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By ANNE BARNARDand HWAIDA SAAD

BEIRUT, Lebanon Hours af-ter they swept into the Syriancity of Palmyra last week, IslamicState militants carried out scoresof summary executions, leavingthe bodies of victims includingdozens of government soldiers in the streets.

Then, residents say, they setabout acting like municipal func-tionaries. They fixed the powerplant, turned on the waterpumps, held meetings with localleaders, opened the citys lonebakery and started distributingfree bread. They planted theirflag atop Palmyras storied an-cient ruins, and did not immedi-ately loot and destroy them, asthey have done at other archaeo-logical sites.

Next came dozens of Syriangovernment airstrikes, some kill-ing civilians. That gave the Is-lamic State a political assist:Within days, some residents hadredirected the immediate focus oftheir anger and fear from the mil-

itants on the ground to the war-planes overhead.

In Palmyra, the Islamic Stategroup appears to be digging intopower in a series of steps it hashoned over two years of accumu-lating territory in Iraq and Syria.

But Palmyra presents a newtwist: It is the first Syrian city thegroup has taken from the govern-ment, not from insurgents. InRaqqa, farther north, and in Iraq,the group has moved quickly and

ISIS ALTERNATES

STICK AND CARROT

IN CAPTURED CITY

NEW TWIST IN PALMYRA

After Beheadings, Free

Breadand Electricity

Ruins Intact

Continued on Page A8

MAURICIO LIMA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Hamida Ajengui says the Tunisian state police beat her and threatened her with rape when she was 21. I was broken, she said.

By CARLOTTA GALL

TUNIS She was just 21 whenshe was arrested by Tunisiasstate police, who hauled her intoan Interior Ministry office andbeat me up so hard that I dont

even remember how I found my-self there. But that was not theworst part.

Hamida Ajengui said she wasstripped, and hung upside downby a dozen police officers whohurled abuse at her and threat-ened her with rape.

I was a girl, Ms. Ajengui, now46, said in an interview. I wasraised in a certain environmentwhere it is ethical to be a moral,respectable, polite person. Thenall of a sudden I was taken to this

place where they strip you they took all my clothes off they leave you completely na-ked.

Tunisia has embarked on abold and painful experiment,gathering testimony from victimsof six decades of abuses undertwo dictatorships before its revo-lution four years ago led to a still-fledgling democracy. Already,thousands have arrived to lodgecomplaints at the countrys Truth

and Dignity Commission, whichis scheduled to begin public hear-ings in June with the goal of ex-posing the violations, makingreparations and holding the abus-ers accountable in a search fornational reconciliation.

Just a few months into the pro-

cess, 12,000 victims have comeforward, most of them men. Butwhat has surprised even long-time human rights activists is thenumber of women starting to tellstories of extreme cruelty, sexualviolence and rape.

By far the most difficult andtraumatic cases, commissionworkers say, are accounts likeMs. Ajenguis, because womenare seen to embody family honorin this conservative society.

Tortured and Violated in Tunisia, Then Shamed

Women Are Preparing

to Testify on Nations

Brutal Past


By PATRICK HEALY

EPPING, N.H. Fit andquick-witted at age 73, SenatorBernie Sanders was still goingstrong after speaking for an hourin 90-degree heat on Wednesdaywhen he fielded a question from aman who could have been an old-er brother.

Would you raise the top mar-ginal tax rate to over 90 percent,as it was in the 1950s, when themiddle class and the economywere doing so well? asked MiltLauenstein, 89, who had the samewhite hair and hunched postureas Mr. Sanders.

You mean under the commu-nist Dwight D. Eisenhower? Mr.Sanders quipped about the for-mer president, who, of course,was a Republican, but one whodid not oppose high taxes asfiercely as party leaders do now.

It is not every day in 2015 thatan Ike joke gets a laugh, but Mr.Sanders landed the line perfectly at least for the roughly 50 olderpeople in the crowd of 200 who

Sanders LuresA Certain Age

Of Voters: His


By JACK HEALY

DENVER The spiral note-book is a road map to murder,filled with plans, diagrams andto-do lists that James E. Holmeslaid out in scrupulous detail be-fore carrying out a shooting ram-page in a Colorado movie theater.In his own handwriting, he plansa mass murder spree and con-siders theaters and times to at-tack for maximum casualties.He also plots his own psyche withpages of self-diagnosis of what hecalls his broken mind.

As his murder trial enters itssecond month, this notebook hasbecome a Rorschach test of thethoughts of Mr. Holmes, the neu-roscience graduate student whokilled 12 people in one of thecountrys worst mass shootingsin recent years.

Prosecutors say that he wassane and methodical, planninghis actions with murderous in-tent. Defense lawyers, who haveentered his plea of not guilty byreason of insanity, say his writingbrims with a whole lot of crazy delusions about death, humanworth and negative infinitythat were the product of a pro-foundly diseased mind.

The 12 jurors will be forced toexamine the hazy border be-tween mental illness and legal in-

sanity. Key to the case is whetherMr. Holmes, despite his ravingsand struggles with mental illness,was able to distinguish the differ-ence between right and wrong,and was legally responsible forhis actions, when he opened fireon a midnight movie screening in

Aurora, Colo., in July 2012.On Thursday, a psychiatrist

said Mr. Holmes, 27, was indeedable to know the difference andwas legally sane.

Whatever he suffered from, itdid not prevent him from formingthe intent and knowing what he

was doing and the consequencesof what he was doing, said Dr.William Reid, a psychiatrist whoperformed a court-ordered ex-amination of Mr. Holmes.

