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SATURDAY
JULY 13, 2002 METRO EDITION
SERVING SOUTH TEXAS SINCE 1865

Waterlogged
Local gardeners rain barrels are bulging
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FLOOD OF 2002: CAMPSITES CLEANUP

U.S. budget $165 billion in the red

White House sees surplus back in 05
BY ALAN FRAM
ASSOCIATED PRESS

Federal budget
Surplus or deficit (in billions)
*projected

$237

$123

$127

$70

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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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-$22.6 BUDGET FACTS

Before 1998, the last fed-

eral budget surplus was in 1969. It totaled $3 billion. The highest deficit was $290 billion in 1992 at the end of President George Bushs term.

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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

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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
137th year, No. 283, 136 pages. Entire contents copyright 2002, San Antonio Express-News. This newspaper is recyclable.

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