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VOL. CLXVII . . . No. 58,029 © 2018 The New York Times Company NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2018 U(D54G1D)y+$!;!\!=!: A 60-year-old told the police that Cardi- nal Theodore E. McCarrick molested him beginning when he was 11. PAGE A19 NEW YORK A19-23 Cardinal Is Accused Again Latinos, California’s largest ethnic group, are underrepresented in state universities. Not so at Merced. PAGE A10 NATIONAL A10-18 A Magnet College for Latinos European Union countries are moving swiftly to prepare for Britain’s depar- ture, hoping to keep goods flowing and minimize the chance for chaos. PAGE B1 BUSINESS DAY B1-7 Europe Braces for Brexit Often ignored, they get their due in a new series. Above, Dorothy Davenport and Walter Lang’s “Red Kimona.” PAGE C1 WEEKEND ARTS C1-20 Pioneering Women Filmmakers The 18th hole at this year’s British Open site has a history of sending golfers to ignoble fates. PAGE B11 SPORTSFRIDAY B8-12 A Damp and Dismal End NORTH AURORA, Ill. — Most of the room’s occupants looked nothing like Lauren Underwood, but no one seemed to care. Ms. Underwood, the Democrat- ic congressional nominee in northern Illinois’s pivotal 14th District, flowed effortlessly from person to person at a meet-and- greet last month, confident in her belief that she, a 31-year-old black woman, was best suited to repre- sent a community that is over- whelmingly white. “I learned to be a black woman in this community,” Ms. Under- wood said. “This is my home, and the idea that I might not be a good fit is an idea I never gave a lot of consideration to.” Kathy Birkett, a former school superintendent who came to the event to support Ms. Underwood, said the candidate’s ideas about health care and reducing gun vio- lence are what helped her draw support from a cross section of voters in the district. “When you’re top notch, you’re top notch — and I don’t think that has anything to do with color,” she said. A decade after the election of America’s first black president, Ms. Underwood and several other African-American, Hispanic and minority candidates for Congress are facing a major test this fall: Tiptoeing Around Race in Mostly White Districts By ASTEAD W. HERNDON Lauren Underwood is a House candidate in Illinois’s mostly white 14th District, where she grew up. JOSHUA LOTT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Continued on Page A18 With or Without Their Party, Candidates of Color Blaze a Trail JERUSALEM — Prime Min- ister Benjamin Netanyahu of Is- rael has long demanded that the Palestinians acknowledge his country’s existence as the “na- tion-state of the Jewish people.” On Thursday, his governing coali- tion stopped waiting around and pushed through a law that made it a fact. In an incendiary move hailed as historic by Mr. Netanyahu’s right- wing coalition but denounced by centrists and leftists as racist and anti-democratic, Israel’s Parlia- ment enacted a law that enshrines the right of national self-determi- nation as “unique to the Jewish people” — not all citizens. The legislation, a “basic law” — giving it the weight of a constitu- tional amendment — omits any mention of democracy or the prin- ciple of equality, in what critics called a betrayal of Israel’s 1948 Declaration of Independence, which ensured “complete equality of social and political rights” for “all its inhabitants” no matter their religion, race or sex. The new law promotes the de- velopment of Jewish communi- ties, possibly aiding those who would seek to advance discrimi- natory land-allocation policies. And it downgrades Arabic from an official language to one with a “special status.” Since Israel was established, it has grappled with the inherent tensions between its dual aspira- tions of being both a Jewish and democratic state. The new law, portrayed by proponents as re- storing that balance in the after- math of judicial rulings that fa- vored democratic values, none- theless struck critics as an effort to tip the scales sharply toward Jewishness. Its passage demonstrated the ascendancy of ultranationalists in Israel’s government, who have been emboldened by the gains of similarly nationalist and populist movements in Europe and else- where, as Mr. Netanyahu has in- creasingly embraced illiberal de- mocracies like that of Hungary — whose far-right prime minister, Viktor Orban, arrived in Jerusa- lem for a friendly visit only hours before the vote. ISRAEL ENSHRINES RIGHTS FOR JEWS Critics Say a New Law Belittles Arab Citizens By DAVID M. HALBFINGER and ISABEL KERSHNER Continued on Page A8 Arab lawmakers protesting as Parliament passed a law on Thursday that defines Israel as the “nation-state of the Jewish people.” OLIVIER FITOUSSI/ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — President Trump plans to invite