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U(D54G1D)y+@!&!?!#!/ WASHINGTON — The crisis in Charlottesville, Va., presented President Trump with a choice be- tween adopting the unifying tone of a traditional president or dou- bling down on the go-it-alone ap- proach that got him elected in 2016. On Monday, Mr. Trump offered a glimpse of a more calming and conventional president, but he ended the day with a flurry of an- gry tweets that left little doubt he intended to govern on his own terms. Mr. Trump, after two days of is- suing equivocal statements, bowed to overwhelming pressure that he personally condemn white supremacists who incited bloody weekend demonstrations in Char- lottesville. “Racism is evil,” said Mr. Trump, delivering a statement from the White House at a hastily arranged appearance meant to halt the growing political threat posed by the unrest. “And those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the K.K.K., neo-Nazis, white suprem- acists and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans.” But before and after his concili- atory statement — which called for “love,” “joy” and “justice” — Mr. Trump issued classically caus- tic Twitter attacks on Kenneth C. Frazier, the head of Merck Phar- maceuticals and one of the coun- try’s top African-American execu- tives. Mr. Frazier announced Monday morning that he was resigning from the American Manufactur- ing Council — the first of three chief executives who quit the ad- visory panel on Monday — to pro- test Mr. Trump’s initial equivocal statements on Charlottesville. “Now that Ken Frazier of Merck Pharma has resigned from Presi- dent’s Manufacturing Council, he will have more time to LOWER RIPOFF DRUG PRICES!” the president wrote at 8:54 a.m., as he departed his golf resort in Bed- minster, N.J., for a day trip back to Washington. Shortly before leaving the capi- tal, Mr. Trump attacked the news media for blowing the episode out of proportion. “Made additional remarks on Charlottesville and realize once again that the #Fake News Media will never be satisfied...truly bad people!” he wrote Monday evening. “Trump faced a fork in the road today, and he took it,” said Repre- sentative Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California and the House minor- ity leader. “He showed cowardice on Saturday by refusing to call out the racists and neo-Nazis, and on Monday he showed how uncom- fortable he was in delivering an- other kind of message.” Even Mr. Trump’s allies worried that his measured remarks, deliv- Trump Condemns Racists But Creates Fresh Uproar Remarks on Virginia Are Seen as Too Late — He Also Attacks a C.E.O. on Twitter By GLENN THRUSH Continued on Page A10 TOM BRENNER/ THE NEW YORK TIMES President Trump said on Monday that the white supremacists responsible for the violence in Charlottesville, Va., had “evil” views. FOX PHOTOS/GETTY IMAGES Scientists plan to use a jet to collect data about the sun during the eclipse. Above, nurses observing an eclipse in 1927. Page D1. A Chance to Spy on the Sun LONDON — The Ferraris were driving people batty in affluent South Kensington. Drivers revved their engines and ripped past Har- rods. Residents were already irri- tated by the dust and noise from superrich neighbors building un- derground swimming pools and cinemas. Now came complaints about Middle Eastern “types” drag-racing at night. Up in North Kensington, a part of London that is home to some of Britain’s poorest residents, the complaints were more elemental. People were fighting plans to close a day care center, lease out a public library and demolish a community college. At one public housing project, Grenfell Tower, residents had complained about fire safety issues for years: power surges that blew up television sets and filled rooms with smoke, out- dated fire extinguishers and the absence of a communal fire alarm. The very different complaints from the opposite ends of Kens- ington received very different re- sponses from the 50-member council representing the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. The Ferraris were debat- ed in the council chamber. Fines of up to 1,000 pounds were imposed on revving engines. Underground construction projects were re- stricted. The concerns in North Kensing- Tower Fire Lays Bare Divided District’s Tensions By KATRIN BENNHOLD Harrods department store in South Kensington has long been a symbol of luxury in London. ANDREW TESTA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Continued on Page A6 LOSING LONDON Two Sides of a Borough C.E.O.S OUT Three corporate chieftains quit a presidential council in protest. PAGE B1 POLICE TACTICS When protesters have guns, strategy is reduced to keeping enemies apart. PAGE A12 MISIDENTIFIED Online sleuths mistook an Arkansas lab director for a rally participant. PAGE A12 BEIJING — In Chinese schools, students learn that the United States became a great nation partly by stealing technology from Britain. In the halls of gov- ernment, officials speak of the need to inspire innovation by pro- tecting inventions. In board- rooms, executives strategize about using infringement