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MEXICO CITY — Hunkereddown in the presidential palace,Enrique Peña Nieto, the unpopu-lar leader of Mexico, was besiegedon both sides.

The new American president,Donald J. Trump, had just orderedthe construction of a border wallbetween the two countries, andthe public outcry in Mexico wasdeafening. Top cabinet officials,meanwhile, counseled caution,urging Mr. Peña Nieto not to can-cel his meeting with Mr. Trump atthe White House next week.

For months, though his ratingshovered near the single digits, theworst of any Mexican president inrecent history, Mr. Peña Nieto re-sisted the temptation to saber-rat-tle, arguing that the relationshipwith America was simply too im-portant to fall prey to a war ofwords.

He wanted to give diplomacyone last try. By Thursday morn-ing, the effort had officially failed.

In a blitz of Twitter messagesfrom the two presidents, fired offover the past two days, the firstfull-blown foreign policy standoffof the Trump administration hastaken shape.

The public sparring came aftermonths of simmering tensions be-tween the two men. For decades,the United States and Mexicohave expanded their cooperationand increasingly entwined theirfortunes. Now the relationship be-tween America and one of its most

Peña NietoJoins a FightHe’s Dreaded

By AZAM AHMED

President Enrique Peña NietoEDGARD GARRIDO/REUTERS

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WASHINGTON — Just days af-ter President Trump spoke of a“running war’’ with the media, hischief White House strategist,Stephen K. Bannon, ratcheted upthe attacks, arguing that news or-ganizations had been “humili-ated” by the election outcome andrepeatedly describing the mediaas “the opposition party” of thecurrent administration.

“The media should be embar-rassed and humiliated and keepits mouth shut and just listen for awhile,” Mr. Bannon said in an in-terview on Wednesday.

“I want you to quote this,” Mr.Bannon added. “The media here isthe opposition party. They don’tunderstand this country. They stilldo not understand why DonaldTrump is the president of theUnited States.”

The scathing assessment — de-livered by one of Mr. Trump’s mosttrusted and influential advisers, inthe first days of his presidency —comes at a moment of high ten-sion between the news media and

the administration, with skir-mishes over the size of Mr.Trump’s inaugural crowd and thepresident’s false claims that mil-lions of illegal votes by undocu-mented immigrants swayed thepopular vote against him.

Mr. Bannon, who rarely grantsinterviews to journalists outside

of Breitbart News, the provoca-tive right-wing website he ran un-til August, was echoing commentsby Mr. Trump last weekend, whenthe president said he was in “arunning war” with the media andcalled journalists “among themost dishonest people on earth.”

Top Strategist Casts Media as ‘Opposition Party’By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM

Stephen K. Bannon said the media got the election “dead wrong.”WIN McNAMEE/GETTY IMAGES

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WASHINGTON — The WhiteHouse is drafting a presidential di-rective that calls on Defense Sec-retary James N. Mattis to deviseplans to more aggressively strikethe Islamic State, which could in-clude American artillery on theground in Syria and Army attackhelicopters to support an assaulton the group’s capital, Raqqa, offi-cials said.

President Trump, who is tomake his first visit to the Penta-gon as commander in chief on Fri-day, will demand that the new op-tions be presented to him within30 days, the officials said. Duringthe presidential campaign, Mr.Trump repeatedly said that he hada secret plan to defeat the IslamicState, but he also said that he

would give his commanders amonth to come up with other op-tions.

The White House is also ex-pected to press for a review of theUnited States nuclear posture —one that retains all three legs ofthe nuclear arsenal, with weaponsaboard bombers and submarinesand in underground missile silos— as well as a review of how toachieve the president’s goal offielding a “state of the art” an-timissile system.

During the campaign, Mr.Trump pledged to expand theArmy, Navy, Air Force and MarineCorps, and a draft directive callsfor steps to improve the military’sreadiness to fight on short notice.

The directive to identify newways to hasten the demise of theIslamic State, also known as ISIS

President Is Said to Seek PlanFor U.S. to Strike ISIS Harder

This article is by Michael R. Gor-don, Helene Cooper and EricSchmitt.

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LaGRANGE, Ga. — Some peo-ple here had never heard aboutthe lynching of Austin Callaway —about how, almost 77 years ago, hewas dragged out of a jail cell by aband of masked white men, thenshot and left for dead.

Some people never forgot.But on Thursday evening, the

fatal cruelties inflicted upon Mr.Callaway — long obscured bytime, fear, professional malfea-sance and a reluctance to investi-gate the sins of the past — wereacknowledged in this city of 31,000people when LaGrange’s policechief, Louis M. Dekmar, who iswhite, issued a rare apology for aSouthern lynching.

“I sincerely regret and de-nounce the role our Police Depart-ment played in Austin’s lynching,both through our action and ourinaction,” Chief Dekmar told acrowd at a traditionally African-American church. “And for that,

I’m profoundly sorry. It shouldnever have happened.”

He also said that all citizens hadthe right to expect that their policedepartment “be honest, decent,unbiased and ethical.”

“In Austin’s case, and in manylike his, those were not the policedepartment values he experi-

White Police Chief Apologizes For a 1940 Southern Lynching

By ALAN BLINDER and RICHARD FAUSSET

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The Times printed an item onthe murder of Austin Callaway.

PHILADELPHIA — From thetime Donald J. Trump becametheir candidate until he took theoath of office, congressional Re-publicans treated his policy pro-nouncements — largely out ofstep with Republican dogma — asessentially a distraction. Hewould talk. They would drive thepolicies.

