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LA PAZ, Colombia — Thetown’s name is Spanish for“peace.” The days to come will testhow accurate that is.
After a half-century of war, Co-lombia’s rebels are disarming,preparing to enter civilian life un-der the peace accord signed lastyear. In this mountain town, a newsettlement of former fighters, 80strong and growing, is takingshape, one of many scatteredacross the country.
Gone are most of the uniforms,replaced with the kind of clothesworn by the townspeople who livenearby and watch warily. Thetents and their wooden poles willbe swept aside too, replaced witha small library, a community cen-ter, a store — a town in miniature,a steppingstone out of the jungle.
“We’ve spent 52 years in ham-mocks,” said the fighters’ com-mander, who still uses his nom deguerre, Aldemar Altamiranda.“It’s time we moved into tinyhouses.”
Across the country, an estimat-ed 7,000 rebels with the Revolu-tionary Armed Forces of Co-lombia, or FARC, will hand theirguns to United Nations monitorsthis year. The weapons will bemelted down and shaped into warmonuments. The FARC, too,hopes to transform, becoming a
political group representing theleft, like those that emerged afterthe guerrilla wars of Nicaraguaand El Salvador.
The settlement in La Paz, calledTierra Grata, is the vanguard ofthe effort to carry out Colombia’sdisputed peace accord. The dealwas struck down by a popularvote late last year, only to be
forced through Congress by Presi-dent Juan Manuel Santos, whowon the Nobel Peace Prize forpursuing an end to decades of con-flict.
But the president’s decision toput the deal in front of voters —and then simply sidestep themwhen he did not like the outcome— is a bitter pill for many Co-
lombians, leaving the future of theaccord uncertain should Mr. San-tos’s opponents take power whenhe leaves office next year.
La Paz is clear evidence of thecountry’s lingering divisions:While the referendum was sup-ported here, four in 10 residents
Unease in Colombia, as Old Enemies Become New NeighborsBy NICHOLAS CASEY
A settlement in La Paz, one of many in Colombia for former rebels preparing to enter civilian life.FEDERICO RIOS ESCOBAR FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
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ATLANTA — The most arrest-ing vista in town comes into viewaround a curve on westboundFreedom Parkway, on the periph-ery of downtown. The road crestsjust before it intersects Boule-vard, at a traffic light that alwaysseems to glow red, as if to allowmotorists a minute to savor thepanorama before them.
The striking thing is not themajesty of the skyline but itsaccessibility — here I am, thecity beckons, come and gawk.For from that vantage point,Atlanta just is: a hip-hop mecca,the cradle of the civil rightsmovement, a magnet for trans-plants, a college football locus,the shimmering capital of theSouth, and more. All of which areaccurate but still do not capturethe city’s nuances.
“I don’t think people under-stand Atlanta,” Doug Hertz said.
Aside from his schooling atTulane, in New Orleans, Hertz,64, has lived here his entire life,which makes him a rarity. Thecity teems with people whomoved here for work, school,family, or just to live nearer to
the spinach and sausage meat-loaf at Murphy’s. They havecontributed to a booming growth— the metropolitan area’s di-verse population has swelled tomore than 5.7 million, an in-crease of more than 1.46 millionsince 2000 — that over the pastfew decades has also shapedAtlanta’s layered relationshipwith its sports teams.
Hertz is a limited partner ofthe Falcons, who on Sunday willplay the New England Patriots inthe team’s second Super Bowlappearance since its inception in1966. They last reached thechampionship game in the 1998season, losing to the DenverBroncos, when I was a freshmanat Emory University here and,more to the point, was one ofthose people Hertz was talkingabout, struggling to understandAtlanta.
That September, I joined sur-prising brigades of PhiladelphiaEagles fans invading the GeorgiaDome for the Falcons’ homeopener. Not even three weeks
Its Sports Fandom Evolving,Atlanta Chases Football Glory
By BEN SHPIGEL
ESSAY
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Just days before his inaugura-tion, President-elect Donald J.Trump stood beside his tax lawyerat a Midtown Manhattan newsconference as she announced thathe planned to place his vast busi-ness holdings in a trust, a moveshe said would allay fears that hemight exploit the Oval Office forpersonal gain.
However, a number of ques-tions were left unanswered — in-cluding who would ultimatelybenefit from the trust — raisingconcerns about just how meaning-ful the move was.
Now, records have emergedthat show just how closely tied Mr.Trump remains to the empire hebuilt.
While the president says he haswalked away from the day-to-day
Records ShowTrump Is StillTied to Empire
By SUSANNE CRAIGand ERIC LIPTON
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IRANIAN RESPONSE Iran will barthe United States wrestling teamfrom a major international meetthis month. PAGE D1
President Trump on Fridaymoved to chisel away at theObama administration’s legacy onfinancial regulation, announcingsteps to revisit the rules enactedafter the 2008 financial crisis andto back away from a measure in-tended to protect consumers frombad investment advice.
After a White House meetingwith executives from Wall Street,Mr. Trump signed a directiveaimed at the Dodd-Frank Act,crafted by the Obama administra-tion and passed by Congress in re-sponse to the 2008 meltdown. Healso signed a memorandum thatpaves the way for reversing a pol-icy, known as the fiduciary rule,that requires brokers to act in aclient’s best interest, rather thanseek the highest profits for them-selves, when providing retire-ment advice.
The executive order affectingDodd-Frank is vague in its word-ing and expansive in its reach. Itnever mentions the law by name,instead laying out “core princi-ples” for regulations that includeempowering American investorsand enhancing the competitive-ness of American companies.Even so, it gives the Treasury theauthority to restructure majorprovisions of Dodd-Frank, and itdirects the Treasury secretary tomake sure existing laws alignwith administration goals.
