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VOL. CLXVIII . . . No. 58,382 © 2019 The New York Times Company NEW YORK, MONDAY, JULY 8, 2019 U(D54G1D)y+$!{!#!=!; LYON, France — The chant was faint at first, bubbling up from the northern stands inside the Stade de Lyon. Gradually it grew louder. Soon it was deafening. “Equal pay!” it went, over and over, until thousands were joining in, filling the stadium with noise. “Equal pay! Equal pay!” Few sports teams are asked to carry so much meaning on their shoulders, to represent so many things to so many people, as the United States women’s soccer team. Few athletes are expected to lead on so many fronts at once, to be leaders for equal pay and gay rights and social justice, to serve as the face of both corporations and their customers. Fewer still have ever been so equipped to handle such a burden, so aware of themselves, so comfortable in their own skin, as those American women. Yes, they had acknowledged as the World Cup got underway last month, anything less than a tro- phy would be a failure. Yes, they were willing to be made symbols of different fights for equality around the world. Yes, they would be as spectacular on the field as they unabashedly insisted they were. With the swagger of pop stars and the inevitability of a freight train, the American women com- pleted the sporting part of their journey on Sunday, clinching their second consecutive World Cup trophy by dispatching the Nether- Burdens Borne By a U.S. Team With No Equal By ANDREW KEH The United States women’s soccer team won its second straight World Cup with a 2-0 victory over the Netherlands on Sunday. Afterward, fans chanted, “Equal pay!” FRANCISCO SECO/ASSOCIATED PRESS Continued on Page A8 Federal prosecutors appear to have resurrected a federal sex crimes case against the billionaire financier Jeffrey E. Epstein by fo- cusing on accusations that he sex- ually assaulted girls at his man- sion in Manhattan — more than a decade after a widely criticized plea deal shielded him from simi- lar charges in Florida. Federal prosecutors are ex- pected to unseal the new charges on Monday accusing Mr. Epstein, 66, of running a sex-trafficking op- eration that lured dozens of under- age girls, some as young as 14, to his Upper East Side home, accord- ing to three law enforcement offi- cials. He was arrested on Saturday at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey, after arriving on a private flight from France, two law enforcement officials said. The sex trafficking charges carry a combined maxi- mum sentence of up to 45 years in prison. The new charges are a revival of a yearslong case against Mr. Epstein, who faced similar accu- sations involving girls who told the police they were brought to his mansion in South Florida and as- New Sex Charges for Epstein Focus on Manhattan By ALI WATKINS and VIVIAN WANG Accusations of Luring Minors to a Mansion Continued on Page A21 BERLIN — The death threats started in 2015, when Walter Lübcke defended the refugee pol- icy of Chancellor Angela Merkel. A regional politician for her con- servative party, he would go to small towns in his district and ex- plain that welcoming those in need was a matter of German and Christian values. Hateful emails started pouring in. His name appeared on an on- line neo-Nazi hit list. His private address was published on a far- right blog. A video of him was shared hundreds of thousands of times, along with emojis of guns and gallows and sometimes ex- plicit calls to murder him: “Shoot him now, this bastard.” And then someone did. On June 2, Mr. Lübcke was fa- tally shot in the head on his front porch, in what appears to be Ger- many’s first far-right political as- sassination since the Nazi era. The suspect — who made a de- tailed confession last month, only to retract it this past week under a new legal team — has a violent neo-Nazi past and police record, renewing criticism that Ger- many’s security apparatus, with its long track record of neglecting Political Murder and Far Right Shock Germany By KATRIN BENNHOLD A Hateful New Reality Dredges Up the Past Continued on Page A9 CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — So many Monroes in rural Albe- marle County remember the mo- ment they asked a parent or grandparent if they were some- how connected to the nation’s fifth president, James Monroe. The telltale entrance sign to Monroe’s plantation estate, now a museum, had been a fixture of their childhoods, part of the land- scape on the route back and forth between Charlottesville and the small, predominantly African- American community they called Monroetown. Ada Monroe Saylor, 79, was rid- ing in her father’s green Chevrolet on the way to the grocery store in the early 1950s when he con- firmed her suspicions. George Monroe Jr., a cousin of Ms. Saylor’s, spent much of his childhood at the homestead built by his great-great grandfather, Edward