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WASHINGTON — PresidentTrump is projecting a steely fa-cade as he prepares for a criticalmeeting on trade this weekendwith President Xi Jinping ofChina. But behind his tough talkand threats of higher tariffs is acreeping anxiety about the costsof a prolonged trade war on the fi-nancial markets and the broadereconomy.

That could set the stage for atruce between the United Statesand China, several American offi-cials said, in the form of an agree-ment that would delay new tariffsfor several months while theworld’s two largest economies tryto work out the issues dividingthem.

Such an outcome is not certain.Administration officials have ex-pressed deep disappointmentwith China’s response to Mr.Trump’s pressure so far, charac-

terizing it as a list of proposals,transmitted in Chinese, whichthey say would do little to curbChina’s theft of American technol-ogy or address its other predatorytrade practices.

But Mr. Trump has signaled anew willingness to make a dealwith Mr. Xi, a leader he hastreated solicitously and will meetover dinner on Saturday inBuenos Aires, after a summitmeeting of leaders of the Group of20 industrialized nations.

The gyrations in the stock mar-ket, the rise in interest rates andthousands of layoffs announcedby General Motors this week haveall rattled Mr. Trump, officialssaid, fueling his desire to emergefrom his meal with Mr. Xi withsomething he can claim as a vic-tory.

“There’s a good possibility that

TRUMP SIGNALINGNEW WILLINGNESSFOR CHINA TRUCE

KEY TRADE TALKS WITH XI

Economic Tremors AreSaid to Fuel a Desire

for an Agreement

This article is by Mark Landler,Glenn Thrush and Keith Bradsher.

President Trump will meet XiJinping in Buenos Aires.

ANDREW HARNIK/ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Data from the jetliner thatcrashed into the Java Sea lastmonth shows the pilots fought tosave the plane almost from themoment it took off, as the Boeing737’s nose was repeatedly forceddown, apparently by an automaticsystem receiving incorrect sensorreadings.

The information from the flightdata recorder, contained in a pre-liminary report prepared by Indo-nesian crash investigators and re-leased on Wednesday, documentsa fatal tug of war between manand machine, with the plane’snose forced dangerously down-ward over two dozen times duringthe 11-minute flight.

The pilots managed to pull thenose back up over and over untilfinally losing control, leaving theplane, Lion Air Flight 610, to plum-met into the ocean at 450 miles perhour, killing all 189 people onboard.

The data from the so-calledblack box is consistent with thetheory that investigators havebeen most focused on: that a com-puterized system Boeing installedon its latest generation of 737 toprevent the plane’s nose from get-ting too high and causing a stall in-stead forced the nose down be-cause of incorrect information itwas receiving from sensors on thefuselage.

In the aftermath of the crash, pi-lots have expressed concern thatthey had not been fully informedabout the new Boeing system —known as the maneuvering char-acteristics augmentation system,or M.C.A.S. — and how it would re-quire them to respond differentlyin case of the type of emergencyencountered by the Lion Air crew.

“It’s all consistent with the hy-pothesis of this problem with theM.C.A.S. system,” said R. JohnHansman Jr., a professor of aero-nautics and astronautics and di-rector of the international centerfor air transportation at the Mass-

Futile StruggleOn Doomed Jet

From the Start

Black Box Data ShowsLion Air’s Troubles

This article is by James Glanz,Muktita Suhartono and HannahBeech.

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The body of Sgt. Leandro A.S. Jasso, 25, of Washington State, who was killed during a firefight with Al Qaeda last week, arriving atDover Air Force Base, Del., on Monday. Three other Americans were killed in an attack by the Taliban on Tuesday. Page A10.

Toll Grows in Afghanistan

SAN DIEGO — In an over-crowded shelter at a sports com-plex south of the Mexican border,nearly 6,000 migrants from Cen-tral America have been waiting inincreasingly squalid conditions —and with an increasing sense ofdesperation — to cross into theUnited States.

