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JERICHO, West Bank — Whenthe Oslo peace accords weresigned a quarter-century ago, res-idents of Jericho celebrated. Theirdusty, 11,000-year-old desert citywas given autonomy before any-where else on the West Bank. Pal-estinians saw it as a foothold forwhat they trusted would becometheir own new state.

But nothing has turned out asthey expected.

A shiny new casino, openedwith great fanfare in 1998 to enticeIsraeli gamblers, has been emptysince 2000, when they werebarred from entering the city. Thetwo-decade-old public hospital fi-nally just got an elevator thanks toa donation from Japan. Perhapsthe best-known institution of self-

government in town is the jail,widely feared as a dungeon for po-litical prisoners.

The brilliant Palestinian futureconjured by Oslo has instead be-come a bitter trap.

The Oslo accords, first unveiledon the White House lawn with ahandshake between Yitzhak Ra-bin and Yasir Arafat on Sept. 13,1993, culminated in mutual recog-nition between Israel and the

Palestine Liberation Organiza-tion, which Israel had long bannedas a terrorist organization, andthe first formal agreements in aphased effort to resolve the cen-

25 Years After Handshake, Mideast Peace Seems Remote as EverBy DAVID M. HALBFINGER

and ISABEL KERSHNER

The Oslo peace accords were signed on Sept. 13, 1993, in a ceremony on the White House lawn.PAUL HOSEFROS/THE NEW YORK TIMES

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On a Monday in late July, CBS’sboard of directors convened a con-ference call to determine the fateof its chairman and chief execu-tive, Leslie Moonves, who hadbeen publicly accused of sexualharassment and assault.

Some directors, led by CBS’scontrolling shareholder, ShariRedstone, thought that Mr.Moonves had to go. But the net-work’s longstanding hitmakerhad been lobbying directors, argu-ing that the allegations were falseor hyped. And his support randeep.

“We are going to stay in thismeeting until midnight if we needto until we get an agreement that

we stand 100 percent behind ourC.E.O., and there will be no changein his status,” said one boardmember, William Cohen, a formercongressman and senator whowas defense secretary underPresident Bill Clinton, accordingto directors who heard the re-marks and other people who werebriefed on them.

Another director, Arnold Kopel-son, an 83-year-old producer whowon a Best Picture Oscar for “Pla-toon,” was even stronger in his de-fense of Mr. Moonves, the direc-tors and others said. “I don’t careif 30 more women come forwardand allege this kind of stuff,” Mr.

Revelation of Moonves’s DeceitWas Last Straw for CBS Board

By JAMES B. STEWART

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WASHINGTON — The Foodand Drug Administration onWednesday declared that teenageuse of electronic cigarettes hadreached “an epidemic propor-tion,” and it put makers of themost popular devices on noticethat they have just 60 days toprove they can keep their devicesaway from minors.

The order was part of a sweep-ing government action that tar-geted both makers and sellers ofe-cigarettes. If Juul Labs and fourother major manufacturers fail tohalt sales to minors, the agencysaid, it could remove their fla-vored products from the market.It also raised the possibility of civilor criminal charges if companiesare allowing bulk sales throughtheir websites.

The agency said it was sendingwarning letters to 1,100 retailers— including 7-Eleven stores, Wal-greens, Circle K and Shell gas sta-tions — and issued 131 fines, from$279 to $11,182, for selling e-ciga-rettes to minors.

Federal law prohibits selling e-cigarettes to anyone under 18. In abriefing with reporters, the F.D.A.commissioner, Dr. Scott Gottlieb,said that over two million middleand high school students regu-larly used e-cigarettes last year.

The government’s tactics un-derscore a public-health dilem-ma: In addressing one problem —cigarette smoking, which kills480,000 people in the UnitedStates each year — e-cigarettescreate another — getting teen-agers who have never smoked ad-dicted to nicotine.

E-cigarette users inhale farfewer toxic chemicals than dosmokers of traditional cigarettes.But they can take in higher levelsof nicotine.

“The developing adolescentbrain is particularly vulnerable toaddiction,” the F.D.A. said in itsstatement announcing the ac-tions.