Monroe, known as Ned, whose parents were believed to be enslaved by the president and were among the first known to carry his name. For slaves whose African heritage had long been stolen or lost, this was not uncom- mon. Mr. Monroe, 45, was about 8 years old when he posed the ques- tion to his father, after driving by the plantation, known as High- land. “I had been seeing that en- trance sign all my life,” Mr. Mon- roe said. “We were riding, and I asked my dad if we were the same Monroes, and he said yes, but he wouldn’t say much more. We did- n’t talk about it. “It was just understood that we were connected to the president, not by blood but by slavery.” For seven generations, mem- bers of the Monroetown descend- ant community have lived less than 10 miles away from High- land, yet until three years ago there had never been a conversa- tion between them and the mu- seum. Now, they are working to- gether to change the way slavery is presented at the former presi- dential plantation. George Monroe Jr.’s ancestors were enslaved by President James Monroe and were among the first to carry his name. Right, a ledger identifying slaves Monroe sold to cover debts after his presidency. PHOTOGRAPHS BY MIRANDA BARNES FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Continued on Page A18 Connected to a President, by Slavery 7 Generations Have Lived in the Shadow of Monroe’s Plantation By AUDRA D. S. BURCH Iran said on Sunday that within hours it would breach the limits on uranium enrichment set four years ago in an accord with the United States and other interna- tional powers that was designed to keep Tehran from producing a nuclear weapon. The latest move inches Iran closer to where it was before the accord: on the path to being able to produce an atomic bomb. President Trump withdrew the United States from the accord last year and in May dealt a crippling blow to Iran’s economy by imple- menting sanctions intended to cut off its oil sales any where in the world. In recent weeks, Tehran has re- taliated by making deliberate but provocative violations of the ac- cord as part of a carefully calibrat- ed campaign to pressure the West into eliminating sanctions that have slashed the country’s oil ex- ports and crippled its economy. Last week, Iranian officials broke through similar limits on how much nuclear fuel the coun- try could stockpile. The steps Iran has taken are all easily reversible. Yet the new move Iran said it was taking on Sunday — to increase enrichment levels beyond the 3.67 percent pu- rity that is the ceiling under the deal — is the most threatening. Speaking at a news conference on Sunday in Tehran, the deputy foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, said Iran would take additional steps over the limits of the accord in 60-day intervals unless interna- tional powers provide sanctions relief as detailed in the deal. In violating the limits on ura- nium enrichment, Tehran still re- mains far from producing a nucle- ar weapon. It would take a major production surge, and enrichment to far higher levels, for Iran to de- velop a bomb’s worth of highly en- riched uranium, experts say. It would take even longer to manu- facture that material into a nucle- ar weapon. But for Iran’s president, Hassan Rouhani, who signaled in May that he would order the country’s engineers to cross both thresholds if Europe did not compensate Iran for American sanctions, the breach of the enrichment limit would be a watershed. He is bet- ting that the United States will back away from crushing sanc- tions or that he can split European nations from the Trump adminis- tration, which the Europeans blame for setting off the crisis. If he is wrong, the prospect of military confrontation lurks over each escalation. “It is a back-to-the-future mo- ment,” said Sanam Vakil, who studies Iran at Chatham House, a research institute in London. It IRAN ANNOUNCES PLANS TO BREACH ENRICHMENT CAP VIOLATION OF 2015 DEAL Pressuring the U.S. and Europe Into Offering Sanctions Relief By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK and DAVID E. SANGER Continued on Page A10 The drop in prices is leading poppy farmers to seek work in the United States and other places. PAGE A4 INTERNATIONAL A4-11 Mexican Opium Prices Sink Hurricane Maria doomed some of the island’s safe spaces for gay groups. Now they’re opening new ones. PAGE A12 NATIONAL A12-18 L.G.B.T. Struggle in Puerto Rico In Florida, the political clout and incen- tives of the big utilities have discour- aged homeowners from installing solar panels. PAGE B1 BUSINESS B1-5 Sunshine State Is Slow on Solar Prosecutors filed a forfeiture request asking that El Chapo pay back the vast profits from his career. PAGE A21 NEW YORK A20-21 Paying for a Lifetime of Crime? The character Octavia Spencer plays in her new film, “Ma,” joins the long his- tory of figures in popular culture who unravel with gusto, says our critic