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MARMET, W.Va. — There were the beauty queens, ages 6 to 60, riding in style in the Labor Day Parade, including Teen Miss West Virginia Coal. There was the man driving a pickup truck memorial to 29 workers killed in a 2010 mine disaster, each victim’s portrait air- brushed on metal. And there was Senator Joe Manchin, in a sky-blue shirt with the state’s craggy outline on its crest, walking the route and greet- ing voters who brought up his fa- vorite issue themselves. “Save our health care!” Bar- bara Miller shouted. Mr. Manchin stopped to give her a hug. After he passed, she said she feared that Republicans in Washington will continue to try to repeal President Barack Oba- ma’s health care law. “If they can’t overturn that, then they hope they can at least favor their big-insur- ance buddies by allowing them to block pre-existing conditions,” said Ms. Miller, a nurse educator. “I have a pre-existing condition.” “We all do,” chimed in four other women seated with her on a porch. In a state where approval of President Trump is near the coun- try’s highest, Mr. Manchin, a Dem- Manchin Gains In West Virginia On Health Care By TRIP GABRIEL Continued on Page 20 The Trump administration held secret meetings with rebellious military officers from Venezuela over the last year to discuss their plans to overthrow President Nicolás Maduro, according to American officials and a former Venezuelan military commander who participated in the talks. Establishing a clandestine channel with coup plotters in Ven- ezuela was a big gamble for Wash- ington, given its long history of covert intervention across Latin America. Many in the region still deeply resent the United States for backing previous rebellions, coups and plots in countries like Cuba, Nicaragua, Brazil and Chile, and for turning a blind eye to the abuses military regimes commit- ted during the Cold War. The White House, which de- clined to answer detailed ques- tions about the talks, said in a statement that it was important to engage in “dialogue with all Vene- zuelans who demonstrate a desire for democracy” in order to “bring positive change to a country that has suffered so much under Ma- duro.” But one of the Venezuelan mili- tary commanders involved in the secret talks was hardly an ideal figure to help restore democracy: He is on the American govern- ment’s own sanctions list of cor- rupt officials in Venezuela. He and other members of the Venezuelan security apparatus U.S. MET REBELS FROM VENEZUELA ABOUT COUP PLOT A RISK FOR WASHINGTON Dissidents’ Secret Plans to Overthrow Maduro Eventually Stalled By ERNESTO LONDOÑO and NICHOLAS CASEY Continued on Page 10 One of the world’s top breast cancer doctors failed to disclose millions of dollars in payments from drug and health care compa- nies in recent years, omitting his financial ties from dozens of re- search articles in prestigious pub- lications like The New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet. The researcher, Dr. José Ba- selga, a towering figure in the can- cer world, is the chief medical offi- cer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. He has held board memberships or advisory roles with Roche and Bristol-Myers Squibb, among other corporations, has had a stake in start-ups testing cancer therapies, and played a key role in the development of breakthrough drugs that have revolutionized treatments for breast cancer. According to an analysis by The New York Times and ProPublica, Dr. Baselga did not follow finan- cial disclosure rules set by the American Association for Cancer Research when he was president of the group. He also left out pay- ments he received from compa- nies connected to cancer research in his articles published in the group’s journal, Cancer Discov- ery. At the same time, he has been one of the journal’s two editors in chief. At a conference this year and before analysts in 2017, he put a positive spin on the results of two Roche-sponsored clinical trials that many others considered dis- appointments, without disclosing his relationship to the company. Since 2014, he has received more than $3 million from Roche in con- sulting fees and for his stake in a A Top Doctor Didn’t Disclose Corporate Ties Sloan Kettering Chief Was Paid Millions By CHARLES ORNSTEIN and KATIE THOMAS Continued on Page 19 HOTAN, China — On the edge of a desert in far western China, an imposing building sits behind a fence topped with barbed wire. Large red characters on the facade