CMYK Nxxx,2014-11-11,A,001,Bs-BK,E2 Late Edition Today, clouds and sun, a mild afternoon, high 64. Tonight, mostly cloudy, areas of fog, low 55. Tomorrow, clouds, fog, then some sun, high 65. Weather map, Page A28. VOL. CLXIV . . . No. 56,682 $2.50 NEW YORK, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2014 © 2014 The New York Times PRESIDENT TELLS F.C.C. TO ENSURE OPEN INTERNET Militant Group In Egypt Vows Loyalty to ISIS Milestone for Islamic State Widens Reach STRICT NET NEUTRALITY Push for Tough Rules Is Denounced by Web Providers By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK CAIRO — They have slaughtered hundreds of Egyptian soldiers and police officers, recruited experienced fighters and staged increasingly sophisticated raids from the Western desert to the Sinai Peninsula. They have beheaded informants and killed an American in a carjacking, say Western officials familiar with intelligence reports. On Monday, Egypt’s most dangerous militant group, Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, also pledged obedience to the organization that calls itself the Islamic State, becoming its first significant international affiliate in the bet that the link will provide new money, weapons and recruits to battle the government in Cairo. The affiliation could pull the militant group away from its current, almost exclusive focus on attacking Egyptian military and security forces toward the Islamic State’s indiscriminate mass killings of civilians. The pledge alone could undermine the government’s efforts to win the trust of Western tourists, a vital source of hard currency. The decision injects the Islamic State into the most populous and historically most influential Arab nation, a milestone weeks into an American-led bombing campaign against its strongholds in Syria and Iraq. The endorsement is a major victory for the Islamic State in its rivalry with Al Qaeda — a group with deep Egyptian Continued on Page A14 By EDWARD WYATT POOL PHOTO BY MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV In Beijing, Summit Pageantry President Obama joined peers in Chinese garb on Monday, starting a visit focusing on his ties to President Xi Jinping. Page A12. It’s Official: Mormon Founder Had Many Wives 11 Years Later, Death Is Tied To G.M. Defect By LAURIE GOODSTEIN Mormon leaders have acknowledged for the first time that the church’s founder and prophet, Joseph Smith, portrayed in church materials as a loyal partner to his loving spouse Emma, took as many as 40 wives, some already married and one only 14 years old. The church’s disclosures, in a series of essays online, are part of an effort to be transparent about its history at a time when church members are increasingly encountering disturbing claims about the faith on the Internet. Many Mormons, especially those with polygamous ancestors, say they were well aware that Smith’s successor, Brigham Young, practiced polygamy when he led the flock in Salt Lake City. But they did not know the full truth about Smith. ANDREW RENNEISEN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES A Modern Twist on Audubon Prints Murals in Manhattan depict birds threatened by climate change. The Appraisal. Page A26. “Joseph Smith was presented to me as a practically perfect prophet, and this is true for a lot of people,” said Emily Jensen, a blogger and editor in Farmington, Utah, who often writes about Mormon issues. She said the reaction of some Mormons to the church’s disclosures resembled the five stages of grief in which the first stage is denial, and the second is anger. Members are saying on blogs and social media, “This is not the church I grew up with, this is not the Joseph Smith I love,” Ms. Jensen said. Smith probably did not have sexual relations with all of his wives, because some were “sealed” to him only for the next life, according to the essays posted by the church. But for his first wife, Emma, polygamy was “an excruciating ordeal.” The four treatises on polygamy reflect a new resolve by a church long accused of secrecy to respond with openness to the kind of thorny historical and theological issues that are causing some to become disillusioned or even to abandon the faith. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as the Mormon Church is formally known, has quietly posted 12 essays on its website over the last year on contentious topics such as the ban on blacks in the priesthood, which was lifted in 1978, and accounts of how Smith translated the Book of Mormon, the church’s sacred scripture. Elder Steven E. Snow, the Continued on Page A18 By RACHEL ABRAMS WASHINGTON, Conn. — Jean P. Averill warranted only a footnote. Her death in a car crash in 2003 appeared at the bottom of page 103 in the 315-page internal report on the failure of General Motors to disclose a deadly safety defect in millions of its small cars. And even then Ms. Averill’s name was blackened out in the version of the report released to the public. But the unredacted report, a copy of which was reviewed by a person not authorized to disclose it publicly, as well as interviews and an examination of federal regulatory correspondence, show that Ms. Averill looms large in the ignition-switch safety crisis that has engulfed the automaker this year. She was among the 13 victims that G.M.’s legal department linked to the defect, The New York Times has found. In fact, her death in December 2003 was the earliest such fatality the company logged on its books, and the first to involve a Saturn Ion. Vehicles with the defective switch can suddenly turn off, making it difficult for drivers to maintain control and disabling airbags. Yet even today, Ms. Averill’s family says, G.M. has not told it Continued on Page B4 WASHINGTON — In his most direct effort yet to influence the debate about the Internet’s future, President Obama said on Monday that a free and open Internet was as critical to Americans’ lives as electricity and telephone service and should be regulated like those utilities to protect consumers. The