HP’S BREAKUP NEW PATH FOR AN ICONIC BRAND FRIEZE ART FAIR LONDON LURES THE ART WORLD LINDSAY LOHAN A STAGE DEBUT WITH MAMET PAGE 18 PAGE 9 PAGE 12 | BUSINESS | SPECIAL REPORT | CULTURE .... WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2014 Europe’s resistance to austerity grows BERLIN As economies continue to falter, German policy faces stronger opposition BY ALISON SMALE AND LIZ ALDERMAN DENNIS M. SABANGAN/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY A protester sleeping on Tuesday in Hong Kong, where the number of demonstrators declined sharply as the government agreed to hold talks on Friday to discuss electoral changes. Protests hone sense of Hong Kong pride HONG KONG Efforts to ‘mainland-ize’ the city heighten fears of a culture under attack BY EDWARD WONG AND ALAN WONG If there is one phrase that has come to define the protests that have swept across Hong Kong in the last week and a half, appearing on handwritten bill- boards and T-shirts, and heard in rally speeches and on radio shows, it is this: ‘‘Hong Kong People.’’ ‘‘I wouldn’t say I reject my identity as Chinese, because I’ve never felt Chinese in the first place,’’ said Yeung Hoi-kiu, 20, who sat in the protest zone at the government offices on Monday night. ‘‘The younger generations don’t think they’re Chinese.’’ More than 90 percent of Hong Kong residents are ethnically Chinese. But ask residents here how they see themselves in a national sense, and many will say Hong Kong first — or even Asian or world citizen — before mentioning China. The issue of identity is one that the Chinese Communist Party has grappled with since Britain turned over control of this global financial capital to China 17 years ago. But what the student-led protests show is that Beijing’s efforts have backfired, helping turn the issue into an occasionally explosive problem as members of an entire generation act on their sense of alienation from China and its values. Officials in Beijing began recognizing the problem years ago and tried in 2012 to impose a patriotic education curriculum in the schools. By then it was too late. Mr. Yeung and his peers saw the move as China’s mounting another assault on Hong Kong, which has a population of 7.2 million. They took to the streets in a prelude to the movement known as the Umbrella Revolution, the biggest challenge to the party’s authority in years. The current conflict has served only to bolster Hong Kong’s identity, already strengthened in recent years by what many residents saw as intensifying attacks from China against its culture, HONG KONG, PAGE 3 ISIS advance on Syrian town exposes U.S.-Turkish divisions MURSITPINAR, TURKEY BY KARAM SHOUMALI AND ANNE BARNARD ARIS MESSINIS/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE A Kurd in Suruc, Turkey, watching the fighting on Tuesday between the Kurdish People’s Protection Committees and the Islamic State in Kobani, across the border in Syria. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey said Tuesday that the Syrian border town of Kobani, under siege from Islamic State fighters, was about to fall to the militants despite United States-led airstrikes on the group. Asserting that aerial attacks alone might not be enough to stop the fighters’ advance, Mr. Erdogan called for more support for insurgents in Syria who are battling the Islamic State, and reiterated Turkey’s earlier call for a no-flight zone and a buffer zone along the border. INSIDE TO DAY ’S PA P E R His comments highlighted a key sticking point between Turkey and Washington: President Obama wants Turkey to take stronger action against the Islamic State, while Mr. Erdogan wants the American effort to focus more on ousting Syria’s president, Bashar alAssad. Turkey has long supported the armed opposition to Mr. Assad. ‘‘There has to be cooperation with those who are fighting on the ground,’’ Mr. Erdogan said, addressing Syrian SYRIA, PAGE 4 TRACKING PAPER TRAILS IN SYRIAN WAR Several governments are financing investigators searching for evidence to use in future war crimes trials. PAGE 4 ONLINE AT INY T.COM 3 share Nobel for work on LEDs Listening to two jazz titans Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano of Japan and Shuji Nakamura of the University of California, Santa Barbara, were honored for a breakthrough on light-emitting diodes. WORLD NEWS, 8 On the interactive feature ‘‘Press Play,’’ a first chance to hear the new album by the piano-bass duo of Kenny Barron and Dave Holland, due out Oct. 14. nytimes.com/music Amazon’s tax deal investigated The legacy of Curt Flood When the baseball star rejected a trade in 1969, he helped spur a revolution that rippled beyond the national pastime. The European Commission is exploring whether Luxembourg illegally gave the American online retailer preferential tax treatment. BUSINESS, 17 nytimes.com/us Ferguson struggles to heal Nominee frustrates E.U. legislators Jonathan Hill, appointed to oversee financial markets, left some members of Parliament skeptical Tuesday about his suitability for the job. BUSINESS, 17 Indonesia’s eroding democracy Although Indonesians are losing their democratic rights, it is happening through democratic procedures, Elizabeth Pisani writes. 