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APPLETON - Nearly $40 million in retirementfunds disappeared into thin air June 13 when theAppvion paper company was sold.

Longtime employees found out that day thattheir heroic e�orts to buy and save the company 17years ago may have ultimately cost them their nesteggs.

The amount lost varied among employees, withsome losing as much as $700,000, according to for-mer employees who were part of the ESOP, or em-ployee stock option plan, that was created in 2001.

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Agriculture interests are workingbehind the scenes with the admini-stration of Gov. Scott Walker as hemounts a major change in the waylarge livestock farms are regulated inWisconsin.

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It can cost as much as $20 to take acab from the Des Moines InternationalAirport to a hotel across the street.

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First in a series examining Iowa’s growingconnection and in uence with China.

BEIJING — The Iowan who has the ear of theleaders of two world superpowers stepped up to alectern inside a crowded living room of his sumptu-ous new home — half a world away from where hehad spent most of his 70 years.

On a late September evening, Terry Branstad,Iowa’s longest-serving governor and the UnitedStates’ newest ambassador to China, addressed anelite cocktail-party crowd of more than 100 Chinesedignitaries, expats and visiting Americans.

“Welcome to the governor’s … no,” he interruptedhimself with a chuckle and shake of his head. “Ikind of fell back into my old habits there.

“Welcome to the ambassador’s residence in Beij-ing, China.”

Branstad’s mild misstep was a reminder of theimprobable path that took him from a marathontenure as the folksy governor of a landlocked Mid-western state to his current and much more exotic

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ComingWednesdayIowa farm family’smultigenerational journeyand U.S. beef’s return toChina show the stakesbetween superpowers.

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Phil Roberts knows better than most that looks can be deceiving.

Outdoor dining, federal bail-out money and takeout service have allowed him to keep the doors open at Salut, Manny’s Steakhouse, Good Earth and other Twin Cities-area restau-rants he and his partners own.

But profits? Forget about it.“It’s carnage out there,”

Roberts said. “People think that if restaurants are doing takeout that things are fine. But we’re not.”

And things are likely to get worse.

Outdoor dining, which allowed many restaurants to limp through an otherwise dreary summer, will soon end. State-mandated capacity restrictions at bars and restau-rants remain in place, and luring customers indoors while a pan-demic continues to rage across the state could be a tall order.

Help, in the form of more aid from Washington, appears unlikely to arrive soon.

About 100,000 restaurants have shut down since March, according to the National

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GETTYSBURG, S.D. – Selwyn Jones moved to his wife’s hometown of Gettysburg, S.D., four years ago, bought a motel and settled in for a quiet life in the country.

But not long after his nephew, George Floyd, was killed by Minneapolis police in May, Jones found himself an unlikely voice for social justice. The first time, it was amid a throng of television cameras in downtown Minneapolis decrying his nephew’s death. Not long after, Jones led the charge to remove Confederate flag-adorned patches from the uni-forms of Gettysburg police.

Finding that voice came at a cost.The backlash against Jones, who is Black, was

immediate as hundreds of people from the town of 1,162 and elsewhere took to Facebook calling for the flag’s return. They attacked both him and his late nephew, and eventually, the personal jabs evolved into attacks on Black Lives Matter (BLM) and the broader call for racial equity.

“What I know is power and control showed up: ‘We’re not going to do anything to change the patch because a Black guy that got murdered [has an uncle who lives] in our town,’ ” Jones said on a

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A Confederate flag flew outside a home in Gettysburg, S.D., which has four Black residents.

“There’s progress in every place of the world — every nook and cranny — except in my little town.”

Selwyn Jones, below, with his 7-year-old daughter Kashera in Gettysburg, S.D.

Tired of guidelines, people in Minnesota, neighboring states let guard down.

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Minnesota reported more

than 1,500 newly confirmed coronavirus infections on Saturday, a record high for new cases that comes amid worries about the sharp rise in COVID-19 counts in neigh-boring states.

The tally, off one of the highest single-day test totals, reflects significant virus transmission across the state at a time other pandemic indi-cators are signaling trouble, health officials said.

State data released last week showed that the number of COVID-19 patients in hospi-tals has been increasing. The average age of those infected is starting to rise as well, and

more cases are being found in long-term care workers.

“I think a lot of people are worried that the Upper Midwest is becoming a real hot spot,” said Dr. Timothy Schacker, the vice dean for research at the University of Minnesota Medical School.

