U(D54G1D)y+@!&!.!#!_ A man killed two and injured six others in western Finland in an attack not being treated as terrorism. PAGE A7 INTERNATIONAL A4-8 Stabbing Rampage in Finland EUFAULA, Ala. — The facts of Southern history, according to Brad Griffin, are beyond dispute. “It was a slave society,” he said. “They had white supremacy. It was definitely racist. This is the truth.” It is a truth long hammered by activists who oppose the civic dis- play of monuments honoring the Confederacy. But Mr. Griffin, 36, is no such activist. He sees the white-dominated reactionary ideology of the antebellum South not as something to condemn but as a source of inspiration. An avowed white nationalist, Mr. Griffin just last Saturday was in the streets of Charlottesville, Va., to protest the removal of a statue of 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 town square monuments and state flags to seminal expressions of American culture like the films “The Birth of a Nation” and “Gone With the Wind.” In recent decades, the most visible defense has been mounted by white Southerners who argue that the statues and flags represent “heritage, not hate,” an assertion that many blacks, liberals and historians have viewed skeptically. But after the violent demon- strations last weekend in Char- lottesville, which left a 32-year-old woman dead, the complex inter- section of race, culture and South- Monument Debate Spurs Calls For a Reckoning in the South This article is by Campbell Rob- ertson, Alan Blinder and Richard Fausset. Continued on Page A10 A 1966 civil rights march in the South faced Confederate flags. ASSOCIATED PRESS For a dozen years, hundreds of New York City teachers have been paid despite not having perma- nent jobs, sidelined in most cases because of disciplinary problems or bad teaching records or be- cause they had worked in poorly performing schools that were closed or where enrollment de- clined. This limbo was largely the re- sult of a deal that the Bloomberg administration struck with the teachers’ union to give principals more control over who worked in their schools. Under the deal, teachers could not simply be fired, so they were put in a pool known as the Absent Teacher Reserve. But now, saying the city cannot afford expenditures like the $150 million it spent on salaries and benefits for those in the reserve in the last school year, the education department plans to place roughly 400 teachers in class- rooms full time, possibly perma- nently. They will be placed in schools that still have jobs unfilled by mid-October. Principals will have little, if any, say in the place- ments. Neither will the teachers. The department, which an- nounced the plan in July, has in the past deflected questions about the makeup of the pool. But on Friday, it released some data. Of the 822 teachers in the reserve at the end of the last school year, 25 percent had also been in it five years earli- er. Nearly half had been in it at the New York City Redeploys Its Sidelined Teachers By KATE TAYLOR $150 Million Spent on Educators in Limbo Continued on Page A18 In Germany, teams are increasingly using academies not only to find prom- ising players but also to discover tal- ented young coaches. PAGE D1 SPORTSSATURDAY D1-5 The Under-40 Coaching Club BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — Stephen K. Bannon, the embattled chief strategist who helped Presi- dent Trump win the 2016 election by embracing their shared nation- alist impulses, departed the White House on Friday after a turbulent tenure shaping the fiery populism of the president’s first seven months in office. Mr. Bannon’s exit, the latest in a string of high-profile West Wing shake-ups, came as Mr. Trump is under fire for saying that “both sides” were to blame for last week’s deadly violence in Char- lottesville, Va. Critics accused the president of channeling Mr. Ban- non when he equated white su- premacists and neo-Nazis with the left-wing protesters who op- posed them. “White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and Steve Bannon have mutually agreed today would be Steve’s last day,” Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, said in a statement. “We are grateful for his service and wish him the best.” Mr. Bannon’s outsize influence on the president, captured in a February cover of Time magazine with the headline “The Great Ma- BANNON, KEY VOICE OF POPULIST RIGHT, EXITS WHITE HOUSE This article is by Maggie Ha- berman, Michael D. Shear and Glenn Thrush. Continued on Page A14 Stephen K. Bannon, President Trump’s ex-chief strategist. DOUG MILLS/THE NEW YORK TIMES Divisive Top Aide Is Forced Out After a Turbulent Run Stephen K. Bannon has always been more comfortable when he was trying to tear down institu- tions — not work inside them. With his return to Breitbart News, Mr. Bannon will be free to lead the kind of ferocious assault on the political establishment that he relishes, even if sometimes that means turning his wrath on the White House itself. Hours after his ouster from the West Wing, he was named to his former position of executive chairman at the hard-charging right-wing website and led its evening editorial meeting. And Mr. Bannon appeared eager to move onto his next fight. “In many ways, I think I can be more effective fighting from the outside for the agenda President Trump ran on,” he said Friday. “And anyone who stands in our way, 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 Trump and son-in-law, Jared Kushner; and Gary D. Cohn, the former president of Goldman Sachs who now directs the White House’s Na- tional Economic Council. “The president was buoyed to election by capturing the