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By NOAH SNEIDER

SLOVYANSK, Ukraine — Lateone afternoon last month, as sep-aratist militia fighters andUkrainian forces exchanged fire,a small-time thief by the name ofAleksei B. Pichko left his home onthe southern edge of Slovyanskand headed for an abandonedresidence at 17 Sadovaya Street.He had been drinking, and want-ed to “see what could be stolenfrom there,” according to docu-ments recovered at the rebelheadquarters after their retreatover the weekend.

Mr. Pichko, 30, never returned.An order signed and stamped bythe rebels’ powerful commander,Igor Strelkov, detailed Mr. Pich-ko’s fate: death by firing squadfor pilfering a pair of pants andtwo shirts.

“They told me they took him tothe S.B.U.,” said his mother, Ma-ria Pichko, referring to the head-quarters in this former separatiststronghold. “I don’t know any-thing more.”

The death sentence makes ref-

Shadowy Rebel

Flexes Iron Fist

In Ukraine Fight

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VOL. CLXIII . . . No. 56,559 © 2014 The New York Times NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JULY 11, 2014

Late EditionToday, clouds and sun, a shower orstorm, high 83. Tonight, an eveningthunderstorm, partly cloudy, low68. Tomorrow, partly sunny, high83. Weather map is on Page A16.

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By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.

A child in Mississippi who wasthought to have been cured ofH.I.V. with aggressive drug treat-ment immediately after birth isnow showing signs of infectionwith the virus, federal health offi-cials announced Thursday — aserious setback to hopes for acure for AIDS.

The report in March 2013 thatthe child had apparently beencured raised the possibility thataggressive early treatment mightbe able to reverse infections innewborns — and perhaps even innewly infected adults. About2.3 million people around theworld were newly infected withH.I.V. in 2012, the last year forwhich figures were available;260,000 were infants infected atbirth or immediately afterward.

So Thursday’s announcementwas especially deflating. Duringa telephone news conferenceheld by the National Institutes ofHealth, Dr. Hannah B. Gay, thepediatrician at the University ofMississippi Medical Center inJackson who first put the child onlarge doses of antiretroviraldrugs, said it was “like a punch inthe gut.”

With hopes raised by the Mis-sissippi case, doctors had madeplans for a worldwide clinicaltrial in which about 450 babies —chosen because their infectedmothers had no testing or treat-ment before the births — wouldbe put on the three-drug regimencalled triple therapy.

If those who were infected withH.I.V. showed no virus after 48weeks of treatment, the plan wasto stop their drugs and see if theyhad been cured before the virushad a chance to establish a reser-

EVIDENCE OF H.I.V.FOUND IN A CHILDSAID TO BE CURED

A SERIOUS AIDS SETBACK

Case Had Raised Hope

of Drug Regimen to

Spare Newborns

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Relatives at the funeral of eight Palestinians who medics said were killed in an early morning airstrike in the southern Gaza Strip.

By STEVEN ERLANGER

JERUSALEM — Even as theIsraeli public offers strong sup-port for airstrikes on Hamasfighters and their weaponsstocks in Gaza, there is a gooddeal of reflection over the cold-blooded killing of a Palestinianteenager that helped lead to thelatest increase in violence.

Brutality against innocents isnot new on either side of the Is-raeli-Palestinian conflict. But, de-spite a court order that bans thedisclosure of information in thecase, Israelis have been discuss-ing links between the suspectsarrested in the killing of the teen-ager, Muhammad Abu Khdeir,and Israeli right-wing extremistgroups that have at times operat-ed with impunity.

Very little about the six sus-

pects has been confirmed, be-cause of the court order. But sev-eral Israeli media outlets havelinked them to extremist groups,describing them as “shababnik-kim,” pejorative Hebrew slangfor right-wing extremist youthfrom ultra-Orthodox homes onthe fringes of Orthodox society.

Lawyers for Honenu, a right-wing legal aid organization thatoften defends soldiers and civil-ians in cases involving attacks onArabs, said they were represent-ing the suspects. While nonehave yet been charged, the Is-raeli news media reported thatthree had confessed and threewere scheduled to be released.

The apparent link to the far

Killing of Palestinian Youth PutsAn Israeli Focus on Extremism

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By DAVID BARBOZA

DONGGUAN, China — Afterwork, the three teenage girls gig-gle and pull at one another’s hair.But when questioned, they admittheir common secret: They usefalse papers to work illegallyhere at the factory that makesmobile phone components forone of the world’s biggest brands,Samsung.

They are 14 and 15 years old,below the legal working age inChina. A few weeks ago, theywere living at home with theirparents in a small village a six-hour drive from here, finishingmiddle school.

“We also worked at a factorylast summer,” said one of thegirls, who all spoke on the condi-tion of anonymity for fear of get-ting fired. “But it was much

worse. We were making Christ-mas ornaments, and some work-ers got huge blisters on theirhands.”

