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From Dissent Child Sex Abusers Elude

To Rallying Cry
In State Dept.
Diplomats Lead Way
in Trump Inquiry
This article is by Michael Crowley,
Lara Jakes and David E. Sanger.
WASHINGTON — State De-
partment Foreign Service officers
usually express their views in for-
mal diplomatic cables, but these
days they are using closed Face-
book groups and encrypted apps
to convey their pride in Marie L.
Yovanovitch, the ousted ambassa-
dor to Ukraine, whose House tes-
timony opened the floodgates on
the impeachment inquiry into
President Trump.
#GoMasha is their rallying cry.
In private conversations, they
trade admiring notes about career
State Department officials like
William B. Taylor Jr. and George P.
Kent, who delivered damning tes-
timony about a shadow Ukraine
policy infected by partisan politics
and presidential conspiracy theo-
ries, and William V. Roebuck, a
senior diplomat in Syria who
wrote a searing memo on how Mr.
Trump abandoned the Kurds and
upended American influence.
And they are opening their wal-
lets to help raise money — includ-
ing nearly $10,000 last Monday
alone — to offset the legal bills of
department officials called to tes-
tify before Congress.
Rarely has the State Depart-
ment, often seen as a staid pillar of
the establishment, been the cen-
ter of a revolt against a president
and his top appointees. But as a
parade of department officials has
recounted to lawmakers how pol-
icy was hijacked by partisan poli-
tics, many career diplomats say
they have been inspired by their
colleagues’ willingness to stand
up to far more powerful voices af-
ter nearly three years of being ig-
nored or disparaged by Mr. Trump
and those he has chosen to lead
the department.
In fact, when open impeach-
ment hearings begin this coming
week, the first to testify will be
diplomats, appearing despite di-
rectives from the White House for
administration officials to defy
Congress on such requests. They
will include Ms. Yovanovitch,
whose abrupt recall in May under
suspicious circumstances was a
galvanizing moment for her col-
leagues.
“What we’ve seen is a dawning
recognition that Foreign Service
officers are just as deeply patriot-
ic as their colleagues in the mili-
tary,” said Molly Montgomery,
who spent 14 years in the Foreign
Service before leaving govern-
ment last year after a stint in the
office of Vice President Mike
Pence. “There’s a feeling of im-
mense pride that the public is see-
ing Foreign Service officers for
who they are.”
Continued on Page 21
F. and E. were sexually abused as children. A digital trail of the crimes haunts them a decade later.
Once Red Redoubts, Suburbs Turn Virginia Blue Bloomberg Nudges Into a Field
Among the Cul-de-Sacs,
By SABRINA TAVERNISE
and ROBERT GEBELOFF
SOUTH RIDING, Va. — Not
long ago, this rolling green stretch
of Northern Virginia was farm-
land. Most people who could vote
had grown up here. And when
they did, they usually chose Re-
publicans.
The fields of Loudoun County
are disappearing. In their place is
row upon row of cookie-cutter
townhouses, clipped lawns and
cul-de-sacs — a suburban land-
scape for as far as the eye can see.
Unlike three decades ago, the resi-
dents are often from other places,
like India and Korea. And when
they vote, it is often for Demo-
crats.
Chock Full of Not-So-Sure Bets
Immigrants Drive a
Nationwide Shift
“Guns, that is the most pressing
issue for me,” said Vijay Katkuri,
38, a software engineer from
southern India, explaining why he
voted for a Democratic challenger
in Tuesday’s elections. He was
shopping for chicken at the Indian
Spice Food Market. “There are
lots of other issues, but you can
only fix them if you are alive.”
Mr. Katkuri’s vote — the first of
his life — helped flip a longtime
Republican State Senate district
KHOLOOD EID FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
and deliver the Virginia state-
house to the Democratic Party for
the first time in a generation. It
was a stunning political realign-
ment for a southern state, and
prompted days of prognosticating
about President Trump’s own
standing with suburban voters
nationally in 2020. But while polit-
ical leaders come and go, the
deeper, more lasting force at work
is demographics.
Once the heart of the confedera-
cy, Virginia is now the land of Indi-
an grocery stores, Korean
churches and Diwali festivals. The
state population has boomed — up
by 38 percent since 1990, with the
biggest growth in densely settled
suburban areas like South Riding.
