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ACROSS
1 Like “le” in Fr. or
“el” in Sp.
5 Scissors sound
9 Stuffed shirts
14 Utah ski resort
that means
“high”
15 Statistician
Silver
16 __ buddy
17 High-intensity
indoor cycling
group
19 Video game
name for nearly
50 years
20 Bar mitzvah
scroll
21 __-Cola
23 Variety show bit
24 Cinderella’s ride
27 Barrio grocery
30 “Nope”
31 Many a
Monopoly prop.
32 Microwaves
36 “A gree totally!”
40 Company
correspondence
... and a hint to
the abbreviation
hidden in 17-,
24 -, 52- and
66 -Across
44 Protein-building
acid
45 Settles a bill
46 Epitome of
slipperiness
47 Bath fixture
with claw feet,
perhaps
49 __ Vision: eye
care chain
52 Pipe unclogger
58 50 0 sheets of
paper
59 Scratching post
users
60 Duo Hall & __
64 Gillette razors
66 Feature of New
Yo rk-style pizza
68 Jotted (down)
69 Lamarr of old
films
70 Mandatory bet
71 Nine-player
chamber group
72 Part of GE: Abbr.
73 Overflow (with)DOWN
1 Sail holder2 Friskies sister
brand
3 Pudding recipe
direction
4 Cocktail party
nibble
5 NBC skit show
6 Rights org.
since 1909
7 “Not to worry”
8 Joe of “Home
Alone”
9 Agcy. that helps
startups
10 Just fair
11 Japanese port
12 Antiseptic acid
type
13 Worker suffix
with black or
silver
18 Drink all at once
22 Gothic novelist
Radcliffe
25 Puzzle with
paths
26 Group bowing
to a curtain
call
27 Ali __
28 Egg cell
29 Arnaz of
early TV
33 Deadly viper34 Awareness-
raising TV ad:
Abbr.
35 Devious
37 Leaper in a
tractor company
logo
38 Hershiser of
baseball
39 Land in the
ocean
41 Very personal42 Part of speech
after “the,” often
43 Sports bar
channel
48 Discreetly send
a dupe email to
50 Fair-hiring agcy.
51 Noah’s landfall
52 Sketched
53 In style again
54 Composer
Copland55 Wood shop tool
56 “I Love Lucy”
role
57 Actor-to-
audience
remark
61 Bring into pitch
62 90 º from norte
63 Wineglass
support
65 Good to go
67 Five-bor. cityLA TIMES CROSSWORD By Gail Grabowski and Bruce VenzkeSATURDAY’S LA T IMES SOLUTION© 2020 Tribune Content Agency, LLC. 8/3/20CHIP SAYS
On this day in 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed from
Spain, intending to land in India. Columbus landed in
the Americas. Once thought of simply as an explorer, his
legacy now includes enslaving Native Americans.
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who are also training her and walking her in their yard.partisanship. A VOA spokeswom-
an also said it was looking into
the video, which has been deleted
from its website. (Biden’s cam-
paign has said he would fire Pack
if Biden is elected.)
VOA has long employed jour-
nalists who are citizens of other
countries because they offer spe-
cific knowledge and expertise,
including fluency in English and
one or more of the 47 languages
in which VOA broadcasts. In
addition to their language skills,
they are steeped in the history,
culture and recent politics of the
countries they report on, and
they often have hard-to-replace
sources and contacts among dis-
sident communities. Many were
educated at American universi-
ties and have worked at other
Western news organizations.
People at VOA say the poten-
tial loss of dozens of such journal-
ists would undermine the organi-
zation’s ability to produce news
and information aimed at non-
English-speaking audiences
abroad.
Segovia, for example, has
sometimes contributed news and
interviews to a weekly news pro-
gram called “Venezuela 360,” one
of the few sources of independent
reporting available in the strife-
scarred nation. Five of the seven
people involved in production of
the program, he said, are facing
the expiration of their visas.
