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Today, clouds and sun, humid, show- ers, storm, high 88. Tonight, evening showers, partly cloudy, low 76. To- morrow, partly sunny, breezy, high 89. Weather map, Page B12. VOL. CLXV . . . No. 57,326 © 2016 The New York Times Company NEW YORK, TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2016 Late Edition $2.50 U(D54G1D)y+%![!$!#!] The painstaking process of restoring precious artwork has turned into a high-end reality show at the Musée d’Orsay and elsewhere. PAGE C1 ARTS C1-8 Watching the Varnish Dry Anna Sofia Botha, 74, center, coached the South African runner Wayde van Niekerk, left, to a gold medal in the 400 meters and to breaking a world record that had stood since 1999. PAGE B7 SPORTSTUESDAY B7-15 ‘A Benevolent Disciplinarian’ Peter Thiel PAGE A21 EDITORIAL, OP-ED A20-21 Jennifer Rosen was scheduled to depart Kennedy International Airport on an 8:55 p.m. flight to San Francisco but instead found herself stuck at Gate C62 in Termi- nal 2. It was the typical misery of summer airline travel — or so it seemed. A short distance away, in an- other terminal at the New York airport, something more unpre- dictable than the weather had be- gun to sweep across the airport: Panic. It spread quickly and without warning. By the time Sunday night was over, Ms. Rosen, 32, had sprawled out under a table seeking cover, followed a crowd of people who bolted through a secure door onto the tarmac, frantically called her sister to find out what was hap- pening and tell her that she was alive, and, finally, made a mad dash from the terminal to join mobs of travelers who thought they might be living through an episode of terror. In the end, it proved to be a false alarm. While the authorities were still trying to piece together exactly how a report of gunfire at 9:34 p.m. outside the security check- point at Terminal 8 led to complete turmoil across one of the nation’s busiest airports, the accounts of passengers in interviews and on social media offered a lesson in the anatomy of fear. It was a night of confusion and dread, informed by the latest headlines — including reports of recent attacks on airports in Brus- sels and Istanbul — as much as False Alarm, Then Panic: Chaos at J.F.K. Airport By MARC SANTORA Continued on Page A18 Donald J. Trump on Monday in- voked comparisons to the Cold War era in arguing that the United States must wage an unrelenting ideological fight if it is to defeat the Islamic State. He said he would temporarily suspend immigration from “the most dangerous and volatile regions of the world” and judge allies solely on their partici- pation in America’s mission to root out Islamic terrorism. In a speech at Youngstown State University in Ohio, a critical swing state where polls show him trailing Hillary Clinton, Mr. Trump combined old vows to seize Middle Eastern oil fields with the announcement of a series of new, if still vague, proposals to change America’s battlefield tactics. “Just as we won the Cold War, in part by exposing the evils of com- munism and the virtues of free markets, so too must we take on the ideology of radical Islam,” he said. He again tried to change his po- litically inflammatory approach to immigration, replacing his 2015 vow to bar Muslims from entering the United States with a new com- mitment to bar anyone from parts of the world where terrorism breeds. Once again, he did not name those countries, or say TRUMP INVOKES COLD WAR IN PLAN TO FIGHT TERROR AN IDEOLOGICAL BATTLE Immigrants Would Face ‘Extreme Vetting’ and a Test By DAVID E. SANGER and MAGGIE HABERMAN Donald J. Trump spoke on Monday in Youngstown, Ohio. DAMON WINTER/THE NEW YORK TIMES Continued on Page A10 IGNORING BLACK VOTERS G.O.P. urges Donald Trump to better court a constituency. PAGE A10 ANALYSIS FROM AFAR Ignoring a professional rule, psychiatrists are labeling Donald J. Trump without examining him. PAGE D1 Two days after an imam and his associ- ate were murdered in Queens, police officials said a man they had in custody was charged with both crimes. PAGE A16 NEW YORK A16-19 Man Charged in Imam’s Death Recreational marijuana, illegal but accepted, poses a test for Prime Min- ister Justin Trudeau, who has promised to legalize it by 2017. PAGE A6 INTERNATIONAL A4-7 Next Steps for Pot in Canada Devastated by unusually warm water in the Pacific, a reef is splashed with colors again, providing hope for reviv- ing coral elsewhere. PAGE D1 SCIENCE TIMES D1-6 A Reef Shows Signs of Life The Pentagon sent 15 Guantánamo detainees to the United Arab Emirates, cutting the wartime prison’s remaining population to 61. PAGE A13 Transfers at Guantánamo Bill Shine, a loyal right-hand man to Roger Ailes, was little known outside the TV industry before Mr. Ailes’s abrupt departure. PAGE B1 BUSINESS DAY B1-6 Insider at the Top of Fox News LONDON — Until Britain voted to leave the European Union, Phil- ip Levine never thought deeply about his Jewish heritage. But looking for a way to ensure that he could still work and live in Europe once Britain leaves the bloc, Mr. Levine, 35, who was born in Britain and lives in London, de- cided to do what some Jews, in- cluding his relatives, might con- sider unthinkable: apply for Ger- man citizenship. He did so by employing a provi- sion of German law that has been on the books since 1949 but that has been little used in recent years. It allows anyone whom the Nazis stripped of their German citizenship “on political, racial or religious grounds” from Jan. 30, 1933, to May 8, 1945, and their descendants, to have their citizen- ship restored. Most of those who lost their citizenship during that period were Jews, though they also included other minorities and political opponents. He is not alone in turning to the German law after Britain’s deci- sion