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In three shows, the Queens Museumstakes out its role in the life
of the diverseresidents of its neighborhood. PAGE C1
WEEKEND ARTS C1-12
Post-Lockdown ExhibitionsTony La Russa, a 76-year-old Hall
ofFamer, will manage the Chicago WhiteSox, who first hired him for
that posi-tion in 1979. On Baseball. PAGE B8
SPORTSFRIDAY B8-10
A Disco-Era ComebackPresident Xi Jinping laid out plans
forpost-pandemic China at a meeting ofthe Communist Party elite.
PAGE A11
INTERNATIONAL A11-15
Xi Tightens Grip on Helm
The species, shielded by the U.S. sincethe 1960s, has rebounded,
though criticssay the move is premature. PAGE A18
NATIONAL A18-28
Gray Wolves Lose ProtectionsRenowned for its efficient
government,the Netherlands is humbled by a sky-rocketing infection
rate. PAGE A5
TRACKING AN OUTBREAK A4-10
Dutch Ask What Went Wrong
Cities are drawing connections betweenthe stresses of the
coronavirus and asurge in homicides. PAGE A10
Virus Tied to Rise in MurdersThe worst fears about mail ballots
haveso far been avoided, but many people arelining up at the polls
anyway. PAGE A20
Postal Problems Worry Voters
Barack Obama’s memoir is landing. Soare a biography of Adrienne
Rich and athriller by Jo Nesbo. PAGE C10
New Books to Watch For
David Brooks PAGE A31EDITORIAL, OP-ED A30-31
The pandemic has staggered both thefilm industry and small,
independenttheaters like the Park Plaza Cinema inHilton Head
Island, S.C. PAGE B1
BUSINESS B1-7
Fight to Save the Silver Screen
A drive to oust President Trump hasunified moderates and
progressives. Butthey don’t agree on everything. PAGE B3
Democratic Divide on Trade
Bethune-Cookman, in Florida, canceledbasketball and other
athletics throughspring because of the pandemic. PAGE B8
No Sports at a Division I College
Diane di Prima, a rare female voice inmale-dominated Beat
circles, publishedsome 50 books. She was 86. PAGE A29
OBITUARIES A29, B11
Beat Poet and Barrier Breaker
MINOCQUA, Wis. — When co-ronavirus cases began to spike
inWisconsin this fall, Rob Swearin-gen kept his restaurant open
andlet customers and employees de-cide whether they wanted to
wearmasks.
Mr. Swearingen, a Republicanseeking his fifth term in the
Wis-consin State Assembly, didn’t re-quire other employees at
hisrestaurant in Rhinelander to betested after a waitress and a
bar-tender contracted the virus be-cause, he said, nobody from the
lo-cal health department suggestedit was necessary.
Kirk Bangstad, Mr. Swearin-gen’s Democratic opponent, tookthe
opposite approach at thebrewpub he owns in Minocqua, 30miles away.
He has servedcustomers only outdoors, and
when a teenage waiter became in-fected after attending a party,
Mr.Bangstad shut down for a longweekend and required all employ-ees
to get tested.
Mr. Bangstad has since turnedhis entire campaign into a
referen-dum on how Republicans havehandled the coronavirus. On
Face-book, he has served as a townshamer, posting lists of
restau-rants and stores in Wisconsin’sNorthwoods that have
disre-garded state limits on seating ca-pacity and don’t require
masks.
With just days until the election,the contest for Mr.
Swearingen’s
As Deaths Soar in Wisconsin,Virus Is Political Dividing Line
By REID J. EPSTEIN Swing State’s ConflictsPlay Out Across
U.S.
Continued on Page A21
BROWNSVILLE, Texas —When Senator Ted Cruz of Texasspoke with
President Trump onthe phone last week, he congratu-lated the
president on his debateperformance, nudged him to keepdriving
policy-oriented attacksagainst his opponent, Joseph R.Biden Jr.,
and relayed one moremessage.
“We have a fight” in Texas, Mr.Cruz said he told Mr.
