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Donald J. Trump implored supporters on Thursday to rally behind him by portraying himself as a victim of “false smears” from a growing number of women ac- cusing him of making unwanted advances — a brazen attempt to stabilize his campaign amid a new round of criticism from Republi- can allies and a searing denuncia- tion by Michelle Obama. By Thursday night, at least six women had publicly accused Mr. Trump of groping and forcibly kissing them over the decades, a pattern of sexual assault that he denied in the presidential debate on Sunday after bragging about such behavior in a 2005 recording that was unearthed last week. Mr. Trump dismissed all the al- legations on Thursday and even lashed out at one of the women, a former writer for People maga- zine, seemingly implying that she was not attractive enough for him. “Look at her — look at her words,” Mr. Trump said at a rally in West Palm Beach, Fla. “I don’t think so.” The allegations about Mr. Trump’s treatment of women be- came the all-consuming focus of the political world, a remarkable turn as the sexual history of a presidential nominee became a dominant and unavoidable issue in the final weeks of the race. Rarely, too, has a candidate in a general election so darkly in- sinuated that a conspiracy of forces was trying to undermine him and his admirers, as Mr. Trump did Thursday at events in the battleground states of Florida and Ohio. With Hillary Clinton assuming a low profile on Thursday to keep the public focus on Mr. Trump, Mrs. Obama drew wide praise from Democrats and on social me- dia for her intensely personal re- marks about the revulsion and de- pression that she felt over Mr. Trump’s comments about women. Speaking to several hundred voters and students at Southern New Hampshire University, Mrs. Obama said she could not “stop thinking about this — it has shak- en me to my core.” TRUMP FIRES BACK, ACCUSING WOMEN OF ‘FALSE SMEARS’ Suggests a Plot Against Him as Claims of Unwanted Advances Grow By PATRICK HEALY and ALAN RAPPEPORT Donald J. Trump on Thursday in West Palm Beach, Fla. STEPHEN CROWLEY/THE NEW YORK TIMES Continued on Page A15 WASHINGTON — For the United States, it was simple retali- ation: Rebels in Yemen had fired missiles at an American warship twice in four days, and so the United States hit back, destroying rebel radar facilities with missiles. But for the rebels and many oth- ers in Yemen, the predawn strikes on Thursday were just the first public evidence of what they have long believed: that the United States has been waging an ex- tended campaign in the country, the hidden hand behind Saudi Arabia’s punishing air war. For the Obama administration, the missile strikes also high- lighted the risks of a balancing strategy it has tried to pursue in Yemen since a bitter sectarian war engulfed the country two years ago. The United States has not formally joined the Saudi-led coalition that intervened in sup- port of Yemen’s deposed govern- ment — and has tried to push the warring factions toward a peace deal — but it has refueled coalition bombers, trained Saudi pilots and provided intelligence to the bomb- ing campaign. A year and a half of bombing — along with the deaths of thou- sands of Yemeni civilians — has stoked anger in Yemen not only to- ward the Saudis, but also toward their perceived patrons in Wash- ington. This week’s attacks on the Mason, an American destroyer, and the Pentagon’s response show how rapidly the United States can Yemenis View Strikes as Proof Of Role of U.S. This article is by Mark Mazzetti, Ben Hubbard and Matthew Rosen- berg. Continued on Page A3 A week ago, it would have seemed wildly unlikely to most people that Donald J. Trump, not Hillary Clinton, would be the candidate more likely to provoke a culture-wide shift in how we think of and talk about sexual assault. But since the release on Friday of a recording in which Trump essentially admits he has a habit of sexually assaulting women, a series of stories involv- ing the Republican nominee seems to be doing just that. Consider the story of the for- mer People magazine reporter Natasha Stoynoff, whom Trump reportedly pushed up against a wall and kissed in 2005. Stoynoff chose to move on with her life rather than speak pub- licly about what she says Trump did to her. Even as a media- savvy working woman, she writes that she still partly blamed herself for the assault well into this year, believing that at some level, she had surely somehow encouraged it. She could