TRUMP VOWS CUTSIN WALL ST. RULESFROM OBAMA ERA
TARGETING DODD-FRANK
President Says InvestorsWill Gain, but Critics
See Gift to Banks
By BEN PROTESSand JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS
President Trump ordered a re-view of financial regulations.
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To an angry public, François Fillon’snepotism scandal highlights how out oftouch elected officials are. PAGE A6
INTERNATIONAL A3-8
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New tests showed that the lead levels invarious water outlets in city schoolswere much worse than previouslyreported. PAGE A17
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School Water Problems Persist
The rivalry in curling between the Scotsand the Americans played out at aWestchester club. PAGE A17
Friendly Relations on the Ice
Paul Tagliabue, the N.F.L.’s commis-sioner for 17 years, left a flawed legacy,Michael Powell writes. PAGE D1
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While employers added 227,000 work-ers in January, an unexpectedly largegain, pay growth was meager despitemore minimum-wage laws. The joblessrate rose to 4.8 percent. PAGE B1
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THIS WEEKEND
The Museum of Modern Art is staging aprotest with art over the Trump admin-istration’s immigration policy. PAGE C1
MoMA Takes a Political Stand
Decades before PresidentTrump nominated him to be laborsecretary, Andrew Puzder went tobattle with federal labor regula-tors in a Las Vegas courtroom.
The year was 1983, and Mr.Puzder was working at a law firmowned by a famous mob lawyerand casino owner whom the LaborDepartment accused of squander-ing $25 million from his unionworkers’ pension funds on shaminvestments.
It fell to Mr. Puzder to lead thedefense, which he framed in ag-gressively antigovernment terms.In his opening statement, Mr.Puzder told the jury it was not hisboss’s fault for not paying back themoney — it was overzealous regu-lators in Washington who hadkilled off a good business deal byintervening before his invest-ments could succeed, he said.
“We should not be required topay for the mistakes of the De-partment of Labor” and the union,Mr. Puzder said, according to The
Las Vegas Review-Journal.The jury did not buy it. Mr.
Puzder’s boss, Morris A. Shenker,was hit with a $34 million judg-ment and filed for bankruptcy.
More than three decades later,the lawyers who represented theLabor Department in the case re-call Mr. Puzder as bright and ca-pable, but they still marvel that heblamed government regulators.
“I personally find there is someirony in him being nominated tobe the secretary of labor,” saidDaly D. E. Temchine, the lead law-yer in the case for the Departmentof Labor. “Back then, he repre-sented a guy who thought it wasO.K. to screw his employees.”
As it turned out, Mr. Puzder’sarguments in the case foreshad-owed positions he would take af-ter leaving the practice of law to
become chief executive of a fast-food company. He has repeatedlyargued that labor regulations sti-fle economic growth. He has indi-cated his preference for machinesover people because they do nottake time off or file lawsuits. And arecording recently surfaced ofhim referring to his employees as“the best of the worst.”
Because he was a lawyer repre-senting a client, the positions thatMr. Puzder took in the case do notnecessarily represent his person-al views. But Mr. Shenker wasmore than just a client: He wasalso Mr. Puzder’s first boss, one hechose to work for, an associatesaid, specifically because it gavehim the chance to litigate this case
Pick for Labor Was Adversary of Labor Dept.By RUSS BUETTNER
and NOAM SCHEIBERPuzder’s Past Includes
Fiery Defense of aMob Lawyer
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A federal judge in Seattle on Fri-day temporarily blocked Presi-dent Trump’s week-old immigra-tion order from being enforced na-tionwide, reopening America’sdoor to visa holders from sevenpredominantly Muslim countriesand dealing the administration ahumbling defeat.
The White House vowed lateFriday to fight what it called an“outrageous” ruling, saying itwould seek an emergency halt tothe judge’s order as soon as possi-ble and restore the president’s“lawful and appropriate order.”
“The president’s order is in-tended to protect the homelandand he has the constitutional au-thority and responsibility to pro-tect the American people,” theWhite House said. A revised state-ment released later omitted theword “outrageous.”
Courts around the country havehalted aspects of Mr. Trump’s tem-porary ban on travel from the sev-en countries, but the Seattle rulingwas the most far-reaching to date.
Airlines that had been stoppingtravelers from boarding planes tothe United States were told by thegovernment in a conference callFriday night to begin allowingthem to fly, according to a personfamiliar with the call but who de-clined to be identified because itwas a private discussion. TheTrump administration, however,could again block the travelers if itwere to win an emergency stay.
The federal government was“arguing that we have to protectthe U.S. from individuals fromthese countries, and there’s nosupport for that,” said the judge,James Robart of Federal DistrictCourt for the Western District ofWashington, an appointee of Pres-ident George W. Bush, in a deci-sion delivered from the bench.
The judge’s ruling was tempo-rary, putting Mr. Trump’s policyon hold at least until the govern-ment and opponents of the orderhad a chance to make full argu-ments, or until the administrationwon a stay.
“What we’re seeing here is the
Judge IssuesInterim HaltTo Travel Ban
U.S. Tells Airlines toAllow Passengers
This article is by Nicholas Kulish,Caitlin Dickerson and Charlie Sav-age.
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A group protesting the new visa policy gathered in a parking lot at Kennedy International Airport in Queens for the Friday Prayer.SPENCER PLATT/GETTY IMAGES
DROPPED OUT The nominee forsecretary of the army withdrewhis name from consideration,citing business conflicts. PAGE A15
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