Jenna Wortham. PAGE C1 ARTS C1-8 Delightfully Unhinged Kyriakos Mitsotakis, son of a former Greek leader, surprised many by win- ning the prime minister’s seat. PAGE A6 A Different Kind of Politician Ivo van Hove’s staging of “Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny” at the Aix Festival in France may look avant- garde, but is really quite tame and direct, Joshua Barone says. PAGE C1 An Opera to Savor Quiet and savvy, the Clippers outfoxed rivals to land Kawhi Leonard and Paul George, Scott Cacciola writes. PAGE D2 SPORTSMONDAY D1-8 How Clippers Won Superstars João Gilberto, 88, won a Grammy for album of the year that included the hit “The Girl From Ipanema.” PAGE D11 OBITUARIES D9-11 Architect of Bossa Nova Leaders of Alaska’s university system are pleading with lawmakers to over- ride a move to cut funding. PAGE A13 Governor Slashes $135 Million LAS VEGAS — When Beth Krerowicz began reviewing the platoon of Democratic presiden- tial candidates, her first instinct was to back Joseph R. Biden Jr., whom she saw as the strongest opponent to President Trump. But recently, Ms. Krerowicz, 58, began to have second thoughts. So this week she trekked to a commu- nity center not far from the Las Vegas Strip to watch Senator Eliz- abeth Warren of Massachusetts detail her plans for reshaping the economy. Ms. Krerowicz, an exec- utive assistant who is between jobs, said that she was now lean- ing heavily toward Ms. Warren, and that Senator Kamala Harris of California was her second choice. “I want someone who I know will stand up, that has a back- bone,” Ms. Krerowicz said, sug- gesting that Ms. Warren and Ms. Harris could perhaps form a ticket. “They’re both very, very strong women. I would love to see them together, but I think Eliza- beth has the experience.” In the span of just a few weeks, voters like Ms. Krerowicz have pushed the race into a new, highly uncertain phase, propelling a pair of women toward the top of the Democratic pack at the expense of the onetime front-runners, Mr. Bi- den and Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont. Neither woman is yet in a posi- tion to take control of the race. Mr. Women Make Primary Foes Start to Sweat By ALEXANDER BURNS and JONATHAN MARTIN Continued on Page A14 Charles M. Blow PAGE A23 EDITORIAL, OP-ED A22-23 Late Edition Today, partial sunshine, low humid- ity, high 82. Tonight, mostly clear, low 69. Tomorrow, plenty of sun- shine, warmer, low humidity, high 87. Weather map, Page A19. $3.00
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LYON, France — The chant wasfaint at first, bubbling up from thenorthern stands inside the Stadede Lyon. Gradually it grew louder.Soon it was deafening.
“Equal pay!” it went, over andover, until thousands were joiningin, filling the stadium with noise.“Equal pay! Equal pay!”
Few sports teams are asked tocarry so much meaning on theirshoulders, to represent so manythings to so many people, as theUnited States women’s soccerteam. Few athletes are expectedto lead on so many fronts at once,to be leaders for equal pay and gayrights and social justice, to serveas the face of both corporationsand their customers. Fewer stillhave ever been so equipped tohandle such a burden, so aware ofthemselves, so comfortable intheir own skin, as those Americanwomen.
Yes, they had acknowledged asthe World Cup got underway lastmonth, anything less than a tro-phy would be a failure. Yes, theywere willing to be made symbolsof different fights for equalityaround the world. Yes, they wouldbe as spectacular on the field asthey unabashedly insisted theywere.
With the swagger of pop starsand the inevitability of a freighttrain, the American women com-pleted the sporting part of theirjourney on Sunday, clinching theirsecond consecutive World Cuptrophy by dispatching the Nether-
Burdens Borne By a U.S. TeamWith No Equal
By ANDREW KEH
The United States women’s soccer team won its second straight World Cup with a 2-0 victory over the Netherlands on Sunday. Afterward, fans chanted, “Equal pay!”FRANCISCO SECO/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Continued on Page A8
Federal prosecutors appear tohave resurrected a federal sexcrimes case against the billionairefinancier Jeffrey E. Epstein by fo-cusing on accusations that he sex-ually assaulted girls at his man-sion in Manhattan — more than adecade after a widely criticizedplea deal shielded him from simi-lar charges in Florida.
Federal prosecutors are ex-
pected to unseal the new chargeson Monday accusing Mr. Epstein,66, of running a sex-trafficking op-eration that lured dozens of under-age girls, some as young as 14, tohis Upper East Side home, accord-ing to three law enforcement offi-cials.
He was arrested on Saturday atTeterboro Airport in New Jersey,after arriving on a private flightfrom France, two law enforcementofficials said. The sex traffickingcharges carry a combined maxi-mum sentence of up to 45 years inprison.