urge people to learn Chinese, study law and acquire job skills. Guards make clear that visitors are not welcome. Inside, hundreds of ethnic Uighur Mus- lims spend their days in a high-pressure indoctrination program, where they are forced to listen to lectures, sing hymns praising the Chinese Communist Party and write “self-criticism” essays, accord- ing to detainees who have been released. The goal is to rid them of devotion to Is- lam. Abdusalam Muhemet, 41, said the po- lice detained him for reciting a verse of the Quran at a funeral. After two months in a nearby camp, he and more than 30 others were ordered to renounce their past lives. Mr. Muhemet said he went along but quietly seethed. “That was not a place for getting rid of extremism,” he recalled. “That was a place that will breed vengeful feelings and erase Uighur identity.” This camp outside Hotan, an ancient oasis town in the Taklamakan Desert, is one of hundreds that China has built in the past few years. It is part of a campaign of breathtaking scale and ferocity that has swept up hundreds of thousands of Chi- nese Muslims for weeks or months of what critics describe as brainwashing, usually without criminal charges. Though limited to China’s western re- gion of Xinjiang, it is the country’s most sweeping internment program since the Mao era — and the focus of a growing chorus of international criticism. China has sought for decades to restrict the practice of Islam and maintain an iron grip in Xinjiang, a region almost as big as Alaska where more than half the popula- tion of 24 million belongs to Muslim ethnic minority groups. Most are Uighurs, whose religion, language and culture, along with a history of independence movements and resistance to Chinese rule, have long unnerved Beijing. After a succession of violent antigov- ernment attacks reached a peak in 2014, the Communist Party chief, Xi Jinping, sharply escalated the crackdown, orches- trating an unforgiving drive to turn ethnic Uighurs and other Muslim minorities into loyal citizens and supporters of the party. “Xinjiang is in an active period of ter- rorist activities, intense struggle against separatism and painful intervention to treat this,” Mr. Xi told officials, according to reports in the state news media last year. In addition to the mass detentions, the authorities have intensified the use of in- An indoctrination camp in Hotan, China. Below, Abdusalam Muhemet, 41, was detained for two months in one such camp. Anti-Islam Detention Camps in China Minority Swept Up in Biggest Internment Program Since Mao Era Continued on Page 12 By CHRIS BUCKLEY ERIN TRIEB FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh evaded questions with a mild affect in his con- firmation hearings, revealing little of himself. Washington Memo. PAGE 21 NATIONAL 16-23 The Judicial Master of Elusion Players and coaches are puzzling over a rule intended to make the game safer by minimizing the helmet’s use as a weapon during tackles. PAGE 1 SPORTSSUNDAY Confusion on New N.F.L. Rule With a single scholarly article, Lina Khan reframed decades of monopoly law, taking aim at one of the most ad- mired companies of our era. PAGE 1 SUNDAY BUSINESS Amazon’s Antitrust Antagonist A new Playboy Club finds a home in Midtown Manhattan. No expense has been spared in plans for the defiant time capsule. PAGE 1 SUNDAY STYLES Rebirth of the Bunny Carol Anderson PAGE 1 SUNDAY REVIEW U(D5E71D)x+%!]!/!=!: A pair of top Republicans ac- knowledged in a private meeting on Saturday that the party was battling serious vulnerabilities in the midterm elections, including what one described as wide- spread “hate” for President Trump, and raised the prospect that Senator Ted Cruz of Texas could lose his bid for re-election because he is not seen as “likable” enough. The two Republican leaders, Mick Mulvaney, the federal budg- et director, and Ronna McDaniel, the Republican National Commit- tee chairwoman, assured party of- ficials and donors at a closed-door event in New York City that the right would ultimately turn back a purported “blue wave” in Novem- ber. Mr. Mulvaney also questioned whether Democrats could mar- shal support from outside the left, criticizing them as a party defined solely by opposition to Mr. Trump. But Mr. Mulvaney and Ms. Mc- Daniel also offered an unusually raw assessment of their own par- ty’s strengths and weaknesses in the midterm elections. They pointed to the burning energy among Democratic voters and the dozens of open House seats, where Republican