Continued on Page 24
Flimsy Digital Safeguards
A Living Nightmare for the Victims as Tech
Companies Fail to Stop the Images
By MICHAEL H. KELLER and GABRIEL J.X. DANCE
The two sisters live in fear of be-
ing recognized. One grew out her
bangs and took to wearing hood-
ies. The other dyed her hair black.
Both avoid looking the way they
did as children.
Ten years ago, their father did
the unthinkable: He posted ex-
EXPLOITED
‘Pictures Are Forever’
plicit photos and videos on the in-
ternet of them, just 7 and 11 at the
time. Many captured violent as-
saults in their Midwestern home,
including him and another man
drugging and raping the 7-year-
old.
The men are now in prison, but
in a cruel consequence of the dig-
ital era, their crimes are finding
new audiences. The two sisters
are among the first generation of
child sexual abuse victims whose
anguish has been preserved on
the internet, seemingly forever.
This year alone, photos and vid-
eos of the sisters were found in
over 130 child sexual abuse inves-
tigations involving mobile
phones, computers and cloud stor-
age accounts.
The digital trail of abuse — of-
ten stored on Google Drive, Drop-
box and Microsoft OneDrive —
haunts the sisters relentlessly,
they say, as does the fear of a pred-
ator recognizing them from the
images.
“That’s in my head all the time
— knowing those pictures are out
there,” said E., the older sister,
who is being identified only by her
first initial to protect her privacy.
“Because of the way the internet
works, that’s not something that’s
By SYDNEY EMBER and JONATHAN MARTIN
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa —
Jackie Wellman worries that Sen-
ators Bernie Sanders and Eliza-
beth Warren are too liberal to de-
feat President Trump, thinks
Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South
Bend, Ind., may be too inexperi-
enced and, while she is fond of Jo-
seph R. Biden Jr., she is also un-
easy about his tendency to miss-
peak. “I am worried about the top
four candidates because they all
have issues,” said Ms. Wellman, a
54-year-old Iowa caucusgoer from
West Des Moines who likes Sena-
tor Amy Klobuchar.
going to go away.”
Horrific experiences like theirs
are being recirculated across the
internet because search engines,
social networks and cloud storage
are rife with opportunities for
criminals to exploit.
The scope of the problem is only
starting to be understood because
the tech industry has been more
diligent in recent years in identify-
ing online child sexual abuse ma-
terial, with a record 45 million
photos and videos flagged last
year.
But the same industry has con-
sistently failed to take aggressive
steps to shut it down, an investiga-
tion by The New York Times
found. Approaches by tech com-
panies are inconsistent, largely
unilateral and pursued in secret,
often leaving pedophiles and
other criminals who traffic in the
material with the upper hand.
The companies have the techni-
cal tools to stop the recirculation
of abuse imagery by matching
newly detected images against
databases of the material. Yet the
industry does not take full advan-
tage of the tools.
Amazon, whose cloud storage
services handle millions of up-
loads and downloads every sec-
ond, does not even look for the im-
agery. Apple does not scan its
cloud storage, according to fed-
eral authorities, and encrypts its
messaging app, making detection
virtually impossible. Dropbox,
Google and Microsoft’s consumer
products scan for illegal images,
but only when someone shares
them, not when they are up-
loaded.
And other companies, including
Continued on Page 18
Ms. Wellman is not the only
Democrat who keeps finding
flaws as she searches for the best
candidate to win the White House.
“Voters are holding back be-
cause just when they start to fall in
love, they find something that
gets them a little nervous,” former
Mayor Rahm Emanuel of Chicago
said. “The reason it’s so fluid is be-
cause they’re still searching for
the horse that can win.”
Michael R. Bloomberg believes
that may be him. But Mr. Bloom-
berg’s apparent decision to mount
Continued on Page 25

Cockfighting Ban by Congress

Breeds Anxiety in Puerto Rico
By PATRICIA MAZZEI
VEGA BAJA, P.R. — Hiram Fi-
gueroa rears roosters to fight, a
Puerto Rican tradition from the
time of the Spanish colonists that
he learned as a teenager half a
century ago and later taught his
son. Together, they exercise their
birds, clip their feathers and give
them delicate sponge baths.
and pay the Figueroas for their
care bought fewer chicks this
year, knowing they would not
need them for long.
