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By MICHAEL D. SHEARand MARK LANDLER

WASHINGTON — Beneath thecalming reassurance that Presi-dent Obama has repeatedly of-fered during the Ebola crisis,there is a deepening frustration,even anger, with how the govern-ment has handled key elementsof the response.

Those frustrations spilled overwhen Mr. Obama convened histop aides in the Cabinet room af-ter canceling his schedule onWednesday. Medical officialswere providing information thatlater turned out to be wrong.Guidance to local health teamswas not adequate. It was unclearwhich Ebola patients belonged inwhich threat categories.

“It’s not tight,” a visibly angryMr. Obama said of the response,according to people briefed onthe meeting. He told aides theyneeded to get ahead of eventsand demanded a more hands-onapproach, particularly from theCenters for Disease Control andPrevention. “He was not satisfiedwith the response,” a senior offi-cial said.

The difference between thepublic and private messages il-lustrates the dilemma Mr. Obamafaces on Ebola — and a range ofother national security issues —as he tries to galvanize the re-sponse to a public health scarewhile not adding to the sense ofpanic fueled by 24-hour cable TVand the nonstop Twitter chatter.

On Friday, Mr. Obama took astep to both fix that response andreassure the public, naming RonKlain, a former aide to Vice Pres-ident Joseph R. Biden, to coordi-nate the government’s efforts onEbola. [Page A13.]

The appointment followed thepresident’s statement Thursdaythat the job was necessary “justto make sure that we are crossingall the t’s and dotting all the i’sgoing forward.”

“Part of the challenge is to be

AMID ASSURANCESON EBOLA, OBAMAIS SAID TO SEETHE

CRITICAL OVER RESPONSE

Names Czar for Effort as

He Attempts to Spur

Action, Not Panic

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By ABBY GOODNOUGH and ROBERT PEAR

Patricia Wanderlich got insur-ance through the Affordable CareAct this year, and with good rea-son: She suffered a brain hemor-rhage in 2011, spending weeks ina hospital intensive care unit, andhas a second, smaller aneurysmthat needs monitoring.

But her new plan has a $6,000annual deductible, meaning thatMs. Wanderlich, who works parttime at a landscaping companyoutside Chicago, has to pay formost of her medical services upto that amount. She is skippingthis year’s brain scan and hopingfor the best.

“To spend thousands of dollarsjust making sure it hasn’tgrown?” said Ms. Wanderlich, 61.“I don’t have that money.”

About 7.3 million Americansare enrolled in private coveragethrough the Affordable Care Actmarketplaces, and more than 80percent qualified for federal sub-sidies to help with the cost oftheir monthly premiums. Butmany are still on the hook for de-ductibles that can top $5,000 forindividuals and $10,000 for fam-ilies — the trade-off, insurers say,for keeping premiums for themarketplace plans relatively low.The result is that some people —no firm data exists on how many— say they hesitate to use theirnew insurance because of thehigh out-of-pocket costs.

Insurers must cover certainpreventive services, like immuni-zations, cholesterol checks andscreening for breast and coloncancer, at no cost to the consum-er if the provider is in their net-work. But for other services anditems, like prescription drugs,marketplace customers oftenhave to meet their deductible be-fore insurance starts to help.

While high-deductible plans

Unable to MeetThe Deductible

Or the Doctor

Health Care Expenses

Cause Some to Balk

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From the hills of Suruc, Turkey, Syrian Kurds can see the battle raging in their city, Kobani, besieged by the Islamic State. Page A8.

A Refugee Camp Within Sight of Home

By JIM YARDLEYand DAVID M. HERSZENHORN

MILAN — He was at it againthis week.

First, President Vladimir V.Putin of Russia stopped in Bel-grade for a military parade evoc-ative of the Cold War. He ques-tioned Kosovo’s sovereignty, tooka swipe at President Obama inthe Serbian news media andreached a summit meeting in Mi-lan so far behind schedule that hewas hours late for a privateevening meeting with Europe’smost powerful leader, ChancellorAngela Merkel of Germany.