But now, the question ofwhether congressional Republi-cans would change PresidentTrump or Mr. Trump wouldchange them has an early answer.Mr. Trump cheerfully addressedthe group here at their policy re-treat on Thursday, and they re-sponded with applause to manyproposals they have long op-posed.

Republican lawmakers appearmore than ready to open up the

coffers for a $12 billion to $15 bil-lion border wall, perhaps withoutthe commensurate spending cutsthat they demanded when it cameto disaster aid, money to fight theZika virus or funds for the taintedwater system in Flint, Mich. Theyalso seem to back a swelling of thefederal payroll that Mr. Trump hascalled for in the form of a largermilitary and 5,000 more borderpatrol agents.

They have stayed oddly silentas Mr. Trump and Senate Demo-crats push a $1 trillion infrastruc-ture plan, larger than one they re-jected from President BarackObama, although the Senate ma-jority leader, Mitch McConnell ofKentucky, has said he is not excit-ed about a major infrastructuremeasure. Once fierce promoters

Long Critical of Trump’s Ideas,Republicans Now Applaud Them

By JENNIFER STEINHAUER

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A week after he was inaugurated,Adama Barrow set foot inside his ownnational borders for the first time as thenew president. PAGE A4

INTERNATIONAL A3-7

Gambian Leader Comes Home

With a beachfront landfill attractingbirds that threaten a nearby airport,there is no end in sight to Lebanon’strash crisis, a potent symbol of thenation’s dysfunctional politics. PAGE A4

Trash Piles Up in Beirut

Electric vehicles like the Qiantu K50roadster offer a new opportunity toChinese car-making efforts that havelanguished in the past. PAGE B1

BUSINESS DAY B1-6

China Races Into Electric Cars

Twin apartment towers on the EastRiver, known as the American CopperBuildings, embody the steps that build-ers are taking against the effects ofextreme weather. PAGE A20

NEW YORK A20-23

Rising With a Flood Plan

Contracts for law firms filed with thecity comptroller’s office to defend May-or Bill de Blasio and other city officialsin criminal investigations now totalmore than $11.6 million. PAGE A23

Cost to Defend Mayor Grows

Scientists have succeeded in growinghuman cells in animals, moving a dis-tant goal harvesting organs for peoplefrom animals closer to reality. PAGE A19

NATIONAL A8-19

Human Organs in Animals

Serena and Venus Williams’s matchupin the Australian Open final may not betheir last meeting in the late stages of amajor tournament. On Tennis. PAGE B7

SPORTSFRIDAY B7-11

Don’t Call It a Grand Finale

Jane Pauley writes about the inspira-tion Mary Tyler Moore’s TV newswom-an was to her career, not to mention herdécor and wardrobe. PAGE C3

WEEKEND ARTS C1-28

Being Mary Richards

Paul Krugman PAGE A25

EDITORIAL, OP-ED A24-25

PHILADELPHIA — PresidentTrump’s decision to build a wallalong the length of the UnitedStates’ southern border with Mex-ico erupted into a diplomaticstandoff on Thursday, leading tothe cancellation of a White Housevisit by Mexico’s president andsharply rising tensions over whowould pay for the wall.

Mr. Trump appeared to em-brace a proposal by House Repub-licans that would impose a 20 per-cent tax on all imported goods.The White House press secretary,Sean Spicer, told reporters thatthe proceeds would be used to payfor the border wall, estimated tocost as much as $20 billion.

But an uproar prompted Mr.Spicer to temper his earlier re-marks, saying the plan was sim-ply “one idea” that might work tofinance the wall. Mr. Spicer said itwas not the job of the White Houseto “roll something out” on tax pol-icy, while Mr. Trump’s chief ofstaff, Reince Priebus, said the ad-ministration was considering “abuffet of options.”

If Mr. Trump does eventuallyannounce his support for the taxplan, it could have a broad impacton the American economy, and itsconsumers and workers, bysharply increasing the prices ofimported goods or reducing prof-its for the companies that producethem. Other nations could retali-ate, prompting a trade war thatcould hit consumers around theglobe.

Retail businesses could seetheir tax bills surge, said DavidFrench of the National Retail Fed-eration, who predicted that thosecosts would be passed on to con-sumers. He called the idea “verycounter to the way consumers arefeeling at the moment.”

If nothing else, the rapid-fire de-velopments showed Mr. Trumpthe complications involved in in-ternational diplomacy and a top-to-bottom overhaul of the taxcode. The events unfolded afterMr. Trump signed an executive or-

der on Wednesday to strengthenthe nation’s deportation force andstart construction on a new wallalong the border.

Adding to Mexico’s perceptionof an insult was the timing of theorder: It came on the first day oftalks between top Mexican offi-cials and their counterparts inWashington, and just days beforea scheduled meeting between Mr.Trump and the Mexican presi-dent, Enrique Peña Nieto.

The sense of chaos and confu-sion about the tax issue added tothe fallout from Mr. Trump’s con-flict with Mr. Peña Nieto, his firstdirect clash with a world leadersince becoming president a weekago. The Mexican peso bouncedsharply with each new develop-ment.

The two had been heading to-ward a clash for months, and Mr.

Tax Plan Sows ConfusionAs Border Tensions Soar

Mexican Leader Cancels Trip as U.S. Talk of20% Import Charge Causes Uproar

This article is by Michael D.Shear, Binyamin Appelbaum andAlan Rappeport.

President Trump boarded Air Force One for the first time on Thursday to travel to a Republican retreat in Philadelphia.DOUG MILLS/THE NEW YORK TIMES

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