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Contract worker admits setting Arizona inferno
BY ALISA BLACKWOOD
ASSOCIATED PRESS

SHOW LOW Ariz. A part-time fire, fighter looking for work was charged Sunday with using matches to set dry grass aflame, starting a blaze that turned into the worst wildfire in Arizona history . Leonard Gregg, 29, worked under contract as a firefighter for the Bureau of

Indian Affairs and was one of the first people called to fight the blaze. Gregg admitted setting the fire so he could get work on a fire crew, according to a statement filed in federal court by a BIA investigator. This fire was started with a profit motive behind it, U.S. Attorney Paul Charlton said Sunday . Gregg is the second person employed to fend off wildfires who is accused of

setting the blazes during one of the countrys most destructive fire seasons. Terry Barton, a U.S. Forest Service employee, was charged earlier in June with setting Colorados largest-ever wildfire. At a hearing in Flagstaff federal court on Sunday a tired-looking Gregg said, , Im sorry for what I did. But U.S. Magistrate Stephen Verkamp See FIREFIGHTER/6A
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Leonard Gregg is led into Federal Court in Flagstaff, Ariz. He was charged Sunday with starting one of the fires that grew to be Arizonas largest.

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Bill Mueller gets soaked during Sundays amateur golf championship at Mission Del Lago.

Storms stay in S.A.-area forecast

Flooding of Guadalupe threatens Comfort. Aquifer is at 654 feet.
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A woman leaves three small children on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande at Lajitas as she makes her way to the U.S. side to talk with two men.

Bands of intense storm cells, fueled by an unusually cool upper-level system, might fan out over the Edwards Aquifer recharge zone to Complete day after soakweather/14D ing the Hill Country with more than 6 inches of rain, forecasters said. The rain, while beneficial during a drought, has brought a threat of flooding along rising creeks and rivers, especially the Guadalupe River near Comfort. A low-pressure system wielding cool air and centered over northern Mexico has been drawing tropical air into the upper levels, causing an unusual summer pattern that produces significant rain, but no hail or tornadoes normally associated with warm-weather storms. This cold core above us is unique for this area of Texas, said David Swallow, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in New Braunfels. Because of that cold air, were seeing a lot of rain, which is causSee STORMS/8A

Crossing closures irk residents

BY JOHN MACCORMACK
EXPRESS-NEWS STAFF WRITER

BITTERNESS on the BORDER

They came down in force, with unmarked vehicles and a helicopter, and it was ugly very ugly said , , Rick Page, who operates the Lajitas Trading Post, a magnet for customers from both sides of the Rio Grande since 1899. We called it the invasion, he said. They came at check-cashing time and rounded people up. It was very intimidating. What we dont know is why Is it terrorism? . Is it drugs? And as petitions circulate in Terlingua, Study Butte and Lajitas asking that the crossing be reopened, all that is certain is that the easygoing cross-border life here has drastically changed. See CRACKDOWN/6A

The river crossing at Lajitas has been very quiet since it was closed and its Mexican ferryman detained by U.S. officials.

LAJITAS Erected a few months ago at the river crossing just west of town, the metal marker traces the use of the traditional Rio Grande ford from Spanish conquistadors to 20th century bootleggers, bandits and businessmen. Today the historic crossing con, nects two nations and cultures, and is used by tourists and travelers from around the world, concludes the bright new inscription. But that ended abruptly in May when the Border Patrol raided Lajitas as part of a broad campaign to close all such informal border crossings in West Texas.

Does closing these borders make it better or worse for terrorism? . . . It may make it worse. Wed rather have (the locals) as friends than thinking of us as the enemy.
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Economy, consumers on edge over scandals

spreading, stocks still sliding and the dollar dropping, the stage seems set for a distinctly D less pleasant surprise: the noBY PETER G. GOSSELIN growth recovery . Analysts fear that the latest LOS ANGELES TIMES troubles are sapping the power WASHINGTON Until a few of the tax cuts and reduced inmonths ago, economists terest rates that fueled most of thought the United States had the economys recent comecome up with a surprising in- back, largely by inducing convention: the no-slow reces- sumers to continue buying. sion, in which growth barely You cant have corporate pauses before resuming its up- America coming out every day ward arc. But with business scandals See CORPORATE/8A

San Antonio revels Brazilian style

Fans celebrate South American nations fifth World Cup title.
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EXPRESS-NEWS STAFF WRITER

Recent disclosures may put a crimp in nations recovery efforts.

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Brazil fan Aline Bowers, facing camera, hugs Patty Leite. Brazil defeated Germany 2-0 in Sundays World Cup championship.
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It is 5 a.m. An ungodly hour, even on a Sunday . Yet 32-year-old Milton Fiala cannot even begin to think about sleep. His native Brazil is only an hour from squaring off against Germany for the Holy Grail of soccer, the World Cup championship. As one might expect, he is extremely anxious.
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I dont care what the score is, I just hope we win, he said. To celebrate the match and perhaps soothe his nerves Fiala organized a gathering of roughly 90-100 fans, many natives of Brazil, at Betos Latin Grill on Broadway . Much to their delight, Brazil, behind two second-half goals from Ronaldo, upended the Germans 2-0 for a record fifth World Cup title. Im so fired up, Fiala said. See FANS/8A
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SOUTH TEXAS: Flooding forces numerous evacuations, shuts down roads and interstates for hours.

SAN ANTONIO: An 11-year-old boy fights for life after being swept down a West Side creek.

Heavy rains swamp area

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A secure line is extended to a trapped Dilley Volunteer Fire Department truck on Interstate 35 just north of Dilley. High water blocked the interstate on Monday for several hours.

Rainfall totals highest since 98

BY LISA SANDBERG
EXPRESS-NEWS STAFF WRITER

KEVIN GEIL/STAFF

San Antonio firefighters give CPR to a boy while carrying him to a after he fell into Apache Creek while playing with another youth medical evacuation helicopter. The boy had been swept downstream during Mondays heavy rainstorm on the citys West Side.

One week ago, San Antonio residents were digesting the news that water restrictions had taken effect because of a continuing drought. By Monday evening, amid rush-hour traffic, the city was experiencing some of the most intense rainfall since the historic flood of 98. Torrential rains drenched San Antonio for a third straight day Monday nearly drowning an 11, year-old boy who was swept by rising floodwater just southwest of downtown, forcing some families in the Woodlawn Lake area to flee their flooded homes, and leading to a dramatic late-night rescue on the Northwest Side. Officials recorded 9.28 inches of rain at the San Antonio International Airport the highest since the flood of 98, Mayor Ed

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Garza said. The heavy rains shut down hundreds of roads, sparked power outages across the city and kept firefighters busy throughout the day responding to dozens of high water rescues and reports of motorists stranded in waist-deep water. More than 200 homes across the city were affected by flooding, about half of those in the Woodlawn Lake area, Garza said. Fifteen homes in the Old Highway 90 neighborhood were also evacuated. City officials were encouraging residents of the River Road See TORRENTIAL/4A

U.S. bombing raid hits civilians in Afghan village

Pentagon says errant projectile may have wounded women and children.
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Passenger, cargo jets collide over Germany

Fireball lights up sky . Wreckage starts fires on ground.
D BY STEVEN ERLANGER

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan U.S. planes bombed a village in central Afghanistan on Monday after the U.S. military said American forces came under fire. Afghans said villagers were celebrating a wedding and that scores were killed and injured, including many women and children. Reports of the incident were conflicting. The Pentagon insisted the aircraft attacked a legitimate hostile target but suggested an errant bomb may have caused civilian casualties.

The U.S. Central Command, which is responsible for U.S. military operations in Afghanistan, said a coalition operation in Uruzgan province may have resulted in civilian casualties. Close air support from U.S. Air Force B-52 and AC-130 aircraft struck several ground targets, including antiaircraft artillery sites that were engaging the aircraft, the brief statement said, providing no other details. At Bagram air base, U.S. military spokesman Col. Roger King said an AC-130 gunship, a B-52 bomber and other aircraft joined the attack after coalition ground forces came under fire. We understand that there were some civilian casualties in the operation, but we do not yet know how many casualties or how they occurred, King said. The United States expresses its deepest See VILLAGERS/7A

Calling it quits
Rep. J.C. Watts Jr. of Oklahoma, the only black Republican in Congress, says he will not seek re-election.
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BERLIN A Russian passenger airliner collided late Monday night with a Boeing 757 cargo plane over southern Germany exploding in a fireball and ap, parently killing everyone aboard both planes, the police said. The Russian plane, a Tupolev Tu-154 operated by Bashkirian Airlines, and the Boeing 757 crashed into one another at 11:43 p.m. over the state of Baden-Wurttemberg in southwest Germany said , Wolfgang Wenzel, a state police spokesMovies Puzzles S.A. Life 3D 8D 1D Sports Stocks TV listings 1C 4E 5D

man in Tubingen. The fireball from the collision lit up the night sky over one of Germanys favorite summer vacation spots, Lake Constance, on the border with Switzerland. Stanislav Borolof, the night supervisor at Domodedova airport near Moscow, identified the Tupolev flight as Bashkirian Flight 2937, which left Moscow at 10:48 p.m. Monday bound for Barcelona, Spain. It was a charter flight carrying a crew of 12 and 57 passengers, 49 adults and eight children. The Russian-built Tu-154 is a mainstay of aviation in the former Soviet Union. It is used on both domestic and international flights. More than 1,000 were built and most are still being flown, with just a few converted to freight use. The Boeing, flown by a crew with the See PLANES/7A
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A flood of despair
Water rises along with fears of another 1998
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The forecast
Rain chances will dwindle over the next three days: Today, 60 percent Thursday, 30 percent Friday, 20 percent

Record rain
July 2002 already is the wettest July in San Antonio history. Mondays 9.52-inch rainfall surpassed the previous record for July 1 (4.07 inches in 1932) and for the month (8.29 inches in 1990).

Deaths
Two people one in San Antonio and one in Bandera have died as a result of the flooding.

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The inside stories

The Edwards Aquifer benefits from the heavy rains. Its more than 15 feet above the level that triggered water use restrictions in San Antonio last week/8A A man who was saved in a dramatic, late-night rescue says he doesnt think he should have to pay a $400 fine for driving through a low water crossing during flooding/11A The slow-moving storm system moves farther westward, turning Uvalde, Bandera and other communities into virtual islands. The Frio River rises 25 feet above its flood stage/12A

Road crews use heavy equipment at U.S. 281 at Basse Road near Quarry Market. The area was full of water Tuesday following heavy rains Monday night.

Flash flood flashback

BY CINDY TUMIEL AND KATHERINE LEAL UNMUTH
EXPRESS-NEWS STAFF WRITERS

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Visit MySanAntonio.com for the latest live images of Doppler radar and up-to-the-minute street closures.

The ghosts of 1998 stalked the Wheatley Heights neighborhood Tuesday afternoon, where Leon Haywood kept vigil by the swirling muddy waters of Salado Creek flowing just beyond his back yard on Advance Street. Its been four years, but memories still are fresh of record rains that caused the Salado to slip its banks and inundate Haywoods home with 18 inches of water. Now, as rains pounded San Antonio once again, Haywood and his neighbors began making those inevitable comparisons to the October 1998 storm. They also made plans. I dont want to be here late at night when the water raises up on me, said Haywood, 39, who said he would leave his home as soon as the water reached his back gate. It came so fast (in 1998) all I could leave with was some clothes. This time Im going to pre-pack. Wheatley Heights was one of the worst-hit areas of San Antonio in 1998, when a rare confluence of meteorological events stirred up one of the worst storms in the regions history . Rain pounded the area for two days, causing See STORM/10A

Angie Angers (right) helps daughter Angelia Angers through floodwaters from Geronimo Creek that inundated their home in the Elmwood subdivision in Seguin. The two were returning to dry land Tuesday after inspecting the structure that had about 2 feet of water inside.
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S.A. may not dry out for days

BY AMY DORSETT
EXPRESS-NEWS STAFF WRITER

Storm comparison
1998 2002

Rainfall over 24-hour period Bexar County deaths Rescue calls received by San Antonio firefighters Major road closures

11.26 inches 11 400+ Part of I-35; U.S. 281 between Loop 410 and Hildebrand

9.52 inches 1 232 Parts of I-35; U.S. 281 between Loop 410 and Hildebrand; I-10 at Loop 1604
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The heavens provided no mercy Tuesday to a region already soaked to the bone. Much of San Antonio was paralyzed as water seeped into homes and rapids skimmed over streets, leaving motorists stranded and at least one dead in the Woodlawn Lake neighborhood. A second person was killed in Bandera County , which remained largely isolated due to flooded roads. About 360 people were forced to take refuge in Red Cross shelters in San Antonio, Uvalde, Dilley and other areas. Mayor Ed Garza and Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff requested a state disaster declaration from the governors office. More than 200 homes have been damaged. While not as pervasive as the storm in 1998 or as deadly as the Great Flood of 1921, when 50 people died, this storm broke records, too. Mondays rain alone 9.52 inches set a record for the month of July Previously the most . , rain recorded in any July was in 1990, when the city received 8.29 inches. Tuesday saw less official rain in San Antonio only 1.63 inches as of 7 p.m. but there was as See TROUBLE/8A

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Germany crash: A Russian pilot ferrying children to a beach vacation had less than a minute to avoid an oncoming cargo jet/3A

Health alert: Hispanic kids have a disproportionate share of health problems that arent being treated, a new report warns/4A

No fear: Americans are urged to celebrate Fourth of July with gusto/1B

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SOARING INTO HISTORY: Pilot Steve Fossetts Bud Light Spirit of Freedom balloon floats at 21,500 feet. Fossett made aviation history Tuesday, becoming the first person to fly a balloon solo around the world. See story on Page 14A.

