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n The UAWwas dealt a sting-ing defeat as it fell short inan election to organize work-ers at Volkswagen’s plant inChattanooga, Tenn. A1n The Dow rose 126.80 to16154.39 and gained 2.3% forthe week, its best weekly show-ing so far this year, despitemixed economic signs. A1n U.S. industrial output fell0.3% in January, with the un-expected drop partly blamedon the severe weather. A2n Euro-zone GDP grew at a1.1% annual rate in the fourthquarter, below the pace neededto ease unemployment. A7n Brazilian data suggestedthat growth has weakenedover the past two quarters. A7n Target staffers raised con-cerns about its payment cardsystem at least two monthsbefore a security breach. B1n Occidental Petroleum isre-evaluating its relationshipwith a top oil trader. B1n Berkshire Hathaway hasjoined the investment frenzyaround cable firms, disclosinga stake in Liberty Global. B2n Federal regulators willlet banks provide services tomarijuana-related businessesoperating under state laws. B2n Fed Chairwoman Yellen’shusband quit the board of acenter funded by UBS. B2

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Mrs. Clinton andThe Blair Papers

The U.S.’s Arab allieshave agreed to provide

Syrian rebels with more so-phisticated weaponry, includ-ing shoulder-fired missilesthat can take down jets. A1 Syria peace talks re-mained at an impasse amidflaring tensions betweenRussia and the U.S. A6n Rhode Island officials andunions reached a tentative ac-cord to water down a sweep-ing pension-overhaul law. A3nBiden acknowledged con-gressional Democrats’ opposi-tion to Obama’s trade agendabut defended a Pacific pact.A2nObama called for creating a$1 billion climate-changefund, a proposal unlikely togain traction in Congress. A5nKerry said he received com-mitments from China on fur-ther steps to press North Koreaover its nuclear program.A9nThe NSA’s departing chiefsaid the agency will send data-storage proposals to theWhiteHouse in the coming week. A3n Afghan presidential can-didates and election expertsworry that the vote set forApril could be rigged. A6nTwoTurkish citizenswerechargedwith distributing illegalprescription drugs in theU.S.B3nDied: Jim Fregosi, 71, base-ball All-Star andmanager. AMMAN, Jordan—Washing-

ton’s Arab allies, disappointedwith Syria peace talks, haveagreed to provide rebels therewith more sophisticated weap-onry, including shoulder-firedmissiles that can take down jets,according to Western and Arabdiplomats and opposition fig-ures.

Saudi Arabia has offered to

give the opposition for the firsttime Chinese man-portable airdefense systems, or Manpads,and antitank guided missilesfrom Russia, according to anArab diplomat and several oppo-sition figures with knowledge ofthe efforts. Saudi officialscouldn’t be reached to comment.

The U.S. has long opposedarming rebels with antiaircraftmissiles for fear they could fallinto the hands of extremists whomight use them against the West

or commercial airlines. The Sau-dis have held off supplying themin the past because of U.S. oppo-sition. A senior Obama adminis-tration official said Friday thatthe U.S. objection remains thesame. “There hasn’t been achange internally on our view,”the official said.

The U.S. for its part hasstepped up financial support,handing over millions of dollarsin new aid to pay fighters’ sala-ries, said rebel commanders who

received some of the money. TheU.S. wouldn’t comment on anypayments.

The focus of the new rebelmilitary push is to retake thesouthern suburbs of Damascus inhopes of forcing the regime toaccept a political resolution tothe war by agreeing to a transi-tional government without Presi-dent Bashar al-Assad.

But if the Manpads are sup-plied in the quantities needed,

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BY MARIA ABI-HABIBAND STACY MEICHTRY

Saudis to Give Syrian RebelsMobile Antiaircraft Missiles

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia—Dai-failluh al-Bugami was just a yearold when his parents noticedthat his lips turned blue as heslept at night. It was his weight,doctors said, putting pressure onhis delicate airways.

Now Daifailluh is 3, and at 61pounds he is nearly double thetypical weight of a child his age.So the Bugamis are planning theonce unthinkable: To have theirtoddler undergo bariatric sur-gery to permanently removepart of his stomach in hopes ofreducing his appetite and stav-ing off a lifetime of health prob-lems.

That such a young child would be consideredfor weight-loss surgery—something U.S. surgeonsgenerally won’t do—underscores the growinghealth crisis here and elsewhere in the MiddleEast. Widespread access to unhealthy foods, cou-pled with sedentary behavior brought on bywealth and the absence of a dieting and exercise

culture, have caused obesity lev-els in Saudi Arabia and manyother Gulf states to approach oreven exceed those in Westerncountries.

While solid national data arehard to come by, some expertssay that obesity has turned intoa serious health problem forSaudi children, with an esti-mated 9.3% of school-age youthsmeeting the World Health Orga-nization’s body-mass-index crite-ria for obesity, according to re-search published in 2013 in theSaudi Journal of Obesity. About18% of school-age children in theU.S. were considered obese in2010, according to the Centersfor Disease Control and Preven-

tion.Daifailluh’s doctor, Aayed Alqahtani, is a leading

advocate of a radical approach to the problem. Pa-tients travel to him from across the country andthe Gulf region. Over the past seven years, he hasperformed bariatric surgery on nearly 100 children

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BY SHIRLEY S. WANG

GLOBAL GLUTTONY

As World’s Kids Get Fatter,Doctors Turn to the Knife

*Body-mass index of 30 or moreSources: United Nations; Saudi Journal ofObesity; Aayed Alqahtani

The Wall Street Journal

Saudi TroubleSaudi Arabia faces a growingweight-related health crisis.