not shake the idea of her own culpability until the moment she heard Trump on tape saying he did this kind of thing as a matter of course. “I finally understood for sure that I was not to blame for his inappro- priate behavior,” she wrote. Her choices and her thinking, all those years before she told her story — they sound familiar. Surely many women her age and older would still respond to those Continued on Page A15 Trump’s Boasts Shake Women Out of Silence POLITICAL MEMO By SUSAN DOMINUS CLAMOR FOR TAPES Mark Bur- nett, creator of “The Apprentice,” denounced his star but said he couldn’t release footage. PAGE A14 VEXED DONORS Several of the G.O.P.’s top givers called on the party national committee to dis- avow Donald J. Trump. PAGE A14 TAX CODE FIX There are four simple reforms to close the loop- holes used by Mr. Trump, James B. Stewart writes. PAGE B1 JIM COLE/ASSOCIATED PRESS Michelle Obama gave an emotional denunciation of Donald J. Trump at a campaign appearance for Hillary Clinton. Page A13. For First Lady, It’s Personal In the 1990s, New Jersey Tran- sit was riding high. Its ridership was increasing, and its trains were new and run- ning on time. It won a coveted award for outstanding public transportation three times. In the years ahead, faster routes to Man- hattan and double-decker trains would put it at the forefront of the nation’s commuter railroads. Even as recently as 2007, it won a leadership award from New York University. That all seems like a very long time ago. Today, New Jersey Transit is in crisis. Its aging tracks and trains need billions of dollars in improve- ments. Delays and fares are rising along with ridership, with pas- senger cars packed to the break- ing point. The century-old tunnel that carries its trains to New York is crumbling. And the agency has gone nearly a year without a per- manent leader. “It was an excellent railroad and running quite well until the last seven years, and it has been in constant decline,” said Martin E. Robins, a former deputy execu- tive director of the agency. Under the administration of Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican, the state subsidy for the agency has plunged by more than 90 per- cent. Gaping holes in the agency’s past two budgets were filled by fare increases and service reduc- tions or other cuts. Plans for a new tunnel under the Hudson River — one of the most ambitious infra- Neglect Brings A Steep Decline For N.J. Transit By EMMA G. FITZSIMMONS and PATRICK McGEEHAN Continued on Page A22 “I’m the first person who’ll put it to you,” Bob Dylan said in a 1978 interview, “and the last person who’ll explain it to you.” The Swedish Academy, which awarded Mr. Dylan the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thurs- day, has put it to us, and it has no explain- ing to do to most readers and listeners, however much they might have been pulling for Philip Roth or Don DeLillo or Margaret Atwood. This Nobel acknowledges what we’ve long sensed to be true: that Mr. Dylan is among the most authentic voices America has produced, a maker of images as audacious and resonant as any- thing in Walt Whitman or Emily Dickinson. It has never hurt that Mr. Dylan’s words were delivered, as the English poet Philip Larkin once put it, in a “cawing, derisive voice” that seemed to carry the weight of myth and prophecy. Mr. Larkin was not Mr. Dylan’s greatest fan. He found the lyrics to “Desolation Row” to be “possi- bly half-baked.” It took a different Englishman, the venerated critic and scholar Christopher Ricks, to make the case most fully for Mr. Dylan as a complicated and complicating poet. In Mr. Ricks’s sly 2004 book “Dylan’s Visions of Sin,” he per- suasively compared Mr. Dylan at various points with personages as distinct as Yeats, Hardy, Keats, Marvell, Tennyson and Marlon Brando. “Dylan’s in an art in which sins are laid bare (and resisted), virtues are valued (and mani- fested), and the graces brought home,” Mr. Ricks wrote. He add- ed, “Human dealings of every kind are his for the artistic seiz- ing.” Mr. Dylan, born Robert Allen Zimmerman in Duluth, Minn., in 1941, was inspired when young by potent American vernacular music, songs by performers like Woody Guthrie, Hank Williams and Robert Johnson. When his voice became fully his own, in his work of the mid-to-late 1960s that led up to what is probably his greatest song, “Like a Rolling Stone,” no one had ever heard pop songs with so many oracular, tumbling words in them. Dylan the Writer: An Authentic American Voice Bob Dylan, shown