Afghans demand U.S. be careful

Kabul irritated at civilian casualties.
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WASHINGTON POST

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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan A U.S. air assault that officials in Uruzgan province said left 40 civilians dead and at least 100 wounded has drawn the Afghan governments strongest criticism yet of American military operations here. Stronger measures and further explanations are needed to prevent
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civilian casualties in the U.S.-led effort to hunt down al-Qaida and Taliban fugitives, Foreign Minister Abdullah said Tuesday . This situation has to come to an end, he said. Mistakes ABDULLAH can take place . . . but our people should be assured every measure has been taken to avoid such incidents. Abdullah, speaking in Kabul, stressed the government wasnt pulling back from its support for U.S. anti-terror operations in Afghanistan, which began nine months ago.
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A government statement said President Hamid Karzai called on the United States and its allies to take all necessary measures to ensure that military activities to capture terrorist groups do not harm innocent Afghan civilians. Mondays incident occurred in a remote area where U.S. forces have been searching for remnants of Taliban and al-Qaida forces and where some Afghan officials said they believe Mohammed Omar, the Talibans leader, may be hiding. With details of the incident still in dispute, Afghan and U.S. officials See AFGHANS/18A
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Happy July 4

Despite rain, celebrations will go on

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Patriotic chic: Red, white and blue

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Agent says Bowen, Rose will be back with Spurs
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9-11 means its a different kind of 7-4

Security to blanket celebrations
BY GARY MARTIN
EXPRESS-NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU

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Muslims plan to keep low profile/13A Overseas Americans wary/14A Terror alerts dont stop New Yorkers/15A Holiday closings/2B A listing of area events not rained out/3B

U.S. is shaken, but not reeling

BY JAIME CASTILLO
EXPRESS-NEWS STAFF WRITER

WASHINGTON As Americans celebrate Independence Day theyll do so under , heightened security . Fighter jets will patrol the nations sky and a special coordination center under Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge will monitor 2,000 large and medium-sized events across the country as FBI agents work with local law enforcement to guard against a terror attack. There will be a substantial number of beefed-up actions across the country ,

White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said Wednesday . When Americans gather in large numbers, they can become a target. In San Antonio, where emergency personnel have been working overtime because of flooding that has ravaged the city , no extraordinary security measures are planned for Independence Day celebrations, Mayor Ed Garza said. Right now, our focus has been the floods, he said. Terrorists struck New York and WashSee SECURITY/12A

Bruised by corporate scandal, shaken by terrorism and worried about young men and women at war, millions of Americans will celebrate their freedom today knowing the country is a different place than it was a year ago. It may not be the swelling pride once associated with Apollo rocket missions and improbable Olympic victories. But it will be the quiet confidence of a country that has pulled together after terrorists struck symbols of a strong nation the Twin Towers

and the Pentagon Sept. 11. There will be speeches, parades and fireworks, but most people will show their patriotism by simply living their lives. Some will do it with a stiff upper lip wrapped around a hot dog at a family barbecue. Some will enjoy a ball game with friends on a sunny one hopes afternoon. And many will let the Stars and Stripes hanging from their porch do the talking for them. But nearly all will do it with the knowledge that life has changed. See AMERICAN/12A

FLOOD OF 2002

S.A. area declared disaster

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Gov. Rick Perry gestures to County Judge Nelson Wolff as they fly over inundated areas of San Antonio in a Texas Army National Guard Blackhawk helicopter.

Forecasters saying more rain is likely

BY AMY DORSETT AND DANE SCHILLER
EXPRESS-NEWS STAFF WRITERS

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Rising waters at Canyon Lake sparks cancellation of July 4 festivities/6A Search continues for missing Southeast Side couple/7A Weather forces postponement on some final exams/7A High water could force varmints into neighborhoods/7A Rain of little help to Valley farmers, who balk at pact with Mexico/8A Flooding takes out 175-year-old cotton gin in Luckenbach/8A Hundreds trapped for two days in Concan finally able to get out/8A Damage could spell end for Macaroni Grill in Leon Springs/9A Insurance adjusters give advice on filing storm claims/9A Some businesses being deluged while others see business dry up/9A
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The rain mercifully slowed Wednesday giving waterlogged , residents a chance to start the tedious task of cleaning up as Gov . Rick Perry toured the area by air and declared it a disaster. Rain fell again Wednesday night, bringing new flash flood warnings, but as quickly as waters rose, they receded. Late Wednesday , National Weather Service forecasters were busy recalculating rain chances

based on new information that didnt bode well for San Antonio. Were probably going to continue receiving rain, said Joe Baskin, weather service meteorologist in New Braunfels. Earlier in the day forecasters , had put the chance of rain for the San Antonio area at 30 percent today and 20 percent Friday . That likely would go up to 40 percent, Baskin said. It might slacken up in the afternoon, then pick up again (tonight), Baskin said. See S.A. AREA/6A

Residents now facing massive cleanup job

BY JOHN MACCORMACK
EXPRESS-NEWS STAFF WRITER

GLORIA FERNIZ/STAFF

At Medina Lake, water flowed 7 feet deep over the dam spillway. It had risen within 5 feet of the top of the dam. Gov. Rick Perry issued a disaster declaration Wednesday for 29 counties affected by the storm.

After dumping as much as 2 feet of rain on some areas over the past week, an unexpected mid-summer storm system slowly moved westward Wednesday as recovery efforts began in , its wake. The out-of-season storm leaves at least three dead, hundreds homeless, tens of millions of dollars in property damage and several area lakes brimming at all-time highs. This was definitely unusual, especially for late June or early
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July Normally our dry period . , starts in late June and we dont get this kind of storm, said Constantine Pashos, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. Forecasters had expected the storm to head north, slowing easing west, but new forecasts were being developed late Wednesday night. The central and eastern Hill Country is going to continue to receive possibly 3-6 inches (Wednesday night), said Joe Baskin, also an NWS meteroloSee 29 COUNTIES/8A
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Canyon Dam spills over as area death toll mounts

Bush says 10 counties eligible for federal aid
BY JOHN MACCORMACK
EXPRESS-NEWS STAFF WRITER

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Angel Ximenes, with help from her mother, Cheryl Fennessey, hastily loads her belongings onto trucks after police informed her she should evacuate her River Crest

Heights home near the Guadalupe River in New Braunfels. Her home is built on the site where the 1998 flooding swept another dwelling away.

Spillway watchers are eyewitnesses to history

BY ROGER CROTEAU AND CHRISTOPHER ANDERSON
EXPRESS-NEWS STAFF WRITERS

NEW BRAUNFELS Residents evacuated from subdivisions along the Guadalupe River waited nervously Thursday as water from Canyon Lake, swollen by runoff from a week of heavy rain, rushed over the spillway for the first time. The water surged over several portions of the 300-yard wide earthen chute at the southern end of the lake and into the trees growing at the top of a canyon before cascading downhill and eventually reuniting with the Guadalupe. Less than a mile below the spillway the beginning of the ,

overflow fattened a quiet stream into a boisterous brown torrent. By this morning, the spillway was expected to be covered by 6 feet of water, all of it pouring into the narrow canyon and eventually down to New Braunfels and Seguin, where residents braced for the flooding. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers projected that the leading edge of the overflow would take six hours to reach Common Street in New Braunfels, and nine hours to reach Seguin. The Gonzales-based Guadalupe Valley Electric Cooperative announced late Thursday that it would begin early today voluntarily shutting off power to an estimated 600 to 700 homes and businesses along the Guadalupe

River between New Braunfels and Seguin. Officials are concerned floodwaters could get into GVEC facilities serving the areas and present safety hazards if the power isnt disconnected, spokesman Mike Absher said. Due to the way in which an electric system is operated, you could be affected by these power interruptions even though your home or business may not be immediately threatened by any flooding, Absher said. Many of the homes are in subdivisions around lakes Dunlap, McQueeny and Placid, he said. Since Canyon Lake was filled in the 1960s, its level never had See NERVOUS/13A

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The death toll from a storm that dropped more than a foot and a half of rain on South-Central Texas rose to seven Thursday when the bodies of a San Antonio couple were discovered in their car as floodwaters began receding from the Olmos Basin. Meanwhile, President Bush declared 10 South Texas counties Bexar, Bandera, Blanco, Comal, Gillespie, Hays, Kendall, Kerr, Medina and Uvalde All of 281 as disaster ar- should eas, allowing residents to ap- reopen ply for federal today/14A assistance. Bodies of On Wednes- couple day Gov Rick retrieved , . Perry re- from car/12A quested a di- San Antonio, saster declara- Medina rivers tion for 29 to have counties in the record-setting region. flows/14A The presidential announcement came as hundreds of Comal County residents fled to high ground in anticipation of Canyon Lake overflowing its dam spillway for the first time. And, as intermittent heavy rains continued to fall Thursday over the Hill Country down, stream residents along the Medina, San Antonio and Guadalupe rivers braced themselves as forecasters predicted record crests in some areas. In advance of the rising waters, authorities began ordering evacuations in some areas. Flash flood warnings remained in effect for 20 South Texas counties through noon today and copious rains had , been forecast for the area through Thursday night by the National Weather Service. NWS meteorologist Ken Widelski said forecasters almost have given up trying to predict when See AREA/12A

Since Canyon Lake was filled, its level never had breached the spillway, although it came within a few inches in 1987.

Gunman goes on rampage inside Los Angeles airport

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LOS ANGELES Defying stepped-up security at Los Angeles International Airport, a man pulled a gun and opened fire Thursday at a busy ticket counter of El Al Israel Airlines. The man killed two people and wounded several others before an El Al guard shot him dead, authorities said.

Although Israeli officials believed the shooting was an act of terrorism, mirroring those carried out repeatedly in recent months on Israeli soil, U.S. authorities said there was no indication the motive was political. The shooter wasnt immediately identified. Passengers and others who witnessed the attack said the gunman a stocky middle-aged , individual with features described as Middle Eastern or Latino appeared to grow agitated while talking to a ticket agent at the El Al counter. He pulled out a gun and shot her, then began firing at people in line, witnesses said. There were people laying all
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over the floor. There was blood, said Arie Golan, who joined a security guard in wrestling the man to the floor. Witnesses said the security guard shot the man once at close range after the attacker had been disarmed and was being held on the floor. The shooting occurred at an airport that has been on high alert for a terror attack, on a holiday when the entire nation was warned to be on the lookout and at the counter of an airline generally considered to have the best security in the world. The gunfire, which began just before 11:30 a.m., forced the evacSee GUNMAN/6A
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San Antonians try to put this weeks flood, events of 9-11 behind them/1B From sea to shining sea, Americans display their patriotic fervor/8A Upward of 500,000 turn out for a hot time in nations capital/8A

LEFT: Despite recent rains and heavy flooding in the area, San Antonians came out to Woodlawn Lake to take in a Fourth of July celebration.
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FLEEING THE FLOODS Thousands evacuated from New Braunfels, Castroville and La Coste

TOLL RISES 11-year-old boy who fell into Apache Creek dies in hospital

DREARY FORECAST Weather service says it looks like a wet weekend in the area

Rivers unleash fury

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A school bus flipped on its side is wedged up against a house in New Braunfels. Officials said the flow out of the spillway into the already raging Guadalupe River could double by today.

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A military helicopter departs from Bandera after the city was cut off by rising floodwaters. The Medina River rose over the Texas 173 bridge Friday for the second time since flooding started.

