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A man killed two and injured six othersin western Finland in an attack notbeing treated as terrorism. PAGE A7

INTERNATIONAL A4-8

Stabbing Rampage in Finland

EUFAULA, Ala. — The facts ofSouthern history, according toBrad Griffin, are beyond dispute.

“It was a slave society,” he said.“They had white supremacy. Itwas definitely racist. This is thetruth.”

It is a truth long hammered byactivists who oppose the civic dis-play of monuments honoring theConfederacy. But Mr. Griffin, 36, isno such activist. He sees thewhite-dominated reactionaryideology of the antebellum Southnot as something to condemn butas a source of inspiration. Anavowed white nationalist, Mr.Griffin just last Saturday was inthe streets of Charlottesville, Va.,to protest the removal of a statueof Gen. Robert E. Lee.

For more than 150 years, the ex-altation and defense of Confeder-ate memory have been main-tained with remarkable persist-ence in everything from townsquare monuments and stateflags to seminal expressions ofAmerican culture like the films

“The Birth of a Nation” and “GoneWith the Wind.” In recent decades,the most visible defense has beenmounted by white Southernerswho argue that the statues andflags represent “heritage, not

hate,” an assertion that manyblacks, liberals and historianshave viewed skeptically.

But after the violent demon-strations last weekend in Char-lottesville, which left a 32-year-oldwoman dead, the complex inter-section of race, culture and South-

Monument Debate Spurs CallsFor a Reckoning in the South

This article is by Campbell Rob-ertson, Alan Blinder and RichardFausset.

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A 1966 civil rights march in theSouth faced Confederate flags.

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For a dozen years, hundreds ofNew York City teachers have beenpaid despite not having perma-nent jobs, sidelined in most casesbecause of disciplinary problemsor bad teaching records or be-cause they had worked in poorlyperforming schools that wereclosed or where enrollment de-clined.

This limbo was largely the re-sult of a deal that the Bloombergadministration struck with theteachers’ union to give principals

more control over who worked intheir schools. Under the deal,teachers could not simply be fired,so they were put in a pool knownas the Absent Teacher Reserve.

But now, saying the city cannotafford expenditures like the $150million it spent on salaries andbenefits for those in the reserve inthe last school year, the educationdepartment plans to place

roughly 400 teachers in class-rooms full time, possibly perma-nently. They will be placed inschools that still have jobs unfilledby mid-October. Principals willhave little, if any, say in the place-ments. Neither will the teachers.

The department, which an-nounced the plan in July, has in thepast deflected questions about themakeup of the pool. But on Friday,it released some data. Of the 822teachers in the reserve at the endof the last school year, 25 percenthad also been in it five years earli-er. Nearly half had been in it at the

New York City Redeploys Its Sidelined TeachersBy KATE TAYLOR $150 Million Spent on

Educators in Limbo

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The Under-40 Coaching Club

BRIDGEWATER, N.J. —Stephen K. Bannon, the embattledchief strategist who helped Presi-dent Trump win the 2016 electionby embracing their shared nation-alist impulses, departed the WhiteHouse on Friday after a turbulenttenure shaping the fiery populismof the president’s first sevenmonths in office.

Mr. Bannon’s exit, the latest in astring of high-profile West Wingshake-ups, came as Mr. Trump is

under fire for saying that “bothsides” were to blame for lastweek’s deadly violence in Char-lottesville, Va. Critics accused thepresident of channeling Mr. Ban-non when he equated white su-premacists and neo-Nazis withthe left-wing protesters who op-posed them.

“White House Chief of StaffJohn Kelly and Steve Bannonhave mutually agreed todaywould be Steve’s last day,” SarahHuckabee Sanders, the WhiteHouse press secretary, said in astatement. “We are grateful forhis service and wish him the best.”

Mr. Bannon’s outsize influenceon the president, captured in aFebruary cover of Time magazinewith the headline “The Great Ma-

BANNON, KEY VOICEOF POPULIST RIGHT,EXITS WHITE HOUSE

This article is by Maggie Ha-berman, Michael D. Shear andGlenn Thrush.

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Stephen K. Bannon, PresidentTrump’s ex-chief strategist.

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Divisive Top Aide IsForced Out Aftera Turbulent Run

Stephen K. Bannon has alwaysbeen more comfortable when hewas trying to tear down institu-tions — not work inside them.

With his return to BreitbartNews, Mr. Bannon will be free tolead the kind of ferocious assaulton the political establishment thathe relishes, even if sometimes thatmeans turning his wrath on theWhite House itself.

Hours after his ouster from theWest Wing, he was named to hisformer position of executivechairman at the hard-chargingright-wing website and led itsevening editorial meeting. AndMr. Bannon appeared eager tomove onto his next fight.

“In many ways, I think I can bemore effective fighting from theoutside for the agenda PresidentTrump ran on,” he said Friday.“And anyone who stands in ourway, we will go to war with.”

Among those already in Mr.Bannon’s sights: Speaker Paul D.Ryan; Senator Mitch McConnell,the majority leader; the presi-dent’s daughter Ivanka Trumpand son-in-law, Jared Kushner;and Gary D. Cohn, the formerpresident of Goldman Sachs whonow directs the White House’s Na-tional Economic Council.

