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U(D54G1D)y+#!?!$!=!/ 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 BUSINESS DAY B1-8 Major Investor Deserts Valeant Bill de Blasio, seeking to reduce deaths by 35 percent, proposed greater access to medication and aggressive prosecu- tion of heroin dealers. PAGE A21 NEW YORK A19-21 Mayor Vows to Cut Drug Toll 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. PAGE A10 NATIONAL A10-17 A College Aid Complication Drones seemed like ideal tools to help protect wildlife. But deploying them has been far more difficult than conserva- tionists had hoped. PAGE D6 SCIENCE TIMES D1-6 An Eye Trained on Poachers David Brooks PAGE A23 EDITORIAL, OP-ED A22-23 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 track down stolen art, works of un- examined provenance have hung for decades in family homes and office corridors, the stories of how they were acquired often vague, inconsistent or simply not dis- cussed. But as one generation of Ger- mans has died and given its art to the next, a number of people with prominent collections and unset- tled consciences have stepped for- ward to investigate what they own. “I don’t want stolen goods hang- ing on the wall — it’s quite simple,” said Jan Philipp Reemtsma, who hired a researcher 15 years ago to examine the collection he in- herited from his father, the tobac- co industrialist Philipp F. Reemtsma. Now, to persuade more col- lectors to undertake such re- search, the German government has announced it will begin subsi- dizing such efforts, using money from a national fund of 3.4 million euros (about $3.6 million). German Art Collectors Face Painful Past: Do I Own Nazi Loot? By CATHERINE HICKLEY Continued on Page A6 CHRISTIAN HANSEN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Preparing for a blizzard, New York City deployed 689 salt spreaders and 1,600 plows. Page A19. The Salt Before the Storm TUCSON — When a chemist named Armin Walser helped in- vent a sedative more powerful than Valium more than 40 years ago, he thought his team’s concoc- tion 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 cen- tral to executions around the country and the debate that sur- rounds capital punishment in the United States. “I didn’t make it for the pur- pose,” 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 pen- alty 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 se- crecy, political pressure, scientific disputes and court challenges. The most recent controversy is the extraordinary plan in Arkan- sas to execute eight inmates in 10 days next month. The state is rac- ing the calendar: Its midazolam supply will expire at the end of April, and given the resistance of manufacturers to having the drug Rush to Execute Drags Old Drug Into New Fight By ALAN BLINDER Continued on Page A11 WASHINGTON — Long before Donald J. Trump took aim at immi- grants, 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 immi- gration debate with inflam- matory and at times boorish statements. Against the backdrop of an emboldened white nation- alist move- ment in the United States, his Twitter post over the weekend — “We can’t restore our civiliza- tion with somebody else’s babies” — suggested that Mr. King was sliding from his typical rhetoric to something far darker. It was praised by both the white suprem- acist 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 of- fice said he “clearly disagrees” with Mr. King, and Representative Hurling Insults, Then Rebuked By Own Party By JENNIFER STEINHAUER Continued on Page A17 Steve King WASHINGTON — The House Republican plan to replace the Af- fordable 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 Congres- sional Budget Office said Monday. Republicans had been bracing for what was almost certain to be a bleak accounting of the legisla- tion’s projected effects. The Amer- ican Health Care Act, as Republi- cans call their bill, was already facing widespread criticism from health care providers, some con- servatives and a united Demo- cratic Party. The much-anticipated judg- ment by Capitol Hill’s official scorekeeper did not back up Pres- ident Trump’s promise of provid- ing 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 cur- rent law. But it also provided talking points for House Republican lead- ers who need the support of rebel- lious 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- tary of health and human services, suggested the report of- fered an incomplete picture be- cause 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 every- one 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 Re- publicans’ repeal effort.” The coverage numbers re- leased 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 of- fice said. But after that, premiums would be lower than projected un- 24 MILLION MORE AMONG UNINSURED UNDER G.O.P. PLAN Also by 2026, C.B.O. Projects $337 Billion to Be Cut From the Federal Deficit By THOMAS KAPLAN and ROBERT PEAR Continued on Page A12 STRATEGY The Democrats plan to portray the Supreme Court nominee as someone who favors the powerful and well connected. PAGE A13 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 ROTTERDAM, the Nether- lands — Like many Muslims, Ah- med Aboutaleb has been dis- turbed by the angry tenor of the Dutch election campaign. Far- right 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 poli- ticians. Nor is he alone: The speaker of the Dutch Parliament is Muslim. The Netherlands also has Muslim social workers, jour- nalists, comedians, entrepreneurs 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 be- gin Europe’s year of political reck- oning. The Dutch race, coming ahead of others in France, Ger- many and possibly Italy, will be the first test of Europe’s threshold for tolerance as populist parties rise by attacking the European Union and immigration, making nationalistic calls to preserve dis- tinct local cultures. It is an especially striking gauge of the strength of anti-es- tablishment forces that such calls are falling on receptive ears even in the Netherlands, a country that for generations has seen succes- sive waves of Muslim immigra- tion. If anything, the Netherlands is a picture of relatively successful assimilation, especially when compared with nearby France or Belgium. In the Netherlands, Geert Dutch Consider New Relationship to Muslims By ALISSA J. RUBIN Fouad El Kanfaoui, 28, a second-generation Moroccan Muslim, at the headquarters of the bank in Amsterdam where he works. ILVY NJIOKIKTJIEN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Continued on Page A7 BATTLE LINES IN BRITAIN Parliament cleared the way for “Brexit” talks as Scotland vowed an independence vote. Page A8. 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 un- der the hood, an array of lesser- known 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 de- veloped. 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 Val- ley giants as well as traditional au- tomakers 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 au- tomakers like Chrysler and Volvo and sending test vehicles onto the road in a bid to cement their place in the industry. The sector is esti- mated to be worth $25 billion an- nually 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 au- tonomous cars as a new and po- tentially lucrative market. Many of these driverless vehicles, ex- perts 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. Intel Moves In On Car Market With Takeover By MARK SCOTT Continued on Page A11 Late Edition VOL. CLXVI .... No. 57,536 + © 2017 The New York Times Company NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 2017 Today, blizzard, windy, heavy snow, 10-15 inches total, high 32. Tonight, blustery, colder, flurries, low 23. To- morrow, windy, snow showers, high 29. Weather map is on Page A16. $2.50