VOA noted the disruption it
was facing in a news story it
published last month that spot-
lighted a b roadcast journalist in
its Thai-language service, one of
three people in the eight-person
unit who holds a visa. With her
visa renewal in limbo, the jour-
nalist, Warangkana Chomchuen,
had to apply for a repatriation
flight back to Thailand. Her wife,
who is in the United States on a
spouse visa, isn’t eligible for a
repatriation flight because she
isn’t a T hai national. Instead, she
will have to return to her home
city, Toronto, leaving the couple
indefinitely separated.
Segovia is hoping he won’t
have to make similar departure
plans. “We got no warning what-
soever about this,” he said the
other day. “We’ve gotten no expla-
nations, just the silent treatment
from [Pack]. He should under-
stand what’s at stake. He’s play-
ing with people’s lives.”
[email protected]firmed in June to head the U.S.
Agency for Global Media. He won
confirmation after a bruising and
largely partisan confirmation
battle in the Senate.
Among his first official acts,
Pack summarily fired the direc-
tors of each of the agencies he
oversees, including Radio Free
Europe and Radio Free Asia,
replacing them with his own
managers. The director and dep-
uty director of Voice of America
resigned two days before Pack’s
purge.The shake-up was preceded by
an extraordinary White House
campaign to vilify Voice of Ameri-
ca, an independent news organi-
zation that was founded by the
federal government during
World War II to counter Nazi
propaganda and that later served
as an information bulwark
against oppressive communist
regimes. The White House al-
leged in April that VOA had
published “propaganda” on be-
half of China and Iran, though it
offered little evidence of it. White
House social media director Dan
Scavino followed up the state-
ment by sharing a tweet from
VOA’s of ficial Twitter account
that highlighted an Associated
Press video of a light show in
Wuhan, China, staged to cele-
brate the city’s alleged eradica-
tion of the coronavirus. “DIS-
GRACE!!” he wrote.
USAGM said last week that it
was opening an investigation
into VOA’s publication of an Ur-
du-language video that suppos-
edly promoted Democrat Joe
Biden’s presidential campaign in
violation of VOA’s rules againstunjust.”
For some of Segovia’s col-
leagues, the stakes are even high-
er. They include people from
countries headed by authoritari-
an regimes who fear persecution
once they are repatriated, among
them journalists from Venezuela,
China, Russia, Iran and other
nations in which VOA’s broad-
casts serve as one of the few
sources of independent news and
information.
Another journalist, whose visa
has expired, said security agents
in her home country have ques-
tioned family members about her
work and will probably greet her
return with suspicion. “I think
they’ll find it very weird that the
U.S. government has sent back
someone who was working for
the U.S. government as a journal-
ist,” she said. “It’s just a grotesque
situation.”
The journalist spoke on the
condition of anonymity, asking
not to identify her name or home
country, out of concern for poten-
tial reprisals.
Pack, who declined an inter-
view request through his repre-
sentatives, has been vague about
the reasons for not renewing the
visas. In response to questions
this week, his spokesman sent a
news release issued last month in
which Pack said “other federal
agencies” had found “systemic,
severe, and fundamental security
failures” at the agencies Pack
supervises, including VOA. Many
of these alleged lapses, he said,
“have persisted for years.”
Pack hasn’t said what threats
have arisen or why journalists
holding visas at VOA warranted
special scrutiny. VOA’s interna-
tional journalists undergo exten-
sive background checks before
they are hired.
Pack’s apparent lack of interest
in renewing visas, however, is in
keeping with the Trump adminis-
tration’s generally tough stance
on immigration. Citing the pan-
demic and its effect on American
workers, Trump in June tempo-
rarily banned new entries via J-1
visas, the kind held by VOA
workers. It’s not clear whether
the ban affects renewals.
The visa issue is one of several
policies enacted by Pack that
have roiled the agencies under
his control since he was con-VOICE FROM C1At Voice of America, jobs of foreign
journalists hang in t he balance
“We are here because
we worked for it, by the
merits, legally.... At
the end of the day, we’re
here because we love
this country. It is unjust.
Bricio Segovia, a Spanish reporter at
Voice of America whose visa is set to
expire at the end of August