Federal Communications Commission, Mr. Obama said, needs to adopt the strictest rules possible to prevent broadband companies from blocking or intentionally slowing down legal content and from allowing content providers to pay for a fast lane to reach consumers. That approach, he said, demands thinking about both wired and wireless broadband service as a public utility. “For almost a century, our law has recognized that companies who connect you to the world have special obligations not to exploit the monopoly they enjoy over access into and out of your home or business,” Mr. Obama, who is traveling in Asia, said in a statement and a video on the White House website. “It is common sense that the same philosophy should guide any service that is based on the transmission of information — whether a phone call or a packet of data.” The president’s move was widely interpreted as giving political support to Tom Wheeler, the F.C.C. chairman. Mr. Wheeler is close to settling on a plan to protect an open Internet, often known as net neutrality, and Mr. Obama’s statement could push him to adopt a more aggressive approach. Any set of rules needs three votes from the five-member commission, which now has three Democrats and two Republicans. The debate may hinge on whether Internet access is considered a necessity, like electricity, or more of an often-costly option, like cable TV. [Page B2.] The proposal was hailed by Internet content companies like Netflix, Democrats in Congress and consumer advocacy groups. But the leading providers of Internet access, increasingly dependent on revenue from broadband subscriptions, quickly denounced the proposal. Republicans and some investment groups also spoke out against the plan, saying the regulation was Continued on Page B2 Homeless, Because They Are Abused at Home For Guccifer, Hacking Was Easy. Prison Is Hard. By MIREYA NAVARRO First came Hurricane Sandy, which left her homeless for a time. Then came the live-in boyfriend, who battered her. Now the 44-year-old mother of three young children is homeless again, forced into a shelter by the abuse and trapped there by poverty and the paucity of living op- tions in a city woefully short on affordable housing. She worked as a hairdresser, and her clients were in her old neighborhood. But so was the exboyfriend, said the woman, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. “My best bet,” she said, “is not to go back.” Having walked away, victims of abuse are often left with no place to live and little means of support, and frequently end up homeless. In New York, this has helped drive the shelter population to a record high, with more than a quarter of all families in shelters citing abuse as the cause for their stay, city officials said. And, nationwide, many cities report a similar experience. The scourge of violence within families has emerged as a priority on the housing agenda of MayContinued on Page A27 By ANDREW HIGGINS ARAD, Romania — He reveled in tormenting members of the Bush family, Colin L. Powell and a host of other prominent Americans, and also in outfoxing the F.B.I. and the Secret Service, foiling their efforts to discover even his nationality, never mind his identity. Early this year, however, the elusive online outlaw known NATIONAL A16-21 NEW YORK A22-27 Goals for Health Program Doctor Is Now Free of Ebola The administration estimates that by the end of 2015, 9.1 million people will be covered; the Congressional Budget OfPAGE A18 fice predicts 13 million. Dr. Craig Spencer, the first person in New York City to test positive for the virus, is free of it after treatment and will be released from Bellevue Hospital CenPAGE A23 ter, officials said. Clash on Climate Change The new Republican Congress is headed for a battle with the White House over PAGE A20 two carbon pollution rules. BUSINESS DAY B1-10 A Billion-Dollar Divorce The judgment against Harold Hamm, an Oklahoma oilman who made billions in the shale-rich plains of North Dakota, is PAGE B1 one of the biggest in history. Bankrolling Terror Attacks A lawsuit accuses several European banks of helping to finance violence against Americans in Iraq. PAGE B1 Clinic Faulted in Rivers’s Case INTERNATIONAL A4-14 Mali Thwarts Ebola Outbreak Using old-fashioned detective work, public health workers in Mali believe they have limited the country’s Ebola PAGE A10 outbreak to one person. Bomb Kills Dozens in Nigeria A suicide bomber attacked a boarding school in northern Nigeria, killing nearly 50 boys from 10 to 20 years old, offiPAGE A4 cials and witnesses said. Holocaust Diarist’s Memories Doyle New York won’t sell Mary Berg’s personal mementos after all. PAGE C1 SCIENCE TIMES D1-6 How Little We Know Research on the brain is surging, but the resulting data are highlighting the gaps in the understanding of what it PAGE D1 means to think. EDITORIAL, OP-ED A30-31 SPORTSTUESDAY B11-15 ARTS C1-8 Doctors treating Joan Rivers didn’t notice her deteriorating vital signs for about 15 minutes before she went into cardiac arrest, a report said. PAGE A22 Baseball’s Cuban Pipeline Jose Abreu is the latest example of a Cuban free agent rising quickly to stardom at a reasonable price. PAGE B11 David Brooks PAGE A31 U(D54G1D)y+[!.!$!#![ as Guccifer lost his cocky composure and began to panic. He smashed his hard drive and cellphone with an ax. That spasm of precautionary destruction, at his home in Romania’s rural Transylvania region, did not help him much — especially as he left pieces of what would later become evidence scattered in the mud. Two weeks later, on Jan. 22, a global hunt for the celebrated and mysterious hacker who first revealed self-portraits painted by George W. Bush and plundered a trove of personal emails from politicians, military officers and celebrities finally ended in an early morning raid of his home. “I was expecting them, but the shock was still very big for me,” the hacker, now serving a sevenyear sentence, said. He spoke in an interview, his first, at the Arad Continued on Page A8