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Donald J. Trump declared a$916 million loss on his 1995 in-come tax returns, a tax deductionso substantial it could have al-lowed him to legally avoid payingany federal income taxes for up to18 years, records obtained by TheNew York Times show.

The 1995 tax records, never be-fore disclosed, reveal the extraor-dinary tax benefits that Mr.Trump, the Republican presiden-tial nominee, derived from the fi-nancial wreckage he left behind inthe early 1990s through misman-agement of three Atlantic Citycasinos, his ill-fated foray into theairline business and his ill-timedpurchase of the Plaza Hotel inManhattan.

Tax experts hired by The Timesto analyze Mr. Trump’s 1995records said that tax rules espe-cially advantageous to wealthy fil-ers would have allowed Mr. Trumpto use his $916 million loss to can-cel out an equivalent amount oftaxable income over an 18-yearperiod.

Although Mr. Trump’s taxableincome in subsequent years is asyet unknown, a $916 million loss in1995 would have been largeenough to wipe out more than$50 million a year in taxable in-come over 18 years.

The $916 million loss certainlycould have eliminated any federalincome taxes Mr. Trump other-wise would have owed on the$50,000 to $100,000 he was paid foreach episode of “The Apprentice,”or the roughly $45 million he waspaid between 1995 and 2009 whenhe was chairman or chief execu-tive of the publicly traded com-pany he created to assume owner-ship of his troubled Atlantic Citycasinos. Ordinary investors in thenew company, meanwhile, sawthe value of their shares plunge to17 cents from $35.50, while scoresof contractors went unpaid forwork on Mr. Trump’s casinos andcasino bondholders received pen-nies on the dollar.

“He has a vast benefit from hisdestruction” in the early 1990s,

said one of the experts, JoelRosenfeld, an assistant professorat New York University’s SchackInstitute of Real Estate. Mr. Ros-enfeld offered this description ofwhat he would advise a client whocame to him with a tax return likeMr. Trump’s: “Do you realize youcan create $916 million in incomewithout paying a nickel in taxes?”

Mr. Trump declined to commenton the documents. Instead, thecampaign released a statementthat neither challenged nor con-firmed the $916 million loss.

“Mr. Trump is a highly-skilledbusinessman who has a fiduciaryresponsibility to his business, hisfamily and his employees to payno more tax than legally re-quired,” the statement said. “Thatbeing said, Mr. Trump has paidhundreds of millions of dollars inproperty taxes, sales and excisetaxes, real estate taxes, city taxes,state taxes, employee taxes andfederal taxes.”

The statement continued, “Mr.Trump knows the tax code far bet-ter than anyone who has ever runfor President and he is the onlyone that knows how to fix it.”

Separately, a lawyer for Mr.

Trump’s 1995 Tax RecordsClaim a $916 Million Loss

Deduction Means He Could Have AvoidedFederal Income Taxes for 18 Years

This article is by David Barstow,Susanne Craig, Russ Buettner andMegan Twohey.

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Pages from Donald J. Trump’s1995 tax records, obtained by TheNew York Times. Page 20.

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Donald J. Trump has refusedto make his tax returns public.

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MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica —Jamaica has long bemoaned itsreputation as the land of ganja.

It has enforced draconian druglaws and spent millions on publiceducation to stem its distinctionas a pot mecca. But its role as amajor supplier of illicit marijuana

to the United States and its inter-national image — led by the likesof Bob Marley, whose Rastafarianfaith considers smoking up a reli-gious act — have been too strongto overcome.

Now, its leaders smell some-thing else: opportunity.

Having watched states like Col-orado and California generate bil-lions of dollars from marijuana,

Jamaica has decided to embraceits herbaceous brand.

Rather than arresting andshunning the country’s Rasta pop-ulation, the Jamaican authoritieswill leverage it. Beyond decrimi-nalizing the possession of smallamounts of marijuana last year,Jamaica has legalized the use ofmedical marijuana, with its ul-timate sights set on “wellness

tourism” and the font of money itcould bring.

And for good reason: Jamaicahas one of the lowest economicgrowth rates in the developingworld, a striking contrast to theglobal success of its citizens in theworlds of sports and music.

So, having done just about ev-erything experts say a stupen-

As Drug Laws Ease, Jamaica Sees Gold in Crop It Long Shunned

By AZAM AHMED

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RENTON, Wash. — Theplayers filed past a table andpicked up the electronic wrist-bands as casually as any of otherpiece of equipment designed tomake the Seattle Seahawks per-form at their peak.

But rather than protect or helpthem power through a game, thisnew one, distributed to theplayers at practice on Monday, isaimed at a more subtle effect.Very subtle.

