PAGE A15 VOL CLXIV No 56753 57513 2015 The New York Times NEW YORK WEDNESDAY JANUARY 21 2015 UD54G1Dy By ASHLEY PARKER WASHINGTON When Sena tor Rand Paul of Kentucky went to Kansas last year to campaign for Gov Sam Brownback he qui etly requeste ID: 74671
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The presidentmadeveto threats, while Republicansrejected his proposals. PAGE A15 VOL.CLXIV...No. 56,753©2015The New York TimesNEWYORK, WEDNESDAY,JANUARY21, 2015 U(D54G1D)y+"!&!@!#!\ By ASHLEY PARKERWASHINGTON When Sena-tor Rand Paul of Kentucky wentto Kansas last year to campaignfor Gov. Sam Brownback, he qui-etly requested a private meetingwith the oil billionaire Charles G.Kochin his Wichita headquar-ters.The senators pitch: Of all thepotential 2016 Republican presi-dential candidates, he best re-flects the views of Mr. Koch andhis younger brother, David H.Koch.Similarly, Senator Ted Cruz ofTexas popped through Wichita inrequested, and he told the elderMr. Koch that the RepublicanPartyneeded a grass-roots con-servative like him to take backthe White House.And Gov. Chris Christie of NewJersey has worked to cultivate arelationship with the younger Mr.Koch, stopping by his Manhattanoffice, calling him to talk politicswives included.Perhaps no organization com-mands more deference in Repub-lican politics nowadays than thesprawling operation establishedby the Koch brothers. And thisweek, the intense competitionamong Republicans for their em-brace and attention will break outinto the open. An invitation-onlygroup of 2016 hopefuls will travelto a resort near Palm Springs,Calif., for the Koch brothers an- Koch PrimaryTests HopefulsIn the G.O.P.Continued on PageA3 By ADAM NAGOURNEYOWENS LAKE, Calif. For 24years, traveling across the starkand dusty moonscape of whatonce was a glimmering 110-square-mile lake framed bysnow-covered mountains, TedSchade was a general in the Ow-ens Valley water wars with LosAngeles. This was where Los An-geles began taking water for itsown use nearly a century ago,leaving behind a dry lake bedthat choked the valley with dust,polluted parts of the nation.The result was a bitter feud be-tween two night-and-day regionsof California, steeped in years oflawsuits, conspiracy theories,toxic distrust and noir lore thestealing of the Owens Valley wa-ter was the inspiration for themovie Chinatown. But whilethe water theft remains a point ofcontention, the battle long agoof dust that were the legacy of thelost lake, 200 miles north of down-town Los Angeles.In what may be the most star-tling development yet, the end ofone of the great water battles inthe West appears at hand: In-stead of flooding the lake bedwith nearly 25 billion gallons ofLos Angeles water every year topensive and drought-defyingstopgap solution that had been inplace engineers have begun tomethodically till about 50 squaremiles of the lake bed, which willserve as the primary weapon tocontrol dust in the valley.That will create three-foot-highfurrows that, sprinkled with farless water, together should scrubCentury Later, the Chinatown Water Feud Ebbs MONICA ALMEIDA/THE NEW YORK TIMESFor years, Los Angeles has tried, by flooding Owens Lake, to make amends for draining it dry. Continued on PageA13A ho-hum affair forsome veteran lawmakersis a riteof passage for freshmen. PAGE A16 Houthi rebels clashed with presidentialguards, sending explosions over Sana,Yemens capital. PAGE A4INTERNATIONAL A4-9Crisis in Yemen Escalates Although heavily redacted, a new bookby a detainee tells in painstaking detailof his arrest in Mauritania, his handoverto American authorities and his treat-ment at Guantánamo Bay. PAGE A3 NATIONAL A10-16 Studentsusingcopiesof skullssculptunidentified crime victims faces for theNew York medical examiner. PAGE A17NEW YORK A17-20,24SculptingClues to the Dead After promising to be tougher on car-makers, the nations top auto regulatorsaid he was reviewing a small action in-volving Ford pickups to see if it shouldPAGE B1BUSINESS DAY B1-10Scrutiny for a 2013 RecallKimchi, usually pigeonholed as a sidedish or condiment, can be a versatile,transforming player in dishes like noo-dle cake, left, and soup. PAGE D1FOOD D1-6 Pickled Pleasures The Supreme Court ruled that Arkansascorrections officials had violated the re-ligious liberty rights of Muslim inmatesby banning beards. PAGE A12CourtAllowsBeards in PrisonA state of emergency was declared inparts of Montana where an oil spill en-tered the Yellowstone River. PAGE A10Oil Spill Fouls Drinking Waterrsies simmer over the C.I.A.sdetention program, especially sinceCongress changed hands. PAGE A7New Tack on Torture ReportIn a so-far-so-grim season for musicals,producers of On the Town hopeto fill abigtheater andgeta hit. PAGE C1 ARTS C1-8 Big Gamble on BroadwayThomas L. FriedmanPAGE A23 EDITORIAL, OP-ED A22-23 By DAVID WALDSTEINTodd Bowles had at least six in-terviews for N.F.L. head coachingjobs over the past five years. Af-ter each interview and rejection,he calledan adviser to reportwho had been present, whatquestions had been asked, howhow he had performed.Mr. Bowles was operating un-der an N.F.L.diversity programthat requires teams to interviewat least one minority candidatewhen searching for a new headcoachand re-quires thatviewsbe con-standards aser candidates.On Wednesday, when Mr.Bowles, 51, is introduced as theJets coach, his long journey tothe position will be the latestdemonstration of the program,established under a regulationknown as the Rooney Rule. Thepolicy has been much admired,ied. Some, however, worry that itis merely tokenism in a leaguethat is dominated by black play-ers but has relatively few mem-bers of minority groupsin leader-Charles Ogletree, a professor Diversity RuleIn