In particular, the agency hasbeen watching the wildly popularJuul, which offers especially po-tent nicotine hits. Juul Labs intro-duced the sleek device, whichlooks like a flash drive, in 2015. Itcomes with “pods” in eight fla-vors, among them mango, men-thol and creme. Juul has becomethe dominant seller of e-cigarettesand is a fad among students. Ac-cording to Nielsen data, Juul con-trols 72 percent of the market, and

F.D.A., ALARMEDBY TEENAGE USE,

TARGETS VAPING

RESPONSE TO ‘EPIDEMIC’

Block Sales to Minors orRisk Ban on Flavors,

Industry Is Told

By SHEILA KAPLAN and JAN HOFFMAN

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WASHINGTON — The foreign-born population in the UnitedStates has reached its highestshare since 1910, according to gov-ernment data released Thursday,and the new arrivals are morelikely to come from Asia and tohave college degrees than thosewho arrived in past decades.

The Census Bureau’s figures for2017 confirm a major shift in whois coming to the United States. Foryears newcomers tended to befrom Latin America, but a Brook-ings Institution analysis of thatdata shows that 41 percent of thepeople who said they arrivedsince 2010 came from Asia. Just 39percent were from Latin America.About 45 percent were college ed-ucated, the analysis found, com-pared with about 30 percent ofthose who came between 2000and 2009.

“This is quite different fromwhat we had thought,” saidWilliam H. Frey, the senior de-mographer at the Brookings Insti-tution who conducted the analy-sis. “We think of immigrants asbeing low-skilled workers fromLatin America, but for recent ar-rivals that’s much less the case.People from Asia have overtakenpeople from Latin America.”

The new data was released asthe nation’s changing demogra-phy has become a flash point inAmerican politics. PresidentTrump, and many Republicans,have sounded alarms about immi-gration and suggested the govern-ment needs to restrict both thenumber and types of people com-ing into the country.

The last historic peak in immi-gration to the United States cameat the end of the 19th century,when large numbers of Euro-peans fled poverty and violence intheir home countries. Some of thelargest numbers came from Ger-many, Italy and Poland. Thatwave peaked around the turn ofthe century, when the total for-eign-born population stood atnearly 15 percent. But after thepassage of strict racial quotas inthe 1920s, the foreign-born popu-lation fell sharply for decades inthe middle of the 20th century. By1970, the population was below 5percent.

The passage of a more liberalimmigration law in 1965, which

Growing ShareOf U.S. Is BornOn Foreign Soil

Level Is Highest Since1910, Census Finds

By SABRINA TAVERNISE

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DETENTION The number of mi-grants in the federal shelter sys-tem has exploded to the highestever recorded. PAGE A18

WASHINGTON — A year afterpresiding over a sluggish and cha-otic response to a devastatingstorm in Puerto Rico, the Trumpadministration girded on Wednes-day for a test of its ability to do bet-ter as Hurricane Florence contin-ued to bear down on the Carolinacoast.

If responding to the destructionfrom Hurricane Maria last year inPuerto Rico was especially chal-lenging — it was the third majorhurricane of the season, it struckoff the United States mainlandand the local government was of-ten overwhelmed — Florencepresents more manageable logis-tics for the Federal EmergencyManagement Agency.

It is the first big storm of 2018.FEMA and state and local officialshave had days to prepare, and theagency has positioned consider-able supplies and personnel in theareas most likely to be affected.Two months before the midtermelections, President Trump hasput himself front and center in thegovernment’s response, suggest-ing that the White House will befully invested in providing thenecessary resources.

Beyond the threat to lives andproperty, the storm also poses aformidable political challenge forMr. Trump, whose public posturehas been shaped by his penchantfor self-congratulation and relishfor lashing out at political rivals.

Mr. Trump began his morningon Wednesday doling out A-pluses to his administration for itsperformance during last year’shurricane season. He called its re-sponse to Hurricane Maria —whose death toll in Puerto Ricowas recently estimated at 2,975 —“an unappreciated great job” in aTwitter post that blamed the “in-accessible island with very poorelectricity and a totally incompe-tent Mayor of San Juan” for thedevastation there.