Cockfighting will be outlawed in
Puerto Rico and other United
States territories in December, a
long overdue ban in the eyes of an-
imal welfare advocates who con-
MAIDEN HIGH SCHOOL RYAN CHRISTOPHER JONES FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Now rows of dusty cages lie
empty in Mr. Figueroa’s backyard,
a reminder of his fading liveli-
hood.
He used to keep some 250 game
fowl tucked behind their modest
home in Vega Baja, a town west of
San Juan, the capital. Now he is
down to about half, a drop big
enough that a neighbor told him
that sometimes he no longer
hears the incessant crowing. The
men who own most of the birds
sider the practice cruel and out-
dated. Louisiana, the last state to
allow cockfighting, prohibited it
more than a decade ago, in 2008.
But unlike state legislation, which
was enacted by elected represent-
atives, this ban was passed by
Congress, where Puerto Rico’s 3.2
million people do not have a vot-
ing member. Lawmakers slipped
the ban into last year’s farm bill,
Continued on Page 22
The Fight to Keep the Friday Night Lights Shining
The people of Maiden, N.C., population 3,419, like to call their
home “the biggest little football town in the world.”
Maiden has a problem, though. Over the course of 11 years,
Maiden’s varsity team has slowly shrunk. (The 2008 Maiden
High School football team is pictured on the left. This year’s
team is pictured on the right.) What is happening here is hap-
pening across the country. Nationally, high school participation
in 11-man football has fallen more than 10 percent since 2009.
Football will likely be a fundamental part of the American
identity for years to come, but it has been hurt by its link to
long-term brain damage and competition from other sports.
The powers that be in football, worried by the narrative that
their sport is dying, began a campaign two years ago to secure
its future. This is the story of their efforts. SPORTSSUNDAY

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INTERNATIONAL 4-13
Lost Without Fresh Loaves
“Without bread, there is no more life,”
lamented a resident of a French village
whose bakery had closed. PAGE 6
Tensions Escalate in Bolivia
Some Democrats chasing the presiden-
tial nomination find themselves flum-
moxed by the adulation (and the dona-
tions) pouring in for Pete Buttigieg of
South Bend, Ind. PAGE 14
Disenfranchised No More
A year after Florida overwhelmingly
voted to allow some ex-felons to regain
the right to vote, an effort is underway
to help them clear the final hurdles to
the ballot box. PAGE 24
SPORTSSUNDAY
L.S.U. Holds Back the Tide
Top-ranked Louisiana State had a lot to
celebrate as the Tigers managed to
defeat No. 2 Alabama, 46-41. PAGE 5
Every Gopher Has Its Day
Yoga students and teachers are slowly
addressing unwanted contact, part of
the darker history of a form of move-
ment popular worldwide. PAGE 1
ARTS & LEISURE SUNDAY BUSINESS
Minimalist to the End Holding On to Their Land
Philip Glass doesn’t care about his An African-American farming family in
legacy. “I won’t be around for all that,” Alabama has survived droughts, torna-
he says. “It doesn’t matter.” PAGE 8 does and racism. The trade wars are
just the latest challenge. PAGE 8
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Thirty Years After
The Fall of the Wall
What’s
News
World-Wide
T wo Giuliani associates
in late February urged
Ukraine’s prior president to
announce probes similar to
those Trump later pressed
on Zelensky in exchange for a
state visit to Washington. A1
 National-security officials
testified in the impeach-
ment inquiry that they were
taken aback by the efforts of
Sondland to push Ukraine to
launch investigations. A4
 Trump disputed China’s
assertion that Washington
and Beijing had agreed to
roll back tariffs as part of
an interim trade accord. A3
 Vitamin E oil was detected
in all 29 samples taken from
vaping patients tested by
the CDC, the agency said. A1
 Bloomberg is drawing up
a strategy to build campaign
staff in states that hold March
2020 primary contests, as he
mulls a presidential bid. A5
 The administration is
proposing to raise the cost
of applying for U.S. citizen-
ship, as well as creating new
fees for some asylum seekers
and the DACA program. A3
 Brazil’s da Silva was re-
leased from prison pending
appeal of his corruption con-
viction, following a ruling by
the nation’s high court. A7
 Iran said it shot down a
foreign drone near one of its
Persian Gulf ports close to
