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U(D54G1D)y+&!/!=!=!. Two men refused to pay up at a Queens restaurant featured in Martin Scors- ese’s film. Crime Scene. PAGE A21 NEW YORK A21-23 Violence at ‘Goodfellas’ Diner WASHINGTON — As a presi- dential candidate, Donald J. Trump vowed to refill the cells of the Guantánamo Bay prison and said American terrorism suspects should be sent there for military prosecution. He called for target- ing mosques for surveillance, es- calating airstrikes aimed at ter- rorists and taking out their civil- ian family members, and bringing back waterboarding and a “hell of a lot worse” — not only because “torture works,” but because even “if it doesn’t work, they deserve it anyway.” It is hard to know how much of this stark vision for throwing off constraints on the exercise of na- tional security power was merely tough campaign talk. But if the Trump administration follows through on such ideas, it will find some assistance in a surprising source: President Obama’s have- it-both-ways approach to curbing what he saw as overreaching in the war on terrorism. Over and over, Mr. Obama has imposed limits on his use of such powers but has not closed the door on them — a flexible approach premised on the idea that he and his successors could be trusted to use them prudently. Mr. Trump can now sweep away those limits and open the throttle on policies that Mr. Obama endorsed as law- ful and legitimate for sparing use, like targeted killings in drone strikes and the use of indefinite detention and military tribunals for terrorism suspects. And even in areas where Mr. Obama tried to terminate policies from the George W. Bush era — like torture and the detention of Americans and other people ar- rested on domestic soil as “enemy Obama Policies Give Successor A Path to Vast Security Powers By CHARLIE SAVAGE Continued on Page A17 VANCOUVER, British Colum- bia — It happens all the time: Young gay people leave their small towns and head to the big city, where they can find love, acceptance and, in Canada at least, a curling league to call their own. Yes, the winter sport that involves ice, round rocks and a good deal of sweeping has a passionate following among those who have come out of the closet, taking their brooms with them. They are men like Brock En- dean, 27, the scion of national curling champions who grew up playing the sport in the rural British Columbia village of Chase, population 2,500. “When I walked down the street, I was the entire gay pride parade,” said Mr. Endean, a consultant. After moving to Vancouver, he joined the gay Pacific Rim Curl- ing League, which this year marched in the Vancouver gay pride parade, carrying brooms and wearing shirts that pro- claimed, “I swept with your husband.” Canada has for decades been at the forefront of gay rights, legalizing homosexual activity, openly gay military service and same-sex marriage long before Canada’s Gay Curling Teams Take Pride on Ice By DAN LEVIN A Pacific Rim league game in Vancouver, British Columbia. Gay curling leagues have blossomed. ANDREW TESTA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Continued on Page A12 VANCOUVER JOURNAL SANA, Yemen — For decades, Mustafa Elaghil’s family produced snack foods pop- ular in Yemen, chips and corn curls in bright packaging decorated with the im- age of Ernie from “Sesame Street.” But over the summer, a military coali- tion led by Saudi Arabia sent warplanes over Yemen and bombed the Elaghils’ fac- tory. The explosion destroyed it, setting it ablaze and trapping the workers inside. The attack killed 10 employees and wiped out a business that had employed dozens of families. “It was everything for us,” Mr. Elaghil said. The Saudi-led coalition has bombed Yemen for the last 19 months, trying to oust a rebel group aligned with Iran that took control of the capital, Sana, in 2014. The Saudis want to restore the country’s exiled president, Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi, who led an internationally recognized gov- ernment more aligned with its interests. But instead of defeating the rebels, the campaign has sunk into a grinding stale- mate, systematically obliterating Yemen’s already bare-bones economy. The coalition has destroyed a wide variety of civilian tar- gets that critics say have no clear link to the rebels. It has hit hospitals and schools. It has de- stroyed bridges, power stations, poultry farms, a key seaport and factories that produce yogurt, tea, tissues, ceramics, Coca-Cola and potato chips. It has bombed weddings and a funeral. The bombing campaign has exacer- bated a humanitarian crisis in the Arab world’s poorest country, where cholera is spreading, millions of people are strug- gling to get enough food, and malnour- ished babies are overwhelming hospitals, according to the United Nations. Millions have been forced from their homes, and since August, the government has been unable to pay the salaries of most of the 1.2 million civil servants. Publicly, the United States has kept its distance from the war, but its decades-old alliance with Saudi Arabia, underpinned by tens of billions of dollars in weapons sales, has left American fingerprints on the air campaign. Many strikes are carried out by pilots trained by the United States, who fly The Aerial War on Yemen’s Economy A Saudi-Led Campaign With U.S. Ties Hits Civilian Targets A mural in Sana, Yemen, depicting airstrikes. They have exacerbated a humanitarian crisis in the Arab world’s poorest country. TYLER HICKS/THE NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON — President- elect Donald J. Trump on Sunday chose Reince Priebus, the chair- man of the Republican National Committee and a loyal campaign adviser, to be his White House chief of staff, turning to a Wash- ington insider whose friendship with the House speaker, Paul D. Ryan, could help secure early leg- islative victories. In