Mr. Trump also posted a videoof himself in the Rose Garden ofthe White House in which he vacil-lated between sober warnings

Storm PresentsTest for FEMA

And President

Preparations Driven byLessons From 2017

This article is by Ron Nixon, JulieHirschfeld Davis and James Glanz.

John Beebles and his son John Beebles Jr. boarded up their bungalow in Folly Beach, S.C.JOHNNY MILANO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Families in and around Wilmington, N.C., headed for evacuation buses at a county office building.ERIC THAYER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Shopping carts were filling up, but grocery store shelves were far from bare in Myrtle Beach, S.C.LUKE SHARRETT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

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Scientists think the artifact is the oldestknown drawing by human hands. It wasdiscovered in South Africa. PAGE A10

INTERNATIONAL A4-13

73,000-Year-Old Sketch FoundApple has unveiled its new line ofsmartphones. The XS Max, its biggestphone ever, will start at $1,100. PAGE B5

BUSINESS DAY B1-8

Bigger, and Costlier, iPhonesAn exhibition in Denmark looks at howthe celestial body has fascinated artists,writers and scientists. Above, an imagefrom a 1902 Georges Méliès film. PAGE C1

ARTS C1-8

Getting a Moon’s-Eye View

Francis called on bishops to gather inFebruary over a crisis that has rattledthe church, and his papacy. PAGE A8

Pope Orders Talk on Sex AbuseA suit by New Mexico’s attorney generalaccuses a popular app maker of vio-lating a children’s privacy law. PAGE B1

A Legal Test for Game Apps

The Yankees are building their teamaround a core of homegrown youngtalent, but those players can findthemselves on a short leash. PAGE B9

SPORTSTHURSDAY B9-13

Yanks Have No Room for ErrorWomen seeking office once kept chil-dren in the background. Now they aremaking motherhood an asset. PAGE A14

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On the Trail With Kids in Tow

Sunday’s TV broadcast of the competi-tion was cheery as ever and rebrandedto address criticism. But a “civil war” ofsorts was hidden from view. PAGE D1

THURSDAY STYLES D1-12

Missing From Miss AmericaA colleague’s tip led to the arrest of sevenpolice officers in connection with gam-bling and prostitution rings. PAGE A25

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Officers Linked to Sex Ring

CAROLINA BEACH, N.C. —Skippy Winner, an 84-year-old re-tired sea captain, has stayed putfor every storm here since Hurri-cane Hazel leveled much of thisbarrier island town in 1954. He rat-tled off those storms gone by:Donna, Diana, Hugo, Fran, Floydand too many nor’easters to count.

“I’m gonna be just fine, so let ’erblow,” Mr. Winner said onWednesday as he prepared to re-main inside his cramped livingroom, which was bathed in the sil-ver light of the TV screen. TheWeather Channel played on mute.He was shirtless, with a camou-flage ball cap, wrinkled khakishorts and a medical alert neck-lace he knows might not do himmuch good.

There is a stubborn breed ofhurricane holdouts who routinelyaggravate and ignore emergencyofficials as they beg coastal resi-dents to pack up and leave asstorms approach. Every hurri-cane, from Katrina to Ike to Har-vey, has had its share — many ofthem cranky, independent-minded contrarians like DavidCarl (Skippy) Winner Jr., the lat-est in a long line of Carolina Beach

seamen.The authorities, who have al-

ready spent days trying to warnpeople in Hurricane Florence’spath of the potential severity ofthe huge storm, issued some oftheir most strident pleas yet onWednesday for people to get out ofharm’s way.

“We know a lot of our coastalresidents have ridden out storms

The People Who Never Evacuate Aim to Stare Down a MonsterBy DAVID ZUCCHINO

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An email shows that a former specialassistant to the governor drafted lan-guage used in a mailer accusing Cyn-thia Nixon of anti-Semitism. PAGE A25

Ex-Cuomo Aide Tied to Flier

Late EditionToday, variably cloudy, a few show-ers, humid, high 76. Tonight, mostlycloudy, humid, low 68. Tomorrow, in-termittent clouds, humid, high 76.Weather map appears on Page B10.

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