WINNERS & LOSERS

By KATHLEEN ADAMS, MELISSA AUGUST, LINA LOFARO, MICHAEL QUINN, JEFFERY C. RUBIN, ALAIN L. SANDERS AND SIDNEY URQUHART

[winners]

FIDEL CASTRO Makes his first ever state visit to Paris (sure beats Managua)

FEDERICO PENA For a change of pace, a Clinton official is cleared of charges

INFANT-FORMULA MAKERS Fine print in G.O.P. block-grant proposal could mean $1 billion feeding

[losers]

HASHEMI RAFSANJANI Clinton nixes American development of offshore Iranian oil fields

SPOTTED OWLS House suspends laws protecting trees the owls call home

BASEBALL OWNERS Picked off at first by the NLRB for unfair labor practices