants returning to high school
coaching. It started in 2015
when David Rebibo re-
turned from being an assist-
ant at USF to become head
coach at Harvard-Westlake
and Colin Pfaf became head
coach at Windward after be-
ing at Portland.
Others have made the
switch, such as Reggie Mor-
ris Jr. at Fairfax and Mark
Amaral, the new head coach
at Oaks Christian, while De
La Salle just hired the No. 1
assistant at St. Mary’s.
Yes, the money is usually
better at the collegiate level,
but there’s also negatives,
such as constant travel,
dealing with recruiting and
trying to raise a family while
needing to be available 24/7.
Landing a high school job
where an administration
cares greatly about devel-
oping the student-athletes
gives coaches the feeling of
job security and the ability to
control players and parents
without feeling someone is
going to question their mo-
tives.
Class of 2023
making an impact
The baseball season is
pretty much over, but a
group of players from the
Class of 2023 helped the
VCBA 16U team win the Five
Tool West World Series.
Among the key players
were pitchers Cristian
Brewster (Chaminade),
Derek Turner (Newbury
Park) and Trevor Hansen
(Royal), catcher Brady
Francisco (Thousand
Oaks), infielder Tanner Bel-
towski (Buena) and out-
fielder Brandon Contreras
(Camarillo).
Identical twins
Years ago, when he was
head coach at Lake Balboa
Birmingham, Ed Croson
coached identical twins Ma-
lik and Marquis Jackson.
He said he could figure out
the two side by side in 2007.
Croson is now coaching
another pair of identical
twins at Chaminade, defen-
sive end/linebackers Victor
and John Crawshaw.
He’s having trouble sepa-
rating the two. Both are
straight-A students with
SATs above 1500 and 6 feet 2,
235 pounds. And, unless
they are wearing their differ-
ent numbers, he has no idea
which one is Victor and
which one is John.
“Somebody asked who is
who?” Croson said. “God
knows.”
During the spring sea-
son, No. 37 Victor was in on
29 tackles. No. 38 John was in
on — wait for it — 29 tackles.
You can’t make this stuff up.
Girls’ volleyball
returns
High school girls’ volley-
ball is back in the Southern
Section after a year’s ab-
sence because of COVID-19
restrictions. Athletes were
pretty much left with club
competitions, though the
City Section did move its
season to spring, enabling
championships to take
place.
The Lakewood/Molten
Classic started the schedule
on Saturday at Lakewood
High. Among the teams en-
tered in the Division 1 com-
petition are Redondo Union,
Harvard-Westlake, Los
Alamitos and Long Beach
Poly.
The semifinals on Sat-
urday at 1 p.m. will match
Redondo vs. Huntington
JIM BONDS , the football coach at La Cañada St.
Francis for 20 years, died on Oct. 28, 2020, of cancer.
P REP REPORT
GARDENA SERRA football star Rodrick Pleasant is also a standout sprinter in the 100 and 200 meters.
Beach and La Salle vs. Har-
vard-Westlake.
Southern Section favor-
ite Marymount lost out on a
chance to win a Division 1 ti-
tle last season, but the Sail-
ors are the team to beat this
season with the return of
Stanford-bound Elia Rubin
and Duke-bound Kerry
Keefe.
Village Christian de-
feated Mira Costa in the fi-
nals of the Ann Kang Invita-
tional.
Chaparral won the cham-
pionship of the Citrus Valley
tournament after going 5-0.
Notes . . .
Steve Harris is the new
basketball coach at Hunt-
ington Beach Ocean View. . . .
Zachary Harden, a jun-
ior at Santa Ana Foothill,
was invited to the USA
Lacrosse national team
training combine this week
in Maryland as one of the top
lacrosse players in the coun-
try. . . .
Former Loyola High de-
fensive back Ceyair Wright
of USC is the first college
athlete signed by Overtime
to an NIL athlete deal.
Wright stars in Overtime’s
“Dual Threat” series that
will focus on Wright’s life
over the last few months of
high school as he prepared
for the release of “Space
Jam: A New Legacy” and his
transition to college. . . .
Tom Lewis is the new
basketball coach at Cerritos
Valley Christian. . . .
Junior Kehden Het-
tinger of Sierra Canyon has
committed to play baseball
at Oregon. . . .
Santa Margarita girls’
water polo goalie Isabella
Rosensitto has committed
to UCLA. . . .
Pitcher/outfielder Mike
Pirrello of Los Alamitos has
committed to UC Irvine. . . .
Running back Sheldon
Canley Jr. from Lompoc has
committed to San Diego
State. He has scored 22
touchdowns in 15 games for
Lompoc. . . .
Forward Kijani Wright,
who played his first three
seasons for Windward but
has since transferred to Sier-
ra Canyon in basketball, an-
nounced he has committed
to USC. . . .
Softball infielder Rylee
Pinedo of Camarillo has
committed to UCLA. . . .
Kevin Kiernan, the inter-
im athletic director at Mater
Dei, has been named ath-
letic director on a full-time
basis and will continue as
the school’s highly success-
ful girls’ basketball coach. . . .
Ryan Bradshaw has re-
signed as boys’ basketball
coach at Simi Valley. . . .
Layla Curry of Corona
James Carbone Glendale News-Press
DAVID REBIBO celebrates a league basketball title with Harvard-Westlake.
Centennial has committed
to Loyola Marymount for
women’s basketball. . . .
Ribet has dropped its
boys’ basketball program as
the school deals with
enrollment and financial is-
sues. Top players are trans-
ferring to other schools. . . .
Mater Dei defensive back
Cam Sidney has committed
to Cal. . . .
Sierra Canyon defensive
back Kamari Ramsey has
committed to Stanford. . . .
In a sign of hope, Loyola
football coach Drew Casani
said his program has 94
freshmen who came out for
football.
Keeping tabs:
Miller Moss
Seventeen long months
had passed since former
Mission Hills Bishop
Alemany quarterback
Miller Moss last stepped
into a huddle, but when he
arrived at USC during the
spring as one of two touted
freshmen vying to emerge as
the heir apparent to
quarterback Kedon Slovis,
Moss expected to pick up
right where he left off in high
school.
“I don’t think it was a re-
alistic expectation,” the
freshman realizes now.
Moss has never lacked
confidence, but the long lay-
off from football left him feel-
ing overwhelmed. Suddenly,
everything was faster and
more competitive. The tran-
sition proved to be a steeper
learning curve than he ex-
pected. While Jaxson Dart,
the Trojans’ other four-star
freshman quarterback,
turned heads with his big
arm and big-play potential,
Moss spent most of the
spring just finding his foot-
ing.
From the archives:
Jim Bonds
For those of us who got to
know and appreciate Jim
Bonds, we still miss him but
honor him every day by
laughing and trying to do
our best.
Bonds, the football coach
at La Cañada St. Francis for
20 years, died on Oct. 28,
2020, of cancer.
I had been writing about
him since he was a Hart
High quarterback in the
1980s, then at UCLA and
through his many years of
coaching, from Bishop
Alemany to St. Francis.
I’m thinking of him be-
cause next month, I contin-
ue my annual visit to the
Glendale Quarterback Club,
where he’d make everyone
chuckle during lunch with
one of his quips.
One of his mentors, Dean
Herrington, is now the head
coach at St. Francis. I’m sure
Jim would be very pleased.
And, as Dean said what Jim
would have told him, “Don’t
mess it up.”
T U E S DAY , AU G U S T 17 , 2 0 21
Zero week schedule
The 2021 football season
begins this week. Here’s the
opening week schedule of
games that may change de-
pending on COVID-19 proto-
cols.
Thursday
CITY
NONLEAGUE
Carson at Los Angeles Roosevelt, 7 p.m.
SOUTHERN SECTION
NONLEAGUE
Buena Park vs. Cerritos at Gahr, 7 p.m.
Chino at Western, 7 p.m.
Corona at Ramona, 7 p.m.
La Palma Kennedy at Long Beach Jordan, 7 p.m.
Linfield Christian vs. Loara at Glover Stadium, 6:30
p.m.
Ontario Christian vs. Crean Lutheran at Portola, 7
p.m.
Santa Fe vs. Summit at Miller, 7 p.m.
INTERSECTIONAL
San Pedro vs. St. Anthony at St. Pius X-St. Matthias,
7 p.m.
Friday
CITY
NONLEAGUE
Arleta at Granada Hills, 7 p.m.
Bell at Franklin, 7 p.m.
Bernstein at Taft, 7 p.m.
Chatsworth at Grant, 7 p.m.
Chavez at San Fernando, 7 p.m.
Cleveland at Palisades, 7 p.m.
Contreras at Los Angeles Jordan, 7 p.m.
Crenshaw at Westchester, 7 p.m.
Dorsey at Fairfax, 7 p.m.
Gardena at Sun Valley Poly, 7 p.m.
Huntington Park at Rivera, 4:30 p.m.
Legacy at Maywood CES, 7 p.m.
Manual Arts at Mendez, 7 p.m.
Marquez at Eagle Rock, 7 p.m.
Narbonne at Reseda, 7 p.m.
Roybal at Panorama, 7 p.m.
South East at Jefferson, 7 p.m.
Washington at Los Angeles Hamilton, 3 p.m.
SOUTHERN SECTION
NONLEAGUE
Agoura at Channel Islands, 7 p.m.