The new charges are a revivalof a yearslong case against Mr.Epstein, who faced similar accu-sations involving girls who toldthe police they were brought to hismansion in South Florida and as-
New Sex Charges for Epstein Focus on ManhattanBy ALI WATKINS
and VIVIAN WANGAccusations of Luring
Minors to a Mansion
Continued on Page A21
BERLIN — The death threatsstarted in 2015, when WalterLübcke defended the refugee pol-icy of Chancellor Angela Merkel.A regional politician for her con-servative party, he would go tosmall towns in his district and ex-plain that welcoming those inneed was a matter of German andChristian values.
Hateful emails started pouringin. His name appeared on an on-
line neo-Nazi hit list. His privateaddress was published on a far-right blog. A video of him wasshared hundreds of thousands oftimes, along with emojis of gunsand gallows and sometimes ex-plicit calls to murder him: “Shoothim now, this bastard.”
And then someone did.On June 2, Mr. Lübcke was fa-
tally shot in the head on his frontporch, in what appears to be Ger-many’s first far-right political as-sassination since the Nazi era.The suspect — who made a de-tailed confession last month, onlyto retract it this past week under anew legal team — has a violentneo-Nazi past and police record,renewing criticism that Ger-many’s security apparatus, withits long track record of neglecting
Political Murder and Far Right Shock GermanyBy KATRIN BENNHOLD A Hateful New Reality
Dredges Up the Past
Continued on Page A9
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. —So many Monroes in rural Albe-marle County remember the mo-ment they asked a parent orgrandparent if they were some-how connected to the nation’s fifthpresident, James Monroe.
The telltale entrance sign toMonroe’s plantation estate, now amuseum, had been a fixture oftheir childhoods, part of the land-scape on the route back and forthbetween Charlottesville and thesmall, predominantly African-American community they calledMonroetown.
Ada Monroe Saylor, 79, was rid-ing in her father’s green Chevroleton the way to the grocery store in
the early 1950s when he con-firmed her suspicions.
George Monroe Jr., a cousin ofMs. Saylor’s, spent much of hischildhood at the homestead builtby his great-great grandfather,Edward Monroe, known as Ned,whose parents were believed to beenslaved by the president andwere among the first known tocarry his name. For slaves whoseAfrican heritage had long beenstolen or lost, this was not uncom-mon.
Mr. Monroe, 45, was about 8years old when he posed the ques-tion to his father, after driving bythe plantation, known as High-land.
“I had been seeing that en-trance sign all my life,” Mr. Mon-
roe said. “We were riding, and Iasked my dad if we were the sameMonroes, and he said yes, but hewouldn’t say much more. We did-n’t talk about it.
“It was just understood that wewere connected to the president,not by blood but by slavery.”
For seven generations, mem-bers of the Monroetown descend-ant community have lived lessthan 10 miles away from High-land, yet until three years agothere had never been a conversa-tion between them and the mu-seum. Now, they are working to-gether to change the way slaveryis presented at the former presi-dential plantation.
George Monroe Jr.’s ancestors were enslaved by President James Monroe and were among the firstto carry his name. Right, a ledger identifying slaves Monroe sold to cover debts after his presidency.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY MIRANDA BARNES FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Continued on Page A18
Connected to a President, by Slavery7 Generations Have Lived in the Shadow of Monroe’s Plantation
By AUDRA D. S. BURCH
Iran said on Sunday that withinhours it would breach the limits onuranium enrichment set fouryears ago in an accord with theUnited States and other interna-tional powers that was designedto keep Tehran from producing anuclear weapon.
The latest move inches Irancloser to where it was before theaccord: on the path to being ableto produce an atomic bomb.
President Trump withdrew theUnited States from the accord lastyear and in May dealt a cripplingblow to Iran’s economy by imple-menting sanctions intended to cutoff its oil sales any where in theworld.
In recent weeks, Tehran has re-taliated by making deliberate butprovocative violations of the ac-cord as part of a carefully calibrat-ed campaign to pressure the Westinto eliminating sanctions thathave slashed the country’s oil ex-ports and crippled its economy.
Last week, Iranian officialsbroke through similar limits onhow much nuclear fuel the coun-try could stockpile.
The steps Iran has taken are alleasily reversible. Yet the newmove Iran said it was taking onSunday — to increase enrichmentlevels beyond the 3.67 percent pu-rity that is the ceiling under thedeal — is the most threatening.
Speaking at a news conferenceon Sunday in Tehran, the deputyforeign minister, Abbas Araghchi,said Iran would take additionalsteps over the limits of the accordin 60-day intervals unless interna-tional powers provide sanctionsrelief as detailed in the deal.
