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MERIDITH KOHUT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES The haze of set fires has filled Caracas’s streets for months as an uprising has brewed against a repressive leadership. Pages 14-15. A Lens on Venezuela’s Furious Resistance LONDON — Akin Ipek, one of Turkey’s richest men, was staying in the Park Tower Hotel in London when the police raided his television network in Istanbul. The raid was national news, so Mr. Ipek opened his laptop and watched an unnerving specta- cle: an attack on his multibillion-dollar em- pire, in real time. It was an oddly cinematic showdown. Through a combination of shouting and persuasion, the network’s news editor con- vinced the officers that they should leave, then locked himself in the basement con- trol room with a film crew. For the next sev- en and a half hours, until the police re- turned, the news editor spoke into a cam- era and took calls on his iPhone. One was from Mr. Ipek, who denounced the govern- ment’s action as illegal. “I was shocked and angry,” Mr. Ipek said in a recent interview in London. “But I thought they would leave after a couple days. There was no reason to stay.” Actually, the government never left, and the events were the start of a personal cat- aclysm for Mr. Ipek. His station, Bugun TV, was taken off the air a few hours after that phone call, on Oct. 28, 2015. His entire con- glomerate of 22 companies, Koza Ipek, is now owned and operated by the state. The episode proved to be a dry run for a nationwide series of confiscations that be- gan soon after a failed attempt to over- throw the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on July 15 last year. Since then, more than 950 companies have been expropriated, all of them purportedly linked to Fethullah Gulen, the Muslim cleric who Turkish leaders say master- minded the putsch. About $11 billion worth of corporate as- sets — from small baklava chains to large Turkey Wages War on ‘Enemies’ in Business Turkey expropriated the companies of Akin Ipek, now an exile in London. ANDREW TESTA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Over 950 Companies Seized in Fallout of Coup Attempt By DAVID SEGAL Continued on Page 12 MINNEAPOLIS — There was something bad going on in the al- leyway behind the house, she told her fiancé on the phone, someone who sounded as if she was in dis- tress, maybe a rape. It was past 11 p.m., and most people on Wash- burn Avenue were furled in their beds. Except Justine Damond, alone at home with the noises, her anxi- ety creeping into the loud Las Ve- gas casino where her fiancé had answered the phone. They had met five years ago, when they lived 9,000 miles apart, beginning a courtship at first halt- ing and then headlong. Now the wedding dress was ordered, the suit bought, the invitations sent, the ceremony set for an August weekend in Hawaii. But last Sat- urday night, they were separated again. Her fiancé, Don Damond, told her to call 911. They stayed on the phone until she said the police had arrived. Stay put, he told her. Call me back, he told her. “I have played this over in my head over and over,” Mr. Damond said on Friday in his first inter- view since that night. “Why didn’t I stay on the phone with her?” The events of the next few min- utes will be anatomized and ar- gued over and, maybe, at some point, contested in court. But this much is established: As the squad car she had summoned slid down the alley, Justine Damond went up to the police officers inside, one of whom, for reasons still unknown, Resurgent Cry in Minnesota Police Killing: Why? This article is by John Eligon, Viv- ian Yee and Matt Furber. Valerie Castile embracing Don Damond. The police fatally shot her son, Philando Castile, and Mr. Damond’s fiancée, Justine. STEPHEN MATUREN/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES Continued on Page 18 BEIRUT, Lebanon — Grue- some billboards of a woman in a bloodied and torn bridal gown ap- peared around Beirut recently, captioned in Arabic: “A white dress doesn’t cover up rape.” This spring, a women’s rights group, Abaad, hung similarly defiled gowns along the city’s famous seaside promenade. Such provocative public aware- ness campaigns are part of a new push in Lebanon and across the Middle East to repeal longstand- ing laws that allow rapists to avoid criminal prosecution if they marry their victims. The laws were built around patriarchal atti- tudes that link a family’s honor di- rectly to a woman’s chastity; the marriage option is aimed at shielding the victim’s family from “the scandal,” as one victim’s brother put it in an interview. In 2014, Morocco repealed a pro- vision that allowed convicted rap- ists to evade punishment by mar- rying their victims. Parliamenta- ry votes are expected as early as this summer here in Lebanon and in Jordan after government com- mittees in both places recom- mended repealing similar exemp- tions for both the accused and the convicted. Any change would come too late for Basma Mohamad Latifa, whose family said she was raped three years ago in a village in southern Lebanon by a man more than twice her age. Her family did not go to the police, making a deal not to file charges in exchange for a wedding. In June, just after the middle-of- the-night Ramadan meal, the man End Marry-Your-Rapist Laws, Activists Say. Mideast Listens. By SOMINI SENGUPTA Continued on Page 9 WASHINGTON — As a candi- date, President Trump billed him- self as a new breed of think-big Re- publican, pitching a $1 trillion campaign pledge to reconstruct the nation’s roadways, water- works and bridges — along with a promise to revive the lost art of the bipartisan deal. In the White House, Mr. Trump has continued to dangle the possi- bility of “a great national infra- structure program” that would create “millions” of new jobs as part of a public-private partner- ship to rival the public works achievements of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Dwight D. Eisen- hower. He chastises anyone who forgets to include it near the top of his to-do list, telling one recent visitor to the Oval Office, “Don’t forget about infrastructure!” But an ambitious public works plan, arguably his best chance of rising above the partisan rancor of his first six months in office, is