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...stretch of sea between Haiti and Cuba that sailors call the Windward Passage. They had left their homes in Petit-Trou-de-Nippes, a town of 1,000 perched on the shore of Haiti's impoverished southern claw, provisioned with only two bags of rice and a single 50-gal. barrel of water. Even at sea they continued to take on new passengers -- some arriving in dugout canoes, others by swimming. All were convinced that Dieu Veut was their only chance...
...wins. But their combined effect broke the gloom that had pervaded the White House and fractured some of the gridlock in Washington. After weeks of intraparty wrangling, Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee agreed to a deficit-reduction measure that included a gasoline tax increase of 4.3 cents per gal. and a $68 billion cut in Medicare benefits over five years. While a vote in the full Senate and an ugly conference to reconcile differences with the House version still loom, the latest deal takes Clinton closer to making good on his promise to cut the deficit by $500 billion...
...President's budget plan cleared another hurdle when Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee struck a deal on new tax increases and spending cuts. They eliminated Clinton's $72 billion tax on all forms of energy, substituting a 4.3 cents-per-gal. motor-fuels tax that will raise just $24 billion over the next five years and tacked on a 2.8% increase in the capital-gains tax for the affluent. With the First Lady's very discreet acquiescence, the Senators also cut an extra $19 billion from Medicare beyond the $49 billion already sought by Clinton. Now the bill moves...
GEORGE BUSH COULD SOON DISCOVER THAT LOSING A PRESIDENtial election can be a taxing experience. Clinton's budget proposes increasing fuel taxes on barge companies $1 per gal. (a 525% rise). Bush and former Cabinet Secretaries James Baker and Robert Mosbacher have all had lucrative investments in the same Houston barge company. Bush reported an $11,962 profit on his $31,000 stake in 1988 before he moved his investments into a blind trust. He is a private citizen now, so his current holdings, if any, are his business. But the tax could prove to be quite a parting gift...
Like Clinton, Reno is an Ivy League law graduate (Harvard '63) with a down- home background. When she was a girl her parents, both reporters, moved the family to a homestead near the Everglades. Her mother was a crusty good ole gal known for wrestling alligators and building much of the log-and-stone house where Reno still lives...