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...most differences between the version passed earlier by the two chambers, but ended up fecklessly falling a bit short of the $500 billion deficit-reduction goal set by President Clinton. The key deal: limiting the gas-tax increase to 4.3 cents per gal. -- $33 per year for an average driver -- rather than the larger, broader energy tax that Clinton and the House Democrats had wanted. Republicans are expected to oppose the plan solidly, but Democratic leaders feel they can hold ranks and win narrow passage in the full House and Senate this week...
Jury selection began for the trial of two of the young men accused of beating truck driver Reginald Denny during the riots in Los Angeles last year. Damian Williams, 20, and Henry Watson, 28, were allegedly hitting and kicking Denny when they were captured on videotape by a news helicopter. The two men are charged with attempted murder and other felonies in the attack on Denny and seven other victims. Another defendant in the case, Antoine Miller, 21, is also charged with attempted murder, but will have a separate trial...
...many Brazilians had no sympathy for the victims. "Everyone is making them out to be heroes," says taxi driver Joao Mendes, "but they were not sweet flowers." Citizens calling in to local talk shows applauded the massacre. Says Alexandre Coelho Reis, 23, who works in Rio: "Many of these 13-year-old kids have killed. They deserve...
Family life is not easy, but Beldar takes a job first as an appliance mechanic and later a taxicab driver. He's a born worker, and the family achieves the American dream of middle-class bliss...
...presumably, had taken the time to help her calculate what 4.3 cents per gal. means. To a typical driver (12,000 miles a year at 20 miles to the gallon), it means $25.80 a year. Why is this national news...