His testimony, the first fromany of the mental health experts

Colorado Killers Notes: Detailed Plans vs. a Whole Lot of Crazy

COLORADO JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT,VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS

Pages from a notebook belonging to James E. Holmes, who killed 12 in an Aurora, Colo., theater.


Morris Wilkins, 90, who designed both

the heart-shaped and champagne glass-

shaped bathtubsthat lured visitors tohis Poconos hotel, is dead. PAGE B15

OBITUARIES B15

Tub of Memories

Kamel Daouds The Meursault Investi-

gation tells The Stranger from an Al-

gerian perspective. A review. PAGE C21

WEEKENDC1-30

An Algerian Take on Camus

Paul Krugman PAGE A23

EDITORIAL, OP-ED A22-23

With a piece of cardboard and some

lenses, Google is trying to make virtual

reality something that anyone with a

smartphone can experience. PAGE B3

Bold Vision From a Little Box

Dozens of lawsuits and complaints have

been filed against police forcesrun by

the nations railroads. PAGE A15

NATIONAL A10-17

Railroad Police Under Scrutiny

Former Gov. George E. Pataki will seek

the Republican nomination. PAGE A16

Pataki Joins Presidential Race

The influence of Netflix, which is emerg-

ing as a symbol for net neutrality, is be-

ing felt as regulators scrutinize merg-

ers, James B. Stewart writes. PAGE B1

BUSINESS DAY B1-7

Netflix and the Cable Shake-Up

The Dalai Lama said Daw Aung San

Suu Kyi should help the Rohingya mi-

nority in Myanmar. PAGE A4

A Plea for a Muslim Minority

VOL. CLXIV . . . No. 56,881 2015 The New York Times NEWYORK, FRIDAY, MAY 29, 2015

Late Edition

Today, a mix of clouds and sun-

shine, less humid, high 82. Tonight,

mostly clear, low 64. Tomorrow,clouds and sunshine, warm, humid,

high 83. Weather map, Page B12.

$2.50

By EMMA G. FITZSIMMONS

SECAUCUS, N.J. Bridgesacross the state are falling apart.Roads are rife with potholes.Frustrated New Jersey Transitriders are facing another fare in-crease.

As many commuters bemoanthe mounting delays and disrup-tions, state officials say New Jer-sey is confronting a transporta-tion funding crisis with no easyway out. Voters are so fed up,support is growing for a revenueoption long viewed as politicallyuntenable: raising the states gastax, which is the second lowest inthe country.

Whatever happens with the

gas tax, many New Jerseyanssoon will be paying more to get towork. New Jersey Transit hasproposed raising fares by about 9percent for its 915,000 daily rid-ers, and an increase of someamount is all but certain. Federaland state subsidies as a share ofthe agencys annual budget havebeen falling, and that has left itincreasingly reliant on fares tocover costs, even as many pas-sengers say service is slipping.

Here at one of the busiest railhubs in the state, the exaspera-tion was evident, in interviewswith people headed home, and in

Commuters Pay Price as Rails

And Roads Wilt in New Jersey


By MONICA DAVEY

CHICAGO J. Dennis Hast-ert, the former speaker of theHouse of Representatives, hasbeen charged with lying to theF.B.I. and making cash withdraw-als from banks in a way that wasdesigned to hide that he was pay-ing $3.5 million to someone forhis misconduct from years ago,a federal indictment released onThursday said.

Mr. Hastert, 73, the longest-serving Republican speaker, hadworked as a lobbyist since leav-ing office. The indictment, an-nounced by the United States at-torney for the Northern Districtof Illinois, said Mr. Hastert, whowas once a high school teacherand wrestling coach in Yorkville,Ill., had so far paid $1.7 million tothe person, who had lived inYorkville and had known Mr.Hastert for most of his or her life.Mr. Hastert worked in Yorkvillefrom 1965 to 1981.

In 2010, during meetings be-tween Mr. Hastert and the un-named individual, the two dis-

cussed past misconduct by Mr.Hastert against the person, ac-cording to the indictment.

In those meetings and in laterdiscussions, Mr. Hastert agreedto provide money to the personin order to compensate for andconceal his prior misconduct,the indictment said. It said hewas structuring the cash with-drawals in increments designedto avoid bank reporting require-ments. The indictment does notprovide details of the misconduct.

Mr. Hastert could not bereached for comment at his officein Washington.

Each of the two charges carriesa penalty of as much as five yearsin prison and a $250,000 fine, theprosecutors office said. Mr.Hastert is to appear at an ar-raignment at a future date, the

prosecutors said.Kimberly Nerheim, a spokes-

woman for the United States at-torneys office, declined to identi-fy the person being paid who

HASTERT ACCUSED

OF SCHEME TO PAY

TO HIDE MISDEEDS

FORMER HOUSE SPEAKER

U.S. Indictment Says He

Lied to F.B.I. About

Illicit Payments


Russians are divided over plans to erect

an 82-foot-tall statue of St. Vladimir,

Russias patron saint, atop one of the

few hills in Moscow. PAGE A4

INTERNATIONAL A4-9

Big Plans for a Russian Saint

Soccers world governing body is ex-

pected to easily re-elect Sepp Blatter to

his fifth term as president, days aftersome of the groups leading officials

were charged with corruption and its of-

fices were raided. PAGE B8

SPORTSFRIDAY B8-12

Shrugging, FIFA Is Set to Vote

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