selecting Mr. Priebus, Mr. Trump passed over Stephen K. Bannon, a right-wing media provocateur. But the president- elect named Mr. Bannon his sen- ior counselor and chief West Wing strategist, signaling an embrace of the fringe ideology long ad- vanced by Mr. Bannon and of a continuing disdain for the Repub- lican establishment. The dual appointments — with Mr. Bannon given top billing in the official announcement in- stantly created rival centers of power in the Trump White House. Mr. Bannon’s selection dem- onstrated the power of grass- TRUMP’S CHOICES ON TOP ADVISERS SPLIT POWER IN 2 INSIDER AND FIREBRAND Priebus Is Chief of Staff, and Extremist Figure Will Have a Voice This article is by Michael D. Shear, Maggie Haberman and Alan Rappeport. Reince Priebus, the leader of the Republican Party, will be in charge of getting Congress to pass the next president’s agenda. RUTH FREMSON/THE NEW YORK TIMES Breitbart News, the right-wing website that some critics have de- nounced as a hate site, is eager to expand its reach. Page B1. Jubilant Breitbart News THE PRESS It’s one thing to wage a media war as a candidate. It’s another to do it as president, writes Jim Rutenberg. PAGE B1 WASHINGTON After an urban renaissance, a newly vibrant capital fears that Donald J. Trump will drain its culture. PAGE A13 By BEN HUBBARD WASHINGTON — President- elect Donald J. Trump appeared to soften some of his hardest-line campaign positions on immigra- tion on Sunday, but he also restat- ed his pledge to roll back abortion rights and used Twitter to lash out at his critics, leaving open the pos- sibility that he would continue us- ing social media in the Oval Office and radically change the way presidents speak to Americans. In his first prime-time televi- sion interview since his upset vic- tory on Tuesday, Mr. Trump re- peated his promise to name a Su- preme Court justice who opposed abortion rights and would help overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade de- cision that recognized them, re- turning the issue to the states. Asked where that would leave women seeking abortions, Mr. Trump, on the CBS program “60 Minutes,” said, “Well, they’ll per- haps have to go — they’ll have to go to another state.” On immigration, he said the wall that he has been promising to build on the nation’s southern bor- der might end up being a fence in places. But he said his priority was to deport two million to three million immigrants he character- ized as dangerous or as having criminal records, a change from his original position that he would deport all of the estimated 11 mil- lion undocumented immigrants in the country. President Obama has deported more than two million undocumented immigrants dur- ing his time in office. Mr. Trump said that undocu- mented immigrants who are not criminals are “terrific people,” and that he would decide how to On Immigrants And Abortion, And on Twitter President-Elect’s Views Appear in Flux By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS Continued on Page A16 Archbishop Joseph Tobin faces many obstacles in his post in Newark, includ- ing shifting demographics. PAGE A21 New Archbishop’s Challenges Chelsea Manning, who has been in prison for leaking secret documents, is asking to be freed. PAGE A18 NATIONAL A13-20 Manning Petitions Obama “Rules of the Game” is an ambitious dance collaboration. A review. PAGE C3 A Competition of Ideas A three-month residency gave Chinese coaches lessons in attitude and the University of Utah a tie to Asia. PAGE D1 SPORTSMONDAY D1-8 Basketball Diplomacy Paul Krugman PAGE A25 EDITORIAL, OP-ED A24-25 Continued on Page A6 Continued on Page A15 There is no single way to con- vey just how divided we are as a nation, and it was laid bare last week after Donald J. Trump was elected the 45th president, though he lost the popular vote. The acrimonious presidential campaign exposed not only a rift between the elite and the non- elite, but stirred debate over what the term means. Voters guided by religious values ended up with different political out- looks. The country is sharply divided over immigration. Some voters believe the nation is under siege, while others question if the United States should be a melt- ing pot of people and cultures. Six national reporters for The New York Times spoke to a number of Americans to under- stand the ways voters see the world. They spoke with supporters of Mr. Trump and of Hillary Clinton. They found pessimists and optimists. Most people insisted that they wanted a unified country. Yet, as they fight for their version of America, they could not be further apart. Page A14. A Nation Blue, Red and Riven: 6 Perspectives A boom in solar and wind power has helped stop widespread blackouts, but some in government say nuclear ener- gy is a sounder investment. PAGE A4 INTERNATIONAL A3-12 South Africa Debates Energy The Obama administration has offered no military lifeline even to rebel groups it has backed as Syria announced plans for a new assault in Aleppo. PAGE A8 Syria Plans New Airstrikes The City Council in Mountain View, Google’s hometown, is looking to in- crease the town’s housing stock by as much as 50 percent. PAGE B1 BUSINESS DAY B1-7 California Housing Squeeze Leon Russell, the writer of hits like “A Song for You,” whose rock music mixed genres, was 74. He worked with Elvis Costello, Joe Cocker and others. PAGE B8 OBITUARIES B8 The Musician’s Musician The art auctions beginning on Monday should provide a gauge of how the market will react to a new administra- tion in Washington. PAGE C1 ARTS C1-8 Art Market and the Election VOL. CLXVI . . . No. 57,416 © 2016 The New York Times Company NEW YORK, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2016 Late Edition $2.50 Today, sunshine mixing with some clouds, mild, high 61. Tonight, cloudy, a little rain late, low 46. To- morrow, mostly cloudy, a bit of rain, high 54. Weather map, Page D7.