laws to fell foreign rivals. China is often portrayed as a land of fake gadgets and pirated software, where intellectual prop- erty like patents, trademarks and copyrights are routinely ignored. The reality is more complex. China takes conflicting posi- tions on intellectual property, ig- noring it in some cases while up- holding it in others. Underlying those contradictions is a long-held view of intellectual property not as a rigid legal principle but as a tool to meet the country’s goals. Those goals are getting more ambitious. China is now gathering know-how in industries of the fu- ture like microchips and electric cars, often by pushing foreign Chinese Quest for Technology Is Aimed at Future Dominance By JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZ Continued on Page A5 WASHINGTON — President Trump, following days of bellicose threats toward North Korea and jitters about a looming trade war with China, moved on several fronts on Monday to ease tensions in East Asia, after making the re- gion a flash point for his adminis- tration. As he opened a long-awaited trade action against China, Mr. Trump used uncharacteristically restrained language and a multi- step bureaucratic process that will quite likely put off punitive steps against Beijing for months, if not forever. On North Korea, several of the president’s top ad- visers tried to tamp down fears of a clash after his threat to rain “fire and fury” on the government there. In Seoul, Gen. Joseph F. Dun- ford Jr., the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, assured President Moon Jae-in of South Korea that military options against North Ko- rea were a last resort. His mes- sage was the latest effort to re- inforce a sense of calm that was earlier telegraphed by Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Secre- tary of State Rex W. Tillerson. Taken together, the administra- tion’s tempered words under- scored the complex reality that Mr. Trump faces in Asia: Having explicitly linked China’s coopera- tion on North Korea with his trade policy toward Beijing, the presi- dent is now softening his tough language on trade to enlist China’s support in combating a nuclear threat from Pyongyang. Mr. Trump campaigned against After Promising ‘Fire and Fury,’ A Push to Assuage Fears in Asia By MARK LANDLER Continued on Page A5 Rupert Murdoch has repeat- edly urged President Trump to fire him. Anthony Scaramucci, the president’s former communica- tions director, thrashed him on television as a white nationalist. Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, the na- tional security adviser, refused to even say he could work with him. For months, Mr. Trump has con- sidered ousting Stephen K. Ban- non, the White House chief strat- egist and relentless nationalist who ran the Breitbart website and called it a “platform for the alt- right.” Mr. Trump has sent Mr. Bannon to a kind of internal exile, and has not met face-to-face for more than a week with a man who was once a fixture in the Oval Of- fice, according to aides and friends of the president. So far, Mr. Trump has not been able to follow through — a product of his dislike of confrontation, the bonds of a foxhole friendship forged during the 2016 presiden- tial campaign and concerns about what mischief Mr. Bannon might do once he leaves the protective custody of the West Wing. Not least, Mr. Bannon embodies the defiant populism at the core of the president’s agenda. Despite being marginalized, Mr. Bannon consulted with the president re- peatedly over the weekend as Mr. Trump struggled to respond to the neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Va. In general, Mr. Bannon has cautioned the president not to crit- icize far-right activists too se- verely for fear of antagonizing a small but energetic part of his base. Bannon in Limbo as President Is Urged to Oust Lightning Rod By MAGGIE HABERMAN and GLENN THRUSH Continued on Page A11 The white supremacists and right-wing extremists who came together over the weekend in Charlottesville, Va., are now headed home, many of them ready and energized, they said, to set their sights on bigger prizes. Some were making arrange- ments to appear at future marches. Some were planning to run for public office. Others, ta- king a cue from the Charlottesville event — a protest, nominally, of the removal of a Confederate mon- ument — were organizing efforts to preserve white heritage sym- bols in their home regions. Calling it “an opportune time,” Preston Wiginton, a Texas-based white nationalist, declared on Sat- urday that he planned to hold a “White Lives Matter” march on Sept. 11 on the campus of Texas A&M — with a keynote speaker, Richard B. Spencer, who was fea- tured at the Charlottesville event. Mr. Wiginton was not the only one seeking to capitalize on the weekend’s events. On Monday, Austin Gillespie, a conservative Florida lawyer who is better known as Augustus Sol Invictus and attended the “Unite the Right” rally in Virginia, said he planned to announce on Tuesday that he would seek Florida’s Re- publican nomination for the Sen- ate. And at a news conference on