President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia to visit Washington in the fall, the White House said Thursday — an invi- tation that stunned the nation’s top intelligence official, who said he was still groping for details of what the two leaders had dis- cussed in their encounter this week in Helsinki, Finland. “Say that again?” the director of national intelligence, Dan Coats, replied when Andrea Mitchell of NBC broke the news while inter- viewing him at a security confer- ence in Aspen, Colo. “O.K.,” Mr. Coats said, taking a deep breath and chuckling awkwardly. “That’s going to be special.” The announcement came as the White House spent a third day try- ing to explain statements made by Mr. Trump after the Helsinki meeting, and as uncertainty spread throughout the govern- ment about whether he had reached agreements with Mr. Putin on Syria and Ukraine, leav- ing his military and diplomatic corps in the dark. Yielding to intense criticism, Mr. Trump rejected a proposal by Mr. Putin for Russia to question American citizens, including a for- mer ambassador to Moscow, Mi- chael A. McFaul, in return for giv- ing the United States access to 12 Russian military intelligence offi- cers indicted on charges of trying TRUMP TO INVITE PUTIN TO CAPITAL, BLINDSIDING AIDE COATS RATTLED BY NEWS A Struggle to Find Out if 2 Presidents Struck Deals in Private By MARK LANDLER Continued on Page A16 President Trump on Thursday. TOM BRENNER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES The Interior Department on Thursday proposed the most sweeping set of changes in dec- ades to the Endangered Species Act, the law that brought the bald eagle and the Yellowstone grizzly bear back from the edge of extinc- tion but which Republicans say is cumbersome and restricts eco- nomic development. The proposed revisions have far-reaching implications, poten- tially making it easier for roads, pipelines and other construction projects to gain approvals than under current rules. One change, for instance, would eliminate longstanding language that pro- hibits considering economic fac- tors when deciding whether or not a species should be protected. The agency also intends to make it more difficult to shield species like the Atlantic sturgeon that are considered “threatened,” which is the category one level be- neath the most serious one, “en- dangered.” Battles over endangered species have consumed vast swaths of the West for decades, and confrontations over protec- tions for the spotted owl, the sage grouse and the gray wolf have shaped politics and public debate. While the changes proposed Thursday by the Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service wouldn’t be ret- roactive, they could set the stage for new clashes over offshore drilling and also could help smooth the path for projects like oil and gas drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. David L. Bernhardt, the deputy secretary of the Interior Depart- ment, said that the 1973 law had not seen major changes in 30 years and described the proposals as streamlining and improving the regulatory process. He re- jected a suggestion that the moves would help the oil and gas businesses, although leaders in those industries have long sought similar changes to the ones out- lined Thursday. “Together these rules will be very protective and enhance the conservation of the species,” Mr. Bernhardt said. “At the same time we hope that they ameliorate some of the unnecessary burden, conflict and uncertainty that is within our current regulatory structure.” Environmental activists criti- cized the proposed changes, say- ing they would put species at risk Interior’s Plan For Softening Wildlife Shield Changing the Rules on Endangered Species This article is by Lisa Friedman, Kendra Pierre-Louis and Livia Al- beck-Ripka. Continued on Page A14 RARE MOVE President Trump criticized the Fed for raising interest rates, upending White House protocol. PAGE A12 Delays and management weaknesses hobbled the agency’s response to poi- soned water, a report said. PAGE A14 E.P.A. Fixes Urged Post-Flint The legal wrangling between CBS, Viacom and the Redstone family shows how quickly a powerful business alli- ance can fray. PAGE B1 Media Empire’s Power Struggle The cloud computing market is boom- ing, but companies are leery of relying on one tech giant. That is helping Microsoft. PAGE B3 Microsoft’s Share of the Cloud Without Joseph Crowley, the House Democratic leadership has a big gap. Hakeem Jeffries may fill it. PAGE A20 A Congressman Ascendant Fresh from his re-election, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has made it clear that he will wield unchecked authority in all walks of life. PAGE A8 INTERNATIONAL A4-9 Seizing More Power in Turkey Wesley Morris finds flaws in a Meryl Streep-less sequel and issues a warning about Pierce Brosnan’s singing. PAGE C5 A Misfiring ‘Mamma Mia!’ Brittany Lincicome, the sixth woman to play in a PGA Tour event, was happy to inspire young female fans. PAGE B8 The Upside of Shooting a 78 Will Hurd PAGE A27 EDITORIAL, OP-ED A26-27 SPARTANBURG, S.C. — In the middle of David Britt’s campaign to get BMW to put a car factory in this city, a man grabbed him by the tie while he was in a restau- rant. “Don’t give that land to the Ger- mans,” the man hissed to Mr. Britt, a county official. Two decades later, the au- tomaker has become the most im- portant local job creator, earning the affection of a deep-red county where one in 10 people earns a liv- ing making vehicles or their parts. The Spartanburg plant is BMW’s biggest in the world. It has helped draw more than 200 com- panies from two dozen countries to Spartanburg County. And the German company — not an Amer- ican icon like Ford or General Mo- tors — is now the largest exporter of cars made in the United States, turning the port of Charleston, S.C., into a hub for global trade. But by setting off a global trade battle, President Trump is threat- ening the town’s livelihood. Peo- ple aren’t happy. “BMW saved Spartanburg and transformed South Carolina into a manufacturing mecca to the world,” said Mr. Britt, a member of the County Council. “When you mess with the golden goose, they’re family, and you’re messing with me.” On Thursday, the Commerce Department held a hearing in Washington on whether imported cars and car parts harm national security, the premise of an admin- istration plan to impose hefty du- ties. If imposed, the tariffs would most likely have deeper and wider-reaching repercussions for the economy than levies on fish or steel. Cars don’t come together in one plant, with one work force — they’re the final result of hun- dreds of companies working to- gether, in a supply chain that can snake through small American towns and cross oceans. The hearing on Thursday drew dozens of witnesses, including auto-industry representatives and small-business owners, to ar- gue against the tariff plan. They Tariffs Threaten a Hometown Business: BMW By NATALIE KITROEFF U.S. City Transformed by Automaker Braces for Disruption Continued on Page A12 Facebook was once the most nimble company of its genera- tion. The speed at which it adapted to every challenge was legendary. It needed only about a decade to go from a dorm-room start-up to the largest and most influential commu- nications platform in the world. But it’s been two years since an American presidential cam- paign in which the company was a primary vector for misinforma- tion and state-sponsored political interference — and Facebook still seems paralyzed over how to respond. In exchanges with reporters and lawmakers over the past week, its leaders — including Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive — have been comically tripped up by some of the most basic questions the site faces. Mr. Zuckerberg, in an interview with the journalist Kara Swisher that was published Wednesday, argued that Face- book would not ban Holocaust denialism on the site because “there are things that different people get wrong.” He later explained there were many other ways that Holocaust deniers could be penalized by Facebook — yet lucidity remained elusive. Mr. Zuckerberg’s comments fit a larger pattern. Presented with straightforward queries about real-world harm caused by mis- information on their service, Facebook’s executives express their pain, ask for patience, pro- claim their unwavering commit- Once-Nimble Facebook Trips Over Calls to Control Content FARHAD MANJOO STATE OF THE ART Continued on Page A11 Late Edition Today, mostly sunny, still not very humid, high 84. Tonight, cloudy, sea- sonable, low 67. Tomorrow, cloudy, late-day thunderstorms, high 78. Weather map appears on Page A22. $3.00
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A 60-year-old told the police that Cardi-nal Theodore E. McCarrick molestedhim beginning when he was 11. PAGE A19
NEW YORK A19-23
Cardinal Is Accused Again
Latinos, California’s largest ethnicgroup, are underrepresented in stateuniversities. Not so at Merced. PAGE A10
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A Magnet College for LatinosEuropean Union countries are movingswiftly to prepare for Britain’s depar-ture, hoping to keep goods flowing andminimize the chance for chaos. PAGE B1
BUSINESS DAY B1-7
Europe Braces for Brexit
Often ignored, they get their due in a newseries. Above, Dorothy Davenport andWalter Lang’s “Red Kimona.” PAGE C1
WEEKEND ARTS C1-20
Pioneering Women Filmmakers
The 18th hole at this year’s British Opensite has a history of sending golfers toignoble fates. PAGE B11
SPORTSFRIDAY B8-12
A Damp and Dismal End
NORTH AURORA, Ill. — Mostof the room’s occupants lookednothing like Lauren Underwood,but no one seemed to care.