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Page 1: SPLIT POWER IN 2 President-Elect’s ViewsON TOP ADVISERS ... · 11/14/2016  · Trump passed over Stephen K. Bannon, a right-wing media provocateur. But the president-elect named

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Two men refused to pay up at a Queensrestaurant featured in Martin Scors-ese’s film. Crime Scene. PAGE A21

NEW YORK A21-23

Violence at ‘Goodfellas’ Diner

WASHINGTON — As a presi-dential candidate, Donald J.Trump vowed to refill the cells ofthe Guantánamo Bay prison andsaid American terrorism suspectsshould be sent there for militaryprosecution. He called for target-ing mosques for surveillance, es-calating airstrikes aimed at ter-rorists and taking out their civil-ian family members, and bringingback waterboarding and a “hell ofa lot worse” — not only because“torture works,” but because even“if it doesn’t work, they deserve itanyway.”

It is hard to know how much ofthis stark vision for throwing offconstraints on the exercise of na-tional security power was merelytough campaign talk. But if theTrump administration followsthrough on such ideas, it will findsome assistance in a surprisingsource: President Obama’s have-

it-both-ways approach to curbingwhat he saw as overreaching inthe war on terrorism.

Over and over, Mr. Obama hasimposed limits on his use of suchpowers but has not closed the dooron them — a flexible approachpremised on the idea that he andhis successors could be trusted touse them prudently. Mr. Trumpcan now sweep away those limitsand open the throttle on policiesthat Mr. Obama endorsed as law-ful and legitimate for sparing use,like targeted killings in dronestrikes and the use of indefinitedetention and military tribunalsfor terrorism suspects.

And even in areas where Mr.Obama tried to terminate policiesfrom the George W. Bush era —like torture and the detention ofAmericans and other people ar-rested on domestic soil as “enemy

Obama Policies Give SuccessorA Path to Vast Security Powers

By CHARLIE SAVAGE

Continued on Page A17

VANCOUVER, British Colum-bia — It happens all the time:Young gay people leave theirsmall towns and head to the bigcity, where they can find love,acceptance and, in Canada atleast, a curling league to calltheir own. Yes, the winter sportthat involves ice, round rocksand a good deal of sweeping hasa passionate following among

those who have come out of thecloset, taking their brooms withthem.

They are men like Brock En-dean, 27, the scion of nationalcurling champions who grew upplaying the sport in the ruralBritish Columbia village ofChase, population 2,500.

“When I walked down thestreet, I was the entire gay prideparade,” said Mr. Endean, aconsultant.