the border with Iraq. A6
Business & Finance
 Banks jockeying for a role
in WeWork’s public debut
wooed founder Adam Neu-
mann with sky-high valua-
tions, but their loans to the
firm told a different story. A1
 Alibaba is aiming to raise
up to $15 billion with a new
listing in Hong Kong this
month, reviving the offering
even as the city’s political
climate remains unstable. B1
 China geared up for the
annual “Singles Day” con-
sumer splurge. This year’s
retail event is expected to
be bigger than ever. B3
 U.S. stocks clinched
fresh records and govern-
ment-bond yields notched
their biggest weekly gain
in a month as investors
grew more confident. B1
 McDonald’s first
learned roughly three weeks
ago of the relationship
that cost Easterbrook his
job as chief executive. B3
 A Milan court convicted 13
former and current executives
of Monte dei Paschi, Deutsche
Bank and Nomura of a num-
ber of financial crimes. B12
 Blackstone is taking a
majority stake in the owner
of dating app Bumble as it
pushes to invest more in
fast-growing companies. B3
 Amtrak inched closer to
breaking even last year as
rising ridership and cost cuts
continued to improve its
financial performance. A3
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student who was comatose for days from injuries sustained near the scene of a clash between
police and protesters. The incident was expected to further inflame tensions over the weekend. A7
Vitamin E Fire Victims Confront PG&E Bankruptcy
Oil Linked
Chapter 11 rules essentially put a lid on compensation to California wildfire payouts
To Vaping
Illness
BY BRIANNA ABBOTT
AND JENNIFER MALONEY
Vitamin E oil was detected in
all 29 samples taken from vap-
ing patients tested by the Cen-
ters for Disease Control and
Prevention, the federal agency
said Friday, a tantalizing clue in
the investigation into the cause
of mysterious lung injuries.
Researchers found the oil in
fluid taken from the lungs of pa-
tients with illnesses related to
vaping from 10 different states,
the CDC said. No other suspi-
cious substances were detected
aside from vitamin E oil, also
known as vitamin E acetate.
A CDC official described the
finding as a breakthrough,
since it links a concerning
substance found in the vaping
products to biological samples
from the patients.
“For the first time, we have
detected a potential toxin of
concern” in patient samples,
Anne Schuchat, the principal
deputy director at the CDC,
said on a call with reporters.
“These findings provide direct
evidence of vitamin E acetate
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at the primary site of the in-
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World News....... A6-8 said more studies will need to
be conducted to determine
whether vitamin E oil was be-
> hind the vaping injuries.
Health officials also say
there might be more than one
cause of the illnesses and they
will continue to work to better
understand the outbreak.
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BY PEG BRICKLEY AND GRETCHEN MORGENSON
As many as 100,000 California resi-
dents who lost property, jobs and loved
ones in fires linked to PG&E Corp. will
get their day in court. It will be in
bankruptcy court, where rules shield
the utility giant from potentially crip-
pling jury payouts.
PG&E isn’t broke. It is following the
survival strategy used by other trou-
bled companies to put a lid on damage
claims. For victims, that amounts to a
loss of negotiating power and likely
means a fraction of the compensation
they might receive in a jury trial.
California investigators have con-
nected PG&E equipment to fires that
killed more than 100 people, destroyed
26,000 buildings and burned at least
330,000 acres in 2017 and 2018. Law-
yers for fire victims estimate that the
utility, which filed for chapter 11 bank-
ruptcy protection in January, is liable
for as much as $54 billion in wildfire
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ago Friday in Paradise, Calif., and awaits news about his PG&E and insurance claims.
She Climbed Kilimanjaro—and Kept Her Phone Alive
Extreme conditions require unusual tactics; spooning with gadgets
BY ANUPREETA DAS
MOUNT KILIMANJARO—At
13,800 feet on Africa’s highest
mountain, as the nighttime
temperature dipped and I
drew my hot-water bottle
closer, the following thoughts
occurred in quick succession:
I was toasty in my sleeping
bag. My iPhone, sitting on the
tent floor, was not. How would
I survive if my phone died on
the mountain?
