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TURKEY EXPANDS
VIOLENT REACTION
TO STREET UNREST
BLOOMBERG PLAN
AIMS TO REQUIRE
FOOD COMPOSTING
HITS MEDICS AND MEDIA
ROLLOUT TO BE GRADUAL
Premier Calls a Rally as
Demonstrators Clash
With His Backers
Biggest Expansion of
Recycling Program
Since ’89
This article is by Tim Arango,
Sebnem Arsu and Ceylan Yeginsu.
ISTANBUL — The Turkish authorities widened their crackdown on the antigovernment protest movement on Sunday, taking
aim not just at the demonstrators
themselves, but also at the medics who treat their injuries, the
business owners who shelter
them and the foreign news media
flocking here to cover a growing
political crisis threatening to paralyze the government of Prıme
Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
After an intense night of street
clashes that represented the
worst violence in nearly three
weeks of protests, Mr. Erdogan
rallied hundreds of thousands of
his supporters on Sunday —
many of them traveling on city
buses and ferries that the government had mobilized for the
event — at an outdoor arena on
the shores of the Sea of Marmara.
In some of his toughest language
yet, he called his opponents terrorists and made clear that any
hope of a compromise to end the
crisis was gone.
“It is nothing more than the
minority’s attempt to dominate
the majority,” he said of the protesters. “We will not allow it.”
The escalating tensions have
raised the risk of an extended period of civil unrest that could undermine Turkey’s image as a rising global power and a model of
Islamic democracy, which Mr.
Erdogan has cultivated over a
decade in power.
As he spoke, the police fired
tear gas and water cannons at
demonstrators in Istanbul and in
several other cities. In at least
two strongholds of support for
Mr. Erdogan, the nature of the
confrontation seemed to take a
more dangerous turn, as antigovernment protesters clashed with
his civilian backers. In Mr. Erdogan’s childhood neighborhood in
Istanbul, a group of government
supporters joined the police with
sticks and fought against protesters, according to one witness. In
Konya, a conservative town in
the Anatolian heartland, government supporters also clashed
with protesters, according to a local news report.
Even before Mr. Erdogan took
Continued on Page A7
By MIREYA NAVARRO
RONNY ROMAN ROZENBERG/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES
Police officers arrested a protester in Istanbul on Sunday, the same day Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan rallied supporters.
From Inner Circle of Iran, a Pragmatic Victor Health Options
To Vary Widely
President-Elect Is Seen
State by State
as Cautious Realist,
By THOMAS ERDBRINK
TEHRAN — As Iranians responded to the victory of the cleric Hassan Rowhani in the country’s presidential race over the
weekend by erupting into street
parties not seen in many years, it
almost seemed as if some sort of
reformist revolution could be under way.
Across the country, drivers
honked horns, men danced to pop
music and women clapped, celebrating Mr. Rowhani’s campaign
pledges to bring more freedom
and better relations with the outside world.
But Mr. Rowhani, 64, is no renegade reformist, voted in while
Iran’s leaders were not paying attention. Instead, his political life
has been spent at the center of
Iran’s conservative establishment, from well before Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini led the Islamic Revolution in the 1970s.
And analysts say that Mr.
Rowhani’s first priority will be
mediating the disturbed relationship between that leadership and
Iran’s citizens, not carrying out
major change.
Even his nickname — “the diplomat sheik” — is testament to
his role as a pragmatist seeking
conciliation for the Islamic leadership. Whether in dealing with
protesting students, the aftermath of devastating earthquakes
or, in his stint as nuclear negotiator, working to ease international
pressure as Iran moved forward
but No Ideologue
ABEDIN TAHERKENAREH/E.P.A.
Hassan Rowhani
with its nuclear program, Mr.
Rowhani has worked to find practical ways to help advance the
leadership’s goals.
Though he is widely seen as a
cautious realist, his first leap into
Iran’s inner circle as a young
man was rooted in risk. In one of
his memoirs, Mr. Rowhani describes a perilous journey he took
as an 18-year-old seminary student, sneaking across the border
into Iraq to meet Ayatollah Khomeini in exile.
At one point, he recounts, a
smuggler told him to immedi-
ately take off his turban, in order
to be less visible inside their car.
More dogmatic Shiite Muslim
clerics would have ignored such a
request, but the young Mr.
Rowhani did not hesitate and
quickly removed his white turban.