After moving to Vancouver, he

joined the gay Pacific Rim Curl-ing League, which this yearmarched in the Vancouver gaypride parade, carrying broomsand wearing shirts that pro-claimed, “I swept with yourhusband.”

Canada has for decades beenat the forefront of gay rights,legalizing homosexual activity,openly gay military service andsame-sex marriage long before

Canada’s Gay Curling Teams Take Pride on IceBy DAN LEVIN

A Pacific Rim league game in Vancouver, British Columbia. Gay curling leagues have blossomed.ANDREW TESTA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Continued on Page A12

VANCOUVER JOURNAL

SANA, Yemen — For decades, MustafaElaghil’s family produced snack foods pop-ular in Yemen, chips and corn curls inbright packaging decorated with the im-age of Ernie from “Sesame Street.”

But over the summer, a military coali-tion led by Saudi Arabia sent warplanesover Yemen and bombed the Elaghils’ fac-tory. The explosion destroyed it, setting itablaze and trapping the workers inside.

The attack killed 10 employees andwiped out a business that had employeddozens of families.

“It was everything for us,” Mr. Elaghilsaid.

The Saudi-led coalition has bombedYemen for the last 19 months, trying to ousta rebel group aligned with Iran that took

control of the capital, Sana, in 2014. TheSaudis want to restore the country’s exiledpresident, Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi,who led an internationally recognized gov-ernment more aligned with its interests.

But instead of defeating the rebels, thecampaign has sunk into a grinding stale-mate, systematically obliterating Yemen’salready bare-bones economy. The coalitionhas destroyed a wide variety of civilian tar-gets that critics say have no clear link tothe rebels.

It has hit hospitals and schools. It has de-stroyed bridges, power stations, poultryfarms, a key seaport and factories thatproduce yogurt, tea, tissues, ceramics,Coca-Cola and potato chips. It has bombedweddings and a funeral.

The bombing campaign has exacer-

bated a humanitarian crisis in the Arabworld’s poorest country, where cholera isspreading, millions of people are strug-gling to get enough food, and malnour-ished babies are overwhelming hospitals,according to the United Nations. Millionshave been forced from their homes, andsince August, the government has beenunable to pay the salaries of most of the 1.2million civil servants.

Publicly, the United States has kept itsdistance from the war, but its decades-oldalliance with Saudi Arabia, underpinnedby tens of billions of dollars in weaponssales, has left American fingerprints on theair campaign.

Many strikes are carried out by pilotstrained by the United States, who fly

The Aerial War on Yemen’s EconomyA Saudi-Led Campaign With U.S. Ties Hits Civilian Targets

A mural in Sana, Yemen, depicting airstrikes. They have exacerbated a humanitarian crisis in the Arab world’s poorest country.TYLER HICKS/THE NEW YORK TIMES

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump on Sundaychose Reince Priebus, the chair-man of the Republican NationalCommittee and a loyal campaignadviser, to be his White Housechief of staff, turning to a Wash-ington insider whose friendshipwith the House speaker, Paul D.Ryan, could help secure early leg-islative victories.

In selecting Mr. Priebus, Mr.Trump passed over Stephen K.Bannon, a right-wing mediaprovocateur. But the president-elect named Mr. Bannon his sen-ior counselor and chief West Wingstrategist, signaling an embraceof the fringe ideology long ad-vanced by Mr. Bannon and of acontinuing disdain for the Repub-lican establishment.

The dual appointments — withMr. Bannon given top billing in theofficial announcement — in-stantly created rival centers ofpower in the Trump White House.

Mr. Bannon’s selection dem-onstrated the power of grass-

TRUMP’S CHOICESON TOP ADVISERSSPLIT POWER IN 2

INSIDER AND FIREBRAND

Priebus Is Chief of Staff, and Extremist Figure

Will Have a Voice

This article is by Michael D.Shear, Maggie Haberman and AlanRappeport.

Reince Priebus, the leader of the Republican Party, will be incharge of getting Congress to pass the next president’s agenda.

RUTH FREMSON/THE NEW YORK TIMES

Breitbart News, the right-wingwebsite that some critics have de-nounced as a hate site, is eager toexpand its reach. Page B1.