Trump,warning him that the country’ssecond-largest electoral prize
wasin play and that he should take itseriously. In an interview,
Mr.Cruz said he expected the presi-dent to win here — but that he
alsosaw the same surging liberal ener-gy in his state that had
propelledBeto O’Rourke to a closer-than-expected defeat against him
twoyears ago.
“There’s no doubt that it’s a realrace,” said the senator,
echoing asimilar case Mr. O’Rourke madeto Mr. Biden earlier this
month intheir own phone conversation.
But it’s not clear if Mr. Trump orMr. Biden fully believe
it.
They may be on opposite sidesof the partisan divide, but
TexasRepublicans and Democrats alikebelieve the long-awaited
momenthas arrived: The state is a truepresidential battleground,
and ei-ther candidate could prevail nextweek.
Although a Democrat has notcarried Texas since 1976, recent
‘We Have a Fight’: Big StakesBut Little Investment in Texas
By JONATHAN MARTIN G.O.P. Losing Groundin Largest Red State
Continued on Page A27
NICE, France — A terror attackthat killed three people in Nice
onThursday left France increasinglyembattled at home and abroad,
asthe government called for tough-ening measures against
Islamistextremism, amid rising tensionswith Muslim nations.
A knife-wielding assailant lefttwo people dead in Nice’s
tower-ing neo-Gothic basilica, includinga 60-year-old woman who
wasnearly decapitated, and a thirdvictim died after taking refuge
in anearby bar.
The attack in Nice came lessthan two weeks after the behead-ing
of a teacher shook the nationand led to President EmmanuelMacron’s
suggesting that Islamwas in need of an Enlightenment.
Jean-François Ricard, France’stop antiterrorism prosecutor,
said
the suspected killer was aTunisian man, born in 1999, whohad
entered France after arrivingin Italy on Sept. 20. He said theman,
who was unknown to theFrench authorities, was arrestedafter lunging
at police officerswhile yelling “Allahu akbar,” andwas hospitalized
with seriouswounds.
“Very clearly it is France that isattacked,” Mr. Macron said
aftertraveling quickly to Nice. Frenchauthorities placed a jittery
coun-try on its highest terrorism threatlevel.
The government’s recent wordsand deeds have put it at odds
withMuslims in France and abroad, in-cluding heads of state like
Presi-dent Recep Tayyip Erdogan ofTurkey. What many French peo-
2 Islamist Terror Attacks Strain French Relations With
Muslims
By NORIMITSU ONISHI and CONSTANT MÉHEUT
Continued on Page A15
TAMPA, Fla. — That old politi-cal heartbreaker, the
presidentialbattleground of Florida, lured thetwo White House
contenders tothe same city on Thursday, asPresident Trump and
Joseph R.Biden Jr. confronted some of theirbiggest political
vulnerabilities ina state that is once again shapingup as the most
elusive prize innext week’s election.
Mr. Trump returned to one of
the tougher parts of the state forhim four years ago, Tampa, one
ofthe few areas he lost to HillaryClinton in the vote-rich I-4
corri-dor. Now behind in the polls, thepresident sought again to
winover independents and moderateswith a message about
corruptDemocrats, an attack that he hashad difficulty making
stickagainst the former vice president.
Mr. Biden, in turn, faces an in-creasingly urgent need to build
uphis margins with Latinos, a di-verse demographic in Florida
thathe has struggled to broadly galva-
nize so far. He made a blunt appealto Cuban-Americans and
Vene-zuelan-Americans, remindingthem of human rights abuses
inHavana and Caracas.
The rare convergence of the twomen on the same day — with
Mr.Biden appearing at a drive-in rallyon Thursday night in Tampa
—
was one of the clearest signs yetthat both candidates not only
seetheir political fortunes tied to thestate but also are far from
confi-dent that they are ahead here.Though Mr. Biden has
gainedground with older voters whowere once part of Mr.
Trump’sbase, the president is immenselypopular with the
conservative Re-publican electorate in Florida.
