Published in the San Jose Mercury News, Saturday, June 21, 1997, Page C-1:



"Budget Deficit Falls 8.6% as Economy Expands."

A steadily expanding economy helped shrink the government's budget deficit by 8.6 percent to $48.5 billion in May from $53.1 billion a year earlier, the Treasury Department said Friday. The year-to-year improvement was even more dramatic for the first eight months of fiscal 1997, which ends Sept. 30, as the cumulative deficit plummeted 40 percent to $65.4 billion from $108.4 billion in the comparable fiscal 1996 period. Private-sector analysts say the fiscal 1997 deficit will come in well under $100 billion, making a fifth straight year of improvement.

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