Aliso Niguel at Huntington Beach, 7 p.m.
Alta Loma at Colton, 7 p.m.
Anaheim Canyon vs. Sunny Hills at Buena Park, 7
p.m.
Apple Valley at Mission Viejo, 7 p.m.
Aquinas at Etiwanda, 7 p.m.
Arrowhead Christian vs. Capistrano Valley Christian
at Capistrano Valley, 7 p.m.
Arroyo Valley at Sierra Vista, 7 p.m.
Barstow at Rubidoux, 7 p.m.
Bell Gardens vs. Troy at Fullerton HS, 7 p.m.
Big Bear at Victor Valley, 7 p.m.
Bloomington at San Gorgonio, 7 p.m.
Bonita vs. La Serna at California, 7 p.m.
Bosco Tech vs. Santa Ana Calvary Chapel at
Segerstrom, 7 p.m.
Buena at Oak Park, 7 p.m.
Cajon at Carter, 7 p.m.
California at Schurr, 7 p.m.
Camarillo vs. Hart at College of Canyons, 7 p.m.
Cerritos Valley Christian at St. Paul, 7 p.m.
Chaminade at Oaks Christian, 7 p.m.
Chino Hills at Ayala, 7 p.m.
Citrus Hill at Colony, 7 p.m.
Coachella Valley at Canyon Springs, 7 p.m.
Compton Centennial at Perris, 7 p.m.
Corona Santiago at Heritage, 7 p.m.
Corona del Mar at Downey, 7 p.m.
Costa Mesa at Laguna Beach, 7 p.m.
Desert Hot Springs at Indian Springs, 7 p.m.
Diamond Bar vs. El Dorado at Placentia Valencia, 6
p.m.
Eastside at Riverside Prep, 7 p.m.
El Monte vs. Azusa at Citrus College, 7 p.m.
El Rancho at Don Lugo, 7 p.m.
El Toro vs. La Mirada at Excelsior HS, 7 p.m.
Elsinore at Vista del Lago, 7 p.m.
Firebaugh at Lynwood, 7 p.m.
Fontana vs. Granite Hills at Apple Valley, 7 p.m.
Foothill vs. Cypress at Western, 7 p.m.
Fullerton vs. Garden Grove Pacifica at Bolsa
Grande, 7 p.m.
Glendale at Gabrielino, 7 p.m.
Glendora vs. West Ranch at Valencia, 7 p.m.
Heritage Christian at Harvard-Westlake, 7 p.m.
Hillcrest vs. Riverside Poly at King, 7 p.m.
Indio at Shadow Hills, 7 p.m.
Inglewood at Loyola, 7 p.m.
JSerra vs. Sierra Canyon at Birmingham, 7 p.m.
Jurupa Valley at Ontario, 7 p.m.
Keppel at Hoover, 5 p.m.
Laguna Hills vs. Katella at Glover Stadium, 7 p.m.
Lakeside vs. Arlington at Ramona, 7 p.m.
Lancaster at Serrano, 7 p.m.
Lompoc Cabrillo at Nordhoff, 7 p.m.
Los Altos at Hacienda Heights Wilson, 7 p.m.
Magnolia vs. Godinez at Santa Ana Valley, 7 p.m.
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Marina at Arcadia, 7 p.m.
Mayfair at Chaffey, 7 p.m.
Moorpark at Royal, 7 p.m.
Murrieta Mesa at Temescal Canyon, 7 p.m.
Newbury Park vs. Burbank at Burbank Burroughs, 7
p.m.
Newport Harbor at Yorba Linda, 7 p.m.
Nogales at Baldwin Park, 7 p.m.
Norco at Vista Murrieta, 7 p.m.
Norte Vista at Hesperia, 7 p.m.
Northview at La Puente, 7 p.m.
Nuview Bridge at La Sierra, 7 p.m.
Oak Hills at Antelope Valley, 7 p.m.
Orange Lutheran at Gardena Serra, 7 p.m.
Orange Vista at Beaumont, 7 p.m.
Pacific at West Valley, 7 p.m.
Palm Springs at Yucaipa, 7 p.m.
Paramount at Mira Costa, 7 p.m.
Pasadena at Sherman Oaks Notre Dame, 7 p.m.
Patriot at Rialto, 7 p.m.
Peninsula at Dominguez, 7 p.m.
Pioneer at Bellflower, 7 p.m.
Placentia Valencia vs. Fountain Valley at
Westminster, 7 p.m.
Quartz Hill at Oxnard, 7 p.m.
Rancho Cucamonga at Eastvale Roosevelt, 7 p.m.
Rancho Mirage at Hemet, 7 p.m.
Ridgecrest Burroughs vs. Paraclete at Antelope
Valley College, 7 p.m.
Riverside North at Grand Terrace, 7 p.m.
San Bernardino at Desert Mirage, 7 p.m.
San Gabriel at Mountain View, 7 p.m.
San Juan Hills vs. Santa Margarita at Saddleback
College, 7 p.m.
San Marino at Norwalk, 7 p.m.
Santa Ana at Millikan, 7 p.m.
Santa Ana Valley at Ocean View, 7 p.m.
Santa Rosa Academy at Bermuda Dunes Desert
Christian, 7 p.m.
Saugus at Santa Barbara, 7 p.m.
Segerstrom at North Torrance, 7 p.m.
Silverado at Palm Desert, 7 p.m.
Simi Valley at Ventura, 7 p.m.
South El Monte vs. Alhambra at Moor Field
(Alhambra), 7 p.m.
Thousand Oaks at Westlake, 7 p.m.
Trinity Classical Academy at Campbell Hall, 6 p.m.
Tustin at Capistrano Valley, 7 p.m.
Upland at La Habra, 7 p.m.
Valley View at Temecula Valley, 7 p.m.
Verbum Dei at Hawthorne, 7 p.m.
Village Christian at La Salle, 7 p.m.
Warren at Long Beach Wilson, 7 p.m.
West Covina at Monrovia, 7 p.m.
Whittier at San Dimas, 7 p.m.
Woodbridge at Portola, 7 p.m.
Workman at Garey, 7 p.m.
Xavier Prep at St. Pius X-St. Matthias, 7 p.m.
INTERSECTIONAL
Alemany at Highland (Utah) Lone Peak, 7 p.m.
Anza Hamilton vs. Escondido Charter at Escondido
Orange Glen, 7 p.m.
Bakersfield at Los Alamitos, 7 p.m.
Birmingham at Calabasas, 7 p.m.
Bishop Diego at Santa Maria Righetti, 7 p.m.
Bishop Montgomery at Santee, 7 p.m.
Brentwood at San Luis Obispo Mission Prep, 6 p.m.
California City at Fillmore, 7 p.m.
Canoga Park at Canyon Country Canyon, 7 p.m.
Carlsbad at Great Oak, 7 p.m.
Edison at Venice, 7 p.m.
Edwards AFB Desert at St. Monica, 7 p.m.
El Camino Real at Cathedral, 7 p.m.
Long Beach Cabrillo at Hawkins, 7 p.m.
Los Angeles Marshall at Mary Star, 3 p.m.
Miami (Fla.) Central at St. John Bosco, 7 p.m.
Montebello at Garfield, 7 p.m.
Morro Bay at San Marcos, 7 p.m.
North Hollywood at Santa Paula, 7 p.m.
Oceanside at San Clemente, 7 p.m.
Paso Robles at Lompoc, 7 p.m.
Rosamond at Littlerock, 7 p.m.
Rosemead at Granada Hills Kennedy, 7 p.m.
San Marcos Mission Hills at Chaparral, 7 p.m.
Santa Maria St. Joseph at Charter Oak, 7 p.m.
Santa Ynez at Nipomo, 7 p.m.
South Pasadena at Lincoln, 7 p.m.
Tesoro at Carlsbad La Costa Canyon, 7 p.m.
Vista at Paloma Valley, 7 p.m.
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CITY
NONLEAGUE
Sherman Oaks CES at Sotomayor, 7 p.m.
INTERSECTIONAL
Lancaster Baptist at Lone Pine, 7 p.m.
Saturday
CITY
NONLEAGUE
South Gate at Los Angeles Wilson, 1 p.m.
SOUTHERN SECTION
NONLEAGUE
Bassett at Cantwell-Sacred Heart, 5 p.m.
Pasadena Poly vs. Savanna at Western, 10:30 a.m.
Redlands East Valley at San Jacinto, 7 p.m.
Rowland at Cathedral City, 7 p.m.
Western Christian at Temecula Prep, 6 p.m.
INTERSECTIONAL
El Cajon Christian vs. Rancho Christian at El Cajon
Granite Hills, 7 p.m.
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The sudden end of

America’s longest war was
marked this weekend, and
into Monday, by indelible
footage of Afghans crowding
the Kabul airport, clinging
to the outside of a U.S. mili-
tary aircraft in a frantic at-
tempt to flee Taliban rule af-
ter the rapid collapse of their
country’s government. Des-
perate men held the plane’s
fuselage as it taxied down
the runway, rolling off onto
the pavement as it picked up
speed. Moments after take-
off, two objects dropped
through the sky, presumed
to be bodies.
