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INSIDE TODAYS PAPER

Senate panel accusesCredit SuisseMembersof a U.S. Senatepanel

expressedincredulity on Wednesday

thatCreditSuisseofficials didnot know

abouttheirbanks abettingof tax

evasionby Americans.BUSINESS,16

ONLINE AT INYT.COM

Democratswant Clinton,poll findsMorethan8 in10 saytheywantHillary

RodhamClintontorun forpresidentin

2016,a level ofinterestno other potential

candidate canmatch. WORLDNEWS,10

A soccerheader could be harmfulChronic traumaticencephalopathy,

known as C.T.E,the degenerativebrain

disease linkedto repeatedblowsto the

headin violentcollisionsportssuch as

footballand boxing, mayalso befoundinsoccerplayers.SPORTS,12

Create a world corruptionpoliceIfgovernmentswantto recoveruntold

billionsin stolen assets, theymust join

togetherto createan anticorruption

forcealongthe linesof Interpol,

AlexanderLebedev writes.OPINION,9

Study finds riskwith older fathersChildrenborn toolder menare more

likelythan thoseof youngfathers to

developat leastoneof arangeof

mentaldifficulties, a comprehensive

studyhas found.nytimes.com/health

Twois nowO.K, butoneis enoughMany Chinesefamiliessay theywillnot

takeadvantageof newrulesallowinga

second childbecause of therisingcost

of child-rearing.nytimes.com/world

Newfuture forCaucasusRussia plans toinvest$15 billion to

buildEuropean-styleski resortsin the

region,hopingto luretouristsand

foreigninvestors to anarea better

known forsheltering Islamicmilitantsthan skiers. nytimes.com/world

The text-messagingwarsTherearedozens ofwaystosendtext

messagesfrom a phone. Facebooks

dealto buyWhatsAppfor $19billion

raises thestakesin thefight tobecome

thego-to platform.nytimes.com/bits

Putin orderstroop drillson doorstepof Ukraine

SERGEY PONOMAREV FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

BrawlseruptedWednesdayduringrival protestsoutside theregionalParliamentin Simferopol,the Crimeancapital. Tatars whosupport thenew authoritiesin Kievclashed withethnic Russianswhosupportthedeposedgovernment.

MOSCOW

BY STEVEN LEE MYERS

AND RICK GLADSTONE

President Vladimir V. Putin ordered a

surprisemilitaryexerciseof ground andair forces on Ukraines doorstep Wed-nesday, intending to demonstrate thecountrys military preparedness at atimeofheightenedtensionswithEuropeand the United States over the turmoilgrippingits westernneighbor.

Russiasmilitary puttens of thousandsof troops in western Russia on alert at 2p.m.for anexercisescheduledto lastun-til March 3. The minister of defense,SergeiK. Shoigu,alsoannouncedunspe-cifiedmeasuresto tightensecurityattheheadquartersof Russias BlackSea Fleeton UkrainesCrimeanpeninsula.

The orders came as thousands of eth-nic Russians gathered outside the re-gional parliament in Crimeas capital,Simferopol, to protest the political up-heaval in Ukraines capital, Kiev, thatfelled the government of President Vik-tor F. Yanukovych over the weekendand turned him into a fugitive. Crimeawas a part of Russian territory until theSoviet Union ceded it to the Soviet So-cialist Republic of Ukraine in 1954, andRussians there have already pleadedforthe Kremlins interventionto protectthe region and its population fromUkraines new leadership.

Crimea is Russian! some of theprotesters screamed as brawls eruptedwith rival demonstrations by Crimeasethnic Tatars supporting the new inter-im authorities.

The latest developments elicited newexpressions of worryfrom Westernlead-ers.Secretaryof StateJohnKerryurgedRussiato respectUkrainiansovereigntyand avoid confrontation, asserting thatUkraine should be able to enjoy fruitfulrelations with EastandWest.

We are making it clear that everycountryshouldrespecttheterritorialin-tegrity and sovereignty of Ukraine,Mr. Kerry said in an interview on MSN-BC. Russia said it will do that, and we

Moscows move comesas ethnic Russiansprotest upheaval in Kiev

Drug carteldoesnt needits kingpinto thrive

GEORGES GOBET/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE

The Afghanquestion The NATOsecretarygeneral,Anders FoghRasmussen, ata ministers meetingWednesdayin Brus-sels.Western officialsare weighing Afghanistans strategic valueagainst theintransigenceof its president, HamidKarzai. PAGE 7

WASHINGTON

BY MARK LANDLER

President Obama plans to reprise ahigh-stakes role that he has not playedin any sustained way since his firstterm, according to White House aides:Middle East peacemaker.

In welcoming Prime Minister Ben-jamin Netanyahu of Israel to the WhiteHousenextMonday,theseofficialssaid,Mr. Obama will make a fervent case for

him to sign on to a framework for ne-gotiations with the Palestinians beingdrafted by Secretary of State JohnKerry.

Mr. Obama is likely to meet later inMarch with the Palestinian president,Mahmoud Abbas, to make the samepitch.His goal,officialssaid, isto securea kind of roadmap for further talks, bythe end of April, the nine-month dead-line Mr. Kerry set last July for a finalpeace deal between Israel and the Pal-estinians.

Nowis a verytimelyopportunityforhim to get involved, said a senior ad-ministration official, who spoke on con-dition of anonymity because of the sen-sitivity of the issue. He will stronglyencourage both sides to complete itwithinthe ninemonths.