N.F.L. MakesUnsteady Gains Continued on PageB12 Todd Bowles By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLDHAVANA Fidel Castrocalled the building a nest ofspies, routinely marshaling tensof thousands of people to protestat its doorstep. His governmenteven made a television mini-se-ries with what it called images ofAmerican diplomats lurking in aforest nearby, dropping off suspi-President George W. Bush tookswipes of his own, installing aTimes Square-style ticker on thebuildings side to flash news andpolitical statements. The move soenraged Cuban officials that theyerected a thicket of 138 blackflags on towering poles to blockNow the building, the Ameri-can governments main outpostin Cuba, for decades a hulkingsymbol of the tensions betweenthe two countries, is supposed tobecome something else: a full-fledged embassy operating in theopen for the first time in morethan five decades.Officially, the six-story embas-sy, in a choice spot along Ha-vanas seaside highway, wasclosed after President Dwight D.Eisenhower broke ties with Cubain 1961. Yet it has hardly beendormant. Since 1997, the UnitedStates has run it as an interestssection to process visas, holdcultural events and keep somecommunicationflowing betweenthe two estranged neighbors. U.S. OutpostIn Cuba to StepContinued on PageA6 does not need to carry out thefive-month-old campaign would send an important signal.Tonight, I call on this Congressto show the world that we areunited in this mission, Mr. Oba-ma said.We need that author-ity.This effort will take time, hesaid of the battle to defeat the Is-lamic State, the Sunni militantgroup that is also known as ISISor ISIL. It will require focus. Butwe will succeed.Mr. Obama met a skeptical butrespectful Congress hours aftervowing to veto Republican legis-lation that would restrict abor-natural gas pipelines, the latest ina series of veto threats that re-By MICHAEL D. SHEAR and JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVISWASHINGTON PresidentObamaclaimed credit on Tues-day for an improving economyand defiantly told his Republicanadversaries in Congress to turnpensive domestic agenda aimedat improving the fortunes of themiddle class.Released from the politicalconstraints of a sagging econ-omy, overseas wars and elec-tions, Mr. Obama declared in hissixth State of the Union addressthat the shadow of crisis haspassed, and he final two years in office fightingfor programs that had taken aHe called on Congress to makecommunity college free for moststudents, enhance tax credits foreducation and child care, and im-pose new taxes and fees on high-income earners and large finan-We have risen from recessionfreer to write our own future thanany other nation on Earth, Mr.dressto a joint session of Con-gress seen by an estimated 30million people. Will we acceptan economy where only a few ofus do spectacularly well? Or willwe commit ourselves to an econ-omy that generates rising in-comes and chances for everyonewho makes the effort?Confident and at times cocky,the president used the pageantryfense of an activist federal gov-ernment. He foreign policy that combinesmilitary power with strong di-plomacy, and he called on Con-gress to lift the trade embargo onCuba and pass legislation author-izing the fight against the IslamicState. He said apption granting him that power something he has long argued heOBAMA DEFIANTLY SETS AN AMBITIOUS AGENDA PHOTOGRAPHS BY DOUG MILLS/THE NEW YORK TIMESPresident Obama told Congress on Tuesday that a nation risen from recession needed a domestic agenda that lifted everyone. Uses State of the Union to Focuson Aiding the Middle Class Continued on PageA14WASHINGTON Near the end of hisState of the Union address, President Obamanoted, I have no more campaigns to run. Afew Republicans in the audience cheekily ap-Mr. Obama smiled but then offered an ad-lib retort: I know, he jabbed the Republi-cans, because I won both of them.Never mind that his party actually lost themost recent elections, delivering control ofboth houses of Congress to the opposition forthe first time during his presidency. For anhour on Tuesday night, Mr. Obama command-ed the biggest stage he will have all year, un-bowed and self-assured, laying out an expan-elections, offered no concessions about hisown leadership and proposed no compro-mises to accommodate the political reality.Instead, he asked congressional Republi-cans who have resisted new taxes at everyturn over the last six years to raise taxes onthe wealthy. He asked lawmakers who wontheir seats on promises of reining in govern-ment to reopen the spending spigot to pro-vide free community college, child care andpaid parental leave to millions of middle-in-come Americans. The program he outlinedsounded pretty much like the one he wouldhave sent to a Democratic Congress.If you share the broad vision I outlined to-sive and expensive legislative agenda as if hewere the one who had triumphed.Watching an emboldened Mr. Obama, itwould have been easy to forget that he wasstanding there just two months after the big-gest electoral repudiation of his presidency.Indeed, with economic indicators on the riseand his own poll numbers rebounding slight-ly, he made no reference at all to the midtermA Bold Call to Action, Even if No Action Is Likely NEWS ANALYSIS Continued on PageA15 His Party Won the Midterms The governor has set out several posi-tions that are likely to put him in conflictwith teachers unions. PAGE A17Cuomos Education PlansToday,cloudy, snow late, colder,Tonight,cloudy, snow, acoating to an inch, low 29. Tomor-row,clouds giving way to somesun, high 38. Details, Page A24.$6 beyond the greater New York metropolitan area.LateEdition C K Nxxx,2015-01-21,A,001,Bs-4C,E2_+