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EDITORIAL, OP-ED A24-25

The frustrations of a British snackmaker forced to scramble for fruit couldspeak for an uncertain nation. PAGE B1

BUSINESS DAY B1-8

Brexit With a Few Blemishes

Three professors whose research in-cludes sexual desire were put on paidleave as accusations of sexual miscon-duct are investigated. PAGE A10

NATIONAL A9-17

Inquiry at Dartmouth

As companies prize talent, more work-ers are apt to think they can get awaywith misdeeds, researchers say. PAGE B1

When the Harasser Is a Star

The fight for the huge Brooklyn housingcomplex pits a tycoon’s widow againsther stepchildren. PAGE A19

NEW YORK A19-23

Messy Battle for Starrett City

The state had gone months without abudget as lawmakers wrestled with a$3.5 billion deficit. PAGE A19

Budget, Finally, for Connecticut

For Americans wishing to celebrate the Hindu festival of lights — a foodlover’s delight — Dallas may be theplace to be. PAGE D1

FOOD D1-8

A Texas-Flavored Diwali

The president’s lofty vision of endingpoverty clashes with reality and gaps ineducation and health care. PAGE A4

INTERNATIONAL A4-8

China’s Rural Poor

The deposed leader of Catalonia ap-peared in Brussels to declare that hewanted “Europe to react.” PAGE A6

Plea for Europe on Catalonia

A driver plowed a pickup truckdown a crowded bike path alongthe Hudson River in Manhattanon Tuesday, killing eight peopleand injuring 11 before being shotby a police officer in what officialsare calling the deadliest terroristattack on New York City sinceSept. 11, 2001.

The rampage ended when themotorist — whom the police iden-tified as Sayfullo Saipov, 29 —smashed into aschool bus,jumped out ofhis truck andran up anddown the high-way waving apellet gun andpaintball gunand shouting“Allahu akbar,”Arabic for “Godis great,” beforehe was shot inthe abdomen by the officer. He re-mained in critical condition onTuesday evening.

Mayor Bill de Blasio declaredthe rampage a terrorist attack,and federal law enforcement au-thorities were leading the investi-gation. Investigators discoveredhandwritten notes in Arabic nearthe truck that indicated allegianceto the Islamic State, two law en-forcement officials said. But in-vestigators had not uncovered ev-idence of any direct or enablingties between Mr. Saipov and ISISand were treating the episode as acase of an “inspired” attacker, twocounterterrorism officials said.

Mr. de Blasio said at a news con-ference, “Based on informationwe have at this moment, this wasan act of terror, and a particularlycowardly act of terror aimed at in-nocent civilians.”

Five of the people killed wereArgentine tourists who traveled toNew York for a 30-year highschool reunion celebration, said asenior official in Santa Fe Prov-ince, where they were from. TheArgentine authorities said theywere Hernán Mendoza, Diego An-gelini, Alejandro Pagnucco, ArielErlij and Hernán Ferruchi. MartínLudovico Marro, a sixth memberof the group, was wounded. Bel-gian officials said one of thosekilled and three of the injuredwere from Belgium.

Mr. Saipov came to the UnitedStates from Uzbekistan in 2010,and had a green card that allowedpermanent legal residence. He

MILE-LONG MANHATTAN TRUCK ATTACK KILLS 8

This article is by Benjamin Muel-ler, William K. Rashbaum and AlBaker.

‘Cowardly Act ofTerror,’ Mayor

Declares

A smashed bicycle and a body marked a portion of the path of destruction along the Hudson River on Tuesday. A suspect was shot in the abdomen by a police officer.BEBETO MATTHEWS/ASSOCIATED PRESS

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SayfulloSaipov

The screams seemed too vividfrom the start, too visceral to be-long to crowds celebrating a crispand sunny Halloween in LowerManhattan. The tragedy had un-folded in just minutes, and forhours and hours it remained toosenseless to believe.

Sirens and police tape sur-rounded the white pickup truckthat a 29-year-old assailant trans-formed into an instrument of ter-ror when he began hitting cyclistsand joggers along the West SideHighway bike path. A mangledschool bus sat next to it.

Bodies lay strewn along theway. For those who encounteredthe scene on Tuesday, the after-math was as confusing as it wasgruesome.

Tom Kendrick, 36, a lawyerfrom the West Village, said he wasjogging uptown just north ofChambers Street when he begannoticing the mayhem on the bikepath. He saw a battered body andbicycle in the bushes alongsidethe path. Farther along he foundthree bodies close together, alsobattered cyclists.

“I approached to see if I couldhelp and they did not need help —

they appeared to be dead,” Mr.Kendrick said. “They were bloodyand unconscious, with some limbshanging,” he added. “It was grue-some. It was grisly. It was surre-al.”

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During high-pressure meetingsto plan the expansion ofprekindergarten during his firstmonths in City Hall, Mayor Bill deBlasio would invoke the D-Day in-vasion of Normandy: There it ison the horizon, he would say, weare approaching the beach, weneed a full-on assault. He spoke ofit so often that a staff membergave him a picture of the landing,which he kept on the mantelpiecein his office.

Making free, full-day prekinder-garten available to all 4-year-oldswas the most visible and ambi-tious promise that Mr. de Blasiomade when he campaigned formayor, so making good on thatpledge when he came into office in2014 was crucial. And he deliv-ered. Full-day prekindergartenenrollment grew to 53,000 in Sep-tember 2014, from 19,000 a yearearlier. It reached 68,000 the nextyear. Parents were generallypleased, and even his critics wereimpressed.