“In Minnesota, the hospi-talization rate appears to be climbing. So people are wor-ried we’re making the shift with coronavirus from the 20-year-olds to the 70-year-olds again.”

As case rates in three neigh-boring states led the nation last week, Minnesota ranked No. 17 in population-adjusted case growth over a recent seven-day period, according to a tracking website from Brown Univer-sity. North and South Dakota and Wisconsin reported more than 40 new cases each day per 100,000 people, whereas the Minnesota rate was about 20

Case record fuels worrystatewide

By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG New York Times

WASHINGTON – Pressure is mounting on the leaders of the Centers for Disease Con-trol and Prevention — from inside and outside the agency — to speak publicly against the White House’s manhandling of CDC research and public health decisions, with career scientists so demoralized they are talking of quitting if President Donald Trump wins re-election.

The situation came to a boiling point last week when William Foege, a giant in pub-lic health who led the CDC under Democratic and Repub-lican presidents, called for its

current director, Dr. Robert Redfield, to “stand up to a bully” — he meant Trump — even at the risk of being fired.

“Silence becomes complic-ity,” he said in an interview after a private letter he wrote to Red-field leaked to the news media.

Redfield further infuriated public health experts by issuing a memo, released by the White House, that cleared Vice Presi-dent Mike Pence to participate in the vice presidential debate Wednesday, even as the White House became a coronavirus hot spot. Nearly a dozen cur-rent and former CDC officials — including six who still work there — called the letter highly

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Leaders in Minnesota’s Democratic and Republican parties say they are lining up lawyers and marshaling resources for what is expected to be a protracted, high-stakes legal battle over the results of the upcoming election.

The mobilization is being spurred by President Don-ald Trump’s criticism of the unprecedented growth of mail-in voting — and his unwilling-ness to assure voters he would concede a loss to Democratic challenger Joe Biden.

The stakes are particu-larly acute in potential battle-ground states like Minnesota, the scene of a bitter recount battle in the 2008 Senate race between Al Franken and Norm Coleman, one of the closest races in Senate history, and one fought largely over con-tested absentee ballots.

“The situation with Norm Coleman and Al Franken and that U.S. Senate seat, that’s a haunting memory for many Minnesota Republicans, and we want to make sure we don’t see ourselves in that situation this year,” said Jennifer Carna-

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Viet Cong bullets pinged o� the Cold Spring Granite in the lobby of the new U.S.

Embassy in Saigon. � It was Jan. 31, 1968, and 20-year-old Sgt. Ronald Harper, a

Central Minnesota native, could hear the voices of enemy combatants seeking to

break into the building with rocket-propelled grenades and AK-47 assault ri�es. � Dust

and smoke �lled the air that �rst night of the Tet O�ensive, a key moment in the Vietnam

War marked by Viet Cong attacks throughout U.S.-backed South Vietnam.

Five Americans and 19 of 20 Viet Cong guerrillasdied in the �ght at the Embassy. Harper earned aBronze Star for his service.

Historians describe the Embassy attack and en-tire Tet O�ensive as a turning point in favor of theNorth Vietnamese and against America. It showedthe war was far from over. Amid growing anti-warsentiment, President Lyndon B. Johnson just twomonths later would call for talks to end the war andannounce he would not seek re-election.

Now, 50 years after that attack, Harper runs hisown business, Quality Appliance & TV Center, inWaite Park.He thinks regularly of that long night inVietnam.

He remembers the comfort of a mid-�ght ciga-rette provided by the Embassy’s Vietnamese nightwatchman after Harper pulled him from the fray.And he remembers the Americans who died at theEmbassy.

“When my son went to Iraq (in 2009), it was onmy mind daily,” Harper said, choking up.

The veteran, now 70, went on to have nine chil-dren with his wife, Cathy. The son who served inIraq, Harper said, “he’ll be my successor at thestore.”

Harper smiles easily as he talks about his work,family and life in the military and after it. He grewup in Cambridge, an hour east of St. Cloud and anhour north of the Twin Cities.

Ron Harper reflects on his service in Vietnam during an interview in St. Cloud on Jan. 18. Harper was part of the MarineCorps security forces assigned to guard the U.S. Embassy in Saigon during the Tet Offensive in 1968. DAVE SCHWARZ, DSCHWARZ@STCLOUDTIMES.COM

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