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World-Widen Obama outlined in a WestPoint commencement speecha foreign policy that focuseson diplomacy, targeted mili-tary operations and aid. A1nA VAwatchdog’s reportfound systemic problems atthe agency’s health-care fa-cilities, increasing pressureon Secretary Shinseki. A1nHackers apparently basedin Iran have mounted a three-year campaign of cyberespio-nage against high-ranking U.S.and international officials. A2n The U.S. dispatched 1,000Marines to the Mediterraneanand urged Americans to leaveLibya due to unrest. A11n Putin will meetWesternleaders for the first time sinceannexing Crimea when he at-tends D-Day ceremonies. A8nUkraine’s incoming leaderasked for time before commit-ting to a major economic andpolitical deal with the EU. A8n Protesters in Abkhaziademanded the resignation ofthe breakaway Georgian re-gion’s pro-Russian leader. A8nA Pakistan Taliban factionbroke away and condemnedviolence, a move that weakensthe militant group. A11n The birthrate amonghigh-school-age girls in theU.S. fell 13% last year to thelowest level on record. A6n An appeals court threwout the murder conviction ofBulger’s FBI handler. A3nDied: Maya Angelou, 86,“people’s poet” and activist.A6…Malcolm Glazer, 85, bil-lionaire sports-team owner. B3

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Apple is buying Beats for$3 billion, a deal that will

bring a music-streaming ser-vice, high-end headphonesand music-industry connec-tions to the tech giant. A1nA GM engineer at the centerof the controversy over thehandling of a deadly ignition-switch defect has met withcongressional investigators. B1n Potential buyers lined upto make a bid for the L.A.Clippers even as owner Don-ald Sterling vowed to fight asale of the basketball team. B1nAccounting rulemakers un-veiled changes that will over-haul the way businesses re-cord revenue on their books. B1nValeant raised its Allerganbid to $49.4 billion and soldrights to some products tosmooth antitrust concerns. B3n Investors are returningto emerging markets thatsuffered big losses as re-cently as last winter. C1nGovernment bonds rallied,pushing yields to their lowestlevel in nearly a year, on uncer-tainty over global growth. C1nStocks fell after two recordcloses for the S&P 500, whichlost 2.13 points to 1909.78. TheDow shed 42.32 to 16633.18. C4nU.S. banks’ net dropped 7.6%last quarter from a year agoon a decline in mortgage ac-tivity and financial trading. C1n Proxy adviser ISS urged theouster of most Target direc-tors, citing the data breach. B2n The Ziffs are winding downthe hedge funds that managetheir family’s fortune. C1

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World Cup to Soccer Fans:Bring In the Funk, Not the Noisemaker

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Despite ‘Official’ Status and PraiseFromBrazil’s President, Caxirola Gets Banned

SÃO PAULO—It has been lik-ened to a hand grenade withbrass knuckles, ridiculed as a“glorified rattle,” and dismissedby one British sportswriter as“rubbish.”

Meet the caxirola,Brazil’s answer to thevuvuzela, the elon-gated plastic horn thatsounded like a belli-cose water buffalo andwas unleashed onmankind’s eardrumsduring the 2010 WorldCup in South Africa.

“If you thought vu-vuzelas were bad, waituntil you hear the cax-irola,” groused the Guardiannewspaper in Britain.

Many people, it turns out,won’t.

Despite the noisemaker beingblessed by some, including Bra-zil’s President Dilma Rousseff,

and an endorsement by FIFA,soccer’s world governing body,federal officials have barred thecaxirola from all 12 of the Brazil-ian soccer grounds where WorldCup matches will be played.

Ostensibly, the instrumentwas kicked out of playfor safety reasons.And yet the banhasn’t stopped thecaxirola (pronouncedka-shee-role-ah) frommaking a noise in themarketplace.

The World Cup’sofficial marketers arebusily selling the caxi-rola online as one of“10 Must Have” itemsfor the well-equipped

fan. Since it can still be usedoutside stadiums, and in generalWorld Cup revelry, it is available

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Caxirola

CAIRO—The dramatic shift in popular opinionthat is expected to lift a former army chief to pres-ident of Egypt traces, in part, to an incident out-side a TV station last year.

One night last June, long before Field MarshalAbdel Fattah Al Sisi was seen as presidential mate-rial here, the news directors of six satellite newschannels huddled in an office to discuss growingprotests outside by backers of Mohammed Morsi,the Muslim Brotherhood leader elected presidentafter the Arab Spring uprising.

The news directors say they were terrified. Isla-mists enraged at the stations’ criticisms of Mr.Morsi had surrounded the office park that housedtheir TV offices, intimidating reporters who cameand went.