to end its membership in the European Union, also known as Brexit. Since the vote in June, the German embassy in London said it had received at least 400 re- quests from Britons for informa- tion about German citizenship un- der a legal provision known as Ar- ticle 116. At least 100 are formal applica- tions by individuals or families, said Knud Noelle, an embassy of- ficial. “We expect more in coming weeks,” he said, adding that the embassy normally receives roughly 20 such applications ev- After ‘Brexit’ Decision, Jews Consider Germany By KIMIKO DE FREYTAS-TAMURA Continued on Page A5 RUTH FREMSON/THE NEW YORK TIMES Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. campaigned with Hillary Clinton on Monday in Scranton, Pa., his hometown. Page A11. Son of Scranton Talks Tough When Kendall Williams let her daughter, Bailey, paddle happily in a swimming class on the South Side of Chicago as a preschooler, she noticed the other parents seemed anxious. “I don’t think any of them knew how to swim,” Ms. Williams said. “And they were afraid of the water and afraid for their kids.” Ms. Williams, 45, and her daughter are African-American, as were most of the other families at the swimming class. While Bai- ley, now almost 9, swims competi- tively, most of the other children dropped out of the program. Ms. Williams’s experience re- flects one of the more intractable racial divides in American sports and culture. In the United States, a substantial majority of African- American young people and adults cannot swim or are weak swimmers, according to the most recent research from USA Swim- ming, the sport’s national govern- ing body. It is a trend that has a compli- cated history, including segregated swimming pools and beaches, attacks against African- Americans at pools as well as so- cioeconomic forces that divided access to swimming pools along class lines. Hoping Olympic Gold Might End a Racial Divide By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS Savannah Eaddy, 5, with her mother, Felecia, on Monday at Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem. HILARY SWIFT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Continued on Page A9 WASHINGTON — When the Los Angeles hairstylist Chaz Dean pitched his almond mint and lavender-scented hair care prod- ucts — endorsed by celebrities like Brooke Shields and Alyssa Milano — he sold millions. But his formula got an unexpected result: itching, rashes, even hair loss in large clumps, in both adults and children. More than 21,000 complaints have been lodged against his Wen Hair Care, and Mr. Dean, the blue- eyed, golden-haired stylist to the stars, has found himself at the center of a fierce debate over the government’s power to ensure the safety of a cosmetics industry with about $50 billion in annual sales. The Santa Monica, Calif.-based national distributor of Mr. Dean’s hair care line is part of a beauty care trade association that has been aggressively lobbying Con- gress to block the passage of tough new legislation that would give the Food and Drug Adminis- tration the authority to test ingre- dients used in cosmetics and issue mandatory recalls for products found to be unsafe. The fight has pitted smaller in- dependent players against the gi- ants of the beauty products indus- try, which back the proposed regu- lations, seeing them as an avenue toward regaining public trust, and have the size and muscle to com- ply with them. Each side has its champions in Congress: Senators Dianne Fein- stein, Democrat of California, and Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, for the larger companies, and Representative Pete Ses- sions, Republican of Texas, com- ing to the aid of his home-state company, Mary Kay, which joined the Independent Cosmetic Manufacturers and Distributors to fight the Feinstein-Collins legis- lation. Mr. Sessions has intro- duced competing legislation backed and largely drafted by Mary Kay and the independent companies. “If you are in business and are not involved in politics, then poli- tics will run your business,” ex- plained a presentation prepared by Mary Kay last summer for sales representatives and ob- tained by The New York Times. The face-off comes amid grow- ing consumer concern about the safety of beauty care products and follows a string of other scares, in- cluding the discovery of hair prod- Safety Debate On Cosmetics Splits Industry People Complain, but F.D.A. Can’t Help By ERIC LIPTON and RACHEL ABRAMS Continued on Page B2 Judges have declared over the years that the Constitution forbids jailing in decidedly hot or cold conditions. But quests to cool the nation’s cellblocks have met deep resistance. PAGE A8 NATIONAL A8-13 Cruel and Unusual Heat? NORRISTOWN, Pa. — She was a rising Democratic star. She was the first in her party to be elected state attorney general. She was one of the most powerful women in Pennsylvania. But on Monday night, Kathleen G. Kane, the state’s top prosecutor, became a convicted criminal. A jury found Ms. Kane, 50, guilty of nine criminal charges, in- cluding perjury and criminal con- spiracy, convicting her of leaking grand jury information, and then lying about it, in an effort to dis- credit a political rival. Ms. Kane was caught up in a web of scandal and counterscan- dal, threaded with lewd emails, political rivalries and alleged leaks. It has cost other state offi- cials, including two State Su- preme Court justices, their jobs and Ms. Kane her law license, al- though she has remained on the job as attorney general. Ms. Kane stared straight ahead as the word “guilty,” uttered deci- sively by a juror in a flowered dress, echoed nine times around the courtroom. The lawyers im- mediately went into a private con- Top Prosecutor In Pennsylvania Is Found Guilty By JESS BIDGOOD Continued on Page A9