Downstream towns brace for second wave

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Tons more rain feared next week

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flowing over the dam Wimberley spillway at more than 50,000 cubic feet per second Canyon Lake Blanco R. Guadalupe River New Braunfels & Canyon 2 1 Lake area More than 4,000 Boerne 5 residents and campers Luling 2 New evacuated, 200 homes damaged 3 Bandera Braunfels or destroyed Seguin 6 4 Gonzales Helotes 3 Bandera Medina River Medina Lake 8 expected to crest at 34 feet San 21 feet above flood stage Antonio Medina R. 7 Sa nA 4 Whartons Dock 1,500 Somerset nto residents isolated after only n road into town is flooded Falls City 5 Menger Creek Ninth flood victim, Chris Lewis, feared S drowned 6 Helotes & Grey Forest ni Derby o Chimenea Creek dam R. threatens both Choke Canyon 7 Castroville & La Coste Reservoir Flooding forces second Area of Frio R Texas evacuation Friday night . 8 Gonzales Guadalupe River expected to crest at 42 feet Sunday 11 feet above flood stage
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NEW BRAUNFELS With Guadalupe River waters raging through the center of town, displacing thousands of people and destroying hundreds of homes, beleaguered residents are bracing for a torrent expected to rival 1998s epic flooding. Though a relatively small amount of rain fell Friday overnight forecasts for heavy rain on both sides , of the Canyon Lake dam didnt bode well for the waterlogged community officials said. , More rain means higher and stronger floodwaters, which could churn out a path of destruction bigger than the flooding four years ago that killed 19 and caused $1 billion in damages, they say . In that flooding, rain fell between here and the lake. This time, theres also water falling on the other side of the lake. The damage is devastating, Scheel said. I can assure you, because of the flooding that has occurred between the city limits up to the lake, which we did not have in 1998, our financial loss will be substantially more. The Corps of Engineers, which administers swollen See DOWNSTREAM/11A

Rain, rain and now more rain to come. After dumping up to a years worth of rain on some communities in just the past six days, the storm that broke the drought and some hearts is maddeningly slow to leave the region, and theres another right behind it. The forecast is for more rain, said Ken Widelski, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in New Braunfels. Our forecasts through Sunday show a 40 percent chance of rain. And, not to scare anyone, but at the end of next week, it looks like we could have another system just like this one coming in, and that would mean tons of rain on super-saturated soil, he said. That was bad news for the people near Medina Dam, which officials said late Friday could be in peril. It been in the back of our minds, that might be a problem with the dam, Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff said. People below Medina Dam should move and get out of harms way . An inspector with the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission reportedly spotted cracks and seepage in the concrete dam, prompting the Department of Public Safety to issue a warning at about 9 p.m. Engineers were expected to check the dam this morning. See REGION/10A

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Anti-PGA forces apparently did it

City clerks report says the petition drive didnt fall short.
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PGA Village foes apparently have obtained the number of names needed to force City Council to rescind its support of the golf resort or let the public decide the issue in a fall election. Although actual numbers wont be revealed until next week, City Clerk Norma Rodri-

guez sent a report to the council Friday statVILLAGE ing the D E BAT E opponents petition drive has not fallen short of the 63,006 names of registered voters it needed. If a petition effort is insufficient, the City Charter requires the clerk to file a notice within 10 days of when the final signatures are filed Friday in this case. However, it does not require a report to be filed if an effort is

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successful. If no such notice is filed, it is reasonable to assume the petition drive succeeded, City Attorney Andrew Martin said. To me, that would be the logical conclusion that one could draw, he added. Members of the Save Our Aquifer Campaign, one of three organizations spearheading the anti-resort petition drive, said they reached the same conclusion as they celebrated their success with a cake. Were certain that we do have sufficient signatures, said Leticia Vela, the campaigns volunteer coordinator.
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The campaign and two associated activist organizations, Communities Organized for Public Service and the Metro Alliance, turned in what they said were more than 26,000 new names on the last batch of petitions June 25. PGA foes need to obtain the names of at least 10 percent of the citys registered voters to trigger the referendum process. Rodriguezs office had 10 days to determine which names were valid city voters, but since the deadline landed on the July 4 holiday she had until Friday to , See PGA/24A
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Downstream communities brace for their turn as the high water begins to recede in the San Antonio area

Flooding heads south

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BY JOE HOLLEY
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A shattered home from the Rivercrest subdivision in New Braunfels floats over the Commons Street bridge on the Guadalupe River.

Dams in the area are doing what they were designed to do

BY JERRY NEEDHAM
EXPRESS-NEWS STAFF WRITER

BANDERA: PICKING UP THE PIECES OF LIVES

Record rainfalls pushed two Hill Country dams beyond capacity but the structures did , what the designers intended them to do despite the overwhelming volume of water. Some areas behind Canyon and Medina lakes were deluged with more than 2 feet of rain last week, and runoff into Canyon Lake more than doubled the amount of water stored behind the dam before flowing over the spillway for the first time. The runoff at Canyon and Medina caused the reservoirs

to top their spillways by up to 10 feet. Water pouring over the spillway at Medina caused alarm downstream Friday night, after officials briefly expressed concerns about the dams integrity On Saturday . , authorities reassured residents that the dam was safe. The uncontrolled spills, along with heavy rains that fell in watersheds below the dams, were dumping tens of billions of gallons of water into already flooding rivers. During its unusually sustained eight-hour peak Saturday Canyons spillover sent , more than 14.65 billion gallons of water down the already

flooded Guadalupe River. Thats almost one-fourth of what customers of the San Antonio Water System use in a year. And, unlike the San Antonio River basin, the Guadalupe basin flow wasnt even at a record level. Some peak flood flows in the Medina and San Antonio rivers are setting records. Among them are the: Medina River spillover at the lake spillway rose to 10.4 feet Friday night, just 20 inches from the top of the dam. Medina River at La Coste crested Saturday at 31 feet, 7 See DAMS/14A

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Brandy Guenther (right) and Melissa Guenther, sisters-in-law, try to retrieve kitchen equipment from Bandera Creek after their house was washed away. See story on Page 11A.

Had Noah been on the waters Saturday it would have been a , time for releasing doves and casting about for a place to dock. After a week of torrential downpours sent water overflowing from the banks of creeks and rivers and over the spillways at Canyon and Medina lakes the Hill Country rains subsided. Thousands of those forced from their homes by floodwaters ventured back home to begin cleaning up, and officials from Bandera and Medina counties west of San Antonio to Wilson and Gonzales counties on the east met to assess the damage. In some areas, it was extensive. In San Antonio, the sun came out, and U.S. 281 was open for the first full day since Tuesday . There were scattered showers to the north and northwest Saturday with the chance of rain to, day at 40 percent in Bandera, Kendall, Medina and Uvalde counties. Meteorologists again sounded a cautionary note about the coming week, saying a new storm system was bringing another 30 percent chance of rain for Tuesday and Wednesday . Without more rain, the San Antonio River near Elmendorf was expected to crest at about 67 feet by early today The record is . 64.2 feet; flood stage is 35 feet. The Medina River at U.S. 281 was expected to crest Saturday night at 61 feet, 6 feet above the record. In the Nueces River basin, the Frio, Atascosa and Nueces rivers are expected to be in flood stage well into the week. As the crest of the flood moves toward the Gulf of Mexico, major widespread lowland flooding in the Nueces basin is predicted around Cotulla, Whitsett, Three Rivers, Mathis, Bluntzer and Calallen. While the runoff from the storm headed toward the gulf, the storm that ravaged the Hill Country moved north, forcing authorities to warn thousands of residents in the Abliene area to leave their homes Saturday the , Associated Press reported. Officials were anticipating overflowing creeks and another downpour about 24 hours after the region was deluged with up to a foot of rain. For most people in the San Antonio area, Saturday was a day to take stock. Engineers on Saturday mornSee HIGH/12A

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Riflemen assassinate Afghan VP

The veteran warlord was a key part of U.S. efforts for stability .
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KABUL, Afghanistan Two gunmen firing assault rifles Saturday assassinated Afghan Vice President Abdul Qadir, a veteran Pashtun warlord and key figure in U.S.-backed efforts to bring stability to the war-fractured nation.

escaped. Uniformed troops armed with Kalashnikov rifles and rocketpropelled grenade launchers took up positions in front of government ministries. A government statement issued after the meeting blamed

the assassination on terrorists. Karzai appointed a commission headed by Interior Minister Taj Mohammad Wardak and another vice president, Karim Khalili, to investigate the assassination. Karzai will send a senior government delegation to the funeral in Jalalabad today the , statement said. The government declared Tuesday a national day of mourning. The attack occurred about 12:40 p.m. as Qadir, one of three vice presidents, was leaving by car from the heavily guarded Ministry of Public Works,
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which he also headed. The gunmen sprayed nearly 40 rounds into his vehicle, killing Qadir and his driver. The riflemen, dressed in traditional, shawal khameez garments and wearing white skull caps, then jumped into a white car and escaped, police official Abdul Raouf Dad said. All 10 uniformed security guards on duty at the ministry were arrested because they apparently made no attempt to stop the attack or pursue the shooters, Kabul Police Chief See GUNMEN/24A
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S.A. ranks as top site for Army South HQ

Rumsfeld is to make the decision, possibly this week.
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Chairs, life jackets, porch railing and other items of debris collect around a home in Seguin. The Guadalupe River continued to run high on Sunday. A

low-pressure system was gathering over the Gulf of Mexico, sparking worries of more rainfall.

Affected counties
Gov. Rick Perry is seeking federal aid for 17 counties in addition to the 13 already on the federal disaster list. Nine counties are still being surveyed by authorities. Requested
Brown Caldwell Dimmitt Duval Eastland Frio Goliad Gonzales Hidalgo Jim Wells Karnes La Salle Real Taylor Val Verde Wilson Zavala

More Texas counties seek aid

BY SCOTT HUDDLESTON
EXPRESS-NEWS STAFF WRITER

The Army is recommending that Fort Sam Houston be the new home of U.S. Army South, a headquarters that would bring up to 700 jobs to San Antonio. But a powerful Georgia congressman is challenging the recommendation, which needs the approval of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld a decision that could come this week. Army South, based in Puerto Rico, oversees operations in 32 Central and South American countries and has 1,250 military and civilian workers. It adds $160 million a year to Puerto Ricos economy but myriad problems there have , the Pentagon strongly considering a move. In addition to Texas officials, politicians from several Deep South states, including Louisiana, Mississippi and Georgia, have wooed top Army officials in hopes of winning the headquarters. Over the past 18 months, the Army studied 11 communities in the Midwest and South. In August, it narrowed the site list to Fort Sam Houston and Fort McPherson, Ga. Fort Sam eventually won out in part because of its vacant old Brooke Army Medical Center building, which would be renovated by a private developer at no cost to the Army . The availability of facilities and accessibility to Southern Command and Latin America and the ability to provide garrison support and facilities without significant costs, would have an advantage in this time of centralizing and consolidation, said Lt. Col. Tom Budzyna, an Army South spokesman. But things heated up again after Rep. Michael See ARMY/6A

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Atascosa Bandera Bexar Blanco Comal Gillespie Guadalupe Hays Kendall Kerr Medina Travis Uvalde

Even as South Texans continue to assess flood damage and clean up their homes this week, any hopes that the worst is over might be premature. Gov Rick Perry after touring Can. , yon Lake, New Braunfels and other areas of Comal County on Sunday an, nounced he has asked the Federal Emergency Management Agency to add 17 more counties to the 13 already in line to receive federal disaster assistance. The death toll stood at eight Sunday . Perry at one point said it had risen to 12, but he was relying on a report from the Division of Emergency Management, which later corrected the number back to eight. Were not past the dangerous period of time, by any stretch of the imagination, Perry said, noting that during his aerial tour he saw people jet-skiing on Canyon Lake despite an emergency order prohibiting watercraft on the lake. The governor voiced concern about a low-pressure system over the Gulf of Mexico that the National Hurricane Center was monitoring with aircraft late Sunday as a potential tropical depression that could bring more rain to

Lawmakers covering all their bases

Theyre trying to keep budget ax from falling on military facilities.
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Karen Kohler (from left front) and her friends Andrea Morrissette and Cassie Owen dig mud off the yard of a home in New Braunfels on Sunday.
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the region. Another concern, Perry said, is for downstream communities. Its going to be some days before they get the bulk of this water through their communities, he said.

In Gonzales, DeWitt, Goliad and LaSalle counties, residents were taking advantage of the advance warning and moving their belongings to higher ground. Late Sunday afternoon, the Guadalupe River, while a good 20 feet See CONCERN/6A

Investors taking stock of glum market

Bad news will be reflected in second-quarter financial statements.
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EXPRESS-NEWS BUSINESS WRITER

Investors and 401(k) account holders who receive their second-quarter financial statements in the next few days are in for an unpleasant shock, if they arent already depressed

about the stock markets dismal performance. A rash of funky accounting in corporate America and fears about terrorism have pushed stock market levels down. At one point last week, both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq composite indexes were below their postSept. 11 lows. Investors dont like what has gone on with Enron, WorldCom, Martha Stewart and insider trading, said James Blend, a regional leader with brokerage Edward Jones in San Antonio.