Nor was Mr. Putin done. Whenhe left Ms. Merkel at roughly 2a.m. Friday, his entourage

streaked through Milan to thehome of his friend and Italy’s for-mer prime minister, Silvio Ber-lusconi. The men talked and en-joyed truffles until about 4 a.m.,whereupon Mr. Putin departed,leaving him barely four hours be-fore he joined European leaders,including Ukraine’s president,Petro O. Poroshenko, for a pivotalbreakfast meeting.

For Mr. Putin, the helter-skel-ter blitz through Milan was only

the latest demonstration of an un-predictable, often theatrical, dip-lomatic style that he has em-ployed during the Ukraine crisisto throw his rivals off balance.This time he kept Ms. Merkelwaiting late at night. Last monthhe upstaged President Obama onthe eve of a NATO summit meet-ing focused on Russian aggres-sion when he unexpectedly an-nounced a seven-point peaceplan for Ukraine — written on theback of a napkin as he flew for astate visit in Mongolia.

“He loves you and me and ev-erybody else looking at him andtrying to figure him out,” saidNina L. Khrushcheva, a profes-sor of international affairs at theNew School in New York and thegreat-granddaughter of Nikita S.Khrushchev. “He’s an exhibition-ist.” She added, “He pushes theenvelope all the time, and he getsaway with it.”

This week, his presence inWestern Europe for the first timein four months and the rare occa-sion of a face-to-face meetingwith Mr. Poroshenko — coupledwith the bite of Western econom-ic sanctions and falling oil prices— raised expectations amongsome European leaders that theRussian president might bepoised to deliver a major compro-mise in the Ukraine crisis.

But if progress was made on

Making Merkel Wait, Finding Time for Truffles

Putin Brings Theater

to Milan, but Budges

Little on Ukraine

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This article is by Michael S.Schmidt, Matt Apuzzo and JulieBosman.

WASHINGTON — The policeofficer who fatally shot MichaelBrown in Ferguson, Mo., twomonths ago has told investiga-tors that he was pinned in his ve-hicle and in fear for his life as hestruggled over his gun with Mr.Brown, according to governmentofficials briefed on the federalcivil rights investigation into thematter.

The officer, Darren Wilson, hastold the authorities that duringthe scuffle, Mr. Brown reachedfor the gun. It was fired twice inthe car, according to forensicstests performed by the FederalBureau of Investigation. The firstbullet struck Mr. Brown in thearm; the second bullet missed.

The forensics tests showed Mr.Brown’s blood on the gun, as wellas on the interior door panel andon Officer Wilson’s uniform. Offi-cer Wilson told the authoritiesthat Mr. Brown had punched andscratched him repeatedly, leav-ing swelling on his face and cutson his neck.

This is the first public account

Ferguson Case:

Officer Is Said

To Cite Struggle

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By ZACH SCHONBRUN

MARBURY, Md. — Before day-break one drizzly October morn-ing, 44 boats representing 31 col-leges organized themselvesaround a marina at MattawomanCreek, a tributary of the PotomacRiver. Light from the GPS navi-gation systems was all that illu-minated the faces of the drivers,who wore wool caps and camou-flage hoodies.

By 7 a.m., after a recited prayer

and a playing of the national an-them, the teams were off, zippingacross the water to their fishingspots.

The winning team would takehome $4,000, a handsome sum, atleast by the standards of collegestudents. The top 10 teams wouldautomatically advance to a na-tional championship tournamentin April with a grand prize of$30,000. And unlike contestantsin events sanctioned by theN.C.A.A., many of the partici-pants could not only accept the

earnings but also do what theywanted with them: invest inequipment, support future fish-ing teams or buy whatever theydesired, be that textbooks orbeer.

Given that approach, thoselooking for a glimpse of what col-lege sports might look like whenathletes can collect paychecksmight find a template in theteams that are traversing the na-tion’s rivers and streams rather

GREG KAHN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Brett Warrick of the Ohio State fishing team last week. The N.C.A.A. is not involved in the sport.

Collegiate Fishing’s Added Lure: Cash on the Line

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By PATRICIA COHEN

When Christie’s auctioned offEdgar Degas’s “Danseuses” fornearly $11 million in 2009, the cat-alog noted that the masterpiecewas being sold as part of a resti-tution agreement with the “heirsof Ludwig and Margret Kainer,”German Jews whose vast art col-lection was seized by the Nazis inthe years leading up to WorldWar II.

