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VOL. CLXVI . . . . No. 57,536 +
TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 2017
© 2017 The New York Times Company
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Also by 2026, C.B.O. Projects $337 Billion
to Be Cut From the Federal Deficit
By THOMAS KAPLAN and ROBERT PEAR
ILVY NJIOKIKTJIEN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Fouad El Kanfaoui, 28, a second-generation Moroccan Muslim, at the headquarters of the bank in Amsterdam where he works.
Intel Moves In Dutch Consider New Relationship to Muslims
many and possibly Italy, will be
On Car Market
the first test of Europe’s threshold
Parliament cleared the way for for tolerance as populist parties
ROTTERDAM, the NetherWith Takeover lands
“Brexit” talks as Scotland vowed rise by attacking the European
— Like many Muslims, AhBATTLE LINES IN BRITAIN
By ALISSA J. RUBIN
By MARK SCOTT
In the world of driverless cars,
household names like Google and
Uber have raced ahead of rivals,
building test vehicles and starting
trials on city streets.
But when it comes to what is under the hood, an array of lesserknown companies will most likely
supply the technology required to
bring driverless cars to the
masses. And in a $15.3 billion deal
announced on Monday, Intel
moved to corner the market on
how much of that technology is developed.
The chip maker’s acquisition of
Mobileye, an Israeli company that
makes sensors and cameras for
driverless vehicles, is one of the
largest in the fast-growing sector
and sets the stage for increasing
competition between Silicon Valley giants as well as traditional automakers over who will dominate
the world of autonomous cars.
The likes of Google and Uber
have already invested billions of
dollars in their own technology,
signing partnerships with automakers like Chrysler and Volvo
and sending test vehicles onto the
road in a bid to cement their place
in the industry. The sector is estimated to be worth $25 billion annually by 2025, according to Bain
& Company, a consulting firm.
Faced with an existential threat
to its legacy computer business,
Intel — alongside competitors like
Qualcomm — has focused on autonomous cars as a new and potentially lucrative market. Many
of these driverless vehicles, experts say, will require immense
computing power, including the
latest microchips able to crunch
reams of data in seconds to keep
the cars safe, and on the road.
Continued on Page A10
med Aboutaleb has been disturbed by the angry tenor of the
Dutch election campaign. Farright candidates have disparaged
Islam, often depicting Muslims as
outsiders unwilling to integrate
into Dutch culture.
It is especially jarring for Mr.
Aboutaleb, given that he is the
mayor of Rotterdam, a fluent
Dutch speaker and one of the
country’s most popular politicians. Nor is he alone: The
speaker of the Dutch Parliament
is Muslim. The Netherlands also
has Muslim social workers, journalists, comedians, entrepreneurs
an independence vote. Page A8.
and bankers.
“There’s a feeling that if there
are too many cultural influences
from other parts of the world, then
what does that mean for our
Dutch traditions and culture?”
said Mr. Aboutaleb, whose city, the
Netherland’s second largest, is 15
percent to 20 percent Muslim and
home to immigrants from 174
countries.
Wednesday’s elections will begin Europe’s year of political reckoning. The Dutch race, coming
ahead of others in France, Ger-
Union and immigration, making
nationalistic calls to preserve distinct local cultures.
It is an especially striking
gauge of the strength of anti-establishment forces that such calls
are falling on receptive ears even
in the Netherlands, a country that
for generations has seen successive waves of Muslim immigration. If anything, the Netherlands
is a picture of relatively successful
assimilation, especially when
compared with nearby France or
Belgium.
In the Netherlands, Geert
Continued on Page A7
BERLIN — After World War II,
few Germans with sizable art
holdings made a point of digging
into their collections for signs of
Nazi looting.
And because private collections
were off limits for those trying to
tary of health and human
services, suggested the report offered an incomplete picture because it did not take into account
regulatory steps he intends to
take, as well as other legislation
that Republicans plan as part of
their multistep strategy to repeal
and replace the health law.
“We disagree strenuously with
the report that was put out,” he
said at the White House.
Democrats remained steadfast
in their opposition. “The C.B.O.
score shows just how empty the
president’s promises, that everyone will be covered and costs will
go down, have been,” said Senator
Chuck Schumer of New York, the
Democratic leader. “This should
be a looming stop sign for the Republicans’ repeal effort.”
The coverage numbers released Monday will make it only
more difficult for Republicans to
explain why their legislation
would improve the country’s
health care system. And that
could make the bill’s fate in the
more narrowly divided Senate
much more tenuous.