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Page 1: Hoping Olympic Gold Might End a Racial Divide Top ... · 16/08/2016  · Los Angeles hairstylist Chaz Dean pitched his almond mint and lavender-scented hair care prod-ucts — endorsed

C M Y K Nxxx,2016-08-16,A,001,Bs-4C,E2

Today, clouds and sun, humid, show-ers, storm, high 88. Tonight, eveningshowers, partly cloudy, low 76. To-morrow, partly sunny, breezy, high89. Weather map, Page B12.

VOL. CLXV . . . No. 57,326 © 2016 The New York Times Company NEW YORK, TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2016

Late Edition

$2.50

U(D54G1D)y+%![!$!#!]

The painstaking process of restoringprecious artwork has turned into ahigh-end reality show at the Muséed’Orsay and elsewhere. PAGE C1

ARTS C1-8

Watching the Varnish Dry

Anna Sofia Botha, 74, center, coachedthe South African runner Wayde vanNiekerk, left, to a gold medal in the 400meters and to breaking a world recordthat had stood since 1999. PAGE B7

SPORTSTUESDAY B7-15

‘A Benevolent Disciplinarian’Peter Thiel PAGE A21

EDITORIAL, OP-ED A20-21

Jennifer Rosen was scheduledto depart Kennedy InternationalAirport on an 8:55 p.m. flight toSan Francisco but instead foundherself stuck at Gate C62 in Termi-nal 2. It was the typical misery ofsummer airline travel — or so itseemed.

A short distance away, in an-other terminal at the New Yorkairport, something more unpre-dictable than the weather had be-gun to sweep across the airport:

Panic.

It spread quickly and withoutwarning.

By the time Sunday night wasover, Ms. Rosen, 32, had sprawledout under a table seeking cover,followed a crowd of people whobolted through a secure door ontothe tarmac, frantically called hersister to find out what was hap-pening and tell her that she wasalive, and, finally, made a maddash from the terminal to joinmobs of travelers who thoughtthey might be living through anepisode of terror.

In the end, it proved to be a falsealarm.

While the authorities were stilltrying to piece together exactlyhow a report of gunfire at 9:34p.m. outside the security check-point at Terminal 8 led to completeturmoil across one of the nation’sbusiest airports, the accounts ofpassengers in interviews and onsocial media offered a lesson inthe anatomy of fear.

It was a night of confusion anddread, informed by the latestheadlines — including reports ofrecent attacks on airports in Brus-sels and Istanbul — as much as

False Alarm, Then Panic: Chaos at J.F.K. Airport

By MARC SANTORA

Continued on Page A18

Donald J. Trump on Monday in-voked comparisons to the ColdWar era in arguing that the UnitedStates must wage an unrelentingideological fight if it is to defeat theIslamic State. He said he wouldtemporarily suspend immigrationfrom “the most dangerous andvolatile regions of the world” andjudge allies solely on their partici-pation in America’s mission toroot out Islamic terrorism.

