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The Washington Post / Year 142, No. 319

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BY STEVEN MUFSON

PHOTOS BY SALWAN GEORGES

doha, qatar — It was 116 degrees in

the shade outside the new Al Janoub

soccer stadium, and the air felt to

air-conditioning expert Saud Ghani as if

God had pointed “a giant hair dryer” at

Qatar.

Ye t inside the open-air stadium, a cool

breeze was blowing. Beneath each of the

40,000 seats, small grates adorned with

Arabic-style patterns were pushing out

cool air at ankle level. And since cool air

sinks, waves of it rolled gently down to

the grassy playing field. Vents the size of

soccer balls fed more cold air onto the

field.

Ghani, an engineering professor at

Qatar University, designed the system at

Al Janoub, one of eight stadiums that

the tiny but fabulously rich Qatar must

get in shape for the 2022 World Cup. His

breakthrough realization was that he

had to cool only people, not the upper

reaches of the stadium — a graceful

structure designed by the famed Zaha

Hadid Architects and inspired by tradi-

tional boats known as dhows.

“I don’t need to cool the birds,” Ghani

said.

Qatar, the world’s leading exporter of

liquefied natural gas, m ay b e able to cool

its stadiums, but it cannot cool the

entire country. Fears that the hundreds

of thousands of soccer f ans might w ilt or

SEE QATAR ON A

2 °C: BEYOND THE LIMIT

Fa cing unbearable heat,

Qatar air-conditions the outdoors

At the country’s malls

and stadiums, global warming

is tackled as an engineering

problem. But it’s not a

permanent fix.

The West Bay area skyline of Doha, Qatar, is seen from Msheireb, a planned development in one of Earth’s hottest places that will feature
walkways and streets pointed north to take advantage of breezes, and pillars that will blow cool air into an open courtyard.

BY WILLIAM BOOTH

AND KARLA ADAM

london — Lawmakers voted to

withhold support for Prime Min-

ister Boris Johnson’s new Brexit

deal, scuppering his hope of fi-

nalizing Britain’s exit plan at an

extraordinary “Super Saturday”

session in Parliament.

The humiliating defeat, how-

ever, did not deal a fatal blow to

the withdrawal agreement he ne-

gotiated in Brussels. Johnson

said he planned to press ahead

and seek approval of his Brexit

deal in the coming week.

Britain remains deeply d ivided

over Brexit. On Saturday, orga-

nizers estimated that protests

pushing for a second referendum

drew 1 million people into the

streets of London in on-and-off

rain.

Johnson is relying in part on

“Brexhaustion” to get his deal

passed. Number crunchers said

the outcome would be too t ight to

call, but there were ways he could

secure a majority.

Saturday’s successful amend-

SEE BREXIT ON A

Parliament deals humiliating

blow to Johnson’s Brexit plan

BY MATT VISER

AND PAUL SONNE

Vice President Joe Biden was

losing his temper, dressing

down the p resident of Ukraine in

front of a group of high-level

advisers and officials from both

countries inside a regal complex

at the United Nations.

“Don’t give me this bullshit,”

Biden bellowed in t he September

2016 encounter, according to an

aide who was present, unloading

on Petro Poroshenko after Biden

felt he was making excuses for

failing to root out corruption

involving the country’s state-

owned gas company.

“There’s nothing that happens

in Ukraine you don’t know

about,” Biden continued. “If

something like this happens

again, I’m done with you.”

The public humiliation of Po-

roshenko illustrated the unusu-

ally aggressive approach em-

ployed by Biden, the Obama

administration’s chief Ukraine

SEE BIDEN ON A

Inside Biden’s brawling

e≠orts to reform Ukraine

BY PHILIP RUCKER

President Trump, whose

paramount concern long has

been showing strength, has

entered the most challenging

stretch of his term, weakened

on virtually every front and in

danger of being forced from

office as the impeachment

inquiry intensifies.

Trump now finds himself

mired in a season of weakness.

Foreign leaders feel emboldened

to reject his pleas or to

contradict him. Officials inside

his administration are openly

defying his wishes by

participating in the

impeachment probe. Federal

courts have ruled against him.

SEE TRUMP ON A

WHITE HOUSE DEBRIEF

Tr ump’s season

of weakness:

A fragile state

in a key stretch

BY MARY BETH SHERIDAN

AND ANNA-CATHERINE

BRIGIDA

las animas, el salvador — For
Daisy Flores, Day 135 began like
so many others. She
soaked corn in a bucket on the
dirt floor for tortillas. She washed
the kids’ clothes in a blue plastic
bin. And she thought, again,
about that afternoon in May
when her 18-year-old son Edwin
rode off on his brother’s motorcy-
cle.
He still hasn’t come home.
Twenty miles away, in a work-
ing-class neighborhood in San
Salvador, Karen was plodding
through Day 297. She coped by
writing notes to her absent hus-
band and taping them to the bed-
room wall.

“I send you a little kiss,” she’d

scrawled to the man who had

disappeared last year while deliv-

ering electricity bills. And: “I can’t

take it anymore.”

Not far from her, a third family

endured another Monday with-

out their loved one. The middle-

aged man had gone missing on his

way home from his plumbing job.

Was it already Day 192? They’d

searched everywhere. Nothing.

Three decades after a brutal

civil war characterized by never-

explained, never-resolved disap-

pearances, Salvadorans are again

vanishing.

The phenomenon is resurrect-

ing one of the most chilling el-

ements of Cold War Latin Ameri-

ca. Back in the 197 0s and

1980s, tens of thousands of people

SEE EL SALVADOR ON A

Decades after war, Salvadorans are vanishing again

FRED RAMOS FOR THE WASHINGTON POST

Daisy Flores holds a portrait of her son Edwin, 18, who

disappeared in May. At their Las Animas home, she and his

nephew, Hector, were waiting for news of his fate.

BY PHILIP RUCKER

AND DAVID A. FAHRENTHOLD

President Trump announced

abruptly Saturday night that he

would no longer host next year’s

Group of Seven summit at the

Trump National Doral Miami re-

sort in Florida, b owing to criticism

for having selected his own prop-

erty a s the v enue f or a major diplo-

matic event.

Trump was buffeted by two

straight days of allegations of self-

dealing and exasperation from

lawmakers o n Capitol Hill, includ-

ing some Republican allies who

said the selection of Doral as the

venue for a gathering of world

leaders w as indefensible.

The decision — while it lasted —

was an unprecedented one in

modern American politics: The

president awarded a huge con-

tract to himself. The White House

promoted Doral as the single best

venue in the United States to host

the G-7 summit in June, and the

meeting would have brought

thousands of guests in the offsea-

son to a resort that is struggling

financially.

SEE DORAL ON A

Trump says his

Doral resort won’t

host G-7 summit

SWITCH COMES AFTER ALLEGATIONS OF

SELF-DEALING, CRITICISM FROM LAWMAKERS

White House had promoted struggling venue near

Miami as an ideal spot for meeting of world leaders

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