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Two Giuliani
Allies Pushed
Ukraine Probes
Months before President
Trump pressed Ukraine’s
newly installed leader to in-
vestigate Joe Biden’s son and
allegations of interference in
By Rebecca Ballhaus
and Alan Cullison in
Washington and
Brett Forrest in Kyiv
the 2016 U.S. election, two as-
sociates of Rudy Giuliani urged
the prior Ukrainian president
to announce similar probes in
exchange for a state visit to
Washington, according to peo-
ple familiar with the matter.
A late February meeting in
Kyiv between Lev Parnas, Igor
Fruman and then-Ukrainian
President Petro Poroshenko
took place at the offices of
Banks Harbored
Doubts on WeWork
Banks jockeying for a role
in WeWork’s public debut
wooed founder Adam Neu-
mann with sky-high valuations
that would make him a billion-
By David Benoit,
Maureen Farrell
and Liz Hoffman
aire many times over. Their
loans to the company told a
different story.
JPMorgan Chase & Co.,
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and
other banks arranged giant
fees and strict protections re-
i i i
do. I would have to spoon my
phone. Then, feeling bad for all
the other gadgets I had brought
along on my weeklong quest to
summit Kilimanjaro, I snuggled
my smartwatch, my AirPods,
two digital cameras, a head-
lamp, charging cables, three
power banks and several dozen
spare batteries inside my bag.
It was a little crowded.
“I definitely could not have
nested with my tech,” said Lilla
Zuill, my tentmate, after sev-
eral nights of watching me fuss
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Ukrainian general prosecutor
Yuriy Lutsenko, the people said.
It came soon after Messrs. Par-
nas and Fruman met with Mr.
Giuliani, the president’s per-
sonal lawyer, and Mr. Lutsenko
in New York in late January
and again in Warsaw in mid-
February, Mr. Giuliani has said.
Mr. Lutsenko also attended
the late February meeting, the
people said. Mr. Poroshenko
didn’t ultimately announce that
he was opening those investi-
gations. Mr. Lutsenko, the pros-
ecutor, gave an interview to the
Hill in March in which he said
he was opening an investiga-
tion into alleged interference
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 Ambassador’s efforts alarmed
officials.......................................... A4
flecting their concerns about
WeWork’s unproven business
model and Mr. Neumann’s un-
predictable behavior.
When Wells Fargo & Co.
signed on to a $6 billion loan
earlier this year, Mr. Neumann
said: “If the largest lender in
this country can get comfort-
able with this, then everybody
should.”
Yet Wells Fargo, the fourth-
largest U.S. bank, only started
lending to WeWork after an
executive at the bank prom-
ised to keep an eye on Mr.
Please turn to page A7
RACHEL BUJALSKI FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
over my gadgets, rather like a
hen with mechanical eggs. “It
was too uncomfortable,” she
added, having tried it one night
and woken up with a 1.3-pound
portable battery charger on her.
After that, she stuffed her tech
inside hats and pockets instead.
Gadgets, especially smart-
phones and devices powered by
lithium-ion batteries, respond
poorly to extreme cold. They
can freeze or develop glitches.
Batteries drain alarmingly fast.
Please turn to page A8
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BRASILLula relanza la
oposición a Bolsonaro P5
España vota por cuarta vez desde
2015 con igual incertidumbre
37 millones de personas están Los partidos piensan ya
convocadas a las urnas, el en el día siguiente y en
mayor censo de la democracia los equilibrios de fuerzas
A. DÍEZ / J. MARCOS, Madrid
Los españoles acudirán hoy a las
urnas por cuarta vez en cuatro
años. Están convocados 37 millo-
nes, el mayor censo de la demo-
cracia. Y en juego, que el país sal-
ga del bloqueo político e institu-
cional en el que languidece des-
de 2015. No va a ser fácil. Las
mayorías absolutas parecen co-
sas del pasado y los partidos, des-
de ya, piensan en el día siguiente,
en los pactos y en los equilibrios
de fuerzas.
Ha sido una campaña corta,
marcada por la crisis catalana y
por la sombra de una desacelera-
ción económica que se avecina.