“Get your nine hours of sleep!”receiver Doug Baldwin shouted toTrevone Boykin, the backup quar-terback, as Boykin fiddled with hisband, a motion-sensing monitordesigned to ensure he does justthat.

The Seahawks want to becomesleeping giants.

N.F.L. teams obsessively trackalmost everything they can abouta player: weight, muscle mass,hand-eye coordination and more.

Yet in recent years, in thenever-ending search for an edge,teams have opened their eyes tosleep as a priority, backed up byscience that increasingly points toits importance for physical andmental health. A solid night in thesack particularly helps players re-cover from the inevitable wearand tear of a taxing season.

Several other teams besides theSeahawks have also been focus-ing on sleep. And it has caught onin other sports — some N.B.A.players, for instance, take napsduring the day to remain fresh fornight games. Basketball andhockey teams adjust their flight

schedules to allow their playersmore time to sleep. And New Eng-land quarterback Tom Bradymade waves two years ago whenhe said he goes to sleep at 8:30p.m.

Few teams, however, have co-zied up to the idea as much as theSeahawks

It is partly out of necessity. TheSeahawks are hours by plane

N.F.L. Keeps Track of 40 Winks,As Essential as a 40-Yard Dash

By KEN BELSON

Trevone Boykin, Seattle’s backup quarterback, putting on awristband allowing the team’s health staff to monitor his sleep.

STUART ISETT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

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MARACAY, Venezuela — The voicestormenting Accel Simeone kept gettinglouder.

The country’s last supplies of antipsy-chotic medication were vanishing, andMr. Simeone had gone weeks without thedrug that controls his schizophrenia.

Reality was disintegrating with eachpassing day. The sounds in his head soonbecame people, with names. They weregrowing in number, crowding the tiny

home he shared with his family, yelling ob-scenities into his ears.

Now the voices demanded that he killhis brother.

“I didn’t want to do it,” recalled Mr.Simeone, 25.

He took an electric grinder from thefamily’s garage. He switched it on.

But then, to spare his brother, he at-tacked himself instead, slicing into hisown arm until his father raced in andgrabbed the grinder from his bloodyhands.

Venezuela’s economic collapse has al-ready decimated its health system, leav-ing hospitals without antibiotics, sur-geons without gloves and patients dyingon emergency room tables.

Now, thousands of mental health pa-tients — many of whom had been livingrelatively normal lives under medication— are drifting into despair and psychosisbecause the country has run out of thevast majority of psychiatric medicines,leaving families and doctors powerless to

A schizophrenia patient at El Pampero Hospital in Barquisimeto, Venezuela, weighed 75 pounds after losing half his weight.MERIDITH KOHUT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Torment in VenezuelaLacking Drugs, Mentally Ill Drift Into Despair and Psychosis

Continued on Page 14

By NICHOLAS CASEY

ippines, citing fears that the long-time American ally poses thesame national security threat ascountries like Syria and Af-ghanistan.

Mr. Trump’s talk of deportingmillions of undocumented immi-grants has also stirred up painfulmemories among a group that hasbeen singled out under Americanlaw before, whether by the Chi-nese Exclusion Act, which barredthe immigration of Chinese labor-ers until 1943, or by the intern-ment of Japanese-Americans dur-ing World War II.

“It’s like we’re going back intime,” said Marc Matsuo of LasVegas, who grew up in Hawaiiwith parents of Japanese ancestryand recalled how his family usedto feel uncomfortable expressingtheir heritage, to the point theywould not speak Japanese. Henow helps register Asian-Ameri-cans to vote. “I was alwaysbrought up that you don’t talkabout religion, you don’t talkabout politics. Not anymore.”

LAS VEGAS — On paper atleast, Asian-Americans seem likeperfect Republicans. Many aresmall-business owners. Theircommunities tend to be moreculturally conservative. And a lotof them, having fled oppressiveCommunist governments, foundcomfort in the Republican Party’saggressive anti-Communist poli-cies.

But in what could be a signifi-cant realignment of political alle-giance, Asian-Americans areidentifying as Democrats at aquicker pace than any other racialgroup. And many Republicansworry this election will only accel-erate that trend, damaging theirparty for years to come with whatis now the fastest-growing minor-ity in the country.

The Republican presidentialnominee, Donald J. Trump, is nothelping. His attacks on the Chi-nese — which he has sometimesdelivered in a crude, mocking ac-cent — are a feature of his populistcampaign. He has suggested cut-ting off immigration from the Phil- Continued on Page 21

Asian-Americans’ Drift LeftIs Cause for Republican Worry

By JEREMY W. PETERS

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