But now a dozen relatives ofthe Kainers are stepping forwardto object. Not only did they fail tobenefit from that sale, they saythey were never even told aboutit, or any other auctions of worksonce owned by the couple, includ-ing pieces by Monet and Renoir.

It turns out that the Kainer“heir” that has for years collect-ed proceeds from these sales andother restitutions, including warreparations from the Germangovernment, is not a family mem-ber but a foundation created by

Swiss bank officials.In lawsuits filed in New York

and Switzerland, the Kainer rela-tives contend that officers of thebank — now part of the globalbanking giant UBS — nevermade a diligent effort to find

them, and worse, used the familyname to create a “sham” founda-tion ostensibly organized to sup-port the health and education ofJewish youth but actuallyformed, they say, to cheat themout of their inheritance.

Both the foundation — namedafter Norbert Levy, Mrs. Kain-er’s father — and UBS have saidin court papers that they havedone nothing wrong, but declinedto comment. The lawsuits comeas high-profile disputes overlooted art focus attention on howcourts and governments havehandled assets stolen from Jewsby the Nazis. Despite the scru-tiny, this case shows just how dif-ficult adjudicating such claims re-mains. The Kainer family law-suits, for example, involve the le-gal systems of four countries andrest on the intentions and actionsof people who have been dead formany decades. Like many fam-ilies who survived the Holocaust,the Kainer descendants were not

Heirs Sue Bank Over Sale of Nazi-Looted Art

CHRISTIE’S

“Danseuses” by Edgar Degas,which was sold in 2009. Continued on Page A10

QUARANTINE Health specialistssay a travel ban would do moreharm than good. PAGE A12

LOW PROFILE Gov. Rick Perry ofTexas has not taken a big publicrole in the Ebola drama. PAGE A12

Despite American aid, Islamic State mil-itants are making gains in Anbar Prov-ince as Iraqi leaders and troops havestumbled and stalled. PAGE A5

INTERNATIONAL A4-10

ISIS Thrives on Iraq’s FailingsThe unexpected departure of Michael P.Millikin, the carmaker’s general coun-sel, is the latest by a growing number ofexecutives who have left G.M. since itsrecall troubles began. PAGE B1

BUSINESS DAY B1-8

G.M.’s Top Lawyer to RetireThe high taxes placed on cigarettes inNew York City have led some bodegaowners to secretly sell packs bought inother states. Crime Scene. PAGE A19

NEW YORK A19-21

Behind Trap Doors: CigarettesThe New York Times style magazinecelebrates a decade of the surprising,amusing, provocative and enlighteningstories and ideas that come together atthe crossroads where style meets sub-stance. With Stevie Nicks, Yves SaintLaurent, Channing Tatum, Richard Rod-riguez and more. THIS WEEKEND

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Ten Years of T

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EDITORIAL, OP-ED A22-23

China’s leaders have been largely di-recting the response to the Hong Kongcrisis, officials and experts say. PAGE A4

Hidden Influence inHong Kong

The European Central Bank’s report onwhich banks are in trouble is due outnext week, and the results could rattlethe markets. PAGE B1

Lingering Anxiety in Europe Representative Michael G. Grimm andDomenic M. Recchia Jr. tussled overwho was “more Staten Island.” PAGE A19

Debate Devolves Into Taunts

William J. Ronan, who helped form theNew York region’s transportation agen-cy and then ran it, was 101. PAGE A18

OBITUARIES A18

Force Behind the M.T.A. DiesWithin hours of the assault on the Amer-ican Mission in Benghazi, prosecutorsjockeyed to lead the inquiry. PAGE A14

NATIONAL A14-17

Trying to Land a Prized Post

Fabolous sang at an anniversary con-cert for Def Jam Recordings. PAGE C1

ARTS C1-7

Tribute to a Legendary Label

A documentary tests some Hollywoodsupporters of President Obama. PAGE C1

Snowden and Moviemakers The chairwoman, Janet L. Yellen, hasmapped out a role for the central bankin fostering a public debate. PAGE B1

A Fed Focus on Inequality

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