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The flight of Nirav Modi, accused ofbank fraud, captivates India, angeredby corruption in state banks. PAGE B1

BUSINESS DAY B1-6

Where Is Jeweler to the Stars?

A Belarusian escort and her “seductioncoach” fear deportation from Thailand,saying they know too much about Rus-sian election meddling. PAGE A7

INTERNATIONAL A4-8

A Promise of Russian Secrets

Michelle Goldberg PAGE A22

EDITORIAL, OP-ED A22-23

With “L.A. Law” and “NYPD Blue,”Steven Bochco shattered the norms forprime-time TV. He was 74. PAGE B13

He Made Gritty Police DramasA judge said an investigator had causeto believe a deputy killed a woman,contrary to a suicide ruling. PAGE A15

NATIONAL A9-16

Rebuke for a Florida Sheriff

WASHINGTON — PresidentTrump’s promise to take tough ac-tion against China’s unfair eco-nomic practices was one of hismost popular campaign ideas. Butas the United States prepares stifftrade measures and China retali-ates, stock markets have plum-meted and some of America’s big-gest companies are pushing back.

Industry giants like GeneralElectric and Goldman Sachs, aswell as agricultural companies,have lodged objections with theWhite House, saying that tariffson both sides of the Pacific andlimitations on investments willcut off American companies fromthe world’s most lucrative andrapidly growing market.

China imposed tariffs on Mon-day on more than 100 Americanproducts, including pork, fruit, re-cycled aluminum and steel pipes.Fears of an incipient trade war be-tween the world’s two largesteconomies sent the Standard &Poor’s 500-stock index tumbling2.23 percent and pushed marketsinto correction territory. Technol-ogy stocks bore the brunt of theslump, as a recent spate of badnews about tech companies likeFacebook, Tesla and Amazonspooked investors. Asian marketsfell more modestly in early-Tues-day trading.

China’s action could be an esca-lation in a much broader trade dis-pute. The announcement was a di-rect response to the Trump ad-ministration’s tariffs on imports ofsteel and aluminum, which weredirected at a range of countries,including China.

INDUSTRY GIANTSREGISTER DISSENTON TRADE ACTION

STOCKS SLIDE SHARPLY

Concerns That EscalatingTariffs Will Cut Off

Chinese Market

By ANA SWANSON

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WASHINGTON — PresidentTrump has begun a new push forlegislation to crack down on illegalimmigration and make it more dif-ficult to obtain refuge in theUnited States, White House offi-cials said Monday, arguing thatlax laws have drawn a flood of mi-grants to the country’s borders.

The proposals include toughen-ing laws to make it more difficultto apply for or be granted asylumin the United States, stripping pro-tections for children arriving ille-gally without their parents so theycan be turned back at the borderor quickly removed, and allowingfamilies to be detained for longerperiods while they await decisionsfrom immigration authoritiesabout their fates.

While the steps have long beenadvocated by Mr. Trump’s hard-line aides, including StephenMiller, his senior policy adviser,focusing on them now opens anew front in the president’s pushfor immigration restrictions.

There is no evidence of an over-all increase in people crossing thesouthern border with Mexico ille-gally — in fact, the president hasoften boasted that the number hasdropped since he took office, inpart because of his administra-tion’s policies. But Mr. Trump’s re-newed legislative effort is a returnto the hard-line anti-immigrationthemes that animated his cam-paign and much of his presidencyat a time when he is facing a back-lash from some disenchanted con-servatives for signing a $1.3 tril-lion spending bill that did not in-clude funding for his border wall.

“As ridiculous as it sounds, thelaws of our country do not easilyallow us to send those crossingour Southern Border back wherethey came from,” Mr. Trump saidin a posting on Twitter on Mondayevening imploring, “ACT CON-

Trump ReturnsTo a Hard LineOn Immigrants

Seeks Less Protectionfor Young Detainees

By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS

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Victoria Ewers was less pleased than her sister Elle on Monday at the White House Easter Egg Roll, a tradition that dates to 1878.Maybe Hers Wasn’t Hard-Boiled

WASHINGTON — The Envi-ronmental Protection Agencysigned off last March on a Canadi-an energy company’s pipeline-ex-pansion plan at the same time thatthe E.P.A. chief, Scott Pruitt, wasrenting a condominium linked tothe energy company’s powerfulWashington lobbying firm.

