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Health Care Groups Rip Rudy's Cuts 

Health care advocates blasted Mayor Giuliani's proposed budget cuts yesterday, saying the city's poorest communities will suffer the most.

The complaint focused on some of the $766 million in cuts the mayor intends to make to bridge a $1.2 billion gap in his final budget. The gap was caused largely by the economic aftershocks from the World Trade Center attack. Giuliani submitted a budget change plan to the City Council. . .

Other proposed cuts: $6.5 million from an anti-smoking program [This graph only]

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