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VOL. CLXV ... No. 57,165 © 2016 The New York Times NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 2016 Late Edition Today, clouds, sun, quite mild, high 65. Tonight, clear to partly cloudy, mild, low 49. Tomorrow, partly sun- ny, record-breaking warmth, high 72. Weather map is on Page A24. $2.50 U(D54G1D)y+#!#!?!=!. By CHRISTOPHER CLAREY and MIKE TIERNEY Maria Sharapova, a five-time Grand Slam champion and the world’s high- est-paid female athlete, an- nounced Mon- day that she had tested posi- tive for the re- cently banned drug meldoni- um at the Aus- tralian Open. The tennis antidoping program confirmed the positive test, which occurred Jan. 26, the day Sharapova lost to Serena Wil- liams in the quarterfinals. Shara- pova, who has not played since because of a forearm injury, will be suspended provisionally Sat- urday pending a ruling in the case. The commercial fallout was swift. Nike, one of Sharapova’s longtime sponsors, announced in a statement that it was suspend- ing its relationship with her “while the investigation contin- ues.” Sharapova has her own clothing line with Nike, with whom she signed an eight-year extension in 2010 that could re- Sharapova Admits She Took Drug Newly Banned by Tennis Continued on Page B10 Sharapova Michael R. Bloomberg said he would not run for president as an independent, fearing it would help Donald J. Trump. Page A14. Bloomberg Won’t Run JOE PLATKO Oil rigs, like one off the California coast, are home to a vast community of sea life that some sci- entists say is one of the richest marine ecosystems on the planet. Science Times, Page D1. Gushing With Life By JULIA PRESTON DENVER — Donald J. Trump’s harsh campaign language against Mexican immigrants has helped him win a substantial del- egate lead in the Republican pri- maries, but it is also mobilizing a different set of likely voters — six in the family of Hortensia Ville- gas alone. A legal immigrant from Mex- ico, Ms. Villegas is a mother of two who has been living in the United States for nearly a decade but never felt compelled to be- come a citizen. But as Mr. Trump has surged toward the Repub- lican nomination, Ms. Villegas — along with her sister, her parents and her husband’s parents — has joined a rush by many Latino im- migrants to naturalize in time to vote in November. “I want to vote so Donald Trump won’t win,” said Ms. Ville- gas, 32, one of several hundred le- gal residents, mostly Mexicans, who crowded one recent Satur- day into a Denver union hall. Vol- unteers helped them fill out appli- cations for citizenship, which this year are taking about five months for federal officials to ap- prove. “He doesn’t like us,” she said. Over all, naturalization appli- cations increased by 11 percent in the 2015 fiscal year over the year before, and jumped 14 percent during the six months ending in January, according to federal fig- ures. The pace is picking up by the week, advocates say, and they estimate applications could approach one million in 2016, about 200,000 more than the aver- age in recent years. While naturalizations general- ly rise during presidential elec- tion years, Mr. Trump provided an extra boost this year. He be- gan his campaign in June de- scribing Mexicans as drug-traf- fickers and rapists. His pledge to build a border wall and make Mexico pay for it has been a reg- ular applause line. He has vowed to create a deportation force to expel the estimated 11 million im- migrants here illegally, evoking mass roundups of the 1950s. Among 8.8 million legal resi- dents eligible to naturalize, about TO BLOCK TRUMP, LATINOS TO SEEK FIRST VOTE IN U.S. A BID TO BE NATURALIZED Harsh Language Aimed Mostly at Mexicans Is a Motivator Continued on Page A14 By MICHAEL BARBARO MIAMI — It began with the au- dacity and promise of a rising po- litical star. Marco Rubio, a young state lawmaker, was going to do what nobody had tried for dec- ades: rewrite the bedeviling tax code in Florida and elevate his stature in the process. He delivered stirring speeches. He recruited wealthy donors. He persuaded a skeptical Republican establishment to sign on. But the strategy was presump- tuous, and the follow-through was questionable. Resistance was greater than he had expect- ed, and his ability to win over skeptics was not as great as he and his inner circle believed. In the end, he failed. In many ways, the episode, in 2007, foreshadowed Mr. Rubio’s faltering campaign for the White House. Today, those who counted on Mr. Rubio to emerge as the Re- publican standard-bearer and usher the party into a new era talk about the same shortcom- ings that doomed his sweeping tax plan: an overconfidence in the power of his charisma; an emphasis on inspiring messages, rather than nuts-and-bolts tac- tics; and a lack of finesse at cru- cial moments. “It showed how green he was in this process,” said Ed Connor, an antitax activist who was allied with Mr. Rubio during the 2007 tax push. “He didn’t know how to go about it.” Mr. Rubio declined, through a campaign spokesman, to com- Race by Rubio Echoes Failure Of ’07 Tax Plan Campaign Now Falters With Similar Tactics DIMITAR DILKOFF/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES A migrant in line for tea in Greece. Turkey placed conditions on Europe if it is to help in stemming the flow of refugees. Page A11. A Setback in Migrant Talks Continued on Page A13 By HELENE COOPER WASHINGTON — American aircraft on Saturday struck a training camp in Somalia belong- ing