“We arrived safely, and that is
what mattered,” Mr. Rowhani
wrote.
In the memoir, he argues that
ideology must never stand in the
way of advancement. In 1979,
during the last months of Ayatollah Khomeini’s exile, Mr. Rowhani was part of his entourage in
France. “There some people
spread leaflets saying Iran must
stop buying weapons from the
United States, in order not to support their weapons industry,” he
wrote. “But I argued that we
must not deprive ourselves of
modern weapon technology just
because it is American.”
While the Iranian leadership
considers Islam the basis for all
policy, Mr. Rowhani comes from
a wing of the clerical establishment that finds Islam to be a
more dynamic than rigid code.
The thesis he wrote to obtain his
doctorate in constitutional law in
1997 from Glasgow Caledonian
University in Scotland, according
Continued on Page A6
Opening for Nuclear Talks
White House aides said they
planned to press Iran’s new president to resume talks. Page A6.
By REED ABELSON
When a typical 40-year-old uninsured woman in Maine goes to
the new state exchange to buy
health insurance this fall, she
may have just two companies to
choose from: the one that already sells most individual policies in the state, and a complete
unknown — a nonprofit start-up.
Her counterpart in California,
however, will have a much wider
variety of choices: 13 insurers are
likely to offer plans, including the
state’s largest and best-known
carriers.
With only a few months remaining before Americans will
start buying coverage through
the new state insurance exchanges under President Obama’s health care law, it is becoming clear that the millions of people purchasing policies in the exchanges will find that their
choices vary sharply, depending
on where they live.
States like California, Colorado
and Maryland have attracted an
array of insurers. But options for
people in other states may be limited to an already dominant local
Blue Cross plan and a few newcomers with little or no track
record in providing individual
coverage, including the two dozContinued on Page A3
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg,
who has tried to curb soda consumption, ban smoking in parks
and encourage bike riding, is taking on a new cause: requiring
New Yorkers to separate their
food scraps for composting.
Dozens of smaller cities, including San Francisco and Seattle, have adopted rules that
mandate recycling of food waste
from homes, but sanitation officials in New York had long considered the city too dense and
vertically structured for such a
policy to succeed.
Recent pilot programs in the
city, though, have shown an unexpectedly high level of participation, officials said. As a result,
the Bloomberg administration is
rolling out an ambitious plan to
begin collecting food scraps
across the city, according to Caswell F. Holloway IV, a deputy
mayor.
The administration plans to announce shortly that it is hiring a
composting plant to handle
100,000 tons of food scraps a year.
That amount would represent
about 10 percent of the city’s residential food waste.
Anticipating sharp growth in
food recycling, the administration will also seek proposals within the next 12 months for a company to build a plant in the New
York region to process residents’
food waste into biogas, which
would be used to generate electricity.
“This is going to be really
transformative,” Mr. Holloway
said. “You want to get on a trajectory where you’re not sending
anything to landfills.”
The residential program will
initially work on a voluntary basis, but officials predict that within a few years, it will be mandatory. New Yorkers who do not
separate their food scraps could
be subject to fines, just as they
are currently if they do not recycle plastic, paper or metal.
Mr. Bloomberg, an independent, leaves office at the end of the
year, and his successor could
scale back or cancel the program.
But in interviews, two leading
Democratic candidates for mayor, Christine C. Quinn, the City
Council speaker, and Public AdContinued on Page A15
Tea, Two Sugars, and Death: As U.S. Plugs Border in Arizona, Crossings Shift to South Texas
Cafe Groups Ponder the End
By ERIC LIPTON
and JULIA PRESTON
By PAULA SPAN
Socrates did not fear death; he
calmly drank the hemlock. Kierkegaard was obsessed with
death, which made him a bit
gloomy. As for Lorraine Tosiello,
a 58-year-old internist in Bradley
Beach, N.J., it is the process of
dying that seems endlessly puzzling.
“I’m more interested, philosophically, in what is death?
What is that transition?” Dr.
Tosiello said at a recent meeting
in a Manhattan coffee shop,
where eight people had shown up
on a Wednesday night to discuss
questions that philosophers have
grappled with for ages.
The group, which meets
monthly, is called a Death Cafe,
one of many such gatherings that
have sprung up in nearly 40 cities
around the country in the last
year. Offshoots of the “café mor-
tel” movement that emerged in
Switzerland and France about 10
years ago, these are not grief
support groups or end-of-life
planning sessions, but rather casual forums for people who want
to bat around philosophical
thoughts. What is death like?