Investors arent panicked, he said, but they are concerned. And theyre wondering what they should do with their investments to prevent further losses. Most investors lack confidence in the accuracy of corporate earnings statements, said Karan Bhanot, finance professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Thats affected their ability to select good investments. If you dont know what a company is earning, you cant tell how much it is worth, Bhanot said.
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So some investors have put their money into investments they perceive as safer, like bonds, money markets or saving accounts. Others have sunk big sums into real estate. When Independence Day celebrations went off without incident, the markets surged on Friday The Dow . Jones industrial average jumped 324 points to close at 9,379. The Nasdaq closed up 68 at 1,448. But analysts warned that the surge could be temporary . See INVESTORS/6A
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WASHINGTON With a wary eye toward the next round of base closures, South Texas lawmakers are quietly shoring up local military installations to make them less desirable targets for the budget ax. Congress passed legislation, signed into law by President Bush, that calls for a round of deep cuts in 2005 to free up funds the Pentagon says will be better used for weapons and training. But senators and congressmen from cities and states with a large military presence are resisting the politically painful process of eliminating installations that provide a huge economic boost to local economies. And some are attacking the base closure law itself. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, took the Senate floor last month and cited costly blunders from previous rounds in her plea to the Pentagon to develop a more open evaluation of military installations before another series of cuts is conducted. A round of closures riddled with mistakes could be more costly than no closures at all, Hutchison said. Hutchison has crafted an amendment, signed by 16 senators, that would force the Department of See LAWMAKERS/6A
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Police union commissioned analysis
BY KARISA KING
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Police staffing

The San Antonio Police Department lacks more than 1,500 officers to be on par with other national cities with similar crime rates, a new study commissioned by police union officials shows. Of the 29 cities included in the analysis, San Antonio

ranks second to last for the number of police employees and officers compared to the size of the population. We need to acknowledge that a staffing problem exists once and for all, said Rene Rodriguez, president of the San Antonio Police Officers Association. Were hearing from a different source now that we have a problem.

Released last week to city leaders as they head into contract negotiations with the union later this month, the report portrays the department as an anemic police force that has failed to keep pace with the growing population over the past 10 years. Union officials hope the study will add momentum to their most persistent and con-

San Antonio has the lowest number of police officers per tentious claim that the de- 100,000 population among major Texas cities.* partments ranks are danger283.1 ously thin, as evidenced by fall255.7 ing arrest rates. 224.4 In March, the FBI rejected 185.8 the departments clearance 171.1 163.1 rates because they were too far below the national average. Houston Dallas Fort Worth Austin El Paso San Antonio But police administrators *Cities with a population of more than 500,000 and facing similar crime risks. dispute the study and contend
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11 more counties declared disasters

Perry says damage costs could reach $1 billion.
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Bill Miller starts to remove debris that was caught in his home on Rio Drive in New Braunfels. He was cleaning up Monday from last weeks flooding. Miller

bought the property and built his home in 2001. He had only minor damage inside. While many cleaned up, some kept an eye on a storm brewing in the gulf.

Congressmen want area dams inspected

2 record-breaking floods in 4 years raise concerns.
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WASHINGTON Texas lawmakers urged the Bush administration Monday to assess the integrity of South Texas dams and bridges that have withstood two record-breaking floods in four years. Last weeks storm, which dropped more than 30 inches of rain on portions

of South Texas, sending rivers cascading out of their banks and forcing the evacuation of more than 48,000 residents, also underscores the need for additional dams to be built, said Reps. Ciro Rodriguez and Lamar Smith. There is no doubt that after all is said and done, we need to ask the Corps of Engineers to assess the dams and bridges, said Rodriguez, D-San Antonio. Most of those bridges and dams go back to the Roosevelt days. We need to reinvest. See LAWMAKERS/5A

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As a sunny sky aided inspections in rain-swollen South Texas on Monday , the Federal Emergency Management Agency declared an additional 11 counties national disaster areas, boosting the tally to 24. Damage estimates are slowly trickling in, Farmers and and Gov Rick Perry ranchers are . said the flood damage reeling/1E could reach $1 billion Storms slow across the state. That freight/1E would be greater at least fiscally than Mosquitoes becoming a the October 1998 floodmenace/1B ing that killed 31 and caused almost $800 million in damage. This flood is going to have an impact for some time to come, said Perry , who was in San Antonio on Monday to tour the Woodlawn Lake area hit hard by flooding last week. Its going to be substantial. The 11 counties declared disaster areas Monday were Brown, Caldwell, Eastland, Frio, Goliad, Gonzales, Karnes, La Salle, Real, Taylor and Wilson. The designation means residents and businesses can qualify for federal aid. Perry requested Sunday that 17 counties be added to the list. More counties still could be added, FEMA spokesman David Passey said. Additional counties can be added on, particularly as floodwaters proceed

Gov. Rick Perry talks to Roman and Hilda Mendoza at their home. Perry was touring flood damage in the Woodlawn Lake area Monday. See 11 MORE/4A

Texas flunks election reform

NAACP survey reveals most states havent improved much.
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Judge freezes resort project

Restraining order closes loophole in City Charter to block a vote.
D BY MARO ROBBINS
EXPRESS-NEWS STAFF WRITER

HOUSTON An NAACP report inspired by the 2000 presidential election, when thousands of minority voters ballots didnt count, has found that most states have made little progress in reforming their

election systems. Six states received failing grades in an NAACP report released Monday , though some officials MFUME immediately disputed the findings. The states that received an F were Delaware, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas and Vermont. Florida, where the results of the 2000 presidential race remained in dispute for

more than a month, got a D. It was disappointing to look at the grades of some of the states knowing they could be better, NAACP President Kweisi Mfume said. Many states have been waiting in vain for the federal government to make the first move on election reform, he noted during a news conference at the annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. See TEXAS/6A
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A judge issued an order Monday keeping the door open for local voters to decide whether the city subsidizes a luxurious tourist attraction over the environmentally sensitive Edwards Aquifer recharge zone.
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U.S. District Judge Fred Bierys ruling VILLAGE temporarily forD E BAT E bids city officials from moving forward with the contentious proposal to create a tax-subsidized golf resort over land that is crucial to the citys water supply . The restraining order freezes the PGA Village project at least until Wednesday when the City ,

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All investment is an act of faith, and faith is earned by integrity. In the long run, there is no capitalism without conscience, there is no wealth without character.

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task force to provide direction and coordination for investigations Double maximum prison term to 10 years for mail fraud and wire fraud
Create Impose longer prison time for corporate officers convicted of fraud Appropriate money to allow SEC to hire more enforcement officers Strengthen laws that criminalize document shredding Strengthen ability to freeze extraordinary payments to executives while a company is investigated

Stripper ties trio to S.A. terror plot

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Corporate America gets a tongue-lashing

Bush ideas fall short of those in Congress
BY DAVID E. SANGER
NEW YORK TIMES

The woman says the men talked to her of bombing local military sites.
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NEW YORK President Bush came to Wall Street on Tuesday vowing to end the days of cooking the books, shading the truth and breaking our laws. But the legal reforms he advocated from longer prison sentences for fraud to a new task force to prosecute corporate malfeasance werent as far-reaching as some of the proposals now gaining steam in Congress. Bush attempted to quell a grow San Antonio ing political storm by asking Congress firms laud proposals/10A to provide the Securities and Ex Full text of change Commisspeech online sion with $100 milat mysa.com lion in additional funds to beef up enforcement. That figure is far less than the increase some in Congress are demanding. He also urged the nations stock markets to adopt rules assuring a companys directors truly are independent. Self-regulation is important, but its not enough, Bush said, striking a more aggressive tone than he did in the presidential campaign two years ago. Back then, he regularly urged less government intervention in the economy so American business would be free to innovate. All investment is an act of faith, and faith is earned by integrity , Bush told an invited audience of chief executives, investors and city leaders in a hotel ballroom just blocks from the New York Stock Exchange. In the long run, theres no capitalism without conscience. There is no wealth without character, he See BUSH/10A

Three men of Palestinian descent were being held on bonds of $2 million each after allegedly telling a stripper they planned to blow up military bases around San Antonio. Ribhi Abdalla, 25, his cousin Jadallah Abdallah, 21, both of San Antonio, and Makram Sayel Hijaz, 20, of Mesquite, were arrested Monday night at a North Side strip club. They were being held late Tuesday in Bexar County Jail on charges of making terroristic threats. While details of the arrest spread quickly around San Antonio, it wasnt altogether clear just how seriously federal and state investigators were taking the alleged threats. Charles Jenkins, a federal prosecutor assigned to the terror task force in the U.S. attorneys office, said he was unaware of any basis for federal charges. He suggested the rumor mill was outpacing reality but declined to elaborate. , I think theres less here than meets the ear, he said. San Antonio police referred media calls to the FBI. FBI Special Agent Mark Rich said his agency has assisted the police in following up on the arrests, but that the case will remain a local one. Its a local matter, he said. There are no federal charges. Abdalla is an American citizen; the other two are recent immigrants. They were arrested about 11 p.m. Monday See BOISTEROUSLY/13A

FLOOD OF 2002

98 buyouts helped cut local losses

But an early assessment shows about 350 S.A. homes flooded.
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EXPRESS-NEWS STAFF WRITER

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Traders at the Chicago Board of Trade work the pits as President Bush is projected on a giant monitor. Bush spoke Tuesday on corporate responsibility and advocated legal reforms.

Feds slam brakes on hormone study

Test group of 400 San Antonio women received pills from UT Health Science Center.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON Government scientists abruptly ended the nations biggest study of a type of hormone replacement therapy saying long-term , use of estrogen and progestin significantly increases womens risk of breast cancer, strokes and heart attacks. Six million American women use this hormone combination, either for short-term relief of hot flashes and

other menopausal symptoms or because of doctors long-standing assumptions that long-term use would prevent heart disease and brittle bones and keep women healthier longer. In fact, there are serious risks to using the hormones for years, risks that far outweigh the few benefits, the National Institutes of Health announced. The hormones harm, not protect, the heart they actually increase previously healthy womens risk of a heart attack by 29 percent and a stroke by a

stunning 41 percent. They also increase womens chances of breast cancer by 26 percent. On the good side, the hormones cut by a third the risk of colon cancer and hip fractures but there are other, safer ways to fend off those illnesses, doctors noted. So the NIH stopped the 16,600-woman study three years early and is advising , other women who use the estrogenprogestin combination to ask their doctors if they too, should quit. , Women were notified by the NIH, and we are sending letters out to them from our center giving them additional See ESTROGEN/11A
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Oscar winner Steiger, 77, dies

He co-starred with Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront and won acclaim as the police chief in In the Heat of the Night.
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Government-financed buyouts of homes in low-lying areas after the October 1998 flooding saved millions of dollars in losses during last weeks inundation, officials said Tuesday . In a report to Commissioners Court, Bexar County Fire Marshal Carl Mixon noted 230 homes in unincorporated areas of the county and 306 homes in the city of San Antonio were purchased with a combination of local, state and federal funds after Flood victim the 1998 flooding. identified/8A The buyouts totaled $8 mil lion for the county properties Tree, lion and $15.4 million for homes are awaiting repair/9A in the city . Dam lets out Many of those properties, especially those along Salado water ahead Creek in San Antonio and of flood/9A near Cibolo Creek in Schertz and surrounding neighborhoods, likely would have been flooded again, although the heaviest rainfall last week occurred farther west along the Bexar-Medina county line, according to Mixon. Prior to this, our benchmark was the 98 flood, he said. Now we will refer back to the 2002 flood. Damage estimates for properties in San Antonio from last weeks flooding were not complete Tuesday but Public Works Director Tom , Wendorf said preliminary estimates show 350 to 360 homes inside the city limits were flooded. See SAN ANTONIO/8A
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Muscle added to rules on fraud

Senate OKs making tough prison terms part of accounting bill.
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Council game for golf vote

More than enough signatures verified, but deal could prevent ballot
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other choices/1B all but calling an end to attempts to modify the current agreement. If the PGA wants to look at different ways of approaching this project, Im looking forward to hearing from them. The citys hand was forced Wednesday when the inevitable was pronounced a certainty: Anti-PGA

A majority of City Council members is ready to let voters decide the fate of the PGA Village golf resort this fall unless a separate deal with developers can be arranged by early August. Theres really no option from a taxing district standpoint but to call an election, Mayor Ed Garza said,

forces had gathered more than enough names of registered San Antonio voters to trigger the referendum process. City Clerk Norma Rodriguez, in a report to a special meeting of the council, said opponents gathered 77,419 valid signatures over two, high-drama petition drives, far surpassing the 63,006-signature threshold set forth in the City Charter. Now, the council has 30 days to de-

cide whether to repeal the ordinance it passed in April establishing a taxing district for the 2,861-acre project or let the public vote on the issue Nov 5, the same day as the states . general election. The council, which is in the midst of a monthlong break, is expected to consider the issue at one of its first two meetings in August. See COUNCIL/4A

FLOOD OF 2002: THE CLEANUP CONTINUES

WASHINGTON A unified Senate approved harsh new penalties Wednesday for corporate fraud and document shredding, adding enforcement teeth to President Bushs plan to curb a growing wave of accounting scandals. In a series of unanimous votes, senators added the penalties to an accounting oversight bill moving toward passage against a backdrop of eroded public confidence in corporate America. Underscoring that sentiment, the Dow Jones industrials lost BUSH more than 280 Bush once points and got kind of closed below loan he now 9,000 for the first seeks to time since Octoban/4A ber on Wednes Analysis: day a day after , Plan lacks Bush delivered teeth/1E a speech on cor Dow sinks porate responbelow 9,000 sibility aimed at mark/1E shoring up investor confidence. A stream of revelations of accounting misdeeds at big corporations in recent months has scared investors and prompted concern about the fragile economic recovery . Tens of thousands of workers have been laid off 17,000 at WorldCom alone and millions of people have lost retirement savings, putting Bush and his Republican Party on the defensive with congressional elections approaching. The Senate measures would create new 10-year prison terms for securities fraud and give federal protection to company whistle-blowers. Chief executive officers and chief financial officers who certify false financial reports would be slapped with prison terms of five to 10 years and fines of $500,000 to $1 million. See SENATE/4A

James Byrd uses a front loader to clear debris from the Gruene River Co. building at the Gruene crossing of the Guadalupe River. Byrd said Wednesday the damage was much greater than in the 1998 flood.
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Detailed tips on how to safely clean and restore flood-damaged homes and their contents as well as how to find help
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Fingers pointed over dam alert

Fridays Medina warning illustrates communications flaws.
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EXPRESS-NEWS STAFF WRITERS

1998 flooding wont lose its No. 1 damage rating/7A

The near panic caused late Friday when Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff cautioned in a live televised news conference that Medina Dam could

fail illustrates flaws in the communications system set up to warn residents of public safety threats, several area officials said Wednesday . Although it was Wolff who sounded the public warning, a review of the process preceding his remarks highlights a series of communication missteps that only fueled the confusion over the already-chaotic situation along the Medina River.

