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U(D54G1D)y+=!@!$!#!, TEHRAN A coterie of Iranshard-line Shiite Muslim clericsand Revolutionary Guards com-manders is usually vocal on thesubject of the Iranian nuclearprogram, loudly proclaiming thecountrys right to pursue its in-terests and angrily denouncingthe United States.But as the United States andIran prepare to restart nucleartalks this week, the hard-linershave been keeping a low profile.They have been remarkablyquiet, said Nader Karimi Joni, aformer member of the Revolu-tionary Guards and the Basij, avolunteer paramilitary group.Their silence is a result of statepolicies intended by Irans su-preme leader, Ayatollah Ali Kha-menei, to seriously try to find asolution through negotiations.Ayatollah Khamenei has largelysupported the nuclear talks andthe Iranian negotiators, whom hehas calledgood and caring peo-ple, who work for the country.The restraint by the hard-lin-ers also reflects a general satis-faction, analysts say, with the di-rection of the talks and the suc-cesses Iran is enjoying, extend-ing and deepening its influence inIraq, Lebanon, Syria and Yemen.As a result, state-condoneddemonstrations against the talkshave fizzled out, as have meet-ings among hard-line politiciansand student groups who saidthey had been worried about aBillboards in Tehran once de-IRAN HARD-LINERS SHOW RESTRAINT HEEDING THE AYATOLLAHRemarkably Quiet asLeader Backs TalksWith the U.S.Continued on PageA8By ASHLEY PARKERand MAGGIE HABERMANWASHINGTON Back in late2000, Ted Cruzfound himself withone of the hottest tickets in town.As a former clerk to Chief Jus-tice William H. Rehnquist, Mr.Cruz, a junior aide on George W.Bushs presidential campaign,had scored a seat inside the Su-preme Court for the oral argu-ments in Bush v. Gore, whichwould decide the election.But when his superiors askedMr. Cruz to give up his spot toDonald Evans, a close friend ofMr. Bushs and the campaignschairman, Mr. Cruz initiallybalked, refusing to hand over histicket.He backed down only after anangry phone call from a seniorstaff member. But the incident,discuss, has become lore.To those who knew him as ayoung domestic policy adviser inMr. Bushs headquarters in Aus-tin, Tex., the moment was classicCruz reflecting a brilliant andunusually ambitious upstart whochafed at orders from superiorswrong way but always saw him-self destined for a lofty place inhistory.On Monday, Mr. Cruz, 44, afirst-term senator from Texas,became the first Republican todeclare himself a candidate forpresident, promising a campaignthat would be about reignitingthe promise of America.The power of the Americanpeople as we stand up and fightfor liberty knows no bounds, hesaid at Liberty University, aChristian college in Lynchburg,Va.Those who have known him foryears say Mr. Cruz alwaysseemed both driven to advanceCruz DefinedAs AmbitiousAnd Tactical First in G.O.P. Field toUnveil 2016 Bid ARIEL SCHALIT/ASSOCIATED PRESSThe graves in Jerusalem for seven Jewish siblings who died in a New York house fire. They were buried on Monday. Page A17. Grief Echoes From Brooklyn to IsraelBy MATT APUZZOWASHINGTON Roughlyonce a week, 390 times over thepast eight years, Philadelphia po-lice officers opened fire at a sus-pect. The shootings involved 454officers, most of them on patrol.Almost always, the suspectswere black. Often, the officerswere,too.Fifty-nine suspects were un-armed. Officers frequently saidwere almost always men werereaching for a weapon, whenthey were actually doing some-thing like holding a cellphone.The statistics were laid out in aJustice Department report onMonday, which does not allegeracial discriminationbut offersan unusually deep look at the useof lethal force inside a major cityformation on the race of officersdata that has been nearly absentfrom the debate over police tac-tics that began last summer witha deadly shooting in Ferguson, Report DetailsPolice Gunfire Continued on PageA15and JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVISJERUSALEM Prime Min-ister Benjamin Netanyahuof Is-raelapologized on Monday formaking what were widely con-demned as racist comments lastweek in saying that Arab citizenswere voting es.But even as he spoke with agroup of Israeli Arabs gatheredat his Jerusalem residence, theWhite House issued a new signalthat it remained furious with Mr.Netanyahu for campaign com-ments that also appeared to closethe door on a two-state solutionto the Palestinianconflict.In the days since theIsraelielection, Mr. Netanyahu has beendenounced for two statements hemade toward the conclusion: hisassertion that no Palestinianstate would be established on hiswatch, and his alarm over votingby Israeli Arab citizens. He hasbeen trying, with limited success,In Washington, Denis McDon-ough, President Obamas chief ofstaff, said in a speechMondaythat Mr. Netanyahus pre-elec-tion assertions about Palestinianstatehood were very troubling.It was the latest in a series ofbers of Mr. Obamas team, includ-ing one by the president himself,rejecting the prime ministers at-tempts to explain himself.After the election, the primemany in Israel and in the in-ternational community, such con-tradictory comments call intotwo-state solution, Mr. McDon-ough told the annual