Ms. Underwood, the Democrat-ic congressional nominee innorthern Illinois’s pivotal 14thDistrict, flowed effortlessly fromperson to person at a meet-and-greet last month, confident in herbelief that she, a 31-year-old blackwoman, was best suited to repre-sent a community that is over-whelmingly white.
“I learned to be a black womanin this community,” Ms. Under-wood said. “This is my home, andthe idea that I might not be a goodfit is an idea I never gave a lot ofconsideration to.”
Kathy Birkett, a former schoolsuperintendent who came to the
event to support Ms. Underwood,said the candidate’s ideas abouthealth care and reducing gun vio-lence are what helped her drawsupport from a cross section ofvoters in the district.
“When you’re top notch, you’retop notch — and I don’t think thathas anything to do with color,” shesaid.
A decade after the election ofAmerica’s first black president,Ms. Underwood and several otherAfrican-American, Hispanic andminority candidates for Congressare facing a major test this fall:
Tiptoeing Around Race in Mostly White DistrictsBy ASTEAD W. HERNDON
Lauren Underwood is a House candidate in Illinois’s mostly white 14th District, where she grew up.JOSHUA LOTT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Continued on Page A18
With or Without TheirParty, Candidates ofColor Blaze a Trail
JERUSALEM — Prime Min-ister Benjamin Netanyahu of Is-rael has long demanded that thePalestinians acknowledge hiscountry’s existence as the “na-tion-state of the Jewish people.”On Thursday, his governing coali-tion stopped waiting around andpushed through a law that made ita fact.
In an incendiary move hailed ashistoric by Mr. Netanyahu’s right-wing coalition but denounced bycentrists and leftists as racist andanti-democratic, Israel’s Parlia-ment enacted a law that enshrinesthe right of national self-determi-nation as “unique to the Jewishpeople” — not all citizens.
The legislation, a “basic law” —giving it the weight of a constitu-tional amendment — omits anymention of democracy or the prin-ciple of equality, in what criticscalled a betrayal of Israel’s 1948Declaration of Independence,which ensured “complete equalityof social and political rights” for“all its inhabitants” no mattertheir religion, race or sex.
The new law promotes the de-velopment of Jewish communi-ties, possibly aiding those whowould seek to advance discrimi-natory land-allocation policies.And it downgrades Arabic from anofficial language to one with a“special status.”
Since Israel was established, ithas grappled with the inherenttensions between its dual aspira-tions of being both a Jewish anddemocratic state. The new law,portrayed by proponents as re-storing that balance in the after-math of judicial rulings that fa-vored democratic values, none-theless struck critics as an effortto tip the scales sharply towardJewishness.
Its passage demonstrated theascendancy of ultranationalists inIsrael’s government, who havebeen emboldened by the gains ofsimilarly nationalist and populistmovements in Europe and else-where, as Mr. Netanyahu has in-creasingly embraced illiberal de-mocracies like that of Hungary —whose far-right prime minister,Viktor Orban, arrived in Jerusa-lem for a friendly visit only hoursbefore the vote.