The incident left some Medina County residents and officials with hard feelings toward Wolff, who they said overstepped his authority . But Wolff has defended his actions, saying he was acting on information communicated to him from area emergency officials affiliated with the Department of Public Safetys Emergency Operations Division. Central to the communicaSee MEDINA/4A

Slick oilman charged in game of hot wheels

Local auto dealerships were conned out of six new vehicles.
D BY IHOSVANI RODRIGUEZ
EXPRESS-NEWS STAFF WRITER

Oldest just got older

Skull found in Africa pushes back fossil record of pre-human ancestors.
D BY GUY GUGLIOTTA
WASHINGTON POST

A New Braunfels man is accused of using Texas charm rather than fancy hot-wiring tricks to drive away from area automobile dealerships with six vehicles valued at almost $200,000. Lennie Christie, 60, posed as a plain-talking Texas oilman complete with boots, a hat and nicely pressed Wranglers, according to witnesses.

With the stroke of a pen, he paid for the cars with checks that ultimately bounced, prosecutors said. Basically he , CHRISTIE talked big about oil wells and being this big oilman, but in the end, he was nothing more than a con man, said Sandra K. Ruedrich, chief of the Bexar County district attorneys check section. Police allege that between February and December 2001, he drove off with two Cadillacs, a 2002 Dodge Ram pickup and a See THEFT/13A

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The Toumai skull was found in Chads desert in central Africa.

In what may be the most startling fossil find in decades, anthropologists working in the bleak desert of Northern Chad say theyve unearthed the oldest trace of a pre-human ancestor a remarkably intact skull of an apelike species that walked upright as far back as 7 million years ago. Scientists hailed the discovery a nearly complete skull, two lower jaw fragments and three teeth as a breakthrough that could revolutionize the study of human prehistory introducing ,
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researchers to a new region of Africa and a time period about which virtually nothing is known. It takes us into another world, of creatures that include the common ancestor, the ancestral human and the ancestral chimp, George Washington University paleobiologist Bernard Wood said. Scientists said the newly discovered skull probably belonged to an adult male with a chimpanzee-sized brain, heavy brow ridges and a relatively flat, humanlike face. Unquestionably this is one of the most impor, tant fossil discoveries of the last 100 years, Harvard University anthropologist Daniel Lieberman said. It is the oldest skull by far of a human ancestor. This will have the scientific impact of a small nuclear bomb. The new discovery pushed the fossil record backward for the third time in the past two years, moving scientists closer to a dimly understood moment somewhere between 5 million and See SKULL/8A
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FLOOD OF 2002: BROADWAY ICONS RESURRECTION

Cats have 9 lives; lion to get 2

Planning is under way for the restoration of North Side parks landmark statue.
D BY JOHN GUTIERREZ-MIER
EXPRESS-NEWS STAFF WRITER

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A statue of a lion from Lions Field on Broadway remains in storage. It was broken off its base when a tree fell on it during a Fourth of July storm.

For more than 75 years, it sat majestically on a marble base near Broadway its huge mane , and cavernous jaws a familiar site for generations of San Antonians. The marble lion, which was erected in 1925 by the Lions Club, was knocked off its perch at Lions Field on the Fourth of July when a tree toppled over and landed on the statue, sending it crashing to the ground. Now, all thats left of the landmark lion are its four paws. But plans already are under way to

resurrect the king of beasts. Its been a symbol of all Lions Clubs, and our plans are to restore the lion, said Ron Hall, president of the Founders Lions Club, the nations first Lions Club established here in 1915. David Hough was at Mulberry Avenue and Broadway waiting for a traffic light to change that afternoon when he saw the tree fall. I went over and parked and I didnt realize at first that it had hit the lion, said Hough, a professor of physics and astronomy at Trinity University . PHOTOS BY ROBERT MCLEROY/STAFF Like other motorists who travel along Broadway almost every Paws are all that remain of the lion day , Hough counted on statue at Lions Field on Broadway. The rest of the statue is in storage, awaiting repair. See LION/11A

Ashcroft points to al-Qaida sleepers

Attorney general says group is aggressively trying to infiltrate the U.S. and remains poised to strike.
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Our newest patriots

Citizenship applications surge since 9-11. Hundreds sworn in at Institute of Texan Cultures.
D BY DANE SCHILLER
EXPRESS-NEWS STAFF WRITER

LOS ANGELES TIMES

The number of people applying for U.S. citizenship skyrocketed in the eight months after the Sept. 11 attacks. The federal government received 519,523 citizenship applications during that time, a 65 percent increase from the 314,971 applications received in the same period a year ago, according to the Immigration and Naturalization Service. The number of applications received by the INS in San Antonio also is up, but only slightly . Immigration officials arent sure whether more people are seeking citizenship out of love for the United States or a fear of immigrant backlash. But at the Institute of Texan Cultures on Thursday where 220 people were sworn , in as citizens, it appeared to be all about the red, white and blue. They came from more than 40 countries, ranging from Bangladesh to Vietnam. Im very proud of America and that we are fighting terrorism, said Erach Singpurwala, an engineer from India who took the oath after living in the United States for 31 years. I am against terrorism, said Singpurwala, who wore a God Bless America pin and a T-shirt emblazoned with Old Glory under his dark blazer. The ceremony was presided over by U.S. Magistrate Judge John Primomo himself a first-generation American.
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WASHINGTON Al-Qaida maintains an aggressive network of underground sleeper cells in the United States and is trying to smuggle even more terrorists into the country by having them pose as ordinary visitors, Attorney General John Ashcroft said Thursday . Today the United States is at war with a ter, rorist network operating within our borders, Ashcroft testified before a congressional panel on homeland security . Al-Qaida maintains a hidden but active presence in the United States waiting to strike again. Ashcrofts comments came as Justice Department officials disclosed that most of about 1,200 ASHCROFT people detained in the Sept. 11 dragnet have been deported on immigration violations, though some were released after being cleared of criminal involvement in the attacks. Only 73 people remained in federal custody Thursday none on charges related to terrorism. , Most face immigration violations. Even so, Ashcroft said in his testimony that the Justice Department has had many successes in rounding up suspects and thwarting future attacks in the 10 months since terrorists hijacked commercial jetliners and flew them into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. But we are not under any illusions, Ashcroft said. There remain sleeper terrorists and their supporters in the United States who have not yet See ASHCROFT/8A

Bioterrorists might cook up viruses in lab

BY GARETH COOK
BOSTON GLOBE

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Vietnamese immigrant Can Vu takes the oath of allegiance at the Institute of Texan Cultures.

Ex-couple having a lotto trouble over money

BY SONJA GARZA
EXPRESS-NEWS STAFF WRITER

OLIVER

The multimillion-dollar question being played out in a Bexar County courtroom is who bought the winning lotto ticket. The way Mary Oliver sees it, she and Terry Como were living together as man and wife the day Como and his brother went to Austin to collect the $12.5 million lottery jackpot nearly
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two years ago. If the winning ticket was bought with the couples community money Oliver contends, shes entitled , to her fair share of the lotto loot. The way Como sees it, he never was married to his ex-girlfriend. They simply lived together. And furthermore, it was his brother who bought the winning the ticket, he contends. Terry was not the winner. It was not his money It was not his ticket, .

said attorney Michael Black, who represents a limited partnership that Comos brother, James Como, set up to claim the Lotto prize in November 2000. Oliver now is suing her former livein, his brother and the limited partnership called One Red Rider. The suit, filed May 6, also seeks a divorce. The pair now are separated. See EX-COUPLE/11A
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Scientists announced Thursday they have synthesized a virus from scratch for the first time, raising the possibility that terrorists could create biological killers once thought beyond their reach. A team of researchers funded by the Pentagon was able to build a polio virus relying only on a listing of its genetic sequence, information that is publicly available. Polio is one of the simplest viruses to make because its genetic sequence is relatively short, but scientists said its likely more complex viruses eventually could be built. The genetic codes for many dangerous pathogens, including smallpox and Ebola, are freely accessible on the Web. And the team relied on technology that is generally available in molecular biology labs around the world. This should really raise some red flags, said Barry Bloom, dean of Harvards School of Public Health. This paper means that more complicated viruses can be created and that it is also possible to create viruses that do not exist in the wild. The work, published in todays issue of the journal Science, was funded by the Pentagons Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency he , said, because they felt it was important to know whether potential weapons of bioterrorism could be made in the laboratory . See SCIENTISTS/6A

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FLOOD OF 2002: CAMPSITES CLEANUP

U.S. budget $165 billion in the red

White House sees surplus back in 05
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ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Flood damage at Garner State Park includes this almost unrecognizable snack bar. At the spot, park visitors could rent paddleboats.

Parks and wreck reactions

Unhappy campers still can make other plans
State sites hardest hit
Blanco Choke Canyon Colorado Bend Garner Goliad State Historical Park Guadalupe River Hill Country State Natural Area Inks Lake Landmark Inn State Historic Site Lost Maples State Natural Area Palmetto

BY RALPH WININGHAM
EXPRESS-NEWS STAFF WRITER

WASHINGTON The government will run a $165 billion deficit this year, the first red ink in four years, but surpluses should return by 2005, the Bush administration said Friday . The budgets sudden plunge from last years $127 billion surplus was no surprise. Analysts have predicted it because of the flagging economy the financial , markets swoon and the costs of both last years tax cuts and the governments response to the Sept. 11 attacks. Even so, the new figure was larger than the $106 billion shortfall the White House envisioned just five months ago. Both parties immediately cited the projections in their campaigns for control of Congress. Democrats said they believed the White House was being unrealistically optimistic about the budgets return to balance soon, and cited the tax cut Pres-

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ident Bush pushed through Congress last year as the primary cause of the long-term fiscal decay . They said the administration was using inflated expectations about revenue growth, especially from corporate profits, and was ignoring the bipartiSee FEDERAL/16A

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The worst flooding damage in recent memory has closed the states most popular park, Garner State Park near Concan, at least through Wednesday and will result in a revenue loss of at least $300,000 for July . More than $2 million in damage has been estimated at the park as the result of raging Frio River floodwaters that wiped out at least $500,000 in roadways, carried off numerous screen shelters and damaged the historic old dance hall pavilion. We are working on the final estimates right now, Bill Dolman, acting director of state parks at the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department, said Friday . The water rampage raced through campgrounds and shelters, while submerging utilities and other parts of the parks infrastructure. Repairs were under way on Friday with portions of the , park expected to be available to the public by Wednesday. The sustained deluge during the week of the Fourth of July forced many state park facilities to close

SEC almost quizzed Bush on Harken sale

BY PETE YOST
ASSOCIATED PRESS

Jordan Hutto (from left), Javiel Garcia and Abraham Gonzalez, park workers, attack debris with shovels. The Flood of 2002 left mounds of rubble at Garner State Park and other parks, but repairs are under way.
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along a number of river systems, with the cost still being tabulated as the floodwaters recede. Preliminary damage estimates by the TP&W indicate about $6 million to $10 million needed to clean up and repair 22 state parks and three wildlife management areas affected by flooding. That estimate doesnt include road repairs, which could run as high as an additional $3 million.