The news directors made a decision: From thenon, their stations would refer to Muslim Brother-

hood supporters as “terrorists.”The protesters “were saying ‘We will kill you.’

They started throwing Molotov cocktails at thegate. So this was terrorism,” said Albert Shafik,news director of a channel called OnTV.

“So we explained this every day on air.”The language in broadcasts watched by mil-

lions proved a pivot point in Egypt’s circuitous de-velopment after the Arab Spring, from nascent de-mocracy to a new embrace of leadership by formergenerals.

Mr. Morsi, elected in 2012 in the first free andfair presidential election Egypt had held in de-cades, now sits in prison, facing capital murdercharges.

Mr. Sisi, who as army chief removed Mr. Morsifrom office last July and then oversaw a crack-down on his supporters from behind the scenes, ison his way to being elevated to the presidency af-

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BY MATT BRADLEY

CHANGE IN TONE

Off Camera, Egyptian TVShaped a New Government

Apple Inc. wants to regain thebeat in its music business, whichis under assault from a streamof upstarts.

The tech giant said onWednesday it is buying BeatsElectronics LLC for $3 billion tobolster a music business thathas lost some of its mojo, asstreaming-music services en-croached on the downloads dom-inated by Apple’s iTunes service.

In Beats, Apple is getting a mu-sic-streaming service, high-endheadphones and music-industryconnections. Beats’ co-founders,rap star Dr. Dre and music mogulJimmy Iovine, will join Apple.

The deal will make Apple“cool” again by uniting Mr. Io-vine’s feel for “the culture ofyoung people” with Apple’s“many millions of young peoples’credit cards,” said Sony Music En-

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Apple TapsTastemakersTo RegainMusic Mojo

Goldman’s Forecast: Bank picksBrazil to win World Cup........... C3

WEST POINT, N.Y.—PresidentBarack Obama sought onWednesday to define how toproject American power: Notnecessarily by major deploy-ments of American forces, butrather through targeted opera-tions, diplomacy and aid.

Mr. Obama’s address to gradu-

ating cadets at the U.S. MilitaryAcademy at West Point markedthe start of his campaign tocounter critics of his foreign pol-icy doctrine and blunt charges,chiefly by political opponents,that what his critics call his gun-shy approach has diluted Ameri-can influence on the world stage.

“U.S. military action cannot bethe only—or even primary—com-

ponent of our leadership in everyinstance,” Mr. Obama said. “Justbecause we have the best ham-mer does not mean that everyproblem is a nail.”

The president sought to artic-ulate a doctrine that applies toan era of substantial shifts in theforeign-policy landscape, mark-ing the end of post-Sept. 11 wars,the rise of unexpected challenges

from Russia, tensions in Asia, theevolving threat of terrorism andthe persistent volatility of theMiddle East.

Amid the turmoil, Mr. Obamasaid, “The U.S. is the one indis-pensable nation.”

He previewed two upcomingpolicy changes: a deeper U.S. in-volvement in the Syrian civil war,

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Obama Defends U.S. PolicyBased Less onMilitaryMight

President Barack Obama, speaking at West Point’s graduation Wednesday, said the U.S. should use resources for diplomacy and counterterrorism.

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A watchdog’s report foundsystemic problems at Departmentof Veterans Affairs health-care fa-cilities, including improper proce-dures for scheduling patient ap-pointments and efforts to hideexcessive wait times, increasingthe pressure on embattled VASecretary Eric Shinseki.

The interim report by the VA’sindependent inspector generalfocuses on the Phoenix VAHealth Care System in Arizona,where wait times for patient ap-pointments were improperly re-ported, but also points to wide-spread scheduling problemsthroughout the VA health-caresystem.

“Our reviews at more VAmedical facilities…have con-firmed that inappropriate sched-uling practices are systemic,”the report said. The inspectorgeneral said it had identified po-tential criminal and civil viola-tions, and is coordinating effortswith the Justice Department.

The report led to new calls inCongress for Mr. Shinseki to stepdown. A senior administration of-ficial said President BarackObama’s recent comments indi-cate Mr. Shinseki is on proba-tion—and that hasn’t changed. Mr.Shinseki didn’t comment on hisplans Wednesday, but in the pasthas said he doesn’t plan to leaveoffice.

Release of the report sparkedan immediate bipartisan outpour-

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BY BEN KESLING

As ReportFaults VA,ShinsekiFeels Heat

Thai Protesters Oppose Military Clampdown

COUP CRITICIZED: A protester at an anticoup demonstration inBangkok, as fears of a broader media clampdown escalated. A9

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