On the other side of the border,though, many of those who havemanaged to successfully make itacross have found that the weeksthey spent in Mexico trying to en-ter the United States have led toeven more challenges ahead.

They are waiting, too.Yarely Elizabeth Palomo, who

said she set out from Honduras tothe United States six months agowith her young daughter, had towait behind hundreds of otherpeople for processing when shearrived at the border in Tijuana,and waited two weeks for hernumber to be called by Americanimmigration authorities.

On Tuesday, two days after atense standoff in which Americanauthorities fired tear gas at hun-dreds of migrants who tried tostorm the border fence, Ms.Palomo sat in a makeshift shelterin San Diego set up for migrantswho have been slowly tricklingthrough the border. She said shewas uncertain where she washeaded or whether she would beallowed to stay after telling theAmerican authorities about the

gang violence that she said droveher from her home.

“I’m here for now. I’m not surewhat comes next,” she said.

Most of those at the shelterwere not given the traditionalscreening interviews at the bor-der and said they were not evensure when they would be given theopportunity to apply for asylum inthe United States.

“I tried to ask for asylum at the

border. They didn’t let me,” saidVíctor Manuel Galdamez, a mi-grant from El Salvador who waswaiting at the shelter. “I am stillwaiting to ask. I have no ideawhen they will let me.”

The long wait times are partlythe product of a Trump adminis-tration initiative known as “me-tering,” which limits the numberof people who can be processedthrough ports of entry each day.

Immigration authorities at theSan Ysidro border crossing, nearSan Diego, said they were able toprocess about 100 migrants eachday, though rates have dipped aslow as 40 a day. At this rate, itcould be five weeks before the firstarrivals from a caravan of mi-grants from Central Americacould have their interviews for ad-mission to the United States.

Asylum Seekers in Limbo and in Doubt, on Both Sides of BorderThis article is by Miriam Jordan,

Kirk Semple and Caitlin Dickerson.

Migrants at a border crossing in Tijuana, Mexico, waited for U.S. officials to call their numbers.MAURICIO LIMA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

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WASHINGTON — A lawyer forPaul Manafort, the president’sonetime campaign chairman, re-peatedly briefed PresidentTrump’s lawyers on his client’sdiscussions with federal investi-gators after Mr. Manafort agreedto cooperate with the specialcounsel, according to one of Mr.Trump’s lawyers and two otherpeople familiar with the conversa-tions.

The arrangement was highlyunusual and inflamed tensionswith the special counsel’s officewhen prosecutors discovered itafter Mr. Manafort began cooper-ating two months ago, the peoplesaid. Some legal experts specu-

lated that it was a bid by Mr. Man-afort for a presidential pardoneven as he worked with the spe-cial counsel, Robert S. Mueller III,in hopes of a lighter sentence.

Rudolph W. Giuliani, one of thepresident’s personal lawyers, ac-knowledged the arrangement onTuesday and defended it as asource of valuable insights intothe special counsel’s inquiry andwhere it was headed. Such infor-mation could help shape a legaldefense strategy, and it also ap-peared to give Mr. Trump and his

legal advisers ammunition intheir public relations campaignagainst Mr. Mueller’s office.

For example, Mr. Giuliani said,Mr. Manafort’s lawyer Kevin M.Downing told him that prosecu-tors hammered away at whetherthe president knew about the June2016 Trump Tower meeting whereRussians promised to deliverdamaging information on HillaryClinton to his eldest son, DonaldTrump Jr. The president has longdenied knowing about the meet-ing in advance. “He wants Man-afort to incriminate Trump,” Mr.Giuliani declared of Mr. Mueller.

While Mr. Downing’s discus-sions with the president’s team vi-olated no laws, they helped con-tribute to a deteriorating relation-ship between lawyers for Mr.

Manafort Lawyer Briefs Trump Team on InquiryThis article is by Michael S.

Schmidt, Sharon LaFraniere andMaggie Haberman.