Both the E.P.A. and the lobbyingfirm dispute that there was anyconnection between the agency’saction and the condo rental, forwhich Mr. Pruitt was paying $50 anight.

“Any attempt to draw that linkis patently false,” Liz Bowman, aspokeswoman for Mr. Pruitt, said

in a writtenstatement.

Neverthe-less, govern-ment ethics ex-perts said thatthe correlationbetween theE.P.A.’s actionand Mr. Pruitt’slease arrange-ment — he wasrenting from

the wife of the head of the lobbyingfirm Williams & Jensen — illus-trates why such ties to industryplayers can generate questionsfor public officials: Even if no spe-cific favors were asked for orgranted, it can create an appear-ance of a conflict.

“Entering into this arrange-ment causes a reasonable personto question the integrity of theE.P.A. decision,” said Don Fox,who served as general counsel ofthe Office of Government Ethicsduring parts of the Obama andGeorge W. Bush administrations.

The March 2017 action by theE.P.A. on the pipeline project — inthe form of a letter telling theState Department that the E.P.A.had no serious environmental ob-jections — meant that the project,an expansion of the Alberta Clip-per line, had cleared a significanthurdle. The expansion, a project ofEnbridge Inc., a Calgary-basedenergy company, would allowhundreds of thousands more bar-

A Lobbyist,A Condo Deal,A Green Light

By ERIC LIPTON

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Scott Pruitt

MOSCOW — Russia sought tomove beyond last week’s diplo-matic confrontation with the Weston Monday by pressing PresidentTrump for a White House meetingwith President Vladimir V. Putinthat would undercut the percep-tion that the angry reaction to thepoisoning of a former Russian spyin Britain has left it isolated fromthe international community.

The Kremlin foreign policy ad-viser, Yuri Ushakov, said in Mos-cow that Mr. Trump, in a tele-phone call with Mr. Putin onMarch 20, proposed that the twoleaders meet at the White House

in the near future. Mr. Ushakovmade clear that the Russianleader would like to take him up onthe suggestion. “This is a ratherpositive idea,” he said.

Mr. Trump mentioned to report-ers on the day of the phone callthat he expected to “be seeingPresident Putin in the not-too-dis-tant future,” and the White Houseconfirmed on Monday that it wasamong “a number of potentialvenues” discussed. But the phonecall came before last week’s tit-

for-tat mass diplomatic expul-sions sparked by the nerve agentattack on Sergei V. Skripal, a for-mer Russian spy living in Britain.

It is not clear whether such ameeting is still viable, and bothsides issued vague or even con-flicting statements on Monday.Within hours of Mr. Ushakov’scomment, the Kremlin spokes-man, Dmitri S. Peskov, discountedit, saying the president’s adviserwas not correct.

In her own statement, SarahHuckabee Sanders, the WhiteHouse press secretary, confirmedthat a White House meeting wasdiscussed but played down theprospect, saying, “We have noth-

Russia Sends Hasty R.S.V.P. to Trump InvitationBy ANDREW HIGGINS

and PETER BAKER

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Shunned by the West,Pushing for a Visit

Thousands of teachers in Okla-homa and Kentucky walked offthe job Monday morning, shuttingdown school districts as they pro-tested cuts in pay, benefits andschool funding in a movementthat has spread rapidly since ig-niting in West Virginia this year.

In Oklahoma City, protestingteachers ringed the Capitol,chanting, “No funding, no future!”Katrina Ruff, a local teacher, car-

ried a sign that read, “Thanks toWest Virginia.”

“They gave us the guts to standup for ourselves,” she said.

