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William A. Ackman said his hedge fundhad sold its entire stake in the troubleddrug maker, whose stock has fallen 95percent since its peak in 2015. PAGE B1

BUSINESS DAY B1-8

Major Investor Deserts ValeantBill de Blasio, seeking to reduce deathsby 35 percent, proposed greater accessto medication and aggressive prosecu-tion of heroin dealers. PAGE A21

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Mayor Vows to Cut Drug TollFilling out the financial aid form got alot harder after a tool that automaticallyfills in a family’s tax return informationwas disabled. PAGE A10

NATIONAL A10-17

A College Aid ComplicationDrones seemed like ideal tools to helpprotect wildlife. But deploying them hasbeen far more difficult than conserva-tionists had hoped. PAGE D6

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An Eye Trained on Poachers David Brooks PAGE A23

EDITORIAL, OP-ED A22-23

BERLIN — After World War II,few Germans with sizable artholdings made a point of digginginto their collections for signs ofNazi looting.

And because private collectionswere off limits for those trying to

track down stolen art, works of un-examined provenance have hungfor decades in family homes andoffice corridors, the stories of howthey were acquired often vague,inconsistent or simply not dis-cussed.

But as one generation of Ger-mans has died and given its art tothe next, a number of people with

prominent collections and unset-tled consciences have stepped for-ward to investigate what theyown.

“I don’t want stolen goods hang-ing on the wall — it’s quite simple,”said Jan Philipp Reemtsma, whohired a researcher 15 years ago toexamine 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 governmenthas announced it will begin subsi-dizing such efforts, using moneyfrom a national fund of 3.4 millioneuros (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 chemistnamed Armin Walser helped in-vent a sedative more powerfulthan Valium more than 40 yearsago, he thought his team’s concoc-tion was meant to make people’slives easier, not their deaths.

Yet decades after the drug,known as midazolam, entered themarket, a product more often usedduring colonoscopies and cardiaccatheterizations has become cen-tral to executions around thecountry and the debate that sur-rounds capital punishment in theUnited States.

“I didn’t make it for the pur-pose,” Dr. Walser, whose drug hasbeen used for sedation during 20lethal injections nationwide, saidin 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 atleast six of the country’s executionchambers has been filled with se-crecy, political pressure, scientificdisputes and court challenges.

The most recent controversy isthe extraordinary plan in Arkan-sas to execute eight inmates in 10days next month. The state is rac-ing the calendar: Its midazolamsupply will expire at the end ofApril, and given the resistance ofmanufacturers to having the drug

Rush to ExecuteDrags Old DrugInto New Fight

By ALAN BLINDER


WASHINGTON — Long beforeDonald J. Trump took aim at immi-grants, there was RepresentativeSteve King of Iowa.

Since Mr. King’s election to theHouse in 2002, and before that inthe State Legislature, where hefirst tried out his English-onlytrademark talking point, Mr. King,a Republican, has injected himselfinto the immi-gration debatewith inflam-matory and attimes boorishstatements.

Against thebackdrop of anemboldenedwhite nation-alist move-ment in theUnited States,his Twitter post over the weekend— “We can’t restore our civiliza-tion with somebody else’s babies”— suggested that Mr. King wassliding from his typical rhetoric tosomething far darker. It waspraised by both the white suprem-acist David Duke and the DailyStormer, a neo-Nazi website.

But it was also quickly criticizedby many Republicans, includingSpeaker Paul D. Ryan, whose of-fice said he “clearly disagrees”with Mr. King, and Representative

Hurling Insults,Then Rebuked

By Own PartyBy JENNIFER STEINHAUER


Steve King

WASHINGTON — The HouseRepublican plan to replace the Af-fordable Care Act would increasethe number of people withouthealth insurance by 24 million by2026, while slicing $337 billion offfederal budget deficits over thattime, the nonpartisan Congres-sional Budget Office said Monday.

Republicans had been bracingfor what was almost certain to bea bleak accounting of the legisla-tion’s projected effects. The Amer-ican Health Care Act, as Republi-cans call their bill, was alreadyfacing widespread criticism fromhealth care providers, some con-servatives and a united Demo-cratic Party.

The much-anticipated judg-ment by Capitol Hill’s officialscorekeeper did not back up Pres-ident Trump’s promise of provid-ing health care for everyone andwas likely to fuel the concerns ofmoderate Republicans. Next year,it said, the number of uninsuredAmericans would be 14 millionhigher than expected under cur-rent law.