Possible Effort to CurryFavor to Get a Pardon

From the President

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BERLIN — A new politicalforce is shaking up Germany: Itsleaders campaign in Bavarianbeer tents wearing traditionaldirndls and tour the country quot-ing the national anthem. Onemember recently wrote a bookabout patriotism, another about“new conservatism.” One of itsbiggest issues is immigration.

Last month, it dealt ChancellorAngela Merkel such a blow at theballot box — twice — that she an-nounced her retreat.

No, it is not the far right. It is are-energized left.

In recent years, the political en-ergy has seemed to come almost

exclusively from the right. Butwhile the rise of the nationalist Al-ternative for Germany, or AfD,has gotten the most attention, theliberal, pro-refugee Greens partyhas quietly expanded its follow-ing.

Once an environmental protestmovement, the Greens party isnow the second-most popularparty in the country, lagging be-hind the conservatives by only afew percentage points, polls show.Among women, it is already No. 1.

It was also the Greens’ successthat forced the chancellor’s deci-sion not to run for re-election —

Rising Force Upending PoliticsIn Germany? A Motivated Left

By KATRIN BENNHOLD

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Forest Hills, a corner of Queens betterknown for delis and pizza parlors, hasadded a critical mass of new (and cre-ative) Chinese restaurants. PAGE D1

FOOD D1-8

New Chinatown Takes RootA loophole in federal rules has been aboon for energy speculators who aren’tafraid to gamble. PAGE B1

BUSINESS B1-6

For Lease: $1.50 an AcreThe outbreak in Africa is in an area rifewith gunfire, making a vaccine and newtreatments difficult to deliver. PAGE A9

INTERNATIONAL A4-10

Turmoil Hinders Ebola Battle

Carolina Marín has won three worldtitles in badminton. But in her homecountry, she’s something of a unicorn —an athlete with no rivals. PAGE B7

SPORTSWEDNESDAY B7-11

Spain’s Singular ChampionThe government’s climate report sayswildfires will be more frequent, poppingup in places that haven’t had to worryabout them before. PAGE A15

NATIONAL A11-19

Warmer, More Combustible

The company plans to cut jobs to helpfund electric vehicles. The White Housereaction clouds that plan. PAGE B1

G.M.’s Subsidies ThreatenedAfter a reporter was killed, texts sent tohis cohorts were infected with spywarebought by the government. PAGE A4

Journalists in Mexico Hacked

In the art-fueled gentrification of Marfa,Tex., higher taxes on adobe homes havepinched lower-income families whohave lived there for decades. PAGE C1

ARTS C1-8

A Tax Bite for Humble Adobe

Frank Bruni PAGE A27

EDITORIAL, OP-ED A26-27

Lawyers said the addition of a citizen-ship question to the census was meantto frighten immigrants. PAGE A18

Census Trial Nears a Close

JACKSON, Miss. — SenatorCindy Hyde-Smith, a MississippiRepublican who had to apologizefor a cavalier reference to a publichanging, won a special runoffelection on Tuesday, defeating theDemocratic candidate, Mike Espy,who was trying become the state’sfirst black senator since Recon-struction.

Ms. Hyde-Smith’s victory, re-ported by The Associated Press,came in the final Senate race ofthe midterm elections and will setthe Republican majority in thechamber at 53 to 47 once the newCongress is sworn in, a net pickupof two seats.

Teetering after several rheto-rical gaffes drew a harsh spotlightto her campaign, Ms. Hyde-Smithreceived a last-minute boost fromPresident Trump, who appearedat two rallies with her on Mondayand cautioned Mississippians thata victory for Mr. Espy would alsobe one for Democratic leaders likeChuck Schumer and NancyPelosi.

The Republican win came as adeep relief to the party and Mr.Trump in a state where theyrarely struggle, especially in Sen-ate contests. Mr. Trump boastedrepeatedly this year about his in-

Senate RunoffIn Mississippi Goes to G.O.P.

By ALAN BLINDER

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As chancellor from 2000 to 2002, HaroldO. Levy raised teacher salaries andmade reforms. He was 65. PAGE A24

OBITUARIES A24-25

Ex-Chief of New York Schools

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