to the Islamist militant group the Shabab, the Pentagon said, killing about 150 fighters who were assembled for what Ameri- can officials believe was a gradu- ation ceremony and prelude to an imminent attack against Ameri- can troops and their allies in East Africa. Defense officials said the strike was carried out by drones and American aircraft, which dropped a number of precision- guided bombs and missiles on the field where the fighters were gathered. Pentagon officials said they did not believe there were any civilian casualties, but there was no independent way to verify the claim. They said they delayed announcing the strike until they could assess the outcome. It was the deadliest attack on the Shabab in the more than dec- ade-long American campaign U.S. Airstrikes At Somali Site Kill About 150 Continued on Page A6 By FRANCES ROBLES NUEVA SEGOVIA, Nicaragua — He calls himself Tyson, wears tattered United States Army fa- tigues and carries a beat-up AK-47. He is a rebel fighter in the mountains of Nicaragua, setting ambushes against President Daniel Ortega’s government and longing for the days when covert American funding paid for overt warfare. Tyson and his men are contras — yes, like the ones from the 1980s who received stealth fund- ing during the Reagan adminis- tration to topple Mr. Ortega’s left- ist Sandinista government. That war ended more than 25 years ago, when Mr. Ortega lost at the polls. But since being re- elected in 2006, Mr. Ortega has come to rule over this Central American nation in sweeping fashion. He has developed the economy and minted new mil- lionaires, but also outraged an ar- ray of opponents who condemn his tight control over elections, Congress, the police, the military and the courts. Mr. Ortega’s family, friends and allies enjoy newfound luxu- ries like beachfront homes and expensive cars. They control fuel companies, television stations and public construction projects, which has many critics compar- ing his family to the right-wing Somoza dynasty that Mr. Ortega helped topple in 1979. And now rebels are vowing to do the same to him. “Daniel Ortega wasn’t any- thing, and now he owns half of Nicaragua,” Tyson said. The contras of today, often nicknamed “the rearmed,” are a shadow of what they once were. They complain they are broke and say the reason they are not more successful is that they do not have international aid, as they did during the Reagan ad- ministration. The Contras Are Back, but Nicaragua Denies It As President From the ’80s Rebuilds Power, Rebels Regroup Continued on Page A8 Oklahoma is ramping up efforts to get the oil-and-gas industry to reduce un- derground disposal of industry wastes that cause earthquakes. PAGE A12 NATIONAL A12-18 Plan to Cut Oklahoma Quakes A 26-year-old Texan became the first woman in the United States to receive a uterus transplant. PAGE A18 Milestone at Cleveland Clinic An expanding population of boar and deer in the vineyards of Tuscany, Italy, is threatening winemakers. PAGE A4 INTERNATIONAL A4-11 Wild Boar That Love Chianti Teachers’ demands for a raise have spi- raled into a month of protests. PAGE A10 Strike Rattles the West Bank About 450,000 fans attended Major Laz- er’s show in Cuba, the first by a promi- nent American musical group since dip- lomatic relations resumed. PAGE C1 ARTS C1-7 U.S. Headliner in Havana In a case pivotal to the encryption de- bate, the Justice Department appealed a ruling that said Apple did not have to unlock a drug dealer’s iPhone. PAGE B1 BUSINESS DAY B1-8 Fight Over Unlocking iPhones More than three years after Hurricane Sandy, storm-damaged dwellings will be sold at auction as part of a recovery ef- fort to restore the shore. PAGE A19 NEW YORK A19-25 Help for Staten Island Homes Raymond Tomlinson invented email as it is known today, and in the process brought the “at” sign — @ — into the light of Internet life. He was 74. PAGE B14 OBITUARIES B14-15 He Added the @ to Email Some designers look to an atlas for in- spiration. Others, like Stella McCartney, piece below, prefer to be reference-free. A review by Vanessa Friedman. PARIS FASHION WEEK C8 All Over the Map David Brooks PAGE A27 EDITORIAL, OP-ED A26-27 When Bill de Blasio was run- ning for mayor on a starkly liberal platform in 2013, some of New York’s business leaders feared the city’s economic well-being was doomed. “There was definitely some- thing in the ether,” said Alicia Glen, a deputy mayor whom Mr. de Blasio recruited from Wall Street. “ ‘The lefties are taking over.’ ‘This is not a pro-business mayor.’ ‘They’re going to ruin the economy.’ I heard a lot of that my- self.” It did not help that Mr. de Blasio was hoping to succeed Mayor Mi- chael R. Bloomberg, a self-made billionaire and a darling of busi- ness elites. But as Mr. de Blasio settles into the second half of his four-year term, the opposite has happened. Even amid national and global concerns about teetering econo- mies, New York City has rarely been in better financial shape. In- deed, the city added more jobs in Mr. de Blasio’s first two years in office — 248,000 — than in any two-year period in the last half- century, according to data re- leased last week by the State La- bor Department. Along with the steady increases in employment, the wages of workers in the city have risen at a fast pace over the last two years, helping them cope with the dizzy- ing cost of living. Residential and De Blasio’s City Feels Effects of Recovery to Relief of Business Leaders By PATRICK McGEEHAN Continued on Page A22