in 1965, won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Litera- ture on Thursday. He is the first American recipient since 1993. DEA/ASSOCIATED PRESS Continued on Page A19 DWIGHT GARNER CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK AL KHARJ, Saudi Arabia — This is what it takes to run a mega- dairy in the scorching desert here: 180,000 Holstein cows, pre- cisely cooled cowsheds, water pumped from deep underground, feed from Argentina and a state- of-the-art refrigeration system. To transport chilled milk and other products all over the Arabian Pen- insula, add 9,000 vehicles. None other than the Saudi king’s favored son, Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, has held up the dairy, Almarai, as a model for a country trying to wean itself from oil dependence. But even companies like Almarai, with no apparent connection to petroleum, rely on the cheap ener- gy provided by the kingdom. That is coming to an end. Low oil prices and an increasingly costly war in Yemen have torn a yawning hole in the Saudi budget and created a crisis that has led to cuts in public spending, reduc- tions in take-home pay and bene- fits for government workers and a host of new fees and fines. Huge subsidies for fuel, water and elec- tricity that encourage overcon- sumption are being curtailed. For Almarai, one of the top brands in the Middle East, that will mean $133 million from the bottom line this year, company officials said. Prince Mohammed’s plan for an economic overhaul has sent tremors through a nation whose citizens have long enjoyed a cos- seted lifestyle underwritten by the state. “The government is moving very fast at reforming things in Saudi Arabia, while the people are finding themselves left behind,” said Lama Alsulaiman, a businesswoman and board mem- ber of the Jidda Chamber of Com- merce and Industry. “Life as usual and business as usual can no long- er continue.” Rewriting the social contract carries high risks for the 31-year- old deputy crown prince, who has staked his reputation on trans- forming the economy. “People are looking to see if he can do it,” said Ibrahim Alnahas, a political-sci- ence professor at King Saud Uni- versity in Riyadh, the capital. “If so, his future would be king. If not, his future would be lost.” Where Everything Relies on Oil, Economic Upheaval Is Coming By NICHOLAS KULISH SECRETS OF THE KINGDOM Remaking Saudi Arabia Continued on Page A10 Nigerian officials negotiated the release of some of the 300 girls kidnapped by the Islamist militant group. PAGE A3 INTERNATIONAL A3-11 Boko Haram Frees 21 Girls A judge sees merit in a citizen’s claim accusing Gov. Chris Christie of official misconduct in the lane closings at the George Washington Bridge. PAGE A20 NEW YORK A20-25 Christie Case to Proceed Critics said Timothy J. Sloan, the new chief and a longtime employee, was a poor choice to bring about change at the embattled bank. PAGE B1 BUSINESS DAY B1-8 Wells Fargo Move Questioned President Rodrigo Duterte has ardent support despite his crude behavior and deadly antidrug campaign. PAGE A6 Enamored in the Philippines VOL. CLXVI . . . No. 57,385 + © 2016 The New York Times Company NEW YORK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2016 Late Edition $2.50 Dario Fo, an Italian satirist who won a Nobel Prize and a chilly reception from some for his politics, died at 90. PAGE B13 Nobel-Winning Playwright The Justice Department will start keep- ing data on violent episodes between the police and the public. PAGE A12 NATIONAL A12-19 U.S. Will Track Use of Force The man accused inattacks in Manhattan and New Jersey pleaded not guilty to charges relating to a shootout. PAGE A20 Bombing Suspect Enters Plea King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who turned the monarchy into Thailand’s strongest social institution, died at 88. PAGE B14 OBITUARIES B13-15 World’s Longest Reigning King Pedro Reyes, an artist-activist, delivers shiver-worthy tricks in this mobile performance piece that casts the audi- ence as the victim. Art Review. PAGE C17 WEEKEND ARTS C1-26 Inescapable ‘Doomocracy’ David Brooks PAGE A27 EDITORIAL, OP-ED A26-27 Los Angeles defeated the Nationals in Game 5 and will face the Chicago Cubs in the National League Championship Series starting Saturday. PAGE B9 SPORTSFRIDAY B9-13 Dodgers Hold Off Washington U(D54G1D)y+[!$!,!=!. Today, mostly sunny, breezy, cooler, high 62. Tonight, clear, chilly, low 47. Tomorrow, sunshine and patchy clouds, seasonable temperatures, high 64. Weather map, Page A19.