As I write this, the fall of
Afghanistan, and the con-
clusion of a 20-year engage-
ment in the region that be-
gan shortly after the attacks
of Sept. 11, 2001, is being cap-
tured in dramatic detail
across numerous platforms
by multiple news organiza-
tions, many of which have
appeared stunned by the
turn of events. Who could
have predicted this, they’re
asking?
War correspondents, for-
eign bureaus and Afghan
stringers, for starters. You
know: actual journalists.
The shrinking of Ameri-
can newsrooms since their
heyday in the 20th century
and the country’s fatigue af-
ter two decades of war have
created a media ecosystem
whose bread and butter is
Gina Ferazzi Los Angeles Times domestic crisis and political
LAUREL IRENE , who delivered a star-making turn in “Bliss,” was astounding in the Long Beach Opera production. rancor, presented by opin-
ionated anchors and argued
OPERA REVIEW by divisive personalities.
By contrast, covering

Singer steals the show

U.S. conflicts in Af-
ghanistan, Iraq and other lo-
cales around the globe has
been a sporadic effort at
best. The media parachute
in when our troops invade
countries overseas or leave
them in defeat, while re-
Laurel Irene soars in Long Beach Opera’s ‘Voices From the Killing Jar’ maining largely absent for
[See Afghanistan, E6]

BY MARK SWED MUSIC CRITIC structure by James Darrah, who has been known as the “Pierrot” ensemble of flute,
named the company’s new artistic director clarinet, violin, cello and piano and employ-
ong Beach Opera is on the move, and chief creative officer. Saved, too, was an ing electronics.

L although it is too soon to say to

what or where or when. The pan-
demic squashed what might have
been the most imaginative sea-
son, as devised by interim artistic advisor
Yuval Sharon, of any American opera com-
pany this year.
Saved was a production of Philip Glass’
“Les Enfants Terribles” uneasily trans-
ferred in May to a Long Beach parking
enticingly frenzied double-bill of monodra-
mas mounted at the Ford over the weekend.
Neither Schoenberg’s 20th century clas-
sic “ Pierrot Lunaire” nor Kate Soper’s strik-
ing 2012 “Voices From the Killing Jar” is an
opera, not that it matters. Each is a 40-min-
ute riveting dramatic tour-de-force for a fe-
male singer/reciter/performance artist.
Soper, moreover, pays homage to “Pierrot”
a century after, modifying what has become
She further pays homage to Pierrot’s sa-
laciously surreal madness with eight songs
for mad women, or more accurately women
driven to distraction by abusive men. Noth-
ing can be more traditionally operatic than
that.
Each work had a different director and
A combustible
family drama
Surreal Chilean film
“Ema” illustrates the
bond between mother
and child with an
concept. Neither Darrah nor Sharon nor explosive intensity. E3
the company’s indispensable new music di- Comics ................... E4-5
rector, Christopher [See Singer, E2]
What’s on TV .......... E6

AN APPRECIATION ART REVIEW

His lasting mix The magic of

of R&B, hip-hop
Chucky Thompson’s
1990s hits for Bad Boy
Records still resonate
with fans old and new.
By Julian Kimble
Despite mogul and mar-
keting wizard Sean “Diddy”
Combs’ bold assertion, he
and his Bad Boy Records in-
house production team, the
Hitmen, didn’t invent the
remix.
They did, however, during
the label’s indomitable peak
in the mid- to late 1990s,
popularize and glamorize the
remix, as hip-hop and R&B
began to supplant rock as the
sound of popular music.
Producer Carl “Chucky”
Thompson, who died Aug. 9
from COVID-19 complica-
tions at age 53, was a pillar of
the Hitmen — which in-
cluded Deric “D-Dot” An-
gelettie, Nashiem Myrick,
Stevie J and Mario Winans —
and his fingerprints are all
over some of the greatest hip-
hop/R&B records of the ’90s
and 2000s. Quietly, Thomp-
son’s resume and musical
acumen reflect so much of
what remains singular about
those genres during that era
— particularly their fusion.
The Washington, D.C., na-
tive’s ability to spot the ties
between R&B and its brash
offspring, hip-hop, then cre-
ate something novel in the
overlap was the bedrock of
[See Thompson, E3]
painted bodies
Matthew Rolston’s
Pageant of the
Masters portraits are
wonders all their own.
CHRISTOPHER KNIGHT
ART CRITIC
When supervillain Auric
Goldfinger ordered glamor-
ous card-shark Jill Master-
son to be painted head to toe
in his favorite gilded hue
then deposited in James
Bond’s rumpled bed in 1964’s
superlative 007 movie, mur-
der and intimidation were
Fahey/Klein Gallery the aim. The paint was
MATTHEW ROLSTON’S photos of 2016 Pageant of claimed, fictionally, to have
the Masters models are at the Laguna Art Museum. caused the beauty’s death
by skin asphyxiation.
Painted bodies don’t
have the same nefarious re-
sult at the Pageant of the
Masters. Maybe that’s be-
cause makeup rather than
polyurethane acrylic does
the annual job at the famous
Laguna Beach summer fes-
tival of tableaux vivant. For
the 2016 edition, however, a
gilded lady was again the
victim of barbarians — this
time from the epic Ludovico
Ariosto poem “Orlando Fu-
rioso,” fan-favorite during
the Italian Renaissance
The lovely Angelica —
stripped naked, chained to a
rock for the dining delight of
a giant sea monster and dar-
ingly rescued by Roger, a val-
[See ‘Art People,’ E6]
E2 T U E S DAY , AU G U S T 17 , 2 0 21
Britney Spears’
father isn’t
quitting just yet
It looked like Jamie
Spears would step
aside as conservator,
but read the fine print.
By Christie D’Zurilla
Jamie Spears, Britney
Spears’ father and conserva-
tor of her estate, made head-
lines last week with a court fil-
ing that said he would agree
to step down as conservator
as part of an “orderly transi-
tion.”
But lost in the hubbub was
a key fact: The petition, filed
last Thursday, actually asks
the judge to deny the pop
singer’s July 26 petition to get
her father out of her business.
Last week’s document
was “not itself a petition for
acceptance of his own resig-
nation,” said attorney
Matthew Kanin, who is of
counsel with the national law
firm Greenspoon Marder and
a certified specialist in estate,
trust and probate law. “It’s ac-
tually an objection to being
removed from the conserva-
torship.”
Jamie Spears’ filing ar-
gues that he needs to stay
around at least until approval
of the so-called Twelfth Ac-
count — financials from the
year 2019 — is complete, along
with a final accounting of the
estate up to whatever date he
would step down.
However, according to
Kanin, that argument is a
load of bunk. Jamie Spears
easily could wrap up those
loose ends. Kanin said, with-
out keeping his conservator
title — or the money that
comes with it.
“The court can make an
order removing or suspend-
ing or accepting resignation
of the conservator of an es-
tate, and still order that per-
son to finalize their account-
ing before they are finally dis-
charged,” the lawyer said. “So
they could remain under the
jurisdiction of the court and
subject to court orders, sub-
ject to contempt of court if
they don’t comply with or-
ders, even after their respon-
sibilities have been termi-
nated.”
The new petition, filed by
attorney Vivian Thoreen of
Holland & Knight, also de-
fended Jamie’s performance
as conservator, explained
that there was no reason to
remove him under conserva-
torship law and stated that
Britney was asking for some-
thing that wasn’t in her best
interests.
All in all, it was a nearly
complete rejection of what
Britney said she wants, which
is freedom from her father at
age 39. The July 26 filing from
Team Britney asked that the
singer’s father be removed
and replaced by an interim fi-
duciary, Jason Rubin of Certi-
fied Strategies Inc. (That re-
quest was followed by anoth-
er one asking that the remov-
al hearing be expedited,
which the court denied early
last week.)
One point of concern: The
accounting matters de-
scribed in the court docu-
ment can take years to re-
solve, as they are not a high
priority for the court, Kanin
said. The initial Twelfth Ac-
count of 2019 finances wasn’t
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JAMIE SPEARS has
been conservator of Brit-
ney Spears for years.
even filed until August 2020,
and it has yet to be finalized.
And those accountings
are likely to be telling, as Brit-
ney Spears’ conservatorship
is run differently than most
where a parent is the conser-
vator.
“In the vast majority of
parental conservatorships,
the parents don’t get paid to
be conservators,” said Harry
Nelson, a healthcare attor-
ney and founder and manag-
ing partner of L.A. law firm
Nelson Hardiman.
Nelson, who specializes in
the rights of conservatees,
said that, in his opinion, “The
level of payment in this case
has been extreme.”
Jamie Spears has been
getting $16,000 a month since
2009, plus monthly office
costs and a percentage of the
gross revenues from Britney
Spears’ tours and multiyear
Las Vegas residency, the July
26 filing said. And if the sing-
er’s father uses attorneys —
which he does quite often —
their time is paid for out of his
daughter’s money. Those
bills have, in the past, run Photographs by Gina Ferazzi Los Angeles Times
into the millions. SOLOIST KEIRA Duffy, middle, had a lot to deal with onstage, including dancers, but she still impressed.