conferenceof J Street, a pro-Israel groupaligned with the Democratic Par-ty.After the voting, Mr. Netanya-hu said his reference to IsraeliArabs had not been intended todissuade them from voting but toencourage his own supporters tocast ballots. He said his remarkson a Palestinian state had beenNetanyahu Apologizes; White House Is Unmoved Continued on PageA6 Rolling Back Remarkson Israeli Arabs andTwo-State Solution Continued on PageA12 TRAVIS DOVE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMESSenator Ted Cruz on Monday. Residents of Pahoa on the Big Island of Hawaii have lived since last June with a mass of lava slowly moving toward their town. By DIANE CARDWELLPAHOA, Hawaii If a disastermovie played out in slow motion,it might look a bit like the PunaDistrict on the Big Island of Ha-waii.As a mass of smoldering blacklava has inched since June to-ward the town of Pahoa, the com-mercial center of this isolatedstretch of Puna, there has beenno need for residents to runscreaming from a flaming riverrumbling down the mountain.Instead, there has been a per-vasive, static anxiety over wherethe fickle, hot blob might oozeWhen Time Ran Out.Weve kind of been living dayby day, said Jeff Hunt, 55, a surf-board shaper with a shop alongthe main drag. You just reallydont know how to act.The Kilauea volcano is 35 milesaway, emerged routinely since 1983.Most of the time, when the lavaexits the earth with enough forceto creep far downhill, it headssouth toward the ocean, followinga course that is largely no longerinhabited. Starting last June 27,however, new fissures pushedthe molten rock northeast,straight for this town of aboutResidents began obsessivelychecking lava updates on a gov-ernment websiteand attendingofficial briefings. What if the lava and no onecould get to work? Could it bestopped? Would they lose theirNo Need to Run in Hawaii: The Lava Is Coming, but Very Slowly Continued on PageA16 By OWEN ROBINSON and SHERYL GAY STOLBERGCHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. The police here said Monday thatthey had found no substantivebasis to support a Rolling Stonemagazine article depicting a hor-rific gang rape at a University ofVirginia fraternity house and thata four-month review had identi-fied serious discrepancies in theaccount by a woman identified asJackie, who refused to cooperatewith their investigation.After a review of records androughly 70 interviews, PoliceChief Timothy J. Longo Sr. said ata crowded news conference here,his investigators found no evi-dence that a party even tookplace at the Phi Kappa Psi fra-ternity on Sept. 28, 2012, when therape was said to have occurred.Instead, he said, there was a for-mal that night at the houses sis-ter sorority, making it highly un-likely that the fraternity wouldhave had a party on the sameDespite numerous attempts,he said, his officers were unableto track down the man Jackie hadidentified as her date that night.And several interviews contra-dicted her version of events. Thechief said he was suspending, butnot closing, the investigation, andhe left open the possibility thatsome kind of assault might haveoccurred, saying additional infor-Story of Rape Keeps Falling Apart Continued on PageA16 A vast majority of Bostonians say in apoll that if Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who ad-mits bombing the Boston Marathon, isconvicted, he should be sent to prisonPAGE A10 NATIONAL A10-16 Little Backing for ExecutionRobert Durst was deemed a flight riskbased on prosecutors assertions that hehad a map of Cuba and was expecting toreceive about $100,000 in cash. PAGE A17 NEW YORK A17-21DurstIs Denied BailThe departing director of the federalBureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearmsand Explosives willbecome the leagueschief disciplinary officer. PAGE B9 SPORTSTUESDAY B8-14N.F.L.s New Discipline Chief Corporations are displacing people asdirect beneficiaries of the First Amend-ment, a study says. PAGE A14 1st Amendment, Business BoonA physicist who helped devise the hy-drogen bomb more than 50 years agohas refused a fed-eral agencys re-terial from hisgovernment saysteems withther-monuclear secrets.PAGE D1 SCIENCE TIMES D1-7Accused of TellingToo Much A season of severe weather left GreatLakes shipping lanes clogged with icelater in the yearping freighters intheir tracks and ty-for businessesacross the Mid-west and North-PAGE B1BUSINESS DAY B1-7Icy Winter Squeezes Shippers The second week of the New Directors/New Films series in Manhattan offersportraits of human solitude, with cuddlyPAGE C1 ARTS C1-8 Global Views of LonelinessAngelina Jolie PittPAGE A23 EDITORIAL, OP-ED A22-23The case of a blessing at a Bolognaschool reflects Italys debate on wherethe church-state boundary lies. PAGE A4 INTERNATIONAL A4-9Prayer, School and ItalyAs PresidentAshraf Ghani ofAfghanistan vis-its the UnitedStates, the con-trast with hispredecessor,Hamid Karzai, isstark. PAGE A4A Different Kind of Ally VOL.CLXIV...No. 56,815©2015The New York TimesNEWYORK,TUESDAY,MARCH24, 2015 LateEditionToday,partly sunny, chilly, high 43.Tonight,clear, chilly, low 32. Tomor-row,increasingly cloudy, a bit mil-der, a passing afternoon shower,high 47. Weather map, Page B10. C K Nxxx,2015-03-24,A,001,Bs-BK,E2