incumbents de- Trump Officials See Weaknesses In the Midterms By ALEXANDER BURNS and KENNETH P. VOGEL Continued on Page 20 Late Edition VOL. CLXVII . . No. 58,080 © 2018 The New York Times Company NEW YORK, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2018 In the middle of her United States Open final against Naomi Osaka at Arthur Ashe Stadium on Saturday, with a record-tying 24th Grand Slam singles title on the line, Serena Williams was stand- ing on the court calling the chair umpire a thief. This is not the way it was sup- posed to go for Williams, 36, per- haps the greatest player her sport has seen, on a night that was sup- posed to be a celebration of her ca- reer and her comeback to the top of tennis a year after giving birth. After Osaka dominated the first set, another sign that this would not be a coronation for Williams came early in the second, when she received a warning for receiv- ing help from her coach in the stands. A few games later, Williams slammed her racket and broke it. That garnered a penalty point in Osaka’s favor. Still steaming from the previous warning, Williams fumed at the chair umpire and, as tensions rose on the court and in the crowd, she received a game penalty that gave Osaka a 5-3 lead, one game from the title. Within minutes, instead of trad- ing blazing ground strokes with Osaka, a 20-year-old born in Ja- pan who grew up idolizing her, Williams was having a heated con- versation with the tournament referee. “There are men out here that do a lot worse,” she said, “but because I’m a woman, because I’m a woman, you’re going to take this away from me? That is not right.” For Williams, this was all too fa- miliar. She has had a series of run- Williams, Seeking 24th Major, Is Undone in a Swirl of Emotion By BEN ROTHENBERG TITLE NO. 1 Naomi Osaka beat Serena Williams, becoming the first Japanese player to win a Grand Slam. SportsSunday. CHANG W. LEE/THE NEW YORK TIMES Continued on Page 23 Today, cloudy, rain developing, breezy, cooler, high 64. Tonight, peri- odic rain and drizzle, breezy, low 59. Tomorrow, periodic rain, breezy, high 71. Weather map, Page 22. $6.00
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MARMET, W.Va. — There werethe beauty queens, ages 6 to 60,riding in style in the Labor DayParade, including Teen Miss WestVirginia Coal. There was the mandriving a pickup truck memorialto 29 workers killed in a 2010 minedisaster, each victim’s portrait air-brushed on metal.
And there was Senator JoeManchin, in a sky-blue shirt withthe state’s craggy outline on itscrest, walking the route and greet-ing voters who brought up his fa-vorite issue themselves.
“Save our health care!” Bar-bara Miller shouted.
Mr. Manchin stopped to giveher a hug. After he passed, shesaid she feared that Republicansin Washington will continue to tryto repeal President Barack Oba-ma’s health care law. “If they can’toverturn that, then they hope theycan at least favor their big-insur-ance buddies by allowing them toblock pre-existing conditions,”said Ms. Miller, a nurse educator.“I have a pre-existing condition.”
“We all do,” chimed in four otherwomen seated with her on aporch.
In a state where approval ofPresident Trump is near the coun-try’s highest, Mr. Manchin, a Dem-
Manchin GainsIn West VirginiaOn Health Care
By TRIP GABRIEL
Continued on Page 20
The Trump administration heldsecret meetings with rebelliousmilitary officers from Venezuelaover the last year to discuss theirplans to overthrow PresidentNicolás Maduro, according toAmerican officials and a formerVenezuelan military commanderwho participated in the talks.
Establishing a clandestinechannel with coup plotters in Ven-ezuela was a big gamble for Wash-ington, given its long history ofcovert intervention across LatinAmerica. Many in the region stilldeeply resent the United Statesfor backing previous rebellions,coups and plots in countries likeCuba, Nicaragua, Brazil and Chile,and for turning a blind eye to theabuses military regimes commit-ted during the Cold War.
The White House, which de-clined to answer detailed ques-tions about the talks, said in astatement that it was important toengage in “dialogue with all Vene-zuelans who demonstrate a desirefor democracy” in order to “bringpositive change to a country thathas suffered so much under Ma-duro.”
But one of the Venezuelan mili-tary commanders involved in thesecret talks was hardly an idealfigure to help restore democracy:He is on the American govern-ment’s own sanctions list of cor-rupt officials in Venezuela.