“Although it is common
for managers, agents, and
Soprano lifts up ‘Voices’
other industry professionals
to receive a percentage of an
artist’s earnings, Mr. Spears
is none of those. He is a con-
servator and, as a conserva-
tor, his role is to be burdened
by, rather than benefit from, [Singer, from E1]
the conservatorship,” the fil- Rountree, were on hand. A
ing said. “Mr. Spears is not a new season has been an-
professional business or fi- nounced for next year that
nancial manager.” will take the company in di-
Worth noting is that Brit- rections that are new (re-
ney appears to have pulled imagining Handel’s
back on the desire she ex- “Giustino”) and old (re-
pressed in court June 23 for mounting, in a new produc-
an immediate end to the en- tion, Anthony Davis’ grip-
tire conservatorship, which ping, Pulitzer Prize-winning
has been in place since early “Central Park Five”).
2008. There will be video, for
“In the abstract, it seems sure, because Darrah has
like she’s [now] taking a mea- been pandemic-producing
sured approach of saying, so much of it for Los Angeles
‘Well, what I really want is for Chamber Orchestra, Bos-
the conservatorship to go ton Lyric Opera, Opera Phil-
away,’” Kanin said. “‘But if I adelphia and Music Acade-
can’t get that, or if I can’t get my of the West. There was
that yet, then at least I want none at the Ford, although
to be rid of my father and there was dance for
have someone who I chose to “Pierrot.”
be the conservator.’ ” But put all of that aside
As a member of the panel for a moment. I’ve buried
of people who become court- the lead. A star should have “PIERROT LUNAIRE” was staged as a dance drama by Danielle Agami for her
appointed counsel, Kanin been born two years ago dance company Ate9, which performed, including pushing a piano on a platform.
has litigated cases like this when Rountree mounted
one — albeit not as complex Ragnar Kjartansson’s mate woman’s revenge in op- throughout the entire sec- who has no business emerg-
or high-profile — on behalf of “Bliss” for the Los Angeles era. The Countess on that tion. ing from deep within our
conservatees. Philharmonic. A three-min- occasion was a local singer, It is to Soper’s and espe- subconscious. That’s al-
“Generally speaking,” he ute snippet of redemption at familiar for showing up in cially Irene’s credit that the ready a dimension or two
said, “the courts are fairly de- the end of Mozart’s “The performances here and chopper did so little musical too many for most of us.
ferential if the person chosen Marriage of Figaro” is re- there, part of the ensemble damage. By this point, Irene Agami added characterful
is qualified.” peated nonstop for 12 merci- in new music or maybe a had run the emotional and movement — interesting to
Jamie Spears’ objection is less hours. Through it all, church offering. She was one the vocal gamut with her look at, but too much to look
likely to be considered, along forgiveness is given by the of many in “Sweet Land” and screams and her creamy at along with the titles
with several other petitions, Countess Almaviva to her other notable projects. lyric lines. With exacting vir- translating the German
on Sept. 29, the date of the faithless husband in a seem- Given a star turn like no tuosity, she tore up the sce- text.
next scheduled conservator- ingly impossible number of other in “Bliss,” though, nery but not her vocal cords, That soprano Kiera
ship hearing. ways, making this the ulti- Laurel Irene simply as- assumed new characters Duffy contended with it all,
tounded. Given a star turn with instant ease, vomited and that the musicians
as the soloist in “Voices vines and hung herself. She (lined in a row, except for the
From the Killing Jar,” she as- had the audience in a thrall distant piano, on a platform
tounded once more Sunday that no flying musical war that dancers pushed
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A FAMILY crisis roils an already troubled couple (Mariana Di Girolamo and Gael García Bernal) in “Ema.”
MOVIE REVIEW
Fiery exploration of family
Parenthood, a shaky
marriage are just two
explosive elements in
Pablo Larraín’s ‘Ema.’
By Katie Walsh
Pablo Larraín’s “Ema”
opens with a vividly surreal
image: a stoplight burns
against a pre-dawn sky. It’s
the first of many quotidian
items, including statues, tire
swings and cars, that will be
set ablaze around the city of
Valparaiso, Chile, as the plat-
inum-haired, flamethrower-
equipped Ema (Mariana Di
Girolamo) retreats from
these scenes, expressionless
and enigmatic.
The film’s narrative, a
darkly sensual fable of moth-
erhood and the modern fam-
ily, is also imbued with a
sense of the surreal. It opens
with an extended montage
introducing the puzzling
quandary with which the film
is concerned. Ema, a dancer,
and her husband Gastón
(Gael García Bernal), a chor-
eographer 12 years her senior,
have recently been relieved of
their adopted son, Polo, after
an arson incident that re-
sulted in the horrific disfig-
urement of Ema’s sister.
The questions of where
Polo is now, whether Ema
and Gastón “gave him back”
He married R&B with hip-hop
[Thompson, from E1]
the Bad Boy records that
helped push the label, and
Black music in general, up
the mountain at a pivotal
time for both. He produced
three songs, including the
chart-topping “Big Poppa”
and the original “One More
Chance,” on the Notorious
B.I.G.’s 1994 debut, “Ready to
Die” — the album that pro-
pelled Bad Boy to a new plat-
eau.
Thompson helped guide
Mary J. Blige through the
grief that inspired 1994’s “My
Life,” producing almost the
entirety of arguably the best
R&B album of the decade.
Not only did “My Life” utilize
’70s soul samples from Barry
White, Curtis Mayfield, Al
Green and Roy Ayers to cre-
ate the backdrop for Blige’s
pain, it became the manifesto
for Black women staring that
pain in the face and pushing
forward, even at their lowest
moments.
“My Life” features back-
ground vocals from a then-
unheralded Faith Evans,
whom Thompson met while
working on a teenage Usher’s
“Think of You,” from his self-
titled debut album, earlier
that year. Impressed by
Thompson, Evans enlisted
him to produce the bulk of
her debut, 1995’s “Faith.”
From the snap of the drums,
the intricate vocal layerings
and the flourish of Thomp-
son’s “Quiet Storm” sensibil-
ities, “You Used to Love Me”
and “Soon as I Get Home”
showcase ’90s R&B at its
smoothest.
Thompson was more
than good taste and a deep
record collection though. As
he did with Blige, Thompson
treasured Evans’ rough
edges. Whereas most pro-
ducers would have smoothed
over Evans’ rawness, he har-
nessed it and set it to music
that appealed to moms
raised on Aretha and kids
who knew every Biggie verse.
The ’90s was a golden age
for producers like Thomp-
son, proficient in both hip-
hop and R&B. The members
and who is to blame in this
ugly situation roil the tension
between the couple. This
opening salvo of interperson-
al conflict is set against one of
Gastón’s modern dance
pieces, in which bodies rhyth-
mically pulsate to the beat of
composer Nicolas Jaar’s Ca-
ribbean-inflected score,
backlit by glowing red and
blue orbs.
Ema and Gastón blame
each other and everyone but
themselves for the situation
with Polo, and their relation-
ship turns sour, resentful and
nasty as they hurl verbal tor-
ment at each other: She’s a
bad mom; he’s sterile.
The resentment perme-
ates their creative collabora-
tion. Ema’s passion is street
dance, not modern —
reggaeton to be specific —
which she indulges in with
her uber hip and slightly
menacing girl gang of friends
from the dance company.
Clad in mix-and-match
streetwear, they gyrate their
hips almost hypnotically on
basketball courts, in Valpa-
raiso’s funiculars and on
rooftops at night.
As the fissures in her mar-
riage deepen, Ema acts out
and shatters it completely,
fueled by sex and fire. She
sets a car ablaze with her na-
palm flamethrower without
breaking a sweat and then se-
duces the firefighter, Aníbal
(Santiago Cabrera), she and
CHUCKY THOMPSON, seen in 2010, produced hits
by the Notorious B.I.G. and Mary J. Blige in the ’90s.
of Organized Noize are best
known for their work with
OutKast and Goodie Mob,
but they also produced TLC’s
“Waterfalls” and En Vogue’s
“Don’t Let Go (Love).” Jer-
maine Dupri was the maestro
for his So So Def artists such
as Xscape, but he also worked
with Mase and Jay-Z. The
Neptunes (N.O.R.E., Kelis,
Jay-Z, and Clipse) and Tim-
baland (Aaliyah, Missy Elli-
ott), mad scientists from Vir-
ginia, took apart and put
back together the very sound
of Black music; soon pop
stars of all stripes were clam-
oring to work with them.
The ongoing fascination
with hip-hop and R&B of the
’90s and ’00s has created a
swell of content and com-
merce around it. The late
Aaliyah is a point of obsession
(even among fans too young
to have experienced her mu-
sic in real time), and the re-
cent news that all of her mu-
sic will finally be available on
streaming platforms in the
coming months has sparked
interest 20 years after her
death. The 2022 Lovers &
Friends festival, with its mas-
sive star-laden lineup, had to
add a second show to keep up
with demand. And the popu-
lar Verzuz series of live-
streams, recently starring
‘Ema’
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her girlfriends menacing him
with their flirtatious ad-
vances. She seduces every-
one she comes into contact
with, including her divorce
lawyer and girlfriends, seem-
ingly as manipulation but
also as a way of seeking aban-
don, her insatiable libido
driven by her dance and her
pyromania.
Our protagonist is at
times an inexplicable puzzle
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Bad Boy-affiliated hip-hop
group the Lox, provides clas-
sic R&B and hip-hop acts the
opportunity to revisit their
star-studded catalogs with
fans old and new.