Monday, Mr. Spencer, a prominent white supremacist, promised to return to Charlottesville for an- other rally. “There is no way in hell that I am not going back,” he said. The far right, which has re- turned to prominence in the past year or so, has always been an amalgam of factions and causes, some with pro-Confederate or neo-Nazi leanings, some opposed to political correctness or femi- nism. But the Charlottesville event, the largest of its kind in re- cent years, exposed the pre-exist- ing fault lines in the movement. The ugliness of the rally — Far Right Plans Its Next Moves With New Vigor By ALAN FEUER Continued on Page A13 It should be a joyous summer for HBO, but a hacking and criticism over a coming series have cast a pall. PAGE B1 BUSINESS DAY B1-6 Headaches at HBO Simone Askew is the first African- American woman to hold the highest student position at West Point. PAGE A9 A Cadet Topples Two Barriers A man was accused of trying to attack a bank in Oklahoma City using a device similar to the one that destroyed the federal building there in 1995. PAGE A9 NATIONAL A9-18 F.B.I. Thwarts Bombing Amsterdam is trying to clean up its famous red light district by empow- ering those who work there. PAGE A8 INTERNATIONAL A4-8 An Employee-Owned Brothel The president’s threat to use military force against Venezuela has stirred memories of U.S. intervention. PAGE A4 Trump Roils Latin America Sampling a repertory company’s glori- ous range at the Stratford Festival in Ontario. A Critic’s Notebook. PAGE C5 Theatrical Perfume Inhaled A dreamer’s idea of using artificial intelligence to create music and art is coming to fruition via Google. PAGE C1 ARTS C1-7 The Art of Neural Networks A 59-year-old taxi driver named Mehari Bokrezion took his last breath while stopping for a rest during his shift in Lower Manhattan. Nobody noticed him for 18 hours. PAGE A19 NEW YORK A19-21 A Cabby’s Quiet Death Geoffrey S. Berman, the lawyer being considered by the Trump administra- tion for United States attorney in Man- hattan, is easygoing and relatively anonymous. PAGE A20 A Low-Key Candidate David Brooks PAGE A23 EDITORIAL, OP-ED A22-23 Frank Ntilikina, a 19-year-old guard who was drafted in the first round, is having fun in a new country. But he’s ready to get to work. PAGE B7 SPORTSTUESDAY B7-11 From France to the Knicks Late Edition VOL. CLXVI . . . 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WASHINGTON — The crisis inCharlottesville, Va., presentedPresident Trump with a choice be-tween adopting the unifying toneof a traditional president or dou-bling down on the go-it-alone ap-proach that got him elected in2016.
On Monday, Mr. Trump offereda glimpse of a more calming andconventional president, but heended the day with a flurry of an-gry tweets that left little doubt heintended to govern on his ownterms.
Mr. Trump, after two days of is-suing equivocal statements,bowed to overwhelming pressurethat he personally condemn whitesupremacists who incited bloodyweekend demonstrations in Char-lottesville.
“Racism is evil,” said Mr.Trump, delivering a statementfrom the White House at a hastilyarranged appearance meant tohalt the growing political threatposed by the unrest. “And thosewho cause violence in its name arecriminals and thugs, including theK.K.K., neo-Nazis, white suprem-acists and other hate groups thatare repugnant to everything wehold dear as Americans.”
But before and after his concili-atory statement — which calledfor “love,” “joy” and “justice” —Mr. Trump issued classically caus-tic Twitter attacks on Kenneth C.Frazier, the head of Merck Phar-maceuticals and one of the coun-try’s top African-American execu-tives.
Mr. Frazier announced Mondaymorning that he was resigningfrom the American Manufactur-ing Council — the first of threechief executives who quit the ad-visory panel on Monday — to pro-test Mr. Trump’s initial equivocalstatements on Charlottesville.
“Now that Ken Frazier of MerckPharma has resigned from Presi-dent’s Manufacturing Council, hewill have more time to LOWERRIPOFF DRUG PRICES!” the
president wrote at 8:54 a.m., as hedeparted his golf resort in Bed-minster, N.J., for a day trip back toWashington.
Shortly before leaving the capi-tal, Mr. Trump attacked the newsmedia for blowing the episode outof proportion.
“Made additional remarks onCharlottesville and realize onceagain that the #Fake News Mediawill never be satisfied...truly badpeople!” he wrote Mondayevening.
“Trump faced a fork in the roadtoday, and he took it,” said Repre-sentative Nancy Pelosi, Democratof California and the House minor-ity leader. “He showed cowardiceon Saturday by refusing to call outthe racists and neo-Nazis, and onMonday he showed how uncom-fortable he was in delivering an-other kind of message.”
Even Mr. Trump’s allies worriedthat his measured remarks, deliv-
Trump Condemns Racists But Creates Fresh Uproar
Remarks on Virginia Are Seen as Too Late —He Also Attacks a C.E.O. on Twitter
By GLENN THRUSH
Continued on Page A10
TOM BRENNER/ THE NEW YORK TIMES
President Trump said on Monday that the white supremacists responsible for the violence in Charlottesville, Va., had “evil” views.