hearts and 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’re seeing that a lot of these guys re- maining inside the White House are exactly the opposite of what we told you you were going to get.” Mr. Bannon’s long enemies list will include anyone he deems hos- tile to the nationalist, conserva- tive agenda that he viewed him- self as the guardian of the White House. And his most personal causes will involve some the big- Returning to Role at Brash Website to Push Agenda By JEREMY W. PETERS and MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM Continued on Page A14 BARCELONA, Spain — When an earthshaking explosion on Wednesday blew apart a house outside Alcanar, a town sur- rounded by olive groves and holi- day homes overlooking the Medi- terranean, the police first blamed it on a gas leak. “Nothing ever happens here,” Mayor Alfons Monserrat said. The Spanish police now believe that tiny Alcanar may have been the incubator for a conspiracy far more ambitious than even the van attacks in Catalonia that killed 14 people and injured more than 80. All but one of the casualties oc- curred Thursday afternoon on the Ramblas, Barcelona’s colorful central thoroughfare. It was Spain’s worst terrorist attack in more than a decade, and the Is- lamic State has claimed responsi- bility. The Alcanar blast, they suspect, was a mistake by the plotters, who had intended to make a powerful bomb, place it in a van and deto- nate it in the crowded center of Barcelona. That plan disinte- grated along with at least 12 bu- tane gas canisters that were dis- covered in the ruins of the house in Alcanar on Wednesday night. Four men have been detained in the case, and three more who have been identified remain at large, according to Maj. Josep Lluis Trapero, a senior police official in Spain’s Catalonia region. Investi- gators are still trying to determine the full extent of the network. Five of the suspects are dead, at least three of them appearing to be so young that they could not have grown beards. They were killed by the police during a second at- tack, in the seaside holiday town of Cambrils early Friday. While some of the other recent European terrorist attacks have been opportunistic hit and runs by individuals acting on their own, this was a comparatively compli- cated plot that the police say in- volved at least two cells working in several different locations across Catalonia. The story also unfolded in Ri- poll, hometown of one of the young men, Moussa Oukabir, 17, ATTACK IN SPAIN FITS LARGER PLOT More Ambitious Scheme Suspected 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 Continued on Page A6 LONDON — A Belgian mother was killed while on holiday with her husband and two young sons. So was an Italian father, as he held the hand of his 5-year-old son. An American died, as did a Spaniard, and among those in- jured, some seriously, were people from Australia, France, Pakistan, Russia, Turkey, Taiwan and Vene- zuela. The assailant who on Thursday steered a rented van down Las Ramblas, the storied shopping and tourist boulevard in Bar- celona, struck down people from 34 countries around the world, killing at least 13 and injuring more than 80, many of them still unidentified. It was a gruesome and horrifying assault that quickly resonated across the globe, because the victims were citizens of the world. Just as with previous European terrorist attacks in Paris, Nice and Brussels, the Barcelona carnage underscored how modern-day ter- rorism tends to be as international as it is indiscriminate. “They are trying to make a statement by attacking the West in general, and by attacking big, cosmopolitan, Western cities, they are striking at the heart of that,” said Raffaello Pantucci, di- rector of International Security Studies at the Royal United Serv- ices Institute, a security-focused research institute in London. The driver of the white rented van raced down Las Ramblas, weaving and zigzagging to make A Global Community of Victims in Barcelona This article is by Stephen Castle, Elisabetta Povoledo and Benoît Morenne. Citizens of 34 Nations Were Struck Down Continued on Page A7 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 has become one of China’s most-read poets, her work hailed for its power. PAGE A4 The Chinese Emily Dickinson Off-duty New York police officers trav- eled to 61 slain officers’ funerals last year to comfort the grieving. PAGE A18 Brotherhood for the Fallen Readers recommend essential books that offer hard-won advice on how to plan for old age. Your Money. PAGE B1 Lessons for Longevity Wary of runaway debt, the government issued its strongest statement yet about limiting 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 a potentially harmful pesticide. PAGE A13 NATIONAL A9-15 ‘New Day’ Promised at E.P.A. A student’s death at football practice has wrenched a Long Island community and raised scrutiny of a drill. PAGE A17 NEW YORK A17-19 After a Young Player Dies Yuvraj Singh Dhesi, better known as the wrestler Jinder Mahal, is helping the W.W.E. attract fans from its next big target wrestling market: India. PAGE C1 ARTS C1-6 And in This Corner . . . Bret Stephens PAGE A21 EDITORIAL, OP-ED A20-21 THIS WEEKEND ADRIA MALCOLM FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Judi Sepulveda in Artesia, N.M., at the Border Patrol Academy, which is stressing safety. Page A9. New Focus at Border Patrol Late Edition VOL. CLXVI . . . No. 57,694 © 2017 The New York Times Company NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 2017 Today, periodic clouds and sunshine, warm, high 87. Tonight, mostly clear, low 70. 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