Why do we fear it? How do our
views of death inform the way we
live?
“Death and grief are topics
avoided at all costs in our society,” said Audrey Pellicano, 60,
who hosts the New York Death
Cafe, which will hold its fifth
meeting on Wednesday. “If we
talk about them, maybe we won’t
fear them as much.”
Part dorm room chat session,
part group therapy, Death Cafes
are styled as intellectual salons,
but in practice they tend to wind
Continued on Page A11
WASHINGTON — A surge in
migrant traffic across the Southwest border into Texas has resulted in a milestone: the front
line of the battle against illegal
crossings from Mexico has shifted for the first time in over a decade away from Arizona to the Rio
Grande Valley of South Texas.
This shift has intensified a bitter debate under way in the Senate over whether the border is secure enough now, or ever will be,
to move ahead with legislation
that could give legal status to millions of illegal immigrants already here.
On Monday, the Senate was
scheduled to resume a long series of votes on an immigration
bill that is promising to end a cycle — playing out since the early
1990s — in which each time the
Border Patrol cracks down in one
enforcement zone along the bor-
JOHN MOORE/GETTY IMAGES
An agent in a helicopter helped spot illegal crossings last month
in the Rio Grande Valley, now the Border Patrol’s busiest area.
der, migrants move to another.
Now the Rio Grande Valley has
displaced the Tucson enforcement zone as the hot spot, with
makeshift rafts crossing the river
in increasing numbers, high-
speed car chases occurring along
rural roads and a growing number of dead bodies turning up on
ranchers’ land, according to local
officials.
“There is just so much happen-
ing at the same time — it is overwhelming,” said Benny Martinez,
the chief deputy in the Sheriff’s
Department of Brooks County,
Tex., 70 miles north of the border,
where smugglers have been
dropping off carloads of immigrants who have made it past
Border Patrol checkpoints.
The increase in Texas is taking
place even as the Obama administration says it has achieved unprecedented control over the border with Mexico. The administration, President Obama said last
week, has “put border security in
place,” with illegal crossings
“near their lowest level in decades.”
Apprehensions at the Mexican
border — the single best indicator of illegal traffic — are still far
below their peak: there were
356,873 last year, compared with
1.6 million in 2000.
But after nearly a decade of
steady declines, the count has
started to rise again over the past
Continued on Page A10
INTERNATIONAL A4-8
NATIONAL A9-11
NATIONAL
SPORTSMONDAY D1-7
ARTS C1-7
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Little Cash for a City’s Schools
Trying to Repair a Community
Englishman Wins U.S. Open
All Ears on Kanye West
A fresh set of leaked documents indicates that Edward Snowden had obtained a wider range of secret material
PAGE A7
than initially believed.
A draconian budget will strip Philadelphia schools of counselors, secretaries
and other support staff come September. Alma Lancit, below, is among those
PAGE A9
who have been laid off.
The new police chief in Sanford, Fla.,
faces some daunting challenges, many
of which existed long before the shootPAGE A9
ing of Trayvon Martin.
Justin Rose of
England clung to
a slim lead to
beat Phil Mickelson in the United
States Open and
earn his first major championship. It was
Mickelson’s
sixth secondplace finish at
the Open, a run
of disappointment that has clouded an otherwise
spectacular career.
PAGE D1
The hip-hop star’s hard-edged sixth solo
album, out on Tuesday, is no radio fodPAGE C1
der. A review by Jon Pareles.
Mandela’s Absence Is Felt
In Qunu, where Nelson Mandela grew
up, people are reluctant to speak of an ill
person, even one held so dear. PAGE A4
NEW YORK A12-15
Disparities in Parks Spending
Because of the reliance on elected officials to finance some capital projects,
PAGE A12
spending can vary wildly.
BUSINESS DAY B1-7
Poor Odds for China Graduates
A record seven million college students
will graduate in China this year. Businesses are swamped with applicants,
PAGE B1
but have little to offer them.
Lines Blur on Global Austerity
United States cutbacks have narrowed
the austerity rift with Europe. PAGE B1
An Artist’s Game of Perception
The Whitney is reviving Robert Irwin’s
1977 “empty room” installation. PAGE C1
EDITORIAL, OP-ED A16-17
Bill Keller
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