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BY PETE YOST

ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON WhenGeorge W. Bushs sale of oilstock attracted the attention ofregulators a decade ago, the Se-curities and Exchange Com-mission considered interview-ing him about possible insidertrading, but never did.

The SEC wont say why itdidnt talk with Bush, whosefather was president at thetime.

An SEC memo from 1991shows investigators raised thepossibility of interviewingBush about his sale of 212,140shares in Harken Energy Corp.

The investigators told Har-kens lawyer that we wouldpromptly inform him whetherwe need to speak with Bush,

the memo said.The Harken attorney volun-

teered that Bush would consentto a phone interview and/orvoluntary testimony, the

memo added.Theres no explanation as towhy an interview wasnt pur-sued in thousands of pages ofmaterial released by the SECover the years in the Bush in-quiry.

SEC almost quizzedBush on Harken sale

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growing Hispanic population, hipyoung taste for Latin Americanculture, savvy marketers exploit-ing that taste and internationaltrade wars.

The imported Coca-Cola is be-coming common in small Mexi-

can restaurants across the city,and H-E-Bs Central Marketstocks it in all its stores as an ex-otic pop. People around the coun-try go out of their way to order it,even though they must pay a pre-mium. And they pay more know-ing the taste they get depends onthe bottler.

The Mexican Coca-Cola herein San Antonio and the UnitedStates is imported from Mexico in

BY ELIZABETH ALLEN

EXPRESS-NEWS BUSINESS WRITER

When you order the taco plateand a Coke at your local taqueria,its not a flashback if yourehanded a tall, green, glass bottlefilled with fizzy stuff that tasteslike it did when you were a kid.

Youre probably drinking Mexi-can Coke.

Coca-Cola imported from Mex-ico embodies many things: nostal-gia for old-fashioned Coke, a

It really is the real thing

ROBERT MCLEROY/STAFF

Josie De Leon readies an order of Mexican so-das for customers at Taqueria No Que No.

Sugar may be what has

San Antonio sweet on

Mexican Coca-Cola.

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WaterloggedLocal gardeners rainbarrels are bulgingS.A. Life/1E

Boys of summerDallas Cowboys look forwardto summer camp in S.A.Sports/1C

BY ALAN FRAM

ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON The gov-ernment will run a $165 billiondeficit this year, the first redink in four years, but surplusesshould return by 2005, the Bushadministration said Friday.

The budgets sudden plungefrom last years $127 billion sur-plus was no surprise. Analystshave predicted it because of theflagging economy, the financialmarkets swoon and the costs ofboth last years tax cuts and thegovernments response to theSept. 11 attacks.

Even so, the new figure waslarger than the $106 billionshortfall the White House envi-sioned just five months ago.Both parties immediately citedthe projections in their cam-paigns for control of Congress.

Democrats said they believedthe White House was being un-realistically optimistic aboutthe budgets return to balancesoon, and cited the tax cut Pres-

ident Bush pushed throughCongress last year as the pri-mary cause of the long-term fis-cal decay.

They said the administrationwas using inflated expectationsabout revenue growth, espe-cially from corporate profits,and was ignoring the biparti-

U.S. budget$165 billion

in the redWhite Housesees surplusback in 05

1997

1998 1999 2000 2001

2002*

FederalbudgetSurplus or deficit(in billions)

-$165

-$22.6

$70

$123

$237

$127

Compiled by News Researcher Lisa BaehrSources: Cox News Service, Bloomberg News,Associated Press, U.S. Newswire

Before 1998, the last fed-eral budget surplus was in1969. It totaled $3 billion. The highest deficit was$290 billion in 1992 at theend of President GeorgeBushs term.

BUDGET FACTS

MONTE BACH/STAFF

*projected

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BY RALPH WININGHAM

EXPRESS-NEWS STAFF WRITER

The worst flooding damage in

recent memory has closed thestates most popular park, GarnerState Park near Concan, at leastthrough Wednesday and will resultin a revenue loss of at least$300,000 for July.

More than $2 million in damagehas been estimated at the park asthe result of raging Frio Riverfloodwaters that wiped out at least$500,000 in roadways, carried offnumerous screen shelters anddamaged the historic old dancehall pavilion.

We are working on the final es-timates right now, Bill Dolman,acting director of state parks atthe Texas Parks & Wildlife Depart-ment, said Friday.

The water rampage racedthrough campgrounds and shel-ters, while submerging utilities

and other parts of the parks in-frastructure. Repairs were underway on Friday, with portions of thepark expected to be available tothe public by Wednesday.

The sustained deluge during theweek of the Fourth of July forcedmany state park facilities to close

along a number of river systems,with the cost still being tabulatedas the floodwaters recede.

Preliminary damage estimates

by the TP&W indicate about $6million to $10 million needed toclean up and repair 22 state parksand three wildlife management ar-eas affected by flooding. That esti-mate doesnt include road repairs,which could run as high as an ad-ditional $3 million.

Among the other area parksheavily affected by the floodwaterswere the Landmark Inn State His-toric Site in Castroville, Guada-lupe River State Park near Boerneand Palmetto State Park near Gon-

zales.Flooding forced power to be cutoff to Guadalupe River State Parklast Friday, but the park is now op-erating on a limited basis. The dayuse area and tent campsites along

FLOOD OF 2002: CAMPSITES CLEANUP

PHOTOS BY KAREN L. SHAW/STAFF

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

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Unhappy campers stillcan make other plans

Jordan Hutto (from left), Javiel Garcia and Abraham Gonzalez, park work-ers, attack debris with shovels. The Flood of 2002 left mounds of rubble atGarner State Park and other parks, but repairs are under way.

Parks and wreck reactions

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Blanco

Choke Canyon

Colorado Bend

Garner

Goliad StateHistorical Park

GuadalupeRiver

Hill CountryState Natural

Area

Inks Lake

Landmark InnState

Historic Site

Lost Maples

StateNatural Area

Palmetto

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BY WILLIAM ORME

LOS ANGELES TIMES

UNITED NATIONS After twoweeks of acrimonious back-room wran-gling, the United States muscledthrough a Security Council resolutionFriday granting American peacekeep-ers a renewable one-year exemptionfrom prosecution or investigation bythe new International Criminal Court.

Though the United States didnt se-cure the permanent immunity it origi-nally had demanded, the unanimouslyadopted resolution achieved the kind

of protection for a one-year period thatwe were seeking, said John Negro-ponte, the U.S. ambassador here.

The one-year period begins retroac-tive from July 1, the date that a treatycreating the international court wentinto effect.

The resolution states the councils in-

tention to order further 12-month ex-emptions each July for as long as maybe necessary.

The president of the United States isdetermined to protect our citizens soldiers and civilians, peacekeepers andofficials from the International Crim-inal Court, Negroponte said.

We are especially concerned thatAmericans sent overseas as soldiers,risking their lives to keep the peace orto protect us all from terrorism and

U.N. shields American troopsSecurity Council exempts

peacekeepers from war

crimes charges for a year.

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INSIDECorporate crimeczar LarryThompson (left)was a directorat a firm thatpaid millions ina fraud case.

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