U(D54G1D)y+z!.!.!=!/ LA PAZ, Colombia — The town’s name is Spanish for “peace.” The days to come will test how accurate that is. After a half-century of war, Co- lombia’s rebels are disarming, preparing to enter civilian life un- der the peace accord signed last year. In this mountain town, a new settlement of former fighters, 80 strong and growing, is taking shape, one of many scattered across the country. Gone are most of the uniforms, replaced with the kind of clothes worn by the townspeople who live nearby and watch warily. The tents and their wooden poles will be swept aside too, replaced with a small library, a community cen- ter, a store — a town in miniature, a steppingstone out of the jungle. “We’ve spent 52 years in ham- mocks,” said the fighters’ com- mander, who still uses his nom de guerre, Aldemar Altamiranda. “It’s time we moved into tiny houses.” Across the country, an estimat- ed 7,000 rebels with the Revolu- tionary Armed Forces of Co- lombia, or FARC, will hand their guns to United Nations monitors this year. The weapons will be melted down and shaped into war monuments. The FARC, too, hopes to transform, becoming a political group representing the left, like those that emerged after the guerrilla wars of Nicaragua and El Salvador. The settlement in La Paz, called Tierra Grata, is the vanguard of the effort to carry out Colombia’s disputed peace accord. The deal was struck down by a popular vote late last year, only to be forced through Congress by Presi- dent Juan Manuel Santos, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for pursuing an end to decades of con- flict. But the president’s decision to put the deal in front of voters — and then simply sidestep them when he did not like the outcome — is a bitter pill for many Co- lombians, leaving the future of the accord uncertain should Mr. San- tos’s opponents take power when he leaves office next year. La Paz is clear evidence of the country’s lingering divisions: While the referendum was sup- ported here, four in 10 residents Unease in Colombia, as Old Enemies Become New Neighbors By NICHOLAS CASEY A settlement in La Paz, one of many in Colombia for former rebels preparing to enter civilian life. FEDERICO RIOS ESCOBAR FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Continued on Page A8 ATLANTA — The most arrest- ing vista in town comes into view around a curve on westbound Freedom Parkway, on the periph- ery of downtown. The road crests just before it intersects Boule- vard, at a traffic light that always seems to glow red, as if to allow motorists a minute to savor the panorama before them. The striking thing is not the majesty of the skyline but its accessibility — here I am, the city beckons, come and gawk. For from that vantage point, Atlanta just is: a hip-hop mecca, the cradle of the civil rights movement, a magnet for trans- plants, a college football locus, the shimmering capital of the South, and more. All of which are accurate but still do not capture the city’s nuances. “I don’t think people under- stand Atlanta,” Doug Hertz said. Aside from his schooling at Tulane, in New Orleans, Hertz, 64, has lived here his entire life, which makes him a rarity. The city teems with people who moved here for work, school, family, or just to live nearer to the spinach and sausage meat- loaf at Murphy’s. They have contributed to a booming growth — the metropolitan area’s di- verse population has swelled to more than 5.7 million, an in- crease of more than 1.46 million since 2000 — that over the past few decades has also shaped Atlanta’s layered relationship with its sports teams. Hertz is a limited partner of the Falcons, who on Sunday will play the New England Patriots in the team’s second Super Bowl appearance since its inception in 1966. They last reached the championship game in the 1998 season, losing to the Denver Broncos, when I was a freshman at Emory University here and, more to the point, was one of those people Hertz was talking about, struggling to understand Atlanta. That September, I joined sur- prising brigades of Philadelphia Eagles fans invading the Georgia Dome for the Falcons’ home opener. Not even three weeks Its Sports Fandom Evolving, Atlanta Chases Football Glory By BEN SHPIGEL ESSAY Continued on Page D3 Just days before his inaugura- tion, President-elect Donald J. Trump stood beside his tax lawyer at a Midtown Manhattan news conference as she announced