If the two sides sign the interim ac-cord, which sets out general principleson divisive issues like Israels security

and the borders of a future Palestinianstate, the negotiations could be exten-ded, with a new target of completing atreatybytheendof 2014.

Until now, Mr. Obama has left the Is-raeli-Palestinian negotiations almostentirelyto Mr. Kerry, whohas madetheprocess one of his top priorities, with adozen trips to the region and countlessmeetings with Mr. Netanyahu and Mr.Abbas, as he struggles to bridge gapsthat have separated the two sides formorethanthree decades.

Mr. Obamas most visible involve-ment in the peace process came inSeptember 2010, when he gathered Mr.Netanyahu and Mr. Abbas, along withthekingsof SaudiArabia andJordan, atthe White House to inaugurate directtalks betweentheIsraelisandthePales-tinians.

He made another highly visible pushin May 2011, with a speech proposing to

use the pre-1967 borders of Israel, withmutually agreed-upon land swaps, as abasis for negotiating a peace deal. But

Tabloid-style,former editorbares her lifeduring trial

BY GINGER THOMPSON

AND RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD

Tohavea crack atan internationaldrugkingpin, undercover officers from Bos-

ton and New Hampshire went from themountains of northern Mexico throughthe Caribbean to Spain, where they dis-covered operatives of the powerful Sin-aloa cartel setting up new routes andnewmarkets.

When it finally ended last year, Oper-ation Dark Water, as the investigationwas known, was heralded as a mile-stoneinthe fightagainstthe globaldrugtrade. Police officers seized 750 poundsof cocaine and caught four cartel mem-bers, including a first cousin to its in-famous kingpin, Joaqun Guzmn Lo-era,knownas ElChapo, or Shorty.

But for the Sinaloa cartel, a criminalmultinational corporation handling bil-lions of dollars, the arrests proved onlya minor setback, the authorities ac-knowledged. The cartel has establishedchannels of cooperation with so manyEuropean criminal groups, includingSicilysCosa Nostra andstreetgangs inBudapest,thatbusiness therecontinuestoboom.

On Saturday, the Mexican and Amer-

ican authorities struck even deeper,capturing Mr. Guzmn in a predawnraid on a seaside condominium in theMexicancity of Mazatln.Governmentsaroundthe worldare hailingthe captureasa landmarkinthe fightagainstorgan-izedcrime.Yetmanyofficials agreethatthearrestwillprobablynot bringan endtothe cartels activities,much lessmakealastingdentin theavailabilityof illegaldrugs.

Operation Dark Water and other in-vestigations against the Sinaloa cartelshed light on why. Simply put, said nu-merous law enforcement officials andscholars, whether Mr. Guzmn inten-

LONDON

BY KATRIN BENNHOLD

The tabloids Rebekah Brooks once ed-itedmighthave paidsix figures or morefor the details she has been divulgingabout her personal life, which she hascalled a car-crash in her trial for al-leged illegal phone hacking: thecelebrity husband, the adultery, the in-

fertility, the surrogate daughter.As she rose to the top of Britains

prurient press and Rupert Murdochsnewspaperempirehere,Ms. Brooks fol-lowed advice she got early from Mr.Murdoch, her father-figure boss andmentor: Keep your head down. Do notcourt publicity.

Friends described her as fiercelyprivate. It was almost like she had nopast,one formercolleaguesaid.

Butspillingher guts,tabloid-style,ap-pears to be part of the legal strategy forMs. Brooks, the most prominent defen-dant inoneof themostprominentcrim-inal prosecutions of recent years. Shecounts Prime Minister David Cameronand two of his predecessors among herfriends, but if convicted, she could go tojail. She has deniedall the charges.

For over a week now Ms. Brooks hasbeen in the witness box answering per-sonal questions from her lawyer,Jonathan Laidlaw, as her second hus-band, CharlieBrooks,a racehorsetrain-

TOBY MELVILLE/REUTERS

During her trial, Rebekah Brooks has de-

scribed her personal life as a car crash.

President plans big pitchfor peace plan betweenIsraelis and Palestinians

think its important that Russia keepsits word.

The economic and political crisis con-fronting Ukraine was deepening as theinterim leaders scrambled on Wednes-day to form a new government able tofind ways out of an impending default.The national currency, the hryvnia,plunged to 10 cents, near a previous lowfrom 2008. The leaders also announcedthe dissolution of the widely despised ri-

otpolice, theBerkut, whoseofficers wereblamed for shooting demonstrators lastweekin KievsIndependence Square.

Berkut is gone, the acting interiorminister, ArsenAvakov, announcedin apostingon Facebook.

General Shoigu announced the mili-tary exercise at a meeting of Russiasgeneral staff, citing the need to test thereadiness of Russias armed forces torespond to a crisis situation, includ-

Vast global operationtranscends its leader,arrested in Mexico raid

POOL PHOTO BY MIKHAIL METZEL

PresidentVladimirV.Putinat a meeting at

hishome outsideMoscowon Wednesday.

ANILL-FATEDPALACEIN UKRAINE

A mansionthat wasbeingbuiltforformer PresidentViktor F.Yanukovychsitsunfinishedon thecoast. PAGE 4

MID DLE EAS T, PAGE 6

MEXI CO, PAGE 10

BRI TAIN, PAGE 4

RUSS IA, PAGE 4

Obama turns to Middle East

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