Among the other area parks heavily affected by the floodwaters were the Landmark Inn State Historic Site in Castroville, Guadalupe River State Park near Boerne and Palmetto State Park near Gonzales. Flooding forced power to be cut off to Guadalupe River State Park last Friday but the park is now op, erating on a limited basis. The day use area and tent campsites along See SOME/12A

WASHINGTON When George W Bushs sale of oil . stock attracted the attention of regulators a decade ago, the Securities and Exchange Commission considered interviewing him about possible insider trading, but never did. The SEC wont say why it didnt talk with Bush, whose father was president at the time. An SEC memo from 1991 shows investigators raised the possibility of interviewing Bush about his sale of 212,140 shares in Harken Energy Corp. The investigators told Harkens lawyer that we would promptly inform him whether we need to speak with Bush,

INSIDE Corporate crime czar Larry Thompson (left) was a director at a firm that paid millions in a fraud case. Page 8A the memo said. The Harken attorney volunteered that Bush would consent to a phone interview and/or voluntary testimony , the memo added. Theres no explanation as to why an interview wasnt pursued in thousands of pages of material released by the SEC over the years in the Bush inquiry . See SEC/14A

U.N. shields American troops

Security Council exempts peacekeepers from war crimes charges for a year.
D BY WILLIAM ORME
LOS ANGELES TIMES

UNITED NATIONS After two weeks of acrimonious back-room wrangling, the United States muscled through a Security Council resolution Friday granting American peacekeepers a renewable one-year exemption from prosecution or investigation by the new International Criminal Court. Though the United States didnt secure the permanent immunity it originally had demanded, the unanimously adopted resolution achieved the kind

of protection for a one-year period that we were seeking, said John Negroponte, the U.S. ambassador here. The one-year period begins retroactive from July 1, the date that a treaty creating the international court went into effect. The resolution states the councils intention to order further 12-month exemptions each July for as long as may be necessary . The president of the United States is determined to protect our citizens soldiers and civilians, peacekeepers and officials from the International Criminal Court, Negroponte said. We are especially concerned that Americans sent overseas as soldiers, risking their lives to keep the peace or to protect us all from terrorism and See U.N. VOTE/16A

It really is the real thing

Sugar may be what has San Antonio sweet on Mexican Coca-Cola.
D BY ELIZABETH ALLEN
EXPRESS-NEWS BUSINESS WRITER

ROBERT MCLEROY/STAFF

Josie De Leon readies an order of Mexican sodas for customers at Taqueria No Que No.
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When you order the taco plate and a Coke at your local taqueria, its not a flashback if youre handed a tall, green, glass bottle filled with fizzy stuff that tastes like it did when you were a kid. Youre probably drinking Mexican Coke. Coca-Cola imported from Mexico embodies many things: nostalgia for old-fashioned Coke, a
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growing Hispanic population, hip young taste for Latin American culture, savvy marketers exploiting that taste and international trade wars. The imported Coca-Cola is becoming common in small Mexican restaurants across the city , and H-E-Bs Central Market stocks it in all its stores as an exotic pop. People around the country go out of their way to order it, even though they must pay a premium. And they pay more knowing the taste they get depends on the bottler. The Mexican Coca-Cola here in San Antonio and the United States is imported from Mexico in See ENTHUSIASTS/13A
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Advice can become bad medicine

Reversal of medical practices long has been the professions bitter pill.
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A 24-page section recaps the drought-busting rains of early July, which forced lakes to overflow and chased thousands from their homes.

When researchers last week dropped bombshells debunking long-held beliefs about hormones and knee surgery it , was stunning but hardly surprising. The history of medicine is pocked

with reversals, yesterdays panacea branded as todays poison. Witness this swatch of advice, resounding with the august authority that Americans had come to expect from the white-jacketed high priests of medicine. The notion that a baby should not have direct sunlight is a major mistake, Dr. Herman Bundesen, president of the Chicago Board of Health, wrote in 1938 on the pages of the Ladies Home Journal. When the baby is a month old, put him directly in the sunlight. The best time of the day is between 10 and 2 oclock.

Doctors changed their minds about that just as they did last week when two medical studies challenged the value of hormone replacement therapy for women and knee surgery for arthritis-hobbled patients. Hormones, researchers found, actually increase a womans risk of some of the very ills they were intended to conquer, including heart disease. And, scientists reported, patients who underwent arthroscopic knee operations fared no better than those who got a sham procedure. Patients who had undergone these

treatments and critics of big medicine expressed annoyance and outrage. Yet medical historians and leading physicians view the twin reversals not as troubling setbacks for American medicine but as proof that the system is doing its job. Science constantly is reaching new conclusions about once-widely accepted treatments, a tradition that validates the need for rigorous research and the willingness to abandon medical orthodoxy . See BIG/15A

FLOOD OF 2002: MEDINA DAM UNDER MICROSCOPE

Its safe, but how sound?

Juan Diego is depicted many ways in art. Water continues to flow over the spillway of Medina Dam, though with a measurable reduction in volume.

Experts analyze the 90-year-old structures integrity with another flood in mind.
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Even with canonization looming, little is known about Mexicos Juan Diego.
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EXPRESS-NEWS STAFF WRITER

Saint who?

MICO Medina Dam is a gigantic concrete girdle designed by a visionary who later drowned off the coast of Ireland. But last weekend, the 90-year-old structure, its lake filled to overflowing by record-setting rainfall, seemed imperiled, leading Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff to tell downriver residents to evacuate because it might fail. For his alarm, Wolff was raspberried by local officials familiar with the 164-foot-tall, 1,580-foot-long dam. They say the dam worked with its spillway to handle the overflow just as intended when it was built in 1912. We know in our hearts this is built solid, said Guy Cooper, a farmer on the board of the BexarMedina-Atascosa Water Control and Improvement District No. 1, which owns the dam west of San Antonio. The Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission is reviewing the dams safety against a backdrop of conflicting inspection reports, some of which question its stability in a huge flood. We dont feel like the structure is going to fail imminently said Elston Johnson, who oversees , TNRCCs dam safety program. We need to look at it more. State law requires dams and spillways to be evaluated for engineering soundness without any set timetable. Federal recommendations urge a state inspection at least every five years. Medina Dams last inspection, completed April 8, questions calculations of the dams stability and suggests a reduction in estimates of its factor of safety . The inspection by the engineering firm URS, which was hired by the water district, found the
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Medina Dam personnel survey the 90-year-old structure. Engineers are debating its durability.

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Hill Country gets socked again by thunderstorms

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Thunderstorms and isolated showers dumped up to 8 inches of rain Saturday in parts of the Hill Country causing anxious residents to , wince at the possibilities of more flooding. In San Antonio, the Northwest Side received less than an inch of rain from the storm, which hovered north and west of the city much of the day . The National Weather Service forecast a 50 percent chance of thundershowers for Bexar
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County today followed by a 60 percent chance Monday . The ground is so saturated around here, the smallest amount of rain causes our creeks to rise up, said Helotes Volunteer Fire Department Chief Jack Quipp, who dispatched crews Saturday to monitor water crossings. I hope it quits raining altogether right now until the ground dries up. Almost two weeks after torrential rainfall flooded areas of Central and South Texas, weather experts are predicting more rain through the beginning of the week.
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Another disturbance could be moving in, said Ken Widelski, meteorologist for the National Weather Service in New Braunfels. Thats going to be the case for the next couple of days. Bandera, Kerr and Real counties received the most rainfall Saturday with 2 to 4 inches falling , along the Frio River, the weather service said. Campers in the area were contacted by the Frio County Sheriffs Department to seek higher ground away from creeks and rivers. See BANDERA/11A
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MEXICO CITY What taxi drivers, grandmothers and even priests will tell you about Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzn is that he was a humble Indian who saw an image of the Virgin Mary about 470 years ago. They even can point to the spot, a hill in the north of town, about five blocks from a subway stop. But thats about all that most people know about Juan Diego, as hes commonly known, even though he is to be canonized as the first Indian saint at the end of the month by Pope John Paul II. He was married? a puzzled Rosario Guitars Monares, 36, asked after she inspected her raw knees, bloodied from walking on them for the final leg of a pilgrimage to a church near the holy hill known as Tepayac. Shes not alone in her ignorance about a man who is forever linked to Mexicos queen, La Virgen de Guadalupe. While some historians contend Diego never existed and perhaps was a ploy by the church to bring Indians into Catholicism, even believers cant agree on the facts of his life, including his age, appearance, and what he did for a living. His uncle was more religious than anyone in the family said a priest leading anoth, er pilgrimage up the hill. I thought (Juan Diego) was a monk, chimed in another man who overhead the priest. Shopkeepers and street vendors sell T-shirts, candles and pendants depicting Juan Diegos encounter on a hilltop during a walk in 1531, but the image varies. Some present him with the See LIFE/12A
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More rain in store for soggy S. Texas

But dry and hotter weather could be moving into the area by Thursday .
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Another wave of torrential rain could sop an already waterlogged South Texas, causing more flooding and emergency evacuations before the region finally returns, at least briefly to , a normal cycle of hot, dry weather, forecasters predict. By Thursday the area could ,

settle into a typical July scenario, with a weak subtropical high-pressure system building over the state, keeping rain out of the forecast this weekend. But for now, residents can expect more rain, and possibly a few inches of it, in a region that has taken more than two weeks of wet or threatening weather fueled by moisture from the Gulf of Mexico and a series of low-pressure systems that have dominated South Texas. Storms continued to soak parts of the Hill Country for the second straight day Sunday as , some counties west and north of San Antonio were placed under flood warnings. Comal County officials ad-

vised residents of Horseshoe Falls, Rivers Edge and other subdivisions downstream from the Canyon Lake spillway to evacuate voluntarily since re, cent rain upstream along the Guadalupe River is expected to add to flows from the spillway . Water that flowed from the spillway at less than 5,000 cubic feet per second (cfs) Sunday is expected to reach 6,000 to 10,000 cfs by this morning, possibly making River Road and other roads in the area impassable, a spokeswoman with the Comal County Sheriffs Office said. The National Weather Service forecast for San Antonio calls See BETTER/6A

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A.J. Batey (right) helps his son, Richard, 10, reach Drew Browns (left) waiting boat. They were on the flooded County Road 73 in Nueces County northwest of Corpus Christi on Sunday.

Militants convicted in Pearl slaying

Judge sentences 1 to death and the others get 25 years in prison.
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AS S AS S INATIO N TH WARTED

SEC chief says he wont quit

Pitt defends his response to accounting scandals
BY RICHARD SIMON
LOS ANGELES TIMES

HYDERABAD, Pakistan A Pakistani judge today convicted four Islamic militants in the kidnap-slaying of the Wall Street Journal correspondent Daniel Pearl and sentenced one of them to death. The others received 25 years imprisonment. Lawyers for PEARL the chief defendant, British-born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, and the three others said they will appeal. Saeed was sentenced to hang for his role in the Jan. 23 abduction of Pearl, 38, the South Asia correspondent for the newspaper. Reporters were barred from the courtroom inside the heavily guarded jail here when Judge Ali Ashraf Shah rendered the verdict. Deputy defense lawyer Mohsin Imam informed journalists of the decision against Sheikh, Salman Saqib, Fahad Naseem and Shaikh Adil. Pearl disappeared in Karachi while researching Pakistanis Islamic extremist movement, including possible links to Richard Reid, who was arrested in December on a flight between Paris and Miami with explosives in his shoes. A videotape sent to U.S. diplomats in February confirmed Pearl was dead. Security was heavy at the Hyderabad jail as the verdict was announced. Sharpshooters manned rooftop positions across the streets, and police sealed off the street in front of the walled compound. The trial has fanned the anger of Islamic militants against Pakistans government, which many extremists feel betrayed them by abandoning the Afghan Taliban and supporting the United States after Sept. 11. The government will impose the decision at the behest of the United States, said Sheikh Aslam, Adils brother, as he arrived to hear the verdict. All executive decisions in Pakistan are being imposed by the United States.

WASHINGTON Amid accusations that the White House has failed to act aggressively enough to clean up corporate accounting abuses, the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Harvey Pitt, on Sunday defended the administrations performance and said he would not resign. For their part, Democrats called for President Bush to restore integrity to the White House by releasing information on his 1990 sale of stock in a Texas oil company prior to the companys announcement of a significant decline in earnings. On the eve of todays Senate vote on a far-reaching accounting reform bill, Pitt took aim at his critics, denouncing their politically crass sound bites. I have absolutely no inten-

tion of stepping down, the nations top securities regulator told CBS Face the Nation. I believe I enjoy the conPITT fidence of the president, Investors seek port in a and Im certain if I dont, storm/4A Coke to hell let me know. change its reporting But Sen. system/5A John McCain, Feds are R-Ariz., regood at bad newed his call accounting/5A for Pitts resignation, contending that the SEC chairmans past work as a lawyer for the accounting industry makes him unsuitable for the job. We have now a crisis of confidence on the part of the See SEC/4A

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A man is subdued by police after allegedly firing a shot in the direction of French President Jacques Chirac. Chirac was riding in a Bastille Day parade Sunday and was not hurt.