También por las diferencias cre-
cientes entre Podemos y el PSOE
y el posible ascenso de Vox. Los
expertos auguran que la absten-
ción no será tan alta como se pre-
veía semanas atrás. La lucha por
los votos se ha centrado en hacer-
se con los apoyos que, según las
encuestas, Ciudadanos ha ido
perdiendo. La batalla electoral
se juega hoy en múltiples fren-
tes: desde los disputados escaños
de la España interior hasta el im-
pacto en los votantes de los nue-
vos partidos en liza, como Más
País y la CUP. PÁGINAS 19 A 21
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SEBASTIÁN PIÑERA
Presidente de Chile
“No supimos
entender el
clamor por una
sociedad
El gran reto es recuperar
la gobernabilidad tras
más justa”
cuatro años de inestabilidad R. MONTES / E. GONZÁLEZ
Santiago de Chile
Sebastián Piñera, de 69 años,
presidente de Chile, afronta una
situación crítica, con el país in-
merso en una revuelta violenta.
El mandatario sostiene que su
Gobierno no supo ver “que ha-
bía un clamor subterráneo de la
ciudadanía que exigía una socie-
dad más justa”. Añade que no
caerá “ni en la demagogia ni en
el populismo”. PÁGINAS 3 Y 4
Warren despega
con sus planes
para revolucionar
la economía
de EE UU
AMANDA MARS, Raleigh
La senadora Elizabeth Warren, as-
pirante a candidata demócrata,
despega en los sondeos mientras
defiende un revolucionario progra-
ma económico que incluye acabar
con las deudas de los estudiantes
o gravar con mayores impuestos a
las grandes fortunas. PÁGINA 10
Así negoció Iberia
FABRIZIO BENSCH (REUTERS) la compra de su
Merkel: “Los valores europeos hay que defenderlos” competidor Air Europa
Alemania celebró ayer con flores la caída del
muro de Berlín hace 30 años. Dirigentes de Ale-
recuerda aún la frontera que dividió durante
décadas la ciudad, el país y el mundo. La canci-
El pacto
mania y de los países vecinos se dieron cita bajo ller Angela Merkel envió un mensaje contunden- de las seis de la
un cielo gris y en un ambiente sobrio, junto a los
restos del Muro y una torre de vigilancia que
te: “Los valores europeos no deben darse por
sentados; siempre deben defenderse”. PÁGINA 9 mañana P54 Y 55
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THE MUSHROOM cloud of an atomic bomb rises off Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands on July 1, 1946.
AMERICAN FALLOUT
During the Cold War,
the United States
conducted 67 nuclear
tests in the Marshall
Islands of the central
Pacific, contaminating
much of the region.
Some of the radioactive
remnants are buried
in a concrete dome that
U.S. officials left to the
Marshallese government
— without warning that
“the Tomb” was doomed
to fail. Rising seas now
threaten to dislodge the
waste. Inside, a special
report on a little-known
U.S. legacy.
A plastic problem is
piling up across Asia
Single-use pouches
are a boon to buyers
but a trash disaster.
By Shashank Bengali
MANILA — Two dozen
children fanned out along a
creek near their elementary
school, filling sacks with lit-
ter left by residents of the
concrete shacks lining the
waterway.
When they’d finished the
morning cleanup, the stu-
dents emptied a large
garbage bag to study its con-
tents. A stream of shiny plas-
Soul-searching,
partying in Berlin
Divisions surface even as
tens of thousands gather
at Brandenburg Gate to
celebrate the fall of the
wall in 1989. WORLD, A3
Weather
Sunny and cooler.
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© 2019 WST
DECADES AGO, U.S. officials entombed 35 Olympic-sized swimming pools’
worth of plutonium and other waste in a concrete dome on Enewetak Atoll.
tic scraps spilled onto the
school’s driveway.
Bearing the names of fa-
miliar international brands
of coffee creamer, biscuits,
laundry detergent and
candy, the discarded pack-
aging illustrated one of the
biggest environmental chal-
lenges facing Asia’s booming
cities. The palm-sized pack-
ets known as sachets have
exploded in emerging econ-
omies, allowing low-income
consumers to buy single
servings of almost any prod-
uct.
But the packaging can-
not be easily recycled, and in
cities like Manila with spotty
[See Plastic, A4]
USC survives, but
Helton may not
The Trojans’ 31-26 win
over Arizona State is
unlikely to affect their
coach’s fate. SPORTS, D1
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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2019
Associated Press
Carolyn Cole Los Angeles Times
PAT RUSH, 84, gets a kiss from her grandson, Gabriel Wood, at the Dust
Bowl Festival. Her family migrated to California from Arkansas in the 1940s.