He and other members of theVenezuelan security apparatus
U.S. MET REBELSFROM VENEZUELA ABOUT COUP PLOT
A RISK FOR WASHINGTON
Dissidents’ Secret Plansto Overthrow Maduro
Eventually Stalled
By ERNESTO LONDOÑOand NICHOLAS CASEY
Continued on Page 10
One of the world’s top breastcancer doctors failed to disclosemillions of dollars in paymentsfrom drug and health care compa-nies in recent years, omitting hisfinancial ties from dozens of re-search articles in prestigious pub-lications like The New EnglandJournal of Medicine and TheLancet.
The researcher, Dr. José Ba-selga, a towering figure in the can-cer world, is the chief medical offi-cer at Memorial Sloan KetteringCancer Center in New York. Hehas held board memberships oradvisory roles with Roche andBristol-Myers Squibb, amongother corporations, has had astake in start-ups testing cancertherapies, and played a key role inthe development of breakthroughdrugs that have revolutionizedtreatments for breast cancer.
According to an analysis by TheNew York Times and ProPublica,Dr. Baselga did not follow finan-cial disclosure rules set by theAmerican Association for CancerResearch when he was presidentof the group. He also left out pay-ments he received from compa-nies connected to cancer researchin his articles published in thegroup’s journal, Cancer Discov-ery. At the same time, he has beenone of the journal’s two editors inchief.
At a conference this year andbefore analysts in 2017, he put apositive spin on the results of twoRoche-sponsored clinical trialsthat many others considered dis-appointments, without disclosinghis relationship to the company.Since 2014, he has received morethan $3 million from Roche in con-sulting fees and for his stake in a
A Top DoctorDidn’t DiscloseCorporate Ties
Sloan Kettering ChiefWas Paid Millions
By CHARLES ORNSTEINand KATIE THOMAS
Continued on Page 19
HOTAN, China — On the edge of adesert in far western China, an imposingbuilding sits behind a fence topped withbarbed wire. Large red characters on thefacade urge people to learn Chinese,study law and acquire job skills. Guardsmake clear that visitors are not welcome.
Inside, hundreds of ethnic Uighur Mus-lims spend their days in a high-pressureindoctrination program, where they areforced to listen to lectures, sing hymnspraising the Chinese Communist Partyand write “self-criticism” essays, accord-ing to detainees who have been released.
The goal is to rid them of devotion to Is-lam.
Abdusalam Muhemet, 41, said the po-lice detained him for reciting a verse ofthe Quran at a funeral. After two monthsin a nearby camp, he and more than 30others were ordered to renounce theirpast lives. Mr. Muhemet said he wentalong but quietly seethed.
“That was not a place for getting rid ofextremism,” he recalled. “That was aplace that will breed vengeful feelings anderase Uighur identity.”
This camp outside Hotan, an ancientoasis town in the Taklamakan Desert, isone of hundreds that China has built in thepast few years. It is part of a campaign ofbreathtaking scale and ferocity that hasswept up hundreds of thousands of Chi-nese Muslims for weeks or months ofwhat critics describe as brainwashing,usually without criminal charges.
Though limited to China’s western re-gion of Xinjiang, it is the country’s most
sweeping internment program since theMao era — and the focus of a growingchorus of international criticism.
China has sought for decades to restrictthe practice of Islam and maintain an irongrip in Xinjiang, a region almost as big asAlaska where more than half the popula-tion of 24 million belongs to Muslim ethnicminority groups. Most are Uighurs,whose religion, language and culture,along with a history of independencemovements and resistance to Chineserule, have long unnerved Beijing.
After a succession of violent antigov-ernment attacks reached a peak in 2014,the Communist Party chief, Xi Jinping,sharply escalated the crackdown, orches-trating an unforgiving drive to turn ethnicUighurs and other Muslim minorities intoloyal citizens and supporters of the party.
“Xinjiang is in an active period of ter-rorist activities, intense struggle againstseparatism and painful intervention totreat this,” Mr. Xi told officials, accordingto reports in the state news media lastyear.
In addition to the mass detentions, theauthorities have intensified the use of in-
An indoctrination camp in Hotan, China. Below, Abdusalam Muhemet, 41, was detained for two months in one such camp.