FOX PHOTOS/GETTY IMAGES
Scientists plan to use a jet to collect data about the sun duringthe eclipse. Above, nurses observing an eclipse in 1927. Page D1.
A Chance to Spy on the Sun
LONDON — The Ferraris weredriving people batty in affluentSouth Kensington. Drivers revvedtheir engines and ripped past Har-rods. Residents were already irri-tated by the dust and noise fromsuperrich neighbors building un-derground swimming pools andcinemas. Now came complaintsabout Middle Eastern “types”drag-racing at night.
Up in North Kensington, a partof London that is home to some of
Britain’s poorest residents, thecomplaints were more elemental.People were fighting plans toclose a day care center, lease out apublic library and demolish acommunity college. At one publichousing project, Grenfell Tower,residents had complained aboutfire safety issues for years: powersurges that blew up television setsand filled rooms with smoke, out-
dated fire extinguishers and theabsence of a communal fire alarm.
The very different complaintsfrom the opposite ends of Kens-ington received very different re-sponses from the 50-membercouncil representing the RoyalBorough of Kensington andChelsea. The Ferraris were debat-ed in the council chamber. Fines ofup to 1,000 pounds were imposedon revving engines. Undergroundconstruction projects were re-stricted.
The concerns in North Kensing-
Tower Fire Lays Bare Divided District’s TensionsBy KATRIN BENNHOLD
Harrods department store in South Kensington has long been a symbol of luxury in London.ANDREW TESTA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Continued on Page A6
LOSING LONDON
Two Sides of a Borough
C.E.O.S OUT Three corporatechieftains quit a presidentialcouncil in protest. PAGE B1
POLICE TACTICS When protestershave guns, strategy is reduced tokeeping enemies apart. PAGE A12
MISIDENTIFIED Online sleuthsmistook an Arkansas lab directorfor a rally participant. PAGE A12
BEIJING — In Chinese schools,students learn that the UnitedStates became a great nationpartly by stealing technologyfrom Britain. In the halls of gov-ernment, officials speak of theneed to inspire innovation by pro-tecting inventions. In board-rooms, executives strategizeabout using infringement laws tofell foreign rivals.
China is often portrayed as aland of fake gadgets and piratedsoftware, where intellectual prop-erty like patents, trademarks andcopyrights are routinely ignored.
The reality is more complex.China takes conflicting posi-
tions on intellectual property, ig-noring it in some cases while up-holding it in others. Underlyingthose contradictions is a long-heldview of intellectual property notas a rigid legal principle but as atool to meet the country’s goals.
Those goals are getting moreambitious. China is now gatheringknow-how in industries of the fu-ture like microchips and electriccars, often by pushing foreign
Chinese Quest for TechnologyIs Aimed at Future Dominance
By JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZ
Continued on Page A5
WASHINGTON — PresidentTrump, following days of bellicosethreats toward North Korea andjitters about a looming trade warwith China, moved on severalfronts on Monday to ease tensionsin East Asia, after making the re-gion a flash point for his adminis-tration.
As he opened a long-awaitedtrade action against China, Mr.Trump used uncharacteristicallyrestrained language and a multi-step bureaucratic process thatwill quite likely put off punitivesteps against Beijing for months,if not forever. On North Korea,several of the president’s top ad-visers tried to tamp down fears ofa clash after his threat to rain “fireand fury” on the governmentthere.
In Seoul, Gen. Joseph F. Dun-
ford Jr., the chairman of the JointChiefs of Staff, assured PresidentMoon Jae-in of South Korea thatmilitary options against North Ko-rea were a last resort. His mes-sage was the latest effort to re-inforce a sense of calm that wasearlier telegraphed by DefenseSecretary Jim Mattis and Secre-tary of State Rex W. Tillerson.
Taken together, the administra-tion’s tempered words under-scored the complex reality thatMr. Trump faces in Asia: Havingexplicitly linked China’s coopera-tion on North Korea with his tradepolicy toward Beijing, the presi-dent is now softening his toughlanguage on trade to enlist China’ssupport in combating a nuclearthreat from Pyongyang.
Mr. Trump campaigned against
After Promising ‘Fire and Fury,’A Push to Assuage Fears in Asia
By MARK LANDLER
Continued on Page A5
Rupert Murdoch has repeat-edly urged President Trump tofire him. Anthony Scaramucci, thepresident’s former communica-tions director, thrashed him ontelevision as a white nationalist.Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, the na-tional security adviser, refused toeven say he could work with him.