In a speech at YoungstownState University in Ohio, a criticalswing state where polls show himtrailing Hillary Clinton, Mr.Trump combined old vows to seizeMiddle Eastern oil fields with theannouncement of a series of new,if still vague, proposals to changeAmerica’s battlefield tactics.

“Just as we won the Cold War, inpart by exposing the evils of com-munism and the virtues of freemarkets, so too must we take onthe ideology of radical Islam,” hesaid.

He again tried to change his po-litically inflammatory approach toimmigration, replacing his 2015vow to bar Muslims from enteringthe United States with a new com-mitment to bar anyone from partsof the world where terrorismbreeds. Once again, he did notname those countries, or say

TRUMP INVOKESCOLD WAR IN PLANTO FIGHT TERROR

AN IDEOLOGICAL BATTLE

Immigrants Would Face

‘Extreme Vetting’

and a Test

By DAVID E. SANGERand MAGGIE HABERMAN

Donald J. Trump spoke onMonday in Youngstown, Ohio.

DAMON WINTER/THE NEW YORK TIMES

Continued on Page A10

IGNORING BLACK VOTERS G.O.P.urges Donald Trump to bettercourt a constituency. PAGE A10

ANALYSIS FROM AFAR Ignoring aprofessional rule, psychiatristsare labeling Donald J. Trumpwithout examining him. PAGE D1

Two days after an imam and his associ-ate were murdered in Queens, policeofficials said a man they had in custodywas charged with both crimes. PAGE A16

NEW YORK A16-19

Man Charged in Imam’s Death

Recreational marijuana, illegal butaccepted, poses a test for Prime Min-ister Justin Trudeau, who has promisedto legalize it by 2017. PAGE A6

INTERNATIONAL A4-7

Next Steps for Pot in Canada

Devastated by unusually warm waterin the Pacific, a reef is splashed withcolors again, providing hope for reviv-ing coral elsewhere. PAGE D1

SCIENCE TIMES D1-6

A Reef Shows Signs of Life The Pentagon sent 15 Guantánamodetainees to the United Arab Emirates,cutting the wartime prison’s remainingpopulation to 61. PAGE A13

Transfers at Guantánamo

Bill Shine, a loyal right-hand man toRoger Ailes, was little known outsidethe TV industry before Mr. Ailes’sabrupt departure. PAGE B1

BUSINESS DAY B1-6

Insider at the Top of Fox News

LONDON — Until Britain votedto leave the European Union, Phil-ip Levine never thought deeplyabout his Jewish heritage.

But looking for a way to ensurethat he could still work and live inEurope once Britain leaves thebloc, Mr. Levine, 35, who was bornin Britain and lives in London, de-cided to do what some Jews, in-cluding his relatives, might con-sider unthinkable: apply for Ger-man citizenship.

He did so by employing a provi-

sion of German law that has beenon the books since 1949 but thathas been little used in recentyears. It allows anyone whom theNazis stripped of their Germancitizenship “on political, racial orreligious grounds” from Jan. 30,1933, to May 8, 1945, and theirdescendants, to have their citizen-ship restored. Most of those wholost their citizenship during thatperiod were Jews, though theyalso included other minorities andpolitical opponents.

He is not alone in turning to theGerman law after Britain’s deci-sion to end its membership in the

European Union, also known asBrexit. Since the vote in June, theGerman embassy in London saidit had received at least 400 re-quests from Britons for informa-tion about German citizenship un-der a legal provision known as Ar-ticle 116.

At least 100 are formal applica-tions by individuals or families,said Knud Noelle, an embassy of-ficial. “We expect more in comingweeks,” he said, adding that theembassy normally receivesroughly 20 such applications ev-

After ‘Brexit’ Decision, Jews Consider Germany

By KIMIKO DE FREYTAS-TAMURA

Continued on Page A5

RUTH FREMSON/THE NEW YORK TIMES

Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. campaigned with Hillary Clinton on Monday in Scranton, Pa., his hometown. Page A11.

Son of Scranton Talks Tough

When Kendall Williams let herdaughter, Bailey, paddle happilyin a swimming class on the SouthSide of Chicago as a preschooler,she noticed the other parentsseemed anxious.