ISRAEL ENSHRINESRIGHTS FOR JEWS
Critics Say a New Law Belittles Arab Citizens
By DAVID M. HALBFINGERand ISABEL KERSHNER
Continued on Page A8
Arab lawmakers protesting as Parliament passed a law on Thursday that defines Israel as the “nation-state of the Jewish people.”OLIVIER FITOUSSI/ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — PresidentTrump plans to invite PresidentVladimir V. Putin of Russia to visitWashington in the fall, the WhiteHouse said Thursday — an invi-tation that stunned the nation’stop intelligence official, who saidhe was still groping for details ofwhat the two leaders had dis-cussed in their encounter thisweek in Helsinki, Finland.
“Say that again?” the director ofnational intelligence, Dan Coats,replied when Andrea Mitchell ofNBC broke the news while inter-viewing him at a security confer-ence in Aspen, Colo. “O.K.,” Mr.Coats said, taking a deep breathand chuckling awkwardly. “That’sgoing to be special.”
The announcement came as theWhite House spent a third day try-ing to explain statements made byMr. Trump after the Helsinkimeeting, and as uncertaintyspread throughout the govern-ment about whether he hadreached agreements with Mr.Putin on Syria and Ukraine, leav-ing his military and diplomaticcorps in the dark.
Yielding to intense criticism,Mr. Trump rejected a proposal byMr. Putin for Russia to questionAmerican citizens, including a for-mer ambassador to Moscow, Mi-chael A. McFaul, in return for giv-ing the United States access to 12Russian military intelligence offi-cers indicted on charges of trying
TRUMP TO INVITEPUTIN TO CAPITAL,
BLINDSIDING AIDE
COATS RATTLED BY NEWS
A Struggle to Find Out if2 Presidents Struck
Deals in Private
By MARK LANDLER
Continued on Page A16
President Trump on Thursday.TOM BRENNER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
The Interior Department onThursday proposed the mostsweeping set of changes in dec-ades to the Endangered SpeciesAct, the law that brought the baldeagle and the Yellowstone grizzlybear back from the edge of extinc-tion but which Republicans say iscumbersome and restricts eco-nomic development.
The proposed revisions havefar-reaching implications, poten-tially making it easier for roads,pipelines and other constructionprojects to gain approvals thanunder current rules. One change,for instance, would eliminatelongstanding language that pro-hibits considering economic fac-tors when deciding whether or nota species should be protected.
The agency also intends tomake it more difficult to shieldspecies like the Atlantic sturgeonthat are considered “threatened,”which is the category one level be-neath the most serious one, “en-dangered.”
Battles over endangeredspecies have consumed vastswaths of the West for decades,and confrontations over protec-tions for the spotted owl, the sagegrouse and the gray wolf haveshaped politics and public debate.While the changes proposedThursday by the Fish and WildlifeService and the National MarineFisheries Service wouldn’t be ret-roactive, they could set the stagefor new clashes over offshoredrilling and also could helpsmooth the path for projects likeoil and gas drilling in the ArcticNational Wildlife Refuge.
David L. Bernhardt, the deputysecretary of the Interior Depart-ment, said that the 1973 law hadnot seen major changes in 30years and described the proposalsas streamlining and improvingthe regulatory process. He re-jected a suggestion that themoves would help the oil and gasbusinesses, although leaders inthose industries have long soughtsimilar changes to the ones out-lined Thursday.
“Together these rules will bevery protective and enhance theconservation of the species,” Mr.Bernhardt said. “At the same timewe hope that they amelioratesome of the unnecessary burden,conflict and uncertainty that iswithin our current regulatorystructure.”
Environmental activists criti-cized the proposed changes, say-ing they would put species at risk
Interior’s PlanFor SofteningWildlife Shield
Changing the Rules onEndangered Species
This article is by Lisa Friedman,Kendra Pierre-Louis and Livia Al-beck-Ripka.