But it also provided talkingpoints for House Republican lead-ers who need the support of rebel-lious conservatives to pass themeasure: lower deficits, reducedfederal spending and tax cuts.

The White House immediatelydenounced the budget office’sconclusions. Tom Price, the secre-

tary of health and humanservices, suggested the report of-fered an incomplete picture be-cause it did not take into accountregulatory steps he intends totake, as well as other legislationthat Republicans plan as part oftheir multistep strategy to repealand replace the health law.

“We disagree strenuously withthe report that was put out,” hesaid at the White House.

Democrats remained steadfastin their opposition. “The C.B.O.score shows just how empty thepresident’s promises, that every-one will be covered and costs willgo down, have been,” said SenatorChuck Schumer of New York, theDemocratic leader. “This shouldbe a looming stop sign for the Re-publicans’ repeal effort.”

The coverage numbers re-leased Monday will make it onlymore difficult for Republicans toexplain why their legislationwould improve the country’shealth care system. And thatcould make the bill’s fate in themore narrowly divided Senatemuch more tenuous.

Average premiums for peoplebuying insurance on their ownwould be 15 to 20 percent higher in2018 and 2019 than they would beunder current law, the budget of-fice said. But after that, premiumswould be lower than projected un-

24 MILLION MOREAMONG UNINSURED

UNDER G.O.P. PLANAlso by 2026, C.B.O. Projects $337 Billion

to Be Cut From the Federal Deficit

By THOMAS KAPLAN and ROBERT PEAR


STRATEGY The Democrats plan to portray the Supreme Court nomineeas someone who favors the powerful and well connected. PAGE A13

FOX EFFECT A potential nominee as the new United States attorney inManhattan 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 theDutch election campaign. Far-right candidates have disparagedIslam, often depicting Muslims asoutsiders unwilling to integrateinto Dutch culture.

It is especially jarring for Mr.Aboutaleb, given that he is themayor of Rotterdam, a fluentDutch speaker and one of thecountry’s most popular poli-ticians. Nor is he alone: Thespeaker of the Dutch Parliamentis Muslim. The Netherlands alsohas Muslim social workers, jour-nalists, comedians, entrepreneurs

and bankers.“There’s a feeling that if there

are too many cultural influencesfrom other parts of the world, thenwhat does that mean for ourDutch traditions and culture?”said Mr. Aboutaleb, whose city, theNetherland’s second largest, is 15percent to 20 percent Muslim andhome to immigrants from 174countries.

Wednesday’s elections will be-gin Europe’s year of political reck-oning. The Dutch race, comingahead of others in France, Ger-

many and possibly Italy, will bethe first test of Europe’s thresholdfor tolerance as populist partiesrise by attacking the EuropeanUnion and immigration, makingnationalistic calls to preserve dis-tinct local cultures.

It is an especially strikinggauge of the strength of anti-es-tablishment forces that such callsare falling on receptive ears evenin the Netherlands, a country thatfor generations has seen succes-sive waves of Muslim immigra-tion. If anything, the Netherlandsis a picture of relatively successfulassimilation, especially whencompared with nearby France orBelgium.

In the Netherlands, Geert

Dutch Consider New Relationship to MuslimsBy 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


BATTLE LINES IN BRITAIN

Parliament cleared the way for“Brexit” talks as Scotland vowedan independence vote. Page A8.

In the world of driverless cars,household names like Google andUber have raced ahead of rivals,building test vehicles and startingtrials on city streets.

But when it comes to what is un-der the hood, an array of lesser-known companies will most likelysupply the technology required tobring driverless cars to themasses. And in a $15.3 billion dealannounced on Monday, Intelmoved to corner the market onhow much of that technology is de-veloped.

The chip maker’s acquisition ofMobileye, an Israeli company thatmakes sensors and cameras fordriverless vehicles, is one of thelargest in the fast-growing sectorand sets the stage for increasingcompetition between Silicon Val-ley giants as well as traditional au-tomakers over who will dominatethe world of autonomous cars.

The likes of Google and Uberhave already invested billions ofdollars in their own technology,signing partnerships with au-tomakers like Chrysler and Volvoand sending test vehicles onto theroad in a bid to cement their placein 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 threatto its legacy computer business,Intel — alongside competitors likeQualcomm — has focused on au-tonomous cars as a new and po-tentially lucrative market. Manyof these driverless vehicles, ex-perts say, will require immensecomputing power, including thelatest microchips able to crunchreams of data in seconds to keepthe cars safe, and on the road.

Intel Moves InOn Car MarketWith Takeover

By MARK SCOTT


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