Now as Mr. de Blasio seeks asecond term in an election on Nov.7, the success of universalprekindergarten stands out as themost salient achievement of hismayoralty. It showed that Mr. deBlasio could meet an ambitious

goal intended to address the in-equality between rich and poorNew Yorkers, but one that alsohelped the middle class. And itshowed that a liberal mayor — thefirst Democrat to occupy City Hall

Mayor Expanded Pre-K, but It Cost Him AlbanyBy WILLIAM NEUMAN

Mayor Bill de Blasio on Monday at a rally in Manhattan. Theprekindergarten expansion was his first major success in office.

DINA LITOVSKY FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

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WASHINGTON — Executivesfrom Facebook, Google and Twit-ter appeared on Capitol Hill forthe first time on Tuesday to pub-licly acknowledge their role inRussia’s influence on the presi-dential campaign, but offered littlemore than promises to do better.Their reluctance frustrated law-makers who sought stronger evi-dence that American electionswill be protected from foreignpowers.

The hearing, the first of three intwo days for company executives,served as an initial public reckon-ing for the internet giants. Theyhad emphasized their role as pub-lic squares for political discoursebut are being forced to confronthow they were used as tools for abroad Russian misinformationcampaign.

Both Democrats and some Re-publicans on a Senate Judiciarysubcommittee complained thatthe companies had waited nearlya year to publicly admit how manyAmericans were exposed to theRussian effort to spread propa-ganda during the 2016 campaign.Senators pushed for harsher rem-edies, including regulations ontheir advertising practices akin torules for political advertising ontelevision.

“Why has it taken Facebook 11months to come forward and helpus understand the scope of thisproblem, see it clearly for theproblem it is and begin to work ina responsible legislative way toaddress it?” asked Senator ChrisCoons, Democrat of Delaware.

The most pointed exchangeswere aimed at Facebook, whichacknowledged on Monday beforethe hearings that more than 126million users potentially saw in-flammatory political ads boughtby a Kremlin-linked company, theInternet Research Agency. Face-book has drawn particular irefrom lawmakers for its earlybrushoff of fake news and foreigninterference on its site, which itschief executive, Mark Zucker-berg, dismissed as a “crazy idea”just after the election.

Since then, the company hasscrambled to appease lawmakersby promising to hire more than1,000 people to manually reviewpolitical ad purchases and tomake public the funding behindthose ads.

“The foreign interference we

Internet GiantsPique SenatorsWith Restraint

This article is by Cecilia Kang,Nicholas Fandos and Mike Isaac.

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WASHINGTON — One lastedonly 24 days as President Trump’snational security adviser, done inby his lack of candor about con-versations he had with the Rus-sian ambassador. Another hasbeen hauled in front of a federalgrand jury investigating Russia’sinterference in the election.

A third has pleaded guilty to ly-ing to federal agents about hisown contacts with Russians.

Such is the fate of some of theearliest foreign policy advisersthat Donald J. Trump announcedwith great fanfare in early 2016, a

time when he was closing in on theRepublican presidential nomina-tion. It was a team born out of apolitical problem: Mr. Trump’ssurprise march to the nominationhad left the party’s establishmentopenly questioning whether hehad the foreign policy experienceand was too much of a loose can-non to be entrusted with the presi-dency.

Mr. Trump’s solution was to cob-ble together a list of men whowere almost immediately writtenoff as a collection of fringethinkers and has-beens and un-knowns in Washington foreignpolicy circles. Some from that

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Foreign Policy Advisers, Added To Solve a Problem, Pose One

This article is by Matthew Rosen-berg, Sharon LaFraniere and MattApuzzo.

court case in 1997. “When there’s alarge organization to run, you can-not erase yourself from the minds,and more important the tongues,of your conspirators.”

Two decades later, Mr. Weiss-mann has turned his attention to amore prominent set of prospec-tive conspirators: He is a top lieu-tenant to Robert S. Mueller III onthe special counsel investigationinto Russian interference in the2016 election and possible links tothe Trump campaign. Signifi-cantly, Mr. Weissmann is an ex-pert in converting defendants intocollaborators — with either tacti-

WASHINGTON — The targetwas a New York City titan — plain-spoken but Teflon, irresistible tothe tabloids and insistent uponloyalty from his associates.

The defendant, Vincent “theChin” Gigante, had accumulatedpower as the head of the Geno-vese crime family, feigning insan-ity to conceal his guilt. A prosecu-tor in Brooklyn was at last pre-pared to cut him down, using wit-nesses the government hadflipped.

“He couldn’t stop people fromtalking about him,” the prosecutor,Andrew Weissmann, said of Mr.Gigante, addressing jurors at theend of a career-making federal

Andrew Weissmann, right, with Greg Andres. An ex-colleaguesaid of Mr. Weissmann, “If there’s something to find, he’ll find it.”

AL DRAGO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

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Legal Pit Bull Who Fought MobIs Unleashed in Mueller Inquiry

By MATT FLEGENHEIMER

A timely homer by Joc Pederson and areturn to form by the Dodgers’ bullpengave Los Angeles a 3-1 victory over theAstros in the World Series. PAGE B9

SPORTSWEDNESDAY B9-13

Dodgers Win to Force Game 7

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June Robles Birt was abducted at age 6in 1934 and found 19 days later. Then shevanished again, this time deliberately,into an inconspicuous life. PAGE B14

OBITUARIES B14-15

After Headlines, Obscurity

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