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They have been offered modern homes,but the residents of Zhong cave inChina are determined to stay. PAGE A10

INTERNATIONAL A4-10

When a Cave Feels Like HomeNew York City broke up big failingschools to improve academics, but musicprograms have suffered. PAGE A16

NEW YORK A16-18

The (Smaller) Band Played On

A recently unearthed note from TrumanCapote to a reader explains “Miriam,” astory he published in 1945. PAGE A17

A Letter From a Young Capote

Boise is booming, with an influx ofnewcomers, a spike in home prices anda jolt of jobs. But will that change thestate’s conservative politics? PAGE A11

NATIONAL A11-15

New Tinge in Deep-Red Idaho

Some fresh TV ideas have an expirationdate. The first season of “Barry” was sogood, perhaps a Season 2 is not essen-tial, James Poniewozik writes. PAGE C1

ARTS C1-7

Great Show! Let’s End It

David Leonhardt PAGE A21

EDITORIAL, OP-ED A20-21

They sit in courtroom pews, al-most all of them young black men,waiting their turn before a NewYork City judge to face a chargethat no longer exists in somestates: possessing marijuana.They tell of smoking in a housingproject hallway, or of being in a carwith a friend who was smoking, orof lighting up a Black & Mild cigarthe police mistake for a blunt.

There are many ways to be ar-rested on marijuana charges, butone pattern has remained truethrough years of piecemeal policychanges in New York: The prima-ry targets are black and Hispanicpeople.

Across the city, black peoplewere arrested on low-level mari-juana charges at eight times therate of white, non-Hispanic peopleover the past three years, TheNew York Times found. Hispanicpeople were arrested at five timesthe rate of white people. In Man-hattan, the gap is even starker:Black people there were arrestedat 15 times the rate of white peo-ple.

With crime dropping and thePolice Department under pres-sure to justify the number of low-level arrests it makes, a senior po-lice official recently testified tolawmakers that there was a sim-ple reason for the racial imbal-ance: More residents in predomi-nantly black and Hispanic neigh-borhoods were calling to complainabout marijuana.

An analysis by The Times foundthat fact did not fully explain theracial disparity. Instead, amongneighborhoods where peoplecalled about marijuana at thesame rate, the police almost al-ways made arrests at a higherrate in the area with more blackresidents, The Times found.

In Brooklyn, officers in theprecinct covering Canarsie ar-rested people on marijuana pos-session charges at a rate more

WIDE RACIAL GAPFOR POT ARRESTSIN NEW YORK CITY

PATTERN BY THE POLICE

Charges More Likely forBlacks and Hispanics,

Analysis Shows

This article is by Benjamin Muel-ler, Robert Gebeloff and Sahil Chi-noy.

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WASHINGTON — Members ofa special team at the EducationDepartment that had been inves-tigating widespread abuses byfor-profit colleges have been mar-ginalized, reassigned or in-structed to focus on other matters,according to current and formeremployees.

The unwinding of the team haseffectively killed investigationsinto possibly fraudulent activitiesat several large for-profit collegeswhere top hires of Betsy DeVos,the education secretary, had pre-viously worked.

During the final months of theObama administration, the teamhad expanded to include a dozenor so lawyers and investigatorswho were looking into advertis-ing, recruitment practices and jobplacement claims at several insti-tutions, including DeVry Educa-tion Group.

The investigation into DeVryground to a halt early last year.Later, in the summer, Ms. DeVosnamed Julian Schmoke, a formerdean at DeVry, as the team’s newsupervisor.

Now only three employeeswork on the team, and their mis-sion has been scaled back to focuson processing student loan forgiv-eness applications and looking atsmaller compliance cases, saidthe current and former employ-ees, including former members ofthe team, who spoke on the condi-tion of anonymity because theyfeared retaliation from the depart-ment.

In addition to DeVry, nowknown as Adtalem Global Educa-tion, investigations into Bridge-point Education and Career Edu-cation Corporation, which also op-erate large for-profit colleges,went dark.