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RARE MOVE President Trumpcriticized the Fed for raisinginterest rates, upending WhiteHouse protocol. PAGE A12
Delays and management weaknesseshobbled the agency’s response to poi-soned water, a report said. PAGE A14
E.P.A. Fixes Urged Post-Flint
The legal wrangling between CBS,Viacom and the Redstone family showshow quickly a powerful business alli-ance can fray. PAGE B1
Media Empire’s Power Struggle
The cloud computing market is boom-ing, but companies are leery of relyingon one tech giant. That is helpingMicrosoft. PAGE B3
Microsoft’s Share of the Cloud
Without Joseph Crowley, the HouseDemocratic leadership has a big gap.Hakeem Jeffries may fill it. PAGE A20
A Congressman Ascendant Fresh from his re-election, PresidentRecep Tayyip Erdogan has made itclear that he will wield uncheckedauthority in all walks of life. PAGE A8
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Seizing More Power in Turkey
Wesley Morris finds flaws in a MerylStreep-less sequel and issues a warningabout Pierce Brosnan’s singing. PAGE C5
A Misfiring ‘Mamma Mia!’
Brittany Lincicome, the sixth woman toplay in a PGA Tour event, was happy toinspire young female fans. PAGE B8
The Upside of Shooting a 78
Will Hurd PAGE A27
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SPARTANBURG, S.C. — In themiddle of David Britt’s campaignto get BMW to put a car factory inthis city, a man grabbed him bythe tie while he was in a restau-rant.
“Don’t give that land to the Ger-mans,” the man hissed to Mr. Britt,a county official.
Two decades later, the au-tomaker has become the most im-portant local job creator, earningthe affection of a deep-red countywhere one in 10 people earns a liv-ing making vehicles or their parts.
The Spartanburg plant isBMW’s biggest in the world. It hashelped draw more than 200 com-panies from two dozen countriesto Spartanburg County. And theGerman company — not an Amer-ican icon like Ford or General Mo-
tors — is now the largest exporterof cars made in the United States,turning the port of Charleston,S.C., into a hub for global trade.
But by setting off a global tradebattle, President Trump is threat-ening the town’s livelihood. Peo-ple aren’t happy.
“BMW saved Spartanburg andtransformed South Carolina into amanufacturing mecca to theworld,” said Mr. Britt, a member ofthe County Council. “When youmess with the golden goose,they’re family, and you’re messing
with me.”On Thursday, the Commerce
Department held a hearing inWashington on whether importedcars and car parts harm nationalsecurity, the premise of an admin-istration plan to impose hefty du-ties. If imposed, the tariffs wouldmost likely have deeper andwider-reaching repercussions forthe economy than levies on fish orsteel. Cars don’t come together inone plant, with one work force —they’re the final result of hun-dreds of companies working to-gether, in a supply chain that cansnake through small Americantowns and cross oceans.
The hearing on Thursday drewdozens of witnesses, includingauto-industry representativesand small-business owners, to ar-gue against the tariff plan. They
Tariffs Threaten a Hometown Business: BMWBy NATALIE KITROEFF U.S. City Transformed
by Automaker Bracesfor Disruption
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Facebook was once the mostnimble company of its genera-tion. The speed at which itadapted to every challenge was
legendary. Itneeded only abouta decade to gofrom a dorm-roomstart-up to thelargest and mostinfluential commu-
nications platform in the world.But it’s been two years since
an American presidential cam-paign in which the company wasa primary vector for misinforma-tion and state-sponsored politicalinterference — and Facebookstill seems paralyzed over how torespond.
In exchanges with reportersand lawmakers over the pastweek, its leaders — includingMark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s
chief executive — have beencomically tripped up by some ofthe most basic questions the sitefaces. Mr. Zuckerberg, in aninterview with the journalistKara Swisher that was publishedWednesday, argued that Face-book would not ban Holocaustdenialism on the site because“there are things that differentpeople get wrong.” He laterexplained there were many otherways that Holocaust denierscould be penalized by Facebook— yet lucidity remained elusive.
Mr. Zuckerberg’s comments fita larger pattern. Presented withstraightforward queries aboutreal-world harm caused by mis-information on their service,Facebook’s executives expresstheir pain, ask for patience, pro-claim their unwavering commit-
Once-Nimble Facebook TripsOver Calls to Control Content
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