The intoxicating pull of
nostalgia notwithstanding,
it’s the bedrock musicality of
Thompson’s body of work
that makes it essential listen-
ing still. The Notorious
B.I.G.’s “Big Poppa” matched
Biggie’s natural charisma
with a satin-smooth sample
of the Isley Brothers’ “Be-
tween the Sheets.” Total’s
“Can’t You See,” which fea-
tures an opening verse from
Biggie, is driven by a James
Brown sample, the founda-
tion for so much of hip-hop’s
earlier generations. It also
has crisp hip-hop drums, as
does Thompson’s R&B
remix of the group’s “No One
Else” — which bears faint
traces of the famous Boogie
Down Productions sample on
which the original was built.
Thompson was also an ac-
complished multi-instru-
mentalist, finding his groove
as a teenager by playing the
congas in go-go music deity
Chuck Brown’s band, the
Soul Searchers. That taught
him to find the pockets in
beats on the Bad Boy remix of
Gina Thompson’s “The
Music Box Films
box. She’s unpredictable, and
the film doesn’t allow us ac-
cess to her thought process or
even emotional state, so it
feels like we’re constantly one
step behind her. But she’s so
calm and collected as she
lights her life on fire that it
seems to have an unknown in-
ternal logic behind it, a logic
that only reveals itself at the
end as all the pieces snap into
place, the narrative layers
slowly peeled away in a shock-
ing, but not surprising, de-
nouement.
“Ema” isn’t so much a
character study as an exer-
cise in keeping up with an ab-
struse yet undeniably fasci-
nating figure. Di Girolamo is
riveting, possessed of an in-
tense physicality and a sly
smile that conceals more
than it reveals, drawing in her
prey. Larraín crafts a mes-
merizing cinematic rhythm
that alternates between mon-
tage and slow camera move-
ments; the film’s push-pull
tempo mimics that of Ema’s
own intimate machinations.
When the smoke has
cleared, it seems that what
Larraín uses “Ema” to ex-
press is an undeniable and
primordial truth, despite the
strange, circuitous and surre-
al way he gets there: The
bond between a mother and
her child is the strongest
force in the universe. Inter-
fere and you might get
burned.
Things That You Do” and
Biggie’s “I Got a Story to Tell”
and “Dead Wrong.” He’s
credited with playing every
instrument on Blige’s “My
Life.” All of the instruments
heard on Biggie’s “Me & My
Bitch” were played by
Thompson, as was the guitar
heard on the title track of
“Ready to Die.” The crescen-
dos and decrescendos of Nas’
”One Mic” exhibit a true mu-
sician’s grasp of how volume
and intensity work in concert
to create atmosphere. Even
when using samples,
Thompson approached the
music as if the instruments
were right there in his hands.
“I put myself in the posi-
tion of the musicians that are
actually on the samples,” he
told Vibe in a 1998 profile of
the Hitmen. “I try to envision
me being in a room with them
and just catch their vibe.”
Thompson understood
vibes because he understood
people and music. His work
was already going to live on,
but it’s found new life in re-
cent years. Kentucky singer
Bryson Tiller’s “Set It Off ”
and “Stay Blessed,” from his
2017 album “True to Self,”
sample Thompson’s work
with Evans and Blige. Pro-
ducer 40 and Drake have ne-
ver been shy about flexing
their ’90s and ’00s R&B bona
fides, and the former made
“Mary’s Joint,” from “My
Life,” the skeleton for the lat-
ter’s “Weston Road Flows” on
2016’s “Views.”
Beyond the direct refer-
ences to his production,
Thompson’s approach is still
in practice. On Tyler, the
Creator’s “WUSYANAME,”
from his latest album, “Call
Me If You Get Lost,” he uses a
sample from ’90s R&B group
H-Town and recruits con-
temporaries YoungBoy Ne-
ver Broke Again and Ty Dolla
Sign to create something
that’s entirely his own style.
Whenever you encounter
hip-hop and R&B blended
into something practically
inseparable, you’re hearing
the echoes of Chucky
Thompson.
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Lessons from
the heart of
‘Kissing Booth’
By Ruth Etiesit
Samuel
In the trilogy-capping
Netflix rom-com “The Kis-
sing Booth 3,” heroine Elle
Evans (Joey King) has a les-
son to learn: prioritize your-
self in the journey to love.
But one character
grasped that message early
and quietly: Rachel, played
by Meganne Young.
The 31-year-old South Af-
rican actress reprises the role
of Rachel, a thoughtful, cre-
ative student at Los Angeles
Country Day High School
and love interest to Elle’s best
friend Lee Flynn (Joel Court-
ney) in the threequel, which
started streaming last week.
While Elle remains the fo-
cus of “The Kissing Booth 3”
— embarking on a summer
mission to finish a childhood
bucket list with Lee, while de-
ciding whether or not to join
boyfriend Noah (Jacob
Elordi) at Harvard in the fall
— Rachel’s maturity, intu-
itiveness and decisive pur-
suit of self slowly take center
stage.
While Rachel is an aspir-
ing interior designer — and
the visual arts are not
Young’s strong suit — she
sees parallels between herself
and her character, notably
the strength of her reserved
nature.
“I went to film school ...
and people would always
think I was in makeup or
wardrobe because I was
really quiet,” Young said re-
cently by phone. “I was like,
‘Oh, am I supposed to be
loud? Is that confidence? Is
that what you need to be an
actor?’ It rattled me for the
first few years, but as I’ve got-
ten older and the more that
I’ve worked on sets, I’ve be-
come quite empowered in my
quietness. I love that for
Rachel, and I think that’s
something that’s really simi-
lar between us.”
As a child, Young sought
to be the center of attention.
Her love for performing
spurred her to seek out the
stage, but moving from coun-
try to country shaped her
understanding of the human
condition. Born in Johan-
nesburg but a “Cape Town
girl” at heart, Young is a self-
described “expat baby” who
has lived in Nigeria, Switzer-
land and elsewhere, thanks
to her father’s work.
“That experience made
me quite adaptable and in-
terested in other people’s
perspectives and stories. I
wanted to explore all these
different avenues, all these
different roads, and the best
way I could come up with to
do that was acting. If I had
not been an actor, I probably
would have studied psychol-
ogy because I’m always inter-
ested in why people make the
choices they make. I think
that is so key to acting,” said
Young.
Young said that she be-
lieves perspective does
change when navigating dif-
ferent countries, cultures
and practices. Those lived
experiences made her atten-
tive to societal gaps, the im-
portance of nuance and per-
ception beyond the black-
white binary.
“Sometimes I worry that
we want to boil everything
down and make it simple, in-
stead of finding that com-
plexity, trying to understand
it, embrace it and work
within it. When you simplify
things, that’s when you start
pushing out other groups, es-
pecially minorities,” Young
said. “I love complexity. I live
for that. That is why I work in
this industry ... but I also
understand for a lot of peo-
ple, it’s intimidating. I don’t
think we can shy away from it
if we really want to fix things.”
Her first-ever perform-
ance in front of an audience
was as a student at the
Grange School in Lagos, Ni-
geria, where she played a sug-
MEGANNE YOUNG plays the thoughtful Rachel in
“The Kissing Booth 3,” also starring Joel Courtney.
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‘The Kissing
Booth 3’
Where: Netflix
When: Anytime
Rated: TV-14 (may be
unsuitable for children
under the age of 14)
ar plum fairy in a Christmas
performance. Fast forward to
2018 and Young received an
email from her agent: More
“Kissing Booth” films were to
come (the first was an unex-
pected Netflix hit), but the
future of her character was
still unknown.
When she went home to
Cape Town for Christmas,
she was met with a holiday
surprise.
“I sat down with [director
Vince Marcello and producer
Michele Weisler] and they
told me face to face what was
going to happen with Rachel
through both movies. I just
was so excited,” Young said.
“Something I was really tak-
en with when I first read the
script was seeing how she’s
quite an even-keeled charac-
ter. She doesn’t want to over-
step, but she also wants to as-
sert herself and be true to
herself and her feelings.”
After Rachel and Lee
locked lips in the first “Kis-
sing Booth,” Young saw her
character’s importance
grow. In “The Kissing Booth
3,” Rhode Island School of
Design-bound Rachel reeval-
uates her future with Lee af-
ter Elle and Noah’s relation-
ship hits the rocks.
“I hate saying that love is
not enough,” said Young, ref-
erencing a line from the mov-
ie. “Because I am such a ro-
mantic. But ... as you get old-
er and you start investigating
more serious relationships,
you have to take in other fac-
tors. At the end of the day,
you have to take care of your-
self. If you aren’t happy and
there’s too much strain on
your relationship, for what-
ever reason, you need to
make sure that you feel safe
enough to navigate it then
make decisions based on
that.”
As Young navigates her
career, she says a dream of
hers is to play a character
that seems brash, tough and
“ugly” at first glance and
“bring compassion into
that.” Her hope is to chal-
lenge herself, tell “engaging
and relatable” stories, and
compel audiences to see dif-
ferent perspectives.
“I would love to do an ac-
tion movie, to be seen so dif-
ferently to what I appear as.
That’s kind of the goal. It’s so
easy to feel like you can look
at me on paper, you can make
an assumption based on all
these things that you know
about me. Sometimes I feel
that I’ve been limited in peo-
ple’s eyes. ... I think such an
important part of being hu-
man is that growth, that evo-
lution. I think you should
change your mind,” Young
said.