Average premiums for people
buying insurance on their own
would be 15 to 20 percent higher in
2018 and 2019 than they would be
under current law, the budget office said. But after that, premiums
would be lower than projected unContinued on Page A12
FOX EFFECT A potential nominee as the new United States attorney in
Manhattan has ties to Fox News, the subject of an inquiry. PAGE A17
STRATEGY The Democrats plan to portray the Supreme Court nominee
as someone who favors the powerful and well connected. PAGE A13
Rush to Execute Hurling Insults,
Drags Old Drug Then Rebuked
Into New Fight
By Own Party
CHRISTIAN HANSEN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
The Salt Before the Storm
Preparing for a blizzard, New York City deployed 689 salt spreaders and 1,600 plows. Page A18.
German Art Collectors Face Painful Past: Do I Own Nazi Loot?
By CATHERINE HICKLEY
WASHINGTON — The House
Republican plan to replace the Affordable Care Act would increase
the number of people without
health insurance by 24 million by
2026, while slicing $337 billion off
federal budget deficits over that
time, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Monday.
Republicans had been bracing
for what was almost certain to be
a bleak accounting of the legislation’s projected effects. The American Health Care Act, as Republicans call their bill, was already
facing widespread criticism from
health care providers, some conservatives and a united Democratic Party.
The much-anticipated judgment by Capitol Hill’s official
scorekeeper did not back up President Trump’s promise of providing health care for everyone and
was likely to fuel the concerns of
moderate Republicans. Next year,
it said, the number of uninsured
Americans would be 14 million
higher than expected under current law.
But it also provided talking
points for House Republican leaders who need the support of rebellious conservatives to pass the
measure: lower deficits, reduced
federal spending and tax cuts.
The White House immediately
denounced the budget office’s
conclusions. Tom Price, the secre-
track down stolen art, works of unexamined provenance have hung
for decades in family homes and
office corridors, the stories of how
they were acquired often vague,
inconsistent or simply not discussed.
But as one generation of Germans has died and given its art to
the next, a number of people with
prominent collections and unsettled consciences have stepped forward to investigate what they
own.
“I don’t want stolen goods hanging on the wall — it’s quite simple,”
said Jan Philipp Reemtsma, who
hired a researcher 15 years ago to
examine the collection he inherited from his father, the tobac-
co
industrialist
Philipp
F.
Reemtsma.
Now, to persuade more collectors to undertake such research, the German government
has announced it will begin subsidizing such efforts, using money
from a national fund of 3.4 million
euros (about $3.6 million).
Continued on Page A6
By ALAN BLINDER
By JENNIFER STEINHAUER
TUCSON — When a chemist
named Armin Walser helped invent a sedative more powerful
than Valium more than 40 years
ago, he thought his team’s concoction was meant to make people’s
lives easier, not their deaths.
Yet decades after the drug,
known as midazolam, entered the
market, a product more often used
during colonoscopies and cardiac
catheterizations has become central to executions around the
country and the debate that surrounds capital punishment in the
United States.
“I didn’t make it for the purpose,” Dr. Walser, whose drug has
been used for sedation during 20
lethal injections nationwide, said
in an interview at his home here.
“I am not a friend of the death penalty or execution.”
Midazolam’s path from Dr.
Walser’s laboratory into use in at
least six of the country’s execution
chambers has been filled with secrecy, political pressure, scientific
disputes and court challenges.
The most recent controversy is
the extraordinary plan in Arkansas to execute eight inmates in 10
days next month. The state is racing the calendar: Its midazolam
supply will expire at the end of
April, and given the resistance of
manufacturers to having the drug
Continued on Page A10
WASHINGTON — Long before
Donald J. Trump took aim at immigrants, there was Representative
Steve King of Iowa.
Since Mr. King’s election to the
House in 2002, and before that in
the State Legislature, where he
first tried out his English-only
trademark talking point, Mr. King,
a Republican, has injected himself
into the immigration debate
with inflammatory and at
times boorish
statements.
Against the
backdrop of an
emboldened
white nationalist
move- Steve King
ment in the
United States,
his Twitter post over the weekend
— “We can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies”
— suggested that Mr. King was
sliding from his typical messages
to something far darker. It was
praised by both the white supremacist David Duke and The Daily
Stormer, a neo-Nazi website.
But it was also quickly criticized
by many Republicans, including
Speaker Paul D. Ryan, whose office said he “clearly disagrees”
with Mr. King, and Representative
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Major Investor Deserts Valeant
Mayor Vows to Cut Drug Toll
A College Aid Complication
An Eye Trained on Poachers
David Brooks
William A. Ackman said his hedge fund
had sold its entire stake in the troubled
drug maker, whose stock has fallen 95
percent since its peak in 2015. PAGE B1
Bill de Blasio, seeking to reduce deaths
by 35 percent, proposed greater access
to medication and aggressive prosecution of heroin dealers.
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Filling out the financial aid form got a
lot harder after a tool that automatically
fills in a family’s tax return information
was disabled.
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Drones seemed like ideal tools to help
protect wildlife. But deploying them has
been far more difficult than conservationists had hoped.
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