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...curtail auto traffic and raise money for repairs, many park managers aim to charge higher entrance fees. As vacation destinations, the parks remain an absolute bargain, usually costing only $5 to $10 a vehicle. Half the national parks charge nothing at all. A park-service proposal to collect entry fees on a per-person basis, instead of per vehicle, would raise about $73 million to help offset the repeated budget cuts that have decimated the ranks of rangers and depleted maintenance programs...
...B.C.C.I. Plea Bargain...
...diluted as chiropractors and everyone else followed them into the plans. So now the A.M.A. is taking another tack. It is asking the Clinton Justice Department for special "antitrust" exemptions that would allow doctors simultaneously to maintain their practices as separate businesses while also banding together in order to bargain for patients with local health plans...
Ties had already been strained by a battle of wills between Clinton Administration officials and Prosecutor-General De Greiff, who had pursued plea-bargain deals with major traffickers, offering them as little as three years in prison in exchange for guilty pleas. U.S. officials denounced the program, and in response cut off a scheme in which they shared evidence with Colombian prosecutors. More recently, the Clinton Administration suspended an operation in which AWACS surveillance aircraft identified for Colombian law enforcement small planes thought to be carrying drugs; in what was seen as a conciliatory move, the U.S. last week announced...
HEALTH CARE: Bargain or Bust...