In “The Kissing Booth 3,”
both Elle and Rachel are pre-
sented with choices. The
question is who they’re mak-
ing decisions for: themselves
or to please the people
around them. Young hopes
that audiences take a note
from Rachel and understand
it’s not a mistake to look after
yourself.
“[Rachel] really looks at
what’s happening around her
and she checks in with herself
and she makes choices,”
Young said. “They’re not easy
choices, but she makes
choices that she feels are best
and will protect her. Finding
that trust in yourself — I hope
people take that away [from
the film], and knowing that
what is meant for you will
come back to you. If that
doesn’t come back, that
means that there’s some-
thing else meant for you.”
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KENKEN
Every box will contain a number; numbers depend on the size of the grid. For a 6x6
puzzle, use Nos. 1-6. Do not repeat a number in any row or column. The numbers in each
heavily outlined set of squares must combine to produce the target number found in the
top left corner of the cage using the mathematical operation indicated. A number can be
repeated within a cage as long as it is not in the same row or column.
HOROSCOPE
By Holiday Mathis
Aries (March 21-April 19):
Share a little more of your-
self. You may entertain peo-
ple without meaning to. A
sense of humor makes it ac-
ceptable — attractive, even.
Taurus (April 20-May
20): It is natural to be re-
pelled by certain social dis-
plays. It shows confidence
and maturity to offer com-
passion for such gaffes.
Gemini (May 21-June 21):
If you make too much sense,
people stop paying atten-
tion. Don’t rush to resolve
questions. Get comfortable
as an open-ended mystery.
Cancer (June 22-July 22):
For your eyes to come to this
page, the whole cosmos had
to come together. Breathe in
the miracle of your being.
Punctuate this moment
with meaningful action.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22):
You don’t have to know your
impact to know that you
have influence. They be-
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Edited By Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis
By Ed Sessa
ACROSS
1 Where time is served
5 Hindu divinity whose
name is a homophone
for a herding dog
9 Spanish kiss
13 River of Pisa
14 More under the weather
15 “If you ask me,” to a
texter
16 Vase-making dynasty
17 “I won’t do this
anymore”
19 BBC nickname, with
“the”
20 Scones go-with
21 Mind-boggler
22 Lions’ calls
24 “What a long week!”
25 Copenhagen’s __
Gardens
27 Chef lead-in
28 ’50s dance party
31 Grossed
32 Christmastime
33 What to buy to solve
P_T S_J_K
34 Elevator guy
35 Sleigh driver
37 ’60s civil rights gp.
38 UCLA’s __-12 Conference
39 Fodder holder
40 Cheap booze
42 Opposite of NNW
43 Kept in the loop, in
emails
44 Fluctuates
45 Dallas NBA team
46 Aired again
47 Actress MacRae who
played Alice Kramden
on “The Jackie Gleason
Show”
50 Pro
51 Role in “Son of
Frankenstein”
54 Dog breeders’ group
56 Go off the board
57 ESPN MLB analyst
58 Military divisions
59 Range component
60 Hardy’s “___ of the
D’Urbervilles”
61 Tolkien creatures
62 Greek sandwich
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2 R&B vocalist India.__
haved differently because
you were in the room.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):
You know that who you sur-
round yourself with says
something about you. You’re
careful with your time com-
mitments, as well as the way
you mix people around you.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23):
To some, the word ”nirvana”
describes a blissful state.
More literally: the extinction
of all concepts. Today’s hap-
piness comes from letting go
of an unhappy notion.
Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 21):
Realize the full scope of what
you can give and contribute
judiciously. It would be easy
to offer an opinion when
what’s needed is warmth.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-
Dec. 21): The prizes you
chase say a lot about you.
The current pursuit comes
with tests of endurance, flex-
ibility and character.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan.
19): You’ll make room for the
contributions of others, and
they’ll move to accommo-
3 Conscience
4 Captain’s records
5 Works by Swiss cubist
Paul
6 Thomas __ Edison
7 Martial artist Bruce __
8 Come and go, e.g.,
grammatically
9 Major condition
10 Kindle download
11 Carpentry wedge
12 Chaplin of “Game of
Thrones”
14 Essential worth
18 Cordial flavoring
23 “The Greatest”
24 Promote big-time
25 Sporty sunroofs
26 Teensy amounts
27 Church assembly
28 Greenery in suspended
baskets ... or,
phonetically, what 3-, 8-
or 14-Down is?
29 Perfectly timed
30 Agreements
36 Brewpub orders
37 Unowned, free-ranging
pooch
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date you.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb.
18): You’ll be struck by the
impermanence of your situ-
ation. At one time this lack of
predictability would have
bothered you; now you see
the liberation in it.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March
20): The facts will be appar-
ent, the answers readily
available. But problems are
solved by people whose
needs are more complex.
Today’s birthday (Aug.
17): People get the sense you
are the same on the outside
as on the inside. This is a
comfort and also raises you
in their esteem. You’ll start
at the bottom and soon be
trusted with more money
and status. A wish you pur-
sue in 2022 will connect you
with a supportive crew.
Virgo and Scorpio adore you.
Lucky numbers: 4, 25, 32, 1, 17.
Mathis writes her column
for Creators Syndicate Inc.
The horoscope should be
read for entertainment.
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39 Weigh station?
41 Galley implement
45 Gives a hoot
46 Beats but good
47 Three-handed
game
48 “Psst! Over __!”
49 Grandson of Eve
50 Move like a bee
52 Finished
53 City near Tahoe
55 “Inside Politics”
airer
ANSWER TO
PREVIOUS PUZZLE
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BRIDGE
By Frank Stewart
Cy the Cynic says that if
you have something to post-
pone, the best time is right
now. Cy is a notorious pro-
crastinator, but his habit of
waiting to draw trumps
often serves him well.
In a team match, both
Souths played at four hearts
(East-West would be down
only one at four spades), and
West led the king of spades.
At one table, declarer took
the ace and drew trumps. He
next led a club from dummy
to his 10, and West took the
ace and forced dummy to
ruff a spade.
South then took his king
of clubs, ruffed his last spade
in dummy and ruffed a club.
Dummy had good clubs
but no more entries, so
South lost three diamonds.
ASK AMY
Clean sweep badly needed
Dear Amy: My big old
house is pretty much a mess.
We bought it ”as is” with the
plan to completely renovate,
but never did.
My husband died dec-
ades ago, the kids moved on,
and now I’m a widow living
alone in this huge three-
story house that never got
fixed up. My hubby and kids
left a lot of stuff behind, and I
don’t feel like fighting about
it.
The whole place needs
painting inside, there is junk
everywhere (good junk: col-
lector’s stuff, not trash), and
shelves and shelves of books.
I am also a landlord and I
have multiple apartments to
tend to, repair and upgrade.
My dearest friends and
family understand about my
limited capacity to entertain
in my home, especially those
people who live in messes
too. But for those with whom
I am trying to cultivate a
friendship or those who have
a really beautiful home and
have never been to my
house, I cringe at the
thought of reciprocating
their hospitality.
My circle of friends is
growing smaller due to
death, moving and/or find-
ing myself kind of silently
“written off.”
Your advice?
Old Messy
House Dweller
FAMILY CIRCUS By Bil Keane
ARGYLE SWEATER By Scott Hilburn
BLISS By Harry Bliss
L AT I M E S . C O M / CA L E N DA R
Down one.
Cy, declarer in the replay,
led a club to his 10 at Trick
Two. West won and led a
spade. Cy ruffed in dummy,
came to his king of clubs and
drew trumps with the A-J.
He ruffed a club, ruffed a
spade and threw two dia-
monds on the good clubs.
Making five.
Don’t draw trumps un-
less you see no problems.
Even if you see none, look
again.
You hold: ♠ A ♥ J 10 6 5
♦ 7 5 3 ♣ J 9 6 4 2. Your part-
ner opens one diamond, and
the next player overcalls one
spade. What do you say?
Answer: A “negative dou-
ble” here would promise
enough strength to respond,
with length in hearts and ei-
ther club length or diamond
support. The hand is a dead-
minimum for that action,
Dear Dweller: I think you
should choose to treat your-
self as well as you treat your
tenants.
You deserve to live in a
safe and comfortable home,
and if you put this off much
longer, you might be so over-
whelmed and emotionally
paralyzed that you wouldn’t
be able to even start.
This sort of project is
made much easier by work-
ing with one or more part-
ners. You could hire a profes-
sional to help you to sort
through your possessions
and choose which to donate,
sell and keep.
Selling some of your
things could finance neces-
sary repairs and painting. It
also would liberate you from
your burden.
If you don’t want to hire
someone, one or two friends
could help you to get started.
Church groups sometimes
organize teams to help peo-
ple in your situation; your lo-
cal Office on Aging also
could point you toward vol-
unteers.
I highly recommend that
you watch the show “Clean
Sweep” (clips and tips avail-
able on YouTube). These
stories featuring homes
such as yours are helpful,
useful and inspiring.
Dear Amy: My children are
now young adults. I’ve re-
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now, you may never get to
show strength.
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mained in a loveless rela-
tionship in order for them to
have a two-parent home. I
made this decision because
neither of my parents were
present when I was growing
up.
Now that my youngest is
moving into adulthood,
should I express my unhap-
piness to these mini-adults?
Their dad will play the
victim, as he does daily.