Former employees of those in-stitutions now work for Ms. DeVosas well, including Robert S. Eitel,her senior counselor, and DianeAuer Jones, a senior adviser onpostsecondary education. Lastmonth, Congress confirmed theappointment of a lawyer who pro-vided consulting services to Ca-reer Education, Carlos G. Muñiz,as the department’s general coun-sel.

U.S. UndercutsFraud InquiriesInto For-Profits

Education Dept. ForcesShift in College Unit

This article is by Danielle Ivory,Erica L. Green and Steve Eder.

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A family with four children set off explosions at churches on Sunday as a series of bombings struck Surabaya, Indonesia. Page A4.A Family’s Terror Spree

JERUSALEM — When Israeldeclared its independence in 1948,President Harry Truman rushedto recognize it. He took just 11 min-utes, and Israelis, about to go towar to defend their infant state,were euphoric.

Seventy years to the day — andnearly as long since Israel de-clared the holy city of Jerusalemits “eternal capital” — the UnitedStates will formally open its em-bassy on a hilltop here two milessouth of the Western Wall.

The embassy’s move from TelAviv and President Trump’s rec-ognition of Jerusalem as Israel’scapital — reversing decades ofAmerican foreign policy — comesat a moment so fraught with bothpride and peril that Israelis seemnot to know what to feel.

Israelis find it hard to rejoicewhen they find themselves doingsome of the same things they didback in 1948: listening for civil-de-

fense sirens, readying bomb shel-ters and calling in reinforcementsto confront threats to the north,south and east.

An escalating shadow war withIran has broken into the open, pit-ting Israel against its most power-ful adversary in the region. Amass protest in Gaza has spurredthousands of Palestinians, en-couraged by Hamas, to try tocross into Israel, whose snipershave killed scores and woundedthousands of them. The bloodshedhas returned the Israeli-Palestin-ian conflict to the global agendaafter years as an afterthought.

Now, in East Jerusalem and therest of the West Bank, Israeli bor-der police and troops are bracingfor expressions of pent-up frustra-tion, impatience and rage — at theUnited States for seeming to dis-pense with any pretense at bal-ance; at Israel for its continuing

In Israel, Pride and Anxiety GreetU.S. Embassy’s Jerusalem Debut

By DAVID M. HALBFINGER

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BEIRUT, Lebanon — After theUnited States toppled Iraq’sdictatorship in 2003, Iran sentarms to militias and backedpolitical parties there, bringingIraq into its orbit.

After the Arab Spring upris-ings early this decade batteredthe governments of Syria andYemen, Iran deployed fightersand supported militias. In thechaos of Syria’s long-burningcivil war, Iran seized the opportu-nity to build a military infrastruc-ture there.

In 2015, President BarackObama offered Iran what mighthave been the biggest opportuni-ty of all: trading its nuclearprogram for the lifting of sanc-tions that had stifled Iran’s econ-omy, paving the way for its rein-tegration into the international

system.Now President Trump, Israel

and the Sunni Arab monarchiesof the Persian Gulf want tochange all that.

Last week, Mr. Trump with-drew the United States from theinternational nuclear deal withIran, reimposing onerous Ameri-can sanctions and threateningmore penalties to punish Iran forits regional behavior. After fall-ing out of favor since the IraqWar, talk of regime change inTehran has returned to Washing-ton in a way not seen sinceGeorge W. Bush branded Iranpart of the “axis of evil” in 2002.

But as frustrated as Mr. Trumpand his allies were that the Irannuclear agreement did not curbwhat they regard as regional

As Deal Crumbles, Iran’s FoesSense an Opportunity to Strike

By BEN HUBBARD

NEWS ANALYSIS

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It seems like a common conven-ience in a digital age: a car thatcan be powered on and off with thepush of a button, rather than themechanical turning of a key. But itis a convenience that can have adeadly effect.

On a summer morning last year,Fred Schaub drove his ToyotaRAV4 into the garage attached tohis Florida home and went intothe house with the wireless keyfob, evidently believing the carwas shut off. Twenty-nine hourslater, he was found dead, over-come with carbon monoxide thatflooded his home while he slept.

“After 75 years of driving, myfather thought that when he tookthe key with him when he left thecar, the car would be off,” said Mr.Schaub’s son Doug.