In violating the limits on ura-nium enrichment, Tehran still re-mains far from producing a nucle-ar weapon. It would take a majorproduction surge, and enrichmentto far higher levels, for Iran to de-velop a bomb’s worth of highly en-riched uranium, experts say. Itwould take even longer to manu-facture that material into a nucle-ar weapon.
But for Iran’s president, HassanRouhani, who signaled in Maythat he would order the country’sengineers to cross both thresholdsif Europe did not compensate Iranfor American sanctions, thebreach of the enrichment limitwould be a watershed. He is bet-ting that the United States willback away from crushing sanc-tions or that he can split Europeannations from the Trump adminis-tration, which the Europeansblame for setting off the crisis.
If he is wrong, the prospect ofmilitary confrontation lurks overeach escalation.
“It is a back-to-the-future mo-ment,” said Sanam Vakil, whostudies Iran at Chatham House, aresearch institute in London. It
IRAN ANNOUNCESPLANS TO BREACH
ENRICHMENT CAP
VIOLATION OF 2015 DEAL
Pressuring the U.S. andEurope Into Offering
Sanctions Relief
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICKand DAVID E. SANGER
Continued on Page A10
The drop in prices is leading poppyfarmers to seek work in the UnitedStates and other places. PAGE A4
INTERNATIONAL A4-11
Mexican Opium Prices SinkHurricane Maria doomed some of theisland’s safe spaces for gay groups. Nowthey’re opening new ones. PAGE A12
NATIONAL A12-18
L.G.B.T. Struggle in Puerto RicoIn Florida, the political clout and incen-tives of the big utilities have discour-aged homeowners from installing solarpanels. PAGE B1
BUSINESS B1-5
Sunshine State Is Slow on Solar
Prosecutors filed a forfeiture requestasking that El Chapo pay back the vastprofits from his career. PAGE A21
NEW YORK A20-21
Paying for a Lifetime of Crime?The character Octavia Spencer plays inher new film, “Ma,” joins the long his-tory of figures in popular culture whounravel with gusto, says our criticJenna Wortham. PAGE C1
ARTS C1-8
Delightfully Unhinged
Kyriakos Mitsotakis, son of a formerGreek leader, surprised many by win-ning the prime minister’s seat. PAGE A6
A Different Kind of Politician
Ivo van Hove’s staging of “Rise and Fallof the City of Mahagonny” at the AixFestival in France may look avant-garde, but is really quite tame anddirect, Joshua Barone says. PAGE C1
An Opera to SavorQuiet and savvy, the Clippers outfoxedrivals to land Kawhi Leonard and PaulGeorge, Scott Cacciola writes. PAGE D2
SPORTSMONDAY D1-8
How Clippers Won Superstars
João Gilberto, 88, won a Grammy foralbum of the year that included the hit“The Girl From Ipanema.” PAGE D11
OBITUARIES D9-11
Architect of Bossa NovaLeaders of Alaska’s university systemare pleading with lawmakers to over-ride a move to cut funding. PAGE A13
Governor Slashes $135 Million
LAS VEGAS — When BethKrerowicz began reviewing theplatoon of Democratic presiden-tial candidates, her first instinctwas to back Joseph R. Biden Jr.,whom she saw as the strongestopponent to President Trump.
But recently, Ms. Krerowicz, 58,began to have second thoughts. Sothis week she trekked to a commu-nity center not far from the LasVegas Strip to watch Senator Eliz-abeth Warren of Massachusettsdetail her plans for reshaping theeconomy. Ms. Krerowicz, an exec-utive assistant who is betweenjobs, said that she was now lean-ing heavily toward Ms. Warren,and that Senator Kamala Harris ofCalifornia was her second choice.
“I want someone who I knowwill stand up, that has a back-bone,” Ms. Krerowicz said, sug-gesting that Ms. Warren and Ms.Harris could perhaps form aticket. “They’re both very, verystrong women. I would love to seethem together, but I think Eliza-beth has the experience.”
In the span of just a few weeks,voters like Ms. Krerowicz havepushed the race into a new, highlyuncertain phase, propelling a pairof women toward the top of theDemocratic pack at the expense ofthe onetime front-runners, Mr. Bi-den and Senator Bernie Sandersof Vermont.
Neither woman is yet in a posi-tion to take control of the race. Mr.
Women MakePrimary FoesStart to Sweat
By ALEXANDER BURNSand JONATHAN MARTIN
Continued on Page A14
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