Anti-Islam Detention Camps in ChinaMinority Swept Up in Biggest Internment Program Since Mao Era
Continued on Page 12
By CHRIS BUCKLEY
ERIN TRIEB FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh evadedquestions with a mild affect in his con-firmation hearings, revealing little ofhimself. Washington Memo. PAGE 21
NATIONAL 16-23
The Judicial Master of ElusionPlayers and coaches are puzzling over arule intended to make the game saferby minimizing the helmet’s use as aweapon during tackles. PAGE 1
SPORTSSUNDAY
Confusion on New N.F.L. RuleWith a single scholarly article, LinaKhan reframed decades of monopolylaw, taking aim at one of the most ad-mired companies of our era. PAGE 1
SUNDAY BUSINESS
Amazon’s Antitrust AntagonistA new Playboy Club finds a home inMidtown Manhattan. No expense hasbeen spared in plans for the defianttime capsule. PAGE 1
SUNDAY STYLES
Rebirth of the Bunny Carol Anderson PAGE 1
SUNDAY REVIEW
U(D5E71D)x+%!]!/!=!:
A pair of top Republicans ac-knowledged in a private meetingon Saturday that the party wasbattling serious vulnerabilities inthe midterm elections, includingwhat one described as wide-spread “hate” for PresidentTrump, and raised the prospectthat Senator Ted Cruz of Texascould lose his bid for re-electionbecause he is not seen as “likable”enough.
The two Republican leaders,Mick Mulvaney, the federal budg-et director, and Ronna McDaniel,the Republican National Commit-tee chairwoman, assured party of-ficials and donors at a closed-doorevent in New York City that theright would ultimately turn back apurported “blue wave” in Novem-ber. Mr. Mulvaney also questionedwhether Democrats could mar-shal support from outside the left,criticizing them as a party definedsolely by opposition to Mr. Trump.
But Mr. Mulvaney and Ms. Mc-Daniel also offered an unusuallyraw assessment of their own par-ty’s strengths and weaknesses inthe midterm elections. Theypointed to the burning energyamong Democratic voters and thedozens of open House seats,where Republican incumbents de-
Trump OfficialsSee WeaknessesIn the Midterms
By ALEXANDER BURNSand KENNETH P. VOGEL
Continued on Page 20
Late Edition
VOL. CLXVII . . No. 58,080 © 2018 The New York Times Company NEW YORK, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2018
In the middle of her UnitedStates Open final against NaomiOsaka at Arthur Ashe Stadium onSaturday, with a record-tying 24thGrand Slam singles title on theline, Serena Williams was stand-ing on the court calling the chairumpire a thief.
This is not the way it was sup-posed to go for Williams, 36, per-haps the greatest player her sporthas seen, on a night that was sup-posed to be a celebration of her ca-reer and her comeback to the topof tennis a year after giving birth.
After Osaka dominated the firstset, another sign that this wouldnot be a coronation for Williamscame early in the second, whenshe received a warning for receiv-ing help from her coach in thestands.
A few games later, Williamsslammed her racket and broke it.
That garnered a penalty point inOsaka’s favor. Still steaming fromthe previous warning, Williamsfumed at the chair umpire and, astensions rose on the court and inthe crowd, she received a gamepenalty that gave Osaka a 5-3lead, one game from the title.
Within minutes, instead of trad-ing blazing ground strokes withOsaka, a 20-year-old born in Ja-pan who grew up idolizing her,Williams was having a heated con-versation with the tournamentreferee. “There are men out herethat do a lot worse,” she said, “butbecause I’m a woman, becauseI’m a woman, you’re going to takethis away from me? That is notright.”
For Williams, this was all too fa-miliar. She has had a series of run-
Williams, Seeking 24th Major, Is Undone in a Swirl of Emotion
By BEN ROTHENBERG
TITLE NO. 1 Naomi Osaka beat Serena Williams, becoming thefirst Japanese player to win a Grand Slam. SportsSunday.
CHANG W. LEE/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Continued on Page 23
Today, cloudy, rain developing,breezy, cooler, high 64. Tonight, peri-odic rain and drizzle, breezy, low 59.Tomorrow, periodic rain, breezy,high 71. Weather map, Page 22.
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