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WEDNESDAY
JULY 10, 2002 METRO EDITION
SERVING SOUTH TEXAS SINCE 1865

Road to Perdition
In a new film, Tom Hanks plays against type as a mob hit man
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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.

PRESIDENTS PROPOSALS
Create

task force to provide direction and coordination for investigations Double maximum prison term to 10 years for mail fraud and wire fraud

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

ASSOCIATED PRESS

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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LISA SANDBERG

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.
D BY TOM BOWER
EXPRESS-NEWS STAFF WRITER

CHARLES BENNETT/ASSOCIATED PRESS

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.
D BY LAURAN NEERGAARD
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 are awaiting and $15.4 million for homes repair/9A in the city . Many of those properties, Dam lets out 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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