The walkouts and rallies in Re-publican-dominated states,mainly organized by ordinaryteachers on Facebook, havecaught lawmakers and sometimesthe teachers’ own labor unionsflat-footed. And they are occur-ring in states and districts withimportant midterm races in No-vember, suggesting that thou-sands of teachers, with their pent-

up rage over years of pay freezesand budget cuts, are set to becomea powerful political force this fall.

The next red state to join theprotest movement could be Ari-zona, where there is an open Sen-ate seat and where thousands ofteachers gathered in Phoenix lastweek to demand a 20 percent payraise and more funding forschools.

The growing fervor suggeststhat labor activism has taken on a

Teachers Walk Out in 2 States as Fervor SpreadsBy DANA GOLDSTEIN

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The Panthers and other teamshave strict rules outside work.

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By KEN BELSON

The New Orleans Saints, whofired a cheerleader this year forposting a picture the teamdeemed inappropriate on her pri-vate Instagram account, are oneof many National Football Leagueteams with stringent, and seem-ingly anachronistic, rules for theircheerleaders.

Across the N.F.L., teams eventry to place extensive controls onhow cheerleaders conduct theirlives outside work. This includeslimiting their social media activityas well as the people they chooseto date and socialize with. Restric-

Cheerleaders for the CarolinaPanthers, known as the TopCats,must arrive at the stadium ongame days at least five hours be-fore kickoff. Body piercings andtattoos must be removed or cov-ered. Water breaks can be takenonly when the Panthers are on of-fense. TopCats must leave the sta-dium to change into their personalattire.

Baltimore Ravens cheerleaderswere subject to regular weigh-insand are expected to “maintainideal body weight,” according to ahandbook from 2009. The Cincin-nati Ben-Gals were even moreprecise in recent years: Cheer-leaders had to be within threepounds of their “ideal weight.”

Some cheerleaders must payhundreds of dollars for their uni-forms, yet are paid little more thanminimum wage. Cheerleadersmust sell raffle tickets and calen-dars and appear at charity eventsand golf tournaments, yet they re-ceive none of the proceeds. Cheer-leader handbooks, seven of whichhave been reviewed by The NewYork Times, include personal hy-giene tips, like shaving techniquesand the proper use of tampons. Insome cases, wearing sweatpantsin public is forbidden.

Like to Go Out in Sweatpants? Don’t Be an N.F.L. Cheerleader

Most Central American mi-grants who have made the trip inrecent years do not seek asylum inthe United States. Page A4.

‘Caravan’ JourneyIn the first year of the Trump

presidency, ebullient investorspushed stocks to records. Thosedays are over. Page B1.

From Bump to Slump

Winnie Mandela’s place among SouthAfrica’s liberators was later overshad-owed by scandal. She was 81. PAGE B14

OBITUARIES B13-14

She Fought Against Apartheid

Opposition is brewing over the city’splan to build a jail in the once-blightedMott Haven neighborhood. PAGE A18

NEW YORK A18-21

Not in Their South Bronx

Gabe Kapler promises to be bold as thePhillies’ new leader. Are the Philadel-phia fans ready for him? PAGE B8

SPORTSTUESDAY B7-12

A Manager Ready to Be Booed

Tate Modern focuses on the artist’ssupercharged 1932, with an exhibition ofmore than 100 of his works. PAGE C1

ARTS C1-8

Picasso’s Very Good Year

The sudden death of over 200 dolphinsin a booming port area outside Rio deJaneiro has raised alarm. PAGE A6

Dolphins Dead Off Brazil

The site should consider adding a “Whyme?” button next to all pushed content,Andrew Ross Sorkin writes. PAGE B1

A Facebook Fix

The E.P.A. took steps to chal-lenge California’s decades-oldright to set its own air pollutionregulations. Page A13.

Attempt to Weaken Rules

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Coach Jay Wright guided the Wildcats to a 79-62 defeat of Michigan on Monday night. Page B7.Villanova Takes the Title

Late EditionToday, cloudy, periodic rain, high 47.Tonight, clouds, breezy late, low 46,temperatures rising into the 50s. To-morrow, windy, on-and-off rain, high66. Weather map is on Page A14.

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