that he planned to place his vast busi- ness holdings in a trust, a move she said would allay fears that he might exploit the Oval Office for personal gain. However, a number of ques- tions were left unanswered — in- cluding who would ultimately benefit from the trust — raising concerns about just how meaning- ful the move was. Now, records have emerged that show just how closely tied Mr. Trump remains to the empire he built. While the president says he has walked away from the day-to-day Records Show Trump Is Still Tied to Empire By SUSANNE CRAIG and ERIC LIPTON Continued on Page A15 IRANIAN RESPONSE Iran will bar the United States wrestling team from a major international meet this month. PAGE D1 President Trump on Friday moved to chisel away at the Obama administration’s legacy on financial regulation, announcing steps to revisit the rules enacted after the 2008 financial crisis and to back away from a measure in- tended to protect consumers from bad investment advice. After a White House meeting with executives from Wall Street, Mr. Trump signed a directive aimed at the Dodd-Frank Act, crafted by the Obama administra- tion and passed by Congress in re- sponse to the 2008 meltdown. He also signed a memorandum that paves the way for reversing a pol- icy, known as the fiduciary rule, that requires brokers to act in a client’s best interest, rather than seek the highest profits for them- selves, when providing retire- ment advice. The executive order affecting Dodd-Frank is vague in its word- ing and expansive in its reach. It never mentions the law by name, instead laying out “core princi- ples” for regulations that include empowering American investors and enhancing the competitive- ness of American companies. Even so, it gives the Treasury the authority to restructure major provisions of Dodd-Frank, and it directs the Treasury secretary to make sure existing laws align with administration goals. TRUMP VOWS CUTS IN WALL ST. RULES FROM OBAMA ERA TARGETING DODD-FRANK President Says Investors Will Gain, but Critics See Gift to Banks By BEN PROTESS and JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS President Trump ordered a re- view of financial regulations. POOL PHOTO BY AUDE GUERRUCCI Continued on Page A10 To an angry public, François Fillon’s nepotism scandal highlights how out of touch elected officials are. PAGE A6 INTERNATIONAL A3-8 France’s ‘Penelopegate’ Drug use in Punjab State is fueling anti-incumbent sentiment and a new party’s rising fortunes. PAGE A8 Heroin Becomes Indian Crisis New tests showed that the lead levels in various water outlets in city schools were much worse than previously reported. PAGE A17 NEW YORK A17-18 School Water Problems Persist The rivalry in curling between the Scots and the Americans played out at a Westchester club. PAGE A17 Friendly Relations on the Ice Paul Tagliabue, the N.F.L.’s commis- sioner for 17 years, left a flawed legacy, Michael Powell writes. PAGE D1 SPORTSSATURDAY D1-5 A Concussion Complication A new production of opera’s answer to the “Little Mermaid” tale turns it into a dark and sexy hit. A review. PAGE C1 ARTS C1-6 A Torrid ‘Rusalka’ at the Met While employers added 227,000 work- ers in January, an unexpectedly large gain, pay growth was meager despite more minimum-wage laws. The jobless rate rose to 4.8 percent. PAGE B1 BUSINESS DAY B1-6 Jobs Surge, but Wages Don’t With a growing support network of brokers, distributors and investors, Boulder has allowed innovative start- ups to challenge the old guard in the food industry. PAGE B1 Foodie Haven in Colorado Gail Collins PAGE A21 EDITORIAL, OP-ED A20-21 THIS WEEKEND The Museum of Modern Art is staging a protest with art over the Trump admin- istration’s immigration policy. PAGE C1 MoMA Takes a Political Stand Decades before President Trump nominated him to be labor secretary, Andrew Puzder went to battle with federal labor regula- tors in a Las Vegas courtroom. The year was 1983, and Mr. Puzder was working at a law firm owned by a famous mob lawyer and casino owner whom the Labor Department accused of squander- ing $25 million from his union workers’ pension funds on sham investments. It fell to Mr. Puzder to lead the defense, which he framed in ag- gressively antigovernment terms. In his opening statement, Mr. Puzder told the jury it was not his boss’s fault for not paying back the money — it was overzealous regu- lators in Washington who had