Jubilant Breitbart News

THE PRESS It’s one thing to wagea media war as a candidate. It’sanother to do it as president,writes Jim Rutenberg. PAGE B1

WASHINGTON After an urbanrenaissance, a newly vibrantcapital fears that Donald J. Trumpwill drain its culture. PAGE A13

By BEN HUBBARD

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump appeared tosoften some of his hardest-linecampaign positions on immigra-tion on Sunday, but he also restat-ed his pledge to roll back abortionrights and used Twitter to lash outat his critics, leaving open the pos-sibility that he would continue us-ing social media in the Oval Officeand radically change the waypresidents speak to Americans.

In his first prime-time televi-sion interview since his upset vic-tory on Tuesday, Mr. Trump re-peated his promise to name a Su-preme Court justice who opposedabortion rights and would helpoverturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade de-cision that recognized them, re-turning the issue to the states.

Asked where that would leavewomen seeking abortions, Mr.Trump, on the CBS program “60Minutes,” said, “Well, they’ll per-haps have to go — they’ll have togo to another state.”

On immigration, he said thewall that he has been promising tobuild on the nation’s southern bor-der might end up being a fence inplaces. But he said his prioritywas to deport two million to threemillion immigrants he character-ized as dangerous or as havingcriminal records, a change fromhis original position that he woulddeport all of the estimated 11 mil-lion undocumented immigrants inthe country. President Obama hasdeported more than two millionundocumented immigrants dur-ing his time in office.

Mr. Trump said that undocu-mented immigrants who are notcriminals are “terrific people,”and that he would decide how to

On ImmigrantsAnd Abortion,And on Twitter

President-Elect’s ViewsAppear in Flux

By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS

Continued on Page A16

Archbishop Joseph Tobin faces manyobstacles in his post in Newark, includ-ing shifting demographics. PAGE A21

New Archbishop’s ChallengesChelsea Manning, who has been inprison for leaking secret documents, isasking to be freed. PAGE A18

NATIONAL A13-20

Manning Petitions Obama

“Rules of the Game” is an ambitiousdance collaboration. A review. PAGE C3

A Competition of Ideas

A three-month residency gave Chinesecoaches lessons in attitude and theUniversity of Utah a tie to Asia. PAGE D1

SPORTSMONDAY D1-8

Basketball Diplomacy

Paul Krugman PAGE A25

EDITORIAL, OP-ED A24-25

Continued on Page A6

Continued on Page A15

There is no single way to con-vey just how divided we are as anation, and it was laid bare lastweek after Donald J. Trump waselected the 45th president,though he lost the popular vote.

The acrimonious presidentialcampaign exposed not only a riftbetween the elite and the non-elite, but stirred debate overwhat the term means. Votersguided by religious values endedup with different political out-looks. The country is sharplydivided over immigration. Somevoters believe the nation is undersiege, while others question if theUnited States should be a melt-ing pot of people and cultures.

Six national reporters for TheNew York Times spoke to anumber of Americans to under-stand the ways voters see theworld. They spoke withsupporters of Mr. Trump and ofHillary Clinton. They foundpessimists and optimists. Mostpeople insisted that they wanteda unified country.

Yet, as they fight for theirversion of America, they couldnot be further apart. Page A14.

A Nation Blue,Red and Riven:

6 Perspectives

A boom in solar and wind power hashelped stop widespread blackouts, butsome in government say nuclear ener-gy is a sounder investment. PAGE A4

INTERNATIONAL A3-12

South Africa Debates Energy

The Obama administration has offeredno military lifeline even to rebel groupsit has backed as Syria announced plansfor a new assault in Aleppo. PAGE A8

Syria Plans New Airstrikes

The City Council in Mountain View,Google’s hometown, is looking to in-crease the town’s housing stock by asmuch as 50 percent. PAGE B1

BUSINESS DAY B1-7

California Housing Squeeze

Leon Russell, the writer of hits like “ASong for You,” whose rock music mixedgenres, was 74. He worked with ElvisCostello, Joe Cocker and others. PAGE B8

OBITUARIES B8

The Musician’s Musician

The art auctions beginning on Mondayshould provide a gauge of how themarket will react to a new administra-tion in Washington. PAGE C1

ARTS C1-8

Art Market and the Election

VOL. CLXVI . . . No. 57,416 © 2016 The New York Times Company NEW YORK, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Late Edition

$2.50

Today, sunshine mixing with someclouds, mild, high 61. Tonight,cloudy, a little rain late, low 46. To-morrow, mostly cloudy, a bit of rain,high 54. Weather map, Page D7.