Big business cheaters arent facing hard time

Most white-collar criminals go to low-security facilities.
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Gunman fires at Chirac

French president was participating in Bastille Day parade.
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PARIS A man described as an emotionally disturbed neoNazi allegedly tried to assassinate French President Jacques Chirac on Sunday pulling a ri, fle from a guitar case and firing

off a shot before being wrestled to the ground during a Bastille Day parade. There were no reported injuries. It was not immediately clear how close the shot came to Chirac, who was passing about 130 to 160 feet away in an open-top jeep near Paris Arch of Triumph as he reviewed troops in a military parade to celebrate Frances national holiday . As the gunman pulled a fully loaded .22-caliber rifle out of a brown guitar case, the crowd

along the tree-lined edge of the Champs-Elysees began shouting, apparently alerting police who rushed in and tackled him. Police did not identify him, but media reports gave his name as Maxime Brunerie. I saw a guy with a gun, said a witness, Mohamed Chelali, who told LCI television that he and other members of the crowd helped subdue the man. Another man knocked See ASSASSINATION/6A

President Bushs proposal last week to stiffen sentences for corporate crimes wont land guilty executives in tough prisons, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. But if convicted book cookers and document shredders dont wind up behind bars in maximum-security lockups, they also wont spend time in Club Fed, because country club prisons dont exist, prison officials maintain.
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The new punishment proposals, approved unanimously by the Senate and now before the House, increase the maximum sentences for fraud and obstruction of justice in financial cases from five to 10 years. Defrauding investors is a serious offense, and the punishment must be as serious as the crime, Bush said in a Tuesday speech calling for the change. But guidelines for assigning inmates to federal prisons assure that most white-collar criminals with 10-year sentences go to low-security dormitories and minimum-security camps, said Cory Clark of the Federal Bureau of Prisons See BUSINESS/4A
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Sanchez outspends them all

His $31 million leaves previous Texas candidates in the dust.
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EXPRESS-NEWS AUSTIN BUREAU

AUSTIN Democratic gubernatorial nominee Tony Sanchez already has spent $31.3 million in his first run for public office, shattering the spending pace of previous Texas candidates with more than 100 days left until the

November election. The Laredo businessman, investing substantially in TV advertising critical of GOP Gov . Rick Perry , SANCHEZ poured nearly $12.5 million into his effort from March 3 through June, according to his contribution and expenditure report filed Monday . Of that amount, $11.9 million came from Sanchez in the form of donations or loans to his gu-

bernatorial campaign. Perry who unlike Sanchez , had no primary opponent, has spent $6.7 million since last year. On Friday he reported , having $14 million cash on hand as of the end of June. Deirdre Delisi, Perrys campaign manager, said her candidate will have enough money to answer Sanchez on TV . Tony Sanchez has spent tens of millions of dollars on his negative campaign and yet hes still trailing badly in the polls, Delisi said. Sanchez has gained on Perry ,

according to recent published polls, but trails him by more than 10 percentage points. Richard Gambitta, a political scientist at the University of Texas at San Antonio, said the unprecedented spending poses great dangers for state politics. How could a person of political talent who did not have personal wealth and did not want to become encumbered to special interests run for statewide office? Gambitta asked. See SANCHEZ/5A

American Taliban cuts deal

Lindh pleads guilty, faces maximum of 20 years
BY LARRY MARGASAK
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Morning commuters hit heavy rain as another wave of thunderstorms drenched the San Antonio area. The Monday showers were

expected to add 3 to 4 inches to the already soaked ground with some localized downpours possibly dropping 8 to 9 inches of rain.

Flooding fears return with rain

Persistent storm system continues to deliver moisture.
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A storm system hovering over South Texas isnt expected to be as torrential as the one that caused widespread flooding two

weeks ago, but forecasters warn that the additional rain could be a problem in some areas. We dont expect to see 30 inches of rain this week, said Nezette Rydell, a meteorologist

with the National Weather Service. But some will see significant rain. The storm is expected to drop 3 to 4 inches of rain over the region through today Locally . , heavy thunderstorms could dump 8 to 9 inches of rain. The system is expected to clear up by mid-week. South Texas, still sloshy from the deadly flooding earlier this month, was blanketed by dark clouds again on Monday caus, ing many to keep a wary eye on

the weather map. The area was just beginning to dry out, leaving the new rain nowhere to go. Were still working under the presumption that the ground is quite saturated, Rydell said. The Hill Country cant take any more rain at all. Meteorologists are especially concerned with the Nueces Basin, which includes the Nueces, Frio, Sabinal, Medina, Guadalupe and Pedernales rivers. See MORE/4A

ALEXANDRIA, Va. John Walker Lindh, the young convert to Islam who left California and fought alongside the Taliban, pleaded guilty to two felonies Monday in a surprise deal that spares him life in prison and ensures his cooperation with terrorism investigators. Lindh, 21, faces a maximum of 20 years in prison under the agreement struck between prosecutors and defense lawyers after a weekend of negotiations that ended after midnight just hours before he was set to appear for court hearing. I provided my services as a soldier to the Taliban last year from about August to November, Lindh told U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III, recounting the two crimes to which he pleaded guilty . During the course of doing so I carried a rifle and two grenades. And I did so knowingly and willingly he added. , In accepting the plea, prosecutors foreclosed the chance for the public to see evidence in the first major trial scheduled from the war on terrorism. U.S. Attorney Paul McNulty said prosecutors had a strong case against Lindh but wanted to reserve limited and very vital resources for other terrorism cases. Chief defense lawyer James Brosnahan said Lindh joined the Taliban because he was a devout Muslim. He never fired his rifle

Spared a life sentence

THE DEAL: John Walker Lindh enters a guilty plea to two charges alleging he supplied help to the Taliban and carried explosives. Lindh gets a 20-year sentence. WHAT HE FACED: The 10 charges in the original indictment, including conspiring to kill Americans and aiding Osama bin Ladens terrorist network, carried at least three maximum life sentences.
Lindh (above) in Afghanistan, and (right) in custody in Virginia.
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and never intended to hurt Americans, the lawyer said. This is not Rambo were talking about here, Brosnahan said. Lindh was set to be tried Aug. 26, and now will be sentenced Oct. 4. Mondays events leave Zacarias Moussaoui, the Frenchman charged with conspiring with the Sept. 11 hijackers, as the lone marquee defendant awaiting trial on terrorism charges. See AMERICAN/5A

Texan likely pick to be ambassador

President is expected to name Tony Garza as new envoy to Mexico.
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Senate unanimously OKs corporate overhaul bill

Bush indicates hell sign almost any measure that emerges from the conference committee.
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WASHINGTON The Senate on Monday night unanimously passed a broad overhaul of corporate fraud, securities and accounting laws to curb the abuses that have rocked Wall Street. President Bush strongly hinted that he was inclined to sign almost any bill that emerges from negotiations between the Sen-

ate and the House. In a statement, Bush said he was pleased the Senate has now acted on a tough bill that shares my goals and includes all of the accounting and criminal reforms I proposed. The 97-0 vote came only a few hours after Bush, speaking in Birmingham, Ala., tried to restore shaken investor confidence by declaring that the economy is coming back, but he warned that it had to work through a hangover after an economic binge that lasted much of the past decade. That hangover was much in evidence See SENATE/4A

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Trading on the New York Stock Exchange was unusually volatile Monday.
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WASHINGTON President Bush is expected today to nominate Texas Railroad Commissioner Tony Garza to be the next U.S. ambassador to Mexico, an administration official said late Monday . Garza, a Republican who was appointed Texas secretary of state by then-Gov George W . . Bush, would replace Jeffery Davidow, who was appointed by President Clinton. White House officials have been mum about the possible appointment of Garza, but a Bush administration official, speaking on background, said the president would nominate Garza, 43, today . Jennifer Waisath, a spokeswoman for Garza in Austin, declined to comment, saying she
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had not been informed that the nomination will be announced. Rep. Henry Bonilla, whose congressional district includes the U.S.-Mexico border, said a Garza appointment would be a huge plus for South Texas. He understands that part of the country and its relationship to Mexico, said Bonilla, R-San Antonio. The pending announcement became an open secret in Washington after it was reported in June that Garza was taking a GARZA State Department diplomatic course in Arlington, Va. Mexican newspapers also reported that, responding to a U.S. inquiry Mexican President , Vicente Fox has given diplomatic approval to a pending Garza appointment. An ambassadorial nomination must go through the Senate Foreign Relations CommitSee GARZA/4A
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Create red teams that would think like terrorists and identify potential methods and targets. Suggest Congress review law that bars use of military in civilian law enforcement. Give federal government authority to deploy National Guard in emergencies. Give president power
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to shift around homeland security funds earmarked by Congress. Ask states to adopt tighter uniform rules for obtaining drivers licenses. Exempt from public disclosure rules certain documents on critical infrastructure such as utilities and chemical plants.
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WASHINGTON President Bushs homeland security strategy says the United States faces grave threats of terrorism and needs broad new powers to fight back from possible domestic use of military forces to presidential authority for transferring money without congressional approval. The 90-page document released Tuesday describes a shadowy omni, present threat of terror attacks

from al-Qaida and other extremist groups. America faces a new wave of terrorism, potentially involving the worlds most destructive weapons. . . . It is a challenge as formidable as any ever faced by our nation, it says. The threat must be met with a coordinated new approach, including creation of a homeland security department now being considered by

Congress, beefed-up spending in key areas and even changes in state laws, the strategy says. Its unlikely Bush will get all the new power or spending he wants. For example, House and Senate Appropriations Committee members of both parties those responsible for how tax dollars are spent already have flatly rejected the presidents request for broad budget transfer authority within the new homeland security agency . Some of the more fundamental changes would involve the military .

Bush suggests Congress perform a thorough review of the Reconstruction-era posse comitatus law that bars use of the military in civilian law enforcement. The document doesnt say in precisely which situations such a change might apply saying the , threat of catastrophic terrorism makes it necessary to determine whether domestic preparedness and response efforts would benefit from military involvement. See BUSH/6A

House also hits fraud by corporations

But its bill is different than what the Senate has OKd.
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A BRIDGE N OT FA R E N OUG H

WASHINGTON Faced with roiling markets and shaky investor confidence, the House on Tuesday adopted new criminal penalties for business fraud as lawmakers scrambled to get corporate crackdown legislation to President Bush. The hurriedly arranged vote reflected Congress eagerness to respond to voters anxiety about the economy and turbu Greenspan lence on Wall Street. upbeat on The House action came one economy/1E day after the Senate voted 97-0 to create stiff penalties and jail terms for executives who deceive investors. The House had passed a bill in April to tighten oversight of the accounting industry , but never brought up legislation to create criminal penalties. The House measure, approved 391-28, is tougher than the Senate bill, Republican leaders said. Democrats disagreed. This is a tough bill that cracks down on the corporate crooks, Rep. James Sensenbrenner, See HOUSE/7A

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Texas Department of Transportation workers examine the Texas 471 bridge near LaCoste. Erosion by the Medina River in recent flooding ate away the

approach to the bridge on the primary route between LaCoste and Castroville. Repairs are expected to take at least two months.

S. Texan Garza Flooding indeed did endanger Medina Dam tabbed as envoy
And a TNRCC official says Bexar County Judge Wolff was correct in sounding the alert on TV .
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President picks him as the next ambassador to Mexico.

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WASHINGTON President Bushs nomination Tuesday of longtime political ally Tony Garza to be ambassador to Mexico was seen as a boost to warming U.S.-Mexico relations and a boon to Texas, with its longstanding economic and cultural ties to its southern neighbor. The U.S. and Mexico share not only a border, but a rich history of common economic and cultural interests, President Bush said. Tony Garza has an in-depth understanding of the relationGARZA ship between the United States and Mexico and its impact on the people of both nations. Garza, 43, a member of the Texas Railroad Commission and a rising star in the states Republican Party was tapped by Bush to replace , Jeffery Davidow, who was appointed in 1998 by President Clinton. Texas lawmakers said Garzas familiarity with the U.S.-Mexico border region as a Rio Grande Valley county judge, and his close See AMBASSADOR/14A

AUSTIN Medina Dam was in real danger of collapsing if water had gone over its top during the recent flooding and needs to be refurbished and monitored closely engineers have , advised the state.