killed off a good business deal by intervening before his invest- ments could succeed, he said. “We should not be required to pay for the mistakes of the De- partment of Labor” and the union, Mr. Puzder said, according to The Las Vegas Review-Journal. The jury did not buy it. Mr. Puzder’s boss, Morris A. Shenker, was hit with a $34 million judg- ment and filed for bankruptcy. More than three decades later, the lawyers who represented the Labor Department in the case re- call Mr. Puzder as bright and ca- pable, but they still marvel that he blamed government regulators. “I personally find there is some irony in him being nominated to be the secretary of labor,” said Daly D. E. Temchine, the lead law- yer in the case for the Department of Labor. “Back then, he repre- sented a guy who thought it was O.K. to screw his employees.” As it turned out, Mr. Puzder’s arguments in the case foreshad- owed positions he would take af- ter leaving the practice of law to become chief executive of a fast- food company. He has repeatedly argued that labor regulations sti- fle economic growth. He has indi- cated his preference for machines over people because they do not take time off or file lawsuits. And a recording recently surfaced of him referring to his employees as “the best of the worst.” Because he was a lawyer repre- senting a client, the positions that Mr. Puzder took in the case do not necessarily represent his person- al views. But Mr. Shenker was more than just a client: He was also Mr. Puzder’s first boss, one he chose to work for, an associate said, specifically because it gave him the chance to litigate this case Pick for Labor Was Adversary of Labor Dept. By RUSS BUETTNER and NOAM SCHEIBER Puzder’s Past Includes Fiery Defense of a Mob Lawyer Continued on Page A16 A federal judge in Seattle on Fri- day temporarily blocked Presi- dent Trump’s week-old immigra- tion order from being enforced na- tionwide, reopening America’s door to visa holders from seven predominantly Muslim countries and dealing the administration a humbling defeat. The White House vowed late Friday to fight what it called an “outrageous” ruling, saying it would seek an emergency halt to the judge’s order as soon as possi- ble and restore the president’s “lawful and appropriate order.” “The president’s order is in- tended to protect the homeland and he has the constitutional au- thority and responsibility to pro- tect the American people,” the White House said. A revised state- ment released later omitted the word “outrageous.” Courts around the country have halted aspects of Mr. Trump’s tem- porary ban on travel from the sev- en countries, but the Seattle ruling was the most far-reaching to date. Airlines that had been stopping travelers from boarding planes to the United States were told by the government in a conference call Friday night to begin allowing them to fly, according to a person familiar with the call but who de- clined to be identified because it was a private discussion. The Trump administration, however, could again block the travelers if it were to win an emergency stay. The federal government was “arguing that we have to protect the U.S. from individuals from these countries, and there’s no support for that,” said the judge, James Robart of Federal District Court for the Western District of Washington, an appointee of Pres- ident George W. Bush, in a deci- sion delivered from the bench. The judge’s ruling was tempo- rary, putting Mr. Trump’s policy on hold at least until the govern- ment and opponents of the order had a chance to make full argu- ments, or until the administration won a stay. “What we’re seeing here is the Judge Issues Interim Halt To Travel Ban U.S. Tells Airlines to Allow Passengers This article is by Nicholas Kulish, Caitlin Dickerson and Charlie Sav- age. Continued on Page A12 A group protesting the new visa policy gathered in a parking lot at Kennedy International Airport in Queens for the Friday Prayer. SPENCER PLATT/GETTY IMAGES DROPPED OUT The nominee for secretary of the army withdrew his name from consideration, citing business conflicts. PAGE A15 Late Edition VOL. CLXVI . . . No. 57,498 © 2017 The New York Times Company NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2017 Today, mostly sunny, cold, high 34. Tonight, becoming mostly cloudy, cold, low 28. Tomorrow, mostly cloudy, rain or snow showers, high 42. Weather map is on Page B8. $2.50