For months, Mr. Trump has con-sidered ousting Stephen K. Ban-non, the White House chief strat-egist and relentless nationalistwho ran the Breitbart website andcalled it a “platform for the alt-right.” Mr. Trump has sent Mr.Bannon to a kind of internal exile,and has not met face-to-face formore than a week with a man whowas once a fixture in the Oval Of-fice, according to aides andfriends of the president.
So far, Mr. Trump has not been
able to follow through — a productof his dislike of confrontation, thebonds of a foxhole friendshipforged during the 2016 presiden-tial campaign and concerns aboutwhat mischief Mr. Bannon mightdo once he leaves the protectivecustody of the West Wing.
Not least, Mr. Bannon embodiesthe defiant populism at the core ofthe president’s agenda. Despitebeing marginalized, Mr. Bannonconsulted with the president re-peatedly over the weekend as Mr.Trump struggled to respond to theneo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville,Va. In general, Mr. Bannon hascautioned the president not to crit-icize far-right activists too se-verely for fear of antagonizing asmall but energetic part of hisbase.
Bannon in Limbo as PresidentIs Urged to Oust Lightning Rod
By MAGGIE HABERMAN and GLENN THRUSH
Continued on Page A11
The white supremacists andright-wing extremists who cametogether over the weekend inCharlottesville, Va., are nowheaded home, many of themready and energized, they said, toset their sights on bigger prizes.
Some were making arrange-ments to appear at futuremarches. Some were planning torun for public office. Others, ta-king a cue from the Charlottesvilleevent — a protest, nominally, ofthe removal of a Confederate mon-ument — were organizing effortsto preserve white heritage sym-bols in their home regions.
Calling it “an opportune time,”Preston Wiginton, a Texas-basedwhite nationalist, declared on Sat-urday that he planned to hold a“White Lives Matter” march onSept. 11 on the campus of TexasA&M — with a keynote speaker,Richard B. Spencer, who was fea-tured at the Charlottesville event.
Mr. Wiginton was not the onlyone seeking to capitalize on theweekend’s events. On Monday,Austin Gillespie, a conservativeFlorida lawyer who is betterknown as Augustus Sol Invictusand attended the “Unite theRight” rally in Virginia, said heplanned to announce on Tuesdaythat he would seek Florida’s Re-publican nomination for the Sen-ate. And at a news conference onMonday, Mr. Spencer, a prominentwhite supremacist, promised toreturn to Charlottesville for an-other rally. “There is no way in hellthat I am not going back,” he said.
The far right, which has re-turned to prominence in the pastyear or so, has always been anamalgam of factions and causes,some with pro-Confederate orneo-Nazi leanings, some opposedto political correctness or femi-nism. But the Charlottesvilleevent, the largest of its kind in re-cent years, exposed the pre-exist-ing fault lines in the movement.
The ugliness of the rally —
Far Right PlansIts Next MovesWith New Vigor
By ALAN FEUER
Continued on Page A13
It should be a joyous summer for HBO,but a hacking and criticism over acoming series have cast a pall. PAGE B1
BUSINESS DAY B1-6
Headaches at HBO
Simone Askew is the first African-American woman to hold the higheststudent position at West Point. PAGE A9
A Cadet Topples Two Barriers
A man was accused of trying to attack abank in Oklahoma City using a devicesimilar to the one that destroyed thefederal building there in 1995. PAGE A9
NATIONAL A9-18
F.B.I. Thwarts BombingAmsterdam is trying to clean up itsfamous red light district by empow-ering those who work there. PAGE A8
INTERNATIONAL A4-8
An Employee-Owned Brothel
The president’s threat to use militaryforce against Venezuela has stirredmemories of U.S. intervention. PAGE A4
Trump Roils Latin America
Sampling a repertory company’s glori-ous range at the Stratford Festival inOntario. A Critic’s Notebook. PAGE C5
Theatrical Perfume Inhaled
A dreamer’s idea of using artificialintelligence to create music and art iscoming to fruition via Google. PAGE C1
ARTS C1-7
The Art of Neural Networks
A 59-year-old taxi driver named MehariBokrezion took his last breath whilestopping for a rest during his shift inLower Manhattan. Nobody noticed himfor 18 hours. PAGE A19
NEW YORK A19-21
A Cabby’s Quiet Death
Geoffrey S. Berman, the lawyer beingconsidered by the Trump administra-tion for United States attorney in Man-hattan, is easygoing and relativelyanonymous. PAGE A20
A Low-Key Candidate
David Brooks PAGE A23
EDITORIAL, OP-ED A22-23
Frank Ntilikina, a 19-year-old guardwho was drafted in the first round, ishaving fun in a new country. But he’sready to get to work. PAGE B7
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