The presence of at least threechild workers at the factory insouthern China casts a cloud overthe labor practices of Samsungand its suppliers.

A little more than a week ago,Samsung, the South Korean elec-tronics giant, said in an annualreview of conditions at its manu-facturing centers that it hadfound no evidence of under-ageworkers or child laborers in itsglobal supply chain. In recentyears, Samsung has promoted itsefforts to monitor and evaluatesuppliers and manufacturing op-

Despite a Pledge by Samsung,

Child Labor Proves Resilient

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By LARRY ROHTER

Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” could-n’t do it, Jay Z got help from Jus-tin Timberlake and Eminem, andMetallica didn’t try. Selling outconsecutive shows at Yankee Sta-dium, with its capacity of roughly50,000, is nearly impossible forany pop music artist not namedPaul McCartney. But Romeo San-tos, who will perform there Fri-day and Saturday nights, is aboutto achieve that feat.

Mr. Santos, who grew up in theBronx a Yankee fan, calls himselfthe king of bachata, a genre bornin the sugarcane fields of the Do-minican Republic, refined in NewYork City and characterized byrippling guitars, a gently pulsat-ing beat and, in contrast to salsa,an absence of horns. But despitehis enormous popularity — onevideo from his most recent CDhas been viewed 345 milliontimes on YouTube, comparedwith 185 million for Beyoncé’s“Drunk in Love” — he is all butunknown to Americans whospeak only English.

Mr. Santos’s success is a testa-ment not only to the growing in-fluence the nation’s Hispanicpopulation of more than 50 mil-lion and his own two decades inthe music business, but also to a

new kind of music he has pio-neered and mastered. By infus-ing a traditional Latino soundand its subject matter — romance— with R&B and inflections ofhip-hop, Mr. Santos, 32, has creat-ed a genre that bridges tradition-al differences of taste betweenthe Caribbean and Mexican-American worlds while appealingto young Latinos growing up lis-tening to American music.

“There’s a large pool of youngLatinos wanting to connect tosomething that’s kind of hip-hop-pish but isn’t rap, that’s kind ofromantic, like R&B, but is inSpanish and thus their own,” saidDeborah Pacini Hernández, theauthor of “Oye Como Va! Hybrid-ity and Identity in Latino PopularMusic” and a professor of anthro-pology and American studies at

In the Language of Romance, a True Superstar

AGATON STROM FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Arena sellouts are routine for the bachata star Romeo Santos.

Continued on Page A3

This article is by Alison Smale,Mark Mazzetti and David E.Sanger.

BERLIN — The German gov-ernment on Thursday demandedthe removal of the top Americanspy in the country, the strongestevidence yet that mounting reve-lations about widespread Ameri-can intelligence operations inGermany have gravely damagedrelations between once close al-lies.

The decision by Chancellor An-gela Merkel to publicly announcethe expulsion of the Central Intel-ligence Agency’s Berlin stationchief was seen as a highly sym-bolic expression of the deep an-ger and hurt that German offi-cials have felt since the exposureof the American espionage opera-tions.

It is likely to force another re-assessment inside the C.I.A. andother spy agencies about wheth-er provocative espionage opera-tions in friendly nations areworth the risk to broader foreignpolicy goals. One such assess-ment was conducted last sum-mer, when President Obama or-dered a halt to the tapping of Ms.Merkel’s phone after it came tolight because of the former Na-tional Security Agency contrac-tor Edward J. Snowden.

Current and former Americanofficials said that the Berlin sta-tion chief, who works undercover,has been in the position for abouta year. It was his predecessor inthe job, the officials said, whooversaw the recruitment of theGerman intelligence officer ar-rested last week who has report-edly told his interrogators he wasspying for the C.I.A., touching offa storm of criticism of the United

GERMANY TO OUSTTOP C.I.A. OFFICERAS A RIFT DEEPENS

RARE STEP FOR AN ALLY

Furor Over Spying Hurts

Relationship Seen as

Crucial to U.S.

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After Iraq’s prime minister criticizedthe Kurdish regional government, itvowed to boycott cabinet meetings andcalled on him to step down. PAGE A6

INTERNATIONAL A4-12

Iraqi Fissures Widen An obscure federal rule restricts whichaddiction treatment centers are coveredby Medicaid, which may limit optionsfor newly insured Americans. PAGE A13

NATIONAL A13-17

Curbing Health Law’s Reach“Blood Feud,” a sensational Clinton ac-count by Edward Klein, pushed HillaryRodham Clinton’s “Hard Choices” out ofthe best-seller list’s top spot. PAGE B1

BUSINESS DAY B1-8

Toppling Clinton’s MemoirRichard Linklater’s feature film “Boy-hood,” which follows a boy and his fam-ily over a dozen years in real time, is amodel of cinematic realism. PAGE C1

WEEKEND C1-26

From Baby Fat to Stubble David Brooks PAGE A25

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