In a post-flooding report to the agency that oversees the states dams, an engineer for Freese and Nichols Inc. concluded that had the water breached the top of the 164-foot-tall dam, the foundation along the toe of the dam very likely would have eroded and very likely would have precipitated a sliding or an overturn-

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ing failure. The report, obtained Tuesday from the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission by the San Antonio Express-News, also reaffirms the states controversial recommendation that residents down river from the 90year-old dam needed to evacuate on

July 5 as waters rose within 17 inches of its top. The recommendation to law enforcement authorities to evacuate the public was prudent and appropriate, as the integrity of the dam could not have been assured under the conditions observed. Freese and Nichols made the evacuation recommendation to state authorities after visiting the dam as Medina Lake waters rose the afternoon

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Bombers pose as Israeli troops

Palestinians then gun down bus passengers trying to flee explosion.
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Israeli investigators and emergency personnel examine a damaged bus. The vehicle was involved in a deadly ambush Tuesday.
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EMMANUEL, West Bank In an elaborate ambush, Palestinians disguised as Israeli soldiers set off a bomb to stop a bus near a Jewish settlement Tuesday and then fired on its passengers as they scrambled to escape. Seven people were killed and 14 wounded. The ambush was the first deadly attack on Israeli civilians since June 20, and oc4B 6B 1B Movies Puzzles S.A. Life 3G 8G 1G Sports Stocks TV listings 1C 4E 5G

curred hours before officials from the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations met in New York to discuss ways of ending more than 21 months of violence and easing the humanitarian situation in Palestinian territories. After meetings with Secretary of State Colin Powell, the foreign diplomats pointedly distanced themselves from U.S. efforts to dislodge Yasser Arafat from power, saying Palestinians should choose their own leaders without interference. Yet the high-level diplomatic discussions of President Bushs new Middle East initiative produced broad support for U.S. insistence on Palestinian political and economic reform as a prerequisite for peace providSee ENVOYS/7A
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U.S. spying before 9-11 flailed

Filling intelligence gaps
Federal Bureau of Investigation Communicate effectively with field offices, upgrade technology Focus on crime prevention rather than investigation Central Intelligence Agency
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National Security Agency Get better technology for targeting terrorist organizations that rely on sophisticated communications Be more aggressive in information gathering Congressional subcommittee also reports all three agencies need more linguists capable of translating terrorists' communications.
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Intelligence agencies told to do a better job

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1 million may volunteer for national watch/5A

human spying, increase recruiting Warn other agencies about terror suspects
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WASHINGTON To prevent terror attacks, U.S. intelligence agencies need to do a better job of using both sophisticated technology and old-fashioned spying, a House panel said Wednesday . The report by the House Intelligence subcommittee on terrorism and homeland security identified weaknesses in counterterrorism efforts by the FBI,

CIA and National Security Agency before Sept. 11. They included communications problems among agencies, a shortage of linguists and a failure by agencies and Congress to pay enough attention to terrorism. The report said Congress had regularly underfunded the 13 agencies that make up the U.S. intelligence community .

Our goal here is to prevent the next 9-11, said Rep. Jane Harman of California, the subcommittees top Democrat. Theres no guarantee we can do this, but new strategies, tools and resources will improve the odds. The subcommittee issued a 10-page summary of a classified, 140-page report that was presented to the House leadership. The report comes as the full Intelligence Committee is conducting a larger, joint inquiry

with its Senate counterpart into Sept. 11. Members said they hope their report will serve as a building block for the broader inquiry . The subcommittee was formed as a working group in early 2001 to examine counterterror efforts. Two days after Sept. 11, House Speaker Dennis Hastert converted it into a subcommittee and asked it to look into deficiencies leading to the See HOUSE/8A

Suicide duo set off blasts in Tel Aviv

Islamic Jihad claims responsibility for deadly downtown attack.
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In seven days, enough rain fell over 17 counties to cover most of the area inside Loop 410 about 60 feet deep.

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1 million may offer to work for TIPS

Theyll be watching your neighborhood for terrorists.
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5.8 million acre-feet = 1 foot deep over 17 counties = 63 million swimming pools = 1 million Goodyear blimps

TEL AVIV Israel Two suicide bombers , blew themselves up seconds apart in the downtown part of this city Wednesday night, killing three civilians and wounding more than 40, police and witnesses said. The attack took place between a cafe and a theater in a rundown neighborhood where many foreign workers live. Arafat might Police said two of the dead share power were foreign laborers and with a prime many of the wounded were minister/9A from Romania. Past Palestinian bombing attacks have targeted Israeli civilians. It was the first suicide attack in Israel in more than a month and further delayed highlevel contacts between the Palestinians and Israelis. The group Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the bombings, according to Al Manar TV station in Lebanon. Israel blamed the Palestinian Authority but , that group condemned the attack. The suicide bombers were standing only 15 to 20 yards from each other when they set off See SUICIDE/9A

How much is too much?

Dominion man indicted in theft

Grand jury charges he broke into neighbors home.
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A woman outside the San Antonio Zoo seeks shelter. Wednesdays rain added to the wettest July on record.
Crime rarely climbs over the gated walls of The Dominion, one of Bexar Countys most exclusive communities boasting celebrity residents including David Robinson and country music singer George Strait. An armed guard is posted 24 hours a day at the only entrance to the tony enclave on the far North Side off Interstate 10 near Leon Springs. Its residents enjoy a discreet lifestyle in luxurious homes, many costing millions of dollars. While the developments championship golf course attracts many visitors, few residents had reason to fear crime, even before they were annexed into the city three years ago. That changed when someone broke into a five-bedroom home on Worthsham Street in March, taking $50,000 in cash and jewelry . Investigators suspected the heist must have been an inside job. On Tuesday a grand , jury agreed. Dominion resident Robb Roth, 35, of 21 See DOMINION/15A

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Theres no question that this has been the rainiest July on record, but just how much has spilled from the sky? The answer: enough to fill the Alamodome nearly 4,000 times. Its not an exact science, but experts from the Edwards Aquifer Authority estimate an average of a foot of rain fell in 17 counties over seven days, beginning June 30. In an attempt to quantify how much of a soaking the region has sustained, Geary Schindel, chief technical officer for the agency said that equals about 5.8 , million acre-feet.

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Twelve inches is very very , conservative, Schindel said. Many areas got much more than that, but some got less. To put it in perspective, that much rain would fill nearly 1 million Goodyear blimps or nearly 63 million residential swimming pools. And as of Wednesday evening, it still was raining across the area. And expected to continue.

Caverns affected/1B Rain hinders SBC Center/3B Lakes to stay closed for

months/5B Its a phenomenal amount of rain, Schindel said. A lot of that ran off and some of that went into the aquifer. The torrents started within days of the aquifer dipping to a critical point that inaugurated the seasons first round of water restrictions. The rains have provided nourishment to a previously anorexic aquifer. On Wednesday the aquifer , stood at 689.2 feet above sea level See IT HAS/8A

You dont have to speak a foreign language, know tae kwon do or even leave your neighborhood to join a new nationwide network aimed at helping the federal government track suspicious and potentially terrorist behavior. All it takes is a few clicks on the Internet. The White House expects the Terrorist Information and Prevention System, known as Operation TIPS, to draw in at least 1 million people, who in the course of their daily lives have the opportunity to recognize unusual behavior that could help the federal gov- Lawmakers ernment break up frown at terror rings. security The program, plan/5A which has quickly sparked controversy , was announced Tuesday as part of Bushs National Strategy for Homeland Security . Its an arm of a larger program, Citizen Corps, announced in Bushs State of the Union address. President Bush sees it as a way for utility workers, truck drivers and others to help keep the streets safe. Some have said the program, which doesnt require congressional approval, goes too far and poses a threat to civil liberties. Justice Department spokesman Charles Miller said he was surprised by concern over the program, the details of which still are being ironed out and wont be announced until August or September. It is not that big of a deal to begin with; it is a program that deals with a neighborhood watch on a much larger scale, he said. We are not talking about enlisting plumbers and electricians to spy on people in their homes. People interested in participating are asked on the White House Web site, whitehouse.org, to answer nine basic questions, including providing a name, residence and occupation. The U.S. Postal Service anSee 1 MILLION/5A

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Insurance boss frowns at Farmers policy lids

BY NATALIE GOTT
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Lance Armstrong of Austin finishes the 11th stage of the Tour de France bike race. Armstrong re-took the leaders yellow jersey Thursday. See story on Page 1D.

AUSTIN Restrictions for new homeowners insurance policies by Farmers Insurance Co., the states second-largest homeowners insurer, appear to be unfair trade practices in violation of our laws, Insurance Commissioner Jose Montemayor said Thursday . The insurance department is issuing subpoenas for the companys entire set of underwriting guidelines, he said. A Farmers spokesman said the company disagrees with the commissioner. The company enacted the restrictions to protect its existing customers,

At first blush, their underwriting changes appear to be unfair trade practices in violation of our laws. We anticipate issuing additional subpoenas to other insurers as necessary.
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spokesman Mark Toohey said. Farmers said this week it wont write new policies for houses that have had water-damage claims in the past three years. The company already had stopped writing policies on individuals whove filed claims in the past three years. The company also said it wont write new policies for houses older than 30 years that have the original

plumbing that isnt made of copper. Farmers, which insures about 750,000 homeowners in Texas, also said it wont write policies for houses more than 30 years old that havent had their plumbing renovated for more than 10 years. Other types of plumbing and roofing also are affected under the new policy . Farmers new policy restrictions ag-

gravate an already serious availability and affordability problem with homeowners insurance in Texas, Montemayor said in a statement. The insurance commission wasnt notified of the changes and as a result, the department is issuing subpoenas for the companys entire set of underwriting guidelines, Montemayor See FARMERS/10A

Security plan not entirely secure

GOP bill doesnt include Bushs call for spying neighbors, national drivers license standards.
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Parting from Bushs plan

Prohibits efforts such as Operation TIPS, the neighborhood terror watch program Rejects uniform national drivers license standards Divides Immigration and Naturalization Service into two agencies Delays indefinitely the Dec. 31 deadline for all checked airline bags to be screened for explosives

WASHINGTON President Bushs plan for uniform national drivers license standards would be killed and a year-end deadline for antiterrorism screening of airport baggage would be postponed indefinitely under legislation unveiled Thursday by House Republican leaders. The fine print of the 216-page bill to create a homeland security department, sponsored by House Majority Leader Dick Armey also would , scrap a Bush program known as the Terrorist Information and Prevention System, or TIPS. Critics have argued that TIPS would encourage Americans to spy on each other and would give some technology companies involved in national security immunity from lawsuits. The bill also rejected moving the troubled federal immigration service intact to a new domestic security agency . Overall, the bill would give President Bush much of the huge new Cabinet agency he requested to safeguard Americans from terrorism at home. But Armey R-Flower Mound, included some , surprising items in the House measure, some of which run directly counter to proposals Bush has made and were never recommended by any House committees. See PANEL/10A

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Bexar-Medina-Atascosa Water District employee Wayne Salzman stands at the base of Medina Dam as he waits for inspectors to arrive.

Engineer contradicts danger warning

But his company agrees to consider repairs urged by an expert for the state.
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Israelis held in plot to arm Palestinians

Soldiers among those arrested, tied to theft of ammo from military .
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bombings shelve key Mideast talks/9A cern in the army over rising weapons theft, and the case has stunned neighbors of some of the suspects in the West Bank settlement of Adora, near Hebron, where four people were killed in an attack by Palestinian gunmen less than three months ago. The six suspects have denied any wrongdoing. The revelations that settlers serving in the army may have helped arm Palestinian militants reverberated Thursday as funerals were held for those killed in the ambush of an Israeli bus Tuesday in the West Bank, and for an officer killed See SIX ARE/9A

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AUSTIN If residents downstream of Medina Dam were hoping for a final say about the structures safety they may be , in for a wait. The debate about

the dams integrity isnt over. Dan Johnson, senior dam specialist for the company hired by the agency that oversees Medina Dam, toured the 90-year-old concrete structure Thursday and affirmed his companys April finding pronouncing it safe even if water

poured 16 feet over its 164-foothigh top. Later, he met with officials of the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission and his firm agreed to consider repairs urged by an engineer on behalf of the state. Two weeks ago today, water behind the dam in northeastern Medina County rose within 17 inches of the top. Water was roaring 10.5 feet over an adjoining spillway as state officials

urged evacuations. Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff repeated the warning on television, a decision backed this week by a state dam safety official. On Thursday water a foot , deep still was flowing over the spillway as inspectors from URS Inc., the engineering firm hired by the Bexar-MedinaAtascosa Counties Water ConSee DISPUTE/10A

JERUSALEM Israelis buried more victims of a Palestinian attack Thursday as the nation grappled with police accusations that Jewish settlers had stolen army ammunition and sold it to Palestinians. Five settlers, four of them soldiers, and a reserve army officer were arrested this week, suspected of stealing and selling thousands of rounds of ammunition, the police said. The arrests have caused con-

Councilman Garcia probed in overbilling

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Bexar County prosecutors are investigating City Councilman David A. Garcia on allegations of tampering with government records, perjury and theft, officials said Thursday . And, in an apparently unrelated case, former City Councilman Raul Prado confirmed prosecutors have asked for his campaign records.
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Garcia became the target of the inquiry about two weeks ago after officials at a local public agency raised questions about legal bills he submitted to the county First Assistant Dis, trict Attorney Michael Bernard said. It has to do with possibly overbilling the county , he said. They brought us records regarding bills that
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they asked us to look into. And were looking into them. Bernard wouldnt discuss any of the finer points of the investigation. But sources said the bills are connected to work Garcia performed as a court-appointed attorney for indigent clients whose bills are paid for by county taxpayers. Garcia, who faced questions last See COUNCILMANS/16A
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