When should I tell them
I’m ready to move on? How
should I deal with their re-
sentment toward me?
Ready to Split
Dear Ready: You should
do your research and make
some solid plans before dis-
cussing this with your chil-
dren.
Doing so before you are
prepared to leave invites
them into your decision-
making process. You should
respect their views and re-
sponses but not let them
control you.
Children resent their
parents for all sorts of rea-
sons, some justified, some
not. If you create a stable
next chapter for yourself,
your contentment will help
you to cope with their reac-
tions.
Send questions to Amy
Dickinson by email to ask
amy@amydickinson.com.
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CELEBRITY PHOTOGRAPHER Matthew Rolston used his studio techniques on Laguna locals portraying characters from artworks.
A fabulously weird exhibition
[‘Art People,’ from E1]
iant knight — was also a
popular subject in 19th cen-
tury France. During a floun-
dering epoch of post-revolu-
tionary destabilization, the
French were mad for organ-
izing guidelines drawn from
history and myth.
The Pageant chose An-
gelica’s florid representa-
tion from an 1840s bronze by
sculptor Antoine-Louis
Barye. She escapes across
the sea in Roger’s protective
arms, riding on the back of a
galloping winged-horse held
aloft by a coiling dolphin.
Celebrity photographer
Matthew Rolston, known for
lush portraits of actors and
musicians, took a different
approach in “Art People,”
his exhibition of 2016 Pag-
eant photographs currently
at the Laguna Art Museum.
Cinematic melodrama and
sculptural romanticism are
nowhere to be seen in his
picture of Barye’s maiden.
Instead, “Art People”
turns the same demanding
techniques of studio work
applied to publicity shots of
Nicki Minaj and Zac Efron
and for the pages of Rolling
Stone and Vogue to anony-
mous Laguna locals who
portray characters from
paintings and sculptures.
The results are agreeably
weird.
Rolston’s gilded An-
gelica faces forward, body
turned to three-quarter
view and cropped just above
the knee. Every inch of ex-
posed skin is shiny gold, ex-
cept for the rims of her eye-
lids. So is her draped tunic
and the hard, coifed cap that
substitutes for soft hair, like
an ice-cream cone dipped in
chocolate. The blue eyes and
TV
news’
absence
[Afghanistan, from E1]
the slog in between. When a
major story broke out in com-
bat zones, it was common-
place in these interim years
for outlets to use Al Jazeera
or Al Arabiya reporting and
camera footage from places
where they weren’t — like
Kandahar Province, Fallujah
and other hot spots where
our troops risked and lost
their lives. Beyond the grim
spectacle of “shock and awe”
and the killing of Osama bin
Laden, if you watched the
nightly news — or even 24-
hour cable news — in the last
two decades, you might be
forgiven for believing Ameri-
ca’s last major war took place
in Vietnam. That’s how inter-
mittent the attention has
been.
Watching this weekend as
Afghanistan fell under Tali-
ban rule, again, was horrify-
ing — particularly the
footage of victorious fighters
pouring into Kabul unchal-
lenged, and the humanitari-
an crisis unfolding around
the airport, which may well
indicate even greater terror
and dread throughout the
rest of the country. But for all
the valiant efforts of those on
the ground there relaying the
white front teeth on a sober,
unsmiling face are of course
unpainted, the lone suggest-
ions of a living, breathing
human being trapped in-
side.
The portrait could not be
more formal. What’s oddly
compelling is that the pho-
tograph undercuts any ex-
pectation of personal expo-
sure, which is what we nor-
mally expect a portrait to ac-
complish. Rolston posed the
model, one arm hidden be-
hind her, with her right arm
slightly bent and her hand
turned to an open palm — a
gesture of candidness that
quietly resounds against her
actual concealment.
Here I am. Who am I?
This is a person, identity
unknown, portraying an ob-
ject for a tableau presented
in a theater. The show is the
thing. The individual wom-
an you’re looking it remains
a cryptic cipher, encased in-
side layers of artistic and
cultural distancing. Who she
is really doesn’t matter.
When you look at An-
toine-Louis Barye’s bronze
sculpture in an art museum,
rarely does the mind turn to
the question of who the
model was working in the
artist’s studio posing for An-
gelica in the wax or plaster
form that would later be cast
in enduring metal. Her life
was lived, and that was that.
The sculpture, which is not a
portrait, lives on.
“Art People” is a strange
inversion of celebrity pho-
tography, in which we casu-
ally assume we are seeing
behind the public mask of a
famous performer. Rolston’s
exquisitely crafted pageant
pictures are all mask. Some
are spectacular — especially
PEOPLE run with a U.S. Air Force C-17 transport plane on the runway at the
international airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. The Taliban reclaimed the capital.
news, much of American TV
seemed ill-prepared to take
on such a grave and complex
series of events. CNN scram-
bled to dig up experts on for-
eign policy and conflict such
as Fareed Zakaria, who
looked like he was on vaca-
tion in a cabin in upstate New
York. Viewers learned that
MSNBC does in fact have an
Iran bureau chief, Ali Arouzi,
though you might not have
known it as recently as last
week. They patiently ex-
plained that this disaster has
been building for more than a
decade, over four different
presidencies — something
one might have expected to
glean from, say, watching the
news.
Other experts were called
Fahey/Klein
AN 1840S work comes
to life via a model plus
photographer Rolston.
the crowned and bearded
figure of Neptune, Roman
god of the sea.
Plucked from the base of
a ponderous fountain in
Paris’ Place de la Concorde,
he’s a cast-iron spectacle
with an odd cap of gilded
foam. A windswept blue
beard is clamped against his
face, his muscled, purplish
torso streaked with brush
marks. The model is buff but
nowhere near as bulky as
the actual laborious statue
designed by German-born
French architect Jacques
Ignace Hittorff. He’s hardly
a household name today,
but Rolston’s photographic
fountain god elicits double-
takes.
Others seem disconcert-
ingly tatty — none more
upon to address the humani-
tarian crisis, namely the as-
sertion that the U.S. was not
swift enough to extract
Afghan interpreters and oth-
ers who had aided U.S.
troops out of the country. Fox
News featured comments
from Norman Roule, former
Middle East expert for the
CIA, but spent a good deal of
the day ripping the president
via contributors such as Ben
Domenech of the Federalist.
And they had a lot to work
with.
In July, when President
Biden announced a timeline
for the drawdown in Af-
ghanistan ending on Aug. 31,
he ensured reporters it would
look nothing like the scram-
ble during the fall of Saigon in
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than the 13 characters in
Leonardo da Vinci’s “The
Last Supper,” annually the
pageant’s grand finale.
Christ and his disciples,
robed and bewigged, are
here a rather creepy and for-
bidding bunch, the makeup
so pronounced that it’s
sometimes hard to tell the
costumed sitter’s gender.
Their beards are like
scrubbing brushes, their
stiff, paint-daubed tunics
like housepainters’ drop
cloths. Absent context,
hand gestures perform a su-
percilious pantomime.
The inspiring and the
prosaic collide, the sacred
indistinguishable from the
profane. Leonardo’s actual
fresco recedes into the con-
ceptual distance. Rolston’s
photographs assume a life of
their own.
One coincidentally re-
vealing example is the 1966
portrait of the late Los Ange-
les art dealer Nicholas
Wilder, painted shoulder-
deep in his home’s oval
swimming pool by David
Hockney. Rolston presents
him in two adjacent photo-
Associated Press
1975. “There’s going to be no
circumstance where you see
people being lifted off the roof
of an embassy of the United
States [in] Afghanistan. It is
not at all comparable.” Circu-
lating across the news Sun-
day and Monday: Images of
an evacuation effort from the
rooftop of the American Em-
bassy in Kabul that looked
eerily similar to those shot in
Vietnam 40-odd years ago.
In Vietnam, at least, TV
was instrumental in bringing
U.S. viewers information
about the war and, many
have argued, turning them
against it. TV coverage of Af-
ghanistan has been so sparse
since the war’s earliest days
it’s been hard to know what
message the networks were
L AT I M E S . C O M / CA L E N DA R
Laguna Art Museum
graphs — one the painted
plaster bust that pageant
designers use to guide the
nightly ritual of preparing
the cast member for the
show, the other the per-
former ready to go.
I knew Wilder, who ran
one of Los Angeles’ most im-
portant art galleries for 14
formative years in the city’s
contemporary cultural life.
Looking at the technically
refined, high-resolution
photographs of both man-
nequin and model, I was sur-
prised at how little either
one resembled him. Like the
Hittorff Neptune and Leon-
ardo’s Jesus, being in the ar-
tistic ballpark is close
enough for the pageant.
After all, close scrutiny of
a painting or a sculpture is
not the aim of a tableau vi-
vant. I’ve long thought of the
Pageant of the Masters as
being somewhat akin to a
sporting event, where exten-
sive training, precision
workouts and repetitive
practice lead to the starting-
gun moment when the cur-
tain opens and, in a reversal
of many sporting norms, the
“art athletes” must remain
perfectly still for the dura-
tion of the exposure.
If that sounds like the
way photographs were
made during the camera’s
19th century infancy — well,
it’s not coincidental that the
tableau vivant was birthed
and flourished around the
same time. It isn’t exactly a
democratizing impulse for
art, but taking pictures and
making them were entering
a new historical phase. Rol-
ston’s peculiar pageant pic-
tures begin to bring the
world-altering saga into un-
expected focus.
sending, except about its
unimportance.