“I don’t think any of them knewhow to swim,” Ms. Williams said.“And they were afraid of the waterand afraid for their kids.”

Ms. Williams, 45, and her

daughter are African-American,as were most of the other familiesat the swimming class. While Bai-ley, now almost 9, swims competi-tively, most of the other childrendropped out of the program.

Ms. Williams’s experience re-flects one of the more intractableracial divides in American sportsand culture. In the United States, asubstantial majority of African-American young people andadults cannot swim or are weak

swimmers, according to the mostrecent research from USA Swim-ming, the sport’s national govern-ing body.

It is a trend that has a compli-cated history, includingsegregated swimming pools andbeaches, attacks against African-Americans at pools as well as so-cioeconomic forces that dividedaccess to swimming pools alongclass lines.

Hoping Olympic Gold Might End a Racial Divide

By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS

Savannah Eaddy, 5, with her mother, Felecia, on Monday at Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem.

HILARY SWIFT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Continued on Page A9

WASHINGTON — When theLos Angeles hairstylist ChazDean pitched his almond mint andlavender-scented hair care prod-ucts — endorsed by celebritieslike Brooke Shields and AlyssaMilano — he sold millions. But hisformula got an unexpected result:itching, rashes, even hair loss inlarge clumps, in both adults andchildren.

More than 21,000 complaintshave been lodged against his WenHair Care, and Mr. Dean, the blue-eyed, golden-haired stylist to thestars, has found himself at thecenter of a fierce debate over thegovernment’s power to ensure thesafety of a cosmetics industrywith about $50 billion in annualsales.

The Santa Monica, Calif.-basednational distributor of Mr. Dean’shair care line is part of a beautycare trade association that hasbeen aggressively lobbying Con-gress to block the passage oftough new legislation that wouldgive the Food and Drug Adminis-tration the authority to test ingre-dients used in cosmetics and issuemandatory recalls for productsfound to be unsafe.

The fight has pitted smaller in-dependent players against the gi-ants of the beauty products indus-try, which back the proposed regu-lations, seeing them as an avenuetoward regaining public trust, andhave the size and muscle to com-ply with them.

Each side has its champions inCongress: Senators Dianne Fein-stein, Democrat of California, andSusan Collins, Republican ofMaine, for the larger companies,and Representative Pete Ses-sions, Republican of Texas, com-ing to the aid of his home-statecompany, Mary Kay, which joinedthe Independent CosmeticManufacturers and Distributorsto fight the Feinstein-Collins legis-lation. Mr. Sessions has intro-duced competing legislationbacked and largely drafted byMary Kay and the independentcompanies.

“If you are in business and arenot involved in politics, then poli-tics will run your business,” ex-plained a presentation preparedby Mary Kay last summer forsales representatives and ob-tained by The New York Times.

The face-off comes amid grow-ing consumer concern about thesafety of beauty care products andfollows a string of other scares, in-cluding the discovery of hair prod-

Safety Debate On Cosmetics Splits Industry

People Complain, but

F.D.A. Can’t Help

By ERIC LIPTONand RACHEL ABRAMS

Continued on Page B2

Judges have declared over the yearsthat the Constitution forbids jailing indecidedly hot or cold conditions. Butquests to cool the nation’s cellblockshave met deep resistance. PAGE A8

NATIONAL A8-13

Cruel and Unusual Heat?

NORRISTOWN, Pa. — She wasa rising Democratic star. She wasthe first in her party to be electedstate attorney general. She wasone of the most powerful womenin Pennsylvania.

But on Monday night, KathleenG. Kane, the state’s top prosecutor,became a convicted criminal.

A jury found Ms. Kane, 50,guilty of nine criminal charges, in-cluding perjury and criminal con-spiracy, convicting her of leakinggrand jury information, and thenlying about it, in an effort to dis-credit a political rival.

Ms. Kane was caught up in aweb of scandal and counterscan-dal, threaded with lewd emails,political rivalries and allegedleaks. It has cost other state offi-cials, including two State Su-preme Court justices, their jobsand Ms. Kane her law license, al-though she has remained on thejob as attorney general.

Ms. Kane stared straight aheadas the word “guilty,” uttered deci-sively by a juror in a flowereddress, echoed nine times aroundthe courtroom. The lawyers im-mediately went into a private con-

Top Prosecutor

In Pennsylvania

Is Found Guilty

By JESS BIDGOOD

Continued on Page A9