Overall obesity rate* 35.2%Obesity rate forschool-age children 9.3%Obesity rate forpreschool-age children 6.0%Bariatric surgeriesin 2012 11,000

Gold Medal Hopes Turned Upside Down for Skier From Down Under

TOPSY-TURVY: The former gold medalist in women’s aerials, Australia’s Lydia Lassila, took bronze Friday at the Winter Olympics. Meanwhile, membersof the U.S. speedskating team decided to abandon their embattled Under Armour racing suits. See coverage of Sochi 2014 on A11-13 and at WSJ.com.

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SOCHI, Russia—After 10 daysin Russia’s sparse Olympic fron-tier, Sonari Glinton glimpsed abeautiful green siren: the Star-bucks mermaid on a crisp whitecoffee cup.

Was she a mirage?Starbucks isn't an Olympic

sponsor and is therefore forbid-den to have an official presencehere. The nearest Starbucks isabout 350 miles away by car in alittle-known city called Rostov-on-Don. The only branded coffeeplayer is supposed to beMcDonald’s Corp., which has beengaining grounds globally with itsMcCafé outlets. Olympic sponsorssuch as McDonald’s usually de-

fend their turf morefiercely than a TeamCanada goalie.

But after Mr. Glin-ton, a journalist forNPR, trailed the mys-tery cup for severalhundred feet, itsowner told him that hewas out of luck. Itcame from the “office,”she said—the Olympic broadcast-ing center where NBC has its ownsecret Starbucks.

The media giant, which paid$775 million for exclusive U.S.broadcasting rights for theGames, has erected the SochiStarbucks in its cordoned-offarea of the Olympic media cen-ter. Baristas serve the free java24-hours-a-day to the roughly

2,500 people NBC saysit sent here.

Bringing in the joeis a delicate exercise.NBC flies in a rotatingcrew of some 15 baris-tas from Starbuckscoffee shops in Russia,sets them up with ac-commodations inSochi, and pays their

regular wages. As with pastGames, Starbucks has gladly co-operated with the effort.

All told, the barista battalion islarger than the Sochi Olympicteams of some 57 countries.

One barista working at the co-vert facility next to the NBC cafe-teria on Friday night said she hadcome from Moscow; another one

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BY PAUL SONNEAND ANTON TROIANOVSKI

Here’s the Skinny on NBC’s Olympic Latte Secreti i i

Network’s Private Coffee Bar Stirs Envy Inside Restricted Java Zone

Notice to ReadersWSJ.com publishes throughthe weekend. The WallStreet Journal won’t printMonday on Washington’sBirthday, or Presidents Day.

U.S. stocks jumped Friday asinvestors pushed major indexesto their strongest weekly gainsso far this year despite mixedsigns of economic growth.

The Dow Jones Industrial Av-erage climbed 126.80 points, or0.8%, to 16154.39 on Friday. TheDow’s weekly surge of 360.31points, or 2.3%, was the index’sbiggest gain since December.

The gains have largely erasedthe losses suffered when stockstumbled in late January, withthe overall stock market re-bounding nearly as fast as itfell.

The S&P 500 index is up 5.6%in the past nine trading days,after falling 5.6% in eight ses-sions to its low on Feb. 3.

For some analysts and inves-tors, the most remarkable partof this week’s rally is that it wasfueled without much positivenews. Economic data continuedto show a nation in the midst ofa patchy recovery, while corpo-rate earnings were hit-and-miss.

Yet the overall stock market’sgains underscore the belief bymany investors that the econ-omy and companies will growenough to justify keeping stocksat relatively high levels.

Stocks also got a lift fromFederal Reserve ChairwomanJanet Yellen, who during herfirst speech to Congress allayedsome worries that the Fedmight shift the pace of its planto dial back its bond-buyingpush.

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BY TOMI KILGOREAND DAN STRUMPF

StocksTurn InTopWeekOf Year

The United Auto Workersunion suffered a crushing defeatFriday, falling short in an elec-tion in which it seemed to havea clear path to organizing work-ers at Volkswagen AG’s plant inChattanooga, Tenn.

The setback is a bitter defeatbecause the union had the coop-eration of Volkswagen manage-ment and the aid of Germany’spowerful IG Metall union, yet itfailed to win a majority amongthe plants 1,550 hourly workers.

Volkswagen workers rejectedthe union by a vote of 712 to626. The defeat raises questionsabout the future of a union thatfor years has suffered from de-clining membership and influ-

ence, and almost certainly leavesits president, Bob King, who hadvowed to organize at least oneforeign auto maker by the timehe retires in June, with a tar-nished legacy.

“If the union can’t win [inChattanooga], it can’t win any-where,” said Steve Silvia, a eco-nomics and trade professor atAmerican University who hasstudied labor unions.

A win would have marked thefirst time the union has beenable to organize a foreign-ownedauto plant in the U.S., and wouldhave been particularly meaning-ful, because the vote was set in aright-to-work state in the South,where antiunion sentiment isstrong and all past UAW orga-

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BY NEAL E. BOUDETTE

Union Suffers Big LossAt Tennessee VW Plant

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