Mr. Schaub is among more thantwo dozen people killed by carbonmonoxide nationwide since 2006after a keyless-ignition vehiclewas inadvertently left running ina garage. Dozens of others havebeen injured, some left with braindamage.

Keyless ignitions are nowstandard in over half of the 17 mil-lion new vehicles sold annually in

the United States, according to theauto information website Ed-munds. Rather than a physicalkey, drivers carry a fob that trans-mits a radio signal, and as long asthe fob is present, a car can bestarted with the touch of a button.But weaned from the habit of turn-ing and removing a key to shut offthe motor, drivers — particularlyolder ones — can be lulled bynewer, quieter engines into mis-takenly thinking that it hasstopped running.

Seven years ago, the world’sleading automotive standardsgroup, the Society of AutomotiveEngineers, called for features likea series of beeps to alert driversthat cars were still running with-out the key fob in or near the car,and in some cases to shut the en-gine off automatically.

The National Highway TrafficSafety Administration proposed afederal regulation based on thatidea, a software change that it saidcould be accomplished for penniesper vehicle. In the face of auto in-dustry opposition, the agency letthe plan languish, though it says a

Keyless Cars Turn Tiny LapsesInto Invisible Clouds of Death

By DAVID JEANS and MAJLIE DE PUY KAMP

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SHANGHAI — As China andthe United States go toe-to-toe ontrade and maneuver ahead of ahistoric North Korea meeting nextmonth, an unlikely obstacle hasemerged: a second-tier Chineseelectronics maker, ZTE.

The company said last weekthat it had halted “major operat-ing activities” after being penal-ized by the United States Depart-ment of Commerce. On Sundaymorning, President Trump sur-prised many in Washington whenhe indicated a willingness to re-think the punishment. He also ap-peared to walk back frombrinkmanship that has threat-ened the United States’ trade talkswith China.

In a tweet, Mr. Trump said hewas working with his Chinesecounterpart, Xi Jinping, to pre-vent the collapse of the company,which employs 75,000 people.

“Too many jobs in China lost,”Mr. Trump wrote. “Commerce De-partment has been instructed toget it done!”

The overture appeared to be off-key for an administration that hasbeen reliably strident on what ithas called unfair Chinese tradepractices. Mr. Trump’s concern in

his tweet about Chinese jobs —which echoed Beijing’s talkingpoint on the issue — also runscounter to his vows to restoreAmerican jobs lost to China.

Still, by saying the United

States would work to bring ZTEback to life, Mr. Trump took pres-sure off the American-Chinese re-lationship at a crucial moment.Mr. Trump’s meeting with theNorth Korean leader, Kim Jong-

un, has been scheduled for nextmonth and will hinge on China,which has fashioned itself as an in-termediary with Mr. Kim.

And after weeks of economic

Trump Vows to Revive Chinese Company Crushed by U.S. PenaltyBy PAUL MOZUR

and RAYMOND ZHONG

DISARRAY Thousands of companies are pressing the administration for tariff exemptions. Page B1.TODD SPOTH FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

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In right-leaning districts, Democrats arebacking moderates in primaries, andfrustrating liberal supporters. PAGE A12

Democrats Embrace the Center

Chuck Knox loved the running game, buthe persuaded the Jets to draft quarter-back Joe Namath. He was 86. PAGE A22

OBITUARIES A19, 22

3-Time N.F.L. Coach of the Year

A former professor says tennis playerscould be so much better if they consid-ered physics — and used two rackets atonce. Wait, hear him out. PAGE D2

SPORTSMONDAY D1-8

You Do It Wrong, Mr. Federer

Mike Darnell’s specialty has never beenmore in demand. But when the viewerhas seemingly seen everything already,it’s not as easy as it used to be. PAGE B1

BUSINESS DAY B1-8

Reality TV’s Kingpin Seeks Hit

A spring offensive by Taliban insur-gents has killed about 100 soldiers andpolice officers in the past week. PAGE A7

Bloody Week for Afghanistan

Late EditionToday, cloudy, warmer, high 72. To-night, mostly cloudy, showers, low64. Tomorrow, mostly sunny, after-noon showers or thunderstorm,high 83. Weather map is on Page C8.

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