“The president was buoyed toelection by capturing the heartsand minds of a populist, national-ist movement,” Alex Marlow,Breitbart’s editor in chief, said Fri-day evening. “A lot of it was anti-Wall Street, anti-corporatist, anti-establishment. And now we’reseeing that a lot of these guys re-maining inside the White Houseare exactly the opposite of whatwe told you you were going to get.”

Mr. Bannon’s long enemies listwill include anyone he deems hos-tile to the nationalist, conserva-tive agenda that he viewed him-self as the guardian of the WhiteHouse. And his most personalcauses will involve some the big-

Returning to Roleat Brash Websiteto Push Agenda

By JEREMY W. PETERSand MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM

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BARCELONA, Spain — Whenan earthshaking explosion onWednesday blew apart a houseoutside Alcanar, a town sur-rounded by olive groves and holi-day homes overlooking the Medi-terranean, the police first blamedit on a gas leak.

“Nothing ever happens here,”Mayor Alfons Monserrat said.

The Spanish police now believethat tiny Alcanar may have beenthe incubator for a conspiracy farmore ambitious than even the vanattacks in Catalonia that killed 14people and injured more than 80.All but one of the casualties oc-curred Thursday afternoon on theRamblas, Barcelona’s colorfulcentral thoroughfare. It wasSpain’s worst terrorist attack inmore than a decade, and the Is-lamic State has claimed responsi-bility.

The Alcanar blast, they suspect,was a mistake by the plotters, whohad intended to make a powerfulbomb, place it in a van and deto-nate it in the crowded center ofBarcelona. That plan disinte-grated along with at least 12 bu-tane gas canisters that were dis-covered in the ruins of the house inAlcanar on Wednesday night.

Four men have been detained inthe case, and three more who havebeen identified remain at large,according to Maj. Josep LluisTrapero, a senior police official inSpain’s Catalonia region. Investi-gators are still trying to determinethe full extent of the network. Fiveof the suspects are dead, at leastthree of them appearing to be soyoung that they could not havegrown beards. They were killedby the police during a second at-tack, in the seaside holiday townof Cambrils early Friday.

While some of the other recentEuropean terrorist attacks havebeen opportunistic hit and runs byindividuals acting on their own,this was a comparatively compli-cated plot that the police say in-volved at least two cells workingin several different locationsacross Catalonia.

The story also unfolded in Ri-poll, hometown of one of theyoung men, Moussa Oukabir, 17,

ATTACK IN SPAINFITS LARGER PLOT

More Ambitious SchemeSuspected in Network

This article is by Alissa J. Rubin,Patrick Kingsley and Palko Karasz.

Mourners on Friday on Las Ramblas, the site a day earlier of the deadliest terrorist attack in Spain in more than a decade.SAMUEL ARANDA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

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LONDON — A Belgian motherwas killed while on holiday withher husband and two young sons.So was an Italian father, as he heldthe hand of his 5-year-old son.

An American died, as did aSpaniard, and among those in-jured, some seriously, were peoplefrom Australia, France, Pakistan,Russia, Turkey, Taiwan and Vene-zuela.

The assailant who on Thursdaysteered a rented van down LasRamblas, the storied shopping

and tourist boulevard in Bar-celona, struck down people from34 countries around the world,killing at least 13 and injuringmore than 80, many of them stillunidentified. It was a gruesomeand horrifying assault thatquickly resonated across theglobe, because the victims werecitizens of the world.

Just as with previous Europeanterrorist attacks in Paris, Nice and

Brussels, the Barcelona carnageunderscored how modern-day ter-rorism tends to be as internationalas it is indiscriminate.

“They are trying to make astatement by attacking the Westin general, and by attacking big,cosmopolitan, Western cities,they are striking at the heart ofthat,” said Raffaello Pantucci, di-rector of International SecurityStudies at the Royal United Serv-ices Institute, a security-focusedresearch institute in London.

The driver of the white rentedvan raced down Las Ramblas,weaving and zigzagging to make

A Global Community of Victims in BarcelonaThis article is by Stephen Castle,

Elisabetta Povoledo and BenoîtMorenne.

Citizens of 34 NationsWere Struck Down

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THE ART WORLD WANTS A SAY As cities remove Confederate monu-ments, some are urging more dialogue and deliberation. PAGE A11

A villager with limited schooling hasbecome one of China’s most-read poets,her work hailed for its power. PAGE A4

The Chinese Emily DickinsonOff-duty New York police officers trav-eled to 61 slain officers’ funerals lastyear to comfort the grieving. PAGE A18

Brotherhood for the Fallen

Readers recommend essential booksthat offer hard-won advice on how toplan for old age. Your Money. PAGE B1

Lessons for Longevity

Wary of runaway debt, the governmentissued its strongest statement yet aboutlimiting overseas acquisitions by Chi-nese companies. PAGE B1

BUSINESS DAY B1-6

China Vows Business Blacklist

Under President Trump, memos show,the agency supported industrial use of apotentially harmful pesticide. PAGE A13

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‘New Day’ Promised at E.P.A.

A student’s death at football practicehas wrenched a Long Island communityand raised scrutiny of a drill. PAGE A17

NEW YORK A17-19

After a Young Player Dies

Yuvraj Singh Dhesi, better known asthe wrestler Jinder Mahal, is helpingthe W.W.E. attract fans from its next bigtarget wrestling market: India. PAGE C1

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