As with Mr. Trump, it was un-clear if Mr. Biden’s message
wouldresonate with enough voters to
Road to White House Crosses Central Florida, for a Day at
LeastBy KATIE GLUECK
and PATRICIA MAZZEISeeking Advantage in a
Make-or-Break State
TAMPA, FLA. President Trump, with the first lady, Melania Trump,
returned to one of the few areas of the state he lost in 2016.DOUG
MILLS/THE NEW YORK TIMES
COCONUT CREEK, FLA. In a Democratic stronghold, Joseph R. Biden
Jr. delivered a tailored message intended to motivate Latinos.ERIN
SCHAFF/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Continued on Page A21
WASHINGTON — Geoffrey S.Berman was outraged.
The top federal prosecutor inManhattan, Mr. Berman had trav-eled
to Washington in June 2019 todiscuss a particularly delicatecase
with Attorney GeneralWilliam P. Barr and some of histop aides: a
criminal investigationinto Halkbank, a state-ownedTurkish bank
suspected of vio-lating U.S. sanctions law by fun-neling billions
of dollars of goldand cash to Iran.
For months, President RecepTayyip Erdogan of Turkey hadbeen
pressing President Trump toquash the investigation, whichthreatened
not only the bank butpotentially members of Mr. Erdo-gan’s family
and political party.When Mr. Berman sat down withMr. Barr, he was
stunned to bepresented with a settlement pro-posal that would give
Mr. Erdogana key concession.
Mr. Barr pressed Mr. Berman toallow the bank to avoid an
indict-ment by paying a fine and ac-knowledging some
wrongdoing.
In addition, the Justice Depart-ment would agree to end
investi-gations and criminal cases involv-ing Turkish and bank
officials whowere allied with Mr. Erdogan andsuspected of
participating in thesanctions-busting scheme.
Mr. Berman didn’t buy it.The bank had the right to try to
negotiate a settlement. But hisprosecutors were still
investigat-
Trump Ties to Erdogan SnarledU.S. Inquiry Into Turkish Bank
By ERIC LIPTON and BENJAMIN WEISER
Prosecutors accused Halkbankof violating sanctions on Iran.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Continued on Page A12
U.S. economic output increasedat the fastest pace on record
lastquarter as businesses began to re-open and customers returned
tostores. But the economy hasclimbed only partway out of
itspandemic-induced hole, andprogress is slowing.
Gross domestic product grew7.4 percent in the third quarter,
theCommerce Department saidThursday. The gain, the equiva-lent of
33.1 percent on an annu-alized basis, was by far the biggestsince
reliable statistics began af-ter World War II.
The rebound was fueled in partby trillions of dollars in federal
as-sistance to households and busi-nesses. That aid has since
driedup, even as the recovery remainsfar from complete: The
economyin the third quarter was 3.5 per-cent smaller than at the
end of2019, before the pandemic. Bycomparison, G.D.P. shrank 4
per-cent over the entire year and ahalf of the Great Recession a
dec-ade ago.
The report was the last major
piece of economic data before thepresidential election on
Tuesday.President Trump’s campaignhailed the big gain as
“absolutevalidation” of the administration’spolicies, while the
campaign offormer Vice President Joseph R.Biden Jr. dismissed it as
a “partialreturn” that was already fading.
Economists said the third-quar-ter figures revealed less about
thestrength of the recovery thanabout the severity of the
collapsethat preceded it. G.D.P. fell 1.3 per-cent in the first
quarter and 9 per-cent in the second as the pan-demic forced
widespread busi-ness closures. A big rebound wasinevitable once the
economy be-gan to reopen. The challenge iswhat comes next.
“The reason we had such a bigbounce is that the economy went
U.S. ECONOMY GETSA STRONG BOUNCE
BUT FACES BUMPSFederal Aid Helps Drive Record Quarter
— Rally Shows Signs of Slowing
By BEN CASSELMAN
Continued on Page A10
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NEW YORK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2020
VIRUS SPIKE The U.S. set a dailyrecord with at least 86,000
cases,topping 9 million over all. PAGE A6
Today, cloudy, windy, colder, rainending, snow north, west, high
43.Tonight, turning clear, cold, low 34.Tomorrow, sunny, but
chilly, high 47.Weather map appears on Page A26.
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