fast becoming an afterthought — at precisely the moment Mr. Trump needs a big, unifying issue to rewrite the narrative of his cha- otic administration. Infrastructure remains stuck near the rear of the legislative line, according to two dozen ad- ministration officials, legislators and labor leaders involved in com- ing up with a concrete proposal. It awaits the resolution of tough ne- gotiations over the budget, the debt ceiling, a tax overhaul, a new push to toughen immigration laws — and the enervating slog to enact a replacement for the Affordable Care Act. Mr. Trump’s team has yet to produce the detailed plan he has promised to deliver “very soon,” and the president has yet to even Infrastructure, Trump Priority, Is Pushed Aside Accord on Need to Act, but Not on the Path By GLENN THRUSH Continued on Page 20 When she was health commis- sioner of Georgia, the state with one of the highest rates of child obesity, Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald faced two enormous challenges: How to get children to slim down and how to pay for it. Her answer to the first was Power Up for 30, a program push- ing schools to give children 30 minutes more exercise each day, part of a statewide initiative called Georgia Shape. The answer to the second was Coca-Cola, the soft drink company and philanthropic powerhouse, which has paid for almost the entire Power Up program. Dr. Fitzger- ald is now in the spotlight as the Trump admin- istration’s newly ap- pointed direc- tor of the Centers for Disease Con- trol and Prevention, making her one of the nation’s top public health officials. And she finds her- self facing a backlash from public health advocates for having ac- cepted $1 million to fight child obesity from a company experts say is a major cause of it. Her new position puts her at the helm of a federal agency that shook off its ties to the soda giant, in 2013, after concluding Coke’s mission was at odds with its own. But Dr. Fitzgerald suggested in an Chief of C.D.C. Saw Coca-Cola As Fitness Ally By SHEILA KAPLAN Continued on Page 21 Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald Ethiopians have long chewed khat, but officials now fear widening use of the psychotropic leaf by the young. PAGE 6 INTERNATIONAL 4-15 A Leaf That Grips Young Lives A debate over how many visas the U.S. will issue has kept thousands of carni- val workers at home in Mexico. PAGE 9 A Jobless Carnival Season The struggles of Apple, Facebook and LinkedIn show how tough it is for out- siders to find a path to the top. PAGE 1 Big Tech Faces Chinese Walls The marketing star Bozoma Saint John hopes to mend Uber’s image, bringing more humanity to the brand. PAGE 1 Uber’s Hip New Savior A newfound memo from Kenneth W. Starr’s inquiry on President Bill Clinton rejects the view that sitting presidents are immune from prosecution. PAGE 17 NATIONAL 16-21 Can the President Be Indicted? Ben Horowitz is shaping Silicon Valley. His father, David, helped influence the 1960s, and now, the president. PAGE 1 SUNDAY BUSINESS Father-Son Revolutionaries Women who let their hair go natural are finding new ways to come together, reveling in beauty inside and out. PAGE 8 SUNDAY STYLES Curly Girls Unite “The Last Tycoon” on Amazon Prime is Hollywood’s latest attempt at a perfect F. Scott Fitzgerald adaptation. PAGE 1 ARTS & LEISURE Filming Fitzgerald Gary Panter, a jack-of-all-trades artist, returns to graphic novels with a take on Milton’s “Paradise Regained.” PAGE 16 A Punk Comic-Book Paradise Susan Chira PAGE 1 SUNDAY REVIEW U(D547FD)v+@!z!/!#!/ Jessica Williams takes a detour from satire, charting a new trajectory with a romantic comedy on Netflix. PAGE 12 After ‘The Daily Show’ WASHINGTON — Congres- sional leaders have reached an agreement on sweeping sanctions legislation to punish Russia for its election meddling and aggression toward its neighbors, they said Saturday, defying the White House’s argument that President Trump needs flexibility to adjust the sanctions to fit his diplomatic initiatives with Moscow. The new legislation would sharply limit the president’s abil- ity to suspend or terminate the sanctions — a remarkable hand- cuffing by a Republican-led Con- gress six months into Mr. Trump’s tenure. It is also the latest Russia- tinged turn for a presidency con- sumed by investigations into the Trump campaign’s interactions with Russian officials, including conversations between Trump ad- visers and Russian officials about prospective sanctions relief. Now, Mr. Trump could soon face a decision he hoped to avoid: veto the bill — a move that would fuel accusations that he is doing the bidding of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia — or sign legisla- tion imposing sanctions his ad- ministration has opposed. “A nearly united Congress is poised to send President Putin a clear message on behalf of the American people and our allies,” said Senator Benjamin L. Cardin of Maryland, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, “and we need Presi- dent Trump to help us deliver that message.” The bill aims to punish Russia not only for interference in the election but also for its annexation of Crimea, continuing military ac- tivity in eastern Ukraine and hu- man rights abuses. Proponents of the measure seek to impose sanc- tions on people involved in human rights abuses, suppliers of weap- ons to the government of Presi- dent Bashar al-Assad in Syria and those undermining cybersecurity, among others. The agreement highlighted the gap between what Mr. Trump sees as the proper approach to a re- surgent Russia and how lawmak- ers — even Republicans who broadly support Mr. Trump — want to proceed. While Mr. Trump AS CONGRESS AIMS TO PUNISH RUSSIA, TRUMP FACES BIND LAWMAKERS REACH DEAL Leaders in G.O.P. Reject White House’s Desire for Flexibility By MATT FLEGENHEIMER and DAVID E. SANGER Continued on Page 4 Late Edition VOL. CLXVI . . . No. 57,667 © 2017 The New York Times Company NEW YORK, SUNDAY, JULY 23, 2017 Branden Grace, above, shot a record 62, but Jordan Spieth extended his lead at the British Open. PAGE 1 SPORTSSUNDAY Breaking a Major Barrier Today, cloudy, afternoon showers, not as warm, high 81. Tonight, a few showers and thunderstorms, low 71. Tomorrow, thunderstorms, high 80. Details in SportsSunday, Page 10. $6.00