“I am the president of the
U.S. and the buck stops with
me,” Biden said in a speech
Monday, addressing the criti-
cism that he’d made a griev-
ous error by pulling troops
out, and that the events un-
folding in Kabul were proof of
that miscalculation. “I do not
regret my decision to end the
war in Afghanistan.
“Our mission in Af-
ghanistan was never sup-
posed to have been nation-
building ... there was never a
good time to withdraw U.S.
forces,” he added. “The
events we are seeing now are
sadly proof that no amount of
military force would ever de-
liver a stable, united, secure
Afghanistan, that’s known in
history as the graveyard of
empires. I will not mislead
the American people by
claiming that just a little
more time in Afghanistan will
make all the difference.”
But the stark reality of a
no-win war, and a no-win po-
litical situation, didn’t make
the news out of Afghanistan
any less heart-wrenching. Al
Jazeera broadcast the
“handover ceremony” at the
presidential palace, which
passed from what was left of
the Afghan government to
the Taliban. Reports came
into MSNBC that the Tali-
ban was already going door
to door, seeking Afghans who
helped the U.S., journalists
and those dedicated to hu-
man rights causes.
It was the tragic end to a
messy war and occupation —
most of which was never
broadcast.
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Superman & Lois Lois
(Elizabeth Tulloch) con-
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Suspicion and distrust in
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Chris Rock (“Spiral”); Oliv-
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Amanpour and Company (N) 11 p.m. KCET; 1 a.m. KLCS (TVG) (7) Å Artistic Oasis. (N) Å to Storefront. (N) Å (TVG) Å International (TVG) Å International
History Secrets (7) History’s Greatest Mysteries (TVPG) Å Man vs. History (TVPG) Å Man vs. History (11:05) Å
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Michael IFC 2 Guns (5:30) S.W.A.T. ›› (2003) Samuel L. Jackson, Colin Farrell. (PG-13) Å 2 Guns ›› (2013) Denzel Washington. Å
Shannon; Paris Hilton; Courtney Barnett performs. (N) 11:34
Lifetime Rizzoli … (7) Rizzoli & Isles (TV14) Å Rizzoli & Isles (TV14) Å Rizzoli & Isles (TV14) Å Rizzoli & Isles (TV14) Å
p.m. KNBC
MTV Catfish (7) Catfish (TV14) (N) Å True Life Crime (TV14) (N) Å Catfish (TVPG) Å Ridiculousness Ridiculousness
The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Amanda Peet; Nat Geo Life Below Zero Life Below Zero (TVPG) The Hailstone family embarks on a seal hunt before guests arrive Life Below Zero (TVPG) Å
Roger Bennett. (N) 11:35 p.m. KCBS (7) Å at the Kavik River Camp; Andy and Kate struggle to build a greenhouse. Å

Jimmy Kimmel Live! Julie Bowen guest hosts; Minnie Nickelodeon Patrick Star Å SpongeBob SpongeBob Friends Å Friends Å Friends Å Friends Å Friends Å Friends Å
Driver; Jacob Elordi; Ashe. (N) 11:35 p.m. KABC OWN David Makes David Makes Man (TVMA) David Makes Man (TVMA) David Makes Man (TVMA) No David Makes Man (TVMA)
Man (7) Chaos is Come Again. Homecoming. (N) Atheists in Rabbit Holes. Chaos is Come Again.
Late Night With Seth Meyers Jennifer Hudson; Lior Raz; Paramount The Da Vinci Code ›› (2006) Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou. (PG-13) (7) Å Now You See Me ›› (2013) Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo.
Jeff Bowders with the 8G Band. (N) 12:37 a.m. KNBC (PG-13) Å
Sundance NCIS (7) Å NCIS (TV14) Å NCIS (TV14) Å NCIS (TV14) Å NCIS (TVPG) Å
Nightline (N) 12:37 a.m. KABC
Syfy Gone in Sixty Seconds › (2000) Nicolas The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift ›› (2006) Lucas Black, Zachery Ty Death Wish
MOVIES Cage, Angelina Jolie. (PG-13) (6:30) Å Bryan. (PG-13) Å (11:15) Å
TBS Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Miracle Work- Miracle Work- Seinfeld
Drumline (2002) 8 a.m. HBO (TVPG) Å (TVPG) Å (TVPG) Å (TVPG) Å (TVPG) Å (TVPG) Å ers (TVMA) ers (TVMA) (TVPG) Å
The wagon The wagon
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008) 8:17 a.m. Encore train stopstrain stops
The Party (2017) 8:35 a.m. Epix at Indepen-at Indepen-
dence Rock.dence Rock.
Boiler Room (2000) 9 a.m. Showtime (N) Å Å
TCM In a Lonely Place ››› (1950) (7) Å Crossfire ››› (1947) Robert Young. Å The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) (10:45) Å
Life of Pi (2012) 10 a.m. HBO
TLC Welcome to Welcome to Plathville (TVPG) My Big Fat Fabulous Life Welcome to Plathville Max Welcome to Plathville The
Black Mass (2015) 10 a.m. History Plathville The Plath family is fractured (TVPG) (Season premiere) recruits Micah and Lydia to Plath family is fractured into
(TVPG) (7) into three different house- Whitney looks forward to help out with a secret sur- three different households;
Men in Black (1997) 10:11 a.m. and 11:18 p.m. Encore holds; Moriah and Micah life after quarantine; Buddy prise for Moriah; Ethan and Moriah and Micah move
move slowly toward reconcil- abandons her for his new Olivia’s relationship is on the slowly toward reconciliation
Blood Father (2016) 11 a.m. Syfy iation with their parents. (N) girlfriend. (N) rocks. (N) (10:05) with their parents. (11:08)

Mad Hot Ballroom (2005) 11 a.m. TMC TNT The Legend of Pacific Rim ››› (2013) Charlie Hunnam, Diego Klattenhoff. A washed-up ex-pilot and an Geostorm › (2017) Gerard
Tarzan (5:30) untested trainee must drive an old, obsolete robot in a last-ditch effort to repel a lethal Butler, Jim Sturgess. (PG-
This Is the End (2013) 11:15 a.m. Starz Å force of monstrous invaders. (PG-13) Å 13) Å
Toon Apple & Onion Bob’s Burgers Bob’s Burgers American Dad American Dad American Dad Rick and Morty Family Guy Animated. Å
Crawl (2019) 11:25 a.m. Epix Travel Paranormal Paranormal Caught on Camera Paranormal Caught on Camera (TVPG) (N) Å Paranormal Caught on Camera
Goodfellas (1990) 12:33 p.m. History (TV14) (7) Å (TVPG) Å (TVPG) Å
TruTV Jokers (TV14) Jokers (TV14) Jokers (TV14) Jokers (TV14) Jokers (TV14) Jokers (TV14) Jokers (TV14) Backyard Bar Backyard Bar
A Few Good Men (1992) 1 p.m. AMC
TV Land Andy Griffith Raymond Å Raymond Å Raymond Å Raymond Å Raymond Å Raymond Å King of Queens King of Queens
Little Women (2019) 1:48 and 9 p.m. Encore USA Armageddon WWE NXT (TVPG) WWE Superstars compete to prove American Ninja Warrior (TVPG) (10:08) Å
(5) Å they’ve got what it takes. (N) Å
Despicable Me (2010) 3 p.m. Freeform
VH1 Wild ‘n Out Å Wild ‘n Out Å Wild ‘n Out Å Wild ‘n Out Å Wild ‘n Out Å Wild ‘n Out Å Wild ‘n Out Å Wild ‘n Out Å Wild ‘n Out Å
Sicario (2015) 3 p.m. FX Tuesday, August 17, Prime-time: Cable Sports Channels
The Natural (1984) 4:30 p.m. FS1; 10 p.m. Ovation 7:30 pm 8:00 pm 8:30 pm 9:00 pm 9:30 pm 10:00 pm 10:30 pm 11:00 pm 11:30 pm
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Despicable Me 2 (2013) 5 p.m. Freeform BSW MLB Baseball Angels at Detroit Tigers. From Comerica Park in Detroit. Postgame Angels Weekly Poker
Deepwater Horizon (2016) 5:30 p.m. FX ESPN NBA Summer SportsCenter (N) Å SportsCenter (N) Å SportsCenter (N) Å SportsCenter (N) Å
League (6)
Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) 7 p.m. Freeform ESPN2 Fantasy (6) UFC Unleashed (TV14) Å NFL Live Å Around Horn Interruption UFC 237
The Good Dinosaur (2015) 7:23 p.m. Encore FS1 Mexico Primera Division Soccer (7) Skip and Shannon: Undisputed Å TMZ Sports PBC Collection
Cinderella (2015) 7:33 p.m. Starz MLB MLB Tonight (N) Å Quick Pitch (N) Å Quick Pitch Å
NBC Sports Monster Jam Caffeine & … Caffeine & … Carcass (TVG) Carcass (TVG) Monster Jam Å Mecum Top 10 Off the Grid
Judas and the Black Messiah (2021) 7:50 p.m. HBO SNLA MLB Baseball Pittsburgh Pirates at Dodgers. (Live) (7) Dodgers Postgame (N) MLB Baseball
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