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Franc NEW YORK, TUESDAY 12:30PM €1= £1= $1= $1= PREVIOUS $1.2620 $1.2650 $1.6070 $1.6080 ¥108.320 ¥108.780 SF0.9610 SF0.9580 Full currenc y rates Pa ge 21 Almost two months after a police officer shot an unarmed black youth, Michael Brown, few of the deep grievances that divide the Missouri city have been resolved. nytimes.com/us The great wage slowdown The typical American family makes less than it did 15 years ago, a first since the Great Depression, David Leonhardt writes. nytimes.com/upshot STOCK INDEXES TUESDAY t The Dow 12:30pm 16,861.44 t FTSE 100 close 6,495.58 t Nikkei 225 close 15,783.83 OIL –0.77% –1.04% –0.67% NEW YORK, TUESDAY 12:30PM t Light sweet crude $89.39 –$0.05 As Europe confronts new signs of economic trouble, national leaders, policy makers and economists are starting to challenge as never before the guiding principle of the Continent’s response to six years of crisis, Germany’s insistence on budget austerity as a precondition to healthy growth. France this week stepped up what has become an open revolt by some of the eurozone’s bigger economies against Chancellor Angela Merkel’s continued demands for deficit reduction in the face of slowing growth. Italy has warned against too rigidly following Germany’s preferred approach. Even the president of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi, is pushing for Germany to loosen up and promote economic growth. The rift looms over European Union leaders as they meet at least three times this month, starting Wednesday in Milan with a discussion of high unemployment, particularly among the young, and the question of how to get their economies moving again. The rapidly evolving debate holds the potential to be a turning point after a long period in which Germany and Ms. Merkel have dominated European economic policy. On Tuesday, new signs emerged that Germany itself, the traditional growth engine of the eurozone, was on the verge of an economic downturn. ‘‘After going along with the damaging strategy of austerity in the hopes that Germany would eventually moderate its position, countries are now saying, ‘Enough is enough; we’re going to have to act to arrest the downward spiral in the economy,’’’ said Simon Tilford, the deputy director of the Center for European Reform in London. In another warning sign, the International Monetary Fund on Tuesday cut its forecast for growth in the 18-nation eurozone this year yet again, to just 0.8 percent from a 1.1 percent outlook six months ago, and cautioned that the region may slide back into its third recession in five years. The fund urged Germany in particular to ramp up spending to stimulate the economy at a time when it appears to be on a downward trajectory, with wider consequences for the euro union. Eurozone countries are ‘‘stuck’’ in low growth, Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, said in an interview. ‘‘That is clearly weighing on their perspectives going forward.’’ While still a firmly popular leader in her ninth year in power, Ms. Merkel is also under fire at home. In a new book, ‘‘The Germany Illusion,’’ one of Germany’s leading economists, Marcel Fratzscher, takes the government to task for declining to invest in infrastructure and failing to encourage private investment or foster a modern service sector that would yield better pay and thus fuel higher consumer spending. He also criticizes large German companies for directing ever more of their investment to Eastern Europe, Asia and the United States, rather than to the 18-nation eurozone. There are no signs so far that Ms. Merkel — or German companies — are likely to yield in any substantial way. The steps being sought by France and other advocates of change remain relatively modest: in essence, just slowing the pace at which they cut their budget deficits. A number of European nations, like EUROPE, PAGE 20 FABRIZIO BENSCH/REUTERS Chancellor Angela Merkel has held firm on demands for deficit reduction. GLOBAL ECONOMY AT RISK, I.M.F. WARNS The International Monetary Fund has cut its forecast because of stagnation in Europe and other problems. PAGE 17 Nurse who contracted Ebola in Spain raises worry for West BARCELONA, SPAIN BY RAPHAEL MINDER Spain intensified efforts on Tuesday to contain any spread of Ebola from an infected health worker as the government came under pressure from the political opposition and the European Union over its handling of the case. The patient, a nurse who has not been identified, is the first health worker to be infected with the Ebola virus outside West Africa, raising serious concerns about how prepared Western countries are to safely treat people with the deadly illness. She was described on Tuesday as being in stable condition at Carlos III Hospital in Madrid. The nurse contracted the illness while treating a Spanish missionary who was infected in Sierra Leone and flown to Carlos III, where he died on Sept. 25, the Spanish Health Ministry said on Monday. The priest, Manuel García Viejo, died three days after being flown back to Spain, and the nurse entered his room only twice, including once after his death, said Antonio Alemany, a health official from the regional government of Madrid. Her husband and two other people were quarantined, and monitoring was extended to an additional 50 who might have come into contact with the woman, SPAIN, PAGE 8
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