Okie festival turns to dust
But at Weedpatch Camp, migrant stories live on
By Hailey Branson-Potts
WEEDPATCH, Calif. — The girl was
afraid to speak in class because of her ac-
cent.
The clothes sewn by her farmworker
mother made her self-conscious. She
lived in a field laborers’ camp outside the
dusty town of Lamont, and many Califor-
9 nians despised people like her. Go back to
where you came from, they said.
official watch of the
los angeles lakers
Carpinteria is
on edge as pot
gains new clout
Growers are donating
to politicians and
schools. Their sway —
and the smell — has
split this small town.
By Joe Mozingo
CARPINTERIA, Calif. —
In this seaside town, readers
of the local paper recently
came upon a curious photo:
the school district superin-
tendent and four adminis-
trators standing and smiling
in a field of marijuana
plants.
They were wearing caps
with the logo of the grower’s
brand, Glass House Farms.
People already critical of
the explosion of marijuana
cultivation in the area were
outraged.
“The appalling poor
judgment necessary for edu-
cators in a district leader-
ship role to jointly agree
to such a promotional stunt
is unlike anything any of us
has ever witnessed,” Lionel
Neff, a retired toy company
owner, told the school board
at a meeting the following
week.
The photo accompanied
a story about the Carpin-
teria Unified School District
accepting $189,000 from a
cannabis growers associ-
ation to hire a middle school
mental health counselor.
District Supt. Diana Rigby
and school board President
Andy Sheaffer did not
respond to requests for
comment.
For the last two years, pot
has divided Carpinteria, as
Santa Barbara County offi-
cials allowed the city to be
surrounded by the densest
concentration of cannabis
farms in the nation. Resi-
dents complain the farms
Genaro Molina Los Angeles Times
“I felt inadequate. I felt like they was all
smarter than me, prettier than me,” Pat
Rush said. “I was completely, totally in-
timidated.”
In the 1940s, her family was part of the
wave of migrants who fled their farms in
the drought-ravaged South and Midwest
after the Dust Bowl and Great Depres-
sion, traveling west on Route 66 in search
of work, and hope.
They were hated [See Camp, A18]
latimes.com
saturate their homes and
children’s schools with the
skunky smell the plant is fa-
mous for. Growers counter
that they are providing jobs
and paying taxes, while
installing state-of-the-art
odor control systems to
mask the funk.
Now debate has turned
to the influence that the
marijuana industry is
wielding. Flush with capital
from multimillion-dollar
harvests, marijuana cultiva-
tors have become philan-
thropists and political
donors. While critics say
their money is corrupting,
growers say they are simply
being good citizens.
“A lot of the cannabis far-
mers are longtime cut-
flower farmers here, and the
donations are clearly in line
[See Carpinteria, A16]
ELECTION 2020
■■ ■■■■
Taking
Trump’s
troubles
in stride
In this Kern County
oil town, politics don’t
get in the way of being
there for one another.
By Tyrone Beason
TAFT, Calif. — On the
road into Taft, fields of fruit
trees give way to orchards of
oil rigs nodding on golden
hills that shimmer against a
blue sky like creased velvet.
This small oil town two
hours northwest of Los An-
geles has one stoplight and a
city center that seems to go
dark well before the sun goes
down. Friday night football
is the hottest ticket around.
Children play on the quiet
streets without a parent in
sight. Taft, with its 9,400 or
so people, feels a world away
from the impeachment
drama in the nation’s capi-
tal.
The city got its name
from the 27th president,
William H. Taft, who was fa-
mous for telling people that
“politics makes me sick.”
Around here, a lot of people
would agree.
Impeachment doesn’t
naturally come up in conver-
sations, even as the House
inquiry of President Trump
heats up and hearings with
key witnesses are about to
go public. It’s not that people
here don’t like to talk poli-
tics; many are just exasper-
[See Taft, A17]
Forgotten slave
rebellion recalled
A reenactment, march
and film spotlight an 1811
uprising in Louisiana, the
largest such revolt in
U.S. history. NATION, A10
TISSOT chrono xl
LOS ANGELES LAKERS
SPECIAL EDITION.